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
New Century Version
Paul Asks to See Caesar
25 Three days after Festus became governor, he went from Caesarea to Jerusalem. 2 There the leading priests and the important leaders made charges against Paul before Festus. 3 They asked Festus to do them a favor. They wanted him to send Paul back to Jerusalem, because they had a plan to kill him on the way. 4 But Festus answered that Paul would be kept in Caesarea and that he himself was returning there soon. 5 He said, “Some of your leaders should go with me. They can accuse the man there in Caesarea, if he has really done something wrong.”
6 Festus stayed in Jerusalem another eight or ten days and then went back to Caesarea. The next day he told the soldiers to bring Paul before him. Festus was seated on the judge’s seat 7 when Paul came into the room. The people who had come from Jerusalem stood around him, making serious charges against him, which they could not prove. 8 This is what Paul said to defend himself: “I have done nothing wrong against the law, against the Temple, or against Caesar.”
9 But Festus wanted to please the people. So he asked Paul, “Do you want to go to Jerusalem for me to judge you there on these charges?”
10 Paul said, “I am standing at Caesar’s judgment seat now, where I should be judged. I have done nothing wrong to them; you know this is true. 11 If I have done something wrong and the law says I must die, I do not ask to be saved from death. But if these charges are not true, then no one can give me to them. I want Caesar to hear my case!”
12 Festus talked about this with his advisers. Then he said, “You have asked to see Caesar, so you will go to Caesar!”
Paul Before King Agrippa
13 A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to visit Festus. 14 They stayed there for some time, and Festus told the king about Paul’s case. Festus said, “There is a man that Felix left in prison. 15 When I went to Jerusalem, the leading priests and the elders there made charges against him, asking me to sentence him to death. 16 But I answered, ‘When a man is accused of a crime, Romans do not hand him over until he has been allowed to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.’ 17 So when these people came here to Caesarea for the trial, I did not waste time. The next day I sat on the judge’s seat and commanded that the man be brought in. 18 They stood up and accused him, but not of any serious crime as I thought they would. 19 The things they said were about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who died. But Paul said that he is still alive. 20 Not knowing how to find out about these questions, I asked Paul, ‘Do you want to go to Jerusalem and be judged there?’ 21 But he asked to be kept in Caesarea. He wants a decision from the emperor.[a] So I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
22 Agrippa said to Festus, “I would also like to hear this man myself.”
Festus said, “Tomorrow you will hear him.”
23 The next day Agrippa and Bernice appeared with great show, acting like very important people. They went into the judgment room with the army leaders and the important men of Caesarea. Then Festus ordered the soldiers to bring Paul in. 24 Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are gathered here with us, you see this man. All the people, here and in Jerusalem, have complained to me about him, shouting that he should not live any longer. 25 When I judged him, I found no reason to order his death. But since he asked to be judged by Caesar, I decided to send him. 26 But I have nothing definite to write the emperor about him. So I have brought him before all of you—especially you, King Agrippa. I hope you can question him and give me something to write. 27 I think it is foolish to send a prisoner to Caesar without telling what charges are against him.”
Footnotes
- 25:21 emperor The ruler of the Roman Empire, which was almost all the known world.
Mga Gawa 25
Magandang Balita Biblia (with Deuterocanon)
Naghabol si Pablo sa Emperador
25 Dumating si Festo sa lalawigang pangangasiwaan niya at pagkaraan ng tatlong araw, pumunta siya sa Jerusalem mula sa Cesarea. 2 Lumapit sa kanya ang mga punong pari at ang mga pinuno ng mga Judio, at idinulog ang kanilang reklamo laban kay Pablo. 3 Dahil may balak silang tambangan at patayin si Pablo, nagmakaawa sila sa gobernador na ipatawag ito sa Jerusalem. 4 Sumagot si Festo, “Si Pablo'y nakabilanggo sa Cesarea at babalik ako roon sa madaling panahon. 5 Pasamahin ninyo sa akin ang inyong mga pinuno, kung totoong may kasalanan siya, saka ninyo siya isakdal.”
6 Nagpalipas pa si Festo ng walo o sampung araw sa Jerusalem, saka bumalik sa Cesarea. Kinabukasan, umupo siya sa hukuman at nag-utos na iharap sa kanya si Pablo. 7 Pagdating ni Pablo, pinaligiran siya ng mga Judiong galing sa Jerusalem. Nagharap sila ng maraming mabibigat na paratang laban sa kanya, ngunit hindi nila napatunayan ang mga iyon. 8 Sinabi ni Pablo bilang pagtatanggol sa sarili, “Wala akong ginawang labag sa Kautusan ng mga Judio, ni laban sa Templo, o sa Emperador.”
9 Nais ni Festo na pagbigyan ang mga Judio, kaya't tinanong niya si Pablo, “Nais mo bang pumunta sa Jerusalem upang doon kita litisin?”
10 Sumagot si Pablo, “Naririto ako sa harap ng hukuman ng Emperador; dito ako dapat litisin. Wala akong nagawang pagkakasala sa mga Judio at iyan ay nalalaman ninyo. 11 Kung ako ay lumabag sa batas o nakagawa ng anumang bagay na dahil dito'y dapat akong parusahan ng kamatayan, hindi ako tututol. Ngunit kung walang katotohanan ang mga paratang nila sa akin, hindi ako dapat ibigay sa kanila. Sa Emperador ako dudulog.”
12 Sumangguni si Festo sa kanyang mga tagapayo, at pagkatapos ay sinabi, “Yamang sa Emperador mo gustong dumulog, sa Emperador ka pupunta.”
Isinangguni ni Festo kay Agripa ang Kaso ni Pablo
13 Makalipas ang ilang araw, dumating sa Cesarea si Haring Agripa at si Bernice upang bumati kay Festo. 14 Nang matagal-tagal na sila roon, isinalaysay ni Festo sa hari ang tungkol kay Pablo. Sinabi ni Festo kay Haring Agripa, “Si Felix ay may iniwan ditong isang bilanggo. 15 Nang ako'y nasa Jerusalem, inireklamo ito sa akin ng mga punong pari at ng mga pinuno ng mga Judio at hininging parusahan siya. 16 Sinagot ko silang hindi kaugaliang Romano ang magparusa sa sinumang inirereklamo hangga't hindi niya nakakaharap ang mga nagsasakdal sa kanya at naipagtatanggol ang kanyang sarili laban sa paratang. 17 Kaya't nang dumating sila rito, hindi na ako nag-aksaya ng panahon; kinabukasan din, ipinatawag ko siya sa hukuman. 18 Nang tumayo ang mga nagsasakdal, hindi nila siya pinaratangan ng anumang mabigat na pagkakasala na inaakala kong ipaparatang nila. 19 Ang pinagtatalunan nila ay tungkol sa kanilang relihiyon at sa isang tao na ang pangala'y Jesus na patay na, ngunit iginigiit ni Pablo na buháy. 20 Hindi ko alam kung paano sisiyasatin ang bagay na ito, kaya't tinanong ko si Pablo kung nais niyang sa Jerusalem siya litisin. 21 Ngunit tumutol siya at hiniling na ipaubaya sa Emperador ang pagpapasya sa kanyang kaso. Dahil dito, pinabantayan ko siya upang ipadala sa Emperador.”
22 Sinabi ni Agripa kay Festo, “Gusto kong mapakinggan ang taong iyan.”
“Mapapakinggan mo siya bukas,” tugon naman ni Festo.
Iniharap si Pablo kina Agripa at Bernice
23 Kinabukasan, dumating sina Agripa at Bernice, kasama ang matataas na punong kawal at ang mga tanyag na tao sa lungsod. Buong karangyaan silang pumasok sa bulwagan ng hukuman at iniutos ni Festo na si Pablo'y iharap sa kanila. 24 Sinabi ni Festo, “Haring Agripa, at lahat ng naririto, narito po ang lalaking isinakdal sa akin ng mga Judio rito at sa Jerusalem. Ipinagsisigawan nilang hindi siya dapat mabuhay. 25 Ngunit sa pagsisiyasat ko'y wala akong makitang dahilan upang parusahan siya ng kamatayan. Dahil nais niyang dumulog sa Emperador, ipinasya kong ipadala siya roon. 26 Subalit wala akong tiyak na maisulat sa Emperador tungkol sa taong ito. Kaya iniharap ko siya sa inyo, lalung-lalo na sa iyo, Haring Agripa, upang may maisulat ako pagkatapos na siya'y masiyasat natin. 27 Sa palagay ko'y hindi nararapat ipadala sa Emperador ang isang bilanggo nang hindi inilalahad ang mga reklamo laban sa kanya.”
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