Papyrus 21

Papyrus 𝔓^21

New Testament manuscript
Page recto with text of Matthew 12:24-26
Name	P. Oxy. 1227
Text	Matthew 12:24-33 †
Date	4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Muhlenberg College
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, pp. 12-14
Size	11.5 cm by 4.5 cm
Type	mixed
Category	III

Grenfell and Hunt

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt

Papyrus 21 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum 𝔓²¹, 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.^[1]

Description

The manuscript is written in large upright uncial letters.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex probably is a mixture of text-types. Aland placed it in Category III.^[1]

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 (it^d), k, c, s, cop^bo.^[3] In 12:32 it lacks words αυτω ουτε.^[2]

It is currently housed at the Muhlenberg College (Theol. Pap. 3) in Allentown (Pennsylvania).^[1][4]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Matthew 12

References

1. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. B. P., Grenfell; Hunt, A. S. (1914). Oxyrhynchus Papyri X. London. p. 12.
3. UBS4, p. 43.
4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.

Further reading

• B. P., Grenfell; Hunt, A. S. (1914). Oxyrhynchus Papyri X. London. pp. 12–14.

External links

• Rodney J. Decker, Description and Pictures of Oxyrhyncus Papyri 1227 (= P21) and 1077
• Trexler Library, 1227. St. Matthew's gospel, xii. Muhlenberg College.