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 | ||||||||||||
| — | Σίμων | Simon | — | | | simon | Simon | Simon | ܘܫܡܥܘܢ | Simon | Σίμων | Simon | ||||||
| — | ὁ | the | — | | | scariotes | — | — | — | — | ὁ | the | ||||||
| — | Καναναῖος | Zealot | — | | | chananaeus | Chananæus | Zealot | ܩܢܢܝܐ | Zealot | Κανανίτης | Zealot | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | — | — | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | Ἰούδας | Judas | — | | | iudas | Judas | Judas | ܘܝܗܘܕܐ | Judas | Ἰούδας | Judas | ||||||
| — | ὁ | <the> | ο | | | — | — | — | — | — | Ἰσκαριώτης | <the> | ||||||
| — | Ἰσκαριώτης | Iscariot | — | | | et | Iscariotes | Iscariot | ܤܟܪܝܘܛܐ | Iscariot | ὁ | Iscariot | ||||||
| — | ὁ | the one | — | | | qui | — | — | — | — | καὶ | the one | ||||||
| — | καὶ | also | και | | | et | et | also | — | — | παραδοὺς | also | ||||||
| — | παραδοὺς | having betrayed | παραδους | | | tradidit | tradidit | betrayed | ܗܘ | having betrayed | αὐτόν | having betrayed | ||||||
| — | αὐτόν.¶ | Him. | αυτον | | | eum | eum | him | ܕܐܫܠܡܗ | Him. | αὐτόν.¶ | Him. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 10:13 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||