Luke 7
1 After Jesus finished saying this to the people, he went [with his disciples] to Capernaum [town].
イエスは、耳を傾けている民衆にこれらのことばをみな話し終えられると、カペナウムにはいられた。
2 There was a Roman army officer there who had a slave whom he thought highly of. This slave was so sick that he was about to die.
ところが、ある百人隊長に重んじられているひとりのしもべが、病気で死にかけていた。
3 When the officer heard about Jesus, he [summoned] some Jewish elders. He told them to go to Jesus and ask him to come and heal his slave.
百人隊長は、イエスのことを聞き、みもとにユダヤ人の長老たちを送って、しもべを助けに来てくださるようお願いした。
4 When they came to where Jesus was, they earnestly asked Jesus [to return with them]. They said, “This officer deserves that you [(sg)] do this [for him],
イエスのもとに来たその人たちは、熱心にお願いして言った。「この人は、あなたにそうしていただく資格のある人です。
5 because he loves us [Jewish] people, and he [paid the money to] build a synagogue for us.”
この人は、私たちの国民を愛し、私たちのために会堂を建ててくれた人です。」
6 So Jesus went with them. When he was near the [officer’s] house, the officer [decided that it was not necessary for Jesus to come to his house. So he] summoned some friends. He [told them to] go to Jesus and tell him this: “Lord/Sir, do not bother to come. [Because I am a non-Jew], I am not worthy for you [(sg)], [a Jew], to come into my house [MTY] [and associate with me].
イエスは、彼らといっしょに行かれた。そして、百人隊長の家からあまり遠くない所に来られたとき、百人隊長は友人たちを使いに出して、イエスに伝えた。「主よ。わざわざおいでくださいませんように。あなたを私の屋根の下にお入れする資格は、私にはありません。
7 I did not feel worthy to come to you, [either]. But [please] command [that] my servant [be healed], and he will become well!
ですから、私のほうから伺うことさえ失礼と存じました。ただ、おことばをいただかせてください。そうすれば、私のしもべは必ずいやされます。
8 [I believe this] because, as for me, there are people who have authority over me [and I obey them]. I also have soldiers under my [authority]. When I say to one of them, ‘Go!’ he goes. When I say to another ‘Come!’ he comes. When I say to my slave, ‘Do this!’ he does it. [And I believe that you speak with a similar kind of authority].”
と申しますのは、私も権威の下にある者ですが、私の下にも兵士たちがいまして、そのひとりに『行け。』と言えば行きますし、別の者に『来い。』と言えば来ます。また、しもべに『これをせよ。』と言えば、そのとおりにいたします。」
9 When [the officer’s friends arrived and] told that to Jesus, he marveled at what [the officer had said]. Then he turned and said to the crowd that was going with him, “I tell you, I have never before found anyone who trusted [in me like this non-Jewish man does]. No one from Israel, [where I would expect people to believe in me], has trusted in me like he has!”
これを聞いて、イエスは驚かれ、ついて来ていた群衆のほうに向いて言われた。「あなたがたに言いますが、このようなりっぱな信仰は、イスラエルの中にも見たことがありません。」
10 When those men returned to the officer’s house, they found that the slave was well.
使いに来た人たちが家に帰ってみると、しもべはよくなっていた。
11 Soon after that, Jesus went to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd [of other people] went with him.
それから間もなく、イエスはナインという町に行かれた。弟子たちと大ぜいの人の群れがいっしょに行った。
12 As they approached the town gate, the corpse of a young man who had just died was being carried out [on a stretcher] {[people] were carrying out [on a stretcher] the corpse of a young man who had just died}. His mother was a widow, and he was her only son. A large group of people from the town were accompanying them.
イエスが町の門に近づかれると、やもめとなった母親のひとり息子が、死んでかつぎ出されたところであった。町の人たちが大ぜいその母親につき添っていた。
13 When the Lord saw her, he pitied her. He said to her, “Do not cry!”
主はその母親を見てかわいそうに思い、「泣かなくてもよい。」と言われた。
14 Then, [ignoring the Jewish laws about not coming near a corpse], he came close and touched the stretcher [on which the body was lying]. So the men carrying it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”
そして近寄って棺に手をかけられると、かついでいた人たちが立ち止まったので、「青年よ。あなたに言う、起きなさい。」と言われた。
15 The man sat up and began to talk! Jesus returned him to his mother [to care for her].
すると、その死人が起き上がって、ものを言い始めたので、イエスは彼を母親に返された。
16 Then everyone [there] was amazed/awestruck. They praised God, saying, “A great prophet has come among us!” They also said, “God has come to help his people!”
人々は恐れを抱き、「大預言者が私たちのうちに現われた。」とか、「神がその民を顧みてくださった。」などと言って、神をあがめた。
17 [Then they] reported what Jesus [had done] throughout all of Judea [district] and other nearby areas.
イエスについてこの話がユダヤ全土と回りの地方一帯に広まった。
18 The disciples of John [the Baptizer went to the prison where John was and] told him about those things.
さて、ヨハネの弟子たちは、これらのことをすべてヨハネに報告した。
19 So [one day] John summoned two [of his disciples] and [told them] to go to the Lord and ask him: “Are you [the Messiah who the prophets prophesied would come], or is it someone else that we should expect [to come]?”
すると、ヨハネは、弟子の中からふたりを呼び寄せて、主のもとに送り、「おいでになるはずの方は、あなたですか。それとも、私たちはほかの方を待つべきでしょうか。」と言わせた。
20 When those two men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptizer sent us to ask you [(sg)] this: Are you [the Messiah that] we are expecting [God] to send, or shall we [(exc)] expect someone else?”
ふたりはみもとに来て言った。「バプテスマのヨハネから遣わされてまいりました。『おいでになるはずの方は、あなたですか。それとも私たちはなおほかの方を待つべきでしょうか。』とヨハネが申しております。」
21 At that very time Jesus was healing many people of their diseases and [other] sicknesses, he was [casting out] evil spirits, and he was causing many blind people to be able to see.
ちょうどそのころ、イエスは、多くの人々を病気と苦しみと悪霊からいやし、また多くの盲人を見えるようにされた。
22 So he answered those two men, “Go back and report to John what you have seen [me doing] and what you have heard [me telling people. I am enabling] blind people to see. [I am enabling] lame people to walk. [I am] healing people who have leprosy. [I am enabling] deaf people to hear. [I am causing] dead people to become alive again, [and I am] telling [God’s] good message to poor people.
そして、答えてこう言われた。「あなたがたは行って、自分たちの見たり聞いたりしたことをヨハネに報告しなさい。盲人が見えるようになり、足なえが歩き、らい病人がきよめられ、つんぼの人が聞こえ、死人が生き返り、貧しい者に福音が宣べ伝えられています。
23 [Also tell John that God] is pleased with those who do not stop believing in me [because what I do is not what they expect the Messiah to do].”
だれでも、わたしにつまずかない者は幸いです。」
24 When the men whom John had sent left, Jesus began to talk to the crowd of people about John. He said to them, “[Think about] what sort of person you went to see in the desolate area [when you went there to see John] [RHQ]. [You did not go there to listen to a man who constantly changed the nature of his message] [MET], [like] a reed that is blown back and forth by the wind [RHQ].
ヨハネの使いが帰ってから、イエスは群衆に、ヨハネについて話しだされた。「あなたがたは、何を見に荒野に出て行ったのですか。風に揺れる葦ですか。
25 Then what kind of man did you go there to see [RHQ]? Was he [RHQ] a man who wore expensive clothes? No! [You know very well that] people who wear beautiful clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ palaces, [not in the desolate areas]!
でなかったら、何を見に行ったのですか。柔らかい着物を着た人ですか。きらびやかな着物を着て、ぜいたくに暮らしている人たちなら宮殿にいます。
26 Then what [kind of person] did you go to see? [Did you] [RHQ] [go there to see John because he was] a prophet? Yes! But I will tell you that [John is] more [important] than an [ordinary] prophet.
でなかったら、何を見に行ったのですか。預言者ですか。そのとおり。だが、わたしが言いましょう。預言者よりもすぐれた者をです。
27 He is the one about whom [these words] that God said to the Messiah have been written {[the prophet Malachi] wrote [these words]} [in the Scriptures]: ‘Listen! I am going to send my messenger ahead of you [(sg)] [SYN]. He will prepare [people] for your coming.’
その人こそ、 『見よ、わたしは使いをあなたの前に遣わし、 あなたの道を、あなたの前に備えさせよう。』 と書かれているその人です。
28 I tell you that from among all the people who have ever lived, [God considers that] no one is greater than John. However, [God considers] everyone who has let God rule their [lives] [MET] to be greater than [John], [even if they are] insignificant [people].”
あなたがたに言いますが、女から生まれた者の中で、ヨハネよりもすぐれた人は、ひとりもいません。しかし、神の国で一番小さい者でも、彼よりすぐれています。
29 When they heard [what Jesus said] (OR, [what John preached]), all the people, including tax collectors, [whom many people despised], agreed that God’s way was right. By being baptized by John {By [letting] John baptize them}, [they had agreed that what God required people to do in order to be saved was right].
ヨハネの教えを聞いたすべての民は、取税人たちさえ、ヨハネのバプテスマを受けて、神の正しいことを認めたのです。
30 But the Pharisees and the men who taught the [Jewish] laws were not baptized by John {did not [let] John baptize them} because they rejected what God wanted them to do.
これに反して、パリサイ人、律法の専門家たちは、彼からバプテスマを受けないで、神の自分たちに対するみこころを拒みました。
31 [Then Jesus also said], “[Many of] you people have heard what [John and I] have taught. (I will illustrate what you are like./Do you know what [many of] you people who have heard what [John and I] have taught are like?) [RHQ]
では、この時代の人々は、何にたとえたらよいでしょう。何に似ているでしょう。
32 You are like children who are [playing games] in an open area. [Some of them] are calling to [the others], saying, ‘We [(exc)] played happy music for you on the flute, but you did not dance! Then we sang sad funeral songs for you, but you did not cry!’
市場にすわって、互いに呼びかけながら、こう言っている子どもたちに似ています。 『笛を吹いてやっても、君たちは踊らなかった。 弔いの歌を歌ってやっても、泣かなかった。』
33 [Similarly, you people are dissatisfied with both John the Baptizer and me]! When John came and [preached to you], he did not eat [ordinary] food [SYN] or drink wine, [like most people do]. But you [rejected him], saying, ‘A demon is controlling him!’
というわけは、バプテスマのヨハネが来て、パンも食べず、ぶどう酒も飲まずにいると、『あれは悪霊につかれている。』とあなたがたは言うし、
34 In [contrast], [I], the one who came from heaven, eat [the same food] and drink [wine as others do]. But you [reject me], saying, ‘Look! [This man] eats too much food and drinks too much wine, and he associates with tax collectors and [other] sinners!’
人の子が来て、食べもし、飲みもすると、『あれ見よ。食いしんぼうの大酒飲み、取税人や罪人の仲間だ。』と言うのです。
35 But those who are [truly God’s] children [PRS] realize that [what John and I do is truly] wise.”
だが、知恵の正しいことは、そのすべての子どもたちが証明します。」
36 [One day] one of the Pharisees [named Simon] invited Jesus to eat a meal with him. So Jesus went to the man’s house and reclined [to eat].
さて、あるパリサイ人が、いっしょに食事をしたい、とイエスを招いたので、そのパリサイ人の家にはいって食卓に着かれた。
37 There was a woman in that city [who many people knew had been] a prostitute [EUP]. She heard that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee’s house. So she went there, taking a stone jar that contained perfume.
すると、その町にひとりの罪深い女がいて、イエスがパリサイ人の家で食卓に着いておられることを知り、香油のはいった石膏のつぼを持って来て、
38 [As the people there were reclining to eat], the woman stood behind [Jesus, at his] feet. As she was crying [because she was sorry for her sins, her tears fell on Jesus’ feet]. Then she wiped his feet with her hair, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the perfume.
泣きながら、イエスのうしろで御足のそばに立ち、涙で御足をぬらし始め、髪の毛でぬぐい、御足に口づけして、香油を塗った。
39 When the Pharisee who had invited [Jesus] saw that, he thought, “[Prophets know about other people’s lives], [so] if Jesus were a prophet, he would have known who this woman is who is touching him, and what kind of a person she is. He would have known that she is a prostitute! [EUP]”
イエスを招いたパリサイ人は、これを見て、「この方がもし預言者なら、自分にさわっている女がだれで、どんな女であるか知っておられるはずだ。この女は罪深い者なのだから。」と心ひそかに思っていた。
40 Jesus said to him, “Simon, there is something I want to tell you [(sg)].” He replied, “Teacher, what is it?”
するとイエスは、彼に向かって、「シモン。あなたに言いたいことがあります。」と言われた。シモンは、「先生。お話しください。」と言った。
41 Jesus replied, “Two people owed some money to a man who [earned money by] lending [it to others]. One owed him 500 silver coins, and the other owed him 50 silver coins.
「ある金貸しから、ふたりの者が金を借りていた。ひとりは五百デナリ、ほかのひとりは五十デナリ借りていた。
42 Neither of them was able to pay back [what he owed], so the man [very kindly] said that they did not have to pay back anything. So, which of those two men will love that man more?”
彼らは返すことができなかったので、金貸しはふたりとも赦してやった。 では、ふたりのうちどちらがよけいに金貸しを愛するようになるでしょうか。」
43 Simon replied, “I think that the one who owed the most money and did not have to pay it back [will love him more].” Jesus said to him, “That is correct.”
シモンが、「よけいに赦してもらったほうだと思います。」と答えると、イエスは、「あなたの判断は当たっています。」と言われた。
44 Then he turned toward the woman, and said to Simon, “(Think about [what] this woman [has done]!/Do you [(sg)] see [what] this woman [has done]?) [RHQ] When I entered your house, you [did not follow our custom of welcoming guests by] giving me any water [to wash] my feet, but this woman has wet my feet with her tears and then wiped them with her hair!
そしてその女のほうを向いて、シモンに言われた。「この女を見ましたか。わたしがこの家にはいって来たとき、あなたは足を洗う水をくれなかったが、この女は、涙でわたしの足をぬらし、髪の毛でぬぐってくれました。
45 You did not [follow our custom of greeting by] kissing me, but since I came in, this woman has not stopped kissing my feet!
あなたは、口づけしてくれなかったが、この女は、わたしがはいって来たときから足に口づけしてやめませんでした。
46 You did not [follow our custom of welcoming guests by] anointing my head with [olive] oil, but she has anointed my feet with fragrant perfume.
あなたは、わたしの頭に油を塗ってくれなかったが、この女は、わたしの足に香油を塗ってくれました。
47 So I will tell you that even though this woman has sinned very much, she has been forgiven {[I] have forgiven her}. [By what she has done she has shown that] she loves [me] very much. But a person who has [sinned] just a little bit, but whom [I] have forgiven, will love [me just a little bit].”
だから、わたしは言うのです。『この女の多くの罪は赦されています。というのは、彼女はよけい愛したからです。しかし少ししか赦されない者は、少ししか愛しません。』」
48 Then he said to the woman, “You have been forgiven {[I have] forgiven [you]} [for] your sins.”
そして女に、「あなたの罪は赦されています。」と言われた。
49 Then those who were eating with him said among themselves, “(This man must [think that he is God]!/Who does this man [think that he] is [RHQ]), saying that he can forgive [people for] their sins?”
すると、いっしょに食卓にいた人たちは、心の中でこう言い始めた。「罪を赦したりするこの人は、いったいだれだろう。」
50 But Jesus said to the woman, “Because you have trusted [PRS] [in me, God] has saved you [from the guilt of your sins]. May [God] give you inner peace as you go!”
しかし、イエスは女に言われた。「あなたの信仰が、あなたを救ったのです。安心して行きなさい。」
