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 | | | et | et | And | ܘܛܘܒܘܗܝ | And | καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | μακάριός | blessed | μακαριος | | | beatus | beatus | blessed | — | — | μακάριός | blessed | ||||||
| — | ἐστιν | is | εστιν | | | est | est | is | ܠܐܝܢܐ | is | ἐστιν | is | ||||||
| — | ὃς | he who | ος | | | quicumque | qui | he who | — | — | ὃς | he who | ||||||
| — | ἐὰν | only | — | | | non | non | only | ܕܠܐ | only | ἐὰν | only | ||||||
| — | μὴ | unless | μη | | | — | fuerit | unless | — | — | μὴ | unless | ||||||
| — | σκανδαλισθῇ | shall fall away | σκανδαλισθη | | | scandalizatur | scandalizatus | shall fall away | ܢܬܟܫܠ | shall fall away | σκανδαλισθῇ | shall fall away | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | in | in | in | — | — | ἐν | in | ||||||
| — | ἐμοί.¶ | Me myself. | εμοι | | | me | me | Me myself. | ܒܝ | Me myself. | ἐμοί | Me myself. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 11:26 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||