Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
paulasīlau āmphipalyāpalloniyānagarābhyāṁ gatvā yatra yihūdīyānāṁ bhajanabhavanamekam āste tatra thiṣalanīkīnagara upasthitau|
2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
tadā paulaḥ svācārānusāreṇa teṣāṁ samīpaṁ gatvā viśrāmavāratraye taiḥ sārddhaṁ dharmmapustakīyakathāyā vicāraṁ kṛtavān|
3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must essentially have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
phalataḥ khrīṣṭena duḥkhabhogaḥ karttavyaḥ śmaśānadutthānañca karttavyaṁ yuṣmākaṁ sannidhau yasya yīśoḥ prastāvaṁ karomi sa īśvareṇābhiṣiktaḥ sa etāḥ kathāḥ prakāśya pramāṇaṁ datvā sthirīkṛtavān|
4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
tasmāt teṣāṁ katipayajanā anyadeśīyā bahavo bhaktalokā bahyaḥ pradhānanāryyaśca viśvasya paulasīlayoḥ paścādgāmino jātāḥ|
5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
kintu viśvāsahīnā yihūdīyalokā īrṣyayā paripūrṇāḥ santo haṭaṭsya katinayalampaṭalokān saṅginaḥ kṛtvā janatayā nagaramadhye mahākalahaṁ kṛtvā yāsono gṛham ākramya preritān dhṛtvā lokanivahasya samīpam ānetuṁ ceṣṭitavantaḥ|
6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come here also;
teṣāmuddeśam aprāpya ca yāsonaṁ katipayān bhrātṛṁśca dhṛtvā nagarādhipatīnāṁ nikaṭamānīya proccaiḥ kathitavanto ye manuṣyā jagadudvāṭitavantaste 'trāpyupasthitāḥ santi,
7 Whom Jason has received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
eṣa yāson ātithyaṁ kṛtvā tān gṛhītavān| yīśunāmaka eko rājastīti kathayantaste kaisarasyājñāviruddhaṁ karmma kurvvati|
8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
teṣāṁ kathāmimāṁ śrutvā lokanivaho nagarādhipatayaśca samudvignā abhavan|
9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
tadā yāsonastadanyeṣāñca dhanadaṇḍaṁ gṛhītvā tān parityaktavantaḥ|
10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
tataḥ paraṁ bhrātṛgaṇo rajanyāṁ paulasīlau śīghraṁ birayānagaraṁ preṣitavān tau tatropasthāya yihūdīyānāṁ bhajanabhavanaṁ gatavantau|
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word (logos) with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
tatrasthā lokāḥ thiṣalanīkīsthalokebhyo mahātmāna āsan yata itthaṁ bhavati na veti jñātuṁ dine dine dharmmagranthasyālocanāṁ kṛtvā svairaṁ kathām agṛhlan|
12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
tasmād aneke yihūdīyā anyadeśīyānāṁ mānyā striyaḥ puruṣāścāneke vyaśvasan|
13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word (logos) of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
kintu birayānagare pauleneśvarīyā kathā pracāryyata iti thiṣalanīkīsthā yihūdīyā jñātvā tatsthānamapyāgatya lokānāṁ kupravṛttim ajanayan|
14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
ataeva tasmāt sthānāt samudreṇa yāntīti darśayitvā bhrātaraḥ kṣipraṁ paulaṁ prāhiṇvan kintu sīlatīmathiyau tatra sthitavantau|
15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus in order to come to him with all speed, they departed.
tataḥ paraṁ paulasya mārgadarśakāstam āthīnīnagara upasthāpayan paścād yuvāṁ tūrṇam etat sthānaṁ āgamiṣyathaḥ sīlatīmathiyau pratīmām ājñāṁ prāpya te pratyāgatāḥ|
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit (pneuma) was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
paula āthīnīnagare tāvapekṣya tiṣṭhan tannagaraṁ pratimābhiḥ paripūrṇaṁ dṛṣṭvā santaptahṛdayo 'bhavat|
17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
tataḥ sa bhajanabhavane yān yihūdīyān bhaktalokāṁśca haṭṭe ca yān apaśyat taiḥ saha pratidinaṁ vicāritavān|
18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
kintvipikūrīyamatagrahiṇaḥ stoyikīyamatagrāhiṇaśca kiyanto janāstena sārddhaṁ vyavadanta| tatra kecid akathayan eṣa vācālaḥ kiṁ vaktum icchati? apare kecid eṣa janaḥ keṣāñcid videśīyadevānāṁ pracāraka ityanumīyate yataḥ sa yīśum utthitiñca pracārayat|
19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is?
te tam areyapāganāma vicārasthānam ānīya prāvocan idaṁ yannavīnaṁ mataṁ tvaṁ prācīkaśa idaṁ kīdṛśaṁ etad asmān śrāvaya;
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
yāmimām asambhavakathām asmākaṁ karṇagocarīkṛtavān asyā bhāvārthaḥ ka iti vayaṁ jñātum icchāmaḥ|
21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
tadāthīnīnivāsinastannagarapravāsinaśca kevalaṁ kasyāścana navīnakathāyāḥ śravaṇena pracāraṇena ca kālam ayāpayan|
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, All of you men of Athens, I perceive that in all things all of you are too superstitious.
paulo'reyapāgasya madhye tiṣṭhan etāṁ kathāṁ pracāritavān, he āthīnīyalokā yūyaṁ sarvvathā devapūjāyām āsaktā ityaha pratyakṣaṁ paśyāmi|
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore all of you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
yataḥ paryyaṭanakāle yuṣmākaṁ pūjanīyāni paśyan ‘avijñāteśvarāya’ etallipiyuktāṁ yajñavedīmekāṁ dṛṣṭavān; ato na viditvā yaṁ pūjayadhve tasyaiva tatvaṁ yuṣmān prati pracārayāmi|
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;
jagato jagatsthānāṁ sarvvavastūnāñca sraṣṭā ya īśvaraḥ sa svargapṛthivyorekādhipatiḥ san karanirmmitamandireṣu na nivasati;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
sa eva sarvvebhyo jīvanaṁ prāṇān sarvvasāmagrīśca pradadāti; ataeva sa kasyāścit sāmagyrā abhāvaheto rmanuṣyāṇāṁ hastaiḥ sevito bhavatīti na|
26 And has made of one blood all nations of men in order to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
sa bhūmaṇḍale nivāsārtham ekasmāt śoṇitāt sarvvān manuṣyān sṛṣṭvā teṣāṁ pūrvvanirūpitasamayaṁ vasatisīmāñca niracinot;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if lest by any means they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
tasmāt lokaiḥ kenāpi prakāreṇa mṛgayitvā parameśvarasya tatvaṁ prāptuṁ tasya gaveṣaṇaṁ karaṇīyam|
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
kintu so'smākaṁ kasmāccidapi dūre tiṣṭhatīti nahi, vayaṁ tena niśvasanapraśvasanagamanāgamanaprāṇadhāraṇāni kurmmaḥ, punaśca yuṣmākameva katipayāḥ kavayaḥ kathayanti ‘tasya vaṁśā vayaṁ smo hi’ iti|
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by are and man's device.
ataeva yadi vayam īśvarasya vaṁśā bhavāmastarhi manuṣyai rvidyayā kauśalena ca takṣitaṁ svarṇaṁ rūpyaṁ dṛṣad vaiteṣāmīśvaratvam asmābhi rna jñātavyaṁ|
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:
teṣāṁ pūrvvīyalokānām ajñānatāṁ pratīśvaro yadyapi nāvādhatta tathāpīdānīṁ sarvvatra sarvvān manaḥ parivarttayitum ājñāpayati,
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
yataḥ svaniyuktena puruṣeṇa yadā sa pṛthivīsthānāṁ sarvvalokānāṁ vicāraṁ kariṣyati taddinaṁ nyarūpayat; tasya śmaśānotthāpanena tasmin sarvvebhyaḥ pramāṇaṁ prādāt|
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
tadā śmaśānād utthānasya kathāṁ śrutvā kecid upāhaman, kecidavadan enāṁ kathāṁ punarapi tvattaḥ śroṣyāmaḥ|
33 So Paul departed from among them.
tataḥ paulasteṣāṁ samīpāt prasthitavān|
34 Nevertheless certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
tathāpi kecillokāstena sārddhaṁ militvā vyaśvasan teṣāṁ madhye 'reyapāgīyadiyanusiyo dāmārīnāmā kācinnārī kiyanto narāścāsan|
