使徒の働き 22
1 兄弟にして父たる人々よ、我が汝等に述べんとする事由を聞け、と。
"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
2 人々彼がヘブレオ語にて語るを聞きて一層沈黙せり。
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
3 斯てパウロ言ひけるは、我はユデア人にして、シリシアのタルソに生れ、此市中に育てられ、先祖の律法の眞理に從ひてガマリエルの足下に教へられ、律法の為に奮励せしは、恰も今日汝等一同の為せる如くなりき。
"I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the Law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.
4 我が男女を縛り且拘留して、死に至らしむるまで此道を迫害せしは、
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
5 司祭長及び長老會が我に就きて證明せるが如し。我又彼等より兄弟等に宛てたる書簡を受け、人々を縛りてエルザレムに牽き、刑を受けしめんとてダマスコへ往きつつありしに、
As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
6 ダマスコに近づかんとする途中、日中に忽ち大いなる光ありて我を圍照せり。
It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.
7 然て地に倒れて、サウロよ、サウロよ、何故に我を迫害するぞ、と我に謂へる聲を聞き、
I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
8 主よ、汝は誰ぞ、と答へしに、我は汝が迫害せるナザレトのイエズスなり、と謂はれたり。
I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazorean, whom you persecute.'
9 伴侶なる人々は光を見たれど、我に語れる者の聲をば聞分けざりき。
"Those who were with me indeed saw the light, and were afraid, but they did not understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
10 然て我、主よ、何を為すべきぞ、と云ひたるに主曰はく、立ちてダマスコに往け、総て汝の為に定りたる事は其處にて言はるべし、と。
I said, 'What should I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.'
11 斯て我は彼光の輝の為に目見えざれば、伴侶の人に手を引かれてダマスコに至れり。
When I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
12 然るにアナニアとて、律法を遵奉し敬虔にして、當地に住めるユデア人一般に好評ある人、
One Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
13 我許に來り側に立ちて、兄弟サウロ、見よ、と言ひしかば我即時に之を見たり。
came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight.' In that very hour I looked up at him.
14 彼又言ひけるは、我等の先祖の神は、汝をして御旨を知り、義なる者を見、其口づから聲を聞かしめん事を豫定し給へり。
He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
15 其は汝見聞せし事に就きて、萬民に彼が證人たるべければなり。
For you will be a witness for him to all people of what you have seen and heard.
16 今は何をか躊躇ふぞや、立ちて洗せられよ、御名を頼みて汝の罪を滌去れ、と。
Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.'
17 斯て我エルザレムに返り、神殿にて祈れる折、氣を奪はるる如くになりて、
"It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
18 主を見奉りしが、主我に向ひて、急げ、早くエルザレムを出でよ、其は人々我に関する汝の證明を承容れざるべければなり、と曰へり。
and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'
19 其時我、主よ、我が曾て主を信ずる人々を監獄に閉籠め、之を諸會堂にて鞭ちし事、
I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
20 又主の證人ステファノの血の流されし時に立會ひ、且賛成して之を殺す人々の上衣を守りたりし事は、彼等の知る所なり、と言ひたるに、
When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'
21 主我に曰ひけるは、往け、汝を遠く異邦人に遣はすべし、と。
"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to non-Jewish people.'"
22 人々此言まで聴きけるが、是に至りて聲張揚げ、斯る者を地上より取除けよ、活くるに足らず、と謂ひて、
They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he is not fit to live."
23 叫びつつ衣服を脱棄て、且空中に塵を投飛しければ、
As they yelled, and threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
24 千夫長命じてパウロを兵営に牽入れしめ、又人々が彼に對して斯くまでに叫ぶことの何故なるかを知らんとて、鞭たしめ拷問せしめんとせり。
the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they yelled at him like that.
25 然れば人々革紐を以て縛りたるに、パウロ側に立てる百夫長に謂ひけるは、ロマ人にして而も宣告せられざる者を汝等が鞭つこと可きか、と。
When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"
26 百夫長之を聞きて千夫長に近づき、告げて、汝如何にせんとするぞ、此人はロマの公民なる者を、と云ひしかば、
When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, "What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman."
27 千夫長近づきてパウロに謂ひけるは、我に告げよ、汝はロマ人なりや、と。パウロ、然り、と云ひしに、
The commanding officer came and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman?" He said, "Yes."
28 千夫長、我は大金を以て此公民権を得たり、と答へしかばパウロ、我は尚生れながらにして然り、と云へり。
The commanding officer answered, "I bought my citizenship for a great price." Paul said, "But I was born a Roman."
29 是に於て拷問せんとせし人々忽ち立去り、千夫長も亦、其ロマ公民たる事を知りて後は、之を縛りたるが為に懼れたり。
Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
30 第六項 パウロ衆議所に出頭しカイザリアへ護送せらる 翌日パウロがユデア人に訴へらるる所以を尚詳しく知らんとて、千夫長は其縲絏を釈き、命じて司祭等と全議會とを招集し、パウロを牽出して其前に立たしめたり。
But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
