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 | ||||||||||||
| — | σῶσον | do save | σωσον | | | salbum | salvum | do save | ܦܨܐ | do save | σῶσον | do save | ||||||
| — | σεαυτὸν | Yourself | σεαυτον | | | fac | fac | Yourself | ܢܦܫܟ | Yourself | σεαυτόν | Yourself | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | — | | | te | temetipsum | and | — | — | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | καταβὰς | descending | καταβας | | | descende | descendens | descending | ܘܚܘܬ | descending | κατάβα | descending | ||||||
| — | ἀπὸ | from | απο | | | de | de | from | ܡܢ | from | ἀπὸ | from | ||||||
| — | τοῦ | the | του | | | et | — | — | — | — | τοῦ | the | ||||||
| — | σταυροῦ. | cross! | — | | | cruce | cruce | cross! | ܙܩܝܦܐ | cross! | σταυροῦ | cross! | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 1:54 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||