使徒の働き 23
1 パウロ議員の方を熟視めて云ひけるは、兄弟たる人々よ、我今日に至るまで、良心を盡して神の御前に事へたり、と。
THEN Paul, looking earnestly at the sanhedrim, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience unto God even to this day.
2 是に於て司祭長アナニア、立添へる人々に、パウロの口を打てと命ぜしかば、
Then the high-priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
3 パウロ之に謂ひけるは、白塗の壁よ、神は汝を打ち給はん、汝律法の儘に我を審かんとて坐しながら、律法に反して命じて我を打たしむるか、と。
Then said Paul unto him, God is ready to smite thee, thou whited wall: for art thou sitting to judge me according to the law, and violating that law, commandest me to be smitten?
4 立會へる人々、汝神の大司祭を詛ふや、と云ひしに、
Then they who stood by, said, Revilest thou God’s high-priest?
5 パウロ云ひけるは、兄弟等よ、我其大司祭なる事を知らざりき。蓋録して「汝が民の君を詛ふこと勿れ」とあり、と。
And Paul said, I had not observed, brethren, that he was high-priest: for it is written, “Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.”
6 パウロ議員の一部はサドカイ人なるに、一部はファリザイ人なる事を知りて、議會に呼はりけるは、兄弟たる人々よ、我はファリザイ人の子にして、ファリザイ人なるが、死人の復活の希望の為に裁判せらるるなり、と。
Now when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried in the sanhedrim, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: for the hope and resurrection of the dead am I brought to this bar.
7 斯く云ひしかば、ファリザイ人とサドカイ人との間に激論起りて、會衆分裂せり。
So when he had said this, a great dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
8 其はサドカイ人は復活も天使も霊も無しと言ふを、ファリザイ人は孰れも有りと主張すればなり。
For the Sadducees say indeed, that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
9 然て凄じき叫喚となりて、ファリザイ人中の或者等立争ひて云ひけるは、我等此人に何等の惡をも認めず、若霊又は天使ありて彼に語りたらんには如何、とて、
And a great clamour arose: and the scribes rising up who were of the party of the Pharisees, contended stoutly, saying, We find no fault in this man: but if a spirit have spoken to him, or an angel, let us not fight against God.
10 激しき争ひとなりしかば、千夫長パウロが彼等に引裂かれん事を恐れて、兵卒に命じ、下りて彼等の中よりパウロを奪取り、営内に牽入れしめたり。
Then a great tumult arising, the tribune, apprehensive that Paul might be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the guard to go down, and take him by force from the midst of them, and bring him into the fortress.
11 次夜、主忽ちパウロの傍に現れて曰ひけるは、励め、蓋エルザレムに於て我を證したるが如く、ロマに於ても證せざるべからず、と。
And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage, Paul: for as thou hast borne testimony of the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so must thou bear a testimony at Rome also.
12 夜明けて、或ユデア人等相集り、誓ひてパウロを殺すまでは飲食すまじと言へり。
Then as soon as it was day, some of the Jews forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under the direst imprecation, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
13 此企に與りし者四十人以上なりしが、
Now there were more than forty who had on oath formed this conspiracy.
14 司祭長と長老等との許に至りて云ひけるは、我等大願を立てて、パウロを殺すまでは何をも口に入れじと誓へり。
So they came to the high-priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves by the direst imprecation, to taste nothing till we have killed Paul.
15 然れば、パウロの事情を尚詳しく知らんとする如くにして、彼を汝等の前に出頭せしむる様、千夫長に報知せよ、我等其近づかざる中に之を殺さんと覚悟せり、と。
Now therefore do ye with the sanhedrim give notice to the military tribune, that to-morrow he bring him down to you, as if intending to make more accurate inquiries into the things concerning him: but we, ere he come nigh, are ready to kill him.
16 パウロが姉妹の子、此惡計を聞きて、行きて兵営の内に入りパウロに之を告げしかば、
Now Paul’s sister’s son having heard of their lying in wait, came, and entering into the fortress told Paul.
17 パウロ一人の百夫長を呼びて云ひけるは、請ふ此青年を千夫長の許に携へ往け、其は彼に告ぐべき事あればなり、と。
Then Paul calling to him one of the centurions, said, Carry this young man to the tribune: for he hath something to communicate to him.
18 百夫長携へて之を千夫長の許に導き、然て云ひけるは、囚人パウロ我に請ふに、汝に語るべき事ある此青年を汝の許に導かん事を以てせり、と。
Then he took him, and brought him to the tribune, and said, The prisoner Paul calling me to him, entreated me to bring this young man to thee, having something to say to thee.
19 千夫長青年の手を取りて別所に連行き、我に語るべき事とは何事ぞ、と問ひしかば、
Hereupon the tribune taking him by the hand, and leading him aside, inquired, What is it that thou hast to communicate to me?
20 彼云ひけるは、ユデア人申合せて、パウロの事情を尚確に尋問せんとする如くにして、明日パウロを議會に出頭せしめん事を汝に申出でんとす、
And he said, The Jews have agreed together to entreat thee that to-morrow thou wouldest bring down Paul into the sanhedrim, as about to make some more accurate inquiry concerning him.
21 然れど彼等を信ずること勿れ、其は彼等の中四十人以上の者等、彼を殺すまでは飲食せずと誓ひ、今既に準備して、汝の約束を待ちつつあればなり、と。
But do not thou consent to them: for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under an anathema, neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now they are in readiness, waiting only to procure the promise from thee.
22 千夫長、此事を我に告げたりと誰にも語ること勿れ、と戒めて青年を返し、
Hereupon the tribune dismissed the youth, with an injunction, not to mention it to any body that thou hast discovered these things to me.
23 然て二人の百夫長を呼びて云ひけるは、汝等カイザリアに向けて、兵卒二百人、騎兵七十人、槍持二百人を夜の九時より仕立てさせ、
And calling to him two certain persons of the centurions, he said, Get ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night;
24 又馬を備へてパウロを乗らしめ、無事に総督フェリクスの許へ伴ひ行かしめよ、と。
and provide beasts, that setting Paul thereon, you may convey him safely to Felix the governor.
25 是ユデア人がパウロを捕へて殺す事あらば、己賄賂を受けたる如く、後に至りて讒訴せられん事を恐れし故なり。
And he wrote a letter containing this form of words:
26 然て書添へたる書簡の文左の如し、
Claudius Lysias to his excellence the governor Felix, greeting.
27 クロウヂオ、ルジア、最尊き総督フェリクスに挨拶す。此人ユデア人に捕へられて既に殺されんとせしを、我其ロマ人たる事を聞き、軍隊を牽往きて救出したるが、
This person had been seized by the Jews, and was ready to be slain by them: but coming on them with the guard, I rescued him out of their hands, having understood that he was a Roman citizen.
28 彼等の之を咎むる所以を知らんと欲して、之を其議會に召連れたるに、
And desirous of knowing the crime of which they accused him, I brought him down into their sanhedrim
29 我は其訴へらるる所が彼等の律法に関する問題たるを認めて、聊も死刑若くは入獄に當る罪あるを認めず、
and found him accused of some disputed points of their law; but to have no charge laid against him worthy of death or of bonds.
30 加之彼等之を害せんとする企ありと告げられたれば、之を汝の許に送り、告訴人にも、汝の法廷に起訴せよ、と告示せり、汝健康なれ、と。
But it being discovered to me that a design was forming against the man’s life by the Jews, immediately I sent him to thee, commanding his accusers also to produce what they have against him before thee. Farewel.
31 然れば兵卒等は命令に從ひ、パウロを携へて夜中にアンチパトリに連行き、
Hereupon then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night unto Antipatris.
32 明日は騎兵を殘して之に伴はしめ、然て己等は兵営に返りしが、
And on the morrow, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the fortress.
33 騎兵はカイザリアに至り、総督に添書を渡して、パウロをも其前に立たしめたり。
So when they came to Caesarea, and had delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also to him.
34 総督添書を読みて、本國は何國ぞ、と問ひ、其シリシア州なる由を聞きしかば、
Then when the governor had read it, and asked of what province he was, and understood he was of Cilicia;
35 汝の告訴人來りて後汝に聞くべし、と云ひて、命じてパウロをヘロデの邸内に護らしめたり。
I will give thee a thorough hearing, said he, when thy accusers are also come hither. And he commanded them to be kept under guard in Herod’s praetorium.
