Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Pool nyia Silas Thesalonika ni Amphipolis nyia Apollonia lam ih kanyuuta, erah hah adi Jehudi rangsoomnok eje angta.
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Saahoh di kakah ah likhiik Pool ah Jehudi rangsoomnok ni kata. Jehudi Naangtongsa rangwu di sa jom kah ano miloong ah damdi roongwaan kata,
3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
eno Rangteele tiitkhaap ah baattaan rumta, Kristo ah cham jaatjaat etheng angta eno tek nawa we ngaaksaat ih ah. Pool ih baat rumta, “Erah Jisu tiit ah baat rumhala,” eno “erah juuba Kristo ang ah.”
4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
Mararah loong ah ih erah tiit ah kap ih rum ano Pool nyia Silas damdi roongroop rumta; minuh ejat esam loong nyia Grik nok hah Rangte ra choote loong ah nep roongroop rumta.
5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
Enoothong Jehudi loong ah ih miksuk ih rum ano pheehoon thaangsang theng dowa mih lajak loong khoonpoon rumta. Erah miloong ah ih samnuthung ah rapne ih phaanghoom rumta, eno Pool nyia Silas ah nokwah dungni siitkaat suh li rum ano Jaasoon nok ah kooknak ih rumta.
6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Pool nyia Silas laje kokaano, Jaasoon nyia Teesu liphante wahoh loong ah samnuthung dowa saahaap loong reeni dok hoom kaat rum ano riiraak rumta, “Arah miloong ah ih seng hadaang noongrep ni haphaang hoom rumha! Haphaang hoomte loong ah seng hah ni thok rumhala,
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
eno Jaasoon ih heh nok ni jamthuk nyuula. Luuwanglong Hootthe ah arah loong ah ih thet hoom rumha, neng ih liiha bolam Luuwang wahoh eje, heh men ah angkoleh Jisu ngeh ih poon rumha.”
8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
Erah jeng ah chaat rum ano, samnuthung dowa miloong ah nyia saahaap loong ah neng thung rapne phaangdat rumta.
9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
Saahaap loong ah ih Jaasoon nyia heh joon loong ah chang rum ano daap haat rumta.
10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Rang ah nak kano, Teesu liphante loong ah ih Pool nyia Silas ah Beria ni kaat thuk rumta. Erah ni thoknyu ano, Jehudi rangsoomnok ni kanyuuta.
11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Erah hah dowa miloong ah Thesalonika mih thaknang ih roongwaan roongtiit ang rumta. Neng loong ah ih rangte tiit ah tenroon woksoon ih boichaat rumta, eno Pool nyia Silas ih baat nyuuta Rangteele ah ami aha jat suh ngeh ih saarookwet ih weh rumta.
12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Mih hantek ih hanpi rumta, Grik nok hah minuh ejat esam loong ih nyia miwah loong ih uh hanpi ih rumta.
13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
Enoothong Thesalonika dowa Jehudi loong ah ih Pool ih Beria ni Rangte tiit baat japchaat rum ano Beria ni miloong ah roonphak ra rum haano daanmui thuk rumta.
14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Rangte ra choote loong ah ih Pool ah juukaang ko ih hotsoon kaat thuk rumta; enoothong Silas nyia Timothi ah Beria ni tangtong nyuuta.
15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
Pool siitkaatte miloong ah Ethen ni maang thokthok ih siitkaat rumta eno Beria ni maang ngaakwang rumka di Pool ih Silas nyia Timothi ah kharok ih toom chokhoom nyuuha ngeh ih maatbaat rumta.
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Pool ih Silas nyia Timothi Ethen ni ban nyu adi, erah samnuthung dowa miloong ah sok ano rapne ih thungthita.
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
Erah raangtaan ih Pool ah Jehudi rangsoomnok ni Jehudi nyia Ranglajatte Rangte rangsoomte eh hoon rumta loong ah damdi roongwangta, eno erah di o mina thaangsangte daankhoomta loong ah damdi nep roong waanta.
18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Epikuria nok hah nyia Stoik nyootsootte nep ih Pool damdi daanmui rumta. Mararah ih cheng rumta, “Arah ih tiim uh lajat kaadi tiim jengte jengla?” Wahoh loong ah ih ngaak baatta, “Mideek mikaan Rangte tiit ta baat ha nih.” Arah jengkhaap ah Pool ih Jisu nyia ngaaksaat tiit baat kano li rumta.
19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
Erah thoidi Pool ah samnuthung ni Ariopagus Ngoongthum thengni siitkaat rum ano cheng rumta, “An ih ena ena nyootsoot hu ah tiimjih suh liihu.
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Mararah ah seng ih dookdah ih chaat hi, erah ah ju tiimsuh liiha ngeh ih jat suh liihi.”
21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
(Ethen nok hah nyia mideek nawa thok songtongta loong ah ena ena tiitwaan chaat suh nyia jat suh karam rumta.)
22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Pool samnuthung dowa Ngoongthumte ngathong ni toonchap ano jengta, “Sen Ethen nok hah loong ah thooroom mina.
23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
Tiimnge liidi sen hadaang ni tumkhoom lang adi sen rangsoom theng ni, thong ni raanghan ah emah raang arah japtuptang, ‘Lajatke Rangte suh.’ Heh men lajat kan ah soomtu han, ngah ih erah laangbo nyootsoot rumhala.
24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
Mongrep nyia erah khui ni tongtongla hoonte Rangte ah juuba rang nyia hah raangtaan ih Teesu eno heh mabah uh mina ih hoon hi rangsoomnok nah tatongka.
25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
Adoleh seng jiin nawa tiim uh tasuh ri, seng roidong, sengtak senglak jaatrep heh teeteewah ih koh hali.
26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Mina wasiit dowa warep waraang loong jaat thuk ano mongrep noongrep ni songtong thukla. Rangte heh teeteewah ih maang edook mathan saajang nyia marah hah adoh songtong theng ah erah thiin choi.
27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
Erah ah tiim esuh liita, mina ih Rangte ah jam ih ah, adoleh erah jam rum adoh mok chojam ih rum ah. Ang ah bah uh Rangte ah seng loong taangnawa haloot ni bah tah angka;
28 ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
o ih bah uh li eta, ‘Heh damdi tongli, heh damdi khoomli, heh dam di hak li.’ Boongkaat seehoon leedap raangte sengdung dowa ih liita, ‘Seng loong ah uh hesuh hesah.’
29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
Seng Rangte suh hesuh hesah lek angleh, lamok thun theng hebanlam ih hun adoleh kom nyia jong, mina lak ih miihoon ha likhiik ang ah ngeh ah.
30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Maangdoh bah jirep ah Rangte ih heh men maang jat doh tasam sokta, enoothong amadi mirep suh sekthun etheng ngeh ih baat ha.
31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Tiimnge liidi, heh ih danjeeta loong asuh arah hah ah dande thuk suh rangwu saakaan thiin eha. Tek nawa saatsiitta warah jun ih mirep suh heh ih jat ih thuk hali!”
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
Pool ih tek nawa ngaaksaat tiit baat kano mararah ah doondaak siitkook ih rumta, eno mararah ih liita, “Seng suh arah jengkhaap ah we bootbaat ih weehe.”
33 Thus Paul went out from amongst them.
Erah lomkhoon rumta dowa Pool ah doksoon ih kata.
34 But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Miwah mararah ih hanpi ih rum ano roongroop rumta, neng damdi Dionisius nep roong roopta, minuh nusiit Damaris nyia, mih wahoh loong ah uh eje angta.
