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He was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem ( Galatians 2:1-3; Acts 15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts of the Apostles.

He appears to have been a Gentile, and to have been chiefly engaged in ministering to Gentiles; for Paul sternly refused to have him circumcised, because of Paul's belief that the gospel freed one from the requirements of the Mosaic Law.

We find him, at a later period, with Paul and Timothy at Ephesus, whence he was sent by Paul to Corinth for the purpose of getting the contributions of the church there in behalf of the poor saints at Jerusalem sent forward ( 2 Corinthians 8:6; 12:18).

He rejoined the apostle when he was in MacedonAlternate meanings: Macedon (village), New York; Macedon (town), New York Macedon (aka. Macedonia) was the ancient Greek state of Macedonia in the central-northern part of ancient Greece bordering with the ancient Greek state of Epirus on the west and theia, and cheered him with the tidings he brought from Corinth (7:6-15). After this his name is not mentioned till after Paul's first imprisonment, when we find him engaged in the organization of the church in CreteCrete sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Kappa;ρτ&eta / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Greek island closest to North Africa. Tourist attractions in Crete include archeological sites, where the apostle had left him for this purpose (Paul's TitusThe Epistle to Titus is a book of the canonic New Testament, one of the three so-called "pastoral epistles" 1 Timothy 2 Timothy and the Epistle to Titus . It is offered as a letter from Paul to the Apostle Titus. Authorship and date Traditional view Accor 1:5).

The last notice of him is in 2 Timothy 4:10, where we find him with Paul at Rome during his second imprisonment. From Rome he was sent into DalmatiaDalmatia ( Croatian Dalmacija Italian Dalmazia Serbian ) is a region of Croatia on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, spreading between the island of Pag in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The inner Dalmatia Dalmatinska Zagora str, no doubt on some important missionary errand. The New Testament does not record his death.

According to church tradition, Paul ordained Titus Bishop of Gortyn in Crete. He died in AD 107Alternate uses, see Number 107''. Events Trajan divided the Pannonia into two portions sometimes between 102 and this year. First year of yongchu era of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty. Births Deaths Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and theologian. Titus, disc at about 95 years of age.

Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 -- Please update as needed