1 And having journeyed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews.
2 And according to Paul's custom he went in among them, and on three sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures,
3 opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom *I* announce to you.
4 And some of them believed, and joined themselves to Paul and Silas, and of the Greeks who worshipped, a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
5 But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to {themselves} certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;
6 and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These {men} that have set the world in tumult, are come here also,
7 whom Jason has received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying, that there is another king, Jesus.
8 And they troubled the crowd and the politarchs when they heard these things.
9 And having taken security of Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10 But the brethren immediately sent away, in the night, Paul and Silas to Berea; who, being arrived, went away into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so.
12 Therefore many from among them believed, and of Grecian women of the upper classes and men not a few.
13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.
14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.
15 But they that conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and, having received a commandment to Silas and Timotheus, that they should come to him as quickly as possible, they departed.
16 But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to idolatry.
17 He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with.
18 But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection {to them}.
19 And having taken hold on him they brought {him} to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee {is}?
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.
21 Now all {the} Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.
22 And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;
23 for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing {him}, him I announce to you.
24 The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, *he*, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
25 nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;
26 and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,
27 that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:
28 for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Being therefore {the} offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, {the} graven form of man's art and imagination.
30 God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,
31 because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by {the} man whom he has appointed, giving the proof {of it} to all {in} having raised him from among {the} dead.
32 And when they heard {of the} resurrection of the dead, some mocked, and some said, We will hear thee again also concerning this.
33 Thus Paul went out of their midst.
34 But some men joining themselves to him believed; among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name Damaris, and others with them.
1 保罗和西拉经过暗非波里、亚波罗尼亚， 来到帖撒罗尼迦， 在那里有犹太人的会堂。
2 保罗照他的习惯进去， 一连三个安息日， 根据圣经与他们辩论，
3 讲解证明基督必须受害， 从死人中复活， 说： "我所传给你们的这位耶稣， 就是基督。"
4 他们中间有人给说服了， 就附从了保罗和西拉； 还有一大群虔诚的希腊人， 和不少显要的妇女。
5 但犹太人嫉妒起来， 招聚了一些市井流氓， 纠合成群， 骚动全城， 冲进了耶孙的家， 搜索保罗和西拉， 要把他们交给民众。
6 搜索不到他们， 就把耶孙和几个弟兄， 拉到地方长官那里， 喊叫着说： "这些扰乱天下的人， 也到这里来了，
7 耶孙却收留他们。这些人都违背凯撒的法令， 说另外还有一个王耶稣。"
8 群众和地方长官听见这话， 就惊慌起来，
9 取得耶孙和其余的人签保后， 才放了他们。
10 弟兄们当夜立刻送保罗和西拉往比里亚去。二人到了， 就进入犹太人的会堂。
11 这里的人， 比帖撒罗尼迦人开明， 热切接受主的道， 天天考查圣经， 要知道所听的是否与圣经相符。
12 结果他们中间有很多人信了， 也有高贵的希腊妇女， 男的也不少。
13 但帖撒罗尼迦的犹太人， 知道保罗又在比里亚宣讲 神的道， 就到那里去， 煽动挑拨群众。
14 弟兄们立刻把保罗送到海边去； 西拉和提摩太仍然留在比里亚。
15 护送保罗的人带他到了雅典； 保罗吩咐他们叫西拉和提摩太赶快去见他， 于是他们就回去了。
16 保罗在雅典等候他们的时候， 看见满城都是偶像， 心灵十分忿激。
17 于是在会堂里， 同犹太人和虔诚的人辩论； 并且天天在市中心和所遇见的人辩论。
18 还有伊壁鸠鲁派和斯多亚派的哲学家也同他争论， 有的说： "这个拾人牙慧的人要说什么呢？"有的说： "他似乎是一个宣传外地鬼神的人。"这是因为保罗传扬耶稣和复活的道理。
19 他们拉着保罗， 把他带到亚略．巴古那里， 说： "你所讲的这个新道理， 我们可以知道吗？
20 因为你把一切新奇的事， 传到我们耳中， 我们愿意知道这些事是什么意思。"
21 原来所有雅典人和外侨， 专好谈论和打听新奇的事， 来打发时间。
22 保罗站在亚略．巴古当中， 说： "各位雅典人， 我看你们在各方面都非常敬畏鬼神。
23 我走路的时候， 仔细看你们所敬拜的， 发现有一座坛， 上面写着‘献给不认识的神’。我现在把你们不认识而敬拜的这位神， 传给你们。
24 创造宇宙和其中万有的 神， 既然是天地的主， 就不住在人手所造的殿宇，
25 也不受人手的服事， 好像他缺少什么； 他自己反而把生命、气息和一切， 赐给万人。
26 他从一个本源造出了万族来， 使他们住在整个大地上， 并且定了他们的期限和居住的疆界，
27 要他们寻求 神， 或者可以摸索而找到他。其实他离我们各人不远，
28 因着他我们可以生存、活动、存在， 就如你们有些诗人说： ‘原来我们也是他的子孙。’
29 我们既然是 神的子孙， 就不应该以为他的神性是好像人用手艺、心思所雕刻的金银石头一样。
30 过去那无知的时代， 神不加以追究； 现在， 他却吩咐各处的人都要悔改，
31 因为他已经定好了日子， 要借着他所立的人， 按公义审判天下， 并且使他从死人中复活， 给万人作一个可信的凭据。"
32 众人一听到死人复活的事， 就讥笑他， 但有的说： "我们要再听听你讲这件事！ "
33 这样， 保罗就离开他们。
34 但有几个人接近他， 并且信了主， 其中有亚略．巴古的议员丢尼修， 一个名叫戴马里的女子， 还有其他的人。