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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ὁ | The one | ο | | | seminat | — | — | — | — | Ὁ | The one | ||||||
| — | σπείρων | sowing | σπειρων | | | qui | Qui | who/which | ܙܪܘܥܐ | sowing | σπείρων | sowing | ||||||
| — | τὸν | the | τον | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | ||||||
| — | λόγον | word | λογον | | | seminat | verbum | word | ܕܙܪܥ | word | λόγον | word | ||||||
| — | σπείρει. | sows. | σπειρει | | | uerbum | seminat | ? | ܡܠܬܐ | sows. | σπείρει | sows. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 4:33 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||