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Acts 8
John707 recordsMark525 recordsMatthew987 recordsLuke929 recordsActs1146 records1 Thessalonians67 recordsGalatians138 records1 Corinthians357 records2 Corinthians250 recordsRomans340 recordsPhilippians84 recordsPhilemon22 recordsColossians74 recordsEphesians121 records2 Thessalonians36 records1 Timothy86 records1 Peter90 records2 Peter61 records1 John107 records2 John10 records3 John13 recordsJude23 recordsRevelation324 records
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acts.8.ac8Verse37
Acts 8:37 textual status
TEXThigh confidence
Does verse 37 belong to the earliest recoverable text?
The baptismal confession is absent from the earliest and strongest Greek witnesses and appears in several later forms, suggesting expansion from early baptismal practice.
Why this default
The omission is default because the earliest and strongest Greek witnesses move directly from the request for baptism to stopping the chariot; the alternatives openly preserve later forms of the inserted confession.
Evidence
ExternalThe verse is absent from P45, P74, א, A, B, C, 33, 81, and many other early witnesses. It appears in E, Ψ, 1739 and much of the later tradition, with significant wording variation.
InternalThe confession fits later baptismal liturgy and interrupts the direct movement from the eunuch’s question to the command to stop the chariot; its multiple forms are characteristic of expansion.
Project default[Verse 37 absent from the earliest recoverable text]
Project default
WitnessesOmission · P45, P74, א, A, B, C, 33, 81AlternativeAnd Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, it is permitted.” And he answered, “I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
Alternative
WitnessesConfession in varying forms · E, Ψ, 1739, later Byzantine witnessesAlternativeAnd he answered, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
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