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 | ܘܐܬܐ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ὁ | <the> | ο | | | alius | — | — | — | — | ἕτερος | <the> | ||||||
| — | ἕτερος | another | ετερος | | | — | alter | another | ܐܚܪܢܐ | another | ἦλθεν | another | ||||||
| — | ἦλθεν | came | ηλθε | | | uenit | venit | came | ܘܐܡܪ | came | λέγων | came | ||||||
| — | λέγων· | saying; | λεγων | | | dicens | dicens | saying; | ܡܪܝ | saying; | Κύριε | saying; | ||||||
| — | κύριε, | lord, | — | | | — | Domine | lord, | ܗܐ | lord, | ἰδού | lord, | ||||||
| — | ἰδοὺ | behold | ϊδου | | | ecce | ecce | behold | ܗܐ | behold | ἡ | behold | ||||||
| — | ἡ | the | η | | | dme | — | — | — | — | μνᾶ | the | ||||||
| — | μνᾶ | mina | μνα | | | mna | mna | mina | ܗܘ | mina | σου | mina | ||||||
| — | σου | of you | σου | | | tua | tua | of you | ܕܐܝܬ | of you | ἣν | of you | ||||||
| — | ἣν | which | ην | | | quam | quam | which | ܗܘܐ | which | εἶχον | which | ||||||
| — | εἶχον | I was keeping | ειχον | | | habebam | habui | I was keeping | ܠܘܬܝ | I was keeping | ἀποκειμένην | I was keeping | ||||||
| — | ἀποκειμένην | lying | αποκειμενην | | | repositam | repositam | lying | ܟܕ | lying | ἐν | lying | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | in | in | in | ܤܝܡ | in | σουδαρίῳ | in | ||||||
| — | σουδαρίῳ· | a piece of cloth; | σουδαριω | | | sudario | sudario | a piece of cloth; | ܒܤܕܘܢܐ | a piece of cloth; | σουδαρίῳ· | a piece of cloth; | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 22:4 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||