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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ὁ | The one | ο | | | qui | — | — | — | — | Ὁ | The one | ||||||
| — | ἔχων | having | εχων | | | habet | habet | having | ܕܐܝܬ | having | ἔχων | having | ||||||
| — | ὦτα | ears | ωτα | | | aures | aures | ears | ܠܗ | ears | ὦτα | ears | ||||||
| — | ἀκουέτω.¶ | he should hear. | ακουετω | | | audiat | audiendi | he should hear. | ܐܕܢܐ | he should hear. | ἀκούειν | he should hear. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 11:26 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||