Papyrus 95

Papyrus 95 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum 𝔓⁹⁵, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving texts of John are verses 5:26-29,36-38. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the early 3rd century.^[1]

Papyrus 95

New Testament manuscript
John 5:26-29
Name	P. Laur. PL II/31
Sign	𝔓95
Text	John 5:26-29,36-38
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Now at	Universita Degli Studi di Milano
Cite	J. Lenaerts, Un papyrus de l’Évangile de Jean : PL II/31, Chronique d’ Egypte 60 (1985), pp. 117-120
Size	[12] x [24] cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

The writing is in 35 lines per page.^[2]

Text

The Greek text of this manuscript is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, Comfort ascribed it as proto-Alexandrian, though the extant portion is too fragmentary for certainty.^[2] It has not yet been placed in any of the Categories of New Testament manuscripts.^[3]

Location

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (PL II/31) at Florence.^[3][4]

Textual variants

• 5:27 Word-spacing analysis indicates that 10-14 letters intruded between the first two words of the verse
• 5:28: ακουσουσιν (akousousin, 'shall hear' (future tense)) becomes ακουσαντες (akousantes, 'have heard' (aorist aspect, participle)).
• 5:36: omits second 'αυτα' (auta, these) through possible homoeoteleuton.

Nomina Sacra

The fragment should have the word πατήρ contracted (nomina sacra) in two places, but instead, lacuane.^[5]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

1. Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts. An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism, Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005, p. 75.
2. Philip W. Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, 2001, p. 627.
3. 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. 102. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
5. Jennifer Knust; Tommy Wasserman (2020). To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story. Princeton University Press. p. 79. ISBN 9780691203126.

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Further reading

• Jean Lenaerts, Un papyrus de l’Évangile de Jean : PL II/31, Chronique d’ Egypte 60 (Brussels: 1985), pp. 117–120.
• Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 627–628. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.