translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: TIT

label: NET study note

text: The overseer is another term for the same official position of leadership as the “elder.” This is seen in the interchange of the two terms in this passage and in Acts 20:17, 28 , as well as in the parallels between these verses and 1 Tim 3:1-7 .


text: A saying attributed to the poet Epimenides of Crete (6th century b.c. ).


text: Jewish myths were legendary tales characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus and Crete. See parallels in 1 Tim 1:4; 4:7 ; and 2 Tim 4:4 .