使徒の働き 3
1 第一 ペトロ生來の跛者を全癒せしむ 午後三時の祈祷に、ペトロとヨハネと[神]殿に上れるに、
One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o’clock Prayers, a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by.
2 爰に生れながら跛へたる一人の男、[神]殿に入る人々に施を乞はんとて、毎日美門と云へる[神]殿の門に舁据ゑられてありしが、
This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called ‘the Beautiful Gate,’ to beg of those who went in.
3 ペトロとヨハネとの[神]殿に入らんとするを見て施を乞ひければ、
Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something.
4 ペトロ、ヨハネと共に之を眺めて、我等を看よ、と云ひけるに、
Peter fixed his eyes on him, and so did John, and then Peter said: “Look at us.”
5 彼何物をか貰はん心構にて彼等を熟視め居たりしかば、
The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;
6 ペトロ云ひけるは、我に金銀なし、然れど我が有てる物をば汝に與へん、ナザレトのイエズス、キリストの御名によりて立ちて歩め、と。
but Peter added: “I have no gold or silver, but I give you what I have. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I bid you walk.”
7 乃ち其右の手を取りて之を起したるに、其脛及び蹠直に力づきて、
Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong,
8 踊立ちて歩みしが、且歩み、且踊り、且神を賛美しつつ彼等と共に[神]殿に入れり。
and, leaping up, he stood and began to walk about, and then went with them into the Temple Courts, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9 人民皆彼が神を賛美しつつ歩めるを見しが、
All the people saw him walking about and praising God;
10 其の曾て[神]殿の美門に坐して施を乞ひ居たりし者なるを知れば、之が上に成りし事に驚入りて、感嘆に堪へざりき。
and, when they recognised him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were utterly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.
11 斯て彼ペトロとヨハネとの手を握り居たれば、人民皆驚きつつ、サロモン廊と呼ばれたる殿廊を指して彼等の許に馳集へり。
While the man still clung to Peter and John, the people all quickly gathered round them in the Colonnade named after Solomon, in the greatest astonishment.
12 第二 ペトロ神殿にて談話す ペトロ之を見て人民に答へけるは、イスラエル人よ、何ぞ此事を驚くや、又何ぞ恰も我々の徳若くは力によりて此人を歩ませしが如くに我等を眺むるや。
On seeing this, Peter said to the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? and why do you stare at us, as though we, by any power or piety of our own, had enabled this man to walk?
13 アブラハムの神、イザアクの神、ヤコブの神、我等の先祖の神が、其御子イエズスに光榮を歸し給ひしなり、是即ち汝等が付して、ピラトの之を赦すべしと判定せるを、其面前に否みし者なり。
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honour to his Servant Jesus — him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.
14 汝等聖なるもの義なるものを否みて、殺人者を赦されん事を求め、
You, I say, disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for the release of a murderer!
15 却て生命の造主を殺ししに、神は之を死者の中より復活せしめ給へり、我等は其證人なり。
The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead — and of that we are ourselves witnesses.
16 彼の御名に於る信仰によりて、其御名は汝等の見且知れる此人を力づかしめたり。イエズスに由れる信仰こそ、汝等一同の前に斯る全癒を得させたるなれ。
And it is by faith in the Name of Jesus, that this man, whom you all see and know, has — by his Name — been made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you all.
17 兄弟等よ、我今にして知る、汝等の司等が為ししに等しく、汝等が不知によりて之を為ししことを。
And yet, my Brothers, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.
18 然れど神は、諸の預言者の口を以て、豫めキリストの苦しむべき事を告げ給ひしを、斯の如くにして全うし給ひしなり。
But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the Prophets.
19 然れば汝等罪を消されん為に、改心して立歸れ。
Therefore, repent and turn, that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,
20 是亦主の御前より爽しめの時來りて、預定せられ給ひしイエズス、キリストを汝等に遣はし給はん為なり。
and that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.
But Heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy Prophets from the very first. (aiōn g165)
22 即ちモイゼに曰く、「汝等の神なる主は、汝等の兄弟の中より我が如き一人の預言者を汝等に起し給はん、其汝等に語らん程の事は、汝等悉く之を聴くべし、
Moses himself said — ‘The Lord your God will raise up from among your brothers a Prophet, as he raised me. To him you will listen whenever he speaks to you.
23 斯て総て此預言者に聴かざる人は、必ず人民の中より亡ぼさるべし」、と。
And it shall be that should any one among the people not listen to that Prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.’
24 サムエル以來語りし預言者、皆此日の事を告げたり。
Yes, and all the Prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.
25 汝等は預言者等の子等なり、又神が、「地上の諸族悉く汝の裔を以て祝せられん」、とアブラハムに曰ひて、我等の先祖に為し給ひし契約の子等なり。
You yourselves are the heirs of the Prophets, and heirs, too, of the Covenant which God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham — ‘In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed.’
26 神は先汝等の為にこそ、御子を起して汝等を祝福し給ふ者を遣はし給ひしなれ、是各自ら其不義より立歸らん為なり、と。
For you, first, God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways.”
