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 | — | | | uespere | Vespere | And | ܘܟܕ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ὀψίας | when evening | οψιας | | | autem | autem | when evening | ܗܘܐ | when evening | ὀψίας | when evening | ||||||
| — | γενομένης | having arrived | γενομενης | | | facta | facto | having arrived | ܪܡܫܐ | having arrived | γενομένης | having arrived | ||||||
| — | ἔρχεται | He comes | ερχεται | | | uenit | venit | He comes | ܐܬܐ | He comes | ἔρχεται | He comes | ||||||
| — | μετὰ | with | μετα | | | cum | cum | with | ܥܡ | with | μετὰ | with | ||||||
| — | τῶν | the | των | | | xii | — | — | — | — | τῶν | the | ||||||
| — | δώδεκα. | Twelve. | — | | | — | duodecim | Twelve. | ܬܪܥܤܪܬܗ | Twelve. | δώδεκα | Twelve. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 1:54 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||