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Date
  
3rd century

Found
  
Egypt

Script
  
Greek

Now at
  
University of Michigan

Papyrus 53

Text
  
Matthew 26 †; Acts 9-10 †

Cite
  
H. A. Sanders, A Third Century Papyrus of Matthew and Acts XVIII (London: 1937), pp. 151-161.

Papyrus 53 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by P 53, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Matthew, and Acts, it contains only Matt. 26:29-40; Acts 9:33-10:1. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the 3rd century. These two fragments were found together, they were part of a codex containing the four Gospels and Acts or Matthew and Acts.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (proto-Alexandrian). Aland ascribed it as "at least Normal text", and placed it in Category I.

It is currently housed at the University of Michigan (Inv. 6652) in Ann Arbor.

References

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