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 · P75 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | του | | | qui | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
ενωσP4 · P75 | of Enosh | Ἐνὼς | of Enosh | — | | | fuit | fuit | of Enosh | ܐܢܘܫ | of Enosh | Ἐνώς | of Enosh | |||||
τουP4 · P75 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | του | | | aenos | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
σηθP4 · P75 | of Seth | Σὴθ | of Seth | σηθ | | | qui | qui | of Seth | ܫܝܬ | of Seth | Σήθ | of Seth | |||||
τουP4 · P75 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | του | | | fuit | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
αδαμP4 · P75 | of Adam | Ἀδὰμ | of Adam | αδαμ | | | seth | Seth | of Adam | ܐܕܡ | of Adam | Ἀδάμ | of Adam | |||||
τουP4 · P75 | <the> | τοῦ | <the> | του | | | qui | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | <the> | |||||
θυP4 · P75 | of God. | θεοῦ.¶ | of God. | θυ | | | fuit | fuit | of God. | ܐܠܗܐ | of God. | θεοῦ | of God. | |||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 4:1 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||