Acts 8
1 Then some men who revered God buried Stephen’s body in a tomb, and they mourned greatly and loudly for him. On that same day [people] started severely persecuting the believers [who were living] in Jerusalem. So most [of the believers] fled [to other places] throughout Judea and Samaria [provinces]. The apostles were the only [believers who remained in Jerusalem].
E tambem Saulo consentia na morte d'elle. E fez-se n'aquelle dia uma grande perseguição contra a egreja que estava em Jerusalem; e todos foram dispersos pelas terras da Judea e da Samaria, excepto os apostolos.
E alguns varões piedosos foram enterrar a Estevão, e fizeram sobre elle grande pranto.
3 While the people were killing Stephen, Saul was there approving of their killing Stephen. So Saul [also] began trying to destroy the group of believers. He entered houses one by one, he dragged away men and women [who believed in Jesus], and then he [arranged for] them to be put in prison.
E Saulo assolava a egreja, entrando pelas casas: e, arrastando homens e mulheres, os encerrava na prisão.
4 The believers who had left Jerusalem went to different places, where they continued preaching the message about Jesus.
Mas os que andavam dispersos iam por toda a parte, annunciando a palavra.
5 [One of those believers whose name was] Philip went down [from Jerusalem] to a city in Samaria [province]. There he was telling [the people that Jesus is] [MTY] the Messiah.
E, descendo Philippe a cidade de Samaria, lhes prégava á Christo.
6 Many people there heard Philip [speak] and saw the miraculous things that he was doing. So they all (paid close attention to/listened carefully to) his words.
E as multidões estavam attentas unanimemente ás coisas que Philippe dizia, porquanto ouviam e viam os signaes que elle fazia;
7 For [example, when Philip commanded] evil spirits who controlled many people [that they should come out of them], they came out, while those spirits screamed. Also, many people who were paralyzed and [many others] who were lame were healed.
Pois os espiritos immundos sahiam de muitos que os tinham, clamando em alta voz; e muitos paralyticos e côxos eram curados.
8 So [many people] [MTY] in that city greatly rejoiced.
E havia grande alegria n'aquella cidade.
9 There was a man in that city whose name was Simon. He had been practicing sorcery for a long time, and he had been amazing the people in Samaria [province by doing that]. He continually claimed that he was a great/important person.
E havia um certo varão, chamado Simão, que anteriormente exercera n'aquella cidade a arte magica, e tinha illudido a gente de Samaria, dizendo que era um grande personagem:
10 All the people there, both ordinary and important people, listened to him. [Various ones of] them were saying, “This man works in extremely powerful ways [because] God has caused him to be a great [person].”
Ao qual todos attendiam, desde o mais pequeno até ao maior, dizendo: Este é a grande virtude de Deus.
11 They continued to listen to him carefully, because for a long time he had astonished them by practicing sorcery.
E attendiam-n'o a elle, porque já desde muito tempo os havia illudido com artes magicas.
12 But then they believed Philip’s [message] when he preached to them about [how] God desires to rule [MET] [the lives of people who believe in him], and about Jesus being the Messiah [MTY]. Both the men and the women who believed in Jesus were baptized. {[Philip] was baptizing both the men and the women [who had come to believe in Jesus]}.
Mas, como crêram em Philippe que lhes prégava ácerca do reino de Deus, e do nome de Jesus Christo, se baptizavam, tanto homens como mulheres.
13 Simon himself believed [Philip’s message] and, after he was baptized {after [Philip] baptized him}, he began to constantly accompany Philip. Simon was continually amazed because he often saw [Philip] doing many kinds of miraculous things.
E creu até o mesmo Simão; e, sendo baptizado, ficou de continuo com Philippe; e, vendo os signaes e as grandes maravilhas que se faziam, estava attonito.
14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that [many people] [PRS] [throughout] Samaria [district] had believed the message from God [about Jesus], they sent Peter and John there.
Os apostolos, pois, que estavam em Jerusalem, ouvindo que Samaria recebera a palavra de Deus, enviaram-lhes Pedro e João.
15 When Peter and John arrived in Samaria, they prayed for those [new believers] in order that the Holy Spirit’s [power] would come to them.
Os quaes, tendo descido, oraram por elles para que recebessem o Espirito Sancto.
16 [Peter and John realized that] the Holy Spirit had not yet begun to empower any of them. They had been baptized {[Philip] had baptized them} [because they had believed] in [MTY] the Lord Jesus, [but they did not know about the Holy Spirit].
(Porque sobre nenhum d'elles tinha ainda descido; mas sómente eram baptizados em nome do Senhor Jesus.)
17 [Then Peter and John] placed their hands on [the heads of] each person, and they received the [power of] [MTY] the Holy Spirit.
Então lhes impozeram as mãos, e receberam o Espirito Sancto.
18 Simon saw [things that convinced him] that [God] had given the Spirit’s [power to people] as a result of the apostles placing their hands on them. So he offered [to give] money to the apostles,
E Simão, vendo que pela imposição das mãos dos apostolos se dava o Espirito Sancto, lhes offereceu dinheiro,
19 saying, “Enable me also to do what [you are doing], so that everyone on whom I place/put my hands may receive the Holy Spirit’s [power].”
Dizendo: Dae-me tambem a mim esse poder, para que qualquer sobre quem eu pozer as mãos receba o Espirito Sancto.
20 But Peter said to him, “May you [(sg)] and your money go to hell, because you [mistakenly] think that you can buy [from us] what God [alone] gives to [people] (questioned)
Mas disse-lhe Pedro: O teu dinheiro seja comtigo para perdição, pois cuidaste que o dom de Deus se alcança por dinheiro.
21 [God] has not authorized you to have any part of this ministry of giving [the Holy Spirit’s power], because he knows that you are not thinking rightly! (OR, because he knows that you are thinking completely wrongly.)
Tu não tens parte nem sorte n'esta palavra, porque o teu coração não é recto diante de Deus
22 So stop thinking wickedly [like] that, and plead that the Lord, if he is willing, will forgive you [for what] you [wickedly] thought/planned [to do]
Arrepende-te pois d'essa tua iniquidade, e ora a Deus, para que porventura te seja perdoado o pensamento do teu coração;
23 [Turn away from your evil ways], because I perceive that you [(sg)] are extremely envious of [us], and you [are] a slave of your [continual desire to do evil! God will certainly punish you severely]!”
Pois vejo que estás em fel de amargura, e em laço de iniquidade.
24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord [God] that [he] will not do to me what you just said!”
Respondendo, porém, Simão, disse: Orae vós por mim ao Senhor, para que nada do que dissestes venha sobre mim.
25 After [Peter and John] told [people there] what they knew personally [about the] Lord [Jesus] and declared to them the message about Jesus, they both returned to Jerusalem. [Along the way] they preached the good message [about Jesus to people] in many villages in Samaria [province].
Tendo elles pois testificado e fallado a palavra do Senhor, voltaram para Jerusalem, e em muitas aldeias dos samaritanos annunciaram o evangelho.
26 [One day] an angel whom the Lord [God] had sent commanded Philip, “Get ready and go south along the road that extends from Jerusalem to Gaza.” [That was] a road in a desert area.
E o anjo do Senhor fallou a Philippe, dizendo: Levanta-te, e vae para a banda do sul, ao caminho que desce de Jerusalem para Gaza, que é deserta.
27 So Philip got ready and went [along that road]. Suddenly he met a man from Ethiopia. He was an important official who took care of all the funds for the queen [of] Ethiopia. [In his language people called their queen] Candace. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship [God],
E levantou-se, e foi; e eis que um homem ethiope, eunucho, mordomo-mór de Candace, rainha dos ethiopes, o qual era superintendente de todos os seus thesouros, e tinha ido a Jerusalem a adorar,
28 and he was returning [home] and was seated [riding] in his chariot. [As he was riding], he was reading [out loud from] what the prophet Isaiah [had written] [MTY] [long ago].
Regressava, e, assentado no seu carro, lia o propheta Isaias.
29 [God’s] Spirit told Philip, “Go near to that chariot and keep walking close to [the man who is riding in] it!”
E disse o Espirito a Philippe: Chega-te, e ajunta-te a esse carro.
30 So Philip ran [to the chariot and kept running close to it]. Then he heard the official reading what the prophet Isaiah [had written]. He asked the man, “Do you [(sg)] understand what you are reading?”
E, correndo Philippe, ouviu que lia o propheta Isaias, e disse: Entendes tu o que lês?
31 He answered Philip, “[No!] (I cannot possibly [understand it] if [there is] no one to explain it to me!/How can I [understand it] if [there is] no one to explain it to me?) [RHQ]” Acts 8:31b-35 Then the man said to Philip, “Please come up [and] sit beside me.” [So Philip did that].
E elle disse: Como o poderei eu, se alguem me não ensinar? E rogou a Philippe que subisse e com elle se assentasse.
32 The part of the Scriptures that the official was reading was this: He will [be silent when] they lead him away to kill him [like when] a sheep [is led away to be killed]. As a young sheep is silent when its wool is being cut off {someone cuts off its wool}, [similarly] he will not protest [MTY] [when people cause him to suffer].
E o logar da Escriptura que lia era este: Foi levado como a ovelha para o matadouro, e, como está mudo o cordeiro diante do que o tosquia, assim não abriu a sua bocca.
33 When he will be humiliated by being accused falsely {people will humiliate him [by accusing him falsely]}, [the rulers] (will not consider him innocent/will consider him guilty). No one will possibly be able to tell about his descendants, because he will be killed {people will kill him} without him having [any descendants] on the earth.
Na sua humilhação foi tirada a sua sentença; e quem contará a sua geração? porque a sua vida é tirada da terra.
34 The official asked Philip [about these words that he was reading], “Tell me, who was the prophet writing about? [Was he writing] about himself or about someone else?”
E, respondendo o eunucho a Philippe, disse: Rogo-te, de quem diz isto o propheta? De si mesmo, ou d'algum outro?
35 So Philip began [to explain] that Scripture passage. He told him the good message about [MTY] Jesus. [So the official understood and believed in Jesus].
Então Philippe, abrindo a sua bocca, e começando n'esta Escriptura, lhe annunciou a Jesus.
36 While they were traveling along the road, they came to [a place where there was a pond of] water [near the road]. Then the official said [to Philip], “Look, [there is a pond of] water! (I would like you to baptize me, because I do not know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized {prevent [you] from baptizing me.}/Do you know of anything that would prevent me from being baptized {prevent [you] from baptizing me}?) [RHQ]”
E, indo elles caminhando, chegaram ao pé d'alguma agua, e disse o eunucho: Eis aqui agua; que impede que eu seja baptizado?
E disse Philippe: É licito, se crês de todo o coração. E, respondendo elle, disse: Creio que Jesus Christo é o Filho de Deus
38 So the official told [the driver] to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the official went down into the [pond of] water, and [Philip] baptized him.
E mandou parar o carro, e desceram ambos á agua, tanto Philippe como o eunucho, e o baptizou.
39 When they came up out of the water, suddenly God’s Spirit took Philip away. The official never saw Philip again. But [although he never saw Philip again], the official continued going along the road, very happy [that God had saved him].
E, quando sairam da agua, o Espirito do Senhor arrebatou a Philippe, e não o viu mais o eunucho; e, jubiloso, continuou o seu caminho.
40 Philip then realized [that the Spirit had miraculously taken him to] Azotus [town]. While he traveled around [in that region], he continued proclaiming the message [about Jesus] in all the towns [between Azotus and Caesarea. And he was still proclaiming] it when he finally arrived in Caesarea [city].
Porém Philippe achou-se em Azoto, e, indo passando, annunciou o evangelho em todas as cidades, até que chegou a Cesarea.
