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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 (it^d), k, c, s, cop^bo. In 12:32 it lacks words αυτω ουτε, which is the original reading. αὐτῷto him οὔτεneither .

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)