Acts 26
1 Turning to Paul, Agrippa said, ‘You are at liberty to speak for yourself.’ Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defence.
アグリッパパウロに向ひ、汝自らの為に弁解する事を許されたるぞ、と云ひしかば、パウロ手を伸べて事由を言出でけるは、
2 ‘I have been congratulating myself, King Agrippa,’ he said, ‘that it is before you that I have to make my defence today, with regard to all the charges brought against me by my own people,
アグリッパ王よ、我がユデア人より訴へらるる凡ての事に就き、今日御前に弁解せん事は、身に取りて幸とする所なり。
3 especially as you are so well-versed in all the customs and questions of the Jewish world. I beg you therefore to give me a patient hearing.
殊更ユデア人の間に於る慣習も問題も、凡て汝の知る所なれば、願くは忍耐を以て我に耳を籍し給はん事を。
4 My life, then, from youth upwards, was passed, from the very first, among my own nation, and in Jerusalem, and is within the knowledge of all Jews;
我が初よりエルザレムにて、我國民の間に営みし少年以來の生活は、ユデア人の皆知る所にして、
5 and they have always known – if they choose to give evidence – that, in accordance with the very strictest form of our religion, I lived a true Pharisee.
彼等若證明する心あらば、我等が宗教の最も確なる派に從ひて、ファリザイ人として我が生活せし事は、素より之を知れるなり。
6 Even now, it is because of my hope in the promise given by God to our ancestors that I stand here on my trial –
今も亦神より我等の先祖に為れし約束に望みを繋くればこそ、我は立ちて裁判を受くるなれ。
7 A promise which our twelve tribes, by earnest service night and day, hope to see fulfilled. It is for this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused – and by Jews themselves!
我等の十二族は晝夜となく、一向神を禮拝して、此約束を得ん事を希望するに、王よ、此希望に就きてぞ、我はユデア人より訴へらるる。
8 Why do you all hold it incredible that God should raise the dead?
神の死者を復活せしめ給ふ事を、汝等何ぞ信じ難しとする、
9 I myself, it is true, once thought it my duty to oppose in every way the name of Jesus of Nazareth;
我も實に、ナザレトのイエズスの御名に對して、大いに逆らはざるべからず、と曾ては思ひたりしかば、
10 and I actually did so at Jerusalem. Acting on the authority of the chief priests, I myself threw many of the people of Christ into prison, and, when it was proposed to put them to death, I gave my vote for it.
エルザレムに於ても然為せり、且司祭長等より権力を授りて、多くの聖徒を監獄に閉籠め、且彼等の殺さるる時に之に賛成の投票をなせり。
11 Time after time, in every synagogue, I tried by punishments to force them to blaspheme. So frantic was I against them, that I pursued them even to towns beyond our borders.
又諸會堂に於て數次彼等を罰し、冒涜を迫り、且益彼等に對して狂憤し、外國の市町まで迫害しつつありき。
12 It was while I was traveling to Damascus on an errand of this kind, entrusted with full powers by the chief priests,
斯て司祭長等より権力と許可とを得て、ダマスコに赴きし際、
13 that at midday, your Majesty, I saw right in my path, coming from the heavens, a light brighter than the glare of the sun, which shone all round me and those traveling with me.
王よ、途次日中に、日の輝にも優れる光の我及び伴侶を圍み照せるを見たり。
14 We all fell to the ground, and then I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew – “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? By kicking against the goad you are punishing yourself.”
我等は皆地に倒れしが、ヘブレオ語にて、サウロよ、サウロよ、何ぞ我を迫害するや、刺ある鞭に逆らふことは汝に取りて難し、と我に謂へる聲を聞けり。
15 “Who are you, Lord?” I asked. And the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting;
我、主よ、汝は誰ぞ、と云ひしに主曰はく、我は汝の迫害するイエズスなり、
16 but get up and stand upright; for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you a servant and a witness of those revelations of me which you have already had, and of those in which I will yet appear to you,
但起きて足にて立てよ、我が汝に現れしは、汝を立てて役者と為し、且汝の既に見し事と、又我が現れて汝に示すべき事に就きて證人たらしめん為なり。
17 since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,
我此人民、及び異邦人の手より汝を救はん、汝を彼等に遣はすは、
18 to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God’s people, by faith in me.”
彼等の目を開きて暗より光に、サタンの権威より神に立歸らしめ、我に於る信仰に由りて罪の赦と聖徒中の配分とを得させん為なり、と。
19 After that, King Agrippa, I did not fail to obey the heavenly vision;
然ればアグリッパ王よ、我は天の示に背かずして、
20 on the contrary, first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and then through the whole of Judea, and to the Gentiles as well, I began to preach repentance and conversion to God, and a life befitting that repentance.
先ダマスコに在る人々に、次にエルザレムに、次にユデア全地方に至り、次に異邦人にまでも彼等が改心すべき事、又改心に相應しき業を為して、神に立歸るべき事を告げつつありき。
21 This is why some men seized me in the Temple, and made attempts on my life.
之が為に、我が[神]殿に在りし時、ユデア人我を捕へて殺さんと試みたり。
22 However I have received help from God to this very day, and so stand here, and bear my testimony to high and low alike – without adding a word to what the prophets, as well as Moses, declared should happen –
然れど神御祐によりて、今日に至るまで倒るる事なく、小き人にも、大いなる人にも證明して、云ふ所は、預言者等及びモイゼが、将來起こるべしと語りし事の外ならず。
23 That the Christ must suffer, and that, by rising from the dead, he was destined to be the first to bring news of light, not only to our nation, but also to the Gentiles.’
即ちキリストの苦しむべき事、死者の中より先に復活して、人民及び異邦人に光を傳うべき事是なり、と。
24 While Paul was making this defence, Festus called out loudly, ‘You are mad, Paul; your great learning is driving you mad.’
パウロが斯く語りて弁解しつつある程に、フェスト聲高く、パウロよ、汝は狂へるなり、博學汝を狂わせたり、と云ひしかば、
25 ‘I am not mad, your Excellency,’ he replied. ‘On the contrary, the statements that I am making are true and sober.
パウロ [云ひけるは、]最尊きフェストよ、我は狂はず、語る所は眞と常識との言なり。
26 Indeed, the king knows about these matters, so I speak before him without constraint. I am sure that there is nothing whatever of what I have been telling him that has escaped his attention; for all this has not been done in a corner.
蓋[アグリッパ]王は是等の事を知り給へば、我も亦憚らずして之に語る。其は此事、一も片隅に於て行はれたるに非ざれば、王に知れざるものなきを確信すればなり。
27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.’
アグリッパ王よ、預言者等を信じ給ふか、我は其信じ給ふを知れり、と。
28 But Agrippa said to Paul, ‘You are soon trying to make a Christian of me!’
アグリッパパウロに向ひ、汝我を説きてキリスト信者たらしむるに、殘れる所僅なり、と云ひしかば、
29 ‘Whether it is soon or late,’ answered Paul, ‘I pray to God that not only you, but all who are listening to me, might today become just what I am myself – except for these chains!’
パウロ [答へける]は、神の御前に我が望む所は、僅の事に由らず多き事に由らず、獨汝のみならで聞ける人々も亦一同、此縲絏を除くの外は、我が如き者とならん事是なり、と。
30 Then the king rose, with the Governor and Bernice and those who had been sitting with them,
此時王と総督とベルニケと、並に列座の人々立上りしが、
31 and, after retiring, discussed the case among themselves. ‘There is nothing,’ they said, ‘deserving death or imprisonment in this man’s conduct’;
退きて後語合ひて、彼は死刑若くは就縛に當る何事をも為しし事なし、と云へるに、
32 and, speaking to Festus, Agrippa added, ‘The man might have been discharged, if he had not appealed to the Emperor.’
アグリッパフェストに謂ひけるは、彼人セザルに上告せざりしならば、免さるべかりしものを、と。
