Dinsdag 16 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 25:11-18)

“EK IS BEREID OM TE STERWE:”

11. “As ek skuldig is en iets gedoen het wat die doodstraf verdien, is ek bereid om te sterwe. Maar as daar niks in hulle beskuldigings teen my steek nie, kan niemand my as guns aan hulle uitlewer nie. Ek beroep my op die keiser!”

12. Nadat Festus die saak met sy raadgewers bespreek het, het hy geantwoord: ‘Jy het jou op die keiser beroep; na die keiser toe sal jy gaan.’

13. Na verloop van tyd het koning Agrippa en sy vrou Bernice na Sesarea toe gekom om Festus te verwelkom.

14. Hulle het ‘n paar dae daar deurgebring, en Festus het Paulus se saak by die koning ter sprake gebring. ‘Hier is ‘n man wat deur Feliks as gevangene agtergelaat is.

15. ‘By my aankoms in Jerusalem het die priesterhoofde en die familie hoofde van die Jode ‘n aanklag teen hom ingebring en my gevra om hom skuldig te bevind.

16. ‘Ek het hulle geantwoord dat dit nie die Romeinse gebruik is om ‘n beskuldigde as guns uit te lewer nie. Hy moet eers geleentheid kry om hom voor sy aanklaers, teen hulle beskuldiging te verdedig.

17. ‘Toe hulle hierheen gekom het, het ek sonder uitstel die volgende dag op die regbank gaan sit, en bevel gegee dat die man voor my gebring moet word.

18. ‘Sy aanklaers het rondom hom gaan staan en hom beskuldig, maar nie van ernstige misdade soos ek verwag het nie.’

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Tuesday 16 July 2024.

(Acts 25:11-18)

“I DO NOT SEEK TO ESCAPE DEATH:”

11. “If then I am a wrong-doer 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!”

12. Then Festus, when he had conferred with his council, answered: ‘To Caesar you have appealed; to Caesar you shall go.’

13. When some days have passed, Agrippa the king, and his wife Bernice, arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.

14. And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying: ‘There is a man left prisoner by Felix,

15. ‘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.

16. ‘I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up anyone, before the accused met the accusers face to face, and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him.

17. ‘So when they came together here, I made no delay, but on the next day I took my seat on the tribunal, and ordered the man to be brought.

18. ‘When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed.’

(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 15 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 25:1-10)

“SAL JY BEREID WEES OM NA JERUSALEM TE GAAN?”

1. Drie dae na sy aankoms in die provinsie, het Festus van Sesarea af, na Jerusalem toe gegaan.

2. Die priesterhoofde en die leiers van die Jode het voor hom verskyn, en ‘n aanklag teen Paulus ingebring. Hulle het hom ernstig versoek

3. om hulle ‘n guns te bewys, en Paulus na Jerusalem toe te laat haal. Hulle het dit gevra omdat hulle hom op pad daarheen, in ‘n hinderlaag wou doodmaak.

4. Festus het egter geantwoord: ‘Paulus word in Sesarea aangehou, en ek is van plan om binnekort daarheen terug te gaan.

5. ‘Julle bekwaamste manne kan dan saam met my gaan en hom aankla, as hy iets verkeerds gedoen het.’

6. Hy het ‘n dag of agt, hoogstens tien, daar deurgebring, en toe na Sesarea toe terug gegaan. Die dag na sy aankoms daar, het hy op die regbank gaan sit, en beveel dat Paulus voor hom gebring moet word.

7. Toe Paulus binnekom, het die Jode wat van Jerusalem af gekom het, om hom gaan staan, en hom van ‘n hele aantal ernstige dinge beskuldig, wat hulle nie kon bewys nie.

8. Paulus het homself toe verdedig: “Ek het niks verkeerds teen die Joodse Wet, of teen die tempel of teen die keiser gedoen nie.”

9. Maar Festus wou die Jode ‘n guns bewys, en sê toe vir Paulus: ‘Sal jy bereid wees dat ek jou oor hierdie saak, in Jerusalem gaan verhoor?’

10. Paulus se antwoord daarop was: “Ek staan tereg voor die keiserlike regbank. Hier moet ek verhoor word. Ek het die Jode geen kwaad aangedoen nie, dit weet uself baie goed.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Monday 15 July 2024.

(Acts 25:1-10)

“DO YOU WISH TO GO UP TO JERUSALEM?”

1. Three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

2. And 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 them bring charges against him.’

6. After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal, and ordered Paul to be brought.

7. When Paul had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem, stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him, that they could not prove.

8. Paul argued in his defense: “Neither against the Law of the Jews, nor against the temple nor against Caesar, have I committed any offense.”

9. But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul: ‘Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem, and there be tried on these charges before me?’

10. 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.”

(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.)

Sondag 14 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 24:22-27)

“AS EK TYD HET, SAL EK JOU WEER LAAT ROEP:”

22. Hier het Feliks, wat die besonderhede in verband met die leer van Christus taamlik goed geken het, die verhoor onderbreek. ‘Wanneer Lysias, die kommandant kom, sal ek julle saak afhandel,’ het hy gesê.

23. Hy het die kaptein beveel om Paulus nog aan te hou, maar om hom minder streng te behandel, en sy mense ook toe te laat om vir hom te sorg.

24. Na ‘n paar dae het Feliks en sy Joodse vrou , Drusilla, vir Paulus laat haal, om meer van hom te hoor van die geloof in Christus Jesus,

25. Paulus het met hom gepraat oor ‘n lewe in gehoorsaamheid aan God, oor selfbeheersing, en oor die komende oordeel. Dit het Feliks laat bang word, en hy het gesê: ‘Dit is nou genoeg! Gaan maar terug, en as ek tyd het, sal ek jou weer laat roep.’

26. Hy het die hele tyd ook gehoop Paulus sou hom omkoopgeld aanbied om los te kom.

27. Twee jaar later is Feliks deur Porcius Festus opgevolg. En omdat Feliks die Jode ‘n guns wou bewys, het hy Paulus as gevangene agter gelaat.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Sunday 14 July 2024.

(Acts 24:22-27)

“WHEN I GET AN OPPORTUNITY, I WILL SEND FOR YOU:”

22. But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the ‘Way’, put them off, saying: ‘When the Commandant Lysias comes down, I will decide your case.’

23. 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.

24. After some days, Felix came with his wife Drucilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul, and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

25. And he 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.’

26. At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for Paul often, and conversed with him.

27. When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.

(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 13 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 24:13-21)

“HULLE HET MY GEHEILIG IN DIE TEMPEL GEVIND:”

13. “Die beskuldigings wat hulle nou teen my inbring, kan hulle ook nie vir u bewys nie.

14. “Dit beken ek wel voor u: Ek dien die God van my voorvaders volgens die ‘Weg’, wat hulle ‘n sekte noem, terwyl ek alles glo wat in die Wet en Profete geskrywe staan,

15. “en ‘n hoop het op God, ‘n hoop wat hulle self ook verwag, dat daar ‘n opstanding sal wees van die dode, reverdiges sowel as onregverdiges.

16. “Daarom oefen ek myself ook om altyd voor God en die mense ‘n rein gewete te hê.

17. “Maar na baie jare het ek gekom om aan my volk aalmoese te bring, en offers.

18. “En terwyl ek hiermee besig was, het sekere Jode van Asië my in die tempel gevind nadat ek geheilig was, nie met ‘n skare of ‘n opskudding nie.

19. “Hulle behoort hier voor u te wees om beskuldiging in te bring, as hulle iets teen my het, en of hulle enige onreg in my gevind het, toe ek voor die Raad gestaan het,

20. “behalwe hierdie een woord wat ek uitgeroep het, terwyl ek onder hulle gestaan het naamlik:

21. “Oor die opstanding van die dode staan ek vandag by u voor die gereg!”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Saturday 13 July 2024.

(Acts 24:13-21)

“THEY FOUND ME PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE:”

13. “Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.

14. “But this I confess to you, that according to the ‘Way’, I worship the God of our fathers, believing laid down by the Law, and written in the Prophets,

15. “having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

16. “So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.

17. “After several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to present offerings.

18. “While I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult, but some Jews from Asia-

19. “they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, should they have anything against me.

20. “Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council,

21. “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.)

Vrydag 12 Julie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 24:5-12)

“EK VERDEDIG MYSELF MET VERTROUE VOOR U:”

5. ‘Ons beskou hierdie man as ‘n gevaar vir die samelewing. Hy bring skeuring in die Joodse geledere dwarsdeur die wêreld. Hy is leier van die dwaal rigting van die Nasareners.

6. ‘Toe hy probeer het om selfs die tempel te ontheilig,

7. ‘het ons hom gevange geneem.

8. ‘As u hom oor al hierdie dinge verhoor, sal u te wete kom waarom ons hom aankla.’

9. Hiermee het die Jode saamgestem en hulle het bevestig dat dit so is.

10. Op ‘n teken van die goewerneur, het Paulus begin praat. “Ek weet dat u al jare lank hierdie mense se regter is. Daarom verdedig ek my saak voor u, met vertroue.

11. “U kan self vasstel dat ek maar sowat twaalf dae gelede in Jerusalem aangekom het om daar te aanbid.

12. “Niemand het my in die tempel of in die sinagoge of êrens in die stad gekry, dat ek met iemand gestry het, of die skare tot oproer aangehits het nie.”

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Friday 12 July 2024.

(Acts 24:5-12)

“I CHEERFULLY MAKE MY DEFENSE:”

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, but we seized him.

7. ‘By examining him yourself, you will be able to find out from him

8. ‘about everything of which we accuse him.’

9. The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.

10. 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.

11. “You can verify that it is not more than twelve days, since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

12. “and they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogue, or in the city.”

(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.)