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 | ||||||||||||
ηP28 · P75 | <the> | ἥ | <the> | η | | | quoque | — | — | — | — | Ἥ | <the> | |||||
τεP28 · P75 | And | τε | And | — | | | mare | Mare | And | ܕܝܢ | And | τε | And | |||||
θαλασσαP28 · P75 | the sea | θάλασσα | the sea | θαλασσα | | | — | autem | the sea | ܐܙܕܩܦ | the sea | θάλασσα | the sea | |||||
ανεμουP28 · P75 | by a wind | ἀνέμου | by a wind | ανεμου | | | uento | vento | by a wind | ܗܘܐ | by a wind | ἀνέμου | by a wind | |||||
μεγαλουP28 · P75 | strong | μεγάλου | strong | μεγαλου | | | magno | magno | strong | ܥܠܝܗܘܢ | strong | μεγάλου | strong | |||||
πνεοντοσP28 · P75 | blowing | πνέοντος | blowing | πνεοντος | | | flante | flante | blowing | ܡܛܠ | blowing | πνέοντος | blowing | |||||
διεγειρετοP28 · P75 | was agitated. | διεγείρετο. | was agitated. | — | | | in surgebat | exsurgebat | was agitated. | ܕܪܘܚܐ | was agitated. | διηγείρετο | was agitated. | |||||
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