マタイの福音書 5
1 イエス群衆を見て、山にのぼり、座し給へば、弟子たち御許にきたる。
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a hillside. He sat down [in order to teach] his disciples. They came near to him [to listen to him].
2 イエス口をひらき、教へて言ひたまふ、
Then he began to teach them by saying,
3 『幸福なるかな、心の貧しき者。天國はその人のものなり。
[God] is pleased with people who recognize that they have a spiritual [need]; he will allow them to be the people whose lives he rules over.
4 幸福なるかな、悲しむ者。その人は慰められん。
[God] is pleased with people who mourn [because they have sinned; ] they will be encouraged {he will encourage them.}
5 幸福なるかな、柔和なる者。その人は地を嗣がん。
[God] is pleased with people who are meek; they will inherit the earth [that God will recreate].
6 幸福なるかな、義に飢ゑ渇く者。その人は飽くことを得ん。
[God] is pleased with people who sincerely [desire to live] righteously [just like they] desire to eat and drink [MET]; they will be enabled {he will enable them} to do all that he desires [MET].
7 幸福なるかな、憐憫ある者。その人は憐憫を得ん。
[God] is pleased with people who act mercifully; he will act mercifully to them.
8 幸福なるかな、心の清き者。その人は神を見ん。
[God] is pleased with people who think only about that which pleases him; [some day] they will [be where] God is and will see him.
9 幸福なるかな、平和ならしむる者。その人は神の子と稱へられん。
[God] is pleased with people who help other people to live peacefully; they will be considered to be {he will consider that they are} his children [MET].
10 幸福なるかな、義のために責められたる者。天國はその人のものなり。
[God is pleased with] people to whom evil things are done {to whom [other people] do evil things} because they [conducted themselves] righteously; he will allow them to be where he rules over people.
11 我がために、人なんぢらを罵り、また責め、詐りて各樣の惡しきことを言ふときは、汝ら幸福なり。
[God is pleased with] you when [other] people insult you, when [other people] do evil things to you and when [other people] say falsely [that] you are evil because [you believe in] me.
12 喜びよろこべ、天にて汝らの報は大なり。汝 等より前にありし預言者たちをも、斯く責めたりき。
[When that happens], rejoice and be glad [DOU], because [God will give] you a great reward in heaven. [God will think highly of you], just like [he thought highly of] the prophets whom your [ancestors persecuted] long ago.
13 汝らは地の鹽なり、鹽もし效力を失はば、何をもてか之に鹽すべき。後は用なし、外にすてられて人に蹈まるるのみ。
“You are [able to influence] evil [people] [MTY] [and improve the way they live in order that they do not become more evil, just like] salt [is able to improve the flavor of food and to preserve it] [MET] [from spoiling]. Salt that no longer tastes salty cannot become salty again [RHQ]. As a result, that salt becomes useless. It is rejected by people, thrown on the ground, and walked on {People reject it, throw it on the ground and walk on it} [MET]. [Similarly, if the way you live no longer influences people to live in a godly manner, God will reject you].
14 汝らは世の光なり。山の上にある町は隱るることなし。
You [enable] evil [people] [MTY] [to perceive God’s truth as] a light [enables people to perceive what is around them. Just like] everyone can see [LIT] [the lights of] a city on a hill [MET], [other people can see what you do].
15 また人は燈火をともして升の下におかず、燈臺の上におく。かくて燈火は家にある凡ての物を照すなり。
After people light a lamp, they never put it under a basket. Instead, [they put it] on a lampstand in their houses in order that it can shine on everyone there.
16 かくのごとく汝らの光を人の前にかがやかせ。これ人の汝らが善き行爲を見て、天にいます汝らの父を崇めん爲なり。
[Similarly], you need to do [what is right] [MET] in such a manner that other people can see the good deeds that you do, and as a result they will praise your Father [who is] in heaven.”
17 われ律法また預言者を毀つために來れりと思ふな。毀たんとて來らず、反つて成就せん爲なり。
“I came to earth, not to annul the laws [that God gave Moses] or [what] the prophets [MTY] [wrote]. Instead, I [came] to cause to happen [what the authors of those books predicted would happen]. So do not think any longer that I have come [to earth] in order that I might annul [what they wrote].
18 誠に汝らに告ぐ、天 地の過ぎ往かぬうちに、律法の一點、一畫も廢ることなく、ことごとく全うせらるべし。
Keep this in mind: [Every] point of those laws, [including those points that seem] least important, and even the smallest details of the laws [MTY] will surely be in effect [HYP, LIT] until the heavens and the earth disappear and until all [that God told their authors to write] happens.
19 この故にもし此 等のいと小き誡命の一つをやぶり、且その如く人に教ふる者は、天國にて最 小き者と稱へられ、之を行ひ、かつ人に教ふる者は、天國にて大なる者と稱へられん。
Since [all God’s laws are important], if anyone disobeys any of those commandments, [even if it would be] one of the least [important ones], and if that person teaches people [to disobey any of those commandments], it will be said {[God] will say} that that person is the least [important] of those in the place where [EUP] God rules. But those who obey [those commandments] and teach [other people to obey them, it will be said] {[God] will say} that they are very important among those that God rules.
20 我なんぢらに告ぐ、汝らの義、學者・パリサイ人に勝らずば、天國に入ること能はず。
Keep this in mind: [You assume that] the Pharisees and the men who teach our laws [faithfully obey] what God commands. But if you do not obey those laws better than they obey them, you will by no means enter the place where God rules.”
21 古への人に「殺すなかれ、殺す者は審判にあふべし」と云へることあるを汝 等きけり。
“You have heard [your religious teachers say] that it was said {that [Moses] said} to your ancestors, ‘Do not murder [anyone.’ This implied that] if someone murders [another person], the judge will condemn that person [and] sentence him to be [executed] {[say that someone must execute him]}.
But what I say to you is this: [If you are] angry with someone, [God] will judge you. If you say to someone, ‘[You are worthless],’ the Jewish Council will judge you. If you [hate someone], and say to them 'You fool!' you. yourself, will be in danger of being thrown into the fires in hell. (Geenna g1067)
23 この故に汝もし供物を祭壇にささぐる時、そこにて兄弟に怨まるる事あるを思ひ出さば、
So, when you take your gift [for God] to the altar, if you remember that you have offended someone,
24 供物を祭壇のまへに遺しおき、先づ往きて、その兄弟と和睦し、然るのち來りて、供物をささげよ。
leave your gift by the altar, and first go [to the person you have offended]. Tell that person that you are sorry for what you have done, and ask that person to forgive you. Then go back and offer your gift [to God].
25 なんぢを訴ふる者とともに途に在るうちに、早く和解せよ。恐らくは、訴ふる者なんぢを審判 人にわたし、審判 人は下役にわたし、遂になんぢは獄に入れられん。
[Also], when a fellow citizen [takes you to court in order to] accuse you, settle accounts with that person quickly while you are walking with that person [to court]. Do that [while there still is time to do so] in order that he will not take you to the judge, [because if] the judge [favors the person who is accusing you, he will declare that you are guilty and send you] to the prison guard, and the prison guard will put you in prison.
26 まことに汝に告ぐ、一 厘ものこりなく償はずば、其處をいづること能はじ。
Keep this in mind: [If you go to prison], you will never get out [because you will never be able to] pay all that the judge says that you owe [MET]. [And remember also that] you [ought to settle accounts with God before you die, too].”
27 「姦淫するなかれ」と云へることあるを汝 等きけり。
“You have heard [God’s] commandment, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
28 されど我は汝らに告ぐ、すべて色情を懷きて女を見るものは、既に心のうち姦淫したるなり。
But what I say to you is this: If a man only looks at a woman desiring to have sex with her, [God considers that] his doing that [MET] is sin.
If because of what you see [MTY] you [are tempted to] sin, [stop looking at those things! Even if you have to] gouge out one of your eyes and throw it away [HYP] [to avoid sinning, do it!] It is good [that you not sin and] as a result [go to heaven, even though while you are still here on earth] you lack one [or both of] your eyes. But it is not good [that you continue to have two eyes and sin and, as a result, God] sends your whole body to hell. (Geenna g1067)
If you are [tempted to] use one of your hands to sin [MTY], [stop using your hand. Even if you have to] cut your hand off and throw it away [to avoid sinning, do it] [HYP]! It is good [that you do not sin and as a result you go to heaven, even though while you are still here on earth] you lack one [or both] of your [hands]. But it is not good [that you sin and, as a result, God] sends your whole body to hell.” (Geenna g1067)
31 また「妻をいだす者は離縁状を與ふべし」と云へることあり。
“It is written {[Moses] wrote}, ‘If a man is divorcing his wife, he should write a document [on which he states that he is] divorcing her.’
32 されど我は汝らに告ぐ、淫行の故ならで其の妻をいだす者は、これに姦淫を行はしむるなり。また出されたる女を娶るものは、姦淫を行ふなり。
But [now listen to what] I say to you: [A man] may [divorce his wife] only if she has committed adultery, [and not for any other reason]. If a man divorces his wife [for any other reason, and he has sex with another woman], he makes his wife become one against whom he has committed adultery, [because in God’s estimation she still is his wife]. Also, if a man marries a woman who is divorced {whose husband has divorced her}, [God considers] him [guilty of] committing adultery.”
33 また古への人に「いつはり誓ふなかれ、なんぢの誓は主に果すべし」と云へる事あるを汝ら聞けり。
“You have also heard [your religious teachers say] that it was written {that [Moses] wrote} to your ancestors, ‘Make sure that you do what you promised the Lord that you would do!’ [DOU]
34 されど我は汝らに告ぐ、一切ちかふな、天を指して誓ふな、神の御座なればなり。
But [now listen to what] I say to you: Never promise to do anything and then ask a superior being to affirm [that what you are saying will happen. For example, do] not [promise that you will give something and then ask spiritual beings in] heaven [MTY] [to affirm that you will do it], because heaven is where God [sits] on his throne [MTY] [to rule over people].
35 地を指して誓ふな、神の足臺なればなり。エルサレムを指して誓ふな、大君の都なればなり。
[Also, do] not [promise that you will give something and then ask spiritual beings] on earth [MTY] [to affirm that you will do it], because the earth is where God rests his feet [MET]. [Also, do] not [promise that you will do something and ask religious authorities] in Jerusalem [to affirm that you will do it], because Jerusalem is the city where [God], the great King [rules].
36 己が頭を指して誓ふな、なんぢ頭髮 一筋だに白くし、また黒くし能はねばなり。
[Also, do not promise that you will do something and then say that] your head [should be cut off] {[someone should cut off] your head} [if you do not do it]. You are not [even] able to [change the color of the hair of your head by] making one [black] hair white or one [white] hair black.
37 ただ然り然り、否 否といへ、之に過ぐるは惡より出づるなり。
[If you talk about doing something], just say ‘Yes, I [will do it],’ or ‘No, I [will not do it].’ [If you say] anything more than that, it is from [Satan], the Evil One.”
38 「目には目を、齒には齒を」と云へることあるを汝ら聞けり。
“You have heard [your religious teachers say] that [it is written] {[Moses wrote]}, ‘[Retaliate like this]: [If someone damages] one of your eyes, [someone should damage] one of that person’s eyes. [If someone damages] one of your teeth, [someone should damage] one of that person’s teeth.’
39 されど我は汝らに告ぐ、惡しき者に抵抗ふな。人もし汝の右の頬をうたば、左をも向けよ。
But [now listen to what] I say to you: Do not take revenge for evil [deeds done] {[that other people do]} [to you]. Instead, if someone [insults you by] striking you on one cheek, turn your other cheek toward that person [in order that he can strike it also].
40 なんぢを訟へて下衣を取らんとする者には、上衣をも取らせよ。
If someone wants to sue you and take your (inner garment/shirt), give him your (outer garment/coat) also.
41 人もし汝に一里ゆくことを強ひなば、共に二里ゆけ。
If a [military authority] compels you to go with him one mile [and carry his gear], go with him two miles [and carry his gear].
42 なんぢに請ふ者にあたへ、借らんとする者を拒むな。
Also, if someone asks you for [something], give [him what he is asking for]. If someone requests you to lend him [something], do not refuse [to lend it to him].”
43 「なんぢの隣を愛し、なんぢの仇を憎むべし」と云へることあるを汝 等きけり。
“You have heard [your religious teachers say that it is written that Moses wrote], ‘Love the citizens of your country and hate your enemies.’
44 されど我は汝らに告ぐ、汝らの仇を愛し、汝らを責むる者のために祈れ。
But [now listen to what] I say to you: Love your enemies [as well as your friends], and pray for those who cause you to suffer.
45 これ天にいます汝らの父の子とならん爲なり。天の父は、その日を惡しき者のうへにも善き者のうへにも昇らせ、雨を正しき者にも正しからぬ者にも降らせ給ふなり。
Do that in order to imitate what [God], your Father [who is] in heaven, does. He desires that you [MET] do [like he does]. [He acts kindly to all people. For example, he causes] the sun to shine [equally] on wicked [people] and on good [people], and [he sends] rain [both] on righteous [people] and on unrighteous [people].
46 なんぢら己を愛する者を愛すとも何の報をか得べき、取税人も然するにあらずや。
If you love [only] the people who love you, ([do not expect God to] reward you [in heaven]!/will [God] reward you [in heaven]?) [RHQ] [This is based on the fact that everyone], even the tax collectors, [who you think are very great sinners], love [RHQ] those who love them. [If you act like them], ([you are not any different from tax collectors!/in what way are you different from tax collectors]?) [RHQ]
47 兄弟にのみ挨拶すとも何の勝ることかある、異邦人も然するにあらずや。
If you want [God] to bless only your friends, (you are not acting any better than other people!/are you acting any better than other people?) [RHQ] Even the non-Jews, [who you think sin very much] (OR, [you think are unacceptable to God]), want God to bless their friends [RHQ], [but God does not reward them for that].
48 さらば汝らの天の父の全きが如く、汝らも全かれ。
[You need to love those who do not love you], and in that way become perfect as [God] your Father, [who is] in heaven, is perfect.”
