使徒の働き 11
1 第三 エルザレムの信徒ペトロの處置を非難し後之を賞賛す 異邦人も神の御言を請容れし事、使徒等及びユデアに在る兄弟等に聞えしかば、
And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God;
2 ペトロがエルザレムに上るや、割禮ある人々之を詰りて、
and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision contended with him,
3 言ひけるは、汝何ぞ無割禮の人の中に入りて共に食せしや、と。
saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and hast eaten with them.
4 ペトロ事の次第を説出して云ひけるは、
But Peter began and set forth [the matter] to them in order, saying,
5 我ヨッペの町に在りて祈り居りしに、氣を奪はるる如くにして幻影に遇ひしが、大いなる布の如き器物の四隅を吊されつつ天より降りて我許に來るを見、
I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:
6 熟其中を眺むるに、地上の四足のもの、野獣、爬蟲、及び空の鳥あるを見たり。
on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven.
7 又、ペトロ起きよ、屠りて食せよ、と我に謂へる聲をも聞きたれば、
And I heard also a voice saying to me, Rise up, Peter, slay and eat.
8 我、主よ、然らじ、穢れたるもの潔からぬものは曾て我口に入りし事なし、と言ひしに、
And I said, In no wise, Lord, for common or unclean has never entered into my mouth.
9 再び天より聲ありて、神の潔め給ひしものを汝潔からずと言ふこと勿れ、と答へ、
And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.
10 三度まで斯の如くなりしが、終に其物皆また天に引上げられたり。
And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up into heaven;
11 折しもカイザリアより、我許に遣はされたる者三人、我が居る家に立止りしかば、
and lo, immediately three men were at the house in which I was, sent to me from Caesarea.
12 躊躇する事なく彼等と共に往け、と[聖]霊我に曰へり。斯て此六人の兄弟も我に伴ひ來り、一行彼人の家に入りたるに、
And the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting. And there went with me these six brethren also, and we entered into the house of the man,
13 彼、天使の己が家に立ちて、己に次の如く言ふを見し次第を語れり。即ち、人をヨッペに遣はして、ペトロと呼ばるるシモンを招け、
and he related to us how he had seen the angel in his house, standing and saying [to him], Send [men] to Joppa and fetch Simon, who is surnamed Peter,
14 彼は汝及び汝が一家の救かるべき御言を汝に語らん、と。
who shall speak words to thee whereby thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house.
15 然るに我が語出るや、最初我等の上に降り給ひし如く、聖霊彼等の上に降り給ひたれば、
And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them even as upon us also at the beginning.
16 我主が曾て、ヨハネは水にて洗したるに汝等は聖霊にて洗せられん、と曰ひし御言を思出せり。
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John baptised with water, but ye shall be baptised with [the] Holy Spirit.
17 即ち神既にイエズス、キリストを信仰せる我等と同様なる恩寵を彼等にも賜ひしを、我抑誰なれば、神に禁ずる事を得べかりしぞ、と。
If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was I to be able to forbid God?
18 人々是等の事を聞きて黙然たりしが、又神に光榮を歸し奉りて云ひけるは、然れば神は、生命を得させん為に、異邦人にも改心を賜ひしなり、と。
And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.
19 第四 アンチオキアの教會開始 抑ステファノの時起りし迫害の為に離散したりし人々は、フェニケア[州]、クプロ[島]、及びアンチオキア[市]まで廻行きしも、ユデア人の外誰にも御言を語らざりしが、
They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through [the country] to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.
20 彼等の中にクプロ及びクレネの人々ありて、アンチオキアに入りしかば、ギリシア人にも語りて、主イエズスの事を告げ、
But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.
21 主の御手彼等と共に在りければ、數多の人信じて主に歸依せり。
And [the] Lord's hand was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
22 是等の沙汰エルザレムなる教會の耳に入りしかば、バルナバを遣はしてアンチオキアまで至らしめしに、
And the report concerning them reached the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go through as far as Antioch:
23 彼至りて神の恩寵を見て喜び、決心して主に止らん事を一同に勧め居たり。
who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;
24 蓋彼は善人にして聖霊と信仰とに充てる人なりければ、夥しき群集主に属けり。
for he was a good man and full of [the] Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd [of people] were added to the Lord.
25 然てバルナバ、サウロを尋ねんとてタルソに至り、之に遇ひてアンチオキアに伴ひ行き、
And he went away to Tarsus to seek out Saul.
26 兩人彼處の教會に満一年を過して、夥しき群集を教へたり。斯て弟子等はアンチオキアに於て、始て基督信徒と呼ばるるに至れり。
And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
27 其時或預言者等、エルザレムよりアンチオキアに至りしが、
Now in these days prophets went down from Jerusalem to Antioch;
28 彼等の中より一人のアガポと云へる者起ちて、大飢饉の全世界に起るべき事を、聖霊によりて告げ居たりけるに、果してクロウヂオ[皇帝]の時代に起りしかば、
and one from among them, by name Agabus, rose up and signified by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine over all the inhabited earth, which also came to pass under Claudius.
29 弟子等各力に應じてユデアに住める兄弟に補助を贈らん事を定め、
And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister [to them];
30 遂に之を遂げて、バルナバとサウロとの手に托して長老等に贈れり。
which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
