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, looking stedfastly on the council, said, Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience until 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。
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the 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 said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: and sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
4 傍らに立つ者いふ『なんぢ神の大 祭司を罵るか』
And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?
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 wist not, brethren, that he was high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of a 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 when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
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 so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and Sadducees: and the assembly 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 the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
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 arose a great clamour: and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: and what if a spirit hath 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 when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the castle.
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』
And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer: for as thou hast testified concerning me at Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
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 banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed 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 which made this conspiracy.
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 came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed 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 signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to slay 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 heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the castle, and told 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 called unto him one of the centurions, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath something to tell 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』
So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and saith, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and asked me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath 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 chief captain took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, What is that thou hast to tell 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 to ask thee to bring down Paul tomorrow unto the council, as though thou wouldest inquire somewhat more exactly 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 therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for 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。
So the chief captain let the young man go, charging him, Tell no man that thou hast signified 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 he called unto him two of the centurions, and said, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at 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 bade them] provide beasts, that they might set Paul thereon, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
25 かつ左のごとき書をかき贈る。
And he wrote a letter after 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 unto 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 was seized by the Jews, and was about to be slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers, and rescued him, 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 cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him down unto 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 about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge 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』
And when it was shewn to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to thee forthwith, charging his accusers also to speak against him before thee.
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、
So the soldiers, as it was commanded 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。
But on the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
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 they, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, presented Paul also before 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 when he had read it, he asked of what province he was; and when he understood 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。
I will hear thy cause, said he, when thine accusers also are come: and he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s palace.
