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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ἤρξατο | He began | ηρξατο | | | coepit | Cœpit | He began | ܘܫܪܝ | He began | Ἤρξατο | He began | ||||||
| — | δὲ | then | δε | | | autem | autem | then | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | then | ||||||
| — | λέγειν | to say | λεγειν | | | dicere | dicere | to say | ܠܡܐܡܪ | to say | λέγειν | to say | ||||||
| — | πρὸς | to | προς | | | ad | ad | to | ܠܘܬܗܘܢ | to | πρὸς | to | ||||||
| — | αὐτοὺς | them | αυτους | | | — | illos | them | — | — | αὐτοὺς | them | ||||||
| — | ὅτι | that | — | | | eos | Quia | that | ܕܝܘܡܢܐ | that | ὅτι | that | ||||||
| — | σήμερον | Today | σημερον | | | hodie | hodie | Today | — | — | Σήμερον | Today | ||||||
| — | πεπλήρωται | has been fulfilled | πεπληρωται | | | repleta | impleta | has been fulfilled | ܐܫܬܠܡ | has been fulfilled | πεπλήρωται | has been fulfilled | ||||||
| — | ἡ | <the> | η | | | uestris | — | — | — | — | ἡ | <the> | ||||||
| — | γραφὴ | Scripture | γραφη | | | est | est | Scripture | — | — | γραφὴ | Scripture | ||||||
| — | αὕτη | this | αυτη | | | — | hæc | this | ܟܬܒܐ | this | αὕτη | this | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | scriptura | scriptura | in | ܗܢܐ | in | ἐν | in | ||||||
| — | τοῖς | the | τοις | | | haec | — | — | — | — | τοῖς | the | ||||||
| — | ὠσὶν | hearing | ωσιν | | | in | in | hearing | — | — | ὠσὶν | hearing | ||||||
| — | ὑμῶν. | of you. | ϋμων | | | auribus | auribus | of you. | ܒܐܕܢܝܟܘܢ | of you. | ὑμῶν | of you. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 4:29 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||