Matendo 3
1 Sasa Peter na Yohana walikuwa wanaelekea katika hekalu wakati wa maombi, saa tisa.
One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o’clock Prayers,
2 Mtu fulani, kiwete tangu kuzaliwa, alikuwa akibebwa kila siku na alikuwa akilazwa katika mlango wa hekalu uitwao mzuri, ili aweze kuomba sadaka kutoka kwa watu waliokuwa wakielekea hekaluni.
a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by. This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called ‘the Beautiful Gate,’ to beg of those who went in.
3 Alipowaona Petro na Yohana wanakaribia kuingia hekaluni, aliomba sadaka.
Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something.
4 Petro, akimkazia macho, pamoja na Yohana, alisema,”tutazame sisi.”
Peter fixed his eyes on him, and so did John, and then Peter said, “Look at us.”
5 Kiwete akawatazama, akitazamia kupokea kitu fulani kutoka kwao.
The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;
6 Lakini Petro akasema, “fedha na dhahabu mimi sina, lakini kile nilichonacho nitatoa kwako. Katika jina la Yesu Kristo wa Nazareth, tembea.”
but Peter added, “I have no gold or silver, but I give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk.”
7 Petro akamchukua kwa mkono wake wa kulia, na akamwinua juu: mara moja miguu yake na vifundo vya mifupa yake vikapata nguvu.
Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong,
8 Akiruka juu, mtu kiwete alisimama na akaanza kutembea; akaingia hekaluni pamoja na Petro na Yohana, akitembea, akiruka, na kumsifu Mungu.
and, leaping up, he stood and began to walk about, and then went with them into the Temple Courts, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9 Watu wote walimwona akitembea na akimsifu Mungu.
All the people saw him walking about and praising God;
10 Wakatambua kwamba alikuwa ni yule mtu ambaye alikuwa akikaa akiomba sadaka kwenye mlango mzuri wa hekalu; walijawa na mshangao na kustaajabu kwa sababu ya kile kilichotokea kwake.
and, when they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were utterly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.
11 Namna alivyokuwa amewashikilia Petro na Yohana, watu wote kwa pamoja wakakimbilia kwenye ukumbi uitwao wa Sulemani, wakishangaa sana.
While the man still clung to Peter and John, the people all quickly gathered around them in the Colonnade named after Solomon, in the greatest astonishment.
12 Petro alipoliona hili, yeye akawajibu watu, “Enyi watu wa Israel, kwa nini mnashangaa? Kwa nini mnayaelekeza macho yenu kwetu, kama kwamba tumemfanya huyu atembee kwa nguvu zetu wenyewe au uchaji wetu?”
On seeing this, Peter said to the people, “People of Israel, why are you surprised at this? And why do you stare at us, as though we, by any power or piety of our own, had enabled this man to walk?
13 Mungu wa Ibrahimu, na wa Isaka, na wa Yakobo, Mungu wa Baba zetu, amemtukuza mtumishi wake Yesu. Huyu ndiye ambaye ninyi mlimkabidhi na kumkataa mbele ya uso wa Pilato, japo yeye alikuwa ameamua kumwachia huru.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honor to his servant Jesus – him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.
14 Mlimkataa Mtakatifu na Mwenye Haki, na badala yake mkataka muuaji aachwe huru.
You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer!
15 Ninyi mlimuua Mfalme wa uzima, ambaye Mungu alimfufua kutoka kwa wafu - Sisi ni mashahidi wa hili.
The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead – and of that we are ourselves witnesses.
16 Sasa, kwa imani katika jina lake, mtu huyu ambaye mnamwona na kujua, alifanywa kuwa na nguvu. Imani ambayo inapitia kwa Yesu imempa yeye afya hii kamilifu, mbele yenu ninyi nyote.
And it is by faith in the name of Jesus, that this man, whom you all see and know, has – by his name – been made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you all.
17 Sasa, Ndugu, najua kwamba mlitenda katika ujinga, ndivyo pia walivyofanya viongozi wenu.
And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.
18 Lakini mambo ambayo Mungu aliwaambia mapema kwa vinywa vya manabii wote, kwamba huyu Kristo atateseka, sasa ameyatimiza.
But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the prophets.
19 Kwa hiyo, tubuni na mgeuke, ili kwamba dhambi zenu ziweze kuondolewa kabisa, kusudi zije nyakati za kuburudika kutokana na uwepo wa Bwana;
Therefore, repent and turn so that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,
20 na kwamba aweze kumtuma Kristo ambaye ameshateuliwa kwa ajili yenu, Yesu.
and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.
21 Yeye ndiye ambaye lazima mbingu zimpokee mpaka wakati wa kurejeshwa kwa vitu vyote, ambavyo Mungu alizungumzia zamani za kale kwa vinywa vya manabii watakatifu. (aiōn g165)
But heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy prophets from the very first. (aiōn g165)
22 Hakika Musa alisema, 'Bwana Mungu atainua nabii kama mimi kutoka katika ndugu zenu. Mtamsikiliza kila kitu ambacho atawaambia ninyi.
Moses himself said – ‘The Lord your God will raise up from among yourselves a prophet, as he raised me. To him you will listen whenever he speaks to you.
23 Itatokea kwamba kila mtu ambaye hasikilizi kwa nabii huyo ataangamizwa kabisa atoke kati ya watu.'
And it will be that should anyone among the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.’
24 Ndiyo, na manabii wote tokea Samweli na wale waliofuata baada yake, walizungumza na walitangaza siku hizi.
Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.
25 Ninyi ni wana wa manabii na wa agano ambalo Mungu alilifanya pamoja na mababu, kama alivyosema kwa Abrahamu, 'Katika mbegu yako familia zote za dunia zitabarikiwa.'
You yourselves are the heirs of the prophets, and heirs, too, of the covenant which God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham – ‘In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed.’
26 Baada ya Mungu kumwinua mtumishi wake, alimtuma kwenu kwanza, ili awabariki ninyi kwa kugeuka kutoka katika uovu wenu.”
For you, first, God raised up his servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways.”
