Titus - Introduction

      Titus, to whom the letter is addressed, was a Greek. He attended Paul to Jerusalem at the time the question of Gentile Christians was considered ( Acts 15 ). Paul refused to allow him to be circumcised ( Galatians 2:1-5 Galatians 2:2 Co 2:12 Co 7:5-16 ). He bore Paul's first letter to Corinth, and is often referred to in the epistles, although his name is not mentioned in Acts. From 2 Tim. 4:10 , we learn that he was in Dalmatia, at the time Paul wrote from his prison, and we find ( Titus 3:15 ) that Paul bade him come from Crete to Nicopolis, which is on the same coast as Dalmatia. It is still claimed in Dalmatia that he was the missionary of that region.

      The genuineness of the letter, like that to Timothy, was never questioned until a recent period, but every objection made by the rationalistic critics of the German school has been satisfactorily answered, and there is no reasonable ground for doubt that all three of the Pastoral Letters belong to the last years of the great apostle's life.