Kisah Para Rasul 15:41--16:1

15:41 He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening ¹  the churches.

Timothy Joins Paul and Silas

16:1 He also came to Derbe ²  and to Lystra. ³  A disciple ⁴  named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, ⁵  but whose father was a Greek. ⁶ 

Kisah Para Rasul 18:23

18:23 After he spent ⁷  some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia ⁸  and Phrygia, ⁹  strengthening all the disciples.

[15:41]  ¹ sn Strengthening. See Acts 14:22; 15:32; 18:23.

[16:1]  ² sn Derbe was a city in Lycaonia about 35 mi (60 km) southeast of Lystra. It was about 90 mi (145 km) from Tarsus.

[16:1]  map For location see JP1 E2; JP2 E2; JP3 E2.

[16:1]  ³ sn Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 25 mi (40 km) south of Iconium.

[16:1]  map For location see JP1 E2; JP2 E2; JP3 E2.

[16:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “And behold, a disciple.” Here ἰδού (idou) has not been translated.

[16:1]  ⁵ tn L&N 31.103 translates this phrase “the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer.”

[16:1]  ⁶ sn His father was a Greek. Timothy was the offspring of a mixed marriage between a Jewish woman (see 2 Tim 1:5) and a Gentile man. On mixed marriages in Judaism, see Neh 13:23-27; Ezra 9:1-10:44; Mal 2:10-16; Jub. 30:7-17; m. Qiddushin 3.12; m. Yevamot 7.5.

[18:23]  ⁷ tn Grk “Having spent”; the participle ποιήσας (poihsas) is taken temporally.

[18:23]  ⁸ sn Galatia refers to either (1) the region of the old kingdom of Galatia in the central part of Asia Minor, or (2) the Roman province of Galatia, whose principal cities in the 1st century were Ancyra and Pisidian Antioch. The exact extent and meaning of this area has been a subject of considerable controversy in modern NT studies.

[18:23]  ⁹ sn Phrygia was a district in central Asia Minor west of Pisidia. See Acts 16:6.