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 | | | quisquis | Et | And | ܘܢܤܒ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | λαβὼν | having taken | λαβων | | | me | accipiens | having taken | ܛܠܝܐ | having taken | λαβὼν | having taken | ||||||
| — | παιδίον | a child | παιδιον | | | ex | puerum | a child | — | — | παιδίον | a child | ||||||
| — | ἔστησεν | He set | εστησεν | | | huiusmodi | statuit | He set | ܚܕ | He set | ἔστησεν | He set | ||||||
| — | αὐτὸ | it | αυτον | | | pueris | eum | it | ܘܐܩܝܡܗ | it | αὐτὸ | it | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | receperit | in | in | ܒܡܨܥܬܐ | in | ἐν | in | ||||||
| — | μέσῳ | midst | μεσω | | | in | medio | midst | — | — | μέσῳ | midst | ||||||
| — | αὐτῶν, | of them, | αυτων | | | nomine | eorum | of them, | ܘܫܩܠܗ | of them, | αὐτῶν | of them, | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | meo | quem | and | ܥܠ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἐναγκαλισάμενος | having taken in His arms | — | | | me | cum | having taken in His arms | ܕܪܥܘܗܝ | having taken in His arms | ἐναγκαλισάμενος | having taken in His arms | ||||||
| — | αὐτὸ | it | αυτο | | | recipit | complexus | it | — | — | αὐτό | it | ||||||
| — | εἶπεν | He said | ειπεν | | | et | esset | He said | ܘܐܡܪ | He said | εἶπεν | He said | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῖς· | to them; | αυτοις | | | quicumque | ait illis | to them; | ܠܗܘܢ | to them; | αὐτοῖς | to them; | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Mark 11:27 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||