TITUS 3:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.”
Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing — the dual request for hospitality (propempō — to escort/provision) addresses two traveling teachers: Zenas (a Jewish legal expert, nomikos) and Apollos (the eloquent Christian from Acts 18:24). The charge to ensure they lack nothing extends Christian hospitality to servants of the word, reflecting the gospel's itinerant economy where churches provisioned apostolic workers.
Church Fathers on Titus 3:13
“When I shall send Artemas unto you, or Tychicus; be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis.” What do you say? After having appointed him to preside over Crete, do you again summon him to yourself? It was not to withdraw him from that occupation, but to discipline him the more for it. For that he does not call him to attend upon him, as if he took him everywhere with him as his follower, appears from what he adds: Now Nicopolis is a city of Thrace.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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