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 | ||||||||||||
καιP45 · P75 | And | καὶ | And | και | | | et | Et | And | ܘܐܢ | And | Καὶ | And | |||||
ελθωνP45 · P75 | having come | ἐλθὸν | having come | — | | | adornatum | cum | having come | — | — | ἐλθὸν | having come | |||||
ευρισκειP45 · P75 | it finds it | εὑρίσκει | it finds it | ευρισκι | | | ueniens | venerit | it finds it | ܐܬܬ | it finds it | εὑρίσκει | it finds it | |||||
σεσαρωμενονP45 · P75 | being unoccupied | σχολάζοντα | being unoccupied | — | | | inuenit | invenit | being unoccupied | ܐܫܟܚܬܗ | being unoccupied | σεσαρωμένον | being unoccupied | |||||
καιP45 · P75 | swept | σεσαρωμένον | swept | σεσαρωμενον | | | — | eam | swept | — | — | καὶ | swept | |||||
κεκοσμημενονP45 · P75 | and | καὶ | and | — | | | — | scopis | and | ܕܚܡܝܡ | and | κεκοσμημένον | and | |||||
κεκοσμημένον.P45 · P75 | ordered. | κεκοσμημένον. | ordered. | κεκοσμημενον | | | mundatum | mundatam | ordered. | ܘܡܨܒܬ | ordered. | κεκοσμημένον. | ordered. | |||||
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