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Split a/b
GC: The coherent majority attestation is a strong argument for the first person. There is, however, a wider range of early A-related witnesses for a with incoherencies perhaps due to the prevailing second person in the immediate context.[1]
TP: Since Peter regularly addresses the hearers in the second person in this speech, there is a clear motivation for the author, as well as scribes, to follow this usage here. The author did not however follow this rule in 3:13/24, and variant b here may be explained as a parallelization with that passage – or may be regarded as initial reading, as in 3:13/24.
[1] According to Metzger (274), the NA/GNT decision for a is based on the assumption that “general usage of Acts” led to replacing the second with the first person pronoun. The argument seems to go back to Ropes (32). There are, however, exceptions to this usage elsewhere (7:51f., 28:25).
