Trophimus
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Trophimus This must refer to some event not noticed in the Acts.
His feast is kept on 19 September.[2]
Background
Trophimus and companion
Relation to Apostle Paul
Trophimus was one of eight friends (
Cause of Apostle Paul's Arrest
He was the innocent cause of Paul being assaulted in the courts of the temple by the Jewish mob, and then of his being arrested and imprisoned by the Romans. The occasion of this outrage was that the Jews supposed that Paul had "brought Greeks also into the temple, and....defiled this holy place" (
Left at Miletus
Trophimus is also mentioned in
Unnamed brother
It has been conjectured that Trophimus is to be identified with the person mentioned in 2 Corinthians 8:16-24.
Relevant verses
Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychius and Trophimus.
—Acts 20:4
For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
—Acts 21:29
Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus.
—2 Timothy 4:20ESV