使徒の働き 6
1 第一 執事の選挙 其頃弟子の數の加はるに随ひ、ギリシア語のユデア人、其寡婦等が毎日の施に漏らされたりとて、ヘブレオ語のユデア人に對して呟くに至りしかば、
NOW in those days, when the disciples were multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian proselytes against the Hebrews, because their widows were overlooked in the daily distribution.
2 十二使徒許多の弟子を呼集めて云ひけるは、我等が神の御言を措て食卓に給仕するは、道理に非ず。
Then the twelve assembling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not fit that we should leave the word of God, to make distribution to the tables.
3 故に兄弟等よ、汝等の中より、聖霊と知慮とに充ちて好評ある者七人を選め、我等之に此事務を宰らしめ、
Therefore, brethren, do ye look out for seven men from among yourselves, the best approved, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint to superintend this business.
4 自らは祈祷と宣教とに身を委ねん、と。
But we will devote ourselves constantly to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
5 此言群衆一同の心に適ひしかば、信仰と聖霊とに充てるステファノ並にフィリッポ、プロコロ、ニカノル、チモン、パルメナ、又ユデア教に歸依したりしアンチオキアのニコラを選みて、
And this saying was very agreeable to all the multitude: and they elected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicholas a proselyte a man of Antioch:
6 使徒等の前に差出したるに、使徒等は祈祷しつつ之に按手せり。
whom they presented before the apostles: and having prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
7 斯て主の御言益弘まり、エルザレムに於て弟子の數の増す事非常にして、司祭の信仰に歸服したる者も亦夥しかりき。
And the word of God increased: and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplied greatly; and a vast body of the priests were obedient to the faith.
8 第二 ステファノ衆議所に引かる 斯てステファノは恩寵と勇氣とに充ちて、大いなる奇蹟と徴とを人民の中に行ひ居たりしが、
Now Stephen, full of faith and of power, wrought great miracles and signs among the people.
9 或人々は、所謂被解放者の會堂、及びクレネ人、アレキサンドリア人、及びシリシアと[小]アジアとの出身者の諸會堂より起ちて、ステファノと争論すれども、
Then rose up certain men of the synagogue of the freed-men, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
10 彼の智恵と彼に於て語り給へる聖霊とに抵抗する事能はざりき。
And they could not resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.
11 然れば彼等或人々を教唆して、我等は彼がモイゼと神とを冒涜する言を出せるを聞けり、と云はしめ、
Then they suborned men to say, We heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses, and against God.
12 終に人民と長老と律法學士とを煽動して、一斉に飛掛りて之を捕へ、衆議所に引出し、
And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and coming upon him, they seized him together, and dragged him to the sanhedrim;
13 僞證人を立てて云はせけるは、此人は聖所と律法とに反する言を語りて止まず、
and they set up false witnesses, saying, This man doth not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
14 即ち我等は、彼ナザレトのイエズス此所を亡ぼし、モイゼの我等に傳へし例を變ふべし、と彼が言ふを聞けり、と。
for we have heard him affirm, that Jesus the Nazarean, even he, will destroy this place, and change the accustomed ordinances which Moses delivered to us.
15 斯て議會に列座せる人、一同に目を注ぎてステファノを見れば、其顔恰も天使の顔の如くなりき。
And fixing their eyes upon him, all who sat in the sanhedrim, beheld his face as the face of an angel.
