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 | ||||||||||||
| — | οἱ | Those | — | | | &om; | — | — | — | — | Οἱ | Those | ||||||
| — | δὲ | then | — | | | — | autem | then | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | then | ||||||
| — | ἐσθίοντες | eating | — | | | — | qui manducaverunt | who ate | ܕܐܟܠܘ | eating | ἐσθίοντες | eating | ||||||
| — | ἦσαν | were | — | | | exceptis | Erant | were | ܗܘܝܢ | were | ἦσαν | were | ||||||
| — | τετρακισχίλιοι | four thousand | — | | | — | quatuor millia | four thousand | ܗܘܘ | four thousand | τετρακισχίλιοι | four thousand | ||||||
| — | ἄνδρες | men | — | | | infantibus | hominum | men | ܐܪܒܥܐ | men | ἄνδρες | men | ||||||
| — | χωρὶς | besides | χωρις | | | — | extra | besides | ܐܠܦܝܢ | besides | χωρὶς | besides | ||||||
| — | γυναικῶν | women | — | | | — | mulieres | women | ܓܒܪܐ | women | γυναικῶν | women | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | — | | | mulieribus | et | and | ܤܛܪ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | παιδίων.¶ | children. | παιδιων | | | et | parvulos | children | ܡܢ | children. | παιδίων | children. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 17:1 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||