使徒の働き 24
1 五日ののち、大 祭司アナニヤ數人の長老およびテルトロと云ふ辯護士とともに下りて、パウロを總督に訴ふ。
Five days later, Ananias the high priest came down to Caesarea with some of the elders, and with an orator, named Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.
2 パウロ呼び出されたれば、テルトロ訴へ出でて言ふ『ペリクス閣下よ、われらは汝によりて太平を樂しみ、
So Paul was sent for, and then Tertullus began to accuse him, saying. "As it is owing to your excellency that we enjoy profound peace, and that the state of this nation,
3 なんぢの先見によりて、此の國人のために時に隨ひ處に隨ひて、惡しき事の改められたるを感謝して罷まず。
"owing to your wise care, has been improved in every respect and in every place, we accept it with profound thankfulness.
4 ここに喃々しく陳べて汝を妨ぐまじ、願はくは寛容をもて我が少しの言を聽け。
"But not to weary you too much, I beg of your Excellency to listen to a few words from us.
5 我等この人を見るに、恰も疫病のごとくにて、全世界のユダヤ人のあひだに騷擾をおこし、且ナザレ人の異端の首にして、
"For we have found this fellow a pest, an inciter of insurrection among all the Jews of the empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes.
6 宮をさへ瀆さんとしたれば、之を捕へたり。
"He even tried to profane the Temple, but we arrested him.
7 [なし]
"Then the chief captain, Lysias came and violently took him from us.
8 汝この人に就きて訊さば、我らの訴ふる所をことごとく知り得べし』
From him you will be able, by examining Paul yourself, to learn the truth of all these charges we are bringing against him."
9 ユダヤ人も之に加へて、誠にその如くなりと主張す。
The Jews also joined in the charge, maintaining that these were the facts.
10 總督、首にて示しパウロに言はしめたれば、答ふ『なんぢが年 久しくこの國人の審判 人たることを我は知るゆゑに、喜びて我が辯明をなさん。
Then at a nod from the governor, Paul spoke. "Because I know that for many years you have been a judge in this nation, I feel encouraged to make my defense.
11 なんぢ知り得べし、我が禮拜のためにエルサレムに上りてより僅か十二 日に過ぎず、
"For you have it in your power to know that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to Jerusalem to worship;
12 また彼らは、我が宮にても會堂にても市中にても、人と爭ひ群衆を騷がしたるを見ず、
"and that neither in the Temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city, did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd.
13 いま訴へたる我が事につきても證明すること能はざるなり。
"Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me.
14 我ただ此の一事を汝に言ひあらはさん、即ち我は彼らが異端と稱ふる道に循ひて、我が先祖たちの神につかへ、律法と預言者の書とに録したる事をことごとく信じ、
"But this I confess to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors, according to the Way which they call a heresy, believing everything that is according to the Law, or is written in the Prophets,
15 かれら自らも待てるごとく、義者と不義者との復活あるべしと、神を仰ぎて望を懷くなり。
"and having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the just and the unjust.
16 この故に、われ常に神と人とに對して良心の責なからんことを勉む。
"Hence I too endeavor to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men alway.
17 我は多くの年を經てのち歸りきたり、我が民に施濟をなし、また献物をささげゐたりしが、
"Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.
18 その時かれらは我が潔をなして宮にをるを見たるのみにて、群衆もなく騷擾もなかりしなり。
"While I was thus engaged, they found me in the temple, purified, with no crowd and no uproar. But there were certain Asiatic Jews
19 然るにアジアより來れる數人のユダヤ人ありて――もし我に咎むべき事あらば、彼らが汝の前に出でて訴ふることを爲べきなり。
"who ought to have been here before you, and to have made accusations if they had anything against me.
20 或はまた此處なる人々、わが先に議會に立ちしとき、我に何の不義を認めしか言へ。
"Or let these men themselves say what fault they found, when I appeared before the Sanhedrin!
21 唯われ彼らの中に立ちて「死人の甦へる事につきて我けふ汝らの前にて審かる」と呼はりし一言の他には何もなかるべし』
"Unless it was for this one sentence which I uttered when I stood and cried, ‘It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial today before you.’"
22 ペリクスこの道のことを詳しく知りたれば、審判を延して言ふ『千卒長ルシヤの下るを待ちて汝らの事を定むべし』
At this point Felix, who had a pretty accurate knowledge of the Way, adjourned the case, saying to the Jews, "When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will go carefully into the matter."
23 かくて百卒長に命じパウロを守らせ、寛かならしめ、かつ友の之に事ふるをも禁ぜざらしむ。
And he gave orders to the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, but treated with indulgence, and that his personal friends were not to be forbidden to minister to him.
24 數日の後ペリクス、その妻なるユダヤ人の女ドルシラとともに來り、パウロを呼びよせてキリスト・イエスに對する信仰のことを聽き、
Some days later Felix came, with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess; he sent for Paul, and listened to him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
25 パウロが正義と節制と來らんとする審判とにつきて論じたる時、ペリクス懼れて答ふ『今は去れ、よき機を得てまた招かん』
And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."
26 かくてパウロより金を與へられんことを望みて、尚しばしば彼を呼びよせては語れり。
He was hoping that Paul would give him money, and for this reason he used to send for him often to converse with him.
27 二年を經てポルシオ・フェスト、ペリクスの任に代りしが、ペリクス、ユダヤ人の意を迎へんとして、パウロを繋ぎたるままに差措けり。
But after two full years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and because he wished to curry favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul still in prison.
