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 | — | | | comminatus | et | and | ܘܟܐܐ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἐπετίμησεν | He warned | — | | | est | præcepit | He warned | — | — | ἐπετίμησεν | He warned | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῖς | them | αυτοις | | | eis | eis | them | ܒܗܘܢ | them | αὐτοῖς | them | ||||||
| — | ἵνα | that | ϊνα | | | — | — | — | — | — | ἵνα | that | ||||||
| — | μὴ | not | μη | | | ut | ne | not | — | — | μὴ | not | ||||||
| — | φανερὸν | known | φανερον | | | manifestarent | manifestum | known | ܕܠܐ | known | φανερὸν | known | ||||||
| — | αὐτὸν | Him | αυτον | | | eum | eum | Him | — | — | αὐτὸν | Him | ||||||
| — | ποιήσωσιν, | they may make — | ποιησωσιν | | | non | facerent | they may make — | ܢܓܠܘܢܝܗܝ | they may make — | ποιήσωσιν | they may make — | ||||||
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