4:17). During the impressionable days of Timothy’s boyhood, while Paul was visiting Lystra, the people first tried to worship the apostle and then tried to take his life. How Timothy had listened to the gospel preached by Paul! He saw him heal the cripple, heard him as he appealed to the multitude and then saw him stoned and left for dead. But the next day, Paul got up and again went into the city. When Paul came back to Lystra on his second missionary journey, he took Timothy along as his companion.