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 | ܘܦܩܕ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | παραγγείλας | He having commanded | — | | | cum | præcepit | He having commanded | ܠܟܢܫܐ | He having commanded | ἐκέλευσεν | He having commanded | ||||||
| — | τῷ | to the | τω | | | terram | — | — | — | — | τοῖς | to the | ||||||
| — | ὄχλῳ | crowd | οχλω | | | turbas | turbæ | crowd | — | — | ὄχλοις | crowd | ||||||
| — | ἀναπεσεῖν | to sit down | αναπεσιν | | | — | ut discumberent | to recline | ܕܢܤܬܡܟܘܢ | to sit down | ἀναπεσεῖν | to sit down | ||||||
| — | ἐπὶ | on | επι | | | discumbere | super | upon | ܥܠ | on | ἐπὶ | on | ||||||
| — | τὴν | the | την | | | iussisset | — | — | — | — | τὴν | the | ||||||
| — | γῆν | ground | γην | | | supra | terram | the ground | ܐܪܥܐ | ground | γῆν | ground | ||||||
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| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||