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Apollos (?p?????; contracted from Apollonius) was an early Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
. His special gifts in presenting Christian doctrine made him an important person in the congregation at Corinth, Greece after Paul
Paul of Tarsus

Saint Paul, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul or Paul of Tarsus , was a Hellenistic Judaism, who called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles", and was, together with Saint Peter and James the Just, the most notable of early Christian missionaries....
's first visit there (1 Corinthians
First Epistle to the Corinthians

The First Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible in the New Testament, often referred to simply as 1 Corinthians. The book is a letter from Paul of Tarsus and Sosthenes to the Christians of Corinth, Greece....
 3:6). He was with Paul at a later date in Ephesus
Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, in the region known as Ionia during the period known as Classical Greece. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League....
 (1 Cor. 16:12). In 1 Cor. 1:10-12 we read of four parties in the Corinthian church, of which two attached themselves to Paul and Apollos respectively, using their names, though the "division" can hardly have been due to conflicting doctrines, and there is no indication that Apollos favored or approved an overestimation of his person.

Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church?Missouri Synod , founded in 1847 in Chicago, is the eighth largest Protestantism denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Lutheranism body in the U.S....
, which hold a commemoration for him, Aquila and Priscilla
Priscilla (Christian)

Priscilla and Aquila were a First Century Jewish Christian couple described in the New Testament. Of the seven times they are mentioned, five times Priscilla's name is mentioned first....
 on February 13.

Paul considered Apollos to be a valuable helper in carrying on his work in the important Corinthian congregation (1 Cor.






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Apollos (?p?????; contracted from Apollonius) was an early Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
. His special gifts in presenting Christian doctrine made him an important person in the congregation at Corinth, Greece after Paul
Paul of Tarsus

Saint Paul, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul or Paul of Tarsus , was a Hellenistic Judaism, who called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles", and was, together with Saint Peter and James the Just, the most notable of early Christian missionaries....
's first visit there (1 Corinthians
First Epistle to the Corinthians

The First Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible in the New Testament, often referred to simply as 1 Corinthians. The book is a letter from Paul of Tarsus and Sosthenes to the Christians of Corinth, Greece....
 3:6). He was with Paul at a later date in Ephesus
Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, in the region known as Ionia during the period known as Classical Greece. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League....
 (1 Cor. 16:12). In 1 Cor. 1:10-12 we read of four parties in the Corinthian church, of which two attached themselves to Paul and Apollos respectively, using their names, though the "division" can hardly have been due to conflicting doctrines, and there is no indication that Apollos favored or approved an overestimation of his person.

Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church?Missouri Synod , founded in 1847 in Chicago, is the eighth largest Protestantism denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Lutheranism body in the U.S....
, which hold a commemoration for him, Aquila and Priscilla
Priscilla (Christian)

Priscilla and Aquila were a First Century Jewish Christian couple described in the New Testament. Of the seven times they are mentioned, five times Priscilla's name is mentioned first....
 on February 13.

Paul considered Apollos to be a valuable helper in carrying on his work in the important Corinthian congregation (1 Cor. 3:6, 4:6, 16:12). In harmony with Paul's notices are the statements in Acts
Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. It is commonly referred to as simply Acts. The title "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late second century, but some have suggested that the title "Acts" be interpreted as "the Acts of the Holy Spirit" or even "the Acts...
 that Apollos was a highly educated Alexandria
Alexandria

Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports....
n Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
, who "spoke and taught accurately enough about Jesus, even though he knew only the baptism of John" (18:24-28). He came to Ephesus (probably in 54
54

Year 54 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
), was instructed more accurately in the gospel there by Aquila and Priscilla
Priscilla (Christian)

Priscilla and Aquila were a First Century Jewish Christian couple described in the New Testament. Of the seven times they are mentioned, five times Priscilla's name is mentioned first....
 and afterwards went to Achaia, after Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them.

Jerome
Jerome

Saint Jerome was a Christian priest and Christian apologetics best known for translating the Vulgate. He is recognized by the Catholic Church as a canonized saint and Doctor of the Church, and his version of the Bible is still an important text in Catholicism....
 states that Apollos was so dissatisfied with the division at Corinth, that he retired to Crete with Zenas, a doctor of the law; and that the schism having been healed by Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Apollos returned to the city, and became its bishop. Less probable traditions assign to him the bishopric of Duras, or of Iconium in Phrygia, or of Caesarea. In the Epistle to Titus
Epistle to Titus

The Epistle to Titus is a book of the biblical canon New Testament, one of the three so-called "pastoral epistles" . It is offered as a letter from Paul of Tarsus to the Apostle Titus....
, (3:13) Apollos is mentioned with Zenas as bearer of the letter to Crete.

Beliefs

It is difficult to get a correct idea of his religious standpoint, although it probably was that of the so-called disciples
Disciple (Christianity)

In the History of Christianity, the disciples were the students of Jesus during his Ministry of Jesus. While Jesus attracted a large following, the term disciple is commonly used to refer specifically to "Twelve Apostles", an inner circle of men whose number perhaps represented the twelve tribes of Israel....
 of John the Baptist
John the Baptist

John the Baptist was a mission preacher and a major religious figure who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River in expectation of a divine apocalypse that would restore occupied Israel....
 Paul encountered in Ephesus (Acts 19:1-7). These twelve had never heard of the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit

In Christianity, the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is the spirit of God. The term Christ , is also used to refer to this presence. That is, the Spirit is considered to act in concert with and share an essential nature with God the Father and God the Son ....
 (Acts 19:2) which had been poured out on the believers in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost
Pentecost

Pentecost is one of the prominent feasts in the Christianity liturgical year, celebrated the 49th day after Easter Sunday?or the 50th day, inclusively, whence its name is derived from the Greek....
 (Acts 2:4); this was the baptism of holy spirit that Jesus said would follow the water baptism of John (Acts 1:5). Whether this inference is correct, according to Acts Priscilla and Aquila made him an adherent of the Pauline doctrine
Pauline Christianity

Pauline Christianity is a term used to refer to a branch of Early Christianity associated with the beliefs and doctrines espoused by Paul the Apostle through his Pauline epistles....
; the author of the Acts of the Apostles thought this fact of sufficient importance to be included in his history.

Apollos may have captivated his hearers by teaching "wisdom," as P. W. Schmiedel suggests, in the allegorical style of Philo
Philo

Philo , known also as Philo of Alexandria , Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia and Philo the Jew, was a Hellenistic Judaism philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt....
, and he was evidently a man of unusual magnetic force. This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

Reverend Doctor of Philosophy Jerome Murphy-O'Connor Dominican Order, is a Dominican Order priest, a leading authority on Saint Paul and Professor of New Testament at the Biblique et Arch?ologique Fran?aise de J?rusalem in Jerusalem, a position that he has held since 1967....
: "It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching."

Martin Luther
Martin Luther

Martin Luther was a Germans monk, theology, university professor, priest, father of Protestantism, and Protestant Reformers whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western culture....
 proposed Apollos as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Epistle to the Hebrews

The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament. Though traditionally credited to the Apostle Paul, the letter is anonymous....
, and many scholars since have shared his view.