Atos 17
1 E, passando por Amphipolis e Apollonia, chegaram a Thessalonica, onde havia uma synagoga de judeos.
Now when they had gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue,
2 E Paulo, como tinha por costume, foi ter com elles; e por tres sabbados disputou com elles sobre as Escripturas,
and Paul, according to his usual custom, went in to them and, for three Sabbath Days, he reasoned with them out of the Scriptures,
3 Declarando-as, e demonstrando que convinha que o Christo padecesse e resuscitasse dos mortos. E este Jesus, que vos annuncio, dizia elle, é o Christo.
explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."
4 E alguns d'elles crêram, e ajuntaram-se com Paulo e Silas uma grande multidão de gregos religiosos, e não poucas mulheres principaes.
Some were persuaded and attached themselves to Paul and Silas, including a number of devout Greeks, and a large number of the leading women.
5 Porém os judeos desobedientes, movidos d'inveja, tomaram comsigo alguns homens malignos, d'entre os vadios, e, ajuntando o povo, alvoroçaram a cidade, e, accommettendo a casa de Jason, procuravam tiral-os para junto do povo.
But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill- favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
6 E, não os achando, trouxeram com violencia a Jason, e alguns irmãos, aos magistrados da cidade, clamando: Estes que teem alvoroçado o mundo, chegaram tambem aqui;
And when they had failed to find Paul and Silas, they began to drag Jason and some of the brethren before the politarchs, shouting. "These fellows who have upset the habitable earth are come hither also.
7 Os quaes Jason tem recolhido; e todos estes obram contra os mandados de Cesar, dizendo que ha outro rei, a saber, Jesus.
"Jason has received them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."
8 E alvoroçaram a multidão e os principaes da cidade, que ouviram estas coisas.
Both the crowd and the politarchs were disturbed when they heard this,
9 Tendo, porém, recebido satisfação de Jason, e dos demais, os soltaram.
but when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10 E logo os irmãos enviaram de noite Paulo e Silas a Berea: os quaes, chegando lá, foram á synagoga dos judeos.
Now the brothers sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they got there they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue.
11 E estes foram mais nobres do que os que estavam em Thessalonica, porque de bom grado receberam a palavra, examinando cada dia nas Escripturas se estas coisas eram assim.
The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.
12 De sorte que crêram muitos d'elles, e mulheres gregas honestas, e não poucos varões.
So many of them became believers, and so did not a few Greeks, women of honorable estate, and men.
13 Mas, logo que os judeos de Thessalonica souberam que a palavra de Deus tambem era annunciada por Paulo em Berea, foram tambem lá, e commoveram as multidões.
As soon as the Jews in Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea also, they came there, and stirred up and troubled the crowds.
14 Porém no mesmo instante os irmãos mandaram a Paulo que fosse como para o mar, mas Silas e Timotheo ficaram ali.
Then the brothers at once sent Paul down to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.
15 E os que acompanhavam Paulo o levaram até Athenas, e, recebendo ordem para que Silas e Timotheo fossem ter com elle o mais depressa possivel, partiram.
Those who were caring for Paul brought him as far as Athens, and there left him, with instructions to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed.
16 E, emquanto Paulo os esperava em Athenas, o seu espirito se commovia em si mesmo, vendo a cidade tão dada á idolatria.
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he noticed that the city was full of idols.
17 De sorte que disputava na synagoga com os judeos e religiosos, e todos os dias na praça com os que se apresentavam.
He argued in the synagogues with the Jews and the devout proselytes, and also daily in the market-place with those that met him there.
18 E alguns dos philosophos epicureos e estoicos contendiam com elle; e uns diziam: Que quer dizer este paroleiro? E outros: Parece que é prégador de deuses estranhos. Porque lhes annunciava a Jesus e a resurreição.
A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19 E, tomando-o, o levaram ao Areopago, dizendo: Poderemos nós saber que nova doutrina é essa de que fallas?
Then they laid hold of him and brought him up to Mars Hill, saying. "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?
20 Pois coisas estranhas nos trazes aos ouvidos: queremos pois saber o que vem a ser isto.
"For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We want to know, therefore, what these things mean."
21 (Pois todos os athenienses e hospedes estrangeiros de nenhuma outra coisa se occupavam, senão de dizer e ouvir alguma coisa nova).
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear some new thing.)
22 E, estando Paulo no meio do Areopago, disse: Varões athenienses, em tudo vos vejo um tanto supersticiosos:
So Paul stood up in the center of Mars Hill, and said. "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all respects you are remarkably religious.
23 Porque, passando eu e vendo os vossos sanctuarios, achei tambem um altar em que estava escripto: AO DEUS DESCONHECIDO. Aquelle pois que vós honraes, não o conhecendo, vos annuncio.
"For as I was passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What you are worshiping in ignorance, this I am proclaiming to you.
24 O Deus que fez o mundo e todas as coisas que n'elle ha: este, sendo Senhor do céu e da terra, não habita em templos feitos por mãos de homens;
"The God who made the universe and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
25 Nem tão pouco é servido por mãos de homens, como que necessitando de alguma coisa; pois é elle só quem dá a todos a vida, e a respiração, e todas as coisas;
"neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
26 E de um sangue fez toda a geração dos homens, para habitar sobre toda a face da terra, determinando os tempos já d'antes ordenados, e os limites da sua habitação;
"He has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the bounds of their habitation,
27 Para que buscassem ao Senhor, se porventura o podessem apalpar e achar; ainda que não está longe de cada um de nós;
"so that they might seek God, if perhaps they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from every on of us;
28 Porque n'elle vivemos, e nos movemos, e existimos; como tambem alguns dos vossos poetas disseram: Porque somos tambem sua geração.
"for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "‘For we also are his offspring.’
29 Sendo pois geração de Deus, não havemos de cuidar que a divindade seja similhante ao oiro, ou á prata, ou á pedra esculpida por artificio e imaginação dos homens
"Since then we are God’s offspring, we ought not to imagine that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.
30 De sorte que Deus, dissimulando os tempos da ignorancia, annuncia agora a todos os homens, e em todo o logar, que se arrependam;
"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent;
31 Porquanto tem determinado um dia em que com justiça ha-de julgar o mundo com justiça por aquelle varão que destinou; dando certeza a todos, resuscitando-o dos mortos.
inasmuch as he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world justly, by the Man whom he has ordained, and he has given proof of all this by raising him from the dead."
32 E, como ouviram da resurreição dos mortos, uns escarneciam, e outros diziam: Ácerca d'isso te ouviremos outra vez.
But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."
33 E assim Paulo saiu do meio d'elles.
So Paul withdrew from them.
34 Porém, chegando alguns varões a elle, creram: entre os quaes foram Dionysio, areopagita, e uma mulher por nome Damaris, e com elles outros.
A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and some others.
