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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ἀποβήσεται | It will result | αποβησεται | | | obtinget | continget | It will result | ܗܘܝܐ | It will result | Ἀποβήσεται | It will result | ||||||
| — | δὲ | now | — | | | — | autem | now | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | now | ||||||
| — | ὑμῖν | to you | ϋμειν | | | uobis | vobis | to you | — | — | ὑμῖν | to you | ||||||
| — | εἰς | for | ις | | | in | in | for | ܕܝܢ | for | εἰς | for | ||||||
| — | μαρτύριον. | a testimony. | μαρτυριον | | | testimonium | testimonium | a testimony. | ܠܤܗܕܘܬܐ | a testimony. | μαρτύριον | a testimony. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 22:4 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||