¹Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.”

¹Pavel pa smelo pogleda na veliki zbor in reče: Možje in bratje! Jaz sem z vso dobro vestjo živel pred Bogom do današnjega dne.

²The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

²Veliki duhovnik Ananija pa ukaže tistim, ki so stali pri njem, naj ga udarijo po ustih.

³Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”

³Tedaj mu reče Pavel: Udaril te bo Bog, stena pobeljena! Ti tu sediš, da bi me sodil po postavi, in zoper postavo me veliš bíti?

⁴Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s high priest?”

⁴Tisti pa, ki so zraven stali, reko: Velikega duhovnika Božjega psuješ?

⁵Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’” Exodus 22:28

⁵Pavel pa reče: Nisem vedel, bratje, da je veliki duhovnik; pisano je namreč: „Poglavarja naroda svojega ne preklinjaj“.

⁶But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

⁶Vedoč pa, da jih je nekaj saducejev, nekaj pa farizejev, zavpije Pavel v velikem zboru: Bratje, jaz sem farizej, sin farizejev; zavoljo upanja in vstajenja od mrtvih sem na sodbi.

⁷When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

⁷Ko je pa to rekel, nastane razpor med farizeji in saduceji, in zbor se razdeli.

⁸For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

⁸Saduceji namreč pravijo, da ni vstajenja in tudi angela in duha ne, farizeji pa priznavajo oboje.

⁹A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

⁹In nastane velik krik; in nekateri pismarji od strani farizejske vstanejo, se prepirajo in reko: Nič hudega ne vidimo na tem človeku; kako pa, če mu je duh govoril ali angel?

¹⁰When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

¹⁰Ko je pa nastal velik razpor, se je bal tisočnik, da ne bi Pavla raztrgali, ter ukaže vojakom, naj pridejo doli in ga siloma potegnejo izmed njih ter odpeljejo v grad.

¹¹The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

¹¹Drugo noč pa pristopi Gospod k njemu in reče: Srčen bodi! Zakaj kakor si v Jeruzalemu pričal zame, tako moraš tudi v Rimu pričati.

¹²When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

¹²Ko se je pa zdanilo, se zbere nekaj Judov, in se zarote, da ne bodo ne jedli, ne pili, dokler ne ubijejo Pavla.

¹³There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

¹³Bilo jih je pa več nego štirideset, ki so sklenili tako zaroto.

¹⁴They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

¹⁴Ti pristopijo k višjim duhovnikom in starejšinam in reko: S prisego smo se zakleli, da ne okusimo ničesar, dokler ne ubijemo Pavla.

¹⁵Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

¹⁵Sedaj torej vi z velikim zborom naznanite tisočniku, naj ga jutri pripelje doli k vam, kakor da bi hoteli natančneje preiskati njegovo zadevo; a mi smo pripravljeni, da ga ubijemo, preden se približa.

¹⁶But Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

¹⁶Slišal je pa o tem zalezovanju sin sestre Pavlove, ter pride in stopi v grad in sporoči Pavlu.

¹⁷Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”

¹⁷Pavel pa pokliče enega od stotnikov in reče: Tega mladeniča odpelji k tisočniku, ima mu namreč nekaj sporočiti.

¹⁸So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you.”

¹⁸On ga torej vzame in pripelje k tisočniku ter reče: Jetnik Pavel me je poklical in prosil, naj tega mladeniča popeljem k tebi, ki ima nekaj govoriti s teboj.

¹⁹The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”

¹⁹In tisočnik ga prime za roko in odstopi ž njim na stran in vpraša: Kaj je, kar imaš povedati?

²⁰He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

²⁰In reče: Judje so se dogovorili, da te poprosijo, da bi jutri pripeljal Pavla v veliki zbor, kakor da bi hotel kaj natančnejšega izprašati zanj.

²¹Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

²¹Ti jih pa ne poslušaj: zalezuje ga namreč izmed njih več nego štirideset mož, ki so se zarotili, da ne bodo ne jedli, ne pili, dokler ga ne umore; in sedaj so pripravljeni in čakajo obljube tvoje.

²²So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”

²²Tedaj tisočnik odpusti mladeniča, naročivši mu: Naj nikomur ne poveš, da si mi to naznanil.

²³He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night about 9:00 PM .”

²³In pokliče dva stotnika in veli: Pripravite dvesto vojakov, da pojdejo do Cezareje, in sedemdeset konjikov in dvesto suličnikov po tretji uri v noči;

²⁴He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.

²⁴ukaže tudi, naj imajo živino pripravljeno, da Pavla posade nanjo in ga zdravega pripeljejo k Feliksu, namestniku [Ali: deželnemu poglavarju.].

²⁵He wrote a letter like this:

²⁵In napiše pismo, ki se je takole glasilo:

²⁶“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

²⁶Klavdij Lizija pozdravlja častitega namestnika Feliksa.

²⁷“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

²⁷Tega moža so Judje zgrabili in ga hoteli umoriti; ali prišel sem z vojsko in ga otel, ko sem zvedel, da je Rimljan.

²⁸Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

²⁸Hoteč pa zvedeti vzrok, zakaj ga tožijo, sem ga peljal v njih veliki zbor;

²⁹I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

²⁹in našel sem, da ga tožijo za vprašanja svoje postave, da pa nima nobene krivice, za katero bi bil vreden smrti ali spon.

³⁰When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

³⁰Ko se mi je pa naznanil naklep, ki so ga kovali zoper tega moža, sem ga poslal zdajci k tebi, sporočivši tudi tožnikom, naj pred teboj povedo, kar imajo zoper njega. Zdrav!

³¹So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

³¹Tedaj so vojaki, kakor jim je bilo naročeno, vzeli Pavla in ga odpeljali po noči v Antipatrido.

³²But on the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the barracks.

³²A drugi dan so se vrnili v grad, pustivši konjike, da so šli ž njim.

³³When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

³³Ko pridejo ti v Cezarejo, oddado pismo namestniku in postavijo tudi Pavla predenj.

³⁴When the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. When he understood that he was from Cilicia, he said,

³⁴Ko pa prebere pismo, ga vpraša, iz katere pokrajine je, in zvedevši, da je iz Cilicije,reče: Zaslišal te bom, kadar pridejo tudi tožniki tvoji. In ukaže, naj ga varujejo v dvorcu Herodovem.

³⁵“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

³⁵reče: Zaslišal te bom, kadar pridejo tudi tožniki tvoji. In ukaže, naj ga varujejo v dvorcu Herodovem.