Kisah Para Rasul 8

Kisah Para Rasul 8

Acts 8

Penganiayaan terhadap jemaat di Yerusalem

8:1 Saulus juga setuju, bahwa Stefanus mati dibunuh. (#8-#1b) Pada waktu itu mulailah penganiayaan yang hebat terhadap jemaat di Yerusalem. Mereka semua, kecuali rasul-rasul, tersebar ke seluruh daerah Yudea dan Samaria. 8:2 Orang-orang saleh menguburkan mayat Stefanus serta meratapinya dengan sangat. 8:3 Tetapi Saulus berusaha membinasakan jemaat itu dan ia memasuki rumah demi rumah dan menyeret laki-laki dan perempuan ke luar dan menyerahkan mereka untuk dimasukkan ke dalam penjara. Filipus di Samaria 8:4 Mereka yang tersebar itu menjelajah seluruh negeri itu sambil memberitakan Injil. 8:5 Dan Filipus pergi ke suatu kota di Samaria dan memberitakan Mesias kepada orang-orang di situ. 8:6 Ketika orang banyak itu mendengar pemberitaan Filipus dan melihat tanda-tanda yang diadakannya, mereka semua dengan bulat hati menerima apa yang diberitakannya itu. 8:7 Sebab dari banyak orang yang kerasukan roh jahat keluarlah roh-roh itu sambil berseru dengan suara keras, dan banyak juga orang lumpuh dan orang timpang yang disembuhkan. 8:8 Maka sangatlah besar sukacita dalam kota itu. 8:9 Seorang yang bernama Simon telah sejak dahulu melakukan sihir di kota itu dan mentakjubkan rakyat Samaria, serta berlagak seolah-olah ia seorang yang sangat penting. 8:10 Semua orang, besar kecil, mengikuti dia dan berkata: "Orang ini adalah kuasa Allah yang terkenal sebagai Kuasa Besar." 8:11 Dan mereka mengikutinya, karena sudah lama ia mentakjubkan mereka oleh perbuatan sihirnya. 8:12 Tetapi sekarang mereka percaya kepada Filipus yang memberitakan Injil tentang Kerajaan Allah dan tentang nama Yesus Kristus, dan mereka memberi diri mereka dibaptis, baik laki-laki maupun perempuan. 8:13 Simon sendiri juga menjadi percaya, dan sesudah dibaptis, ia senantiasa bersama-sama dengan Filipus, dan takjub ketika ia melihat tanda-tanda dan mujizat-mujizat besar yang terjadi. 8:14 Ketika rasul-rasul di Yerusalem mendengar, bahwa tanah Samaria telah menerima firman Allah, mereka mengutus Petrus dan Yohanes ke situ. 8:15 Setibanya di situ kedua rasul itu berdoa, supaya orang-orang Samaria itu beroleh Roh Kudus. 8:16 Sebab Roh Kudus belum turun di atas seorangpun di antara mereka, karena mereka hanya dibaptis dalam nama Tuhan Yesus. 8:17 Kemudian keduanya menumpangkan tangan di atas mereka, lalu mereka menerima Roh Kudus. 8:18 Ketika Simon melihat, bahwa pemberian Roh Kudus terjadi oleh karena rasul-rasul itu menumpangkan tangannya, ia menawarkan uang kepada mereka, 8:19 serta berkata: "Berikanlah juga kepadaku kuasa itu, supaya jika aku menumpangkan tanganku di atas seseorang, ia boleh menerima Roh Kudus." 8:20 Tetapi Petrus berkata kepadanya: "Binasalah kiranya uangmu itu bersama dengan engkau, karena engkau menyangka, bahwa engkau dapat membeli karunia Allah dengan uang. 8:21 Tidak ada bagian atau hakmu dalam perkara ini, sebab hatimu tidak lurus di hadapan Allah. 8:22 Jadi bertobatlah dari kejahatanmu ini dan berdoalah kepada Tuhan, supaya Ia mengampuni niat hatimu ini; 8:23 sebab kulihat, bahwa hatimu telah seperti empedu yang pahit dan terjerat dalam kejahatan." 8:24 Jawab Simon: "Hendaklah kamu berdoa untuk aku kepada Tuhan, supaya kepadaku jangan kiranya terjadi segala apa yang telah kamu katakan itu." 8:25 Setelah keduanya bersaksi dan memberitakan firman Tuhan, kembalilah mereka ke Yerusalem dan dalam perjalanannya itu mereka memberitakan Injil dalam banyak kampung di Samaria. Sida-sida dari tanah Etiopia 8:26 Kemudian berkatalah seorang malaikat Tuhan kepada Filipus, katanya: "Bangunlah dan berangkatlah ke sebelah selatan, menurut jalan yang turun dari Yerusalem ke Gaza." Jalan itu jalan yang sunyi. 8:27 Lalu berangkatlah Filipus. Adalah seorang Etiopia, seorang sida-sida, pembesar dan kepala perbendaharaan Sri Kandake, ratu negeri Etiopia, yang pergi ke Yerusalem untuk beribadah. 8:28 Sekarang orang itu sedang dalam perjalanan pulang dan duduk dalam keretanya sambil membaca kitab nabi Yesaya. 8:29 Lalu kata Roh kepada Filipus: "Pergilah ke situ dan dekatilah kereta itu!" 8:30 Filipus segera ke situ dan mendengar sida-sida itu sedang membaca kitab nabi Yesaya. Kata Filipus: "Mengertikah tuan apa yang tuan baca itu?" 8:31 Jawabnya: "Bagaimanakah aku dapat mengerti, kalau tidak ada yang membimbing aku?" Lalu ia meminta Filipus naik dan duduk di sampingnya. 8:32 Nas yang dibacanya itu berbunyi seperti berikut: Seperti seekor domba Ia dibawa ke pembantaian; dan seperti anak domba yang kelu di depan orang yang menggunting bulunya, demikianlah Ia tidak membuka mulut-Nya. 8:33 Dalam kehinaan-Nya berlangsunglah hukuman-Nya; siapakah yang akan menceriterakan asal-usul-Nya? Sebab nyawa-Nya diambil dari bumi. 8:34 Maka kata sida-sida itu kepada Filipus: "Aku bertanya kepadamu, tentang siapakah nabi berkata demikian? Tentang dirinya sendiri atau tentang orang lain?" 8:35 Maka mulailah Filipus berbicara dan bertolak dari nas itu ia memberitakan Injil Yesus kepadanya. 8:36 Mereka melanjutkan perjalanan mereka, dan tiba di suatu tempat yang ada air. Lalu kata sida-sida itu: "Lihat, di situ ada air; apakah halangannya, jika aku dibaptis?" 8:37 (Sahut Filipus: "Jika tuan percaya dengan segenap hati, boleh." Jawabnya: "Aku percaya, bahwa Yesus Kristus adalah Anak Allah.") 8:38 Lalu orang Etiopia itu menyuruh menghentikan kereta itu, dan keduanya turun ke dalam air, baik Filipus maupun sida-sida itu, dan Filipus membaptis dia. 8:39 Dan setelah mereka keluar dari air, Roh Tuhan tiba-tiba melarikan Filipus dan sida-sida itu tidak melihatnya lagi. Ia meneruskan perjalanannya dengan sukacita. 8:40 Tetapi ternyata Filipus ada di Asdod. Ia berjalan melalui daerah itu dan memberitakan Injil di semua kota sampai ia tiba di Kaisarea.

8:1 Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
8:2 And devout men carried Stephen [to his burial], and made great lamentation over him.
8:3 As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing [them] to prison.
8:4 Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word.
8:5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.
8:6 And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
8:7 For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.
8:8 And there was great joy in that city.
8:9 But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great,
8:10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is the great power of God."
8:11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time.
8:12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.
8:13 Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done.
8:14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,
8:15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
8:16 For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
8:17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
8:18 And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,
8:19 saying, "Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit."
8:20 But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!
8:21 "You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God.
8:22 "Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
8:23 "For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity."
8:24 Then Simon answered and said, "Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me."
8:25 So when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
8:26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is desert.
8:27 So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,
8:28 was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet.
8:29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go near and overtake this chariot."
8:30 So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
8:31 And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.
8:32 The place in the Scripture which he read was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer [is] silent, So He opened not His mouth.
8:33 In His humiliation His justice was taken away, And who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth."
8:34 So the eunuch answered Philip and said, "I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?"
8:35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.
8:36 Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, [here is] water. What hinders me from being baptized?"
8:37 Then Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
8:38 So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.
8:39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.
8:40 But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.

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