Timothy's mother — a believing Jewess of Lystra married to a Greek (Acts 16:1), and the middle link in the one family faith the New Testament traces by name across three generations: 'your grandmother LOIS and your mother Eunice, and… in you as well' (2 Timothy 1:5). ⚠ That her husband was a Gentile, and is passed over in silence, means the faith Timothy inherited came down the MATERNAL side of a mixed marriage — quietly remarkable in its world. It was Lois and Eunice who gave the boy the Scriptures he had known 'from childhood' (2 Timothy 3:15). Both women's names are Greek (Eunikē, 'good victory'), a small mark of a Hellenised Jewish household.