Sermon Tone Analysis

Timothy, Timotheus (Person).

Paul’s convert and companion, whose name means “one who honors God.”

His name is often spelled Timotheus in the KJV.

Timothy first appears in Acts 16:1–3 as Paul’s disciple whose mother “was a believer; but his father was a Greek” (v 1).

He was a third-generation Christian after his mother Eunice and grandmother Lois (2 Tm 1:5).

The apostle Paul, undoubtedly Timothy’s spiritual father, refers to him as “my true child in the faith” (1 Tm 1:2); he perhaps converted Timothy on his first or second missionary journey.

The son of a Greek (or gentile) father, Timothy was yet uncircumcised; however, when Paul decided to take Timothy with him on the second journey, he had him circumcised, so as not to hinder their missionary endeavors among the Jews.

Timothy, who was “well spoken of by the brethren at Lystra and Iconium” (Acts 16:2), became Paul’s companion and assistant on his second missionary journey at Lystra.

He traveled with Paul into Europe following the Macedonian vision.

When Paul decided to go to Athens, he left Silas and Timothy at Beroea to better establish the church there (Acts 17:14).

Timothy and Silas eventually joined Paul in Corinth (18:5).

He next appears with Paul in Ephesus on his third journey (19:22), from where Paul sends Erastus and him into Macedonia ahead of himself.

In the last mention of Timothy in Acts 20:4, he was included in the list of goodwill ambassadors who were to accompany Paul to Jerusalem with the offering for the Christian Jews.