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1 Corinthians 1:14
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thank: 1 Corinthians 1:4, 1 Corinthians 14:18, 2 Corinthians 2:14, Ephesians 5:20, Colossians 3:15, Colossians 3:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, 1 Timothy 1:12, Philemon 1:4
Crispus: Acts 18:8
Gaius: Romans 16:23, 3 John 1:1-4
Reciprocal: Acts 19:29 - Gaius
Cross-References
In the beginning God created the heauen and the earth.
GOD created the heavens and the earth in the very beginning.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the eretz.
God created the sky and the earth. At first,
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I thank God that I baptized none of you,.... The Alexandrian copy and the Syriac version read, "I thank my God"; not that the apostle disliked the ordinance of baptism, or the administration of it; and much less that he thought it criminal, or an evil in him to perform it; nor was he at any time displeased at the numbers of persons who desired it of him; but on the contrary rejoiced where proper subjects of it were brought to a submission to it; but inasmuch as some persons in the church at Corinth made such an ill use of his having baptized them, he was greatly thankful that it was so ordered in providence, that the far greater part of them were baptized by other ministers, either by those who were with him, or came after him; and that he baptized none of them with his own hands,
but Crispus and Gaius. The former of these was the chief ruler of the Jewish synagogue at Corinth, who hearing the apostle, and believing in Christ, was baptized by him, Acts 18:8 and the latter was a very liberal and hospitable man, and was the apostle's host, whilst he was at Corinth; see Romans 16:23.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I thank God ... - Why Paul did not himself baptize, see in 1 Corinthians 1:17. To him it was now a subject of grateful reflection that he had not done it. He had not given any occasion for the suspicion that he had intended to set himself up as a leader of a sect or party.
But Crispus - Crispus had been the chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth; Acts 18:8.
And Gaius - Gaius resided at Corinth, and at his house Paul resided when he wrote the Epistle to the Romans; Romans 16:23. It is also possible that the Third Epistle of John was directed to this man; see 3 John 1:1. And if so, then probably Diotrephes 3 John 1:9, who is mentioned as one who loved “to have the pre-eminence,” had been one cause of the difficulties at Corinth. The other persons at Corinth had been probably baptized by Silas and Timothy.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 1:14. I thank God that I baptized none of you — None of those who now live in Corinth, except Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, Acts 18:8. And Gaius, the same person probably with whom Paul lodged, Romans 16:23, where see the notes. Dr. Lightfoot observes: "If this be Gaius, or Caius, to whom the third epistle of John was written, which is very probable when the first verse of that epistle is compared with Romans 16:23, 3 John 1:1 then it will appear probable that John wrote his first epistle to the Corinthians. I wrote, says he, unto the Church-What Church? Certainly it must have been some particular Church which the apostle has in view, and the Church where Gaius himself resided. And if this be true, we may look for Diotrephes (3 John 1:9) in the Corinthian Church; and the author of the schism of which the apostle complains. See the Introduction, sect. viii.
