^16:1He also came to Derbe¹ and to Lystra.² A disciple³ named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer,⁴ but whose father was a Greek.⁵^16:2The brothers in Lystra⁶ and Iconium⁷ spoke well⁸ of him.⁹

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Footnotes

1 Derbe was a city in Lycaonia about 35 mi (60 km) southeast of Lystra. It was about 90 mi (145 km) from Tarsus. For location see ; ; .
2 Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 25 mi (40 km) south of Iconium. For location see ; ; .
3 Grk “And behold, a disciple.” Here ἰδού (idou) has not been translated.
4 L&N 31.103 translates this phrase “the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer.”
5 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; . 30:7–17; Qiddushin 3.12; Yevamot 7.5.
6 Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 25 mi (40 km) south of Iconium.
7 Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 110 mi (175 km) east of Pisidian Antioch.
8 For this sense of μαρτυρέω (martureō), see 2.b.
9 Grk “who was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.” Because of the awkwardness in English of having two relative clauses follow one another (“who was a believer … who was well spoken of”) and the awkwardness of the passive verb (“was well spoken of”), the relative pronoun at the beginning of 16:2 (“who”) has been translated as a pronoun (“him”) and the construction converted from passive to active at the same time a new sentence was started in the translation.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek. The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Paul went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, but his father was a Greek. The brothers and sisters at Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him.

NLTNew Living Translation

Paul went first to Derbe and then to Lystra, where there was a young disciple named Timothy. His mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek. Timothy was well thought of by the believers in Lystra and Iconium,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman but of a Greek father, who was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.

KJV 1900King James Version

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: Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.

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