Hechos de los Apóstoles 9

1Saulo que todavía respiraba amenaza y muerte contra los discípulos del Señor, fue al Sumo Sacerdote

2y le pidió cartas para Damasco, a las sinagogas, con el fin de traer presos a Jerusalén a cuantos hallase de esta religión, hombres y mujeres.

3Yendo por el camino, ya cerca de Damasco, de repente una luz del cielo resplandeció a su rededor;

4y caído en tierra oyó una voz que le decía: “Saulo, Saulo, ¿por qué me persigues?”

5Respondió él: “¿Quién eres, Señor?” Díjole Este: “Yo soy Jesús a quien tú persigues.

6Mas levántate, entra en la ciudad, y se te dirá lo que has de hacer”.

7Los hombres que con él viajaban se habían parados atónitos, oyendo, por cierto, la voz, pero no viendo a nadie.

8Levantose, entonces, Saulo de la tierra, mas al abrir sus ojos no veía nada. Por lo tanto lo tomaron de la mano y lo condujeron a Damasco.

9Tres días estuvo privado de la vista, y no comió ni bebió.

10Vivía en Damasco cierto discípulo, por nombre Ananías, al cual el Señor dijo en una visión: “¡Ananías!”, y él respondió: “Aquí me tienes. Señor”.

11Díjole entonces el Señor: “Levántate y ve a la calle llamada «la Recta», y pregunta en casa de Judas por un hombre llamado Saulo de Tarso, porque él está en oración”;

12y ( Saulo) vio a un hombre llamado Ananías, cómo entraba y le imponía las manos para que recobrase la vista.

13A lo cual respondió Ananías: “Señor, he oído de muchos respecto a este hombre, cuántos males ha hecho a tus santos en Jerusalén.

14y aquí está con poderes de los sumos sacerdotes para prender a todos los que invocan tu nombre”.

15Mas el Señor le replicó: “Anda, porque un instrumento escogido es para mí ese mismo, a fin de llevar mi nombre delante de naciones y reyes e hijos de Israel;

16porque Yo le mostraré cuánto tendrá que sufrir por mi nombre”.

17Fuése, pues, Ananías, entró en la casa y le impuso las manos, diciendo: “Saulo, hermano, el Señor Jesús, que se te apareció en el camino por donde venías, me ha enviado para que recobres la vista y quedes lleno del Espíritu Santo”.

18Al instante cayeron de sus ojos unas como escamas y recobró la vista; luego se levantó y fue bautizado.

19Tomó después alimento y se fortaleció. Apenas estuvo algunos días con los discípulos que se hallaban en Damasco,

20cuando empezó a predicar en las sinagogas a Jesús, como que Este es el Hijo de Dios.

21Y todos los que le oían, estaban pasmados y decían: “¿No es este aquel que destrozaba en Jerusalén a los que invocan este nombre, y aquí había venido con el propósito de llevarlos atados ante los sumos sacerdotes?”

22Saulo, empero, fortalecíase cada día más y confundía a los judíos que vivían en Damasco, afirmando que Este es el Cristo.

23Bastantes días más tarde, los judíos tomaron la resolución de quitarle la vida.

24Mas Saulo fue advertido de sus asechanzas; pues ellos custodiaban las puertas día y noche a fin de matarlo.

25Entonces los discípulos tomándolo de noche, lo descolgaron por el muro, bajándolo en un canasto.

26Llegado a Jerusalén, procuraba juntarse con los discípulos, más todos recelaban de él, porque no creían que fuese discípulo.

27Entonces lo tomó Bernabé y lo condujo a los apóstoles, contándoles cómo en el camino había visto al Señor y que Este le había hablado y cómo en Damasco había predicado con valentía en el nombre de Jesús.

28Así estaba con ellos, entrando y saliendo, en Jerusalén y predicando sin rebozo en el nombre del Señor.

29Conversaba también con los griegos y disputaba con ellos. Mas estos intentaron matarlo.

30Los discípulos, al saberlo, lleváronlo a Cesarea y lo enviaron a Tarso.

31Entretanto, la Iglesia, por toda Judea y Galilea y Samaria, gozaba de paz y se edificaba caminando en el temor del Señor, y se iba aumentando por la consolación del Espíritu Santo.

32Sucedió entonces que yendo Pedro a todas partes llegó también a los santos que moraban en Lidda.

33Encontró allí un hombre llamado Eneas que desde hacía ocho años estaba tendido en un lecho, porque era paralítico.

34Díjole Pedro: “Eneas, Jesucristo te sana. Levántate y hazte tú mismo la cama”. Al instante se levantó,

35y lo vieron todos los que vivían en Lidda y en Sarona, los cuales se convirtieron al Señor.

36Había en Joppe una discípula por nombre Tabita, lo que traducido significa Dorcás ( Gacela). Estaba esta llena de buenas obras y de las limosnas que hacía,

37Sucedió en aquellos días que cayó enferma y murió. Lavaron su cadáver y la pusieron en el aposento alto.

38Mas como Lidda está cerca de Joppe, los discípulos oyendo que Pedro se hallaba allí, le enviaron dos hombres suplicándole: “No tardes en venir hasta nosotros”.

39Levantose, pues, Pedro y fue con ellos. Apenas hubo llegado, cuando lo condujeron al aposento alto, y se le presentaron todas las viudas llorando y mostrándole las túnicas y los vestidos que Dorcás les había hecho estando entre ellas.

40Mas Pedro hizo salir a todos, se puso de rodillas e hizo oración; después, dirigiéndose al cadáver, dijo: “¡Tabita, levántate!” Y ella abrió los ojos y viendo a Pedro se incorporó.

41Él, dándole la mano, la puso en pie y habiendo llamado a los santos y a las viudas, se la presentó viva.

42Esto se hizo notorio por toda Joppe, y muchos creyeron en el Señor.

43Se detuvo Pedro en Joppe bastantes días, en casa de cierto Simón, curtidor.

1Saulus autem adhuc spirans minarum et cædis in discipulos Domini, accessit ad principem sacerdotum,

2et petiit ab eo epistolas in Damascum ad synagogas: ut si quos invenisset hujus viæ viros ac mulieres, vinctos perduceret in Jerusalem.

3Et cum iter faceret, contigit ut appropinquaret Damasco: et subito circumfulsit eum lux de cælo.

4Et cadens in terram audivit vocem dicentem sibi: Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris?

5Qui dixit: Quis es, domine? Et ille: Ego sum Jesus, quem tu persequeris: durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare.

6Et tremens ac stupens dixit: Domine, quid me vis facere?

7Et Dominus ad eum: Surge, et ingredere civitatem, et ibi dicetur tibi quid te oporteat facere. Viri autem illi qui comitabantur cum eo, stabant stupefacti, audientes quidem vocem, neminem autem videntes.

8Surrexit autem Saulus de terra, apertisque oculis nihil videbat. Ad manus autem illum trahentes, introduxerunt Damascum.

9Et erat ibi tribus diebus non videns, et non manducavit, neque bibit.

10Erat autem quidam discipulus Damasci, nomine Ananias: et dixit ad illum in visu Dominus: Anania. At ille ait: Ecce ego, Domine.

11Et Dominus ad eum: Surge, et vade in vicum qui vocatur Rectus: et quære in domo Judæ Saulum nomine Tarsensem: ecce enim orat.

12(Et vidit virum Ananiam nomine, introëuntem, et imponentem sibi manus ut visum recipiat.)

13Respondit autem Ananias: Domine, audivi a multis de viro hoc, quanta mala fecerit sanctis tuis in Jerusalem:

14et hic habet potestatem a principibus sacerdotum alligandi omnes qui invocant nomen tuum.

15Dixit autem ad eum Dominus: Vade, quoniam vas electionis est mihi iste, ut portet nomen meum coram gentibus, et regibus, et filiis Israël.

16Ego enim ostendam illi quanta oporteat eum pro nomine meo pati.

17Et abiit Ananias, et introivit in domum: et imponens ei manus, dixit: Saule frater, Dominus misit me Jesus, qui apparuit tibi in via qua veniebas, ut videas, et implearis Spiritu Sancto.

18Et confestim ceciderunt ab oculis ejus tamquam squamæ, et visum recepit: et surgens baptizatus est.

19Et cum accepisset cibum, confortatus est. Fuit autem cum discipulis qui erant Damasci per dies aliquot.

20Et continuo in synagogis prædicabat Jesum, quoniam hic est Filius Dei.

21Stupebant autem omnes qui audiebant, et dicebant: Nonne hic est qui expugnabat in Jerusalem eos qui invocabant nomen istud: et huc ad hoc venit, ut vinctos illos duceret ad principes sacerdotum?

22Saulus autem multo magis convalescebat, et confundebat Judæos qui habitabant Damasci, affirmans quoniam hic est Christus.

23Cum autem implerentur dies multi, consilium fecerunt in unum Judæi ut eum interficerent.

24Notæ autem factæ sunt Saulo insidiæ eorum. Custodiebant autem et portas die ac nocte, ut eum interficerent.

25Accipientes autem eum discipuli nocte, per murum dimiserunt eum, submittentes in sporta.

26Cum autem venisset in Jerusalem, tentabat se jungere discipulis, et omnes timebant eum, non credentes quod esset discipulus.

27Barnabas autem apprehensum illum duxit ad Apostolos: et narravit illis quomodo in via vidisset Dominum, et quia locutus est ei, et quomodo in Damasco fiducialiter egerit in nomine Jesu.

28Et erat cum illis intrans et exiens in Jerusalem, et fiducialiter agens in nomine Domini.

29Loquebatur quoque gentibus, et disputabat cum Græcis: illi autem quærebant occidere eum.

30Quod cum cognovissent fratres, deduxerunt eum Cæsaream, et dimiserunt Tarsum.

31Ecclesia quidem per totam Judæam, et Galilæam, et Samariam habebat pacem, et ædificabatur ambulans in timore Domini, et consolatione Sancti Spiritus replebatur.

32Factum est autem, ut Petrus dum pertransiret universos, deveniret ad sanctos qui habitabant Lyddæ.

33Invenit autem ibi hominem quemdam, nomine Æneam, ab annis octo jacentem in grabato, qui erat paralyticus.

34Et ait illi Petrus: Ænea, sanat te Dominus Jesus Christus: surge, et sterne tibi. Et continuo surrexit.

35Et viderunt eum omnes qui habitabant Lyddæ et Saronæ: qui conversi sunt ad Dominum.

36In Joppe autem fuit quædam discipula, nomine Tabitha, quæ interpretata dicitur Dorcas. Hæc erat plena operibus bonis et eleemosynis quas faciebat.

37Factum est autem in diebus illis ut infirmata moreretur. Quam cum lavissent, posuerunt eam in cœnaculo.

38Cum autem prope esset Lydda ad Joppen, discipuli, audientes quia Petrus esset in ea, miserunt duos viros ad eum, rogantes: Ne pigriteris venire ad nos.

39Exsurgens autem Petrus, venit cum illis. Et cum advenisset, duxerunt illum in cœnaculum: et circumsteterunt illum omnes viduæ flentes, et ostendentes ei tunicas et vestes quas faciebat illis Dorcas.

40Ejectis autem omnibus foras, Petrus ponens genua oravit: et conversus ad corpus, dixit: Tabitha, surge. At illa aperuit oculos suos: et viso Petro, resedit.

41Dans autem illi manum, erexit eam. Et cum vocasset sanctos et viduas, assignavit eam vivam.

42Notum autem factum est per universam Joppen: et crediderunt multi in Domino.

43Factum est autem ut dies multos moraretur in Joppe, apud Simonem quemdam coriarium.

1And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

2And asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues: that if he found any men and women of this way, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

3And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh to Damascus; and suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him.

4And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

5Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

6And he trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?

7And the Lord said to him: Arise, and go into the city, and there it shall be told thee what thou must do. Now the men who went in company with him, stood amazed, hearing indeed a voice, but seeing no man.

8And Saul arose from the ground; and when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. But they leading him by the hands, brought him to Damascus.

9And he was there three days, without sight, and he did neither eat nor drink.

10Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision: Ananias. And he said: Behold I am here, Lord.

11And the Lord said to him: Arise, and go into the street that is called Stait, and seek in the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus. For behold he prayeth.

12(And he saw a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hands upon him, that he might receive his sight.)

13But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints in Jerusalem.

14And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that invoke thy name.

15And the Lord said to him: Go thy way; for this man is to me a vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel.

16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.

17And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest; that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

18And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and rising up, he was baptized.

19And when he had taken meat, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples that were at Damascus, for some days.

20And immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

21And all that heard him, were astonished, and said: Is not this he who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name: and came hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?

22But Saul increased much more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, affirming that this is the Christ.

23And when many days were passed, the Jews consulted together to kill him.

24But their laying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him.

25But the disciples taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

26And when he was come into Jerusalem, he essayed to join himself to the disciples; and they all were afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

27But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and told them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him; and how in Damascus he had dealt confidently in the name of Jesus.

28And he was with them coming in and going out in Jerusalem, and dealing confidently in the name of the Lord.

29He spoke also to the Gentiles, and disputed with the Greeks; but they sought to kill him.

30Which when the brethren had known, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

31Now the church had peace throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria; and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord, and was filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost.

32And it came to pass that Peter, as he passed through, visiting all, came to the saints who dwelt at Lydda.

33And he found there a certain man named Eneas, who had kept his bed for eight years, who was ill of the palsy.

34And Peter said to him: Eneas, the Lord Jesus Christ healeth thee: arise, and make thy bed. And immediately he arose.

35And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron, saw him: who were converted to the Lord.

36And in Joppe there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.

37And it came to pass in those days that she was sick, and died. Whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

38And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppe, the disciples hearing that Peter was there, sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not be slack to come unto them.

39And Peter rising up, went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him weeping, and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them.

40And they all being put forth, Peter kneeling down prayed, and turning to the body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes; and seeing Peter, she sat up.

41And giving her his hand, he lifted her up. And when he had called the saints and the widows, he presented her alive.

42And it was made known throughout all Joppe; and many believed in the Lord.

43And it came to pass, that he abode many days in Joppe, with one Simon a tanner.