Acts 11:3

Acts 11:3 eivsh/lqej … sune,fagej

Instead of eivsh/lqej … sune,fagej( î⁴⁵ B L 33 81 614 1175 1611 1827 syr^{p, htxt} al read eivsh/lqen … sune,fagen. Since in later Greek usage o[ti may stand for ti, (“Why…?”), ²¹¹ a majority of the Committee held that failure to recognize this idiom led copyists to produce the reading involving the third person, in which o[ti is taken as recitative introducing direct discourse (either as a statement, “saying, You went in …” or as a question, “saying, Did you go in…?”). ²¹² The text is supported by î⁷⁴ (lacuna at eivsh/lqej) a A D E H P most minuscules vg syr^hmgcop^{sa, bo}eth.

²¹¹ See E. A. Sophocles, Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods, s.v. o[stij, § 4; J. H. Moulton, Prolegomena, pp. 93 f.; H. J. Cadbury, Journal of Biblical Literature, XLVIII (1929), pp. 423 ff.: Blass-Debrunner-Funk, § 300, 2; and Nigel Turner, Syntax, pp. 49 f.

²¹² So Lake and Cadbury in The Beginnings of Christianity, vol. IV, p. 124.