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 | ||||||||||||
| — | διδάσκαλε, | Teacher, | διδασκαλε | | | magister | Magister | Teacher, | ܡܠܦܢܐ | Teacher, | Διδάσκαλε | Teacher, | ||||||
| — | ποία | which | ποια | | | quod | quod | which | ܐܝܢܐ | which | ποία | which | ||||||
| — | ἐντολὴ | commandment | εντολη | | | et | est | commandment | — | — | ἐντολὴ | commandment | ||||||
| — | μεγάλη | is the greatest | — | | | mandatum | mandatum | is the greatest | ܦܘܩܕܢܐ | is the greatest | μεγάλη | is the greatest | ||||||
| — | ἐν | in | εν | | | — | magnum | in | ܪܒ | in | ἐν | in | ||||||
| — | τῷ | the | τω | | | in | — | — | — | — | τῷ | the | ||||||
| — | νόμῳ; | law? | νομω | | | lege | lege | law? | ܒܢܡܘܤܐ | law? | νόμῳ | law? | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 23:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||