使徒の働き 24
1 第七項 カイザリアに於るパウロの入獄 五日の後、司祭長アナニア、或長老等、及びテルトルロと云へる一人の弁士と共に下りて、総督の許にパウロを告訴したり。
And, after five days, came down the High-priest Ananias, with certain Elders and a certain orator Tertullus, and they informed the governor against Paul.
2 パウロ呼出されければ、テルトルロ訴へを開きて云ひけるは、最尊きフェリクスよ、我等が汝の庇陰によりて泰平の中に生活し、且汝の先見によりて人民の為に改良せらるる事多きは、
And, when he was called, Tertullus began to make accusation, saying—Seeing that, great peace, we are obtaining through thee, and that, reforms, are being brought about for this nation through thy forethought,
3 何時にても何處にても、我等が感謝に堪へざる所なり。
both in all ways and in all places, are we accepting it, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
4 然て汝の暇を缺くまじきが故に、希はくは例の寛仁を以て、暫く我等に聴かれん事を、
But, lest I too long detain thee, I beseech thee to hear us concisely in thy considerateness.
5 我等は此人が疫病の如き者にして、世界至る處、凡てのユデア人中に騒亂を牽起し、ナザレト人の一揆の張本にして、
For, finding this man a pest, and moving sedition with all the Jews that are throughout the inhabited earth, a leader also of the sect of the Nazarenes, —
6 [神]殿を汚さんとまで努めたる事を認めたり。我等は之を捕へ、我律法に從ひて裁判せんと思ひしに、
who also attempted to desecrate even, the temple, whom we also seized,
7 千夫長ルジア不意に來り、多勢を以て我等の手より之を奪去り、
8 其告訴人に命ずるに、汝の許に至らん事を以てせり。汝之に聞糺さば、我等が之を告訴する一切の事情を知り得べし、と。
from whom thou shall be able, thyself, by making examination concerning all these things, to ascertain the things of which, we, are accusing him.
9 ユデア人も亦之に加へて、総て其如し、と言へり。
Moreover, the Jews also were joining in the attack, saying that, these things, were, so.
10 総督點頭きて發言を許ししかばパウロ答へけるは、我汝が多年此國民の上に判事たる事を知れば、快く我為に弁解せん。
And Paul answered, when the governor had motioned him to be speaking, —Well knowing thee to have been, for many years, judge unto his nation, cheerfully, as to the things concerning myself, do I make defence;
11 蓋汝の了解し得らるるが如く、我が禮拝の為エルザレムに上りたる後、未十二日以上に達せず、
seeing thou art able to ascertain, that there are, not more, than twelve days, since I went up to worship in Jerusalem, —
12 又彼等我を[神]殿に認めたるも、人と論じ合へるにも非ず、又會堂にも市中にも、人民を召集したりしにも非ず、
and neither, in the temple, found they me, with any one, disputing, or causing, a halt, of the multitude, either in the synagogues or throughout the city, —
13 今我を告訴する點に就きても、彼等は之を證する能はざるなり。
neither can they make good the things concerning which they are, now, accusing me.
14 然りながら我汝に自白せん、即ち我は彼等が異端と呼べる道に從ひて、我先祖等の神に事へ奉り、凡て律法及び預言者の書に録したる事を信じ、
But I confess, this, unto thee, —That, according to the Way which they call a Sect, so, I am rendering divine service unto my father’s God, believing in all the things which, throughout the law, and those which, in the prophets, are written:
15 彼等自らも待てる義者不義者の未來の復活を、神に由りて希望するなり。
Having, hope, towards God, which, even these themselves, do entertain—that, a resurrection, there shall certainly be, both of righteous and of unrighteous:
16 我は之に因りて、神に對し又人に對して、良心を常に咎なく保たん事を力む。
herein, even I, myself, am studying to have, an unoffending conscience, towards God and men, continually.
17 數年を経て我わが國民に施を為し、且供物と誓願とを為さん為に來りしが、
Now, after many years, intending to do, alms, unto my nation, I arrived, —also [to present] offerings; among which they found me, purified in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with tumult;
18 其際アジアより來りし數人のユデア人我が既に潔められたるを、[神]殿に見付けたれど、群衆もなく騒亂もなかりき。
but certain Jews from Asia [caused it], —
19 我に咎むべき事あらば、彼等こそ汝の前に立ちて告訴すべきなれ。
who ought, before thee, to have presented themselves, and to have been laying accusation, if, anything, they might have had against me: —
20 若又此人々にして、我が其會議に立ちし時、何等かの不正なる廉を見出したるならば、彼等自ら言ふべし。
Or, let, these themselves, say what wrong they found, when I stood before the High-council, —
21 其は唯我が彼等の中に立ち、呼はりて、我が今日汝等に裁判せらるるは、死者の復活に就きてなり、と云ひし一聲の外なかるべし、と。
unless concerning this one voice, wherewith I cried aloud among them, as I stood—Concerning the raising of the dead, am, I, to be judged, this day, by you.
22 フェリクス此道の事を最詳しく知りたりければ、裁判を延期して云ひけるは、千夫長ルジアの下りて後、汝等に聞かん、と。
And Felix deferred them, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, —saying—As soon as, Lysias the captain, hath come down, I will give judgment as to your affairs, —
23 斯て百夫長に命ずるに、パウロを寛がしめ、友人の一人にだも之に供給するを禁ずる事なくして護るべき由を以てせり。
giving orders unto the centurion, that he should be kept, and have a measure of liberty, and to be hindering, none, of his own from waiting upon him.
24 數日の後フェリクス、ユデア人なる其妻ドルジルラと共に來り、パウロを招きてキリスト、イエズスに於る信仰の事を聞きしが、
And, after certain days, Felix having arrived, with Drusilla his own wife, who was, a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith, respecting Christ Jesus.
25 パウロ正義と貞操と未來の審判とに就きて論じければ、フェリクス戰きて答へけるは、當分は引取りて在れ、我好き機を得て汝を招かん、と。
And, as he was reasoning of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix, becoming greatly afraid, answered—For the present, be going thy way, and, when I find an opportunity, I will send for thee, —
26 加之フェリクスは、パウロより金を與へられん事を望めるが故に、數次之を招きて語りつつありしが、
at the same time, also hoping that, money, would be given him by Paul; wherefore also, the more frequently sending for him, he used to converse with him.
27 二年を経てポルチオ、フェストを後任者に獲たりければ、ユデア人を喜ばしめんとてパウロを繋ぎたる儘に措けり。
When, however, two years, were completed, Felix, was succeeded, by Porcius Festus, and Felix, wishing to gain favour with the Jews, left Paul bound.
