This whole verse with some words at the end of verse 6 and
the beginning of verse 8 in the Textus Receptus ("And would
have judged according to our law. But the chief captain Lysias
came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our
hands, commanding his accusers to come unto thee") is absent from
Aleph A B H L P 61 (many other cursives) Sahidic Bohairic. It is
beyond doubt a later addition to the incomplete report of the
speech of Tertullus. As the Revised Version stands, verse 8
connects with verse 6 . The motive of the added words is clearly
to prejudice Felix against Lysias and they contradict the record
in Ac 21 . Furneaux holds them to be genuine and omitted because
contradictory to Ac 21 . More likely they are a clumsy attempt
to complete the speech of Tertullus.
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