:TEXT: "all were baptized into Moses" : p46* ("were being baptized") S A C D G Psi 33 81 104 630 2495 lat vg syr(pal) vg : KJV* ASV RSV NASV NIV TEV RANK: CNOTES: "all had [themselves] baptized into Moses" : p46c B K P 614 1241 1739 1881 Byz Lect syr(p,h) : NASVn NEB (both read "received baptism"): The text reading is in the passive voice, which corresponds to the Christian practice. The reading in the notes is in the middle voice, which corresponds to the Jewish practice of baptizing oneself (although in Acts 22:16 the middle voice is used of Christian baptism). The middle voice here obviously refers to the fact that the Israelites themselves walked down into the sea bed. The question is whether Paul or copyists made this fine distinction. Although it is quite possible that many copyists changed the middle to the passive voice to reflect Christian baptism, a majority of the UBS Textual Committee preferred the passive voice because elsewhere Paul uses it of Christian baptism and it is found in early manuscripts of both Alexandrian and Western types of ancient text.