Acts 10
1 [There was] a man [who lived] in Caesarea [city] whose name was Cornelius. He was an officer who commanded 100 men in a large group of [Roman] soldiers from Italy.
| در شهر قیصریه افسری رومی زندگی می‌کرد به نام کُرنیلیوس، که فرماندهٔ هنگی بود معروف به «هنگ ایتالیایی». |
2 He always tried to do what would please God; he and his entire household [MTY] [were non-Jews who] habitually worshipped God. He sometimes gave money to help poor [Jewish] people, and he prayed to God regularly.
| او و اهل خانه‌اش خداپرست و پرهیزگار بودند. کرنیلیوس همیشه با سخاوت به فقرای یهودی کمک کرده، به درگاه خدا دعا می‌کرد. |
3 [One day] at about three o’clock in the afternoon [Cornelius saw] a vision. He clearly saw an angel whom God [had sent]. The angel came into [his room] and said to him, “Cornelius!”
| یک روز، ساعت سه بعد از ظهر، در رؤیا فرشتهٔ خدا را دید. فرشته نزد او آمد و گفت: «کُرنیلیوس!» |
4 Cornelius stared at the angel and became terrified. Then he asked [fearfully], “Sir, what do you [(sg)] want?” The angel answered him, “You [(sg)] have pleased God because you have been praying [regularly to him] and you often give money to [help] poor people. [Those things have been] like a sacrifice [to God].
| کرنیلیوس با وحشت به او خیره شد و پرسید: «سرورم، چه فرمایشی دارید؟» فرشته جواب داد: «دعاها و نیکوکاریهای تو همچون هدیۀ یادگاری به پیشگاه خدا رسیده است! |
5 So, now command some men to go to Joppa and [tell them to] bring back a man named Simon whose other name is Peter.
| اکنون کسانی به یافا بفرست تا شمعون پطرس را به اینجا بیاورند. |
6 He is staying with a man, [also] named Simon, who makes leather. His house is near the ocean.”
| او در خانهٔ شمعون چرم‌ساز که خانه‌اش در کنار دریاست، میهمان است.» |
7 When the angel who spoke to Cornelius had gone, Cornelius summoned two of his household servants and a soldier who served him, one who also worshipped God.
| وقتی فرشته ناپدید شد، کرنیلیوس دو نفر از نوکران خود را با یک سرباز خداشناس که محافظ او بود، فرا خواند |
8 He explained to them everything [that the angel had said. Then] he told them to go to Joppa [to ask Peter to come to Caesarea].
| و تمام ماجرا را به ایشان گفت و آنان را به یافا فرستاد. |
9 About noon the next day those [three men] were traveling [along the road] and were coming near [Joppa. As they were approaching Joppa], Peter went up on the [flat] housetop to pray.
| روز بعد، وقتی این افراد به شهر یافا نزدیک می‌شدند، پطرس به پشت بام رفت تا دعا کند. ظهر بود |
10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat. While someone was preparing the food, [Peter] saw [this] vision:
| و پطرس گرسنه شد. در همان حال که خوراک را آماده می‌کردند، پطرس در عالم رؤیا دید که |
11 (He saw heaven open/He saw an opening in the sky) and something like a large sheet was being lowered [to the ground]. [It was tied at] its four corners [with ropes].
| آسمان باز شد و چیزی شبیه سفره‌ای بزرگ به طرف زمین آمد که از چهار گوشه آویزان بود. |
12 Inside the sheet were all kinds of creatures. [These included animals and birds that the Mosaic laws forbade Jews to eat]. Some had four feet, others scurried across the ground, and others were wild birds.
| در آن سفره، انواع مختلف چارپایان و خزندگان و پرندگان وجود داشت. |
13 Then [he heard] God [SYN] say to him, “Peter, stand up, kill [and cook some of these] and eat [their meat]!”
| سپس صدایی به پطرس گفت: «برخیز و هر کدام را که می‌خواهی، ذبح کن و بخور!» |
14 But Peter replied, “Lord, surely you [(sg)] do not [really want me to do that]! I have never eaten any [meat] that [our Jewish law says] is unacceptable to God or [something that we(exc)] must not eat!”
| پطرس گفت: «ای خداوند، من چنین کاری نخواهم کرد، چون در تمام طول عمرم هرگز به چیزی حرام و ناپاک لب نزده‌ام!» |
15 [Then Peter heard] [MTY] God talk to him a second time. He said, “[I am] God, [so] if I have made something acceptable [to eat], do not say that it is not acceptable [to eat]!”
| باز آن صدا گفت: «آنچه را که خدا پاک ساخته، تو ناپاک نخوان!» |
16 [This happened] three [times, so Peter knew that he had to think carefully about what it might mean]. Immediately [after God had said that the third time], ([the] sheet [with the animals and birds] was the pulled back into heaven/[someone] pulled the sheet [with the animals and birds] up into the sky again).
| این رؤیا سه بار تکرار شد. سپس، آن سفره به آسمان بالا رفت. |
17 While Peter was trying to understand what that vision meant, the men who had been sent by Cornelius {whom Cornelius had sent} [arrived in Joppa. They asked people how to get to] Simon’s house. [So they found his house] and were standing outside the gate.
| پطرس گیج شده بود، چون نه معنی این رؤیا را درک می‌کرد و نه می‌دانست چه باید بکند. در همین وقت، آن سه نفری که کرنیلیوس فرستاده بود، خانه را پیدا کرده، به دم در رسیده بودند، |
18 They called and were asking if a man named Simon, whose other name was Peter, was staying there.
| و می‌گفتند: «آیا شمعون معروف به پطرس در اینجا اقامت دارد؟» |
19 While Peter was still trying to understand [what] the vision [meant], [God’s] Spirit said to him, “Three men [are here who] want to see you.
| در حالی که پطرس دربارهٔ رؤیا می‌اندیشید، روح‌القدس به او گفت: «سه نفر آمده‌اند تا تو را ببینند. |
20 So get up and go downstairs and go with them! Do not think that you [(sg)] should not go with them [because of their being non-Jews], because I have sent them [here]!”
| برخیز و پایین برو، و بدون شک و تردید همراه ایشان برو، زیرا ایشان را من فرستاده‌ام.» |
21 So Peter went down to the men and said to them, “[Greetings!] I am [the man] you are looking for. Why have you come?”
| پطرس پایین رفت و به ایشان گفت: «من پطرس هستم. چه فرمایشی دارید؟» |
22 One of them replied, “Cornelius, who is a [Roman] army officer, [sent us here]. He is a righteous man who worships God, and all of the Jewish people [HYP] [who know about him] say that he is a very good man. An angel (who was sent from God/whom God sent) said to him, ‘Tell some men to [go to Joppa to see Simon Peter and] bring him here, so that you [(sg)] can hear what he has to say.’”
| جواب دادند: «ما از جانب کرنیلیوس، افسرِ رومی آمده‌ایم. او شخص نیکوکار و خداترسی است و مورد احترام یهودیان نیز می‌باشد. فرشته‌ای نیز به او ظاهر شده و گفته است که به دنبال شما بفرستد و شما را به خانه دعوت کرده، سخنانتان را بشنود.» |
23 So Peter [said that he would go with them, and then he] invited them into [the house] and told them that they could stay [there that night]. Acts 10:23b-26 The next day Peter got ready and went with the men. Several of the believers from Joppa went with him.
| پطرس آنان را به خانه برد و پذیرایی کرد و روز بعد با ایشان به قیصریه رفت. چند نفر از ایمانداران «یافا» نیز با او رفتند. |
24 The day after that, they arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was waiting for them. He had also invited his relatives and close friends [to come to his house, so they were there, too].
| فردای آن روز به قیصریه رسیدند. کرنیلیوس بستگان و دوستان نزدیک خود را هم جمع کرده بود و انتظار ایشان را می‌کشید. |
25 When Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and bowed low in front of him to worship him.
| به محض اینکه پطرس وارد خانه شد، کرنیلیوس در مقابل او به خاک افتاد و او را پرستش کرد. |
26 But Peter [grasped Cornelius by the hand and] lifted him to his feet. He said, “Stand up! [Do not revere/worship me] I myself am only human, [like you]!”
| اما پطرس او را برخیزانید و گفت: «بلند شو! من نیز مانند تو یک انسانم.» |
27 While he was talking to Cornelius, Peter [and the others] entered [a large room inside the house]. Peter saw that many people had gathered together [there].
| پس برخاسته، گفتگوکنان به اتاقی که عدهٔ زیادی در آن جمع بودند، رفتند. |
28 Then Peter said to them, “You all know that any [of us] Jews think we are disobeying [our Jewish] laws if we [(exc)] associate with a non-Jewish person or [if we even] visit him. However, God has shown me [in a vision] that I should not say about anyone that God will not accept him.
| پطرس به ایشان گفت: «شما خود می‌دانید که قوانین یهود اجازه نمی‌دهد که من به خانهٔ شخصی غیریهودی بیایم. ولی خدا در رؤیا به من نشان داده است که هرگز نباید کسی را نجس بدانم. |
29 So when you sent [some men] to ask me to come [here], I came [right away. I] did not say that I could not go [with non-Jewish people. So, please tell me], why have you asked me to come [here]?”
| از این رو وقتی شما به دنبال من فرستادید، بی‌چون و چرا آمدم. حال بفرمایید به چه علّت مرا خواسته‌اید؟» |
30 Cornelius replied, “About this time four days ago I was praying [to God] in my house, [as I regularly do] at three o’clock in the afternoon. Suddenly a man whose clothes [shone] brightly stood in front of me,
| کُرنیلیوس جواب داد: «چهار روز پیش، در همین وقت یعنی ساعت سه بعد از ظهر، طبق عادت در خانهٔ خود مشغول دعا بودم که ناگهان دیدم شخصی با لباس نورانی روبروی من ایستاده است! |
31 and said, ‘Cornelius, when you [(sg)] have prayed, you have been heard by God {God has heard [when] you [(sg)] have prayed [to him]}. He has also noticed that you have [often] given money to [help] poor people, [and he is pleased with that].
| او به من گفت: کرنیلیوس، خدا دعاهای تو را شنیده است و کمکهای تو را در حق مردم قبول کرده است! |
32 So now, send [messengers to go] to Joppa, [in order] to ask Simon whose other name is Peter to come [here]. He is staying near the ocean in a house that belongs to [another] man named Simon, who makes leather. [When Simon Peter comes, he will tell you a message from God].’
| حال چند نفر را به یافا بفرست و شمعون پطرس را دعوت کن تا به اینجا بیاید. او در خانهٔ شمعون چرم‌ساز که خانه‌اش در ساحل دریاست، میهمان است. |
33 So I immediately sent [some men who asked] you [(sg) to come here], and I [certainly] thank you for coming. Now we [(exc)] all are gathered [here, knowing that] God is with us, in order to hear all the things that the Lord [God] has commanded you [to say. So please speak to us].”
| «پس بی‌درنگ به دنبال شما فرستادم و شما نیز لطف کرده، زود آمدید. حال، همگی در اینجا هستیم و در حضور خدا منتظریم تا پیامی را که خداوند فرموده که به ما بگویید، بشنویم.» |
34 So Peter began to speak [MTY] to them. He said, “[Now] I understand that it is true that God does not favor only certain groups [of people].
| آنگاه پطرس جواب داد: «حالا می‌فهمم که فقط یهودیان محبوب خدا نیستند! |
35 Instead, from every group of people he accepts [everyone who] honors him and who does what pleases him.
| بلکه هر کس از هر نژاد و قومی که خدا را بپرستد و کارهای نیک بکند، مورد پسند او واقع می‌شود. |
36 [You know] the message that God sent to [us] Israelis. [He] proclaimed [to us the good news that he] would cause [people] to have peace [with him] because of what Jesus Christ [has done]. This [Jesus is Lord not only over us Israelis. He] is [also the] Lord [who rules] over all [people].
| شما یقیناً از آن بشارت و مژده‌ای که خدا به قوم اسرائیل داده آگاه می‌باشید، یعنی این مژده که انسان می‌تواند به‌وسیلۀ عیسی مسیح که خداوند همه است، به سوی خدا بازگردد. |
37 You know what [he] did throughout the land of Judea, beginning in Galilee. He began [to do those things] after John had been proclaiming [to people that they should turn away from their sinful behavior before] he baptized them.
| شما می‌دانید که این امر چگونه پس از تعمیدی که یحیی بدان موعظه می‌کرد، در جلیل آغاز شد و به سرتاسر یهودیه رسید. |
38 You know that God gave [MTY] his Holy Spirit to Jesus, [the Man] from Nazareth [town], and gave him the power [to do miracles. You also know] how Jesus went to many places, always doing good deeds and healing [people. Specifically], he was continually healing all the people whom the devil was causing to suffer. [Jesus was able to do those things] because God was always helping him.”
| و بدون شک می‌دانید که خدا عیسای ناصری را با روح‌القدس و قدرت خود مَسْح کرد. او به همه جا می‌رفت و کارهای نیک انجام می‌داد و همۀ آنانی را که تحت ظلم و قدرت ابلیس قرار داشتند شفا می‌بخشید، زیرا خدا با او بود. |
39 “We [apostles] tell people about all the things that [we saw Jesus] do in Jerusalem and in the [rest of] Israel. [The leaders in Jerusalem] had him killed by being nailed to a cross.
| «و ما رسولان شاهد تمام اعمالی هستیم که او در سرزمین یهود و در اورشلیم انجام داد و در همان شهر بود که او را بر صلیب کشتند. |
40 However, God caused him to become alive again on the third day [after he had died]. God [also] enabled [some of us(exc)] to see him [so that we would know that he was alive again].
| ولی سه روز بعد، خدا او را زنده کرد و ظاهر فرمود، |
41 God [did] not [let] all the [Jewish] people see him. Instead, he had chosen us [apostles] beforehand to see [Jesus after he became alive again], and to tell others [about him]. We [apostles are the people] who ate meals with him (after he had become alive [again]/after he had risen from the dead).
| البته نه به همۀ مردم، بلکه به شاهدانی که از پیش انتخاب کرده بود، یعنی به ما که بعد از زنده شدنش، با او خوردیم و نوشیدیم. |
42 God commanded us to preach to the people and tell them that Jesus is the one whom he has appointed to judge [everyone some day. He will judge all] those who will [still] be living and all those who will have died [by that time].
| و خدا ما را فرستاده تا این خبر خوش را به همه برسانیم و بگوییم که خدا عیسی را تعیین نموده تا داور زندگان و مردگان باشد. |
43 All of the prophets [who wrote about the Messiah long ago] told [people] about him. [They wrote] that if people believe in the Messiah [MTY], God would forgive [them for] their sins, because of what [the Messiah would do] for them.”
| تمام پیامبران نیز نوشته‌اند که هر کس به او ایمان بیاورد، گناهانش بخشیده خواهد شد.» |
44 While Peter was still speaking those words, suddenly the Holy Spirit (came down on/began to control) all [those non-Jewish people] who were listening to the message.
| هنوز سخن پطرس تمام نشده بود که روح‌القدس بر تمام شنوندگان نازل شد! |
45 The Jewish believers who had come with Peter [from Joppa] were amazed that [God] had generously given the Holy Spirit to the non-Jewish people, too.
| یهودیانی که همراه پطرس آمده بودند، وقتی دیدند که روح‌القدس به غیریهودیان نیز عطا شده است، مات و مبهوت ماندند. |
46 [The Jewish believers knew that God had done that] because they were hearing those people speaking languages [MTY] [that they had not learned] and telling how great God is.
| زیرا شنیدند که ایشان به زبانهای غیر سخن می‌گویند و خدا را می‌ستایند. آنگاه پطرس گفت: |
47 Then Peter said [to the other Jewish believers who were there], “[God] has given them the Holy Spirit just like [he gave him] to us [Jewish believers], so (surely all of you would agree that [we(exc)] should baptize these people!/would any of you forbid that these people should be baptized?) [RHQ]”
| «حالا که اینها روح‌القدس را درست مانند ما یافته‌اند، آیا کسی می‌تواند از تعمیدشان در آب مانع گردد؟» |
48 Then Peter told those [non-Jewish] people that they should be baptized [to show that they had believed] [MTY] in the [Lord] Jesus Christ. [So they baptized all of them. After they were baptized], they requested that Peter stay [with them] several days. [So Peter and the other Jewish believers did that].
| پس به نام عیسی مسیح ایشان را تعمید داد. آنگاه کرنیلیوس التماس کرد که پطرس چند روزی نزد آنان بماند. |
