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 | ||||||||||||
| — | μὴ | Not | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Nolite | Not | ܠܐ | Not | Μὴ | Not | |||||||
| — | οὖν | therefore | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | ergo | therefore | ܗܟܝܠ | therefore | οὖν | therefore | |||||||
| — | μεριμνήσητε | shall you be anxious | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | solliciti | shall you be anxious | ܬܐܨܦܘܢ | shall you be anxious | μεριμνήσητε | shall you be anxious | |||||||
| — | λέγοντες· | saying; | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | esse | saying; | ܐܘ | saying; | λέγοντες | saying; | |||||||
| — | τί | What | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | dicentes | What | ܬܐܡܪܘܢ | What | Τί | What | |||||||
| — | φάγωμεν | shall we eat | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Quid | shall we eat | ܡܢܐ | shall we eat | φάγωμεν | shall we eat | |||||||
| — | ἢ | Or | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | ἢ | Or | |||||||
| — | τί | what | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | aut | what | ܐܘ | what | τί | what | |||||||
| — | πίωμεν | shall we drink | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | quid | shall we drink | ܡܢܐ | shall we drink | πίωμεν | shall we drink | |||||||
| — | ἢ | Or | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | ἢ | Or | |||||||
| — | τί | what | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | aut | what | ܐܘ | what | τί | what | |||||||
| — | περιβαλώμεθα; | shall we wear? | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | quo | shall we wear? | ܡܢܐ | shall we wear? | περιβαλώμεθα | shall we wear? | |||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 10:13 | Resumes at 9:2 | ||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||