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 | ||||||||||||
| — | Καὶ | And | και | | | et | Et | And | ܘܠܝܘܡܐ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | τῇ | on the | τη | | | alia | alia | on the | ܐܚܪܢܐ | on the | τῇ | on the | ||||||
| — | ἐπαύριον | next day | επαυριονον | | | die | die | next day | ܟܕ | next day | ἐπαύριον | next day | ||||||
| — | ἐξελθόντων | when were exiting | — | | | cum | cum | when were exiting | ܢܦܩ | when were exiting | ἐξελθόντων | when were exiting | ||||||
| — | αὐτῶν | they | — | | | exissent | exirent | they | ܡܢ | they | αὐτῶν | they | ||||||
| — | ἀπὸ | from | απο | | | a | a | from | ܒܝܬ | from | ἀπὸ | from | ||||||
| — | Βηθανίας | Bethany | βηθανιας | | | bethania | Bethania | Bethany | ܥܢܝܐ | Bethany | Βηθανίας | Bethany | ||||||
| — | ἐπείνασεν. | He was hungry. | επινασεν | | | esuriit | esuriit | He was hungry. | ܟܦܢ | He was hungry. | ἐπείνασεν | He was hungry. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 11:27 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||