Donderdag 6 en Vrydag 7 November 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 25:6-19) 

“EK PROBEER DIE DOOD NIE ONTDUIK NIE:”

1. Festus het ongeveer agt dae hoogstens tien, in Jerusalem deurgebring, en toe afgegaan Sesarea toe. Die volgende dag het hy gereël dat die hof sit en hy het Paulus laat haal.   
2. Toe Paulus in die hof verskyn het die Jode wat van Jerusalem af gekom het om hom gaan staan en hom van ‘n hele klomp ernstige dinge beskuldig. Hulle kon egter niks bewys nie. 
3. Paulus het homself verdedig. “Ek het niks teen die Joodse wet of die tempel of teen die Keiser oortree nie.”
4. Maar Festus wou iets vir die Jode doen, en sê toe vir Paulus: ‘Wil jy opgaan Jerusalem toe, en daar voor my oor hierdie dinge verhoor word?’
5. Paulus het geantwoord: “Nee! Voor die keiserlike regbank staan ek tereg. Dit is waar ek verhoor moet word! Ek het die Jode geen kwaad aangedoen nie. Dit weet uself baie goed!”
6. “As ek skuldig is en dinge gedoen het wat die dood verdien, probeer ek die dood nie ontduik nie. Aangesien alles waarvan hulle my beskuldig egter blote versinsels is, kan niemand my sommer maar net aan hulle uitlewer nie. Ek appelleer na die Keiser!”
7. Festus het die saak met sy raad bespreek en toe geantwoord: ‘Jy het na die Keiser geappelleer; na die Keiser toe sal jy gaan.’
8. ‘n Paar dae later het koning Agrippa en Bernise in Sesarea aangekom om Festus te verwelkom. 
9. Hulle het ‘n hele paar dae daar deurgebring en Festus het Paulus se saak met die koning bespreek: ‘Hier is ‘n gevangene wie Felix na sy vertrek aan my oorgelaat het. 
10. ‘By my aankoms in Jerusalem het die priesterhoofde en die familie-hoofde van die Jode my oor hom ingelig. Hulle het my van ‘n skuldig-bevinding teen hom gevra. 
11. ‘Ek het hulle geantwoord dat dit nie die Romeinse gebruik is om iemand sommer net as guns uit te lewer nie. Die beskuldigde moet eers geleentheid kry om homself persoonlik in die teenwoordigheid van sy aanklaers te verdedig. 
12. ‘Toe hulle vir die verhoor hierheen gekom het, het ek dus geen tyd gemors nie, en díe volgende dag die hofsitting gereël. 
13. ‘Die man se aanklaers het om hom gestaan en hom beskuldig, maar nie van ernstige misdade soos ek verwag het nie. 
14. ‘Dit was oor twisvrae in hulle eie godsdiens, en oor ‘n sekere Jesus wat dood is, maar Wie Paulus beweer dat Hy lewe.’

Thursday 6 and Friday 7 November 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 25:6-19)

“I DO NOT SEEK TO ESCAPE DEATH:”

1. After Festus stayed  among them not more than eight to ten days, he went to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought. 
2. When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem, stood around him bringing many and serious charges against him, that they could not prove. 
3. Paul argued in his defense: “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I committed any offense.”
4. But Festus, wishing to do theJews a favour, said to Paul: ‘Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?’
5. But Paul said: “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well. 
6. “If then I am a wrongdoer, and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
7. Then Festus, when he had conferred with his council, answered: ‘To Caesar you have appealed, to Caesar you shall go.’
8. When some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice, arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus. 
9. And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king , saying: “There is a man, left prisoner by Felix,
10. “and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews, laid out their case against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him. 
11. “I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up anyone, before the accuser met the accusers face to face. And also had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him. 
12. “So when they came together here, I made no delay and on the next day took my seat on the tribunal, and ordered the man to be brought. 
13. “When the accusers stood up,  they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed. 
14. “Rather they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion. And a certain Jesus, Who was dead, but Whom Paul asserted to be alive.”

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, vaugn nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Dinsdag 4 en Woensdag 5 November 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 24:22-27)  

FELIX HET GEHOOP DAT PAULUS HOM SOU PROBEER OMKOOP:

1. Felix, wat nogal baie van “Die Pad,” geweet het, het toe díe verhoor uitgestel en gesê: “Wanneer die offisier oor duisend man, Lisias, kom, sal ek oor julle saak beslis.”
2. Hy het die offisíer oor honderd man beveel om Paulus nog aan te hou, maar om hom spesiale behandeling te gee, en sy eie mense nie te verhoed om vir hom te sorg nie. 
3. Na ‘n paar dae het Felix, met sy Joodse vrou Drusilla gekom en vir Paulus laat haal. Hy het na hom geluister oor díe geloof in Christus Jesus. 
4. Paulus het ook met hom gepraat oor wat dit beteken om reg voor God te lewe, oor selfbeheersing, en oor die komende oordeel. Felix het bang geword en sy reaksie was: ‘Vireers kan jy maar gaan, en as ek tyd het, sal ek jou weer laat roep.’
5. Hy het die hele tyd verwag dat Paulus hom sal probeer omkoop. En daarom het hy hom heel dikwels laat haal, en met hom gesels. 
6. Twee jaar later het Felix ‘n opvolger gekry, Porsius Festus. Omdat Felix die Jode ‘n guns wou bewys, het hy by sy vertrek vir Paulus in die tronk gelos. 

(Handelinge 25:1-5)

1. Drie dae na sy aankoms in die provinsie, het Festus van Sesarea af opgegaan na Jerusalem toe. 
2. Díe priesterhoofde en die leiers van die volk het toe ‘n verslag teen Paulus by hom ingedien. Hulle het ‘n beroep op hom gedoen, 
3. en van hom die guns gevra om Paulus Jerusalem toe te laat kom. (Hulle het ‘n hinderlaag beplan om Paulus permanent uit die weg te ruim.)
4. Festus het egter geantwoord dat Paulus in Sesarea aangehou word, en dat hyself van plan was om binnekort daarheen terug te vertrek. 
5. “Dié onder julle,’ het hy gesê, wat bevoegdheid daartoe het, kan dan saam met my gaan. As die man iets onwettigs begaan het, kan julle hom dan aankla.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 November 2025. 

(Acts 24:22-27)

FELIX HOPED THAT MONEY WOULD BE GIVEN HIM BY PAUL: 

1. Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of “The Way,” put them off, saying; “When Lysias, the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”
2. Then he gave orders to the Centurion, that Paul should be kept in custody but have some liberty, and that none of his friends should be prevented from attending to his needs. 
3. After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus. 
4. And as Paul reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgement, Felix was alarmed and said: “Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity, I will summon you.”
5. At the same time he hoped money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often, and conversed with him. 
6. When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favour, Felix left Paul in prison. 

(Acts 25:1-5)

1. Three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. 
2. The chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul and they urged  him,
3. asking as a favour against Paul, that he summon him to Jerusalem, because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way. 
4. Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea and that he himself intended to go there shortly. 
5. “So,” he said, “let the men of authority among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let he bring charges against him.”

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Maandag 3 November 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 24:10-21) 

“GOD GAAN DIE OPSTANDING VAN DIE GOEIES EN DIE SLEGTES LAAT PLAASVIND:”

1. Op ‘n teken van die goewerneur aan Paulus dat hy moet praat, het hy homself begin verweer. “Ek weet dat u al jare lange ervaring het van regspraak oor Joodse sake. Daarom stel ek my verweer met hoë verwagting. 
2. “U kan self agterkom dat ek nie meer as twaalf dae gelede in Jerusalem aangekom het om by die tempel te aanbid nie. 
3. “Verder het niemand my in die tempel gekry dat ek met iemand stry, of dat ek in die sinagoges of in die stad betogings organiseer nie. 
4. “Dit waarvan hulle my nou beskuldig, kan hulle ook nie vir u bewys nie. 
5. “Dit erken ek egter wel voor u: Die God van my voorvaders dien ek volgens ‘Die Pad,’ Hulle noem ons ‘n splinter-groep. Ek handhaaf alles wat in die Wet voorgeskryf is, en ook in die Profete-boeke geskryf staan. 
6. “Ek het my hoop op God gestel – iets wat hulle self ook verwag – dat God die opstanding van die goeies en die slegtes gaan laat plaasvind. 
7. “Daarom doen ek ook my uiterste bes om altyd ‘n skoon gewete voor God en die mense te hê. 
8. “Na baie jare het ek terug gekom om my volk met ‘n finansiële bydrae te help, en om aan God te offer. 
9. “Ek was nog besig met die offer in die tempel, pas klaar met die reinigings-handeling, toe hulle my kry. Daar was nie ‘n skare nie, en ook geen oproer nie. 
10. ‘“n Paar Jode van die provinsie Asië, was wel daar. Dit is eintlik hulle wat hier voor u moes gewees het, en die aanklag moes gemaak het. As hulle iets teen my sou hê. 
11. “Of laat hierdie mense sommer nou self sê watter misdaad die Joodse Raad gevind het, toe ek voor hulle was. 
12. “Of miskien was dit oor hierdie een stelling wat ek uitgeroep het toe ek in hulle midde gestaan het: “Ek staan vandag hier voor julle tereg, omdat ek in die opstanding van die dooies glo!”

Monday 3 November 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 24:10-21) 

THERE WILL BE A RESURRECTION OF BOTH THE JUST AND THE UNJUST:

1. And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied: “Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense. 
2. “You can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem. 
3. “And they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple, or in the synagogues or in the city. 
4. “Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me. 
5. “But I confess to you, that according to the “Way” which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the  Prophets, 
6. “having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and unjust. 
7. “So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man. 
8. “Now, after several years,  I came to bring alms to my nation, and to present offerings, 
9. “While I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But some Jews from Asia-
10. “they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, should they have anything against me. 
11. “Or else these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council,
12. “other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: “It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead, that I am on trial before you this day.”

(Ek vertrou die Heilige. Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. 

Aan hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving from now and forever more.)

Many thanks to Maryann Price for this lovely prayer, that I am able to use. 

Saterdag 1 en Sondag 2 November 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 23:31-35)  

DIE JODE HET BEVESTIG DAT DIT SO IS: 

1. Die soldate het ooreenkomstig hulle opdrag vir Paulus gevat, en hom dwarsdeur die nag begelei tot in Antipatrus. 
2. Die volgende dag het hulle teruggekeer kaserne toe, terwyl die berede soldate met hom Sesarea toe is. 
3. Toe hulle in Sesarea aankom, het hulle die brief vir die goewerneur gegee, en Paulus aan hom oorhandig. 
4. Hy het die brief gelees en Paulus gevra van watter provinsie hy is. Hy hoor toe dat hy van Silisië af kom. 
5. ‘Ek sal jou verhoor sodra jou aanklaers kom.’ Het hy toe gesê, en beveel dat Paulus in die paleis van Herodes onder arres gehou word. 

(Handelinge 24:1-9)

1. Vyf dae later het die hoofpriester Ananias saam met ‘n paar van die familie hoofde, en ‘n advokaat, Tertullus daar aangekom. Hulle het hulle aanklag teen Paulus aan die goewerneur voorgelê. 
2. Paulus is ingeroep en Tertullus het die aanklag begin voorhou: ‘Hooggeagte Felix, deur  u toedoen lewe ons nou al lank in vrede, en deur u beleid het daar vir ons volk goeie transformasie plaasgevind. 
3. ‘Dit verwelkom ons altyd en orals met alle dankbaarheid. 
4. ‘Ek wil u egter nie verder vermoei nie, en daarom versoek ek u om met u kenmerkende welwillendheid kortliks na ons te luister. 
5. ‘Ons het bevind dat hierdie man ‘n absoluut verderflike invloed is. Hy maak dat al die Jode oor die hele wêreld in opstand kom. Hy is ‘n leier van die Nasarener-splintergroep. 
6. ‘Hy het selfs die tempel probeer ontheilig, 
7. en toe het ons hom gearresteer. 
8. ‘U sal self agterkom waaroor ons hom aankla, wanneer u hom oor al hierdie dinge verhoor.’
9. Die Jode het ook gepraat en bevestig dat dit is soos Tertullus sê. 

Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 November 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 23:31-35)

THE JEWS ALSO JOINED IN THE CHARGE: 

1. So the soldiers according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. 
2. And on the next day they returned to the barracks, letting the horsemen go on with him. 
3. When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him. 
4. On reading the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he learned that he was from Cilicia, 
5. he said: ‘I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive.’ And he commanded Paul to be guarded in Herod’s  praetorium. 

(Acts 24:1-9)

1. After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, an advocate, named Tertulles. They laid before the governor their case against Paul. 
2. And when Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse Paul saying: ‘Since through you we enjoy peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for our nation, 
3. ‘in every way, and everywhere, we accept this with all gratitude. 
4. ‘But to detain you no further, I beg you in your kindness to hear us briefly. 
5. ‘For we have found this man to be a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. 
6. ‘He even tried to profane the temple, 
7. ‘but we seized him, 
8. ‘By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him.’
9. The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so. 

(Ek vertrou die Heilige. Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. 

Aan hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving from now and forever more.)

Donderdag 29 en Vrydag 31 lOktober 2025

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 23:23-31) 

“SORG DAT DAAR RYDIERE VIR PAULUS IS:”

1. Die offisier oor duisend man het toe twee van die offisiere oor honderd man geroep en hulle beveel: “Maak 200 soldate, 70 perderuiters en 200 spiesvegters gereed om teen nege-uur vanaand Sesarea toe te vertrek. 
2. “Sorg dat daar rydiere vir Paulus is, en bring hom veilig by goewerneur Feliks.”
3. Toe skryf hy hierdie brief: 
4. “Claudius Lysias skryf aan die hooggeagte goewerneur Felix. Groete!
5. “Hierdie man is deur die Jode gearresteer en hulle was op die punt om hom te vermoor toe ek met my eenheid ingegryp het. Omdat ek agtergekom het dat hy ‘n Romeinse burger is, het ek hom in beskerming geneem. 
6. “Ek wou uitvind wat hulle beskuldiging teen hom is, en het hom daarom voor hulle Raad gebring. 
7. “Ek het bevind dat die klag gaan oor twispunte in verband met hulle Wet, verseker nie ‘n klag wat die dood of tronkstraf verdien nie. 
8. “Toe ek verneem het daar is ‘n komplot teen die man, het ek hom dadelik na u toe gestuur. Sy aanklaers het ek aangesê om hulle klagte teen hom, aan u voor te lê.”
9. Die soldate het ooreenkomstig hulle opdrag, vir Paulus gevat en hom dwarsdeur die nag begelei tot in Antipatris. 

Thursday 30 and Friday 31 October 2025. 

PEARL FOR EACH DAY: 

(Acts 23:23-31. 

PROVIDE BEASTS FOR MOUNTS: 

1. Then summoning two of the centurions, he said: “Have 200 footmen ready by the third hour of the night (about 9:00 p.m) to go as far as Caesarea, with 70 horsemen and two hundred spearmen. 
2. “Also provide beasts for mounts for Paul to ride, and bring him in safety to Felix the governor. 
3. And he wrote a letter having this message:
4. “Claudius Lysias sends greetings to his excellency Felix the governor. 
5. “This man was seized as prisoner by the Jews, and he was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the troops and rescued him, because I learned that he is a Roman citizen. 
6. “And wishing to know the exact accusation which they were making against him, I brought him down before their council. 
7. “Where I found that he was charged in regard to questions of their own Law, but he was accused of nothing that would call for death or even for imprisonment. 
8. “However, when it was pointed out to me that there would be a conspiracy against the man, I sent him to you immediately, directing his accusers also to present before you their charge against him.”
9. So the soldiers, in compliance with their instructions, took Paul and conducted him during the night to Antipatris. 

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Dinsdag 28 en Woensdag 29 Oktober 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 23:12-22) 

“ONS IS REG OM HOM UIT DIE WEG TE RUIM:”

1. Toe dit dag word het die Jode ‘n komplot gesmee. Hulle het gesweer dat hulle nie sou eet of drink voordat hulle Paulus doodgemaak het nie. 
2. Meer as veertig manne het só saamgesweer. 
3. Hulle het na die priesterhoofde en die familie-hoofde gegaan en gesê: ‘Ons het onsself met ‘n eed verbind om nie aan iets te proe, totdat ons Paulus dood het nie. 
4. ‘Julle en die Joodse Raad, moet die offisier oor duisend man laat weet dat Paulus weer voor julle gebring moet word. Julle kan voorgee dat julle sy saak noukeuriger wil ondersoek. Ons is reg om hom voor sy aankoms permanent uit die weg te ruim.’
5. Paulus se susterskind het egter gehoor van die hinderlaag. Hy is na die kaserne toe en het by die barakke ingekom, en Paulus ingelig. 
6. Paulus roep toe een van die offisiere oor honderd man en sê vir hom: “Neem hierdie jong man na die offisier oor duisend man toe, en sê: ‘Paulus die gevangene het my geroep en my gevra om hierdie jong man na u toe te bring, omdat hy iets het om aan u te rapporteer.’
7. Hy vat hom toe na die offisier toe  en sê: ‘Paulus die gevangene het my geroep en my gevra om hierdie jong man na u toe te bring, omdat hy iets het om aan u te rapporteer.’
8. Die offisier vat hom toe aan die hand, gaan met hom eenkant toe, en vra vir hom: “Wat is dit wat jy like aan my wil rapporteer?”
9. Die jongman het geantwoord: ‘Die Jode het ooreen gekom om u te vra om Paulus môre weer voor die Raad te bring, kwansuis om sy saak noukeuriger te ondersoek
10. ‘U moet u nie deur hulle laat oorreed nie. Want  meer as veertig mans uit hulle geledere lê hom voor om hom te vermoor. Hulle het gesweer dat hulle nie sou eet of drink voordat hulle hom permanent uit die weg geruim het nie. Hulle is gereed en wag nou net vir instemming van u kant af.’
11. Die offisier het hom toe beveel: “Moenie vir iemand sê dat jy my vertel het nie.” Daarna het hy die jong man laat gaan. 

Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 23:12-22)

“WE ARE READY TO KILL HIM WHEN HE COMES NEAR:”

1. When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by oath neither to eat nor drink till they have  killed Paul. 
2. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. 
3. They went to the chief priests and elders and said: ‘We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. 
4. ‘Now therefore you, along with the Council, give notice to the tribune to bring Paul down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.’
5. The son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. 
6. Paul called one of the Centurions, and said: “Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.”
7. So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said: ‘Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.’
8. The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately: “What is it that you have to tell me?”
9. And the boy said: ‘The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the Council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him. 
10. ‘But do not be persuaded by them. For more than forty of their men are lying in ambush  for him, who have bound themselves by an oath, not to eat or drink till they have killed him! And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.’
11. So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him: “Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.”

 

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Maandag 27 Oktober 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 22:30) 

“ONS VIND NIKS SLEGS IN HIERDIE MAN NIE:”

1. Die offisier oor duisend man het die volgende dag Paulus se boeie laat afhaal en die priesterhoofde en die hele Joodse raad vir ‘n vergadering opgeroep. Hy het Paulus laat inbring, want hy wou agterkom presies waarom hy deur die Jode aangekla was. 

(Handelinge 23:1-11)

1. Paulus het die Joodse Raad reguit in die oë gekyk en begin praat: “Geagte broers, met ‘n absoluut goeie gewete het ek my lewe tot vandag toe, in die diens van God gelei.”
2. Toe het die hoofpriester Ananias die mense wat by Paulus staan, beveel om hom op die mond te klap. 
3. Daarop sê Paulus vir hom: “God gaan jóú klap jou skynheilige! Hier sit jy om my volgens ons Wet te verhoor, maar in stryd met die Wet, beveel jy dat ek geklap moet word!”
4. Die mense by Paulus sê toe vir hom: ‘Dis die hoofpriester van God wat jy so uitskel!’
5. “Jammer broers, ek het nie besef hy is die hoofpriester nie,” het Paulus gereageer. “Daar staan inderdaad geskryf: ‘n Leier van jou volk mag jy nie beledig nie.”
6. Paulus het besef dat ‘n deel van die Joodse Raad Sadduseërs was, en die ander deel Farriseërs. Daarom roep hy toe in die Raad uit: “Geagte broers, ek is ‘n Fariseër en ek is uit ‘n Fariseër familie. Dit is oor my toekoms-verwagting oor die opstanding van die dooies dat ek verhoor word!”
7. Toe hy dit sê, het die Farriseërs en die Sadduseërs onder mekaar begin stry. Die vergadering het verdeeld geraak,
8. want die Sadduseërs sê daar is geen opstanding uit die dode nie, en ook nie Engele en Geeste nie; die Fariseës glo weer dat aldrie bestaan. 
9. ‘n Hewige woordewisseling het toe ontstaan. Sommige van díe skrifkenners van die Fariseër-party het opgespring en baie heftig hulle saak gestel: “Ons vind niks slegs in hierdie man nie,” het hulle geskreeu: “miskien het ‘n Gees of ‘n Engel met hom gepraat.”
10.  Die bakleiery het só erg geword dat die offisier oor duisend man bang was dat hulle Paulus uitmekaar sou skeur. Daarom het hy sy eenheid beveel om hom tussen hulle te gaan uithaal, en terug te bring kaserne toe. 
11. Daardie nag het die Here by Paulus gestaan en vir hom gesê: ‘+Hou moed! Net soos jy hier in Jerusalem oor My getuig het, netso moet jy ook in Rome doen.’+

Monday 27 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 22:30)

“WE FIND NOTHING WRONG IN THIS MAN:”

1. On the next day, desiring to know the real reason why Paul was being accused by the Jews, the tribune unbound him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, he brought Paul down, and set him before them. 

(Acts 23:1-11)

1. And looking intently at the council, Paul said: “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience, up to this day.”
2. The high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him, to strike him on the mouth. 
3. Then Paul said to him: “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! You are sitting to judge me according to the Law, and yet, contrary to the Law you order me to be struck!”
4. Those who stood by him, said: ‘Would you revile God’s high priest?’ 
5. And Paul said: “I did not know brothers, that he was the high priest. For it is written: You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.”
6. When Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, he cried out in the council: “I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead, that I am on trial.”
7. And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. 
8. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor Angels nor Spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all. 
9. Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees party stood up and contended sharply: ‘We find nothing wrong in this man! What if a Spirit or an Angel spoke to him?’
10. And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force, and bring him into the barracks. 
11. The following night the Lord stood by him and said: ‘+Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about Me, in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.’+

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Saterdag 25 en Sondag 26 Oktober 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:  

(Handelinge 22:22-29) 

“HIERDIE MAN IS ‘N ROMEINSE BURGER:”

1. Die offisier oor duisend man het Paulus toe laat inbring 
2. en opdrag gegee dat hy gegésel moes word, om hom sy misdaad te laat bely. 
3. Die offisier wou agterkom hoekom die skare Paulus so uitgejou het. 
4. Hulle het hom klaar met rieme vasgebind gehad vir die géseling, toe Paulus vir die offisier oor honderd wat daar naby staan, vra: “Is dit wettig dat julle ‘n Romeinse burger gésel, en dit sonder verhoor?” 
5. Die offisier oor honderd man gaan toe na die offisier oor duisend man en vra: ‘Wat is u van plan om te doen? U moet besef hierdie man is ‘n Romeinse burger!’
6. Die offisier oor duisend man gaan vra toe vir Paulus: ‘Sê vir my, is jy ‘n Romeinse burger?’ “Ja,” het Paulus geantwoord. 
7. ‘Ek is ook een,’ het die offisier oor duisend man gereageer. ‘En hierdie burgerreg het my ‘n klomp geld gekos !’ “Maar ék is as ‘n burger gebore!” Het Paulus geantwoord. 
8. Die soldate wat hom moes gésel om hom te laat praat, het hom dadelik laat staan.  En selfs die offisier oor duisend man het bang geword toe hy besef dat Paulus ‘n Romeinse  burger is, en dat hy hom vir géseling laat vasbind het. 

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 October 2025. 

Acts 22:22-29)

“THIS MAN IS A ROMAN CITIZEN:”

1. Up to this word they listened to Paul, then they raised their voices and said: ‘Away with this fellow from the earth! He should not be allowed to live!’
2. And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks, and flinging dust into the air,
3. the tribune ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this. 
4. But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the Centurion who was standing by: “Is it lawful to flog a man who is a Roman citizen, and uncondemned?”
5. When the Centurion heard this, he went to the trubune and said to him: ‘What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen!’
6. So the tribune came and said to Paul: ‘Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?’ And Paul replied: “Yes,”
7. The tribune answered: ‘I bought this citizenship for a large sum.’ Paul said: “But I am a citizen by birth.”
8. So those who were about to examine him, withdrew from him immediately. The tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen, and he had bound him. 

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

Donderdag 23 en Vrydag 24 Oktober 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:  

(Handelinge 22:10-21) 

“BROER SAUL, SIEN WEER:”

1. “Toe vra ek: Wat moet ek doen Here? Die Here sê toe vir my: ‘+Staan op en gaan Damaskus binne, en daar sal alles wat God bepaal het, dat jy moet doen, aan jou meegedeel word.’+
2. “Ek is deur my reisgenote Damaskus aan die hand binnegelei, want die helder lig het gemaak dat ek niks kon sien nie. 
3. ‘“n Man met die naam Ananias het daar gebly. Hy het nougeset volgens die Joodse Wet gelewe, en by al die Jode dáár ‘n goeie naam gehad. 
4. Hy het na my toe gekom en by my kom staan en vir my gesê: ‘Saul, broer sien weer!’ En onmiddellik is my sig herstel, en het ek hom gesien!
5. “Toe sê hy: ‘Die God van ons voorvaders het jou uitgekies om Sy Wil te ken, en om die Regverdige te sien, en Hom te hoor praat. 
6. ‘“Jy sal inderdaad vir alle mense Sy getuie wees, van wat jy gesien en gehoor het. 
7. ‘“En nou, waarom nog wag? Staan op en laat jou doop, en jou sondes afwas! Jy het mos Sy Naam aangeroep!’
8. “Ek is terug Jerusalem toe en terwyl ek in die tempel  besig was om te bid, het ek ‘n buitengewone geestelike ervaring gehad. 
9. “Ek het die Here gesien en Hy het vir my gesê: ‘+Maak gou! Gee dadelik pad uit Jerusalem. Hierdie mense sal verseker nie jou getuienis oor My aanvaar nie.’+
10. “Toe het ek teëgestribbel: “Maar Here, hulle weet dat ék die man is wat orals in die sinagoges, die mense wat in U glo,  gearresteer en laat slaan het. 
11. “En toe U getuie, Stefanus vermoor is, het ekself hulle ondersteun. Ek het sy moordenaars se klere opgepas!”
12. “Toe sê die Here vir my: ‘
    +Gaan! Ek wil jou ver wegstuur na die nie-Joodse nasies toe.’+”

Thursday 23 and Friday 24 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 22:10-21)

“BROTHER SAUL, RECEIVE YOUR SIGHT:”

1. “And I said: What shall I do Lord?” And the Lord said to me: ‘+Rise, and go into Damascus and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’+
2. “And since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus.  
3. “And one, Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there, 
4. “came to me, and standing by me, said to me: ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ “And at that very hour, I received my sight and saw him. 
5. “And he said: ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know His Will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from His mouth,
6. ‘“for you will be a witness for Him to anyone of what you have seen and heard. 
7. ‘“And now, why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on His Name.’
8. “When I had returned to Jerusalem, and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance,
9. “and saw HIm saying to me: ‘+Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.’+
10. “And I said: Lord,  they  themselves know that in one synagogue after another, I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
11. “And when the blood of Stephen Your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him. 
12. “And He said to me: ‘+Go, for I Will send you far away to the Gentiles.’+”

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)

“BROTHER SAUL, RECEIVE YOUR SIGHT!”

Donderdag 23 en Vrydag 24 Oktober 2025. 

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:  

(Handelinge 22:10-21) 

“BROER SAUL, SIEN WEER:”

1. Toe vra ek: Wat moet ek doen Here? Die Here sê toe vir my: ‘+Staan op en gaan Damaskus binne, en daar sal alles wat God bepaal het, dat jy moet doen, aan jou meegedeel word.’+
2. “Ek is deur my reisgenote Damaskus aan die hand binnegelei, want die helder lig het gemaak dat ek niks kon sien nie. 
3. ‘“n Man met die naam Ananias het daar gebly. Hy het nougeset volgens die Joodse Wet gelewe, en by al die Jode dáár ‘n goeie naam gehad. 
4. Hy het na my toe gekom en by my kom staan en vir my gesê: ‘Saul, broer sien weer!’ En onmiddellik is my sig herstel, en het ek hom gesien!
5. “Toe sê hy: ‘Die God van ons voorvaders het jou uitgekies om Sy Wil te ken, en om die Regverdige te sien, en Hom te hoor praat. 
6. ‘“Jy sal inderdaad vir alle mense Sy getuie wees, van wat jy gesien en gehoor het. 
7. ‘“En nou, waarom nog wag? Staan op en laat jou doop, en jou sondes afwas! Jy het mos Sy Naam aangeroep!’
8. “Ek is terug Jerusalem toe en terwyl ek in die tempel  besig was om te bid, het ek ‘n buitengewone geestelike ervaring gehad. 
9. “Ek het die Here gesien en Hy het vir my gesê: ‘+Maak gou! Gee dadelik pad uit Jerusalem. Hierdie mense sal verseker nie jou getuienis oor My aanvaar nie.’+
10. “Toe het ek teëgestribbel: “Maar Here, hulle weet dat ék die man is wat orals in die sinagoges, die mense wat in U glo,  gearresteer en laat slaan het. 
11. “En toe U getuie, Stefanus vermoor is, het ekself hulle ondersteun. Ek het sy moordenaars se klere opgepas!”
12. “Toe sê die Here vir my: ‘
    +Gaan! Ek wil jou ver wegstuur na die nie-Joodse nasies toe.’+”

Thursday 23 and Friday 24 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 22:10-21)

“BROTHER SAUL, RECEIVE YOUR SIGHT:”

1. “And I said: What shall I do Lord?” And the Lord said to me: ‘+Rise, and go into Damascus and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’+
2. “And since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus.  
3. “And one, Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there, 
4. “came to me, and standing by me, said to me: ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ “And at that very hour, I received my sight and saw him. 
5. “And he said: ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know His Will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from His mouth,
6. ‘“for you will be a witness for Him to anyone of what you have seen and heard. 
7. ‘“And now, why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on His Name.’
8. “When I had returned to Jerusalem, and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance,
9. “and saw HIm saying to me: ‘+Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.’+
10. “And I said: Lord,  they  themselves know that in one synagogue after another, I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
11. “And when the blood of Stephen Your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him. 
12. “And He said to me: ‘+Go, for I Will send you far away to the Gentiles.’+”

(Ek vertrou die Heilige Gees van God om my van die korrekte Skriflesing gedeelte te voorsien elke dag, volgens u behoeftes en verwagtinge. Aan Hom kom toe alle eer, heerlikheid, krag, mag, majesteit, lofprysing, aanbidding, en danksegging, van nou af tot in ewigheid. 

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I am trusting the Holy Spirit of God to reveal the correct portion of Scripture to me every day, according to your needs and expectations. 

To Him be all glory, honour, power, might, majesty, praise, worship and thanksgiving, from now and forever more.)