Acts

帖撒罗尼迦的骚动

1保罗和西拉经过暗妃坡里、亚波罗尼亚，来到帖撒罗尼迦，在那里有犹太人的会堂。

2保罗照他素常的规矩进去，一连三个安息日，本着圣经与他们辩论，

3讲解陈明基督必须受害，从死里复活；又说：「我所传与你们的这位耶稣就是基督。」

4他们中间有些人听了劝，就附从保罗和西拉，并有许多虔敬的希腊人，尊贵的妇女也不少。

5但那不信的犹太人心里嫉妒，招聚了些市井匪类，搭伙成群，耸动合城的人闯进耶孙的家，要将保罗、西拉带到百姓那里。

6找不着他们，就把耶孙和几个弟兄拉到地方官那里，喊叫说：「那搅乱天下的也到这里来了，

7耶孙收留他们。这些人都违背凯撒的命令，说另有一个王耶稣。」

8众人和地方官听见这话，就惊慌了；

9于是取了耶孙和其余之人的保状，就释放了他们。

使徒们在庇哩亚传道

10弟兄们随即在夜间打发保罗和西拉往庇哩亚去。二人到了，就进入犹太人的会堂。

11这地方的人贤于帖撒罗尼迦的人，甘心领受这道，天天考查圣经，要晓得这道是与不是。

12所以他们中间多有相信的，又有希腊尊贵的妇女，男子也不少。

13但帖撒罗尼迦的犹太人知道保罗又在庇哩亚传 神的道，也就往那里去，耸动搅扰众人。

14当时弟兄们便打发保罗往海边去，西拉和提摩太仍住在庇哩亚。

15送保罗的人带他到了雅典，既领了保罗的命，叫西拉和提摩太速速到他这里来，就回去了。

保罗在雅典

16保罗在雅典等候他们的时候，看见满城都是偶像，就心里着急；

17于是在会堂里与犹太人和虔敬的人，并每日在市上所遇见的人，辩论。

18还有伊壁鸠鲁和斯多亚两门的学士，与他争论。有的说：「这胡言乱语的要说什么？」有的说：「他似乎是传说外邦鬼神的。」这话是因保罗传讲耶稣与复活的道。

19他们就把他带到亚略·巴古，说：「你所讲的这新道，我们也可以知道吗？

20因为你有些奇怪的事传到我们耳中，我们愿意知道这些事是什么意思。」（

21雅典人和住在那里的客人都不顾别的事，只将新闻说说听听。）

22保罗站在亚略·巴古当中，说：「众位雅典人哪，我看你们凡事很敬畏鬼神。

23我游行的时候，观看你们所敬拜的，遇见一座坛，上面写着『未识之神』。你们所不认识而敬拜的，我现在告诉你们。

24创造宇宙和其中万物的 神，既是天地的主，就不住人手所造的殿，

25也不用人手服事，好像缺少什么；自己倒将生命、气息、万物，赐给万人。

26他从一本造出万族的人，住在全地上，并且预先定准他们的年限和所住的疆界，

27要叫他们寻求 神，或者可以揣摩而得，其实他离我们各人不远；

28我们生活、动作、存留，都在乎他。就如你们作诗的，有人说：『我们也是他所生的。』

29我们既是 神所生的，就不当以为 神的神性像人用手艺、心思所雕刻的金、银、石。

30世人蒙昧无知的时候， 神并不监察，如今却吩咐各处的人都要悔改。

31因为他已经定了日子，要借着他所设立的人按公义审判天下，并且叫他从死里复活，给万人作可信的凭据。」

32众人听见从死里复活的话，就有讥诮他的；又有人说：「我们再听你讲这个吧！」

33于是保罗从他们当中出去了。

34但有几个人贴近他，信了主，其中有亚略·巴古的官丢尼修，并一个妇人，名叫大马哩，还有别人一同信从。

The Uproar in Thessalonica

1When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

2As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

3explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.

4Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women.

5The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.

6But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,

7and Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, named Jesus!”

8On hearing this, the crowd and city officials were greatly disturbed.

9And they collected bond from Jason and the others and then released them.

The Character of the Bereans

10As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

12As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

13But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.

14The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

15Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.

Paul in Athens

16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace with those he met each day.

18Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

19So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus,where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

20For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

21Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

Paul’s Address in the Areopagus

22Then Paul stood up in the meetingof the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.

23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

24The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

26From one manHe made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

27God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

30Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

32When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”

33At that, Paul left the Areopagus.

34But somejoined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.