Matthew 2
1 Jesus was born in Bethlehem [town] in Judea [province] during the time [MTY] that King Herod [the Great ruled there. Some time] after Jesus was born, some men who studied the stars and who lived in a [country] east [of Judea] came to Jerusalem.
イエスはヘロデ王の時、ユダヤのベツレヘムに生れ給ひしが、視よ、東の博士たちエルサレムに來りて言ふ、
2 They asked [people], “Where is the one who has been born [in order that he might be] the king of [you] Jews? [We believe that your new king] has been born, because we have seen the star [that we believe indicated that] he has been [born]. [We saw it while we were in our country] east [of here]. So we have come to worship him.”
『ユダヤ人の王とて生れ給へる者は、何處に在すか。我ら東にてその星を見たれば、拜せんために來れり』
3 When King Herod heard [what those men were asking], he became worried [that someone else might be proclaimed] {[people might proclaim someone else]} [king of the Jews to replace him]. Many [of the people] of Jerusalem [MTY, HYP] [also] became worried [because they were afraid of what King Herod might do].
ヘロデ王これを聞きて惱みまどふ、エルサレムも皆 然り。
4 Then Herod gathered together all the ruling priests and men who taught the people the [Jewish] laws and he asked them where [the prophets had predicted that] the Messiah was to be born.
王、民の祭司長・學者らを皆あつめて、キリストの何處に生るべきを問ひ質す。
5 They said to him, “[He will be born] in Bethlehem, [here] in Judea [province], because it was written by the prophet [Micah] {the prophet [Micah] wrote} [long ago what God said]:
かれら言ふ『ユダヤのベツレヘムなり。それは預言者によりて、
6 ‘You [who live in] Bethlehem [APO], in Judea [province], your town is certainly very important [LIT], because a man from your [town] will become a ruler. He will guide my people [who live in] Israel.’”
「ユダの地ベツレヘムよ、汝はユダの長たちの中にて最 小き者にあらず、汝の中より一人の君いでて、わが民イスラエルを牧せん」と録されたるなり』
7 Then [King] Herod secretly summoned those men who studied the stars. He asked them exactly when the star [first] appeared. [By what they told him, he was able to know the approximate age of the baby].
ここにヘロデ密に博士たちを招きて、星の現れし時を詳細にし、
8 Then he [concealed what he really planned to do and] said to them, “Go to Bethlehem and inquire thoroughly [where] the infant is. When you have found him, [come back and] report to me so that I, myself, can go [there and] worship him, too.”
彼らをベツレヘムに遣さんとして言ふ『往きて幼兒のことを細にたづね、之にあはば我に告げよ。我も往きて拜せん』
9 After the men heard what the king [told them], they went [toward Bethlehem]. To their surprise, the star that they had seen while they were in the eastern [country] went ahead of them [again] until it stood above [the house] where the child was.
彼ら王の言をききて往きしに、視よ、前に東にて見し星、先だちゆきて、幼兒の在すところの上に止る。
10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced greatly [and followed it].
かれら星を見て、歡喜に溢れつつ、
11 They [found] the house and entered it and saw the child and his mother, Mary. They bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasure [boxes] [MTY] and they gave gold, [costly] frankincense, and myrrh to him.
家に入りて、幼兒のその母マリヤと偕に在すを見、平伏して拜し、かつ寶の匣をあけて、黄金・乳香・沒藥など禮物を献げたり。
12 [Because] God [knew that King Herod planned to kill Jesus], in a dream the men who studied the stars were warned {he warned the men who studied the stars} that they should not return to [King] Herod. So they returned to their country, [but instead of traveling back on the same road, they] went on a different road.
かくて夢にてヘロデの許に返るなとの御告を蒙り、ほかの路より己が國に去りゆきぬ。
13 After the men who studied the stars left [Bethlehem], an angel [from] the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. He said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you [(sg) that you should leave], because [King] Herod is about [to send soldiers] to look for the child so that they can kill him.”
その去り往きしのち、視よ、主の使、夢にてヨセフに現れていふ『起きて、幼兒とその母とを携へ、エジプトに逃れ、わが告ぐるまで彼處に留れ。ヘロデ幼兒を索めて亡さんとするなり』
14 So Joseph got up, he took the child and his mother [that] night, and they fled to Egypt.
ヨセフ起きて、夜の間に幼兒とその母とを携へて、エジプトに去りゆき、
15 They stayed there until [King] Herod died, [and then they left Egypt]. By doing that, it was {they} fulfilled what the prophet [Hosea] wrote, which had been said by the Lord {which the Lord had said}, I have told my son to come out of Egypt.
ヘロデの死ぬるまで彼處に留りぬ。これ主が預言者によりて『我エジプトより我が子を呼び出せり』と云ひ給ひし言の成就せん爲なり。
16 [While King] Herod [was still living], because he realized that he had been tricked by the men who studied the stars {the men who studied the stars had tricked him}, he became furious. Then, [assuming that Jesus was still in Bethlehem or the surrounding regions], Herod sent [soldiers there] to kill all the boy babies two years old and younger. [Herod calculated how old the baby was], according to what the men who studied the stars told him [about when the star first appeared].
ここにヘロデ、博士たちに賺されたりと悟りて、甚だしく憤ほり、人を遣し、博士たちに由りて詳細にせし時を計り、ベツレヘム及び凡てその邊の地方なる、二 歳 以下の男の兒をことごとく殺せり。
17 [Because Bethlehem and Ramah towns were in the area where the descendants of Jacob’s wife Rachel lived, when soldiers killed the infant boys], they fulfilled what Jeremiah the prophet wrote,
ここに預言者エレミヤによりて云はれたる言は成就したり。曰く、
18 [Women] in Ramah were weeping and wailing loudly. [Women who were the descendants] of Rachel, [the ancestor of the women there] [SYN], were grieving for [what happened to] their children. [Even though people tried to comfort them], they would not be comforted {stop mourning}, because their children were dead.
『聲ラマにありて聞ゆ、慟哭なり、いとどしき悲哀なり。ラケル己が子らを歎き、子 等のなき故に慰めらるるを厭ふ』
19 After Herod died [and while Joseph and his family were still in Egypt], an angel that the Lord [had sent] appeared to Joseph in Egypt in a dream.
ヘロデ死にてのち、視よ、主の使、夢にてエジプトなるヨセフに現れて言ふ、
20 He said to Joseph, “Take the child and his mother and go back to Israel [to live], because the people who were looking for the child [in order to kill him] have died.”
『起きて、幼兒とその母とを携へ、イスラエルの地にゆけ。幼兒の生命を索めし者どもは死にたり』
21 So Joseph took the child and his mother, and they went back to Israel.
ヨセフ起きて、幼兒とその母とを携へ、イスラエルの地に到りしに、
22 When Joseph heard that Archaelaus now ruled in Judea [district] instead of his father, [King] Herod [the Great], he was afraid to go there. Because he was warned {[God] warned Joseph} in a dream [that it was still dangerous for them to live in Judea], he [and Mary and Jesus] went to Galilee [District]
アケラオその父ヘロデに代りてユダヤを治むと聞き、彼處に往くことを恐る。また夢にて御告を蒙り、ガリラヤの地方に退き、
23 to Nazareth [to live there]. The result was that what had been said by the ancient prophets {what the ancient prophets had said} [about the Messiah], that he would be called {people would call him} a Nazareth-man, was fulfilled {came true}.
ナザレといふ町に到りて住みたり。これは預言者たちに由りて、『彼はナザレ人と呼ばれん』と云はれたる言の成就せん爲なり。
