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 | ܘܫܡܝ | And | καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἐποίησεν | He appointed | — | | | inposuit | — | — | — | — | ἐπέθηκεν | He appointed | ||||||
| — | τοὺς | the | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τῷ | the | ||||||
| — | δώδεκα | Twelve | — | | | — | imposuit | Twelve | ܠܫܡܥܘܢ | Twelve | Σίμωνι | Twelve | ||||||
| — | καὶ | And | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | ὄνομα | And | ||||||
| — | ἐπέθηκεν | He added | επεθηκεν | | | simoni | Simoni | He added | — | — | Πέτρον | He added | ||||||
| — | ὄνομα | the name | — | | | nomen | nomen | the name | ܫܡܐ | the name | ὄνομα | the name | ||||||
| — | τῷ | <the> | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | τῷ | <the> | ||||||
| — | Σίμωνι | to Simon | σιμωνι | | | — | — | — | — | — | Σίμωνι | to Simon | ||||||
| — | Πέτρον, | Peter, | πετρον | | | petrus | Petrus | Peter, | ܟܐܦܐ | Peter, | Πέτρον, | Peter, | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 4:33 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||