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 | ||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||
πρωιP45 | Early | πρωῒ | Early | πρωι | | | mane | Mane | Early | ܒܨܦܪܐ | Early | Πρωΐας | Early | |||||
δεP45 | then | δὲ | then | δε | | | autem | autem | then | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | then | |||||
επαναγωνP45 | he is coming back | ἐπανάγων | he is coming back | — | | | transiens | revertens | he is coming back | ܟܕ | he is coming back | ἐπανάγων | he is coming back | |||||
εισP45 | into | εἰς | into | εις | | | in | in | into | ܗܦܟ | into | εἰς | into | |||||
τηνP45 | the | τὴν | the | την | | | — | — | — | — | — | τὴν | the | |||||
πολινP45 | city | πόλιν | city | πολιν | | | ciuitatem | civitatem | city | ܠܡܕܝܢܬܐ | city | πόλιν | city | |||||
επεινασενP45 | He became hungry, | ἐπείνασεν, | He became hungry, | επεινασεν | | | esuriit | esuriit | He became hungry, | ܟܦܢ | He became hungry, | ἐπείνασεν | He became hungry, | |||||
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