Acts 8:24

Acts 8:24 evpV evme. w-n eivrh,kate {A}

The Bezan text differs from that of other witnesses in several striking particulars: “And Simon answered and said to them, ‘I beseech you, pray for me to God, that none of these evils of which you have spoken to me may come upon me’ — who did not stop weeping copiously.” The last clause is attached so awkwardly to the close of the sentence that Blass conjectured kai, for the o[j of D, which reads…o[pwj mhde.n evpe,lqh| moi tou,twn tw/n kakw/n w-n eivrh,kate, moi( o]j polla. klai,wn ouv dieli,mpanen. The addition gives the suggestion that Simon’s tears are of remorse and perhaps of repentance; in the Clementine tradition Simon’s tears are tears of rage and disappointment (Clem. Hom. XX:21; Recog. X:63).

Curiously the verb dialimpa,nein appears again in codex Bezae at Acts 17:13 and nowhere else in the New Testament.