1780. ST. JOHN'S GOSPEL viii.

25.6 x 8 cm. Fourth century.

A leaf from a papyrus codex, complete at the top and bottom, but torn vertically, so that about half of the lines are missing on both pages. The handwriting, a handsome specimen of the 'biblical' type, large and upright, is unlikely to be later than the fourth century. A pause is sometimes marked by an increase of the interval before the following letter, otherwise punctuation is absent. The contractions usual in theological texts occur. A pagination figure, 74, has been entered (by the original scribe, apparently) in the left-hand corner of the recto; a comparison of the capacity of this leaf with the amount of the preceding part of the Gospel shows that the number refers to the page, not to the leaf, and it will follow either that the pages were numbered alternately in the series 2, 4, 6, &c., or that they were numbered consecutively at the top left corner. Here then may well be another example of the system of alternate pagination which appeared probable in 1011; cf. Part VIII, pp. 18-19. The text, like that of 847, shows a general agreement with the Codex Vaticanus.

Verso.

viii. 14 [and said] to them,
[Even if I] bear
[witness concern]ing my
[self, my witness] is true,
5 [for I know] whence
[I came] and whither
[I go; but] you
[know not] whence
[I come] or whither I
15 10 [go. You] according to the
[flesh] judge; I
[judge] no one.
16 [And if I] judge,
[however,] the judgment that is mine
15 [is true,] for I
[alone] am not

Recto.

... and bears witness concerning
me [the] one who sent me
19 Father Patēr. [They said then]
to him, [Where is]
30 your Father Patēr? [Jesus] answered,
Jesus Iēsous, "Neither me do you
know, nor [my] Father Patēr.
If you knew me, then
my Father Patēr you would know also."