사도행전 26

1아그립바가 바울더러 이르되 너를 위하여 말하기를 네게 허락하노라 하니 이에 바울이 손을 들어 변명하되 2아그립바 왕이여 유대인이 모든 송사하는 일을 오늘 당신 앞에서 변명하게 된 것을 다행히 여기옵나이다 3특히 당신이 유대인의 모든 풍속과 및 문제를 아심이니이다 그러므로 내 말을 너그러이 들으시기를 바라옵나이다 4내가 처음부터 내 민족 중에와 예루살렘에서 젊었을 때 생활한 상태를 유대인이 다 아는 바라 5일찍부터 나를 알았으니 저희가 증거하려 하면 내가 우리 종교의 가장 엄한 파를 좇아 바리새인의 생활을 하였다고 할 것이라 6이제도 여기 서서 심문 받는 것은 하나님이 우리 조상에게 약속하신 것을 바라는 까닭이니 7이 약속은 우리 열두 지파가 밤낮으로 간절히 하나님을 받들어 섬김으로 얻기를 바라는 바인데 아그립바 왕이여 이 소망을 인하여 내가 유대인들에게 송사를 받는 것이니이다 8당신들은 하나님이 죽은 사람 다시 살리심을 어찌하여 못 믿을 것으로 여기나이까 9나도 나사렛 예수의 이름을 대적하여 범사를 행하여야 될 줄 스스로 생각하고 10예루살렘에서 이런 일을 행하여 대제사장들에게서 권세를 얻어 가지고 많은 성도를 옥에 가두며 또 죽일 때에 내가 가편 투표를 하였고 11또 모든 회당에서 여러 번 형벌하여 강제로 모독하는 말을 하게 하고 저희를 대하여 심히 격분하여 외국 성까지도 가서 핍박하였고 12그 일로 대제사장들의 권세와 위임을 받고 다메섹으로 갔나이다 13왕이여 때가 정오나 되어 길에서 보니 하늘로서 해보다 더 밝은 빛이 나와 내 동행들을 둘러 비추는지라 14우리가 다 땅에 엎드러지매 내가 소리를 들으니 히브리 방언으로 이르되 사울아 사울아 네가 어찌하여 나를 핍박하느냐 가시채를 뒷발질하기가 네게 고생이니라 15내가 대답하되 주여 뉘시니이까 주께서 가라사대 나는 네가 핍박하는 예수라 16일어나 네 발로 서라 내가 네게 나타난 것은 곧 네가 나를 본 일과 장차 내가 네게 나타날 일에 너로 사환과 증인을 삼으려 함이니 17이스라엘과 이방인들에게서 내가 너를 구원하여 저희에게 보내어 18그 눈을 뜨게 하여 어두움에서 빛으로, 사단의 권세에서 하나님께로 돌아가게 하고 죄사함과 나를 믿어 거룩케 된 무리 가운데서 기업을 얻게 하리라 하더이다 19아그립바 왕이여 그러므로 하늘에서 보이신 것을 내가 거스리지 아니하고 20먼저 다메섹에와 또 예루살렘에 있는 사람과 유대 온 땅과 이방인에게까지 회개하고 하나님께로 돌아가서 회개에 합당한 일을 행하라 선전하므로 21유대인들이 성전에서 나를 잡아 죽이고자 하였으나 22하나님의 도우심을 받아 내가 오늘까지 서서 높고 낮은 사람 앞에서 증거하는 것은 선지자들과 모세가 반드시 되리라고 말한 것밖에 없으니 23곧 그리스도가 고난을 받으실 것과 죽은 자 가운데서 먼저 다시 살아나사 이스라엘과 이방인들에게 빛을 선전하시리라 함이니이다 하니라 24바울이 이같이 변명하매 베스도가 크게 소리하여 가로되 바울아 네가 미쳤도다 네 많은 학문이 너를 미치게 한다 하니 25바울이 가로되 베스도 각하여 내가 미친 것이 아니요 참되고 정신차린 말을 하나이다 26왕께서는 이 일을 아시기로 내가 왕께 담대히 말하노니 이 일에 하나라도 아시지 못함이 없는 줄 믿나이다 이 일은 한편 구석에서 행한 것이 아니로소이다 27아그립바 왕이여 선지자를 믿으시나이까 믿으시는 줄 아나이다 28아그립바가 바울더러 이르되 네가 적은 말로 나를 권하여 그리스도인이 되게 하려 하는도다 29바울이 가로되 말이 적으나 많으나 당신뿐 아니라 오늘 내 말을 듣는 모든 사람도 다 이렇게 결박한 것 외에는 나와 같이 되기를 하나님께 원하노이다 하니라 30왕과 총독과 버니게와 그 함께 앉은 사람들이 다 일어나서 31물러가 서로 말하되 이 사람은 사형이나 결박을 당할 만한 행사가 없다 하더라 32이에 아그립바가 베스도더러 일러 가로되 이 사람이 만일 가이사에게 호소하지 아니하였더면 놓을 수 있을 뻔하였다 하니라

1Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. 2“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews, 3especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently. 4“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem; 5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. 6Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, 7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa! 8Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead? 9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. 11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities. 12“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests, 13at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me. 14When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ 15“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 16But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; 17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ 19“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. 21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me. 22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen, 23how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.” 24As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!” 25But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness. 26For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner. 27King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.” 28Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?” 29Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.” 30The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them. 31When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.” 32Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

1En Agrippa zeide tot Paulus: Het is u geoorloofd voor uzelven te spreken. Toen strekte Paulus de hand uit, en verantwoordde zich aldus: 2Ik acht mijzelven gelukkig, o koning Agrippa, dat ik mij heden voor u zal verantwoorden van alles, waarover ik van de Joden beschuldigd word; 3Allermeest, dewijl ik weet, dat gij kennis hebt van alle gewoonten en vragen, die onder de Joden zijn. Daarom bid ik u, dat gij mij lankmoediglijk hoort. 4Mijn leven dan van der jonkheid aan, hetwelk van den beginne onder mijn volk te Jeruzalem geweest is, weten al de Joden; 5Als die van over lang mij te voren gekend hebben (indien zij het wilden getuigen), dat ik, naar de bescheidenste sekte van onzen godsdienst, als een Farizeer geleefd heb. 6En nu sta ik, en word geoordeeld over de hoop der belofte, die van God tot de vaderen geschied is; 7Tot dewelke onze twaalf geslachten, geduriglijk nacht en dag God dienende, verhopen te komen; over welke hoop ik, o koning Agrippa, van de Joden word beschuldigd. 8Wat? wordt het bij ulieden ongelofelijk geoordeeld, dat God de doden opwekt? 9Ik meende waarlijk bij mijzelven, dat ik tegen den Naam van Jezus van Nazareth vele wederpartijdige dingen moest doen. 10Hetwelk ik ook gedaan heb te Jeruzalem, en ik heb velen van de heiligen in de gevangenissen gesloten, de macht van de overpriesters ontvangen hebbende; en als zij omgebracht werden, stemde ik het toe. 11En door al de synagogen heb ik hen dikmaals gestraft, en gedwongen te lasteren; en boven mate tegen hen woedende, heb ik hen vervolgd, ook tot in de buiten landse steden. 12Waarover ook als ik naar Damaskus reisde, met macht en last, welk ik van de overpriesters had, 13Zag ik, o koning, in het midden van den dag, op den weg een licht, boven den glans der zon, van den hemel mij en degenen, die met mij reisden, omschijnende. 14En als wij allen ter aarde nedergevallen waren, hoorde ik een stem, tot mij sprekende, en zeggende in de Hebreeuwse taal: Saul, Saul, wat vervolgt gij Mij? Het is u hard, tegen de prikkels de verzenen te slaan. 15En ik zeide: Wie zijt Gij, Heere? En Hij zeide: Ik ben Jezus, Dien gij vervolgt. 16Maar richt u op, en sta op uw voeten; want hiertoe ben Ik u verschenen, om u te stellen tot een dienaar en getuige der dingen, beide die gij gezien hebt en in welke Ik u nog zal verschijnen; 17Verlossende u van dit volk, en van de heidenen, tot dewelke Ik u nu zende; 18Om hun ogen te openen, en hen te bekeren van de duisternis tot het licht, en van de macht des satans tot God; opdat zij vergeving der zonden ontvangen, en een erfdeel onder de geheiligden, door het geloof in Mij. 19Daarom, o koning Agrippa, ben ik dat Hemels gezicht niet ongehoorzaam geweest; 20Maar heb eerst dengenen, die te Damaskus waren, en te Jeruzalem, en in het gehele land van Judea, en den heidenen verkondigd, dat zij zich zouden beteren, en tot God bekeren, werken doende der bekering waardig. 21Om dezer zaken wil hebben mij de Joden in den tempel gegrepen en gepoogd om te brengen. 22Dan, hulp van God verkregen hebbende, sta ik tot op dezen dag, betuigende beiden klein en groot; niets zeggende buiten hetgeen de profeten en Mozes gesproken hebben, dat geschieden zoude: 23Namelijk dat de Christus lijden moest, en dat Hij, de Eerste uit de opstanding der doden zijnde, een licht zou verkondigen dezen volke, en den heidenen. 24En als hij deze dingen tot verantwoording sprak, zeide Festus met grote stem: Gij raast, Paulus, de grote geleerdheid brengt u tot razernij! 25Maar hij zeide: Ik raas niet, machtigste Festus, maar ik spreek woorden van waarheid en van een gezond verstand; 26Want de koning weet van deze dingen, tot welken ik ook vrijmoedigheid gebruikende spreek; want ik geloof niet, dat hem iets van deze dingen verborgen is; want dit is in geen hoek geschied. 27Gelooft gij, o koning Agrippa, de profeten? Ik weet dat gij ze gelooft. 28En Agrippa zeide tot Paulus: Gij beweegt mij bijna een Christen te worden. 29En Paulus zeide: Ik wenste wel van God, dat, en bijna en geheellijk, niet alleen gij, maar ook allen, die mij heden horen, zodanigen wierden, gelijk als ik ben, uitgenomen deze banden. 30En als hij dit gezegd had, stond de koning op, en de stadhouder, en Bernice, en die met hen gezeten waren; 31En aan een zijde gegaan zijnde, spraken zij tot elkander, zeggende: Deze mens doet niets des doods of der banden waardig. 32En Agrippa zeide tot Festus: Deze mens kon losgelaten worden, indien hij zich op den keizer niet had beroepen.