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 | ||||||||||||
| — | Καὶ | And | και | | | et | Et | And | ܘܟܕ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | εἰσελθὼν | having entered | εισελθων | | | et | ingressus | having entered | ܥܠ | having entered | εἰσελθὼν | having entered | ||||||
| — | διήρχετο | He was passing through | διηρχετο | | | pertransiebat | perambulabat | He was passing through | ܝܫܘܥ | He was passing through | διήρχετο | He was passing through | ||||||
| — | τὴν | <the> | την | | | intrans | — | — | — | — | τὴν | <the> | ||||||
| — | Ἰεριχώ. | Jericho. | ϊερειχω | | | iericho | Jericho | Jericho. | ܒܐܝܪܝܚܘ | Jericho. | Ἰεριχώ | Jericho. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 22:4 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||