使徒行传 25
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
向凯撒上诉
25 菲斯特斯到省里上任第三天，就从凯撒里亚上耶路撒冷去。 2 祭司长们和犹太人的首领们向菲斯特斯指控保罗，并且恳求菲斯特斯， 3 请他恩准，把保罗叫到耶路撒冷来。他们策划要在路上埋伏杀了保罗。 4 于是菲斯特斯说：“保罗正被拘留在凯撒里亚，我自己也很快就要回去。” 5 他又说：“所以你们中间有权的人都与我一起下去；如果这个人有什么过错，就当控告他。”
6 菲斯特斯在他们那里住了不超过十天八天[a]，就下到凯撒里亚去了。第二天，他坐在审判席上，下令把保罗带上来。 7 保罗[b]一到，从耶路撒冷下来的那些犹太人就站在他周围，用很多严重的罪状来控告他，可是都不能证实。 8 保罗申辩说：“无论是对犹太人的律法，或是对圣殿，或是对凯撒，我都没有犯过罪。”
9 但菲斯特斯想要讨好犹太人，就问保罗说：“你愿意上耶路撒冷，让我在那里审判这些事吗？”
10 保罗就说：“我已经站在凯撒的审判台前，这里就是我应该受审的地方。我没有亏负过犹太人，就像您也很清楚地了解那样。 11 既然如此，如果我行了什么不义的事，犯了什么该死的罪，就是死我也不拒绝；但如果这些人对我的控告不是真的，那么谁也不能把我交给他们。我向凯撒上诉！”
12 菲斯特斯与参议会商量以后，就回答：“你已经向凯撒上诉了，你就将到凯撒那里去！”
阿格里帕王与百妮基来访
13 过了几天，阿格里帕王[c]和百妮基到达凯撒里亚，问候菲斯特斯。 14 他们在那里住了好几天，菲斯特斯就向阿格里帕王陈述了有关保罗的事，说：“这里有一个人，是菲利克斯留下的囚犯。 15 我到耶路撒冷去的时候，犹太人的祭司长们和长老们指控他，要求我定他的罪。 16 我回答他们：在被告还没有与原告当面对质，并且对被控罪名还没有获得申辩机会以前，就把被告[d]交出去，[e]这不符合罗马人的规矩。 17 因此，当他们聚集在这里的时候，我没有耽搁，第二天就坐在审判席上，下令把那个人带来。 18 那些原告站起来围着他提出来的罪状，并不是我所认为的恶事[f]。 19 不过他们与他有一些争议的问题，是关于自己宗教的事，以及关于一个叫耶稣的人——这个人已经死了，保罗却声称他还活着。 20 我对这些辩论也心里困惑，就问保罗是否愿意上耶路撒冷去，在那里为这些事受审。 21 可是保罗请求把他留给皇帝审断，我就下令把他留下，等着我送他到凯撒那里去。”
22 阿格里帕对菲斯特斯说：“我本来也想亲自听这个人讲说。”
菲斯特斯说：“明天你就可以听他讲说。”
在阿格里帕王面前受审
23 第二天，阿格里帕和百妮基大张声势而来，当他们与几个军官和城里的显要人物一起进了大厅，菲斯特斯一声下令，保罗就被带上来。 24 菲斯特斯说：“阿格里帕王和所有在场的各位，你们所看见的这个人，犹太的全体民众为了他，在耶路撒冷和这里向我陈情，喊着说他不应该再活下去。 25 但是我了解他并没有犯过什么该死的罪，不过他自己既然向皇帝上诉了，我就决定把他解送去。 26 关于这个人，我没有任何确切的事可以陈奏皇帝。因此我把他带到你们面前，尤其在您阿格里帕王面前，好使审查结束时，我可以有所陈奏， 27 因为我认为，解送囚犯而不指明对他的罪状，是没有道理的。”
Footnotes
- 使徒行传 25:6 不超过十天八天——有古抄本作“十多天”。
- 使徒行传 25:7 保罗——原文直译“他”。
- 使徒行传 25:13 阿格里帕王——指“希律阿格里帕二世”。
- 使徒行传 25:16 被告——原文直译“任何人”。
- 使徒行传 25:16 有古抄本附“以至于死”。
- 使徒行传 25:18 有古抄本没有“恶事”。
使徒行传 25
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
保罗在非斯都面前申辩
25 非斯都上任三天后，便从凯撒利亚启程上耶路撒冷。 2 祭司长和犹太人的首领向他控告保罗， 3 恳求他将保罗押回耶路撒冷，他们想在途中埋伏杀害保罗。 4 非斯都却拒绝道：“保罗现在关押在凯撒利亚，我很快会回到那里。 5 让你们的首领跟我一起去吧，如果那人有什么过犯，可以在那里告他。”
6 非斯都在耶路撒冷只逗留了十天八天，便返回了凯撒利亚。第二天，他开庭审讯，命人将保罗带上来。 7 保罗被带来后，那些从耶路撒冷下来的犹太人站在他周围，指控他犯了各样严重的罪，但是都没有证据。 8 保罗为自己辩护说：“我从来没有违背犹太律法，亵渎圣殿或反叛凯撒！” 9 非斯都为了讨好犹太人，就对保罗说：“你是否愿意回耶路撒冷接受我的审讯？”
10 保罗说：“我此刻正站在凯撒的法庭上，这就是我应该受审的地方。你很清楚，我并没有做过什么对不起犹太人的事。 11 如果我做错了，犯了该死的罪，我决不逃避！但他们对我的指控毫无根据，谁也不能把我交给他们。我要向凯撒上诉！”
12 非斯都和议会商讨后，说：“你说要上诉凯撒，就去见凯撒吧！”
非斯都请教亚基帕王
13 过了几天，亚基帕王和百妮姬一起到凯撒利亚问候非斯都。 14 他们在那里住了多日，非斯都对王提起保罗的案子，说：“我这里有一个囚犯，是前任总督腓利斯留下来的。 15 上次我去耶路撒冷的时候，犹太人的祭司长和长老控告他，要求我定他的罪。 16 我告诉他们，按照罗马人的规矩，被告还没有跟原告对质和自辩之前，不能定他的罪。 17 后来他们跟我一起来到这里，我没有耽误，第二天就开庭，吩咐把那人带出来审讯。 18 他们都站起来当面指控他，但所告的并非我料想的罪行， 19 不过是关于他们的宗教和一个叫耶稣的人的一些争论。耶稣已经死了，保罗却说他仍然活着。 20 我不知如何审理这些事情，就问被告是否愿意上耶路撒冷受审。 21 但保罗请求留下来，听皇帝定夺，所以我下令仍然扣留他，等着送交凯撒。”
22 亚基帕对非斯都说：“我想亲自听听他的申诉。”
非斯都说：“你明天就会听到。”
23 第二天，亚基帕和百妮姬在众千夫长和城中达官贵人的陪同下，声势浩大地进了法庭。非斯都下令把保罗带上来后， 24 说：“亚基帕王和在座的各位，你们看，就是这个人，所有的犹太人在这里和耶路撒冷都请求我处死他。 25 但我发现他并没有犯什么该死的罪。既然他要向皇帝上诉，我决定把他押去。 26 只是关于这个人，我没有确切的事由可以奏明皇帝[a]。所以，我把他带到各位面前，特别是亚基帕王面前，以便在审讯之后，我可以有所陈奏。 27 因为在我看来，解送犯人却不奏明罪状不合情理。”
Footnotes
- 25:26 希腊文是“主上”，用于对罗马皇帝的尊称。
Acts 25
The Message
An Appeal to Caesar
25 1-3 Three days after Festus arrived in Caesarea to take up his duties as governor, he went up to Jerusalem. The high priests and top leaders renewed their vendetta against Paul. They asked Festus if he wouldn’t please do them a favor by sending Paul to Jerusalem to respond to their charges. A lie, of course—they had revived their old plot to set an ambush and kill him along the way.
4-5 Festus answered that Caesarea was the proper jurisdiction for Paul, and that he himself was going back there in a few days. “You’re perfectly welcome,” he said, “to go back with me then and accuse him of whatever you think he’s done wrong.”
6-7 About eight or ten days later, Festus returned to Caesarea. The next morning he took his place in the courtroom and had Paul brought in. The minute he walked in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem were all over him, hurling the most extreme accusations, none of which they could prove.
8 Then Paul took the stand and said simply, “I’ve done nothing wrong against the Jewish religion, or the Temple, or Caesar. Period.”
9 Festus, though, wanted to get on the good side of the Jews and so said, “How would you like to go up to Jerusalem, and let me conduct your trial there?”
10-11 Paul answered, “I’m standing at this moment before Caesar’s bar of justice, where I have a perfect right to stand. And I’m going to keep standing here. I’ve done nothing wrong to the Jews, and you know it as well as I do. If I’ve committed a crime and deserve death, name the day. I can face it. But if there’s nothing to their accusations—and you know there isn’t—nobody can force me to go along with their nonsense. We’ve fooled around here long enough. I appeal to Caesar.”
12 Festus huddled with his advisors briefly and then gave his verdict: “You’ve appealed to Caesar; you’ll go to Caesar!”
* * *
13-17 A few days later King Agrippa and his wife, Bernice, visited Caesarea to welcome Festus to his new post. After several days, Festus brought up Paul’s case to the king. “I have a man on my hands here, a prisoner left by Felix. When I was in Jerusalem, the high priests and Jewish leaders brought a bunch of accusations against him and wanted me to sentence him to death. I told them that wasn’t the way we Romans did things. Just because a man is accused, we don’t throw him out to the dogs. We make sure the accused has a chance to face his accusers and defend himself of the charges. So when they came down here I got right on the case. I took my place in the courtroom and put the man on the stand.
18-21 “The accusers came at him from all sides, but their accusations turned out to be nothing more than arguments about their religion and a dead man named Jesus, who the prisoner claimed was alive. Since I’m a newcomer here and don’t understand everything involved in cases like this, I asked if he’d be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there. Paul refused and demanded a hearing before His Majesty in our highest court. So I ordered him returned to custody until I could send him to Caesar in Rome.”
22 Agrippa said, “I’d like to see this man and hear his story.”
“Good,” said Festus. “We’ll bring him in first thing in the morning and you’ll hear it for yourself.”
23 The next day everybody who was anybody in Caesarea found his way to the Great Hall, along with the top military brass. Agrippa and Bernice made a flourishing grand entrance and took their places. Festus then ordered Paul brought in.
24-26 Festus said, “King Agrippa and distinguished guests, take a good look at this man. A bunch of Jews petitioned me first in Jerusalem, and later here, to do away with him. They have been most vehement in demanding his execution. I looked into it and decided that he had committed no crime. He requested a trial before Caesar and I agreed to send him to Rome. But what am I going to write to my master, Caesar? All the charges made by the Jews were fabrications, and I’ve uncovered nothing else.
26-27 “That’s why I’ve brought him before this company, and especially you, King Agrippa: so we can come up with something in the nature of a charge that will hold water. For it seems to me silly to send a prisoner all that way for a trial and not be able to document what he did wrong.”
Acts 25
King James Version
25 Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.
5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
17 Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.
18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
19 But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
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