使徒行传 24
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
对保罗的控告
24 过了五天，大祭司阿纳尼亚带着一些长老和一个名叫特图罗斯的律师下来，向总督指控保罗。 2 保罗被叫进来，特图罗斯就开始控告，说：“菲利克斯大人！因着您，我们大享和平；因着您的远见，本国也进行了许多改革； 3 我们事事处处满怀感谢地领受。 4 但为了不过多地烦扰您，我恳求您，以您的仁慈听我们简短地说。 5 我们发现这个人像瘟疫一样，煽动普天下犹太人暴乱；他又是拿撒勒人教派的一个头目。 6 他甚至试图玷污圣殿，我们就把他拘捕了。我们本来想按照我们的律法审判他，[a] 7 可是千夫长吕西亚过来，把他从我们手中强行带走，又吩咐原告到您这里来。[b] 8 您亲自审问他，就能了解我们控告他的这一切事了。” 9 犹太人也都附和，声称这些事就是如此。
在菲利克斯面前辩解
10 总督点头示意要保罗讲话，保罗就说：“我知道您在本国多年做审判官，所以我乐意为自己申辩。 11 您可以了解，自从我上耶路撒冷去敬拜，到现在不超过十二天。 12 无论在圣殿里，或在会堂里，或在城里，他们都没有看见我和任何人争论，或煽动民众。 13 他们现在也不能向您证实所控告我的事。 14 不过这一点我向您承认：我是按照他们称为‘异端[c]’的这道[d]，如此事奉我先祖的神，因为我相信一切合乎律法书和先知书上所记载的事； 15 我对神所怀有的盼望也是这些人自己所期望的，就是义人和不义的人[e]将来都要复活。 16 因此，在神和人面前，我总是尽力存着无愧的良心。 17 过了好几年，我回来了，带着给我同胞的施舍，以及供物； 18 正献上供物的时候，他们在圣殿里发现了我，那时我已经行完了洁净礼，既没有人群，也没有骚乱， 19 只有一些从亚细亚省来的犹太人——如果对我有什么控告，应该是他们到您面前来控告。 20 还是让这些人自己说说，我站在议会前的时候，他们到底查出了我有什么罪行—— 21 或者，是为了我站在他们中间喊过这样一句话：‘我今天在你们面前受审，是因为死人复活的事！’”
判决被拖延
22 因为菲利克斯比较详尽地了解这道，[f]就推托他们，说：“等千夫长吕西亚下来，我再审断有关你们的事。” 23 他吩咐百夫长看守保罗[g]，要宽待他，不要阻止他自己的人来供应他[h]。
24 过了几天，菲利克斯与他的犹太人妻子杜茜拉一起来了。他把保罗叫来，听他讲说对基督耶稣[i]的信仰。 25 当保罗讲论关于公义、自制和将来的审判时，菲利克斯感到害怕，就说：“你现在可以回去，我有了时间，就会叫你。” 26 同时他也希望保罗送他钱，[j]所以经常把他叫来，和他交谈。
27 过了两年，波奇乌菲斯特斯接替菲利克斯。菲利克斯想要讨好犹太人，就把保罗留在监狱里。
Footnotes
- 使徒行传 24:6 有古抄本没有“我们本来想按照我们的律法审判他，”。
- 使徒行传 24:7 有古抄本没有此节。
- 使徒行传 24:14 异端——或译作“教派”。
- 使徒行传 24:14 道——或译作“路”。
- 使徒行传 24:15 义人和不义的人——有古抄本作“死人——无论是义人还是不义的人”。
- 使徒行传 24:22 有古抄本附“听了这些事后”。
- 使徒行传 24:23 保罗——有古抄本作“他”。
- 使徒行传 24:23 有古抄本附“或到他这里来”。
- 使徒行传 24:24 基督耶稣——有古抄本作“基督”。
- 使徒行传 24:26 有古抄本附“这样他就会释放他，”。
Acts 24
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 24
Paul’s Second Trial—before Felix.[a] 1 Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and an advocate named Tertullus, and they presented charges against Paul to the governor. 2 Then Paul was summoned, and Tertullus began the prosecution.
He said, “Because of you we have enjoyed an unbroken period of peace, and reforms have been made in this nation as a result of your caring concern. 3 We acknowledge this everywhere and in every way with the utmost gratitude, most noble Felix.
4 “But in order not to detain you needlessly, I beg you to be kind enough to listen to a brief statement. 5 We have found this man to be a troublemaker. He is a fomenter of dissension among Jews all over the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. 6 When he even tried to profane the temple, we placed him under arrest. [ 7 We would have judged him according to our own Law, but the commander Lysias came and forcibly removed him out of our hands, ordering his accusers to appear before you.][b] 8 If you examine him yourself, you will be able to ascertain the validity of all the charges we bring against him.” 9 The Jews supported the charge, asserting that these things were true.
10 Then the governor motioned to Paul to speak, and he replied, “I know that you have administered justice to this nation for many years, and therefore I feel confident in presenting my defense. 11 As you can verify for yourself, no more than twelve days have elapsed since I went up to worship in Jerusalem. 12 They did not find me disputing with anyone in the temple or stirring up a crowd either in the synagogues or throughout the city. 13 Nor can they offer you any proof concerning their charges against me.
14 “But this much I will admit to you: it is as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect, that I worship the God of my ancestors, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law or is written in the Prophets. 15 I hold the same hope in God as they do that there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the wicked alike. 16 Accordingly, I strive at all times to have a clear conscience before God and man.
17 “After several years, I came to bring charitable gifts to my people and to offer sacrifices. 18 They found me in the temple after I had completed the rite of purification. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.
“However, some Jews from the province of Asia were there, 19 and they are the ones who should have appeared before you to give such evidence if they had any charge against me. 20 At the very least, those who are present here should state what crime they discovered when I was brought before the Sanhedrin, 21 unless it has to do with this one declaration I made when I stood up among them, ‘I am on trial on account of the resurrection of the dead.’ ”
22 In the Procurator’s Hall.[c] Then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing with the comment, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I shall issue a ruling on this case.” 23 He also ordered the centurion to keep Paul in custody, but allow him some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from caring for his needs.
24 Several days later, Felix came with his wife Drusilla,[d] who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and listened to him speak about faith in Christ Jesus. 25 But as Paul discussed justice, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and exclaimed, “Go away for the present. When I have an opportunity, I will send for you.” 26 At the same time, he hoped that Paul would offer him a bribe. Therefore he used to send for him quite often and converse with him.
27 After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus,[e] and since he wanted to ingratiate himself with the Jews, Felix left Paul in custody.
Footnotes
- Acts 24:1 The language is that of grave accusations and fine speeches. Once again, Paul dispels the Jewish accusations and the Roman suspicions. He is given a trial, but those who are directly opposed to him, and should be there, are missing, i.e., the Jews of Asia who stirred up more than one riot against him during his missionary journeys. Accusations leveled at him are not backed up by the facts. More profoundly—and herein lies the problem—the first Christians are convinced that their faith is not a perversion of, a secession from, or an opposition to Judaism but the fulfillment of its historical hope. The resurrection is their most ineradicable certitude. But this belief also exists among some people in Israel. More and more in the course of the trial, stress is placed on the subject of the hope of the resurrection.
- Acts 24:7 This verse is lacking in the better manuscripts.
- Acts 24:22 Felix is willing to listen to Christian teaching, but not to take the risk of converting his ways. He governs with complacencies, cruelties, and briberies, and he doubtless will have contributed to stirring up discontent, the precursor of the rebellion that would lead to the destruction of the Jewish State in A.D. 70. He seems to have been sympathetic to Paul, while keeping him in detention beyond the time provided by the Law.
- Acts 24:24 Drusilla: at the age of fifteen, this daughter of Herod Agrippa I had abandoned her first husband, the king of Emesa, in order to become Felix’s third wife.
- Acts 24:27 Porcius Festus was an excellent governor and remained in office from A.D. 59 to 62. The “two years” to which reference is made here ran from A.D. 57 to 59.
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