Acts 17
1 Paul and Silas traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia [towns] and arrived at Thessalonica [city]. There was a Jewish meeting place there.
| ایشان از شهرهای آمفیپولیس و آپولونیا گذشتند و به تسالونیکی رسیدند. در آن شهر یهودیان کنیسه‌ای داشتند. |
2 (On the Sabbath/On the Jewish rest day) Paul went into the meeting house, as he usually did. For three weeks [he went there] on each Jewish day of rest. Referring to the Scriptures [about the Messiah], he spoke to the people who were there.
| پولس بر طبق عادت همیشگی خود وارد کنیسه شد و سه هفتهٔ پی‌درپی روزهای شَبّات از کتب مقدّس با حضار بحث می‌کرد، |
3 He explained and showed that [the prophets wrote that] the Messiah needed to die and (to become alive again/to be raised from the dead [afterwards]). He told them: “This man Jesus, whom I am telling you about, is our Messiah. [He died and became alive again, just like the prophets predicted].”
| و توضیح می‌داد که لازم بود مسیح رنج ببرد و از مردگان برخیزد. او می‌گفت: «این عیسی که خبرش را به شما دادم، همان مسیح است.» |
4 Some of the Jews [there] were persuaded by {believed} [what Paul had said] and began to associate with Paul and Silas. There were also many non-Jewish people there who worshipped God and many important women [who also believed the message about Jesus], and they began to associate with Paul and Silas.
| عده‌ای از شنوندگان با گروهی از مردان یونانی خداپرست و بسیاری از زنان سرشناس شهر متقاعد شده، ایمان آوردند. |
5 But [some leaders of] the Jews there in Thessalonica became jealous [because many people believed what Paul taught]. So they went to the public square and persuaded some lazy men [who were loitering there] to follow them. [In this way, the leaders of] the Jews gathered a crowd and incited them to become noisy and start a riot [against Paul and Silas]. Those [Jews and others] ran to the house of [a man named] Jason. [He was the man who had invited Paul and Silas to stay at his house]. They wanted to bring Paul and Silas outside to where the crowd [of people was waiting].
| اما سران یهود حسد بردند و گروهی از اراذل و اوباش را از کوچه و بازار جمع کردند و آشوب به راه انداختند. سپس، به خانهٔ یاسون هجوم بردند تا پولس و سیلاس را بگیرند و برای مجازات به مقامات تحویل دهند. |
6 They discovered that Paul and Silas were not there, but they found Jason [and grabbed him]. They dragged him and some of the [other] believers to where the city officials/authorities and [many other people were gathered]. The men [who had brought Jason] shouted, “Those [two] men have caused trouble [IDM] everywhere [HYP] [they have gone]. Now they have come to our city,
| اما وقتی ایشان را در خانهٔ یاسون پیدا نکردند، یاسون را با عده‌ای از ایمانداران دیگر کشان‌کشان نزد مقامات شهر برده، فریاد می‌زدند: «پولس و سیلاس دنیا را به هم ریخته‌اند و حالا به اینجا آمده‌اند تا آرامش شهر ما را نیز بر هم زنند. |
7 and [this fellow] Jason invited them to stay at his house. All the people [of this sect] oppose what our Emperor has decreed. They say that another person, whose name is Jesus, is [the real] king!”
| این یاسون هم آنان را به خانهٔ خود راه داده است. اینها همه خائن هستند چون عیسی را پادشاه می‌دانند، نه قیصر را.» |
8 When the crowd of people [that had gathered] and the city authorities heard that, they became very angry and excited.
| مردم شهر و همچنین دادرسان از شنیدن این خبر نگران شدند. |
9 [They wanted to put the believers in jail. But instead], the officials made Jason and the other [believers] pay a fine and told them that they [would give the money back to them if Paul and Silas did not cause any more trouble]. Then the authorities let Jason and those other believers go.
| پس، مقامات شهر از ایشان ضمانت گرفتند که کار خلافی نکنند و بعد آزادشان کردند. |
10 [So] that same night, the believers sent Paul and Silas [out of Thessalonica] to Berea [town]. When Paul and Silas arrived there, they went to the Jewish meeting place, [on a day when people had gathered there].
| همان شب مسیحیان با عجله پولس و سیلاس را به بیریه فرستادند. در آنجا باز طبق معمول به کنیسه یهود رفتند تا پیغام انجیل را اعلام نمایند. |
11 The [Jews] in Thessalonica had not been very willing to listen to God’s message, but the [Jews] who lived in Berea were very willing to listen, so they listened very eagerly to the message [about Jesus]. Every day they read the Scriptures [for themselves] to find out if what Paul said [about the Messiah] was true.
| ولی اهالی بیریه از مردم تسالونیکی نجیب‌تر بودند و با اشتیاق به پیغام آنان گوش می‌دادند و هر روز کتب مقدّس را با دقت می‌خواندند تا ببینند گفته‌های پولس و سیلاس مطابق کلام خدا هست یا نه. |
12 As a result, many of the Jewish people believed [in Jesus], and also some of the important non-Jewish women and many non-Jewish men [believed in him].
| به این ترتیب، عدهٔ زیادی از یهودیان و نیز بسیاری از زنان و مردان سرشناس یونانی ایمان آوردند. |
13 But then the Jews in Thessalonica heard [people tell them] that Paul [was] in Berea and that he was preaching the message from God [about Jesus]. So they went to Berea and [told people there that what Paul was teaching was not true. Thus], they caused many of those people to get angry [at Paul].
| اما وقتی یهودیان تسالونیکی باخبر شدند که پولس در بیریه موعظه می‌کند، به آنجا رفتند و در آنجا نیز آشوبی بر پا کردند. |
14 So [several of] the believers [in Berea] took Paul to the coast [to go to another province]. But Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea.
| مسیحیان بی‌درنگ پولس را به سوی کنارۀ دریا فرستادند، ولی سیلاس و تیموتائوس همان جا ماندند. |
15 When Paul and the other men from Berea [arrived at the coast, they got on a ship and] went to Athens [city]. Then Paul said [to the men who had come with him], “Tell Silas and Timothy to come to me [here in Athens] as soon as they can.” Then those men left [Athens and returned to Berea].
| همراهان پولس تا شهر آتن با او رفتند و از آنجا به بیریه بازگشتند و از طرف پولس برای سیلاس و تیموتائوس پیغام آوردند که هر چه زودتر به آتن بروند. |
16 In Athens, Paul waited for Silas and Timothy [to arrive. In the meantime, he walked around in the city. He] became very distressed/disturbed because he saw that throughout [HYP] the city there were many idols.
| وقتی پولس در آتن منتظر سیلاس و تیموتائوس بود، از وجود آن همه بت که در شهر بود، به شدت آشفته شد. |
17 So he went to the Jewish meeting place and talked [about Jesus] with the Jews, and also with the Greeks who had accepted what the Jews believe. He also went to the public square/center every day and talked to the people [whom he met] there.
| پس برای گفتگو با یهودیان و غیریهودیان خداپرست، به کنیسه یهود می‌رفت و هر روز در بازار هر که را می‌دید با وی گفتگو می‌کرد. |
18 Paul met some teachers who liked to talk about what people should believe. [People called] some of them Epicureans and [they called] others Stoics. They told Paul [what they believed], and they asked him [what he believed. Then] some of them said [to one another], “This ignorant person is just talking nonsense [RHQ]!” Others said, “[We(exc) think] that he is teaching people about (foreign gods/[new] gods that we [(exc)] have not heard about).” They said that because Paul was telling them that Jesus [had died and] had become alive again [afterwards. They had not heard that message before].
| گروهی از فیلسوفان اپیکوری و رواقی نیز به مباحثه با او پرداختند. برخی از آنان می‌پرسیدند: «این مردِ پُرحرف سعی دارد چه بگوید؟» بعضی نیز می‌گفتند: «گویا می‌خواهد از خدایان بیگانه دفاع کند.» ایشان این حرفها را می‌زدند، چون پولس خبر خوش عیسی و قیامت را اعلان می‌کرد. |
19 So they took Paul to the place where the city council met. [When they arrived] there, they said to Paul, “[Please] tell us, what is this new message that you [(sg)] are teaching people?
| پس او را به تالار اجتماعات شهر دعوت کردند که بالای تپه‌ای به نام «آریوپاگوس» بود و گفتند: «بیا دربارهٔ این مذهب تازه بیشتر برای ما صحبت کن. |
20 You are teaching some things that startle us [(exc)], so we want to know what they mean.”
| چون چیزهایی که تو می‌گویی برای ما تازگی دارد و می‌خواهیم بیشتر بشنویم.» |
21 [They said that, because] the people of Athens and also the people from other regions who lived there continually talked about what was new [to them], or they listened to [others tell] what was new.
| تمام اهالی آتن و حتی خارجیان آنجا گویی کاری نداشتند به‌جز اینکه دور هم جمع شوند و تمام وقت خود را صرف گفتگو دربارهٔ عقاید تازه کنند. |
22 Then Paul stood up before the men of the city council and said, “Citizens of Athens, I see that you (are very religious/think that it is very important to worship many gods).
| پس پولس در تالار اجتماعات تپهٔ مریخ در مقابل مردم ایستاد و گفت: «ای اهالی آتن، می‌بینم که شما بسیار مذهبی هستید، |
23 I [say that] because, while I was walking along and observing the objects [that represent different gods that] you worship, I even saw an altar that had these words [that someone had] carved [on it: THIS HONORS] THE GOD [THAT WE(exc)] DO NOT KNOW. So now I will tell you about [that God] whom you worship but you do not know.
| چون وقتی در شهر گردش می‌کردم، پرستشگاههای فراوان شما را به‌دقت نگاه می‌کردم. حتی قربانگاهی دیدم که روی آن نوشته شده بود”تقدیم به خدایی ناشناخته.“این خدا که شما بدون شناختنش می‌پرستید، همان است که می‌خواهم درباره‌اش با شما سخن بگویم. |
24 He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Because he rules over all [beings in] heaven and [on] earth, he does not dwell in shrines that people have made.
| «او همان کسی است که این دنیا و هر چه را که در آن هست آفریده است. چون او خود، صاحب آسمان و زمین است، در این بتخانه‌ها که به دست انسان ساخته شده‌اند، ساکن نمی‌شود، |
25 He does not need to have anything made for him by people [MTY] {to have people [MTY] make [MTY] anything for him}, because everything that exists belongs to him. He is the one who causes (us [(inc)]/all people) to live and breathe, and [he gives us] all the things [that we(inc) need].
| و احتیاج به دسترنج ما ندارد، چون بی‌نیاز است! زیرا خود او به همه نَفَس و حیات می‌بخشد، و هر نیاز انسان را رفع می‌کند. |
26 [In the beginning], God created one couple, and from them God produced all (the ethnic groups/the nations) that now live everywhere on the earth. He also decided where each ethnic group of people should live and how long they should live [there].
| او تمام مردم دنیا را از یک انسان به وجود آورد، یعنی از آدم، و قومها را در سرتاسر این زمین پراکنده ساخته است؛ او زمان به قدرت رسیدن و سقوط هر یک از قومهای جهان و مرزهای آنها را از پیش تعیین کرده است. |
27 He wanted people to realize that they need him. Then maybe they would seek him and find him. [God wants us to seek him], although he is [really] close [LIT] to each one of us.
| «قصد خدا این بود که مردمان به جستجوی او برآیند تا شاید او را یافته، به او برسند؛ حال آنکه او حتی از قلب ما نیز به ما نزدیکتر است. |
28 As someone has said, ‘[It is only] because he enables us that we [(inc)] live and move and do [what we do].’ And, as some of your own poets have said, ‘We [(inc)] are God’s children.’
| زیرا در اوست که زندگی و حرکت و هستی داریم. همان‌طور که یکی از شعرای شما نیز گفته است که”از نسل او هستیم“. |
29 Therefore, because we are God’s children [and can communicate like God does], we [(inc)] should not think that he is anything like an image [that people have made] of gold or silver or stone [which cannot communicate]. Those images are designed and skillfully made {People design and make those images}, [but they are not alive].
| پس حال که از نسل خدا هستیم، نباید خدا را بُتی تصور کنیم که صنعتگر از طلا یا نقره یا سنگ ساخته باشد. |
30 During the times when people did not know [what God wanted them to do], he did not [immediately] punish [them for what they did]. But now God commands all people everywhere to turn away from their evil behavior.
| در گذشته، خدا از نادانی بشر در این امور چشم‌پوشی می‌کرد، اما اکنون به همگان حکم می‌فرماید که توبه کنند و به سوی او بازگردند. |
31 [He tells us] that on a certain day that he has chosen he is going to judge [all of us(inc) people in] [MTY] the world. He has appointed a [certain] man to judge [us, and that man will judge each of us] fairly/justly. God has shown to all [people that he has appointed that man to judge everyone], because God (caused him to become alive again after he had died/raised him from the dead).”
| زیرا او روزی را معین فرموده است که در آن مردم این دنیا را به‌وسیلۀ شخص مورد نظر خود با عدل و انصاف داوری کند. خدا با زنده کردن این شخص از مردگان، به همه نشان داد او چه کسی است.» |
32 When the men of the council heard [Paul say] that ([a man] had become alive again after he had died/[someone] had been raised from the dead), some of them laughed scornfully. But others said, “We [(exc)] would like you [(sg)] to tell us more about this, some other time.”
| وقتی شنیدند که پولس دربارهٔ زنده شدن مرده سخن می‌گوید، به او خندیدند. اما بعضی نیز گفتند: «می‌خواهیم در این باره باز هم برای ما صحبت کنی.» |
33 After they said that, Paul left the council [meeting].
| به این شکل، پولس از میان ایشان بیرون رفت. |
34 However, some of the people there went along with Paul and became believers. Among those [who believed in Jesus] was a member of the council whose [name was] Dionysius. Also, an [important] woman whose name was Damaris and some other people [who had heard Paul’s message also believed in Jesus].
| با این حال، چند نفر او را پیروی کرده، ایمان آوردند. از بین اینها دیونیسیوس، عضو «آریوپاگوس»، یعنی انجمن شهر بود، و نیز زنی به نام داماریس، و چند نفر دیگر. |
