Acts 15:34: Why Modern Bibles Leave It Out, and the Evidence

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Acts 15:34

“Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still” is in Codex Ephraemi and Codex Bezae of the fifth century, Codex Bezae adding that Judas went alone. The Sahidic and the Harklean Syriac have it, and the Vulgate, which adds that Judas went to Jerusalem; so do the Armenian and the Slavonic, with Codex Bezae’s added words.

The King James Bible

34 Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still. Read Acts 15

ἔδοξεν δὲ τῷ Σίλᾳ ἐπιμεῖναι αὐτοῦ. edoxen de tō Sila epimeinai autou

Greek Manuscripts

Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus C 04 5th century

Ending αὐτούς for αὐτοῦ.

Checked against: CNTR transcription
Codex Bezae D 05 5th century

Adding “but Judas went alone.”

Checked against: CNTR transcription

Early Translations

Sahidic Coptic cop sa translation 3rd century
Latin Vulgate vg Jerome, c. 400

Adding that Judas went to Jerusalem: “Visum est autem Silae ibi remanere: Judas autem solus abiit Jerusalem.”

Checked against: Clementine Vulgate (1592)
Armenian arm translation 5th century

With Codex Bezae’s added words; not the Venice edition.
Harklean Syriac syr h AD 616

With an asterisk.
Old Church Slavonic slav translation 9th century

The printed Slavonic, with Codex Bezae’s added words.

Printed Greek Texts with This Reading

Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)

Witnesses checked against Scrivener 1894 except where noted. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.