使徒の働き 4
1 かれら民に語り居るとき、祭司ら・宮守頭およびサドカイ人ら近づき來りて、
[Meanwhile, in the temple courtyard, there were some] priests, the officer who was in charge of the temple police, and [also some] [SYN] Sadducee [sect members]. These men came to Peter and John while the two of them were speaking to the people.
2 その民を教へ、又イエスの事を引きて死人の中よりの復活を宣ぶるを憂ひ、
These men were very angry, because the [two] apostles were teaching the people [about Jesus]. What they were telling the people was that because ([God caused Jesus to become alive again/God raised] Jesus [from the dead]), [God] would cause other people who had died to become alive again.
3 手をかけて之を捕へしに、はや夕になりたれば、明くる日まで留置場に入れたり。
So those officials seized Peter and John. Then they put them in jail. [They had to wait] until the next day [to question Peter and John], because it was already evening [and it was contrary to their Jewish law to question people at night].
4 然れど、その言を聽きたる人々の中にも信ぜし者おほくありて、男の數おほよそ五 千 人となりたり。
However, many people who had heard the message [from Peter] believed [in Jesus]. (OR, But many people had [already] believed [in Jesus, because] they had heard the message [from Peter].) So the number of men [who believed in Jesus] increased to about five 5,000.
5 明くる日、司・長老・學者らエルサレムに會し、
The next day [the supreme priest summoned] the [other] chief priests, the teachers of the [Jewish] laws, and the other members [of the Jewish Council, and they] gathered together [in one place] in Jerusalem.
6 大 祭司アンナス、カヤパ、ヨハネ、アレキサンデル及び大 祭司の一族みな集ひて、
Annas, [the former] supreme priest, Caiaphas [who was the new supreme priest], [two other former supreme priests whose names were] John and Alexander, and other men who were related to the supreme priest [were there].
7 その中にかの二人を立てて問ふ『如何なる能力いかなる名によりて此の事を行ひしぞ』
They [commanded guards to] bring Peter and John into the courtroom [MTY] and have them stand in front of them. [Then one of] the leaders questioned [the two of] them, saying, “Who [do you two claim] gave you the power [to heal this man]? And who authorized [MTY] you to do this [DOU]?”
8 この時ペテロ聖 靈にて滿され、彼らに言ふ『民の司たち及び長老たちよ、
So as the Holy Spirit completely controlled Peter, he said to them, “You [fellow Israelites] who rule us and [all of you other] elders, [listen]!
9 我らが病める者になしし善き業に就き、その如何にして救はれしかを今日もし訊さるるならば、
Today you are questioning us concerning our doing something good for a man who was crippled, and you asked us how he was healed.
10 汝ら一同およびイスラエルの民みな知れ、この人の健かになりて汝らの前に立つは、ナザレのイエス・キリスト、即ち汝らが十字架に釘け、神が死人の中より甦へらせ給ひし者の名に頼ることを。
So [we(exc) want] you and all [of our other] fellow Israelites to know this: It is because Jesus the Messiah [MTY] from Nazareth healed this man that he is able to stand here. [God considers that] it was you who nailed Jesus to a cross, but God caused him to become alive again.
11 このイエスは汝ら造家者に輕しめられし石にして、隅の首石となりたるなり。
[In the Psalms this was written about the Messiah: ] He is [like] [MET] the stone that was rejected by the builders {that the builders rejected}. But that stone became the most important stone in the building [that they were building]. [Jesus is that stone, and] you [are those builders who threw away the stone that was the most important one].
12 他の者によりては救を得ることなし、天の下には我らの頼りて救はるべき他の名を、人に賜ひし事なければなり』
So he alone can save us [MTY]. [God] has sent only one person [MTY] into the world who can save us [from the guilt of our sins, and that person is Jesus]!”
13 彼らはペテロとヨハネとの臆することなきを見、その無學の凡人なるを知りたれば、之を怪しみ、且そのイエスと偕にありし事を認む。
The [Jewish leaders] realized that Peter and John (were not afraid [of them]/spoke boldly). They also learned that the two men were ordinary people who had not studied in schools. So the leaders were amazed, and they realized that these men had associated with Jesus.
14 また醫されたる人の之とともに立つを見るによりて、更に言ひ消す辭なし。
They also saw the man who had been healed standing there with [the two of] them, so they were not able to say anything [to oppose Peter and John].
15 ここに、命じて彼らを衆議所より退け、相 共に議りて言ふ、
So the [Jewish leaders] commanded [guards] to take Peter, John, and the man outside of the room [where those leaders were meeting. After they did so], the leaders talked with each other [about Peter and John].
16 『この人々を如何にすべきぞ。彼 等によりて顯著しき徴の行はれし事は、凡てエルサレムに住む者に知られ、我ら之を否むこと能はねばなり。
[Being frustrated, one after another], they said, “(There is really nothing that we can do to [punish] these [two] men!/How can we [(inc)] do anything to [punish] these [two] men?) [RHQ] Almost everyone [HYP] who is living in Jerusalem knows that they have done an amazing miracle, so we cannot tell people that it did not happen!
17 然れど愈々ひろく民の中に言ひ弘らぬやうに、彼らを脅かして、今より後かの名によりて誰にも語る事なからしめん』
However, [we] must not allow other people to hear about [this miracle]. So we must tell these men that [we will punish them if they] continue to tell other people about this [MTY] man [who they say gave them the power to do it].”
18 乃ち彼らを呼び、一切イエスの名によりて語り、また教へざらんことを命じたり。
So the Jewish leaders [commanded guards] to bring the two apostles [into that room again. After they did so], they [commanded] them both that they should never speak about Jesus, and they should not teach [anyone about him] [MTY] [again].
19 ペテロとヨハネと答へていふ『神に聽くよりも汝らに聽くは、神の御前に正しきか、汝ら之を審け。
But Peter and John replied, “Would God think that it is right [for us two] to obey you and not [to obey] him? [We(exc) will let] you decide [which of those you think is proper].
20 我らは見しこと聽きしことを語らざるを得ず』
[But as for us, we cannot obey you]. We will not stop telling people about the things that we [(exc)] have seen [Jesus do] and what we have heard [him teach].”
21 民みな此の有りし事に就きて神を崇めたれば、彼らを罰するに由なく、更にまた脅かして釋せり。
Then the [Jewish leaders] again told [Peter and John] not to disobey them. But all the people [there] were praising God about what had happened [to the lame man. The leaders knew that only God could have enabled Peter and John] to miraculously heal the man, because the man was more than 40 years old [and he was lame when his mother bore him. They also knew that the people would become angry if they punished the two apostles]. So, because they could not decide how to punish Peter and John, [they finally] let them go.
22 かの徴によりて醫されし人は四十歳 餘なりしなり。
23 彼ら釋されて、その友の許にゆき、祭司長・長老らの言ひし凡てのことを告げたれば、
After Peter and John had been released, they went to the other believers and reported all that the chief priests and [other Jewish] elders had said to them.
24 之を聞きて皆 心を一つにし、神に對ひ、聲を揚げて言ふ『主よ、汝は天と地と海と、其の中のあらゆる物とを造り給へり。
When they heard that, they [all] agreed as they prayed to God, and [one of] them prayed, “O Lord! You [(sg)] made the sky, the earth and the oceans, and everything in them.
25 曾て聖 靈によりて、汝の僕われらの先祖ダビデでの口をもて「何ゆゑ異邦人は騷ぎ立ち、民らは空しき事を謀るぞ。
The Holy Spirit caused our ancestor, [King] David [MTY], who served you, to write these words: [It is ridiculous] [RHQ] that the non-Jews became angry and the Israelite people planned uselessly [to oppose God].
26 世の王たちは共に立ち、司らは一つにあつまりて、主および其のキリストに逆ふ」と宣給へり。
The kings of the world prepared to fight [God’s Ruler], and the [other] rulers assembled together [with them] to oppose the Lord [God] and the one whom he had appointed [to be the Messiah].
27 果してヘロデとポンテオ・ピラトとは、異邦人およびイスラエルの民 等とともに、汝の油そそぎ給ひし聖なる僕イエスに逆ひて、此の都にあつまり、
[Lord, we know that what you(sg) said long ago was true], because [King] Herod and the [governor], Pontius Pilate, and many other people, both non-Jews and Israelites, assembled together [here] in this city. [They] planned [to kill] Jesus, who devotedly served you [and] whom you appointed [MTY] [to be the Messiah].
28 御手と御旨とにて、斯く成るべしと預じめ定め給ひし事をなせり。
[Because] you [(sg)] are all-powerful, those people did [only] what you [SYN] allowed [them to do]. It was what you decided long ago would happen.”
29 主よ、今かれらの脅喝を御覽し、僕らに御言を聊かも臆することなく語らせ、
“So now, Lord, listen to what they are saying about punishing us! Help us who serve you [(sg)] to very boldly speak messages from you [(sg) about Jesus]
30 御手をのべて醫を施させ、汝の聖なる僕イエスの名によりて、徴と不思議とを行はせ給へ』
[Also], by your power [MTY] miraculously heal [sick people] and do other amazing miracles [SYN] that show people your power! Ask Jesus, who always serves you, [to give us the authority] [MTY] [to do such miracles]!”
31 祈り終へしとき、其の集りをる處ふるひ動き、みな聖 靈にて滿され、臆することなく神の御言を語れり。
When the believers had finished praying, the place where they were meeting shook. All of them were (completely controlled/empowered) by the Holy Spirit {the Holy Spirit (completely controlled/empowered) all of them}, with the result that they began to speak boldly the words that God [told them to speak].
32 信じたる者の群は、おなじ心おなじ思となり、誰 一人その所有を己が者と謂はず、凡ての物を共にせり。
The group of people who had believed [in Jesus] were completely agreed about what they thought and what they wanted/desired. Not one of them claimed that he [alone] owned anything. Instead, they shared with one another everything that they had.
33 かくて使徒たちは大なる能力をもて、主イエスの復活の證をなし、みな大なる恩惠を蒙りたり。
The apostles continued to tell others, very powerfully, [that God] had (caused the Lord Jesus to become alive again/raised the Lord Jesus from the dead). [People knew that God] was graciously helping all the believers.
34 彼らの中には一人の乏しき者もなかりき。これ地所あるいは家屋を有てる者、これを賣り、その賣りたる物の價を持ち來りて、
[Some of] the believers who owned land or houses would occasionally sell [some of] their property. Then they would bring [the money for what they sold]
35 使徒たちの足下に置きしを、各人その用に隨ひて分け與へられたればなり。
and they would present it to the apostles [MTY]. Then [the apostles] would give money to any [believer] who needed [it]. So no one among the believers was lacking anything.
36 ここにクプロに生れたるレビ人にて、使徒たちにバルナバ（釋けば慰籍の子）と稱へらるるヨセフ、
[For example, there was] Joseph. [He was] a descendant of Levi [and he was born] on Cyprus [Island]. The apostles called him Barnabas; [in the Jewish language] that name means a person who [IDM] always encourages [others].
37 畑ありしを賣りて其の金を持ちきたり、使徒たちの足下に置けり。
He sold one of his fields, and brought the money to the apostles [for them to distribute to other believers].
