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 | — | | | et | Et | And | ܘܐܡܪ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | λέγει | He says | λεγει | | | dicit | ait | He says | ܠܗܘܢ | He says | λέγει | He says | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῖς· | to them; | αυτοις | | | — | illis | to them; | ܝܫܘܥ | to them; | αὐτοῖς | to them; | ||||||
| — | τίνος | Of whom is | τινος | | | ihs | Jesus | Of whom is | — | — | Τίνος | Of whom is | ||||||
| — | ἡ | <the> | η | | | cuius | — | — | — | — | ἡ | <the> | ||||||
| — | εἰκὼν | likeness | εικων | | | eis | est | likeness | ܕܡܢܘ | likeness | εἰκὼν | likeness | ||||||
| — | αὕτη | this | αυτη | | | imago | imago | this | ܨܠܡܐ | this | αὕτη | this | ||||||
| — | καὶ | And | και | | | haec | hæc | And | ܗܢܐ | And | καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἡ | of whom is the | η | | | — | — | — | — | — | ἡ | of whom is the | ||||||
| — | ἐπιγραφή; | inscription? | επιγραφη | | | inscriptio | superscriptio | inscription? | ܘܟܬܒܐ | inscription? | ἐπιγραφή | inscription? | ||||||
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| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||