Papyrus 121

Papyrus 121 ( Gregory- Aland Sigel 120 referred ) is a early Greek copy of the New Testament. These are fragments of a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John.

Description

To date, only a few fragments have survived. The remaining text of John includes parts of the verses from 19.17 to 18 and 25-26. Using palaeography, it has been dated to the 3rd century.

The manuscript is written very irregular, the distances between the letters are not equal. Although the text is very small, it does contain two nouns sacra: ΙΣ and ΜΗΙ ( dative of ΜΗΡ ). About the letter Iota, there are two points (dieresis ). The scribe used on the back on the bottom line on the left side not the letter Iota in the word και, even though he put a diaeresis over the letter alpha. It's probably a typo.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is too short to determine its type of text. It can therefore be classified in any category of text. It consists of only 20 letters on the back ( recto ) and 18 letters on the front side ( verso).

οπου αυτον εσταρωσαν και μετ ' αυτου

αλλους δυο εντευθεν κα εντευθεν μεσον

μαθητην παρεστωτα ον ηγαπα

λεγει τη ΜΗΙ Γυναι ιδε ο υιος

There they crucified him, and with him

Two others, one on either side, and Jesus between

Disciple whom he loved standing beside it, he

Said to his mother: "Woman, behold, your son! "

The missing letters are displayed in red.

Storage

The manuscript is currently in the rooms of Papyrology of the Sackler Library in Oxford under the number P. Oxy. 4805 kept.