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 | ܘܩܪܐ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | προσκαλεσάμενος | having called to Him | προσκαλεσαμενος | | | aduocans | advocans | having called to Him | — | — | προσκαλεσάμενος | having called to Him | ||||||
| — | ὁ | <the> | ο | | | puerum | — | — | — | — | ὁ | <the> | ||||||
| — | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | — | | | ihs | Jesus | Jesus | ܝܫܘܥ | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | ||||||
| — | παιδίον | a child | παιδιον | | | unum | parvulum | a child | — | — | παιδίον | a child | ||||||
| — | ἔστησεν | He set | — | | | statuit | statuit | He set | ܛܠܝܐ | He set | ἔστησεν | He set | ||||||
| — | αὐτὸ | it | — | | | illum | eum | it | — | — | αὐτὸ | it | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | in | in | in | ܘܐܩܝܡܗ | in | ἐν | in | ||||||
| — | μέσῳ | midst | μεσω | | | medio | medio | midst | — | — | μέσῳ | midst | ||||||
| — | αὐτῶν | of them | αυτων | | | eorum | eorum | of them | ܒܝܢܬܗܘܢ | of them | αὐτῶν | of them | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 18:15 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||