The Gospels across their earliest witnesses, and the tradition they carried forward
Hover any Greek or Syriac word for phonetic transliteration.
Six manuscript witness columns span the table; their descent flows into the timeline below.
| Greek Papyri | Alexandrian | Western | Latin | Syriac | Byzantine | ||||||||||||
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Earliest Papyri c. 125–250 CE · Greek TAGNT | Vaticanus c. 325 CE · Greek TAGNT | Bezae c. 400 CE · Greek Latin | Vulgate c. 400 CE · Latin Whitaker | Peshitta c. 400–450 CE · Syriac PayneSmith | Byzantine c. 5th–9th c. · Greek TAGNT | ||||||||||||
εγενετοP45 · P66 · P75 | Took place | Ἐγένετο | Took place | — | | | facta | Facta | Took place | ܗܘܐ | Took place | Ἐγένετο | Took place | |||||
τοτεP45 · P66 · P75 | at the time | τότε | at the time | — | | | sunt | sunt | at the time | ܕܝܢ | at the time | δὲ | at the time | |||||
ταP45 · P66 · P75 | the | τὰ | the | τα | | | erat | — | — | — | — | τὰ | the | |||||
ενκαινιαP45 · P66 · P75 | Feast of Dedication | ἐγκαίνια | Feast of Dedication | — | | | autem | autem | Feast of Dedication | ܥܐܕܐ | Feast of Dedication | Ἐγκαίνια | Feast of Dedication | |||||
ενP45 · P66 · P75 | at | ἐν | at | εν | | | encenia | Encænia | at | — | — | ἐν | at | |||||
ιεροσολυμοισP45 · P66 · P75 | <the> | τοῖς | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | Ἱεροσολύμοις | <the> | |||||
χειμωνP45 · P66 · P75 | Jerusalem; | Ἱεροσολύμοις· | Jerusalem; | ϊεροσολυμοις | | | in | in | Jerusalem; | ܕܚܘܕܬܐ | Jerusalem; | καὶ | Jerusalem; | |||||
δεP45 · P66 · P75 | And | καὶ | And | — | | | hierosolymis | Jerosolymis | And | ܒܐܘܪܫܠܡ | And | χειμὼν | And | |||||
ηνP45 · P66 · P75 | winter | χειμὼν | winter | χειμων | | | — | et | winter | ܘܤܬܘܐ | winter | ἦν | winter | |||||
ἦν,P45 · P66 · P75 | it was, | ἦν, | it was, | ην | | | hiems | hiems | it was, | ܗܘܐ | it was, | ἦν, | it was, | |||||
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