Papyrus 63 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓63, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving text of John are verses 3:14-18; 4:9-10. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 4th century (or 5th century).

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but with some the Byzantine readings. Aland placed it in Category II.

In John 3:16 it has the textual variant supported by the manuscript's second corrector of Sinaiticus (א2), A, L, Θ, Ψ, 063, 083, 086, 0113, f1, f13, Byz, Didache.

Location The codex is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Inv. 11914) in Berlin.

See also

John 3, John 4 List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

Otto Stegmüller, Zu den Bibelorakeln im Codex Bezae, Biblica 34 (1953), pp. 13–22.

External links Digital image of P63 at CSNTM