使徒の働き 14
1 イコニオムに於て、兩人相共にユデア人の會堂に入りて語りければ、ユデア人及びギリシア人の之を信ずる者夥しかりしが、
The same thing occurred in Iconium, where Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish Synagogue, and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed in Christ.
2 信ぜざるユデア人は異邦人の心を煽動し、弟子等に對して怒を起させたり。
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles, and poisoned their minds against the Brethren.
3 然れど兩人は久しく滞在して、憚る所なく主の為に盡力し、主は彼等の手によりて徴と奇蹟とを行はしめて、恩寵の教を保證し給へり。
Therefore Paul and Barnabas spent a long time there, and spoke out fearlessly, relying upon the Lord, who confirmed the Message of his Love by permitting signs and wonders to take place at their hands.
4 然るに町の住民二個に分れて、或はユデア人の味方となり、或は使徒等の味方となりしが、
But the townspeople were divided, some siding with the Jews, some with the Apostles;
5 異邦人とユデア人と其長等と共に、騒立ちて兩人を辱しめ、又石を擲たんとせしかば、
and, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leading men, to resort to violence and to stone them,
6 兩人覚りてリカオニア[州]の町なるリストラ、デルペン及び其辺の地方に避け、
the Apostles heard of it, and took refuge in Lystra and Derbe, towns in Lycaonia, and in the district round,
7 彼處にて福音を宣傳へ居たり。
and there they continued to tell the Good News.
8 リストラに足の叶はぬ一人の男坐り居り、生來の跛者にて、曾て歩みたる事なかりしが、
In the streets of Lystra there used to sit a man who had no power in his feet; he had been lame from his birth, and had never walked.
9 パウロの語れるを聴きければ、パウロ目を之に注ぎて、醫さるべき信仰あるを見、
This man was listening to Paul speaking, when Paul, fixing his eyes on him, and seeing that he had the faith to be healed,
10 汝眞直に立上れ、と聲高く云ひしかば、彼躍上りて歩み居たり。
said loudly: “Stand upright on your feet.” The man leaped up, and began walking about,
11 群集パウロが為せる事を見て聲を揚げ、リカオニアの方言にて、神々は人の姿にて我等に降り給へり、と云ひて、
and the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language: “The Gods have made themselves like men and have come down to us.”
12 バルナバをヅウスと呼び、パウロを言の長ぜるが故にヘルメスと呼び、
So they called Barnabas ‘Zeus,’ and Paul ‘Hermes,’ because he took the lead in speaking;
13 又町の此方に在るズウスの神官、數多の牡牛と花飾とを門前に携へ來りて、人民と共に犠牲を献げんとせり。
and the priest of Zeus-beyond-the-Walls, accompanied by the crowd, brought bullocks and garlands to the gates, with the intention of offering sacrifices.
14 使徒等即ちバルナバとパウロと之を聞くや、己が衣服を裂き、群集の中に跳入りて、
But, when the Apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd. “Friends, why are you doing this?” they shouted.
15 呼はりつつ云ひけるは、人々よ、何ぞ之を為せるや、我等も汝等と同じく有情の人間にして、汝等に福音を宣べ、彼空しき物を離れ、汝等をして天、地、海、及び其中に在りと有らゆる物を造り給ひし、活ける神に転ぜしめんとするなり。
“We are only men like yourselves, and we have come with the Good News that you should turn away from these follies to a living God, ‘who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.’
16 神は前代に於て萬民が己々の道を歩むを措き給ひしも、
In bygone times he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.
17 自らを證明し給はざる事なく、天より恵みを垂れ給ひて、雨を降らし實の季節を與へ、食物と欣喜とを以て、我等の心を満たしめ給ふなり、と。
Yet he has not failed to give you, in the good he does, some revelation of himself — sending you from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, and gladdening your hearts with plenty and good cheer.”
18 兩人是等の事を語りて、辛うじて群集を止め、己等に祭を献げざらしめたり。
Even with this appeal they could hardly restrain the people from offering sacrifice to them.
19 時に數人のユデア人、アンチオキアとイコニオムとより來り、群集を煽動してパウロに石を擲ち、既に死せりと思ひて町の外に引出だしけるが、
Presently, however, there came some Jews from Antioch, and Iconium who, after they had won over the people, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the town, thinking him to be dead.
20 弟子等之を立圍みけるに、彼起上りて町に入り、翌日バルナバと共にデルペンに出立せり。
But, when the disciples had gathered round him, he got up and went back into the town; the next day he went with Barnabas to Derbe.
21 然て兩人此町に福音を宣べて多くの人を教へし後、リストラとイコニオムとアンチオキアとに戻り、
After telling the Good News throughout that town, and making a number of converts, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
22 弟子等の魂を堅め、信仰に止らん事を勧め、我等は許多の患難を経て神の國に入らざるべからず、と教へつつありき。
reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the Faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the Kingdom of God.
23 又彼等の為に、教會毎に長老を立て、断食と祈祷とを為して、彼等を其信仰せる主に委ねたり。
They also appointed Officers for them in every Church, and, after prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had learned to believe.
24 斯てピシジア[州]を経てパンフィリア[州]に至りしが、
Paul and Barnabas then went through Pisidia, and came into Pamphylia,
25 [都]ペルゲンに於て主の御言を語りてアッタリア[港]に下り、
and, after telling the Message at Perga, went down to Attaleia.
26 其處より出帆して、此度為遂げたる事業を為すべき、神の恩寵に委ねられたりし處なるアンチオキアに歸れり。
From there they sailed to Antioch — the place where they had been committed to the gracious care of God for the work which they had now finished.
27 然て其處に至りて、教會の人々を集め、総て神の己等と共に為し給ひし事、又異邦人に信仰の門を開き給ひし事を報告し、
After their arrival, they gathered the Church together, and gave an account of all that God had helped them to do, and especially how he had opened to the Gentiles the door of faith;
28 久しく弟子等の共に留れり。
and at Antioch they stayed with the disciples for a considerable time.
