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Martyr

I picked my favorite martyr as Timothy. He is well-known from the Acts of the Apostles and Paul's Epistles in the Bible. He was a fellow-labourer of the Apostle Paul in the Gospel of Christ and was the servant of Jesus Christ. Timothy was more than a simple fellow-worker for Paul; he was his dearest disciple and his beloved and faithful son in the Lord. Timothy was Paul's son in the sense that he was converted by Paul, therefore receiving the "gift of God" from him.
Timothy was born in Lystra. His mother Eunice and grandmother Lois were Jewish, but his father was a Greek . The family was probably converted to Christianity when Paul preached in Lystra on his first missionary journey. When Paul returned there during his second journey, they were already believers. Timothy must have been very young but strong in faith. Paul circumcised him because of the Jews and took him on his second and third missionary journeys. Timothy was an assistant of Paul and he is mentioned many times in......


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