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 | ||||||||||||
| — | καὶ | And | και | | | et | Et | And | ܘܩܡ | And | Καὶ | And | ||||||
| — | ἐγερθεὶς | having arisen | εγερθεις | | | surgens | surrexit | having arisen | — | — | ἐγερθεὶς | having arisen | ||||||
| — | ἀπῆλθεν | he went away | απηλθεν | | | — | et | he went away | — | — | ἀπῆλθεν | he went away | ||||||
| — | εἰς | to | εις | | | abiit | abiit | to | ܐܙܠ | to | εἰς | to | ||||||
| — | τὸν | the | τον | | | in | — | — | — | — | τὸν | the | ||||||
| — | οἶκον | house | οικον | | | domum | domum | house | — | — | οἶκον | house | ||||||
| — | αὐτοῦ. | of him. | αυτου | | | suam | suam | of him. | ܠܒܝܬܗ | of him. | αὐτοῦ | of him. | ||||||
| Next Fragment: Matt 10:13 | |||||||||||||||||
| See 65 Earliest Papyri | |||||||||||||||||