De Postle Dem 17:16-23

¹⁶Wiles Paul beena wait fa Timothy an Silas een Athens, e see dat de people dey hab a whole heapa idol. Cause ob dat, Paul opsot fa true.

¹⁷So e gone ta de Jew meetin house an taak wid de Jew people an dem wa ain Jew dat woshup God dey, an e splain bout God wod. An ebry day e gone ta de maakut too, fa taak wid de people dat beena come dey.

¹⁸Some teacha dem ob dem Epicurean an Stoic group, dey come an spute wid Paul too. Some ob um say, “Wa dis man yah da try fa say? E jes da taak bout sompin e ain know nottin bout.” An oda dem say, “E da taak bout dem god dat come fom someweh else.” Dem people say dat cause Paul tell um bout Jedus an bout how people dat done dead gwine git op fom mongst de dead an lib gin.

¹⁹So den, dem people grab hole ta Paul an cyaa um ta de council wa meet een Areopagus hill. Dey tell Paul say, “We wahn fa know bout dis nyew ting ya da laan we.

²⁰Some ob dem ting wa ya da say, we ain neba been yeh. We wahn fa know wa dey mean.”

²¹(Cause all de people dat bon een Athens, an dem wa come dey, dey like fa come ebry day an yeh bout any nyew ting, an taak bout um.)

²²Paul stanop fo de council dat beena meet pon Areopagus hill. E tell de people say, “Oona people ob Athens! A know oona da woshup a heapa god dem.

²³Cause wiles A beena waak roun oona town, A beena see all de place dem weh oona da woshup dem god. A eben see one place dey weh oona been write pon de stone alta say, ‘Fa de god dat we ain know.’ Dat God dat oona da woshup op, dat one oona ain know, dat de God A come fa tell oona bout now.