Acts 16:31

They replied, ¹  “Believe ²  in the Lord Jesus ³  and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Ge 17:7; Ge 18:19; Isa 45:22; Jer 32:39; Hab 2:4; Mr 16:16; Joh 1:12; Joh 3:15,16,36; Joh 6:40,47; Joh 7:37,38; Joh 11:25,26; Joh 20:31; Ac 2:38,39; Ac 2:39; Ac 4:12; Ac 8:37; Ac 11:13,14; Ac 13:38,39; Ac 15:11; Ac 16:15,32; Ac 18:8; Ro 5:1,2; Ro 10:9,10; Ro 11:16; Ga 3:14; Ga 3:22,26; Eph 2:7,8; 1Jo 5:10-13

¹ tn Grk “said.”

² sn Here the summary term of response is a call to believe. In this context it refers to trusting the sovereign God’s power to deliver, which events had just pictured for the jailer.

³ tc The majority of mss add Χριστόν (Criston, “Christ”) here (C D E Ψ 1739 Ï sy sa), but the best and earliest witnesses read simply τὸν κύριον ᾿Ιησοῦν (ton kurion Ihsoun, “the Lord Jesus”; Ì^74vid א A B 33 81 pc bo). The addition of “Christ” to “Lord Jesus” is an obviously motivated reading. Thus on both external and internal grounds, the shorter reading is strongly preferred.