¹帖撒羅尼迦的騷動保羅和西拉經過暗非波里、亞波羅尼亞，來到帖撒羅尼迦，在那裡有猶太人的會堂。

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

²保羅照他的習慣進去，一連三個安息日，根據聖經與他們辯論，

²Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

³講解證明基督必須受害，從死人中復活，說：“我所傳給你們的這位耶穌，就是基督。”

³explaining 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他們中間有人給說服了，就附從了保羅和西拉；還有一大群虔誠的希臘人，和不少顯要的婦女。

⁴Some 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但猶太人嫉妒起來，招聚了一些市井流氓，糾合成群，騷動全城，衝進了耶孫的家，搜索保羅和西拉，要把他們交給民眾。

⁵But the unpersuaded Jews took along 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搜索不到他們，就把耶孫和幾個弟兄，拉到地方長官那裡，喊叫著說：“這些擾亂天下的人，也到這裡來了，

⁶When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers 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耶孫卻收留他們。這些人都違背凱撒的法令，說另外還有一個王耶穌。”

⁷whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

⁸群眾和地方長官聽見這話，就驚慌起來，

⁸The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.

⁹取得耶孫和其餘的人簽保後，才放了他們。

⁹When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.

¹⁰來到比里亞弟兄們當夜立刻送保羅和西拉往比里亞去。二人到了，就進入猶太人的會堂。

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

¹¹這裡的人，比帖撒羅尼迦人開明，熱切接受主的道，天天考查聖經，要知道所聽的是否與聖經相符。

¹¹Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

¹²結果他們中間有很多人信了，也有高貴的希臘婦女，男的也不少。

¹²Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

¹³但帖撒羅尼迦的猶太人，知道保羅又在比里亞宣講　神的道，就到那裡去，煽動挑撥群眾。

¹³But 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弟兄們立刻把保羅送到海邊去；西拉和提摩太仍然留在比里亞。

¹⁴Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

¹⁵護送保羅的人帶他到了雅典；保羅吩咐他們叫西拉和提摩太趕快去見他，於是他們就回去了。

¹⁵But 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在雅典保羅在雅典等候他們的時候，看見滿城都是偶像，心靈十分忿激。

¹⁶Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

¹⁷於是在會堂裡，同猶太人和虔誠的人辯論；並且天天在市中心和所遇見的人辯論。

¹⁷So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

¹⁸還有伊壁鳩魯派和斯多亞派的哲學家也同他爭論，有的說：“這個拾人牙慧的人要說甚麼呢？”有的說：“他似乎是一個宣傳外地鬼神的人。”這是因為保羅傳揚耶穌和復活的道理。

¹⁸Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also 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他們拉著保羅，把他帶到亞略．巴古那裡，說：“你所講的這個新道理，我們可以知道嗎？

¹⁹They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?

²⁰因為你把一切新奇的事，傳到我們耳中，我們願意知道這些事是甚麼意思。”

²⁰For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

²¹原來所有雅典人和外僑，專好談論和打聽新奇的事，來打發時間。

²¹Now 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保羅站在亞略．巴古當中，說：“各位雅典人，我看你們在各方面都非常敬畏鬼神。

²²Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

²³我走路的時候，仔細看你們所敬拜的，發現有一座壇，上面寫著‘獻給不認識的神’。我現在把你們不認識而敬拜的這位神，傳給你們。

²³For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

²⁴創造宇宙和其中萬有的　神，既然是天地的主，就不住在人手所造的殿宇，

²⁴The 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也不受人手的服事，好像他缺少甚麼；他自己反而把生命、氣息和一切，賜給萬人。

²⁵neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

²⁶他從一個本源造出了萬族來，使他們住在整個大地上，並且定了他們的期限和居住的疆界，

²⁶He 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要他們尋求　神，或者可以摸索而找到他。其實他離我們各人不遠，

²⁷that 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因著他我們可以生存、活動、存在，就如你們有些詩人說：‘原來我們也是他的子孫。’

²⁸‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

²⁹我們既然是　神的子孫，就不應該以為他的神性是好像人用手藝、心思所雕刻的金銀石頭一樣。

²⁹Being 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過去那無知的時代，　神不加以追究；現在，他卻吩咐各處的人都要悔改，

³⁰The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

³¹因為他已經定好了日子，要藉著他所立的人，按公義審判天下，並且使他從死人中復活，給萬人作一個可信的憑據。”

³¹because 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眾人一聽到死人復活的事，就譏笑他，但有的說：“我們要再聽聽你講這件事！”

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

³³這樣，保羅就離開他們。

³³Thus Paul went out from among them.

³⁴但有幾個人接近他，並且信了主，其中有亞略．巴古的議員丟尼修，一個名叫戴馬里的女子，還有其他的人。

³⁴But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.