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GC: Coherence and diversity are good in the main strand of the attestation of b (starting with 03, if IR=?), but according to GC, b seems to have emerged several times from a, while the attestation of a is perfectly coherent.
TP: The tendency towards b (plural subject) speaks for the priority of the majority reading a, more so because the majority has the plural at Lk 24:4.