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 | ܘܐܟܠܝܢ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | κατηγόρουν | were accusing | — | | | accusabant | accusabant | were accusing | ܗܘܘ | were accusing | κατηγόρουν | were accusing | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῦ | Him | αυτου | | | eum | eum | Him | ܩܪܨܘܗܝ | Him | αὐτοῦ | Him | ||||||
| — | οἱ | the | οι | | | summi | — | — | — | — | οἱ | the | ||||||
| — | ἀρχιερεῖς | chief priests | αρχιερεις | | | sacerdotes | sacerdotes | chief priests | ܟܗܢܐ | chief priests | ἀρχιερεῖς | chief priests | ||||||
| — | πολλά.¶ | of many things. | πολλα | | | multa | in | of many things. | ܒܤܓܝܐܬܐ | of many things. | πολλά | of many things. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 1:54 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||