1 Maar 'n sekere man met die naam van Anan¡as het saam met sy vrou Saff¡ra 'n eiendom verkoop,
2 en ook met die medewete van sy vrou van die prys agtergehou en 'n sekere deel gebring en aan die voete van die apostels neergelê.
3 Toe sê Petrus: Anan¡as, waarom het die Satan jou hart vervul om vir die Heilige Gees te lieg en van die prys van die grond agter te hou?
4 As dit nie verkoop was nie, het dit nie joue gebly nie? En toe dit verkoop is, was dit nie in jou mag nie? Waarom is dit dat jy hierdie saak in jou hart voorgeneem het? Jy het nie vir mense gelieg nie, maar vir God.
5 En toe Anan¡as hierdie woorde hoor, het hy neergeval en gesterwe; en 'n groot vrees het gekom oor almal wat dit gehoor het.
6 Daarna het die jongmanne opgestaan en hom toegedraai en uitgedra en begrawe.
7 En n verloop van omtrent drie uur kom sy vrou in sonder om te weet wat voorgeval het.
8 En Petrus het haar aangespreek: Sê vir my of julle die grond vir soveel verkoop het? En sy sê: Ja, vir soveel.
9 En Petrus sê vir haar: Waarom het julle ooreengekom om die Gees van die Here te versoek? Kyk, die voete van die wat jou man begrawe het, is by die deur, en hulle sal jou uitdra.
10 Toe val sy onmiddellik aan sy voete neer en het gesterwe. En die jongmanne het ingekom en haar dood gevind en haar uitgedra en by haar man begrawe.
11 En 'n groot vrees het oor die hele gemeente gekom en oor almal wat dit gehoor het.
12 En deur die hande van die apostels het daar baie tekens en wonders onder die volk plaasgevind; en hulle was almal eendragtig saam in die pilaargang van Salomo.
13 En daar was niemand van die ander wat dit gewaag het om hom by hulle te voeg nie, maar die volk het hulle baie geëer.
14 En daar is meer en meer gelowiges in die Here bygevoeg, menigtes van manne sowel as vroue,
15 sodat hulle die siekes op die strate uitgedra en op bedde en draagbare gelê het, met die bedoeling dat, as Petrus kom, al was dit net sy skaduwee op iemand van hulle sou val.
16 En die menigte van die stede in die omtrek het ook in Jerusalem bymekaargekom en siekes gebring en mense wat deur onreine geeste gekwel was; en hulle is almal genees.
17 En die hoëpriester het opgestaan en almal wat saam met hom was -- dit is die party van die Sadduseërs -- en hulle was met nydigheid vervul,
18 en hulle het die hande aan die apostels geslaan en hulle in die openbare gevangenis gesit.
19 Maar 'n engel van die Here het in die nag die deure van die gevangenis oopgemaak en hulle uitgelei en gesê:
20 Gaan heen, staan en vertel in die tempel aan die volk al die woorde van hierdie lewe.
21 En hulle het geluister en vroeg in die môre in die tempel gegaan en begin leer. Maar die hoëpriester en die wat saam met hom was, het gekom en die Raad en al die oudstes van die kinders van Israel bymekaargeroep; en hulle het na die gevangenis gestuur om hulle te laat haal.
22 Maar toe die dienaars daar kom, het hulle hul nie in die gevangenis gekry nie; en hulle het omgedraai en berig gebring en gesê:
23 Die gevangenis het ons in alle sekerheid toegesluit gevind, en die wagte het buite gestaan voor die deure; maar toe ons oopmaak, kry ons niemand daarbinne nie.
24 En toe die hoëpriester en die hoofman van die tempel en die owerpriesters hierdie woorde hoor, was hulle daarmee verleë wat nou hiervan sou word.
25 En daar kom een en bring aan hulle berig en sê: Kyk, die manne wat julle in die gevangenis gesit het, staan in die tempel en leer die volk.
26 Daarop gaan die hoofman met die dienaars en bring hulle, maar nie met geweld nie, uit vrees vir die volk dat hulle gestenig sou word.
27 Hulle het hul dan gebring en voor die Raad gestel; en die hoëpriester het hulle gevra en gesê:
28 Het ons julle nie uitdruklik verbied om in die Naam te leer nie? En kyk, julle het Jerusalem met julle leer vervul; en julle wil die bloed van hierdie Man op ons bring.
29 En Petrus en die apostels antwoord en sê: Ons moet aan God meer gehoorsaam wees as aan die mense.
30 Die God van ons vaders het Jesus opgewek, wat julle omgebring het deur Hom aan 'n kruishout te hang.
31 Hom het God as Leidsman en Verlosser deur sy regterhand verhoog om aan Israel bekering en vergifnis van sondes te skenk.
32 En ons is sy getuies van hierdie dinge, en ook die Heilige Gees wat God gegee het aan die wat Hom gehoorsaam is.
33 Toe hulle dit hoor, was hulle woedend en wou hulle om die lewe bring.
34 Maar 'n Fariseër met die naam van Gam liël, 'n leraar van die wet wat by die hele volk hoog in aansien was, het in die Raad opgestaan en bevel gegee dat hulle die apostels 'n bietjie buitentoe moes bring.
35 Toe sê hy vir hulle: Israeliete, pas op wat julle gaan doen met hierdie manne;
36 want nie lank gelede nie het Theudas opgestaan en gesê dat hy iets besonders was. By hom het 'n aantal mense -- omtrent vier honderd -- aangesluit. Hy is gedood, en almal wat na hom geluister het, is uitmekaargejaag en het tot niet geword.
37 En n hom het Judas, die Galileër, opgestaan, in die dae van die inskrywing, en 'n aansienlike getal mense afvallig gemaak agter hom aan. Hy het ook omgekom, en almal wat na hom geluister het, is verstrooi.
38 En nou sê ek vir julle, bly af van hierdie manne en laat hulle staan; want as hierdie voorneme of hierdie werk uit mense is, sal dit vernietig word;
39 maar as dit uit God is, kan julle dit nie vernietig nie -- dat dit nie miskien bevind word dat julle selfs teen God stry nie.
40 En hulle het na hom geluister. En nadat hulle die apostels ingeroep het, het hulle hul laat slaan en hulle bevel gegee om nie in die Naam van Jesus te spreek nie en hulle laat gaan.
41 Hulle het toe van die Raad af weggegaan, bly dat hulle waardig geag was om vir sy Naam oneer te ly.
42 En hulle het nie opgehou om elke dag in die tempel en van huis tot huis te leer nie, en die evangelie te verkondig dat Jesus die Christus is.
1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property,
2 And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at the feet of the Apostles.
3 But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
4 While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.
5 And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.
6 And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.
7 And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in.
8 And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.
9 But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.
10 And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.
11 Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things.
12 Now a number of signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they were all together in Solomon's covered way.
13 The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them;
14 And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;
15 And they even took into the streets people who were ill, and put them on beds, so that when Peter went by, some of them might be in his shade.
16 And numbers of people came together from the towns round about Jerusalem, with those who were ill and those who were troubled with unclean spirits: and they were all made well.
17 But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy,
18 And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison.
19 But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,
20 Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.
21 And hearing this, they went into the Temple at dawn, and were teaching. But the high priest and those who were with him got together the Sanhedrin and the representatives of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to get them.
22 But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news,
23 Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside.
24 Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about what might be the end of this business.
25 And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.
26 Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.
27 And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,
28 We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.
29 But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
30 The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.
31 Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.
32 And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.
33 But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.
34 But one of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a man of learning in the law, of whom all the people had a high opinion, got up and made a suggestion for the men to be put outside for a little time.
35 And he said to them, Men of Israel, take care what you do about these men.
36 For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men gave their support: he was put to death, and his band was broken up and came to nothing.
37 After this man, there was Judas of Galilee, at the time of the numbering, and some of the people went after him: he was put to death, and all his supporters were put to flight.
38 And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is of men, it will come to nothing:
39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.
40 And he seemed to them to be right: and they sent for the Apostles, and, after having them whipped and giving them orders to give no teaching in the name of Jesus, they let them go.
41 So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
42 And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.