2 Timothy 3:10-17, Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, and the sacred writings

Timothy knew of Paul's sufferings in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra from his own region (Keener and his notes); the dictionary thinks his family was converted at Lystra, where Paul was stoned. The word for impostors often meant sorcerers or fake magicians, though by then swindlers generally (Keener and his notes). The ESV Study Bible says those Timothy learned from may include his mother and grandmother, and the dictionary credits his mother with teaching him the Scriptures from childhood. In pious Jewish homes boys learned the sacred writings from about five, a knowledge that amazed other peoples, and Josephus says the law commands teaching from infancy (Keener and his notes). Greek-speaking Jews used sacred writings of their Bible, and Josephus counts twenty-two books held divine (Keener). Belief in inspired poetry and prophecy was widespread, and Jews held their Scriptures inspired by God's Spirit and true (Keener and his notes). God-breathed occurs in no earlier Greek text, and the ESV Study Bible reads all Scripture as the Old Testament and by implication some New Testament writings, while Keener and Wright take it as Israel's Scriptures, the only Bible the first Christians had.