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Published 28 July 2026 · Updated 16 September 2026
The verse, as the witnesses that keep it read: “But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,”
All below share the same shape: preserved in the Aramaic Peshitta and the Byzantine / TR / KJV; absent in the critical Greek (SBLGNT); status witness-attested, disputed; Aramaic verse-text pending. This method re-discovered the entire known omissions list from scratch — Acts 8:37, the Markan refrains, and the rest.
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