[a]Therefore Paul would that he should go forth with him, and took and circumcised him, because of the Jews, which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Grecian.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 16:3 Timothy is circumcised, not simply for any necessity, but in respect of the time only to win the Jews.

Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.(A)

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But neither yet Titus which was with me, though he were a Grecian, was compelled to be circumcised,

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Yet not even Titus,(A) who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.(B)

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