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Papyrus P21
Page recto with the text of Matthew 12:24-26
|
Name |
P. Oxy. 1227 |
Text |
Matthew 12:24-33 † |
Date |
4th century |
Script |
Greek |
Found |
Egypt |
Now at |
Muhlenberg College |
Cite |
B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, pp. 12-14 |
Size |
11.5 cm by 4.5 cm |
Type |
mixed |
Category |
III |
Papyrus 21 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum P21, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew, it contains only Matthew 12:24-26, 32-33. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the early 300-350 A.D. century.
Description
The manuscript is written in large upright uncial letters.
The Greek text of this codex probably is a mixture of text-types. Aland placed it in Category.
In Matthew 12:25 it has textual variant ιδων δε (instead of ειδως δε) in agreement with Codex Bezae, corrector b of the Codex Sinaiticus, 892*, the Latin text of Codex Bezae (itd), k, c, s, copbo. In 12:32 it lacks words αυτω ουτε, which is the original reading. αὐτῷ οὔτε .
How Do the Coptic Versions Help Textual Scholars?
It is currently housed at the Muhlenberg College (Theol. Pap. 3) in Allentown (Pennsylvania).
SOURCES
- Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 97.
- B. P., Grenfell; Hunt, A. S. (1914). Oxyrhynchus Papyri X. London. p. 12.
- UBS4, p. 43.
- “Liste Handschriften”. Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
- Eberhard Nestle and Erwin Nestle, Nestle-Aland: Novum Testamentum Graece, ed. Barbara Aland et al., 28. revidierte Auflage. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012)
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