Acts 18:21

Acts 18:21 eivpw,n {A}

The addition made by the Western reviser, which has passed into the later ecclesiastical text (and therefore is represented in the AV: “I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem”), is loosely paralleled by the similar statement in Acts 20:16, and by the Western text of Acts 19:1 (see the comment on the latter passage). The interpolation (for thus it must be accounted, there being no reason why, if original, it should have been deleted in a wide variety of manuscripts and versions) may well give, as Bruce observes, “the true reason for Paul’s hasty departure, the feast probably being passover.” ³⁴⁰

³⁴⁰ F. F. Bruce, The Acts of the Apostles (1951), p. 349.