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、
Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made 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 think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that 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 customs and questions which are among Jews. 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。
"Indeed, all Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at 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。
having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived 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。
Now I stand here to be 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。
which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O King.
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 is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise 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。
"In fact, I thought to myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus the Nazorean.
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、
This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave 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。
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, 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、
"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and 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 noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled 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。
When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me 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。
"I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "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。
But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen me, and of the things which 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 from the non-Jewish people, to whom I send 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, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in 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。
but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the non-Jews, that they should repent and turn 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。
For this reason Jews seized me when I was 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。
Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what 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』
how the Christ would suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to non-Jewish people."
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』
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。
But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare 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 of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been 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』
Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me 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』
Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."
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、
The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat 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』
When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."
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』
Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."
