Acts 13:31

Acts 13:31 @nu/n#

The evidence for and against the inclusion of nu/n is curiously ambiguous. On the one hand, its varying position (after eivsi, in a, before it in A C 81), its expanded form (a;cri nu/n in D), and its omission altogether by B and the ecclesiastical text, suggest that it was added in various places. On the other hand, however, the fact that in similar passages ( Acts 2:32; Acts 3:15; Acts 5:32; Acts 10:39) it is not read (even as a variant reading), suggests that it was not added here by scribes but comes from the author. Its absence in some witnesses may be accounted for either because it was regarded as unnecessary, or because the apostles not only now first, but for a long time past, were witnesses.

In order to represent the balance of possibilities, the Committee decided to print nu/n before eivsi,n but to enclose it within square brackets.