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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ὕστερον | Finally | ϋστερον | | | nouissime | Novissime | Finally | ܒܚܪܬܐ | Finally | Ὕστερον | Finally | ||||||
| — | δὲ | then | δε | | | autem | autem | then | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | then | ||||||
| — | πάντων | of all | παντων | | | omnium | omnium | of all | ܕܟܠܗܘܢ | of all | πάντων | of all | ||||||
| — | ἀπέθανεν | died | απεθανεν | | | et | et | died | ܡܝܬܬ | died | ἀπέθανεν | died | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | mulier | mulier | and | ܐܦ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἡ | the | η | | | mortua | — | — | — | — | ἡ | the | ||||||
| — | γυνή. | woman. | γυνη | | | est | est | woman. | ܐܢܬܬܐ | woman. | γυνή | woman. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 23:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||