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The Reading Culture of Early Christianity

Papyrus P²¹

Page recto with the 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

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 300-350 A.D. 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 (it^d), k, c, s, cop^bo. In 12:32 it lacks the words αυτω ουτε, which is the original reading. αὐτῷto him οὔτεneither.

How Do the Coptic Versions Help Textual Scholars?

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

SOURCES

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.
B. P., Grenfell; Hunt, A. S. (1914). Oxyrhynchus Papyri X. London. p. 12.
UBS4, p. 43.
“Liste Handschriften”. Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
Eberhard Nestle and Erwin Nestle, Nestle-Aland: Novum Testamentum Graece, ed. Barbara Aland et al., 28. revidierte Auflage. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012)