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 | ||||||||||||
ἸησοῦςP45 · P66 · P75 | Jesus | ····· | — | — | | | ihs | Jesus | Jesus | ܝܫܘܥ | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | |||||
δὲP45 · P66 · P75 | however | ····· | — | — | | | autem | autem | however | ܕܝܢ | however | δὲ | however | |||||
ἐπορεύθηP45 · P66 · P75 | went | ····· | — | — | | | — | perrexit | went | — | — | ἐπορεύθη | went | |||||
εἰςP45 · P66 · P75 | to | ····· | — | — | | | in | in | to | ܐܙܠ | to | εἰς | to | |||||
τὸP45 · P66 · P75 | the | ····· | — | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὸ | the | |||||
ὄροςP45 · P66 · P75 | Mount | ····· | — | — | | | montem | montem | Mount | ܠܛܘܪܐ | Mount | ὄρος | Mount | |||||
τῶνP45 · P66 · P75 | <the> | ····· | — | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τῶν | <the> | |||||
ἐλαιῶν.P45 · P66 · P75 | of Olives. | ····· | — | — | | | oliuarum | Oliveti | of Olives. | ܕܙܝܬܐ | of Olives. | Ἐλαιῶν | of Olives. | |||||
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