マタイの福音書 27
1 夜明けになりて、凡ての祭司長・民の長老ら、イエスを殺さんと相 議り、
Very early the next morning all the chief priests and Jewish elders decided how [to arrange for the Romans] to execute Jesus.
2 遂に之を縛り、曳きゆきて總督ピラトに付せり。
They tied his hands and took him to Pilate, the [Roman] governor.
3 ここにイエスを賣りしユダ、その死に定められ給ひしを見て悔い、祭司長・長老らに、かの三十の銀をかへして言ふ、
When Judas, the one who had (betrayed/enabled Jesus’ enemies to seize) him, realized that they had decided to have Jesus executed, he was very sorry [about what he had done]. He took the 30 coins back to the chief priests and elders.
4 『われ罪なきの血を賣りて罪を犯したり』彼らいふ『われら何ぞ干らん、汝みづから當るべし』
He said, “I have sinned. I have (betrayed/enabled you to seize) a man who (is innocent/has not done anything wrong).” They replied, “(That means nothing to us!/What does that mean to us?) [RHQ] That is your problem!”
5 彼その銀を聖所に投げすてて去り、ゆきて自ら縊れたり。
So Judas [took] the money [and] threw it inside the Temple. Then he went away and hanged himself.
6 祭司長らその銀をとりて言ふ『これは血の價なれば、宮の庫に納むるは可からず』
[Later] the high priests [found] the coins. They picked them up and said, “This is money that we paid [to have a man killed] [MTY], and our law does not allow [such money] to be put {us to put [such money]} into the [Temple treasury].”
7 かくて相 議り、その銀をもて陶工の畑を買ひ、旅人らの墓地とせり。
So they decided to use that money to buy the field where clay was dug for making pots {men dug ground for making pots}. [They made that field] a place where they buried strangers [who died in Jerusalem].
8 之によりて其の畑は、今に至るまで血の畑と稱へらる。
That is why that place is still called {why they still call that place} ‘The field of blood’.
9 ここに預言者エレミヤによりて云はれたる言は成就したり。曰く『かくて彼ら値積られしもの、即ちイスラエルの子らが値積りし者の價の銀 三十をとりて、
[By buying that field], they fulfilled these words that the prophet Jeremiah wrote [long ago]: They took the 30 silver coins; That was what the leaders of Israel decided [that he was worth];
10 陶工の畑の代に之を與へたり。主の我に命じ給ひし如し』
and with that money they bought the field where clay was dug for potters. They did that as the Lord had commanded me.
11 さてイエス、總督の前に立ち給ひしに、總督 問ひて言ふ『なんぢはユダヤ人の王なるか』イエス言ひ給ふ『なんぢの言ふが如し』
Jesus stood in front of [Pilate], the governor. The governor asked Jesus, “Do you [claim to be] the king of the Jews?” Jesus replied, “[It is] as you have [just] said.”
12 祭司長・長老ら訴ふれども、何をも答へ給はず。
When he was accused by the chief priests and elders {When the chief priests and elders accused him} about various things, he did not answer.
13 ここにピラト彼に言ふ『聞かぬか、彼らが汝に對して如何におほくの證據を立つるを』
So Pilate said to him, “You hear how many things they are saying to accuse you; [are you not going to reply]?”
14 されど總督の甚く怪しむまで、一言をも答へ給はず。
But [even though he was not guilty], Jesus did not say anything. He did not reply to any of the things about which they were accusing him. As a result, the governor was very surprised.
15 祭の時には、總督 群衆の望にまかせて、囚人 一人を之に赦す例あり。
It was the governor’s custom [each year] during the [Passover] celebration to release [one person who was in prison]. [He released] whichever prisoner the people wanted.
16 ここにバラバといふ隱れなき囚人あり。
At that time there was [in Jerusalem] a well-known prisoner whose name was Barabbas.
17 されば人々の集れる時、ピラト言ふ『なんぢら我が誰を赦さんことを願ふか。バラバなるか、キリストと稱ふるイエスなるか』
So when the crowd gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which [prisoner] would you like me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus, whom [some of you] claim to be the Messiah?”
18 これピラト彼らのイエスを付ししは嫉に因ると知る故なり。
[He asked that question] because he realized that the chief priests [wanted to have Jesus executed]. They had brought Jesus to him [only] because they were jealous of Jesus. [And Pilate thought that the crowd would prefer that he release Jesus].
19 彼なほ審判の座にをる時、その妻、人を遣して言はしむ『かの義人に係ることを爲な、我けふ夢の中にて彼の故にさまざま苦しめり』
While Pilate was sitting on the platform [where he made] judicial [decisions], his wife sent him [this message]: “Early this morning I had a bad dream because of that man. So do not condemn that righteous man!”
20 祭司長・長老ら、群衆にバラバの赦されん事を請はしめ、イエスを亡さんことを勸む。
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd to ask [Pilate to] release Barabbas, and to [order] that Jesus be executed {that [his soldiers] execute Jesus}.
21 總督こたへて彼らに言ふ『二人の中いづれを我が赦さん事を願ふか』彼らいふ『バラバなり』
So when the governor asked them, “Which of the two men do you want me to release for you?” They replied, “Barabbas!”
22 ピラト言ふ『さらばキリストと稱ふるイエスを我いかにすべきか』皆いふ『十字架につくべし』
Pilate, [very astonished], asked, “So what shall I do with Jesus who [some of you] say is the Messiah?” They all answered, “[Command that] he be crucified! {[Command your soldiers] (to crucify him/to nail him to a cross)}!”
23 ピラト言ふ『かれ何の惡事をなしたるか』彼ら烈しく叫びていふ『十字架につくべし』
Pilate replied, “Why? What crime has he committed?” But they shouted even louder, “[Have] him crucified {[Command that your soldiers] crucify him}!”
24 ピラトは何の效なく反つて亂にならんとするを見て、水をとり群衆のまへに手を洗ひて言ふ『この人の血につきて我は罪なし、汝 等みづから當れ』
Pilate realized that he was accomplishing nothing. He saw that instead, the people were starting to riot. So he took [a basin of] water and washed his hands as the crowd was watching. He said, “[By washing my hands I am showing you that] if this man dies [MTY], it is [your] fault, [not mine]!”
25 民みな答へて言ふ『其の血は、我らと我らの子孫とに歸すべし』
And all the people answered, “The guilt for causing him to die [MTY] will be on us, and it will be on our children, too!”
26 ここにピラト、バラバを彼らに赦し、イエスを鞭うちて、十字架につくる爲に付せり。
Then he [ordered the soldiers to] release Barabbas for them. But he [ordered that his soldiers] flog Jesus. And then he turned Jesus over to the soldiers for them (to nail Jesus to a cross/to crucify him).
27 ここに總督の兵卒ども、イエスを官邸につれゆき、全 隊を御許に集め、
Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the government headquarters. The whole (cohort/group of soldiers) gathered around him.
28 その衣をはぎて、緋色の上衣をきせ、
They pulled off [his clothes], and [pretending he was a king, they] put a purple robe on him.
29 茨の冠冕を編みて、その首に冠らせ、葦を右の手にもたせ、且その前に跪づき、嘲弄して言ふ『ユダヤ人の王、安かれ』
They [took some branches with] thorns and wove them to make a crown and put it on his head. They put in his right hand a reed [like a staff that a king would hold]. Then they knelt in front of him and made fun of him, saying, “Hooray for the king of the Jews [IRO]!”
30 また之に唾し、かの葦をとりて其の首を叩く。
They kept spitting on him. They took the staff and kept striking him on the head with it.
31 かく嘲弄してのち、上衣を剥ぎて、故の衣をきせ、十字架につけんとて曳きゆく。
When they had finished ridiculing him, they pulled off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to [the place where they] would nail him to a cross.
32 その出づる時、シモンといふクレネ人にあひしかば、強ひて之にイエスの十字架をおはしむ。
[After Jesus carried his cross] a short distance, [the soldiers] saw a man named Simon, [who was] from Cyrene [city]. They forced him to carry the cross for Jesus.
33 かくてゴルゴタといふ處、即ち髑髏の地にいたり、
They came to a place called Golgotha. That name means ‘the place [like] a skull’.
34 苦味を混ぜたる葡萄酒を飮ませんとしたるに、嘗めて、飮まんとし給はず。
When [they got there], they mixed with wine something that tasted very bitter. They gave it to [Jesus] to drink [so that he would not feel so much pain when they nailed him on the cross]. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it. [Some soldiers took his clothes].
35 彼らイエスを十字架につけてのち、籤をひきて其の衣をわかち、
Then they nailed him to the cross. Afterwards, they divided his clothes among themselves by gambling with something like dice [to decide which piece of clothing each one would get].
36 且そこに坐して、イエスを守る。
Then the soldiers sat down there to guard him, [to prevent anyone from trying to rescue him].
37 その首の上に『これはユダヤ人の王イエスなり』と記したる罪標を置きたり。
They fastened [to the cross] above Jesus’ head a [sign on which had been] {[they had]} written why [they] were nailing him to the cross. [But all] it said was, ‘This is Jesus, the King of the Jews’.
38 ここにイエスとともに二人の強盜、十字架につけられ、一人はその右に、一人はその左におかる。
Two bandits were also nailed {They also nailed two bandits} on crosses. One was nailed to a cross on the right side [of Jesus] and one to a cross on the left side.
39 往來の者どもイエスを譏り、首を振りていふ、
The people who were passing by insulted him by shaking their heads [as if he were an evil man].
40 『宮を毀ちて三日のうちに建つる者よ、もし神の子ならば己を救へ、十字架より下りよ』
They said, “You [said you] would destroy the Temple, and then you would build it again within three days! [So if you could do that], you [should be able to] save yourself! If you are the man who is also God (OR, If you are the Son of God), come down from the cross!”
41 祭司長らもまた同じく、學者・長老らとともに嘲弄して言ふ、
Similarly, the chief priests, the men who taught the [Jewish] laws and the elders made fun of him. [Various ones of them] said things like,
42 『人を救ひて己を救ふこと能はず。彼はイスラエルの王なり、いま十字架より下りよかし、さらば我ら彼を信ぜん。
“He [claims that he] saved others [IRO] [from their sicknesses], but he cannot help himself!” “He [says that he] is [IRO] the King of Israel. So he should come down from the cross. Then we would believe him!”
43 彼は神に依り頼めり、神かれを愛しまば今すくひ給ふべし「我は神の子なり」と云へり』
“He [says that he] trusts in God, and that he is the man who is also God. So if God is pleased with him, God should rescue him now!”
44 ともに十字架につけられたる強盜どもも、同じ事をもてイエスを罵れり。
And the [two] bandits who had been crucified with him also insulted him, saying similar things.
45 晝の十二 時より地の上あまねく暗くなりて、三時に及ぶ。
At noon it became dark over the whole land. [It stayed dark] until three o’clock [in the afternoon].
46 三時ごろイエス大聲に叫びて『エリ、エリ、レマ、サバクタニ』と言ひ給ふ。わが神、わが神、なんぞ我を見 棄て給ひしとの意なり。
At about three o’clock Jesus shouted loudly, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” That means, ‘My God, my God, why have you deserted me?’
47 そこに立つ者のうち或 人々これを聞きて『彼はエリヤを呼ぶなり』と言ふ。
When some of the people standing there heard [the word ‘Eli’, misunderstanding it], they said, “He is calling for [the prophet] Elijah!”
48 直ちにその中の一人はしりゆきて海綿をとり、酸き葡萄酒を含ませ、葦につけてイエスに飮ましむ。
Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with sour wine. Then he put the sponge on [the tip of] a reed and [held it up in order that Jesus] could suck out [the wine that was in it].
49 その他の者ども言ふ『まて、エリヤ來りて彼を救ふや否や、我ら之を見ん』
But the other [people there] said, “Wait! Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him!”
50 イエス再び大聲に呼はりて息 絶えたまふ。
Then after Jesus shouted out loudly again, he died, giving his spirit over [to God].
51 視よ、聖所の幕、上より下まで裂けて二つとなり、また地震ひ、磐さけ、
At that moment the [heavy thick] curtain [that closed off the most holy place] in the Temple split into two pieces from top to bottom. [That signified that ordinary people could now go into the presence of God]. The earth shook, and [some large] rocks split open.
52 墓ひらけて、眠りたる聖徒の屍體おほく活きかへり、
[Some] tombs opened up, and the bodies of many godly people who had died became alive again.
53 イエスの復活ののち墓をいで、聖なる都に入りて、多くの人に現れたり。
They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus became alive again, they went into Jerusalem and appeared to many people [there].
54 百卒長および之と共にイエスを守りゐたる者ども、地震とその有りし事とを見て甚く懼れ『實に彼は神の子なりき』と言へり。
The officer who supervised the soldiers [who nailed Jesus to the cross was standing nearby]. His soldiers who had been on guard [so that no one would rescue] Jesus [were also there]. When they [felt] the earthquake and saw all the [other] things that happened, they were terrified. They exclaimed, “Truly he was both man and God! (OR, a Son of God).”
55 その處にて遙に望みゐたる多くの女あり、イエスに事へてガリラヤより從ひ來りし者どもなり。
Many women were there, watching from a distance. They were women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee [district] in order to provide the things he needed.
56 その中には、マグダラのマリヤ、ヤコブとヨセフとの母マリヤ、及びゼベダイの子らの母などもゐたり。
Among these women were Mary from Magdala [town], [another] Mary who was the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of James and John.
57 日 暮れて、ヨセフと云ふアリマタヤの富める人きたる。彼もイエスの弟子なるが、
When it was [almost] evening, a rich man named Joseph came [there]. He was from Arimathea [town]. He also was a disciple of Jesus.
58 ピラトに往きてイエスの屍體を請ふ。ここにピラト之を付すことを命ず。
He then went to Pilate and asked Pilate to [allow him to take] the body of Jesus [and bury it]. Pilate ordered that [he] be allowed to {[his soldiers] let [Joseph]} take [the body].
59 ヨセフ屍體をとりて淨き亞麻 布につつみ、
So Joseph [and others] took the body and wrapped it in a clean white cloth.
60 岩にほりたる己が新しき墓に納め、墓の入口に大なる石を轉しおきて去りぬ。
Then they placed it in Joseph’s own new tomb that had been dug out of the rock [cliff]. They rolled a huge [circular flat] stone in front of the entrance to the tomb. Then they left.
61 其處にはマグダラのマリヤと他のマリヤと墓に向ひて坐しゐたり。
Mary from Magdala and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb, [watching].
62 あくる日、即ち準備 日の翌日、祭司長らとパリサイ人らとピラトの許に集りて言ふ、
The next day was Saturday, the Jewish day of rest. The chief priests and [some of] the Pharisees went to Pilate.
63 『主よ、かの惑すもの生き居りし時「われ三日の後に甦へらん」と言ひしを、我ら思ひいだせり。
They said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive, he said, ‘Three days after I [die I] will become alive again.’
64 されば命じて三日に至るまで墓を固めしめ給へ、恐らくはその弟子ら來りて之を盜み、「彼は死人の中より甦へれり」と民に言はん。然らば後の惑は前のよりも甚だしからん』
So we ask you to order that the tomb be guarded {that [soldiers] guard the tomb} for three days. If you do not do that, his disciples may come and steal the body. Then they will tell people that he has risen from the dead. If they deceive [people by saying that], it will be worse than the way he deceived people before [by saying that he was the Messiah].”
65 ピラト言ふ『なんぢらに番兵あり、往きて力 限り固めよ』
Pilate replied, “You [can] take some soldiers. Go to the tomb and make it as secure as you know how.”
66 乃ち彼らゆきて石に封印し、番兵を置きて墓を固めたり。
So they went and made the tomb secure by [fastening a cord from] the stone [that was in front of the entrance to the rock cliff on each side] and sealing it. They also [left some soldiers there to] guard [the tomb].
