Apollos

Meanwhile, a Jewish man named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker with a thorough knowledge of the Tanakh.

While Apollos was in Corinth, Sha’ul completed his travels through the inland country and arrived at Ephesus, where he found a few talmidim.

I say this because one of you says, “I follow Sha’ul”; another says, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Kefa”; while still another says, “I follow the Messiah!”

For when one says, “I follow Sha’ul” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you being merely human?

After all, what is Apollos? What is Sha’ul? Only servants through whom you came to trust. Indeed, it was the Lord who brought you to trust through one of us or through another.

I planted the seed, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.

whether Sha’ul or Apollos or Kefa or the world or life or death or the present or the future: they all belong to you,

Now in what I have said here, brothers, I have used myself and Apollos as examples to teach you not to go beyond what the Tanakh says, proudly taking the side of one leader against another.

As for brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to go and visit you along with the other brothers; and although it was not at all his desire to come at this time, he will come when he has the opportunity.

Do your best to help Zenas the Torah expert and Apollos with their arrangements for travelling, so that they will lack nothing.