159 The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles the sentence is thus clearly signalled as being the disciples’ amazement, because it is expressed by the only finite verb and is preceded by an adverbial κα in a manner that is typical of D05 at points of particular drama in a story33. 17 (τ χειρ ) σιγ ν B Ds.m. P45.74 ) rell ‖ να σιγ σιν D*, ut silerent d p vgms syp.h** mae. D05* spells out with a subjunctive clause what is implied in the infini- tive of B03. ε σ λθεν κα D, introiens et d p syp.h** mae ‖ om. B P45vid.74 ) rell. D05 further makes explicit that Peter came into the house to talk with the disciples who had gathered there. (διηγ σατο) α το B D d E H L P Ψ 049. 056. 614. M gig (r) sy mae ‖ om. P45vid.74vid ) A 33. 81. 945. 1739. 1837. 1891. 2344 pc p vg. Both B03 and D05 use the dative pronoun to make explicit Peter’s addressees, but it is not unusual for it to be omitted by the AT34. (ε πεν) δ D d H L P Ψ 049. 056. 1. 33*. 614. 1739 M; Chr ‖ τε B P45.74 ) A E 33c. 81. 1175. 1837. While B03 views Peter’s request for his account to be passed on to other brethren (not present at Mary’s house) as closely linked to his telling of the story, D05 presents it in a separate sentence, thereby conferring on it a certain importance. [A’] 12:18-23 The Death of Herod As the action moves on to the next day when Peter’s escape is discov- ered, the setting shifts to Caesarea where people from Tyre and Sidon will come to meet the king. These steps form the first part of the sequence. The crowd’s acclamation of him as a god sets in motion Herod’s downfall which comes as he is struck by an angel of the Lord and dies a gruesome death. 33 Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, 206–10; J. Rius-Camps, ‘Le substrat grec de la version latine des Actes dans le Codex de Bèze’, in D.C. Parker and C.-B. Amphoux [eds], Codex Bezae: Studies from the Lunel Colloquium June 1994 (Leiden 1996) 271–95 (283). 34 Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan Text, 181–82.