The copies

Witness

Matthew jumps a verse. The prayer stops. Two strokes decide God or He.

Walk the copies. KJV often keeps the longer reading. BSB follows the older books. When a post says theft, we show you the page. A missing verse is often still in Mark. This is not a decoder ring for villains.

The gaps

A line sits in the KJV and not in the oldest copy. It is often still in Mark or Luke.

01Fasting02Lost03Widows04Ears05Worm06Forgive07Numbered08Fire09Field10Barabbas11Angel12I believe13Goads14Silas15Grace

The joins

An Amen was added. A hard stop was kept. Sweat like blood is argued. A woman the church would not lose.

01Amen02Ending03Sweat04Woman

The words

The copies disagree on God or He, on blood, on three that testify, and on God or Son.

01Comma02Blood03God or He04Son of God05God or Son

The gaps · 14 of 15 · Silas was already there

Silas stayed

A scribe feared Silas had left. He wrote a verse to keep him. Acts 15:40 already does that.

King James (1611)
Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
Berean Standard Bible
Not in the BSB, WEB, or ASV main text.

The seam

  1. 01Sent off in peace

    Acts 15:33

    Judas and Silas are released to go back. A later hand worried that left Silas on the road, and wrote a verse to sit him down.

  2. 02It pleased Silas to stay

    Acts 15:34

    The courtesy verse. KJV has it. The oldest copies do not. 15:40 already picks him.

  3. 03Paul chose Silas

    Acts 15:40

    Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. Silas was there. The story knew it.

In these copies

  • some later copies
  • KJV

Not in these copies

  • Sinaiticus
  • Vaticanus
  • A, B
  • BSB, WEB, ASV, NIV

Read it this way

Acts 15:33 says Judas and Silas were sent off in peace from the brothers in Antioch. A few verses later Paul chooses Silas and goes. A scribe who noticed 15:33 — they were sent off — feared Silas had gone back to Jerusalem, and added 15:34 to keep him in Antioch: it pleased Silas to abide there still.

Acts 15:40 already has Paul choose Silas. The nervous margin became a verse. WEB, BSB, and ASV leave it out. KJV keeps the courtesy that makes sure Silas is in town for the next sentence.

Silas is not missing from Acts. He sings in the prison. He is named in the letters. This one extra line is a copyist solving a problem the next paragraph had already solved.

Some sayA verse about Silas was deleted.

Silas is not missing from Acts. A nervous margin became a verse.

  • KJV

    on the page

  • WEB

    not printed

  • BSB

    not printed

  • ASV

    not printed

Open Acts 15

The line the text already walks — that is Foretold. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Witness is when the copies do not match.