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 | ܘܥܠܝܢ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | εἰσελθοῦσαι | having entered | εισελθουσαι | | | intrantes | introëuntes | having entered | ܠܒܝܬ | having entered | εἰσελθοῦσαι | having entered | ||||||
| — | εἰς | into | εις | | | in | in | into | ܩܒܘܪܐ | into | εἰς | into | ||||||
| — | τὸ | the | το | | | iubenem | — | — | — | — | τὸ | the | ||||||
| — | μνημεῖον | tomb | μνημιον | | | monumentum | monumentum | tomb | — | — | μνημεῖον | tomb | ||||||
| — | εἶδον | they saw | — | | | uiderunt | viderunt | they saw | ܘܚܙܝ | they saw | εἶδον | they saw | ||||||
| — | νεανίσκον | a young man | νεανισκον | | | — | juvenem | a young man | ܥܠܝܡܐ | a young man | νεανίσκον | a young man | ||||||
| — | καθήμενον | sitting | καθημενον | | | sedentem | sedentem | sitting | ܕܝܬܒ | sitting | καθήμενον | sitting | ||||||
| — | ἐν | on | εν | | | indutum | in | on | ܡܢ | on | ἐν | on | ||||||
| — | τοῖς | the | τοις | | | ad | — | — | — | — | τοῖς | the | ||||||
| — | δεξιοῖς | right | δεξιοις | | | dexteram | dextris | right | ܝܡܝܢܐ | right | δεξιοῖς | right | ||||||
| — | περιβεβλημένον | having clothed himself in | περιβεβλημενον | | | — | coopertum | having clothed himself in | ܘܥܛܝܦ | having clothed himself in | περιβεβλημένον | having clothed himself in | ||||||
| — | στολὴν | a robe | στολην | | | stolam | stola | a robe | — | — | στολὴν | a robe | ||||||
| — | λευκὴν | white | λευκην | | | candidam | candida | white | ܐܤܛܠܐ | white | λευκήν | white | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | ܚܘܪܬܐ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἐξεθαμβήθησαν. | they were greatly amazed. | — | | | expauerunt | obstupuerunt | they were greatly amazed. | ܘܬܡܗ | they were greatly amazed. | ἐξεθαμβήθησαν | they were greatly amazed. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Luke 1:54 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||