Acts 11:28

Acts 11:28 avnasta.j de. … evsh,manen {A}

An important Western reading, preserved in D (it^p) (cop^G67) Augustine, supplies the first “we”-passage ²²⁵ in any text of Acts: h=n de. pollh. avgalli,asij\ sunestramme,nwn de. h`mw/n e;fh ei-j evx auvtw/n ovno,mati {Agaboj shmai,nwn…(“And there was much rejoicing; and when we were gathered together one of them named Agabus spoke, signifying …”). On the verb sustre,fein, see the final comment on 10.41.

²²⁵ Harnack, however, argued that the original form of the Western addition was…sunestramme,nwn de. auvtw/n …, and that the auvtw/n was later “corrected” to h`mw/n in order to avoid confusion with the following auvtw/n (see his “Über den ursprünglichen Text Act. Apost. 11, 27:28, ” Sitzungsberichte der königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1899, pp. 316—327, reprinted in his Studien zur Geschichte des Neuen Testaments und der alten Kirche; vol. I, Zur neutestamentlichen Textkritik [Berlin and Leipzig, 1931], pp. 33—47).