| Bible Manuscripts by Date | Jan. 23, 2025 | |||
| Date | Name | Contents | ||
| 117-138 A.D. or 110-125 A.D. (The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts p.367) | p52 (John Rylands) (= Papyrii Rylands 457) | John 18:31-33, reverse side John 18:37-38 (5 verses) | ||
| 100-150 A.D. | p104 (=P. Oxyrhynchus 4404) | Matthew 21:34-37,43,45(?) Matthew 21:44 was not originally present (5 verses) | ||
| c.125 A.D. | p87 - handwriting is nearly identical to p46. | Philemon 13-15,24 (part),25b with gaps (3 verses) | ||
| 100-150 A.D. (Comfort) 81-96 A.D. (Young Kyu Kim) | p46 (=Chester Beatty II) | Romans 5:17-6:3; 6:5-14; 8:15-25,27-35; 8:37-9:32; 10:1-11:11; 11:24-33; 11:35-15:9; 15:11-16:27; Hebrews 1:1-9:16; 9:18-10:20,22-30; 10:32-13:25 (300/303 verses); 1 Corinthians 1:1-9:2; 9:4-14:14; 14:16-15:15; 15:17-16:22 (all but 5 verses); 2 Corinthians 1:1-11:10,12-21; 11:23-13:13 (all but 3 verses); Ephesians 1:1-2:7; 2:10-5:6; 5:8-6:6, 8-18, 20-24 (all but 5 verses); Galatians 1:1-8; 1:10-2:9, 12-21; 3:2-29; 4:2-18; 4:20-5:17; 5:20-6:8, 10-18 (all but 9 verses); Philippians 1:1, 5-15, 17-28; 1:30-2:12, 14-17; 2:29-3:8, 10-21; 4:2-12, 14-23 (all but 20 verses); Colossians 1:1-2, 5-13, 16-24; 1:27-2:19; 2:23-3:11, 13-24; 4:3-12, 16-18 (all but 16 verses); 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 1:9-2:3; 5:5-9,23-28 | ||
| It has 1,390 verses from Paul and 290 verses from Hebrews. This is 70% of the 2,389 verses in Paul and Hebrews. | ||||
| 100-150 A.D. (Hunger) or 125-175 A.D. (Philip Comfort and Barrett) c.200-250 A.D. (Turner due to broad delta, broad theta, narrow alpha, finial end on the crossbar of epsilon, apostrophe between double consonants like other third century manuscripts. However, we go with Hunger and Philip Comfort because second century manuscripts have been found with these features. This was discovered close to Nag Hamadi (second century). Hunger has found many late first and early second centuries manuscripts that are closer to p66 than 3rd century documents. | p66 (Bodmer II + Inv. NR4274/4296) 808.5 verses, which is 92% of the 879 verses in John | John 1:1-6:11; 6:35b-14:26, 29-30;15:2-26; 16:2-4, 6-7; 16:10-20:20; 20:22-23; 20:25-21:9; 21:12,17. (John 7:53-8:11 was never present) | ||
| c.170 A.D. | 212 | Tatian’s Diatessaron (Harmony of the Gospels) Matthew 27:56; 27:57; Mark 15:40; 15:42; Luke 23:40, 23:49b-c; Luke 23:50, 23:51a, 23:51b, 23:51c, 23:54; John 19:38 (10 verses) | ||
| c.175 A.D. | p90 (P. Oxyrhynchus 3523) | John 18:36-19:7 (12 verses) | ||
| 2nd century | p98 (P.IFAO Inv. 237b [+a] | Revelation 1:13-2:1 (9 verses) | ||
| Mid to Late 2nd century | p77/p103 (two leaves of the same manuscript) | Matthew 23:30-39; Matthew 13:55-57; 14:3-5 (10 + 6 verses) | ||
| 150-200 A.D. | p32 (P. Rylands 5) probably from Oxyrhynchus | Titus 1:1-15; 2:3-8 (21 verses) | ||
| late 2nd / early 3rd century (Comfort & Barrett), or c.300 A.D. | p38 (P. Michigan Inv. 1571) | Acts 18:27-19:6, 12-16 (13 verses) | ||
| late 2nd / early 3rd century | Uncial 0189 | Acts 5:3-21 (earliest parchment of the N.T.) (19 verses) | ||
| c.200 A.D. | p1 (= p. Oxyrhynchus 2) | Matthew 1:1-9,12,14-20; 2:14? (17 or 18 verses) | ||
| Second century. ca.200 A.D. (150-175 A.D.) Comfort and Barrett | p64 (Magdalen) and p67. All agree these are from the same manuscript. | (p67) Matthew 3:9,15; 5:20-22,25-28. (p64) Matthew 26:7-8,10,14-15,22-23,31-33 (19 verses) | ||
| c.215 A.D. or 200-250 A.D. | p111 (= P. Oxyrhynchus 4495) | Luke 17:11-13, 22-23 | ||
| Early to mid 2nd century. In 1963 Aland dated it to the third century. However, if it is the same original as p64 and p67 then it would have to be early to mid 2nd century. | p4 (handwriting is the same as p64 and p67.) (Aland disagreed but never gave a reason.) Also, all three have an unusual abbreviation for “Jesus”.). p4 was used as padding for a copy of Philo’s works that was hidden to avoid confiscation in either 292 A.D. or 303 A.D. The Philo Codex was written about 250 A.D. | Luke 1:58-59; 1:62-2:1,6-7; 3:8-4:2,29-32,34-35; 5:3-8; 5:30-6:16 (95 verses) | ||
| 2nd or 3rd century | p137 | Mark 1:7-9,16-18 | ||
| 200-225 A.D. | p29 | Acts 26:7-8, 20 (3 verses) | ||
| 175-225 A.D. (ca 175 A.D.) Comfort and Barrett | p75 (=Bodmer 14/15) | Luke 3:18-22; 3:33-4:2; 4:34-5:10; 5:37-6:4; 6:10-7:32; 7:35-39,41-43; 7:46-9:2; 9:4-17:15; 17:19-18:18; 22:4-24:53 [758 verses of Luke]; John 1:1-11:45, 48-57; 12:3-13:1,8-9; 14:8-29;15:7-8 (John 7:53-8:11 never present) [597 verses of John] (1,355 verses total) | ||
| 200-225 A.D. | p45 (=Chester Beatty I) Matthew 71 verses Mark 147 verses Luke 242 verses John 84 verses Acts 289 verses | Much of Acts and the Gospels. Matthew 20:24-32; 21:13-19; 25:41-26:39 [61 verses]; Mark 4:36-5:2; 5:16-26; 5:38-6:3; 2 letters of 6:15; 6:16-25, 36-50; 7:3-15; 7:25-8:1; 8:10-26; 8:34-9:8; 4 letters of 9:9; 9:18-31; 11:27-12:1; 12:5-8,13-19,24-28 [147 verses]; Luke 6:31-41; 6:45-7:7; 9:26-41; 9:45-10:1; 10:6-22; 10:26-11:1; 11:6-25, 28-46; 11:50-12:13 (12:9 was never written); 12:18-37; 12:42-13:1; 13:6-24; 13:29-14:10; 14:17-33 [242 verses]; John 4:51,54; 5:21,24; 10:7-25; 2 complete out of 16 letters of 10:30; 10:31-11:10; 11:18-36,42-57 [84 verses]. Acts 4:27-36; 5:10-20; (8 out of 33 letters in 5:21) 30-39; 6:7-17; 7:1-2; 7:10-21; 7:32-41; 7:52-60; 8:1; 8:14-25, 8:34-40; 9:1-6; (8:37 never present); 9:16-27; 9:35-10:2; 10:10-23, 31-41; 11:2-13; 11:24-12:6; 12:13-22; 13:6-16,25-36; 13:46-14:3; 14:15-23; 15:2-7,9-27; 15:38-16:4; 16:15-21,32-40; 17:9-17) At Acts 15:7 this scribe lost his place and repeated from Acts 15:2. [289 verses] | ||
| Early 3rd century | Green Collection #425 | Romans 9:18-21, some Romans 10 | ||
| Early 3rd century (ca.225 A.D.) | p30 | 1 Thess. 4:12-13, 16-17; 5:3, 8-10, 12-18, 25-28 [19 verses 1 Thess]; 2 Thess. 1:1-2; 2:1, 9-11 [6 verses 2 Thess] (25 verses total) | ||
| Early 3rd century | p5 (=papyrus Oxyrhynchus 208 + 1781) | John 1:23-31, 33-40; 16:14-30; 20:11-17, 19-20, 22-25 (47 verses) | ||
| ca.200 A.D. (Comfort and Barrett) vs. 3rd century (Aland) | p23 Urbana (=papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1229) | James 1:10-12, 15-18 (7 verses) | ||
| c.220 A.D. | p48 (=Firenze bibl. Medicea Laurenziana; PSI 1165) | Acts 23:11-17,25-29 (12 verses) | ||
| 200-250 A.D | p39 | John 8:14-22 (9 verses) | ||
| 200-250 A.D | p106 (= P. Oxyrhynchus 4445) | John 1:29-35,40-46 | ||
| 225-250 A.D. | p13 (p. Oxyrhynchus 657 + PSI 1292) | Hebrews 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17 (114 verses) | ||
| c.250 A.D. | p22 (=papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1228) | John 15:25-16:2; 16:21-32 (17 verses) | ||
| c.250 A.D. | p91 | Acts 2:30-37; 2:46-3:2 | ||
| c.250 A.D. | p118 | Romans 16:26-27,32-33; 16:1,4-7,11-12 | ||
| c.250 A.D. | p119 | John 1:21-28, 38-44 | ||
| c.250 A.D. | p121 | John 19:17-18, 25-26 | ||
| c.250 A.D. | p129 | 1 Corinthians 7:36-39; 8:10; 9:3,14-17; 9:27-10:6 | ||
| c.250 A.D. | p131 | Romans 9:18-21, 22-10:3 | ||
| 250-251 A.D. Severe Persecution by the Emperor Decius across the entire Roman Empire | ||||
| 285-300 A.D. | p12 (P. Amherst 3b) | Hebrews 1:1 (1 verse) | ||
| 3rd century | p9 (= papyrus Oxyrhynchus 402) | 1 John 4:11-12, 14-17 (6 verses) | ||
| 3rd century | p20 (=papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1171) | James 2:19-3:2; (6 out of 96 letters of 3:3); 3:4-9) (16 verses) | ||
| 3rd century | p27 + p40 (=papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1355) | (p40) Romans 1:24-27;1:31-2:3; 3:21-4:8; 6:2-5; (9 out of 55 letters of 6:15), 6:16; 9:17,27. | ||
| (p27) Romans 8:12-22,24-27,33-9:3; 9:5-9 | ||||
| 3rd century | p28 (=papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1596) | John 6:8-12, 17-22 (11 verses) | ||
| 3rd century | p35 (=Firenze. Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana; PSI 1) | Matthew 25:12-15,20-23 (8 verses) | ||
| 3rd century | P Antinoopolis 2.54 | Matthew 6:10-12 (part of the Lord’s prayer) (2 verses) | ||
| 3rd century | p69 | Luke 22:40, 45-48, 58-61. It never contained Luke 22:43-44 (9 verses) | ||
| 3rd century | p70 | Matthew 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6, 12-15 (19 verses) | ||
| 3rd century | p80 (= P.Carcelona 83) | Matthew 3:34 | ||
| 3d century | p95 (PL II/31) | John 5:2-29, 36-38 | ||
| 3rd century | p101 (= P. Oxyrhynchus 4401) | Matthew 3:10-12; 3:16-4:3 (8 verses) | ||
| 3rd century | p107 (=P. Oxyrhynchus 4446) | John 17:1-2,11 | ||
| 3rd century | p108 (=P. Oxyrhynchus 4447) | John 17:23-24; 18:1-5 | ||
| 3rd century | p109 (=P. Oxyrhynchus 4448) | John 21:18-20, 23-25 | ||
| 3rd century | p113 (=P. Oxyrhynchus 4497) | Romans 2:12-13, 19 | ||
| 3rd century | p114 (=P. Oxyrhynchus 4498) | Hebrews 1:7-23 | ||
| 3rd century | p133 | 1 Timothy 3:13-4:18 | ||
| 3rd century | p134 | John 1:19-2:1 | ||
| 3rd century | p138 | Luke 13:13-17, 25-30 | ||
| c.260 based on similarities to Letters of Heroninos c.260 A.D. | p53 (=p. Michigan Inv. 6652) | Matthew 26:29-40; Acts 9:33-38; 3 of 124 letters in 9:39; 9:40-10:1 (23 verses) | ||
| mid 3rd century | p37 (U Michigan Inv. 1570; P. Mich. 137) | Matthew 26:19-52 (34 verses) | ||
| mid 3rd century | p49 + p65 (=Yale p.415+531 + Firenze. 1st. di Pap. G. Vitelli PSI XIV 1373) | (p49) Ephesians 4:16-29; 4:31-5:13 (29 verses) (p65) 1 Thessalonians 1:3-2:1; 2:6-13 (19 verses) | ||
| 250-300 A.D. | p47 (=Chester Beatty III) | Revelation 9:10-11:3; 11:5-16:15; 16:17-17:2 (125 verses) | ||
| mid to late 3rd century | p115 (=papyrus Oxyrhynchus 4499) | Revelation 2:1-3, 13-15, 27-29; 3:10-12; 5:8-9; 6:5-6; 8:3-8, 11-13; 9:1-5,7-16,18-21; 10:1-4,8-10,12-17; 13:1-3, 6-16,18; 14:1-3, 5-7, 10-11, 14-15, 18-20; 15:1,4-7 (published in 1999) (119 verses) | ||
| late 3rd century | p15/p16 (=p. Oxyrhynchus 1008/1009) | (p15) 1 Corinthians 7:18-8:4; (p16) Philippians 3:10-17; 4:2-8 (27 + 15 = 42 verses) | ||
| late 3rd century | p17 (= p. Oxyrhynchus.1078) | Hebrews 9:12-19 (8 verses) | ||
| late 3rd century | p110 (=p. Oxyrhynchus 4494) | Matthew 10:13-15, 25-27 | ||
| c.300 A.D. | p72, somewhat similar handwriting to p50. 1 and 2 Peter have page numbers 1-35. Jude has page numbers 62-68. Also contains the Nativity of Mary, the apocryphal letter of Paul to the Corinthians, the 11th Ode of Solomon, Melito’s Homily on the Passover, part of a hymn, the Apology of Phileas, and Psalm 33 and 34. | 1 Peter 1:1-5:14, 2 Peter 1:1-3:18 and Jude 1-25 (191 verses) (Every verse of those three books) | ||
| c.300 A.D. | p78 (=papyrus Oxyrhunchus 2684) | Jude 4-5,7-8. The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts p.602 indicates this is not a very reliable text. “in four verses it contains two unique and three rare readings, all of them in disagreement with the earliest witness [p72].” (quoted from Grenfell and Hunt Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, 34:4) | ||
| c.300 A.D. | p64 | Matthew 3:9,15; 5:20-22,25-28; 26:7f,10,14f,22f,31-33 (14 verses) | ||
| c.300 A.D. | p130 | Hebrews 9:9-12, 19-23 | ||
| ca.300 A.D. | p92 | Ephesians 1:10f,11-13,19-21; 2 Thessalonians 1:4-5,11-12 (10 verses) | ||
| ca.300 A.D. | p100 (=P. Oxyrhynchus 4449) | James 3:13-4:4; 4:9-5:1 | ||
| ca.300 A.D. | p102 (= P. Oxyrhynchus 4402) | Matthew 4:11-12,22-23 | ||
| ca.300 A.D. | 0162 (P. Oxyrhynchus 847) | John 2:11-22 (12 verses) | ||
| ca.300 A.D. | 0171 (PSI 2.124) | Matthew 10:17-23,25-32; Luke 22:44-50,52-56,61,63-64 (30 verses) | ||
| ca.300 A.D. | 0220 (MS 113) | Romans 4:23-5:3,8-13. Agrees with Vaticanus except Romans 5:1. (6 verses) | ||
| ca.300 A.D. | 0232 (P. Antinoopolis 12) | 2 John 1-9 (9 verses) | ||
| 275-325 A.D. | British Museum MS Oriental 7594 Sahidic Coptic | British Museum MS Oriental 7594 Sahidic Coptic Dt 1:39-2:19; 4:49-8:3; 9:7-13:17; 14:18-18:10; 19:1-20:6; 22:3-26:10; 28:1-6,9-12; 28:14-31:10; 31:12-34:2; Jonah 1:1-4:11; Acts 1:1-20:4; 20:6-24:16; 26:7; 26:20-27; 26:32-27:5; 26:21f-26a; 27:10-16,21f-26a; 27:29f-28:20; 28:23-27,30-31 | ||
| 3rd/4th century? | p7 (=Kiev. Centr. Nauch. Bibl. F.301 (KDA) 553P) | Luke 4:1-3 (3 verses) | ||
| 3rd/4th century | p18 (=P. Oxyrhynchus 1079) | Revelation 1:4-7 (4 verses) | ||
| 3rd/4th century | p35 (=Firenze. Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana; PSI 1) | Matthew 25:12-15, 20-23 (8 verses) | ||
| 3rd/4th century | 0312 | Luke 5:23-24,30-31; 7:9,17-18 | ||
| 3rd/4th century | p132 | Ephesians 3:21-4:2; 4:14-26 | ||
| 3rd/4th century | Crosby-Schoyen Coptic codex | All of 1 Peter and Jonah | ||
| 325-350 A.D. | Vaticanus (B) | Most of the Old Testament and all of the New up to Heb 9:15 (6,979 NT verses) | ||
| 340-350 A.D. | Sinaiticus (Aleph) | Almost all of the New Testament and half of the Septuagint Old Testament | ||
| 4th century per The Greek New Testament by Aland et al. 5th revised edition (insert). 3rd/4th century Novum Testamentum Graece 128 Nestle-Aland p.26-27. Others say 4th /5th century. | Sinaitic Old Syriac (=Sinaitic Syriac) | Most of the four Gospels: Matthew 1:1-6:10; 7:3-12:4; 12:6-25; 12:29-16:15; 18:11-20:24; 21:20-25:15; 25:17-20,25-26; 25:32-28:7; Mark 1:12-44; 2:21-4:17; 5:1-26; 6:5-16:8; Luke 1:36-5:28; 6:12-24:52 (no Luke 22:43-44; 23:34a); John 1:25-47; 2:16-4:37; 5:6-25; 5:46-7:52;8:12-18:31; 19:40-end). | ||