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 | — | | | autem | Quo | And | ܘܫܡܥܘ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἀκούσαντες | having heard it | ακουσαντες | | | audientes | audito | having heard it | — | — | ἀκούσαντες | having heard it | ||||||
| — | οἱ | the | οι | | | — | — | — | — | — | οἱ | the | ||||||
| — | μαθηταὶ | disciples | μαθηται | | | discipuli | discipuli | disciples | ܬܠܡܝܕܘܗܝ | disciples | μαθηταὶ | disciples | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῦ | of him | αυτου | | | eius | ejus | of him | — | — | αὐτοῦ | of him | ||||||
| — | ἦλθον | came | ηλθον | | | uenerunt | venerunt | came | ܘܐܬܘ | came | ἦλθον | came | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | — | — | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἦραν | they took up | ηραν | | | tulerunt | tulerunt | they took up | ܫܩܠܘ | they took up | ἦραν | they took up | ||||||
| — | τὸ | the | το | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὸ | the | ||||||
| — | πτῶμα | body | πτωμα | | | corpus | corpus | body | ܫܠܕܗ | body | πτῶμα | body | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῦ | of him | αυτου | | | eius | ejus | of him | — | — | αὐτοῦ | of him | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | ܘܤܡܘ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἔθηκαν | laid | εθηκαν | | | posuerunt | posuerunt | laid | — | — | ἔθηκαν | laid | ||||||
| — | αὐτὸ | it | αυτο | | | illud | illud | it | ܒܒܝܬ | it | αὐτὸ | it | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | in | in | in | — | — | ἐν | in | ||||||
| — | τῷ | <the> | τω | | | — | — | — | — | — | μνημείῳ | <the> | ||||||
| — | μνημείῳ.¶ | a tomb. | μνημειω | | | monumento | monumento | a tomb. | ܩܒܘܪܐ | a tomb. | μνημείῳ.¶ | a tomb. | ||||||
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