 Some manuscripts insert the mob was composed of "Greeks"; others read "Jews".Some historians identify this Sosthenes with a companion of Paul the Apostle referred to as "Sosthenes our brother" (, "Sōsthénēs ho adelphos", literally "Sosthenes "the" brother"), a convert to the Christian faith and co-author of the First Epistle to the Corinthians ().It is not clear whether this identification is tenable.