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 | ||||||||||||
| — | Ταῦτα | These things | ταυτα | | | haec | Hæc | These things | ܗܠܝܢ | These things | Ταῦτα | These things | ||||||
| — | πάντα | all | παντα | | | omnia | omnia | all | ܟܠܗܝܢ | all | πάντα | all | ||||||
| — | ἐλάλησεν | spoke | — | | | locutus | locutus est | spoke | ܡܠܠ | spoke | ἐλάλησεν | spoke | ||||||
| — | ὁ | <the> | ο | | | — | — | — | — | — | ὁ | <the> | ||||||
| — | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | — | | | ihs | Jesus | Jesus | ܝܫܘܥ | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | in | in | in | ܒܦܠܐܬܐ | in | ἐν | in | ||||||
| — | παραβολαῖς | parables | παραβολαις | | | parabolis | parabolis | parables | ܠܟܢܫܐ | parables | παραβολαῖς | parables | ||||||
| — | τοῖς | to the | τοις | | | est | — | — | — | — | τοῖς | to the | ||||||
| — | ὄχλοις | crowds | οχλοις | | | turbis | turbas | crowds | — | — | ὄχλοις | crowds | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | ܘܕܠܐ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | χωρὶς | without | χωρις | | | sine | sine | without | ܦܠܐܬܐ | without | χωρὶς | without | ||||||
| — | παραβολῆς | a parable | παραβολης | | | parabola | parabolis | a parable | ܠܐ | a parable | παραβολῆς | a parable | ||||||
| — | οὐδὲν | no thing | — | | | non | non | no thing | ܡܡܠܠ | no thing | οὐκ | no thing | ||||||
| — | ἐλάλει | He was speaking | ελαλει | | | loquebatur | loquebatur | He was speaking | ܗܘܐ | He was speaking | ἐλάλει | He was speaking | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῖς, | to them, | αυτοις | | | eis | eis | to them, | ܥܡܗܘܢ | to them, | αὐτοῖς | to them, | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 13:55 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||