ヨハネの福音書 15
1 我は眞の葡萄の樹、わが父は農夫なり。
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2 おほよそ我にありて果を結ばぬ枝は、父これを除き、果を結ぶものは、いよいよ果を結ばせん爲に之を潔めたまふ。
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 汝らは既に潔し、わが語りたる言に因りてなり。
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 我に居れ、さらば我なんぢらに居らん。枝もし樹に居らずば、自ら果を結ぶこと能はぬごとく、汝らも我に居らずば亦 然り。
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5 我は葡萄の樹、なんぢらは枝なり。人もし我にをり、我また彼にをらば、多くの果を結ぶべし。汝ら我を離るれば、何事をも爲し能はず。
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6 人もし我に居らずば、枝のごとく外に棄てられて枯る、人々これを集め火に投げ入れて燒くなり。
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 汝 等もし我に居り、わが言なんぢらに居らば、何にても望に隨ひて求めよ、さらば成らん。
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
8 なんぢら多くの果を結ばば、わが父は榮光を受け給ふべし、而して汝 等わが弟子とならん。
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9 父の我を愛し給ひしごとく、我も汝らを愛したり、わが愛に居れ。
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10 なんぢら若しわが誡命をまもらば、我が愛にをらん、我わが父の誡命を守りて、その愛に居るがごとし。
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
11 我これらの事を語りたるは、我が喜悦の汝らに在り、かつ汝らの喜悦の滿されん爲なり。
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 わが誡命は是なり、わが汝らを愛せしごとく互に相 愛せよ。
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13 人その友のために己の生命を棄つる、之より大なる愛はなし。
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
14 汝 等もし我が命ずる事をおこなはば、我が友なり。
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 今よりのち我なんぢらを僕といはず、僕は主人のなす事を知らざるなり。我なんぢらを友と呼べり、我が父に聽きし凡てのことを汝らに知らせたればなり。
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16 汝ら我を選びしにあらず、我なんぢらを選べり。而して汝らの往きて果を結び、且その果の殘らんために、又おほよそ我が名によりて父に求むるものを、父の賜はんために汝らを立てたり。
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 これらの事を命ずるは、汝らの互に相 愛せん爲なり。
“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18 世もし汝らを憎まば、汝 等より先に我を憎みたることを知れ。
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 汝 等もし世のものならば、世は己がものを愛するならん。汝らは世のものならず、我なんぢらを世より選びたり。この故に世は汝らを憎む。
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 わが汝らに「僕はその主人より大ならず」と告げし言をおぼえよ。人もし我を責めしならば、汝 等をも責め、わが言を守りしならば、汝らの言をも守らん。
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 すべて此 等のことを我が名の故に汝らに爲さん、それは我を遣し給ひし者を知らぬに因る。
But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
22 われ來りて語らざりしならば、彼ら罪なかりしならん。されど今はその罪いひのがるべき樣なし。
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 我を憎むものは我が父をも憎むなり。
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
24 我もし誰もいまだ行はぬ事を彼らの中に行はざりしならば、彼ら罪なかりしならん。されど今ははや我をも我が父をも見たり、また憎みたり。
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
25 これは彼らの律法に「ひとびと故なくして我を憎めり」と録したる言の成就せん爲なり。
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
26 父の許より我が遣さんとする助主、すなはち父より出づる眞理の御靈のきたらんとき、我につきて證せん。
“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
27 汝 等もまた初より我とともに在りたれば證するなり。
You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
