使徒行传 24
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
保羅受審
24 過了五天，大祭司亞拿尼亞同幾個長老，和一個律師帖土羅來了，他們向總督控告保羅。 2 保羅傳來了之後，帖土羅就控訴他說：“腓力斯大人，因著你的緣故，我們大大地享受著太平；因著你的遠見，本國大事改革； 3 我們隨時隨地感激不盡。 4 現在我不想多煩擾你，只求你寬容一下，聽我們講幾句話。 5 我們看這個人就像瘟疫一樣，是煽動普天下猶太人生亂的人，又是拿撒勒派的首領。 6 他還意圖污穢聖殿，我們就把他捉住。（有些抄本在此有以下一段：“我們想按照我們的律法審問他。7可是千夫長呂西亞來了，用武力把他從我們手中搶走，８還吩咐原告到你這裡來。”） 8 你親自審問之後，就必清楚知道我們告他的一切事了。” 9 猶太人也都跟他一同控告保羅，證實事情確是這樣。
保羅在腓力斯面前申辯
10 總督向保羅示意，叫他說話，他就說：“我知道你在本國審案多年，所以樂意為自己申辯。 11 你清楚知道，自從我上耶路撒冷去禮拜，到現在還沒有十二天； 12 無論在殿裡、會堂中或城裡，他們都沒有看見我跟人辯論，或煽動群眾作亂， 13 也不能向你證明他們現在控告我的事。 14 但有一件事我要向你承認，他們所稱為異端的這道，我正是根據這道來敬拜我祖先的 神的。一切律法和先知所記的，我都相信。 15 我靠著 神所存的盼望，也是他們自己所期待的，就是義人和不義的人都要復活； 16 因此，我常常勉勵自己，對 神對人要常存無虧的良心。 17 過了幾年我帶著捐款回來賙濟本國，同時也帶了祭物， 18 他們看見我在殿裡的時候，我已經行完了潔淨禮，並沒有和一大群人在一起，也沒有生亂， 19 只有幾個從亞西亞來的猶太人而已。他們若有事要控告我，就應該到你面前來控告。 20 要不然，當我站在公議會中受審的時候，這些人若發現我有甚麼罪行，早就親自說出來了。 21 如果有的話，就是我站在他們中間所喊的：‘我今天在你們面前受審，是為了死人復活的事’那一句話。”
22 腓力斯本來就詳細曉得這道，卻故意拖延他們，說：“等千夫長呂西亞來了，再斷定你們的事。” 23 於是吩咐百夫長看守保羅，但要寬待他，不可阻止親友來照料他。
腓力斯聽道後害怕起來
24 過了幾天，腓力斯和他的猶太妻子土西拉一同來到，他又傳見保羅，聽他談論在耶穌基督裡的信仰。 25 保羅講到公義、自制和將來的審判的時候，腓力斯就害怕起來，說：“你先走吧，等我有空的時候再叫你來。” 26 同時他也希望保羅送錢給他，所以又多次傳見他，和他談話。
27 過了兩年，波求．非斯都接了腓力斯的任；腓力斯為要討好猶太人，就把保羅留在監裡。
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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