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Peter – Letters to the churches (17)

Bro Brian.

(པེ་ཏྲོ། ༡ 5:12-14)

ངས་བློ་གཏད་ཆོག་པར་རྩི་བའི་སྤུན་ཟླ་སིལ་ཝ་ནུ་བརྒྱུད་ནས་ཡིག་གེ་ཐུང་ངུ་འདི་བྲིས། ཁྱེད་ཚོར་སྐུལ་ཞིང༌། ཡི་གེ་འདིར་བཀོད་པ་ནི་དཀོན་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་བདེན་པ་ཡིན་པར་དཔང་པོ་བྱེད་པའི་ཆེད་དུ་ཡིན། དེ་ལ་བརྟན་པོར་གནས་ཤིག

བ་བི་ལོན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ལ་ཡོད་པའི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཁྱེད་རྣམས་ལྟར་བདམས་པ་དང༌། ངའི་བུ་ལྟར་ཡིན་པ་མར་ཀུས་ཁྱེད་ཚོར་འཚམས་འདྲི་ཞུ།

ཡེ་ཤུའི་བྱམས་སེམས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ནས་གཅིག་གིས་གཅིག་ལ་འོ་ཡིས་འཚམས་འདྲི་ཞུ། མཱ་ཤི་ཀའི་ནང་ན་གནས་པ་ཁྱེད་ཚོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཞི་བདེ་དང་ལྡན་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག །

 

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(1 Peter 5:12-14)

By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it. 13 She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings, and so does Mark, my son. 14 Greet one another with the kiss of love.

Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

 

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Closing Greetings

Just before Lo Sar we started this letter that Silvanus was writing for Peter and mentioned these last words of greeting.

Peter reminds them that they have been chosen by God, urging them to continue in the truth of the good news (v.12).

Mark, his close friend, is the writer of the Gospel of Mark. ‘She who is at Babylon’ is probably a code name for the assembly of believers at Rome who are not understood by worldly Roman people, and therefore possibly even meeting in secret for safety (v.13).

Like a fond parent he urges them to live together like a loving family; and he closes with a prayer of blessing on those who are safe in ‘Christ’.

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The Acts of the Apostles – Acts 20:1-6 མཛད་པ། 20:1-6

Bro Brian.

(མཛད་པ། 20:1-6)

Acts 20.1-6 w B

 

After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days. (Acts 20:1-6)

 

For help in understanding these verses see the map.

It was now unsafe in Ephesus, so Paul set off to complete his plan of land and sea travel (see Chapter 19 verse 21); this was to make a final visit to Macedonia, especially Philippi, and then further to Greece as well, including Corinth.

After that, when about to take ship to Jerusalem, he learned of the plot against him. For other Jews travelling on the same boat as pilgrims to the spring festivals in Jerusalem it would have been so easy for them to kill him at sea. Quickly he took boat in the opposite direction going back once again to Phillipi.

His party consisted of representatives from various churches; and, when they left Philippi at last to go to Jerusalem, it now also included Luke the writer of Acts.

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The Acts of the Apostles – Acts 20:7-16 མཛད་པ། 20:7-16

Bro Brian.

(མཛད་པ། 20:7-16)

Acts 20.7-16 w B

 

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.

But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land. And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and[b] the day after that we went to Miletus. For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. (Acts 20:7-16)

 

Paul’s first stop on his journey from Philippi to Jerusalem was a week spent in Troas.

The final all-night Sunday meeting with the believers, together with Paul’s farewell speech, was too long for one tired young man. Luke, the doctor, tells us how Eutychus died and was then brought back to life.

Then he describes how their journey continued by stages down the west coast of Asia (see map).