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 | | | uenissent | et | And | ܘܟܕ | And | Ἐλθόντες | And | ||||||
| — | ἐλθόντες | having come | ελθοντες | | | autem | Venientes | having come | ܐܬܘ | having come | δὲ | having come | ||||||
| — | δὲ | now | — | | | et | autem | now | ܕܝܢ | but | οἱ | now | ||||||
| — | οἱ | the | οι | | | primi | — | — | — | — | πρῶτοι | the | ||||||
| — | πρῶτοι | first | πρωτοι | | | cum | primi | first | ܩܕܡܝܐ | first | ἐνόμισαν | first | ||||||
| — | ἐνόμισαν | they thought | ενομισαν | | | — | arbitrati sunt | they thought | ܤܒܪܘ | they thought | ὅτι | they thought | ||||||
| — | ὅτι | that | οτι | | | quod | quod | that | ܕܝܬܝܪ | that | πλείονα | that | ||||||
| — | πλεῖον | more | — | | | plus | plus | more | — | — | λήψονται | more | ||||||
| — | λήμψονται· | they will receive; | λημψονται | | | — | essent accepturi | they will receive; | ܫܩܠܝܢ | they will receive; | καὶ | they will receive; | ||||||
| — | καὶ | but | — | | | acciperent | autem | but | ܘܫܩܠܘ | but | ἔλαβον | but | ||||||
| — | ἔλαβον | they received | ελαβον | | | acceperunt | acceperunt | they received | — | — | καὶ | they received | ||||||
| — | τὸ | those | — | | | — | — | — | — | — | αὐτοὶ | those | ||||||
| — | ἀνὰ | each | — | | | — | singulos | each | ܕܝܢܪ | each | ἀνὰ | each | ||||||
| — | δηνάριον | a denarius | — | | | sperauerunt | denarios | a denarius | ܕܝܢܪ | a denarius | δηνάριον | a denarius | ||||||
| — | καὶ | also | και | | | singulos | et | also | ܐܦ | also | καὶ | also | ||||||
| — | αὐτοί. | themselves. | αυτοι | | | denarios | ipsi | themselves. | ܗܢܘܢ | themselves. | αὐτοί. | themselves. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 20:23 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||