and grew up and, if Acts 18 is to be believed, the place where he learned both the Septuagint and rhetoric. The more one probes the homily Hebrews, the more likely it becomes that Apollos is the author of this document. And perhaps we may learn one more thing from the Alexandrian background and the New Testament foreground in this regard. Acts 18–19 tells us two things about John the Baptist. The first is that Apollos knew only the baptism of John until he ran into Priscilla and Aquila in Ephesus.