Woensdag 19 Junie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 18:11-18)

GALLIO HET HULLE VAN DIE HOF VERDRYF:

11. Paulus het die stad vir ‘n jaar en ‘n half sy basis gemaak, en die mense onderrig in die Woord van God.

12. To Gallio egter goewerneur van Agaje geword het, het sommige Jode ‘n verenigde front teen Paulus gevorm, en hom voor die hof gedaag.

13. Hulle het Paulus daarvan aangekla dat hy die mense “probeer oorhaal om God op maniere te vereer wat teen die wet is.”

14. 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.

15. ‘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.’

16. Hy het die hof toe verdaag.

17. Die klaers het toe almal vir Sostenes, die hoof van die Sinagoge gegryp en hom aangerand. Gallio het hom egter aan niks hiervan gesteur nie.

18. Paulus het nog etlike dae in Korinte gebly, en toe van die gelowiges afskeid geneem. Hy het Sirië toe weggevaar, en Priscilla en Akwila is saam met hom. In Kengreë het hy sy hare laat skeer, omdat hy ‘n gelofte gedoen het.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Wednesday 19 June 2024.

(Acts 18:11-18)

GALLIO DROVE THE JEWS FROM THE TRIBUNAL:

11. And Paul stayed a year and six months, teaching the Word of God among them.

12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made an united attack on Paul, and brought him before the tribunal,

13. saying: ‘This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the Law.’

14. But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: ‘If it was a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.

15. ‘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.’

16. And he drove them from the tribunal.

17. 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.

18. After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers, and set sail for Syria. And with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchrea he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.

(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 18 Junie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 18:1-10)

“JULLE BLOED IS OP JULLE EIE KOP!”

1. Paulus het Atene verlaat, en Korinte toe gegaan.

2. 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.

3. Hy het by hulle ingetrek en saam met hulle gewerk, want hulle was tentmakers net soos hy.

4. Elke Sabbatdag het hy in die sinagoge met die mense geredeneer, en sowel Jode as Grieke probeer oortuig dat Jesus die Messias is.

5. Nadat Silas en Timótheüs van Masedonië af aangekom het, het Paulus al sy aandag bestee aan die prediking, om die Jode te oortuig dat Jesus die Messias is.

6. 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 kop. Ek is onskuldig. Van nou af spits ek my toe op die nie-Jode.”

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Een nag het die Here in ‘n visioen vir Paulus gesê: ‘+Moenie bang wees nie, hou aan met preek, en moenie begin stilbly nie,

10. ‘+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.’+

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

“YOUR BLOOD BE ON YOUR OWN HEADS!”

Tuesday 18 June 2024.

(Acts 18:1-10)

1. After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

2. And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who recently came from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because the proconsul Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them,

3. and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tent makers by trade, like him.

4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks, that Jesus was the Christ.

5. When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the Word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.

6. And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them: “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent! From now on I will go to the Gentiles,”

7. And he left there and he went to the house of a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue.

8. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul, believed and were baptized.

9. And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision: ‘+Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,

10. ‘+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.’+

(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 17 Junie 2024.

PÊREL VIR ELKE DAG:

(Handelinge 17:29-34)

GOD HET MENSE SE VROEËRE ONKUNDE OORGESIEN:

29. “Ons moet dus nie aan God dink in terme van beelde van goud, silwer en klip nie. Ons is dan self Sy nageslag. Sulke beelde is slegs skeppings van mense se vaardigheid en verbeelding.

30. “God het wel mense se vroeëre onkunde oorgesien, maar nou roep Hy alle mense oral om die afgode te los, en hulle tot Hom te bekeer.

31. “Hy het immers ‘n dag bepaal waarop ‘n Man wat Hy beskik het, in Geregtigheid oor die wêreld gaan oordeel. As bewys vir almal Wie hierdie Man is, het Hy Hom uit die dood laat opstaan.”

32. 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!’

33. Daarmee het Paulus uit hulle midde vertrek.

34. ‘n Paar persone het egter gelowig geword, en by hom aangesluit. Onder hulle was daar Dionisius ‘n Areopagiet, ‘n vrou met die naam Damaris, en nog ‘n paar saam met hulle.

PEARL FOR EACH DAY:

Monday 17 June 2024.

(Acts 17:29-34)

THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED:

29. “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.

30. “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent,

31. “because He Had 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.”

32. When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said: ‘We will hear you again about this.’

33. So Paul went out of their midst.

34. But some men joined him, and believed, among them also were Dionysius the Areopagite, and a women named Damaris, and others with them.

(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.)