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

¹A precestujúc Amfipolis a Apolloniu prišli do Tesaloniky, kde bola synagóga Židov.

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

²A Pavel podľa svojej obyčaje vošiel k nim. A po tri soboty hovoril s nimi z písem,

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.”

³otváral ich a predkladal, že Kristus musel trpieť a vstať z mŕtvych, a že toto je Kristus, Ježiš, ktorého vám ja zvestujem.

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.

⁴A niektorí z nich uverili a boli losom Božím pridelení Pavlovi a Sílasovi i bohabojných Grékov veliké množstvo i popredných žien nemalý počet.

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.

⁵Ale neveriaci Židia zapálení súc závisťou pribrali si niekoľko po trhu sa potulujúcich zlých mužov, sohnali zástup a pobúrili mesto urobiac útok na dom Jázonov hľadali ich vyviesť pred ľud.

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,

⁶A keď ich nenašli, vliekli Jázona a niektorých bratov k náčelníkom mesta a kričali: Títo, ktorí búria celý svet, prišli aj sem,

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

⁷a Jázon ich prijal. A títo všetci robia proti nariadeniam cisára hovoriac, že je iný kráľom, Ježiš.

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

⁸A pobúrili zástup i náčelníkov mesta, ktorí to počuli.

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

⁹Ale keď dostali od Jázona a od ostatných záruku, prepustili ich.

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

¹⁰A bratia hneď cez noc vyslali Pavla a Sílasa do Beree, ktorí prijdúc ta odišli do synagógy Židov.

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.

¹¹A tí boli šľachetnejší ako tí v Tesalonike a prijali slovo s celou ochotou a zkúmali písma každý deň, či je tomu tak.

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

¹²A tak uverili mnohí z nich, i gréckych žien popredných i mužov uveril nemalý počet.

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.

¹³Ale hneď ako zvedeli Židia z Tesaloniky, že Pavel i v Berei zvestoval slovo Božie, prišli aj tam nepokojiť a búriť zástupy.

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

¹⁴Ale bratia potom hneď vyslali Pavla, aby išiel až k moru, ale i Sílas i Timoteus zostali tam.

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.

¹⁵A tí, ktorí odprevádzali Pavla, zaviedli ho až do Atén a dostanúc príkaz pre Sílasa a Timotea, aby čím najskôr prišli za ním, odišli.

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

¹⁶A kým ich Pavel čakal v Aténach, roznecoval sa v ňom jeho duch, keď videl, že je mesto plné modiel.

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

¹⁷Hovoril tedy v synagóge so Židmi i s bohabojnými inokmeňci i na tržisku každý deň s tými, ktorí sa ta práve nahodili.

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.

¹⁸A dali sa s ním do hádky aj niektorí z epikurejských a stoických filozofov, mudrcov. A jedni vraveli: Čože to chce ten žvatláč povedať? A iní zase: Zdá sa byť zvestovateľom cudzích bohov. Lebo im zvestoval Ježiša a zmŕtvychvstanie.

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?

¹⁹A pochytili ho a zaviedli na Areopág a povedali: Či môžeme zvedieť, čo a jaké je to nové učenie, ktoré to ty hovoríš?

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

²⁰Lebo nesieš čosi čudného do našich uší. Radi by sme tedy zvedieť, čo to chce byť.

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.

²¹Lebo všetci Atéňania i tam bývajúci cudzinci na nič iného nestihnú ako alebo vravieť niečo alebo počúvať niečo nového.

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

²²Vtedy si zastal Pavel naprostred Areopágu a povedal: Mužovia Atéňania, podľa všetkého vidím, že ste vy neobyčajne nábožní ľudia.

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.

²³Lebo jako som chodil po meste a obzeral som vaše posviatnosti, ktorým dávate božskú česť, našiel som aj oltár, na ktorom je napísané: Neznámemu Bohu. Toho teda, ktorého ctíte bez toho, žeby ste ho znali, toho vám ja zvestujem.

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,

²⁴Bôh, ktorý učinil svet a všetko, čo je na ňom, súc Pánom nebies a zeme nebýva v chrámoch, učinených rukou,

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.

²⁵ani sa mu neslúži ľudskými rukami, jako čo by niečo potreboval, lebo veď on sám dáva všetkému život a dych a všetko

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,

²⁶a učinil z jednej krvi všetok národ ľudí, aby bývali na celej tvári zeme, určiac vopred odriadené časy a medze ich bývania,

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.

²⁷aby hľadali Pána, ak by ho snáď len nejako nahmatali a našli, hoci nie je ďaleko od niktorého z nás.

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.’

²⁸Lebo veď v ňom žijeme, hýbeme sa a sme, jako aj ktorísi z vašich básnikov povedali: Lebo i jeho rodina sme.

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.

²⁹Tedy keď sme rodinou Božou, nemáme sa domnievať, že by Božstvo bolo podobné zlatu alebo striebru alebo kameňu, rytine, ktorú vytvorilo remeslo a ľudský výmysel.

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

³⁰Bôh tedy prehliadol časy nevedomosti, ale teraz zvestuje ľuďom, všetkým všade, aby činili pokánie,

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.”

³¹pretože ustanovil deň, v ktorom bude súdiť celý svet v spravedlivosti v osobe muža, ktorého určil nato, a podáva všetkým ľuďom vieru vzkriesiac ho z mŕtvych.

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

³²Ale keď počuli o vzkriesení z mŕtvych, jedni sa posmievali, a druhí povedali: Vypočujeme ťa o tom aj po druhé.

³³Thus Paul went out from among them.

³³Takto vyšiel Pavel zpomedzi nich.

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

³⁴No, niektorí mužovia sa pripojili k nemu a uverili, medzi ktorými bol aj Dionýzius Areopagský aj žena, menom Damaris, a iní s nimi.