16:12 With regard to our brother Apollos: I strongly encouraged him to visit you with the other brothers, 2 but it was simply not his intention to come now. 3 He will come when he has the opportunity.
1 tn Since Paul appears to expect specific delegates here and they were most likely men, the Greek word ἀδελφοί (adelfoi) here has not been not translated as “brothers and sisters.”
2 tn Grk “with the brothers.”
3 tn Grk “it was simply not the will that he come now.”