Complete textual-variant dossier
Sections distinguish readings, edition history, evidence, theological consequences, and the Research Center's evaluation. CBGM is an analytical tool; editorial committees—not the software—make textual decisions.
1Passage and issue
Passage
Acts 2:1–4
Issue
Scrivener’s ἅπαντες ὁμοθυμαδόν stresses the whole company and its one accord; SBLGNT and NA28 read πάντες ὁμοῦ, ‘all together.’ Related word-order changes occur in verses 3–4, yet every principal form records the sound, divided tongues, filling by the Holy Ghost, and other tongues.
Variant class
Substitution or composite variation
2Textus Receptus
Greek reading
they were all with one accord in one place
Authorized Version
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. … And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” — Acts 2:1–4
Edition note
The Research Center uses the received Greek text underlying the Authorized Version as its baseline; edition-specific differences are recorded when the variation unit requires them.
3NA28 baseline and critical-text rationale
NA28 baseline reading
they were all together
Translation or explanation
they were all together
Metzger / UBS committee
Metzger reports the UBS4 committee's treatment of 12 variation units within this record's range. The notes ground the relevant decisions in the weight and distribution of external attestation, a proposed mechanism of accidental omission, the likelihood that the competing form is a scribal correction or emendation, the likelihood of scribal or liturgical expansion; the printed confidence ratings represented here are {B}, {C}, {D}. This is a controlled synopsis rather than a quotation.
Locator: Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2nd ed., notes on Acts 2:1–2, 2:2, 2:1, 2:1, 2:1, 2:4, 2:2, 2:3, 2:4, 2:2, 2:4, 2:2
ECM / CBGM evidence and editors
The controlled ledger records an ECM-derived change now present in the published UBS6 text and intended NA29 main text. A passage-specific reason must come from an identified editorial commentary or the local ECM evidence; none is inferred here. In the CBGM workflow, editors define the variation units and local stemmata, while the tools calculate pre-genealogical, genealogical, and stemmatic coherence. Editors then make the textual and philological judgment.
4UBS6 and intended NA29 revision
1 ECM-derived main-text change is recorded for this passage in the controlled 169-change ledger. The published UBS6 Greek text is the intended NA29 main text.
| Unit | NA28 baseline | Published UBS6 / intended NA29 main text | Source and verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| NA29-003 | καὶ ἐκάθισεν | ἐκάθισέν τε | A1 A1 §3 — Workbook-transcribed; printed NA29 collation pending |
UBS6 is published, and the German Bible Society identifies its Greek main text as identical to the intended NA29 main text. The complete NA29 volume and its apparatus remain forthcoming. Project-ledger rows retain their source and verification statements until they are checked against the published UBS6 text and, when available, the NA29 apparatus.
5Doctrinal and four-point analysis
Effect class
Exegetical or interpretive consequence
Exact proposition affected
No single doctrinal proposition is directly changed; the principal consequence is exegetical, historical, or cumulative.
Doctrinal analysis
Exegetical or interpretive consequence. The record does not establish that the variant by itself removes an entire Christian doctrine; explicit wording, exegesis, and cumulative testimony must be distinguished.
Bahnsen four-point examination
Arbitrariness
At Acts 2:1–4, the critical choice avoids arbitrariness only to the extent that it states public manuscript, transcriptional, and intrinsic grounds. Passage: Acts 2:1–4 Received reading: they were all with one accord in one place Principal competing reading: they were all together Issue class: Textual Variant Editorial status: Preliminary record accepted for staging; independent review remains pending.
Inconsistency
The criteria used at Acts 2:1–4 must be applied to comparable readings as well. A principle such as age, difficulty, brevity, or coherence cannot be decisive here and quietly reversed elsewhere merely to escape a historical, grammatical, or theological difficulty.
Consequences
Exegetical or interpretive consequence: No single doctrinal proposition is directly changed; the principal consequence is exegetical, historical, or cumulative.
Preconditions of intelligibility
The argument presupposes stable authorship, meaningful language, objective logical norms, transmissible evidence, and a coherent account of how Scripture can be received and identified by the church. The analysis tests whether the method can make those conditions intelligible without reducing the text to an indefinitely revisable editorial construct.
This framework examines an argument and its conditions; it does not claim to read an editor's private motives.
6Argument for the received reading
External and historical evidence
Sources and further reading The Holy Bible, Authorized Version, Acts 2:1–4. Scrivener, The New Testament in the Original Greek according to the Text Followed in the Authorised Version (1894), Acts 2:1–4.
Internal and transcriptional evidence
A source-level internal and transcriptional synopsis remains open; consult the full essay.
Reception and ecclesiastical use
Scrivener’s received text underlies the reading “they were all with one accord in one place.”
Providential-preservation analysis
Providential preservation is not used as a substitute for evidence at Acts 2:1–4. It supplies the confessional context in which manuscript transmission, broad reception, and the church's actual possession of Scripture are evaluated together.
Response to the principal critical argument
Passage: Acts 2:1–4 Received reading: they were all with one accord in one place Principal competing reading: they were all together Issue class: Textual Variant Editorial status: Preliminary record accepted for staging; independent review remains pending.
Conclusion
Luke does not leave Acts 2:1–4 isolated from its setting. Just outside the selected unit, Acts 2:5 says, “And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.”
Retain the received opening as a genuine fuller reading, while keeping the miracle’s uncontested substance distinct from the wording of the assembly.
Read the full research essay and its sources
Passage: Acts 2:1–4
Received reading: they were all with one accord in one place
Principal competing reading: they were all together
Issue class: Textual Variant
Editorial status: Preliminary record accepted for staging; independent review remains pending.
Scrivener’s ἅπαντες ὁμοθυμαδόν stresses the whole company and its one
accord; SBLGNT and NA28 read πάντες ὁμοῦ, ‘all together.’ Related
word-order changes occur in verses 3–4, yet every principal form records
the sound, divided tongues, filling by the Holy Ghost, and other
tongues.
Scrivener’s received text underlies the reading “they were all with
one accord in one place.” The principal competing form is “they were all
together.”
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one
accord in one place. … And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and
began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” —
Acts 2:1–4
The variation at Acts 2:1–4 changes emphasis or explicitness within
an otherwise recognizable account; shared words should be acknowledged
before the distinct reading is defended, and the difference should not
be enlarged beyond the clause that carries it.
Luke does not leave Acts 2:1–4 isolated from its setting. Just
outside the selected unit, Acts 2:5 says, “And there were dwelling at
Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.”
Retain the received opening as a genuine fuller reading, while
keeping the miracle’s uncontested substance distinct from the wording of
the assembly.
Sources and further reading
- The Holy Bible, Authorized Version, Acts 2:1–4.
- F. H. A. Scrivener, The New Testament in the Original Greek
according to the Text Followed in the Authorised Version (1894),
Acts 2:1–4. - Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Greek New Testament: SBL
Edition, Acts 2:1–4 and apparatus.
7Related materials
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- Record
- VAR-2206
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-dossier
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 1st century · Date Range
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Passage, received reading, principal SBLGNT reading, and reported NA28 alignment checked against Scrivener’s received Greek text and the official SBLGNT text and comparison apparatus; exhaustive manuscript collation remains open. Metzger commentary entries were matched by exact passage where present; ECM/CBGM rationale is passage-specific only when an official editorial explanation is cited. Ledger rows are identified as UBS6 / intended NA29 data but retain their row-level verification caveats pending direct collation.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis. Authorized Version Scripture is public domain in the United States; cited editions and digital witnesses retain their stated rights and access conditions.
- Known limitations
- This staging record summarizes the defined variation unit and representative edition evidence. It is not a fresh collation of every extant manuscript, version, lectionary, patristic citation, or ECM coherence relation.
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Chris Thomas, “Acts 2:1–4 — “All with One Accord in One Place”: The Full Opening of Pentecost,” VAR-2206, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging, last revised 2026-07-22.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas