使徒の働き 21
1 ここに我ら人々と別れて船出をなし、眞直にはせてコスに到り、次の日ロドスにつき、彼處よりパタラにわたる。
[After] we said goodbye to the elders [from Ephesus], we [got on the ship and] sailed to Cos [Island, where the ship stopped for the night]. The next day we sailed from Cos to Rhodes [Island, where the ship stopped again. The day after] that we sailed to Patara [town, where the ship stopped. This was on Patara Island].
2 此の處にてピニケにゆく船に遇ひ、これに乘りて船出す。
[At Patara we left that ship, and someone told us that] there was a ship that would be going to Phoenicia [region. So] we got on that ship, and it left.
3 クプロを望み、之を左にして過ぎ、シリヤに向ひて進み、ツロに著きたり、此處にて船 荷を卸さんとすればなり。
[We sailed until] we could see Cyprus [Island]. We passed to the south of the island and continued sailing until we arrived at [Phoenicia region, in] Syria [province]. We arrived at Tyre [city. The ship was going to stay there several days, because its workers] had to unload the cargo.
4 かくて弟子たちに尋ね逢ひて七日 留れり。かれら御靈によりてパウロに、エルサレムに上るまじき事を云へり。
[Someone told us] where the believers in Tyre lived, so we [(exc) went and] stayed with them for seven days. Because [God’s] Spirit revealed to them ([that people would cause Paul to suffer/Paul would suffer]) [in Jerusalem], they told Paul that he should not go there.
5 然るに我ら七日 終りて後、いでて旅立ちたれば、彼 等みな妻 子とともに町の外まで送りきたり、諸共に濱邊に跪づきて祈り、
But when it was time [for the ship to leave again], we [prepared to] continue going [to Jerusalem]. When we left [Tyre], all the believers, including their wives and children, went with us [to the edge of the sea]. We all knelt down there on the sand/shore and prayed.
6 相 互に別を告げて我らは船に乘り、彼らは家に歸れり。
After we all said goodbye, Paul and we [his companions] got on the ship, and the [other] believers returned to their own homes.
7 ツロをいでトレマイに到りて船路つきたり。此處にて兄弟たちの安否を訪ひ、かれらの許に一日 留り、
After we [(exc)] left Tyre, we continued on [that ship] to Ptolemais [city]. There were believers there, and we greeted them and stayed with them that night.
8 明くる日ここを去りてカイザリヤにいたり、傳道者ピリポの家に入りて留る、彼はかの七人の一人なり。
The next day we left [Ptolemais] and sailed to Caesarea [city], where we stayed in the home of Philip, who [spent his days] telling others how to become disciples of Jesus. He was one of the seven [men whom the believers in Jerusalem had chosen to care for the widows].
9 この人に預言する四人の娘ありて、處女なりき。
He had four daughters who were not married. Each of them [frequently] spoke messages that the Holy Spirit had revealed to them.
10 我ら數日 留り居るうちに、アガボと云ふ預言者ユダヤより下り、
After [we(exc) had been in Philip’s house for] several days, a believer whose name was Agabus came down from Judea [district] and arrived [in Caesarea]. He [frequently] spoke messages that the Holy Spirit had told him.
11 我らの許に來りてパウロの帶をとり、己が足と手とを縛りて言ふ『聖 靈かく言ひ給ふ「エルサレムにて、ユダヤ人この帶の主を斯くの如く縛りて異邦人の手に付さん」と』
Coming over to where we were, he took off Paul’s belt. Then he tied his own feet and hands with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘The Jewish [leaders] [SYN] in Jerusalem will tie up [the hands and feet of] the owner of this belt, like this, and they will hand him over to non-Jewish people [as a prisoner].’”
12 われら之を聞きて此の地の人々とともにパウロに、エルサレムに上らざらんことを勸む。
When [the rest of] us heard that, we and [other] believers there repeatedly pled with Paul, “Please do not go up to Jerusalem!”
13 その時パウロ答ふ『なんぢら何ぞ歎きて我が心を挫くか、我エルサレムにて、主イエスの名のために、唯に縛らるるのみかは、死ぬることをも覺悟せり』
But Paul replied, “(Please stop crying and trying to discourage me [IDM] [from going!]/Why are you crying and trying to discourage me [IDM] [from going]?) [RHQ] I am willing to be put {[for people] to put me} in prison and also to be killed {[for them] to kill me} in Jerusalem because I [serve] [MTY] the Lord Jesus.”
14 斯く我らの勸告を納れるによりて『主の御意の如くなれかし』と言ひて止む。
When [we(exc) realized that] he was determined [to go to Jerusalem], we did not try [any longer] to persuade him [not to go]. We said, “May (the Lord [God] do what he wants/the Lord’s will be done)!”
15 この後われら行李を整へてエルサレムに上る。
After those days [in Caesarea], we [(exc)] prepared [our things] and [left to] go [by land] up to Jerusalem.
16 カイザリヤに居る弟子も數人ともに往き、我らの宿らんとするクプロ人マナソンといふ舊き弟子のもとに案内したり。
Some of the believers from Caesarea also went with us. [On the way to Jerusalem], we stayed [one night] in the house of [a man whose name was] Mnason. He was from Cyprus [Island], and he had believed [in Jesus] when people were first beginning to hear the message [about him].
17 エルサレムに到りたれば、兄弟たち歡びて我らを迎へたり。
When we arrived in Jerusalem, [a group of] the believers greeted us happily.
18 翌日パウロ我らと共にヤコブの許に往きしに、長老たちみなあつまり居たり。
The next day Paul and the rest of us went to speak with James, [who was the leader of the congregation there]. All of the [other] leaders/elders [of the congregation in Jerusalem] were also there.
19 パウロその安否を問ひて後、おのが勤勞によりて異邦人のうちに神の行ひ給ひしことを、一々 告げたれば、
Paul greeted them, and then he reported all of the things that God had enabled him to do among the non-Jewish people.
20 彼ら聞きて神を崇め、またパウロに言ふ『兄弟よ、なんぢの見るごとく、ユダヤ人のうち、信者となりたるもの數萬人あり、みな律法に對して熱心なる者なり。
When they heard that, James and the other elders said, “Praise the Lord!” Then [one of] them said to Paul, “Brother/Friend, you [(sg)] know that there are very many thousands of us [(inc)] Jewish people [here] who have believed [in the Lord Jesus]. Also, you know that we [(inc)] all continue very carefully to obey the laws [that Moses gave us].
21 彼らは、汝が異邦人のうちに居る凡てのユダヤ人に對ひて、その兒らに割禮を施すな、習慣に從ふなと云ひて、モーセに遠ざかることを教ふと聞けり。
[But our fellow Jewish believers] have been told {have heard [people say]} that when you are among non-Jews, you tell the Jewish believers who live there that they should stop obeying [the laws] [MTY] ([of] Moses/[that] Moses [received from God]). [People say that] you tell [those Jewish believers] not to circumcise their sons and not to practice our [other] customs. [We(exc) do not believe that this is true].
22 如何にすべきか、彼らは必ず汝の來りたるを聞かん。
But our fellow [Jewish] believers will certainly hear that you have arrived, [and they will be angry with you]. So [you] need to do something [RHQ] [to show them that what they heard about you is not true].
23 されば汝われらの言ふ如くせよ、我らの中に誓願あるもの四人あり、
So you should do what we suggest to you. There are four men among us who have strongly promised [to God] about [something].
24 汝かれらと組みて之とともに潔をなし、彼 等のために費を出して髮を剃らしめよ。さらば人々みな汝につきて聞きたることの虚僞にして、汝も律法を守りて正しく歩み居ることを知らん。
Go with these men [to the Temple] and [ritually] purify yourself along with them. Then, [when it is time for them to offer the sacrifices for that ritual], pay for what they offer [as sacrifices]. After that, they can shave their heads [to show that they have done what they promised to do. And when people see you in the courts of the Temple with those men], they will know that what they have been told {what people have told them} about you is not true. Instead, all of them will know that you obey all our Jewish laws [and rituals].
25 異邦人の信者となりたる者につきては、我ら既に書き贈りて、偶像に献げたる物と、血と、絞殺したる物と、淫行とに遠ざかるべき事を定めたり』
As for the non-Jewish believers, [we elders here in Jerusalem have talked] about [which of our laws] they [should obey, and] we [(exc)] wrote them [a letter, telling them] what we decided. [We wrote] that they should not eat meat that people have offered as a sacrifice to any idol, [that they should not eat] blood [from animals], and that [they should not eat] meat from animals [that people have killed by] strangling [them. We also told them that] they should not have sex with someone to whom they are not married.”
26 ここにパウロその人々と組みて、次の日ともどもに潔をなして宮に入り、潔の期 滿ちて各人のために献物をささぐべき日を告げたり。
So Paul [agreed to do what they asked], and the next day he took the [four] men, and together they ritually purified themselves. After that, Paul went to the Temple [courts and] told [the priest] what day they would [finish] purifying themselves [ritually] and when [they] would offer [the animals as sacrifices] for each of them.
27 かくて七日の終らんとする時、アジヤより來りしユダヤ人ら、宮の内にパウロの居るを見て、群衆を騷がし、かれに手をかけ叫びて言ふ、
When the seven days [for purifying themselves] were nearly finished, Paul [returned] to the Temple [courtyard]. Some Jews from Asia [province] saw him there, [and they were very angry at him]. On another day they had seen Paul [walking around] in Jerusalem with Trophimus, who was a non-Jew. Their laws did not permit non-Jews to be in the Temple, and they thought that Paul had brought Trophimus into the Temple [courtyard that day. So] they called out to many other Jews [who were in the Temple courtyard] to [help them] seize [MTY] Paul. They shouted, “Fellow Israelites, come and help [us punish this] man! This is the one who is [constantly] teaching people wherever [he goes that they] should despise the [Jewish] people. [He teaches people that they should no longer obey] the laws [of Moses] nor respect this holy [Temple]. He has even brought non-Jews here into [the court of] our Temple, causing God to consider it no longer holy!”
28 『イスラエルの人々 助けよ、この人はいたる處にて民と律法と此の所とに悖れることを人々に教ふる者なり、然のみならず、ギリシヤ人を宮に率き入れて、此の聖なる所をも汚したり』
29 からら曩にエペソ人トロピモがパウロとともに市中にゐたるを見て、パウロ之を宮に率き入れしと思ひしなり。
30 ここに市中みな騷ぎたち、民ども馳せ集り、パウロを捕へて宮の外に曳き出せり、かくて門は直ちに鎖されたり。
[People] throughout [MTY] the city heard that there was trouble [at the Temple courtyard], and they came running there. They grabbed Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple [area]. The gates [to the Temple courtyard were shut] {[The Temple guards] shut the doors [to the Temple courts]} immediately, [so that the people would not riot inside the Temple area].
31 彼らパウロを殺さんとせしとき、軍隊の千卒長に、エルサレム中さわぎ立てりとの事きこえたれば、
While they were trying to kill Paul, someone [ran to the fort near the Temple] and told the Roman commander that many [HYP] people [MTY] in Jerusalem were rioting [at the Temple].
32 かれ速かに兵卒および百卒長らを率ゐて馳せ下る。かれら千卒長と兵卒とを見て、パウロを打つことを止む。
The commander quickly took some officers and [a large group of] soldiers and ran to [the Temple area where] the crowd was. When the crowd of people [who were yelling and beating Paul] saw the commander and the soldiers [coming], they stopped beating him.
33 千卒長、近よりてパウロを執へ、命じて二つの鏈にて繋がせ、その何 人なるか、何事をなしたるかを尋ぬるに、
The commander came to [where Paul was and] seized him. He [commanded soldiers] to fasten a chain to [each of] Paul’s [arms]. Then he asked [the people in the crowd], “Who is this man, and what has he done?”
34 群衆の中にて或 者はこの事を、或 者はかの事を呼はり、騷亂のために確なる事を知るに由なく、命じて陣營に曳き來らしめたり。
Some of the many people there were shouting one thing, [and] some were shouting something else. Because they continued shouting so loudly, the commander could not understand [what they were shouting. So] he [commanded] that Paul be taken {[the soldiers] to take Paul} into the barracks [so that he could question him there].
35 階段に至れるに、群衆の手暴きによりて、兵卒パウロを負ひたり。
[The soldiers] led Paul to the steps [of the barracks], but many people continued to follow them, trying to kill [Paul. So the commander told] the soldiers to carry Paul [up the steps into the barracks].
36 これ群れる民ども『彼を除け』と叫びつつ隨ひ迫れる故なり。
The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Kill him! Kill him!”
37 パウロ陣營に曳き入れられんとするとき、千卒長に言ふ『われ汝に語りて可きか』かれ言ふ『なんぢギリシヤ語を知るか。
As Paul was about to be taken {[the soldiers] were about to take Paul} into the barracks, he said [in Greek] to the commander, “May I speak to you?” The commander said, “(I am surprised that you can speak the Greek [language]!/Can you [(sg)] speak the Greek [language]?)” [RHQ]
38 汝はかのエジプト人にして、曩に亂を起して四千 人の刺客を荒野に率ゐ出でし者ならずや』
“(I [thought] that you [(sg)] were that fellow/Are you not that fellow) from Egypt [RHQ] who wanted to rebel [against the government not long ago], and who took 4,000 violent terrorists [with him] out into the desert, [so that we could not catch him]?”
39 パウロ言ふ『我はキリキヤなるタルソのユダヤ人、鄙しからぬ市の市民なり。請ふ民に語るを許せ』
Paul answered, “[No, I am not!] I am a Jew. I [was born] in Tarsus, which is an important [LIT] city in Cilicia [province]. I ask that you [(sg)] let me speak to the people.”
40 之を許したれば、パウロ階段の上に立ち、民に對ひて手を搖かし、大に靜まれる時、ヘブルの語にて語りて言ふ、
Then the commander permitted Paul [to speak. So] Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand [for the crowd to be quiet. And after] the people in the crowd became quiet, Paul spoke to them in [their own] Hebrew language [MTY].
