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Name
  
P. Oxy. 4401

Script
  
Greek

Date
  
3rd century

Found
  
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt

Papyrus 101

Sign
  
P {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}

Text
  
Gospel of Matthew 3:10-12; 3:16-4:3

Papyrus 101 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P 101, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 3:10-12; 3:16-4:3, they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 3rd century.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type.

Location

The manuscript is currently housed at the Sackler Library (Papyrology Rooms, P. Oxy. 4401) at Oxford.

Textual Variants

  • 3:10: εις (into) becomes προς (towards).
  • 3:11: omits οπισω μου (after me).
  • 3:11: βαστασαι (to bear) is changed to λυσαι (to untie). The missing space on the line above could also include κυφας (bending down), therefore almost conforming the text to the same as Mark 1:7.
  • 3:16: ωσαι (as if it were) becomes ως (like).
  • 3:16: και (and) is omitted from after περιστεραν (dove).
  • 3:17: ευδοκησα (well pleased) becomes ηυδοκησα, a variant spelling.
  • 4:2: ημερας τεσσερακοντα και νυκτας τεσσερακοντα (days forty and nights forty) becomes μ ημερας και μ νυκτας (forty days and forty nights (the numeral μ representing "forty")).

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