Acts 21

Acts 21:1

:TEXT: “and from there to Patara. ·And”

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KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “and from there to Patara and Myra.” ·And

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RSVn NEBnCOMMENTS: Although it is possible that “and Myra” was omitted by a mistake of the eye (when copyists’ eyes jumped from the “ra” at the end of “Patara” plus the word for “and” to the “ra” at the end of “Myra” plus the word for “and”), it is more likely that “Myra” was added from the reference in Acts 27:5 or from the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla which says that Paul had a residence in Myra.

Acts 21:22

:TEXT: “·What then is [to be done]? They will certainly hear”

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ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “·What then is [to be done]? A multitude certainly has to come together; for they will hear”

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: Although it is possible that the extra words were deliberately omitted to remove what might appear to be a mob of Christians, it is more likely that the words are an expansion introduced by copyists.

Acts 21:25

:TEXT: “keep themselves [from meat] sacrificed to idols and [from] blood and [from] what is strangled and [from] fornication.”

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KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “keep themselves [from meat] sacrificed to idols and [from] blood and [from] fornication.”

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RSVn NEBnCOMMENTS: Although it is possible that the words “and what is strangled” were accidently omitted by a mistake of the eye, the fact that they are also omitted in Acts 15:20; Acts 15:29 by the same manuscripts indicate that they were deliberately omitted in an attempt to make all the laws moral ones (taking “blood” as “blood-shedding,” that is, “murder”).