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Manuscripts cited at this verse (ECM)Manuscripts cited in the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) apparatus at this specific verse — witnesses for textual variants here. This is usually a smaller set than the full book catalog.
145 cited at this verse in ECM · 633 total containing Acts (488 more in book catalog below)
Book catalogManuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.
633 manuscripts containing Acts
Manuscripts whose surviving text includes this book (from the Kurzgefaßte Liste catalog). The same list appears at every verse — it is not verse-specific attestation.
John Gill's Exposition6 paragraphs
And he commanded the chariot to stand still,.... That is, the eunuch ordered his chariot driver to stop; for to him it better agrees to give this order than to Philip; though otherwise the words are so placed, that it would be difficult to say who gave the command.
And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him: upon which Calvin has this note;
"hence we see what was the manner of baptizing with the ancients, for they plunged the whole body into water.''
And indeed, other mode had been practised then, as sprinkling or pouring of water, there would have been no necessity of their going out of the chariot, and much less of their going down into the water; and as for change of apparel, it cannot be reasonably thought that so great a man should take so long a journey without it. In like manner the Jewish ablutions and purifications, which were performed by immersion, and therefore called baptisms, Heb 9:10 are spoken of in the same sort of language as here: so a profluvious person, and a woman that had lain in, were obliged , "to go down and dip" (k).
"It is a tradition of the Rabbins (l), that he that sees any nocturnal pollution on the day of atonement, , "goes down and dips himself".--And so all that are obliged to dipping, dip according to their custom on the day of atonement; the profluvious person, man or woman, the leprous person, man or woman, the husband of a menstruous woman, and one defiled with the dead, dip according to their custom on the day of atonement.''
(k) T. Bab. Nidda, fol. 42. 1. & 43. 1. (l) T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 88. 1.
John Gill, Exposition of the Whole Bible · public domain·via Free Use Bible API·Open on StudyLight ↗
ECM books show manuscripts cited at each verse plus the full book catalog (manuscripts whose content includes this book). Epistles and other non-ECM books show the book catalog only.
Textual ApparatusThe apparatus lists variant readings at this verse: Greek options (a, b, c…), GA manuscripts supporting each reading, and lacunose marks (zz) where a witness exists for the verse but has no readable text at that spot.
Apparatus conventions and abbreviations
The raw data follows the ECM/NT Greek tradition: each row pairs a reading siglum (how the editors label that option) with the manuscripts that support it—not every abbreviation is unpacked in the scholarly print volume, but these recur in this viewer.
om.— omitted: witnesses on this row do not include the Greek word(s) printed for other readings at this place—an omission relative to manuscripts that attest the fuller text elsewhere in the apparatus.- a, b, c… — reading labels at this variation unit (first, second, third option). These are editorial sigla for Greek forms, not Gregory–Aland (GA) manuscript numbers.
- GA numbers (01, P46, 2681…) — manuscripts cited by Gregory–Aland identifiers.
zz— lacuna at this spot: counted for the verse but with no substantive text readable here when other witnesses have wording.- Word position — which Greek word/token in this verse each block refers to, numbered in the ECM segmentation used by the source data.
ECM witnesses at this verseGregory–Aland (GA) numbers identify Greek NT manuscripts (01 = Sinaiticus, P46, 2427, etc.). Search any GA to open its catalog entry from the ~5,795-manuscript Kurzgefaßte Liste index.145
145 manuscripts cited at this verse in the ECM apparatus
Book catalog511
633 manuscripts containing Acts
Manuscripts containing Acts that are not cited at this verse in ECM.