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Acts 20

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acts.20.ac20BreakBread

συνηγμένων ἡμῶν κλάσαι ἄρτον

TEXTTRANSLATIONhigh confidence

Why had the group assembled?

The first-person plural resumes the narrator’s participation in the Troas gathering.

Why this default

The earliest text includes the narrator and companions as ‘we’; later witnesses replace this with ‘the disciples.’

Evidence

Externalἡμῶν: critical witnesses and modern editions. τῶν μαθητῶν: Byzantine and Textus Receptus streams.

InternalReplacing ‘we’ with ‘the disciples’ makes the ecclesial gathering explicit.

Project defaultwhen we were gathered to break bread

Form-sensitive rendering

WitnessesWhen we were gathered · critical witnesses
Alternativewhen the disciples were gathered to break bread

Disciples textual reading

WitnessesWhen the disciples were gathered · Byzantine, Textus Receptus
Alternativewhen we gathered to share the Lord’s meal

Interpretive rendering

WitnessesWe reading · interpretive meal rendering

Reference roleStandardized inspectable reference; manuscript forks are independently reopened.

Revision historyNo decision-level revision has been recorded since the provenance ledger was introduced.

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