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The question was addressed to me by a reader of the portal.<\/span>\u00a0The answer is found in the book of Acts and it is as follows:<\/span> <\/p>\n Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek,\u00a0and he was well spoken of by the brethren who were in Lystra and Iconium.\u00a0Paul wanted this man to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. (<\/span><\/span>Acts 16:1-3)(NASB)<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Translated by Felicia Rotaru<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The question was addressed to me by a reader of the portal.\u00a0The answer is found in the book of Acts and it is as follows: Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[9182,12438,23453,348,9268,14649,24172,1101,9374,14723,2524,9648,15704,3813,9668,17560,4114,9726,18347,4151,9847,18950,6130,9922,19273,7796,10056,19439,7961,10083,19712,8482,10248,19793,8604,10427,19889,8834,10619,20159,8845,10723,20217,8864,10757,20315,9097,10844,20375],"class_list":{"0":"post-56787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-answer-from-the-bible","7":"tag-t","8":"tag-but","9":"tag-name","10":"tag-cir","11":"tag-pl","12":"tag-ou","13":"tag-athe","14":"tag-co","15":"tag-disc","16":"tag-ue","17":"tag-mo","18":"tag-ion","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-circumcis","21":"tag-ta","22":"tag-believer","23":"tag-derbe","24":"tag-j","25":"tag-felicia-rotaru","26":"tag-st","27":"tag-r","28":"tag-i","29":"tag-cip","30":"tag-o","31":"tag-eve","32":"tag-man","33":"tag-sc","34":"tag-who","35":"tag-believe","36":"tag-ca","37":"tag-lie","38":"tag-om","39":"tag-po","40":"tag-son","41":"tag-eli","42":"tag-l","43":"tag-jews","44":"tag-te","45":"tag-le","46":"tag-greek","47":"tag-p","48":"tag-b","49":"tag-father","50":"tag-fa","51":"tag-un","52":"tag-timothy","53":"tag-woman","54":"tag-the","55":"tag-icon","56":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n