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 | ||||||||||||
| — | ἦν | He was | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Erat | He was | ܡܠܦ | He was | ἦν | He was | |||||||
| — | γὰρ | for | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | enim | for | ܓܝܪ | for | γὰρ | for | |||||||
| — | διδάσκων | teaching | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | docens | teaching | ܠܗܘܢ | teaching | διδάσκων | teaching | |||||||
| — | αὐτοὺς | them | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | eos | them | — | — | αὐτοὺς | them | |||||||
| — | ὡς | as | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | sicut | as | ܓܝܪ | as | ὡς | as | |||||||
| — | ἐξουσίαν | authority | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | potestatem | authority | ܐܝܟ | authority | ἐξουσίαν | authority | |||||||
| — | ἔχων | having | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | habens | having | ܡܫܠܛܐ | having | ἔχων | having | |||||||
| — | καὶ | and | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | et | and | ܘܠܐ | and | καὶ | and | |||||||
| — | οὐχ | not | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | non | not | — | — | οὐχ | not | |||||||
| — | ὡς | as | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | sicut | as | ܐܝܟ | as | ὡς | as | |||||||
| — | οἱ | the | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | οἱ | the | |||||||
| — | γραμματεῖς | scribes | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | scribæ | scribes | ܤܦܪܝܗܘܢ | scribes | γραμματεῖς | scribes | |||||||
| — | αὐτῶν.¶ | of them. | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | eorum | their | ܘܦܪܝܫܐ | of them. | αὐτῶν.¶ | of them. | |||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 10:13 | Resumes at 9:2 | ||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||