マタイの福音書 22
1 イエスまた譬をもて答へて言ひ給ふ
Then Jesus told [the Jewish leaders] other parables [in order to illustrate what will happen to the people who do not accept him as the King God promised to send]. [This is one of those parables: ]
2 『天國は己が子のために婚筵を設くる王のごとし。
“[God] [MTY/EUP] [is like] a king [SIM] who [told his servants that they should] make a wedding feast for his son.
3 婚筵に招きおきたる人々を迎へんとて僕どもを遺ししに、來るを肯はず。
[When] the feast [was ready], the king sent his servants to tell the people who had been {whom he had} invited that it was time for them to come to the wedding feast. [The servants did that]. But the people who had been invited did not want to come.
4 復ほかの僕どもを遣すとて言ふ「招きたる人々に告げよ、視よ、晝餐は既に備りたり。我が牛も肥えたる畜も屠られて、凡ての物 備りたれば、婚筵に來れと」
So he sent other servants [to] again [tell the people whom he had invited that they should come to the feast]. He said [to those servants], ‘Say to the people whom I invited [to come to the feast], “The king says that he has prepared the food. The oxen and the fattened calves have been butchered [and cooked]. Everything is ready. It is time [now for you to] come to the wedding feast!’”’
5 然るに人々 顧みずして、或 者は己が畑に、或 者は己が商賣に往けり。
[But when the servants told them that, they] disregarded [what the servants said]. Some of them went to their own fields. Others went to their places of business.
6 また他の者は僕を執へて、辱しめかつ殺したれば、
The rest of them seized the king’s servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
7 王 怒りて軍勢を遣し、かの兇行者を滅して其の町を燒きたり。
[When the king heard what had happened], he became furious. He commanded his soldiers to go and kill those murderers and burn their cities.
8 かくて僕どもに言ふ「婚筵は既に備りたれど、招きたる者どもは相應しからず。
[After his soldiers had done that], the king said to his other servants, ‘I have prepared the [wedding] feast, but the people who were {whom I} invited do not deserve to [come to it because they did not consider it an honor to have been invited].
9 されば汝ら街に往きて、遇ふほどの者を婚筵に招け」
So, go to the intersections of the main streets. Tell whomever you find that they should come to the [wedding] feast.’
10 僕ども途に出でて、善きも惡しきも遇ふほどの者をみな集めたれば、婚禮の席は客にて滿てり。
So the servants went there, and they gathered everyone they saw [who wanted to come to the feast]. They gathered [both people that were considered] to be evil and [those that were considered to be] good. They brought them into the hall where the wedding [feast took place]. The hall was filled with people.
11 王、客を見んとて入り來り、一人の禮服を著けぬ者あるを見て、
But when the king went [into the hall] to see the guests who were there, he saw someone who was not wearing clothes [that had been provided for the guests to wear] at a wedding [feast].
12 之に言ふ「友よ、如何なれば禮服を著けずして此處に入りたるか」かれ默しゐたり。
The king said to him, ‘Friend, (you should never have entered this hall, because you are not wearing the clothes [that guests wear] at wedding [feasts]!/how did you enter this hall, because you are not wearing the clothes [that are appropriate for guests to wear] at a wedding [feast]?) [RHQ]’ The man did not say anything, [because he did not know what to say].
13 ここに王、侍者らに言ふ「その手 足を縛りて外の暗黒に投げいだせ、其處にて哀哭・切齒することあらん」
Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie this person’s feet and hands and throw him outside where there is total darkness. People who are there cry out [because they are suffering] and they gnash their teeth [because of their severe pain].’”
14 それ招かるる者は多かれど、選ばるる者は少し』
[Then Jesus said, “The point of this story is that God] has invited many [to come to him], but only a few people are the ones whom he has chosen [to be there].”
15 ここにパリサイ人ら出でて、如何にしてかイエスを言の羂に係けんと相 議り、
After Jesus said that, the Pharisees met together in order to plan how they could cause him to say something that would enable them to accuse him.
16 その弟子らをヘロデ黨の者どもと共に遺して言はしむ『師よ、我らは知る、なんじは眞にして、眞をもて神の道を教へ、かつ誰をも憚りたまふ事なし、人の外貌を見 給はぬ故なり。
They sent to him some of their disciples, [who thought that the Israelites should pay only the tax that the Jewish authorities required them to pay]. They also sent some members of the party that supported Herod. [The members of that party thought that the Israelites should pay only the tax that the Roman government required them to pay]. [Those who were sent came and] said to Jesus, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you teach the truth about what God wants [us to do]. We also know that you do not change what you teach because of what someone says about you, even if it is an important person who does not like what you [IDM] teach.
17 されば我らに告げたまへ、貢をカイザルに納むるは可きか、惡しきか、如何に思ひたまふ』
So tell us what you think [RHQ] [about this matter]: Is it right that we pay taxes to the Roman government [MTY], or not?”
18 イエスその邪曲なるを知りて言ひたまふ『僞善者よ、なんぞ我を試むるか。
But Jesus knew that what they really wanted to do was evil. [They were wanting him to say something that would get him in trouble with either the Jewish authorities or the Roman authorities. So he said to them], “You are (hypocrites/pretending to ask a legitimate question), but you are just wanting [RHQ] me to say something for which you can accuse me.
19 貢の金を我に見せよ』彼らデナリ一つを持ち來る。
Show me [one of] the coins with [which people pay] the [Roman] tax.” So they showed him [a coin called] a denarius.
20 イエス言ひ給ふ『これは誰の像、たれの號なるか』
He said to them, “Whose picture is [on] this [coin]? And [whose] name [is on it]?”
21 彼ら言ふ『カイザルのなり』ここに彼らに言ひ給ふ『さらばカイザルの物はカイザルに、神の物は神に納めよ』
They answered, “[It has the picture and name of] Caesar, [the head of the Roman government].” Then he said to them, “Okay, give to the government what they [require], and give to God what he [requires].”
22 彼ら之を聞きて怪しみ、イエスを離れて去り往けり。
When those men heard Jesus say that, they marveled [that his answer did not enable anyone to accuse him]. Then they left Jesus.
23 復活なしといふサドカイ人ら、その日みもとに來り問ひて言ふ
During that same day, some Sadducees came to Jesus. [They are a Jewish sect who do not] believe that people will become alive again after they die. They [wanted to] ask [Jesus] a question.
24 『師よ、モーセは「人もし子なくして死なば、其の兄弟かれの妻を娶りて、兄弟のために世嗣を擧ぐべし」と云へり。
[In order to discredit the idea that dead people will live again], they said [to him], “Teacher, Moses wrote [in the Scriptures], ‘If a man dies who did not have any children, his brother must marry the [dead man’s] widow in order that she can have a child by him. The child [will be considered] the descendant of the man [who died], [and in that way the dead man will have descendants].’
25 我らの中に七人の兄弟ありしが、兄めとりて死に、世嗣なくして其の妻を弟に遺したり。
Well, there were seven boys in a family [living] near us. The oldest one married someone. He [and his wife] did not have any children, and he died. So the second brother married the widow. [But he also died without having a child].
26 その二その三より、その七まで皆かくの如く爲し、
The same thing [happened to] the third [brother], and also to the other four [brothers, who one by one married this same woman].
27 最後にその女も死にたり。
Last of all, the widow also died.
28 されば復活の時、その女は七人のうち誰の妻たるべきか、彼ら皆これを妻としたればなり』
So, at the time when people are raised from the dead, which of the seven [brothers do you think] will be her husband? Keep in mind that they had all been married to her.”
29 イエス答へて言ひ給ふ『なんぢら聖書をも神の能力をも知らぬ故に誤れり。
Jesus replied to them, “You are certainly wrong [in what you are thinking]. You do not know [what is written in] the Scriptures. [You] also do not know [that] God has [the] power [to make people alive again].
30 それ人よみがへりの時は、娶らず嫁がず、天に在る御使たちの如し。
The fact is that [the woman will not be the wife of any of them, because] after [God causes all dead] people [to] live again, no one will be married. Instead, [people] will be like the angels in heaven. [They do not marry].
31 死人の復活に就きては、神なんぢらに告げて、
But as for dead people becoming alive again, God said something about that. (I’m sure you have read it./Have you not read it?) [RHQ] [Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses],
32 「我はアブラハムの神、イサクの神、ヤコブの神なり」と言ひ給へることを未だ讀まぬか。神は死にたる者の神にあらず、生ける者の神なり』
‘I am the God whom Abraham [worships] and the God whom Isaac [worships] and the God whom Jacob worships.’ It is not dead people who worship God. It is living people who worship him. [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob died long before Moses lived, but God said that they were still worshipping him, so we know their spirits were still alive]!”
33 群衆これを聞きて其の教に驚けり。
When the crowds of people heard [Jesus teach] that, they were amazed.
34 パリサイ人ら、イエスのサドカイ人らを默さしめ給ひしことを聞きて相 集り、
But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had answered the Sadducees in such a way that the Sadducees could not [think of anything that they might say to] respond to him, the Pharisees gathered together to [plan what they would say to him]. [Then they approached him].
35 その中なる一人の教法師、イエスを試むる爲に問ふ
One of them was a man who had studied well the laws [that God gave Moses]. He wanted to see if Jesus [could answer] his question well [or if he would say something wrong]. He asked him,
36 『師よ、律法のうち孰の誡命が大なる』
“Teacher, which commandment in the laws [that God gave Moses] is the most important?”
37 イエス言ひ給ふ『「なんぢ心を盡し、精神を盡し、思を盡して主なる汝の神を愛すべし」
Jesus [quoted the Scriptures as he replied], “‘You must love the Lord your God with all [IDM] your (inner being/heart). [Show that you love him] in all that you desire, in all that you feel, and in all that you think.’
38 これは大にして第一の誡命なり。
That is the most important commandment [in the laws that God gave Moses].
39 第二もまた之にひとし「おのれの如くなんぢの隣を愛すべし」
The next most important commandment [that everyone must surely obey] is: ‘You must love the people you come in contact with as much as [you love] yourself.’
40 律法 全體と預言者とは此の二つの誡命に據るなり』
These two commandments are the basis of every law [that Moses wrote in the Scriptures] and also of all that the prophets [wrote].”
41 パリサイ人らの集りたる時、イエス彼らに問ひて言ひ給ふ
While the Pharisees were still gathered together [near] Jesus, he asked them,
42 『なんぢらはキリストに就きて如何に思ふか、誰の子なるか』かれら言ふ『ダビデの子なり』
“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?” They said to him, “[He is] the descendant of [King] David.”
43 イエス言ひ給ふ『さらばダビデ御靈に感じて何 故かれを主と稱ふるか。曰く
Jesus said to them, “[If the Messiah is King David’s descendant], then (David should not have called him ‘Lord’ when David was saying [what] the [Holy] Spirit [prompted him to] say./Why did David call the Messiah ‘Lord’ when David was speaking [what] the [Holy] Spirit [prompted him to] say?) [RHQ]
44 「主わが主に言ひ給ふ、われ汝の敵を汝の足の下に置くまでは、我が右に坐せよ」
[David wrote this in the Scriptures about the Messiah]: ‘God said to my Lord, “Sit [here beside me] on my right, [the place of greatest honor you] [MTY]. [Sit here] while I completely defeat your enemies [MTY].”’
45 斯くダビデ彼を主と稱ふれば、爭でその子ならんや』
So, since [King] David called [the Messiah] ‘my Lord’, ([the Messiah] cannot be [just someone] descended from David!/how can he be [only] the descendant of [King] David?) [RHQ] [He must be much greater than David]!”
46 誰も一言だに答ふること能はず、その日より敢へて復イエスに問ふ者なかりき。
No one [who heard what Jesus said] was able to think of even one word to say to him [in response]. And after that, no one else ever dared to ask him another question [to try to trap him].
