ヨハネの福音書 8
1 イエズス、橄欖山に往き、
but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 黎明に復[神]殿に至り給ひしに、人民皆御許に來りければ、坐して之を教へ居給ひしが、
Early in the morning he returned to the Temple where many people gathered around him and he sat down and taught them.
3 律法學士、ファリザイ人等、姦淫せる時捕へられたる一人の婦を引來りて之を眞中に立たせ、
The religious teachers and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught committing adultery and made her stand before everyone.
4 イエズスに云ひけるは、師よ、此婦は今姦淫せる處を捕へられたり、
They said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5 モイゼは律法に於て斯る者に石を擲つ事を我等に命じたるが、汝は之を何と謂ふぞ、と。
Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. What do you say?”
6 斯く云へるは、イエズスを試みて、訟ふる條件を得ん為なりしが、イエズスは身を屈め、指もて地に物を書き居給へり。
They said this to try and trap Jesus so they could condemn him. But Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
7 然るに彼等問ひて止まざりしかば、イエズス立上り、汝等の中罪なき人は、先に石を彼に擲つべし、と曰ひ、
They kept on demanding an answer, so he stood up and told them, “Whichever one of you has never sinned may throw the first stone at her.”
8 再び身を屈めて地に物書き居給へるに、
Then he bent down again and went on writing on the ground.
9 彼等聞きて、年長を初として一人々々に立去り、唯イエズスと眞中に立てる婦とのみ遺りしかば、
When they heard this they began to leave, one by one, starting with the oldest until Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman still standing there.
10 イエズス立上りて之に曰ひけるは、婦よ、汝を訟へ居たりし人々は何處に居るぞ、誰も汝を罪に定めざりしか、と。
Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Where are they? Didn't anybody stay to condemn you?”
11 婦、主よ誰も、と云ひしかば、イエズス曰ひけるは、我も汝を罪に定めじ、往け、此後復罪を犯すこと勿れ、と。
“No one did, sir,” she replied. “I don't condemn you either,” Jesus told her. “Go, and don't sin anymore.”
12 然てイエズス再び人々に語りて、我は世の光なり、我に從ふ人は暗黒を歩まず、却て生命の光を得べし、と曰ひければ、
Jesus spoke again to the people, telling them, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me you won't walk in darkness for you will have the life-giving light.”
13 ファリザイ人之に謂ひけるは、汝は自ら己を證明す、汝の證明は眞實ならず。
The Pharisees replied, “You can't be your own witness! What you say doesn't prove anything!”
14 イエズス答へて曰ひけるは、我は己を證明すれども、我證明は眞實なり、是我が何處より來りて何處に往くかを知ればなり。然れど汝等は、我が何處より來りて何處に往くかを知らず、
“Even if I am my own witness, my testimony is true,” Jesus told them, “for I know where I came from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I came from or where I'm going.
15 汝等は肉親によりて是非し、我は誰をも是非せず、
You judge in a typically human way, but I don't judge anyone.
16 若是非する事あれば、我が是非する所は眞實なり、其は我獨に非ずして我と我を遣はし給ひし父となればなり。
Even if I did judge, my judgment would be right because I am not doing this alone. The Father who sent me is with me.
17 汝等の律法に録して、「二人の證は眞實なり」とあり、
Your own law states that the testimony of two witnesses is valid.
18 我は己を證し、我を遣はし給ひし父も亦我を證し給ふなり、と。
I am my own witness, and my other witness is my Father who sent me.”
19 彼等乃ちイエズスに向ひ、汝の父何處にか在る、と云ひしかば、イエズス答へ給ひけるは、汝等は我をも我父をも知らず、若我を知りたらば必ず我父をも知れるならん、と。
“Where is your father?” they asked him. “You don't know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me then you would know my Father as well.”
20 イエズスが斯く語り給ひしは、[神]殿の内、賽銭箱の傍にて教へつつありし時なれども、誰も手を掛くる者なかりき、其は彼の時未だ至らざればなり。
Jesus explained this while he was teaching near the Temple treasury. Yet no one arrested him because his time had not yet come.
21 然ればイエズス再び彼等に向ひ、我は往く、汝等我を尋ぬべけれども、己が罪の中に死せん、我が往く處には汝等來る能はず、と曰ひしかば、
Jesus told them again, “I'm leaving, and you'll search for me, but you'll die in your sin. You can't come where I'm going.”
22 ユデア人、彼は我が往く處には汝等來る能はずと云ひしが、自殺せんとするか、と云ひけるに、
The Jews wondered out loud, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means when he says ‘You can't come where I'm going’?”
23 イエズス曰ひけるは、汝等は下よりせるに、我は上よりせり、汝等は此世の者なるに、我は此世の者に非ず、
Jesus told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 我是によりて、汝等己が罪の中に死せんと云へり、蓋汝等、若我が其なる事を信ぜずば、己が罪の中に死すべし、と。
That is why I told you that you'll die in your sins. For if you don't trust in me, the ‘I am,’ you'll die in your sins.”
25 彼等、汝は誰なるぞ、と云ひしかば、イエズス曰ひけるは、我は即ち素より汝等に告ぐる所の者なり。
Then they asked him, “Who are you?” “Exactly who I told you I was from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
26 我汝等に就きて云ふべき事、審くべき事多し、然りながら我を遣はし給ひし者は眞實にて在し、我が世に在りて語る所は彼より聞きしものなり、と。
“There's much I could say about you, and much I could condemn. But the one who sent me tells the truth, and what I'm saying to you here in this world is what I heard from him.”
27 斯ても彼等は、イエズスが神を我父と稱し給へることを暁らざりき。
They didn't understand that he was talking to them about the Father. So Jesus explained to them:
28 然ればイエズス彼等に曰ひけるは、汝等人の子を挙げたらん時、我が其なる事を暁り、又我が私には何事をも為さず、父の教へ給へる儘に、此等の事を語るを暁らん。
“When you have lifted up the Son of man then you'll know that I am the ‘I am,’ and that I do nothing of myself, but only say what the Father taught me.
29 我を遣はし給ひし者は我と共に在して、我を孤ならしめ給はず、其は我が恒に御意に適へる事を為せばなり、と。
The one who sent me is with me; he has not abandoned me, for I always do what pleases him.”
30 斯く語り給へるに、信仰する人多かりければ、
Many who heard Jesus say these things put their trust in him.
31 イエズス己を信じたるユデア人に向ひ、汝等若我言に止らば實に我弟子にして、且眞理を暁り、
Then Jesus said to those Jews who trusted in him, “If you follow my teaching then you really are my disciples.
32 眞理は汝等を自由ならしめん、と曰ひしかば、
You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 彼等答へけるは、我等はアブラハムの子孫にして未だ曾て誰にも奴隷たりし事なし、何ぞ汝等自由なるべしと言ふや、と。
“We're descendants of Abraham! We've never been slaves to anyone,” they answered. “How can you say that we'll be set free?”
34 イエズス彼等に答へ給ひけるは、誠に實に汝等に告ぐ、総て罪を犯す人は罪の奴隷なり、
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.
A slave doesn't have a permanent place in the family, but the son is part of the family forever. (aiōn g165)
36 然れば子若汝等を自由ならしめば、汝等實に自由成るべし。
If the Son sets you free, then you're truly free.
37 汝等がアブラハムの子孫なる事は我之を知れり、然れども我言汝等の中に容れられざるによりて、汝等我を殺さんとす。
I know you're Abraham's descendants, yet you're trying to kill me because you refuse to accept my words.
38 我は我父に就きて見し所を語り、汝等は己が父に就きて見し所を行ふなり、と。
I'm telling you what the Father has revealed to me, while you do what your father told you.”
39 彼等答へて、我等の父はアブラハムなり、と云ひしかば、イエズス彼等に曰ひけるは、汝等若アブラハムの子等ならばアブラハムの業を為せ、
“Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you really were children of Abraham, you'd do what Abraham did,” Jesus told them.
40 然るに汝等は今、神より聞きたる眞理を汝等に告ぐる人たる我を殺さんと謀る、是アブラハムの為さざる所、
“But you are trying to kill me now, because I told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would never have done that.
41 汝等は己が父の業を為すなり、と。是に於て彼等イエズスに云ひけるは、我等は私通によりて生れし者に非ず、我等に獨一の父即ち神あり、と。
You're doing what your father does.” “Well we are not illegitimate,” they responded. “God alone is our father!”
42 イエズス乃ち彼等に曰ひけるは、神若汝等の父ならば汝等は必ず我を愛するならん、其は我神より出來りたればなり、即ち我は私に來りしに非ず、神こそ我を遣はし給ひしなれ。
Jesus replied, “If God really was your father, you would love me. I came from God and now I am here. The decision to come wasn't mine, but the one who sent me.
43 汝等我談を弁へざるは何故ぞ、是我が語る所を聞き得ざる故なり。
Why can't you understand what I'm saying? It's because you refuse to hear my message!
44 汝等は惡魔なる父より出でて敢て己が父の望を行ふ、彼は初より殺人者にして眞理に立たざりき、眞理は彼の中に在らざればなり、彼は僞を云ふ時己より語る、其は僞者にして而も僞の父なればなり。
Your father is the Devil, and you love to follow your father's evil desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. He never stood for the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies he reveals his true character, for he's a liar and the father of lies.
45 我眞理を説けども汝等之を信ぜず、
So because I tell you the truth, you don't believe me!
46 汝等の中誰か我に罪ある事を證せん。我汝等に眞理を説くも我を信ぜざるは何故ぞ、
Can any one of you prove that I'm guilty of sin? If I'm telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?
47 神よりの者は神の御言を聴く、汝等の聴かざるは神よりの者ならざるによれり、と。
Anyone who belongs to God listens to what God says. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God.”
48 斯てユデア人答へてイエズスに謂ひけるは、我等が、汝はサマリア人にして惡魔に憑かれたる者なり、と云へるは宜ならずや。
“Aren't we right to call you a Samaritan who is demon-possessed?” said the Jews.
49 イエズス答へけるは、我惡魔に憑かれず、却て我父を尊べるに、汝等は我を侮辱す。
“No, I don't have a demon,” Jesus replied. “I honor my Father, but you dishonor me.
50 但我は己の光榮を求めず、之を求め且審判し給ふ者は別に在り。
I'm not here looking to glorify myself. But there is one who does this for me and who judges in my favor.
I tell you the truth, anyone who follows my teaching will never die.” (aiōn g165)
“Now we know you're demon-possessed,” said the Jews. “Abraham died, and the prophets did too, and you're telling us ‘anyone who follows my teaching will never die’! (aiōn g165)
53 汝は我等の父アブラハムよりも大いなる者なるか、彼も死し預言者も死したるに、汝は己を誰なりとするぞ。
Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and the prophets died. Who do you think you are?”
54 イエズス答へ給ひけるは、我若自ら己に光榮を歸せば、我光榮は皆無成るべし、我に光榮を歸する者は我父なり。即ち汝等が己の神と稱する者なり。
Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. But it is God himself who glorifies me, the one you claim, ‘He is our God.’
55 汝等は彼を知らざれども我は彼を知れり、我若彼を知らずと云はば、汝等と均しく僞者たるべし、然れども我は彼を知り且其御言を守る。
You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say, ‘I don't know him,’ I'd be a liar, just like you. But I do know him, and I do what he says.
56 汝等の父アブラハムは、我日を見んと樂しみしが、見て喜べり、と。
Your father Abraham was delighted as he looked forward to see my coming, and was so happy when he saw it.”
57 是に於てユデア人イエズスに向ひ、汝未だ五十歳ならざるに、而もアブラハムを見たりしや、と云ひたるに、
The Jews replied, “You're not even fifty years old, and you've seen Abraham?”
58 イエズス曰ひけるは、誠に實に汝等に告ぐ、我はアブラハムの生るるに先ちて存す、と。
“I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I am,” said Jesus.
59 是に於て人々石を取りてイエズスに擲たんとしけるに、イエズス身を隠して[神]殿より出で給へり。
At this they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus was hidden from them and he left the Temple.
