And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.

And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid. The external evidence against this last clause is strong, but besides that there is nearly equal authority for it, internal evidence bespeaks it genuine; it being a favourite phrase of Luke, as Tischendorf notes-being used by him four times elsewhere, and only once by any other New Testament writer. Accordingly Tischendorf, who had excluded it in a former edition, restores it in his last one; and though Lachmann and Tregelles reject it, Meyer, DeWette, Lechler, and Alford pronounce in favour of it.

But they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.

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