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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ἰδοὺ | Behold | ϊδου | | | ecce | Ecce | Behold | ܗܐ | behold | Ἰδού | Behold | ||||||
| — | προείρηκα | I have foretold it | προειρηκα | | | praedixi | prædixi | I have foretold it | ܩܕܡܬ | I have foretold it | προείρηκα | I have foretold it | ||||||
| — | ὑμῖν. | to you. | ϋμειν | | | uobis | vobis | to you. | ܐܡܪܬ | to you. | ὑμῖν | to you. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 25:8 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||