提多书 3:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你要盡力資助西納律師和亞波羅的旅程，使他們不致缺乏。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 要 赶 紧 给 律 师 西 纳 和 亚 波 罗 送 行 ， 叫 他 们 没 有 缺 乏 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ But stay away from those who have foolish arguments and talk about useless family histories and argue and quarrel about the law. Those things are worth nothing and will not help anyone. ¹⁰ After a first and second warning, avoid someone who causes arguments. ¹¹ You can know that such people are evil and sinful; their own sins prove them wrong. ¹² When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to stay there this winter. ¹³ Do all you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey so that they have everything they need. ¹⁴ Our people must learn to use their lives for doing good deeds to provide what is necessary so that their lives will not be useless. ¹⁵ All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the lawyer: Matthew 22:35, Luke 7:30, Luke 10:25, Luke 11:45, Luke 11:52, Luke 14:3

Apollos: Acts 18:24

on: Acts 21:5, Acts 28:10, Romans 15:24, 1 Corinthians 16:11, 3 John 1:6-8

Reciprocal: Acts 15:3 - brought

Cross-References

Genesis 3:4
But the snake said to the woman, "You will not die.

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:10
The man answered, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."

Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them, "What have you done? Didn't you know that a man like me can learn things by signs and dreams?"

1 Samuel 13:11
Samuel asked, "What have you done?" Saul answered, "I saw the soldiers leaving me, and you were not here when you said you would be. The Philistines were gathering at Micmash.

2 Samuel 3:24
Joab came to the king and said, "What have you done? Abner came to you. Why did you let him go? Now he's gone.

John 18:35
Pilate answered, "I am not one of you. It was your own people and their leading priests who handed you over to me. What have you done wrong?"

1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not tricked, but the woman was tricked and became a sinner.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Bring Zenas the lawyer,.... Whether he was brought up to the civil law, either among the Greeks or Romans, is not certain; it may be he was a Jewish lawyer, or scribe, an interpreter of Moses's law among the Jews; for with them a lawyer and a scribe were one and the same, as appears from Matthew 22:35 compared with Mark 12:28 and the Syriac version here calls him "a scribe", and the Ethiopic version "a scribe of the city"; which looks as if it was a civil office he bore; but however, be he what he will, he seems to have been now a preacher of the Gospel, being joined with Apollos, who certainly was one: he is said to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ, and afterwards bishop of Diospolis; Mark 12:28- :; his name is the contraction of Zenodorus: him the apostle would have Titus bring,

and Apollos, on their journey diligently; who was a Jew born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures; who had preached at Corinth, but was now at Crete; and whom the apostle, with Zenas, would have provided with everything necessary for their journey:

that nothing be wanting unto them; which might be proper for them in their travels, to make them comfortable, and their journey pleasant and easy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bring Zenas the lawyer - - This person is not elsewhere mentioned in the New Testament, and nothing more is known of him. He belonged doubtless to that class of persons so often mentioned in the New Testament as lawyers; that is, who were regarded as qualified to expound the Jewish laws; see the notes at Matthew 22:35. It does not mean that he practiced law, in the modern sense of that phrase. He had doubtless been converted to the Christian faith, and it is not improbable that there were Jews at Nicopolis, and that Paul supposed he might be particularly useful among them.

And Apollos - Notes, Acts 18:24. He was also well-skilled in the laws of Moses, being “mighty in the Scriptures” Acts 18:24, and he and Zenas appear to have been traveling together. It would seem that they had been already on a journey, probably in preaching the gospel, and Paul supposed that they would be in Crete, and that Titus could aid them.

Diligently - 2 Timothy 4:9; Greek Speedily; i. e., facilitate their journey as much as possible.

That nothing be wanting unto them - Nothing necessary for their journey. Paul desired that they might meet with hospitable treatment from Christians in Crete, and might not be embarrassed for the want of that which was needful for their journey. It would seem most probable that they had been sent by Paul on a visit to the churches.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. Bring Zenas the lawyer — This person is only mentioned in this place; whether he was a Jewish, Roman, or Greek lawyer, we cannot tell.

And Apollos — Of this person we have some valuable particulars in Acts 18:24; 1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:5-6; 1 Corinthians 4:6. Either St. Paul had left these at Crete when he visited that island, or he had heard that, in their evangelical itinerancy, they were about to pass through it.

On their journey diligently — Afford them the means to defray their expenses. The Churches through which these evangelists passed, bore their expenses from one to the other. See 3 John 1:6.