1 Corinthians 1:12

One says. Paul shows that there were four parties in this church. Paul. Some looked to Paul as their hero, since he had planted the church there. Apollos. He was an eloquent speaker (Acts 18:24), but Paul was not (2 Corinthians 11:6). This made Apollos a hero to some. Peter. The "Circumcision party" made a hero out of Peter, as they tried to destroy the influence of Paul. Christ. See 2 Corinthians 10:7. MacKnight thinks these were Jews who had heard Christ preach during his earthly ministry, and who now made this fact a thing of pride. Rice Haggard writes: "When the followers of Christ are divided into different parties, and choose to be called by different names, a great deal of the preacher's time and studies is spent in inventing and vending arguments to draw persons over to their respective parties. Hence the holy scriptures must be bent and twisted in support of them: to which purpose those divine materials will never submit. For who does not know, that if the Scriptures are consistent, they never can support so many parties, and those too so widely different?"