Kisah Para Rasul 16:1
Konteks16:1 He also came to Derbe 1 and to Lystra. 2 A disciple 3 named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, 4 but whose father was a Greek. 5
Kisah Para Rasul 17:4
Konteks17:4 Some of them were persuaded 6 and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group 7 of God-fearing Greeks 8 and quite a few 9 prominent women.
[16:1] 1 sn Derbe was a city in Lycaonia about 35 mi (60 km) southeast of Lystra. It was about 90 mi (145 km) from Tarsus.
[16:1] map For location see JP1 E2; JP2 E2; JP3 E2.
[16:1] 2 sn Lystra was a city in Lycaonia about 25 mi (40 km) south of Iconium.
[16:1] map For location see JP1 E2; JP2 E2; JP3 E2.
[16:1] 3 tn Grk “And behold, a disciple.” Here ἰδού (idou) has not been translated.
[16:1] 4 tn L&N 31.103 translates this phrase “the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer.”
[16:1] 5 sn 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; Jub. 30:7-17; m. Qiddushin 3.12; m. Yevamot 7.5.
[17:4] 7 tn Or “a large crowd.”
[17:4] 8 tn Or “of devout Greeks,” but this is practically a technical term for the category called God-fearers, Gentiles who worshiped the God of Israel and in many cases kept the Mosaic law, but did not take the final step of circumcision necessary to become a proselyte to Judaism. See further K. G. Kuhn, TDNT 6:732-34, 743-44. Luke frequently mentions such people (Acts 13:43, 50; 16:14; 17:17; 18:7).
[17:4] 9 tn Grk “not a few”; this use of negation could be misleading to the modern English reader, however, and so has been translated as “quite a few” (which is the actual meaning of the expression).