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 | ܘܐܫܠܚܘܗܝ | And | καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἐκδύσαντες | having stripped | — | | | uestientes | exuentes | having stripped | — | — | ἐκδύσαντες | having stripped | ||||||
| — | αὐτὸν | Him | αυτον | | | eum | eum | Him | ܘܐܠܒܫܘܗܝ | Him | αὐτόν | Him | ||||||
| — | χλαμύδα | a robe | χλαμυδαν | | | chlamydem | chlamydem | a robe | — | — | περιέθηκαν | a robe | ||||||
| — | κοκκίνην | scarlet | κοκκινην | | | coccineam | coccineam | scarlet | ܟܠܡܝܤ | scarlet | αὐτῷ | scarlet | ||||||
| — | περιέθηκαν | they put around | περιεθηκαν | | | circumdederunt | circumdederunt | they put around | — | — | χλαμύδα | they put around | ||||||
| — | αὐτῷ, | Him, | αυτω | | | ei | ei | Him, | ܕܙܚܘܪܝܬܐ | Him, | κοκκίνην | Him, | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 27:62 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||