प्रेरित 17
1 अब तिनीहरू अम्फिपोलिस र अपोल्लोनिया सहरहरू हुँदै यहूदीहरूको सभाघर भएको थेसलोनिके सहरमा आइपुगे ।
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
2 पावलले आफ्नो आदतअनुसार उनीहरूकहाँ गए र तिनवटा विश्राम दिनसम्म त्यहाँका मानिसहरूसँग धर्मशास्त्रबाट तर्क गरे ।
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
3 उनले धर्मशास्त्र खोल्दै ख्रीष्टले दुःख भोग्नु र मृत्युबाट फेरि जीवित हुनु आवश्यक थियो भनी व्याख्या गरे । उनले भने, “यिनै येशू जसलाई मैले तपाईंहरूका बिचमा घोषणा गरेको छु, उहाँ नै ख्रीष्ट हुनुहुन्छ ।”
explaining and demonstrating that the Meshikha had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Yeshua, whom I proclaim to you, is the Meshikha."
4 केही यहूदीहरू साथै ईश्वरभक्त ग्रीकहरू, धेरै अगुवा स्त्रीहरू र ठुलो भिडले पावल र सिलासको कुरामा विश्वास गरे ।
Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the prominent women.
5 तर अविश्वासी यहूदीहरू ईर्ष्याले भरिए र बजारका चोकबाट केही दुष्ट मानिसहरूलाई जम्मा गरे र ठुलो भिड बनाएर सहरमा होहल्ला मच्चाए । तिनीहरूले यासोनको घरमा आक्रमण गरेर पावल र सिलासलाई मानिसहरूका बिचमा बाहिर ल्याउन चाहन्थे ।
But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, 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 तर जब तिनीहरूले पावल र सिलासलाई भेटाएनन्, तब यासोन र केही भाइहरूलाई घिसार्दै सहरका अधिकारीहरूकहाँ ल्याए । तिनीहरूले कराएर भने, “संसारलाई उलटपुलट पार्ने यी मानिसहरू यहाँ पनि आइपुगेका छन् ।”
When they did not 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,
7 यासोनले स्वागत गरेका यी मानिसहरूले कैसरको आदेश विपरित काम गर्छन् र भन्छन्, “येशू भन्ने अर्को एकजना राजा पनि छन् ।”
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Yeshua."
8 यी कुराहरू सुनेर मानिसहरूका भिड र सहरका हाकिमहरू आत्तिए ।
The crowd and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
9 तिनीहरूले यासोन र अरू भाइहरूबाट जरिवानाको रकम लिइसकेपछि उनीहरूलाई जान दिए ।
When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10 त्यही रात भाइहरूले पावल र सिलासलाई बेरियामा पठाइदिए । त्यहाँ आइपुगेपछि उनीहरू यहूदीहरूको सभाघरमा पसे ।
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
11 थेसलोनिकेमा भएका मानिसहरूभन्दा यहाँका मानिसहरू असल थिए किनभने यिनीहरूले सिकाइएका कुराहरू त्यस्तै हुन् कि होइनन् भनी दैनिक रूपमा धर्मशास्त्रबाट जाँच्दै खुल्ला रूपमा परमेश्वरको वचनलाई ग्रहण गर्थे ।
Now 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 यसकारण तिनीहरूमध्ये केही प्रभावशाली ग्रीक स्त्रीहरू लगायत धेरै पुरुषहरूले प्रभुमा विश्वास गरे ।
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
13 तर जब पावलले परमेश्वरको वचन बेरियामा पनि घोषणा गर्दैछन् भनी थेसलोनिकेका यहूदीहरूले थाहा पाए, तिनीहरू त्यहाँ गएर भिडहरूलाई उक्साए र खलबल मच्चाउन लगाए ।
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, inciting and disturbing the crowds.
14 त्यसपछि भाइहरूले पावललाई तुरुन्तै समुद्रतिर पठाइदिए, तर सिलास र तिमोथी त्यहीँ बसे ।
Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
15 पावललाई डोर्याइरहेका मानिसहरूले उनलाई एथेन्स सहरसम्म लगे । पावललाई त्यहाँ छोडेर फर्कंदा पावलले तिनीहरूसँग सिलास र तिमोथीलाई जति सक्दो छिट्टो उनीकहाँ आउनू भन्ने निर्देशन दिएर पठाए ।
But 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 पावलले सिलास र तिमोथीलाई एथेन्समा पर्खंदै गर्दा, त्यो सहर मूर्ती नै मूर्तीले भरिएको देखेर उनको आत्मा उनीभित्र वेचैन भयो ।
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
17 यसैकारण उनले यहूदीहरू र परमेश्वरको आराधना गर्नेहरूसँग सभाघरहरूमा र बजारमा दिनहुँ भेटिने मानिसहरूसँग पनि यसको बारेमा बहस गरे ।
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
18 तर त्यहाँ कतिजना एपिक्युरी र स्तोइकी दार्शनिकहरूसँग पनि उनको विवाद भयो । र केहीले यसो भने, “यो बकबकेले के भन्न खोज्दैछ?” अरूहरूले भने, “ऊ त विदेशी देवताहरूको प्रचारक जस्तो देखिन्छ ।” किनभने उनले येशू र उहाँको पुनरुत्थानको बारेमा प्रचार गर्दै थिए ।
Some 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 Yeshua and the resurrection.
19 तिनीहरूले पावललाई अरिओपागसमा ल्याए, र उनलाई सोधे, “के हामी तपाईंले बताइरहनुभएको नयाँ शिक्षाको बारेमा जान्न सक्छौँ?
They 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 किनभने तपाईंले केही अनौठा कुराहरू हाम्रो कानमा ल्याउँदै हुनुहुन्छ । त्यसकारण हामी यी कुराहरूको अर्थ के हो भनी जान्न चाहन्छौँ ।”
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
21 (अब सबै एथेन्सबासीहरू र त्यहाँ बस्ने परदेशीहरूले अरूलाई नयाँ कुराहरू बताउने र नयाँ कुराहरूको बारेमा सुन्ने बाहेक अन्य केही कुरामा समय बिताउँदैनथे । )
Now 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 त्यसैले पावल अरिओपागसको बिचमा उभिए र यसो भने, “एथेन्सबासी हो, तपाईंहरू हरेक क्षेत्रमा धार्मिक हुनुहुन्छ भन्ने कुरा मैले देखेँ ।
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
23 किनिक यहाँ हिँड्दै गर्दा मैले तपाईंहरूले पुज्ने वस्तुहरू देखेँ । मैले यस्तो एउटा वेदी पनि देखेँ, जसमा ʼअज्ञात ईश्वरका निम्तिʼ भन्ने कुँदिएको थियो । यसकारण जसलाई तपाईंहरूले नजानिकन पुज्नुहुन्छ, तिनै ईश्वरको बारेमा म तपाईंहरूलाई बताउँछु ।
For 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 परमेश्वर जसले संसार र त्यसमा भएका सबै थोक बनाउनुभयो, उहाँ स्वर्ग र पृथ्वीका प्रभु हुनुभएको कारण उहाँ मानिसका हातहरूले बनाएका मन्दिरहरूमा बस्नुहुन्न ।
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
25 न त उहाँलाई केही कुराको खाँचो परेजस्तै मानिसका हातद्वारा सेवा गरिनुपर्छ, किनकि उहाँले नै मानिसहरूलाई जीवन, सास र सबै थोक दिनुहुन्छ ।
neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
26 उहाँले एउटा मानिसबाट पृथ्वीमा रहने सबै जातिका मानिसहरूलाई बनाउनुभयो अनि ऋतुहरू र तिनीहरू बस्ने क्षेत्रका सिमानाहरू निर्धारण गर्नुभयो ।
He made from one blood every nation of mankind to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
27 यसैकारण उनीहरूले तिनै परमेश्वरलाई खोजून् र सायद तिनीहरूले उहाँलाई खोजेर पाउनेछन् । वास्तवमा उहाँ हामीमध्ये कसैबाट पनि टाढा हुनुहुन्न ।
that they should seek God, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28 किनकि हामी उहाँमा नै जिउँछौँ र हिँडडुल गर्छौं र उहाँमै हाम्रो अस्तित्व छ, जसरी तपाईंहरूका आफ्नै कविहरूले भनेका छन्: ʼकिनकि हामीहरू पनि उहाँकै सन्तान हौँ ।ʼ
'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 यसकारण हामी परमेश्वरका सन्तान भएका हुनाले परमेश्वरलाई मानिसको कला वा विचारअनुसार सुन वा चाँदी वा ढुङ्गाबाट खोपेर बनाइएको चीज हो भनी ठान्नु हुँदैन ।
Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by human art and design.
30 यसकारण परमेश्वरले पहिलेको अज्ञानताको समयलाई ध्यान दिनुभएन, तर अहिले परमेश्वरले सबै ठाउँका सारा मानिसहरूलाई आफ्नो पापको पश्चात्ताप गर्ने आज्ञा गर्नुहुन्छ ।
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
31 किनभने उहाँले एक दिन निश्चित गर्नुभएको छ, जुन दिन आफूले चुन्नु भएको मानिसद्वारा उहाँले धार्मिकतामा संसारलाई न्याय गर्नुहुनेछ । परमेश्वरले उहाँलाई मृत्युबाट जीवित पार्नुभएर सबै मानिसहरूलाई यी मानिसको बारेमा प्रमाण दिनुभएको छ ।”
because 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 everyone by raising him from the dead."
32 जब एथेन्सका मानिसहरूले मृत्त व्यक्तिको पुनरुत्थानको बारेमा सुने, कसै-कसैले पावललाई गिज्याए तर अरूहरूले यसो भने, “हामी यो विषयमा तपाईंबाट फेरि सुन्नेछौँ ।”
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning this."
33 त्यसपछि पावलले तिनीहरूलाई छोडेर गए ।
Thus Paul went out from among them.
34 तर अरियोपागसका डायनोसियस, दामारिस नाउँ गरेकी एक स्त्री र अरू कतिपय मानिसहरू पावललाई भेट्न आए र उनको कुरामा विश्वास गरे ।
But some people joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
