Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Titus.

When you turn the page from 2nd Timothy over to Titus, if you're reading straight through

the New Testament, it can be a little bit disorienting because it feels like in 2nd Timothy, that

is the end of Paul, like he's going to die shortly after that letter was written, and indeed

he did die shortly after that letter was written.

And so you turn it over to Titus and it's like, well, how is Paul still writing letters?

Well, this is an important moment for us to remind ourselves that the arrangement of

the letters in the New Testament are not chronological.

Now that said, still Titus, this letter we're looking at today, is one of the latest letters

that Paul wrote before his death.

The book of Acts takes us up to Paul being in prison and preaching freely in prison in

Rome, but then the book cuts off pretty abruptly right there.

In order to cobble together what happened in the rest of Paul's life, we have to go and

look at the little personal details we get in a bunch of these letters that make up the

rest of the New Testament.

And when we do that, it becomes pretty evident that Paul did not die in that first very

blase, fair imprisonment that he experienced in Rome, probably his accusers didn't even

show up for the trials.

And they're like, well, I mean, you're just, you're free to go then, I guess that's that.

It looks like after that, Paul went right back to Ephesus, it makes sense.

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