Papyrus 109

Papyrus 109 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ¹⁰⁹ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$

description

This papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John contains only verses 21: 18-20; 21.23-25. It was dated to the 3rd century by means of paleography .

The following parts of John 21: 18-20 and 23-25 have been preserved on the fragments. Missing parts of the text are commented out in square brackets:

¹⁸ [λες οταν δε γηρασης εκτε] ν̣ε̣ι [ς

τας χειρας σου κ] αι αλλοι

[αποι] ο̣υσιν̣ σ̣ε̣

[οπου ου θελεις ¹⁹ τ] ουτο̣ δ̣ε

[ειπεν σημαινων ποιω] θ̣α̣

[νατω δοξασει τον θν και]

[τουτο ειπων λεγει αυ] τ̣ω̣ ακο

[λουθει μοι ²⁰ επιστραφ] ε̣ι̣ς̣ ο̣

[πετρος βλεπει τον] μ̣αθ̣η̣

²³ μ [ε] νε̣ [ιν εως ερχομαι τι]

προς σ̣ [ε ²⁴ ουτος εστιν ο μα]

θητης [ο και μαρτυρων πε]

ρι τουτ̣ [ων και ο γραψας]

τ̣α̣υ̣ [τα και οιδαμεν οτι]

[αληθης αυτου η μαρτυρια]

ε̣σ [τιν ²⁵ εστιν δε και αλλα]

πολ̣λ̣ [α α εποιησεν ο ιης̅ α]

τινα̣ [εαν γραφηται καθ εν]

ο̣υ̣δ̣ [αυτον οιμαι τον κοσμον]

The volume of the text received is too small to assign it to a text type .

The manuscript is currently in the Sackler Library under the call number P. Oxy. 4448 kept at Oxford .

^ INTF , list of manuscripts
^ ^A ^b Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism , Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 76.

WEH Cockle, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXV (London: 1998), pp. 19-20.
Philip W. Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts , Tyndale House Publishers, 2001, pp. 653-655.