Bible Verses About Paul: Visits Lystra; circumcises Timothy

Sha’ul came down to Derbe and went on to Lystra, where there lived a talmid named Timothy. He was the son of a Jewish woman who had come to trust, and a Greek father.

All the brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of Timothy.

Sha’ul wanted Timothy to accompany him; so he took him and did a b’rit-milah, because of the Jews living in those areas; for they all knew that his father had been a Greek.

As they went on through the towns, they delivered to the people the decisions reached by the emissaries and the elders in Yerushalayim for them to observe.

Accordingly, the congregations were strengthened in the faith and increased in number day by day.