Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
Bu bamana vioka Amfipolisi ayi Apoloni, Polo ayi Sila batula ku Tesalonika; kuna kuba nzo lukutukunu yi Bayuda.
2 So Paul, as was his custom, went in to them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Polo wukota mu nzo lukutukunu banga bubela kifu kiandi. Zimbingu zitatu kasoludila yawu mu masonoko.
3 explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and that “this Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Messiah.”
Wuba kuba sudikisa ayi kuba monisa bumboti ti Klisto kafuetimona ziphasi ayi kafueti fuluka mu bafua; wuba kamba ti: —Yesu diodi ndilembo lulongi niandi Klisto!
4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of devout Greeks and not a few of the prominent women.
Bayuda bankaka mu bawu bawilukila, bafubakana kuidi Polo ayi Sila. Buawu bobo basi Ngelese, bawombo bobo bankizikanga Nzambi, va kimosiayi baketo baluzitu bakutakana yawu.
5 But the disobedient Jews rounded up some wicked men from the marketplace, and forming a mob they created an uproar in the city; and attacking the house of Jason, they wanted to bring them out to the crowd.
Vayi Bayuda bankaka bamona kikhenene, bakambisila bivungisi biobi bieti diengila phamba-phamba mu zinzila muingi batotula khindu. Bawizana ayi batotula khindu mu divula. Bakota mu nzo yi Yasonimu tomba Polo ayi Sila mu diambu di kuba nata kuidi nkangu wu batu.
6 But not finding them they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials vociferating: “These who have upset the whole world have come here too,
Bu bakambu kuba mona, bakanga Yasoni ayi basi dibundu bobo babayandi, babanata kuidi bapfumu zi divula ayi bayamikina: —Batu bobo balembo nikuna tsi, beka kuaku.
7 to whom Jason has given lodging. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king—Jesus.”
Yasoni niandi wuba tambula ku nzoꞌandi! Baboso babundudi Mina mi Sezali, bila balembo tubanga ti ntinu wunkaka widi, dizina diandi Yesu!
8 Well they agitated the crowd and the city officials when they heard these things.
Nkangu wu batu ayi bapfumu bu bawa bobo, bafuema ngolo.
9 Then they took a security bond from Jason and the rest and let them go.
Diawu bafutisila Yasoni ayi baklisto bankaka lumandi, bosi babayekula.
10 Immediately, during the night, the brothers sent both Paul and Silas away to Berea; on arriving they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
Muna builu, bakhomba zitinisa Polo ayi Sila ku Bele. Bu bayetula kuna, bakota mu nzo lukutukunu lu Bayuda.
11 Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all goodwill, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things might be so.
Muaki Basi Bele baba batu ba mintima mimboti viokila basi Tesalonika. Bakikinina Mambu ma Nzambi mu luzolo loso lumboti; ayi kadika lumbu baba fionguninanga masonoko mu diambu di zaba kani mambu momo baba kuba longanga maba makiedika.
12 Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.
Buna bawombo mu bawu bawilukila va kimosi ayi baketo ba luvalu ba basi Ngelese buela ayi babakala bawombo.
13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the Word of God was also being proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came too, agitating the crowds.
Vayi Bayuda ba basi Tesalonika bu bawa ti Polo wulembo longi mambu ma Nzambi ku Bele, bayiza kuna, batona divunzi ayi khindu mu batu.
14 So then, without delay, the brothers sent Paul away, as if to go by sea, while both Silas and Timothy remained there.
Bakhomba batinisa Polo ku ndambu mbu. Vayi Sila ayi Timote basiala kuna.
15 But those who were conducting Paul actually took him all the way to Athens; and receiving a command to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they started back.
Batu bobo banata Polo, bantudisa nate ku Atene bosi bavutukaku Bele. Bawu banatina Sila ayi Timote thumu ti Polo wuba kamba bavikaku nlandakana.
16 Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was increasingly aroused within him as he observed that the city was full of idols.
Polo bu kaba vingidila bakundi bandi ku Atene, buna wumonakiadi mu ntima mu mona ti bitumba biwombo biba mu divula.
17 So he reasoned both in the synagogue with the Jews and devout persons, and in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
Wuba solulanga ayi Bayuda ayi batu bankaka baba sambilanga Nzambi mu nzo lukutukunu. Kadika lumbu Polo wuba solulanga va nyalu-nguba va kimosi ayi batu bobo kaba dengananga kuna.
18 Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
Ndambu yi batu bankaka baba mu dikabu di Baepikuli ayi dikabu di Basitoyika, bafindana yandi ziphaka. Bankaka batuba: —Kiololoko kioki mbi kantuba e? Vayi bankaka batuba ti: —Tumueni ti niandi wulembo longi zinzambi banzenza! Bayolukila bobo mu diambu di Polo kaba nlonga nsamu wu Yesu ayi wu mfulukulu yi bafua.
19 So taking him in tow they led him to the Areopagus and said: “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
Vayi babuila Polo ayi bannata va buangu kiba ntedilanga “Aleyopaze”, vovo bayuku findininanga ziphaka. Bankamba: —Tulenda kueto zaba tsundu yi malongi momo ma mona wulembo longi e?
20 Because you are bringing some strange things to our ears, and we would like to know what they might mean.”
Bila mambu momo wuntuba madi mamona kuidi beto ayi tutidi zaba tsundu yi mambu momo.
21 (Now all Athenians and resident foreigners spent their time in nothing else but to tell, or else to hear, some novelty.)
Muaki basi Atene ayi banzenza babakalanga ku Atene, kisalu baluta sala viokisanga thangu mu tuba ayi mu wa mambu mamona.
22 So standing in the middle of the Areopagus Paul said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious;
Polo wutelama vana khatitsika Aleyopaze, wutuba: —A basi Atene, ndimmona ti lueti zola buwombo sambila
23 because as I went along and scrutinized the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO UNKNOWN GOD. Now then, the one you worship as ‘unknown’, this is the One I proclaim to you:
bila bu ndibedi zieta mu divula dieno, ndimueni bitumba biwombo biobi lueti sambila. Tala, ndimueni va diziku dietitambukulu makaba vasonama: “kuidi nzambi yoyi tukambulu zaba!” Diawu Nzambi yoyi lueti sambila mu kambu kunzaba niandi ndikulusamunina.
24 The God who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples built by hands,
Nzambi yoyi yivanga nza ayi bibioso bidi mu nza ayi niandi Pfumu yi Diyilu ayi ntoto, kakalanga mu zinzo zi Nzambi zitungulu mu mioko mi batu ko.
25 neither is He cared for by men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself has always given life and breath to all.
Bosi mioko mi batu milendi kunsadila ko, bila kasukamanga ko! Niandi weti vana luzingu ayi weti vana batu boso phumukunu; niandi weti vana bima kuidi batu boso.
26 And from one blood He made every ethnic nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Mu mutu wumosi kavangila batu boso mu diambu bavuanda va ntoto wumvimba. Wuvasa zithangu; wutula zindilu zi bibuangu biobio balenda vuanda muingi batomba Nzambi.
27 so that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
Mu mamoso mama kavanga, wuntomba ti batu bantomba bila thangu yinkaka balenda kunsimba mu fifita ayi kumbakula ka diambu ko kasi ko thama kuidi kadika mutu buna tuididi.
28 because in Him we live and move and have our being. As also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
Bila mu diambu diandi tulembo zingila, tundiatila ayi tuididi. Banga minsoniki mieno minkaka misonika: “Bila beto mamveto tuidi mu nkunꞌandi.”
29 Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divinity is like gold or silver or stone—something shaped by human skill and imagination.
Bu tuidi mu nkuna Nzambi buna tubika banza ti kinzambi kidedikinibanga nolo, palata voti banga ditadi; bima bivangulu mu mioko mi batu ayi mu mabanza ma batu.
30 Such times of ignorance God did indeed overlook, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent,
Mu thama Nzambi wuvibidila kambu ku diela ku batu, buabu wulembokambi batu boso badi mu bibuangu bioso ti babalula mavanga mawu.
31 because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the inhabited world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
Bila wukubika lumbu kioki kela sambisa batu ba nza mu busonga, mu nzila yi mutu wowo kakubika bu kavana dimbu kuidi batu boso mu fulukisa mutu beni mu bafua!
32 Well when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some started scoffing, while others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
Buna bawa nsamu wu mfulukulu yi batu bafua; bankaka banseva bosi bankaka bankamba: —Tuela kuwa mu khumbu yinkaka.
33 And with that Paul went out from among them.
Diawu Polo kaba bikila.
34 However some men believed and joined him, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, also a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Muaki batu bankaka bafubakana yandi ayi bawilukila. Mu bawu muba Denisi wuba mu dikabu di Aleyopaze, nketo wumosi baba tedilanga Damali ayi bankaka mu bawu.
