Acts 16:1-5

1Now Paul came to Derbe and Lystra. There was a disciple there named Timothy, son of a woman who was a Jewish believer and a Greek father,

2who was well-spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium.

3Paul wanted this man to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him for the sake of the Jewish people in those places—for they all knew that his father was Greek.

4As they were traveling through the cities, they were handing down the rulings that had been decided upon by the emissaries and elders in Jerusalem, for them to keep.

5So Messiah’s communities were strengthened in the faith and kept increasing daily in number.