Acts 5:29

Acts 5:29 avpokriqei.j de. Pe,troj kai. oi` avpo,stoloi ei=pan {A}

Codex Bezae enhances the role of Peter by omitting “and the apostles answered and,” and by altering ei=pan to ei=pen. The Old Latin text (it^h) continues by adding: cui obaudire oportet, deo an hominibus? ille aut[em ait, deo]. et dixit Petrus ad eum (“‘Whom is it right to obey, God or man?’ and he said, ‘God.’ And Peter said to him” [then ver. Acts 5:30 follows]). A similar addition occurs also in cop^G67.

The declarative form of the B-text is witnessed as early as the second and third century in Polycrates’s letter to Pope Victor (quoted in Eusebius, Eccl. hist., V.xxiv:7), Origen (contra Celsum, VIII:26), and Hippolytus (c. Noët., 6 fin.).