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 | ||||||||||||
καιP75 | And | Καὶ | And | — | | | autem | Et | And | ܘܝܘܡܐ | And | Καὶ | And | |||||
ημεραP75 | the Day | ἡμέρα | the Day | — | | | dies | dies | the Day | ܥܪܘܒܬܐ | the Day | ἡμέρα | the Day | |||||
ηνP75 | it was | ἦν | it was | ην | | | erat | erat | it was | ܗܘܬ | it was | ἦν | it was | |||||
παρασκευησP75 | of Preparation, | παρασκευῆς, | of Preparation, | — | | | — | parasceves | of Preparation, | — | — | Παρασκευή | of Preparation, | |||||
καιP75 | and | καὶ | and | — | | | — | et | and | ܘܫܒܬܐ | and | σάββατον | and | |||||
σαββατονP75 | Sabbath | σάββατον | Sabbath | — | | | sabbatum | sabbatum | Sabbath | ܢܓܗܐ | Sabbath | ἐπέφωσκεν | Sabbath | |||||
επεφωσκενP75 | was just beginning. | ἐπέφωσκεν. | was just beginning. | — | | | ante | illucescebat | was just beginning. | ܗܘܬ | was just beginning. | ἐπέφωσκεν. | was just beginning. | |||||
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