Acts 17
1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
| وَصَلَ بُولُسُ وَسِيلا إِلَى تَسَالُونِيكِي بَعْدَمَا مَرَّا بِأَمْفِيبُولِيسَ وَأَبُولُونِيَّةَ. وَكَانَ فِي تَسَالُونِيكِي مَجْمَعٌ لِلْيَهُودِ. | ١ |
2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
| فَذَهَبَ إِلَيْهِ كَعَادَتِهِ، وَنَاقَشَهُمْ لِثَلاثَةِ سُبُوتٍ، مُسْتَنِداً إِلَى الْكِتَابِ، | ٢ |
3 explaining and demonstrating that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Yeshua, whom I proclaim to you, is the Messiah.”
| وَشَرَحَ لَهُمْ مُبَيِّناً أَنَّ الْمَسِيحَ كَانَ لابُدَّ أَنْ يَتَأَلَّمَ وَيَقُومَ مِنْ بَيْنِ الأَمْوَاتِ، وَأَنَّ «الْمَسِيحَ الَّذِي تَنْتَظِرُونَهُ هُوَ يَسُوعُ الَّذِي أُبَشِّرُكُمْ بِهِ الآنَ!» | ٣ |
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.
| فَاقْتَنَعَ بَعْضُ الْحَاضِرِينَ وَانْضَمُّوا إِلَى بُولُسَ وَسِيلا. وَكَانَ بَيْنَهُمْ عَدَدٌ كَبِيرٌ مِنَ الْيُونَانِيِّينَ الْمُتَعَبِّدِينَ لِلهِ وَكَثِيرَاتٌ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ النَّبِيلاتِ. | ٤ |
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.
| فَأَثَارَ ذَلِكَ حَسَدَ الْيَهُودِ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا، فَأَتَوْا بِبَعْضِ الأَشْرَارِ مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الشَّارِعِ، وَجَمَعُوا جُمْهُوراً وَأَخَذُوا يُحَرِّضُونَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى أَثَارُوا الْفَوْضَى فِي الْمَدِينَةِ، ثُمَّ هَجَمُوا عَلَى بَيْتِ يَاسُونَ مُطَالِبِينَ بِتَسْلِيمِ بُولُسَ وَسِيلا إِلَى الْجَمْعِ. | ٥ |
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,
| وَلَمَّا لَمْ يَجِدُوهُمَا هُنَاكَ جَرُّوا يَاسُونَ وَبَعْضَ الإِخْوَةِ وَاقْتَادُوهُمْ إِلَى حُكَّامِ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَاشْتَكَوْا عَلَيْهِمْ صَارِخِينَ: «إِنَّ هَذَيْنِ الرَّجُلَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ قَلَبَا الدُّنْيَا، قَدْ جَاءَا إِلَى مَدِينَتِنَا أَيْضاً، | ٦ |
7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Yeshua!”
| فَاسْتَضَافَهُمَا يَاسُونُ. وَهُمْ جَمِيعاً يُخَالِفُونَ أَوَامِرَ الْقَيْصَرِ، وَيُنَادُونَ بِمَلِكٍ آخَرَ اسْمُهُ يَسُوعُ». | ٧ |
8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
| فَأَحْدَثُوا انْزِعَاجاً لَدَى الْجَمْعِ وَالْحُكَّامِ عِنْدَمَا سَمِعُوا هَذَا. | ٨ |
9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
| فَقَبَضَ الْحُكَّامُ كَفَالَةً مِنْ يَاسُونَ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ ثُمَّ أَفْرَجُوا عَنْهُمْ. | ٩ |
10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
| وَفِي اللَّيْلِ رَحَّلَ الإِخْوَةُ بُولُسَ وَسِيلا حَالاً إِلَى بِيرِيَّةَ. وَلَمَّا وَصَلا إِلَيْهَا، ذَهَبَا إِلَى مَجْمَعِ الْيَهُودِ فِيهَا. | ١٠ |
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.
| وَكَانَ يَهُودُ بِيرِيَّةَ أَشْرَفَ مِنْ يَهُودِ تَسَالُونِيكِي، فَقَبِلُوا كَلِمَةَ اللهِ بِرَغْبَةٍ شَدِيدَةٍ، وَأَخَذُوا يَدْرُسُونَ الْكِتَابَ يَوْمِيًّا لِيَتَأَكَّدُوا مِنْ صِحَّةِ التَّعْلِيمِ. | ١١ |
12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
| فَآمَنَ عَدَدٌ كَبِيرٌ مِنْهُمْ، كَمَا آمَنَ مِنَ الْيُونَانِيِّينَ نِسَاءٌ نَبِيلاتٌ وَعَدَدٌ كَبِيرٌ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ. | ١٢ |
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.
| وَعَرَفَ يَهُودُ تَسَالُونِيكِي أَنَّ بُولُسَ يُبَشِّرُ بِكَلِمَةِ اللهِ فِي بِيرِيَّةَ، فَلَحِقُوا بِهِ وَبَدَأُوا يُحَرِّضُونَ الْجُمُوعَ لِيَثُورُوا عَلَيْهِ. | ١٣ |
14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
| وَفِي الْحَالِ أَخَذَ بَعْضُ الإِخْوَةِ بُولُسَ نَحْوَ الْبَحْرِ لِيُسَافِرَ، وَبَقِيَ سِيلا وَتِيمُوثَاوُسُ هُنَاكَ. | ١٤ |
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.
| وَرَافَقَ الإِخْوَةُ بُولُسَ حَتَّى أَوْصَلُوهُ إِلَى أَثِينَا، ثُمَّ رَجَعُوا بَعْدَمَا أَوْصَاهُمْ بُولُسُ بِأَنْ يَلْحَقَ بِهِ سِيلا وَتِيمُوثَاوُسُ بِأَسْرَعِ مَا يُمْكِنُ. | ١٥ |
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
| وَبَيْنَمَا كَانَ بُولُسُ يَنْتَظِرُهُمَا فِي أَثِينَا رَأَى الْمَدِينَةَ مَمْلُوءَةً أَصْنَاماً فَتَضَايَقَتْ رُوحُهُ. | ١٦ |
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.
| وَأَخَذَ يُخَاطِبُ الْيَهُودَ وَغَيْرَهُمْ مِنَ الْمُتَعَبِّدِينَ فِي الْمَجْمَعِ، وَمَنْ يَلْقَاهُمْ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ فِي سَاحَةِ الْمَدِينَةِ. | ١٧ |
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 Yeshua and the resurrection.
| وَجَرَتْ مُنَاقَشَةٌ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ بَعْضِ الْفَلاسِفَةِ الأَبِيقُورِيِّينَ وَالرِّوَاقِيِّينَ. وَلَمَّا وَجَدُوا أَنَّهُ يُبَشِّرُ بِيَسُوعَ وَالْقِيَامَةِ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ: «مَاذَا يَعْنِي هَذَا الْمُدَّعِي الأَحْمَقُ بِكَلامِهِ؟» وَقَالَ آخَرُونَ: «يَبْدُو أَنَّهُ يُنَادِي بِآلِهَةٍ غَرِيبَةٍ». | ١٨ |
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?
| ثُمَّ قَادُوهُ إِلَى تَلَّةِ أَرْيُوبَاغُوسَ (حَيْثُ مَجْلِسُ الْمَدِينَةِ) وَسَأَلُوهُ: «هَلْ لَنَا أَنْ نَعْرِفَ مَا هُوَ الْمَذْهَبُ الْجَدِيدُ الَّذِي تُنَادِي بِهِ؟ | ١٩ |
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
| إِنَّنَا نَسْمَعُ مِنْكَ أَقْوَالاً غَرِيبَةً نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَعْرِفَ مَعْنَاهَا». | ٢٠ |
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.
| وَكَانَ أَهْلُ أَثِينَا وَالأَجَانِبُ السَّاكِنُونَ فِيهَا لَا يُمْضُونَ أَوْقَاتِ فَرَاغِهِمْ إِلّا فِي مُنَاقَشَةِ الأَفْكَارِ الْجَدِيدَةِ. | ٢١ |
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.
| فَوَقَفَ بُولُسُ فِي وَسَطِ الأَرِيُوبَاغُوسِ، وَقَالَ: «يَا أَهْلَ أَثِينَا، أَرَاكُمْ مُتَدَيِّنِينَ كَثِيراً فِي كُلِّ أَمْرٍ. | ٢٢ |
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.
| فَبَيْنَمَا كُنْتُ أَتَجَوَّلُ فِي مَدِينَتِكُمْ وَأَنْظُرُ إِلَى مَعَابِدِكُمْ وَجَدْتُ مَعْبَداً مَكْتُوباً عَلَيْهِ’إِلَى الإِلهِ الْمَجْهُولِ‘. فَبِهَذَا الإِلَهِ الَّذِي تَعْبُدُونَهُ وَلا تَعْرِفُونَهُ، أَنَا أُبَشِّرُكُمْ. | ٢٣ |
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.
| إِنَّهُ اللهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْكَوْنَ وَكُلَّ مَا فِيهِ، وَهُوَ الَّذِي لَا يَسْكُنُ فِي مَعَابِدَ بَنَتْهَا أَيْدِي الْبَشَرِ، لأَنَّهُ رَبُّ السَّمَاءِ وَالأَرْضِ، | ٢٤ |
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.
| وَلَيْسَ بِحَاجَةٍ إِلَى خِدْمَةٍ يُقَدِّمُهَا لَهُ النَّاسُ. فَإِنَّهُ يَهَبُ جَمِيعَ الْخَلْقِ الْحَيَاةَ وَالنَّفْسَ وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ. | ٢٥ |
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,
| وَقَدْ أَخْرَجَ الشُّعُوبَ جَمِيعاً مِنْ أَصْلٍ وَاحِدٍ، وَأَسْكَنَهُمْ بِلادَ الأَرْضِ كُلَّهَا، وَحَدَّدَ مُسْبَقاً أَزْمِنَةَ وُجُودِهِمْ وَحُدُودَ أَوْطَانِهِمْ، | ٢٦ |
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.
| لِكَيْ يَبْحَثُوا عَنِ اللهِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَلَمَّسُونَهُ فَيَهْتَدُوا إِلَيْهِ! فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بَعِيداً عَنْ أَيِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنَّا، | ٢٧ |
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.’
| لأَنَّنَا بِهِ نَحْيَا وَنَتَحَرَّكُ وَنُوجَدُ، أَوْ كَمَا قَالَ بَعْضُ شُعَرَائِكُمْ: نَحْنُ أَيْضاً ذُرِّيَّتُهُ! | ٢٨ |
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.
| فَمَادُمْنَا ذُرِّيَةَ اللهِ، فَيَجِبُ أَلّا نَنْظُرَ إِلَى الأُلُوهِيَّةِ كَأَنَّهَا صَنَمٌ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ أَوْ فِضَّةٍ أَوْ حَجَرٍ يَسْتَطِيعُ إِنْسَانٌ أَنْ يَنْحَتَهُ أَوْ يَصُوغَهُ كَمَا يَتَخَيَّلُ! | ٢٩ |
30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
| فَاللهُ الآنَ يَدْعُو جَمِيعَ النَّاسِ فِي كُلِّ مَكَانٍ أَنْ يَرْجِعُوا إِلَيْهِ تَائِبِينَ، وَقَدْ غَضَّ النَّظَرَ عَنْ أَزْمِنَةِ الْجَهْلِ الَّتِي مَرَّتْ، | ٣٠ |
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.”
| لأَنَّهُ حَدَّدَ يَوْماً يَدِينُ فِيهِ الْعَالَمَ بِالْعَدْلِ عَلَى يَدِ رَجُلٍ اخْتَارَهُ لِذَلِكَ. وَقَدْ قَدَّمَ لِلْجَمِيعِ بُرْهَاناً، إِذْ أَقَامَهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الأَمْوَاتِ». | ٣١ |
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
| وَمَا إِنْ سَمِعَ الْحَاضِرُونَ بِالْقِيَامَةِ مِنْ بَيْنِ الأَمْوَاتِ حَتَّى بَدَأَ بَعْضُهُمْ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ. وَلَكِنَّ آخَرِينَ قَالُوا لِبُولُسَ: «نَوَدُّ أَنْ تُحَدِّثَنَا فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضُوعِ ثَانِيَةً». | ٣٢ |
33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
| وَهَكَذَا خَرَجَ بُولُسُ مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ. | ٣٣ |
34 But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
| وَلَكِنَّ بَعْضَهُمُ انْضَمُّوا إِلَى بُولُسَ وَآمَنُوا وَمِنْهُمْ دِيُونِيسِيُوسُ، وَكَانَ عُضْواً فِي مَجْلِسِ أَرْيُوبَاغُوسَ، وَامْرَأَةٌ اسْمُهَا دَامَارِيسُ، وَآخَرُونَ غَيْرُهُمَا. | ٣٤ |
