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 | ||||||||||||
| — | προσεύχεσθε | do pray | — | | | orate | Orate | do pray | ܨܠܘ | do pray | Προσεύχεσθε | do pray | ||||||
| — | δὲ | then | — | | | et | vero | then | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | then | ||||||
| — | ἵνα | that it | ϊνα | | | — | — | — | — | — | ἵνα | that it | ||||||
| — | μὴ | not | μη | | | ut | ut | not | ܕܠܐ | not | μὴ | not | ||||||
| — | γένηται | may happen | — | | | hieme | hieme | may happen | ܢܗܘܐ | may happen | γένηται | may happen | ||||||
| — | ἡ | the | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | ἡ | the | ||||||
| — | φυγὴ | flight | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | φυγὴ | flight | ||||||
| — | ὑμῶν | of you | — | | | non | non | of you | ܥܪܘܩܝܟܘܢ | of you | ὑμῶν | of you | ||||||
| — | χειμῶνος. | in winter. | χειμωνος | | | ueniant | fiant | in winter. | ܒܤܬܘܐ | in winter. | χειμῶνος | in winter. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 1:54 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||