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 | ||||||||||||
ουπωP66 · P75 | Not yet | οὔπω | Not yet | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Nondum | Not yet | ܠܐ | Not yet | Οὔπω | Not yet | ||||||
γαρP66 · P75 | for | γὰρ | for | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | enim | for | ܓܝܪ | for | γὰρ | for | ||||||
ηνP66 · P75 | were | ἦν | were | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | missus | were | ܥܕܟܝܠ | were | ἦν | were | ||||||
βεβλημενοσP66 · P75 | cast | βεβλημένος | cast | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | fuerat | cast | ܢܦܠ | cast | βεβλημένος | cast | ||||||
εισP66 · P75 | into | εἰς | into | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Joannes | into | ܗܘܐ | into | εἰς | into | ||||||
τηνP66 · P75 | the | τὴν | the | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | τὴν | the | ||||||
φυλακηνP66 · P75 | prison | φυλακὴν | prison | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | in | prison | ܝܘܚܢܢ | prison | φυλακὴν | prison | ||||||
οP66 · P75 | <the> | ὁ | <the> | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | ὁ | <the> | ||||||
ιωαννησP66 · P75 | John. | Ἰωάννης. | John. | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | carcerem | John. | ܒܝܬ | John. | Ἰωάννης | John. | ||||||
| Next Verse Available | Resumes at 3:26 | ||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||