Papyrus 66 (Bodmer II)
Papyrus · 𝔓66 · about AD 200
A papyrus book of John’s Gospel, one of the oldest copies of a Gospel that is nearly complete. It came to light in Egypt in the 1950s and was bought by the Swiss collector Martin Bodmer, whose library published it in 1956. Its scribe corrected his own work hundreds of times, often changing one reading to another as he went.
Contents
John 1:1–14:26 nearly whole, and pieces of the rest of the Gospel.
Where It Is Kept
Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cologny, near Geneva (P. Bodmer II); a few fragments in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
Cited For
- John 7:8 “not up yet”
Papyri are the oldest Greek manuscripts, written on sheets made from the papyrus reed. Nearly all were found in Egypt, and most are fragments. They are numbered 𝔓1, 𝔓2, and so on, in the order they were catalogued.
