ヨハネの福音書 3
1 爰にファリザイ人の中にニコデモと呼ばれて、ユデア人の長だちたる者ありしが、
Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
2 夜イエズスの許に至りて云ひけるは、ラビ、我等は汝が神より來りたる教師なる事を知れり、其は何人も、神之と共に在すに非ざれば、汝の為せる如き奇蹟を行ひ得ざればなり。
the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.
3 イエズス答へて曰ひけるは、誠に眞に汝に告ぐ、人新に生るるに非ずば、神の國を見ること能はず。
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 ニコデモ云ひけるは、人既に老いたるに争でか生るる事を得べき、豈再び母の胎内に入て新に生るるを得んや。
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 イエズス答へ給ひけるは、誠に實に汝に告ぐ、人は水と霊とより新に生るるに非ずば、神の國に入る事能はず。
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 肉より生れたる者は肉なり、霊より生れたる者は霊なり。
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 汝等再び生れざるべからずと我が汝に告げたるを怪しむこと勿れ。
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew.
8 風は己が儘なる處に吹く、汝其聲を聞くと雖も、何處より來りて何處に往くかを知らず、総て霊より生れたる者も亦然り、と。
The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 ニコデモ答へて、此等の事如何にしてか成り得べき、と云ひしかば、
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 イエズス答へて曰ひけるは、汝はイスラエルに於て師たる者なるに、是等の事を知らざるか。
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?
11 誠に實に汝に告ぐ、我等は知れる所を語り、見たる所を證す、然れど汝等は其證言を承けざるなり。
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 我が地上の事を語りてすら汝等は信ぜざるものを、天上の事を語るとも争でか之を信ぜんや。
If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13 天より降りたるもの、即ち天に在る人の子の外は、誰も天に昇りしものなし。
And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, [even] the Son of man, who is in heaven.
14 又モイゼが荒野にて蛇を揚げし如く、人の子も必ず揚げらるべし、
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up;
that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
17 即ち神が御子を此世に遣はし給ひしは、世を審判せしめん為に非ず、世が彼に由りて救はれん為なり。
For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.
18 彼を信仰する人は審判せられず、信ぜざる人は既に審判せられたり、其は神の御獨子の御名を信ぜざればなり。
He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 審判とは是なり、即ち光既に世に來りたるに、人は己の行の惡き為に、光よりも寧暗を愛したるなり。
And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
20 総て惡を為す人は光を憎み、己が行を責められじとて光に來らず。
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
21 然れど眞理を行ふ人は、己が行の顕れん為に光に來る、其は神の内に行はれたればなり、と。
But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.
22 第二款 イエズスユデアに留り給ふ 其後イエズス弟子等とユデア地方に至り、共に留りて洗し居給ひしが、
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
23 ヨハネもサリムに近きエンノンに水多かりければ、其處にて洗しつつあり、人々來りて洗せられ居たり。
And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 即ちヨハネ未だ監獄に入れられざりしなり。
For John was not yet cast into prison.
25 然るにヨハネの弟子等とユデア人との間に、洗禮に就きて議論起りしかば、
There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purifying.
26 彼等ヨハネの許に來りて云ひけるは、ラビ、ヨルダン[河]の彼方に汝と共に在りし時、汝より證明せられたる彼人は、今自ら洗して、人皆之に趣くなり、と。
And they came unto John, and said to him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
27 ヨハネ答へて云ひけるは、人は天より賜はりたるに非ずば、何物をも自ら受くる能はず、
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.
28 汝等自ら我に就きて證する如く、我曾て、我はキリストに非ず、唯其先に遣はされたるのみ、と告げたりき。
Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him.
29 新婦を有てる人こそ新郎なれ。然て新郎の友として立ちて之に聞く人は、新郎の聲の為に喜びに喜ぶ。然れば我此喜は円満なり。
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is made full.
30 彼は榮ゆべく我は衰ふべし。
He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 上より來れる人は衆人に上たり、地よりの人は地に属して地上の事を語る、天より來れる人は衆人に上たるなり。
He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaketh: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
32 彼は其親ら見且聞きし所を證すと雖も、一人も其證言を承けず、
What he hath seen and heard, of that he beareth witness; and no man receiveth his witness.
33 其證言を承けたる人は、神の眞實にて在す事を證印せる者なり。
He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to [this], that God is true.
34 即ち神の遣はし給ひし者は神の御言を語る、神は[聖]霊を賜ふに制限なければなり。
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for he giveth not the Spirit by measure.
35 父は御子を愛して萬物を其手に賜へり。
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
