Far from requiring that men appointed as overseers should be unmarried, Paul wrote to Titus: “For this reason I left you in Crete, that you might correct the things that were defective and might make appointments of older men [Greek, pre·sbyʹte·ros] in city after city, as I gave you orders; if there is any man free from accusation, a husband of one wife, having believing children that were not under a charge of debauchery nor unruly.
यह माँग करने से कहीं हटकर कि ओवरसियरों के रूप में नियुक्‍त पुरुष अविवाहित हों, पौलुस ने तीतुस को लिखा: “मैं इसलिये तुझे क्रेते में छोड़ आया था, कि तू शेष रही हुई बातों को सुधारे, और मेरी आज्ञा के अनुसार नगर नगर प्राचीनों [यूनानी, प्रॆसबाइटॆरॉस] को नियुक्‍त करे ।