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 | — | | | autem | Et | And | ܘܐܡܪ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἔλεγεν | He was saying | — | | | dico | dicebat | He was saying | ܠܗܘܢ | He was saying | ἔλεγεν | He was saying | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῖς· | to them; | — | | | — | eis | to them; | ܕܫܒܬܐ | to them; | αὐτοῖς | to them; | ||||||
| — | τὸ | The | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | Τὸ | The | ||||||
| — | σάββατον | Sabbath | — | | | — | Sabbatum | Sabbath | ܡܛܠ | Sabbath | σάββατον | Sabbath | ||||||
| — | διὰ | on account of | — | | | — | propter | on account of | ܒܪܢܫܐ | on account of | διὰ | on account of | ||||||
| — | τὸν | the | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | ||||||
| — | ἄνθρωπον | man | — | | | — | hominem | man | — | — | ἄνθρωπον | man | ||||||
| — | ἐγένετο, | was made, | — | | | — | factum | was made, | ܐܬܒܪܝܬ | was made, | ἐγένετο | was made, | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | — | | | — | est | and | ܘܠܐ | and | οὐχ | and | ||||||
| — | οὐχ | not | — | | | — | et | not | ܗܘܐ | not | ὁ | not | ||||||
| — | ὁ | the | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | ἄνθρωπος | the | ||||||
| — | ἄνθρωπος | man | — | | | — | non | man | ܒܪܢܫܐ | man | διὰ | man | ||||||
| — | διὰ | on account of | — | | | — | homo | on account of | ܡܛܠ | on account of | τὸ | on account of | ||||||
| — | τὸ | the | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | σάββατον | the | ||||||
| — | σάββατον. | Sabbath. | — | | | uobis | propter | Sabbath. | ܫܒܬܐ | Sabbath. | σάββατον. | Sabbath. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 4:33 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||