In Thessalonica
1 Paul and Silas traveled on through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue. 2 According to his usual habit Paul went to the synagogue. There during three Sabbaths he held discussions with the people, quoting 3 and explaining the Scriptures, and proving from them that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from death. “This Jesus whom I announce to you,” Paul said, “is the Messiah.” 4 Some of them were convinced and joined Paul and Silas; so did many of the leading women and a large group of Greeks who worshiped God.
5 But some Jews were jealous and gathered worthless loafers from the streets and formed a mob. They set the whole city in an uproar and attacked the home of a man named Jason, in an attempt to find Paul and Silas and bring them out to the people. 6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city authorities and shouted, “These men have caused trouble everywhere! Now they have come to our city, 7 and Jason has kept them in his house. They are all breaking the laws of the Emperor, saying that there is another king, whose name is Jesus.” 8 With these words they threw the crowd and the city authorities in an uproar. 9 The authorities made Jason and the others pay the required amount of money to be released, and then let them go.
In Berea
10 As soon as night came, the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived, they went to the synagogue. 11 The people there were more open-minded than the people in Thessalonica. They listened to the message with great eagerness, and every day they studied the Scriptures to see if what Paul said was really true. 12 Many of them believed; and many Greek women of high social standing and many Greek men also believed. 13 But when the Jews in Thessalonica heard that Paul had preached the word of God in Berea also, they came there and started exciting and stirring up the mobs. 14 At once the believers sent Paul away to the coast; but both Silas and Timothy stayed in Berea. 15 The men who were taking Paul went with him as far as Athens and then returned to Berea with instructions from Paul that Silas and Timothy should join him as soon as possible.
In Athens
16 While Paul was waiting in Athens for Silas and Timothy, he was greatly upset when he noticed how full of idols the city was. 17 So he held discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentiles who worshiped God, and also in the public square every day with the people who happened to come by. 18 Certain Epicurean and Stoic teachers also debated with him. Some of them asked, “What is this ignorant show-off trying to say?”
Others answered, “He seems to be talking about foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching about Jesus and the resurrection. 19 So they took Paul, brought him before the city council, the Areopagus, and said, “We would like to know what this new teaching is that you are talking about. 20 Some of the things we hear you say sound strange to us, and we would like to know what they mean.” ( 21 For all the citizens of Athens and the foreigners who lived there liked to spend all their time telling and hearing the latest new thing.)
22 Paul stood up in front of the city council and said, “I see that in every way you Athenians are very religious. 23 For as I walked through your city and looked at the places where you worship, I found an altar on which is written, ‘To an Unknown God.’ That which you worship, then, even though you do not know it, is what I now proclaim to you. 24 God, who made the world and everything in it, is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands. 25 Nor does he need anything that we can supply by working for him, since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything else to everyone. 26 From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live. 27 He did this so that they would look for him, and perhaps find him as they felt around for him. Yet God is actually not far from any one of us; 28 as someone has said,
‘In him we live and move and exist.’
It is as some of your poets have said,
‘We too are his children.’
29 Since we are God's children, we should not suppose that his nature is anything like an image of gold or silver or stone, shaped by human art and skill. 30 God has overlooked the times when people did not know him, but now he commands all of them everywhere to turn away from their evil ways. 31 For he has fixed a day in which he will judge the whole world with justice by means of a man he has chosen. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising that man from death!”
32 When they heard Paul speak about a raising from death, some of them made fun of him, but others said, “We want to hear you speak about this again.” 33 And so Paul left the meeting. 34 Some men joined him and believed, among whom was Dionysius, a member of the council; there was also a woman named Damaris, and some other people.
Pawulu niŋ Silas be Tesalonika saatewo kono
1 Pawulu niŋ Silas tambita niŋ Amfipolis niŋ Apolloniya saatewolu la, ì naata Tesalonika, Yahuudi diina bendulaa* be daameŋ. 2 Pawulu dunta jee to ko a dalita ka a ke ñaameŋ. A niŋ Yahuudoolu tarata kacaa la Alla la kumoo la fo lookuŋ saba. 3 A ka a koyindi ì ma ko, Alimasiihu* ñanta toora la le, aniŋ ka wuli saayaa kono. A ko ì ye ko, “Ñiŋ Yeesu, n ka meŋ na kuwo kawandi ali ye, ate le mu Alimasiihu ti.” 4 Bituŋ Yahuudi doolu naata soŋ, ì kafuta Pawulu niŋ Silas ma, ì niŋ Jirisinka Alla ñaasilannaa jamaa niŋ musu ñaatonka jamaa.
5 Bari Yahuudoolu naata kiiliyaa. Ì ye moo kalantaŋolu kafu ñoo ma ka bo marisewo to, aduŋ wolu ye moolu sukusuku fo ì ye saatewo bee dundi ñoo to. Wo to le ì naata duŋ Yasoni la buŋo kono, fo ì si Pawulu niŋ Silas muta ka ì fintindi moolu ye banta. 6 Kabiriŋ ì maŋ ì je noo, ì ye Yasoni niŋ baadiŋ doolu kuruntu saatee maralilaalu yaa. Ì sarita santo ko, “Ñiŋ kewolu mennu ye duniyaa bee dundi ñoo to, ì naata jaŋ ne fanaa. 7 Ñiŋ Yasoni le ye ì jiyaa. Ì ka luwaa le tiñaa, Rooma mansakewo ye meŋ londi, kaatu ì ka a fo le ko, mansa doo le be keriŋ, meŋ too mu Yeesu ti.” 8 Biriŋ saatee moolu niŋ maralilaalu ye ñiŋ moyi, ì niyolu toorata. 9 Bituŋ ì ye Yasoni niŋ moo doolu joorindi kodoo la, meŋ keta ì la saratoo ti, ì naata ì bula ka taa.
Pawulu niŋ Silas be Bereya saatewo kono
10 Wo suutoo faŋo le la, baadiŋolu* ye Pawulu niŋ Silas kii Bereya saatewo to ka ì tankandi. Kabiriŋ ì futata jee, ì taata Yahuudi diina bendulaa to. 11 Bereya Yahuudoolu le daajikoo beteyaata Tesalonika Yahuudoolu ti, kaatu ì ye ñiŋ kumoo muta niŋ hame baa le la. Luŋ-wo-luŋ ì ka a kisikisi le, fo ñiŋ kumoo niŋ Kitaabu Senuŋolu taata ñoo la le. 12 Wo kamma la, Yahuudi jamaa naata laa ì kono. Jirisi musu buuñaariŋ jamaa fanaa laata, ì niŋ kewolu.
13 Biriŋ Yahuudoolu mennu be Tesalonika ye a kalamuta ko, Pawulu be Alla la kumoo kawandi kaŋ Bereya fanaa le, ì kono doolu taata jee. Ì ye moolu sukusuku fo wolu wulita Pawulu niŋ Silas kamma. 14 Waati kiliŋ baadiŋolu ye Pawulu kanandi ka taa baa daala, bari Silas niŋ Timoti tuta jee. 15 Baadiŋolu mennu ye Pawulu dandaŋ, ì ye a samba le fo Atene saatewo to. Bituŋ ì niŋ yaamaroo muruta ka bo Pawulu bulu ko, niŋ Silas niŋ Timoti ye siloo soto doroŋ, ì si naa a yaa jee.
Pawulu be Atene saatewo kono
16 Pawulu be Silas niŋ Timoti batu kaŋ Atene waatoo meŋ na, a niyo toorata jalaŋolu la kuwo to, ì la saatewo bee be faariŋ mennu la. 17 Wo to le a niŋ Yahuudoolu tarata kacaa kaŋ ì la diina bendulaa to, ì niŋ Alla ñaasilannaa doolu. A ka diyaamu moolu fanaa ye le, a ka mennu tara marisewo to luŋ-wo-luŋ.
18 Epikureyani niŋ Stoyiki yinkarilaa doolu ye Pawulu soosoo. Doolu ko, “Fo ñiŋ moo daasiyaariŋo ye a miira le ko, a ye feŋ loŋ ne baŋ?” Doolu ko, “A mulunta kawandilaa le la, meŋ ka wandi alloolu la kuwo kawandi.” Ì ye ñiŋ fo le, kaatu Pawulu ka Yeesu la kuwo le kawandi, a niŋ a la wulindiroo saayaa kono. 19 Bituŋ ì ye Pawulu samba saatee alifaalu ñaatiliŋo la Arewopakus Konkoo kaŋ. Ì ye a ñininkaa ko, “Ǹ lafita ka a loŋ, muŋ ne mu ñiŋ karandiri kutoo ti, ì ka meŋ fo. 20 Ŋà ye kuu kuta doolu le moyi, i ye mennu samba naŋ. Ǹ lafita a loŋ na le saayiŋ, ì kotoo mu mennu ti.” 21 Atenenkoolu niŋ tumarankewolu mennu be sabatiriŋ jee, ì bee buka feŋ-wo-feŋ ke, fo ka kuu kutoolu fo, waraŋ ka ì lamoyi.
Pawulu la kumoo Atenenkoolu ye
22 Bituŋ Pawulu loota alifaalu niŋ kafoo ñaatiliŋo la Arewopakus Konkoo kaŋ jee, a ko ì ye ko, “Atenenkoolu, ŋa a je le ko, ali soobeeyaata baake le ali la diinoo kono. 23 Kaatu biriŋ m be tambi kaŋ ali la saatewo kono, ŋa ali la batufeŋolu koroosi le. Ŋa sadaabodulaa* fanaa je le, meŋ ye ñiŋ kumakaŋolu soto a bala ko, ‘Alla ye, meŋ maŋ loŋ.’ Ali ka meŋ batu, hani ali maŋ a loŋ, nte be a la kuwo fo la ali ye le.
24 “Alla meŋ ye duniyaa daa, a niŋ feŋ-wo-feŋ meŋ be a kono, ate le mu saŋo niŋ bankoo Maariyo ti. A buka sabati buŋolu kono, mennu dadaata hadamadiŋolu buloo la, 25 aduŋ a buka batu niŋ hadamadiŋolu buloo la. Ali si a loŋ ko, a maŋ suula feŋ na, kaatu ate faŋo le ka baluwo, niyo, aniŋ feŋ-wo-feŋ dii moolu bee la. 26 Ate le ye sii-wo-sii daa ka bo niŋ kee kiliŋ na, ka sabati duniyaa bankoolu bee kaŋ. A ye waatoolu londi ì la baluwo la, a ye dulaalu tomboŋ ì ye ka sabati jee, 27 fo ì si Alla ñini ì la finkinteeyaa kono, tumandoo ì be futa la a ma le. Bari hani wo,
‘Alla maŋ jamfa ntolu moo-wo-moo la,
28 kaatu m̀ be baluuriŋ ate le kono,
ǹ ka taama, aduŋ ŋà niyo soto ka bo niŋ ate le la.’
Ali faŋolu la safeerilaa doolu ko le,
‘Ntolu mu a la dindiŋolu le ti.’
29 “Wo kamma la, bayiri ntolu mu Alla la dindiŋolu le ti, m̀ maŋ ñaŋ na a miira la ko, Alla niŋ feŋo ka muluŋ ne, meŋ dadaata sanoo la, kodiforoo waraŋ beroo. A maŋ ke muluŋo ti, moo ka meŋ miira, aniŋ ka a dadaa. 30 Tooñaa, Alla ye a ñaa laa moolu la ñiŋ lombaliyaa waatoo kaŋ ne, bari saayiŋ, a ye moolu bee le yaamari daa-wo-daa ka tuubi ì la junuboolu la. 31 Alla ye luŋo londi le, a be duniyaa moolu kiitindi la meŋ na tiliŋo kono, aduŋ a be a ke la ka bo niŋ kewo le la, a ye meŋ tomboŋ. A ye seedeyaa dii moolu bee la le a la kuwo to, ka a wulindi saayaa kono.”
32 Kabiriŋ ì ye saayaakoolaa wulindiroo la kuwo moyi, doolu ye a ñaawali. Bari doolu ko, “M̀ be i lamoyi la le kotenke ñiŋ kuwo to.” 33 Bituŋ Pawulu taata. 34 Bari moo doolu kafuta a ma, aniŋ ì naata laa. Diyonisiyus meŋ mu kansulu moo ti, a be wo moolu kono le, aniŋ musoo doo meŋ too mu Damaris ti, aniŋ moo koteŋolu.
