These are two forms of the same name; St. Luke, as usual, adopts the more colloquial. 1. In Ac 20:4 we read that Sopater, son of Pyrrhus (RV), of Ber
And he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.
Timothy my fellow worker greets you, and so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
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