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 | ||||||||||||
| — | Ἰδὼν | Having seen | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Videns | Having seen | ܟܕ | Having seen | Ἰδὼν | Having seen | |||||||
| — | δὲ | now | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | autem | now | ܕܝܢ | but | δὲ | now | |||||||
| — | ὁ | <the> | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | ὁ | <the> | |||||||
| — | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | Jesus | Jesus | ܕܝܢ | Jesus | Ἰησοῦς | Jesus | |||||||
| — | πολλοὺς | great | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | turbas | great | ܝܫܘܥ | great | πολλοὺς | great | |||||||
| — | ὄχλον | crowd | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | multas | crowd | ܟܢܫܐ | crowd | ὄχλους | crowd | |||||||
| — | περὶ | around | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | circum | around | ܤܓܝܐܐ | around | περὶ | around | |||||||
| — | αὐτὸν | Him | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | se | Him | ܕܚܕܝܪܝܢ | Him | αὐτόν | Him | |||||||
| — | ἐκέλευσεν | He commanded | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | jussit | He commanded | ܠܗ | He commanded | ἐκέλευσεν | He commanded | |||||||
| — | ἀπελθεῖν | to depart | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | ire | to depart | ܦܩܕ | to depart | ἀπελθεῖν | to depart | |||||||
| — | εἰς | to | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | trans | to | ܕܢܐܙܠܘܢ | to | εἰς | to | |||||||
| — | τὸ | the | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | — | — | — | — | τὸ | the | |||||||
| — | πέραν. | other side. | MS lacuna | MS lacuna | fretum | other side. | ܠܥܒܪܐ | other side. | πέραν | other side. | |||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 10:13 | Resumes at 9:2 | ||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||