<p>16:7 <i>Greet Andronicus and Junias- </i>Junia could be Joanna.&nbsp;</p><p><i>My kinsmen- </i>Their names are Greek and Latin (respectively) as was common for Jews living in the empire. But they were &quot;kinsmen&quot;. Perhaps his relatives, maybe from the tribe of Benjamin, but the point was- they were Jews. And Paul has been writing earlier about how the Jewish element were &quot;the weak&quot;, still tempted to rely on legal obedience for justification. And yet it now emerges that a number of the Jewish element were in fact well known to Paul and actually his friends. His position on them was therefore purely from principle, as his natural desire would have been to cut his friends some slack, understanding their culture and where they came from.</p><p><i>And my fellow-prisoners</i><i>, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me</i><i>- </i>Paul mentions elsewhere that he had &quot;often&quot; been imprisoned. The Acts record is very abbreviated, and most of them we are unaware of. It could be that even at Corinth, from where Paul wrote Romans, he was in prison- and these who were in prison in Rome were his fellow prisoners. Or perhaps at some previous point they had been imprisoned along with him.</p>