사도행전 17

1저희가 암비볼리와 아볼로니아로 다녀가 데살로니가에 이르니 거기 유대인의 회당이 있는지라 2바울이 자기의 규례대로 저희에게로 들어가서 세 안식일에 성경을 가지고 강론하며 3뜻을 풀어 그리스도가 해를 받고 죽은 자 가운데서 다시 살아야 할 것을 증명하고 이르되 내가 너희에게 전하는 이 예수가 곧 그리스도라 하니 4그 중에 어떤 사람 곧 경건한 헬라인의 큰 무리와 적지 않은 귀부인도 권함을 받고 바울과 실라를 좇으나 5그러나 유대인들은 시기하여 저자의 어떤 괴악한 사람들을 데리고 떼를 지어 성을 소동케 하여 야손의 집에 달려들어 저희를 백성에게 끌어내려고 찾았으나 6발견치 못하매 야손과 및 형제를 끌고 읍장들 앞에 가서 소리질러 가로되 천하를 어지럽게 하던 이 사람들이 여기도 이르매 7야손이 들였도다 이 사람들이 다 가이사의 명을 거역하여 말하되 다른 임금 곧 예수라 하는 이가 있다 하더이다 하니 8무리와 읍장들이 이 말을 듣고 소동하여 9야손과 그 나머지 사람들에게 보를 받고 놓으니라 10밤에 형제들이 곧 바울과 실라를 베뢰아로 보내니 저희가 이르러 유대인의 회당에 들어가니라 11베뢰아 사람은 데살로니가에 있는 사람보다 더 신사적이어서 간절한 마음으로 말씀을 받고 이것이 그러한가 하여 날마다 성경을 상고하므로 12그 중에 믿는 사람이 많고 또 헬라의 귀부인과 남자가 적지 아니하나 13데살로니가에 있는 유대인들이 바울이 하나님 말씀을 베뢰아에서도 전하는 줄을 알고 거기도 가서 무리를 움직여 소동케 하거늘 14형제들이 곧 바울을 내어 보내어 바다까지 가게 하되 실라와 디모데는 아직 거기 유하더라 15바울을 인도하는 사람들이 데리고 아덴까지 이르러 바울에게서 실라와 디모데를 자기에게로 속히 오게 하라는 명을 받고 떠나니라 16바울이 아덴에서 저희를 기다리다가 온 성에 우상이 가득한 것을 보고 마음에 분하여 17회당에서는 유대인과 경건한 사람들과 또 저자에서는 날마다 만나는 사람들과 변론하니 18어떤 에비구레오와 스도이고 철학자들도 바울과 쟁론할새 혹은 이르되 이 말장이가 무슨 말을 하고자 하느뇨 하고 혹은 이르되 이방신들을 전하는 사람인가보다 하니 이는 바울이 예수와 또 몸의 부활 전함을 인함이러라 19붙들어 가지고 아레오바고로 가며 말하기를 우리가 너의 말하는 이 새 교가 무엇인지 알 수 있겠느냐 20네가 무슨 이상한 것을 우리 귀에 들려주니 그 무슨 뜻인지 알고자 하노라 하니 21모든 아덴 사람과 거기서 나그네 된 외국인들이 가장 새로 되는 것을 말하고 듣는 이외에 달리는 시간을 쓰지 않음이더라 22바울이 아레오바고 가운데 서서 말하되 아덴 사람들아 너희를 보니 범사에 종교성이 많도다 23내가 두루 다니며 너희의 위하는 것들을 보다가 알지 못하는 신에게라고 새긴 단도 보았으니 그런즉 너희가 알지 못하고 위하는 그것을 내가 너희에게 알게 하리라 24우주와 그 가운데 있는 만유를 지으신 신께서는 천지의 주재시니 손으로 지은 전에 계시지 아니하시고 25또 무엇이 부족한 것처럼 사람의 손으로 섬김을 받으시는 것이 아니니 이는 만민에게 생명과 호흡과 만물을 친히 주시는 자이심이라 26인류의 모든 족속을 한 혈통으로 만드사 온 땅에 거하게 하시고 저희의 연대를 정하시며 거주의 경계를 한하셨으니 27이는 사람으로 하나님을 혹 더듬어 찾아 발견케 하려 하심이로되 그는 우리 각 사람에게서 멀리 떠나 계시지 아니하도다 28우리가 그를 힘입어 살며 기동하며 있느니라 너희 시인 중에도 어떤 사람들의 말과 같이 우리가 그의 소생이라 하니 29이와 같이 신의 소생이 되었은즉 신을 금이나 은이나 돌에다 사람의 기술과 고안으로 새긴 것들과 같이 여길 것이 아니니라 30알지 못하던 시대에는 하나님이 허물치 아니하셨거니와 이제는 어디든지 사람을 다 명하사 회개하라 하셨으니 31이는 정하신 사람으로 하여금 천하를 공의로 심판할 날을 작정하시고 이에 저를 죽은 자 가운데서 다시 살리신 것으로 모든 사람에게 믿을 만한 증거를 주셨음이니라 하니라 32저희가 죽은 자의 부활을 듣고 혹은 기롱도 하고 혹은 이 일에 대하여 네 말을 다시 듣겠다 하니 33이에 바울이 저희 가운데서 떠나매 34몇 사람이 그를 친하여 믿으니 그 중 아레오바고 관원 디오누시오와 다마리라 하는 여자와 또 다른 사람들도 있었더라

1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 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.” 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. 5But 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. 6When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 7whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!” 8The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. 9When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. 10The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. 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. 12Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men. 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. 14Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there. 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. 16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols. 17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. 18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers 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. 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? 20For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.” 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. 22Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things. 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. 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, 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. 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, 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‘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.’ 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. 30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, 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.” 32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.” 33Thus Paul went out from among them. 34But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

1En door Amfipolis en Apollonia hun weg genomen hebbende, kwamen zij te Thessalonica, alwaar een synagoge der Joden was. 2En Paulus, gelijk hij gewoon was, ging tot hen in, en drie sabbatten lang handelde hij met hen uit de Schriften, 3Dezelve openende, en voor ogen stellende, dat de Christus moest lijden en opstaan uit de doden, en dat deze Jezus is de Christus, Dien ik, zeide hij, ulieden verkondige. 4En sommigen uit hen geloofden, en werden Paulus en Silas toegevoegd, en van de godsdienstige Grieken een grote menigte, en van de voornaamste vrouwen niet weinige. 5Maar de Joden, die ongehoorzaam waren, dit benijdende, namen tot zich enige boze mannen uit de marktboeven, en maakten, dat het volk te hoop liep, en beroerden de stad; en op het huis van Jason aanvallende, zochten zij hen tot het volk te brengen. 6En als zij hen niet vonden, trokken zij Jason en enige broeders voor de oversten der stad, roepende: Dezen, die de wereld in roer hebben gesteld, zijn ook hier gekomen; 7Welke Jason in zijn huis genomen heeft; en alle dezen doen tegen de geboden des keizers, zeggende, dat er een andere Koning is, namelijk Jezus. 8En zij beroerden de schare, en de oversten der stad, die dit hoorden. 9Doch als zij van Jason en de anderen vergenoeging ontvangen hadden, lieten zij hen gaan. 10En de broeders zonden terstond des nachts Paulus en Silas weg naar Berea; welke, daar gekomen zijnde, gingen heen naar de synagoge der Joden; 11En dezen waren edeler, dan die te Thessalonica waren, als die het woord ontvingen met alle toegenegenheid, onderzoekende dagelijks de Schriften, of deze dingen alzo waren. 12Velen dan uit hen geloofden, en van de Griekse eerlijke vrouwen en van de mannen niet weinige. 13Maar als de Joden van Thessalonica verstonden, dat het Woord Gods ook te Berea van Paulus verkondigd werd, kwamen zij ook daar en bewogen de scharen. 14Doch de broeders zonden toen van stonde aan Paulus weg, dat hij ging als naar de zee; maar Silas en Timotheus bleven aldaar. 15En die Paulus geleidden, brachten hem tot Athene toe; en als zij bevel gekregen hadden aan Silas en Timotheus, dat zij op het spoedigste tot hem zouden komen, vertrokken zij. 16En terwijl Paulus hen te Athene verwachtte, werd zijn geest in hem ontstoken, ziende, dat de stad zo zeer afgodisch was. 17Hij handelde dan in de synagoge met de Joden, en met degenen, die godsdienstig waren, en op de markt alle dagen met degenen, die hem voorkwamen. 18En sommigen van de Epikureische en Stoische wijsgeren streden met hem; en sommigen zeiden: Wat wil toch deze klapper zeggen? Maar anderen zeiden: Hij schijnt een verkondiger te zijn van vreemde goden; omdat hij hun Jezus en de opstanding verkondigde. 19En zij namen hem, en brachten hem op de plaats, genaamd Areopagus, zeggende: Kunnen wij niet weten, welke deze nieuwe leer zij, daar gij van spreekt? 20Want gij brengt enige vreemde dingen voor onze oren; wij willen dan weten, wat toch dit zijn wil. 21(Die van Athene nu allen, en de vreemdelingen, die zich daar onthielden, besteedden hun tijd tot niets anders dan om wat nieuws te zeggen en te horen.) 22En Paulus, staande in het midden van de plaats, genaamd Areopagus, zeide: Gij mannen van Athene! ik bemerke, dat gij alleszins gelijk als godsdienstiger zijt. 23Want de stad doorgaande, en aanschouwende uw heiligdommen, heb ik ook een altaar gevonden, op hetwelk een opschrift stond: DEN ONBEKENDEN GOD. Dezen dan, Dien gij niet kennende dient, verkondig ik ulieden. 24De God, Die de wereld gemaakt heeft en alles wat daarin is; Deze, zijnde een Heere des hemels en der aarde, woont niet in tempelen met handen gemaakt; 25En wordt ook van mensenhanden niet gediend, als iets behoevende, alzo Hij Zelf allen het leven en den adem, en alle dingen geeft; 26En heeft uit een bloede het ganse geslacht der mensen gemaakt, om op den gehelen aardbodem te wonen, bescheiden hebbende de tijden te voren geordineerd, en de bepalingen van hun woning. 27Opdat zij den Heere zouden zoeken, of zij Hem immers tasten en vinden mochten; hoewel Hij niet verre is van een iegelijk van ons. 28Want in Hem leven wij, en bewegen ons, en zijn wij; gelijk ook enigen van uw poeten gezegd hebben: Want wij zijn ook Zijn geslacht. 29Wij dan, zijnde Gods geslacht, moeten niet menen, dat de Godheid goud, of zilver, of steen gelijk zij, welke door mensenkunst en bedenking gesneden zijn. 30God dan, de tijden der onwetendheid overzien hebbende, verkondigt nu allen mensen alom, dat zij zich bekeren. 31Daarom dat Hij een dag gesteld heeft, op welken Hij den aardbodem rechtvaardiglijk zal oordelen, door een Man, Dien Hij daartoe geordineerd heeft, verzekering daarvan doende aan allen, dewijl Hij Hem uit de doden opgewekt heeft. 32Als zij nu van de opstanding der doden hoorden, spotten sommigen daarmede; en sommigen zeiden: Wij zullen u wederom hiervan horen. 33En alzo is Paulus uit het midden van hen uitgegaan. 34Doch sommige mannen hingen hem aan, en geloofden; onder welke was ook Dionysius, de Areopagiet, en een vrouw, met name Damaris, en anderen met dezelve.