Mark 6
1 Jesus left [Capernaum city and went to his hometown, Nazareth]. His disciples went with him.
イエスはそこを去って、郷里に行かれた。弟子たちもついて行った。
2 (On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day), [he entered] the Jewish worship house and taught [the people]. Many who were listening to him were astonished. [But some] were saying, “[This man is just an ordinary person like we are! So (we cannot believe that] this man [is able to teach us] about these things and that he has been made very wise {that [God] has made him very wise} and that he is performing such miracles![/how is it that] [RHQ] this man [is able to teach us] about these things and that he has been made very wise {that [God] has made him very wise} and that he is performing such miracles?) [RHQ]
安息日になったとき、会堂で教え始められた。それを聞いた多くの人々は驚いて言った。「この人は、こういうことをどこから得たのでしょう。この人に与えられた知恵や、この人の手で行なわれるこのような力あるわざは、いったい何でしょう。
3 ([We know that] he is [just an ordinary] carpenter!/Isn’t he [just an ordinary] carpenter [RHQ]?) [We know him and his family! We know] Mary his mother! ([We know] his [younger] brothers James, Joses, Judas and Simon!/Are not his [younger] brothers James, Joses, Judas and Simon?) [RHQ] And (his [younger] sisters also live here in this town!/do not his [younger] sisters also live here in this town?) [RHQ]” So they despised him.
この人は大工ではありませんか。マリヤの子で、ヤコブ、ヨセ、ユダ、シモンの兄弟ではありませんか。その妹たちも、私たちとここに住んでいるではありませんか。」こうして彼らはイエスにつまずいた。
4 Jesus [knew that they refused to believe in him]. So he said to them, “[It is certainly true that] people honor [me and other] prophets [in other places, but] not in our hometowns! Even our relatives and the people who live in our own houses do not honor us!”
イエスは彼らに言われた。「預言者が尊敬されないのは、自分の郷里、親族、家族の間だけです。」
5 [So], although he healed a few sick people there by touching them, he [decided] not to perform many [other] miracles [in Nazareth] because the people there did not believe that he was the Messiah.
それで、そこでは何一つ力あるわざを行なうことができず、少数の病人に手を置いていやされただけであった。
6 He was amazed that they did not believe [in him]. Mark 6:6b-13 Jesus [and his disciples] went from town to town [in that region] teaching [the people].
イエスは彼らの不信仰に驚かれた。それからイエスは、近くの村々を教えて回られた。
7 [One day] he summoned the twelve [disciples], and then he [told them that] he was going to send them out two-by-two [to teach people in various towns]. He gave them power [to expel] evil spirits [from people].
また、十二弟子を呼び、ふたりずつ遣わし始め、彼らに汚れた霊を追い出す権威をお与えになった。
8 He also instructed them to wear sandals and to take along a walking stick when they were traveling. He told them not to take food, nor a bag [in which travelers carry supplies], nor any money for their journey. He also did not allow them to take extra clothing. [He wanted the people who heard their message to give them what they needed].
また、彼らにこう命じられた。「旅のためには、杖一本のほかは、何も持って行ってはいけません。パンも、袋も、胴巻きに金も持って行ってはいけません。
くつは、はきなさい。しかし二枚の下着を着てはいけません。」
10 He also instructed them, “After you enter a town, [if someone invites you to stay in his house], go into his house. Eat and sleep in that same home until you leave that town.
また、彼らに言われた。「どこででも一軒の家にはいったら、そこの土地から出て行くまでは、その家にとどまっていなさい。
11 Wherever the people do not welcome you and wherever the people do not listen to you, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave [that place]. By doing that, you will warn them [that God will punish them for rejecting your message].”
もし、あなたがたを受け入れない場所、また、あなたがたに聞こうとしない人々なら、そこから出て行くときに、そこの人々に対する証言として、足の裏のちりを払い落としなさい。」
12 [So] after the disciples went out [to various towns], they were preaching that people should stop their sinful behavior.
こうして十二人が出て行き、悔い改めを説き広め、
13 They were also expelling many evil spirits [from people], and they were anointing many sick people with [olive] oil and healing them.
悪霊を多く追い出し、大ぜいの病人に油を塗っていやした。
14 [King] Herod [Antipas] heard about [what] Jesus [was doing], because many people were talking [about it. Some] people were saying [about Jesus], “[He must be] John the Baptizer! He has come back to life! That is why he [has God’s] power to perform these miracles!”
イエスの名が知れ渡ったので、ヘロデ王の耳にもはいった。人々は、「バプテスマのヨハネが死人の中からよみがえったのだ。だから、あんな力が、彼のうちに働いているのだ。」と言っていた。
15 Others were saying [about Jesus], “He is [the former prophet] Elijah, [whom God promised to send back again].” Others were saying [about Jesus], “[No], he is a [different] prophet, like one of the [other] prophets [who lived long ago].”
別の人々は、「彼はエリヤだ。」と言い、さらに別の人々は、「昔の預言者の中のひとりのような預言者だ。」と言っていた。
16 Having heard [what the people were saying, King] Herod [Antipas] himself repeatedly said, “The man [performing those miracles] must be John! I [commanded my soldiers to] cut off his head, but he has come back to life again [to get revenge for my killing him]!”
しかし、ヘロデはうわさを聞いて、「私が首をはねたあのヨハネが生き返ったのだ。」と言っていた。
17 The reason [King Herod concluded that John wanted revenge is as follows: Some time before this], Herod married Herodias, while she was [still] the wife of his [younger] brother, Philip.
実は、このヘロデが、自分の兄弟ピリポの妻ヘロデヤのことで、――ヘロデはこの女を妻としていた。――人をやってヨハネを捕え、牢につないだのであった。
18 John kept telling Herod, “[God’s] law does not permit you to marry the wife of your brother [while he is still alive].” Then, because Herodias [urged him to put John in prison], Herod himself sent [soldiers to John]. They seized John and put him in prison.
これは、ヨハネがヘロデに、「あなたが兄弟の妻を自分のものとしていることは不法です。」と言い張ったからである。
19 But because Herodias wanted to get [further] revenge on John, she wanted [someone] to execute him. But she could not do that because [while John was in prison], Herod kept John safe [from her].
ところが、ヘロデヤはヨハネを恨み、彼を殺したいと思いながら、果たせないでいた。
20 Herod did this because he respected/feared John, because he knew that he was a righteous and holy man. The king did not know what he should do, but he liked to listen to him.
それはヘロデが、ヨハネを正しい聖なる人と知って、彼を恐れ、保護を加えていたからである。また、ヘロデはヨハネの教えを聞くとき、非常に当惑しながらも、喜んで耳を傾けていた。
21 But [Herodias was able to have someone execute John when they honored/celebrated] the day when Herod was born. On that day, he invited the [most important] government officials, the [most important] army leaders, and the most important men in Galilee [district] in order that they might eat [and celebrate with him].
ところが、良い機会が訪れた。ヘロデがその誕生日に、重臣や、千人隊長や、ガリラヤのおもだった人などを招いて、祝宴を設けたとき、
22 [While they were eating], Herodias’ daughter came into the room and danced, and that pleased [King] Herod and his guests. So the king said to her, “Ask me for whatever you desire and I will give it to you!”
ヘロデヤの娘がはいって来て、踊りを踊ったので、ヘロデも列席の人々も喜んだ。そこで王は、この少女に、「何でもほしい物を言いなさい。与えよう。」と言った。
23 He said to her, “Whatever you ask, I will give it to you! I will give you up to half of what I own and rule, if you ask for it. May God punish me [if I do not do what I have promised]!”
また、「おまえの望む物なら、私の国の半分でも、与えよう。」と言って、誓った。
24 The girl immediately left the room and went to her mother. She [told her what the king had said, and] asked her, “What shall I ask for?” Her mother replied, “[Ask the king to give you] the head of John the Baptizer!”
そこで少女は出て行って、「何を願いましょうか。」とその母親に言った。すると母親は、「バプテスマのヨハネの首。」と言った。
25 The girl quickly entered the room again. She went to the king and she requested, “I want you to command someone to [cut off] the head of John the Baptizer [and] give it to me at once on a platter, [so that my mother can know he is dead]!”
そこで少女はすぐに、大急ぎで王の前に行き、こう言って頼んだ。「今すぐに、バプテスマのヨハネの首を盆に載せていただきとうございます。」
26 The king became very distressed [when he heard what she asked for], because he knew John was a very righteous man (OR, because he now knew that he should not have made that promise to her). But he could not refuse [what she requested because] he had promised [that he would give her anything she asked for], and because his guests [had heard him promise that].
王は非常に心を痛めたが、自分の誓いもあり、列席の人々の手前もあって、少女の願いを退けることを好まなかった。
27 So the king at once ordered the man who executes prisoners to go and [cut off] John’s head and bring it [to the girl]. That man went to the prison and cut off John’s head.
そこで王は、すぐに護衛兵をやって、ヨハネの首を持って来るように命令した。護衛兵は行って、牢の中でヨハネの首をはね、
28 He [put it on] a platter, brought it back, and gave it to the girl. The girl took it to her mother.
その首を盆に載せて持って来て、少女に渡した。少女は、それを母親に渡した。
29 After John’s disciples heard [what happened], they went [to the prison] and took John’s body and then they buried [it in a burial cave].
ヨハネの弟子たちは、このことを聞いたので、やって来て、遺体を引き取り、墓に納めたのであった。
30 The [twelve] apostles returned to Jesus [from the places to which they had gone]. They reported to him what they had done and what they had taught [to people].
さて、使徒たちは、イエスのもとに集まって来て、自分たちのしたこと、教えたことを残らずイエスに報告した。
31 He said to them, “Come [with me] to a place where no people are living, in order that we can be alone and rest a little while!” [He said this] because many people were continually coming to them and going [away again], with the result that [Jesus and] his disciples did not have time to eat [or do anything else].
そこでイエスは彼らに、「さあ、あなたがただけで、寂しい所へ行って、しばらく休みなさい。」と言われた。人々の出入りが多くて、ゆっくり食事する時間さえなかったからである。
32 So they went away by themselves in a boat to a place where no people were living.
そこで彼らは、舟に乗って、自分たちだけで寂しい所へ行った。
33 [But many] people saw them leaving. They also recognized [that they were Jesus and the disciples, and they saw where they were going]. So they ran [ahead on land] from all the [nearby] towns to the place [where Jesus and his disciples were going]. They [actually] arrived there before [Jesus and the disciples].
ところが、多くの人々が、彼らの出て行くのを見、それと気づいて、方々の町々からそこへ徒歩で駆けつけ、彼らよりも先に着いてしまった。
34 As Jesus [and his disciples] got out of the boat, Jesus saw this large crowd. He felt sorry for them because they were [confused], like sheep that do not have a shepherd. So he taught them many things.
イエスは、舟から上がられると、多くの群衆をご覧になった。そして彼らが羊飼いのいない羊のようであるのを深くあわれみ、いろいろと教え始められた。
35 Late [in the afternoon], the disciples came to him and said, “This is a place where no people live and it is very late.
そのうち、もう時刻もおそくなったので、弟子たちはイエスのところに来て言った。「ここはへんぴな所で、もう時刻もおそくなりました。
36 [So] send the people away in order that they may go to the surrounding farms and villages in order that they can buy for themselves something to eat!”
みんなを解散させてください。そして、近くの部落や村に行って何か食べる物をめいめいで買うようにさせてください。」
37 But he replied, “[No], you [yourselves] give them something to eat!” They replied, “(We could not buy enough bread to feed [this crowd], even if we had as much money as a man earns by working 200 days!/How could we buy enough bread to feed [this mob], even if we had as much money as a man earns by working 200 days?)” [RHQ]
すると、彼らに答えて言われた。「あなたがたで、あの人たちに何か食べる物を上げなさい。」そこで弟子たちは言った。「私たちが出かけて行って、二百デナリものパンを買ってあの人たちに食べさせるように、ということでしょうか。」
38 But he replied to them, “How many loaves of bread do you have? Go and find out!” They [went and] found out and then they told him, “We have [only] five flat loaves and two [cooked] fish!”
するとイエスは彼らに言われた。「パンはどれぐらいありますか。行って見て来なさい。」彼らは確かめて言った。「五つです。それと魚が二匹です。」
39 He instructed [the disciples to tell] all the people to sit down on the green grass.
イエスは、みなを、それぞれ組にして青草の上にすわらせるよう、弟子たちにお命じになった。
40 So the people sat in groups. There were 50 people in some groups and 100 people in other groups.
そこで人々は、百人、五十人と固まって席に着いた。
41 Jesus took the five flat loaves and the two fish. He looked up towards heaven and thanked [God] for them. Then he broke the loaves and fish into pieces and kept giving them to the disciples in order that they would distribute them to the people.
するとイエスは、五つのパンと二匹の魚を取り、天を見上げて祝福を求め、パンを裂き、人々に配るように弟子たちに与えられた。また、二匹の魚もみなに分けられた。
42 Everyone ate [this food] until they all had enough to eat!
人々はみな、食べて満腹した。
43 The disciples then collected twelve baskets full of pieces [of bread] and of the fish [that were left over].
そして、パン切れを十二のかごにいっぱい取り集め、魚の残りも取り集めた。
44 There were approximately 5,000 men who ate the bread [and fish. They did not even count the women and children].
パンを食べたのは、男が五千人であった。
45 Right away Jesus told his disciples to get into the boat and then go ahead of him to Bethsaida [town, which was] further around [Lake Galilee. He stayed and] dismissed the many people who were there.
それからすぐに、イエスは弟子たちを強いて舟に乗り込ませ、先に向こう岸のベツサイダに行かせ、ご自分は、その間に群衆を解散させておられた。
46 After he said goodbye to the people, he went up into the hills in order to pray.
それから、群衆に別れ、祈るために、そこを去って山のほうに向かわれた。
47 When it was evening, the [disciples’] boat was in the middle of the lake and Jesus was by himself on the land.
夕方になったころ、舟は湖の真中に出ており、イエスだけが陸地におられた。
48 He saw that the wind was [blowing] against them as they rowed. As a result, they were having great difficulty. He approached them early in the morning, when it was still dark, by walking on the water. He intended to walk by them.
イエスは、弟子たちが、向かい風のために漕ぎあぐねているのをご覧になり、夜中の三時ごろ、湖の上を歩いて、彼らに近づいて行かれたが、そのままそばを通り過ぎようとのおつもりであった。
49 They saw him walking on the water, but they thought that he was a ghost. They screamed
しかし、弟子たちは、イエスが湖の上を歩いておられるのを見て、幽霊だと思い、叫び声をあげた。
50 because they all were terrified when they saw him. But he talked to them. He said to them, “Be calm! Do not be afraid, [because] it is I!”
というのは、みなイエスを見ておびえてしまったからである。しかし、イエスはすぐに彼らに話しかけ、「しっかりしなさい。わたしだ。恐れることはない。」と言われた。
51 He got into the boat [and sat down] with them and the wind [immediately] blowing. They were completely amazed [about what he had done].
そして舟に乗り込まれると、風がやんだ。彼らの心中の驚きは非常なものであった。
52 [Although they had seen Jesus multiply] the [bread and the fish], they did not understand [from that how powerful he was, as they should have]. They did not think clearly about it.
というのは、彼らはまだパンのことから悟るところがなく、その心は堅く閉じていたからである。
53 After they went further around [Lake Galilee in a boat, they came to the shore at Gennesaret town]. Then they tied up the boat there.
彼らは湖を渡って、ゲネサレの地に着き、舟をつないだ。
54 As soon as they got out of the boat, [the people there] recognized Jesus.
そして、彼らが舟から上がると、人々はすぐにイエスだと気がついて、
55 So they ran throughout the whole district [in order to tell others that Jesus was there]. Then the people [placed] those who were sick on stretchers and carried them to any place where they heard [people say] that Jesus was.
そのあたりをくまなく走り回り、イエスがおられると聞いた場所へ、病人を床に載せて運んで来た。
56 In whatever village, town or other place where he entered, they would bring to the marketplaces those who were sick. Then the [sick people] would beg Jesus to let them touch [him or] even the edge of his clothes [in order that Jesus might heal them]. All those who touched [him or his robe] were healed.
イエスがはいって行かれると、村でも町でも部落でも、人々は病人たちを広場に寝かせ、そして、せめて、イエスの着物の端にでもさわらせてくださるようにと願った。そして、さわった人々はみな、いやされた。
