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 | ||||||||||||
καιP45 | And | καὶ | And | και | | | et | Et | And | ܘܢܤܒܘ | And | Καὶ | And | |||||
λαβοντεσP45 | having taken | λαβόντες | having taken | λαβοντες | | | adprehensum | apprehendentes | having taken | — | — | λαβόντες | having taken | |||||
αυτονP45 | they killed | ἀπέκτειναν | they killed | — | | | eum | eum | they killed | ܩܛܠܘܗܝ | they killed | αὐτὸν | they killed | |||||
απεκτεινανP45 | him | αὐτὸν | him | αυτον | | | occiderunt | occiderunt | him | ܘܐܦܩܘܗܝ | him | ἀπέκτειναν | him | |||||
καὶP45 | and | καὶ | and | και | | | — | — | — | — | — | καὶ | and | |||||
ἐξέβαλονP45 | cast forth | ἐξέβαλον | cast forth | εξεβαλον | | | et | et | cast forth | ܠܒܪ | cast forth | ἐξέβαλον | cast forth | |||||
αὐτὸνP45 | him | αὐτὸν | him | αυτον | | | eiecerunt | ejecerunt | him | ܡܢ | him | ἔξω | him | |||||
ἔξωP45 | outside | ἔξω | outside | εξω | | | extra | extra | outside | — | — | τοῦ | outside | |||||
τοῦP45 | the | τοῦ | the | του | | | eum | — | — | — | — | ἀμπελῶνος | the | |||||
ἀμπελῶνος.P45 | vineyard. | ἀμπελῶνος. | vineyard. | αμπελωνος | | | uineam | vineam | vineyard. | ܟܪܡܐ | vineyard. | ἀμπελῶνος. | vineyard. | |||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 12:13 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||