Priscilla
The tentmaker and teacher who with her husband Aquila discipled Apollos privately, hosted the church in her home in Rome, and whom Paul calls my co-worker in Christ Jesus who risked her own neck for my life.
The Teacher and Co-worker
Scripture: Acts 18; Romans 16
The Biblical Record
Priscilla and Aquila were from Pontus. They had left Rome because Claudius had expelled the Jews. Paul met them in Corinth; he was a tentmaker as they were. He worked with them. He took them with him to Ephesus and left them there. When the eloquent Apollos came to the synagogue and spoke boldly — but only knowing the baptism of John — Priscilla and Aquila took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. Paul, in Romans, sends greetings to Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus who risked their own necks for my life — to whom not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks.
Priscilla in the Sanctum
Priscilla is the figure of the teacher who works in private where the teaching is most needed — the one who takes the almost-right aside and brings them to fullness without public embarrassment. Her ministry with Aquila is one of the clearest pictures of partnership in the New Testament.
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