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 | ||||||||||||
εσμενP45 · P66 · P75 | I myself | ἐγὼ | I myself | εγω | | | ego | Ego | I myself | ܐܢܐ | I myself | Ἐγὼ | I myself | |||||
καὶP45 · P66 · P75 | and | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | ܘܐܒܝ | and | καὶ | and | |||||
ὁP45 · P66 · P75 | the | ὁ | the | ο | | | — | — | — | — | — | ὁ | the | |||||
πατὴρP45 · P66 · P75 | Father | πατὴρ | Father | πατηρ | | | pater | Pater | Father | — | — | πατὴρ | Father | |||||
ἕνP45 · P66 · P75 | one | ἕν | one | εν | | | unum | unum | one | ܚܕ | one | ἕν | one | |||||
ἐσμεν.¶P45 · P66 · P75 | are. | ἐσμεν.¶ | are. | εσμεν | | | sumus | sumus | are. | ܚܢܢ | are. | ἐσμεν | are. | |||||
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