Titus

c. AD 49–56· In the text

Tied to events dated from records outside the Bible, usually within a few years. How the dates are worked out

uncertain — sometimes glossed "honorable" · Latin

A common Roman first name whose sense the lexicons leave open.

A Greek and a companion of Paul, known from Paul's letters. Paul took him to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and Titus was not compelled to be circumcised. Paul sent him to Corinth, had no rest at Troas when he did not find him there, and was comforted in Macedonia by his coming. Paul called him his partner and fellow worker for the Corinthians, and Titus went to them of his own accord. Paul left him in Crete to set in order what was lacking and appoint elders in each city, addressing him as his own true child in a common faith. The second letter to Timothy has him gone to Dalmatia.