128 Josep Rius-Camps and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger as ἱκανούϛ, a stronger word than πολλούϛ. It then relates the return journey with a global aorist, maintaining attention on Lystra by marking it out with the article, compared with Iconium and Antioch which are anarthrous. Throughout the successive clauses of 14.20-21 in the B03 text, the return to Lystra is the eventual goal – the absence of the name of the city in 14.20 means that the episode is only properly closed once it is mentioned in v. 21. D05 continues in its readings here to mark the start of a new narrative sequence. The adjective πολλούϛ is appropriate to describe the people of the city who have been mentioned in the previous clause (see above). The return journey is then signalled with an imperfect verb, where the action, being concurrent with that of the present participle εὐαγγελιζόμενοι (see above), is viewed as ‘beginning’. In the presentation of the three towns they returned to, there is no particular focus on Lystra, the episode there having been brought to a close with the reference to the town by name at 14.20a. 14.22 παρακαλοῦντέϛ τε D )2 | καὶ παρ. A C 88. 104. 383. 467. 522. 614. 876. 913. 915. 945. 1175. 1518. 1611. 1739. 1765. 1799. 1838. 1891. 2138. 2147. 2298. 2412 al h p2 vgD; Chr Theoph Oecum || παρ. B P74 )* rell d. By linking the two participles with τε, D05 presents the action of encouragement as an action that is additional to that of strengthening. εἰσελθεῖν (εἰϛ τὴν βασιλείαν) B P74 ) DB rell, introire d || ἐλθεῖν D*. The compound verb in B03 focuses on the action of entering the king- dom of God, where the simple verb of D05 focuses rather on the going there. The wording of D05 echoes that of the thief on the cross who asks Jesus to remember him at the time when he goes to his kingdom, ὅταν ἔλθῃϛ εἰϛ τὴν βασιλείαν σου (Lk. 23.42 – ὅταν + aor. subj. indicates some future time, whenever that might be). 14.23 προσευξάμενοι δέ D, autem d | καὶ πρ. Ψ 88. 323. 614. 1611. 2147. 2412 || πρ. B P74 ) rell. The particle δέ following προσευξάμενοι in D05 has the function of clarifying that the prayer was accompanied with fasting (cf. B-D-R, §447,.1c), similar to the function of καί but with a stronger force. (εἰϛ ὃν) πεπιστεύκεισαν B P74 ) C* rell || -κασιν D (crediderunt d) C2 536. 1838 (καὶ -κασιν: 614. 913. 1108. 1518. 1611. 1799. 2138. 2147. 2412). B03 uses the pluperfect (without the past augment, cf. 4.22 B03 D05; Bruce, Text, p. 286) to refer to a change of state that had been experien-