Acts 28:29
And when he had said these things, the Jews went out from him, having much reasoning among themselves.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et cum hæc dixisset, exierunt ab eo Judæi, multam habentes inter se quæstionem.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- The critical Greek text (SBLGNT) leaves out this verse, the Jews leaving and arguing among themselves. It is found in later manuscripts and the Vulgate.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily LV on Acts xxviii. 17-20
He wished to exculpate both himself and others; himself, that they might not accuse him, and by so doing hurt themselves; and those (others), that it might not seem that the whole thing was of their doing. For it was likely that a report was prevalent, that he had been delivered up by the Jews; and this was enough to alarm them. He therefore addresses himself to this, and defends himself as to his own conduct. “How then is it reasonable,” it might be said, “that they should deliver thee up without a cause?” The Roman governors, he says, bear me witness, who wished to let me go. “How was it then that they did not let (thee) go?” “When the Jews spake against it,” he says. Observe how he extenuates (in speaking of) their charges against him. Since if he had wished to aggravate matters, he might have used them so as to bear harder upon them. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).