Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
Timotheus as Paul's workfellow and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater as his kinsmen join in sending greeting to the believers in Rome, identifying them as acquaintances and fellow laborers with Paul. Lucius bears a Roman name while the other named kinsmen bear Greek names, a mixture pointing to the family's strong Roman connections and to Roman citizenship inherited in the household.
The verse belongs to the extensive list of personal greetings to helpers and fellow workers in Romans 16, which includes a number of women who helped Paul and many people he had met on his travels. The many salutations show the church at Rome was founded by Jews and proselytes from Jerusalem converted on the Day of Pentecost, with others added afterward.
Paul's detailed greetings omit any mention of Peter, though he would not have omitted the chief person in the church if present, especially one whose hospitality he had shared for fifteen days in Jerusalem, and this absence shows Peter was not in Rome when Romans was written. If Peter was ever in Rome it was after Romans was written and long after the church there was established and flourishing, he was not Bishop of Rome, and this omission alone settles that neither the church of Christ nor the church of Rome was founded upon Peter. Because the list shows women worked publicly with Paul in ministry, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 does not absolutely prohibit women from taking part in public meetings, bearing testimony to God's goodness, singing and praising, prophesying as impressed by the Spirit, or giving public teaching and instruction when needed.
Timotheus as Paul's workfellow and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater as his kinsmen join in sending greeting to the believers in Rome, identifying them as acquaintances and fellow laborers with Paul. Lucius bears a Roman name while the other named kinsmen bear Greek names, a mixture pointing to the family's strong Roman connections and to Roman citizenship inherited in the household.
The verse belongs to the extensive list of personal greetings to helpers and fellow workers in Romans 16, which includes a number of women who helped Paul and many people he had met on his travels. The many salutations show the church at Rome was founded by Jews and proselytes from Jerusalem converted on the Day of Pentecost, with others added afterward.
Paul's detailed greetings omit any mention of Peter, though he would not have omitted the chief person in the church if present, especially one whose hospitality he had shared for fifteen days in Jerusalem, and this absence shows Peter was not in Rome when Romans was written. If Peter was ever in Rome it was after Romans was written and long after the church there was established and flourishing, he was not Bishop of Rome, and this omission alone settles that neither the church of Christ nor the church of Rome was founded upon Peter. Because the list shows women worked publicly with Paul in ministry, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 does not absolutely prohibit women from taking part in public meetings, bearing testimony to God's goodness, singing and praising, prophesying as impressed by the Spirit, or giving public teaching and instruction when needed.