使徒の働き 22
1 『兄弟たち親たちよ、今なんぢらに對する辯明を聽け』
"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make in your presence."
2 人々そのヘブルの語を語るを聞きてますます靜になりたれば、又いふ、
When they heard him speaking in Hebrew they became the more quiet.
3 『我はユダヤ人にてキリキヤのタルソに生れしが、此の都にて育てられ、ガマリエルの足下にて先祖たちの律法の嚴しき方に遵ひて教へられ、今日の汝らのごとく神に對して熱心なる者なりき。
"I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.
4 我この道を迫害し、男女を縛りて獄に入れ、死にまで至らしめしことは、
"I persecuted to the death this way, continually binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women.
5 大 祭司も凡ての長老も我に就きて證するなり。我は彼 等より兄弟たちへの書を受けて、ダマスコに寓り居る者どもを縛り、エルサレムに曳き來りて罰を受けしめんとて彼處にゆけり。
"To this the high priest and all the council of elders are witnesses. It was from them that I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was already on my way to bring those also who were there back to Jerusalem, in bonds, for punishment.
6 往きてダマスコに近づきたるに、正午ごろ忽ち大なる光、天より出でて我を環り照せり。
"But when, on my journey, I was nearing Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light from heaven shone round about me.
7 その時われ地に倒れ、かつ我に語りて「サウロ、サウロ、何ぞ我を迫害するか」といふ聲を聞き、
"I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, "‘Saul! Saul! why are you persecuting me?’
8 「主よ、なんぢは誰ぞ」と答へしに「われは汝が迫害するナザレのイエスなり」と言ひ給へり。
"‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked. "‘I am Jesus, the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting,’ he answered me.
9 偕に居る者ども光は見しが、我に語る者の聲は聞かざりき。
"Now my companions, though they beheld the light, did not hear the words of Him who spoke to me.
10 われ復いふ「主よ、我なにを爲すべきか」主いひ給ふ「起ちてダマスコに往け、なんぢの爲すべき定りたる事は彼處にて悉とく告げらるべし」
"And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ and the Lord said to me, ‘Rise and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that you are destined to do.’
11 我は、かの光の晃耀にて目 見えずなりたれば、偕にをる者に手を引かれてダマスコに入りたり。
"And as I was seeing nothing for the glory of the light, I was led by the hand of my companions, and so came into Damascus.
12 ここに律法に據れる敬虔の人にして、其の町に住む凡てのユダヤ人に令聞あるアナニヤという者あり。
"And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the Law, well thought of by all the Jews who lived there,
13 彼われに來り傍らに立ちて「兄弟サウロよ、見ることを得よ」と言ひたれば、その時、仰ぎて彼を見たり。
"came to me, and standing by me, said to me, "‘Brother Saul, receive your sight’ "In that very hour I regained my sight and looked up at him.
14 かれ又いふ「我らの先祖の神は、なんぢを選びて御意を知らしめ、又かの義人を見、その御口の聲を聞かしめんとし給へり。
"Then he said. "‘The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
15 これは汝の見 聞したる事につきて、凡ての人に對し彼の證人とならん爲なり。
"‘For before the face of all men you will be a witness for him of what you have seen and heard.
16 今なんぞ躊躇ふか、起て、その御名を呼び、バプテスマを受けて汝の罪を洗ひ去れ」
"‘And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling upon his name.’
17 かくて我エルサレムに歸り、宮にて祈りをるとき、我を忘れし心地して主を見 奉るに、我に斯く言ひ給ふ、
"After my return to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple,
18 「なんぢ急げ、早くエルサレムを去れ、人々われに係る汝の證を受けぬ故なり」
"I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "‘Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.’
19 我いふ「主よ、我さきに汝を信ずる者を獄に入れ、諸 會堂にて之を扑ち、
"‘Lord,’ I replied, ‘they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you,
20 又なんぢの證人ステパノの血の流されしとき、我もその傍らに立ちて之を可しとし、殺す者どもの衣を守りしことは、彼らの知る所なり」
"‘and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting, and holding the garments of his murders.’
21 われに言ひ給ふ「往け、我なんぢを遠く異邦人に遣すなり」と』
"‘Depart,’ he said to me, ‘for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.’"
22 人々きき居たりしが、此の言に及び、聲を揚げて言ふ『斯くのごとき者をば地より除け、生かしおくべき者ならず』
Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"
23 斯く叫びつつ其の衣を脱ぎすて、塵を空中に撒きたれば、
When they continued to shout, throwing their clothes into the air, and flinging dust around,
24 千卒長、人々が何 故パウロにむかひて斯く叫び呼はるかを知らんとし、鞭うちて訊ぶることを命じて、彼を陣營に曳き入れしむ。
the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and examined under the lash, to learn for what reason the people were thus crying out against him.
25 革鞭をあてんとてパウロを引き張りし時、かれ傍らに立つ百卒長に言ふ『ロマ人たる者を罪も定めずして鞭うつは可きか』
But when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing near, "If a man is a Roman citizen, and uncondemned, is it lawful for you to scourge him?"
26 百卒長これを聞きて千卒長に往き、告げて言ふ『なんぢ何をなさんとするか、此の人はロマ人なり』
When the centurion heard that, he went to the tribune and said to him. "What are you intending to do? This man is a Roman citizen."
27 千卒長きたりて言ふ『なんぢはロマ人なるか、我に告げよ』かれ言ふ『然り』
So the tribune came to Paul and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.
28 千卒長こたふ『我は多くの金をもて此の民 籍を得たり』パウロ言ふ『我は生れながらなり』
"I paid a large sum to get this citizenship," said the tribune. "But I was citizen-born," said Paul.
29 ここに訊べんとせし者どもは直ちに去り、千卒長はそのロマ人なるを知り、之を縛りしことを懼れたり。
Then those who were about to scourge him, immediately left him. And the tribune too, was afraid, when he learned that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound.
30 明くる日、千卒長かれが何 故ユダヤ人に訴へられしか、確なる事を知らんと欲して、彼の縛を解き、命じて祭司長らと全 議會とを呼び集め、パウロを曳き出して其の前に立たしめたり。
The next day, as he wished to learn the real reason why the Jews accused Paul, he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and brought Paul down, and placed him before them.
