ပြေရိတား 8
1 တသျ ဟတျာကရဏံ ၑော်လောပိ သမမနျတ၊ တသ္မိန် သမယေ ယိရူၑာလမ္နဂရသ္ထာံ မဏ္ဍလီံ ပြတိ မဟာတာဍနာယာံ ဇာတာယာံ ပြေရိတလောကာန် ဟိတွာ သရွွေ'ပရေ ယိဟူဒါၑောမိရောဏဒေၑယော ရ္နာနာသ္ထာနေ ဝိကီရ္ဏား သန္တော ဂတား၊
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 အနျစ္စ ဘက္တလောကာသ္တံ သ္တိဖာနံ ၑ္မၑာနေ သ္ထာပယိတွာ ဗဟု ဝျလပန်၊
3 ကိန္တု ၑော်လော ဂၖဟေ ဂၖဟေ ဘြမိတွာ သ္တြိယး ပုရုၐာံၑ္စ ဓၖတွာ ကာရာယာံ ဗဒ္ဓွာ မဏ္ဍလျာ မဟောတ္ပာတံ ကၖတဝါန်၊
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 အနျစ္စ ယေ ဝိကီရ္ဏာ အဘဝန် တေ သရွွတြ ဘြမိတွာ သုသံဝါဒံ ပြာစာရယန်၊
The believers who had left Jerusalem went to different places, where they continued preaching the message about Jesus.
5 တဒါ ဖိလိပး ၑောမိရောဏ္နဂရံ ဂတွာ ခြီၐ္ဋာချာနံ ပြာစာရယတ်;
[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 တတော'ၑုစိ-ဘၖတဂြသ္တလောကေဘျော ဘူတာၑ္စီတ္ကၖတျာဂစ္ဆန် တထာ ဗဟဝး ပက္ၐာဃာတိနး ခဉ္ဇာ လောကာၑ္စ သွသ္ထာ အဘဝန်၊
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 တသ္မာတ် လာကာ ဤဒၖၑံ တသျာၑ္စရျျံ ကရ္မ္မ ဝိလောကျ နိၑမျ စ သရွွ ဧကစိတ္တီဘူယ တေနောက္တာချာနေ မနာံသိ နျဒဓုး၊
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 တသ္မိန္နဂရေ မဟာနန္ဒၑ္စာဘဝတ်၊
So [many people] [MTY] in that city greatly rejoiced.
9 တတး ပူရွွံ တသ္မိန္နဂရေ ၑိမောန္နာမာ ကၑ္စိဇ္ဇနော ဗဟွီ ရ္မာယာကြိယား ကၖတွာ သွံ ကဉ္စန မဟာပုရုၐံ ပြောစျ ၑောမိရောဏီယာနာံ မောဟံ ဇနယာမာသ၊
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 တသ္မာတ် သ မာနုၐ ဤၑွရသျ မဟာၑက္တိသွရူပ ဣတျုက္တွာ ဗာလဝၖဒ္ဓဝနိတား သရွွေ လာကာသ္တသ္မိန် မနာံသိ နျဒဓုး၊
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 သ ဗဟုကာလာန် မာယာဝိကြိယယာ သရွွာန် အတီဝ မောဟယာဉ္စကာရ, တသ္မာတ် တေ တံ မေနိရေ၊
They continued to listen to him carefully, because for a long time he had astonished them by practicing sorcery.
12 ကိန္တွီၑွရသျ ရာဇျသျ ယီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသျ နာမ္နၑ္စာချာနပြစာရိဏး ဖိလိပသျ ကထာယာံ ဝိၑွသျ တေၐာံ သ္တြီပုရုၐောဘယလောကာ မဇ္ဇိတာ အဘဝန်၊
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 ၑေၐေ သ ၑိမောနပိ သွယံ ပြတျဲတ် တတော မဇ္ဇိတး သန် ဖိလိပေန ကၖတာမ် အာၑ္စရျျကြိယာံ လက္ၐဏဉ္စ ဝိလောကျာသမ္ဘဝံ မနျမာနသ္တေန သဟ သ္ထိတဝါန်၊
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 ဣတ္ထံ ၑောမိရောဏ္ဒေၑီယလောကာ ဤၑွရသျ ကထာမ် အဂၖဟ္လန် ဣတိ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ယိရူၑာလမ္နဂရသ္ထပြေရိတား ပြာပျ ပိတရံ ယောဟနဉ္စ တေၐာံ နိကဋေ ပြေၐိတဝန္တး၊
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 တတသ္တော် တတ် သ္ထာနမ် ဥပသ္ထာယ လောကာ ယထာ ပဝိတြမ် အာတ္မာနံ ပြာပ္နုဝန္တိ တဒရ္ထံ ပြာရ္ထယေတာံ၊
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 ယတသ္တေ ပုရာ ကေဝလပြဘုယီၑော ရ္နာမ္နာ မဇ္ဇိတမာတြာ အဘဝန်, န တု တေၐာံ မဓျေ ကမပိ ပြတိ ပဝိတြသျာတ္မန အာဝိရ္ဘာဝေါ ဇာတး၊
[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 ကိန္တု ပြေရိတာဘျာံ တေၐာံ ဂါတြေၐု ကရေၐွရ္ပိတေၐု သတ္သု တေ ပဝိတြမ် အာတ္မာနမ် ပြာပ္နုဝန်၊
[Then Peter and John] placed their hands on [the heads of] each person, and they received the [power of] [MTY] the Holy Spirit.
18 ဣတ္ထံ လောကာနာံ ဂါတြေၐု ပြေရိတယေား ကရာရ္ပဏေန တာန် ပဝိတြမ် အာတ္မာနံ ပြာပ္တာန် ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ သ ၑိမောန် တယေား သမီပေ မုဒြာ အာနီယ ကထိတဝါန်;
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 အဟံ ယသျ ဂါတြေ ဟသ္တမ် အရ္ပယိၐျာမိ တသျာပိ ယထေတ္ထံ ပဝိတြာတ္မပြာပ္တိ ရ္ဘဝတိ တာဒၖၑီံ ၑက္တိံ မဟျံ ဒတ္တံ၊
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 ကိန္တု ပိတရသ္တံ ပြတျဝဒတ် တဝ မုဒြာသ္တွယာ ဝိနၑျန္တု ယတ ဤၑွရသျ ဒါနံ မုဒြာဘိး ကြီယတေ တွမိတ္ထံ ဗုဒ္ဓဝါန်;
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 ဤၑွရာယ တာဝန္တးကရဏံ သရလံ နဟိ, တသ္မာဒ် အတြ တဝါံၑော'ဓိကာရၑ္စ ကောပိ နာသ္တိ၊
[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 အတ ဧတတ္ပာပဟေတေား ခေဒါနွိတး သန် ကေနာပိ ပြကာရေဏ တဝ မနသ ဧတသျား ကုကလ္ပနာယား က္ၐမာ ဘဝတိ, ဧတဒရ္ထမ် ဤၑွရေ ပြာရ္ထနာံ ကုရု;
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 ယတသ္တွံ တိက္တပိတ္တေ ပါပသျ ဗန္ဓနေ စ ယဒသိ တန္မယာ ဗုဒ္ဓမ်၊
[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 တဒါ ၑိမောန် အကထယတ် တရှိ ယုဝါဘျာမုဒိတာ ကထာ မယိ ယထာ န ဖလတိ တဒရ္ထံ ယုဝါံ မန္နိမိတ္တံ ပြဘော် ပြာရ္ထနာံ ကုရုတံ၊
Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord [God] that [he] will not do to me what you just said!”
25 အနေန ပြကာရေဏ တော် သာက္ၐျံ ဒတ္တွာ ပြဘေား ကထာံ ပြစာရယန္တော် ၑောမိရောဏီယာနာမ် အနေကဂြာမေၐု သုသံဝါဒဉ္စ ပြစာရယန္တော် ယိရူၑာလမ္နဂရံ ပရာဝၖတျ ဂတော်၊
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 တတး ပရမ် ဤၑွရသျ ဒူတး ဖိလိပမ် ဣတျာဒိၑတ်, တွမုတ္ထာယ ဒက္ၐိဏသျာံ ဒိၑိ ယော မာရ္ဂော ပြာန္တရသျ မဓျေန ယိရူၑာလမော 'သာနဂရံ ယာတိ တံ မာရ္ဂံ ဂစ္ဆ၊
[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 တတး သ ဥတ္ထာယ ဂတဝါန်; တဒါ ကန္ဒာကီနာမ္နး ကူၑ္လောကာနာံ ရာဇ္ဉျား သရွွသမ္ပတ္တေရဓီၑး ကူၑဒေၑီယ ဧကး ၐဏ္ဍော ဘဇနာရ္ထံ ယိရူၑာလမ္နဂရမ် အာဂတျ
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 ပုနရပိ ရထမာရုဟျ ယိၑယိယနာမ္နော ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒိနော ဂြန္ထံ ပဌန် ပြတျာဂစ္ဆတိ၊
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 ဧတသ္မိန် သမယေ အာတ္မာ ဖိလိပမ် အဝဒတ်, တွမ် ရထသျ သမီပံ ဂတွာ တေန သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ မိလ၊
[God’s] Spirit told Philip, “Go near to that chariot and keep walking close to [the man who is riding in] it!”
30 တသ္မာတ် သ ဓာဝန် တသျ သန္နိဓာဝုပသ္ထာယ တေန ပဌျမာနံ ယိၑယိယထဝိၐျဒွါဒိနော ဝါကျံ ၑြုတွာ ပၖၐ္ဋဝါန် ယတ် ပဌသိ တတ် ကိံ ဗုဓျသေ?
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 တတး သ ကထိတဝါန် ကေနစိန္န ဗောဓိတောဟံ ကထံ ဗုဓျေယ? တတး သ ဖိလိပံ ရထမာရောဎုံ သွေန သာရ္ဒ္ဓမ် ဥပဝေၐ္ဋုဉ္စ နျဝေဒယတ်၊
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 သ ၑာသ္တြသျေတဒွါကျံ ပဌိတဝါန် ယထာ, သမာနီယတ ဃာတာယ သ ယထာ မေၐၑာဝကး၊ လောမစ္ဆေဒကသာက္ၐာစ္စ မေၐၑ္စ နီရဝေါ ယထာ၊ အာဗဓျ ဝဒနံ သွီယံ တထာ သ သမတိၐ္ဌတ၊
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 အနျာယေန ဝိစာရေဏ သ ဥစ္ဆိန္နော 'ဘဝတ် တဒါ၊ တတ္ကာလီနမနုၐျာန် ကော ဇနော ဝရ္ဏယိတုံ က္ၐမး၊ ယတော ဇီဝန္နၖဏာံ ဒေၑာတ် သ ဥစ္ဆိန္နော 'ဘဝတ် ဓြုဝံ၊
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 အနန္တရံ သ ဖိလိပမ် အဝဒတ် နိဝေဒယာမိ, ဘဝိၐျဒွါဒီ ယာမိမာံ ကထာံ ကထယာမာသ သ ကိံ သွသ္မိန် ဝါ ကသ္မိံၑ္စိဒ် အနျသ္မိန်?
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 တတး ဖိလိပသ္တတ္ပြကရဏမ် အာရဘျ ယီၑောရုပါချာနံ တသျာဂြေ ပြာသ္တော်တ်၊
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 ဣတ္ထံ မာရ္ဂေဏ ဂစ္ဆန္တော် ဇလာၑယသျ သမီပ ဥပသ္ထိတော်; တဒါ က္လီဗော'ဝါဒီတ် ပၑျာတြ သ္ထာနေ ဇလမာသ္တေ မမ မဇ္ဇနေ ကာ ဗာဓာ?
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 တတး ဖိလိပ ဥတ္တရံ ဝျာဟရတ် သွာန္တးကရဏေန သာကံ ယဒိ ပြတျေၐိ တရှိ ဗာဓာ နာသ္တိ၊ တတး သ ကထိတဝါန် ယီၑုခြီၐ္ဋ ဤၑွရသျ ပုတြ ဣတျဟံ ပြတျေမိ၊
38 တဒါ ရထံ သ္ထဂိတံ ကရ္တ္တုမ် အာဒိၐ္ဋေ ဖိလိပက္လီဗော် ဒွေါ် ဇလမ် အဝါရုဟတာံ; တဒါ ဖိလိပသ္တမ် မဇ္ဇယာမာသ၊
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 တတ္ပၑ္စာတ် ဇလမဓျာဒ် ဥတ္ထိတယေား သတေား ပရမေၑွရသျာတ္မာ ဖိလိပံ ဟၖတွာ နီတဝါန်, တသ္မာတ် က္လီဗး ပုနသ္တံ န ဒၖၐ္ဋဝါန် တထာပိ ဟၖၐ္ဋစိတ္တး သန် သွမာရ္ဂေဏ ဂတဝါန်၊
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 ဖိလိပၑ္စာသ္ဒောဒ္နဂရမ် ဥပသ္ထာယ တသ္မာတ် ကဲသရိယာနဂရ ဥပသ္ထိတိကာလပရျျနတံ သရွွသ္မိန္နဂရေ သုသံဝါဒံ ပြစာရယန် ဂတဝါန်၊
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].
