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 | ||||||||||||
| — | λέγοντες· | saying; | λεγοντες | | | — | dicentes | saying; | ܘܐܡܪܝܢ | saying; | λέγοντες | saying; | ||||||
| — | προφήτευσον | do prophesy | προφητευσον | | | — | Prophetiza | do prophesy | ܐܬܢܒܐ | do prophesy | Προφήτευσον | do prophesy | ||||||
| — | ἡμῖν, | to us, | ημειν | | | — | nobis | to us, | ܠܢ | to us, | ἡμῖν | to us, | ||||||
| — | χριστέ, | Christ, | — | | | — | Christe | Christ, | — | — | χριστέ | Christ, | ||||||
| — | τίς | who | τις | | | — | quis | who | ܡܫܝܚܐ | who | Τίς | who | ||||||
| — | ἐστιν | is | εστιν | | | — | est | is | ܡܢܘ | is | ἐστιν | is | ||||||
| — | ὁ | the one | ο | | | — | — | — | — | — | ὁ | the one | ||||||
| — | παίσας | having struck | παισας | | | — | te | having struck | ܗܘ | having struck | παίσας | having struck | ||||||
| — | σε;¶ | You? | σε | | | — | percussit | You? | ܕܡܚܟ | You? | σε | You? | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 27:62 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||