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 afterward the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and a barrister named Tertullus. They laid an information with 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、
and, when the hearing came on, Tertullus began his speech for the prosecution.
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。
“We owe it to your Excellency,” he said, “that we are enjoying profound peace, and we owe it to your foresight that this nation is constantly securing reforms – advantages which we very gratefully accept at all times and places.
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 be tedious – I beg you, with your accustomed fairness, to listen to a brief statement of our case.
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、
We have found this man a public pest; he is one who stirs up disputes among our people all the world over, and is a ringleader of the Nazarene heretics.
6 宮をさへ瀆さんとしたれば、之を捕へたり。
He even attempted to desecrate the Temple itself, but we caught him;
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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』
and you will be able, by examining him on all these points, to satisfy yourself as to the charges which 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 Jewish crowd also joined in the attack and bore out his statements.
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。
On a sign from the Governor, Paul made this reply: “Knowing, as I do, for how many years you have acted as judge to this nation, it is with confidence that I undertake my own 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 can easily verify that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship at Jerusalem,
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、
where my prosecutors never found me holding discussions with anyone, or causing a crowd to collect – either in the Temple, or in the synagogues, or about the city;
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。
and they cannot establish the charges which they are now making 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、
This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Way which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that 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 I have a hope that rests in God – a hope which they also cherish – that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike.
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。
This being so, I strive at all times to keep my conscience clear before both God and people.
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、
After some years’ absence I had come to bring charitable gifts to my nation, and to make offerings;
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。
and it was while engaged in this that they found me in the Temple, after completing a period of purification, but not with any crowd or disorder.
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。
There were, however, some Jews from Roman Asia who ought to have been here before you, and to have made any charge that they may have 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 else let my opponents here say what they found wrong in me when I was before the Council,
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』
except as to the one sentence that I shouted out as I stood among them – ‘It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial before you today’.”
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』
Felix, however, adjourned the case – though he had a fairly accurate knowledge of all that concerned the Way – with the promise, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will give my decision in your case.”
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。
So he gave orders to the centurion in charge of Paul to keep him in custody, but to relax the regulations, and not to prevent any of his personal friends from attending to his wants.
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, who was Jewish, and, sending for Paul, listened to what he had to say about 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』
But, while Paul was speaking at length about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became terrified, and interrupted him – “Go for the present, but, when I find an opportunity, I will send for you again.”
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, too, for a bribe from Paul, and so he used to send for him frequently and talk 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 the lapse of two years, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and, wishing to gain popularity with the Jewish leaders, he left Paul a prisoner.
