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 | ||||||||||||
ειπενP75 | He spoke | Εἶπεν | He spoke | ειπεν | | | dixit | Et | He spoke | ܘܐܡܪ | He spoke | Εἶπεν | He spoke | |||||
δεP75 | then | δὲ | then | δε | | | — | ait | then | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | then | |||||
προσP75 | to | πρὸς | to | προς | | | ad | ad | to | ܠܗܘܢ | to | πρὸς | to | |||||
αυτουσP75 | them | αὐτοὺς | them | αυτους | | | autem | illos | them | ܝܫܘܥ | them | αὐτοὺς | them | |||||
τηνP75 | <the> | τὴν | <the> | την | | | eos | — | — | — | — | τὴν | <the> | |||||
παραβοληνP75 | parable | παραβολὴν | parable | παραβολην | | | parabolam | parabolam | parable | — | — | παραβολὴν | parable | |||||
ταυτηνP75 | this | ταύτην | this | ταυτην | | | — | istam | this | ܡܬܠܐ | this | ταύτην | this | |||||
λεγωνP75 | saying; | λέγων· | saying; | — | | | hanc | dicens | saying; | ܗܢܐ | saying; | λέγων | saying; | |||||
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