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Name
  
P. Oxy. 1227

Date
  
4th century

Found
  
Egypt

Text
  
Matthew 12:24-33 †

Script
  
Greek

Now at
  
Muhlenberg College

Papyrus 21

Papyrus 21 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum P 21, 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 4th 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 III.

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 (itd), k, c, s, copbo. In 12:32 it lacks words αυτω ουτε.

It is currently housed at the Muhlenberg College (Theol. Pap. 3) in Allentown (Pennsylvania).

References

Papyrus 21 Wikipedia
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