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Split a/b
GC: The comprehensive a attestation is opposed by only a few, though early, witnesses, including the Sahidic version.
TP: The omission is either for stylistic or formal reasons because Peter himself raises the lame immediately after his command (v. 7 ἤγειρεν αὐτόν), or it is an adaptation to a usage known from similar healing stories (Mt 9:5, Mk 2:9, Lk 5:23, Jn 5:8).[1]
[1] Cf. Metzger (267) for the bracketed NA/GNT reading. Pervo (100) prefers the longer reading because the immediate context seems to have motivated an omission. Barrett (183) is certain that the shorter reading is original and was filled out according to the conventional expression.
