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 | ||||||||||||
τουP4 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
συμεωνP4 | of Simeon | Συμεὼν | of Simeon | — | | | — | fuit | of Simeon | ܫܡܥܘܢ | of Simeon | Συμεών | of Simeon | |||||
τουP4 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
ιουP4 | of Judah | Ἰούδα | of Judah | — | | | — | qui | of Judah | ܝܗܘܕܐ | of Judah | Ἰούδα | of Judah | |||||
δαP4 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
τουP4 | of Joseph | Ἰωσὴφ | of Joseph | — | | | — | Juda | of Joseph | ܝܘܤܦ | of Joseph | Ἰωσήφ | of Joseph | |||||
ιωσηφP4 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
τουP4 | of Jonam | Ἰωνὰμ | of Jonam | — | | | — | fuit | of Jonam | ܝܘܢܡ | of Jonam | Ἰωνάν | of Jonam | |||||
ιωναμP4 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
τουP4 | of Eliakim | Ἐλιακὶμ | of Eliakim | — | | | — | qui | of Eliakim | ܐܠܝܩܝܡ | of Eliakim | Ἐλιακείμ | of Eliakim | |||||
| Next Verse Available | Resumes at 3:32 | ||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||