Acts 13
1 Among [the people in] the congregation at Antioch there were (prophets/those who spoke messages from God) and those who taught [people about Jesus. They were] Barnabas; Simeon, who was also called Niger/Blackman; Lucius, from Cyrene [city]; Manaen, who had grown up with [King] Herod [Antipas]; and Saul.
| در کلیسای انطاکیهٔ سوریه، تعدادی نبی و معلم وجود داشت که عبارت بودند از: برنابا، شمعون که به او «سیاه» نیز می‌گفتند، لوکیوس اهل قیروان، منائن که برادرخواندۀ هیرودیس پادشاه بود، و سولس. |
2 While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said [to them], “Appoint Barnabas and Saul to [serve] me and to [go and do] the work that I have chosen them [to do]!”
| یک روز، وقتی این اشخاص روزه گرفته بودند و خدا را عبادت می‌کردند، روح‌القدس به ایشان فرمود: «برنابا و سولس را برای من جدا کنید تا به خدمت مخصوصی که ایشان را بدان فرا خوانده‌ام، مشغول شوند.» |
3 So they continued (to fast/to abstain from eating food) and pray. Then having put their hands on Barnabas and Saul and [praying that God would help them], they sent them off [to do what the Holy Spirit had commanded].
| پس به روزه و دعا ادامه داده، دستها بر سر آن دو گذاشتند و آنان را روانه ساختند. |
4 Barnabas and Saul, guided by the Holy Spirit, went down [from Antioch] to Seleucia [port]. From there they went by ship to Salamis [port on Cyprus Island].
| برنابا و پولس با هدایت روح‌القدس سفر خود را آغاز کردند. نخست به بندر سُلوکیه رفتند و از آنجا با کشتی عازم جزیرهٔ قبرس شدند. |
5 While they were in Salamis, [they went] to the Jewish meeting places. There they proclaimed the message from God [about Jesus]. John [Mark went with them and] was helping them.
| در قبرس به شهر سَلامیس رفتند و در کنیسهٔ یهودیان کلام خدا را موعظه کردند. یوحنا معروف به مرقس نیز به‌عنوان دستیار، آنها را همراهی می‌کرد. |
6 [The three of] them went across the entire island to Paphos [city]. There they met a magician whose name was Bar-Jesus. He was a Jew who falsely [claimed] (to be a prophet/to speak messages from God).
| در آن جزیره، شهر به شهر گشتند و پیغام خدا را به مردم رساندند، تا اینکه به شهر پافُس رسیدند. در آنجا به یک جادوگر یهودی برخوردند به نام باریشوع که ادعای پیغمبری می‌کرد. |
7 He often accompanied the governor [of the island], Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor sent [someone] to ask Barnabas and Saul to come to him, because he wanted to hear God’s message. [So Barnabas and Saul came and told him about Jesus].
| وی با «سرجیوس پولس» که فرماندار رومی قبرس و شخصی فرهیخته و دانا بود، طرح دوستی ریخته بود. فرماندار برنابا و سولس را به حضور خود فراخواند، چون می‌خواست پیغام خدا را از زبان آنان بشنود. |
8 However, the magician, whose name was Elymas [in the Greek language], was opposing them. He repeatedly tried to persuade the governor not to believe [in Jesus].
| ولی عِلیما، همان جادوگر (زیرا معنی نامش همین است)، مزاحم می‌شد و نمی‌گذاشت فرماندار به پیغام برنابا و پولس گوش دهد و سعی می‌کرد نگذارد به خداوند ایمان بیاورد. |
9 Then Saul, who now called himself Paul, empowered by the Holy Spirit, looked intently at the magician and said,
| آنگاه سولُس که پولُس نیز خوانده می‌شد، پُر از روح‌القدس شده، مستقیم به چشمان عِلیما نگاه کرد و گفت: |
10 “You [(sg)] are serving the devil and you oppose everything that is good! You are always lying [to people] and doing [other] evil things to them. (You must stop saying that the truth about the Lord [God is a lot of lies!]/When will you stop changing what is true about the Lord [God and saying] what is not true about him?) [RHQ]
| «ای فرزند ابلیس، ای حیله‌گر بدذات، ای دشمن تمام خوبی‌ها، آیا از مخالفت کردن با خدا دست برنمی‌داری؟ |
11 Right now the Lord [God] [MTY] is going to punish you! You will become blind and not [even] be able to see light for [some] time.” At once he became [blind, as though he was] in a dark mist, and he groped about, searching for someone [to hold him by the] hand and lead him.
| حال که چنین است، خدا تو را چنان می‌زند که تا مدتی کور شوی و نور خورشید را نبینی!» در دَم، چشمان عِلیما تیره و تار شد و کورکورانه به این سو و آن سو می‌رفت و التماس می‌کرد کسی دست او را بگیرد و راه را به او نشان دهد. |
12 When the governor saw what had happened [to Elymas], he believed [in the Lord Jesus]. He was amazed by [what Paul and Barnabas] were teaching about the Lord [Jesus].
| وقتی فرماندار این را دید، از قدرت پیام خدا متحیر شد و ایمان آورد. |
13 [After that], Paul and the two men with him went by ship from Paphos to Perga [port] in Pamphylia [province. At Perga] John [Mark] left them and returned to [his home in] Jerusalem.
| پولس و همراهانش پافُس را ترک کردند و با کشتی عازم ایالت پامْفیلیا شدند و در بندر پِرجه پیاده شدند. در آنجا یوحنا معروف به مرقس از ایشان جدا شد و به اورشلیم بازگشت. |
14 Then Paul and Barnabas traveled [by land] from Perga, and arrived in Antioch [city] near Pisidia [district in Galatia province]. (On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day) they entered the synagogue/the Jewish meeting place and sat down.
| ولی برنابا و پولس به شهر انطاکیه در ایالت پیسیدیه رفتند. ایشان روز شَبّات برای پرستش خدا به کنیسهٔ یهود وارد شدند. |
15 [Someone] read [aloud] from what [Moses had written. Then someone read from what the other] prophets [had written] [MTY]. Then the leaders of the Jewish meeting place gave [someone this] note [to take] to Paul and Barnabas: “Fellow Jews, if [one of] you wants to speak to the people [here] to encourage them, please speak [to us(exc) now].”
| وقتی قرائت تورات و کتب انبیا به پایان رسید، رؤسای کنیسه برایشان پیام فرستاده، گفتند: «برادران، اگر سخن آموزنده‌ای دارید، لطفاً برایمان بیان کنید.» |
16 So Paul stood up and motioned with his right hand [so that the people would listen to him]. Then he said, “Fellow Israelis and you [non-Jewish people] who [also] worship God, [please] listen [to me]!
| پولس از جا برخاست و با دست اشاره کرد تا ساکت باشند و گفت: «ای مردان اسرائیل، و ای غیریهودیانِ خداپرست، به من گوش فرا دهید. |
17 God, whom we [(inc)] Israelis worship, chose our ancestors [to be his people], and he caused them to become very numerous while they were foreigners living in Egypt. [Then after many years], God helped them [MTY] powerfully and led them out of there.
| «خدای بنی‌اسرائیل، اجداد ما را انتخاب کرد و باشکوه و جلال تمام از چنگ مصری‌ها رهایی بخشید و ایشان را سرافراز نمود. |
18 [Even though they repeatedly disobeyed him, he] cared for them for about 40 years [while they were] in the desert.
| در آن چهل سالی که در بیابان سرگردان بودند، او آنان را تحمل کرد. |
19 He [enabled the Israelis] to conquer seven tribal groups [who were then living] in Canaan [region], and he gave their land to us Israelis for us to possess.
| سپس، هفت قوم ساکن کنعان را از بین برد و سرزمین آنان را به اسرائیل به میراث بخشید. |
20 [Our ancestors began to possess Canaan] about 450 years after [their ancestors had arrived in Egypt].” Acts 13:20b-22 “After that, God appointed leaders [to rule the Israeli people. Those leaders continued to rule our people] until the time when the prophet Samuel [ruled them].
| پس از آن، چهارصد و پنجاه سال، یعنی تا زمان سموئیل نبی، رهبران گوناگون، این قوم را اداره کردند. |
21 Then, [while Samuel was still their leader], the people demanded that he [appoint] a king [to rule them. So] God appointed Saul, the son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, [to be their king]. He [ruled them] for 40 years.
| «پس از آن، قوم خواستند برای خود پادشاهی داشته باشند؛ و خدا شائول، پسر قیس از قبیلهٔ بنیامین را به ایشان داد که چهل سال بر آنان سلطنت کرد. |
22 After God had rejected Saul [from being king], he appointed David to be their king. God said about him, ‘I have observed that David, son of Jesse, is exactly the kind of man that I desire [IDM]. He will do [everything that] I want [him to do].’”
| ولی خدا او را برکنار نمود و داوود را به جای وی پادشاه ساخت و فرمود: داوود، پسر یَسا، مرد دلخواه من است. او کسی است که هر چه بگویم اطاعت، می‌کند. |
23 “From [among] David’s descendants, God brought one of them, Jesus, to [us] Israeli people to save us, just like he had told [David and our other ancestors] that he would do.
| و عیسی، آن نجات‌دهنده‌ای که خدا وعده‌اش را به اسرائیل داد، از نسل همین داوود پادشاه است. |
24 Before Jesus began his work, John [the Baptizer] preached to all of our Israeli people [who came to him. He told them] that they should turn away from their sinful behavior [and ask God to forgive them. Then he] would baptize them.
| «ولی پیش از آمدن او، یحیی موعظه می‌کرد که لازم است تمامی قوم اسرائیل از گناهان خود دست بکشند، به سوی خدا بازگشت نمایند و تعمید بگیرند. |
25 When John was about to finish the work [that God gave him to do], he frequently said [to the people], ‘Do you think [RHQ] that I am [the Messiah whom God promised to send]? No, I am not. But listen! The Messiah will [soon] come. [He is so much greater than I am that] I am not [even] important enough to be his slave [MET].’”
| وقتی یحیی دورهٔ خدمت خود را به پایان رساند، به مردم گفت: آیا تصور می‌کنید که من مسیح هستم؟ نه، من مسیح نیستم. مسیح به‌زودی خواهد آمد. من حتی شایسته نیستم که بند کفشهایش را باز کنم. |
26 “Fellow Israelis, you who are descendants of Abraham, and [you non-Jewish people who] also worship God, [please listen! It is] to [all of] us that [God] has sent the message about [how he] saves people.
| «برادران، خدا این نجات را به همهٔ ما هدیه کرده است. این نجات هم برای شماست که از نسل ابراهیم می‌باشید، و هم برای شما غیریهودیان که خداپرست هستید. |
27 The people who were living in Jerusalem and their rulers did not realize that this man [Jesus was the one whom God had sent to save them]. Although messages from [MTY] the prophets have been read [aloud] {someone has read [aloud] messages from [MTY] the prophets} every (Sabbath/Jewish day of rest), they did not understand [what the prophets wrote about the Messiah. So] the [Jewish leaders] condemned Jesus [to die], which was just like the prophets predicted.
| «ولی یهودیانِ شهر اورشلیم، با سران قوم خود عیسی را کشتند، و به این ترتیب پیشگویی پیامبران را تحقق بخشیدند. ایشان او را نپذیرفتند و پی نبردند که او همان کسی است که پیامبران درباره‌اش پیشگویی کرده‌اند، با اینکه هر شَبّات نوشته‌های آن پیامبران را می‌خواندند و می‌شنیدند. |
28 [Many people accused Jesus of doing wicked things], but they could not prove that he had done anything for which he deserved to die. They insistently asked Pilate [the governor] to command that Jesus be executed {to command soldiers to execute Jesus}. [So Pilate did what they asked him to do].
| هر چند عیسی بی‌گناه بود، ولی به پیلاتُس اصرار کردند که او را بکشد. |
29 They did [to Jesus] all the things that [the prophets long ago had] written [that people would do to] him. [They killed Jesus by nailing him to a cross. Then] his body was taken {[some people took] his body} down from the cross and placed it in a tomb.
| سرانجام وقتی تمام بلاهای پیشگویی‌شده را بر سر او آوردند، او را از صلیب پایین آورده، در مقبره گذاشتند. |
30 However, God (raised him from the dead/caused him to live again after he had died)
| ولی خدا او را زنده کرد! |
31 and for many days he [repeatedly] appeared to [his followers] who had come along with him from Galilee [province] to Jerusalem. Those [who saw him] are telling the [Jewish] people about him now.”
| و کسانی که همراه او از جلیل به اورشلیم آمده بودند، بارها او را زنده دیدند. ایشان اکنون شاهدان او نزد قوم ما، یعنی قوم اسرائیل هستند. |
32 “[Right] now we [two] are proclaiming to you this good message. We want to tell you that God has fulfilled what he promised to [our Jewish] ancestors!
| «من و برنابا برای همین به اینجا آمده‌ایم تا این خبر خوش را به شما نیز برسانیم. این وعده به اجداد ما داده شد |
33 He has now done that for us [(inc) who are] their descendants, [and also for you who are not Jews], by causing Jesus to live again. That is just like what [David] wrote in the second Psalm that [God said when he was sending his Son], You [(sg)] are my Son; Today I have shown everyone [that I really am] your Father.
| و خدا آن را با زنده کردن عیسی، برای ما که فرزندان ایشانیم، وفا کرد. این است آنچه در مزمور دوم دربارۀ عیسی نوشته شده است: «”تو پسر من هستی! امروز من پدر تو شده‌ام.“ |
34 [God] has (raised [the Messiah] from the dead/caused [the Messiah] to live again after he had died) and will never let him die again. [Concerning that, God] said [to our Jewish ancestors], ‘I will surely help you, as I [promised] David [that I would do].’
| «زیرا خدا وعده داده بود که او را از مردگان برخیزاند تا در قبر نپوسد، چنانکه در کتب مقدّس آمده:”آن برکات مقدّسی را که به داوود وعده دادم، برای تو انجام خواهم داد.“ |
35 So [in writing] another [Psalm, David] said this [to God about the Messiah]: ‘Because I am devoted to you and always obey [you, when I die] you [(sg)] will not let my body decay.’
| مزمور دیگری به طور مفصل شرح می‌دهد که:”تو نخواهی گذاشت قُدّوسِ تو در قبر بپوسد.“ |
36 While David was living, he did what God wanted him to do. And when he died [EUP], his [body] was buried, [as] his ancestors’ [bodies had been buried], and his body decayed. [So he could not have been speaking about himself in this Psalm].
| این آیه اشاره به داوود نیست چون داوود، در زمان خود مطابق میل خدا خدمت کرد و بعد مرد، دفن شد و بدنش نیز پوسید. |
37 [Instead, he was speaking about Jesus. Jesus also died], but God (raised him from the dead/caused him to live again), and [therefore] his body did not decay.”
| پس این اشاره به شخص دیگری است، یعنی به کسی است که خدا او را دوباره زنده کرد و بدنش از مرگ ضرر و زیانی ندید. |
38 “Therefore, [my] fellow Israelis [and other friends], it is important for you to know that [we(exc)] are declaring to you [that God] can forgive you for your sins as a result of [what] Jesus [has done]. Because of [what] Jesus [has done], [God] considers that everyone who believes [in Jesus] is no longer guilty (OR, the record has been erased {[God] has erased the record}) concerning everything that they [have done that displeased God. But] when [God] does [that for you], it is not as a result of [your obeying] the laws [that] Moses [wrote].
| «برادران، توجه کنید! در این مرد، یعنی عیسی برای گناهان شما امید آمرزش هست. |
| هر که به او ایمان آورد، از قید تمام گناهانش آزاد خواهد شد و خدا او را خوب و شایسته به حساب خواهد آورد؛ و این کاری است که شریعت موسی هرگز نمی‌تواند برای ما انجام دهد. |
40 Therefore be careful that [God] does not judge you [MTY], as one of the prophets said [MTY] that God would do!
| پس مواظب باشید مبادا گفته‌های پیامبران شامل حال شما نیز بشود که می‌گویند: |
41 [The prophet wrote that God said], You who ridicule [me], you will [certainly] be astonished [when you see what I am doing], and [then] you will be destroyed. You will be astonished because I will do something [terrible to you] while you are living. You would not believe [that I would do that] even though someone told you!”
| شما که حقیقت را خوار می‌شمارید، ببینید و تعجب کنید و نابود شوید! زیرا در روزگار شما کاری می‌کنم که حتی وقتی خبرش را به شما دهند، باور نکنید!» |
42 After Paul [finished speaking], while he and Barnabas were leaving the Jewish meeting place, [many of] the people there repeatedly requested that on the next (Sabbath/Jewish day of rest) [the two of them] should speak to them [again] about those things [that Paul had just told them].
| آن روز وقتی پولس و برنابا کنیسه را ترک می‌گفتند، مردم از ایشان خواهش کردند که هفتهٔ بعد نیز دربارۀ این امور برای ایشان صحبت کنند. |
43 After they began to leave [that meeting], many [of them] went along with Paul and Barnabas. They consisted of Jews and also of non-Jews who had accepted the things that the Jews believe. Paul and Barnabas continued talking to them, and were urging them to continue [believing the message that] God kindly [forgives people’s sins because of what Jesus did].
| وقتی جماعت مرخص شدند، بسیاری از یهودیان و غیریهودیان خداپرست به دنبال پولس و برنابا رفتند. این دو با ایشان سخن گفتند و ترغیبشان کردند تا در فیض خدا ثابت‌قدم بمانند. |
44 On the next Jewish rest day, most of the [people in Antioch came to] the Jewish meeting place to hear [Paul and Barnabas] speak about the Lord [Jesus].
| هفتهٔ بعد تقریباً همهٔ مردم شهر آمدند تا کلام خدا را از زبان آنان بشنوند. |
45 But [the leaders of] [SYN] the Jews became extremely jealous, because they saw that large crowds of [non-Jewish people were coming to hear Paul and Barnabas. So] they began to contradict the things that Paul was saying [and also] to insult [him].
| اما وقتی سران یهود دیدند که مردم اینچنین از پیغام رسولان استقبال می‌کنند، از روی حسادت از آنان بدگویی کردند و هر چه پولس می‌گفت، ضد آن را می‌گفتند. |
46 Then, speaking very boldly, Paul and Barnabas said [to those Jewish leaders], “[We two] had to speak the message from God [about Jesus] to you [Jews] first [before we proclaim it to non-Jews, because God commanded us to do that. But] you are rejecting God’s message. [By doing that], you have shown that you are not worthy (to have eternal life/to live eternally [with God]). [Therefore], we are leaving [you, and now we] will go to the non-Jewish people [to tell them the message from God]. (aiōnios g166)
| آنگاه پولس و برنابا با دلیری گفتند: «لازم بود که پیغام خدا را اول به شما یهودیان برسانیم. ولی حالا که شما آن را رد کردید، آن را به غیریهودیان اعلام خواهیم کرد، چون شما نشان دادید که لایق حیات جاودانی نیستید. (aiōnios g166) |
47 [We are doing that also] because the Lord [God] has commanded us [to do it]. He said to us, ‘I have appointed you [to reveal things about me] to non-Jewish people [MET] that will be [like] a light to them. [I have appointed] you to tell people everywhere [MTY] in the world [about the one who came] to save [them].’”
| و این درست همان دستوری است که خداوند به ما داد و فرمود:”تو را برای قومهای جهان نور ساختم تا نجات را به کرانهای زمین برسانی.“» |
48 While the non-Jewish people were listening [to those words], they began to rejoice, and they repeatedly said that the message about the Lord [Jesus] was wonderful. And all of the non-Jewish people whom [God] had chosen (to have eternal [life/to live eternally with God]) believed [the message about the Lord Jesus]. (aiōnios g166)
| وقتی غیریهودیان این را شنیدند، بسیار شاد شدند و خداوند را برای پیامش سپاس گفتند، و آنان که برای حیات جاودانی تعیین شده بودند، ایمان آوردند. (aiōnios g166) |
49 [At that time, many of the believers] traveled around throughout that region. As they did that, they were proclaiming the message about the Lord [Jesus] [MTY].
| به این ترتیب، پیام خدا به تمام آن ناحیه رسید. |
50 However, [some leaders of] [SYN] the Jews incited the most important men in the city, and [some] important/influential women who had accepted what the Jews believe, to oppose [Paul and Barnabas. So those non-Jewish people] incited [other people also] to persecute Paul and Barnabas. As a result they expelled the two men from their region.
| آنگاه سران قوم یهود، زنان دیندار و متشخص و بزرگان شهر را بر ضد پولس و برنابا تحریک کردند، و به‌همراه جمعی از مردم بر سر ایشان ریختند و آنان را از آنجا راندند. |
51 So, [as the two apostles were leaving, they] shook the dust from their feet [to show those Jewish leaders that God had rejected them and would punish them. They left Antioch] and went to Iconium [city].
| پولس و برنابا نیز در مقابل این عمل، گرد و خاک آن شهر را از پاهای خود تکاندند و از آنجا به شهر قونیه رفتند. |
52 Meanwhile, the believers [in Antioch] continued to rejoice greatly, and they continued to be completely controlled by the Holy Spirit.
| اما کسانی که در اثر پیغام آنان ایمان آوردند، سرشار از شادی و روح‌القدس شدند. |
