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 | ||||||||||||
| — | πολλοὶ | Many | πολλοι | | | multi | Multi | Many | ܤܓܝܐܝܢ | Many | Πολλοὶ | Many | ||||||
| — | γάρ | for | γαρ | | | enim | enim | for | ܓܝܪ | for | γάρ | for | ||||||
| — | εἰσιν | are | εισιν | | | sunt | sunt | are | ܓܝܪ | are | εἰσιν | are | ||||||
| — | κλητοί, | called, | κλητοι | | | uocati | vocati | called, | — | — | κλητοί | called, | ||||||
| — | ὀλίγοι | few | ολιγοι | | | pauci | pauci | few | ܩܪܝܐ | few | ὀλίγοι | few | ||||||
| — | δὲ | however | δε | | | autem | vero | however | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | however | ||||||
| — | ἐκλεκτοί.¶ | chosen. | εκλεκτοι | | | electi | electi | chosen. | ܓܒܝܐ | chosen. | ἐκλεκτοί | chosen. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 23:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||