使徒の働き 25
1 フェスト任國にいたりて三日の後、カイザリヤよりエルサレムに上りたれば、
Three days after Festus entered his province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
2 祭司長ら及びユダヤ人の重立ちたる者ども、パウロを訴へ之を害はんとして、
The high priest and the Jewish leaders laid charges against Paul before him.
3 フェストの好意にて彼をエルサレムに召し出されんことを願ふ。斯くして道に待伏し、之を殺さんと思へるなり。
They urged him, asking it as a favor, to send for him to Jerusalem. They meant to lay in wait for him and kill him on the way.
4 然るにフェスト答へて、パウロのカイザリヤに囚はれ在ることと、己が程なく歸るべき事とを告げ、
But Festus answered that Paul was in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was going there soon.
5 『もし彼に不 善あらんには、汝 等のうち然るべき者ども我とともに下りて訴ふべし』と言ふ。
"Let those then," he said, "who are in authority among you, go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him."
6 かくて彼處に八日 十日ばかり居りてカイザリヤに下り、明くる日、審判の座に坐し、命じてパウロを引出さしむ。
After staying not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day, after taking his seat upon the tribunal, he ordered Paul to be brought.
7 その出で來りし時、エルサレムより下りしユダヤ人ら、これを取圍みて樣々の重き罪を言ひ立てて訴ふれども、證すること能はず。
When he came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought a number of serious charges against him, which they could not prove.
8 パウロは辯明して言ふ『我はユダヤ人の律法に對しても、宮に對しても、カイザルに對しても、罪を犯したる事なし』
Paul said in his defense, "I have committed no crime against the Law of the Jews, against the Temple, or against Caesar."
9 フェスト、ユダヤ人の意を迎へんとしてパウロに答へて言ふ『なんぢエルサレムに上り、彼處にて我が前に審かるることを諾ふか』
But Festus, wishing to ingratiate himself with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there by me upon these charges?"
10 パウロ言ふ『我はわが審かるべきカイザルの審判の座の前に立ちをるなり。汝の能く知るごとく、我はユダヤ人を害ひしことなし。
"I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal," answered Paul, "where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.
11 若しも罪を犯して死に當るべき事をなしたらんには、死ぬるを厭はじ。然れど此の人々の訴ふること實ならずば、誰も我を彼らに付すことを得じ、我はカイザルに上訴せん』
"If I am a criminal and have done anything for which I ought to die, I do not object to die. But if none of their charges is true, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar."
12 ここにフェスト陪席の者と相 議りて答ふ『なんぢカイザルに上訴せんとす、カイザルの許に往くべし』
Then Festus, after conferring with the council, answered. "You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go."
13 數日を經て後、アグリッパ王とベルニケとカイザリヤに到りてフェストの安否を問ふ。
A short time after this King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
14 多くの日 留りゐたれば、フェスト、パウロのことを王に告げて言ふ『ここにペリクスが囚人として遺しおきたる一人の人あり、
And while they tarried many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "whom Felix left a prisoner.
15 我エルサレムに居りしとき、ユダヤ人の祭司長・長老ら之を訴へて罪に定めんことを願ひしが、
"The chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, when I was at Jerusalem, demanding a sentence against him.
16 我は答へて、訴へらるる者の未だ訴ふる者の面前にて辯明する機を與へられぬ前に付すは、ロマ人の慣例にあらぬ事を告げたり。
I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give any man up for punishment, before the accused had his accusers face to face, and had opportunity of defending himself against the charges that had been brought against him.
17 この故に彼 等ここに集りたれば、時を延さず次の日 審判の座に坐し、命じてかの者を引出さしむ。
"So when a number of them came together here, I made no delay, but the next day took my seat in the tribunal, and commanded the man to be brought.
18 訴ふる者かれを圍みて立ちしが、思ひしごとき惡しき事は一つも陳ぶる所なし。
"But when his accusers stood up, they did not begin charging him with any of the crimes that I was expecting,
19 ただ己らの宗教、またはイエスと云ふ者の死にたるを活きたりと、パウロが主張するなどに關する問題のみなれば、
but they kept quarreling with him about certain matters connected with their own religion, and about one Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed over and over was alive.
20 かかる審理には我も當惑せし故、かの人に「なんぢエルサレムに往き彼處にて審かるる事を好むか」と問ひしに、
I was perplexed how to investigate such questions, and asked Paul whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
21 パウロは上訴して皇帝の判決を受けん爲に守られんことを願ひしにより、命じて之をカイザルに送るまで守らせ置けり』
But when Paul appealed to have his case reviewed for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered him to be detained until I could send him up to Caesar."
22 アグリッパ、フェストに言ふ『我もその人に聽かんと欲す』フェスト言ふ『なんぢ明日かれに聽くべし』
"I should like to hear the man, myself," said Agrippa to Festus. Festus answered, "You shall hear him tomorrow."
23 明くる日アグリッパとベルニケと大に威儀を整へてきたり、千卒長ら及び市の重立ちたる者どもと共に訊問所に入りたれば、フェストの命によりてパウロ引出さる。
So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and took their places in the hall of audience, accompanied by the tribunes and men of high rank in the city. At the command of Festus Paul was brought in.
24 フェスト言ふ『アグリッパ王、竝びに此處に居る凡ての者よ、汝らの見るこの人は、ユダヤの民衆が擧りて生かしおくべきにあらずと呼はりて、エルサレムにても此處にても我に訴へし者なり。
"King Agrippa," said Festus, "and all men who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem, and here also, sent to me, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
25 然るに我はその死に當るべき惡しき事を一つだに犯したるを認めねば、彼の自ら皇帝に上訴せんとする隨にその許に送らんと決めたり。
"I could not find that he had done anything for which he ought to die; but as he himself has appealed to the Emperor, I have determined to send him.
26 而して彼につきて我が主に上書すべき實 情を得ず。この故に汝 等のまへ、特にアグリッパ王よ、なんぢの前に引出し、訊問をなしてのち、上書すべき箇條を得んと思へり。
"Now I have nothing very definite to tell our sovereign about him. So I have brought the man before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, in order that, after examination, I may have something to write.
27 囚人を送るに訴訟の次第を陳べざるは道理ならずと思ふ故なり』
"For it does seem to me unreasonable to send a person without signifying the charges against him."
