<p>16:13- see on Mt. 27:32; Rom. 16:23.</p><p><i>Greet Rufus the chosen in the Lord</i> <i>; and his mother, who also was as a mother to me</i><i>- </i>A very common slave name, perhaps the Rufus of Mk. 15:21. Paul the Roman citizen considered a slave&rsquo;s mother to be his mother, who presumably was dead or had rejected him. Again we see the closeness of the new relationships in Christ.</p>