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 angrily continued to say, “I will kill those who believe that [Jesus is] the Lord!” He went to the supreme priest [in Jerusalem]
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 requested him [to write] letters [introducing him] to [the leaders of] [MTY] the Jewish meeting places in Damascus [city. The letters asked them to authorize Saul] to seize any men or women who followed the way [that Jesus had taught], and to take them as prisoners to Jerusalem [so that the Jewish leaders could judge and punish them].
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、
Saul took those letters, and while he [and those with him] traveled toward Damascus, as they were approaching the city, suddenly a [brilliant] light from heaven shone around Saul.
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。
[Immediately] he fell down to the ground. Then he heard the voice [of the Lord] say to him, “Saul, Saul, (stop causing me to suffer!/why are you causing me to suffer?) [RHQ]”
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。
Saul asked him, “Lord, who are you?” He replied, “I am Jesus, [and] you [(sg)] are causing me to suffer [by hurting my followers]!
6 起きて町に入れ、さらば汝なすべき事を告げらるべし』
Now instead [of continuing to do that], stand up and go into the city! [Someone there] will tell you [(sg)] what I [want] you to 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 who were traveling with Saul [became so frightened that they] could not say anything. [They just] stood there. They only heard the sound [when the Lord spoke], but they did not see anyone.
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、
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could not see anything. So the men [with him] took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.
9 三日のあひだ見えず、また飮食せざりき。
For the next three days Saul could not see [anything], and he did not eat or drink anything.
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』
In Damascus there was [a Jew] named Ananias who believed in Jesus. While [Ananias was seeing] a vision, the Lord [Jesus] said to him, “Ananias!” He replied, “Lord, I [am listening].”
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。
The Lord Jesus told him, “Go to Straight Street to the house that belongs to Judas. Ask [someone there if you(sg) can talk to] a man named Saul from Tarsus [city], because, surprisingly, at this moment he is praying [to me].
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』
[Saul has seen] a vision in which a man named Ananias entered [the house where he was staying] and put his hands on him in order that he might see again.”
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。
But Ananias [protested], saying, “But Lord, many people have told me about this man! He has done many evil things to the people in Jerusalem who [believe in] you!
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 the chief priests have authorized him to come here [to Damascus] in order to seize all of us who believe in you [(sg)] [MTY] [and take us to Jerusalem]!”
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 [Jesus] told Ananias, “Go to [Saul! Do what I say], because I have chosen him to serve me in order that he might speak about me [MTY] both to non-Jewish people and [their] kings and to the Israeli people.
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 myself will tell him that he must often suffer greatly because of [telling people about] me [MTY].”
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, and [after he found] the house [where Saul was], he entered it. Then, [as soon as he met Saul], he put his hands on him, and he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus [himself] commanded me to come [to you]. He is the [same] one who appeared to you [(sg)] while you were traveling along the road. [He sent me to you] in order that you might see again and that you might be completely controlled by the Holy Spirit {that the Holy Spirit might completely control you}.”
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, things like [fish] scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he was able to see again. Then he stood up and was baptized {[Ananias] baptized him} [immediately].
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、
After Saul ate some food, he felt strong again. Saul stayed with the [other] believers in Damascus for several days.
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。
Right away Saul began to preach [to people about Jesus] in the Jewish meeting places [in Damascus. He told them] that Jesus is (the Son of/the man who is also) 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』
And all the people who heard him [preach] were amazed. [Various ones of] them were saying, “([We(inc) can hardly believe that] this is the [same man] who persecuted the believers in Jerusalem!/Is this really the [same man] who persecuted the believers in Jerusalem?) [RHQ, MTY] And we [(inc)] know that he has [RHQ] come here to seize us and take us to the chief priests [in Jerusalem]!”
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。
But [God] enabled Saul [to preach to many people even] more convincingly. He was proving [from the Scriptures] that Jesus is the Messiah. So the Jewish leaders in Damascus could not think of anything (to refute [what he said/to prove that what he said was not true]).
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、
Some time later, [after Saul had left Damascus and then returned], the Jewish [leaders] [SYN] [there] plotted to kill him.
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、
[During each] day and night those Jews were continually watching [the people passing through] the city gates, in order that [when they saw Saul] they might kill him. However, someone told Saul what they planned to do.
25 その弟子ら夜中かれを籃にて石垣より縋り下せり。
So some of those whom he had helped [to believe in Jesus] took him [one] night [to the high stone wall that surrounded the city]. They [used ropes to] lower him in a [large] basket through an opening in the wall. [So he escaped from Damascus].
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。
When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he began trying to associate with other believers. However, [almost] all of them continued to be afraid of him, because they did not believe that he had become a believer.
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。
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He explained to the apostles how, [while Saul was traveling] along the road [to Damascus], he had seen the Lord [Jesus] and how the Lord had spoken to him [there. He] also told them how Saul had preached boldly about Jesus [MTY] [to people] in Damascus. [The apostles believed Barnabas and told the other believers about that].
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、
So Saul began to associate with the apostles [and other believers] throughout Jerusalem, and he spoke boldly [to people] about [MTY] the Lord [Jesus].
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、
Saul was [also] speaking [about Jesus] with Jews who spoke Greek, and he was debating with them. But they were continually trying [to think] ([of a way] to kill him/of [how they could] 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。
When the [other] believers heard that [those Jews were planning to kill him, some of] the believers took Saul down to Caesarea [city. There] they arranged for him to go [by ship] to Tarsus, [his hometown].
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。
So the groups of believers throughout [the entire regions of] Judea, Galilee, and Samaria lived peacefully [because no one was persecuting them any more]. The Holy Spirit was strengthening them [spiritually] and encouraging them. They were continuing to revere/honor the Lord [Jesus, and the Holy Spirit] was enabling many other people [to become believers].
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、
While Peter was traveling throughout those [regions, once] he went to [the coastal plain to visit] the believers [who lived] in Lydda [town].
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 met a man whose name was Aeneas. Aeneas had not been able to get up from [his] bed for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
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。
Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you [(sg) right now]! Get up and roll up your mat!” Right away Aeneas stood up.
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。
Most of the people who lived in Lydda and on Sharon [Plain] saw Aeneas [after the Lord had healed him], so they believed in the Lord [Jesus].
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。
In Joppa [town] there was a believer whose name was Tabitha. [Her name] in the [Greek] language was Dorcas. [Both of these names mean gazelle/deer/antelope]. That woman was continually doing good deeds [for others. Specifically], she was helping poor people [by giving them things that they needed].
37 彼そのころ病みて死にたれば、之を洗ひて高樓に置く。
During the time [that Peter was in Lydda], she became sick and died. [Some women there] washed her body [according to the Jewish custom so that the people could bury it]. Then they [covered her body with cloth and] placed it in an upstairs room [in her house].
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。
Lydda was near Joppa, so when the believers heard that Peter was [still] in Lydda, they sent two men to [go] to Peter. [When they arrived where Peter was], they repeatedly urged/begged him, “Please come immediately with us [to Joppa]!”
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。
So [right away] Peter got ready and went with them. When they arrived [at the house in Joppa], the two men took Peter to the upstairs room [where Dorcas’ body was lying]. All the widows [there] around Peter. They were crying and showing him the cloaks and [other] garments that Dorcas had made for people while she was still alive.
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 them all out of the room. Then he got down on his knees and prayed. Then, turning toward Tabitha’s body, he said, “Tabitha, stand up!” [Immediately] she opened her eyes and, when she saw Peter, she 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。
He grasped one of her hands and helped her to stand up. After he had summoned the believers and [especially] the widows [among them to come back in], he showed them that Tabitha was alive [again].
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。
[Soon] people everywhere in Joppa knew about that miracle, and as a result many people believed in the Lord [Jesus].
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。
Peter stayed in Joppa many days with a man named Simon who made leather [from animal skins].
