Преследование и рассеяние верующих

Савл же одобрял это убийство.

С того дня началось большое гонение на иерусалимскую церковь, и все, кроме апостолов, рассеялись по Иудее и Самарии. Благочестивые люди похоронили Стефана и горько оплакивали его. А Савл преследовал церковь. Он ходил из дома в дом, хватал мужчин и женщин и бросал их в темницу.

Филипп проповедует в Самарии

Между тем, рассеявшиеся, изгнанные из своих мест, возвещали Радостную Весть везде, куда бы они ни приходили. Филипп пришел в главный город Самарии и возвещал там о Христе. Толпы народа внимательно слушали то, что он говорил, и видели знамения, которые он совершал, потому что из многих одержимых выходили с громким криком нечистые духи, и многие парализованные и хромые получали исцеление. И в городе том была большая радость.

Был там один человек по имени Симон, который раньше занимался в этом городе колдовством, изумляя жителей Самарии; сам он выдавал себя за кого-то великого. 10 Все люди, и простые, и знатные, слушали его с восхищением, говоря:

– Этот человек – проявление всемогущего Бога, Которого называют Великим.

11 А восхищались им потому, что он уже долгое время удивлял людей своим колдовством. 12 Но когда жители этого города поверили Филиппу, возвещающему Царство Божье и имя Иисуса Христа, то многие мужчины и женщины приняли крещение. 13 Симон тоже поверил и принял крещение. Он повсюду ходил за Филиппом, удивляясь знамениям и великим чудесам.

14 Когда апостолы в Иерусалиме услышали о том, что в Самарии приняли слово Божье, они послали к ним Петра и Иоанна. 15 Те пришли и молились, чтобы новообращенные получили Святого Духа, 16 потому что ни на кого из них Дух еще не сошел, они только были крещены во имя Господа Иисуса. 17 Затем Петр и Иоанн возложили на них руки, и они приняли Святого Духа. 18 Когда Симон увидел, что Дух[a] был дан через возложение рук апостолов, он предложил им деньги, 19 говоря:

– Дайте и мне такую силу, чтобы тот, на кого я возложу руки, получал Святого Духа.

20 Но Петр ответил:

– Пусть твои деньги погибнут вместе с тобой, раз ты думаешь, что можешь купить дар Божий за деньги! 21 У тебя нет никакого права участвовать в этом деле, потому что сердце твое не право перед Богом. 22 Раскайся в этом зле и молись Господу, может быть, Он простит тебе такие мысли. 23 Я вижу, что ты полон горькой желчи и скован цепями неправды.

24 Симон ответил:

– Помолитесь обо мне Господу, чтобы со мной не приключилось ничего из сказанного вами.

25 Апостолы свидетельствовали и возвещали там слово Господа. Потом они пошли обратно в Иерусалим и по дороге возвещали Радостную Весть во многих самарийских селениях.

Обращение эфиопского евнуха

26 Ангел Господа сказал Филиппу:

– Ступай на юг, на дорогу[b], что ведет через пустыню из Иерусалима в Газу.

27 Филипп встал и пошел. В это время там находился эфиопский евнух, придворный Кандакии[c], то есть царицы эфиопов, заведовавший всей ее казной. Он приезжал на поклонение в Иерусалим 28 и теперь возвращался домой. Сидя в своей колеснице, он читал пророка Исаию. 29 Дух сказал Филиппу:

– Подойди к этой колеснице и иди рядом.

30 Филипп подбежал к колеснице и услышал, что в ней читают пророка Исаию.

– Ты понимаешь то, о чем читаешь? – спросил Филипп.

31 – Как же мне понять без объяснения? – ответил тот и пригласил Филиппа подняться и сесть с ним.

32 А читал он следующее место из Писания:

«Как овца, Он был веден на заклание,
    и, как ягненок перед стригущим безмолвен,
    так и Он не открывал уст Своих.
33 Он был унижен и лишен права на справедливый суд.
    Кто может рассказать о Его потомках?
Ведь Его жизнь забирается от земли»[d].

34 Евнух спросил Филиппа:

– Скажи мне, о ком здесь говорит пророк, о себе или о ком-то другом?

35 Тогда Филипп стал объяснять, начав с этого места Писания, и рассказал ему Радостную Весть об Иисусе. 36 Тем временем они приблизились к какой-то воде.

– Смотри, вот вода, – сказал евнух. – Что мешает мне принять крещение?

37 Филипп сказал:

– Если ты веришь всем сердцем, то можно.

Евнух сказал:

– Я верю, что Иисус Христос – Сын Божий[e].

38 Он приказал остановить колесницу, оба они, Филипп и евнух, вошли в воду, и Филипп крестил его. 39 А когда они вышли из воды, Дух Господа унес Филиппа, и евнух его больше не видел. Радостный он продолжал свой путь. 40 А Филипп оказался в городе Ашдоде. Он возвещал Радостную Весть во всех городах, пока не пришел в Кесарию.

Footnotes

  1. 8:18 В некоторых древних рукописях: «Дух Святой».
  2. 8:26 Или: «Ступай, в полдень будь на дороге».
  3. 8:27 Кандакия – титул эфиопских цариц (как фараоны в Египте).
  4. 8:32-33 См. Ис. 53:7-8.
  5. 8:37 В наиболее авторитетных древних рукописях ст. 37 отсутствует.

Saul the Persecutor

Saul agreed with putting him to death.

On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.(A) Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him. Saul,(B) however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.(C)

Philip in Samaria

So those who were scattered went on their way preaching the word. Philip went down to a[a] city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.(D) The crowds were all paying attention to what Philip said, as they listened and saw the signs he was performing. For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed, and many who were paralysed and lame were healed.(E) So there was great joy in that city.

The Response of Simon

A man named Simon had previously practised sorcery in that city and amazed the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.(F) 10 They all paid attention to him, from the least of them to the greatest, and they said, ‘This man is called the Great Power of God.’[b](G) 11 They were attentive to him because he had amazed them with his sorceries for a long time. 12 But when they believed Philip, as he proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptised.(H) 13 Even Simon himself believed. And after he was baptised, he followed Philip everywhere and was amazed as he observed the signs and great miracles(I) that were being performed.

Simon’s Sin

14 When the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.(J) 15 After they went down there, they prayed for them so that the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit because he had not yet come down on any of them. 16 (They had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus.(K)) 17 Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

18 When Simon saw that the Spirit[c] was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, 19 saying, ‘Give me this power also so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.’

20 But Peter told him, ‘May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!(L) 21 You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.(M) 22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your heart’s intent may be forgiven. 23 For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by wickedness.’(N)

24 ‘Pray to the Lord for me,’ Simon replied, ‘so that nothing you have said may happen to me.’(O)

25 So, after they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they travelled back to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

The Conversion of the Ethiopian Official

26 An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: ‘Get up and go south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is the desert road.[d](P)) 27 So he got up and went. There was an Ethiopian man, a eunuch(Q) and high official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in Jerusalem(R) 28 and was sitting in his chariot on his way home, reading the prophet Isaiah aloud.

29 The Spirit told Philip, ‘Go and join that chariot.’(S)

30 When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, ‘Do you understand what you’re reading? ’

31 ‘How can I,’ he said, ‘unless someone guides me? ’ So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so he does not open his mouth.
33 In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who will describe his generation?
For his life is taken from the earth.[e](T)

34 The eunuch said to Philip, ‘I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about – himself or someone else? ’ 35 Philip proceeded to tell him the good news about Jesus, beginning with that Scripture.(U)

36 As they were travelling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, ‘Look, there’s water. What would keep me from being baptised? ’[f] 38 So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptised him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord(V) carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip appeared in[g] Azotus,[h] and he was travelling and preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.(W)

Footnotes

  1. 8:5 Other mss read the
  2. 8:10 Or ‘This is the power of God called Great
  3. 8:18 Other mss add Holy
  4. 8:26 Or is a desert place
  5. 8:32–33 Is 53:7–8
  6. 8:36 Some mss include v. 37: Philip said, ‘If you believe with all your heart you may’. And he replied, ‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God’.
  7. 8:40 Or Philip was found at, or Philip found himself in
  8. 8:40 Or Ashdod

教會被害門徒分散

從這日起,耶路撒冷的教會大遭逼迫。除了使徒以外,門徒都分散在猶太撒馬利亞各處。 有虔誠的人把司提反埋葬了,為他捶胸大哭。 掃羅卻殘害教會,進各人的家,拉著男女下在監裡。

腓利往撒馬利亞傳道

那些分散的人往各處去傳道。 腓利撒馬利亞城去宣講基督。 眾人聽見了,又看見腓利所行的神蹟,就同心合意地聽從他的話。 因為有許多人被汙鬼附著,那些鬼大聲呼叫,從他們身上出來;還有許多癱瘓的、瘸腿的,都得了醫治。 在那城裡就大有歡喜。

行邪術的西門

有一個人名叫西門,向來在那城裡行邪術,妄自尊大,使撒馬利亞的百姓驚奇。 10 無論大小都聽從他,說:「這人就是那稱為神的大能者。」 11 他們聽從他,因他久用邪術使他們驚奇。 12 及至他們信了腓利所傳神國的福音和耶穌基督的名,連男帶女就受了洗。 13 西門自己也信了,既受了洗,就常與腓利在一處,看見他所行的神蹟和大異能,就甚驚奇。

彼得約翰傳教於撒馬利亞

14 使徒在耶路撒冷聽見撒馬利亞人領受了神的道,就打發彼得約翰往他們那裡去。 15 兩個人到了,就為他們禱告,要叫他們受聖靈, 16 因為聖靈還沒有降在他們一個人身上,他們只奉主耶穌的名受了洗。 17 於是使徒按手在他們頭上,他們就受了聖靈。

西門貪心受責

18 西門看見使徒按手便有聖靈賜下,就拿錢給使徒, 19 說:「把這權柄也給我,叫我手按著誰,誰就可以受聖靈。」 20 彼得說:「你的銀子和你一同滅亡吧!因你想神的恩賜是可以用錢買的。 21 你在這道上無份無關,因為在神面前你的心不正。 22 你當懊悔你這罪惡,祈求主,或者你心裡的意念可得赦免。 23 我看出你正在苦膽之中,被罪惡捆綁。」 24 西門說:「願你們為我求主,叫你們所說的,沒有一樣臨到我身上!」

25 使徒既證明主道而且傳講,就回耶路撒冷去,一路在撒馬利亞好些村莊傳揚福音。

腓利傳道於埃塞俄比亞的太監

26 有主的一個使者對腓利說:「起來,向南走,往那從耶路撒冷加沙的路上去!」那路是曠野。 27 腓利就起身去了。不料,有一個埃塞俄比亞[a]人,是個有大權的太監,在埃塞俄比亞女王干大基的手下總管銀庫。他上耶路撒冷禮拜去了, 28 現在回來,在車上坐著,念先知以賽亞的書。 29 聖靈對腓利說:「你去,貼近那車走!」 30 腓利就跑到太監那裡,聽見他念先知以賽亞的書,便問他說:「你所念的你明白嗎?」 31 他說:「沒有人指教我,怎能明白呢?」於是請腓利上車與他同坐。 32 他所念的那段經說:「他像羊被牽到宰殺之地,又像羊羔在剪毛的人手下無聲,他也是這樣不開口。 33 他卑微的時候,人不按公義審判他[b]。誰能述說他的世代?因為他的生命從地上奪去。』 34 太監對腓利說:「請問,先知說這話是指著誰?是指著自己呢,是指著別人呢?」 35 腓利就開口從這經上起,對他傳講耶穌。

太監信而受洗

36 二人正往前走,到了有水的地方,太監說:「看哪,這裡有水!我受洗有什麼妨礙呢?」[c] 38 於是吩咐車站住,腓利和太監二人同下水裡去,腓利就給他施洗。 39 從水裡上來,主的靈把腓利提了去。太監也不再見他了,就歡歡喜喜地走路。 40 後來有人在亞鎖都遇見腓利;他走遍那地方,在各城宣傳福音,直到愷撒利亞

Footnotes

  1. 使徒行傳 8:27 即古實,見《以賽亞書》18章1節。
  2. 使徒行傳 8:33 原文作:他的審判被奪去。
  3. 使徒行傳 8:36 有古卷在此有:37腓利說:「你若是一心相信,就可以。」他回答說:「我信耶穌基督是神的兒子。」

And Saul(A) approved of their killing him.

The Church Persecuted and Scattered

On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered(B) throughout Judea and Samaria.(C) Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul(D) began to destroy the church.(E) Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

Philip in Samaria

Those who had been scattered(F) preached the word wherever they went.(G) Philip(H) went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there. When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many,(I) and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.(J) So there was great joy in that city.

Simon the Sorcerer

Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery(K) in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,(L) 10 and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.”(M) 11 They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. 12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God(N) and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized,(O) both men and women. 13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles(P) he saw.

14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria(Q) had accepted the word of God,(R) they sent Peter and John(S) to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit,(T) 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them;(U) they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.(V) 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them,(W) and they received the Holy Spirit.(X)

18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

20 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!(Y) 21 You have no part or share(Z) in this ministry, because your heart is not right(AA) before God. 22 Repent(AB) of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. 23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”

24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me(AC) so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

25 After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord(AD) and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.(AE)

Philip and the Ethiopian

26 Now an angel(AF) of the Lord said to Philip,(AG) “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian[a](AH) eunuch,(AI) an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,(AJ) 28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. 29 The Spirit told(AK) Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32 This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:

“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
    and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
    Who can speak of his descendants?
    For his life was taken from the earth.”[b](AL)

34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip began(AM) with that very passage of Scripture(AN) and told him the good news(AO) about Jesus.

36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?”(AP) [37] [c] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away,(AQ) and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns(AR) until he reached Caesarea.(AS)

Footnotes

  1. Acts 8:27 That is, from the southern Nile region
  2. Acts 8:33 Isaiah 53:7,8 (see Septuagint)
  3. Acts 8:37 Some manuscripts include here Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” The eunuch answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”