Teaching About Jesus

Acts 18:24-25 tells the story of Apollos. He came from Alexandria to Egypt. He had a reputation as a learned man who knew the Scriptures thoroughly. Alexandria was a center of knowledge and learning. No doubt it was prized in Alexandria to have extensive knowledge and be accurate in what you knew and taught.

Luke, a Greek and the author of Acts, was surely giving Apollos a high

compliment when he said Apollos taught about Jesus accurately. With the exception of

baptism, Apollos seems to have been knowledgeable about the life and teachings of

Jesus, and how they fit with the Scriptures of the Old Testament.

Priscilla and Aquilla were wife and husband. They had be personally taught by

Paul and were leaders of the Ephesian church. They were impressed when they heard

Apollos preach, and graciously invited him to their home. While there, the Bible says

they “explained to him the way of God more adequately.”

The Bible doesn’t detail what “the way of God more adequately” means, but it

makes sense that it would include showing him what living a godly life means. Knowing

the facts is not enough.

Jesus made that point many times. Once he told the Pharisees, “You study the

Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the

very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.”1

Applying knowledge appropriately is the key.