ルカの福音書 7
1 イエス凡て此らの言を民に聞かせ終へて後、カペナウムに入り給ふ。
After Jesus finished saying this to the people, he went [with his disciples] to Capernaum [town].
2 時に或 百卒長、その重んずる僕やみて死ぬばかりなりしかば、
There was a Roman army officer there who had a slave whom he thought highly of. This slave was so sick that he was about to die.
3 イエスの事を聽きて、ユダヤ人の長老たちを遣し、來りて僕を救ひ給はんことを願ふ。
When the officer heard about Jesus, he [summoned] some Jewish elders. He told them to go to Jesus and ask him to come and heal his slave.
4 彼らイエスの許にいたり、切に請ひて言ふ『かの人は此の事を爲らるるに相應し。
When they came to where Jesus was, they earnestly asked Jesus [to return with them]. They said, “This officer deserves that you [(sg)] do this [for him],
5 わが國人を愛し、我らのために會堂を建てたり』
because he loves us [Jewish] people, and he [paid the money to] build a synagogue for us.”
6 イエス共に往き給ひて、その家はや程 近くなりしとき、百卒長、數人の友を遣して言はしむ『主よ、自らを煩はし給ふな。我は汝をわが屋根の下に入れまつるに足らぬ者なり。
So Jesus went with them. When he was near the [officer’s] house, the officer [decided that it was not necessary for Jesus to come to his house. So he] summoned some friends. He [told them to] go to Jesus and tell him this: “Lord/Sir, do not bother to come. [Because I am a non-Jew], I am not worthy for you [(sg)], [a Jew], to come into my house [MTY] [and associate with me].
7 されば御前に出づるにも相應しからずと思へり、ただ御言を賜ひて我が僕をいやし給へ。
I did not feel worthy to come to you, [either]. But [please] command [that] my servant [be healed], and he will become well!
8 我みづから權威の下に置かるる者なるに、我が下にまた兵卒ありて、此に「往け」と言へば往き、彼に「來れ」と言へば來り、わが僕に「これを爲せ」と言へば爲すなり』
[I believe this] because, as for me, there are people who have authority over me [and I obey them]. I also have soldiers under my [authority]. When I say to one of them, ‘Go!’ he goes. When I say to another ‘Come!’ he comes. When I say to my slave, ‘Do this!’ he does it. [And I believe that you speak with a similar kind of authority].”
9 イエス聞きて彼を怪しみ、振反りて從ふ群衆に言ひ給ふ『われ汝らに告ぐ、イスラエルの中にだに斯かるあつき信仰は見しことなし』
When [the officer’s friends arrived and] told that to Jesus, he marveled at what [the officer had said]. Then he turned and said to the crowd that was going with him, “I tell you, I have never before found anyone who trusted [in me like this non-Jewish man does]. No one from Israel, [where I would expect people to believe in me], has trusted in me like he has!”
10 遣されたる者ども家に歸りて僕を見れば、既に健康となれり。
When those men returned to the officer’s house, they found that the slave was well.
11 その後イエス、ナインといふ町にゆき給ひしに、弟子たち及び大なる群衆も共に往く。
Soon after that, Jesus went to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd [of other people] went with him.
12 町の門に近づき給ふとき、視よ、舁き出さるる死人あり。これは獨 息子にて母は寡婦なり、町の多くの人々これに伴ふ。
As they approached the town gate, the corpse of a young man who had just died was being carried out [on a stretcher] {[people] were carrying out [on a stretcher] the corpse of a young man who had just died}. His mother was a widow, and he was her only son. A large group of people from the town were accompanying them.
13 主、寡婦を見て憫み『泣くな』と言ひて、
When the Lord saw her, he pitied her. He said to her, “Do not cry!”
14 近より、柩に手をつけ給へば、舁くもの立ち止る。イエス言ひたまふ『若者よ、我なんぢに言ふ、起きよ』
Then, [ignoring the Jewish laws about not coming near a corpse], he came close and touched the stretcher [on which the body was lying]. So the men carrying it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”
15 死人、起きかへりて物 言ひ始む。イエス之を母に付したまふ。
The man sat up and began to talk! Jesus returned him to his mother [to care for her].
16 人々みな懼をいだき、神を崇めて言ふ『大なる預言者われらの中に興れり』また言ふ『神その民を顧み給へり』
Then everyone [there] was amazed/awestruck. They praised God, saying, “A great prophet has come among us!” They also said, “God has come to help his people!”
17 この事ユダヤ全國および最寄の地に徧くひろまりぬ。
[Then they] reported what Jesus [had done] throughout all of Judea [district] and other nearby areas.
18 偖ヨハネの弟子たち、凡て此 等のことを告げたれば、
The disciples of John [the Baptizer went to the prison where John was and] told him about those things.
19 ヨハネ兩 三人の弟子を呼び、主に遣して言はしむ『來るべき者は汝なるか、或は他に待つべきか』
So [one day] John summoned two [of his disciples] and [told them] to go to the Lord and ask him: “Are you [the Messiah who the prophets prophesied would come], or is it someone else that we should expect [to come]?”
20 彼ら御許に到りて言ふ『バプテスマのヨハネ、我らを遣して言はしむ「來るべき者は汝なるか、或は他に待つべきか」』
When those two men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptizer sent us to ask you [(sg)] this: Are you [the Messiah that] we are expecting [God] to send, or shall we [(exc)] expect someone else?”
21 この時イエス多くの者の病・疾患を醫し、惡しき靈を逐ひいだし、又おほくの盲人に見ることを得しめ給ひしが、
At that very time Jesus was healing many people of their diseases and [other] sicknesses, he was [casting out] evil spirits, and he was causing many blind people to be able to see.
22 答へて言ひたまふ『往きて汝らが見 聞せし所をヨハネに告げよ。盲人は見、跛者はあゆみ、癩病人は潔められ、聾者はきき、死人は甦へらせられ、貧しき者は福音を聞かせらる。
So he answered those two men, “Go back and report to John what you have seen [me doing] and what you have heard [me telling people. I am enabling] blind people to see. [I am enabling] lame people to walk. [I am] healing people who have leprosy. [I am enabling] deaf people to hear. [I am causing] dead people to become alive again, [and I am] telling [God’s] good message to poor people.
23 おほよそ我に躓かぬ者は幸福なり』
[Also tell John that God] is pleased with those who do not stop believing in me [because what I do is not what they expect the Messiah to do].”
24 ヨハネの使の去りたる後、ヨハネの事を群衆に言ひいで給ふ『なんぢら何を眺めんとて野に出でし、風にそよぐ葦なるか。
When the men whom John had sent left, Jesus began to talk to the crowd of people about John. He said to them, “[Think about] what sort of person you went to see in the desolate area [when you went there to see John] [RHQ]. [You did not go there to listen to a man who constantly changed the nature of his message] [MET], [like] a reed that is blown back and forth by the wind [RHQ].
25 さらば何を見んとて出でし、柔かき衣を著たる人なるか。視よ、華美なる衣をきて奢り暮す者は王宮に在り。
Then what kind of man did you go there to see [RHQ]? Was he [RHQ] a man who wore expensive clothes? No! [You know very well that] people who wear beautiful clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ palaces, [not in the desolate areas]!
26 さらば何を見んとて出でし、預言者なるか。然り、我なんぢらに告ぐ、預言者よりも勝る者なり。
Then what [kind of person] did you go to see? [Did you] [RHQ] [go there to see John because he was] a prophet? Yes! But I will tell you that [John is] more [important] than an [ordinary] prophet.
27 「視よ、わが使を汝の顏の前につかはす。かれは汝の前になんじの道をそなへん」と録されたるは此の人なり。
He is the one about whom [these words] that God said to the Messiah have been written {[the prophet Malachi] wrote [these words]} [in the Scriptures]: ‘Listen! I am going to send my messenger ahead of you [(sg)] [SYN]. He will prepare [people] for your coming.’
28 われ汝らに告ぐ、女の産みたる者の中、ヨハネより大なる者はなし。されど神の國にて小き者も、彼よりは大なり。
I tell you that from among all the people who have ever lived, [God considers that] no one is greater than John. However, [God considers] everyone who has let God rule their [lives] [MET] to be greater than [John], [even if they are] insignificant [people].”
29 （凡ての民これを聞きて、取税人までも神を正しとせり。ヨハネのバプテスマを受けたるによる。
When they heard [what Jesus said] (OR, [what John preached]), all the people, including tax collectors, [whom many people despised], agreed that God’s way was right. By being baptized by John {By [letting] John baptize them}, [they had agreed that what God required people to do in order to be saved was right].
30 されどパリサイ人・教法師らは、其のバプテスマを受けざりしにより、各自にかかはる神の御旨をこばみたり）
But the Pharisees and the men who taught the [Jewish] laws were not baptized by John {did not [let] John baptize them} because they rejected what God wanted them to do.
31 さればわれ今の代の人を何に比へん。彼らは何に似たるか。
[Then Jesus also said], “[Many of] you people have heard what [John and I] have taught. (I will illustrate what you are like./Do you know what [many of] you people who have heard what [John and I] have taught are like?) [RHQ]
32 彼らは、童 市場に坐し、たがひに呼びて「われら汝らの爲に笛 吹きたれど、汝ら躍らず。歎きたれど、汝ら泣かざりき」と云ふに似たり。
You are like children who are [playing games] in an open area. [Some of them] are calling to [the others], saying, ‘We [(exc)] played happy music for you on the flute, but you did not dance! Then we sang sad funeral songs for you, but you did not cry!’
33 それはバプテスマのヨハネ來りて、パンをも食はず葡萄酒をも飮まねば、「惡鬼に憑かれたる者なり」と汝ら言ひ、
[Similarly, you people are dissatisfied with both John the Baptizer and me]! When John came and [preached to you], he did not eat [ordinary] food [SYN] or drink wine, [like most people do]. But you [rejected him], saying, ‘A demon is controlling him!’
34 人の子きたりて飮食すれば「視よ、食を貪り、酒を好む人、また取税人・罪人の友なり」と汝ら言ふなり。
In [contrast], [I], the one who came from heaven, eat [the same food] and drink [wine as others do]. But you [reject me], saying, ‘Look! [This man] eats too much food and drinks too much wine, and he associates with tax collectors and [other] sinners!’
35 されど智慧は己が凡ての子によりて正しとせらる』
But those who are [truly God’s] children [PRS] realize that [what John and I do is truly] wise.”
36 ここに或パリサイ人ともに食せん事をイエスに請ひたれば、パリサイ人の家に入りて、席につき給ふ。
[One day] one of the Pharisees [named Simon] invited Jesus to eat a meal with him. So Jesus went to the man’s house and reclined [to eat].
37 視よ、この町に罪ある一人の女あり。イエスのパリサイ人の家にて食事の席にゐ給ふを知り、香 油の入りたる石膏の壺を持ちきたり、
There was a woman in that city [who many people knew had been] a prostitute [EUP]. She heard that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee’s house. So she went there, taking a stone jar that contained perfume.
38 泣きつつ御足 近く後にたち、涙にて御足をうるほし、頭の髮にて之を拭ひ、また御足に接吻して香 油を抹れり。
[As the people there were reclining to eat], the woman stood behind [Jesus, at his] feet. As she was crying [because she was sorry for her sins, her tears fell on Jesus’ feet]. Then she wiped his feet with her hair, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the perfume.
39 イエスを招きたるパリサイ人これを見て、心のうちに言ふ『この人もし預言者ならば、觸る者の誰、如何なる女なるかを知らん、彼は罪人なるに』
When the Pharisee who had invited [Jesus] saw that, he thought, “[Prophets know about other people’s lives], [so] if Jesus were a prophet, he would have known who this woman is who is touching him, and what kind of a person she is. He would have known that she is a prostitute! [EUP]”
40 イエス答へて言ひ給ふ『シモン、我なんぢに言ふことあり』シモンいふ『師よ、言ひたまへ』
Jesus said to him, “Simon, there is something I want to tell you [(sg)].” He replied, “Teacher, what is it?”
41 『或 債主に二人の負債者ありて、一人はデナリ五 百、一人は五 十の負債せしに、
Jesus replied, “Two people owed some money to a man who [earned money by] lending [it to others]. One owed him 500 silver coins, and the other owed him 50 silver coins.
42 償ひかたなければ、債主この二人を共に免せり。されば二人のうち債主を愛すること孰か多き』
Neither of them was able to pay back [what he owed], so the man [very kindly] said that they did not have to pay back anything. So, which of those two men will love that man more?”
43 シモン答へて言ふ『われ思ふに、多く免されたる者ならん』イエス言ひ給ふ『なんぢの判斷は當れり』
Simon replied, “I think that the one who owed the most money and did not have to pay it back [will love him more].” Jesus said to him, “That is correct.”
44 かくて女の方に振向きてシモンに言ひ給ふ『この女を見るか。我なんぢの家に入りしに、なんぢは我に足の水を與へず、此の女は涙にて我 足を濡し、頭髮にて拭へり。
Then he turned toward the woman, and said to Simon, “(Think about [what] this woman [has done]!/Do you [(sg)] see [what] this woman [has done]?) [RHQ] When I entered your house, you [did not follow our custom of welcoming guests by] giving me any water [to wash] my feet, but this woman has wet my feet with her tears and then wiped them with her hair!
45 なんぢは我に接吻せず、此の女は我が入りし時より、我が足に接吻して止まず。
You did not [follow our custom of greeting by] kissing me, but since I came in, this woman has not stopped kissing my feet!
46 なんぢは我が頭に油を抹らず、此の女は我が足に香 油を抹れり。
You did not [follow our custom of welcoming guests by] anointing my head with [olive] oil, but she has anointed my feet with fragrant perfume.
47 この故に我なんぢに告ぐ、この女の多くの罪は赦されたり。その愛すること大なればなり。赦さるる事の少き者は、その愛する事もまた少し』
So I will tell you that even though this woman has sinned very much, she has been forgiven {[I] have forgiven her}. [By what she has done she has shown that] she loves [me] very much. But a person who has [sinned] just a little bit, but whom [I] have forgiven, will love [me just a little bit].”
48 遂に女に言ひ給ふ『なんぢの罪は赦されたり』
Then he said to the woman, “You have been forgiven {[I have] forgiven [you]} [for] your sins.”
49 同席の者ども心の内に『罪をも赦す此の人は誰なるか』と言ひ出づ。
Then those who were eating with him said among themselves, “(This man must [think that he is God]!/Who does this man [think that he] is [RHQ]), saying that he can forgive [people for] their sins?”
50 ここにイエス女に言ひ給ふ『なんぢの信仰なんぢを救へり、安らかに往け』
But Jesus said to the woman, “Because you have trusted [PRS] [in me, God] has saved you [from the guilt of your sins]. May [God] give you inner peace as you go!”
