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 | ||||||||||||
| — | Ἐν | At | εν | | | in | In | At | ܒܗܘ | At | Ἐν | At | ||||||
| — | ἐκείνῳ | that very | εκεινω | | | illo | illo | that very | ܕܝܢ | that very | ἐκείνῳ | that very | ||||||
| — | τῷ | <the> | τω | | | autem | — | — | — | — | τῷ | <the> | ||||||
| — | καιρῷ | time | καιρω | | | tempore | tempore | time | ܙܒܢܐ | time | καιρῷ | time | ||||||
| — | ἤκουσεν | heard | ηκουσεν | | | audiuit | audivit | heard | ܫܡܥ | heard | ἤκουσεν | heard | ||||||
| — | Ἡρῴδης | Herod | ηρωδης | | | herodes | Herodes | Herod | ܗܪܘܕܤ | Herod | Ἡρῴδης | Herod | ||||||
| — | ὁ | the | ο | | | — | — | — | — | — | ὁ | the | ||||||
| — | τετραάρχης | tetrarch | — | | | tetrarcha | tetrarcha | tetrarch | ܛܛܪܪܟܐ | tetrarch | τετράρχης | tetrarch | ||||||
| — | τὴν | the | την | | | opinionem | — | — | — | — | τὴν | the | ||||||
| — | ἀκοὴν | news | ακοην | | | — | famam | news | ܫܡܥܗ | news | ἀκοὴν | news | ||||||
| — | Ἰησοῦ | of Jesus | ιηυ | | | ihu | Jesu | of Jesus | ܕܝܫܘܥ | of Jesus | Ἰησοῦ | of Jesus | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 14:3 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||