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 | ܘܓܒܐ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἐποίησεν | He appointed | εποιησεν | | | fecit | fecit | He appointed | — | — | ἐποίησεν | He appointed | ||||||
| — | δώδεκα | twelve | — | | | xii | — | — | — | — | δώδεκα | twelve | ||||||
| — | οὓς | whom | — | | | ut | ut | whom | ܬܪܥܤܪ | whom | ἵνα | whom | ||||||
| — | καὶ | also | — | | | essent | essent | also | — | — | ὦσιν | also | ||||||
| — | ἀποστόλους | apostles | — | | | — | duodecim | apostles | ܕܢܗܘܘܢ | apostles | μετ’ | apostles | ||||||
| — | ὠνόμασεν | He called them | — | | | ipso | — | — | — | — | αὐτοῦ | He called them | ||||||
| — | ἵνα | that | ϊνα | | | cum | cum | that | — | — | καὶ | that | ||||||
| — | ὦσιν | they may be | ωσιν | | | illos | illo | they may be | ܥܡܗ | they may be | ἵνα | they may be | ||||||
| — | μετ᾽ | with | μετ | | | — | — | — | — | — | ἀποστέλλῃ | with | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῦ | Him | αυτου | | | et | et | Him | ܘܕܢܫܕܪ | Him | αὐτοὺς | Him | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | ut | ut | and | — | — | κηρύσσειν | and | ||||||
| — | ἵνα | that | ϊνα | | | mitteret | mitteret | that | — | — | ἵνα | that | ||||||
| — | ἀποστέλλῃ | He may send | — | | | praedicare | — | — | ܐܢܘܢ | He may send | ἀποστέλλῃ | He may send | ||||||
| — | αὐτοὺς | them | αυτους | | | — | eos | them | — | — | αὐτοὺς | them | ||||||
| — | κηρύσσειν | to preach | κηρυσσειν | | | euangelium | prædicare | to preach | ܕܢܟܪܙܘܢ | to preach | κηρύσσειν | to preach | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 4:33 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||