Matthew 13
1 That same day Jesus, [along with us] disciples, left the house [where he was teaching and went] to [Galilee lake]. He sat down there,
第二款 天國の喩 其日イエズス家を出でて湖辺に坐し居給へるに、
2 and a very large crowd gathered around him to [listen to his teaching]. So, [in order that they would not jostle him] (OR, [to speak to the people better]), he got into a boat and sat down [to teach them]. The crowd stood on the shore [and was listening].
群衆夥しく其許に集まりしかば、イエズス小舟に乗りて坐し給ひ、群衆皆濱に立ち居りしが、
3 He was telling them many parables. [One of the parables] that he told them was this: “Listen! A man went out [to his field] to sow [some seeds].
喩を以て數多の事を彼等に語りて曰ひけるは、種撒く人撒きに出でしが、
4 As he was scattering [them over the soil], some [of the] seeds fell on the path. Then some birds came and ate those seeds.
撒く時或種は路傍に遺ちしかば、空の鳥來りて、之を啄めり。
5 Other [seeds] fell on ground where there was not much soil [on top of the] rock. Those seeds sprouted very soon, [because the sun quickly warmed] the shallow soil.
或種は土少き磽地に遺ちしかば、土の浅きに由りて直に生出でたれど、
6 But when [the young plants came up], they were scorched by the sun, and they withered because they did not have [deep] roots.
日出でて灼け、根なきに因りて枯れたり。
7 Other seeds fell on [ground that contained roots of] thorny [weeds]. The thorny weeds grew [together with the young plants], and [they] crowded out [the plants].
或種は茨の中に遺ちしかば、茨長ちて之を塞げり。
8 [But] other seeds fell on good soil, and [the plants grew and] produced [a lot of] grain. Some [plants produced] 100 times [as many seeds as were planted]. Some [plants produced] 60 times [as much]. Some [plants produced] 30 times [as much].
或種は沃土に遺ちて、或は百倍、或は六十倍、或は三十倍の實を結べり。
9 If you want to understand this [MTY], you should consider [carefully what I have just said].”
聴く耳を有てる人は聴け、と。
10 [We] disciples approached Jesus and asked him, “Why do you use parables when you speak to the crowd?”
弟子等近づきて、何ぞ喩を以て彼等に語り給ふや、と云ひしかば、
11 He answered [us] saying, “God [EUP/MTY] is revealing to you what he did not reveal before, about [how he wants to] rule [over people’s lives]. But he has not revealed it to others.
答へて曰ひけるは、汝等は天國の奥義を知る事を賜はりたれども、彼等は賜はらざるなり。
12 Those who [think about what I say and] understand [it], God will enable them to understand more. But those who do not [think carefully about what I say] will forget even what they already know.
夫有てる人は尚與へられて裕ならん、然れど有たぬ人は其有てる所をも奪はれん。
13 That is why I use parables when I speak to people, because although they see [what I do], they do not perceive [what it means], and although they hear [what I say], they do not really understand [what it means].
喩を以て彼等に語るは、彼等見れども見えず、聞けども聞えず、又暁らざるが故なり、と。
14 What these people do completely fulfills what [God told] the prophet Isaiah [to say long ago to the people who did not] try to understand what he said, You will hear [what I say], but you will not understand it. You will keep seeing [what I do], but you will not understand [what it means] [DOU].
斯てイザヤの預言彼等に於て成就す、曰く「汝等は聞きて聞ゆれども暁らず、見て見ゆれども認らざらん。
15 [God also said to Isaiah], These people have become unresponsive [MTY] [to what they see me do and to what they hear me say]. They listen unwillingly [MTY] [to what I say], and they do not pay attention to [MTY] [what I do]. If it were not so, they would perceive [MTY] [what I am doing], they would understand [MTY] [what I say to them], and they would turn [away from their sinful lives] and turn [to me], and I would save them [from being punished for their sins] [MET].
其は目に見えず、耳に聞えず、心に暁らず、立歸りて我に醫されざらん為に、此民の心鈍くなりて、其耳は聞くに嬾く、其目は閉ぢたればなり」と。
16 But as for you, God is pleased with you because you [SYN] have seen [what I have done] and because you [SYN] understand [what I say] [DOU].
汝等の目は福なり、見ゆればなり、汝等の耳も[福なり、]聞ゆればなり。
17 Note this: Many prophets and righteous people [who lived long ago] longed to see what you are seeing [me do], but they did not see it. They longed to hear the things that you have been hearing [me say], but they did not hear [what you hear me say].” [DOU]
我誠に汝等に告ぐ、多くの預言者と義人とは、汝等の見る所を見んと欲せしかど見えず、汝等の聞く所を聞かんと欲せしかど聞えざりき。
18 “[Since God wants] you [to understand what I am teaching you], listen as I [explain] the parable about the man who sowed [seeds in various kinds of soil].
然れば汝等種捲く播く人の喩を聞け、
19 The people who hear about how God rules over people’s lives and do not understand [what they have heard] are [like] the path where [some of] the seeds fell. [Satan], the Evil One, comes and causes these people to forget [MET] what they have heard [MET].
総て人[天]國の言を聞きて暁らざる時は、惡魔來りて其心に播かれたるものを奪ふ、此路傍に播かれたるものなり。
20 [Some people are like the] shallow soil on top of rock. When they hear God’s message, they immediately accept it joyfully.
磽地に播かれたるは、言を聞きて直に喜び受くれども、
21 [But because it does not penetrate deeply into their inner beings, they believe it for only] a [short] time. [They are like the plants that] did not have [deep] roots. When they are treated badly and caused to suffer because they believe [God’s message], they soon stop believing [it].
己に根なく暫時のみにして、言の為に患難と迫害と起れば、忽に躓くものなり。
22 [Some people are like the soil that had the roots of] thorny [weeds] in it. They hear God’s message, but they desire to be rich, [so they] worry [only] about [MTY, PRS] material things. As a result, they [PRS] forget [God’s] message, and they do not do [IDM] the things that God wants them to do. (aiōn g165)
茨の中に播かれたるは、言を聞けども、此世の慮と財の惑と其言を塞ぎて、實らずなれるものなり。 (aiōn g165)
23 But [some people are like the] good soil where [some of the seeds] fell. [Just like the plants that grew in this soil] produced a lot of grain, [these people] hear my message and understand it. [Some of them] do many things [IDM] [that please God, some do] even more [things that please God, and some do] very many [things that please God].”
沃土に播かれたるは、言を聞きて暁り、實を結びて或は百倍、或は六十倍、或は三十倍を出すものなり、と。
24 Jesus also told the crowd another parable, [by which he tried to explain that although] God [MTY/EUP] is a king, [he will not immediately judge and punish all the wicked people]. Jesus said, “[God] is like a landowner [who sent his servants] to sow good [wheat] seed in his field.
イエズス又他の喩を彼等に提出でて曰ひけるは、天國は良き種を其畑に播きたる人に似たり。
25 While those servants were sleeping [and not watching the field], an enemy of the landowner came and scattered weed [seeds] in the midst of the wheat. Then he left.
人々の寝たる間に、其敵來りて麦の中に毒麦を播きて去りしが、
26 After [the seeds] sprouted and the green plants [grew], the heads of grain began to form. But the weeds also grew.
苗長ちて實りたるに、毒麦も現れしかば、
27 So the servants of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, you [RHQ] [gave us good seeds and those are the ones we] [RHQ] [planted] in your field. So where did the weeds come from?’
僕等近づきて家父に云ひけるは、主よ、良き種を畑に播きたるに非ずや、然れば毒麦は何によりてか生えたる。
28 The landowner said to them, ‘[My] enemy did this.’ His servants said to him, ‘So, do you want us to pull up [the weeds and] put them in a pile?’
彼云ひけるは、敵なる人之を為せり、と。僕等、我等往きて之を集めなば如何に、と云ひしに、
29 He said [to them], ‘No, [do not do that, because] you might pull up [some of] the wheat at the same time.
家父云ひけるは、否、恐らくは、汝等毒麦を集むるに、是と共に麦をも抜かん。
30 Let the wheat and the weeds grow together until harvest [time].’ At that time I will say to the reapers, ‘First gather the weeds, tie them into bundles to be burned. Then gather the wheat [and put it] into my barns.’”
収穫まで兩ながら長て置け、収穫の時我刈る者に對ひて、先毒麦を集めて焚く為に之を束ね、麦をば我倉に収めよ、と云はん、と。
31 Jesus also told this parable: “The [number of] (OR, [God’s influence in the lives of]) [people whose] lives God rules over [will continue to grow. It is very much] like mustard seeds grow after a man plants them in his field.
又他の喩を彼等に提出て曰ひけるは、天國は人の取りて其畑に播きたる芥種に似たり。
32 Although mustard seeds are among the smallest of all the seeds [that people plant, here in Israel they become large plants. When the plants have fully grown, they are larger than the other garden plants. They become shrubs that are large enough for birds to build nests in their branches.”]
凡ての種の中最小きものなれども、長ちて後は凡ての野菜より大くして、空の鳥其枝に來りて棲む程の樹と成る、と。
33 Jesus also told this parable: “[The way people who let] God [MTY/EUP] rule their lives [MET] [can influence the world] is like yeast that a woman mixed with about 50 pounds of flour. [That small amount of yeast made] the whole batch of dough swell up.”
又他の喩を彼等に語り給ひけるは、天國は麪酵に似たり、即婦之を取りて三斗の粉の中に隠せば悉く脹るるに至る、と。
34 Jesus told the crowd parables [to teach them] all these things. When he spoke [HYP] to them, he habitually used such illustrations.
イエズス総て是等の事を喩もて群衆に語り給ひしが、喩なしには語り給ふ事なかりき。
35 By doing that, [he] fulfilled what [God told one of] the prophets to write [long ago]: I will speak [MTY] in parables; I will tell [parables to teach] what I have kept secret since I created the world.
是預言者に託りて云はれたりし事の成就せん為なり、曰く「我喩を設けて口を開き、世の始より隠れたる事を告げん」と。
36 After Jesus dismissed the crowds, he went inside. Then [we] disciples approached him and said, “Explain to us the parable about the weeds [that grew] in the [wheat] field.”
然て群衆を去らしめ、家に至り給ひしに、弟子等に近づきて、畑の毒麦の喩を我等に解き給へ、と云ひければ、
37 He answered, “The one who sows the good seed represents [me], the one who came from heaven.
答へて曰ひけるは、良き種を撒く者は人の子なり、
38 The field represents this world [MTY], [where people live]. The seeds [that grew] well represent the people who let God rule their lives [MET]. The weeds represent the people who do what [the devil], the Evil One, [tells them to do].
畑は世界なり、良き種は[天]國の子等なり、毒麦は惡魔の子等なり、
39 The enemy who sowed the weed seeds represents the devil. The [time when the reapers will] harvest [the grain] represents the time when the world will end. The reapers represent the angels. (aiōn g165)
之を撒きし敵は惡魔なり、収穫は世の終なり、刈る者は[天]使等なり、 (aiōn g165)
40 The weeds are gathered and burned. {The reapers gather the weeds. Then they burn them.} That represents [the judging of people, which God will do] when the world will end. [It will be like this]: (aiōn g165)
然れば毒麦の集められて火に焚かるる如く、此世の終にも亦然らん。 (aiōn g165)
41 I, the one who came from heaven, will send my angels, and they will gather [from everywhere the people] who cause others to quit believing in me [MET] and all those who disobey [God’s] commands.
人の子其使等を遣はし、彼等は其國より総て躓かする者と惡を為す者とを集めて、
42 They will throw those people into the fires of [hell]. There those people will weep and grind their teeth [because of the great pain that they are suffering]. (questioned)
火の窯に入れん。其處には痛哭と切歯とあらん。
43 [God’s] brightness will shine [on] the people who have lived as he wants them to. It will shine [on them as brightly] as the sun [shines]. It will shine on them in the place where [God], their Father, rules over them. If you want to understand this [MTY], you should think [carefully] about what I have just said.”
其時義人等は父の國にて日の如く輝かん。聴く耳を有てる人は聴け。
44 “[What people do who begin to allow] God [MTY/EUP] to rule their lives is like [what a certain man did to acquire a treasure]. A treasure was hidden in a field by someone {Someone hid a treasure in a field [and never dug it up again]}. When [another] man found it, he hid it [by burying it again in order that no one else would find it]. Being very happy [that he had found something very valuable, he went and] sold all his possessions [to obtain money to buy the field the treasure was in]. He then went and bought the field, [and so he was able to acquire that treasure].
天國は畑に蔵れたる寶の如し、見出せる人は之を秘し置きて喜つつ去り、其所有物を悉く売りて、其畑を購ふなり。
45 Also, what [people do who begin to allow] God [MTY/EUP] to rule their lives is like [what] a merchant [did who was] looking for good quality pearls [to buy].
天國は又、美き眞珠を求むる商人の如し、
46 When he found one very costly pearl [that was for sale], he sold all his possessions [to acquire enough money to buy that pearl]. Then he [went and] bought it.
値高き眞珠一個を見出すや、往きて其所有物を悉く売りて、之を購ふなり。
47 What God [MTY/EUP] [will do to people who falsely say that they are letting him] rule their lives is like what certain [fishermen] did [with the fish they caught] in a lake, using a large net. They caught all classes [of fish, both useful and worthless fish].
天國は又、海に張りて種々の魚を集むる網の如し、
48 When the net was full, the [fishermen] pulled it up onto the shore. Then they sat there and put the useful [fish] into buckets, and threw the worthless ones away.
充ちたる時人之を引揚げ、濱に坐して良き魚を器に入れ、否き魚をば棄つるなり。
49 [What they did in separating the good fish from the bad ones] is like [what will happen to people] when the world ends. The angels will come [to where God is judging people], and will separate the wicked [people] from the righteous [ones]. (aiōn g165)
世の終に於て斯の如くなるべし、即[天]使等出でて、義人の中より惡人を分ち、 (aiōn g165)
50 They will throw the wicked people into the fire [in hell]. And those wicked people will weep and gnash their teeth [because of the intense pain they are suffering].” (questioned)
之を火の窯に入れん、其處には痛哭と切歯とあらん。
51 [Then Jesus asked us], “Do you understand all these [parables I have told you]?” We said to him,
汝等此事を皆暁りしか、と宣へるに、彼等然りと答へければ、
52 “Yes, [we understand them].” Then he said to us, “Because [you understand all these parables], [you will understand the following parable: You, along with] all others, will teach people what [you heard me say] about God ruling people’s lives. [You will add that to what you formerly learned. You will be] like a manager of a household who takes both new things and old things out of his storage room.”
イエズス曰ひけるは、然れば天國の事を教へられたる凡ての律法學士は、新しきものと古きものとを其庫の中より出す家父に似たり、と。
53 When Jesus had finished [telling] these parables, he took [us] and left that [area].
第三款 處々への旅行。ファリザイ人の憎彌増す。 斯てイエズス此喩を宣ひ了り、其處を去りて、
54 We went to [Nazareth, his hometown. (On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day]) he began to teach the people in the Jewish worship house. The result was that the people there were astonished. But [some] said, “[This man is just an ordinary person like us. So] how is it that he knows so much and understands so much [RHQ]? And how is it that he is able to do [such] miracles [RHQ]?
故郷に至り、諸會堂にて教へ給へるに、人々感嘆して云ひけるは、彼は此智恵と奇蹟とを何處より得たるぞ、
55 (He is [just] the son of the carpenter!/Isn’t he [just] the son of the carpenter [that lived here]?) [RHQ] His mother is Mary, and his younger brothers are James, Joseph, Simon and Judas [RHQ]!
彼は職人の子に非ずや、其母はマリアと呼ばれ、其兄弟はヤコボヨゼフシモンユダと呼ばるる[者等]に非ずや、
56 (And his sisters [also live] here in our [town]./Do not his sisters [live] in our [town]?) [RHQ] So how is he able to do all these [miracles]?”
其姉妹も皆我等の中に居るに非ずや。然れば此凡ての事は何處より得來りしぞ、と。
57 The people were unable to accept [that] he [was the Messiah. So] Jesus said to them, “[People] honor [me and other] prophets [everywhere else we go], but in [our] hometowns [we are] not [honored], and [even] our own families do not [honor us!]”
遂に彼に関きて躓き居たりしに、イエズス曰ひけるは、預言者の敬はれざるは、唯其故郷、其家に於てのみ、と。
58 Jesus did not perform many miracles there because the people did not believe [that he was the Messiah].
斯て彼等の不信仰に因りて、數多の奇蹟を其處に為し給ふこと能はざりき。
