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』
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense [which I make] now to you.
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、
(And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept the more silence: and he saith, )
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 verily a man [who am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, being zealous towards God, as ye 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、
And I persecuted this way even to death, binding and delivering into 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。
As also the high priest doth bear me testimony, and all the estate of the elders; from whom also I received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them who were there bound to Jerusalem, to be punished.
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。
And it came to pass, that as I was passing on my journey, and had come nigh to Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light around 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、
And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou 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。
And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
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。
And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that 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, Arise, and go into Damascus, and there it shall be told thee concerning all things which are appointed for thee 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 when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I 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 one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews who dwelt [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 stood, and said to me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon 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。
And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldst know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldst hear the voice of 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 thou shalt be his witness to all men of what thou hast 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 tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
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、
And it came to pass, that when I had come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
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」
And saw him saying to me, Make haste, and depart quickly from Jerusalem; for they will not receive thy 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、
And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
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 thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
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』
And he said to me, Depart: for I will send thee 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』
And they gave him audience to this word, and [then] lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a [man] from the earth: for it is not fit that he should 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、
And as they cried out, and cast off [their] clothes, and threw dust into the air,
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 chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know for what cause they cried so 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』
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
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 and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest; for this man is a Roman.
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』
Then the chief captain came, and said to him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yes.
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』
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum I obtained this freedom. And Paul said, But I was [free] born.
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 forthwith they departed from him who were about to examine him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
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。
On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from [his] bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
