Papyrus 103


Papyrus 103, designated by 103, is a copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew.

Description

The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 13:55-56 and 14:3-5: they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the late 2nd or early 3rd century.
Probably together with Papyrus 77 it belonged to the same codex.
; Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Comfort it is proto-Alexandrian text.
In Matthew 13:55, the name of Jesus' second brother reads ης so that either Ἰωάννης and Ἰωσῆς are possible original readings.
; Location
The manuscript is currently housed at the Sackler Library in Oxford.

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