¹It happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.

¹Zgodi se pa, ko je bil Apolo v Korintu, da pride Pavel, prehodivši gorenje strani, v Efez in tu najde nekaj učencev;

²He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

²in jim reče: Ali ste prejeli svetega Duha, ko ste postali verni? Oni mu pa reko: Saj še slišali nismo, da je sveti Duh.

³He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

³In reče: Na kaj torej ste bili krščeni? Oni pa reko: Na krst Janezov.

⁴Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

⁴Pavel pa reče: Janez je krstil s krstom izpokorjenja, govoreč ljudstvu, da naj verujejo v tega, ki prihaja za njim, to je Jezusa.

⁵When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁵Ko so pa to slišali, se dado krstiti v ime Gospoda Jezusa.

⁶When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

⁶In ko poklada Pavel nanje roke, pride sveti Duh nanje, in govore jezike in prorokujejo.

⁷They were about twelve men in all.

⁷Bilo jih je pa vseh skup kakih dvanajst mož.

⁸He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

⁸In ko pride v shodnico, srčno oznanjuje in govori tri mesece in prepričava o kraljestvu Božjem,

⁹But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

⁹Ko so se pa nekateri zakrknili in niso hoteli biti pokorni, hudo govoreč o potu Gospodovem pred množico, odstopi od njih in odloči učence, ter govori vsak dan v Tiranovi šoli.

¹⁰This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

¹⁰To pa je trpelo dve leti, tako da so slišali besedo Gospodovo vsi, ki so prebivali v Aziji, Judje in Grki.

¹¹God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

¹¹In ne male čudeže je delal Bog po rokah Pavlovih;

¹²so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.

¹²tako da so na bolnike pokladali celo potne prte ali predpasnike od života njegovega, in bolezni so jih puščale in hudobni duhovi so izhajali iz njih.

¹³But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

¹³Poskusili so pa tudi nekateri izmed Judov, ki so okrog hodili in hudiče rotili, klicati ime Gospoda Jezusa na tiste, ki so imeli hudobne duhove, govoreč: Zaklinjam vas pri Jezusu, ki ga Pavel oznanjuje.

¹⁴There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

¹⁴Bilo je pa sedem sinov nekega žida Skeve, višjega duhovnika, ki so to delali.

¹⁵The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

¹⁵Odgovori pa hudobni duh in reče: Jezusa poznam in za Pavla vem; vi pa, kdo ste?

¹⁶The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

¹⁶In skočivši nanje, premaga človek, v katerem je bil duh hudobni, dva izmed njih in ju zdela tako, da naga in ranjena ubežita iz tiste hiše.

¹⁷This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

¹⁷To pa je prišlo na znanje vsem, Judom in Grkom, ki so prebivali v Efezu; in strah jih je obšel vse, in ime Gospoda Jezusa se je poveličevalo.

¹⁸Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

¹⁸Mnogi tudi teh, ki so bili sprejeli vero, so prihajali ter priznavali in razodevali dela svoja.

¹⁹Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. The 50,000 pieces of silver here probably referred to 50,000 drachmas. If so, the value of the burned books was equivalent to about 160 man-years of wages for agricultural laborers

¹⁹A mnogi tistih, ki so uganjali vraže, so znesli knjige in jih sežgali vpričo vseh; in ko so sešteli njih ceno, so našli, da so veljale petdeset tisoč srebrnikov.

²⁰So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

²⁰Tako je beseda Gospodova rasla z močjo in se utrjevala.

²¹Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

²¹A ko se je to dopolnilo, se nameni Pavel v duhu, da pojde, prehodivši Macedonijo in Ahajo, v Jeruzalem in reče: Potem, ko bom tam, moram videti tudi Rim.

²²Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

²²Pošlje pa v Macedonijo dva od tistih, ki so mu služili, Timoteja in Erasta; sam ostane še nekaj časa v Aziji.

²³About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.

²³Nastane pa v ta čas ne majhen hrup zavoljo pota Gospodovega.

²⁴For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

²⁴Neki srebrar namreč, Demetrij po imenu, ki je delal srebrne tempeljčke Diani, je dajal umetnikom ne malo dobička.

²⁵whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.

²⁵In skliče te in druge take delavce in reče: Možje, veste, da imamo od tega dela blagostanje svoje,

²⁶You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands.

²⁶in vidite in slišite, da ne samo v Efezu, temuč skoro po vsej Aziji je ta Pavel veliko ljudstva pregovoril in odvrnil, govoreč, da to niso bogovi, ki so z rokami narejeni.

²⁷Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”

²⁷Ni pa samo nevarnost, da pride to delo naše na nič, ampak tudi, da se bo za nič štel velike boginje Diane tempelj in se skrajša veličastvo te, ki jo časti vsa Azija in vesoljni svet.

²⁸When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

²⁸Ko so pa to slišali, se napolnijo jeze in zakriče, rekoč: Velika je Diana Efežanov!

²⁹The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

²⁹In po vsem mestu zavlada zmešnjava; in zaženo se enodušno na gledališče in zgrabijo s seboj Gaja in Aristarha, Macedonca, sopotovalca Pavlova.

³⁰When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.

³⁰Ko je pa Pavel hotel iti med ljudstvo, ga niso učenci pustili.

³¹Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

³¹Pa tudi nekateri azijskih poglavarjev, ki so mu bili prijatelji, so k njemu poslali in ga prosili, naj ne gre v gledališče.

³²Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.

³²Vpili so pa eni to, drugi drugo; kajti bil je zbor poln zmešnjave, in največ jih je bilo, ki niso vedeli, zakaj so se sešli.

³³They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.

³³A nekateri so izvlekli Aleksandra izmed množice, ko so ga tudi Judje naprej potiskali. Aleksander pa zamahne z roko, naj umolknejo, in hoče ljudstvu govoriti.

³⁴But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

³⁴Ko pa spoznajo, da je Jud, vzdignejo vsi en glas in vpijejo kaki dve uri: Velika je Diana Efežanov!

³⁵When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

³⁵Mestni pisar pa, ko je množico pomiril, reče: Možje Efežani! kateri človek je, ki bi ne vedel, da mesto Efežanov je varuh svetišču velike Diane in od Jupitra padle podobe?

³⁶Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.

³⁶Ker se torej temu ne more ugovarjati, je treba, da se umirite in se v ničemer ne prenaglite.

³⁷For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

³⁷Kajti pripeljali ste sem ta moža, ki nista ne svetišča oropala, ne boginje naše preklinjala.

³⁸If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.

³⁸Če imajo pa Demetrij in umetniki, ki so ž njim, tožbo zoper koga, sodišča so in namestniki so; naj tožijo drug drugega.

³⁹But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

³⁹Če pa zahtevate kaj drugega, se to obravna v postavnem zboru.

⁴⁰For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”

⁴⁰Kajti v nevarnosti smo tudi, da bomo zatoženi zavoljo današnje vstaje, in nobenega nimamo vzroka, s katerim bi mogli dati odgovor za ta hrupni shod.In rekši to, je razpustil zbor.

⁴¹When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

⁴¹In rekši to, je razpustil zbor.