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 | |||||||
| — | κρίνετε | do judge | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | judicare | do judge | ܬܕܘܢܘܢ | do judge | κρίνετε | do judge | |||||||
| — | ἵνα | that | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | ut | that | — | — | ἵνα | that | |||||||
| — | μὴ | not | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | non | not | ܕܠܐ | not | μὴ | not | |||||||
| — | κριθῆτε· | you may be judged; | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | judicemini | you may be judged; | ܬܬܕܝܢܘܢ | you may be judged; | κριθῆτε | you may be judged; | |||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 10:13 | Resumes at 9:2 | ||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||