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 | ||||||||||||
καιP66 · P75 | And | καὶ | And | και | | | et | Et | And | ܘܤܓܝܐܐ | And | Καὶ | And | |||||
πολλωP66 · P75 | many | πολλῷ | many | πολλω | | | multo | multo | many | — | — | πολλῷ | many | |||||
πλειουσP66 · P75 | more | πλείους | more | πλειους | | | plures | plures | more | ܗܝܡܢܘ | more | πλείους | more | |||||
επιστευσανP66 · P75 | believed | ἐπίστευσαν | believed | επιστευσαν | | | crediderunt | crediderunt | believed | ܒܗ | believed | ἐπίστευσαν | believed | |||||
διαP66 · P75 | because of | διὰ | because of | δια | | | uerbum | in | because of | — | — | διὰ | because of | |||||
τονP66 · P75 | the | τὸν | the | τον | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | |||||
λογονP66 · P75 | word | λόγον | word | λογον | | | propter | propter | word | ܡܛܠ | word | λόγον | word | |||||
αυτουP66 · P75 | of Him, | αὐτοῦ, | of Him, | αυτου | | | illius | sermonem | of Him, | ܡܠܬܗ | of Him, | αὐτοῦ | of Him, | |||||
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