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 | ܐܡܪ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ὁ | <the> | ο | | | dixit | — | — | — | — | ὁ | <the> | ||||||
| — | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | — | | | ihs | Jesus | Jesus | ܠܗܘܢ | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | ||||||
| — | εἶπεν | said | ειπεν | | | eis | ait | said | ܝܫܘܥ | said | εἶπεν | said | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῖς· | to them; | αυτοις | | | — | illis | to them; | ܘܠܐ | to them; | αὐτοῖς | to them; | ||||||
| — | οὐδὲ | Neither | ουδε | | | nec | Neque | Neither | ܐܢܐ | Neither | Οὐδὲ | Neither | ||||||
| — | ἐγὼ | I myself | εγω | | | ego | ego | I myself | ܐܡܪ | I myself | ἐγὼ | I myself | ||||||
| — | λέγω | tell | λεγω | | | dico | dico | tell | ܐܢܐ | tell | λέγω | tell | ||||||
| — | ὑμῖν | you | ϋμειν | | | uobis | vobis | you | ܠܟܘܢ | you | ὑμῖν | you | ||||||
| — | ἐν | by | εν | | | in | in | by | ܒܐܝܢܐ | by | ἐν | by | ||||||
| — | ποίᾳ | what | ποια | | | qua | qua | what | ܫܘܠܛܢܐ | what | ποίᾳ | what | ||||||
| — | ἐξουσίᾳ | authority | εξουσια | | | potestate | potestate | authority | ܗܠܝܢ | authority | ἐξουσίᾳ | authority | ||||||
| — | ταῦτα | these things | ταυτα | | | haec | hæc | these things | ܥܒܕ | these things | ταῦτα | these things | ||||||
| — | ποιῶ.¶ | I am doing. | ποιω | | | facio | facio | I am doing. | ܐܢܐ | I am doing. | ποιῶ | I am doing. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 22:4 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||