Tit 3:12-15 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Titus 3:12-15: 3:12-15 The letter closes with news (3:12 ), a final exhortation (3:13-14 ), greetings, and a blessing (3:15 ). 3:12 Evidently Artemas or Tychicus would be Titus’s replacement on Crete. Since Tychicus was in fact sent to Ephesus (see 2 Tim 4:12 ), Artemas might have been the one who went to Crete. • Nicopolis: Several cities had this name; this was most likely a major city on the western coast of the Greek peninsula. Paul had possibly worked here before (see Rom 15:19 , which mentions Paul’s activity even further west).

Summary for Titus 3:12-15: 3:12-15 ^a The letter closes with news (3:12 ^b), a final exhortation (3:13-14 ^c), greetings, and a blessing (3:15 ^d). 3:12 ^e Evidently Artemas or Tychicus would be Titus’s replacement on Crete. Since Tychicus was in fact sent to Ephesus (see 2 Tim 4:12 ^f), Artemas might have been the one who went to Crete.

• Nicopolis: Several cities had this name; this was most likely a major city on the western coast of the Greek peninsula. Paul had possibly worked here before (see Rom 15:19 ^g, which mentions Paul’s activity even further west).
3:13 ^h Zenas and Apollos were involved in spreading the Good News, and they might have been the couriers of this letter to Titus.

• Zenas was probably an expert in Roman law or a Roman jurist (the same word for lawyer is in Luke 7:30 ⁱ; 10:25 ^j); his pagan name (“gift of Zeus”) makes it unlikely that he was an expert in Jewish law.

• Apollos is presumably the same man as in Acts 18:24 ^k; 19:1 ^l; 1 Cor 1:12 ^m; 3:4-6 ⁿ, 22 ^o; 4:6 ^p; 16:12 ^q.

• everything they need: See 1 Tim 3:2 ^r; 3 Jn 1:5-8 ^s; cp. Rom 15:24 ^t; 1 Cor 16:6 ^u, 11 ^v; 2 Cor 1:16 ^w.
3:14 ^x This final exhortation is connected to the responsibility to take care of Zenas and Apollos (see Rom 12:13 ^y; Eph 4:28 ^z; 1 Thes 4:11 ^aa; 1 Tim 5:8 ^ab, 16 ^ac; 6:18 ^ad).

• Our people must involve themselves in the life-giving ministry of the Good News rather than in the unproductive speculations of the false teachers.
3:15 ^ae you all: The letter was addressed to Titus (1:4 ^af), but the whole church was the audience for the letter.