who was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted this one to go with him, and he took him[a] and[b] circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek. And as they went through the towns, they passed on to them to observe the rules that had been decided by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 16:3 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Acts 16:3 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb