5 For this purpose I left you behind in Crete While reading this book, we must understand that Titus was sent to Crete to superintend the preaching of the gospel throughout that island. Crete was at that time inhabited by a people who were only partially civilized and sunk in the very worst of vices. Paul, therefore, tells Titus to speak to them about things that would hardly be mentioned to Christians nowadays. appoint elders in every town The gospel had been preached in Crete, and converts