Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through the cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to the city of Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
保罗和西拉沿途经过了暗非波里和亚波罗尼亚，来到帖撒罗尼迦，那里有犹太人的会堂。
2 Paul, as his custom was, went to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the scriptures.
保罗按惯例走进会堂，一连三个安息日，都在这里根据圣经与他们进行辩论。
3 He was opening the scriptures and explaining that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise again from the dead. He said, “This Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ.”
他解释了经文的含义，证明基督必须先死去后，然后再死而复生。他对众人说：“我向你们讲述的这位耶稣，就是基督。”
4 Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, including a large number of devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women.
有的人被保罗和西拉说服了，加入了他们的行列，此外还有很多说希腊语的朝拜者，以及城里位高权重的女性。
5 But the unbelieving Jews, being moved with jealousy, took certain wicked men from the marketplace, gathered a crowd together, and set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they wanted to bring Paul and Silas out to the people.
但犹太人却因此而倍感嫉妒，于是从集市中找来一群流氓，凑成团伙在城里面闹事。他们冲进耶孙的家中，到处寻找保罗和西拉，要把他们交给民众。
6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain other brothers before the officials of the city, crying, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.
但由于找不到这两名使徒，他们就把耶孙和几名信徒带到地方长官那里，叫嚣着说：“这些人素有滋事的恶名，把这世界闹得天翻地覆。现在他们来到这里，
7 These men whom Jason has welcomed act against the decrees of Caesar; they say that there is another king—Jesus.”
耶孙却在自己的家宅中招待这些人。他们都违背凯撒的法令，说另外还有一个王叫做耶稣，这就是叛国罪。”
8 The crowd and the officials of the city were disturbed when they heard these things.
民众和地方长官听到这番话，深感不安，
9 But after the officials made Jason and the rest pay money as security, then they let them go.
让耶孙和其余人交了保释金后，就放了他们。
10 That night the brothers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived there, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
信徒们当晚就将保罗和西拉送走。二人去了比里亚，到达后便走进犹太人的会堂。
11 Now these people were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
这里的民众比帖撒罗尼迦人开明，他们很快就接受了主的道，每天研读圣经，确认他们所听到的是否正确。
12 Therefore many of them believed, including some influential Greek women and many men.
很多人因此成为信徒，包括地位高贵的希腊男性和女性。
13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God at Berea, they went there and stirred up and troubled the crowds.
但帖撒罗尼迦的犹太人听说保罗又在比里亚宣讲上帝之道，便跑到那里煽动挑拨民众。
14 Then immediately, the brothers sent Paul to go to the sea, but Silas and Timothy stayed there.
信徒们立刻把保罗送到海边，西拉和提摩太仍然留在比里亚。
15 Those who were leading Paul took him as far as the city of Athens. As they left Paul there, they received from him instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible.
护送保罗的人将他远远地带到雅典，保罗在他们返回的时候，给西拉和提摩太带去口信，让他们尽快赶去与他会和。
16 Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
保罗在雅典等他们的时候，看见满城都是宗教神像，心中感到非常不安。
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and others who worshiped God, as well as in the marketplace with those who happened to be there.
于是在会堂中与犹太人和其他崇拜上帝之人进行了辩论，此外还每天到集市中去，与所遇到的陌生人进行辩论。
18 But also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. Some said, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be one who calls people to follow strange gods,” because he was proclaiming Jesus and the resurrection.
有些伊壁鸠鲁派和斯多亚派的哲学家也同他争论。他们想知道：“这个人到底想要干什么？”由于保罗谈论了耶稣和复活，所以还有人认为：“他似乎是在宣讲外族的神。”
19 They took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know this new teaching which you were speaking?
于是他们把保罗带到亚略巴古，询问他：“请和我们讲讲你所宣扬的那个新教义？
20 For you bring some strange things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know what these things mean.”
我们听说了你讲的那些事情，听起来太奇怪了，所以我们想知道那到底是什么意思。”
21 (Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing but either telling or listening about something new.)
（所有雅典人和住在那里的异教徒，都非常喜欢谈论和打听新奇之事，以此打发时间）。
22 So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.
保罗站上亚略巴古的中间，说：“各位雅典人，我发现你们对任何事情都抱有虔诚之心。
23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found an altar with this inscription, “To an Unknown God.” What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
我走路的时候曾留意你们的圣坛，曾有一个圣坛上写着‘献给未知的神’。我要向你们讲述的上帝，就是你们所膜拜的这个未知之神。
24 The God who made the world and everything in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built with hands.
上帝创造世界和世间万物，他是天地的主，并未生活在人类建造的庙宇之中，
25 Neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives people life and breath and everything else.
他什么都不需要，也不需要我们的服务，因为他本身就是所有生灵的生命之源。
26 From one man he made every nation of people to live on the surface of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the boundaries of their living areas,
他从一个最初的人创造了世界上的所有人，在之前就决定了他们应该生活在哪里，应该活多久。
27 so that they should search for God and perhaps they may feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us.
上帝想要的是他们能够追寻上帝，能够去寻找并找到他。但其实他离我们每个人都不遥远。
28 For in him we live and move and have our being, just as one of your own poets has said, 'For we also are his offspring.'
我们在他的护翼下生存、活动和存在。正如你们的诗人写到：‘我们就是他的家人。’
29 Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we ought not to think that the qualities of deity are like gold, or silver, or stone—images created by the art and imagination of man.
正因为我们是他的家人，所以不应该将上帝想象成金银石头，然后由人类用手艺和思想将其塑造形象。
30 Therefore God overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent.
上帝原谅了人类过往的无知，但现在，他吩咐各处的所有人都要悔改，
31 This is because he has set a day when he will judge the world in righteousness by the man he has chosen. God has given proof of this man to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
因为他已经定好时间，届时将由他指认的那个人，对世间进行正义审判。为了向众人证明他就是那个人，上帝会让那人死而复生。”
32 Now when the men of Athens heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked Paul; but others said, “We will listen to you again about this matter.”
众人听到死人复活这句，便开始嘲笑他。但也有人说：“以后请回来，给我们多讲讲这件事。”
33 After that, Paul left them.
于是保罗就离开他们了。
34 But certain men joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
有几个人跟随了他并且相信了上帝，包括亚略巴古的成员丢尼修、一位名叫戴马里的女子和很多其他人。
