Papyrus 21
# Papyrus 21

Grenfell and Hunt :

| Bernard Grenfell | Arthur Hunt |
| - | - |

Papyrus 21 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum $𝔓^{21},$ 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 4th 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 words αυτω ουτε.

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

