使徒の働き 23
1 パウロ議會に目を注ぎて言ふ『兄弟たちよ、我は今日に至るまで事 毎に良心に從ひて神に事へたり』
And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.
2 大 祭司アナニヤ傍らに立つ者どもに、彼の口を撃つことを命ず。
But the high priest Ananias ordered those standing by him to smite his mouth.
3 ここにパウロ言ふ『白く塗りたる壁よ、神なんぢを撃ち給はん、なんぢ律法によりて我を審くために坐しながら、律法に悖りて我を撃つことを命ずるか』
Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, whited wall. And thou, dost thou sit judging me according to the law, and breaking the law commandest me to be smitten?
4 傍らに立つ者いふ『なんぢ神の大 祭司を罵るか』
And those that stood by said, Dost thou rail against the high priest of God?
5 パウロ言ふ『兄弟たちよ、我その大 祭司たることを知らざりき。録して「なんぢの民の司をそしる可からず」とあればなり』
And Paul said, I was not conscious, brethren, that he was high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evilly of the ruler of thy people.
6 かくてパウロ、その一部はサドカイ人、その一部はパリサイ人たるを知りて、議會のうちに呼はりて言ふ『兄弟たちよ、我はパリサイ人にしてパリサイ人の子なり、我は死人の甦へることの希望につきて審かるるなり』
But Paul, knowing that the one part [of them] were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: I am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.
7 斯く言ひしに因りて、パリサイ人とサドカイ人との間に紛爭おこりて、會衆 相 分れたり。
And when he had spoken this, there was a tumult of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.
8 サドカイ人は復活もなく御使も靈もなしと言ひ、パリサイ人は兩ながらありと云ふ。
For Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but Pharisees confess both of them.
9 遂に大なる喧噪となりて、パリサイ人の中の學者 數人たちて爭ひて言ふ『われら此の人に惡しき事あるを見ず、もし靈または御使かれに語りたるならば如何』
And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel...
10 紛爭いよいよ激しくなりたれば、千卒長、パウロの彼らに引 裂かれんことを恐れ、兵卒どもに命じて下りゆかしめ、彼らの中より引取りて陣營に連れ來らしめたり。
And a great tumult having arisen, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been torn in pieces by them, commanded the troop to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and to bring [him] into the fortress.
11 その夜、主パウロの傍らに立ちて言ひ給ふ『雄々しかれ、汝エルサレムにて我につきて證をなしたる如く、ロマにても證をなすべし』
But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome also.
12 夜明になりてユダヤ人、徒黨を組み盟約を立てて、パウロを殺すまでは飮食せじと言ふ。
And when it was day, the Jews, having banded together, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.
13 この徒黨を結びたる者は四十 人 餘なり。
And they were more than forty who had joined together in this oath;
14 彼らは祭司長・長老らに往きて言ふ『われらパウロを殺すまでは何をも味ふまじと堅く盟約を立てたり。
and they went to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have cursed ourselves with a curse to taste nothing until we kill Paul.
15 されば汝 等なほ詳細に訊べんとする状して、彼を汝らの許に連れ下らすることを、議會とともに千卒長に訴へよ。我等その近くならぬ間に殺す準備をなせり』
Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.
16 パウロの姉妹の子この待伏の事をきき、往きて陣營に入りパウロに告げたれば、
But Paul's sister's son, having heard of the lying in wait, came and entered into the fortress and reported [it] to Paul.
17 パウロ百卒長の一人を呼びて言ふ『この若者を千卒長につれ往け、告ぐる事あり』
And Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Take this youth to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to him.
18 百卒長これを携へ、千卒長に至りて言ふ『囚人パウロ我を呼びて、この若者なんぢに言ふべき事ありとて、汝に連れ往くことを請へり』
He therefore, having taken him with [him], led him to the chiliarch, and says, The prisoner Paul called me to [him] and asked me to lead this youth to thee, who has something to say to thee.
19 千卒長その手を執り退きて、私に問ふ『われに告ぐる事とは何ぞ』
And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to report to me?
20 若者いふ『ユダヤ人は、汝がパウロの事をなほ詳細に訊ぶる爲にとて、明日かれを議會に連れ下ることを汝に請はんと申合せたり。
And he said, The Jews have agreed together to make a request to thee, that thou mayest bring Paul down to-morrow into the council, as about to inquire something more precise concerning him.
21 汝その請に從ふな、彼らの中にて四十 人 餘の者、パウロを待伏せ、之を殺すまでは飮食せじと盟約を立て、今その準備をなして汝の許諾を待てり』
Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee.
22 ここに千卒長、若者に『これらの事を我に訴へたりと誰にも語るな』と命じて歸せり。
The chiliarch then dismissed the youth, commanding [him], Utter to no one that thou hast represented these things to me.
23 さて百卒長を兩 三人よびて言ふ『今夜 九時ごろカイザリヤに向けて往くために、兵卒 二 百、騎兵 七 十、槍をとる者 二 百を整へよ』
And having called to [him] certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.
24 また畜を備へ、パウロを乘せて安全に總督ペリクスの許に護送することを命じ、
And [he ordered them] to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry [him] safe through to Felix the governor,
25 かつ左のごとき書をかき贈る。
having written a letter, couched in this form:
26 『クラウデオ・ルシヤ謹みて總督ペリクス閣下の平安を祈る。
Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix, greeting.
27 この人はユダヤ人に捕へられて殺されんとせしを、我そのロマ人なるを聞き、兵卒どもを率ゐ往きて救へり。
This man, having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, I came up with the military and took out [of their hands], having learned that he was a Roman.
28 ユダヤ人の彼を訴ふる理由を知らんと欲して、その議會に引き往きたるに、
And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council;
29 彼らの律法の問題につき訴へられたるにて、死もしくは縛に當る罪の訴訟にあらざるを知りたり。
whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him [making him] worthy of death or of bonds.
30 又この人を害せんとする謀計ありと我に聞えたれば、われ俄にこれを汝のもとに送り、これを訴ふる者に、なんぢの前にて彼を訴へんことを命じたり』
But having received information of a plot about to be put in execution against the man [by the Jews], I have immediately sent him to thee, commanding also his accusers to say before thee the things that are against him. [Farewell.]
31 ここに兵卒ども命ぜられたる如くパウロを受けとりて、夜中アンテパトリスまで連れてゆき、
The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,
32 翌日これを騎兵に委ね、ともに往かしめて陣營に歸れり。
and on the morrow, having left the horsemen to go with him, returned to the fortress.
33 騎兵はカイザリヤに入り、總督に書をわたし、パウロを其の前に立たしむ。
And these, having entered into Caesarea, and given up the letter to the governor, presented Paul also to him.
34 總督、書を讀みて、パウロのいづこの國の者なるかを問ひ、そのキリキヤ人なるを知りて、
And having read [it], and asked of what eparchy he was, and learned that [he was] of Cilicia,
35 『汝を訴ふる者の來らんとき、尚つまびらかに汝のことを聽かん』と言ひ、かつ命じて、ヘロデでの官邸に之を守らしめたり。
he said, I will hear thee fully when thine accusers also are arrived. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's praetorium.
