Acts 5:21-22

The Western text of these verses is variously preserved in D E and other witnesses. Instead of the opening words avkou,santej de,, E reads evxelqo,ntej de. evk th/j fulakh/j, which is received by Blass into his Roman form of the text. Codex Bezae paints more vividly the circumstances of the trial by adding a phrase that is analogous to the reading of D in ver. Acts 5:18: “the high priest came and those who were with him, having risen early, and (evgerqe,ntej to. prwi> kai,) called together the council.” In ver. Acts 5:22 the Western text (D itp vg syrhmg) adds the detail, “But when the officers came and opened the prison (kai. avnoi,xantej th.n fulakh,n), they did not find them inside (e;sw D).”

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