Papyrus 70
# Papyrus 70

Papyrus 70 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by $𝔓^{70},$ is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 2:13-16; 2:22-3:1; 11:26-27; 12:4-5; 24:3-6.12-15. $𝔓^{70}$ has a fairly reliable text, though it was carelessly written. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the late 3rd century.

## Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland ascribed it as a “strict text”, and placed it in Category I.

## Present location

It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2384) in Oxford and at the Papyrological Institute of Florence in National Archaeological Museum (Florence) (PSI 3407 – formerly CNR 419, 420).

