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Apollos, an eloquent and learned Jewish Christian from Alexandria, was an important figure in the early church who worked alongside Paul in spreading the gospel.
Apollos was an Alexandrian Jewish-Christian known for his eloquence, thorough knowledge of the Scriptures, and powerful public teaching (Acts 18:24–28). He had been instructed in the way of Jesus but knew only the baptism of John until Priscilla and Aquila completed his theological formation in Ephesus. After receiving a commendation, he traveled to Achaia, where he was a forceful apologist demonstrating from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. He became a major figure in the Corinthian church, and a party of Corinthians claimed allegiance to him over Paul or Cephas (1 Corinthians 1:12), though both Paul and Apollos rejected such factionalism. Paul speaks warmly of him as a fellow worker (1 Corinthians 16:12), and Luther famously proposed him as the author of the Letter to the Hebrews.