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 | ܘܪܕܘ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | διαπεράσαντες | having crossed over | διαπερασαντες | | | cum | cum | having crossed over | — | — | διαπεράσαντες | having crossed over | ||||||
| — | ἦλθον | they came | ηλθον | | | transfretassent | transfretassent | they came | ܘܐܬܘ | they came | ἦλθον | they came | ||||||
| — | εἰς | into | — | | | uenerunt | venerunt | into | — | — | εἰς | into | ||||||
| — | τὴν | the | την | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὴν | the | ||||||
| — | γῆν | land | γην | | | in | in | land | ܠܐܪܥܐ | land | γῆν | land | ||||||
| — | εἰς | of | εις | | | terram | terram | of | — | — | Γεννησαρέτ | of | ||||||
| — | Γεννησαρέτ. | Gennesaret. | γεννησαρ | | | gennasar | Genesar | Gennesaret. | ܕܓܢܤܪ | Gennesaret. | Γεννησαρέτ. | Gennesaret. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 17:1 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||