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 | ||||||||||||
| — | διὸ | Therefore | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Propter | Therefore | ܡܛܠ | Therefore | Διὸ | Therefore | |||||||
| — | ἐκλήθη | was called | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | hoc | was called | ܗܢܐ | was called | ἐκλήθη | was called | |||||||
| — | ὁ | the | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | ὁ | the | |||||||
| — | ἀγρὸς | field | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | est | field | ܐܬܩܪܝ | field | ἀγρὸς | field | |||||||
| — | ἐκεῖνος | that | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | ager | that | ܐܓܘܪܤܐ | that | ἐκεῖνος | that | |||||||
| — | ἀγρὸς | Field | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | ille | Field | ܗܘ | Field | Ἀγρὸς | Field | |||||||
| — | αἵματος | of Blood | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Haceldama | of Blood | ܩܪܝܬܐ | of Blood | Αἵματος | of Blood | |||||||
| — | ἕως | until | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | hoc | until | ܕܕܡܐ | until | ἕως | until | |||||||
| — | τῆς | <the> | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | τῆς | <the> | |||||||
| — | σήμερον.¶ | this day. | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Ager | this day. | ܥܕܡܐ | this day. | σήμερον | this day. | |||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 27:62 | Resumes at 27:12 | ||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||