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 | ||||||||||||
| — | οἱ | <the> | — | | | adpraehensum | — | — | — | — | Οἱ | <the> | ||||||
| — | καὶ | But | και | | | caeciderunt | Qui | But | ܗܢܘܢ | But | δὲ | But | ||||||
| — | λαβόντες | having taken | λαβοντες | | | et | apprehensum | having taken | ܕܝܢ | having taken | λαβόντες | having taken | ||||||
| — | αὐτὸν | him | αυτον | | | eum | eum | him | ܡܚܐܘܗܝ | him | αὐτὸν | him | ||||||
| — | ἔδειραν | they beat him | εδειραν | | | — | ceciderunt | they beat him | — | — | ἔδειραν | they beat him | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | ܘܫܕܪܘܗܝ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἀπέστειλαν | they sent him away | απεστειλαν | | | dimiserunt | dimiserunt | they sent him away | ܟܕ | they sent him away | ἀπέστειλαν | they sent him away | ||||||
| — | κενόν. | empty-handed. | — | | | uacuum | vacuum | empty-handed. | ܤܦܝܩ | empty-handed. | κενόν | empty-handed. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 12:5 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||