Kay

“I do not think that the apostle Paul, or anyone, should be above learning or being helped by another person.”
Marg@121,

You bring out a very important point. Not even the apostle Peter was above learning a lesson from Paul. Also, Apollos was not a novice and had a thorough knowledge of scripture – “Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John. So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.”