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 | ||||||||||||
καθωσP60 · P66 | Even as | καθὼς | Even as | καθως | | | sicut | Sicut | Even as | ܐܝܟܢܐ | Even as | Καθὼς | Even as | |||||
εμεP60 · P66 | Me myself | ἐμὲ | Me myself | εμε | | | hunc | tu | Me myself | ܕܠܝ | Me myself | ἐμὲ | Me myself | |||||
απεστιλασP60 · P66 | You sent | ἀπέστειλας | You sent | απεστειλας | | | me | me | You sent | ܫܕܪܬ | You sent | ἀπέστειλας | You sent | |||||
εισP60 · P66 | into | εἰς | into | εις | | | misisti | misisti | into | ܠܥܠܡܐ | into | εἰς | into | |||||
τονP60 · P66 | the | τὸν | the | τον | | | in | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | |||||
κοσμονP60 · P66 | world, | κόσμον, | world, | κοσμον | | | mundum | mundum | world, | — | — | κόσμον | world, | |||||
κἀγὼP60 · P66 | I myself also | κἀγὼ | I myself also | καγω | | | et | et | I myself also | ܐܦ | I myself also | κἀγὼ | I myself also | |||||
ἀπέστειλαP60 · P66 | sent | ἀπέστειλα | sent | απεστειλα | | | ego | ego | sent | ܐܢܐ | sent | ἀπέστειλα | sent | |||||
αὐτοὺςP60 · P66 | them | αὐτοὺς | them | αυτους | | | misi | misi | them | ܫܕܪܬ | them | αὐτοὺς | them | |||||
εἰςP60 · P66 | into | εἰς | into | εις | | | eos | eos | into | ܐܢܘܢ | into | εἰς | into | |||||
τὸνP60 · P66 | the | τὸν | the | τον | | | in | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | |||||
κόσμον.P60 · P66 | world. | κόσμον. | world. | κοσμον | | | mundum | mundum | world. | ܠܥܠܡܐ | world. | κόσμον | world. | |||||
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