使徒の働き 28
1 われら救はれて後、この島のマルタと稱ふるを知れり。
After we [(exc)] had arrived safely [on the shore], we learned that it was an island called Malta.
2 土人ら一方ならぬ情を我らに表し、降りしきる雨と寒氣とのために、火を焚きて我ら一同を待遇せり。
The people who lived there received us kindly. They lit a fire and invited us to come and warm ourselves, because it was raining and it was cold.
3 パウロ柴を束ねて火にくべたれば、熱によりて蝮いでて其の手につく。
Paul gathered some sticks and put them on the fire. But [among those sticks was] a snake that had come out [from the fire to escape] from the heat, and it fastened itself on Paul’s hand.
4 蛇のその手に懸りたるを土人ら見て互に言ふ『この人は必ず殺人者なるべし、海より救はれしも、天道はその生くるを容さぬなり』
[The islanders knew that the snake was poisonous, so] when they saw it hanging from Paul’s hand, they said to each other, “Probably this man has murdered someone. Although he has escaped from being drowned, [the god] ([who] pays [people back/who punishes people]) for their [MTY] sins will cause him to die.”
5 パウロ蛇を火のなかに振り落して何の害をも受けざりき。
But Paul simply shook the snake off into the fire, and nothing happened to him.
6 人々は彼が腫れ出づるか、または忽ち倒れ死ぬるならんと候ふ。久しく窺ひたれど、聊かも害を受けぬを見て、思を變へて、此は神なりと言ふ。
The people were expecting that Paul’s body would soon swell up or that he would suddenly fall down and die. But after they had waited a long time, they saw [that the snake] had not harmed him [at all]. So then the people changed their minds and said [to one another], “This man is not a murderer! Probably he is a god!”
7 この處の邊に島司のもてる土地あり、島司の名はポプリオといふ。此の人われらを迎へて懇切に三日の間もてなせり。
Near where the people had made the fire, there were some fields that belonged to a man whose name was Publius. He was the chief official on the island. He invited us to [come and stay in] his home. He took care of us for three days.
8 ポプリオの父、熱と痢病とに罹りて臥し居たれば、パウロその許にいたり、祈りかつ手を按きて醫せり。
[At that time] Publius’ father had a fever and dysentery, and he was lying [in bed]. So Paul visited him and prayed [for him. Then] Paul placed his hands on him and healed him.
9 この事ありてより、島の病める人々みな來りて醫されたれば、
After Paul had done that, the other people on the island who were sick came [to him] and [he] healed them, too.
10 禮を厚くして我らを敬ひ、また船出の時には必要なる品々を贈りたり。
They brought us gifts and [showed in other ways that] they greatly respected us. When we were [ready] to leave [three months later], they brought us food and other things that we would need [for the trip].
11 三月の後、われらはこの島に冬籠せしデオスクリの號あるアレキサンデリヤの船にて出で、
After [we had stayed there] three months, we [got on] a ship [that was going to Italy and] sailed away. The ship had been in [a harbor on] the island during the months when there are many storms. It had come from Alexandria [city]. On the front of the ship there were carved images of the twin gods [whose names were Castor and Pollux].
12 シラクサにつきて三日とまり、
We [sailed from the island and] arrived at Syracuse [city on Sicily island] and stayed there three days.
13 此處より繞りてレギオンにいたり、一日を過ぎて南 風ふき起りたれば、我ら二日めにポテオリに著き、
Then we traveled on by ship and arrived at Rhegium [port in Italy]. The next day, the wind was blowing from behind us, [so we sailed along fast]. The day after that, we reached Puteoli [town, where we left the ship].
14 此處にて兄弟たちに逢ひ、その勸によりて七日のあひだ留り、而して遂にロマに往く。
In Puteoli we met some believers who invited us to stay with them for a week. [After visiting them], we [left there and started to travel by land] to Rome.
15 かしこの兄弟たち我らの事をききて、アピオポロおよびトレスタベルネまで來りて我らを迎ふ。パウロこれを見て神に感謝し、その心 勇みたり。
[A group of] believers [who lived in Rome] had heard that we [(exc) were coming]. So they came out [from Rome] to meet us. [Some of] them met us at [the town called] ‘The Market on Appian [Road’, ] and others met us at [the town called] ‘The Three Inns’. When Paul saw those believers, he thanked God and was encouraged.
16 我らロマに入りて後、パウロは己を守る一人の兵卒とともに別に住むことを許さる。
After we [(exc)] arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted {[a Roman official who was responsible for guarding Paul] permitted Paul} to live [in a house] by himself. But [there was always] a soldier there to guard him.
17 三日すぎてパウロ、ユダヤ人の重立ちたる者を呼び集む。その集りたる時これに言ふ『兄弟たちよ、我はわが民わが先祖たちの慣例に悖ることを一つも爲さざりしに、エルサレムより囚人となりて、ロマ人の手に付されたり。
After [Paul had been there] three days, he sent a message to the Jewish leaders [to come and talk with him. So] they came, and Paul said to them, “My fellow Jews, although I have not opposed our people nor spoken against the customs of our ancestors, [our leaders] in Jerusalem [seized] [MTY] [me. But before they could kill me, a Roman commander rescued me and later sent me] to Caesarea for Roman [authorities/officials to put me on trial].
18 かれら我を審きて死に當ることなき故に、我を釋さんと思ひしに、
The Roman authorities/officials questioned me and wanted to release me, because I had not done any [bad] thing for which I should be executed {they should kill me}.
19 ユダヤ人さからひたれば、餘義なくカイザルに上訴せり。然れど我が國人を訴へんとせしにあらず。
But when the Jewish [leaders] [SYN] there opposed [what the Roman authorities wanted to do], I had to formally request that the Emperor [judge me here in Rome]. But my reason for doing that was not that I wanted to accuse our leaders about anything.
20 この故に我なんぢらに會ひ、かつ共に語らんことを願へり、我はイスラエルの懷く希望の爲にこの鎖に繋がれたり』
So I have requested you [to come] here so that I can tell you why I am a prisoner. It is because I believe in [MTY] our Messiah, the one [God long ago promised to send] to us [(inc)] Jews.”
21 かれら言ふ『われら汝につきてユダヤより書を受けず、また兄弟たちの中より來りて、汝の善からぬ事を告げたる者も、語りたる者もなし。
Then [the Jewish leaders] said, “We [(exc)] have not received any letters from [our fellow Jews] in Judea about you. Also, none of our fellow Jews who have arrived [here from Judea] has said anything bad about you.
22 ただ我らは汝の思ふところを聞かんと欲するなり。それは此の宗旨の到る處にて非 難せらるるを知ればなり』
But we [(exc)] want to hear what you [(sg)] think about this [Christian] sect/group, because we know that in many places [HYP] bad things are being said {people are saying bad things} about it.”
23 ここに日を定めて多くの人パウロの宿に來りたれば、パウロ朝より夕まで神の國のことを説明して證をなし、かつモーセの律法と預言者の書とを引きてイエスのことを勸めたり。
So they [talked with Paul and decided that they would come back on another day to hear him. When that day arrived], those Jews came back to the place where Paul was staying, and they brought more Jews with them. Paul talked to them from morning until evening. He talked to them about how God wants to rule [people’s lives] [MET]. He tried to convince them that Jesus [is the Messiah] by reminding them what Moses and the other prophets had written [MTY].
24 パウロのいふ言を或 者は信じ、或 者は信ぜず。
Some of those Jews believed that what was said [by Paul] {what [Paul] said} about Jesus [was true], but others did not believe [that it was true].
25 互に相 合はずして退かんとしたるに、パウロ一言を述べて言ふ『宜なるかな、聖 靈は預言者イザヤによりて汝らの先祖たちに語り給へり。曰く、
So they began to argue with one another. [Paul realized that some of them did not want to listen to him, so] when they were about to leave, he said, “The Holy Spirit said something to your/our(incl) ancestors. He spoke these words to Isaiah the prophet, [and what he said is also true about you]:
26 「なんぢらこの民に往きて言へ、なんぢら聞きて聞けども悟らず、見て見れども認めず、
Go to your fellow Israelites and tell them, ‘You repeatedly listen [to the message of God], but you never understand [what God is saying]. You repeatedly look at and see [the things that God is doing], but you never understand [what they mean].
27 この民の心はにぶく、耳は聞くにものうく、目は閉ぢたればなり。これ目にて見、耳にて聞き、心にてさとり、ひるがへりて我に醫さるることなからん爲なり」
God also said to the prophet, These people do not understand, because they have become stubborn. They have ears, but they do not understand what they hear, and they have closed their eyes [because they do not want to see]. If they wanted to obey what I say to them, they might understand what they see [me doing] and what they hear [me saying]. Then they might turn from their sinful behavior and I would save them.’
28 然れば汝ら知れ、神のこの救は異邦人に遣されたり、彼らは之を聽くべし』
[That is what God said to the prophet Isaiah about our ancestors. But you Jews today do not want to believe God’s message]. Therefore, I am telling you that [God] has sent to the non-Jews this message about how he saves people, and they will listen [and accept it]!”
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30 パウロは滿 二年のあひだ、己が借り受けたる家に留り、その許にきたる凡ての者を迎へて、
For two whole years Paul stayed [there] in a house that he rented. Many people came to see him, and he received them all gladly [and talked with them].
31 更に臆せずまた妨げられずして、神の國をのべ、主イエス・キリストの事を教へたり。
He preached [and taught people] about how God could rule [their lives] [MET] and taught them about the Lord Jesus Christ. He did that without being afraid, and no one tried to stop him.
