使徒の働き 11
1 第三 エルザレムの信徒ペトロの處置を非難し後之を賞賛す 異邦人も神の御言を請容れし事、使徒等及びユデアに在る兄弟等に聞えしかば、
Now the Apostles and brethren who were in Jerusalem, heard, that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
2 ペトロがエルザレムに上るや、割禮ある人々之を詰りて、
And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they who were of the circumcision contended with him,
3 言ひけるは、汝何ぞ無割禮の人の中に入りて共に食せしや、と。
saying, You did go in to men who were uncircumcised, and did eat with them.
4 ペトロ事の次第を説出して云ひけるは、
And Peter beginning, opened to them the matter in order, saying,
5 我ヨッペの町に在りて祈り居りしに、氣を奪はるる如くにして幻影に遇ひしが、大いなる布の如き器物の四隅を吊されつつ天より降りて我許に來るを見、
I was praying in the city of Joppa; and, in a trance, I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending from heaven, let down by the four corners, and it came close to me:
6 熟其中を眺むるに、地上の四足のもの、野獣、爬蟲、及び空の鳥あるを見たり。
and looking attentively upon it, I observed, and saw four-footed creatures of the earth, and wild beasts, and reptiles, and fowls of the air:
7 又、ペトロ起きよ、屠りて食せよ、と我に謂へる聲をも聞きたれば、
and I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter, kill, and eat:
8 我、主よ、然らじ、穢れたるもの潔からぬものは曾て我口に入りし事なし、と言ひしに、
but I said, By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.
9 再び天より聲ありて、神の潔め給ひしものを汝潔からずと言ふこと勿れ、と答へ、
And the voice answered me the second time from heaven, Those things which God has cleansed, do not you call common.
10 三度まで斯の如くなりしが、終に其物皆また天に引上げられたり。
And this was done three times. And all the things were drawn up again into heaven.
11 折しもカイザリアより、我許に遣はされたる者三人、我が居る家に立止りしかば、
And behold, at that instant, three men were come to the house in which I was, sent from Cesarea to me.
12 躊躇する事なく彼等と共に往け、と[聖]霊我に曰へり。斯て此六人の兄弟も我に伴ひ來り、一行彼人の家に入りたるに、
And the Spirit commanded me to go with them, without any scruple: and these six brethren also went along with me. And we entered into the man's house:
13 彼、天使の己が家に立ちて、己に次の如く言ふを見し次第を語れり。即ち、人をヨッペに遣はして、ペトロと呼ばるるシモンを招け、
and he told us how he had seen a messenger standing in his house, and saying to him, Send to Joppa, and bring hither Simon, whose surname is Peter;
14 彼は汝及び汝が一家の救かるべき御言を汝に語らん、と。
who shall speak words to you, by which you and all your family shall be saved.
15 然るに我が語出るや、最初我等の上に降り給ひし如く、聖霊彼等の上に降り給ひたれば、
And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as as on us at the beginning.
16 我主が曾て、ヨハネは水にて洗したるに汝等は聖霊にて洗せられん、と曰ひし御言を思出せり。
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John immersed in water; but you shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit.
17 即ち神既にイエズス、キリストを信仰せる我等と同様なる恩寵を彼等にも賜ひしを、我抑誰なれば、神に禁ずる事を得べかりしぞ、と。
Since, therefore, God gave to them the same gift as he did to us, who had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, what was I, that I should be able to obstruct God?
18 人々是等の事を聞きて黙然たりしが、又神に光榮を歸し奉りて云ひけるは、然れば神は、生命を得させん為に、異邦人にも改心を賜ひしなり、と。
And when they heard these things, they acquiesced, and glorified God; saying, God has, then, given to the Gentile also reformation to life.
19 第四 アンチオキアの教會開始 抑ステファノの時起りし迫害の為に離散したりし人々は、フェニケア[州]、クプロ[島]、及びアンチオキア[市]まで廻行きしも、ユデア人の外誰にも御言を語らざりしが、
Now, indeed, those who had been dispersed, on account of the distress which arose about Stephen, had traveled as far as Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none but Jews only.
20 彼等の中にクプロ及びクレネの人々ありて、アンチオキアに入りしかば、ギリシア人にも語りて、主イエズスの事を告げ、
Yet some of the, being men of Cyprus, and Cyrene; when they came to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks, announcing the glad tidings concerning the Lord Jesus.
21 主の御手彼等と共に在りければ、數多の人信じて主に歸依せり。
And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed, and turned to the Lord.
22 是等の沙汰エルザレムなる教會の耳に入りしかば、バルナバを遣はしてアンチオキアまで至らしめしに、
And the report concerning them came to the ears of the congregation that was at Jerusalem; and they sent Barnabas, to go as far as Antioch.
23 彼至りて神の恩寵を見て喜び、決心して主に止らん事を一同に勧め居たり。
Who, when he was come, and beheld the favor of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all to adhere to the Lord, with full determination of heart;
24 蓋彼は善人にして聖霊と信仰とに充てる人なりければ、夥しき群集主に属けり。
for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith: and a considerable number were added to the Lord.
25 然てバルナバ、サウロを尋ねんとてタルソに至り、之に遇ひてアンチオキアに伴ひ行き、
Then Barnabas went to Tarsus, to seek Saul;
26 兩人彼處の教會に満一年を過して、夥しき群集を教へたり。斯て弟子等はアンチオキアに於て、始て基督信徒と呼ばるるに至れり。
and finding him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that they assembled with the congregation, for a whole year, and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first named Christians at Antioch.
27 其時或預言者等、エルザレムよりアンチオキアに至りしが、
And in these days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.
28 彼等の中より一人のアガポと云へる者起ちて、大飢饉の全世界に起るべき事を、聖霊によりて告げ居たりけるに、果してクロウヂオ[皇帝]の時代に起りしかば、
And one of them, whose name was Agabus, stood up, and signified by the Spirit, that there should be a great famine over all the land: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.
29 弟子等各力に應じてユデアに住める兄弟に補助を贈らん事を定め、
And the disciples determined, that, according to the respective abilities of each, they should send to the assistance of the brethren who dwelt in Judea.
30 遂に之を遂げて、バルナバとサウロとの手に托して長老等に贈れり。
And this they did, sending it to the elders, by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
