Do your best to equip Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that they will have everything they need.
Parallel translations
- WEB Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.
- KJV Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
- NKJV Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey with haste, that they may lack nothing.
- NASB Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way so that nothing is lacking for them.
- NLT Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos with their trip. See that they are given everything they need.
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Quick answer
Titus is to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey, ensuring they lack nothing. It matters because supporting traveling gospel workers is a concrete expression of Christian love.
Overview
Paul asks Titus to provide for two traveling Christians, Zenas and the well-known Apollos, so their journey is well supplied. Such hospitality and material support for gospel workers was an important ministry in the early church. It illustrates the very 'good works' Paul has been urging.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Acts 18:24Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.
- Matt 22:35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
- Acts 28:10The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.
- 3 Jn 1:6–8They have testified to the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
- Luke 14:3So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
- Luke 10:25One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
- 1 Cor 16:11No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he can return to me, for I am expecting him along with the brothers.
- Rom 15:24I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.
- Acts 21:5But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city and knelt down on the beach to pray with us.
- Luke 11:45One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”
- Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.
- Luke 11:52Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
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