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DCHindley · 12-31-2007, 03:57 PM

Ben,

That would be 11:28 in the western text:

"Now in these days there came down prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there was much rejoicing; and when we were gathered together one of them named Agabus stood up and spake ..."

In the regular everyday text, it is "And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold ..."

DCH

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Why don't you just find an online bible and search for "we" in Acts, then whittle the results down to those that are not contained in a speech?

IIRC, somewhere earlier in Acts the western text (or is it only Bezae?) has another, often overlooked instance of a we passage where the standard text does not.

(I am hoping somebody on this board -- such as andrewcriddle, perhaps -- will know what I am talking about and remind me where this variant is to be found; I cannot seem to locate it right now.)

Ben.

andrewcriddle · 01-03-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DCHindley

Ben,

That would be 11:28 in the western text:

"Now in these days there came down prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there was much rejoicing; and when we were gathered together one of them named Agabus stood up and spake ..."

In the regular everyday text, it is "And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold ..."

DCH

It has been suggested by Harnack that originally the Western text read here
"Now in these days there came down prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there was much rejoicing; and when they [the believers at Antioch] were gathered together one of them [the prophets] named Agabus stood up and spake ..." Subsequently to avoid confusion between the two 3rd person plurals the first of them was changed from they to we.

Andrew Criddle

Ben C Smith · 01-03-2008, 11:02 AM

Thanks, David and Andrew. I will try to write that down this time so that I can remember it.

Ben.

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