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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ὁ | <the> | ο | | | ad | — | — | — | — | Ὁ | <the> | ||||||
| — | δὲ | But | δε | | | ille | Ille | But | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | But | ||||||
| — | ἤρξατο | he began | ηρξατο | | | — | autem | he began | ܕܝܢ | he began | ἤρξατο | he began | ||||||
| — | ἀναθεματίζειν | to curse | αναθεματειζειν | | | coepit | cœpit | to curse | ܫܪܝ | to curse | ἀναθεματίζειν | to curse | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | deuotare | anathematizare | and | ܗܘܐ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ὀμνύναι | to swear | — | | | et | et | to swear | ܡܚܪܡ | to swear | ὀμνύναι | to swear | ||||||
| — | ὅτι | that | οτι | | | — | jurare | that | ܘܝܡܐ | that | ὅτι | that | ||||||
| — | οὐκ | Not | ουκ | | | quia | Quia | Not | ܕܠܐ | Not | Οὐκ | Not | ||||||
| — | οἶδα | I know | οιδα | | | nescio | nescio | I know | ܝܕܥ | I know | οἶδα | I know | ||||||
| — | τὸν | <the> | τον | | | dicitis | — | — | — | — | τὸν | <the> | ||||||
| — | ἄνθρωπον | man | ανθρωπον | | | hominem | hominem | man | ܐܢܐ | man | ἄνθρωπον | man | ||||||
| — | τοῦτον | this | — | | | istum | istum | this | ܠܓܒܪܐ | this | τοῦτον | this | ||||||
| — | ὃν | whom | ον | | | quem | quem | whom | ܗܢܐ | whom | ὃν | whom | ||||||
| — | λέγετε. | you speak of! | — | | | dicere | dicitis | you speak of! | ܕܐܡܪܝܢ | you speak of! | λέγετε | you speak of! | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 1:54 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||