ルカの福音書 13
1 恰も其時人ありて、ピラトが數人のガリレア人の血を彼等の犠牲に混へし事を告げしかば、
Some people who were [listening to Jesus] at that time told him about some people from Galilee [district who had gone to Jerusalem]. Pilate, [the Roman governor], had [ordered soldiers to] kill them [MTY] while they were offering sacrifices [in the Temple there].
2 イエズス答へて曰ひけるは、汝等は、彼ガリレア人が斯る目に遇ひたればとて、凡てのガリレア人に優りて罪深かりしと思ふか。
Jesus replied to them, “Do you think [that this happened to those] people from Galilee [because] they were more sinful than all the other people from Galilee?
3 我汝等に告ぐ、然らず、然れど改心せずば、汝等も皆同じく亡ぶべし。
I assure you, [that was] not [so]! But instead of [being concerned about them, you need to remember that God] will similarly punish you [eternally] if you do not turn away from your sinful behavior.
4 又シロエに於て倒れたる塔の為に壓殺されし彼十八人も、エルザレムに住める凡ての人に優りて負債ありしと思ふか。
Or, [consider] the 18 people who died when the tower at Siloam [outside Jerusalem] fell on them. Do you think [that this happened to them because] they were more sinful than all the other people who lived in Jerusalem?
5 我汝等に告ぐ、然らず、然れど若改心せずば汝等も皆同じく亡ぶべし、と。
I assure you, [that was] not so! But instead, you [need to realize that God] will similarly punish you [eternally] if you do not stop your sinful behavior!”
6 イエズス又喩を語り給ひけるは、或人其葡萄畑に無花果樹を植ゑたりしが、來りて其果を求めたれど得ざりしかば、
Then Jesus told them this illustration [to show what God would do to the Jews, whom he continually blessed, but who did not do things that please him]: “A man planted a fig tree on his farmland. ([Each year/Many times]) he came to it looking for figs, but there were no figs.
7 葡萄畑の小作人に云ひけるは、我來りて此無花果樹に果を求むれど得ざる事已に三年なり、然れば之を伐倒せ、何ぞ徒に地を塞ぐや、と。
Then he said to the gardener, ‘Look [here]! I have been looking for fruit on this fig tree every year for the past three years, but there have been no figs. Cut it down! (It is just using up the nutrients in the soil for nothing!/Why should it continue using up the [nutrients in] the soil [for nothing]?) [RHQ]’
8 小作人答へて、主よ、今年も之を容し給へ。我其周圍を堀りて肥料を施しなば、
But the gardener replied to the owner, ‘Sir, leave it here for another year. I will dig around it and put manure around it.
9 或は果を結ぶ事もあらん、若し無くば其後伐倒し給ふべし、と云へり、と。
If it bears fruit next year, we [(inc)] will allow it to keep growing. If it does not bear fruit next year, you [(sg)] can cut it down.’”
10 安息日に當りて、イエズス彼等の會堂にて教へ給ひけるに、
One (Sabbath/Jewish day of rest), [Jesus] was teaching people in one of the Jewish meeting places.
11 折しも十八年以來癈疾の鬼に憑かれ、屈まりて少しも仰ぎ見ること能はざる女あり。
There was a woman there whom an evil spirit [MTY] had crippled for 18 years. She was always bent over; she could not stand up straight.
12 イエズス見て之を呼近づけ給ひ、女よ、汝は其癈疾より救はれたるぞ、と曰ひて之に按手し給ひしかば、
When Jesus saw her, he called her over to him. He said to her, “Woman, [I am] freeing you [(sg)] from your illness!”
13 女直に伸びて神に光榮を歸し居たり。
He put his hands on her. Immediately she stood up straight, and she praised God!
14 然るに會堂の司、イエズスの安息日に醫し給ひしを憤り、答へて群衆に向ひ、働くべき日六日あり、然れば其間に來りて醫されよ、安息日には為すべからず、と云ひければ、
But the man in charge (of the synagogue/of the meeting place) was angry because Jesus had healed her (on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day). [He considered that healing was doing work]. So he said to the people, “There are six days [each week] in which [our Jewish] laws permit people to work. [If you need healing], those are the days to come ([to the synagogue/to the meeting place]) and be healed. Do not come on our Jewish day of rest!”
15 主答へて曰ひけるは、僞善者等よ、汝等各安息日に當りて、己が牛或は驢馬を、芻槽より解放ちて、水飼ひに牽行くに非ずや。
Then the Lord replied to him, “You [(sg) and your fellow religious leaders are] hypocrites! (On the Sabbath/On our Jewish day of rest), [just like on every other day], (each of you unties his ox or donkey, and then leads it from the food trough to where it can drink water./does not each of you untie his ox or donkey, and then lead it from the food trough to where it can drink water?) [RHQ] [That is work, too]!
16 然るを此十八年間サタンに繋がれたる、アブラハムの女は、其繋を安息日に解かるべからざりしか、と。
This woman [is more important than an animal; she is a Jew], descended from Abraham! But Satan has [kept her] [MET] [crippled] for 18 years, [as though] he had tied her up [and not let her escape]! So (it is certainly right that she be freed {that [I] free her}, [even if this] is a Sabbath day!/was it not right that she be freed {that [I] free her}, [even if this] is a Jewish rest day?) [RHQ]”
17 イエズス此事等を曰ひけるに、反對せる者等皆赤面し、人民挙りて、イエズスの手に成さるる光榮ある凡ての事を喜び居たり。
After Jesus said that, all the people [there] who opposed him were ashamed. But all the [other] people [there] were happy about all the wonderful things he was doing.
18 乃ち曰ひけるは、神の國は何にか似たる、我之を何にか擬へん、
Then Jesus said, “(I will tell you how [the number of people who let] God rule [MET] [their lives will increase]./Do you know how [the number of people who let] God rule [MET] [their lives will increase]?) [RHQ] I will tell you what I can compare it to.
19 恰も一粒の芥種の如し、人之を取りて其畑に播きたれば、長ちて大木と成り、空の鳥其枝に息めり、と。
It is like a [tiny] mustard seed that a man planted in his field. It grew until it became [big, like] a tree. It was [so big that] birds built nests in its branches.”
20 又曰ひけるは、我神の國を何にか擬へん、
Then he said, “I will tell [RHQ] you something else, to illustrate how the people who let God rule [MET] [their lives can influence their society more and more].
21 恰も麪酵の如し、女之を取りて三斗の粉の中に蔵せば、終に悉く膨るるに至る、と。
It is like [a little bit of] yeast that a woman mixed with about 50 pounds of flour. [That small amount of yeast made] the whole batch of dough swell up.”
22 第二項 旅行中の他の事實 斯てイエズス、町村を教へつつ過ぎてエルザレムへ旅し給ふに、
[Jesus] continued traveling, along [with his disciples], through various towns and villages on the way to Jerusalem. As they went, he was teaching [the people].
23 或人、主よ、救はるる者は少きか、と云ひしかば、人々に曰ひけるは、
Someone asked him, “Lord, will there be only a few people who are saved {whom [God] saves}?” He replied to them, “[There will not be many, because] the way [to heaven] [MET] is [like] a narrow door.
24 狭き門より入る事を努めよ、蓋我汝等に告ぐ、多くの人入る事を求むべけれども、而も能はざるべし。
[Therefore, try hard] to enter that narrow doorway, because I tell you that many people will try to enter [heaven by some other way], but they will not be able to get in.
25 家父既に入りて門を閉ぢたらん時には、汝等外に立ちて、主よ、我等に開き給へ、と云ひつつ門を叩き始むべけれど、彼答へて、我汝等が何處の者なるかを知らず、と云はん。
[God is like] the owner of a house. [Some day] he will lock his door. Then [some of] you will begin to stand outside that door and knock. You will say, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘[No, I will not open it, because] I do not know you, and I do not know where you are from!’
26 汝等其時、我等は汝の御前にて飲食し、汝は我等の衢にて教へ給ひしなり、と云はんとすべし。
Then you will say, ‘([You must have forgotten!/Surely you know us, because]) [RHQ] we [(exc)] ate [meals] with you [(sg)], and you taught [people] in the streets of our [towns]’!
27 然れども彼汝等に向ひ、我汝等が何處の者なるかを知らず、惡を為す輩よ、悉く我より去れ、と云はん。
But he will say, ‘[I tell you again], I do not know you, and I do not know where you are from. You [are] wicked people! Get away from here!’”
28 斯て汝等、アブラハム、イザアク、ヤコブ及び一切の預言者は神の國に在りながら、己等のみ逐出さるるを見ば、其處に痛哭と切歯とあらん。
Then Jesus continued, saying, “[From where God will send you], you will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the distance. All the prophets [who lived long ago will also be there], in the kingdom where God [is ruling]. But you will be outside, crying and grinding your teeth [because you will have severe pain]!
29 又東西南北より來りて、神の國の席に着く人々あらん。
Furthermore, many [non-Jewish] people will [be inside]. There will be ones who have come from [lands to] the north, east, south, and west. They will be feasting in (that place where God is ruling/God’s kingdom).
30 斯て看よ、後なる人は先になり、先なる人は後にならん、と。
Think about this: Some people whom others do not [consider] important [now, God will make] them very important [then], and some people whom [others consider] very important [now, God will make] to be not important [then].”
31 同じ日に、ファリザイ人數人近づきてイエズスに向ひ、ヘロデ汝を殺さんとす、出でて此處を去れ、と云ひしかば、
At that very time, some Pharisees came and said to Jesus, “Leave this area, because [the ruler] Herod [Antipas] wants to kill you [(sg)]!”
32 彼等に向ひて曰ひけるは、往きて彼狐に告げよ、看よ、今日も明日も、我惡魔を逐払ひ、人々を醫し、而して三日目に我事畢るべし、
He replied to them, “Herod is [MET] [as cruel as] a fox, [but also as insignificant as a fox]. [So I do not worry about him]. But [to show him that no one can harm me until it is the time and place God has determined], go tell him this [message from me]: ‘Listen! I am expelling demons and performing miracles today, and [I will continue doing] it for a short time. After that, I will finish my work.
33 然れども、今日も明日も其次の日も、我は歩まざる可らず、其はエルザレムの外に斃るるは、預言者たる者に取りて相應しからざればなり、と。
But I must continue my trip [to Jerusalem] during the coming days, because [they killed many other] prophets there, and [since I am also a prophet], no other place is appropriate for people to kill [me].’”
34 エルザレムよ、エルザレムよ、預言者等を殺し、汝に遣はされたる人々に石を擲つ者よ、恰も鳥が巣雛を翼の下に[集むる]如く、我が汝の子等を集めんとせし事幾度ぞや、然れど汝之を肯ぜざりき。
[Then Jesus said], “O [people of] [MTY] Jerusalem [APO]! You killed the prophets [who lived long ago, and you killed others], whom [God] sent to you, [by throwing] stones [at them]. Many times I wanted to gather you together [to protect you] [SIM] like a hen gathers her young chicks under her wings. But you did not want [me to do that].
35 看よ、汝等の家は荒廃れて汝等に遺らん、我汝等に告ぐ、主の御名によりて來るもの祝せられよかし、と汝等の唱へん時至るまで、汝等我を見る事なかるべし、と。
So listen to this: Your city [MTY] (OR, your temple) is going to be abandoned (OR, God will no longer protect it). I will [MTY] also tell you this: I [will enter your city only once more. After that], you will not see me until the time when [I return and] you say [about me], ‘God is truly pleased with this man who comes with God’s authority [MTY]!’”
