Acts 16:30

Acts 16:30 e;xw

The Western text adds the detail that the jailer “secured the rest” of the prisoners before he addressed Paul and Silas (after e;xw D syr^{h with *} read tou.j loipou.j avsfalisa,menoj). Despite Sir William Ramsay’s inclination to accept the addition as genuine, “suggestive of the orderly, well-disciplined character of the jailor,” ³¹⁹ the great probability is that after an earthquake the average Near Eastern jailer was hardly likely to exhibit such a degree of discipline as either Ramsay or the Western glossator attributes to him!

³¹⁹ St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen, p. 222.