Donderdag 18 April 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 4:15-25)

ALMAL WAS BESIG OM GOD TE PRYS:

15. Daarom het hulle Petrus en Johannes uit die raadsaal gestuur, en die saak met mekaar bespreek.

16. ‘Wat gaan ons met hierdie mans aanvang?’ het hulle gevra. ‘Dit is vir almal wat in Jerusalem woon, duidelik dat ‘n onmiskenbare teken deur hulle plaasgevind het. En ons kan dit nie ontken nie.

17. ‘Maar om te keer dat dit nog verder onder die volk versprei, kom ons dreig hulle om nie weer met iemand in die Naam van Jesus te praat nie.’

18. Hulle roep toe die apostels weer in, en beveel hulle om gladnie verder iets in die Naam van Jesus te verkondig of te leer nie.

19. Petrus en Johannes het egter in reaksie vir hulle gesê: “Dink julle God wil hê, dat ons eerder aan julle gehoorsaam moet wees as aan Hom?

20. “Ons kan nie anders as om te praat oor al die wonderlike dinge wat ons gesien en gehoor het nie.”

21. Die Raad het hulle nog verder gedreig. Uiteindelik het hulle, hulle egter laat gaan, want hulle het nie geweet hoe om hulle te straf, sonder om ‘n volks-opstand te veroorsaak nie. Almal was inderdaad besig om God te prys

22. vir die wonderteken – ‘n man wat al oor die veertig jaar verlam was, is immers gesond gemaak!

23. Toe hulle losgelaat is, het Petrus en Johannes dadelik die ander gelowiges opgesoek en vir hulle vertel wat die priesterhoofde en die familiehoofde alles gesê het.

24. Toe het al die gelowiges saam tot God gebid: “Almagtige Here, Skepper van die hemel en die aarde, die see, en alles wat daarin is,

25. “U het lank gelede U dienaar, ons voorvader Dawid, deur die Heilige Gees laat sê: ‘+Waarom het die nasies te kere gegaan? Waarom het die volke sinlose planne beraam?’+”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Thursday 18 April 2024.

(Acts 4:15-25)

ALL WERE PRAISING GOD FOR WHAT HAD HAPPENED:

15. But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another,

16. saying: ‘What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them, is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

17. ‘But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this Name.’

18. So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the Name of Jesus.

19. But Peter and John answered them: “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you, rather than to God, you must judge,

20. “for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”

21. And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God, for what had happened.

22. For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed, was more than forty years old.

23. When they were released, they went to their friends, and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

24. And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said: “Sovereign Lord, Who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them,

25. “who through the mouth of our father David, Your servant, said by the Holy Spirit: ‘+Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?’+”

(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.)

Woensdag 17 April 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 4:5-14)

HULLE HET HULLE HERKEN AS MENSE WAT SAAM MET JESUS WAS:

5. Die volgende môre het die priesterhoofde, die leiers, die familiehoofde en die skrifkenners in Jerusalem vergadering gehou.

6. Annas, die hoofpriester was daar, asook Kajafas, Johannes, Aleksander en ander familie-lede van die hoofpriester.

7. Hulle het die twee apostels voor hulle laat bring, en hulle onder druk gebring met die vraag: ‘Deur watter krag en in watter Naam het julle dit reggekry?’

8. Toe het Petrus, vervul met die Heilige Gees, vir hulle gesê: “Leiers en familiehoofde van ons volk,

9. “word ons vandag verhoor oor ‘n goeie daad aan ‘n verlamde man? Wil julle weet hoe hy gesond gemaak is?

10. “Ek wil dit duidelik stel aan julle almal en aan die hele volk Israel, dat hy gesond gemaak is in die Naam van Jesus Christus van Nasaret. Dié Jesus vir wie julle gekruisig het, maar wat God uit die dood opgewek het.

11. “Hy is die Klip wat deur julle bouers geminag is; Hy het nou die Sluitklip geword.

12. “Daar is geen verlossing by iemand anders nie. Daar is geen ander Naam op aarde wat mense kan aanroep om verlos te word nie.”

13. Die raadslede was verbaas toe hulle Petrus en Johannes se waagmoed sien, want hulle het besef dis gewone mense sonder enige besondere opleiding. Hulle het hulle ook herken as mense wat saam met Jesus was.

14. Maar omdat die man wat gesond gemaak is, daar reg by hulle gestaan het, het die raadslede niks gehad om te sê nie.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Wednesday 17 April 2024.

(Acts 4:5-14)

THEY RECOGNIZED THAT THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS:

5. On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,

6. with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.

7. And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired: ‘By what Power or by what Name, did you do this?’

8. Then Peter, filled by the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers of the people and elders,

9. “if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

10. “let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom you crucified, Whom God raised from the dead, – by Him this man is standing before you well.

11. “This Jesus is the Stone that was rejected by you, the builders, Who Has become the Cornerstone.

12. “And there is salvation in no One else, for there is no other Name under heaven, given among men, by which we must be saved.”

13. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

14. But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.

(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.)

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Tuesday 16 April 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Acts 3:22-26)

THEY ARRESTED THEM AND PUT THEM IN CUSTODY:

22. Moses said: ‘+The Lord Will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to Him to whatever He tells you.

23. ‘And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that Prophet, shall be destroyed from the people.’+

24. “And all the Prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.

25. “You are the sons of the Prophets, and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham: ‘+And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’+

26. “God, Having raised up His Servant, sent Him to you first, to bless you, by turninğ every one of you, from your wickedness.”

(Acts 4:1-4)

1. And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

2. greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people, and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

3. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

4. But many of those who had heard the word, believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Dinsdag 16 April 2024.

(Handelinge 3:22-26)

22. Moses het gesê: ‘+Die Here julle God sal ‘n Profeet soos ek uit julle volk laat voortkom. Luister mooi na wat Hy vir julle sê.’+

23. “Moses het ook nog verder gesê: ‘+Elkeen wat nie na daardie Profeet luister nie, sal van die volk van God afgesny en vernietig word.’+

24. “Van Samuel af, het elke Profeet gepraat oor wat vandag gebeur.

25. “Júlle is die kinders van daardie Profete, en julle het deel aan die verbond wat God met julle voorvaders gesluit het. God het mos vir Abraham gesê: ‘+In jou nageslag sal al die families van die aarde geseën word.’+

26. “Toe God Sy Dienaar in die wêreld laat kom het, het Hy Hom heel eerste na julle – Israeliete, toe gestuur, om vir julle tot ‘n seën te wees, deurdat julle almal van julle verkeerde paaie af sal omdraai.”

(Handelinge 4:1-4)

1. Petrus en Johannes was nog besig om met die mense te praat, toe die priesterhoofde, die bevelvoerder van die tempelwag, en sommige van van die Sadduseërs op hulle afstorm.

2. Hulle was baie ontsteld omdat Petrus en Johannes die volk geleer het, en die opstanding uit die dood, in Jesus verkondig het.

3. Die tempelwag het hulle gearresteer, en omdat dit so laat was, hulle oornag in die tronk gesit.

4. Tog het baie van die mense wat hulle boodskap gehoor het, gelowig geword. Gevolglik het die getal gelowiges aangegroei tot omtrent vyf duisend.

(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.)

Tuesday 16 April 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Acts 3:22-26)

THEY ARRESTED THEM AND PUT THEM IN CUSTODY:

22. Moses said: ‘+The Lord Will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to Him to whatever He tells you.

23. ‘And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that Prophet, shall be destroyed from the people.’+

24. “And all the Prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.

25. “You are the sons of the Prophets, and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham: ‘+And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’+

26. “God, Having raised up His Servant, sent Him to you first, to bless you, by turninğ every one of you, from your wickedness.”

(Acts 4:1-4)

1. And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

2. greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people, and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

3. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

4. But many of those who had heard the word, believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Dinsdag 16 April 2024.

(Handelinge 3:22-26)

22. Moses het gesê: ‘+Die Here julle God sal ‘n Profeet soos ek uit julle volk laat voortkom. Luister mooi na wat Hy vir julle sê.’+

23. “Moses het ook nog verder gesê: ‘+Elkeen wat nie na daardie Profeet luister nie, sal van die volk van God afgesny en vernietig word.’+

24. “Van Samuel af, het elke Profeet gepraat oor wat vandag gebeur.

25. “Júlle is die kinders van daardie Profete, en julle het deel aan die verbond wat God met julle voorvaders gesluit het. God het mos vir Abraham gesê: ‘+In jou nageslag sal al die families van die aarde geseën word.’+

26. “Toe God Sy Dienaar in die wêreld laat kom het, het Hy Hom heel eerste na julle – Israeliete, toe gestuur, om vir julle tot ‘n seën te wees, deurdat julle almal van julle verkeerde paaie af sal omdraai.”

(Handelinge 4:1-4)

1. Petrus en Johannes was nog besig om met die mense te praat, toe die priesterhoofde, die bevelvoerder van die tempelwag, en sommige van van die Sadduseërs op hulle afstorm.

2. Hulle was baie ontsteld omdat Petrus en Johannes die volk geleer het, en die opstanding uit die dood, in Jesus verkondig het.

3. Die tempelwag het hulle gearresteer, en omdat dit so laat was, hulle oornag in die tronk gesit.

4. Tog het baie van die mense wat hulle boodskap gehoor het, gelowig geword. Gevolglik het die getal gelowiges aangegroei tot omtrent vyf duisend.

(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.)

Tuesday 16 April 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Acts 3:22-26)

THEY ARRESTED THEM AND PUT THEM IN CUSTODY:

22. Moses said: ‘+The Lord Will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to Him to whatever He tells you.

23. ‘And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that Prophet, shall be destroyed from the people.’+

24. “And all the Prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.

25. “You are the sons of the Prophets, and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham: ‘+And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’+

26. “God, Having raised up His Servant, sent Him to you first, to bless you, by turninğ every one of you, from your wickedness.”

(Acts 4:1-4)

1. And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

2. greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people, and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

3. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

4. But many of those who had heard the word, believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Dinsdag 16 April 2024.

(Handelinge 3:22-26)

22. Moses het gesê: ‘+Die Here julle God sal ‘n Profeet soos ek uit julle volk laat voortkom. Luister mooi na wat Hy vir julle sê.’+

23. “Moses het ook nog verder gesê: ‘+Elkeen wat nie na daardie Profeet luister nie, sal van die volk van God afgesny en vernietig word.’+

24. “Van Samuel af, het elke Profeet gepraat oor wat vandag gebeur.

25. “Júlle is die kinders van daardie Profete, en julle het deel aan die verbond wat God met julle voorvaders gesluit het. God het mos vir Abraham gesê: ‘+In jou nageslag sal al die families van die aarde geseën word.’+

26. “Toe God Sy Dienaar in die wêreld laat kom het, het Hy Hom heel eerste na julle – Israeliete, toe gestuur, om vir julle tot ‘n seën te wees, deurdat julle almal van julle verkeerde paaie af sal omdraai.”

(Handelinge 4:1-4)

1. Petrus en Johannes was nog besig om met die mense te praat, toe die priesterhoofde, die bevelvoerder van die tempelwag, en sommige van van die Sadduseërs op hulle afstorm.

2. Hulle was baie ontsteld omdat Petrus en Johannes die volk geleer het, en die opstanding uit die dood, in Jesus verkondig het.

3. Die tempelwag het hulle gearresteer, en omdat dit so laat was, hulle oornag in die tronk gesit.

4. Tog het baie van die mense wat hulle boodskap gehoor het, gelowig geword. Gevolglik het die getal gelowiges aangegroei tot omtrent vyf duisend.

(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.)

Maandag 15 April 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 3:12-21)

“KOM TOT INKEER EN MAAK REG MET GOD:”

12. Toe Petrus dit agterkom het hy soos volg op die mense gereageer: “Geagte Israeliete, wat is so besonders hieraan? Wat kyk julle ons so aan asof ons deur ons eie krag of godsdienstigheid veroorsaak het dat hierdie man kan rondstap?

13. “Dis die God van Abraham, die God van Isak, die God van Jakob, die God van ons voorvaders wat met hierdie daad Goddelike eer aan Jesus, Sy Dienaar gee. Dis hierdie selfde Jesus vir wie julle uitgelewer en voor Pilatus verwerp het, al was Pilatus se uitspraak dat Hy vrygelaat moes word.

14. “Julle het hierdie Heilige en Opregte Man verwerp, en eerder geëis dat ‘n moordenaar vir julle vrygelaat word.

15. “Julle het die Bron van Lewe doodgemaak, maar God het Hom uit die dood opgewek! Van Hom is óns getuies!

16. “Die Naam van Jesus het hierdie man se bene weer sterk gemaak – en julle weet hoe verlam hy was. Geloof in die Naam van Jesus, het hom heeltemal gesond laat word, hier reg voor julle oë.

17. “Volksgenote, ek weet dat wat julle aan Jesus gedoen het, in onkunde gebeur het, en dieselfde geld vir julle leiers.

18. “God was egter besig om te laat gebeur wat al die Profete vroeër oor die Messias aangekondig het – dat Hy sou ly.

19. “Kom tot inkeer en maak reg met God, sodat Hy julle sondes kan uitwis.

20. “Dan sal die teenwoordigheid van die Here tye van oplewing tot gevolg hê, en Hy sal Jesus julle Messias weer na julle toe stuur.

21. “Hy moet in die hemel bly totdat die tyd aangebreek het, wanneer God alles nuut maak, soos God dit lank gelede deur Sy Heilige Profete belowe het.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Monday 15 April 2024.

(Acts 3:12-21)

“REPENT THEREFORE AND TURN BACK:”

12. And when Peter saw it, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?

13. “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, Whom you delivered over, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he decided to release Him.

14. “But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

15. and you killed the Author of Life, Whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

16. “And His Name – by faith in His Name – has made this man strong, whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus, has given this man perfect health in the presence of you all.

17. “And now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

18. “But what God fortold by the mouth of the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He thus fulfilled.

19. “Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

20. “that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send the Christ appointed to you, Jesus,

21. “Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all things, about which God spoke by the mouth of His Holy Prophets long ago.”

(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.)

Maandag 15 April 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 3:12-21)

“KOM TOT INKEER EN MAAK REG MET GOD:”

12. Toe Petrus dit agterkom het hy soos volg op die mense gereageer: “Geagte Israeliete, wat is so besonders hieraan? Wat kyk julle ons so aan asof ons deur ons eie krag of godsdienstigheid veroorsaak het dat hierdie man kan rondstap?

13. “Dis die God van Abraham, die God van Isak, die God van Jakob, die God van ons voorvaders wat met hierdie daad Goddelike eer aan Jesus, Sy Dienaar gee. Dis hierdie selfde Jesus vir wie julle uitgelewer en voor Pilatus verwerp het, al was Pilatus se uitspraak dat Hy vrygelaat moes word.

14. “Julle het hierdie Heilige en Opregte Man verwerp, en eerder geëis dat ‘n moordenaar vir julle vrygelaat word.

15. “Julle het die Bron van Lewe doodgemaak, maar God het Hom uit die dood opgewek! Van Hom is óns getuies!

16. “Die Naam van Jesus het hierdie man se bene weer sterk gemaak – en julle weet hoe verlam hy was. Geloof in die Naam van Jesus, het hom heeltemal gesond laat word, hier reg voor julle oë.

17. “Volksgenote, ek weet dat wat julle aan Jesus gedoen het, in onkunde gebeur het, en dieselfde geld vir julle leiers.

18. “God was egter besig om te laat gebeur wat al die Profete vroeër oor die Messias aangekondig het – dat Hy sou ly.

19. “Kom tot inkeer en maak reg met God, sodat Hy julle sondes kan uitwis.

20. “Dan sal die teenwoordigheid van die Here tye van oplewing tot gevolg hê, en Hy sal Jesus julle Messias weer na julle toe stuur.

21. “Hy moet in die hemel bly totdat die tyd aangebreek het, wanneer God alles nuut maak, soos God dit lank gelede deur Sy Heilige Profete belowe het.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Monday 15 April 2024.

(Acts 3:12-21)

“REPENT THEREFORE AND TURN BACK:”

12. And when Peter saw it, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?

13. “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, Whom you delivered over, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he decided to release Him.

14. “But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

15. and you killed the Author of Life, Whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

16. “And His Name – by faith in His Name – has made this man strong, whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus, has given this man perfect health in the presence of you all.

17. “And now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

18. “But what God fortold by the mouth of the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He thus fulfilled.

19. “Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

20. “that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send the Christ appointed to you, Jesus,

21. “Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all things, about which God spoke by the mouth of His Holy Prophets long ago.”

(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.)

Sondag 14 April 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 3:1-11)

TOE SÊ PETRUS VIR HOM: “GELD HET EK NIE, MAAR DIT WAT EK HET, DIT GEE EK VIR JOU:”

1. Petrus en Johannes was een middag op pad tempel toe. Dit was drie-uur, die gebedstyd.

2. Net toe word daar ‘n man aangedra wat van sy geboorte af lam was. Mense het hom daagliks laat sit by die tempel-poort, wat as Mooipoort bekend staan, om by die tempel-gangers te bedel.

3. Petrus en Johannes wou net by die tempel ingaan, toe hy hulle sien, en ‘n bydrae by hulle vra.

4. Petrus en Johannes kyk hom toe stip aan, en sê: “Kyk na ons!”

5. Die verlamde man kyk toe na hulle in die verwagting dat hy ‘n bydrae gaan kry.

6. Maar toe sê Petrus vir hom: “Geld het ek nie. Maar wat ek het, dit gee ek vir jou: Op gesag van Jesus Christus van Nasaret, staan op en loop!”

7. Petrus vat die man toe aan sy regterhand, en help hom op. En onmiddellik het sy voete en enkels gesond en sterk geword.

8. Hy het op sy voete gestaan, en begin rondstap. Daarna, terwyl hy rondstap, huppel en God prys, is hy saam met hulle die tempel in.

9. Die hele volk het gesien hoe hy loop, en gehoor hoe hy God prys.

10. Toe hulle hom sien en besef dat dit hy is wat voor die tempel by Mooipoort gesit en bedel het, was hulle heeltemal verstom.

11. Hulle het van verwondering by die Pilaargang van Salomo saamgedrom, terwyl die man gesorg het dat hy by Petrus en Johannes bly.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Sunday 14 April 2024.

(Acts 3:1-11)

PETER SAID: “I HAVE NO SILVER OR GOLD, BUT WHAT I DO HAVE, I GIVE TO YOU:”

1. Peter and John were going to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

2. And a man, lame from birth, was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, that is called ‘Beautiful Gate,’ to ask alms of those entering the temple.

3. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms.

4. And Peter directed his gaze on him, as did John, and said: “Look at us!”

5. And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.

6. But Peter said: “I have no silver or gold, but what I do have, I give to you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”

7. And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.

8. And leaping up, he stood, and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

9. And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

10. and recognized him as the one who sat at the ‘Beautiful Gate,’ of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement, at what had happened to him.

11. While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them, in the portico called Solomon’s.

(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.)