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 | ||||||||||||
ταυταP66 · P75 | These things | ταῦτα | These things | ταυτα | | | haec | Hæc | These things | ܟܕ | These things | Ταῦτα | These things | |||||
αυτουP66 · P75 | when he | αὐτοῦ | when he | αυτου | | | eo | illo | when he | ܗܠܝܢ | when he | αὐτοῦ | when he | |||||
λαλουντοσP66 · P75 | is speaking | λαλοῦντος | is speaking | λαλουντος | | | loquente | loquente | is speaking | ܡܡܠܠ | is speaking | λαλοῦντος | is speaking | |||||
πολλοιP66 · P75 | many | πολλοὶ | many | πολλοι | | | multi | multi | many | ܗܘܐ | many | πολλοὶ | many | |||||
επιστευσανP66 · P75 | believed | ἐπίστευσαν | believed | επιστευσαν | | | crediderunt | crediderunt | believed | ܤܓܝܐܐ | believed | ἐπίστευσαν | believed | |||||
εισP66 · P75 | in | εἰς | in | εις | | | in | in | in | ܗܝܡܢܘ | in | εἰς | in | |||||
αυτονP66 · P75 | Him. | αὐτόν.¶ | Him. | αυτον | | | eum | eum | Him. | ܒܗ | Him. | αὐτόν | Him. | |||||
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