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 | ܘܥܠ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | εἰσῆλθεν | He entered | εισηλθεν | | | introibit | introivit | He entered | ܬܘܒ | He entered | εἰσῆλθεν | He entered | ||||||
| — | πάλιν | again | παλιν | | | iterum | iterum | again | ܝܫܘܥ | again | πάλιν | again | ||||||
| — | εἰς | into | εις | | | in | in | into | ܠܟܢܘܫܬܐ | into | εἰς | into | ||||||
| — | τὴν | the | την | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὴν | the | ||||||
| — | συναγωγήν, | synagogue, | συναγωγην | | | synagogam | synagogam | synagogue, | ܘܐܝܬ | synagogue, | συναγωγήν | synagogue, | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | — | — | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἦν | there was | ην | | | erat | erat | there was | ܗܘܐ | there was | ἦν | there was | ||||||
| — | ἐκεῖ | there | εκει | | | ibi | ibi | there | ܬܡܢ | there | ἐκεῖ | there | ||||||
| — | ἄνθρωπος | a man | ανθρωπος | | | homo | homo | a man | ܓܒܪܐ | a man | ἄνθρωπος | a man | ||||||
| — | ἐξηραμμένην | withered | — | | | habens | habens | withered | ܚܕ | withered | ἐξηραμμένην | withered | ||||||
| — | ἔχων | having | εχων | | | manum | manum | having | ܕܝܒܝܫܐ | having | ἔχων | having | ||||||
| — | τὴν | the | την | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὴν | the | ||||||
| — | χεῖρα, | hand, | χειρα | | | aridam | aridam | hand, | ܐܝܕܗ | hand, | χεῖρα | hand, | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 4:33 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||