The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles 121 [d'] 5b and setting on the house of Ja- 5b and setting on the house of Ja- son, they tried to look for them, to son, they tried to look for them, to bring them out to the people’s as- bring them to the people’s assem- sembly. bly. [c'] 6 Since they did not find them, how- 6 Since they did not find them, ever, they dragged Jason and some however, they dragged Jason and brethren to the politarchs, shout- some brethren to the politarchs, ing and saying, ‘These are the men shouting, ‘These men, who have who have turned the world upside turned the world upside down, down, and they have come here, 7 have come here, too, 7 and Jason and Jason has taken them in’, and has taken them in, and all these ‘All these men act contrary to the men act contrary to the decrees of decrees of Caesar, saying that there Caesar, saying that there is another is another king, Jesus’. king, Jesus’. [b'] 8 And it disturbed the politarchs 8 They disturbed the crowd and the and the crowd. politarchs as they listened to these things, [a'] 9 When they heard these things and 9 and when they had taken security had taken security from Jason and from Jason and the others, they let the others, they let them go. them go. Critical Apparatus 17:1 (Διοδεύσαντεϛ δὲ) τὴν Ἀμφίπολιν (πόλιν a*) καὶ τὴν Ἀπολλωνίαν B P74 (a) A 81. 88. 945. 1175. 1739 | τὴν 'Aμφ. κ. Ἀπολ. H L P Ψ 049. 056. 33. 945. 1739 M | τὴν Ἀπολ. καὶ τὴν 'Aμφ. E || τὴν Ἀμφ. D.— ἦλθον εἰϛ τὴν Θεσσαλονίκην B 547 | ἦλθον εἰϛ Θ. a A E H L P Ψ 049. 056. 33. 945. 1739 M || καὶ (– Ds.m.) κατῆλθον (+ καὶ DC) εἰϛ Ἀπολλωνίδα (-νία Dp.m.?) κἀκεῖθεν εἰϛ Θεσ. D*. In D05, Scrivener identifies a dot over the δ of Ἀπολλωνίδα (indicat- ing that δ is erroneous), which the first hand may have perhaps placed unintentionally: ‘puncto p. m. supra δ in απολλωνιδα forsan casu posito’ (p. 445). It is unlikely that Ἀπολλωνία is the correct reading, since the accusative Ἀπολλωνίαν would be required as in B03. Ἀπολλωνίδα in D05 is the accusative of Ἀπολλωνίϛ. B03 has two stages to the journey, the first being the travel through Amphipolis and Apollonia, which are distinguished by separate articles but linked as the destination of the participle διοδεύσαντεϛ, and the second the journey to Thessalonica. D05 views the journey as having three stages: the first was the passing through Amphipolis, the second the going down (using κατέρχομαι) to their primary goal of Apollonia (underlined with both the omission of the article, and with the adverbial καί before the finite verb, on which see Read-Heimerdinger, The Bezan