Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
E, passando por Amphipolis e Apollonia, chegaram a Thessalonica, onde havia uma synagoga de judeos.
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
E Paulo, como tinha por costume, foi ter com elles; e por tres sabbados disputou com elles sobre as Escripturas,
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.”
Declarando-as, e demonstrando que convinha que o Christo padecesse e resuscitasse dos mortos. E este Jesus, que vos annuncio, dizia elle, é o Christo.
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.
E alguns d'elles crêram, e ajuntaram-se com Paulo e Silas uma grande multidão de gregos religiosos, e não poucas mulheres principaes.
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.
Porém os judeos desobedientes, movidos d'inveja, tomaram comsigo alguns homens malignos, d'entre os vadios, e, ajuntando o povo, alvoroçaram a cidade, e, accommettendo a casa de Jason, procuravam tiral-os para junto do povo.
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,
E, não os achando, trouxeram com violencia a Jason, e alguns irmãos, aos magistrados da cidade, clamando: Estes que teem alvoroçado o mundo, chegaram tambem aqui;
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Os quaes Jason tem recolhido; e todos estes obram contra os mandados de Cesar, dizendo que ha outro rei, a saber, Jesus.
8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
E alvoroçaram a multidão e os principaes da cidade, que ouviram estas coisas.
9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
Tendo, porém, recebido satisfação de Jason, e dos demais, os soltaram.
10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
E logo os irmãos enviaram de noite Paulo e Silas a Berea: os quaes, chegando lá, foram á synagoga dos judeos.
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.
E estes foram mais nobres do que os que estavam em Thessalonica, porque de bom grado receberam a palavra, examinando cada dia nas Escripturas se estas coisas eram assim.
12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
De sorte que crêram muitos d'elles, e mulheres gregas honestas, e não poucos varões.
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.
Mas, logo que os judeos de Thessalonica souberam que a palavra de Deus tambem era annunciada por Paulo em Berea, foram tambem lá, e commoveram as multidões.
14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Porém no mesmo instante os irmãos mandaram a Paulo que fosse como para o mar, mas Silas e Timotheo ficaram ali.
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.
E os que acompanhavam Paulo o levaram até Athenas, e, recebendo ordem para que Silas e Timotheo fossem ter com elle o mais depressa possivel, partiram.
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
E, emquanto Paulo os esperava em Athenas, o seu espirito se commovia em si mesmo, vendo a cidade tão dada á idolatria.
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.
De sorte que disputava na synagoga com os judeos e religiosos, e todos os dias na praça com os que se apresentavam.
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.
E alguns dos philosophos epicureos e estoicos contendiam com elle; e uns diziam: Que quer dizer este paroleiro? E outros: Parece que é prégador de deuses estranhos. Porque lhes annunciava a Jesus e a resurreição.
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?
E, tomando-o, o levaram ao Areopago, dizendo: Poderemos nós saber que nova doutrina é essa de que fallas?
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Pois coisas estranhas nos trazes aos ouvidos: queremos pois saber o que vem a ser isto.
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.
(Pois todos os athenienses e hospedes estrangeiros de nenhuma outra coisa se occupavam, senão de dizer e ouvir alguma coisa nova).
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.
E, estando Paulo no meio do Areopago, disse: Varões athenienses, em tudo vos vejo um tanto supersticiosos:
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.
Porque, passando eu e vendo os vossos sanctuarios, achei tambem um altar em que estava escripto: AO DEUS DESCONHECIDO. Aquelle pois que vós honraes, não o conhecendo, vos annuncio.
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.
O Deus que fez o mundo e todas as coisas que n'elle ha: este, sendo Senhor do céu e da terra, não habita em templos feitos por mãos de homens;
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.
Nem tão pouco é servido por mãos de homens, como que necessitando de alguma coisa; pois é elle só quem dá a todos a vida, e a respiração, e todas as coisas;
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,
E de um sangue fez toda a geração dos homens, para habitar sobre toda a face da terra, determinando os tempos já d'antes ordenados, e os limites da sua habitação;
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.
Para que buscassem ao Senhor, se porventura o podessem apalpar e achar; ainda que não está longe de cada um de nós;
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.’
Porque n'elle vivemos, e nos movemos, e existimos; como tambem alguns dos vossos poetas disseram: Porque somos tambem sua geração.
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.
Sendo pois geração de Deus, não havemos de cuidar que a divindade seja similhante ao oiro, ou á prata, ou á pedra esculpida por artificio e imaginação dos homens
30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
De sorte que Deus, dissimulando os tempos da ignorancia, annuncia agora a todos os homens, e em todo o logar, que se arrependam;
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.”
Porquanto tem determinado um dia em que com justiça ha-de julgar o mundo com justiça por aquelle varão que destinou; dando certeza a todos, resuscitando-o dos mortos.
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
E, como ouviram da resurreição dos mortos, uns escarneciam, e outros diziam: Ácerca d'isso te ouviremos outra vez.
33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
E assim Paulo saiu do meio d'elles.
34 But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Porém, chegando alguns varões a elle, creram: entre os quaes foram Dionysio, areopagita, e uma mulher por nome Damaris, e com elles outros.
