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 | ||||||||||||
πτοηθεντεςP141 · P75 | Having been terrified | πτοηθέντες | Having been terrified | — | | | ipsi | Conturbati | Having been terrified | ܘܗܢܘܢ | Having been terrified | Πτοηθέντες | Having been terrified | |||||
δεP141 · P75 | however | δὲ | however | δε | | | autem | vero | however | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | however | |||||
καιP141 · P75 | and | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | ܘܗܘܘ | and | καὶ | and | |||||
εμφοβοιP141 · P75 | filled with fear | ἔμφοβοι | filled with fear | — | | | pauerunt | conterriti | filled with fear | ܒܕܚܠܬܐ | filled with fear | ἔμφοβοι | filled with fear | |||||
γενομενοιP141 · P75 | having been | γενόμενοι | having been | γενομενοι | | | timore | existimabant | having been | ܤܒܪܝܢ | having been | γενόμενοι | having been | |||||
εδοκουνP141 · P75 | they were thinking themselves | ἐδόκουν | they were thinking themselves | εδοκουν | | | putabant | se | they were thinking themselves | ܗܘܘ | they were thinking themselves | ἐδόκουν | they were thinking themselves | |||||
πναP141 · P75 | a spirit | πνεῦμα | a spirit | — | | | — | spiritum | a spirit | ܓܝܪ | a spirit | πνεῦμα | a spirit | |||||
θεωρεινP141 · P75 | to see. | θεωρεῖν. | to see. | θεωρειν | | | uidere | videre | to see. | ܕܪܘܚܐ | to see. | θεωρεῖν | to see. | |||||
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