exclusively<\/em>\u00a0determined through the maternal line.<\/p>\nIn regards to why Timothy was circumcised after the Jerusalem council, it is simply because Paul met Timothy after that council. Timothy wanted to join Paul, but because they were working among the Jews, Paul decided to have Timothy circumcised so that Timothy would be accepted by the Jews. “Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed, but his father was Greek. He was well spoken of by the brethren who were at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted to have him go on with him. And he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region, for they all knew that his father was Greek<\/em>” (Acts 16:1-3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: I was scanning the questions and found\u00a0the Jewish lineage one. Timothy was counted as Jewish because of his mother. Paul circumcised him and we know that Timothy’s father was a Gentile while his mother and grandmother were Jewish. Why did Paul have Timothy circumcised after the council at Jerusalem? 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Timothy wanted to join Paul, but because\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23081,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/but-he-didnt-have-to-be-circumcised\/","url_meta":{"origin":22974,"position":1},"title":"But He Didn’t Have to be Circumcised!","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"by Edwin Crozier Didn\u2019t we just have a whole debate in Jerusalem that discovered Christians didn\u2019t have to be circumcised? In fact, in Paul\u2019s letter to the Galatians, he will brag that no one made Titus get circumcised during that meeting (Galatians 2:1-3). Yet, Paul circumcised Timothy. 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