Acts 3:20

Acts 3:20 to.n … Cristo.n VIhsou/n

On the basis of the combination of Alexandrian and Western witnesses (a B D E syr^h cop^sa), the Committee preferred the sequence Cristo.n VIhsou/n. The alternative sequence, VIhsou/n Cristo,n (î⁷⁴ A C Y most minuscules vg syr^p cop^bo eth, followed by the Textus Receptus), seems to have arisen as an adaptation to the somewhat more usual appellation (in the New Testament VIhsou/j Cristo,j occurs 152 times, and Cristo.j VIhsou/j 107 times). In any case, the copyists who introduced the sequence VIhsou/n Cristo,n failed to perceive that here to.n … Cristo,n means “the Messiah.”