The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles (XVI) 81 [β] 11 And then at that very moment 11 And then at that very moment three men stood by the house in three men stood by the house in which I was, having been sent to which I was, having been sent to me from Caesarea. 12 The Spirit me from Caesarea. 12 The Spirit told me to go with them. These six told me to go with them without brethren came with me, too, and discriminating. So these six brethren we went into the house of the man. came with me, too, and we went into 13 He reported to us how he saw the house of the man. 13 He reported an angel standing in his house and to us how he saw the angel standing saying to him, “Send to Joppa and in his house and saying, “Send to summon Simon, the one named Joppa and summon Simon, the one Peter, 14 who will speak words to named Peter, who will speak words you by which you may be saved, to you 14 by which you may be you and all your household”. 15 As saved, you and all your household”. I was starting to speak to them, the 15 As I was starting to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he Holy Spirit fell upon them just as he did on us in the beginning. 16 And did on us in the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, I remembered the. word of the Lord, how he used to say, “John baptized how he used to say, “John baptized with water but you will be baptized with water but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit”. in the Holy Spirit”. [γ] 17 If then, he gave the same gift to 17 If then, God gave the same gift to them as to us when we believed in them as to us after believing in the the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be be able to hinder God from giving able to hinder God?’ them the Holy Spirit when they believed in him?’ [a’] 18 When they heard this they were 18 When they heard this they were silent and they started glorifying silent and they glorified God saying, God saying, ‘Then to the Gentiles ‘Then to the Gentiles also God has also God has given repentance given the repentance leading to life’. leading to life’. Critical Apparatus 2 ὅτε δὲ ἀνέβη Πέτροϛ εἰϛ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ B P45.74 ) A 81 pc | ὅτε δὲ ἀν. Π. εἰϛ ῾Ιεροσόλυμα E H L P Ψ 049. 056. 33. 1739 M lat ‖ ῾Ο μὲν οὖν Πέτροϛ διὰ ἱκανοῦ χρόνου ἠθήλησε (-εν DE) πορευθῆναι εἰϛ ᾿Ιεροσόλυμα· καὶ προσφωνήσαϛ τοὺϛ ἀδελφοὺϛ καὶ ἐπιστηρίξαϛ αὐτούϛ, πολὺν λόγον ποιούμενοϛ διὰ τῶν χωρῶν διδάσκων αὐτούϛ· ὃϛ καὶ κατήντησεν αὐτοῦ (Dcj., αὐτοῖϛ D*, eis d) καὶ ἀπήγγειλεν αὐτοῖϛ τὴν χάριν τοῦ θεοῦ D d (p w vgmss syh** mae). The conjecture of κατήντησεν αὐτοῦ as the original reading of D05 in place of the present reading αὐτοῖϛ51, is made on the grounds that 1) On the reading of D05, see M.-E. Boismard, ‘The Texts of Acts: A Problem of Literary 51 Criticism?’, in E.J. Epp and G.D. Fee (eds.), New Testament Textual Criticism (Oxford 1981) 147–57 [149]; Boismard and Lamouille, II, 77.