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 | ܘܒܫܡܗ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | in | in | in | — | — | τῷ | in | ||||||
| — | τῷ | in the | τω | | | — | — | — | — | — | ὀνόματι | in the | ||||||
| — | ὀνόματι | name | ονοματι | | | nomine | nomine | name | — | — | αὐτοῦ | name | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῦ | of Him | αυτου | | | eius | ejus | of Him | ܥܡܡܐ | of Him | ἔθνη | of Him | ||||||
| — | ἔθνη | the Gentiles | εθνη | | | gentes | gentes | the Gentiles | — | — | ἐλπιοῦσιν | the Gentiles | ||||||
| — | ἐλπιοῦσιν.¶ | will hope. | — | | | sperabunt | sperabunt | will hope. | ܢܤܒܪܘܢ | will hope. | ἐλπιοῦσιν.¶ | will hope. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 12:24 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||