Papyrus 6

New Testament manuscripts
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Papyrus 6
text	John 10-11 †
language	Greek - Coptic diglot
date	4th century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	II

Papyrus 6 (numbered after Gregory-Aland ⁶ ) is an early New Testament manuscript in Greek and Coptic (Achmimic). It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John . With paleography , it was dated to the 4th century. ${\ displaystyle {\ mathfrak {P}}}$

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The Greek text of the manuscript contains: Gospel according to John 10: 1-2.4-7. 9-10; 11: 1-8. 45-52.

The Coptic (Achmimic) text of the Code contains: John 10: 1-12.20; 13: 1-2.11-12; Jas 1: 13-5: 20.

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . Aland placed him in Category II .

It is currently kept in the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire (Pap. Copt. 379, 381, 382, 384) in Strasbourg .

[τευσαν εις αυτον τιν] ες δε εξ αυ

[των απηλθον προς τ] ο̣υ̣ς φαρισαιους

[και ειπαν αυτοις α] επ̣ο̣ιησεν ις̅

[συνηγαγον ουν οι αρ] χι̣ερεις

[και οι φαρισαιοι συνεδριο] ν̣ και ελε

[γον τι ποιουμεν οτι ουτο] ς̣ ο̣ α̣ν̣θρ̣ω̣

[πος πολλα ποιει σημεια] εαν

[αφωμεν αυτον ουτως] παντες̣

[πιστευσουσιν εις αυτον] κ̣αι ελευ

[σονται οι ρωμαιοι και αρο] υ̣σιν ημων

[και τον τοπον και το εθνο] ς̣ ·

[εις δε τις εξ αυτων καια] φας

[αρχιερευς ων του ενιαυτο] υ̣ εκειν [ου

ειπεν αυτοις υ] με [ις ουκ] ο̣ιδατ̣ [ε

ουδεν ουδε λο] γ̣ι̣ζε̣ [σθε ο] τ̣ι συμ

[φερει υμιν ι] ν̣ [α εις αν] θ̣ρω

[πος αποθαν] η̣ υ [περ του λαο] υ̣

[και μη ολον το] ε [θνος αποληται του

το δε αφ εαυτου] ουκ ε̣ [ιπεν] α̣λλα̣

[αρχιερευς ων] του ε [νια] υ̣του̣ εκ̣ [ει

νου επροφητευσεν οτι ε] μ̣ελ̣λ̣ε̣ [ν

ις̅ αποθνησκειν υπερ το] υ̣ εθ̣ [νους]

[και ουχ υπερ του εθνους μονον

αλλ ινα και τα τεκ] ν̣α του [θ] υ̣̅ [τα

διεσκορπισμενα] συναγαγη ε̣ι̣ς ε̣ν̣

Kurt Aland : Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament - in connection with Michael Welte, edited. by Kurt Aland. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, ISBN 3-11-011986-2 , (Work on New Testament Text Research Vol. 1).
Friedrich Rösch, fragments of the first letter of Clement based on the Achmimic papyrus of the Strasbourg University and State Library (Strasbourg, 1910), pp. 119–160.
CR Gregory , "Text Criticism of the New Testament", Leipzig 1909, vol. 3, pp. 1085-1086.
Caspar René Gregory : The Greek manuscripts of the New Testament . JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1908, p. 46.
Peter M. Head, The Habits of New Testament Copyists Singular Readings in the Early Fragmentary Papyri of John , Biblica 85 (2004), pp. 406-407.

Commons : Papyrus 6 - collection of images, videos and audio files

↑ ^a ^b ^c Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 106. ISBN 3-438-06011-6