Acts 28
1 When we were all safe, we found that the island was called Malta.
われら救はれて後、この島のマルタと稱ふるを知れり。
2 The island’s people showed us marked kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all under shelter, because it had come on to rain and was cold.
土人ら一方ならぬ情を我らに表し、降りしきる雨と寒氣とのために、火を焚きて我ら一同を待遇せり。
3 Paul had gathered a quantity of dry sticks and laid them on the fire, when a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, fastened on his hand.
パウロ柴を束ねて火にくべたれば、熱によりて蝮いでて其の手につく。
4 When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Evidently this man is a murderer, for though he has been saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
蛇のその手に懸りたるを土人ら見て互に言ふ『この人は必ず殺人者なるべし、海より救はれしも、天道はその生くるを容さぬなり』
5 However, Paul shook the creature off into the fire and took no harm.
パウロ蛇を火のなかに振り落して何の害をも受けざりき。
6 The islanders were expecting inflammation to set in, or that he would suddenly fall dead; but, after waiting for a long time, and seeing that there was nothing amiss with him, they changed their minds and said that he was a God.
人々は彼が腫れ出づるか、または忽ち倒れ死ぬるならんと候ふ。久しく窺ひたれど、聊かも害を受けぬを見て、思を變へて、此は神なりと言ふ。
7 In that region there was an estate belonging to the Governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He took us up to his house, and for three days entertained us most courteously.
この處の邊に島司のもてる土地あり、島司の名はポプリオといふ。此の人われらを迎へて懇切に三日の間もてなせり。
8 It happened that the father of Publius was lying ill of fever and dysentery. So Paul went to see him; and, after praying, he placed his hands on him and cured him.
ポプリオの父、熱と痢病とに罹りて臥し居たれば、パウロその許にいたり、祈りかつ手を按きて醫せり。
9 After this, all the people in the island who had any illness came to Paul, and were cured.
この事ありてより、島の病める人々みな來りて醫されたれば、
10 They also presented us with many gifts, and when we set sail they put supplies of necessaries on board.
禮を厚くして我らを敬ひ、また船出の時には必要なる品々を贈りたり。
11 After three months, we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island. She was an Alexandrian vessel, and had the Twin sons of Zeus for her figure-head.
三月の後、われらはこの島に冬籠せしデオスクリの號あるアレキサンデリヤの船にて出で、
12 We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days,
シラクサにつきて三日とまり、
13 and from there we worked to windward and so got to Rhegium. A day later a south wind sprang up and took us to Puteoli in two days.
此處より繞りてレギオンにいたり、一日を過ぎて南 風ふき起りたれば、我ら二日めにポテオリに著き、
14 There we found some of the Lord’s followers, and were urged to stay a week with them; after which we went on to Rome.
此處にて兄弟たちに逢ひ、その勸によりて七日のあひだ留り、而して遂にロマに往く。
15 The followers there had heard about us, and came out as far as the Market of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At sight of them Paul thanked God and was much cheered.
かしこの兄弟たち我らの事をききて、アピオポロおよびトレスタベルネまで來りて我らを迎ふ。パウロこれを見て神に感謝し、その心 勇みたり。
16 On our reaching Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, except for the soldier who was in charge of him.
我らロマに入りて後、パウロは己を守る一人の兵卒とともに別に住むことを許さる。
17 Three days after our arrival, Paul invited the leading Jews to meet him; and, when they came, he said, “Brothers, although I had done nothing hostile to the interests of our nation or to our ancestral customs, yet I was sent from Jerusalem as a prisoner, and handed over to the Romans.
三日すぎてパウロ、ユダヤ人の重立ちたる者を呼び集む。その集りたる時これに言ふ『兄弟たちよ、我はわが民わが先祖たちの慣例に悖ることを一つも爲さざりしに、エルサレムより囚人となりて、ロマ人の手に付されたり。
18 The Romans, when they had examined me, were ready to release me, because there was nothing in my conduct deserving death.
かれら我を審きて死に當ることなき故に、我を釋さんと思ひしに、
19 But, as the Jewish leaders opposed my release, I was compelled to appeal to the Emperor – not, indeed, that I had any charge to make against my own nation.
ユダヤ人さからひたれば、餘義なくカイザルに上訴せり。然れど我が國人を訴へんとせしにあらず。
20 This, then, is my reason for urging you to come to see me and talk with me; because it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am here in chains.”
この故に我なんぢらに會ひ、かつ共に語らんことを願へり、我はイスラエルの懷く希望の爲にこの鎖に繋がれたり』
21 “We,” was their reply, “have not had any letter about you from Judea, nor have any of our fellow Jews come and reported or said anything bad about you.
かれら言ふ『われら汝につきてユダヤより書を受けず、また兄弟たちの中より來りて、汝の善からぬ事を告げたる者も、語りたる者もなし。
22 But we will be glad to hear from you what your views are, for, with regard to this sect, we are well aware that it is spoken against on all sides.”
ただ我らは汝の思ふところを聞かんと欲するなり。それは此の宗旨の到る處にて非 難せらるるを知ればなり』
23 They then fixed a day with him, and came to the place where he was staying, in even larger numbers, when Paul proceeded to lay the subject before them. He bore his testimony to the kingdom of God, and tried to convince them about Jesus, by arguments drawn from the Law of Moses and from the prophets – speaking from morning until evening.
ここに日を定めて多くの人パウロの宿に來りたれば、パウロ朝より夕まで神の國のことを説明して證をなし、かつモーセの律法と預言者の書とを引きてイエスのことを勸めたり。
24 Some were inclined to accept what he said; others, however, rejected it.
パウロのいふ言を或 者は信じ、或 者は信ぜず。
25 So, as they disagreed among themselves, they began to disperse, Paul adding only – “True, indeed, was the declaration made by the Holy Spirit, through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors –
互に相 合はずして退かんとしたるに、パウロ一言を述べて言ふ『宜なるかな、聖 靈は預言者イザヤによりて汝らの先祖たちに語り給へり。曰く、
26 Go to this nation and say: You will hear with your ears without ever understanding, and, though you have eyes, you will see without ever perceiving.
「なんぢらこの民に往きて言へ、なんぢら聞きて聞けども悟らず、見て見れども認めず、
27 For the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; otherwise some day they might see with their eyes, and with their ears they might hear, and in their mind they might understand, and might turn – and I might heal them.
この民の心はにぶく、耳は聞くにものうく、目は閉ぢたればなり。これ目にて見、耳にて聞き、心にてさとり、ひるがへりて我に醫さるることなからん爲なり」
28 Understand, then, that this salvation of God was sent for the Gentiles; and they will listen.”
然れば汝ら知れ、神のこの救は異邦人に遣されたり、彼らは之を聽くべし』
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30 For two whole years Paul stayed in a house which he rented for himself, welcoming all who came to see him,
パウロは滿 二年のあひだ、己が借り受けたる家に留り、その許にきたる凡ての者を迎へて、
31 proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ, with perfect fearlessness, unhindered.
更に臆せずまた妨げられずして、神の國をのべ、主イエス・キリストの事を教へたり。
