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 | ||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||
καιP84 · P88 | And | Καὶ | And | και | | | et | Et | And | ܘܐܬܘ | And | Καὶ | And | |||||
ερχονταιP84 · P88 | they come | ἔρχονται | they come | ερχονται | | | uenerunt | venerunt | they come | ܠܘܬܗ | they come | ἔρχονται | they come | |||||
φεροτεσP84 · P88 | bringing | φέροντες | bringing | — | | | ad | ad | bringing | ܘܐܝܬܝܘ | bringing | πρὸς | bringing | |||||
προσP84 · P88 | to | πρὸς | to | προς | | | eum | eum | to | ܠܗ | to | αὐτόν | to | |||||
αυτονP84 · P88 | Him | αὐτὸν | Him | αυτον | | | a | ferentes | Him | ܡܫܪܝܐ | Him | παραλυτικὸν | Him | |||||
παραλυτικονP84 · P88 | a paralytic | παραλυτικὸν | a paralytic | παραλυτικον | | | paralyticum | paralyticum | a paralytic | ܟܕ | a paralytic | φέροντες | a paralytic | |||||
αιρομενονP84 · P88 | being carried | αἰρόμενον | being carried | αιρομενον | | | qui | qui | being carried | ܫܩܝܠܝܢ | being carried | αἰρόμενον | being carried | |||||
υποP84 · P88 | by | ὑπὸ | by | ϋπο | | | adferentes | a | by | ܠܗ | by | ὑπὸ | by | |||||
τεσσαρωνP84 · P88 | four. | τεσσάρων. | four. | τεσσαρων | | | quattuor | quatuor | four. | ܒܝܬ | four. | τεσσάρων | four. | |||||
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