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Acts 23
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acts.23.ac23TransferExpansion
Western transfer explanation
TEXThigh confidence
Does the order explain the nighttime transfer and anticipated accusation?
The Western text adds a long explanation: Felix is to judge Paul, the night transfer avoids a Judean ambush, and Lysias does not want to appear to have taken a bribe.
Why this default
The concise transfer order is preserved by the principal early witnesses; the Western text adds motives and anticipated accusations drawn from the surrounding narrative.
Evidence
ExternalThe shorter order is supported by P74, א, A, B, C, E and the broad tradition. The long explanation appears in D and allied Western witnesses.
InternalThe added material explains the night departure, possible ambush, and bribery concern; its narrative usefulness strongly favors expansion.
Project defaultOmit
Shorter reading
WitnessesConcise transfer order · P74, א, A, B, C, E, broad traditionAlternative, so that he may be judged by him. For Lysias feared that the Judeans might seize and kill him, and that he himself might afterward be accused of taking money
Western expansion
WitnessesNight-transfer and bribery explanation · D, Western witnessesAlternative, to be judged there; the nighttime transfer was to prevent an ambush and any charge that Lysias had been bribed
Condensed expansion
WitnessesCondensed Western explanationRecord integrity
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