Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
祿和息拉經過安非頗里和阿頗羅尼雅，來到得撒洛尼，在那裏有猶太人的會堂。
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
保祿照常例，到他們那裏，一連三個安息日，根據聖經和他們辯論，
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.”
闡明指出默西亞必須受難，並從死者中復活；且說：「我向你們所傳報的耶穌，就是默西亞。」
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.
他們中有些人信服了，便與保祿和息拉聯合，還有許多敬畏天主的人和希臘人，以及不少的顯貴婦女。
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.
但是，猶太人卻起了嫉妒的心，聚集了一些市井敗類，結夥成群，擾亂城市；又闖進雅松家裏，搜尋保祿和息拉，要拉他們到民眾那裏。
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,
但沒有搜到，就把雅松和幾個弟兄，拉到本城官長前，吶喊說：「這些擾亂天下的人，也到這裏來了，
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
雅松竟收留了他們；這些人都背叛凱撒諭令行事，說另有一位國王，就是耶穌。」
8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
他們使群眾和本城官長們聽了這事，都惶惶不安。
9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
本城官長便由雅松及其餘的人取了保狀，便將他們釋放了。
10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
弟兄們便立即在夜間打發保祿和息拉去貝洛雅；他們到了那裏，就進了猶太人的會堂。
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.
這裏的人比得撒洛尼人開明，接受這道，極其熱切，天天考究聖經，看這些事是否是真的。
12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
所以他們中有許多人信從了，還有許多希臘尊貴婦女，男子也不少。
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.
可是，得撒洛尼的猶太人，一知道保祿在貝洛雅也傳開了天主的聖道，就到那裏煽動擾亂群眾。
14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
弟兄們遂立即打發保祿往海邊去；息拉和弟茂德仍留在貝洛雅。
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.
送保祿的人領他一直到了雅典；他們領了保祿的命令，叫息拉和弟茂德趕快來到他那裏，以後就走了。
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
保祿在雅典等候他們時，見城裏滿是偶像，心神很是悲憤。
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.
所以他就在會堂裏，同猶太人和敬畏天主的人辯論，每天也在街市上，同所遇到的人辯論。
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.
有幾個伊壁鴆魯派和斯多噶派的哲士同他爭論，有的說：「這個饒舌多言的人想說什麼﹖」有的說：「看來他是個外國鬼神的宣傳者」──因為保祿宣講耶穌及復活的福音。
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?
他門遂帶保祿，領他到了阿勒約帕哥，說： 「我們可以知道你所講的這新道理是什麼嗎﹖
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
我們聽見你說了一些新奇的事，所以我們想知道這到底有什麼意思。」
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.
原來所有的雅典人和僑居在那裏的外國人，不管其他的事，只是論談或探聽一些新奇的事。
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.
保祿遂即站在阿勒約帕哥當中說：「眾位雅典人，我看你們在各方面都更敬畏神明，
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.
因為我行經各處，細看你們所敬之物，也見到一座祭壇，上面寫著「給未識之神。」現在，我就將你們所敬拜而不認識的這一位，傳告給你們。
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.
創造宇宙及其中萬物的天主，既是天地的主宰，就不住人手所建的殿宇，
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.
也不受人手的侍候，好像需要什麼似的，而是他將生命、呼吸和一切賞給了眾人。
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,
他由一個人造了全人類，使他們住在全地面上，給他們立定了年限，和他們所居處的疆界；
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.
如他們尋求天主，或者可以摸索而找到他；其實，他離我們每人並不遠，
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.’
因為我們生活、行動、存在，都在他內，正如你們的某些詩人說的：「原來我們也是他的子孫。」
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.
我們既是天主的子孫，就不該想：神就像由人的藝術及思想所製的金銀石刻的東西一樣。
30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
天主對那愚昧無知的時代，原不深究；如今卻傳諭各處的人都要悔改，
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.”
因為他已定了一個日期，要由他所立定的人，按正義審判天下，他為給眾人一個可信的憑據，就叫這人從死者中復活了。」
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
他們一聽見死人復活，有的譏笑，有的卻說：「關於這事，我們後來再聽你罷！」
33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
這樣，保祿便從他們當中出去了。
34 But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
可是，也有幾個人依附保祿而信從了，其中有阿勒約帕哥的官員狄尼約削，和一個名叫達瑪黎的婦人；同他們一起信從的，還有其他一些人。
