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 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | ||||||||||||
καιP45 · P66 · P75 | And | καὶ | And | και | | | et | Omnia | And | ܘܤܓܝܐܐ | And | Καὶ | And | |||||
πολλοιP45 · P66 · P75 | many | πολλοὶ | many | πολλοι | | | multi | autem | many | — | — | ἐπίστευσαν | many | |||||
επιστευσανP45 · P66 · P75 | believed | ἐπίστευσαν | believed | επιστευσαν | | | crediderunt | quæcumque | believed | — | — | πολλοὶ | believed | |||||
εισP45 · P66 · P75 | in | εἰς | in | εις | | | in | dixit | in | ܗܝܡܢܘ | in | ἐκεῖ | in | |||||
αυτονP45 · P66 · P75 | Him | αὐτὸν | Him | αυτον | | | eum | Joannes | Him | — | — | εἰς | Him | |||||
ἐκεῖ.¶P45 · P66 · P75 | there. | ἐκεῖ.¶ | there. | εκει | | | ibi | de | there. | ܒܗ | there. | αὐτόν | there. | |||||
| Next Fragment: John 11:1 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||