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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。

1And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,

2and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

3opening and alleging, 'That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ — Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

4And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

5And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring [them] to the populace,

6and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud — 'These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,

7whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king — Jesus.'

8And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,

9and having taking security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

10And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;

11and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

12many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.

13And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes;

14and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there.

15And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;

16and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,

17therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

18And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

19having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought [him], saying, 'Are we able to know what [is] this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

20for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

21and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

22And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, 'Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;

23for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God — unknown; whom, therefore — not knowing — ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

24'God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

25neither by the hands of men is He served — needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

26He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth — having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings —

27to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, — though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

28for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

29'Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

30the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

31because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

32And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, 'We will hear thee again concerning this;'

33and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,

34and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom [is] also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.