Acts 2:38

Acts 2:38 Metanoh,sate( @fhsi,n(#

The witnesses offer a wide variety of readings: (a) Pe,troj de. pro.j auvtou,j\ Metanoh,sate, B 218 606 630 1835 al; (b) Pe,troj de. auvtou,j\ Metanoh,sate( fhsi,n( î^74vid a A C 81 630 1642* 1704 1739 1891 vg al; (c) Pe,troj de. pro.j auvtou,j fhsin\ Metanoh,sate, D it^{d, p} Irenaeus; (d) Pe,troj de. e;fh pro.j auvtou,j\ Metanoh,sate, E P Y Byz it^gig vg^mss; (e) Pe,troj de. pro.j auvtou.j e;fh) Metanoh,sate, 2147; (f) ei=pe de. Pe,troj pro.j auvtou,j\ Metanoh,sate, 42 51 57 223 582 1405 al; (g) as (f) followed by fhsi,n, 206; (h) Pe,troj de. e;fh pro.j auvtou,j\ Metanoh,sate( fhsi,n, 36 180 453 1642^c; and (i) Pe,troj de. pro.j auvtou,j\ Metanoh,sate e;fh, 945 al. A majority of the Committee was impressed by the diversity of early testimony supporting reading (b), but preferred to enclose fhsi,n within square brackets because of the weight of codex B, which lacks the word.

[Only reading (a) adequately accounts for the rise of the other readings, for the absence of an explicit verb of saying prompted copyists to add, at various places, fhsi,n or e;fh or ei=pen; there is no good reason why any of these verbs, if original, should have been omitted or altered to a different verb. It ought to be noted also that elsewhere Luke occasionally dispenses with a verb of saying ( Acts 25:22; Acts 26:28). B.M.M.]