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 | ||||||||||||
| — | πλὴν | But | πλην | | | uerumtamen | Verumtamen | But | ܒܪܡ | But | Πλὴν | But | ||||||
| — | λέγω | I say | λεγω | | | dico | dico | I say | ܐܡܪܢܐ | I say | λέγω | I say | ||||||
| — | ὑμῖν | to you | ϋμειν | | | uobis | vobis | to you | ܠܟܝ | to you | ὑμῖν | to you | ||||||
| — | ὅτι | that | οτι | | | quoniam | quia | that | — | — | ὅτι | that | ||||||
| — | γῇ | for the land | — | | | terrae | terræ | for the land | ܕܠܐܪܥܐ | for the land | γῇ | for the land | ||||||
| — | Σοδόμων | of Sodom | σοδομων | | | sodomum | Sodomorum | of Sodom | ܕܤܕܘܡ | of Sodom | Σοδόμων | of Sodom | ||||||
| — | ἀνεκτότερον | more tolerable | ανεκτοτερον | | | tolerabilius | remissius | more tolerable | ܢܗܘܐ | more tolerable | ἀνεκτότερον | more tolerable | ||||||
| — | ἔσται | will it be | εσται | | | erit | erit | will it be | ܢܝܚ | will it be | ἔσται | will it be | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | in | in | in | ܒܝܘܡܐ | in | ἐν | in | ||||||
| — | ἡμέρᾳ | day | ημερα | | | die | die | day | — | — | ἡμέρᾳ | day | ||||||
| — | κρίσεως | of judgment | κρισεως | | | iudicii | judicii | of judgment | ܕܕܝܢܐ | of judgment | κρίσεως | of judgment | ||||||
| — | ἢ | than | — | | | quam | — | — | — | — | ἢ | than | ||||||
| — | σοί.¶ | for you. | — | | | uobis | tibi | for you. | ܠܟܝ | for you. | σοί | for you. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 11:26 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||