Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Polo leni silasa nden ca tesalonika, bi den tagini ki ñani amifipolisa dogu nni, leni apoloni dogu nni, ki ban pundi tesalonika, naani ke jufinba den pia li balimaama bangima dieli.
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
nani polo n den maani maama, o den kua ki taani leni ba. polo den boe leni ba, mi fuodima dana nni, dana taa leni yaala n diani, i diani nni.
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.”
O den bundi ki wangi ke U Tienu n gandi yua ba le fala ki kpe, ki go fii bi tinkpiba siiga. o den yedi ba, min wangi i jesu yua yaa maama yeni, wani n tie U Tienu n gandi yua.
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.
bi siiga nni bi tianba den tuo ki gaa laa maama ki taani polo leni silasa po. gilekinba siiga yaaba boncianla moko, yaaba n fangi U Tienu leni yaa puoba n pia ti kpiagidi yaa siiga den tuo ki gaa mi maama yeni.
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.
Ama jufinba nunponbiadili den fii ke bi taani leni u dogu nibiada, ke bi fiini ku fuugu leni ku yanyagu u dogu nni. bi den tugi biyaba ki gedi jasono denpo, ki woli polo leni silasa, ki bua ki ñani baa ki gedi n baa ku niligu nintuali.
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,
Ban ki den laa ba, bi den fuli jasono leni o kpiiba tianba, ki gedi ni ba u dogu bujaba po, ki taangi ki tua yaa niba n yagini li ŋandunli yama yeni, cua ne moko, ke jasono gaa bi cangu.
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Bikuli yeedi sesa balimaama, ki tua ke baditoa ye, ke bi yi o Jesu.
8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
Amaama den yagi ku niligu leni u dogu bujaba yama
9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
bi den teni ke jasono leni o lieba pani i ligi yo ke bi ŋa ba
10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Ku ñiagu n den bii, ti kpiiba den gedini polo leni silasa bele dogu nni, lankani bi den gedi jufinba n taandi ya balimaama bangima dielinni.
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.
Laa jufinba wani den tie nimoanba ki cie tesalonika yaaba. bi den gaa U Tienu maama leni li yankuali ki lingi daali kuli i diani nni ki baa le ban bangi baa yaala, ya tie moamoani.
12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Bi siiga boncianla den daani, leni gileki yaaba siiga yaa puoba n pia ti kpiagidi leni bi jaba boncianla moko den daani.
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.
Ama tesalonika jufinba n den gbadi ke polo wangi bele yaaba moko U Tienu maama, bi den gedi lanpo moko, ki ban yagi ku niligu yama.
14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Lanwani ti kpiiba den gedini laayogunu polo nepo yaa kpenduoli, ama silasa leni timote den sedi bele.
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.
yaaba n den ciani polo den pundi o atena dogu nni, ki lebidi, ki ban ca polo tondu, silasa leni timote, ke polo yedi ban ŋoadi o ke laa wagi.
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
nani polo n den gu baa atena yeni, o den laa ke ibuli naanana den gbie laa dogu ni, ke o yama yagi hali boncianla.
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.
o den boe leni jufinba, leni yaa jaba n fangi Utienu li balimaama bangima dieli nni, leni wan togidi leni yaaba daali n kuli.
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.
Yaa yanfodanba n den ŋoa Epikule bangi ma bi tianba leni sitoyisieninba ya bangima yaaba tianba den taani ki nia leni polo ki tua. O maciandaano ne bua ki yedi be? Bi tianba n den gba ke o maadi Jesu labaali ŋamo leni bi tinkpiba gua fiima yeni, bi den tua: Li nani o maadi bucianni yaa maama yo!
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?
Lanwani, bi den taa polo, ki gedi nni o u dogu nikpela po, ki tua: Naani ti ba baa bandi ŋan maadi ya bangi panma ne bi.
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Kelima a teni ke ti gba boncianla yo, lanwani ti bua ki bandi laa bangima n bua ki yedi yaala.
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.
Li den sua ke atena dotieba, leni yaa cianba n ye likani kuli, yen taani bi yogunu, ki maadi, bi ki cengi li boncianla.
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.
Polo den fii ki se aleyopaja nitaali siiga ki yedi ba, atena yaaba, n laa ke yi kuani yi yama mi jaama nni hali boncianla.
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.
Min goadi ki gaandi u dogu niine, n laa yin pia ya buli kuli, ki padi a pada, hali n ban laa, padibinbin yenli po ya diani te na: Line tie, tin kaa bani ya tienu po” yin kpiagidi yua kaa bani o yeni, n maadi yi o yaa maame.
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.
U Tienu yua tagi liŋandunli leni yaala n ye lienni kuli, wani yua die tanpoli leni ki tinga, waa ye bi nisaali ba n maa ya jandiena nni ka.
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.
Lisaali nii ki tuuni o po, nani o bi luo bonliba yeni kelima wani n puuni bi niba kuli ke bi ye ki fo, ki pia ban pia yaala kuli.
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,
Teni ni ke bi nisaaliba kuli, ñani ja yendo yaakani. ke bi ye ki tinga kuli po, ki bili yua kuli po, o miali dana banlu, wan ye naani kani.
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.
O den bua ban lingi wani o Diedo, bi ya tie ania bi tatanmi nni, ba ke waa foagi leni ti niinni o ba.
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.’
Li miali, ti sancienli, leni ti yema kuli ye o yaa niinne. i baantiadi nni, bi tianba den yedi ke ti tie o puoli ŋoamu yo.
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.
li ya tie ke ti tie U Tienu puoli ŋoani yo, laa pundi tin go daani ke o naani leni bi nisaaliba n fidi ki taa wula, bi ŋanjilifa, bi li tanli ki tagi ya nannanli kelima bi banma leni bi yanfuoma po.
30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
U Tienu n ki cuadi bi nisaaliba yanpiima, ya yogu nni n den pendi, moala o wangi bi niba kuli, i kani kuli ke li pundi ban bidi bi pala ki daani.
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.”
kelima o bili, wani ba jiaa li ŋandunli buudi yaa daali, leni mi teginma. Lani mo baa tieni leni wan gandi yua ki teni o yaa siedo n tie mi kpe fiima yua kuli nintuali.
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
Ban den gbadi, ke o maadi a tinkpila fiima maama bi tianba den ñuadi o, bine mo n yedi o: ti go ba cengi a cima dantuali.
33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
Lan polo den ñani li nitaanli siiga.
34 But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Bi tianba den taani o po, ki tuo ki daani, denisa aleyopaja nitaanli yaabi siiga, yendo. Puo yendo ke bi yi o damalisa-leni nitoaba moko.
