使徒の働き 10
1 ここにカイザリヤにコルネリオといふ人あり、イタリヤ隊と稱ふる軍隊の百卒長なるが、
[There was] a man [who lived] in Caesarea [city] whose name was Cornelius. He was an officer who commanded 100 men in a large group of [Roman] soldiers from Italy.
2 敬虔にして全家族とともに神を畏れ、かつ民に多くの施濟をなし、常に神に祈れり。
He always tried to do what would please God; he and his entire household [MTY] [were non-Jews who] habitually worshipped God. He sometimes gave money to help poor [Jewish] people, and he prayed to God regularly.
3 或 日の午後 三時ごろ幻影のうちに神の使きたりて『コルネリオよ』と言ふを明かに見たれば、
[One day] at about three o’clock in the afternoon [Cornelius saw] a vision. He clearly saw an angel whom God [had sent]. The angel came into [his room] and said to him, “Cornelius!”
4 之に目をそそぎ怖れて言ふ『主よ、何事ぞ』御使いふ『なんぢの祈と施濟とは、神の前に上りて記念とせらる。
Cornelius stared at the angel and became terrified. Then he asked [fearfully], “Sir, what do you [(sg)] want?” The angel answered him, “You [(sg)] have pleased God because you have been praying [regularly to him] and you often give money to [help] poor people. [Those things have been] like a sacrifice [to God].
5 今ヨツパに人を遣してペテロと稱ふるシモンを招け、
So, now command some men to go to Joppa and [tell them to] bring back a man named Simon whose other name is Peter.
6 彼は皮工シモンの家に宿る。その家は海邊にあり』
He is staying with a man, [also] named Simon, who makes leather. His house is near the ocean.”
7 斯く語れる御使の去りし後、コルネリオ己が僕 二人と從卒中の敬虔なる者 一人とを呼び、
When the angel who spoke to Cornelius had gone, Cornelius summoned two of his household servants and a soldier who served him, one who also worshipped God.
8 凡ての事を告げてヨツパに遣せり。
He explained to them everything [that the angel had said. Then] he told them to go to Joppa [to ask Peter to come to Caesarea].
9 明くる日かれらなほ途中にあり、既に町に近づかんとする頃ほひ、ペテロ祈らんとて屋の上に登る、時は晝の十二 時ごろなりき。
About noon the next day those [three men] were traveling [along the road] and were coming near [Joppa. As they were approaching Joppa], Peter went up on the [flat] housetop to pray.
10 飢ゑて物欲しくなり、人の食を調ふるほどに我を忘れし心地して、
He became hungry and wanted something to eat. While someone was preparing the food, [Peter] saw [this] vision:
11 天 開け、器のくだるを見る、大なる布のごとき物にして、四隅もて地に縋り下されたり。
(He saw heaven open/He saw an opening in the sky) and something like a large sheet was being lowered [to the ground]. [It was tied at] its four corners [with ropes].
12 その中には諸種の四 足のもの、地を匐ふもの、空の鳥あり。
Inside the sheet were all kinds of creatures. [These included animals and birds that the Mosaic laws forbade Jews to eat]. Some had four feet, others scurried across the ground, and others were wild birds.
13 また聲ありて言ふ『ペテロ、立て、屠りて食せよ』
Then [he heard] God [SYN] say to him, “Peter, stand up, kill [and cook some of these] and eat [their meat]!”
14 ペテロ言ふ『主よ、可からじ、我いまだ潔からぬもの穢れたる物を食せし事なし』
But Peter replied, “Lord, surely you [(sg)] do not [really want me to do that]! I have never eaten any [meat] that [our Jewish law says] is unacceptable to God or [something that we(exc)] must not eat!”
15 聲 再びありて言ふ『神の潔め給ひし物を、なんぢ潔からずとすな』
[Then Peter heard] [MTY] God talk to him a second time. He said, “[I am] God, [so] if I have made something acceptable [to eat], do not say that it is not acceptable [to eat]!”
16 かくの如きこと三度にして、器は直ちに天に上げられたり。
[This happened] three [times, so Peter knew that he had to think carefully about what it might mean]. Immediately [after God had said that the third time], ([the] sheet [with the animals and birds] was the pulled back into heaven/[someone] pulled the sheet [with the animals and birds] up into the sky again).
17 ペテロその見し幻影の何の意なるか、心に惑ふほどに、視よ、コルネリオより遣されたる人、シモンの家を尋ねて門の前に立ち、
While Peter was trying to understand what that vision meant, the men who had been sent by Cornelius {whom Cornelius had sent} [arrived in Joppa. They asked people how to get to] Simon’s house. [So they found his house] and were standing outside the gate.
18 訪ひて、ペテロと稱ふるシモンの此處に宿るかを問ふ。
They called and were asking if a man named Simon, whose other name was Peter, was staying there.
19 ペテロなほ幻影に就きて打案じゐたるに、御靈いひ給ふ『視よ、三人なんぢを尋ぬ。
While Peter was still trying to understand [what] the vision [meant], [God’s] Spirit said to him, “Three men [are here who] want to see you.
20 起ちて下り疑はずして共に往け、彼らを遣したるは我なり』
So get up and go downstairs and go with them! Do not think that you [(sg)] should not go with them [because of their being non-Jews], because I have sent them [here]!”
21 ペテロ下りて、かの人たちに言ふ『視よ、我は汝らの尋ぬる者なり、何の故ありて來るか』
So Peter went down to the men and said to them, “[Greetings!] I am [the man] you are looking for. Why have you come?”
22 かれら言ふ『義人にして神を畏れ、ユダヤの國人の中に令聞ある百卒長コルネリオ、聖なる御使より、汝を家に招きて、その語ることを聽けとの告を受けたり』
One of them replied, “Cornelius, who is a [Roman] army officer, [sent us here]. He is a righteous man who worships God, and all of the Jewish people [HYP] [who know about him] say that he is a very good man. An angel (who was sent from God/whom God sent) said to him, ‘Tell some men to [go to Joppa to see Simon Peter and] bring him here, so that you [(sg)] can hear what he has to say.’”
23 ここにペテロ彼らを迎へ入れて宿らす。明くる日たちて彼らと共に出でゆきしが、ヨツパの兄弟も數人ともに往けり。
So Peter [said that he would go with them, and then he] invited them into [the house] and told them that they could stay [there that night]. Acts 10:23b-26 The next day Peter got ready and went with the men. Several of the believers from Joppa went with him.
24 明くる日カイザリヤに入りし時、コルネリオは親族および親しき朋友を呼び集めて彼らを待ちゐたり。
The day after that, they arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them. He had also invited his relatives and close friends [to come to his house, so they were there, too].
25 ペテロ入り來れば、コルネリオ之を迎へ、その足下に伏して拜す。
When Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and bowed low in front of him to worship him.
26 ペテロ彼を起して言ふ『立て、我も人なり』
But Peter [grasped Cornelius by the hand and] lifted him to his feet. He said, “Stand up! [Do not revere/worship me] I myself am only human, [like you]!”
27 かくて相 語りつつ内に入り、多くの人の集れるを見て、ペテロ之に言ふ、
While he was talking to Cornelius, Peter [and the others] entered [a large room inside the house]. Peter saw that many people had gathered together [there].
28 『なんぢらの知る如く、ユダヤ人たる者の外の國人と交りまた近づくことは、律法に適はぬ所なり、然れど神は、何 人をも穢れたるもの潔からぬ者と言ふまじきことを我に示したまへり。
Then Peter said to them, “You all know that any [of us] Jews think we are disobeying [our Jewish] laws if we [(exc)] associate with a non-Jewish person or [if we even] visit him. However, God has shown me [in a vision] that I should not say about anyone that God will not accept him.
29 この故に、われ招かるるや躊躇はずして來れり。然れば問ふ、汝らは何の故に我をまねきしか』
So when you sent [some men] to ask me to come [here], I came [right away. I] did not say that I could not go [with non-Jewish people. So, please tell me], why have you asked me to come [here]?”
30 コルネリオ言ふ『われ四日 前に我が家にて午後 三時の祈をなし、此の時刻に至りしに、視よ、輝く衣を著たる人、わが前に立ちて、
Cornelius replied, “About this time four days ago I was praying [to God] in my house, [as I regularly do] at three o’clock in the afternoon. Suddenly a man whose clothes [shone] brightly stood in front of me,
31 「コルネリオよ、汝の祈は聽かれ、なんぢの施濟は神の前に憶えられたり。
and said, ‘Cornelius, when you [(sg)] have prayed, you have been heard by God {God has heard [when] you [(sg)] have prayed [to him]}. He has also noticed that you have [often] given money to [help] poor people, [and he is pleased with that].
32 人をヨツパに送りてペテロと稱ふるシモンを招け、かれは海邊なる皮工シモンの家に宿るなり」と云へり。
So now, send [messengers to go] to Joppa, [in order] to ask Simon whose other name is Peter to come [here]. He is staying near the ocean in a house that belongs to [another] man named Simon, who makes leather. [When Simon Peter comes, he will tell you a message from God].’
33 われ速かに人を汝に遣したるに、汝の來れるは忝けなし。いま我等はみな、主の汝に命じ給ひし凡てのことを聽かんとて、神の前に在り』
So I immediately sent [some men who asked] you [(sg) to come here], and I [certainly] thank you for coming. Now we [(exc)] all are gathered [here, knowing that] God is with us, in order to hear all the things that the Lord [God] has commanded you [to say. So please speak to us].”
34 ペテロ口を開きて言ふ、『われ今まことに知る、神は偏ることをせず、
So Peter began to speak [MTY] to them. He said, “[Now] I understand that it is true that God does not favor only certain groups [of people].
35 何れの國の人にても神を敬ひて義をおこなふ者を容れ給ふことを。
Instead, from every group of people he accepts [everyone who] honors him and who does what pleases him.
36 神はイエス・キリスト（これ萬民の主）によりて平和の福音をのべ、イスラエルの子孫に言をおくり給へり。
[You know] the message that God sent to [us] Israelis. [He] proclaimed [to us the good news that he] would cause [people] to have peace [with him] because of what Jesus Christ [has done]. This [Jesus is Lord not only over us Israelis. He] is [also the] Lord [who rules] over all [people].
37 即ちヨハネの傳へしバプテスマの後、ガリラヤより始り、ユダヤ全國に弘りし言なるは汝らの知る所なり。
You know what [he] did throughout the land of Judea, beginning in Galilee. He began [to do those things] after John had been proclaiming [to people that they should turn away from their sinful behavior before] he baptized them.
38 これは神が聖 靈と能力とを注ぎ給ひしナザレのイエスの事にして、彼は徧くめぐりて善き事をおこなひ、凡て惡魔に制せらるる者を醫せり、神これと偕に在したればなり。
You know that God gave [MTY] his Holy Spirit to Jesus, [the Man] from Nazareth [town], and gave him the power [to do miracles. You also know] how Jesus went to many places, always doing good deeds and healing [people. Specifically], he was continually healing all the people whom the devil was causing to suffer. [Jesus was able to do those things] because God was always helping him.”
39 我等はユダヤの地およびエルサレムにて、イエスの行ひ給ひし諸般のことの證人なり、人々は彼を木にかけて殺せり。
“We [apostles] tell people about all the things that [we saw Jesus] do in Jerusalem and in the [rest of] Israel. [The leaders in Jerusalem] had him killed by being nailed to a cross.
40 神は之を三日めに甦へらせ、かつ明かに現したまへり。
However, God caused him to become alive again on the third day [after he had died]. God [also] enabled [some of us(exc)] to see him [so that we would know that he was alive again].
41 然れど凡ての民にはあらで、神の預じめ選び給へる證人、即ちイエスの死人の中より甦へり給ひし後、これと共に飮食せし我らに現し給ひしなり。
God [did] not [let] all the [Jewish] people see him. Instead, he had chosen us [apostles] beforehand to see [Jesus after he became alive again], and to tell others [about him]. We [apostles are the people] who ate meals with him (after he had become alive [again]/after he had risen from the dead).
42 イエスは己の生ける者と死にたる者との審判 主に、神より定められしを證することと、民どもに宣傳ふる事とを我らに命じ給ふ。
God commanded us to preach to the people and tell them that Jesus is the one whom he has appointed to judge [everyone some day. He will judge all] those who will [still] be living and all those who will have died [by that time].
43 彼につきては預言者たちも皆、おほよそ彼を信ずる者の、その名によりて罪の赦を得べきことを證す』
All of the prophets [who wrote about the Messiah long ago] told [people] about him. [They wrote] that if people believe in the Messiah [MTY], God would forgive [them for] their sins, because of what [the Messiah would do] for them.”
44 ペテロ尚これらの言を語りをる間に、聖 靈、御言をきく凡ての者に降りたまふ。
While Peter was still speaking those words, suddenly the Holy Spirit (came down on/began to control) all [those non-Jewish people] who were listening to the message.
45 ペテロと共に來りし割禮ある信者は、異邦人にも聖 靈の賜物のそそがれしに驚けり。
The Jewish believers who had come with Peter [from Joppa] were amazed that [God] had generously given the Holy Spirit to the non-Jewish people, too.
46 そは彼らが異言をかたり、神を崇むるを聞きたるに因る。
[The Jewish believers knew that God had done that] because they were hearing those people speaking languages [MTY] [that they had not learned] and telling how great God is.
47 ここにペテロ答へて言ふ『この人々われらの如く聖 靈をうけたれば、誰か水を禁じて其のバプテスマを受くることを拒み得んや』
Then Peter said [to the other Jewish believers who were there], “[God] has given them the Holy Spirit just like [he gave him] to us [Jewish believers], so (surely all of you would agree that [we(exc)] should baptize these people!/would any of you forbid that these people should be baptized?) [RHQ]”
48 遂にイエス・キリストの御名によりてバプテスマを授けられんことを命じたり。ここに彼らペテロに數日とどまらんことを請へり。
Then Peter told those [non-Jewish] people that they should be baptized [to show that they had believed] [MTY] in the [Lord] Jesus Christ. [So they baptized all of them. After they were baptized], they requested that Peter stay [with them] several days. [So Peter and the other Jewish believers did that].
