Man living at the time of the New Testament

Timothy

Acts 16:1–3; Philippians 2:19–22; 1 Timothy 1:2; 4:12; 2 Timothy 1:5

A disciple of Lystra, the son of a Jewish believer and a Greek father, whom the brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of; Paul took him with him and had him circumcised (Acts 16:1–3). His faith had come through his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice (2 Timothy 1:5). He served with Paul for years and is named with him in six of his letters, and Paul wrote him two (Philippians 1:1; 1 and 2 Timothy). Paul called him his true child in the faith and sent him to Corinth, Philippi, and Ephesus (1 Corinthians 4:17; Philippians 2:19–22; 1 Timothy 1:2–3).

Son of a Jewish mother, Eunice, and a Greek father, raised in the Scriptures by his mother and grandmother Lois (2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15). Paul's closest co-worker and “true child in faith” (1 Timothy 1:2), later leader of the church at Ephesus. Tradition says he was killed there in AD 97. He was still young in the early 60s (1 Timothy 4:12); his birth year is an estimate.

Family

Father

Father of Timothy

Mother

Eunice

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