Kisah Para Rasul 12

Kisah Para Rasul 12

Acts 12

Yakobus mati -- Petrus dilepaskan dari penjara

12:1 Kira-kira pada waktu itu raja Herodes mulai bertindak dengan keras terhadap beberapa orang dari jemaat. 12:2 Ia menyuruh membunuh Yakobus, saudara Yohanes, dengan pedang. 12:3 Ketika ia melihat, bahwa hal itu menyenangkan hati orang Yahudi, ia melanjutkan perbuatannya itu dan menyuruh menahan Petrus. Waktu itu hari raya Roti Tidak Beragi. 12:4 Setelah Petrus ditangkap, Herodes menyuruh memenjarakannya di bawah penjagaan empat regu, masing-masing terdiri dari empat prajurit. Maksudnya ialah, supaya sehabis Paskah ia menghadapkannya ke depan orang banyak. 12:5 Demikianlah Petrus ditahan di dalam penjara. Tetapi jemaat dengan tekun mendoakannya kepada Allah. 12:6 Pada malam sebelum Herodes hendak menghadapkannya kepada orang banyak, Petrus tidur di antara dua orang prajurit, terbelenggu dengan dua rantai. Selain itu prajurit-prajurit pengawal sedang berkawal di muka pintu. 12:7 Tiba-tiba berdirilah seorang malaikat Tuhan dekat Petrus dan cahaya bersinar dalam ruang itu. Malaikat itu menepuk Petrus untuk membangunkannya, katanya: "Bangunlah segera!" Maka gugurlah rantai itu dari tangan Petrus. 12:8 Lalu kata malaikat itu kepadanya: "Ikatlah pinggangmu dan kenakanlah sepatumu!" Iapun berbuat demikian. Lalu malaikat itu berkata kepadanya: "Kenakanlah jubahmu dan ikutlah aku!" 12:9 Lalu ia mengikuti malaikat itu ke luar dan ia tidak tahu, bahwa apa yang dilakukan malaikat itu sungguh-sungguh terjadi, sangkanya ia melihat suatu penglihatan. 12:10 Setelah mereka melalui tempat kawal pertama dan tempat kawal kedua, sampailah mereka ke pintu gerbang besi yang menuju ke kota. Pintu itu terbuka dengan sendirinya bagi mereka. Sesudah tiba di luar, mereka berjalan sampai ke ujung jalan, dan tiba-tiba malaikat itu meninggalkan dia. 12:11 Dan setelah sadar akan dirinya, Petrus berkata: "Sekarang tahulah aku benar-benar bahwa Tuhan telah menyuruh malaikat-Nya dan menyelamatkan aku dari tangan Herodes dan dari segala sesuatu yang diharapkan orang Yahudi." 12:12 Dan setelah berpikir sebentar, pergilah ia ke rumah Maria, ibu Yohanes yang disebut juga Markus. Di situ banyak orang berkumpul dan berdoa. 12:13 Dan ketika ia mengetuk pintu gerbang, datanglah seorang hamba perempuan bernama Rode untuk mengetahui siapa yang mengetuk itu. 12:14 Ia terus mengenal suara Petrus, tetapi karena girangnya ia tidak membuka pintu gerbang itu dan segera masuk ke dalam untuk memberitahukan, bahwa Petrus ada di depan pintu gerbang. 12:15 Kata mereka kepada perempuan itu: "Engkau mengigau." Akan tetapi ia tetap mengatakan, bahwa benar-benar demikian. Kata mereka: "Itu malaikatnya." 12:16 Tetapi Petrus terus-menerus mengetuk dan ketika mereka membuka pintu dan melihat dia, mereka tercengang-cengang. 12:17 Tetapi Petrus memberi isyarat dengan tangannya, supaya mereka diam, lalu ia menceriterakan bagaimana Tuhan menuntunnya ke luar dari penjara. Katanya: "Beritahukanlah hal ini kepada Yakobus dan saudara-saudara kita." Lalu ia keluar dan pergi ke tempat lain. 12:18 Pada keesokan harinya gemparlah prajurit-prajurit itu. Mereka bertanya-tanya apakah yang telah terjadi dengan Petrus. 12:19 Herodes menyuruh mencari Petrus, tetapi ia tidak ditemukan. Lalu Herodes menyuruh memeriksa pengawal-pengawal itu dan membunuh mereka. Kemudian ia berangkat dari Yudea ke Kaisarea dan tinggal di situ. Herodes mati 12:20 Herodes sangat marah terhadap orang Tirus dan Sidon. Atas persetujuan bersama mereka pergi menghadap dia. Mereka berhasil membujuk Blastus, pegawai istana raja, ke pihak mereka, lalu mereka memohonkan perdamaian, karena negeri mereka beroleh bahan makanan dari wilayah raja. 12:21 Dan pada suatu hari yang ditentukan, Herodes mengenakan pakaian kerajaan, lalu duduk di atas takhta dan berpidato kepada mereka. 12:22 Dan rakyatnya bersorak membalasnya: "Ini suara allah dan bukan suara manusia!" 12:23 Dan seketika itu juga ia ditampar malaikat Tuhan karena ia tidak memberi hormat kepada Allah; ia mati dimakan cacing-cacing. Barnabas dan Saulus diutus 12:24 Maka firman Tuhan makin tersebar dan makin banyak didengar orang. 12:25 Barnabas dan Saulus kembali dari Yerusalem, setelah mereka menyelesaikan tugas pelayanan mereka. Mereka membawa Yohanes, yang disebut juga Markus.

12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched out [his] hand to harass some from the church.
12:2 Then he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
12:3 And because he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. Now it was [during] the Days of Unleavened Bread.
12:4 So when he had arrested him, he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover.
12:5 Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.
12:6 And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping, bound with two chains between two soldiers; and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.
12:7 Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by [him], and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, "Arise quickly!" And his chains fell off [his] hands.
12:8 Then the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and tie on your sandals"; and so he did. And he said to him, "Put on your garment and follow me."
12:9 So he went out and followed him, and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.
12:10 When they were past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
12:11 And when Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and [from] all the expectation of the Jewish people."
12:12 So, when he had considered [this], he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying.
12:13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda came to answer.
12:14 When she recognized Peter's voice, because of [her] gladness she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate.
12:15 But they said to her, "You are beside yourself!" Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, "It is his angel."
12:16 Now Peter continued knocking; and when they opened [the door] and saw him, they were astonished.
12:17 But motioning to them with his hand to keep silent, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Go, tell these things to James and to the brethren." And he departed and went to another place.
12:18 Then, as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
12:19 But when Herod had searched for him and not found him, he examined the guards and commanded that [they] should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed [there].
12:20 Now Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king's personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the king's [country].
12:21 So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them.
12:22 And the people kept shouting, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"
12:23 Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.
12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
12:25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled [their] ministry, and they also took with them John whose surname was Mark.

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