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 | But | και | | | et | et | But | ܘܡܢܬܐ | But | Καὶ | But | ||||||
| — | θρὶξ | a hair | θριξ | | | capillus | capillus | a hair | — | — | θρὶξ | a hair | ||||||
| — | ἐκ | of | εκ | | | de | de | of | ܡܢ | of | ἐκ | of | ||||||
| — | τῆς | the | της | | | — | — | — | — | — | τῆς | the | ||||||
| — | κεφαλῆς | head | κεφαλης | | | — | — | — | — | — | κεφαλῆς | head | ||||||
| — | ὑμῶν | of you | ϋμων | | | capite | capite | of you | ܪܫܟܘܢ | of you | ὑμῶν | of you | ||||||
| — | οὐ | certainly | ου | | | uestro | vestro | certainly | ܠܐ | certainly | οὐ | certainly | ||||||
| — | μὴ | not | μη | | | non | non | not | — | — | μὴ | not | ||||||
| — | ἀπόληται. | may perish. | αποληται | | | periet | peribit | may perish. | ܬܐܒܕ | may perish. | ἀπόληται | may perish. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 22:4 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||