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 | ||||||||||||
ευρονP75 | They found | εὗρον | They found | — | | | uenientes | et | They found | ܘܐܫܟܚ | They found | Εὗρον | They found | |||||
δεP75 | then | δὲ | then | δε | | | inuenerunt | invenerunt | then | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | then | |||||
τονP75 | the | τὸν | the | τον | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | |||||
λιθονP75 | stone | λίθον | stone | λιθον | | | lapidem | lapidem | stone | ܕܡܥܓܠܐ | stone | λίθον | stone | |||||
αποκεκυλισμενονP75 | rolled away | ἀποκεκυλισμένον | rolled away | αποκεκυλισμενον | | | reuolutum | revolutum | rolled away | ܡܢ | rolled away | ἀποκεκυλισμένον | rolled away | |||||
αποP75 | from | ἀπὸ | from | απο | | | autem | a | from | ܒܝܬ | from | ἀπὸ | from | |||||
τουP75 | the | τοῦ | the | του | | | a | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | the | |||||
μνημειουP75 | tomb. | μνημείου. | tomb. | μνημειου | | | monumento | monumento | tomb. | ܩܒܘܪܐ | tomb. | μνημείου | tomb. | |||||
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