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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ἦσαν | There were | ησαν | | | erant | Erant | There were | ܐܝܬܝܗܘܢ | There were | Ἦσαν | There were | ||||||
| — | δὲ | now | δε | | | autem | autem | now | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | now | ||||||
| — | οἱ | <the> | οι | | | qui | — | — | — | — | οἱ | <the> | ||||||
| — | φαγόντες | having eaten of | φαγοντες | | | manducauerant | manducaverunt | having eaten of | ܕܝܢ | having eaten of | φαγόντες | having eaten of | ||||||
| — | ὡς | about | ως | | | ·ad | quasi | about | ܐܢܫܐ | about | ὡς | about | ||||||
| — | τετρακισχίλιοι· | four thousand; | τετρακισχειλιοι | | | iiii | quatuor | four thousand; | ܕܐܟܠܘ | four thousand; | τετρακισχίλιοι | four thousand; | ||||||
| — | καὶ | And | και | | | milia | millia | And | ܐܝܟ | And | καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἀπέλυσεν | He sent away | απελυσεν | | | et | et | He sent away | ܐܪܒܥܐ | He sent away | ἀπέλυσεν | He sent away | ||||||
| — | αὐτούς.¶ | them. | αυτους | | | dimisit | dimisit | them. | ܐܠܦܝܢ | them. | αὐτούς | them. | ||||||
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