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 | ܘܫܒܚܘ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ὑμνήσαντες | having sung a hymn | ϋμνησαντες | | | hymno | hymno | having sung a hymn | — | — | ὑμνήσαντες | having sung a hymn | ||||||
| — | ἐξῆλθον | they went out | εξηλθον | | | dicto | dicto | they went out | ܘܢܦܩܘ | they went out | ἐξῆλθον | they went out | ||||||
| — | εἰς | to | εις | | | exierunt | exierunt | to | ܠܛܘܪ | to | εἰς | to | ||||||
| — | τὸ | the | το | | | oliueti | — | — | — | — | τὸ | the | ||||||
| — | ὄρος | Mount | ορος | | | in | in | Mount | — | — | ὄρος | Mount | ||||||
| — | τῶν | <the> | των | | | — | — | — | — | — | τῶν | <the> | ||||||
| — | ἐλαιῶν.¶ | of Olives. | ελαιων | | | montem | montem | of Olives. | ܙܝܬܐ | of Olives. | Ἐλαιῶν | of Olives. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 1:54 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||