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Eunice's father, unnamed in the Bible, was the maternal grandfather of Timothy.
The father of Eunice, Timothy's mother, is not named in the biblical text, but Acts 16:1 describes him only as 'a Greek,' indicating he was a Gentile man who had married a Jewish woman — an unusual circumstance that left Timothy in an ambiguous position regarding Jewish identity, which Paul addressed by circumcising him (Acts 16:3). His Greek identity contributed to the mixed cultural and religious background that characterized Timothy's upbringing in Lystra.