使徒の働き 9
1 サウロは主の弟子たちに對して、なほ恐喝と殺害との氣を充し、大 祭司にいたりて、
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
2 ダマスコにある諸 教會への添書を請ふ。この道の者を見出さば、男女にかかはらず縛りてエルサレムに曳かん爲なり。
and asked him to give him letters to the Jewish congregations at Damascus, authorizing him, if he found there any supporters of the Way, whether men or women, to have them put in chains and brought to Jerusalem.
3 往きてダマスコに近づきたるとき、忽ち天より光いでて、彼を環り照したれば、
While on his journey, as he was nearing Damascus, suddenly a light from the heavens flashed around him.
4 かれ地に倒れて『サウロ、サウロ、何ぞ我を迫害するか』といふ聲をきく。
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him – “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
5 彼いふ『主よ、なんぢは誰ぞ』答へたまふ『われは汝が迫害するイエスなり。
“Who are you, Lord?” he asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” the voice answered;
6 起きて町に入れ、さらば汝なすべき事を告げらるべし』
“Yet stand up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
7 同行の人々、物 言ふこと能はずして立ちたりしが、聲は聞けども誰をも見ざりき。
The men traveling with Saul were meanwhile standing speechless; they heard the sound of the voice, but saw no one.
8 サウロ地より起きて目をあけたれど何も見えざれば、人その手をひきてダマスコに導きゆきしに、
When Saul got up from the ground, though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So his men led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus;
9 三日のあひだ見えず、また飮食せざりき。
and for three days he was unable to see, and took nothing either to eat or to drink.
10 さてダマスコにアナニヤといふ一人の弟子あり、幻影のうちに主いひ給ふ『アナニヤよ』答ふ『主よ、我ここに在り』
Now there was at Damascus a disciple named Ananias, to whom, in a vision, the Lord said, “Ananias.” “Yes, Lord,” he answered.
11 主いひ給ふ『起きて直といふ街にゆき、ユダの家にてサウロといふタルソ人を尋ねよ。視よ、彼は祈りをるなり。
“Go at once,” said the Lord, “to the Straight Street, and ask at Judas’s house for a man named Saul, from Tarsus. He is at this moment praying,
12 又アナニアといふ人の入り來りて、再び見ゆることを得しめんために、手を己がうへに按くを見たり』
and he has seen, in a vision, a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him, so that he may recover his sight.”
13 アナニヤ答ふ『主よ、われ多くの人より此の人に就きて聞きしに、彼がエルサレムにて汝の聖徒に害を加へしこと如何ばかりぞや。
“Lord,” exclaimed Ananias, “I have heard from many people about this man – how much harm he has done at Jerusalem to your people there.
14 また此處にても、凡て汝の御名をよぶ者を縛る權を祭司長らより受けをるなり』
And, here, too, he holds authority from the chief priests to put in chains all those who invoke your name.”
15 主いひ給ふ『往け、この人は異邦人・王たち・イスラエルの子孫のまへに、我が名を持ちゆく我が選の器なり。
But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.
16 我かれに我が名のために如何に多くの苦難を受くるかを示さん』
I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my name.”
17 ここにアナニヤ往きて其の家にいり、彼の上に手をおきて言ふ『兄弟サウロよ、主すなはち汝が來る途にて現れ給ひしイエス、われを遣し給へり。なんぢが再び見ることを得、かつ聖 靈にて滿されん爲なり』
So Ananias went, entered the house, and, placing his hands on Saul, said, “Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord – by Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here – so that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
18 直ちに彼の目より鱗のごときもの落ちて見ることを得、すなはち起きてバプテスマを受け、
Instantly it seemed as if a film fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. Then he got up and was baptized,
19 かつ食事して力づきたり。サウロは數日の間ダマスコの弟子たちと偕にをり、
and, after he had taken food, he felt his strength return. Saul stayed for some days with the disciples who were at Damascus,
20 直ちに諸 會堂にて、イエスの神の子なることを宣べたり。
and at once began in the synagogues to proclaim Jesus as the Son of God.
21 聞く者みな驚きて言ふ『こはエルサレムにて此の名をよぶ者を害ひし人ならずや、又ここに來りしも、之を縛りて祭司長らの許に曳きゆかんが爲ならずや』
All who heard him were amazed. “Is not this,” they asked, “the man who worked havoc in Jerusalem among those that invoke this name, and who had also come here for the express purpose of having such persons put in chains and taken before the chief priests?”
22 サウロますます能力くははり、イエスのキリストなることを論證して、ダマスコに住むユダヤ人を言ひ伏せたり。
Saul’s influence, however, kept steadily increasing, and he confounded the Jewish people who lived in Damascus by the proofs that he gave that Jesus was the Christ.
23 日を經ること久しくして後、ユダヤ人かれを殺さんと相 謀りたれど、
After some time some of them laid a plot to kill Saul,
24 その計畧サウロに知らる。かくて彼らはサウロを殺さんとて、晝も夜も町の門を守りしに、
but it became known to him. They even watched the gates day and night, to kill him;
25 その弟子ら夜中かれを籃にて石垣より縋り下せり。
but his disciples let him down by night through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.
26 ここにサウロ、エルサレムに到りて弟子たちの中に列らんとすれど、皆かれが弟子たるを信ぜずして懼れたり。
On his arrival in Jerusalem, Saul attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, as they did not believe that he was really a disciple.
27 然るにバルナバ彼を迎へて、使徒たちの許に伴ひゆき、その途にて主を見しこと、主の之に物 言ひ給ひしこと、又ダマスコにてイエスの名のために臆せず語りし事などを具に告ぐ。
Barnabas, however, taking him by the hand, brought him to the apostles, and told them the whole story of how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord, and how the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out fearlessly in the name of Jesus.
28 ここにサウロはエルサレムにて弟子たちと共に出入し、
After that, Saul remained in Jerusalem, in close contact with the apostles; and he spoke fearlessly in the name of the Lord,
29 主の御名のために臆せず語り、又ギリシヤ語のユダヤ人と、かつ語りかつ論じたれば、彼 等これを殺さんと謀りしに、
talking and arguing with the Jews of foreign birth, who, however, made attempts to kill him.
30 兄弟たち知りて彼をカイザリヤに伴ひ下り、タルソに往かしめたり。
But, when the followers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and sent him on his way to Tarsus.
31 かくてユダヤ、ガリラヤ及びサマリヤを通じて、教會は平安を得、ややに堅立し、主を畏れて歩み、聖 靈の祐助によりて人數いや増せり。
And so it came about that the church, throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, enjoyed peace and became firmly established; and, ordering its life by respect for the Lord and the help of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
32 ペテロは徧く四方をめぐりてルダに住む聖徒の許にいたり、
Peter, while traveling from place to place throughout the country, went down to visit the people of Christ living at Lydda.
33 彼處にてアイネヤといふ人の中風を患ひて八 年のあひだ牀に臥し居るに遇ふ。
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years with paralysis.
34 かくてペテロ之に『アイネヤよ、イエス・キリスト汝を醫したまふ、起きて牀を收めよ』と言ひたれば、直ちに起きたり。
“Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ cures you. Get up, and make your bed.” Aeneas got up at once;
35 ここにルダ及びサロンに住む者みな之を見て主に歸依せり。
and all the inhabitants of Lydda and of the Plain of Sharon saw him, and came over to the Lord’s side.
36 ヨツパにタビタと云ふ女の弟子あり、その名を譯すればドルカスなり。此の女は、ひたすら善き業と施濟とをなせり。
At Joppa there lived a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which is in Greek ‘Dorcas’ – a Gazelle. Her life was spent in doing kind and charitable actions.
37 彼そのころ病みて死にたれば、之を洗ひて高樓に置く。
Just at that time she was taken ill, and died; and they had washed her body and laid it out in an upstairs room.
38 ルダはヨツパに近ければ、弟子たちペテロの彼處に居るを聞きて、二人の者を遣し『ためらはで我らに來れ』と請はしむ。
Joppa was near Lydda, and the disciples, having heard that Peter was at Lydda, sent two men with the request that he come to them without delay.
39 ペテロ起ちてともに往き、遂に到れば、彼を高樓に伴れてのぼりしに、寡婦らみな之をかこみて泣きつつ、ドルカスが偕に居りしほどに製りし下衣・上衣を見せたり。
Peter returned with them at once. On his arrival, he was taken upstairs, and all the widows came around him in tears, showing the coats and other clothing which Dorcas had made while she was among them.
40 ペテロ彼 等をみな外に出し、跪づきて祈りし後、ふりかへり屍體に向ひて『タビタ、起きよ』と言ひたれば、かれ目を開き、ペテロを見て起反れり。
But Peter sent everybody out of the room, and knelt down and prayed. Then, turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha! Stand up.” She opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.
41 ペテロ手をあたへ、起して聖徒と寡婦とを呼び、タビタを活きたるままにて見す。
Giving her his hand, Peter raised her up, and, calling in the widows and others of Christ’s people, presented her to them alive.
42 この事ヨツパ中に知られたれば、多くの人、主を信じたり。
This became known all through Joppa, and numbers of people came to believe in the Lord.
43 ペテロ皮工シモンの家にありて日 久しくヨツパに留れり。
And Peter stayed some days at Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
