प्रेरित 21
1 जब हामी उनीहरूबाट छुट्टिएर जहाजमा यात्रा सुरु गर्यौँ, हामी सिधै कोस सहरतिर लाग्यौँ । त्यसपछि हामी अर्को दिन रोडस सहरतिर र त्यहाँबाट पटारा सहरतिर लाग्यौँ ।
[After] we said goodbye to the elders [from Ephesus], we [got on the ship and] sailed to Cos [Island, where the ship stopped for the night]. The next day we sailed from Cos to Rhodes [Island, where the ship stopped again. The day after] that we sailed to Patara [town, where the ship stopped. This was on Patara Island].
2 जब हामीले फोनिकेतिर जाँदै गरेको एउटा जहाज भेट्यौँ, हामी त्यही जहाजमा चढेर यात्रा सुरु गर्यौँ ।
[At Patara we left that ship, and someone told us that] there was a ship that would be going to Phoenicia [region. So] we got on that ship, and it left.
3 हामी साइप्रसको टापु नजिक आइपुग्दा, हामीले त्यसलाई बायाँतर्फ पारेर सिरियातर्फ लाग्यौँ, र टुरोस सहरमा उत्र्यौँ, किनभने त्यस जहाजले ल्याएको मालसमान त्यहाँ झार्नु पर्थ्यो ।
[We sailed until] we could see Cyprus [Island]. We passed to the south of the island and continued sailing until we arrived at [Phoenicia region, in] Syria [province]. We arrived at Tyre [city. The ship was going to stay there several days, because its workers] had to unload the cargo.
4 हामीले चेलाहरूलाई भेट्टाएपछि हामी त्यहाँ सात दिनसम्म बस्यौँ । ती चेलाहरूले पवित्र आत्माद्वारा पावलले यरूशलेममा पाइला राख्नुहुँदैन भने ।
[Someone told us] where the believers in Tyre lived, so we [(exc) went and] stayed with them for seven days. Because [God’s] Spirit revealed to them ([that people would cause Paul to suffer/Paul would suffer]) [in Jerusalem], they told Paul that he should not go there.
5 जब हामीले त्यहाँ केही दिन बितायौँ, हामी त्यहाँबाट बिदा भएर हामीले हाम्रो यात्रालाई निरन्तरता दियौँ । हामी सहरबाहिर नआईपुगेसम्म तिनीहरू, तिनीहरूका पत्नीहरू र छोराछोरीहरू सबै बाटोमा सँगै आए । हामीले समुद्रको किनारमा घुँडा टेकेर प्रार्थना गर्यौँ, र एक अर्कासँग बिदा भयौँ ।
But when it was time [for the ship to leave again], we [prepared to] continue going [to Jerusalem]. When we left [Tyre], all the believers, including their wives and children, went with us [to the edge of the sea]. We all knelt down there on the sand/shore and prayed.
6 हामी जहाजमा चढेर निरन्तर रूपमा अगाडि बढ्यौँ, अनि उनीहरू पनि आफ्ना घरतर्फ लागे ।
After we all said goodbye, Paul and we [his companions] got on the ship, and the [other] believers returned to their own homes.
7 जब हामीले टुरोसबाटको जलयात्रा सिध्याएका थियौँ, हामी टोलेमाइसमा आइपुग्यौँ । त्यहाँ हामीले भाइहरूलाई अभिवादन गर्यौँ, र उनीहरूसँगै त्यहाँ एक दिन बस्यौँ ।
After we [(exc)] left Tyre, we continued on [that ship] to Ptolemais [city]. There were believers there, and we greeted them and stayed with them that night.
8 अर्को दिन हामी बिदा भयौँ, र कैसरियातिर लाग्यौँ । हामी सुसमाचार प्रचारक फिलिपको घरमा गयौँ, जो सात जना मध्येका एक जना थिए । हामी उनीसँगै बस्यौँ ।
The next day we left [Ptolemais] and sailed to Caesarea [city], where we stayed in the home of Philip, who [spent his days] telling others how to become disciples of Jesus. He was one of the seven [men whom the believers in Jerusalem had chosen to care for the widows].
9 यी मानिसका चार जना कुमारी छोरी थिए, जसले अगमवाणी गर्थे ।
He had four daughters who were not married. Each of them [frequently] spoke messages that the Holy Spirit had revealed to them.
10 हामी त्यहाँ केही दिन बस्दा, त्यहाँ यहूदियाबाट अगाबस भन्ने कोही एक जना अगमवक्ता आए ।
After [we(exc) had been in Philip’s house for] several days, a believer whose name was Agabus came down from Judea [district] and arrived [in Caesarea]. He [frequently] spoke messages that the Holy Spirit had told him.
11 तिनी हामीकहाँ आए, र पावलको पेटी लिए । त्यो पेटीले उनले आफ्ना हात र खुट्टा बाँधे, र भने, “पवित्र आत्मा यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, ʼयरूशलेमका यहूदीहरूले यस पटुकाको मालिकलाई यसरी नै बाँध्नेछन्, र तिनीहरूले उसलाई अन्यजातिहरूका हातमा सुम्पिदिनेछन्ʼ ।”
Coming over to where we were, he took off Paul’s belt. Then he tied his own feet and hands with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘The Jewish [leaders] [SYN] in Jerusalem will tie up [the hands and feet of] the owner of this belt, like this, and they will hand him over to non-Jewish people [as a prisoner].’”
12 जब हामीले यस्ता कुराहरू सुन्यौँ, हामी र त्यस ठाउँमा बस्ने मानिसहरू दुवैले पावललाई यरूशलेममा नजान बिन्ती गर्यौँ ।
When [the rest of] us heard that, we and [other] believers there repeatedly pled with Paul, “Please do not go up to Jerusalem!”
13 त्यसपछि पावलले जवाफ दिए, “मलाई जानदेखि निरुत्साही पार्न रोएर रोक्ने कोसिस नगर्नुहोस् । किनकि म प्रभु येशूको नाउँको खातिर बाँधिन मात्र होइन, यरूशलेममा मर्न पनि तयार छु ।”
But Paul replied, “(Please stop crying and trying to discourage me [IDM] [from going!]/Why are you crying and trying to discourage me [IDM] [from going]?) [RHQ] I am willing to be put {[for people] to put me} in prison and also to be killed {[for them] to kill me} in Jerusalem because I [serve] [MTY] the Lord Jesus.”
14 पावलले फर्किने इच्छा नगरेपछि हामीले कोसिस गर्न छाड्यौँ, र भन्यौँ, “प्रभुको इच्छा पुरा होस् ।”
When [we(exc) realized that] he was determined [to go to Jerusalem], we did not try [any longer] to persuade him [not to go]. We said, “May (the Lord [God] do what he wants/the Lord’s will be done)!”
15 ती दिनपछि हामीले आफ्ना झोलाहरू लियौँ, र यरूशलेमतर्फ लाग्यौँ ।
After those days [in Caesarea], we [(exc)] prepared [our things] and [left to] go [by land] up to Jerusalem.
16 कैसरियाबाट केही चेलाहरू पनि हामीसँगै गए । उनीहरूले साइप्रस टापुबाट आएका मनासोन नामका एक जना पुराना चेलालाई ल्याए, जससँग हामी बस्यौँ ।
Some of the believers from Caesarea also went with us. [On the way to Jerusalem], we stayed [one night] in the house of [a man whose name was] Mnason. He was from Cyprus [Island], and he had believed [in Jesus] when people were first beginning to hear the message [about him].
17 जब हामी यरूशलेममा आइपुग्यौँ, दाजुभाइहरूले हामीलाई खुसीसाथ स्वागत गरे ।
When we arrived in Jerusalem, [a group of] the believers greeted us happily.
18 अर्को दिन पावल हामीसँगै याकूबकहाँ पुगे, जहाँ सबै अगुवाहरू उपस्थित थिए ।
The next day Paul and the rest of us went to speak with James, [who was the leader of the congregation there]. All of the [other] leaders/elders [of the congregation in Jerusalem] were also there.
19 जब पावलले उनीहरूलाई अभिवादन गरे, उनले आफ्नो सेवा-कार्यद्वारा परमेश्वरले अन्यजातिहरूका माझमा गर्नुभएका कुराहरू एक-एक गरेर तिनीहरूलाई प्रतिवेदन दिए ।
Paul greeted them, and then he reported all of the things that God had enabled him to do among the non-Jewish people.
20 उनीहरूले यो सुनेपछि उनीहरूले परमेश्वरको प्रशंसा गरे, र उनीहरूले तिनलाई भने, “हेर भाइ, हजारौँ यहूदीले विश्वास गरेका छन् । उनीहरू व्यवस्था पालना गर्नमा दृढ छन् ।
When they heard that, James and the other elders said, “Praise the Lord!” Then [one of] them said to Paul, “Brother/Friend, you [(sg)] know that there are very many thousands of us [(inc)] Jewish people [here] who have believed [in the Lord Jesus]. Also, you know that we [(inc)] all continue very carefully to obey the laws [that Moses gave us].
21 तपाईंले अन्यजातिहरूका माझमा बस्ने सारा यहूदीहरूलाई मोशालाई त्याग्न भनी सिकाउनुहुन्छ, र आफ्ना बच्चाहरूको खतना नगर्नू र पुराना रीतिरिवाज नमान्नू भन्नुहुन्छ भनी तपाईंको बारेमा तिनीहरूलाई भनिएको छ ।
[But our fellow Jewish believers] have been told {have heard [people say]} that when you are among non-Jews, you tell the Jewish believers who live there that they should stop obeying [the laws] [MTY] ([of] Moses/[that] Moses [received from God]). [People say that] you tell [those Jewish believers] not to circumcise their sons and not to practice our [other] customs. [We(exc) do not believe that this is true].
22 हामीले के गर्नुपर्छ? अवश्य, उनीहरूले तपाईं यहाँ आउनुभएको छ भन्ने सुन्नेछन् ।
But our fellow [Jewish] believers will certainly hear that you have arrived, [and they will be angry with you]. So [you] need to do something [RHQ] [to show them that what they heard about you is not true].
23 त्यसैले, अब हामीले जे भन्छौँ तपाईंले त्यही गर्नुहोस् । हामीसँग भाकल गरेका चार जना मानिस छन् ।
So you should do what we suggest to you. There are four men among us who have strongly promised [to God] about [something].
24 यी चार जना मानिसलाई लैजानुहोस्, र उनीहरूसँगै आफैँलाई शुद्धिकरण गर्नुहोस्, र उनीहरूको खर्च तिरिदिनुहोस् ताकि उनीहरूले आफ्नो कपाल खौरिऊन् । यसरी, उनीहरूलाई तपाईंको बारेमा भनिएका कुराहरू झुटा हुन् भनी सबैले जानून् । तपाईं व्यवस्था पालना गर्ने मनसायले नै जिउनुहुँदोरहेछ भनी तिनीहरूले जानून् ।
Go with these men [to the Temple] and [ritually] purify yourself along with them. Then, [when it is time for them to offer the sacrifices for that ritual], pay for what they offer [as sacrifices]. After that, they can shave their heads [to show that they have done what they promised to do. And when people see you in the courts of the Temple with those men], they will know that what they have been told {what people have told them} about you is not true. Instead, all of them will know that you obey all our Jewish laws [and rituals].
25 तर विश्वास गर्ने अन्यजातिहरूको सम्बन्धमा, उनीहरूले आफैँलाई मूर्तिलाई बलि चढाएका कुराहरू, रगत, घाँटी निमोठेर मारेको कुरा, र व्यभिचारबाट अलग रहनुपर्छ भनी हामीले लेख्यौँ, र निर्देशन दियौँ ।”
As for the non-Jewish believers, [we elders here in Jerusalem have talked] about [which of our laws] they [should obey, and] we [(exc)] wrote them [a letter, telling them] what we decided. [We wrote] that they should not eat meat that people have offered as a sacrifice to any idol, [that they should not eat] blood [from animals], and that [they should not eat] meat from animals [that people have killed by] strangling [them. We also told them that] they should not have sex with someone to whom they are not married.”
26 त्यसपछि पावलले ती मानिसहरूलाई लिए, र अर्को दिन तिनीहरू हरेकको निम्ति भेटी नचढाएसम्म, शुद्धिकरणको अवधि घोषणा गर्दै, तिनीहरूसँगै आफैँलाई मन्दिरमा शुद्ध पारे ।
So Paul [agreed to do what they asked], and the next day he took the [four] men, and together they ritually purified themselves. After that, Paul went to the Temple [courts and] told [the priest] what day they would [finish] purifying themselves [ritually] and when [they] would offer [the animals as sacrifices] for each of them.
27 सात दिनको समय पुरा हुन लाग्दा, एसियाबाट आएका केही यहूदीहरूले पावललाई मन्दिरमा देखे, र सबै भिडलाई नै उत्तेजित बनाए, र उनीमाथि हात हाले ।
When the seven days [for purifying themselves] were nearly finished, Paul [returned] to the Temple [courtyard]. Some Jews from Asia [province] saw him there, [and they were very angry at him]. On another day they had seen Paul [walking around] in Jerusalem with Trophimus, who was a non-Jew. Their laws did not permit non-Jews to be in the Temple, and they thought that Paul had brought Trophimus into the Temple [courtyard that day. So] they called out to many other Jews [who were in the Temple courtyard] to [help them] seize [MTY] Paul. They shouted, “Fellow Israelites, come and help [us punish this] man! This is the one who is [constantly] teaching people wherever [he goes that they] should despise the [Jewish] people. [He teaches people that they should no longer obey] the laws [of Moses] nor respect this holy [Temple]. He has even brought non-Jews here into [the court of] our Temple, causing God to consider it no longer holy!”
28 उनीहरू चिच्च्याउँदै थिए, “हे इस्राएलका मानिसहरू हो, हामीलाई सहायता गर्नुहोस् । मानिसहरू, व्यवस्था र यस ठाउँको विरुद्धका कुराहरू जताततै सबै मानिसहरूलाई सिकाउने मानिस यिनै हुन् । साथै यिनले ग्रिकहरूलाई पनि मन्दिरभित्र ल्याएका छन्, र यो पवित्र ठाउँलाई अशुद्ध तुल्याएका छन् ।”
29 किनभने तिनीहरूले एफिससका त्रोफिमसलाई उनीसँग सहरमा देखेका थिए, र पावलले नै उनलाई मन्दिरभित्र ल्याएका थिए भन्ने सोचे ।
30 सारा सहर नै उत्तेजित भयो, र सबै मानिसहरू सँगै दौडे, र तिनीहरूले पावललाई समाते । तिनीहरूले उनलाई घिसार्दै मन्दिर बाहिर ल्याए, र ढोकाहरू तुरुन्तै थुनिए ।
[People] throughout [MTY] the city heard that there was trouble [at the Temple courtyard], and they came running there. They grabbed Paul and dragged him outside of the Temple [area]. The gates [to the Temple courtyard were shut] {[The Temple guards] shut the doors [to the Temple courts]} immediately, [so that the people would not riot inside the Temple area].
31 तिनीहरूले उनलाई मार्न कोसिस गरिरहँदा, सारा यरूशलेम नै खलबलिएको थियो भन्ने खबर सुरक्षाकर्मीहरूका प्रमुख कप्तानकहाँ आयो ।
While they were trying to kill Paul, someone [ran to the fort near the Temple] and told the Roman commander that many [HYP] people [MTY] in Jerusalem were rioting [at the Temple].
32 तुरुन्तै सिपाहीहरू र कप्तानहरू लिएर तिनी त्यस भिडतिर दौडे । जब मानिसहरूले प्रमुख कप्तान र सिपाहीहरूलाई देखे, उनीहरूले पावललाई कुट्न छोडे ।
The commander quickly took some officers and [a large group of] soldiers and ran to [the Temple area where] the crowd was. When the crowd of people [who were yelling and beating Paul] saw the commander and the soldiers [coming], they stopped beating him.
33 त्यसपछि प्रमुख कप्तान नजिक गए, र पावललाई समाते, र तिनलाई दुईवटा सिक्रीले बाँध्न आदेश दिए । तिनले उनी को थिए, र उनले के गरेका थिए भनी सोधे ।
The commander came to [where Paul was and] seized him. He [commanded soldiers] to fasten a chain to [each of] Paul’s [arms]. Then he asked [the people in the crowd], “Who is this man, and what has he done?”
34 भिडमा केही मानिसहरू एउटा कुरा भन्दै चिच्च्याए, भने अरूहरू अर्कै कुरा भन्दै चिच्च्याए । यी सबै हल्लाले गर्दा कप्तानले केही पनि भन्न सकेनन्, र पावललाई किल्लामा ल्याउनलाई आदेश दिए ।
Some of the many people there were shouting one thing, [and] some were shouting something else. Because they continued shouting so loudly, the commander could not understand [what they were shouting. So] he [commanded] that Paul be taken {[the soldiers] to take Paul} into the barracks [so that he could question him there].
35 जब पावल सिँढीमा आए, भिडको हिंसाले गर्दा उनी सेनाहरूद्वारा लगिए ।
[The soldiers] led Paul to the steps [of the barracks], but many people continued to follow them, trying to kill [Paul. So the commander told] the soldiers to carry Paul [up the steps into the barracks].
36 मानिसको भिड पछि-पछि लाग्यो, र तिनीहरू यसरी चिच्च्याइ रहे, “तिनीबाट अलग बस!”
The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Kill him! Kill him!”
37 पावललाई किल्लाभित्र ल्याउन लाग्दा, तिनले प्रमुख कप्तानलाई भने, “के म तपाईंलाई केही कुरा भनूँ?” कप्तानले सोधे, “के तिमी ग्रिक बोल्छौ?
As Paul was about to be taken {[the soldiers] were about to take Paul} into the barracks, he said [in Greek] to the commander, “May I speak to you?” The commander said, “(I am surprised that you can speak the Greek [language]!/Can you [(sg)] speak the Greek [language]?)” [RHQ]
38 के तिमी त्यही मिश्री होइनौ र जसले पहिले विद्रोहको नेतृत्व गरी चार हजार आतङ्ककारीलाई उजाड-स्थानतिर लग्यौ?”
“(I [thought] that you [(sg)] were that fellow/Are you not that fellow) from Egypt [RHQ] who wanted to rebel [against the government not long ago], and who took 4,000 violent terrorists [with him] out into the desert, [so that we could not catch him]?”
39 पावलले भने, “म किलिकियाको टार्सस सहरको एक यहूदी हुँ । म एउटा महत्त्वपूर्ण सहरको नागरिक हुँ । म तपाईंलाई आग्रह गर्छु कि, मलाई यी मानिसहरूसँग बोल्न दिनुहोस् ।”
Paul answered, “[No, I am not!] I am a Jew. I [was born] in Tarsus, which is an important [LIT] city in Cilicia [province]. I ask that you [(sg)] let me speak to the people.”
40 जब कप्तानले पावललाई अनुमति दिए, तिनी सिँढीमाथि चढे, र तिनले मानिसहरूतिर हात हल्लाए । जब त्यहाँ गहन मौनता छायो, उनले तिनीहरूसँग हिब्रूमा बोले । उनले भने,
Then the commander permitted Paul [to speak. So] Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand [for the crowd to be quiet. And after] the people in the crowd became quiet, Paul spoke to them in [their own] Hebrew language [MTY].
