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Timothy Joins Paul and Silas

AD 47, lasting 1 month traditional (Jones)

Passage
Acts 16:1-5
People
Paul, Timotheus, Silas
Places
Derbe, Lystra, Iconium, Jerusalem
Before
Second Missionary Journey begins
After
Mission to Phrygia, Galatia and Asia

Participants

Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.

Places

Where it happens. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Derbe
  2. likely location: Lystra
  3. likely location: Iconium
  4. likely location: Jerusalem

Every verse

All 5 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Acts5 verses
  1. 16:1

    Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.

  2. 16:2

    The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

  3. 16:3

    Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

  4. 16:4

    As they went from town to town, they delivered the decisions handed down by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.

  5. 16:5

    So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.