1 Corinthians 1:14 - Exposition

I thank God that I baptized none of you . St. Paul, in his characteristic manner, "goes off at the word" baptize . He thanked God, not by way of any disparagement to baptism, but because he had thus given no excuse to the undue exaltation of his own name. Compare the practice of our Lord himself, in leaving his disciples to baptize ( John 4:2 ). The apostles would not have approved the system of wholesale baptisms of the heathen which has prevailed in some Romanist missions. Save Crispus. The ruler of the synagogue ( Acts 18:8 ). Doubtless there were some strong special reasons why, in these instances, St. Paul departed from his general rule of not personally baptizing his converts. And Gaius . Gaius of Corinth ( Romans 16:23 ). It was one of the commonest of names. There was another Gaius of Derbe ( Acts 20:4 ), and another known to St. John ( 3 John 1:1 ).