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、
And Agrippa said to Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand and made his defence:
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 defence this day before thee concerning all 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 as thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee 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。
My manner of life, then, from my youth, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all Jews know:
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。
and they know, if they are willing to testify, that from the first, according to 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。
And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to the 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 God day and night, hope to obtain; concerning which hope, O king, I am accused by Jews.
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 raiseth 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。
I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
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、
Which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I myself shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice 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。
And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued 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、
And as I was going to Damascus on this business, 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 mid-day, on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining around me and those who were journeying 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。
And when we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee 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。
And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.
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 upon thy feet; for I have appeared to thee for this purpose, to prepare thee as a minister and a witness both of the things which thou sawest, and of those on account of which I will appear to thee;
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 thee from the people, and from the gentiles, to whom I send thee,
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 the 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、
Wherefore, O 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 first to those in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judaea, and then to the gentiles, I proclaimed 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 these causes the Jews seized me in the temple, and attempted 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, however, obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except those things which the Prophets and Moses said were to come to pass;
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 Christ should suffer, and that, as first of those raised from the dead, he was to proclaim light both to the people and to the gentiles.
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』
And as he was thus speaking in his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning is making thee mad.
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 saith, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but utter words of truth and soberness.
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 knoweth about these things well; to whom also I speak boldly; for I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him: for this 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, believest thou the Prophets? I know that thou believest.
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』
Then Agrippa said to Paul, With little effort thou thinkest to 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』
And Paul said, I would to God, that with little effort or with great, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, might be made such as I am, except 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、
And the king rose up and 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』
and going aside they talked with each other, saying, This man is doing nothing deserving death, or 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』
And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.
