That's because in Jewish ritual baptisms one was baptized by the authority of the given teacher they were following ... Some sectarians were now claiming to be disciples of Paul ... Apollos and Cephas ... Paul was simply reminding them under whose authority and power they had been baptized under.
In baptism we publicly declare to be His disciples.
Exactly! I believe that's why so much emphasis was given about "the name".
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