1:4 Who was Titus?
1:4 Who was Titus?
Titus was a Gentile convert of Paul who we first hear of when he accompanied Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem from the church at Antioch to get a ruling by the apostles and the elders in the Jerusalem church on Gentile circumcision (cp Ac 15:1-6 with Ga 2:1-5).
Titus was involved with Paul in the church in Corinth - Paul mentioned him nine times in 2 Corinthians (cp Tit 2:13; 7:6, 13, 14; 8:6, 16, 23; 12:18).
At the time of writing this epistle Titus was in Crete where Paul had left him to consolidate the work they had begun there earlier (cp V5).