マタイの福音書 23
1 其時イエズス群衆と弟子とに語りて、
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples:
2 曰ひけるは、律法學士とファリザイ人とはモイゼの講座に坐せり。
“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
3 然れば彼等の汝等に云ふ所は、悉く守りて行へ、然れど彼等の行に倣ひて行ふこと勿れ、彼等は言ひて而も行はざればなり。
So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4 即彼等は、重く擔ひ難き荷を括りて人の肩に載すれど、己が指先にて之を動かす事をすら否む。
They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5 其凡ての行は人に見られん為にして、即其経牌を闊くし、其繸を大くす。
All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
6 また宴席にては上席、會堂にては上座、
They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 衢にては人の敬禮、又ラビと呼ばるる事を好む。
the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.
8 汝等はラビと呼ばるる事勿れ、汝等の師は一個にして、汝等は皆兄弟なればなり。
But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers.
9 又地上の人を汝等の父と稱ふること勿れ、汝等の父は天に在す一個のみなればなり。
And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
10 又指導師と稱へらるること勿れ、汝等の指導師は一個にして、即キリストなればなり。
Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.
11 汝等の中最大なる者は汝等の僕となるべし。
The greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 自驕る人は下げられ、自遜る人は上げらるべし。
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13 禍なる哉汝等、僞善なる律法學士、ファリザイ人等よ、其は人の前に天國を閉ぢ じて、己も入らず、入りつつある人々をも入らしめざればなり。
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
14 禍なる哉汝等、僞善なる律法學士ファリザイ人等よ、其は長き祈を唱へて、寡婦等の家を食盡せばなり。汝等は是に由りて最厳しき審判を受けん。
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are. (Geenna g1067)
16 禍なる哉汝等、瞽者なる手引よ、汝等は云ふ、「総て人[神]殿を指して誓ふは事にも非ず、[神]殿の黄金を指して誓はば果さざるべからず」と。
Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
17 愚にして瞽なる者ども哉、孰か大なるぞ、黄金か、将黄金を聖ならしむる[神]殿か。
You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?
18 [汝等は又云ふ]「総て人祭壇を指して誓ふは事にも非ず、其上なる供物を指して誓はば果さざるべからず」と。
And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’
19 瞽者等よ、孰れか大なるぞ、供物か、将供物を聖ならしむる祭壇か。
You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?
20 然れば祭壇を指して誓ふ人は、祭壇と総て其上なる物とを指して誓ふなり。
So then, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21 又総て[神]殿を指して誓ふ人は、[神]殿と其中に住み給ふものとを指して誓ふなり。
And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it.
22 又天を指して誓ふ人は、神の玉座と其上に坐し給ふ者とを指して誓ふなり。
And he who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the One who sits on it.
23 禍なる哉汝等、僞善なる律法學士ファリザイ人等よ、汝等は薄荷茴香馬芹の十分の一を納めて、而も律法に於て尚重大なる、正義と慈悲と忠實とを遺せり、此事等を為してこそ彼の事をも怠らざるべかりしなれ。
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
24 蝐蠉を濾出だして駱駝を呑む瞽者なる手引等よ。
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25 禍なる哉汝等、僞善なる律法學士ファリザイ人等よ、其は杯と盤との外を淨めて、内は貪と汚とに充ちたればなり。
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26 汝瞽者なるファリザイ人よ、先杯と盤との内を淨めよ、然らば外も淨くなるべし。
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
27 禍なる哉汝等、僞善なる律法學士ファリザイ人等よ、其は白く塗りたる墓に似たればなり。外は人に麗しく見ゆれども、内は死人の骨と諸の汚とに充てり。
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
28 斯の如く、汝等も外は義人の如く人に見ゆれども、内は僞善と不義とに充てり。
In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29 禍なる哉汝等、僞善なる律法學士ファリザイ人等よ、汝等は預言者等の墓を建て、義人等の記念碑を飾りて、
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
30 曰く、「我等若先祖の時代に在りしならば、預言者等の血[を流す]に與せざりしものを」と。
And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
31 斯て汝等は、預言者等を殺しし人の子孫たる事を自證するなり。
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32 然らば汝等も先祖の量を盈たせよ。
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? (Geenna g1067)
34 然れば看よ、我汝等に預言者、智者、律法學士等を遣はせども、汝等は其或者を殺し、十字架に釘け、或者を汝等の會堂に鞭ちて、街より街に遂迫めん。
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
35 斯て義人アベルの血より、汝等が[神]殿と祭壇との間にて殺ししパラキアの子ザカリアの血に至る迄、総て地上に流されたる義しき血は、汝等の上に歸すべし。
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 我誠に汝等に告ぐ、此事皆現代の上に歸すべし。
Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
37 エルザレムよ、エルザレムよ、預言者等を殺し、且汝に遣はされたる人々に石を擲つ者よ、我牝鶏の其雛を翼の下に集むる如く、汝の子等を集めんとせしこと幾度ぞや、然れど、汝之を否めり。
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
38 看よ、汝等の家は荒廃れて汝等に遺されん。
Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39 我汝等に告ぐ、汝等「主の名によりて來る者は祝せられ給へ」と云ふ迄は、今より我を見ざるべし、[と語り給へり]。
For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
