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 | και | | | et | et | and | ܘܢܫܪܐ | and | καὶ | and | ||||||
| — | ἄρξηται | may begin | αρξηται | | | incipiat | cœperit | may begin | ܠܡܡܚܐ | may begin | ἄρξηται | may begin | ||||||
| — | τύπτειν | to beat | τυπτειν | | | — | percutere | to beat | — | — | τύπτειν | to beat | ||||||
| — | τοὺς | the | τους | | | — | — | — | — | — | τοὺς | the | ||||||
| — | συνδούλους | fellow servants | συνδουλους | | | conseruos | conservos | fellow servants | ܟܢܘܬܗ | fellow servants | συνδούλους | fellow servants | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῦ, | of him, | αυτου | | | suos | suos | of him, | ܘܢܗܘܐ | of him, | ἐσθίειν | of him, | ||||||
| — | ἐσθίῃ | he may eat | εσθιη | | | manducet | manducet | he may eat | — | — | δὲ | he may eat | ||||||
| — | δὲ | then | δε | | | autem | autem | then | ܕܝܢ | but | καὶ | then | ||||||
| — | καὶ | and | και | | | et | et | and | ܘܫܬܐ | and | πίνειν | and | ||||||
| — | πίνῃ | he may drink | πεινη | | | bibat | bibat | he may drink | — | — | μετὰ | he may drink | ||||||
| — | μετὰ | with | μετα | | | cum | cum | with | ܥܡ | with | τῶν | with | ||||||
| — | τῶν | those | των | | | caedere | — | — | — | — | μεθυόντων | those | ||||||
| — | μεθυόντων, | being drunkards, | μεθυοντων | | | ebriosis | ebriosis | being drunkards, | ܪܘܝܐ | being drunkards, | μεθυόντων, | being drunkards, | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 25:8 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||