Luke 14
1 One (Jewish day of rest/Sabbath day), Jesus went to eat [SYN] at the house of an important Pharisee. Some [men who studied the Jewish] laws and other Pharisees who were there were watching him carefully [to see if he would do something for which they could accuse him].
ある安息日のこと、食事をするために、あるパリサイ派のかしらの家にはいって行かれたが、人々はイエスの様子をうかがっていた。
2 Unexpectedly, there was a man in front of Jesus whose arms and legs were swollen.
するとそこに、水腫をわずらっている人が、みまえにいた。
3 Jesus said to them, “Is it permitted in [our(inc)] Jewish laws to heal [someone] (on our Jewish rest day/on the Sabbath), or not?”
イエスは律法学者やパリサイ人たちにむかって言われた、「安息日に人をいやすのは、正しいことかどうか」。
4 [They knew that their laws permitted it, but they thought that healing was work, which they thought was wrong to do] (on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day) (OR, [they knew that their laws permitted it, but they did not want to admit it]). So they did not reply. Then Jesus put his hands on the man and healed him. Then he told him to go [home].
彼らは黙っていた。そこでイエスはその人に手を置いていやしてやり、そしてお帰しになった。
5 Then he said to the rest of them, “If you had a son or an ox that fell into a well on a (Sabbath/our day of rest), would you immediately [work to] pull him out, [or would you(sg) let him stay there until the next day]?”
それから彼らに言われた、「あなたがたのうちで、自分のむすこか牛が井戸に落ち込んだなら、安息日だからといって、すぐに引き上げてやらない者がいるだろうか」。
6 [They knew that they would immediately work to pull him out, even on their day of rest, so they could not justly say that Jesus did wrong by healing the man on that day. So] they said nothing in reply to Jesus.
彼らはこれに対して返す言葉がなかった。
7 Jesus noticed that those people who had been {whom [the Pharisee] had} invited [to the meal] chose [to sit in] the places where important [people usually sit]. Then he gave [this advice] to them:
客に招かれた者たちが上座を選んでいる様子をごらんになって、彼らに一つの譬を語られた。
8 “When one of you [(sg)] is invited by someone {someone invites one of you [(sg)]} to a wedding feast, do not sit in a place where important people sit. Perhaps the man [giving the feast] has invited a man more important than you [(sg)].
「婚宴に招かれたときには、上座につくな。あるいは、あなたよりも身分の高い人が招かれているかも知れない。
9 [When that man comes], the man who invited both of you will come to you [(sg)] and say to you, ‘Let this man take your seat!’ Then you [(sg)] will have to take the most undesirable seat, and you will be ashamed.
その場合、あなたとその人とを招いた者がきて、『このかたに座を譲ってください』と言うであろう。そのとき、あなたは恥じ入って末座につくことになるであろう。
10 Instead, when you are invited {[someone] invites one of you} [to a feast], go and sit in the most undesirable seat. Then when the man who invited everyone comes, he will say to you [(sg)], ‘Friend, sit in a better seat!’ Then all the people who are eating with you [(sg)] will see that he is honoring you.
むしろ、招かれた場合には、末座に行ってすわりなさい。そうすれば、招いてくれた人がきて、『友よ、上座の方へお進みください』と言うであろう。そのとき、あなたは席を共にするみんなの前で、面目をほどこすことになるであろう。
11 Also, [remember this]: [God] will humble those who exalt themselves. And [he] will exalt those who humble themselves.”
おおよそ、自分を高くする者は低くされ、自分を低くする者は高くされるであろう」。
12 [Jesus] also said to [the Pharisee] who had invited him to the meal, “When you [(sg)] invite people to a midday or evening meal, do not invite your friends or your family or your other relatives or your rich neighbors. They can later invite you [(sg) for a meal]. In that way they will repay you.
また、イエスは自分を招いた人に言われた、「午餐または晩餐の席を設ける場合には、友人、兄弟、親族、金持の隣り人などは呼ばぬがよい。恐らく彼らもあなたを招きかえし、それであなたは返礼を受けることになるから。
13 Instead, when you [(sg)] give a feast, invite poor [people], crippled [people], lame [people], or blind [people].
むしろ、宴会を催す場合には、貧乏人、不具者、足なえ、盲人などを招くがよい。
14 They will be unable to repay you. [But God will bless you! He] will repay you [at the time] when [he causes] righteous people to become alive again.”
そうすれば、彼らは返礼ができないから、あなたはさいわいになるであろう。正しい人々の復活の際には、あなたは報いられるであろう」。
15 One of those who were eating with Jesus heard him say that. He said to Jesus, “God [has truly] blessed [us Jews] who will eat [with the Messiah] when he starts to rule!”
列席者のひとりがこれを聞いてイエスに「神の国で食事をする人は、さいわいです」と言った。
16 But [to show that many Jews whom God had invited would not accept God’s invitation] [MET], Jesus replied to him, “One time a man [decided] to prepare a large feast. He invited many people to come.
そこでイエスが言われた、「ある人が盛大な晩餐会を催して、大ぜいの人を招いた。
17 When it was the day for the feast, he sent his servant to tell those who had been {whom he had} invited, ‘Come [now] because everything is ready!’
晩餐の時刻になったので、招いておいた人たちのもとに僕を送って、『さあ、おいでください。もう準備ができましたから』と言わせた。
18 But [when the servant did that], all of the people [whom he had invited] began to say why they did not want to come. The first [man the servant went to] said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please [ask your master to] forgive me for not coming!’
ところが、みんな一様に断りはじめた。最初の人は、『わたしは土地を買いましたので、行って見なければなりません。どうぞ、おゆるしください』と言った。
19 Another person said, ‘I have just bought five pair of oxen, and I must go to examine them. Please [ask your master to] forgive me for not coming!’
ほかの人は、『わたしは五対の牛を買いましたので、それをしらべに行くところです。どうぞ、おゆるしください』、
20 Another person said, ‘I have just been married. So I cannot come.’
もうひとりの人は、『わたしは妻をめとりましたので、参ることができません』と言った。
21 So the servant returned to his master and reported what [everyone had said]. The owner of the house was angry [when he heard the reasons they gave for not] coming. He said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city [and find] poor and crippled and blind and lame [people, and bring] them here into [my house]!’
僕は帰ってきて、以上の事を主人に報告した。すると家の主人はおこって僕に言った、『いますぐに、町の大通りや小道へ行って、貧乏人、不具者、盲人、足なえなどを、ここへ連れてきなさい』。
22 [After the servant went and did that], he [came back and] said, ‘Sir, I have done what you [(sg)] told me to do, but there is still room [for more people].’
僕は言った、『ご主人様、仰せのとおりにいたしましたが、まだ席がございます』。
23 [So] his master said to him, ‘Then go [outside the city]. Search for people along the highways. Search also along the narrow roads with hedges beside them [where homeless people may be staying]. Strongly urge the people in those places to come to [my house]. I want it to be full of [people]!’”
主人が僕に言った、『道やかきねのあたりに出て行って、この家がいっぱいになるように、人々を無理やりにひっぱってきなさい。
24 [Then Jesus said], “I tell you [(pl)] this: Very few of you [Jewish] people will enjoy my feast, even though [I] invited you [first to eat it with me when I become king].”
あなたがたに言って置くが、招かれた人で、わたしの晩餐にあずかる者はひとりもないであろう』」。
25 Large groups of people were traveling with [Jesus]. He turned and said to them,
大ぜいの群衆がついてきたので、イエスは彼らの方に向いて言われた、
26 “If anyone comes to me who loves his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters [more than] [HYP] [he loves me], he cannot be my disciple. He must even love me more than he loves his own life!
「だれでも、父、母、妻、子、兄弟、姉妹、さらに自分の命までも捨てて、わたしのもとに来るのでなければ、わたしの弟子となることはできない。
27 [People who are ready to execute a prisoner make] him carry his cross [MET] [to the place where others will nail him] on it. Only those who are willing [to allow others to hurt them and disgrace them] like that because of being my disciples, and who are willing to obey what I teach, can be my disciples.
自分の十字架を負うてわたしについて来るものでなければ、わたしの弟子となることはできない。
28 [I will illustrate] [MET]. If one of you desired to build a (tower/big house), (you would surely first sit down and determine how much it would cost!/would you not first sit down and determine how much it would cost?) [RHQ] Then you would determine whether you had enough money to complete it.
あなたがたのうちで、だれかが邸宅を建てようと思うなら、それを仕上げるのに足りるだけの金を持っているかどうかを見るため、まず、すわってその費用を計算しないだろうか。
29 [If you did not do that], if you laid the foundation and were not able to finish [the rest of the tower], everyone who saw it would make fun of you.
そうしないと、土台をすえただけで完成することができず、見ているみんなの人が、
30 They would say, ‘This man started to build [a tower], but he was not able to finish it!’
『あの人は建てかけたが、仕上げができなかった』と言ってあざ笑うようになろう。
31 Or, if a king decided to [send his army to] war against another king, (he would surely first sit down [with those who] advised [him]./would he not first sit down [with those who] advised [him]?) [RHQ] They would determine whether [his army], which had only 10,000 soldiers, could defeat the [other army], which had 20,000 soldiers, and was about to attack his [army].
また、どんな王でも、ほかの王と戦いを交えるために出て行く場合には、まず座して、こちらの一万人をもって、二万人を率いて向かって来る敵に対抗できるかどうか、考えて見ないだろうか。
32 If he [decided] that his army could not [defeat that army], he would send messengers to [the other king] while the other army was still far away. He would tell the messengers to say to that king, ‘What things must I do to have peace with your country?’
もし自分の力にあまれば、敵がまだ遠くにいるうちに、使者を送って、和を求めるであろう。
33 So, similarly, if any one of you does not first decide that you [(sg)] are [willing to] give up all that you have, you cannot be my disciple.”
それと同じように、あなたがたのうちで、自分の財産をことごとく捨て切るものでなくては、わたしの弟子となることはできない。
34 [Jesus also said, “You are like] [MET] salt, which is useful [to put on food]. But (salt certainly cannot be made {[you] certainly cannot make salt} to taste salty again if it stops tasting salty!/can salt be made {can [you] make salt} to taste salty again if it quits tasting salty?) [RHQ]
塩は良いものだ。しかし、塩もききめがなくなったら、何によって塩味が取りもどされようか。
35 [If salt does not taste salty any more], it is not good for the soil or even for the manure heap. [People] throw it away. [The same thing will happen to you if you become useless to God]. If you want to understand what I just said [IDM], you must consider [carefully] what you have heard!”
土にも肥料にも役立たず、外に投げ捨てられてしまう。聞く耳のあるものは聞くがよい」。
