Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Lino chiindi nobakiinda mumyuunzi yaku Amfipolisi a Apoloniya, bakasika kumunzi waku Tesalonika, ooko kwakali chikombelo chaba Juda.
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Pawulu, mbubonya mbulichimbo chakwe, wakiinka kulimbabo alimwi kwamazuba aama Sabata aatatu wakambilaana aabo kuzwa mumalembe.
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.”
Wakali kujula malembe akupandulula kuti chakalelede kuti Kkilisito aapenge akubuka lubo kuzwa kulufu. Wakwamba kuti, “Jesu ooyo ngundiluula kulindinywe ngu Kkilisito.”
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.
Bamwi babaJuda bakakombelezegwa eelyo bakajatana a Pawulu a Sayilasi kubikilizya mweelwe muunji waba Giliki balipeda, abuzuluzi bwabanakazi bayingi.
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.
Pesi baJuda ibatasyomi, bakali abbivwe, bakabweza bamwi bantu bamineme kuzwa kuchisambalilo, bakabungania makamu aantomwe, akubika muunzi mumbukila. kubusizya kung'anda ya Jasoni, bakali kuyandula ikuhusya Pawulu a Sayilasi aanze kuti aaye kubantu.
6 When they did not 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,
Pesi awo nebatakwe nobakabajana, bakakwela Jasoni abamwi bakwabo kunembo lyaba singuzu bamumuunzi, bakalilila kuti aaba bantu bakasandamwida nyika aansi alubo basika ookuno lubo.
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Aaba baalumi Jasoni mbakatambula bakazyania aamulawo wa-Siza, bamba kuti, “Kulumbi Mwami Jesu.”
8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
Bakatazya makamu abasinguzu, bamuunzi bakamvwa zintu eezi.
9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
Pesi mukwinda kwakujana kukwabililwa kuzwa kuli Jasoni akuliboonse, bakabazumizya kwiinka.
10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Busiku oobo bakwabo bakatuma Pawulu a Sayilasi kuBbeliya. Nobakasika nkuko, bakayinka muchikombelo chaba Juda.
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.
Lino bantu aaba bakaliluleeme kwinda aabo bamu Tesalonika, nkambo bakatambula ijwi amizeezo ilipedelede, kulingulula malembe buzuba abuzuba kuti babone na zintu eezi zyakali mbubo.
12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Nkinkaako biingi babo bakasyooma, kubikilizya abamwi banakazi bayuungi ba Giliki abalumi biingi.
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.
Pesi chiindi ba Juda baku Tesalonika nibakaziba kuti alubo Pawulu wakali kuluula jwi lya Leza ku Bbeliya, bakiinka nkuko akunyongania akukataazya makamu.
14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Mpawawo, bakwabo bakatumina Pawulu kuya kulwizi, pesi Sayilasi a Timoti bakakkala nkuko.
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.
Aabo bakali kweenzya Pawulu bakamubweza bamutola kule kuluumbi munzi waku Atenisi. Mbubonya mbakamusiya Pawulu nkuko, bakatambula malayilile kuzwa kulinguwe kuti Sayilasi a Timoti basike chakufwambana mbuli mbubakonzya.
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Lino mbubonya Pawulu mbwakali kubalinda mu Atenisi, muuya wakwe wakanyemezegwa mukati kawke aawo nakabona muunzi uzwide zikozyano.
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.
Eelyo mazuba woonse wakambilaana abaJuda abamwi bakali kukomba Leza mbonya amuchisambalilo kuba nkuko.
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.
Pesi abalabo bamwi baba Epikuliya abasongo ba Sitoyiki bakaswanana aawe. Bamwi bakaamba kuti, “Niinzi ooyu utakwe makani ncheezya kwaamba?” Bamwi bakati, “Ulangika aanga nguumwi ooyo wwiita bantu kuti batobela baleza benzu, nkambo wakali kuluula makani mabotu aatala a Jesu abubuke.
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?
Bakabweza Pawulu akumuleta ku Aliyopagasi, bakati, “Ngatulaziba eeyi njiisyo mpyaa eyo njowakali kwaamba?
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Nkaambo ulikweta zintu zyeenzu kumatwi eesu. Nkinkaako, tuyanda kuziba kuti eezi zyambanzi.”
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.
(Lino ba Atenisi aabenzu bakali kukkala nkuko bakamaninsya chiindi chabo kakutakwe anchibachita pesi kwambuula nikuba kuswilila atala achimwi chipya.)
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.
Mpawo Pawulu wakima aakati kaba Aliyopagasi akwaamba kuti, “Yobalumi baku Atenisi, ndabona kuti muli basichizuminano munzila yoonse.
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.
Nkambo mbubonya mbundayinda akulanga loko kuzintu zyabukombe bwanu, ndajana chipayililo chili abulemu oobu, “Kuli Leza utazibinkene.” kufumbwa nchimukomba mukutaziba, eechi ndachaambilizya kuli ndinywe.
24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
Leza wakachita nyika azyoonse zilimulinjiyo, mbwanga ngu Mwami wajulu anyika, takkali mumaanda ayaakwa amaboko.
25 He is not served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
Nikuba kubelekelwa amaboko abantu, mbuli kunga ubulide chintu, mbwaanga lwakwe nguupa bantu buumi akuyooya azimwi zyonse.
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,
Kuzwa kumuntu uumwi wakachita misyobo yabantu kuti bapone aatala enyika kali wabamba kuzulila kwazyiindi amigano yamasena aabo mubakkede,
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.
Kuchitila kuti balanguule Leza akuti ambweni ngabalakonzya kuzuzya nzila yabo nkambo kanguwe akumujana pesi talikule pe kuzwa kuluumwi wesu.
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.’
Nkaambo mulinguwe tulapona akweenda akujana buumi, mbubonya mbuli bamwi, simwanza ngano banu mbubakaamba, 'Nkambo alubo tuli lunyungu lwakwe.'
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.
“Nkinkaako, mbokunga tulilunyungu lwa Leza, tatwelede kuyeeya anga bubotu bwabulenge bulakozyanisigwa angolida niiba nsiliva, niliba bbwe, izikozyano zyakabezwa amiyeeyo yamuntu.
30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Nkinkaako Leza wakazileka zyiindi zyakutaziba, pesi lino ulayilila bantu boonse koonse koonse kuti basanduke.
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.”
Nkambo wakabamba buzuba nayobetaeka nyika mubululami kumuntu ngwakasala. Leza wakapa chisinizyo chamuntu ooyu kuli woonse akumubusya kuzwa kubafu.”
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
Lino chiindi bantu baku Atenisi nobakamvwa azyabubuke wabafu, bamwi bakamuniaka Pawulu; pesi bamwi bakati, “Tuyokuswilila lubo aatala ankani eeyi.”
33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
Kuzwa waawo, Pawulu wakabasiya.
34 But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Pesi bamwi bakasyoma, kubikilizya a Diyonisiyasi mu Aliyopegiti, mwanakazi utegwa Damalisi, abamwi bakalaambabo.
