प्रेरित 2
1 जब पेन्तिकोसको दिन आयो, तिनीहरू सबै जना एकै ठाउँमा थिए ।
In the course of the Festival at the close of the Harvest the disciples had all met together,
2 एक्कासि स्वर्गबाट जोडसँग शक्तिशाली हावाको झोक्का जस्तै आवाज आयो र तिनीहरू बसिरहेको पुरै घर भरियो ।
when suddenly there came from the heavens a noise like that of a strong wind rushing by; it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.
3 आगोका जिब्राहरू जस्ता तिनीहरूकहाँ देखा परे र भागभाग भएर तिनीहरू हरेकमाथि बसे ।
Then there appeared tongues of what seemed to be flame, separating, so that one settled on each of them;
4 तिनीहरू सबै जना पवित्र आत्माले भरिए र आत्माले तिनीहरूलाई दिनुभएअनुसार अरू भाषाहरूमा बोल्न थाले ।
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with strange ‘tongues’ as the Spirit prompted their utterances.
5 यरूशलेममा स्वर्गमुनि भएका हरेक जातिबाट आएका ईश्वरभक्त यहूदीहरू बसिरहेका थिए ।
Now there were then staying in Jerusalem religious Jews from every country in the world;
6 जब यो आवाज सुनियो मानिसहरूका भिड एकसाथ आए र अन्योलमा परे किनभने हरेकले तिनीहरू तिनीहरूका आफ्नै भाषामा बोलिरहेका सुने ।
and, when this sound was heard, numbers of people collected, in the greatest excitement, because each of them heard the disciples speaking in his own language.
7 तिनीहरू छक्क र चकित भए र तिनीहरूले भने, “साँच्चै, के यी बोलिरहनेहरू गालीलीहरू होइनन्?
They were utterly amazed, and kept asking in astonishment: “What! Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?
8 त्यसो भए किन तिनीहरूले हाम्रो आफ्नै भाषाहरूमा नै बोलिरहेका हामी हरेकले सुनिरहेका छौँ?
Then how is it that we each of us hear them in our own native language?
9 पार्थीहरू र मादीहरू र एलामीहरू र मेसोपोटामिया, यहूदिया र कापाडोकिया, पोन्टस र एसिया
Some of us are Parthians, some Medes, some Elamites; and some of us live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Roman Asia,
10 फ्रिगिया र पाम्फिलिया, मिश्र र कुरेनी नजिकका लिबियाका भागहरूका बासिन्दाहरू, र रोमका आगन्तुकहरू,
in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya adjoining Cyrene; some of us are visitors from Rome,
11 यहूदीहरू र यहूदी मत मान्नेहरू, क्रेट निवासी र अरबीहरू छौँ । तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरका महान् कामहरूका बारेमा हाम्रै भाषामा बताइरहेका हामीले सुन्दैछौँ ।”
either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians — yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own tongues of the great things that God has done.”
12 तिनीहरू सबै जना चकित र जिल्ल परेर तिनीहरूले एकअर्कालाई भने, “यसको तात्पर्य के हो?”
They were all utterly amazed and bewildered. “What does it mean?” they asked one another.
13 तर अरूले चाहिँ गिज्याए र भने, “तिनीहरू नयाँ मद्यले टन्न भएका छन् ।”
But there were some who said with a sneer: “They have had too much new wine.”
14 तर पत्रुस एघार जनासँगै खडा भएर उच्च स्वरले तिनीहरूलाई भने, “यहूदिया र यरूशलेममा बस्ने सबै मानिसहरू हो, यो कुरा तपाईंहरूलाई थाहा होस्; मेरो कुरा ध्यान दिएर सुन्नुहोस् ।
Then Peter, surrounded by the eleven other Apostles, stood up, and, raising his voice, addressed the crowd. “Men of Judea,” he began, “and all you who are staying in Jerusalem, let me tell you what this means. Mark well my words.
15 किनभने तपाईंहरूले ठान्नुभएजस्तो यी मानिसहरू मातेका छैनन्, कारण अहिले दिनको तेस्रो प्रहर मात्र भएको छ ।
These men are not drunk, as you suppose; for it is only now nine in the morning! No!
16 तर अगमवक्ता योएलद्वारा यो कुरा बोलिएको छः
This is what is spoken of in the prophet Joel —
17 ‘परमेश्वर भन्नुहुन्छ, “अन्त्यका दिनहरूमा यस्तो हुनेछ, म मेरो आत्मा सबै मानिसहरूमाथि खन्याउनेछु, तिमीहरूका छोराहरू र छोरीहरूले अगमवाणी बोल्नेछन्, र तिमीहरूका वृद्ध मानिसहरूले सपनाहरू देख्नेछन् ।
‘It shall come about in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour out my Spirit on all mankind; Your sons and your daughters shall become Prophets, Your young men shall see visions, And your old men dream dreams;
18 ती दिनहरूमा मेरा दास र दासीहरूमाथि म मेरो आत्मा खन्याउनेछु र तिनीहरूले अगमवाणी बोल्नेछन् ।
Yes, even on the slaves — for they are mine — both men and women, I will in those days pour out my Spirit, And they shall become Prophets;
19 म माथि स्वर्गमा अचम्मका कुराहरू र तल पृथ्वीमा रगत, आगो, र धुवाँको मुस्लोका चिन्हहरू देखाउनेछु ।
And I will show wonders in the heavens above, And signs on the earth below — Blood and fire and mist of smoke;
20 परमप्रभुको महान् र असाधारण दिन आउनअगि सूर्य अँध्यारोमा र चन्द्रमा रगतमा परिणत हुनेछ ।
The sun shall become darkness, And the moon blood-red, Before the Day of the Lord comes — that great and awful day.
21 यस्तो हुनेछ कि परमेश्वरको नाउँ पुकार्ने हरेकले उद्धार पाउनेछ ।
Then shall every one who invokes the Name of the Lord be saved.’
22 हे इस्राएलका मानिसहरू हो, यी वचनहरू सुन्नुहोस्: परमेश्वरले तपाईंहरूका बिचमा उहाँद्वारा गर्नु भएका शक्तिशाली कामहरू, आश्चर्यकर्महरू र चिन्हहरूद्वारा परमेश्वरले तपाईंहरूकहाँ साँचो प्रमाणित गर्नुभएका मानिस नासरतका येशू नै हुनुहुन्छ भन्ने कुरा तपाईंहरूलाई थाहै छ ।
Men of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Jesus of Nazareth, a man whose mission from God to you was proved by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God showed among you through him, as you know full well —
23 परमेश्वरको अठोट गरिएको योजना र पूर्वज्ञानले गर्दा, उहाँ सुम्पिइनुभयो, र तपाईं अधर्मी मानिसहरूको हातद्वारा क्रुसमा टाँगिनुभयो र मारिनुभयो ।
He, I say, in accordance with God’s definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.
24 उहाँलाई मृत्युका पीडाहरूबाट छुटाएर परमेश्वरले उहाँलाई जीवित पार्नुभयो किनभने उहाँ यसको अधीनमा रहिरहन सम्भव थिएन ।
But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold upon him.
25 किनभने दाऊदले उहाँको बारेमा भनेकाछन्, ‘परमप्रभुलाई मैले सधैँ मेरो मुहार अगाडि देखेँ । उहाँ मेरो दाहिने हात नजिक हुनुहुन्छ, यसकारण म नडगमगाउनु पर्दैन ।
Indeed it was to him that David was referring when he said — ‘I have had the Lord ever before my eyes, For he stands at my right hand, that I should not be disquieted.
26 यसकारण मेरो हृदय आनन्दित थियो र मेरो जिब्रोले आनन्द मनायो । मेरो शरीरले पनि दृढतामा वास गर्नेछ ।
Therefore my heart was cheered, and my tongue told its delight; Yes, even my body, too, will rest in hope;
27 किनभने तपाईंले मेरो प्राणलाई पातालमा त्याग्नुहुनेछैन न त तपाईंले तपाईंका पवित्रजनलाई कुहिन दिनुहुनेछ । (Hadēs g86)
For thou wilt not abandon my soul to the Place of Death, Nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption. (Hadēs g86)
28 तपाईंले मलाई जीवनका मार्गहरू प्रकट गर्नुभयो । तपाईंले आफ्नो मुहारले मलाई खुसीले भरिपूर्ण बनाउनुहुनेछ ।
Thou have shown me the path to life, Thou wilt fill me with gladness in your presence.’
29 हे दाजुभाइहरू हो, म हाम्रा पुर्खा दाऊदका बारेमा दृढतासाथ बोल्न सक्छु: तिनी मरे र गाडिए र तिनको चिहान आजको दिनसम्म हामीसँग छ ।
Brothers, I can speak to you the more confidently about the Patriarch David, because he is dead and buried, and his tomb is here among us to this very day.
30 यसकारण तिनी एक अगमवक्ता थिए र परमेश्वरले तिनकै सन्तानहरूमध्येबाटै एक जनालाई तिनको सिंहसानमा बसाल्नुहुने थियो भनी उहाँले तिनीसँग शपथ खानुभएको कुरा तिनलाई थाहा थियो ।
David, then, Prophet as he was, knowing that God ‘had solemnly sworn to him to set one of his descendants upon his throne,’ looked into the future,
31 तिनले यो कुरा पहिला नै देखे र ख्रीष्टको पुनरुथानको बारेमा यसरी बताए, ‘उहाँ नत पातालमा त्यागिनु भयो नत उहाँको शरीर नै कुहियो ।’ (Hadēs g86)
and referred to the resurrection of the Christ when he said that ‘he had not been abandoned to the Place of Death, nor had his body undergone corruption.’ (Hadēs g86)
32 यी नै येशूलाई परमेश्वरले जीवित पार्नुभयो जसको हामी सबै जना साक्षी छौँ ।
It was this Jesus, whom God raised to life; and of that we are ourselves all witnesses.
33 यसकारण उहाँ परमेश्वरको दाहिने हातपट्टि उठाइनुभयो र पिताबाट प्रतिज्ञा गरिएको पवित्र आत्मा पाएर, उहाँले यो खन्याउनुभएको छ जुन तपाईंहरू सुन्नु र देन्नु हुन्छ ।
And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear.
34 दाऊद आफैँ स्वर्ग चढेनन् तर तिनी भन्छन्, ‘परमप्रभुले मेरा प्रभुलाई भन्नुभयो, “मेरो दाहिने हातपट्टि बस,
It was not David who went up into Heaven; for he himself says — ‘The Lord said to my master: “Sit on my right hand,
35 जबसम्म म तिम्रा शत्रुहरूलाई तिम्रो पाउदान बनाउँदिन ।”’
Till I put your enemies as a footstool under thy feet.”’
36 यसकारण इस्राएलका सबै घरानाले यो निश्चयसाथ जानून कि यही येशू जसलाई तपाईंहरूले क्रुसमा टाँग्नुभयो, परमेश्वरले उहाँलाई प्रभु र ख्रीष्ट दुवै बनाउनु भयो ।
So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ — this very Jesus whom you crucified.”
37 जब तिनीहरूले यो सुने, तिनीहरूको हृदय छिया-छिया भयो र तिनीहरूले पत्रुस र अरू बाँकी प्रेरितहरूलाई भने, “भाइहरू हो, हामी के गरौँ?”
When the people heard this, they were conscience-smitten, and said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles: “Brothers, what can we do?”
38 अनि पत्रुसले तिनीहरूलाई भने, “पश्चात्ताप गर र तिमीहरू हरेकले तिमीहरूका पाप क्षमाको निम्ति येशू ख्रीष्टको नाउँमा बप्तिस्मा लेओ र तिमीहरूले पवित्र आत्माको वरदान प्राप्त गर्नेछौ ।
“Repent,” answered Peter, “and be baptized every one of you in the Faith of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 यो प्रतिज्ञा तिमीहरूका लागि, तिमीहरूका सन्तानहरूका लागि र टाढा-टाढा भएका सबैका लागि, र परमेश्वरले बोलाउनुहुने सबै मानिसहरूका लागि हो ।”
For the promise is for you and for your children, and also for all those now far away, who may be called by the Lord our God.”
40 अरू धेरै वचनहरूद्वारा तिनले गवाही दिए र तिनीहरूलाई आग्रह गरे । तिनले भने, “यो दुष्ट पुस्ताबाट तिमीहरूले आफैँलाई बचाओ ।”
With many other words Peter enforced his teaching, while the burden of his exhortations was — “Save yourselves from the perverse spirit of this age.”
41 तब तिनीहरूले तिनको वचन ग्रहण गरे र बप्तिस्मा लिए र झन्डै तिन हजार प्राणहरू त्यस दिन थपिए ।
So those who accepted his teaching were baptized, and about three thousand people joined the disciples on that day alone.
42 तिनीहरू प्रेरितहरूको शिक्षा र सङ्गति, रोटी भाँच्ने कार्य र प्रार्थनामा लागिरहे ।
They devoted themselves to the teaching of the Apostles and to the Common Life of the Church, to the Breaking of the Bread and to the Prayers.
43 हरेक व्यक्तिमाथि डर छायो र प्रेरितहरूद्वारा धेरै अचम्मका कार्यहरू र चिन्हहरू भए ।
A deep impression was made upon every one, and many wonders and signs were done at the hands of the Apostles.
44 विश्वास गर्नेहरू सबै जना सँगसँगै बस्थे र तिनीहरूका सबै चिज साझा थिए ।
All who became believers in Christ held everything for the common use;
45 र तिनीहरूले आफ्ना सम्पत्ति र स्वामित्वमा भएका कुराहरू बेचे र विश्वासीहरूको आवश्यकता अनुसार एकअर्कामा बाँडचुँड गरे ।
they sold their property and their goods, and shared the proceeds among them all, according to their individual needs.
46 यसरी तिनीहरू दिनहुँ एकै उद्देश्यसहित मन्दिरमा भेला हुन्थे र तिनीहरूले घरघरमा रोटी भाँच्थे र हृदयको नम्रता र आनन्दसाथ एकअर्कामा भोजन बाँडचुँड गर्थे ।
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the Temple Courts, and to the Breaking of Bread at their homes, while they partook of their food in simple-hearted gladness, praising God, and winning the good-will of all the people.
47 तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरको महिमा गर्थे र सबै मानिसहरूमाझ शुभेच्छा थियो । प्रभुले उद्धार पाइरहेकाहरूलाई दिनदिनै तिनीहरूका माझमा थप्नुभयो ।
And the Lord daily added to their company those who were in the path of Salvation.
