使徒行传 7
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
司提反的申辩
7 大祭司说：“真有这些事吗？” 2 司提反说：“各位父老兄弟请听！我们的祖宗亚伯拉罕，在美索不达米亚，还没有住在哈兰的时候，荣耀的 神向他显现， 3 对他说：‘你要离开本地本族，到我指示你的地方去。’ 4 他就离开迦勒底人的地方，住在哈兰。他父亲死后， 神又叫他从那里迁到你们现在所住的地方。 5 在这里 神并没有赐他产业，连立足之地也没有。但 神应许把这地赐给他和他的后裔为业，虽然那时他还没有儿子。 6 神就这样说：‘你的后裔必在外地寄居，人要奴役、虐待他们四百年。’ 7 神又说：‘奴役他们的那个国家，我要亲自惩罚。以后，他们要出来，在这地方事奉我。’ 8 神也赐他割礼为约。这样，亚伯拉罕生了以撒，第八天就给他行了割礼。后来，以撒生雅各，雅各生了十二位祖先。
9 “祖先妒忌约瑟，把他卖到埃及去，然而 神与他同在， 10 救他脱离一切苦难，使他在埃及王法老面前，有智慧、得恩宠。法老立他为首相，管理埃及和法老的全家。 11 后来埃及和迦南全地遭遇饥荒、大灾难，我们的祖先找不到粮食。 12 雅各听见埃及有谷粮，就派我们的祖先去，这是第一次。 13 第二次的时候，约瑟就向哥哥们表露自己的身世，法老才知道约瑟的家世。 14 约瑟就派人去把他父亲雅各和全家七十五人都接来。 15 于是雅各下了埃及。后来他和我们祖先都死了， 16 运到示剑，埋葬在亚伯拉罕用银子向哈抹子孙买来的坟地里。
17 “ 神给亚伯拉罕的应许快要实现的时候，以色列人在埃及人口繁盛增多； 18 但是，到了另一位不认识约瑟的君王兴起统治埃及的时候， 19 他就谋害我们的同胞，虐待我们的祖先，逼他们拋弃自己的婴孩，不容婴孩存活。 20 就在那时候，摩西出生了，他非常俊美，在父亲的家中抚养了三个月。 21 他被拋弃的时候，法老的女儿把他拾起来，当作儿子抚养。 22 摩西学尽了埃及人的一切学问，说话行事都有能力。
23 “到了四十岁，他心中起了一个念头，要去看望自己的同胞以色列人。 24 当他看见有一个人受欺负，就去护卫，为那受屈的抱不平，打死了那个埃及人。 25 他以为同胞们都必知道 神要借着他的手拯救他们，事实上他们却不知道。 26 第二天，有人在打架，摩西就出面调解，说：‘你们是弟兄，为甚么彼此欺负呢？’ 27 那欺负邻舍的把他推开，说：‘谁立了你作我们的领袖和审判官呢？ 28 难道你想杀我，像昨天杀那个埃及人一样吗？’ 29 摩西因为这句话，就逃到米甸地寄居，在那里生了两个儿子。
30 “过了四十年，在西奈山的旷野，有一位使者，在荆棘中的火焰里，向摩西显现。 31 他见了这个异象，十分惊奇；他正上前察看的时候，就有主的声音说： 32 ‘我是你祖宗的 神，就是亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的 神。’摩西战战兢兢，不敢观看。 33 主对他说：‘把你脚上的鞋脱掉，因为你所站的地方是圣地。 34 我的子民在埃及所受的痛苦，我实在看见了；他们的叹息我也听见了，我下来是要救他们。你来，我要派你到埃及去。’ 35 他们拒绝了这位摩西，说：‘谁立了你作领袖和审判官呢？’但 神借着在荆棘中向他显现的使者的手，派他作领袖和救赎者。 36 这人领他们出来，并且在埃及地、红海和旷野，行奇事神迹四十年。 37 以前那位对以色列人说‘ 神要从你们弟兄中间，给你们兴起一位先知像我’的，就是这摩西。 38 那曾经在旷野的大会中，和那在西奈山上对他说话的使者同在，也与我们的祖先同在的，就是他。他领受了活的圣言，传给我们。 39 我们的祖先不肯听从他，反而把他推开，他们的心已经转向了埃及， 40 就对亚伦说：‘给我们做一些神像，可以走在我们前头。因为把我们从埃及地领出来的那个摩西，我们不知道他遭遇了甚么事。’ 41 在那些日子里，他们做了一个牛犊，把祭物献给那偶像，并且因自己手所做的而欢乐。 42 于是 神转身离开，任凭他们事奉天象，正如先知书所说：
‘以色列家啊，
你们在旷野四十年，
岂是将祭牲和祭物献给我呢？
43 你们抬着摩洛的帐幕，
和理番神的星，
就是你们做来敬拜的像。
所以我要把你们放逐到巴比伦那一边去。’
44 “我们的祖先在旷野有作证的帐幕，就是跟摩西谈话的那位指示他，依照他看见的样式做的。 45 我们的祖先相继承受了这帐幕， 神把外族人从他们面前赶走以后，他们就同约书亚把帐幕带进所得为业的地方，直到大卫的日子。 46 大卫在 神面前蒙了恩，就求为雅各的 神找个居所， 47 而由所罗门为他建造殿宇。 48 其实至高者并不住人手所造的，正如先知说：
49 ‘主说：天是我的宝座，
地是我的脚凳，
你们要为我建造怎样的殿呢？
哪里是我安息的地方呢？
50 这一切不都是我手所造的吗？’
51 “你们颈项刚硬、心和耳都未受割礼的人哪！你们时常抗拒圣灵，你们的祖先怎样，你们也怎样。 52 有哪一个先知，你们的祖先不迫害呢？你们杀了那些预先宣告那义者要来的人，现在又把那义者出卖了，杀害了。 53 你们领受了由天使传达的律法，却不遵守。”
司提反被石头打死
54 众人听了这些话，心中非常恼怒，就向着司提反咬牙切齿。 55 但司提反被圣灵充满，定睛望着天，看见 神的荣耀，并且看见耶稣站在 神的右边， 56 就说：“看哪！我看见天开了，人子站在 神的右边。” 57 众人大声喊叫，掩着耳朵，一齐向他冲过去， 58 把他推出城外，用石头打他。那些证人把自己的衣服，放在一个名叫扫罗的青年人脚前。 59 他们用石头打司提反的时候，他呼求说：“主耶稣啊，求你接收我的灵魂！” 60 然后跪下来大声喊着说：“主啊，不要把这罪归给他们！”说了这话，就睡了。
Acts 7
The Voice
7 High Priest: What do you have to say for yourself? Are these accusations accurate?
Stephen: 2 Brothers, fathers, please listen to me. Our glorious God revealed Himself to our common ancestor Abraham, when he lived far away in Mesopotamia before he immigrated to Haran. 3 God gave him this command: “Leave your country. Leave your family and your inheritance. Move into unknown territory, where I will show you a new homeland.”[a] 4 First, he left Chaldea in southern Mesopotamia and settled in Haran until his father died. Then God led him still farther from his original home—until he settled here, in our land. 5 But at that point, God still hadn’t given him any of this land as his permanent possession—not even the footprint under his sandal actually belonged to him yet. But God did give Abraham a promise—a promise that yes, someday, the entire land would indeed belong to him and his descendants. Of course, this promise was all the more amazing because at that moment, Abraham had no descendants at all.
6 God said that Abraham’s descendants would first live in a foreign country as resident aliens, as refugees, for 400 years. During this time, they would be enslaved and treated horribly. But that would not be the end of the story. 7 God promised, “I will judge the nation that enslaves them,”[b] and “I will bring them to this mountain to serve Me.”[c] 8 God gave him the covenant ritual of circumcision as a sign of His sacred promise. When Abraham fathered his son, Isaac, he performed this ritual of circumcision on the eighth day. Then Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered the twelve patriarchs.
9 The patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph, so they sold him as a slave into Egypt. Even so, God was with him; 10 and time after time, God rescued Joseph from whatever trials befell him. God gave Joseph the favor and wisdom to overcome each adversity and eventually to win the confidence and respect of his captors, including Pharaoh, the king of Egypt himself. So Pharaoh entrusted his whole nation and his whole household to Joseph’s stewardship. 11 Some time later, a terrible famine spread through the entire region—from Canaan down to Egypt—and everyone suffered greatly. Our ancestors, living here in the region of Canaan, could find nothing to eat. 12 Jacob heard that Egypt had stores of grain; so he sent our forefathers, his sons, to procure food there. 13 Later, when they returned to Egypt a second time, Joseph revealed his true identity to them. He also told Pharaoh his family story.
14-16 Joseph then invited his father Jacob and all his clan to come and live with him in Egypt. So Jacob came, along with 75 extended family members. After their deaths, their remains were brought back to this land so they could be buried in the same tomb where Abraham had buried Sarah (he had purchased the tomb for a certain amount of silver from the family of Hamor in the town of Shechem).
17 Still God’s promise to Abraham had not yet been fulfilled, but the time for that fulfillment was drawing very near. In the meantime, our ancestors living in Egypt rapidly multiplied. 18 Eventually a new king came to power—one who had not known Joseph when he was the most powerful man in Egypt. 19 This new leader feared the growing population of our ancestors and manipulated them for his own benefit, eventually seeking to control their population by forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die. 20 Into this horrible situation our ancestor Moses was born, and he was a beautiful child in God’s eyes. He was raised for three months in his father’s home, 21 and then he was abandoned as the brutal regime required. However, Pharaoh’s daughter found, adopted, and raised him as her own son. 22 So Moses learned the culture and wisdom of the Egyptians and became a powerful man—both as an intellectual and as a leader. 23 When he reached the age of 40, his heart drew him to visit his kinfolk, our ancestors, the Israelites. 24 During his visit, he saw one of our people being wronged, and he took sides with our people by killing an Egyptian. 25 He thought his kinfolk would recognize him as their God-given liberator, but they didn’t realize who he was and what he represented.
26 The next day Moses was walking among the Israelites again when he observed a fight—but this time, it was between two Israelites. He intervened and tried to reconcile the men. “You two are brothers,” he said. “Why do you attack each other?” 27 But the aggressor pushed Moses away and responded with contempt: “Who made you our prince and judge? 28 Are you going to slay me and hide my body as you did with the Egyptian yesterday?”[d] 29 Realizing this murder had not gone unnoticed, he quickly escaped Egypt and lived as a refugee in the land of Midian. He married there and had two sons.
30 Forty more years passed. One day while Moses was in the desert near Mount Sinai, a heavenly messenger appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush. 31 The phenomenon intrigued Moses; and as he approached for a closer look, he heard a voice—the voice of the Lord: 32 “I am the God of your own fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”[e] This terrified Moses—he began to tremble and looked away in fear. 33 The voice continued: “Take off your sandals and stand barefoot on the ground in My presence, for this ground is holy ground. 34 I have avidly watched how My people are being mistreated by the Egyptians. I have heard their groaning at the treatment of their oppressors. I am descending personally to rescue them. So get up. I’m sending you to Egypt.”[f]
35 Now remember: this was the same Moses who had been rejected by his kinfolk when they said, “Who made you our prince and judge?” This man, rejected by his own people, was the one God had truly sent and commissioned by the heavenly messenger who appeared in the bush, to be their leader and deliverer.
36 Moses indeed led our ancestors to freedom, and he performed miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness over a period of 40 years. 37 This Moses promised our ancestors, “The Eternal One your God will raise up from among your people a Prophet who will be like me.”[g] 38 This is the same one who led the people to Mount Sinai, where a heavenly messenger spoke to him and our ancestors, and who received the living message of God to give to us.
39 But our ancestors still resisted. They again pushed Moses away and refused to follow him. In their hearts, they were ready to return to their former slavery in Egypt. 40 While Moses was on the mountain communing with God, they begged Aaron to make idols to lead them. “We have no idea what happened to this fellow, Moses, who brought us from Egypt,”[h] they said. 41 So they made a calf as their new god, and they even sacrificed to it and celebrated an object they had fabricated as if it was their God.
42 And you remember what God did next: He let them go. He turned from them and let them follow their idolatrous path—worshiping sun, moon, and stars just as their unenlightened neighbors did. The prophet Amos spoke for God about this horrible betrayal:
Did you offer Me sacrifices or give Me offerings
during your 40-year wilderness journey, you Israelites?
43 No, but you have taken along your sacred tent for the worship of Moloch,
and you honored the star of Rompha, your false god.
So, if you want to worship your man-made images,
you may do so—beyond Babylon.[i]
44 Now recall that our ancestors had a sacred tent in the wilderness, the tent God directed Moses to build according to the pattern revealed to him. 45 When Joshua led our ancestors to dispossess the nations God drove out before them, our ancestors carried this sacred tent. It remained here in the land until the time of David. 46 David found favor with God and asked Him for permission to build a permanent structure (rather than a portable tent) to honor Him. 47 It was, of course, Solomon who actually built God’s house. 48 Yet we all know the Most High God doesn’t actually dwell in structures made by human hands, as the prophet Isaiah said,
49 “Since My throne is heaven
and since My footstool is earth—
What kind of structure can you build to contain Me?
What man-made space could provide Me a resting place?” asks the Eternal One.
50 “Didn’t I make all things with My own hand?”[j]
As Stephen recounts how God has worked with the Jews in spite of their faltering fidelity, his speech up to this point sounds like any good synagogue sermon. In the stories of Abraham, Joseph, and Moses, he narrates the history of God’s work of salvation among the Jewish people in the midst of their repeated struggle with unfaithfulness and idolatry. However, it is one thing for his audience to agree that idolatry was a problem in the past and another when they are charged with the accusation of the same idolatry in the present. According to Stephen, those who reject Jesus are following the same path as the people who rejected Moses to follow idols. Such a strong message strikes a nerve, and Stephen becomes the first martyr of the church because of it.
Stephen: 51 You stubborn, stiff-necked people! Sure, you are physically Jews, but you are no different from outsiders in your hearts and ears! You are just like your ancestors, constantly fighting against the Holy Spirit. 52 Didn’t your ancestors persecute the prophets? First, they killed those prophets who predicted the coming of the Just One; and now, you have betrayed and murdered the Just One Himself! 53 Yes, you received the law as given by heavenly messengers, but you haven’t kept the law which you received.
54 Upon hearing this, his audience could contain themselves no longer. They boiled in fury at Stephen; they clenched their jaws and ground their teeth. 55 But Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit. Gazing upward into heaven, he saw something they couldn’t see: the glory of God, and Jesus standing at His right hand.
Stephen: 56 Look, I see the heavens opening! I see the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!
57 At this, they covered their ears and started shouting. The whole crowd rushed at Stephen, converged on him, 58 dragged him out of the city, and stoned him.
They laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul, 59 while they were pelting Stephen with rocks.
Stephen (as rocks fell upon him): Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 Then he knelt in prayer, shouting at the top of his lungs,
Stephen: Lord, do not hold this evil against them!
Those were his final words; then he fell asleep in death.
Travay 7
Nouvo Testaman: Vèsyon Kreyòl Fasil
Gwo diskou Etyèn nan
7 Pi gran sakrifikatè a di Etyèn konsa: “Èske sa yo di yo se vre?” 2 Etyèn reponn, li di: “Frè m ak papa m yo, koute: Bondye ki gran epi ki genyen tout glwa a te parèt devan Abraram, zansèt nou an. Lè sa a, Abraram te rete nan Mezopotami toujou. Li pa t ko al rete Karan. 3 Bondye di li: Kite peyi w ak tout fanmi w, pati ale nan peyi mwen va montre w la.(A)
4 Konsa, Abraram pati kite peyi Kalde,[a] l al viv nan Karan. Apre papa Abraram te mouri, Bondye fè l kite Karan pou l vin viv nan peyi sa a, kote n ap viv la. 5 Men Bondye pa t bay Abraram yon pati pou limenm. Li pa t bay Abraram menm yon pous nan peyi a. Okontrè, Bondye te pwomèt li l ap ba l tout peyi a nèt pou l rete ansanm ak pitit pitit li yo. Men Abraram pa t ko gen pitit lè sa a.
6 Men sa Bondye te di Abraram: Pitit pitit ou yo gen pou y al viv kòm etranje nan yon lòt peyi. Y ap fè yo tounen esklav nan peyi sa a epi y ap maltrete yo anpil pandan kat san (400) zan. 7 Men m ap gen pou m pini nasyon ki va fè yo tounen esklav yo a.(B) Apre sa, Bondye di l ankò: Apre bagay sa yo fin rive, y a soti kite peyi kote yo te esklav la epi y a vin sèvi m isit la.(C)
8 Apre sa, Bondye fè yon kontra ak Abraram epi Bondye deside se sikonsizyon k ap senbòl kontra sa a. Konsa, lè Abraram vin gen pitit gason li Isaak, li sikonsi Izarak sou uit (8) jou apre l te fin fèt. Menm jan an tou, lè Izaak fè Jakòb, li te sikonsi li tou, epi Jakòb te sikonsi douz pitit gason li yo ki se papa douz branch fanmi nan pèp Izrayèl la.
9 Yon gwo jalouzi te vin pete pami douz zansèt nou yo kont Jozèf, pwòp frè yo. Konsa, yo vann li pou l al esklav nan peyi Lejip. Men Bondye pa t lage Jozèf. Li te toujou ansanm avè l. 10 Bondye te delivre Jozèf anba tout tribilasyon li epi li te ranpli l ak sajès. Bondye te fè Jozèf jwenn favè devan Farawon ki te wa peyi L epi p la. Konsa, Farawon te mete Jozèf chèf sou tout peyi Lejip ak sou tout kay Farawon an menm. 11 Vwala te gen yon gwo grangou ki te vin tonbe sou tout peyi Lejip ak sou Kanaran tou. Bagay la te rèd anpil pou moun yo, sa te fè yo soufri. Zansèt nou yo nan Kanaran pa t jwenn anyen pou yo manje.
12 Lè Jakòb aprann te gen manje pou vann nan peyi Lejip, li voye pitit gason l yo al achte. Se premye fwa yo te ale la. 13 Sou dezyèm vwayaj frè Jozèf yo te fè pou al achte manje, Jozèf te fè yo rekonèt li. Konsa Farawon Lejip la te fè konesans ak fanmi Jozèf yo tou. 14 Apre sa, Jozèf voye chache Jakòb, papa li, ansanm ak tout rès fanmi an. Yo tout ansanm te fè swasannkenz moun an total. 15 Konsa, Jakòb desann nan peyi Lejip. Se nan peyi sa a li mouri tou, ansanm ak tout zansèt nou yo. 16 Yo monte ak kadav yo ale Sichèm. Yo antere yo tout nan tonbo Abraram te peye lajan kontan lè l te achte l nan men pitit Emò yo nan lavil Sichèm nan.
17 Firamezi lè pou Bondye te kenbe pwomès li te fè Abraram nan t ap pwoche, pèp la pa t sispann miltipliye nan peyi Lejip, li te vin pi plis. 18 Se kon sa sa te ye jouktan te vin gen yon wa nan tèt peyi Lejip ki pa t konnen anyen menm sou Jozèf. 19 Wa sa a te tonbe nan twonpe pèp nou an. Li maltrete zansèt nou yo byen maltrete. Li fòse yo abandone ti bebe yo deyò pou yo mouri.
20 Se nan epòk sa a menm Moyiz te fèt. Se te yon bèl ti pitit devan Bondye. Yo te kache Moyiz pandan twa (3) mwa lakay papa l pou pran swen li. 21 Finalman, lè yo oblije abandone l deyò, pitit fi Farawon an pran li. Prensès la elve Moyiz tankou pwòp pitit gason pa li. 22 Konsa, Ejipsyen yo te anseye Moyiz tout sa yo te genyen kòm konesans nan sistèm edikasyon yo a. Moyiz te vin yon gwo save epi sa te parèt aklè nan tout sa l di ak tout sa l fè.
23 Lè Moyiz te gen karant (40) an, li deside rann pèp li a yon vizit, m vle pale de pèp Izrayèl la. 24 Je Moyiz al tonbe sou yon Ejipsyen ki t ap maltrete yon moun pèp Izrayèl la. Moyiz deside antre nan koze a pou rann izrayelit ki t ap sibi move trètman an jistis. Konsa, Moyiz touye Ejipsyen an. 25 Moyiz te panse sa k pase a t ap ede pèp Izrayèl la konprann Bondye t ap sèvi ak li kòm enstriman pou delivre yo, men yo pa t konprann sa.
26 Nan denmen, Moyiz retounen vin vizite pèp li a ankò. Fwa sa a, li wè de moun pèp Izrayèl la k ap goumen antre yo. Li t ap eseye fè yo rekonsilye. Li di yo: Mesye m yo, èske se pa frè nou ye? Pouki sa nou youn ap maltrete lòt konsa? 27 Men, sa k t ap maltrete izrayelit parèy li a te pouse Moyiz sou kote. Epi li di Moyiz konsa: Ki lès ki mete w chèf sou nou pou pase nou lòd epi pou jije nou? 28 Ou gen lè vle touye m menm jan ou te touye Ejipsyen an yè a?(D) 29 Lè Moyiz tande moun pèp Izrayèl la di pawòl sa a, li chape poul li. Li kouri kite peyi Lejip pou l al viv nan peyi Madyan kòm etranje. Pandan l nan peyi Madyan, Moyiz vin gen madanm epi se la li fè de pitit gason.
30 Karant (40) an apre sa, pandan Moyiz te nan dezè ki bò mòn Sinayi a, yon anj parèt devan li nan mitan yon flanm dife ki t ap boule nan yon touf bwa. 31 Lè Moyiz wè flanm dife a nan touf bwa a, sa te fè l sezi. Li pwoche pi pre pou wè sa k genyen. Lè sa a, li tande yon vwa ki pale. Se te vwa Senyè a. 32 Senyè a di: Se mwen menm Bondye zansèt ou yo; Bondye Abraram, Bondye Izarak ak Bondye Jakòb la.(E) Moyiz te pran tranble, tèlman li te pè. Li pa t menm oze gade touf bwa a ankò.
33 Senyè a di Moyiz ankò: Retire sapat ou nan pye w, paske kote ou kanpe a se yon tè ki apa pou mwen. 34 Mwen wè tray pèp mwen an ap pase nan peyi Lejip. Mwen tande jan y ap plenn anba soufrans yo. Mwen desann pou m vin delivre yo. Kounye a, vini m voye w retounen nan peyi Lejip.(F)
35 Se menm Moyiz sa a pèp la te rejte lè yo te di: Ki lès ki mete w chèf pou gouvène nou epi pou jije nou?(G) Se menm li menm nan Bondye voye pou l yon chèf sou yo ak yon sovè pou yo tou, avèk konkou anj ki te parèt devan li nan touf bwa a. 36 Se Moyiz ki te mennen pèp la soti kite peyi Lejip. Li te fè anpil mirak ak anpil bèl bagay nan peyi Lejip la menm, devan lanmè wouj la, nan dezè a, pandan karant (40) ane.
37 Se menm Moyiz sa a tou ki te di pèp Izrayèl la pawòl sa yo: Bondye gen pou l fè yon pwofèt parèt nan mitan nou. Se youn pami nou l ap ye tou, menm jan ak mwen.(H) 38 Se li menm ki te ansanm ak pèp Bondye a lè yo te nan dezè a. Li te nan dezè a ansanm ak zansèt nou yo ak anj Bondye a ki t ap pale ak li sou gwo mòn Sinayi a. Li te resevwa pawòl vivan an nan men anj lan pou l transmèt li ban nou.
39 Men zansèt nou yo te refize obeyi Moyiz. Okontrè, yo te rejte otorite l. Sèl sa k te nan tèt yo, se pou yo ta tounen tounen yo nan peyi Lejip. 40 Yo di Aawon konsa: Fè kèk lòt bondye pou nou ki pou mache devan nou pou dirije nou, paske Moyiz ki te mennen nou soti nan peyi Lejip la, nou pa konn sa k pase avè l.(I) 41 Konsa, yo fè yon zidòl ki gen fòm yon towo bèf. Apre sa, yo ofri sakrifis bay zidòl la. Se pa ti kontan yo te kontan pou zidòl yo te fè ak pwòp men pa yo a. 42 Men Bondye vire do ba yo. Li lage yo pou yo kontinye sèvi latriye move lespri yo ki nan lè a. Men sa Bondye te di nan liv pwofèt yo:
Nou menm pèp Izrayèl, èske se pou mwen nou te fè ofrann bèt ak lòt sakrifis,
pandan karantan nou te pase nan dezè a?
43 Se tant pou nou adore Molòk nou pote pito,
epi pòtre zetwal ki reprezante Refan
ansanm ak bann lòt imaj nou te fè pou n adore yo.
Poutèt sa, m ap voye nou al chwe jouk lòtbò Babilòn.(J)
44 Tabènak la,[b] ki se tant SENYÈ a la, li te ansanm ak zansèt nou yo nan dezè a. Yo te fè l egzakteman jan Bondye te mande Moyiz fè l la, selon modèl Moyiz te wè a. 45 Jenerasyon ki te fè tant lan te vin pase l bay jenerasyon ki te vin apre yo a, pami zansèt nou yo. Yo te gen tant lan ansanm ak yo lè Jozye t ap mennen yo antre nan peyi Bondye te pwomèt yo a, lè Bondye t ap chase pèp Kanaran yo devan yo a. Yo te kenbe tant sa a soti nan yon jenerasyon pou ale nan yon lòt jenerasyon jouk rive nan tan wa David la. 46 David te jwenn favè devan Bondye. Li te menm mande Bondye pèmisyon pou l bati yon Tanp pou pèp Izrayèl la.[c] 47 Men se Salomon ki te bati Tanp lan pou SENYÈ a.
48 Men, Bondye ki pi wo nan syèl la pa rete nan kay moun bati ak men yo. Men sa pwofèt la te di sou koze sa a:
49 Senyè a di: Syèl la se twòn kote m chita,
epi tè a menm se ti ban pou m lonje pye m.
Ki kalite kay nou ta ka bati pou mwen?
Èske m bezwen yon kote pou m repoze pou nou ta ka ofri m?
50 Èske se pa mwen menm ki fè tout bagay sa yo ak men m?”(K)
51 Apre sa, Etyèn di lidè yo konsa: “Nou pa manke gen tèt di. Nou fèmen kè nou. Nou bouche zòrèy nou lè Bondye ap pale ak nou. Nou pa janm sispann kenbe tèt ak Sentespri Bondye a. Menm jan zansèt nou yo te ye a, se kon sa nou ye tou. 52 Ki lès nan pwofèt yo zansèt nou yo pa t pèsekite? Yo touye tout pwofèt ki te anonse davans kijan Moun ki Jis la[d] t ap vini. Kounye a, nou menm nou leve talon kont pitit Bondye a menm epi nou touye l. 53 Se nou menm ki te resevwa lalwa Moyiz la Bondye te ban nou pa mwayen anj li yo, men nou pa obeyi lalwa sa a.”
Yo touye Etyèn
54 Lè lidè Jwif yo nan Gran Konsèy la tande pawòl sa yo nan bouch Etyèn, yo pa t manke fache kont li. Yo te tèlman ankòlè, yo manje dan sou Etyèn. 55 Men Etyèn menm te anba pouvwa Sentespri a. Li leve je l anlè, li gade syèl la. Li wè Bondye Papa a nan tout glwa li, epi li wè Jezi, pitit la ki kanpe adwat papa a. 56 Lè sa a, Etyèn di: Gade, mwen wè syèl la louvri, epi mwen wè Jezi, pitit lòm nan kanpe sou bò dwat Bondye.
57 Konsa, tout moun ki te la yo tonbe fè yon pakèt gwo bri. Yo bouche zòrèy yo pou yo pa tande sa Etyèn t ap di a, epi yo tout ansanm kouri sou li. 58 Yo trennen Etyèn mete deyò lavil la, epi yo tonbe kalonnen l ak kout wòch. Moun ki t ap akize Etyèn yo te retire rad yo bay yon jenn gason yo te rele Sòl pou siveye yo. 59 Pandan yo t ap kalonnen Etyèn anba kout wòch la, li menm li t ap lapriyè. Li t ap di: “Senyè Jezi, resevwa lespri mwen.” 60 Apre sa, Etyèn tonbe ajenou, li rele byen fò, li di: “Senyè, tanpri pa mete peche sa a sou kont yo.” Fini l fin di sa a, Etyèn mouri.
Footnotes
- 7:4 Kalde Oubyen “Babilòn”, yon peyi nan sid Mezopotami. Gade vèsè 2 a.
- 7:44 Tabènak la Literalman, “Tant temwanyaj la”.
- 7:46 pèp Izrayèl la Literalman, “mezon Jakòb la” Kèk kopi nan lang Grèk genyen “Bondye Jakòb la”.
- 7:52 Jis la Se yon tit pou Mesi a (Kris), Wa Bondye chwazi a, jan l te pwomèt sa nan Ansyen Testaman an. Gade nan Eza 53:11; Aba 2:4; Zak 9:9; Trav 3:14; 22:14.
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