ပြေရိတား 9
1 တတ္ကာလပရျျနတံ ၑော်လး ပြဘေား ၑိၐျာဏာံ ပြာတိကူလျေန တာဍနာဗဓယေား ကထာံ နိးသာရယန် မဟာယာဇကသျ သန္နိဓိံ ဂတွာ
Meanwhile, Saul angrily continued to say, “I will kill those who believe that [Jesus is] the Lord!” He went to the supreme priest [in Jerusalem]
2 သ္တြိယံ ပုရုၐဉ္စ တန္မတဂြာဟိဏံ ယံ ကဉ္စိတ် ပၑျတိ တာန် ဓၖတွာ ဗဒ္ဓွာ ယိရူၑာလမမ် အာနယတီတျာၑယေန ဒမ္မေၐက္နဂရီယံ ဓရ္မ္မသမာဇာန် ပြတိ ပတြံ ယာစိတဝါန်၊
and requested him [to write] letters [introducing him] to [the leaders of] [MTY] the Jewish meeting places in Damascus [city. The letters asked them to authorize Saul] to seize any men or women who followed the way [that Jesus had taught], and to take them as prisoners to Jerusalem [so that the Jewish leaders could judge and punish them].
3 ဂစ္ဆန် တု ဒမ္မေၐက္နဂရနိကဋ ဥပသ္ထိတဝါန်; တတော'ကသ္မာဒ် အာကာၑာတ် တသျ စတုရ္ဒိက္ၐု တေဇသး ပြကာၑနာတ် သ ဘူမာဝပတတ်၊
Saul took those letters, and while he [and those with him] traveled toward Damascus, as they were approaching the city, suddenly a [brilliant] light from heaven shone around Saul.
4 ပၑ္စာတ် ဟေ ၑော်လ ဟေ ၑော်လ ကုတော မာံ တာဍယသိ? သွံ ပြတိ ပြောက္တမ် ဧတံ ၑဗ္ဒံ ၑြုတွာ
[Immediately] he fell down to the ground. Then he heard the voice [of the Lord] say to him, “Saul, Saul, (stop causing me to suffer!/why are you causing me to suffer?) [RHQ]”
5 သ ပၖၐ္ဋဝါန်, ဟေ ပြဘော ဘဝါန် ကး? တဒါ ပြဘုရကထယတ် ယံ ယီၑုံ တွံ တာဍယသိ သ ဧဝါဟံ; ကဏ္ဋကသျ မုခေ ပဒါဃာတကရဏံ တဝ ကၐ္ဋမ်၊
Saul asked him, “Lord, who are you?” He replied, “I am Jesus, [and] you [(sg)] are causing me to suffer [by hurting my followers]!
6 တဒါ ကမ္ပမာနော ဝိသ္မယာပန္နၑ္စ သောဝဒတ် ဟေ ပြဘော မယာ ကိံ ကရ္တ္တဝျံ? ဘဝတ ဣစ္ဆာ ကာ? တတး ပြဘုရာဇ္ဉာပယဒ် ဥတ္ထာယ နဂရံ ဂစ္ဆ တတြ တွယာ ယတ် ကရ္တ္တဝျံ တဒ် ဝဒိၐျတေ၊
Now instead [of continuing to do that], stand up and go into the city! [Someone there] will tell you [(sg)] what I [want] you to do.”
7 တသျ သင်္ဂိနော လောကာ အပိ တံ ၑဗ္ဒံ ၑြုတဝန္တး ကိန္တု ကမပိ န ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ သ္တဗ္ဓား သန္တး သ္ထိတဝန္တး၊
The men who were traveling with Saul [became so frightened that they] could not say anything. [They just] stood there. They only heard the sound [when the Lord spoke], but they did not see anyone.
8 အနန္တရံ ၑော်လော ဘူမိတ ဥတ္ထာယ စက္ၐုၐီ ဥန္မီလျ ကမပိ န ဒၖၐ္ဋဝါန်၊ တဒါ လောကာသ္တသျ ဟသ္တော် ဓၖတွာ ဒမ္မေၐက္နဂရမ် အာနယန်၊
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could not see anything. So the men [with him] took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.
9 တတး သ ဒိနတြယံ ယာဝဒ် အန္ဓော ဘူတွာ န ဘုက္တဝါန် ပီတဝါံၑ္စ၊
For the next three days Saul could not see [anything], and he did not eat or drink anything.
10 တဒနန္တရံ ပြဘုသ္တဒ္ဒမ္မေၐက္နဂရဝါသိန ဧကသ္မဲ ၑိၐျာယ ဒရ္ၑနံ ဒတွာ အာဟူတဝါန် ဟေ အနနိယ၊ တတး သ ပြတျဝါဒီတ်, ဟေ ပြဘော ပၑျ ၑၖဏောမိ၊
In Damascus there was [a Jew] named Ananias who believed in Jesus. While [Ananias was seeing] a vision, the Lord [Jesus] said to him, “Ananias!” He replied, “Lord, I [am listening].”
11 တဒါ ပြဘုသ္တမာဇ္ဉာပယတ် တွမုတ္ထာယ သရလနာမာနံ မာရ္ဂံ ဂတွာ ယိဟူဒါနိဝေၑနေ တာရ္ၐနဂရီယံ ၑော်လနာမာနံ ဇနံ ဂဝေၐယန် ပၖစ္ဆ;
The Lord Jesus told him, “Go to Straight Street to the house that belongs to Judas. Ask [someone there if you(sg) can talk to] a man named Saul from Tarsus [city], because, surprisingly, at this moment he is praying [to me].
12 ပၑျ သ ပြာရ္ထယတေ, တထာ အနနိယနာမက ဧကော ဇနသ္တသျ သမီပမ် အာဂတျ တသျ ဂါတြေ ဟသ္တာရ္ပဏံ ကၖတွာ ဒၖၐ္ဋိံ ဒဒါတီတ္ထံ သွပ္နေ ဒၖၐ္ဋဝါန်၊
[Saul has seen] a vision in which a man named Ananias entered [the house where he was staying] and put his hands on him in order that he might see again.”
13 တသ္မာဒ် အနနိယး ပြတျဝဒတ် ဟေ ပြဘော ယိရူၑာလမိ ပဝိတြလောကာန် ပြတိ သော'နေကဟိံသာံ ကၖတဝါန်;
But Ananias [protested], saying, “But Lord, many people have told me about this man! He has done many evil things to the people in Jerusalem who [believe in] you!
14 အတြ သ္ထာနေ စ ယေ လောကာသ္တဝ နာမ္နိ ပြာရ္ထယန္တိ တာနပိ ဗဒ္ဓုံ သ ပြဓာနယာဇကေဘျး ၑက္တိံ ပြာပ္တဝါန်, ဣမာံ ကထာမ် အဟမ် အနေကေၐာံ မုခေဘျး ၑြုတဝါန်၊
And the chief priests have authorized him to come here [to Damascus] in order to seize all of us who believe in you [(sg)] [MTY] [and take us to Jerusalem]!”
15 ကိန္တု ပြဘုရကထယတ်, ယာဟိ ဘိန္နဒေၑီယလောကာနာံ ဘူပတီနာမ် ဣသြာယေလ္လောကာနာဉ္စ နိကဋေ မမ နာမ ပြစာရယိတုံ သ ဇနော မမ မနောနီတပါတြမာသ္တေ၊
But the Lord [Jesus] told Ananias, “Go to [Saul! Do what I say], because I have chosen him to serve me in order that he might speak about me [MTY] both to non-Jewish people and [their] kings and to the Israeli people.
16 မမ နာမနိမိတ္တဉ္စ တေန ကိယာန် မဟာန် က္လေၑော ဘောက္တဝျ ဧတတ် တံ ဒရ္ၑယိၐျာမိ၊
I myself will tell him that he must often suffer greatly because of [telling people about] me [MTY].”
17 တတော 'နနိယော ဂတွာ ဂၖဟံ ပြဝိၑျ တသျ ဂါတြေ ဟသ္တာရ္ပြဏံ ကၖတွာ ကထိတဝါန်, ဟေ ဘြာတး ၑော်လ တွံ ယထာ ဒၖၐ္ဋိံ ပြာပ္နောၐိ ပဝိတြေဏာတ္မနာ ပရိပူရ္ဏော ဘဝသိ စ, တဒရ္ထံ တဝါဂမနကာလေ ယး ပြဘုယီၑုသ္တုဘျံ ဒရ္ၑနမ် အဒဒါတ် သ မာံ ပြေၐိတဝါန်၊
So Ananias went, and [after he found] the house [where Saul was], he entered it. Then, [as soon as he met Saul], he put his hands on him, and he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus [himself] commanded me to come [to you]. He is the [same] one who appeared to you [(sg)] while you were traveling along the road. [He sent me to you] in order that you might see again and that you might be completely controlled by the Holy Spirit {that the Holy Spirit might completely control you}.”
18 ဣတျုက္တမာတြေ တသျ စက္ၐုရ္ဘျာမ် မီနၑလ္ကဝဒ် ဝသ္တုနိ နိရ္ဂတေ တတ္က္ၐဏာတ် သ ပြသန္နစက္ၐု ရ္ဘူတွာ ပြောတ္ထာယ မဇ္ဇိတော'ဘဝတ် ဘုက္တွာ ပီတွာ သဗလောဘဝစ္စ၊
Instantly, things like [fish] scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he was able to see again. Then he stood up and was baptized {[Ananias] baptized him} [immediately].
19 တတး ပရံ ၑော်လး ၑိၐျဲး သဟ ကတိပယဒိဝသာန် တသ္မိန် ဒမ္မေၐကနဂရေ သ္ထိတွာ'ဝိလမ္ဗံ
After Saul ate some food, he felt strong again. Saul stayed with the [other] believers in Damascus for several days.
20 သရွွဘဇနဘဝနာနိ ဂတွာ ယီၑုရီၑွရသျ ပုတြ ဣမာံ ကထာံ ပြာစာရယတ်၊
Right away Saul began to preach [to people about Jesus] in the Jewish meeting places [in Damascus. He told them] that Jesus is (the Son of/the man who is also) God.
21 တသ္မာတ် သရွွေ ၑြောတာရၑ္စမတ္ကၖတျ ကထိတဝန္တော ယော ယိရူၑာလမ္နဂရ ဧတန္နာမ္နာ ပြာရ္ထယိတၖလောကာန် ဝိနာၑိတဝါန် ဧဝမ် ဧတာဒၖၑလောကာန် ဗဒ္ဓွာ ပြဓာနယာဇကနိကဋံ နယတီတျာၑယာ ဧတတ္သ္ထာနမပျာဂစ္ဆတ် သဧဝ ကိမယံ န ဘဝတိ?
And all the people who heard him [preach] were amazed. [Various ones of] them were saying, “([We(inc) can hardly believe that] this is the [same man] who persecuted the believers in Jerusalem!/Is this really the [same man] who persecuted the believers in Jerusalem?) [RHQ, MTY] And we [(inc)] know that he has [RHQ] come here to seize us and take us to the chief priests [in Jerusalem]!”
22 ကိန္တု ၑော်လး ကြမၑ ဥတ္သာဟဝါန် ဘူတွာ ယီၑုရီၑွရေဏာဘိၐိက္တော ဇန ဧတသ္မိန် ပြမာဏံ ဒတွာ ဒမ္မေၐက်-နိဝါသိယိဟူဒီယလောကာန် နိရုတ္တရာန် အကရောတ်၊
But [God] enabled Saul [to preach to many people even] more convincingly. He was proving [from the Scriptures] that Jesus is the Messiah. So the Jewish leaders in Damascus could not think of anything (to refute [what he said/to prove that what he said was not true]).
23 ဣတ္ထံ ဗဟုတိထေ ကာလေ ဂတေ ယိဟူဒီယလောကာသ္တံ ဟန္တုံ မန္တြယာမာသုး
Some time later, [after Saul had left Damascus and then returned], the Jewish [leaders] [SYN] [there] plotted to kill him.
24 ကိန္တု ၑော်လသ္တေၐာမေတသျာ မန္တြဏာယာ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ပြာပ္တဝါန်၊ တေ တံ ဟန္တုံ တု ဒိဝါနိၑံ ဂုပ္တား သန္တော နဂရသျ ဒွါရေ'တိၐ္ဌန်;
[During each] day and night those Jews were continually watching [the people passing through] the city gates, in order that [when they saw Saul] they might kill him. However, someone told Saul what they planned to do.
25 တသ္မာတ် ၑိၐျာသ္တံ နီတွာ ရာတြော် ပိဋကေ နိဓာယ ပြာစီရေဏာဝါရောဟယန်၊
So some of those whom he had helped [to believe in Jesus] took him [one] night [to the high stone wall that surrounded the city]. They [used ropes to] lower him in a [large] basket through an opening in the wall. [So he escaped from Damascus].
26 တတး ပရံ ၑော်လော ယိရူၑာလမံ ဂတွာ ၑိၐျဂဏေန သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ သ္ထာတုမ် အဲဟတ်, ကိန္တု သရွွေ တသ္မာဒဗိဘယုး သ ၑိၐျ ဣတိ စ န ပြတျယန်၊
When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he began trying to associate with other believers. However, [almost] all of them continued to be afraid of him, because they did not believe that he had become a believer.
27 ဧတသ္မာဒ် ဗရ္ဏဗ္ဗာသ္တံ ဂၖဟီတွာ ပြေရိတာနာံ သမီပမာနီယ မာရ္ဂမဓျေ ပြဘုး ကထံ တသ္မဲ ဒရ္ၑနံ ဒတ္တဝါန် ယား ကထာၑ္စ ကထိတဝါန် သ စ ယထာက္ၐောဘး သန် ဒမ္မေၐက္နဂရေ ယီၑော ရ္နာမ ပြာစာရယတ် ဧတာန် သရွွဝၖတ္တာန္တာန် တာန် ဇ္ဉာပိတဝါန်၊
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He explained to the apostles how, [while Saul was traveling] along the road [to Damascus], he had seen the Lord [Jesus] and how the Lord had spoken to him [there. He] also told them how Saul had preached boldly about Jesus [MTY] [to people] in Damascus. [The apostles believed Barnabas and told the other believers about that].
28 တတး ၑော်လသ္တဲး သဟ ယိရူၑာလမိ ကာလံ ယာပယန် နိရ္ဘယံ ပြဘော ရျီၑော ရ္နာမ ပြာစာရယတ်၊
So Saul began to associate with the apostles [and other believers] throughout Jerusalem, and he spoke boldly [to people] about [MTY] the Lord [Jesus].
29 တသ္မာဒ် အနျဒေၑီယလောကဲး သာရ္ဒ္ဓံ ဝိဝါဒသျောပသ္ထိတတွာတ် တေ တံ ဟန္တုမ် အစေၐ္ဋန္တ၊
Saul was [also] speaking [about Jesus] with Jews who spoke Greek, and he was debating with them. But they were continually trying [to think] ([of a way] to kill him/of [how they could] kill him).
30 ကိန္တု ဘြာတၖဂဏသ္တဇ္ဇ္ဉာတွာ တံ ကဲသရိယာနဂရံ နီတွာ တာရ္ၐနဂရံ ပြေၐိတဝါန်၊
When the [other] believers heard that [those Jews were planning to kill him, some of] the believers took Saul down to Caesarea [city. There] they arranged for him to go [by ship] to Tarsus, [his hometown].
31 ဣတ္ထံ သတိ ယိဟူဒိယာဂါလီလ္ၑောမိရောဏဒေၑီယား သရွွာ မဏ္ဍလျော ဝိၑြာမံ ပြာပ္တာသ္တတသ္တာသာံ နိၐ္ဌာဘဝတ် ပြဘော ရ္ဘိယာ ပဝိတြသျာတ္မနး သာန္တွနယာ စ ကာလံ က္ၐေပယိတွာ ဗဟုသံချာ အဘဝန်၊
So the groups of believers throughout [the entire regions of] Judea, Galilee, and Samaria lived peacefully [because no one was persecuting them any more]. The Holy Spirit was strengthening them [spiritually] and encouraging them. They were continuing to revere/honor the Lord [Jesus, and the Holy Spirit] was enabling many other people [to become believers].
32 တတး ပရံ ပိတရး သ္ထာနေ သ္ထာနေ ဘြမိတွာ ၑေၐေ လောဒ္နဂရနိဝါသိပဝိတြလောကာနာံ သမီပေ သ္ထိတဝါန်၊
While Peter was traveling throughout those [regions, once] he went to [the coastal plain to visit] the believers [who lived] in Lydda [town].
33 တဒါ တတြ ပက္ၐာဃာတဝျာဓိနာၐ္ဋော် ဝတ္သရာန် ၑယျာဂတမ် အဲနေယနာမာနံ မနုၐျံ သာက္ၐတ် ပြာပျ တမဝဒတ်,
There he met a man whose name was Aeneas. Aeneas had not been able to get up from [his] bed for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
34 ဟေ အဲနေယ ယီၑုခြီၐ္ဋသ္တွာံ သွသ္ထမ် အကာရ္ၐီတ်, တွမုတ္ထာယ သွၑယျာံ နိက္ၐိပ, ဣတျုက္တမာတြေ သ ဥဒတိၐ္ဌတ်၊
Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you [(sg) right now]! Get up and roll up your mat!” Right away Aeneas stood up.
35 ဧတာဒၖၑံ ဒၖၐ္ဋွာ လောဒ္ၑါရောဏနိဝါသိနော လောကား ပြဘုံ ပြတိ ပရာဝရ္တ္တန္တ၊
Most of the people who lived in Lydda and on Sharon [Plain] saw Aeneas [after the Lord had healed him], so they believed in the Lord [Jesus].
36 အပရဉ္စ ဘိက္ၐာဒါနာဒိၐု နာနကြိယာသု နိတျံ ပြဝၖတ္တာ ယာ ယာဖောနဂရနိဝါသိနီ ဋာဗိထာနာမာ ၑိၐျာ ယာံ ဒရ္က္ကာံ အရ္ထာဒ် ဟရိဏီမယုက္တွာ အာဟွယန် သာ နာရီ
In Joppa [town] there was a believer whose name was Tabitha. [Her name] in the [Greek] language was Dorcas. [Both of these names mean gazelle/deer/antelope]. That woman was continually doing good deeds [for others. Specifically], she was helping poor people [by giving them things that they needed].
37 တသ္မိန် သမယေ ရုဂ္နာ သတီ ပြာဏာန် အတျဇတ်, တတော လောကာသ္တာံ ပြက္ၐာလျောပရိသ္ထပြကောၐ္ဌေ ၑာယယိတွာသ္ထာပယန်၊
During the time [that Peter was in Lydda], she became sick and died. [Some women there] washed her body [according to the Jewish custom so that the people could bury it]. Then they [covered her body with cloth and] placed it in an upstairs room [in her house].
38 လောဒ္နဂရံ ယာဖောနဂရသျ သမီပသ္ထံ တသ္မာတ္တတြ ပိတရ အာသ္တေ, ဣတိ ဝါရ္တ္တာံ ၑြုတွာ တူရ္ဏံ တသျာဂမနာရ္ထံ တသ္မိန် ဝိနယမုက္တွာ ၑိၐျဂဏော ဒွေါ် မနုဇော် ပြေၐိတဝါန်၊
Lydda was near Joppa, so when the believers heard that Peter was [still] in Lydda, they sent two men to [go] to Peter. [When they arrived where Peter was], they repeatedly urged/begged him, “Please come immediately with us [to Joppa]!”
39 တသ္မာတ် ပိတရ ဥတ္ထာယ တာဘျာံ သာရ္ဒ္ဓမ် အာဂစ္ဆတ်, တတြ တသ္မိန် ဥပသ္ထိတ ဥပရိသ္ထပြကောၐ္ဌံ သမာနီတေ စ ဝိဓဝါး သွာဘိး သဟ သ္ထိတိကာလေ ဒရ္က္ကယာ ကၖတာနိ ယာနျုတ္တရီယာဏိ ပရိဓေယာနိ စ တာနိ သရွွာဏိ တံ ဒရ္ၑယိတွာ ရုဒတျၑ္စတသၖၐု ဒိက္ၐွတိၐ္ဌန်၊
So [right away] Peter got ready and went with them. When they arrived [at the house in Joppa], the two men took Peter to the upstairs room [where Dorcas’ body was lying]. All the widows [there] around Peter. They were crying and showing him the cloaks and [other] garments that Dorcas had made for people while she was still alive.
40 ကိန္တု ပိတရသ္တား သရွွာ ဗဟိး ကၖတွာ ဇာနုနီ ပါတယိတွာ ပြာရ္ထိတဝါန်; ပၑ္စာတ် ၑဝံ ပြတိ ဒၖၐ္ဋိံ ကၖတွာ ကထိတဝါန်, ဟေ ဋာဗီထေ တွမုတ္တိၐ္ဌ, ဣတိ ဝါကျ ဥက္တေ သာ သ္တြီ စက္ၐုၐီ ပြောန္မီလျ ပိတရမ် အဝလောကျောတ္ထာယောပါဝိၑတ်၊
But Peter sent them all out of the room. Then he got down on his knees and prayed. Then, turning toward Tabitha’s body, he said, “Tabitha, stand up!” [Immediately] she opened her eyes and, when she saw Peter, she sat up.
41 တတး ပိတရသ္တသျား ကရော် ဓၖတွာ ဥတ္တောလျ ပဝိတြလောကာန် ဝိဓဝါၑ္စာဟူယ တေၐာံ နိကဋေ သဇီဝါံ တာံ သမာရ္ပယတ်၊
He grasped one of her hands and helped her to stand up. After he had summoned the believers and [especially] the widows [among them to come back in], he showed them that Tabitha was alive [again].
42 ဧၐာ ကထာ သမသ္တယာဖောနဂရံ ဝျာပ္တာ တသ္မာဒ် အနေကေ လောကား ပြဘော် ဝျၑွသန်၊
[Soon] people everywhere in Joppa knew about that miracle, and as a result many people believed in the Lord [Jesus].
43 အပရဉ္စ ပိတရသ္တဒျာဖောနဂရီယသျ ကသျစိတ် ၑိမောန္နာမ္နၑ္စရ္မ္မကာရသျ ဂၖဟေ ဗဟုဒိနာနိ နျဝသတ်၊
Peter stayed in Joppa many days with a man named Simon who made leather [from animal skins].
