使徒の働き 9
1 第一 サウロの不思議なる改心 サウロは主の弟子等に對して、尚脅喝、殺害の毒氣を吐きつつ司祭長に至り、
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the High Priest,
2 ダマスコの諸會堂に寄する書簡を乞へり。是此道の男女を見出さば、縛りてエルザレムに引行かん為なりき。
and asked him to give him letters to the Jewish congregations at Damascus, authorising him, if he found there any supporters of the Cause, whether men or women, to have them put in chains and brought to Jerusalem.
3 斯て途中ダマスコ附近に至りけるに、忽ち天より光來りて彼を圍照ししかば、
While on his journey, as he was nearing Damascus, suddenly a light from the heavens flashed around him.
4 彼地に倒れつつ、サウロよサウロよ何ぞ我を迫害する、と云ふ聲あるを聞きて、
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him — “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
5 主よ、汝は誰ぞ、と云ひけるに彼者、我は汝の迫害せるイエズスなり、刺ある鞭に逆らふは汝に取りて難し、と云へり。
“Who are you, Lord?” he asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” the voice answered;
6 サウロ戰き且驚入りて、主よ、我に何を為さしめんと思召したるぞ、と云ひしに主曰ひけるは、起きて市中に入れ、汝の為すべき事は彼處にて告げらるべし、と。
“Yet stand up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
7 此時、伴へる人々は、聲をば聞きながら誰をも見ざれば、惘果てて佇みたりしが、
The men traveling with Saul were meanwhile standing speechless; they heard the sound of the voice, but saw no one.
8 サウロ地より起きて目を開けども、何も見えざりしかば、人其手を引きてダマスコに導きしに、
When Saul got up from the ground, though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So his men led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus;
9 三日の間此處に在りて目見えず飲食せざりき。
and for three days he was unable to see, and took nothing either to eat or to drink.
10 然るにダマスコにアナニアと云へる弟子ありしが、主幻影に、アナニアよ、と曰ひしかば彼、主よ、我此處に在り、と云ひしを、
Now there was at Damascus a disciple named Ananias, to whom, in a vision, the Lord said: “Ananias.” “Yes, Lord,” he answered.
11 主又之に曰ひけるは、起ちて、直と云へる町に往き、ユダの家にサウロと名くるタルソ人を尋ねよ、看よ彼祈り居るなり、と。
“Go at once,” said the Lord, “to the ‘Straight Street’, and ask at Judas’s house for a man named Saul, from Tarsus. He is at this moment praying,
12 此時サウロは、アナニアと名くる人の入來りて、視力を回復せん為に己に按手するを見たりしなり。
and he has seen, in a vision, a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him, so that he may recover his sight.”
13 然れどアナニア答へけるは、主よ、此人がエルザレムに於て主の聖徒等に為しし害の如何許なるかは、我多くの人に聞きしが、
“Lord,” exclaimed Ananias, “I have heard from many people about this man — how much harm he has done at Jerusalem to your People there.
14 此處にても彼は司祭長より受けて、主の御名を呼頼む人を悉く捕縛するの権を有せり、と。
And, here, too, he holds authority from the Chief Priests to put in chains all those who invoke your Name.”
15 主アナニアに曰ひけるは、往け、蓋彼は異邦人、國王、及びイスラエルの子等の前に我名を持行く為に、我が選みし器なり、
But the Lord said to him: “Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my Name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.
16 故に我名の為には、如何許苦しむべきかを我之に示さんとす、と。
I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name.”
17 是に於てアナニア往きて家に入り、サウロに按手して、兄弟サウロよ、汝の來れる路にて汝に現れ給ひし主イエズス、汝が視力を回復し、且聖霊に満たされん為に我を遣はし給へり、と云ひしかば、
So Ananias went, entered the house, and, placing his hands on Saul, said: “Saul, my Brother, I have been sent by the Lord — by Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here — so that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
18 忽ちサウロの目より鱗の如きもの落ちて、視力を回復し、起ちて洗せられしが、
Instantly it seemed as if a film fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. Then he got up and was baptized,
19 軈て食事して力づけり。然て數日の間、ダマスコの弟子等と共に居りて、
and, after he had taken food, he felt his strength return. Saul stayed for some days with the disciples who were at Damascus,
20 直に諸會堂に於てイエズスの事、即ち其神の御子たる事を宣傳へければ、
and at once began in the Synagogues to proclaim Jesus as the Son of God.
21 聞く人皆惘果てて、是は曾て彼名を呼頼める人々をエルザレムに於て迫害し居たりし者にて、又彼が此に來りしは、彼等を捕縛して、司祭長に引渡さん為ならずや、と云ひ居たれど、
All who heard him were amazed. “Is not this,” they asked, “the man who worked havoc in Jerusalem among those that invoke this Name, and who had also come here for the express purpose of having such persons put in chains and taken before the Chief Priests?”
22 サウロは愈力増りて、此イエズスはキリストなりと断言し、ダマスコに住めるユデア人を閉口せしめつつありき。
Saul’s influence, however, kept steadily increasing, and he confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by the proofs that he gave that Jesus was the Christ.
23 日頃経てユデア人一同、サウロを殺さんと協議せしが、
After some time the Jews laid a plot to kill Saul,
24 其計略サウロに知られたり。斯て彼等、サウロを殺さんとて、晝夜[市街の]門を守りけるに、
but it became known to him. They even watched the gates day and night, to kill him;
25 弟子等夜中に之を引取りて籠に入れ、城壁より吊下して逃れしめたり。
but his disciples let him down by night through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.
26 サウロ、エルザレムに至り、努めて弟子等の中に連ならんとすれども、皆彼が弟子たる事を信ぜずして之を恐れければ、
On his arrival in Jerusalem, Saul attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, as they did not believe that he was really a disciple.
27 バルナバ携へて使徒等に連行き、彼が途中にて主を見奉り、主之に言ひ給ひし次第、又ダマスコに於てイエズスの御名の為に、憚る所なく盡力せし次第を語れり。
Barnabas, however, taking him by the hand, brought him to the Apostles, and told them the whole story of how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord, and how the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out fearlessly in the Name of Jesus.
28 是よりサウロ、エルザレムに在りて彼等と共に出入し、憚る所なく主の御名の為に盡力したりけるが、
After that, Saul remained in Jerusalem, in close intercourse with the Apostles; and he spoke fearlessly in the Name of the Lord,
29 又ギリシア語のユデア人と語り且弁論しければ、彼等之を殺さんと謀りしを、
talking and arguing with the Jews of foreign birth, who, however, made attempts to kill him.
30 兄弟等覚りてカイザリアに送り、タルソに往かしめたり。
But, when the Brethren found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and sent him on his way to Tarsus.
31 第一 ルッダ及ヨッペに於るペトロの奇蹟 第三款 百夫長コルネリオの改宗、及び異邦人中の教會開始 斯てユデア、ガリレア、サマリアにては教會一般に平和を得て次第に成立ち、神に對する畏敬に進み、聖霊の慰によりて増加しつつありしが、
And so it came about that the Church, throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, enjoyed peace and became firmly established; and, ordering its life by reverence for the Lord and the help of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
32 ペトロ諸方を巡廻して、ルッダに住める聖徒等の許に至りしに、
Peter, while traveling from place to place throughout the country, went down to visit the People of Christ living at Lydda.
33 此處にてエネアと云へる人の八年以來癱瘋を病みて床に臥せるに遇ひ、
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bed-ridden for eight years with paralysis.
34 之に向ひて、エネアよ、主イエズス、キリスト汝を醫し給ふ、起きて自ら床を整へよ、と云ひければ彼直に起きたり。
“Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ cures you. Get up, and make your bed.” Aeneas got up at once;
35 斯てルッダ及びサロンに住める人、皆之を見て主に歸依せり。
and all the inhabitants of Lydda and of the Plain of Sharon saw him, and came over to the Lord’s side.
36 然てヨッペに一人の婦の弟子あり、名はタビタ、訳してドルカ[即ち鹿]と云はれ、從來善行と慈善とに富みたりしが、
At Jaffa there lived a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which is in Greek ‘Dorcas’ — a Gazelle. Her life was spent in doing kind and charitable actions.
37 此時に當りて病死せしかば、屍を洗ひて高間に置きたり。
Just at that time she was taken ill, and died; and they had washed her body and laid it out in an upstairs room.
38 斯てルッダはヨッペに近きに因り、弟子等ペトロの此處に居るを聞き、二人の人を遣はして、猶豫なく我等の許に來れ、と請はしめしかば、
Jaffa was near Lydda, and the disciples, having heard that Peter was at Lydda, sent two men with the request that he would come on to them without delay.
39 ペトロ起ちて彼等と共に來りしが、其着するや人々之を高間に導き、寡婦等皆之を圍みて打泣きつつ、ドルカが己等の為に造り居たりし襦袢と上衣とを示せり。
Peter returned with them at once. On his arrival, he was taken upstairs, and all the widows came round him in tears, showing the coats and other clothing which Dorcas had made while she was among them.
40 ペトロ人を悉く外に出し、跪きて祈り、然て屍に向ひて、タビタ起きよ、と云ひしかば、婦目を開き、ペトロを見て坐れり。
But Peter sent everybody out of the room, and knelt down and prayed. Then, turning to the body, he said: “Tabitha! stand up.” She opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.
41 ペトロ手を假して之を立たしめ、聖徒等及び寡婦等を呼びて、生回りたるを還し與へたり。
Giving her his hand, Peter raised her up, and, calling in the widows and others of Christ’s People, presented her to them alive.
42 此事ヨッペに知れ渡りければ、主を信仰する人々多く、
This became known all through Jaffa, and numbers of People came to believe in the Lord.
43 ペトロはシモンと云へる革工の家に在りて、久しくヨッペに留るに至れり。
And Peter stayed some days at Jaffa with a tanner named Simon.
