Matthew 3
1 And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,
第一款 洗者ヨハネの先駆 其頃、洗者ヨハネ來りてユデアの荒野に教を宣べ、
2 and saying, 'Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'
云ひけるは、汝等改心せよ、天國は近づけり、と。
3 for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, 'A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.'
蓋是預言者イザヤによりて云はれし人なり、曰く「荒野に呼はる人の聲ありて云ふ、汝等主の道を備へ、其小径を直くせよ」と。
4 And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.
ヨハネは駱駝の毛衣を着、腰に皮帯を締め、蝗と野蜜とを常食と為し居たりき。
5 Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan,
時にエルザレムユデアの全國ヨルダン[河]に沿へる全地方[の人]彼の許に出で、
6 and they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.
己が罪を告白して、ヨルダンにて洗せられ居りしが、
7 And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, 'Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?
多くのファリザイ人及サドカイ人の己に洗せられんとて來るを見て、ヨハネ是に云ひけるは、蝮の裔よ、來るべき怒を逃るる事を誰か汝等に誨へしぞ。
8 bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,
然れば改心の相當なる果を結べよ。
9 and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have — Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,
汝等、我等の父にアブラハムありと心の中に云はんとすること勿れ、蓋我汝等に告ぐ、神は是等の石よりアブラハムの為に子等を起すことを得給ふ。
10 and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.
斧既に樹の根に置かれたり、故に総て善き果を結ばざる樹は伐られて火に投入れらるべし。
11 'I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,
我は改心の為に水にて汝等を洗すれども、我後に來り給ふ者は我よりも力あり、我は其履を執るにも足らず、彼は聖霊と火とにて汝等を洗し給ふべし。
12 whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'
彼の手に箕ありて其禾場を浄め、麦は倉に納め、糠は消えざる火にて焼き給ふべし、と。
13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,
第二款 キリスト自身の豫備 此時イエズス、ヨハネに洗せられんとて、ガリレアよりヨルダン[河]に來り給ひしかば、
14 but John was forbidding him, saying, 'I have need by thee to be baptized — and thou dost come unto me!'
ヨハネ辞して云ひけるは、我こそ汝に洗せらるべきに、汝我に來り給ふか。
15 But Jesus answering said to him, 'Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfil all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.
イエズス答へて曰ひけるは、姑く其を許せ、斯く我等が正しき事を、悉く遂ぐるは當然なればなり、と。是に於てヨハネ是に許ししかば、
16 And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him,
イエズス洗せられて直に水より上り給ひしが、折しも天彼の為に開け、神の霊鳩の如く降りて我上に來り給ふを見給へり、
17 and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, 'This is My Son — the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'
折しも又天より聲ありて、「是ぞ我心を安んぜる我愛子なる」と云へり。
