The Variant Readings of the Western Text of the Acts of the Apostles 145 a Jewish High Priest in Ephesus; 3) the name Sceva, by which no Jewish High Priest was known. D05 presents the new characters simply as the sons of a priest called Sceva – their number is not given, their father is not described as a High Priest, nor is he Jewish. The absence of the article corresponds to the salience of these characters, underlined by καί before their mention. They are said to have wanted to do the same thing as the itinerant exorcists, by which it can be seen that the introductory relative ἐν οἷϛ should not be taken as a masculine pronoun to mean ‘among whom’, but rather as a neuter with the meaning ‘in this situation’ (in quo, d; cf. Lk. 12:1; Acts 24:18 vl; 26:12 [on which see Zerwick and Grosvenor, Analysis, p. 444]; see also B-A-G, ὅϛ 11c: ‘connects with the situation described in what precedes under which circumstances = under these circumstances, in the situation created by what precedes’). The sons of Sceva in the D05 text, then, are by no means necessarily Jewish. The narrator adds the comment that they were accustomed to exorcising people with evil spirits (an unnecessary comment if these men belonged to the Jewish exorcists), before going on to describe how they acted on one particular occasion when they went into the house of the demon-possessed man where the Jewish exorcists (of v. 14) had gone. The presence of the first group in the scene accounts for the article in the phrase πρὸϛ τὸν δαιμονιζόμενον and the use of ἀμφοτέρων at 19:16 as a reference to both the Jewish exorcists and the sons of Sceva. The wording of the command of the sons of Sceva is similar, but not identical, to that cited with reference to the Jewish exorcists. Here, the verb παραγγέλλω is used, which requires the dependent infinitive, ἐξελθεῖν. In the original hand of D05, the place of this infinitive before the verb of the subordinate relative clause κηρύσσει, is odd, which explains the correction made by the Bezan corrector as well as other manuscripts. However, in view of the interruption of the evil spirit in D05 (see next variant below, 19:15), it is possible to take the infinitive ἐξελθεῖν as refer- ring to the preaching of Paul and so dependent, in emphatic position, on the verb κηρύσσει; in this case, the sons of Sceva were interrupted before they completed their command because they were issuing it indirectly and without authority, wasting time in a circumlocution. 19:15 ἀποκριθὲν δὲ (+ ποτέ 614. 1505. 1611. 2412. 2495 syh) ... εἶπεν B P38.74 ‫ א‬rell || τότε ἀπεκρίθη ... (+ καὶ DD) εἶπεν D*, tunc respondens ... dixit d. The narrative of B03 continues from the statement that (among) the Jewish exorcists imitating Paul were seven sons of Sceva, by moving di- rectly to the response of the evil spirit. The obvious difficulty with this text is that although a particular occasion is supposed by this verse and