Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Corinthians 3:6

"I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase." — 1 Corinthians 3:6 (ASV)

I have planted, Apollos watered.—By an image borrowed from agricultural processes, the Apostle explains the relationship between his teaching and that of Apollos—and how all the results were from God. This indication of St. Paul having been the founder, and Apollos the subsequent instructor, of the Corinthian Church, is in complete harmony with what we read of the early history of that Church in Acts 18:27; Acts 19:1. After St. Paul had been at Corinth (Acts 18:1), Apollos, who had been taught by Aquila and Priscilla at Ephesus, came there and helped them much which had already believed.