Acts 8:1

Acts 8:1

Once again Western witnesses expand the text with additions that underline the obvious. If “a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem,” one would expect, without being told, that it would also involve “affliction” (after diwgmo.j me,gaj D adds kai. qli/yij, it^h and cop^sa introduce qli/yij kai, before diwgmo.j me,gaj); and if “they all were scattered abroad throughout the region of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles,” we do not need the information that the latter “remained in Jerusalem” (oi] e;meinan evn VIerousalh,m, D* (1175) it^{gig, h} cop^{sa, G67} Augustine). Compare ver. Acts 8:6.