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Trophimus

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  • Third Missionary Journey · 50 AD
  • Mission to Macedonia and Greece · 54 AD
  • Paul arrested in the Temple · 54 AD

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

A foster-child, an Ephesian who accompanied Paul during a part of his third missionary journey (Acts 20:4; 21:29). He was with Paul in Jerusalem, and the Jews, supposing that the apostle had brought him with him into the temple, raised a tumult which resulted in Paul’s imprisonment. (See TEMPLE, HEROD’S.) In writing to Timothy, the apostle says, “Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick” (2 Tim. 4:20). This must refer to some event not noticed in the Acts.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

Acts
20:4, 21:29
2 Timothy
4:20

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.