ပြေရိတား 22
1 ဟေ ပိတၖဂဏာ ဟေ ဘြာတၖဂဏား, ဣဒါနီံ မမ နိဝေဒနေ သမဝဓတ္တ၊
Paul said, “[Jewish] elders and my other fellow Jews, listen to me now while I reply to [those who are accusing me]!”
2 တဒါ သ ဣဗြီယဘာၐယာ ကထာံ ကထယတီတိ ၑြုတွာ သရွွေ လောကာ အတီဝ နိးၑဗ္ဒာ သန္တော'တိၐ္ဌန်၊
When the crowd of people heard Paul speaking to them in [their own] Hebrew language, they became even more quiet and really listened. Then Paul said to them,
3 ပၑ္စာတ် သော'ကထယဒ် အဟံ ယိဟူဒီယ ဣတိ နိၑ္စယး ကိလိကိယာဒေၑသျ တာရ္ၐနဂရံ မမ ဇန္မဘူမိး, ဧတန္နဂရီယသျ ဂမိလီယေလနာမ္နော'ဓျာပကသျ ၑိၐျော ဘူတွာ ပူရွွပုရုၐာဏာံ ဝိဓိဝျဝသ္ထာနုသာရေဏ သမ္ပူရ္ဏရူပေဏ ၑိက္ၐိတော'ဘဝမ် ဣဒါနီန္တနာ ယူယံ ယာဒၖၑာ ဘဝထ တာဒၖၑော'ဟမပီၑွရသေဝါယာမ် ဥဒျောဂီ ဇာတး၊
“I am a Jew, [as are all of you]. I was born in Tarsus [city], in Cilicia [province], but I grew up here in Jerusalem. [When I was young, for many years] I studied the laws [that Moses gave to our ancestors]. I was taught by [the famous teacher] Gamaliel [MTY] {[The famous teacher] Gamaliel taught [MTY] me}. [I have] carefully [obeyed those laws, because] I have wanted to obey God. I [am sure that] many of you also carefully obey [those laws].
4 မတမေတဒ် ဒွိၐ္ဋွာ တဒ္ဂြာဟိနာရီပုရုၐာန် ကာရာယာံ ဗဒ္ဓွာ တေၐာံ ပြာဏနာၑပရျျန္တာံ ဝိပက္ၐတာမ် အကရဝမ်၊
[That is why] I previously persecuted those who believe the message [that people call] the Way [that Jesus taught. I continually looked for ways] to kill [them. Whenever I found] men or women [who believed that message], I [commanded that] they should be seized and thrown {[people to] seize them and throw them} into jail.
5 မဟာယာဇကး သဘာသဒး ပြာစီနလောကာၑ္စ မမဲတသျား ကထာယား ပြမာဏံ ဒါတုံ ၑက္နုဝန္တိ, ယသ္မာတ် တေၐာံ သမီပါဒ် ဒမ္မေၐကနဂရနိဝါသိဘြာတၖဂဏာရ္ထမ် အာဇ္ဉာပတြာဏိ ဂၖဟီတွာ ယေ တတြ သ္ထိတာသ္တာန် ဒဏ္ဍယိတုံ ယိရူၑာလမမ် အာနယနာရ္ထံ ဒမ္မေၐကနဂရံ ဂတောသ္မိ၊
The supreme priest knows this, and so do the [other respected men who belong to our Jewish] Council. They gave me letters to [take to] their fellow Jews in Damascus [city. By means of those letters, they authorized me to] go to there and find people who believed in [Jesus. They had written in the letters that I was to bring those people] as prisoners to Jerusalem, so that they would be punished here {[the leaders here] could punish them}. [So I went on my way to Damascus].
6 ကိန္တု ဂစ္ဆန် တန္နဂရသျ သမီပံ ပြာပ္တဝါန် တဒါ ဒွိတီယပြဟရဝေလာယာံ သတျာမ် အကသ္မာဒ် ဂဂဏာန္နိရ္ဂတျ မဟတီ ဒီပ္တိ ရ္မမ စတုရ္ဒိၑိ ပြကာၑိတဝတီ၊
About noon, my companions and I were getting near Damascus. Suddenly a bright light from the sky flashed all around me.
7 တတော မယိ ဘူမော် ပတိတေ သတိ, ဟေ ၑော်လ ဟေ ၑော်လ ကုတော မာံ တာဍယသိ? မာမ္ပြတိ ဘာၐိတ ဧတာဒၖၑ ဧကော ရဝေါပိ မယာ ၑြုတး၊
[The light was so bright that] I fell to the ground. Then I heard the voice [of someone] speaking to me [from up in the sky. The one who was speaking to me said], ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you [(sg)] do things to harm me?’
8 တဒါဟံ ပြတျဝဒံ, ဟေ ပြဘေ ကော ဘဝါန်? တတး သော'ဝါဒီတ် ယံ တွံ တာဍယသိ သ နာသရတီယော ယီၑုရဟံ၊
I answered, ‘Who are you?’ He replied, ‘I am Jesus from Nazareth. I [am the one] whom you [(sg)] are harming [by doing things to harm my followers].’
9 မမ သင်္ဂိနော လောကာသ္တာံ ဒီပ္တိံ ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ ဘိယံ ပြာပ္တား, ကိန္တု မာမ္ပြတျုဒိတံ တဒွါကျံ တေ နာဗုဓျန္တ၊
The men who were [traveling] with me saw the [very bright] light, [and they heard a voice], but they did not understand what the voice said to me.
10 တတး ပရံ ပၖၐ္ဋဝါနဟံ, ဟေ ပြဘော မယာ ကိံ ကရ္တ္တဝျံ? တတး ပြဘုရကထယတ်, ဥတ္ထာယ ဒမ္မေၐကနဂရံ ယာဟိ တွယာ ယဒျတ် ကရ္တ္တဝျံ နိရူပိတမာသ္တေ တတ် တတြ တွံ ဇ္ဉာပယိၐျသေ၊
Then I asked, ‘Lord, what [do you want] me to do?’ The Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus! [A man] there will tell you [(sg)] all that I have planned for you to do.’
11 အနန္တရံ တသျား ခရတရဒီပ္တေး ကာရဏာတ် ကိမပိ န ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ သင်္ဂိဂဏေန ဓၖတဟသ္တး သန် ဒမ္မေၐကနဂရံ ဝြဇိတဝါန်၊
[After that, I could not see], because the [very bright] light had caused me to become blind. So my companions took me by the hand and led me until [we(exc) arrived] in Damascus.
12 တန္နဂရနိဝါသိနာံ သရွွေၐာံ ယိဟူဒီယာနာံ မာနျော ဝျဝသ္ထာနုသာရေဏ ဘက္တၑ္စ ဟနာနီယနာမာ မာနဝ ဧကော
[A couple of days] later, a man whose name was Ananias came to [see] me. He was a man who [greatly respected God and] carefully obeyed [our Jewish] laws. All the Jews living in Damascus said good things about him.
13 မမ သန္နိဓိမ် ဧတျ တိၐ္ဌန် အကထယတ်, ဟေ ဘြာတး ၑော်လ သုဒၖၐ္ဋိ ရ္ဘဝ တသ္မိန် ဒဏ္ဍေ'ဟံ သမျက် တံ ဒၖၐ္ဋဝါန်၊
He came and stood beside me and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, see [again]!’ Instantly I could see! I saw Ananias [standing there beside me].
14 တတး သ မဟျံ ကထိတဝါန် ယထာ တွမ် ဤၑွရသျာဘိပြာယံ ဝေတ္သိ တသျ ၑုဒ္ဓသတ္တွဇနသျ ဒရ္ၑနံ ပြာပျ တသျ ၑြီမုခသျ ဝါကျံ ၑၖဏောၐိ တန္နိမိတ္တမ် အသ္မာကံ ပူရွွပုရုၐာဏာမ် ဤၑွရသ္တွာံ မနောနီတံ ကၖတဝါနံ၊
Then he said: ‘The God whom [we(inc) worship and] whom our ancestors [worshipped] has chosen you and will show you what he wants [you to do. He has allowed you] to see the righteous one, [the Messiah], and you have heard him speaking [to you].
15 ယတော ယဒျဒ် အဒြာက္ၐီရၑြော်ၐီၑ္စ သရွွေၐာံ မာနဝါနာံ သမီပေ တွံ တေၐာံ သာက္ၐီ ဘဝိၐျသိ၊
He wants you to tell people everywhere what you have seen and heard [from him].
16 အတဧဝ ကုတော ဝိလမ္ဗသေ? ပြဘော ရ္နာမ္နာ ပြာရ္ထျ နိဇပါပပြက္ၐာလနာရ္ထံ မဇ္ဇနာယ သမုတ္တိၐ္ဌ၊
So now (do not delay!/why delay?) [RHQ] Stand up, let [me] baptize you, and by praying to the Lord [Jesus ask God] to forgive you [(sg)] for your sins!’”
17 တတး ပရံ ယိရူၑာလမ္နဂရံ ပြတျာဂတျ မန္ဒိရေ'ဟမ် ဧကဒါ ပြာရ္ထယေ, တသ္မိန် သမယေ'ဟမ် အဘိဘူတး သန် ပြဘူံ သာက္ၐာတ် ပၑျန်,
“Later, I returned to Jerusalem. [One day] I went to the Temple courtyard. While I was praying there, I saw a vision [in which]
18 တွံ တွရယာ ယိရူၑာလမး ပြတိၐ္ဌသွ ယတော လောကာမယိ တဝ သာက္ၐျံ န ဂြဟီၐျန္တိ, မာမ္ပြတျုဒိတံ တသျေဒံ ဝါကျမ် အၑြော်ၐမ်၊
I saw the Lord speaking to me. He said to me, ‘[Do not stay here]! Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people [here] will not (believe/listen to) what you [(sg)] tell [them] about me!’
19 တတောဟံ ပြတျဝါဒိၐမ် ဟေ ပြဘော ပြတိဘဇနဘဝနံ တွယိ ဝိၑွာသိနော လောကာန် ဗဒ္ဓွာ ပြဟၖတဝါန်,
But I [protested and] said to him, ‘Lord, they know that I went to many of our meeting houses looking for people who believe in you. I was putting in jail those [whom I found] who believed in you, and I was even beating them.
20 တထာ တဝ သာက္ၐိဏး သ္တိဖာနသျ ရက္တပါတနသမယေ တသျ ဝိနာၑံ သမ္မနျ သန္နိဓော် တိၐ္ဌန် ဟန္တၖလောကာနာံ ဝါသာံသိ ရက္ၐိတဝါန်, ဧတတ် တေ ဝိဒုး၊
[They remember that] when Stephen was killed [MTY] {when people killed [MTY] Stephen} because he told people about you, I stood there [watching it all] and approving [what they were doing]. I [even] guarded the outer garments that those who were murdering him [had thrown aside. So if I stay here, the fact that I have changed how I think about you will surely impress those leaders of our people].’
21 တတး သော'ကထယတ် ပြတိၐ္ဌသွ တွာံ ဒူရသ္ထဘိန္နဒေၑီယာနာံ သမီပံ ပြေၐယိၐျေ၊
But the Lord said to me, ‘No, [do not stay here]! Leave [Jerusalem, because] I am going to send you [(sg)] far away [from here] to non-Jewish people!’”
22 တဒါ လောကာ ဧတာဝတ္ပရျျန္တာံ တဒီယာံ ကထာံ ၑြုတွာ ပြောစ္စဲရကထယန်, ဧနံ ဘူမဏ္ဍလာဒ် ဒူရီကုရုတ, ဧတာဒၖၑဇနသျ ဇီဝနံ နောစိတမ်၊
The people listened [quietly] to what Paul was saying until [he mentioned the Lord sending him to non-Jewish people]. Then they began shouting [angrily], “Kill him! [He does not deserve to live any longer]!” [They said that because they could not believe that God would save anyone except Jews].
23 ဣတျုစ္စဲး ကထယိတွာ ဝသနာနိ ပရိတျဇျ ဂဂဏံ ပြတိ ဓူလီရက္ၐိပန္
While they continued shouting, [“Kill him!”] they took off their cloaks and threw dust into the air, [which showed how angry they were].
24 တတး သဟသြသေနာပတိး ပေါ်လံ ဒုရ္ဂာဘျန္တရ နေတုံ သမာဒိၑတ်၊ ဧတသျ ပြတိကူလား သန္တော လောကား ကိန္နိမိတ္တမ် ဧတာဝဒုစ္စဲးသွရမ် အကုရွွန်, ဧတဒ် ဝေတ္တုံ တံ ကၑယာ ပြဟၖတျ တသျ ပရီက္ၐာံ ကရ္တ္တုမာဒိၑတ်၊
So the commander [commanded] that Paul be taken {[soldiers] to take Paul} into the barracks. He told [the soldiers] that they should strike Paul with a whip [that had pieces of bone/metal on the end of it], in order to make him tell what he had done that made the Jews shout so angrily. [So the soldiers took Paul into the barracks].
25 ပဒါတယၑ္စရ္မ္မနိရ္မ္မိတရဇ္ဇုဘိသ္တသျ ဗန္ဓနံ ကရ္တ္တုမုဒျတာသ္တာသ္တဒါနီံ ပေါ်လး သမ္မုခသ္ထိတံ ၑတသေနာပတိမ် ဥက္တဝါန် ဒဏ္ဍာဇ္ဉာယာမ် အပြာပ္တာယာံ ကိံ ရောမိလောကံ ပြဟရ္တ္တုံ ယုၐ္မာကမ် အဓိကာရောသ္တိ?
Then they stretched his arms out [and tied them] so that they could whip him [on his back. But] Paul said to the officer who was standing nearby [watching], “[You(sg) should think carefully about this]! You will certainly be [RHQ] acting unlawfully if you whip me, a Roman [citizen whom] no [one has put on trial and] condemned!”
26 ဧနာံ ကထာံ ၑြုတွာ သ သဟသြသေနာပတေး သန္နိဓိံ ဂတွာ တာံ ဝါရ္တ္တာမဝဒတ် သ ရောမိလောက ဧတသ္မာတ် သာဝဓာနး သန် ကရ္မ္မ ကုရု၊
When the officer heard that, he went to the commander and reported it to him. He said [to the commander], “This man is a Roman [citizen] (Surely you would not [command us to whip him]!/Do you really want [us to whip him]?) [RHQ]”
27 တသ္မာတ် သဟသြသေနာပတိ ရ္ဂတွာ တမပြာက္ၐီတ် တွံ ကိံ ရောမိလောကး? ဣတိ မာံ ဗြူဟိ၊ သော'ကထယတ် သတျမ်၊
The commander [was surprised when he heard that. He himself] went [into the barracks] and said to Paul, “Tell me, are you [(sg) really] a Roman [citizen]?” Paul answered, “Yes, I [am].”
28 တတး သဟသြသေနာပတိး ကထိတဝါန် ဗဟုဒြဝိဏံ ဒတ္တွာဟံ တတ် ပေါ်ရသချံ ပြာပ္တဝါန်; ကိန္တု ပေါ်လး ကထိတဝါန် အဟံ ဇနုနာ တတ် ပြာပ္တော'သ္မိ၊
Then the commander said, “[I am also a Roman citizen]. I paid a lot of money to become a [Roman] citizen.” Paul said, “But I was born a [Roman] citizen, [so I did not need to pay anything].”
29 ဣတ္ထံ သတိ ယေ ပြဟာရေဏ တံ ပရီက္ၐိတုံ သမုဒျတာ အာသန် တေ တသျ သမီပါတ် ပြာတိၐ္ဌန္တ; သဟသြသေနာပတိသ္တံ ရောမိလောကံ ဝိဇ္ဉာယ သွယံ ယတ် တသျ ဗန္ဓနမ် အကာရ္ၐီတ် တတ္ကာရဏာဒ် အဗိဘေတ်၊
The soldiers [were about to whip Paul and to ask him questions about what he had done. But when they heard what Paul said, they] left him immediately. The commander also became afraid, because he realized that Paul was a Roman [citizen] and that he had [illegally commanded soldiers to] tie up Paul’s [hands].
30 ယိဟူဒီယလောကား ပေါ်လံ ကုတော'ပဝဒန္တေ တသျ ဝၖတ္တာန္တံ ဇ္ဉာတုံ ဝါဉ္ဆန် သဟသြသေနာပတိး ပရေ'ဟနိ ပေါ်လံ ဗန္ဓနာတ် မောစယိတွာ ပြဓာနယာဇကာန် မဟာသဘာယား သရွွလောကာၑ္စ သမုပသ္ထာတုမ် အာဒိၑျ တေၐာံ သန္နိဓော် ပေါ်လမ် အဝရောဟျ သ္ထာပိတဝါန်၊
[The commander still] wanted to know exactly why the Jews were accusing Paul. So the next day he [told the soldiers to] take the chains off Paul. He also summoned the chief priests and the [other Jewish] Council [members]. Then he took Paul [to where the Council was meeting] and [commanded] him to stand before them.
