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 | ||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||
ταυταP141 · P75 | These things | Ταῦτα | These things | ταυτα | | | haec | Dum | These things | ܘܟܕ | These things | Ταῦτα | These things | |||||
δεP141 · P75 | now | δὲ | now | δε | | | autem | autem | now | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | now | |||||
αυτωνP141 · P75 | when they | αὐτῶν | when they | αυτων | | | — | hæc | when they | ܡܡܠܠܝܢ | when they | αὐτῶν | when they | |||||
λαλουντωνP141 · P75 | are telling | λαλούντων | are telling | λαλουντων | | | loquentium | loquuntur | are telling | ܗܘܘ | are telling | λαλούντων | are telling | |||||
αυτοςP141 · P75 | He Himself | αὐτὸς | He Himself | αυτος | | | stetit | stetit | He Himself | ܝܫܘܥ | He Himself | αὐτὸς | He Himself | |||||
εστηP141 · P75 | <the> | ὁ | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | ὁ | <the> | |||||
ενP141 · P75 | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | — | | | in | in | Jesus | ܩܡ | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | |||||
μεσωP141 · P75 | stood | ἔστη | stood | — | | | medio | medio | stood | ܒܝܢܬܗܘܢ | stood | ἔστη | stood | |||||
αυτωνP141 · P75 | in | ἐν | in | εν | | | eorum | eorum | in | ܘܐܡܪ | in | ἐν | in | |||||
καιP141 · P75 | midst | μέσῳ | midst | μεσω | | | — | et | midst | ܠܗܘܢ | midst | μέσῳ | midst | |||||
λεγειP141 · P75 | of them | αὐτῶν | of them | αυτων | | | — | dicit | of them | ܫܠܡܐ | of them | αὐτῶν | of them | |||||
αυτοιςP141 · P75 | and | καὶ | and | — | | | ipse | eis | and | ܥܡܟܘܢ | and | καὶ | and | |||||
ειρηνηP141 · P75 | says | λέγει | says | — | | | — | Pax | says | ܐܢܐ | says | λέγει | says | |||||
υμινP141 · P75 | to them; | αὐτοῖς· | to them; | — | | | — | vobis | to them; | ܐܢܐ | to them; | αὐτοῖς | to them; | |||||
εἰρήνηP141 · P75 | Peace | εἰρήνη | Peace | — | | | — | ego | Peace | ܠܐ | Peace | Εἰρήνη | Peace | |||||
ὑμῖν.P141 · P75 | to you. | ὑμῖν. | to you. | — | | | eorum | sum | to you. | ܬܕܚܠܘܢ | to you. | ὑμῖν | to you. | |||||
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