使徒の働き 26
1 アグリッパ、パウロに言ふ『なんぢは自己のために陳ぶることを許されたり』ここにパウロ手を伸べ、辯明して言ふ、
Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” So Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:
2 『アグリッパ王よ、我ユダヤ人より訴へられし凡ての事につきて、今日なんぢらの前に辯明するを我が幸福とす。
“I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, in that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning the things of which I am accused by the Jews,
3 汝がユダヤ人の凡ての習慣と問題とを知るによりて殊に然りとす。されば請ふ、忍びて我に聽け。
especially because you are expert in all the Jewish customs and issues; therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
4 わが始より國人のうちに又エルサレムに於ける幼き時よりの生活の状は、ユダヤ人のみな知る所なり。
Really, the Jews all know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation in Jerusalem,
5 彼 等もし證せんと思はば、わが我らの宗教の最も嚴しき派に從ひて、パリサイ人の生活をなしし事を始より知れり。
since they have known me for a long time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.
6 今わが立ちて審かるるは、神が我らの先祖たちに約束し給ひしことの希望に因りてなり。
And now I stand here being judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
7 之を得んことを望みて、我が十二の族は夜も晝も熱心に神に事ふるなり。王よ、この希望につきて、我はユダヤ人に訴へられたり。
to which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is because of this hope that I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa.
8 神は死人を甦へらせ給ふとも、汝 等なんぞ信じ難しとするか。
Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?
9 我も曩にはナザレ人イエスの名に逆ひて樣々の事をなすを宜きことと自ら思へり。
“However, I myself thought that I had to perpetrate many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Natsorean;
10 我エルサレムにて之をおこなひ、祭司長らより權威を受けて多くの聖徒を獄にいれ、彼らの殺されし時これに同意し、
I actually did this in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
11 諸 教會堂にてしばしば彼らを罰し、強ひて瀆言を言はしめんとし、甚だしく狂ひ、迫害して外國の町にまで至れり。
Yes, I punished them often in every synagogue, trying to force them to blaspheme; I was so excessively enraged against them that I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
12 此のとき祭司長らより權威と委任とを受けてダマスコに赴きしが、
“It was on one of those journeys, as I was going to Damascus with authority and a commission from the chief priests,
13 王よ、その途にて正午ごろ天よりの光を見たり、日にも勝りて輝き、我と伴侶とを圍み照せり。
at midday, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, blazing around me and those traveling with me.
14 我等みな地に倒れたるに、ヘブルの語にて「サウロ、サウロ、何ぞ我を迫害するか、刺ある策を蹴るは難し」といふ聲を我きけり。
Well we all fell to the ground and I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language: ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15 われ言ふ「主よ、なんぢは誰ぞ」主いひ給ふ「われは汝が迫害するイエスなり。
So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And He said: ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
16 起きて汝の足にて立て、わが汝に現れしは、汝をたてて其の見しことと我が汝に現れて示さんとする事との役者また證人たらしめん爲なり。
Now get up and stand on your feet; because I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things you have seen and of the things I will reveal to you,
17 我なんぢを此の民および異邦人より救はん、又なんぢを彼らに遣し、
delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you:
18 その目をひらきて暗より光に、サタンの權威より神に立ち歸らせ、我に對する信仰によりて罪の赦と潔められたる者のうちの嗣業とを得しめん」と。
to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’
19 この故にアグリッパ王よ、われは天よりの顯示に背かずして、
Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision
20 先づダマスコに居るもの、次にエルサレム及びユダヤ全國、また異邦人にまで、悔改めて神に立ちかへり、其の悔改にかなふ業をなすべきことを宣傅へたり。
—first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to all the region of Judea and to the ethnic nations, I still preach: ‘repent and turn back to God, doing works worthy of repentance.’
21 之がためにユダヤ人われを宮にて捕へ、かつ殺さんとせり。
That is why the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
22 然るに神の祐によりて今日に至るまで尚 存へて、小なる人にも大なる人にも證をなし、言ふところは預言者およびモーセが必ず來るべしと語りしことの外ならず。
So then, having experienced the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying to both small and great, saying nothing beyond what both the prophets and Moses said would happen
23 即ちキリストの苦難を受くべきこと、最先に死人の中より甦へる事によりて、民と異邦人とに光を傳ふべきこと是なり』
—that the Messiah would suffer; that as the first to rise from the dead He would proclaim light to both ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations.”
24 パウロ斯く辯明しつつある時、フェスト大聲に言ふ『パウロよ、なんぢ狂氣せり、博學なんぢを狂氣せしめたり』
Well as he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice: “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
25 パウロ言ふ『フェスト閣下よ、我は狂氣せず、宣ぶる所は眞にして慥なる言なり。
So he said: “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus; rather I pronounce words of truth and reasonableness.
26 王は此 等のことを知るゆゑに、我その前に憚らずして語る。これらの事は片隅に行はれたるにあらねば、一つとして王の眼に隱れたるはなしと信ずるに因る。
For the king knows about these things, before whom I speak freely; for I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, since it was not done in a corner.
27 アグリッパ王よ、なんぢ預言者の書を信ずるか、我なんぢの信ずることを知る』
King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
28 アグリッパ、パウロに言ふ『なんぢ説くこと僅にして我をキリステアンたらしめんとするか』
So Agrippa said to Paul, “You will soon persuade me to become a Christian!”
29 パウロ言ふ『説くことの僅なるにもせよ、多きにもせよ、神に願ふは、啻に汝のみならず、凡て今日われに聽ける者の、この縲絏なくして我がごとき者とならんことなり』
So Paul said, “Whether sooner or later, I would to God that not only you but also all who are hearing me this day may become such as I am, except for these chains.”
30 ここに王も總督もベルニケも、列座の者どもも皆ともに立つ、
Upon his saying this, the king stood up, along with the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them;
31 退きてのち相 語りて言ふ『この人は死罪または縲絏に當るべき事をなさず』
and when they had withdrawn they started talking among themselves, saying, “This man is doing nothing deserving of death or chains.”
32 アグリッパ、フェストに言ふ『この人カイザルに上訴せざりしならば釋さるべかりしなり』
And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free, if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
