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Listen & read in about 10-15 minutes a day! Acts 16: Timothy Joins Paul and Silas - Parent Category: The Book of Acts - Category: Acts 13-28: Paul, The Apostle to the Gentiles, takes the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth Acts 16 Timothy Joins Paul and Silas 16Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was Greek. 2He was well spoken of by the brethren who were at Lystra and Iconium. 3Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region, for they all knew that his father was Greek. 4And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees to keep, which were determined by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. 5So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily. The Macedonian Call 6Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. 7After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. 8So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Lydia Baptized at Philippi 11Therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and the next day came to Neapolis, 12and from there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days. 13And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there. 14Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. 15And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” So she persuaded us. Paul and Silas Imprisoned 16Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” 18And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour. 19But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. 20And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, “These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city; 21and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.” 22Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods. 23And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. 24Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. The Philippian Jailer Saved 25But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. 27And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. 28But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.” 29Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 32Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household. Paul Refuses to Depart Secretly 35And when it was day, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, “Let those men go.” 36So the keeper of the prison reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.” 37But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us openly, uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out.” 38And the officers told these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans. 39Then they came and pleaded with them and brought them out, and asked them to depart from the city. 40So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed. Acts 17: Proclaiming Christ at Thessalonica and Berea - Parent Category: The Book of Acts - Category: Acts 13-28: Paul, The Apostle to the Gentiles, takes the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth Acts 17 Proclaiming Christ at Thessalonica 17Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” 4And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas. Assault on Jason’s House 5But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. 6But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too. 7Jason has harbored them, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king—Jesus.” 8And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things. 9So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. Ministering at Berea 10Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. 12Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men. 13But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds. 14Then immediately the brethren sent Paul away, to go to the sea; but both Silas and Timothy remained there. 15So those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed, they departed. The Philosophers at Athens 16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there. 18Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. 19And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? 20For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.” 21For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Addressing the Areopagus 22Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. 30Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” 32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” 33So Paul departed from among them. 34However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
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प्रेरित अध्याय 16 पावल डर्बी र लिस्त्रा शहरहरूमा पुगे। ख्रीष्टका एकजना चेला तिमोथी त्यहाँ थिए। तिमोथीकी आमा यहूदी थिइन् तर येशूमा विश्वास र्गथिन्। उनको बाबु ग्रीक थिए। 2 लिस्त्रा र आइकोनियमवासी विश्वासीहरूले तिमोथीलाई सम्मान गर्थे। तिनीहरूले उनको विषयमा राम्रो कुरा गर्थे। 3 पावलले आफ्नो यात्रामा तिमोथीलाई साथ लान चाहन्थे। तर त्यस इलाकामा बस्ने यहूदीहरूलाई उनको बाबू यहूदी होइन ग्रीक हुन भनेर थाहा थियो। यसैले पावलले यहूदीहरूलाई खुशी पार्नको लागि तिमोथीलाई खतना गरे। 4 तिनीहरू शहरहरू हुँदै यात्रा गरे अनि यरूशलेमका प्रेरितहरू र अग्रजहरूले दिएको निर्णयहरू र नियमहरू विश्वासीहरूलाई बताए अनि तिनीहरूलाई यी नियमहरू पालन गर्न भने। 5 यसकारण मण्डलीहरू विश्वासमा बलियो बनिदै अनि दिन प्रति दिन संख्यामा बढदै थियो। 6 पावल र तिनीसंग अन्य मानिसहरू फ्रिगिया र गलतिया भन्ने देश हुँदै गए। पवित्र आत्माले तिनीहरूलाई एशिया देशमा देश सुसमाचार प्रचार गर्ने अनुमति दिनु भएन। 7 पावल र तिमोथी माइसिया देश तिर लागे। तिनीहरू बिथनिया देश जान जाहन्थे। तर येशूको आत्माले त्यातातिर जाने अनुमति दिनु भएन। 8 यसर्थ तिनीहरू माइसिया देश भएर त्रोआस शहर गए। 9 त्यस रात पावलले एउटा दर्शन पाए। उनको दर्शनमा एकजना मानिस म्यासिडोनियाबाट उनकोमा आयो। त्यस मानिस त्यहाँ उभियो र विन्ती गर्यो, “म्यासिडोनिया पार गर्नुहोस अनि हामीलाई सहयोग गर्नुहोस्!” 10 पावलले त्यस्तो सपना देखे पछि हामी तुरन्त म्यासिडोनिया जान तयार भयौं। हामीले बुझ्यौं कि परमेश्वरले हामीलाई ती मानिसहरूलाई सुसमाचार भन्न बोलाउनु भएको हो। 11 एउटा जहाजमा त्रोआस छाडी हामी समुद्र यात्रा गर्दै सोमोथ्रेसको टापुतिर गयौं। अर्को दिन हामी समुद्र यात्रा गरेर नियापोलिस शहर आई पुग्यौं। 12 त्यसपछि हामी फिलिप्पी गयौं। यो म्यासिडोनिया अञ्चलको मुख्य शहर हो अनि यो रोमीहरूको शहर हो। हामीहरू यहाँ केही दिन बस्यौं। 13 विश्रामको दिनमा हामी शहरको मुख्य फाटकबाट निस्क्यौं अनि नदी तिर गयौं। हामीले सोच्यौं कि त्यहाँ प्रार्थना गर्ने एउटा ठाउँ हुन सक्थ्यो। केही पत्नी मानिसहरू त्यहाँ भेला भएका थिए। यसकारण हामी बस्यौं अनि तिनीहरूसंग बात गर्न लाग्यौं। 14 त्यहाँ थाइआटीरा भन्ने शहरबाट लिडिया नाउँकी एक पत्नी मानिस पनि थिई। उसको पेशा बैगुनी लुगा बेच्ने थियो। तिनले साँचो परमेश्वरको आराधना र्गथिन्। लिडियाले पावल बोलेको सुनिरहेकी थिई अनि प्रभुले पावलले भनेको कुरा विश्वास गराउन उसको हृदय उगारिदिनु भयो। 15 तिनी र उनका घरमा बस्ने सबैलाई बप्तिस्मा गरियो। त्यसपछि लिडियाले आफ्नो घरमा हामीलाई निम्तो गरिन्। तिनले भनिन्, “यदि तपाईंहरूले मलाई प्रभु येशूको साँचो विश्वासी मान्नु हुन्छ भने, मेरो घरमा आउनु होस् अनि बस्नु होस्।” तिनले आफ्ना घरमा हामीलाई बस्न भनी जोड गरिन्। 16 एक समय जब हामी प्रार्थना स्थलमा गइरहेको बेला यो घटना घट्यो। एउटी नोकर्नी केटीले हामीलाई भेटी। उभित्र एउटा खास आत्मा थियो। त्यस आत्माले उसलाई भविष्यमा के हुन सक्छ भन्ने कुरा बताउने शक्ति दियो। त्यसो गरेर त्यस नोकर्नीले आफ्नो मालिकहरूको निम्ति धेरै पैसा कमाउने गर्थी। 17 त्यस केटीले पावल र हामीलाई पछ्याई। त्यो चिच्याई अनि भनी, “यी मानिसहरू एकदमै सर्वोच्च परमेश्वरको दास हुन्! तिनीहरूले मुक्तिको बाटो तिमीहरूलाई बताइरहेछन।” 18 उसले यस्तो धेरै दिनसम्म गरी। यसले पावललाई दिक्क लाग्यो अनि यसैले उ फर्क्यो अनि त्यो आत्मालाई भन्यो, “येशू ख्रीष्टको शक्तिले म तँलाई आज्ञा गर्छु, त्यस केटीबाट बाहिर निस्की!” त्यो आत्मा लगत्तै बाहिर निस्क्यो। 19 यस केटीका मालिकहरूले त्यो देखे अनि तिनीहरूलाई थाहा भयो अनि तिनीहरूले बुझे कि अब त्यस केटीलाई पैसा कमाउन सक्तैनन्। यसैले तिनीहरूले पावल र सिलासलाई पक्रे अनि मुख्य ठाउँमा पुर्याए जहाँ शहर अधिकारीहरू थिए। 20 पावल र सिलासलाई पक्रेर ल्याए अनि हाकिमहरूलाई भने, “यी मानिसहरू यहूदी हुन्। यिनीहरूले हाम्रो शहरमा गडबडी गराईरहेछन्। 21 यिनीहरूले रीति-थितिहरू सिकाउँदैछन जो हामीलाई ग्रहण गर्न अनुमति छैन्। हामी रोमन नागरिकहरू हौं र ती कुराहरू गर्न सक्तैर्नौ।” 22 भीडले मानिसहरूलाई पावल र सिलासमाथि आक्रमण गर्न साथ दियो। त्यहाँका हाकिमहरूले पावल र सिलासको लुगाहरू च्याती दिए र मानिसहरूलाई कुट्ने आदेश दिए। 23 तिनीहरूले पावल र सिलासलाई धेरैपल्ट कुट-पिट गरे अनि तिनीहरूलाई जेलमा थुने। जेलका अधिकारीलाई तिनीहरूले भने, “यिनीहरूलाई खुबै होशियारी साथ पहरा दिनु!” 24 जेलको अधिकारीले त्यस्तो विशेष आदेश सुनेपछि पावल र सिलासलाई निक्कै भित्र पुग्ने जेलमा थुने। उनले तिनीहरूका खुट्टा ठिङ्गुरामा कसे। 25 मध्यरात तिर पावल र सिलासले प्रार्थना गर्दै र प्रभुको भजनहरू गाईरहेका थिए। अन्य कैदीहरूले तिनीहरूलाई सुने। 26 अचानक त्यहाँ ठूलो भूईंचालो आयो जसले जेलको जग पनि हल्लियो। त्यसपछि तुरुन्तै जेलको सबै ढोकाहरू खोलिए। सबै कैदीहरू बाँधिएका साङ्गलाहरूबाट मुक्त भए। 27 जब जेल अधिकारी जागे। उनले जेलका सबै ढोकाहरू खोलिएका देखे। कैदीहरू अघि नै भागी सेकको कुरा उसले सोच्यो। यसकारण तरवार निकालेर जेल अधिकारी आफैलाई मार्न तयार भएको थियो। 28 तर पावल चिच्यायो, “आफैलाई घात नगर। हामी सबै जना यहीं छौं।” 29 जेल अधिकारीले बत्ती ल्याउन आदेश गरे। त्यसपछि उ डरले काम्दै भित्र दौड्यो उ पावल र सिलासको सामु लड्यो। 30 त्यसपछि तिनीहरूलाई बाहिर निकाल्यो अनि भन्यो, “महोदयहरू! मुक्ति पाउनलाई मैले के गर्नु पर्ला?” 31 तिनीहरूले उसलाई भने, “प्रभु येशूमा विश्वास गर तब तिमी र तिम्रो घरका मानिसहरूले मुक्ति पाउनेछन्।” 32 यसर्थ पावल र सिलासले प्रभुको सन्दश जेल अधिकारी र उसको घरमा भएका सबैलाई भने। 33 निक्कै रात छिप्पिसकेको थियो, त्यसकारण जेल अधिकारीले पावल र सिलासलाई ल्याएर तिनीहरूका घाउहरू धोइदिए। तुरन्तै जेल अधिकारी र उसका जम्मै कुटुम्बलाई बप्तिस्मा दिइयो। 34 तब जेल अधिकारीले पावल र सिलासलाई आफ्नो घर लगे अनि केही भोजन गराए। उ र उसको कुटुम्बका सबै मानिसहरू अत्यन्तै खुशी भए किनभने तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरलाई विश्वास गरेका थिए। 35 अर्को बिहान हाकामहरूले केही सिपाही हरूलाई जेल अधिकारीकहाँ खबर दिएर पठाए; “ती मानिसहरूलाई छोडिदिनु!” 36 जेल अधिकारीले पावललाई भन्यो, “हाकीमहरूले यी सिपाहीहरू तपाईंहरूलाई छोडन लाउन पठाएका हुन्। तपाईंहरू अब शान्तिले जान सक्नु हुन्छ।” 37 तर पावलले सिपाहीहरूलाई भने, “तिम्रा हाकीमहरूले हामीले गल्ती गरेको कारण प्रमाण गर्न सकेनन्। तर तिमीहरूले हामीलाई मानिसहरूका अगाडी कुट-पिट गरे अनि जेलमा थुने। हामी रोमी नागरिक हौं, यसैले हाम्रो अधिकार छ। अहिले तिनीहरूले हामीलाई गुप्ती रूपमा पठाउन चाहन्छन्? होइन! तिनीहरू स्वयं आउनु पर्छ अनि हामीलाई बाहिर निकाल्नु पर्छ।” 38 सिपाहीहरूले जे पावलले भने ती हाकीमहरूलाई सुनाई दिए। जब हाकीमहरूले पावल र सिलास रोमी नागरीक भनेर जाने, तिनीहरू भयग्रस्त भए। 39 यसकारण तिनीहरू पावल र सिलासकहाँ आएर आफ्नो भूल प्रति क्षमा - याचना गरे। तिनीहरूले पावल र सिलासलाई जेलबाट निकालेर शहर छाडी जाऊ भने। 40 तीनीहरू जेलबाट निस्के पछि सिधै लिडियाको घरतिर लागे। तिनीहरूले त्यहाँ कतिपय दाज्यु-भाईहरूलाई देखे र तिनीहरूलाई उत्साह दिए। त्यसपछि पावल र सिलास आफ्नो बाटो लागे।