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 | They | οι | | | eum | — | — | — | — | Οἱ | They | ||||||
| — | δὲ | And | δε | | | ad | At | ? | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | And | ||||||
| — | ἐπέβαλον | laid | επεβαλον | | | illi | illi | to him/those | ܕܝܢ | laid | ἐπέβαλον | laid | ||||||
| — | τὰς | the | τας | | | — | — | — | — | — | ἐπ’ | the | ||||||
| — | χεῖρας | hands | χειρας | | | manus | injecerunt | ? | — | — | αὐτὸν | hands | ||||||
| — | αὐτῶν | of them | — | | | iniecerunt | in | in | ܐܪܡܝܘ | of them | τὰς | of them | ||||||
| — | αὐτῷ | on Him | αυτω | | | — | eum | him | ܥܠܘܗܝ | on Him | χεῖρας | on Him | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | — | et | and | — | — | αὐτῶν | and | ||||||
| — | ἐκράτησαν | seized | εκρατησαν | | | et | tenuerunt | ? | ܐܝܕܝܐ | seized | καὶ | seized | ||||||
| — | αὐτόν. | Him. | αυτον | | | tenuerunt | eum | him | ܘܐܚܕܘܗܝ | Him. | ἐκράτησαν | Him. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 1:54 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||