Apollos
A Jew of Alexandria, eloquent and mighty in the scriptures, who came to Ephesus teaching accurately about Jesus although he knew only the baptism of John. Priscilla and Aquila took him aside and explained the way of God more adequately, after which he crossed to Achaia and powerfully refuted the Jews in public debate, showing from the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. At Corinth his following became one of the factions Paul had to rebuke — 'I follow Paul', 'I follow Apollos' — though Paul himself spoke of him warmly as a fellow worker: one plants, another waters, God gives the growth.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
Acts1 CorinthiansTitusNow a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
Acts 18:24 — Eloquent and fervent
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.
Acts 19:1
Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”
1 Corinthians 1:12
For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
1 Corinthians 3:4
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
1 Corinthians 3:5
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:6 — 'I planted, Apollos watered'
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
1 Corinthians 3:22
Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
1 Corinthians 4:6
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
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