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 | ܘܟܕ | And | Καὶ | And | |||||
παραγωνP66 · P75 | passing by | παράγων | passing by | παραγων | | | transiens | præteriens | passing by | ܥܒܪ | passing by | παράγων | passing by | |||||
ειδενP66 · P75 | He saw | εἶδεν | He saw | ϊδεν | | | caecum | Jesus | He saw | ܚܙܐ | He saw | εἶδεν | He saw | |||||
ανθρωπονP66 · P75 | a man | ἄνθρωπον | a man | ανθρωπον | | | uidit | vidit | a man | ܓܒܪܐ | a man | ἄνθρωπον | a man | |||||
τυφλονP66 · P75 | blind | τυφλὸν | blind | τυφλον | | | hominem | hominem | blind | ܤܡܝܐ | blind | τυφλὸν | blind | |||||
εκP66 · P75 | from | ἐκ | from | εκ | | | ex | cæcum | from | ܕܡܢ | from | ἐκ | from | |||||
γενετησP66 · P75 | birth. | γενετῆς. | birth. | γενετης | | | — | a | birth. | ܟܪܤ | birth. | γενετῆς | birth. | |||||
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