Demas, Luke, Mark 2 Tim. 4:10–11 THIS last of Paul’s letters is written, as is generally supposed, in his second imprisonment, and very near his martyrdom. The condition in which it represents him is remarkably contrasted, in several respects, with the conditions of his first imprisonment, as shown in the letters dating from that period. In these—in two of them, at all events—we find him surrounded by troops of friends, among whom the same three names as occur in my text appear as united with him