APOLLOS POWERFULLY REFUTED THE JEWS:

Dinsdag 7 Oktober 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 18:26-28)

APOLLOS HET DIE JODE KRAGTIG WEERLÊ:

Apollos het self met vrymoedigheid in die sinagoge begin preek. Toe Priscilla en Akwila hom hoor, het hulle hom eenkant toe gevat en vir hom ‘Die Pad van God,’ nog duideliker uiteen gesit.
Toe Apollos Agaje toe wou gaan, het die gelowiges hom aangemoedig. Hulle het toe vir die gelowiges in Agaje geskryf dat hulle hom moet verwelkom. Daar aangekom, het hy baie beteken vir dié wat deur die Genade van God gelowig geword het,
want hy het die Jode in die openbaar kragtig weerlê, en met die Skrif bewys dat Jesus die Messias is.

(Handelinge 19:1-7)

Terwyl Apollos in Korinte was, het Paulus deur die binnelandse gebiede van Klein-Asië Efese to gereis. Daar het hy ‘n groepie gelowiges gekry.
Hy het vir hulle gevra: “Het julle die Heilige Gees ontvang toe julle begin glo het?” ‘Ons het nie eens gehoor dat daar ‘n Heilige Gees is nie!’ het hulle hom geantwoord.
“Met watter doop is julle dan gedoop?” Het hy gevra. Hulle ayntwoord was: ‘Met die ‘Doop van Johannes.’
Paulus sê toe: “Johannes se doop was ‘n bevestiging dat ‘n mens jou van jou sonde bekeer het tot God. Johannes het self vir die volk gesê hulle moet in Jesus glo. Die Een wat Johannes gesê het, nà my kom’”
Toe hulle dit hoor, het hulle, hulle in die Naam van die Here Jesus laat doop.
Toe Paulus sy hande op hulle sit,het die Heilige Gees op hulle gekom, en hulle het in ander tale gepraat en geprofeteer.
Altesaam was dít ongeveer twaalf mans.

Tuesday 7 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 18:26-28)

APOLLOS POWERFULLY REFUTED THE JEWS:

Apollos began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the ‘Way of God’ more accurately.
And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him. They wrote to the brothers to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

(Acts 19:1-7)

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through in the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.
And he said to them: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said: ‘No. We have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.
And Paul said: “Into what then were you baptized?” They answered: ‘Into John’s baptism.’
And Paul said: “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the One Who was to come after him ~that is, Jesus.
On hearing this, they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in tongues, and prophesying.
There was about twelve men in all.

(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.

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.)

APOLLOS POWERFULLY REFUTED THE JEWS:

Dinsdag 7 Oktober 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 18:26-28)

APOLLOS HET DIE JODE KRAGTIG WEERLÊ:

Apollos het self met vrymoedigheid in die sinagoge begin preek. Toe Priscilla en Akwila hom hoor, het hulle hom eenkant toe gevat en vir hom ‘Die Pad van God,’ nog duideliker uiteen gesit.
Toe Apollos Agaje toe wou gaan, het die gelowiges hom aangemoedig. Hulle het toe vir die gelowiges in Agaje geskryf dat hulle hom moet verwelkom. Daar aangekom, het hy baie beteken vir dié wat deur die Genade van God gelowig geword het,
want hy het die Jode in die openbaar kragtig weerlê, en met die Skrif bewys dat Jesus die Messias is.

(Handelinge 19:1-7)

Terwyl Apollos in Korinte was, het Paulus deur die binnelandse gebiede van Klein-Asië Efese to gereis. Daar het hy ‘n groepie gelowiges gekry.
Hy het vir hulle gevra: “Het julle die Heilige Gees ontvang toe julle begin glo het?” ‘Ons het nie eens gehoor dat daar ‘n Heilige Gees is nie!’ het hulle hom geantwoord.
“Met watter doop is julle dan gedoop?” Het hy gevra. Hulle ayntwoord was: ‘Met die ‘Doop van Johannes.’
Paulus sê toe: “Johannes se doop was ‘n bevestiging dat ‘n mens jou van jou sonde bekeer het tot God. Johannes het self vir die volk gesê hulle moet in Jesus glo. Die Een wat Johannes gesê het, nà my kom’”
Toe hulle dit hoor, het hulle, hulle in die Naam van die Here Jesus laat doop.
Toe Paulus sy hande op hulle sit,het die Heilige Gees op hulle gekom, en hulle het in ander tale gepraat en geprofeteer.
Altesaam was dít ongeveer twaalf mans.

Tuesday 7 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 18:26-28)

APOLLOS POWERFULLY REFUTED THE JEWS:

Apollos began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the ‘Way of God’ more accurately.
And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him. They wrote to the brothers to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

(Acts 19:1-7)

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through in the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.
And he said to them: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said: ‘No. We have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.
And Paul said: “Into what then were you baptized?” They answered: ‘Into John’s baptism.’
And Paul said: “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the One Who was to come after him ~that is, Jesus.
On hearing this, they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in tongues, and prophesying.
There was about twelve men in all.

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.)

HE ONLY KNEW THE BAPTISM OF JOHN THE BAPTIST:

“I REFUSE TO BE A JUDGE OF THESE THINGS:”

Sondag 5 Oktober 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 18:9-17)

“IN SULKE SAKE WIL EK NIE REGTER WEES NIE:”

Een nag het die Here deur ‘n visioen vir Paulus gesê: ‘.+Moenie bang wees nie, hou aan met preek en moenie begin stilbly nie.
‘+Want Ek is by jou. Niemand sal ‘n hand op jou lê om iets slegs aan jou te doen nie, want in hierdie stad behoort baie mense aan My.’.+
Paulus het die stad vir ‘n jaar en ses maande lank sy basis gemaak, en die mense onderrig in die Woord van God.
Toe Gallio egter goewerneur van Agaje geword het, het sommige Jode ‘n verenigde front teen Paulus gevorm en hom voor die hof gedaag.
Hulle het Paulus daarvan aangekla dat hy die mense probeer oorhaal om God op maniere te vereer wat teen die wet is.
Net toe Paulus homself wou begin verdedig, sê Gallio vir die Jode: “As dit oor ‘n onreg of ‘n ernstige misdaad gegaan het Jode, sou ek julle klag aangehoor het,
“Maar aangesien dit ‘n twis is oor ‘n boodskap en name en oor julle eie wet, moet julle self daaraan aandag gee. In sulke sake wil ek nie regter wees nie.”
Hy het díe hof toe verdaag.
Díe klaers het toe vir Sostenes, die hoof van die sinagoge gegryp, en hom net daar voor die regbank aangerand. Gallio het hom egter aan niks hiervan gesteur nie.

Sunday 5 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 18:9-17)

“I REFUSE TO BE A JUDGE OF THESE THINGS:”

The Lord said to Paul one night in a vision: ‘+Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,
‘+for I Am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I Have many in this city who are My people.’+
And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the Word of God among them.
When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
saing: ‘This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the Law.’
But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, o Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.
“But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.”
And he drove them from the tribunal.
And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.

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.)

“YOUR BLOOD IS UPON YOUR OWN HEADS:”

Saterdag 4 Oktober 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 18:1-8)

HY HET VIR HULLE GESÊ: “JULLE BLOED IS OP JULLE EIE KOPPE:”

Paulus het Athene verlaat en Korinte toe gegaan.
Daar het hy Akwila ontmoet, ‘n Jood wat in Pontus gebore is. Hy het kort tevore saam met sy vrou Pricilla, uit Italië daar aangekom. Hulle is uit Italië weg omdat keiser Claudius beveel het dat alle Jode Rome moes verlaat. Paulus het hulle gaan opsoek.
Hy het by hulle ingetrek en saam met hulle gewerk, want hulle was tentmakers net soos hy.
Elke Sabbatdag het hy in die sinagoge met die mense geredeneer en sowel Jode as Grieke probeer oortuig.
Nadat Silas en Timótheüs van Masedonië af aangekom het, het Paulus al sy aandag bestee aan die prediking om die Jode daarvan te oortuig dat Jesus die Messias is.
Toe hierdie Jode hom egter aanhou teenstaan en beledig, het hy die stof van sy klere afgeskud en vir hulle gesê: “Julle bloed is op julle eie koppe. Ek is onskuldig. Van nou af spits ek my toe op die nie-Jode.”
Hy is toe daar uit, en het na die huis reg langs die sinagoge gegaan. Dit het behoort aan Titius Justus, ‘n nie-Jood wat die ware God aanbid het.
Krispus, die hoof van die sinagoge, en sy hele huishouding het tot geloof in die Here gekom. Ook baie Korintiërs het in reaksie op die boodskap gelowig geword en is gedoop.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 18:1-8)

Saturday 4 October 2025.

HE SAID TO THEM: “YOUR BLOOD IS UPON YOUR OWN HEADS:”

After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.
There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently arrived from Italy with Priscilla his wife, due to the fact that Claudius had issued an edict that all the Jews were to leave Rome. And Paul went to see them,
and because he was of the same occupation, he stayed with them; for they worked together, as they were tentmakers by trade.
But he discussed and argued in the synagogue every Sabbath and won both Jews and Greeks.
By the time Timothy and Silas arrived from Macedonia, Paul was completely engrossed with preaching, earnestly arguing and testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
But since they kept opposing and abusing and reviling him, he shook out his clothing against them and said to them: “Your blood is upon your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
He then left there and went to the house of a man named Titus Justice, who worshiped God and whose house was next door to the synagogue.
But Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed that Jesus is the Messiah and acknowledged Him with joyful trust as Saviour and Lord, together with his entire household; and many of the Corinthians who listened to Paul also believed and were baptized.

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.)

TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED:

Vrydag 3 Oktober 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 17:29-34)

GOD HET MENSE SE VROEËRE ONKUNDE OORGESIEN:

“Ons moet dus nie aan God dink in terme van beelde van goud, silwer of klip nie. Ons is dan self Sy nageslag. Sulke beelde is bloot skeppings van mense se vaardighede en verbeelding.
“God het wel mense se vroeëre onkunde oorgesien. Maar nou roep Hy alle mense orals om die afgode te los, en hulle tot God te bekeer.
“Hy het immers ‘n dag bepaal waarop ‘n Man wat Hy beskik het, in geregtigheid oor die mense gaan oordeel. As bewys vir almal Wie Hierdie Man is, het Hy Hom uit die dood laat opstaan.”
Toe hulle van die opstanding van die dooies hoor, het party hom uitgelag. Maar ander het gesê: ‘Ons wil graag later meer hieroor van jou hoor.’
Daarmee het Paulus uit hulle midde vertrek.
‘n Paar persone het egter gelowig geword en by hom aangesluit. Onder hulle was daar Dionisius, ‘n lid van die Areopagus-raad, en Damaris, ‘n vrou, en nog ‘n paar saam met hulle.

(Handelinge 18:1-3)

Paulus het Atene verlaat en Korinte toe gegaan.
Daar het hy Akwila ontmoet, ‘n Jood wat in Pontus gebore is. Hy het kort tevore saam met sy vrou Priscilla, uit Italië daar aangekom. Hulle is uit Italië weg, omdat Keiser Claudius beveel het dat alle Jode Rome moes verlaat. Paulus het hulle gaan opsoek.
Hy het by hulle ingetrek en saam met hulle gewerk, want hulle was tentmakers net soos hy.

Friday 3 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 17:29-34)

THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED:

“Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
“The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent,
“because He Has fixed a day on which He Will judge the world in righteousness, by a Man Whom He Has appointed; and of this He Has given assurance to all, by raising Him from the dead.”
When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, but others said: ‘We will hear you again about this.’
So Paul went out from their midst.
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

(Acts 18-1-3)

After this. Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
And he found a man named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because proconsul Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

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.)

THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED:

Vrydag 3 Oktober 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 17:29-34)

GOD HET MENSE SE VROEËRE ONKUNDE OORGESIEN:

“Ons moet dus nie aan God dink in terme van beelde van goud, silwer of klip nie. Ons is dan self Sy nageslag. Sulke beelde is bloot skeppings van mense se vaardighede en verbeelding.
“God het wel mense se vroeëre onkunde oorgesien. Maar nou roep Hy alle mense orals om die afgode te los, en hulle tot God te bekeer.
“Hy het immers ‘n dag bepaal waarop ‘n Man wat Hy beskik het, in geregtigheid oor die mense gaan oordeel. As bewys vir almal Wie Hierdie Man is, het Hy Hom uit die dood laat opstaan.”
Toe hulle van die opstanding van die dooies hoor, het party hom uitgelag. Maar ander het gesê: ‘Ons wil graag later meer hieroor van jou hoor.’
Daarmee het Paulus uit hulle midde vertrek.
‘n Paar persone het egter gelowig geword en by hom aangesluit. Onder hulle was daar Dionisius, ‘n lid van die Areopagus-raad, en Damaris, ‘n vrou, en nog ‘n paar saam met hulle.

(Handelinge 18:1-3)

Paulus het Atene verlaat en Korinte toe gegaan.
Daar het hy Akwila ontmoet, ‘n Jood wat in Pontus gebore is. Hy het kort tevore saam met sy vrou Priscilla, uit Italië daar aangekom. Hulle is uit Italië weg, omdat Keiser Claudius beveel het dat alle Jode Rome moes verlaat. Paulus het hulle gaan opsoek.
Hy het by hulle ingetrek en saam met hulle gewerk, want hulle was tentmakers net soos hy.

Friday 3 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 17:29-34)

THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED:

“Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
“The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent,
“because He Has fixed a day on which He Will judge the world in righteousness, by a Man Whom He Has appointed; and of this He Has given assurance to all, by raising Him from the dead.”
When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, but others said: ‘We will hear you again about this.’
So Paul went out from their midst.
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

(Acts 18-1-3)

After this. Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
And he found a man named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because proconsul Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,
and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

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.)

IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING:

Donderdag 2 Oktober 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 17:18-28)

IN HOM LEEF BEWEEG EN BESTAAN ONS:

n Paar filosowe, Epikureërs en Stoïsyne het met Paulus gedebatteer. Toe Paulus oor Jesus en Sy opstanding praat, het party gesê: ‘Wat sou die kletskous tog wil sê?’ Ander het gesê: ‘Hy klink na vreemde gode se boodskapper.’
Hulle het hom na die Areopagus-raad toe geneem en gesê: ‘Ons wil graag meer weet oor hierdie nuwe leer wat deur jou verkondig word.
‘Dis regtig vreemde dinge wat ons hoor, ons wil graag hoor wat dit beteken.’
(Al die Ateners en die uitlanders in Atene het feitlik al hulle tyd aan die bespreking van nuwe idees bestee.)
Paulus het toe in die middel van die Areopagus stelling ingeneem en gesê: “Ateners, ek sien dat julle in alle opsigte nogal regtig godsdienstig is.
“Terwyl ek deur die stad geloop en kyk het na die voorwerpe wat julle aanbid, het ek ook ‘n altaar gesien met die inskripsie: ‘Aan ‘n onbekende God.’ Nou ja, hierdie God wat julle aanbid sonder om Hom te ken, Hóm verkondig ek aan julle.
“Hy is die God wat die wêreld met alles daarin gemaak het. Hy is die Here van hemel en aarde, en daarom woon Hy nie in tempels wat met menshande gebou is nie.
“Mensehande kan nie na Sy behoeftes omsien nie. Want Hy het aan niks behoefte nie. Inteendeel, dit is HY wat aan almal lewe en asem en alles gee.
“Uit een mens het Hy elke nasie van die mensdom gemaak, om oor die hele aarde te woon. Hy het die tye van hulle bestaan bepaal, en die grense van hulle blyplek.
“God se doel met die nasies was om Hom te soek, al sou hulle ook moes rondtas om Hom te vind. Nie dat Hy ver van enigeen van ons af is nie.
“Dis tog juis deur Hóm dat ons leef, beweeg en bestaan. Soos party van julle digters ook gesê het: ‘Ons is Sy nageslag.’”

Thursday 2 October .

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 17:18-28)

IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING:

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said: ‘What does this babbler wish to say?’ Others said: ‘He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities,’ because Paul was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying: ‘May we know what this new teaching is, that you are presenting?
‘For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.’
(All the Athenians and the foreigners who had lived there, would spend their time in nothing, except telling or hearing something new.)
So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
“For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown God.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
“The God Who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
“nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
“And He made from one man every nation of mankind, to live on all the face of the earth, having determined alotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
“that they should seek God and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him. Yet He is actually not far from each of us,
“for: ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’ As even some of your own poets have said: ‘For we are indeed His offspring.’

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.)

THEY RECEIVED THE WORD IN ALL EAGERNESS:

Woensdag 1 Oktober 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 17:10-17)

HULLE HET MET GROOT BELANGSTELLING NA PAULUS GELUISTER:

Toe dit donker was, het die gelowiges vir Paulus en Silas na Berea toe gestuur. Daar aangekom, het hulle na die Jode se sinagoge gegaan.
DIe mense daar was ontvankliker as dié in Tessalonika. Hulle het met groot belangstelling na Paulus se boodskap geluister.
Hulle het ook elke dag die Skrifte ondersoek om te sien of dit is soos Paulus en Silas sê. Baie van hulle het gevolglik gelowig geword en ook heelparty van die Grieke – sowel vooraanstaande vroue as mans.
Toe die Jode van Tessalonika egter hoor dat die Woord van God ook in Berea deur Paulus verkondig word, het hulle ook daar onrus gaan stook.
Die gelowiges het Paulus dadelik weggestuur kus toe. Silas en Timoteus het agtergebly.
Paulus se begeleiers het hom tot in Atene vergesel. Toe het hulle teruggegaan met ‘n opdrag aan Silas en Timoteus om so gou moontlik by Paulus aan te sluit.
Terwyl Paulus in Atene vir hulle wag, het hy diep verontwaardig geword toe hy agterkom die stad is so vol afgodsbeelde.
Hy het in die sinagoge geredeneer met die Jode, en dié wat die ware God aanbid het. Hy het ook elke dag op die stadsplein met die verbygangers gepraat.

Wednesday 1 October 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 17:10-17)

THEY RECEIVED THE WORD IN ALL EAGERNESS:

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. And when they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
These Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica. They received the Word in all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing, as well as men.
But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the Word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea. But Silas and Timothy remained there.
Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens. And after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him, as he saw that the city was full of idols.
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the market place every day, with those who happened to be there.

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.)

“THIS JESUS WHOM I PROCLAIM TO YOU IS THE CHRIST:”

Dinsdag 30 September 2025.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 17:1-9)

“HIERDIE JESUS WAT EK AAN JULLE VERKONDIG, HY IS DIE CHRISTUS:”

Paulus en Silas het deour Amfipolis en Apollonië gereis en in Tessalonika aangekom, waar daar ‘n sinagoge van die Jode was.
Soos dit Paulus se gewoonte was, het hy na die sinagoge-diens gegaan en op drie Sabbat-dae na mekaar, uit die Skrifte met die Jode geredeneer.
Hy het die Skrif verklaar en aangetoon dat die Christus moes ly en uit die dood opstaan. “Hierdie Jesus wat ek aan julle verkondig,” het hy gesê: “HY is die Messias!”
Party van hulle het toe oortuig geraak, en by Paulus en Silas aangesluit. ‘n Groot aantal Grieke wat die ware God aanbid het, en ‘n klomp vooraanstaande vroue het ook nog bygekom.
Die Jode was egter jaloers daaroor. Hulle het toe met behulp van ‘n paar nikswerd leeglêers ‘n betoging begin, en die stad in oproer gebring. Hulle het na Jason se huis opgeruk en wou Paulus en Silas voor die volk bring.
Toe die Jode hulle nie kry nie, sleep hulle vir Jason en ‘n paar ander gelowiges na die stadsowerhede en skreeu: ‘Dit is die mense wat die hele wêreld in beroering bring. En nou is hulle hier in ons stad.
‘Jason het hulle as gaste ontvang. Hulle is almal skuldig aan verraad teen die keiser, want hulle erken ‘n ander koning, naamlik Jesus!’
Die skare en die stadsowerhede was ontsteld toe hulle dit hoor.
Hulle het hulle egter laat gaan, nadat hulle van Jason en die ander gelowiges voldoende borg gekry het.

Tuesday 30 September 2025.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

(Acts 17:1-9)

“THIS JESUS WHOM I PROCLAIM TO YOU, IS THE CHRIST:”

When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days, he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead. Saying: “This Jesus Whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas as did a great many of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women.
But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men from the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring Paul and Silas out to the crowd.
And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting: ‘These men who have turned the world upside down, have come here also.
‘And Jason has received them in his house and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus.’
The city authorities and the people were disturbed when they heard these things.
And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

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.)