ACTS CHAPTER 16 Acts 16:1-8 Paul having circumcised Timothy, and taken him for his companion, passeth through divers countries, Acts 16:9-13 and is directed by a vision to go into Macedonia. Acts 16:14,15 He converteth Lydia, Acts 16:16-18 and casteth out a spirit of divination. Acts 16:19-24 He and Silas are whipped and imprisoned. Acts 16:25-34 The prison doors are thrown open by an earthquake at midnight: the jailer, prevented by Paul from killing himself, is converted. Acts 16:35-40 They are released by the magistrates. Derbe and Lystra; of these cities see Acts 14:6. Timotheus; who was known unto Paul from his childhood, 2 Timothy 1:5, and accompanied him in many journeys, 2 Timothy 3:10,11, and is called by him, his work-fellow, Romans 16:21. A certain woman, called Eunice; being one of them that had believed in Christ in Judea, and had a holy woman to her mother, named Lois. His father was a Greek: although it was not lawful for a Jew to marry a woman of another nation, yet some think that a Jewess might marry to a stranger, as Esther married to Ahasuerus. A Greek; of Gentile extraction, and therefore not circumcised; yet he is accounted to have been a proselyte.
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Acts 16:1
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: