أعمال الرسل ١٢:١٧
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فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِيَدِهِ لِيَسْكُتُوا، وَحَدَّثَهُمْ كَيْفَ أَخْرَجَهُ الرَّبُّ مِنَ السِّجْنِ. وَقَالَ:«أَخْبِرُوا يَعْقُوبَ وَالإِخْوَةَ بِهذَا». ثُمَّ خَرَجَ وَذَهَبَ إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ آخَرَ.
التفاسير
مقتطفات جُمعت من تفاسير منشورة لترسيخ القراءة.
But he, beckoning . . . with his hand to hold their peace--a lively touch this. In the hubbub of joyful and wondering interrogatories there might mingle reflections, thrown out by one against another, for holding out so long against the testimony of Rhoda; while the emotion of the apostle's own spirit would be too deep and solemn to take part in such demonstrations or utter a word till, with his hand, he had signified his wish for perfect silence. Go show these things unto James and to the brethren--Whether James the son of Alpheus, one of the Twelve, usually known as "James the Less," and "James the Lord's brother" (Gal 1:19), were the same person; and if not, whether the James here referred to was the former or the latter, critics are singularly divided, and the whole question is one of the most difficult. To us, it appears that there are strong reasons for thinking that they were not the same person, and that the one here meant, and throughout the Acts, is the apostle James. (But on this more hereafter). James is singled out, because he had probably begun to take the oversight of the Church in Jerusalem, which we afterwards find him exercising (Acts 15:1-29). And he departed, and went into another place--according to his Lord's express command (Mat 10:23). When told, on a former miraculous liberation from prison, to go and speak unto the people (Act 5:20), he did it; but in this case to present himself in public would have been to tempt God by rushing upon certain destruction.
افتح المصدر ↗In this chapter we have the story, I. Of the martyrdom of James the apostle, and the imprisonment of Peter by Herod Agrippa, who now reigned as king in Judea (Act 12:1-4). II. The miraculous deliverance of Peter out of prison by the ministry of an angel, in answer to the prayers of the church for him (Act 12:6-19). III. The cutting off of Herod in the height of his pride by the stroke of an angel, the minister of God's justice (Act 12:20-23); and this was done while Barnabas and Saul were at Jerusalem, upon the errand that the church of Antioch sent them on, to carry their charity; and therefore in the close we have an account of their return to Antioch (Act 12:24, Act 12:25).
افتح المصدر ↗الشواهد المتقابلة
مقاطع أخرى يربطها المجتمع بهذا المقطع أكثر من غيرها. انقر لتقرأها.
فَلَمَّا أَذِنَ لَهُ، وَقَفَ بُولُسُ عَلَى الدَّرَجِ وَأَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى الشَّعْبِ، فَصَارَ سُكُوتٌ عَظِيمٌ. فَنَادَى بِاللُّغَةِ الْعِبْرَانِيَّةِ قَائِلاً:
فَاجْتَذَبُوا إِسْكَنْدَرَ مِنَ الْجَمْعِ، وَكَانَ الْيَهُودُ يَدْفَعُونَهُ. فَأَشَارَ إِسْكَنْدَرُ بِيَدِهِ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَحْتَجَّ لِلشَّعْبِ.
فَقَامَ بُولُسُ وَأَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ وَقَالَ:«أَيُّهَا الرِّجَالُ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ وَالَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ اللهَ، اسْمَعُوا!
وَبَعْدَمَا سَكَتَا أَجَابَ يَعْقُوبُ قِائِلاً:«أَيُّهَا الرِّجَالُ الإِخْوَةُ، اسْمَعُونِي.
وَفِي الْغَدِ دَخَلَ بُولُسُ مَعَنَا إِلَى يَعْقُوبَ، وَحَضَرَ جَمِيعُ الْمَشَايخِ.
وَلكِنَّنِي لَمْ أَرَ غَيْرَهُ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ إِلاَّ يَعْقُوبَ أَخَا الرَّبِّ.
فَإِذْ عَلِمَ بِالنِّعْمَةِ الْمُعْطَاةِ لِي يَعْقُوبُ وَصَفَا وَيُوحَنَّا، الْمُعْتَبَرُونَ أَنَّهُمْ أَعْمِدَةٌ، أَعْطَوْنِي وَبَرْنَابَا يَمِينَ الشَّرِكَةِ لِنَكُونَ نَحْنُ لِلأُمَمِ، وَأَمَّا هُمْ فَلِلْخِتَانِ.
لأَنَّهُ قَبْلَمَا أَتَى قَوْمٌ مِنْ عِنْدِ يَعْقُوبَ كَانَ يَأْكُلُ مَعَ الأُمَمِ، وَلكِنْ لَمَّا أَتَوْا كَانَ يُؤَخِّرُ وَيُفْرِزُ نَفْسَهُ، خَائِفًا مِنَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ مِنَ الْخِتَانِ.
فَرَفَعُوا حِجَارَةً لِيَرْجُمُوهُ. أَمَّا يَسُوعُ فَاخْتَفَى وَخَرَجَ مِنَ الْهَيْكَلِ مُجْتَازًا فِي وَسْطِهِمْ وَمَضَى هكَذَا.
فَلَمْ يَكُنْ يَسُوعُ أَيْضًا يَمْشِي بَيْنَ الْيَهُودِ عَلاَنِيَةً، بَلْ مَضَى مِنْ هُنَاكَ إِلَى الْكُورَةِ الْقَرِيبَةِ مِنَ الْبَرِّيَّةِ، إِلَى مَدِينَةٍ يُقَالُ لَهَا أَفْرَايِمُ، وَمَكَثَ هُنَاكَ مَعَ تَلاَمِيذِهِ.