使徒の働き 16
1 パウロデルベンとルストラとに至りしに、折しも此處にチモテオと云へる弟子あり、信者となりたるユデア教の婦人の子にて、父はギリシア人なりしが、
Then he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold there was a certain disciple there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewess, but of a Grecian father.
2 ルストラ及びイコニオムに在る兄弟等は是に好評を與へつつありき。
Who was well spoken of by the brethren at Lystra and Iconium:
3 パウロ之を伴ひて出發せんと思定め、彼を携へて其地方なるユデア人に對して割禮を施せり。其は彼等皆其父のギリシア人たりしことを知ればなり。
wherefore Paul was desirous that he should go forth with him, and took and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
4 斯て市町を通る時、エルザレムに居る使徒等及び長老等の規定を守らせんとて、之を人々に渡しければ、
And as they passed through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees that had been made by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.
5 諸教會は其信仰を固うせられて、人員も日々に彌増しつつありき。
And so the churches were established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
6 兩人フリジア及びガラチア地方を過りしに、聖霊[小]アジアに於て神の御言を語る事を戒め給ひしが、
And when they had passed through Phrygia and Galatia, being forbidden by the holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia, they came to Mysia, and endeavoured to go to Bithynia:
7 又ミジア[州]に至りて、ビチニア[州]へ往かんと試みしも、イエズスの霊之を許し給はざりき。
but the Spirit suffered them not.
8 斯てミジアを経てトロアデに下りけるに、
So they passed by Mysia, and came down to Troas.
9 パウロ夜中幻影を示され、一人のマケドニア人立ち居りて己を頼み、マケドニアに渡りて我等を救へ、と云へるを見たり。
And Paul saw a vision in the night, There stood a certain man of Macedonia, intreating him and saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.
10 パウロ此幻影を見るや、己等がマケドニア人に福音を傳ふる為に神より召されたる事を確信して、直にマケドニアへ赴かんと力めたり。
And as soon as he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to depart into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord called us to preach the gospel to them.
11 然て我等トロアデより出帆してサモトラキアへ直航し、翌日ネエプルに至り、
Therefore we set sail from Troas, and came in a direct course to Samothracia, and the day following to Neapolis;
12 其處よりマケドニアの取付の都會にして殖民地なるフィリッピに至れり。數日の間此市に留り、
and from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a Roman colony. And we staid some time in this city.
13 安息日に當りて市の門外に出で、河の辺の祈場と思しき處に往き、集りたる婦等に坐りつつ語りけるに、
And on the sabbath-day we went out of the city to a river-side, where there used to be prayer: and we sat down and preached to the women that resorted thither.
14 テアチロ町の紅色染料商にして神を尊べるルヂアと云へる婦之を聴きけるを、主其心を開きて、パウロより言はるる事に傾かしめ給ひ、
And a certain woman named Lydia, a purple-seller of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things that were spoken by Paul.
15 彼一家と共に洗せられしが、願ひて、汝等我を主に忠實なる者とせば我家に入りて留れ、と云ひて、強ひて我等を入らしめたり。
And when she was baptized and her family, she requested us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and lodge there. And she constrained us.
16 爰に祈場に往く途中、卜筮の鬼神に憑かれて、卜筮を以て其主人等に許多の利益を得させつつある一人の女、我等に出會ひしが、
Now as we were going to the place of prayer, there met us a young woman that had a spirit of divination, who brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.
17 其女パウロと我等の後に從ひつつ呼はりて、此人等は最高き神の僕にして、汝等に救霊の道を告ぐる者なり、と云ひ居たり。
She following Paul and us, cried out, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, who shew us the way of salvation.
18 斯の如くする事數日にして、パウロ甚く心を痛め、回顧りて鬼神に向ひ、我イエズス、キリストの御名によりて、汝に此女より出る事を命ず、と云ひしかば彼即時に出でたり。
And this she did for many days. But Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.
19 然るに其主人等は、己が利益の望無くなりたるを見て、パウロとシラとを捕へ、官吏の許に市場まで連行きて、
And he came out that instant. And when her masters saw, that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the court to the magistrates.
20 官吏に差出し、此人々はユデア人にして、我等の市中を亂し、
And when they brought them to the governors, they said, These men cause great disturbance in our city, for they are Jews, and teach customs,
21 ロマ人たる我等の受くべからず行ふべからざる慣習を傳うる者なり、と云ひ、
which it is not lawful for us to receive, nor practise, who are Romans.
22 人民も馳來りて使徒等に反對せしかば、官吏は命じて其襦袢を裂かせ、之を鞭たせ、
And the populace rose up together against them: and the officers stripped off their clothes, and ordered them to be scourged.
23 多くの傷を負はせて後監獄に送り、固く守るべき由を看守に命じたり。
And when they had given them many stripes, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely.
24 看守は斯る命令を受けたれば、二人を奥の監房に入れ、桎にて足を締めたりしが、
Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25 夜半に至り、パウロとシラと祈りて神を賛美し、監獄に居る人々之を聞き居たるに、
Now in the middle of the night Paul and Silas were praying and singing praises to God, and the prisoners heard them.
26 忽ち大地震ありて、監獄は基礎まで震動し、戸は直に悉く開けて、一同の縲絏解けたり。
And on a sudden there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bonds were loosed.
27 看守醒めて監獄の戸を開けたるを見、囚徒の逃げし事と思ひ、刀を抜きて自殺せんとしければ、
The jailor waking, and seeing the prison-doors open, drew his sword and was going to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners were fled.
28 パウロ聲高く呼はりて云ひけるは、自害すな、我等皆此處に在り、と。
But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
29 看守燈火を求めて内に入り、戰きつつパウロとシラとの足下に平伏し、
Then he called for lights, and sprang in, and being in a tremor fell down before Paul and Silas:
30 伴ひて外に出で、君等よ、我何を為してか救霊を得べき、と云ひしかば、
and bringing them out, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31 彼等云ひけるは、主イエズスを信仰せよ、然らば汝も家族も救霊を得べし、とて、
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thine house.
32 看守と其家に在る人々一同とに主の御言を語りしかば、
And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all in his family.
33 看守夜中ながら即時に兩人を引取りて其傷を洗ひ、己も家族も皆直に洗せられしが、
And he took them at that very time of the night, and bathed their stripes: and was baptized, he and all his immediately after.
34 尚彼等を自宅に伴ひて之に食卓を備へ、家族一同と共に神を信じて喜べり。
And he brought them into his house, and spread a table for them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his household.
35 拂暁に至り、官吏は刑吏を遣はして、彼人々を赦せ、と云はせしかば、
And when it was the day the governors sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
36 看守此事をパウロに告げて、官吏汝等を赦せとて人を遣はしたる故、今は出でて恙なく往け、と云ひけるな、
And the jailor told these words to Paul, saying, the governors have sent orders, that you should be discharged; now therefore depart, and go in peace.
37 パウロ刑吏に云ひけるは、彼等は我々を公に鞭たせ、ロマ人たる者を裁判なくして監獄に入れたるに、今窃に我々を追出すか、然あるべからず、彼等來りて、
But Paul said unto them, They have publicly beaten us, uncondemned, and Romans, and cast us into prison, and do they now turn us out privately? No verily, let them come themselves and fetch us out.
38 自ら我々を出すべし、と。刑吏此事を告げしかば、官吏は其ロマ人たる事を聞きて懼れ、
And the serjeants reported these words to the governors: and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.
39 來り詫びて二人を伴出で、此市を去らん事ことを乞ひたり。
And they came and intreated them, and when they had brought them out, they desired them to leave the city.
40 斯てパウロとシラとは監獄より出でてルジアの家に入り、兄弟等に逢ひて之を慰め、然て出立したりき。
And when they were come out of the prison, they went into the house of Lydia: and seeing the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
