MDO 2
Kuja kwa Roho Mtakatifu
1 tHata ilipotimia siku ya Pentekoste walikuwako wote mahali pamoja. 2 tKukaja ghafula toka mbinguni uvumi kama uvumi wa upepo wa nguvu ukienda kasi, ukaijaza nyumba yote waliyokuwa wameketi. 3 tKukawatokea ndimi zilizogawanyikana, kama ndimi za moto uliowakalia kila mmoja wao.
4 tWote wakajazwa Roho Mtakatifu, wakaanza kusema kwa lugha nyingine, kama Roho alivyowajalia kutamka.
5 tNa walikuwako Yerusalemu Wayahudi wakikaa, watu watauwa, watu wa kila taifa chini ya mbingu. 6 Basi sauti hii iliposikiwa makutano walikutanika, wakashikwa na fadhaa, kwa kuwa kila mmoja aliwasikia wakisema kwa lugha yake mwenyewe. 7 Wakashangaa wote, wakastaajabu wakiambiana, Tazama, hawa wote wasemao si Wagalilaya? 8 Imekuwaje basi sisi kusikia kila mtu lugha yetu tuliyozaliwa nayo? 9 Warparthi na Wamedi na Waelami, nao wakaao Mesopotamia, Uyahudi na Kapadokia, Ponto na Asia, 10 Frigia na Pamfilia, Misri na pande za Libia karibu na Kirene, na wageni watokao Rumi, Wayahudi na waongofu, 11 Wakrete na Waarabu; tunawasikia hawa wakisema kwa lugha zetu matendo makuu ya Mungu. 12 Wakashangaa wote wakaingiwa na shaka, wakiambiana, Maana yake nini mambo haya?
13 Wengine walidhihaki, wakisema, wamelewa kwa mvinyo mpya.Petro Ahutubia Mkutano
14 Lakini Petro akasimama pamoja na wale kumi na mmoja, akapaza sauti yake, akawaambia, Enyi watu wa Uyahudi, na ninyi nyote mkaao Yerusalemu, lijueni jambo hili, mkasikilize maneno yangu. 15 Sivyo mnavyodhani; watu hawa hawakulewa, kwa maana ni saa tatu ya mchana;
16 tlakini jambo hili ni lile lililonenwa kwa kinywa cha nabii Yoeli,
17 tItakuwa siku za mwisho, asema Mungu, nitawamwagia watu wote Roho yangu, na wana wenu na binti zenu watatabiri; na vijana wenu wataona maono; na wazee wenu wataota ndoto.
18 Naam, na siku zile nitawamwagia watumishi wangu wanaume na wanawake Roho yangu, nao watatabiri.
19 Nami nitatoa ajabu katika mbingu juu, na ishara katika nchi chini, damu na moto, na mvuke wa moshi.
20 Jua litageuka kuwa giza, na mwezi kuwa damu, kabla ya kuja ile siku ya Bwana iliyo kuu na iliyo dhahiri.
21 tNa itakuwa kila atakayeliitia jina la Bwana ataokolewa.
22 tEnyi waume wa Israeli, sikilizeni maneno haya: Yesu wa Nazareti, mtu aliyedhihirishwa kwenu na Mungu kwa miujiza na ajabu na ishara, ambazo Mungu alizifanya kwa mkono wake kati yenu, kama ninyi wenyewe mnavyojua; 23 tmtu huyu alipotolewa kwa shauri la Mungu lililokusudiwa, na kwa kujua kwake tangu zamani, ninyi mkamsulibisha kwa mikono ya watu wabaya, mkamwua; 24 tambaye Mungu alimfufua, akiufungua uchungu wa mauti, kwa sababu haikuwezekana ashikwe nao.
25 tMaana Daudi ataja habari zake,
Nalimwona Bwana mbele yangu siku zote,
Kwa kuwa yuko upande wa mkono wangu wa kuume, nisitikisike.
26 Kwa hiyo moyo wangu ukapendezewa,
ulimi wangu ukafurahi;
Tena mwili wangu nao utakaa katika matumaini.
27 tKwa maana hutaiacha roho yangu katika kuzimu;
Wala hutamtoa Mtakatifu wako aone uharibifu.
28 Umenijuvisha njia za uzima;
Utanijaza furaha kwa uso wako.
29 tWaume, ndugu zangu, mniwie radhi, niseme kwa ujasiri mbele yenu habari za baba yetu mkuu, Daudi, ya kuwa alifariki akazikwa, na kaburi lake liko kwetu hata leo. 30 tBasi kwa kuwa ni nabii, akijua ya kuwa Mungu amemwapia kwa kiapo, ya kwamba katika uzao wa viuno vyake atamketisha mmoja katika kiti chake cha enzi; 31 tyeye mwenyewe akitangulia kuyaona haya, alitaja habari za kufufuka kwake Kristo, ya kwamba roho yake haikuachwa kuzimu, wala mwili wake haukuona uharibifu. 32 Yesu huyo Mungu alimfufua, na sisi sote tu mashahidi wake. 33 tBasi yeye, akiisha kupandishwa hata mkono wa kuume wa Mungu, na kupokea kwa Baba ile ahadi ya Roho Mtakatifu, amekimwaga kitu hiki mnachokiona sasa na kukisikia.
34 tMaana Daudi hakupanda mbinguni; bali yeye mwenyewe anasema,
Bwana alimwambia Bwana wangu,
Keti upande wa mkono wangu wa kuume.
35 Hata nitakapowaweka adui zako chini ya miguu yako.
36 tBasi nyumba yote ya Israeli na wajue yakini ya kwamba Mungu amemfanya Yesu huyo mliyemsulibisha kuwa Bwana na Kristo.Waongofu wa Kwanza
37 tWalipoyasikia haya wakachomwa mioyo yao, wakamwambia Petro na mitume wengine, Tutendeje, ndugu zetu? 38 tPetro akawaambia, Tubuni mkabatizwe kila mmoja kwa jina lake Yesu Kristo, mpate ondoleo la dhambi zenu, nanyi mtapokea kipawa cha Roho Mtakatifu. 39 tKwa kuwa ahadi hii ni kwa ajili yenu, na kwa watoto wenu, na kwa watu wote walio mbali, na kwa wote watakaoitwa na Bwana Mungu wetu wamjie. 40 tAkawashuhudia kwa maneno mengine mengi sana na kuwaonya, akisema, Jiokoeni na kizazi hiki chenye ukaidi. 41 tNao waliolipokea neno lake wakabatizwa; na siku ile wakaongezeka watu wapata elfu tatu.
42 tWakawa wakidumu katika fundisho la mitume, na katika ushirika, na katika kuumega mkate, na katika kusali.Maisha ya Waumini
43 Kila mtu akaingiwa na hofu; ajabu nyingi na ishara zikafanywa na mitume. 44 tNa wote walioamini walikuwa mahali pamoja, na kuwa na vitu vyote shirika, 45 wakiuza mali zao, na vitu vyao walivyokuwa navyo, na kuwagawia watu wote kama kila mtu alivyokuwa na haja. 46 tNa siku zote kwa moyo mmoja walidumu ndani ya hekalu, wakimega mkate nyumba kwa nyumba, na kushiriki chakula chao kwa furaha na kwa moyo mweupe, 47 twakimsifu Mungu, na kuwapendeza watu wote. Bwana akalizidisha kanisa kila siku kwa wale waliokuwa wakiokolewa.
ACTS 2
The Coming of the Holy Spirit
1 t On the day of Pentecostt all the Lord's followers were together in one place. 2 Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house where they were meeting. 3 Then they saw what looked like fiery tongues moving in all directions, and a tongue came and settled on each person there.
4 The Holy Spirit took control of everyone, and they began speaking whatever languages the Spirit let them speak.
5 Many religious Jews from every country in the world were living in Jerusalem. 6 And when they heard this noise, a crowd gathered. But they were surprised, because they were hearing everything in their own languages.
7 They were excited and amazed, and said:
Don't all these who are speaking come from Galilee? 8 Then why do we hear them speaking our very own languages? 9 Some of us are from Parthia, Media, and Elam. Others are from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, parts of Libya near Cyrene, Rome,
11 Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.
12 Everyone was excited and confused. Some of them even kept asking each other, “What does all this mean?”
13 Others made fun of the Lord's followers and said, “They are drunk.”Peter Speaks to the Crowd
14 Peter stood with the eleven apostles and spoke in a loud and clear voice to the crowd:
Friends and everyone else living in Jerusalem, listen carefully to what I have to say! 15 You are wrong to think that these people are drunk. After all, it is only nine o'clock in the morning.
16 But this is what God told the prophet Joel to say,
17 t “When the last days come,
I will give my Spirit
to everyone.
Your sons and daughters
will prophesy.
Your young men
will see visions,
and your old men
will have dreams.
18 In those days I will give
my Spirit to my servants,
both men and women,
and they will prophesy.
19 I will work miracles
in the sky above
and wonders
on the earth below.
There will be blood and fire
and clouds of smoke.
20 The sun will turn dark,
and the moon
will be as red as blood
before the great
and wonderful day
of the Lord appears.
21 Then the Lord
will save everyone
who asks for his help.”
22 Now, listen to what I have to say about Jesus from Nazareth. God proved he sent Jesus to you by having him work miracles, wonders, and signs. All of you know this. 23 t God had already planned and decided that Jesus would be handed over to you. So you took him and had evil men put him to death on a cross. 24 t But God set him free from death and raised him to life. Death could not hold him in its power.
25 t What David said are really the words of Jesus,
“I always see the Lord
near me,
and I will not be afraid
with him at my right side.
26 Because of this,
my heart will be glad,
my words will be joyful,
and I will live in hope.
27 The Lord won't leave me
in the grave.
I am his holy one,
and he won't let
my body decay.
28 He has shown me
the path to life,
and he makes me glad
by being near me.”
29 My friends, it is right for me to speak to you about our ancestor David. He died and was buried, and his tomb is still here.
30 t But David was a prophet, and he knew that God had made a promise he would not break. He had told David someone from his own family would someday be king.
31 David knew this would happen, and so he told us Christ would be raised to life. He said God would not leave him in the grave or let his body decay.
32 All of us can tell you that God has raised Jesus to life!
33 Jesus was taken up to sit at the right sidet of God, and he was given the Holy Spirit, just as the Father had promised. Jesus is also the one who has given the Spirit to us, and this is what you are now seeing and hearing.
34 t David didn't go up to heaven. So he wasn't talking about himself when he said, “The Lord told my Lord to sit at his right side, 35 until he made my Lord's enemies into a footstool for him.”
36 Everyone in Israel should then know for certain that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ, even though you put him to death on a cross.
37 When the people heard this, they were very upset. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Friends, what should we do?”
38 Peter said to them, “Turn to God and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 This promise is for you and your children. It is for everyone our Lord God will choose, no matter where they live.”
40 Peter told them many other things as well. Then he said, “I beg you to save yourselves from what will happen to all these evil people.” 41 On that day about 3,000 believed his message and were baptized.
42 They spent their time learning from the apostles, and they were like family to each other. They also broke breadt and prayed together.Life among the Lord's Followers
43 Everyone was amazed by the many miracles and wonders that the apostles worked. 44 t All the Lord's followers often met together, and they shared everything they had. 45 They would sell their property and possessions and give the money to whoever was in need. 46 Day after day they met together in the temple. They broke breadt together in different homes and shared their food happily and freely, 47 while praising God. Everyone liked them, and each day the Lord added to their group others who were being saved.