Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Te phoeiah Amphipolis neh Apollonia te a hil rhoi tih Thessalonika la pawk rhoi. Te ah te Judah rhoek kah tunim om.
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Te vaengah a sainoek bangla Paul te amih taengla kun tih Sabbath voei thum amih taengah olcim te a thui.
3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
Te vaengah, “Khrih he patang tih duek lamkah a thoh a kuek te khaw, Jesuh amah tah Khrih ni. Anih te ni kai loh nangmih taengah ka doek,” tila a ong pah tih a tawn pah.
4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
Te vaengah amih khuikah hlangvang tah ngailaem tih Paul neh Silas taengla kibaeng uh. Greek rhoek khuiah huta rhaengpuei a yet loh a bawk uh tih tanglue rhoek khaw a yool mai moenih.
5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
Tedae Judah rhoek te a thatlai uh dongah boethae hlang rhoek te dumlo lailo la hlangvang a khuen tih khopuei ah sarhingrhup la a kuk uh. Te phoeiah Jason im te a pai thil uh tih amih rhoi te rhaengpuei taengah phoe sak ham a toem uh.
6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Tedae amih rhoi te a hmuh uh pawt vaengah Jason neh manuca rhoek hlangvang te khoboei rhoek taengla a mawt uh. Te phoeiah, “Amih loh lunglai a palet uh tih he la om rhoi coeng.
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Amih te Jason loh a doe. Te dongah amih tah Kaisar kah oltloek te boeih a khoboe thil uh tih, ‘Manghai tloe Jesuh om,’ a ti uh,” tila pang uh.
8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
Te te a yaak uh vaengah hlangping neh khoboei rhoek khaw thuen uh.
9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
Tedae Jason neh a tloe rhoek taengkah a doe uh khangrhang daengah amih te a hlah uh.
10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Te dongah Paul neh Silas te manuca rhoek loh khoyin ah Berea la pahoi a tueih uh. A pha uh vaengah Judah rhoek kah tunim ah kun uh.
11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Tedae amih tah Thessalonika kah rhoek lakah hlangtang la om uh. Amih tah khalanah cungkuem neh olka te a doe uh. Hno he om tang nim tila hnin takuem ah cacim te a thuep uh.
12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Te dongah amih khuikah loh muep a tangnah uh. Te vaengkah Greek huta tongpa hlangcong khaw a yool mai moenih.
13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
Paul loh Berea ah Pathen kah olka a doek van tila Thessalonika lamkah Judah rhoek loh a ming uh. Te vaengah ha lo uh tih a hinghoek dongah hlangping te a hinghuen sak uh.
14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Te dongah tuitunli duela caeh sak ham manuca rhoek loh Paul te pahoi a thak uh. Tedae Silas neh Timothy tah pahoi duem rhoi pueng.
15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
Te vaengkah a hmoel rhoek loh Paul te Athens duela a thak uh. Te phoeiah Silas neh Timothy te anih taengah thamaa la lo sak ham olpaek te a doe uh tih bal uh.
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Amih te Paul loh Athens ah a rhing. Khopuei mueirhol la a poeh te a hmuh vaengah a mueihla tah a khuiah umya.
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
Te dongah tunim kah Judah rhoek nen khaw, aka bawk rhoek nen khaw, hnin takuem kah hnoyoih hmuen ah a hmuh rhoek taengah khaw a thuingong uh.
18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
A lak vaengah Epikouri neh Satoiko kah poeksoemkung rhoek long khaw anih te a loepdak uh. Te dongah a ngen loh, “Olom loh banim thui a ngaih he.” A tloe rhoek loh, “Kholong kah sungrhai aka thuikung i ti. Jesuh neh thohkoepnah ni a phong,” a ti uh.
19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
Anih te a tuuk uh tih Areopagos la a khuen uh phoeiah, “Nang loh a thai la thuituennah dongah na thui te ka ming uh thai aya?
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Kaimih hnavue ah nang khuen dongah a ngen tah suel coeng. Te dongah tekah a ti ngaih te ming ham ka cai uh,” a ti uh.
21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Te vaengkah Athens pum neh aka laiom yinlai ham khaw a tloe moenih. A hoeng hoep vaengah pakhat khaw a thui tih a thai la pakhat khaw a yaak uh.
22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Te dongah Paul loh Areopagos laklung ah pai tih, “Athens hlang rhoek, cungkuem dongah na cuep uh te ka hmuh.
23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
Tedae ka caeh vaengah na bawknah te ka thuep hatah hmueihtuk pakhat dongah Mangvawt Pathen la a daek te ka hmuh bal. Te dongah mangvawt taengah tho na thueng uh. He ni kai loh nangmih taengah ka doek.
24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
Diklai neh a khuikah boeih aka saii Pathen, vaan neh diklai kah Boeipa la aka om he kutsai bawkim ah kho a sak moenih. Hlanghing kut loh a yuh a yam ham pakhat khaw a kuek moenih.
25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
Amah loh a cungkuem taengah hingnah, hiil neh a cungkuem he a paek.
26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Pakhat lamloh diklai hman boeih ah khosak ham namtom hlang boeih khaw a saii. Khoning a hmoel tih amih omnah te khorhi la a suem pah.
27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
Pathen te a toem atah amah te tapkhoeh m'phathuep sak tih m'ming sak ni. Tedae amah te mamih pakhat rhip taeng lamloh lakhla la a om moenih.
28 ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
Amah dongah n'hing uh tih m'pongpa la ng'om uh. Nangmih khui kah hlangvang loh hlohlai neh a thui vanbangla, amah kah namtu la n'om uh.
29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
Pathen kah namtu la aka om loh sui, ngun, lungto, bungkhutnah kutnoek neh hlang kah poeknah he Pathen bangla om tila poek ham a om moenih.
30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Kotalhnah tue vaengah Pathen loh n'hnoelrhoeng mai cakhaw hlang boeih te yut sak ham khotomrhali a uen coeng.
31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
A hmoel hlang loh duengnah dongah lunglai he laitloek thil ham khohnin te a pai sak coeng. Anih te duek lamkah a thoh tih a cungkuem ham tangnah khaw a soep sak,” a ti nah.
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
Duek lamkah thohkoepnah te a yaak uh vaengah hlangvang loh nueih thil cakhaw a ngen long tah, “Nang kawng he koep ka hnatun bal ni,” a ti uh.
33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
Te vanbangla Paul tah amih khui lamkah loh vik nong.
34 But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Tedae aka tangnah hlang hlangvang rhoek tah Paul taengah kap uh. Amih khuiah Areopagite khoboei Dionysus, te phoeiah huta pakhat, a ming ah Damaris neh amih taengkah a tloe rhoek khaw om uh.
