Katuma 8
1 Shawulu ma hem inni wano imemee, ronome a tubi u mensi anu tarsa Asere a nyumo u Jerusalem; an dee sa wa kabi tize ta Asere citi pin tu Judiya nan nu Samariya a meki we a samarka, ana ka dira wani wa dii chass.
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].
2 Anu nya ce sa wa vati Sitivin wa buki tize tiririn ani ce nume.
3 Shawulu ma ribe u tarsa uti kura unu mensi anu tarsa Asere unu korsuzo ma nan ni Jessi.
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.
4 Vatin ani me anu kaba uti zeeta Asere me sa Asamirkawe wa ri aje uni boo utini.
The believers who had left Jerusalem went to different places, where they continued preaching the message about Jesus.
5 Filibus ma dusa a nyumo ani pin nu Samariya unu boo uwe abanga ukirsti.
[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.
6 A nabu gbardang sa wa kunna wa kiri wa iri ti mum sa ma zin unu wuza mee wa gamika muriba muwe mee a hira ame.
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.
7 Ani bee izezen gbardang we e unu karsa u hunu, anu wijo uti hihira wa kem u humza.
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.
8 Mu riba manu ani pin mee mu runme.
So [many people] [MTY] in that city greatly rejoiced.
9 Uye mamu rani ani pinme sa atisa me simon, dee sa ma dodonkinon anu Vengizi uwe muriba ini bere na nu bezi ubari.
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.
10 ASamariyawa a cincin nan a dandang vat, mu riba mu wemee mu kuri ahira ame, unu gusa unu geme mazin ni kara na Asere sa ri ori.
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].”
11 Wa re aje unu kunna umee barki sa ma dodonkino unu wuza uwe ribere.
They continued to listen to him carefully, because for a long time he had astonished them by practicing sorcery.
12 Sa wa hem inka dura ku runtame sa Filibus ma hanawen, ka banga a kura Asere nan Yesu kirsti, a zursowe ana ruma nan na eh.
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]}.
13 Simon me changi ma hem inka durame a zorome, ma dusa more aje inti cuku na Filibus ma ira timum gbardang sa ma wuza ma kunna biyau.
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.
14 A dura me sa warani Ujerusalem wa kuma agi anu samariya wa kaba tize ta Asere, wa tuburko Bitrus nan Yohana.
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.
15 Sa wa hana wa hana wa wuwe biringara bati wa kabi bibee biririn.
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.
16 A zorsowe a nyumo ani zaa nu gomo Asere Yesu vati anime daki wa kem bibee biririn.
[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].
17 U aye u Bitrus nan Yohana wa tarsawe tari ace waduku kem.
[Then Peter and John] placed their hands on [the heads of] each person, and they received the [power of] [MTY] the Holy Spirit.
18 Sa simon ma ira azin unu ninza ubibee biririn una utarsa utari ace ma witiwe ikirfi.
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,
19 Ma gunwe nyanime ni ge nikaramee vat dee sa ma tarame tara anice makem bibee biririn.
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].”
20 Bitrus ma gunmee cornowe nan ikirfi iwemee, u basa uda kee ukpee u nyanki wa Asere ini kirfi.
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)
21 Iriba ya Asere izoo na huu, barki anime udaa kemwe baa.
[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.)
22 Barki anime ceki imum iburri iweme uwu biringara bati Asere a kpeeciwe.
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]
23 Ma ira uraa anyumo ati kono tigwangwang tucharan.
[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]!”
24 Sion ma gu ringirkanme Asere kati timumme sa ya buka tikem.
Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord [God] that [he] will not do to me what you just said!”
25 Sa Bitrus nan Yohana wa mara uboo anu tizee tu Ugomo asere, wa kuri u hana Ujerusalem wa haki wa buu ana agiro u Samariya tizee ta Asere.
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].
26 Bire bibee bika dura ka Asere bigun Filibus, hira tarsa ni kira nu kudu una Ujerusalem u hana ugaza (una ubikiki bine).
[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.
27 Ma hiri ma dusa. uru naa katuma a kura usarauniya wani Itopiya sa maaye Ujerusalem bati ma wuzi Ugomo Asere rinonzo.
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],
28 Tantu kuro ma ciki unu hira citi zee ti Tshaya unu kurzo utize ta Asere.
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].
29 Bibee bi gun Filibus hana ka benki unu ugenemee.
[God’s] Spirit told Philip, “Go near to that chariot and keep walking close to [the man who is riding in] it!”
30 Filibus maka kem me unu hira uti Ishaya una tizee ta Asere.
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?”
31 Indi wuu ani in russi sarki uye sa madiu benkum, aye benkum.
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].
32 A hira me sa unu Itopiya maazi unu hirame, a gusa, A hunge mee kassi bitan tantu kaweki nan bizara in ku tikmee sarki u buku tizee.
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].
33 A nyumo u yomomee sa wawuza me wacekimee, aveni madi buki uchara umemee, sa a hunamee unee.
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.
34 Uchukorome ma iki Filibus ma gu kussu, unu kurzo utizee mee mazin anice numee nan ni uyee.
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?”
35 Filibus ma tubimee tizee ti Yesu unyertike u Ishaya.
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].
36 Wa haki unaa wa wa eh a hira mare mei uchokoromee ma gunnme nyanini idi karti a zoron abamee.
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]”
37 Inki wa hem anyumo iriba iwemee adi zorowee, ma gu ma hem Yesu Kirsti vana Asere mani.
38 U nani Itopiya me ma turi kubakura mee, wa dusa na Filibus me maka Zoromee.
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.
39 Sa wa suro anyumo a mei mee bibee ba Asere biziki Filibus uchokorome ma nyarimee daki ma iramee, ma dusa ma meki unaa inninonzo.
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].
40 Filibus maka suro Azotus, mari aje unu boo ukadura ku runta ati pinpin to watu me chip uka biki casariya.
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].
