Acts 16:3

Now Paul, wishing that this man should accompany him on his journey, took him and circumcised him because of the local Jews, who all knew that his father was a Greek.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.

In Context

2He was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconiun.

4And as they went on their way through the cities they handed them the resolutions which the apostles and the elders in Jerusalem had ordained for them to keep.

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Cross References

Acts 15:37Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John, who was called Mark.

1 Corinthians 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands in everything.

Galatians 2:3But although Titus, my companion, was a Greek, they did not compel even him to be circumcised.

Galatians 5:1stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

Matthew Henry on Acts 16:2-6

Paul's Adoption of Timothy. 1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: 2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. 3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek. 4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered… Read the whole commentary →

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