Acts 16:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

16 And [Paul] went down to Derbe and also to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer [she had become ^[a]convinced that Jesus is the Messiah and the Author of eternal salvation, and yielded obedience to Him]; but [Timothy’s] father was a Greek.

² He [Timothy] had a good reputation among the brethren at Lystra and Iconium.

³ Paul desired Timothy to go with him [^[b]as a missionary]; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those places, all of whom knew that his father was a Greek.