Mitendo 17
1 Linu haba hita mwi tolope ya Anfipolisi ni Apolonia, ni beeza kwi tolopo ya Tesalonoka, ku beena i sinagoge ya Majuda.
And they passed through the cities of Amphipolis and Apollonia, and came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews.
2 Paulusi, ka chizo chakwe, naya kubali, mi mu mazuba o tatwe e nsabata na li kumbulusa nabo ku zwilila muma ñolo.
And Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and during three sabbaths he discoursed with them from the scriptures;
3 Abali kwi yalula mañolo ni ku toloka kuti kubali kwa bu tokwa kuti Kilisite a nyande ni kubuka hape kuzwa kwaa bana bafwile. Nacho, “Uzu Jesu uni wamba kwenu njeye Kilisite.
expounding and showing, that the Messiah was to suffer, and to arise from the dead, and that this Jesus whom I announce to you is the Messiah.
4 Ba mwi Majuda baba zumini ni kuli kopanya ni Paulusi ni Silasi, mane ni Ma gelike babali tombwele kwali, bungi bwa banakazi baba hitile ni chichaba chikando.
And some of them believed, and adhered to Paul and Silas; and of those Greeks who feared God, a great many; and also of noted women, not a few.
5 Kono Majuda basana bali kuzumina, chaku yendiswa muuna, na hinda ba nakwame ba sena sinde muma uzikizo, na kunganya chicaba hamwina, mi na bika i tolopo mwi laata li lyanganisa. Ni ba ngundunganya i nzubo ya Jasoni. Babali kusaka kuleta Paulusi ni Silasi hanze ku bantu.
But the Jews were indignant, and gathered to themselves evil men from the marketplace of the city, and formed a great mob; and they alarmed the city, and came and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to draw them from it, and to deliver them up to the mob.
6 Kono haba sana baba bawani, ni ba tundanisa Jasoni ni bamwi bakwame habusu bwa ba sepahali be tolopo, kulila, “Aba bakwame ba chiba futumuna inkanda beeza kunu nabo.
And when they found them not there, they drew Jason and the brethren who were there, and brought them before the chiefs of the city, crying out: These are they who have terrified all the country; and lo, they have come hither also:
7 A baba kwame Jason baba tambuli ba tenda chaku sandukila intaelo ya Sesare, ba cho kuti kwina zumwi simwine- Jesu.”
and this Jason is their entertainer: and they all resist the commands of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
8 Linu chichaba ni ba sepahali be tolopo haba zuwa izi zintu, baba katazehete.
And the chiefs of the city and all the people, were alarmed when they heard these things.
9 Haba mana kuhinda intuwelo ye nsilelezo kwa Jasoni ni bamwi, ni baba lekeza kuti baliyendeze.
And they took sureties from Jason, and also from the brethren, and then released them.
10 Ubo busiku ba mwakwe ni ba tumina Paulusi ni Silasi kwa Beria. Haba sika kwateni, ni be njila mu masinagoge a Majuda.
And the brethren immediately, on the same night, sent away Paul and Silas to the city of Berea. And when they came there, they entered into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 Linu a ba bantu babali ku sepahala kuhita abo bamwa Teselonika, mukuti baba tambuli inzwi ca maano a litukiseze, ku tatuba mañolo mwi zuba kubona kapa izi zintu muzibekalile.
For the Jews there were more liberal than the Jews of Thessalonica; and they gladly heard the word from them daily, and searched from the scriptures whether these things were so.
12 Kuzwaho bungi bwabo baba zumini, ku bika ni basusuwezi ba Ma Gelike ba bana kazi mane ni bungi bwa bakwame.
And many of them believed; and so likewise of the Greeks, many men, and women of note.
13 Kono ma Juda ba Teselonika habeziba kuti Paulusi naye abali kuwamba inzwi lye Ireeza kwa Berea, ba ba yendi ko ni kubusa musunga ni ku kataza bungi bwa bantu.
And when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached by Paul in the city of Berea, they came thither also, and they ceased not to excite and alarm the people.
14 Linu haho bulyo, ba mwaakwe ni ba tuma Paulusi kuya kwi iwate, kono Silasi ni Timetea abo niba shala kwateni.
And the brethren sent away Paul, that he might go down to the sea. But Silas and Timothy abode in that city.
15 Abo baba sotweze Paulusi ni bamu twala uko kwi tolopo ya Anseni. Ha basiya Paulusi kwateni, ni ba tambula intaelo yakwe ya Silasi ni Timotea ya kwiza kwali cha kuhwela muku wolekela.
And they who conducted Paul, went with him to the city of Athens. And when they departed from him, they received an epistle from him to Silas and Timothy, that they should come to him speedily.
16 Linu mukuti Paulusi haba kuba lindile mwa Anseni, luuho lwakwe ni lwa katazeha mwali ha bona i tolopo i zwiile ziswaniso zi lapelwa.
And while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, he was pained in his spirit; because he saw that the whole city was full of idols.
17 Mi na zeza zeza mwa sinagoge ni Majuda na bo ba bali ku lumbeka Ireeza mi mane na bo ba bali ku likopanya nabo izuba ni zuba mu cibaka ca musika.
And in the synagogue he spoke with the Jews, and with those that feared God, and in the market-place with them who daily assembled there.
18 Kono hape bamwi ba li tutite ba Ma epikulia ni ma Sitoiki ni bali kopanya naye. Mi bamwi nibati, “Uzu yo wamba ahulu u lika ku tii nzi? Bamwi ni bati,” Uboneka kuba muluti wa milimu iseni kubonwa, “kakuti abali kuluta za Jesu ni za ku buuka.
And also philosophers of the sect of Epicureans, and others who were called Stoics, disputed with him. And one and another of them said: What doth this word-monger mean? Others said: He announceth foreign deities; because he preached to them Jesus and his resurrection.
19 Ni bahinda Paulusi ni kumu leta kwa Areopagusi, ni bati, Tusaka kwi ziba uwu mulutilo seke wo wamba?
And they took him and brought him to the place of judgments called Areopagus, and said to him: May we know what this new doctrine which thou preachest is?
20 Ka kuti u leta zintu zi seni kubonwa mu matwi etu. Linu tusaka kwiziba kuti izi zintu zi talusa nzi.”
For thou scatterest in our ears strange words; and we wish to know what they are.
21 (Linu bonse ma Ansenia ni mabuu kwenda babali kuhala mwa teni ni be kaala ni kusena ziba tenda kwanda ku wamba ni ku tekeleza zimwi zihya.)
For all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there, cared for nothing else but to tell or to hear something new.
22 Kuzwa aho Paulusi na zimana mukati ka ma Aeropagusi mi nacho, “Inwe muba kwame ba Anseni, ni bwene kuti mwi zwile ahulu bu mulimu mwi nzila zonse.
And as Paul stood in the Areopagus, he said: Men, Athenians, I perceive that in all things ye are excessive in the worship of demons.
23 Sina ha ni bali ku hitite ni ba boni zintu zi mu lumbeka, Ni ba wani kataala kena uwu miñolo, “Kwa Ireeza ya se zibenkene.” Icho linu chimu lapela mu kuseziba, ni chi mi wambila.
For, as I was rambling about, and viewing the temples of your worship, I met with an altar, on which was inscribed, TO THE HIDDEN GOD. Him, therefore, whom ye worship while ye know him not, the very same I announce to you.
24 Ireeza ya ba bumbi i nkanda ni zonse zina mwateni, mukuti njeye simwine we iwulu ni hansi, ka haali mwi i tempele i ba bumbwa ni mayanza.
For the God who made the world and all that is in it, and who is Lord of heaven and of earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
25 Nandi ku sebelezwa cha mayanza a muntu, mane ubu kwina cha saka, mukuti iye mwine njo ha bantu bu halo ni luhuho ni zintu zonse.
Nor is he ministered to by human hands, neither hath he any wants; for he it is giveth life and breath to every man.
26 Mi kuzwa ku muntu yenke a ba pangi cisi cha bantu ba hala hansi, mi ni ku akaleza ku ketwa kwe nako ni museto wa zibaka mu bahala.
And of one blood hath he made the whole world of men, that they might dwell on the face of all the earth: and he hath separated the seasons by his ordinance; and hath set bounds to the residence of men:
27 Kuzwa aho, ba lukela ku gana Ireeza mukuti pona chiba sika kwali ni ku muwana, mi luli, kena kule ni yense wa kwetu.
that they might inquire and search after God, and, by means of his creations, might find him; because he is not afar off from each one of us:
28 Mi mwali tuhala ni ku yenda ni kuba ni buntu bwetu, sina mu iti imwi i mpwetele yenu i ba cho, “Cho kuti naswe tu ba luzubo lwakwe.
for in him it is we live, and move, and exist: as one of your own wise men hath said: From him is our descent.
29 Kuzwa aho, sina hatuli tu ba luzubo lwakwe, katu swaneli ku zeza kuti bulimu bu swana ni gauda, kapa chilivela, kapa mabwe, zi bezetwe ni ka bu ma pangapanga ni kuzeza kwa muntu.
Therefore we, whose descent is from God, ought not to suppose that the Deity hath the likeness of gold, or silver, or stone, sculptured by the art and skill of men
30 Kuzwa ho Ireeza na shila cha menso i nako ya ku li lyanganisa, kono hanu a ba laeli bantu bonse konse konse ku baka.
And the times of this error God hath made to pass away; and at the present time, he commandeth all men, that each individual, in every place, should repent.
31 Ichi cha kuti aba bakanyi izuba lwete na atule inkanda mu kuluka ca muntu yaba keeti. I reeza aba hi bupaki bozu muntu ku yense cha ku mu busa kwabana ba fwile.”
Because he hath appointed a day, in which he will judge all the earth, with righteousness, by the man whom he hath designated: and he turneth every man to faith in him, in that he raised him from the dead.
32 Linu bantu ba Ansena ha bazuwa za ku buka kwa ba fwile, bamwi ni ba sheununa Paulusi; kono bamwi ni bati, “mutu te keeleze kwako hape kwa amana niyi indaba.”
And when they heard of the resurrection from the dead, some of them ridiculed, and others of them said: At another time, we will hear thee on this matter.
33 Kuzwa aho, Paulusi, na ba siya.
And so Paul departed from among them.
34 Kono bamwi bantu ni ba likopanya naye ni kuzumina, mane bulyo ni Dionisuisi wa kwa Areopagite, mwanakazi ya bali ku sumpwa Damaris, mi ni bamwi ba bena na bo.
And some of them adhered to him, and believed; one of these was Dionysius from among the judges of Areopagus, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
