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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ὕστερον | Finally | ϋστερον | | | nouissime | Novissime | Finally | ܘܡܝܬܬ | Finally | Ὕστερον | Finally | ||||||
| — | δὲ | now | — | | | — | omnium | now | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | now | ||||||
| — | πάντων | of all | — | | | mortua | mortua | of all | ܒܚܪܬܐ | of all | πάντων | of all | ||||||
| — | καὶ | also | και | | | est | est | also | ܐܦ | also | ἀπέθανεν | also | ||||||
| — | ἡ | the | η | | | — | — | — | — | — | καὶ | the | ||||||
| — | γυνὴ | woman | γυνη | | | et | et | woman | — | — | ἡ | woman | ||||||
| — | ἀπέθανεν. | died. | απεθανεν | | | mulier | mulier | died. | ܐܢܬܬܐ | died. | γυνή | died. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 22:4 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||