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 | ||||||||||||
| — | αὕτη | This | αυτη | | | hoc | Hoc | This | ܗܢܘ | This | Αὕτη | This | ||||||
| — | ἐστὶν | is | εστιν | | | est | est | is | — | — | ἐστὶν | is | ||||||
| — | ἡ | the | — | | | magnum | — | — | — | — | πρώτη | the | ||||||
| — | μεγάλη | great | μεγαλη | | | — | maximum | great | ܦܘܩܕܢܐ | great | καὶ | great | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | ܪܒܐ | and | μεγάλη | and | ||||||
| — | πρώτη | first | πρωτη | | | primum | primum | first | — | — | ἐντολή | first | ||||||
| — | ἐντολή. | commandment. | εντολη | | | mandatum | mandatum | commandment. | ܘܩܕܡܝܐ | commandment. | ἐντολή. | commandment. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 23:30 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||