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 | ||||||||||||
καιP45 · P84 | And | καὶ | And | και | | | et | Et | And | ܘܐܤܬܡܟܘ | And | Καὶ | And | |||||
ανεπεσανP45 · P84 | they sat down | ἀνέπεσαν | they sat down | — | | | discubuerunt | discubuerunt | they sat down | ܤܡܟܝܢ | they sat down | ἀνέπεσον | they sat down | |||||
πρασιαιP45 · P84 | groups | πρασιαὶ | groups | πρασιαι | | | in | in | groups | — | — | πρασιαὶ | groups | |||||
πρασιαιP45 · P84 | by groups | πρασιαὶ | by groups | πρασιαι | | | partes | partes | by groups | ܤܡܟܝܢ | by groups | πρασιαί | by groups | |||||
κατὰP45 · P84 | by | κατὰ | by | κατα | | | per | — | — | ܕܡܐܐ | by | ἀνὰ | by | |||||
ἑκατὸνP45 · P84 | hundreds | ἑκατὸν | hundreds | — | | | per | per | hundreds | ܡܐܐ | hundreds | ἑκατὸν | hundreds | |||||
καὶP45 · P84 | and | καὶ | and | και | | | c | centenos | and | — | — | καὶ | and | |||||
κατὰP45 · P84 | by | κατὰ | by | κατα | | | et | et | by | ܘܕܚܡܫܝܢ | by | ἀνὰ | by | |||||
πεντήκοντα.P45 · P84 | fifties. | πεντήκοντα. | fifties. | πεντηκοντα | | | l | quinquagenos | fifties. | ܚܡܫܝܢ | fifties. | πεντήκοντα | fifties. | |||||
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