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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ταῦτά | These | ταυτα | | | haec | hæc | These | ܗܠܝܢ | These | ταῦτά | These | ||||||
| — | ἐστιν | are | — | | | sunt | sunt | are | ܐܢܝܢ | are | ἐστιν | are | ||||||
| — | τὰ | those | τα | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὰ | those | ||||||
| — | κοινοῦντα | defiling | — | | | quae | quæ coinquinant | that defile | ܕܡܤܝܒܢ | defiling | κοινοῦντα | defiling | ||||||
| — | τὸν | the | τον | | | hominem | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | ||||||
| — | ἄνθρωπον· | man; | ανθρωπον | | | communicant | hominem | a man | ܠܒܪܢܫܐ | man; | ἄνθρωπον | man; | ||||||
| — | τὸ | that which | το | | | in | — | — | — | — | τὸ | that which | ||||||
| — | δὲ | but | δε | | | hominem | Non autem | but not | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | but | ||||||
| — | ἀνίπτοις | with unwashed | ανειπτοις | | | non | lotis | washed | ܐܢܫ | with unwashed | ἀνίπτοις | with unwashed | ||||||
| — | χερσὶν | hands | χερσιν | | | lotis | manibus | hands | ܕܝܢ | hands | χερσὶν | hands | ||||||
| — | φαγεῖν | to eat | φαγειν | | | autem | manducare | to eat | ܢܠܥܤ | to eat | φαγεῖν | to eat | ||||||
| — | οὐ | not | ου | | | manibus | non | not | ܟܕ | not | οὐ | not | ||||||
| — | κοινοῖ | it defiles | — | | | manducare | coinquinat | defiles | ܠܐ | it defiles | κοινοῖ | it defiles | ||||||
| — | τὸν | the | τον | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | ||||||
| — | ἄνθρωπον.¶ | man. | ανθρωπον | | | communicat | hominem | a man | ܡܫܓܢ | man. | ἄνθρωπον | man. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 17:1 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||