Acts 16:1

And he came to the city Derbe, and to Lystra. And there was a certain disciple there, whose name was Timothy, the son of a believing Jewess, but his father was a Gentile.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

2And all the disciples of Lystra and Iconium gave good testimony of him.

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Cross References

Acts 14:6And when they knew it, they departed and fled to the cities of Lycaonia and Lystra and Derbe, and to the villages around them;

Acts 17:14And the brethren sent away Paul, that he might go down to the sea. But Silas and Timothy abode in that city.

Acts 19:22And he sent two persons, of those that ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, into Macedonia; but he himself remained for a time in Asia.

Romans 16:21Timothy, my fellow-laborer, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

1 Corinthians 7:14For the husband who believeth not, is sanctified by the wife that believeth; and the wife who believeth not, is sanctified by the husband that believeth: otherwise their children would be impure; but now are they pure.

Matthew Henry on Acts 16:1

It is some rebuke to Barnabas that after he left Paul we hear no more of him, of what he did or suffered for Christ. But Paul, as he was recommended by the brethren to the grace of God, so his services for Christ after this are largely recorded; we are to attend him in this chapter from place to place, wherever he came doing good, either watering or planting, beginning new work or improving what was done. Here is, I. The beginning of his acquaintance with Timothy, and taking him to be his assistant, ver. 1-3 . II.… Read the whole commentary →

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