Atos 17

1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."

4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas: of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women. 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along*17:5 TR reads "And the Jews who were unpersuaded, becoming envious and taking along" instead of "But the unpersuaded Jews took along" some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people. 6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers*17:6 The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings." before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!" 8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. 9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. 12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men. 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes. 14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. 15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also*17:18 TR omits "also" were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?"

Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about? 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean." 21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you. 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands. 25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things. 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man. 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."

33 Thus Paul went out from among them. 34 But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

I Teharonika

1 Nā, ka hāereere rāua i Amapipori, Aporonia, ka tae ki Teharonika; he whare karakia nō ngā Hūrai i reira. 2 Ā, ka tomo atu a Pāora ki a rātou, he tikanga hoki nāna, ā, e toru ngā hāpati i kōrerorero ai ki a rātou i roto i ngā karaipiture, 3 i whakapuaki ai, i kōrero ai, kua takoto hoki te tikanga kia mamae a te Karaiti, kia ara mai hoki i te hunga mate; ā, "Ko tēnei Īhu, e kauwhautia nei e ahau ki a koutou, ko ia te Karaiti." 4 Nā, ka whakapono ētahi o rātou, ka piri hoki ki a Pāora rāua ko Hira; he tokomaha hoki o ngā Kariki karakia, kīhai hoki i ruarua ngā wāhine rangatira.

5 Heoi, ka hae ngā Hūrai, ka tango ki a rātou i ētahi tāngata kikino o te hunga māngere, ka huihuia ngā tāngata, ka whakaohotia te pā; nā, ko te huakanga ki te whare o Hahona, ka mea kia whakaputaina rāua ki te iwi. 6 Ā, nō te korenga i kitea rāua ka tōia e rātou a Hahona rātou ko ētahi tēina ki ngā rangatira o te pā, ka karanga, "Kua tae mai ki konei ngā tāngata i whakatutūngia ai te ao; 7 kua puritia hoki e Hahona; e tika kē ana ngā mahi a tēnei hunga katoa i ngā ture a Hīhā, e mea ana, tērā atu tētahi kīngi, ko Īhu." 8 Nā, ka rongo te mano rātou ko ngā rangatira o te pā ki ēnei mea, ka pororaru. 9 Nā, ka tango rātou i ētahi moni pupuri i a Hahona rātou ko ērā atu, ā, tukua atu ana rātou.

I Peria

10 Nā, tonoa tonutia atu e ngā tēina a Pāora rāua ko Hira i te pō ki Peria; i tō rāua taenga atu, ka haere ki te whare karakia o ngā Hūrai. 11 Engari, ēnei i nui atu te āhua rangatira i tō ngā tāngata o Teharonika, i hohoro tonu rātou te tango i te kupu, ā, i tēnei rā, i tēnei rā, i rapu i roto i ngā karaipiture i te tikanga o ēnei mea. 12 Nā, he tokomaha o rātou i whakapono; kīhai hoki i tokoiti ngā wāhine rangatira o ngā Kariki, me ngā tāne hoki.

13 Otirā, i te mōhiotanga o ngā Hūrai o Teharonika, tērā te kupu a te Atua te kauwhautia ana e Pāora ki Peria, ka haere hoki rātou ki reira ki te whakaoho, ki te whakararuraru i ngā mano. 14 Nā, tonoa tonutia atu e ngā tēina a Pāora kia haere tae noa ki te moana; ko Hira ia rāua ko Tīmoti i noho ki reira. 15 Nā, ka kawea a Pāora e ōna kaiārahi ki Atene; ā, ka riro he kupu ki a Hira rāua ko Tīmoti kia hohoro te haere ki a ia, ka hoki rātou.

I Atene

16 Nā, i a Pāora e tatari ana ki a rāua i Atene, ka oho tōna wairua i roto i a ia, i tāna kitenga i te pā e kī ana i te whakapakoko. 17 Nā, totohe ana ia i roto i te whare karakia ki ngā Hūrai rātou ko ngā tāngata karakia, i te kāinga hoko hoki i ngā rā katoa ki ngā tāngata i pono ki a ia. 18 Ā, ka ngangare ki a ia ētahi tohunga o ngā Epikureana, o ngā Toika. Ko ētahi i mea, "He aha tā tēnei tangata kōrerorero e mea nei?"

I mea ētahi, "Me te mea he kaiwhakapuaki ia i ētahi atua tauhou." Mō tāna kauwhau i a Īhu, i te aranga, ki a rātou. 19 Nā, ka mau rātou ki a ia, ka kawea ki Areopaka, ka mea, "Kia mōhio mātou, he aha rānei tēnei ako hou e kōrerotia nei e koe? 20 Poka kē hoki ngā mea e mauria mai nei e koe ki ō mātou taringa; koia mātou i mea ai kia mōhio, he aha ēnei mea." 21 Ka mutu hoki tā ngā tāngata katoa o Atene, rātou ko ngā manuhiri e noho ana i reira, e wātea ai, ko te kōrero rānei, ko te whakarongo rānei ki tētahi mea hou.

22 Nā, ka tū a Pāora i waenganui o Areopaka, ka mea, "E ngā tāngata o Atene, i ngā mea katoa ka kite ahau he āhua nui kē tō koutou wehi ki ngā atua māori. 23 I ahau hoki e hāereere ana, e mātakitaki ana i ngā mea e karakia nei koutou, ka kite ahau i tētahi āta, i tuhia nei a runga, ‘Ki te Atua Ngaro.’ Heoi, ko tā koutou e karakia kūware nei, ko ia tāku e whakaatu nei ki a koutou.

24 "Ko te Atua, nāna nei i hangā te ao me ngā mea katoa i roto, ko ia nei te Ariki o te rangi, o te whenua, e kore ia e noho ki ngā whare i hangā e te ringa; 25 e kore anō e mahia he mea māna e te ringa tāngata, me te mea he mate nōna ki tētahi aha rānei, ko ia hoki hei hōmai i te ora, i te manawa, i ngā mea katoa, ki ngā tāngata katoa. 26 Kotahi anō te toto i hangā ai e ia ngā iwi katoa o ngā tāngata, hei noho ki te mata katoa o te whenua, nāna hoki i whakatakoto ō rātou wā i whakaritea i mua, me ngā kaha o tō rātou nohoanga; 27 kia rapu ai rātou i te Atua, me kore e whāwhā, e kite i a ia, ahakoa rā kāhore ia i matara atu i a tātou katoa. 28 ‘Nāna hoki tātou i ora ai, i korikori ai, i noho ai.’ I pērā hoki te kōrero a ētahi o ō koutou kaitito, ‘Ko tātou hoki tōna uri.’

29 "Nā, he uri nei tātou nō te Atua, e kore e tika kia mea tātou, kei te rite te Atua ki te kōura, ki te hiriwa, ki te kōhatu, ki te mea i whakairoa e te mōhio, e te whakaaro o te tangata. 30 Nā, kāhore i whakaaroa e te Atua ngā wā o te kūwaretanga; ināianei ia kua whakahau ia i ngā tāngata katoa o ngā wāhi katoa kia rīpenetā. 31 Kua rite hoki i a ia he rā e whakawā ai ia i te ao i runga i te tika, arā mā te tangata kua whakaritea nei e ia; kua tukua nei hoki he tohu ki ngā tāngata katoa, i tāna whakaarahanga i a ia i te hunga mate!"

32 Nā, ka rangona e rātou te aranga o te hunga mate, ka tāwai ētahi; ko ētahi i mea, "Taihoa mātou e whakarongo anō ki tēnei mea i a koe." 33 Heoi, puta atu ana a Pāora i waenganui i a rātou. 34 Ko ētahi tāngata ia i piri ki a ia, i whakapono; i roto i a rātou a Rionaihia nō Areopaka, ko tētahi wahine, ko Ramari te ingoa, rātou ko ētahi atu.