Acts 17
1 Nowe as they passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a Synagogue of the Iewes.
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 And Paul, as his maner was, went in vnto them, and three Sabbath daies disputed with them by 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 Opening, and alleadging that Christ must haue suffered, and risen againe from the dead: and this is Iesus Christ, whom, said he, I preach to you.
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 And some of them beleeued, and ioyned in companie with Paul and Silas: also of the Grecians that feared God a great multitude, and of the chiefe women not a fewe.
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 Iewes which beleeued not, mooued with enuie, tooke vnto them certaine vagabonds and wicked fellowes, and whe they had assembled the multitude, they made a tumult in the citie, and made assault against the house of Iason, and 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 But when they found them not, they drew Iason and certaine brethren vnto the heads of the citie, crying, These are they which haue subuerted the state of the world, and here they are,
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 Iason hath receiued, and these all doe against the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another King, one Iesus.
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 Then they troubled the people, and the heads of the citie, 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 Notwithstanding when they had receiued sufficient assurance of Iason and of the other, they let them goe.
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 And the brethren immediatly sent away Paul and Silas by night vnto Berea, which when they were come thither, entred into ye Synagogue of the Iewes.
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 These were also more noble men then they which were at Thessalonica, which receiued the woorde with all readinesse, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those 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 Therefore many of them beleeued, and of honest women, which were Grecians, and men not a fewe.
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 Iewes of Thessalonica knewe, that the woord of God was also preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and mooued the people.
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 But by and by the brethren sent away Paul to goe as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
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 And they that did conduct Paul, brought him vnto Athens: and when they had receiued a commandement vnto Silas and Timotheus that they shoulde come to him at once, 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 Nowe while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirite was stirred in him, when hee sawe the citie subiect to idolatrie.
保祿在雅典等候他們時，見城裏滿是偶像，心神很是悲憤。
17 Therefore he disputed in the Synagogue with the Iewes, and with them that were religious, and in the market daily with whomesoeuer he met.
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 Then certaine Philosophers of the Epicures, and of the Stoickes, disputed with him, and some sayde, What will this babler say? Others sayde, He seemeth to be a setter forth of straunge gods (because hee preached vnto them Iesus, 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 And they tooke him, and brought him into Mars streete, saying, May we not know, what this newe doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
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 thou bringest certaine strange thinges vnto our eares: we woulde knowe therefore, what these things meane.
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 For all the Athenians, and strangers which dwelt there, gaue them selues to nothing els, but either to tell, or to heare some newes.
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 Then Paul stoode in the mids of Mars streete, and sayde, Yee men of Athens, I perceiue that in all things yee are too superstitious.
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 by, and behelde your deuotions, I founde an altar wherein was written, VNTO THE VNKNOWEN GOD. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him shewe I vnto 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 God that made the world, and all things that are therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaue and earth, dwelleth not 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 Neither is worshipped with mens handes, as though he needed any thing, seeing hee giueth 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 And hath made of one blood all mankinde, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath assigned the seasons which were ordeined before, and the boundes of their habitation,
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 shoulde seeke the Lord, if so be they might haue groped after him, and founde him though doubtlesse he be not farre from euery one of vs.
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 liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.
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 Forasmuch then, as we are the generation of God, we ought not to thinke that ye Godhead is like vnto gold, or siluer, or stone grauen by arte and the inuention 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 And the time of this ignorance God regarded not: but nowe hee admonisheth all men euery where to 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 hee hath appoynted a day in the which he wil iudge the world in righteousnes, by that man whome hee hath appoynted, whereof he hath giuen an assurance to all men, in that hee hath 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 from the dead, some mocked, and other sayde, We will heare thee againe of this thing.
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 And so Paul departed from among them.
這樣，保祿便從他們當中出去了。
34 Howbeit certaine men claue vnto Paul, and beleeued: among whome was also Denys Areopagita, and a woman named Damaris, and other 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。
