Gevurot 16:3-5

Orthodox Jewish Bible

³ Rav Sha’ul wanted Timotiyos to come along with his chavurah, so he took him and did a bris milah, because of the Yehudim in those places, for everyone had da’as that his abba was Yevani.

⁴ And as they were traveling through the cities, they were handing on to them to be shomer regarding the mitzvot that had been laid down by the Moshiach’s Shlichim and the Ziknei HaKehillot of Moshiach in Yerushalayim.

⁵ The Moshiach’s Kehillot, therefore, were growing in the emunah (faith), and yom yom were increasing in number.