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

¹Nak yôqueb chi xic laj Pablo ut laj Silas que'nume' Anfípolis ut Apolonia. Ut chirix a'an, que'cuulac Tesalónica bar cuan cui' jun li cab li neque'xch'utub cui' ribeb laj judío.

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

²Laj Pablo qui-oc sa' li cab li neque'xch'utub cui' ribeb laj judío jo' c'aynak chixbânunquil. Oxib li hilobâl cutan quixnumsi aran ut yô chixch'olobanquil chiruheb lix yâlal li naxye sa' li Santil Hu.

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.”

³Yô chixch'olobanquil chiruheb nak li Cristo quixc'ul nabal li raylal jo' tenebanbil sa' xbên ut quicuacli cui'chic chi yo'yo sa' xyânkeb li camenak. Quixye reheb: -Li Jesús li yôquin chixyebal êre, a'an li Cristo laj Colonel, chan.

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.

⁴Cuanqueb aj judío que'pâban ut que'cana chirochbeninquil laj Pablo ut laj Silas. Jo'can ajcui' que'xbânu nabaleb laj griego li neque'xlok'oni li Dios. Ut nabaleb li ixk li na'nôqueb ru que'pâban.

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.

⁵Ut eb laj judío li inc'a' que'pâban, c'ajo' nak que'josk'o' xban xcakaleb xch'ôl. Que'râtina jun ch'ûtal li cuînk inc'a' useb xna'leb li junes sa' be neque'cuan. Ut li jun ch'ûtal chi cuînk a'an que'oc chixchik'bal xjosk'ileb li tenamit. Xban nak yôqueb xjosk'il, que'oc sa' rochoch laj Jasón chixsic'baleb laj Pablo ut laj Silas re te'xc'ameb chiruheb li tenamit.

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,

⁶Que'ril nak inc'a' que'xtau laj Pablo ut laj Silas. Que'xchap laj Jasón rochben cuib oxibeb laj pâbanel ut que'xc'am chiruheb li neque'taklan sa' li tenamit. Japjôqueb re chixyebal: -Eb li cuînk a'in, yôqueb chixpo'bal xch'ôleb li tenamit sa' chixjunil li ruchich'och' ut anakcuan xe'chal arin chixpo'bal xch'ôleb li katenamit.

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

⁷Ut laj Jasón xc'uleb sa' rochoch. Yôqueb chixk'etbal lix chak'rab laj César li Acuabej. Yôqueb chixyebal nak cuan jun chic li rey, a'an li Jesús, chanqueb.

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

⁸Li q'uila tenamit jo'queb ajcui' li neque'taklan sa' li tenamit que'sach xch'ôleb chirabinquil li c'a'ru yôqueb chixyebal eb a'an.

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

⁹Eb li neque'taklan sa' li tenamit que'xye reheb laj Jasón ut li rochben nak tento te'xtoj riq'uin tumin li reliqueb. Ut nak ac xe'xc'ul li tumin, que'ach'abâc laj Jasón ut eb li rochben.

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

¹⁰Sa' ajcui' li k'ojyîn a'an eb laj pâbanel li cuanqueb aran que'risi laj Pablo ut laj Silas sa' li tenamit a'an ut que'xtaklaheb toj Berea. Nak que'cuulac aran, que'côeb sa' li cab li neque'xch'utub cui' ribeb laj judío.

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.

¹¹Eb li cuanqueb aran Berea k'axal k'uneb xch'ôl chiruheb li cuanqueb Tesalónica. Que'xc'ul chi sa sa' xch'ôleb li râtin li Dios li yô chixyebal laj Pablo. Ut rajlal cutan que'xtzol sa' li Santil Hu re rilbal ma jo'can tana naxye.

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

¹²Nabaleb laj judío que'pâban sa' xyânkeb a'an. Cuanqueb ajcui' ixk aj griego xnînkaleb ru que'pâban. Ut que'pâban ajcui' nabaleb li cuînk aj griego.

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.

¹³Que'rabi resil laj judío li cuanqueb Tesalónica nak laj Pablo yô chixjulticanquil li râtin li Dios aran Berea. Ut que'côeb aran chixpo'bal xch'ôleb li tenamit.

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

¹⁴A'ut eb laj pâbanel sa' junpât que'xtakla laj Pablo chire li palau re nak tâxic sa' jalan na'ajej. Aban laj Silas ut laj Timoteo toj que'cana Berea.

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.

¹⁵Eb li que'côeb chi canabânc re laj Pablo, que'xc'am toj sa' li tenamit Atenas. Nak que'suk'i Berea, laj Pablo quixtakla resil chirixeb nak laj Silas ut laj Timoteo te'xic Atenas chi junpât.

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

¹⁶Nak laj Pablo yô chiroybeninquileb laj Silas ut laj Timoteo sa' li tenamit Atenas, quixq'ue retal nak k'axal cui'chic nabaleb li yîbanbil Dios cuanqueb sa' li tenamit a'an. C'ajo' nak quiraho' sa' xch'ôl.

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

¹⁷Jo'can nak qui-oc chixch'olobanquil lix yâlal chi tz'akal chiruheb li tenamit sa' li cab li neque'xch'utub cui' ribeb laj judío jo'queb ajcui' li mâcua'eb aj judío li que'xlok'oni li Dios. Ut rajlal cutan quixch'olob lix yâlal chiruheb li cuanqueb sa' c'ayil.

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.

¹⁸Cuanqueb cuînk aj epicúreo ut eb aj estoico xc'aba'eb li neque'xc'oxla nak k'axal cuan xna'lebeb. Eb a'an que'oc chixcuech'inquil rix li c'a'ru yô chixyebal laj Pablo. Ut yôqueb chixyebal: -¿C'a'ru yô chixyebal li cuînk a'an li junes âtinac naxbânu? Ut cuan cui'chic yôqueb chi yehoc re: -Jo' li xchal anchal xyebal resil jalanil dios arin sa' katenamit, chanqueb. Que'xye chi jo'can xban nak laj Pablo yô chixch'olobanquil resil li colba-ib sa' xc'aba' li Jesucristo jo' ajcui' chirix lix cuaclijiqueb cui'chic li camenak chi yo'yo.

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?

¹⁹Jo'can nak que'xc'am laj Pablo sa' li na'ajej li neque'xch'utub cui' ribeb li k'axal cuanqueb xna'leb. Areópago xc'aba' li na'ajej a'an. Ut que'xye re: -¿Ma târûk tâye ke c'a'ru xyâlal li ac' tijleb a'in li yôcat chixyebal?

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

²⁰Mâ jun sut kabiom li na'leb a'in. Takaj takanau c'a'ru xyâlal, chanqueb re.

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.

²¹Sa' eb li cutan a'an chixjunileb laj Atenas ut eb li jalaneb xtenamit li cuanqueb aran, mâc'a' chic c'a'ak re ru neque'xc'oxla. Ca'aj chic rabinquil ut âtinac chirix li ac' na'leb neque'xbânu.

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

²²Ut laj Pablo quixakli chiruheb li cuanqueb sa' li na'ajej a'an, ut quixye reheb: -Ex cuînk aj Atenas, yôquin chixq'uebal retal nak nequepâb chixjunil li c'a'ak re ru.

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.

²³Nak yôquin chi bêc sa' lê tenamit xebinq'ue retal li c'a'ru nequelok'oni ut xintau ajcui' jun li artal tz'îbanbil chiru "Re li Dios li Inc'a' Naubil Ru". Li Dios li nequelok'oni lâex chi inc'a' nequenau ru, a'an ajcui' li yôquin chixch'olobanquil xyâlal chêru.

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,

²⁴Ut a'an ajcui' li Dios, li quiyîban re li ruchich'och' ut chixjunil li c'a'ak re ru cuan. A'an laj êchal re li choxa ut li ruchich'och'. A'an inc'a' nacuan sa' junak cab yîbanbil xban cuînk.

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.

²⁵Chi moco a' ta li cuînk naq'uehoc c'a'ak re ru re a'an. A'an ban naq'uehoc ke li kayu'am ut a'an naq'uehoc li kamusik'. A'an li naq'uehoc chixjunil li c'a'ru cuan.

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,

²⁶Riq'uin jun chi cuînk quixyo'obtesi chixjunileb li cristian li cuanqueb sa' ruchich'och'. Ut a'an yal re jo' najtil te'cuânk li junjûnk sa' ruchich'och'. Ut a'an ajcui' quiq'uehoc re lix na'ajeb li junjûnk chi tenamit.

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.

²⁷Quixbânu chi jo'can re nak li junjûnk te'xsic' li Dios ut mâre te'xtau nak te'xsic'. Ut relic chi yâl moco ch'a'aj ta xtaubal cui te'xsic' chi anchaleb xch'ôl.

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.’

²⁸A'an naq'uehoc kayu'am ut sa' xc'aba' a'an nak yo'yôco ut noco-ec'an. Jo' quixye jun laj bichanel sa' êyânk: -Relic chi yâl nak lâo ralal xc'ajol li Dios, chan.

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.

²⁹Jo'can nak cui lâo ralal xc'ajol li Dios, inc'a' naru takac'oxla nak li Dios chanchan ta li oro, malaj li plata chi moco li pec li yîbanbil yal riq'uin xc'a'ux ut xna'lebeb li cuînk.

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

³⁰Li Dios inc'a' quixq'ue sa' xbêneb li tenamit lix mâqueb sa' eb li cutan nak inc'a' que'xtau ru lix yâlal. Abanan anakcuan naxjultica chiruheb chixjunileb li tenamit nak te'xyot' xch'ôl te'xjal xc'a'ux.

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.”

³¹Li Dios ac xxakab jun li cutan re târakok âtin sa' xbêneb chixjunileb li cuanqueb sa' ruchich'och'. Ut quixxakab li ani târakok âtin sa' tîquilal. Quixc'ut chiku nak tz'akal yâl xban nak quixcuaclesi cui'chic chi yo'yo sa' xyânkeb li camenak, chan laj Pablo.

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

³²Nak eb li cuanqueb xna'leb que'rabi li yô chixyebal chirix lix cuaclijiqueb li camenak chi yo'yo, cuan que'se'en re ut cuan ajcui' que'yehoc re: -Takaj takabi cui'chic li c'a'ru yôcat chixyebal sa' junak chic cutan, chanqueb.

³³Thus Paul went out from among them.

³³Ut chirix a'an, laj Pablo qui-el sa' xyânkeb.Cuanqueb ajcui' li que'xc'ul xch'ôl li quixye laj Pablo ut que'xpâb li Jesús. Sa' xyânkeb li que'pâban cuan laj Dionisio. A'an jun reheb li que'taklan sa' li tenamit. Ut quipâban ajcui' jun li ixk xDámaris xc'aba'. Ut cuanqueb ajcui' cuib oxib chic que'pâban.

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

³⁴Cuanqueb ajcui' li que'xc'ul xch'ôl li quixye laj Pablo ut que'xpâb li Jesús. Sa' xyânkeb li que'pâban cuan laj Dionisio. A'an jun reheb li que'taklan sa' li tenamit. Ut quipâban ajcui' jun li ixk xDámaris xc'aba'. Ut cuanqueb ajcui' cuib oxib chic que'pâban.