Papyrus 21

Papyrus ${\mathfrak {P}}$ ²¹
New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Page recto with text of Matthew 12:24-26
Name	P. Oxy. 1227
Text	Matthew 12:24-33 †
Date	4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Muhlenberg College
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, pp. 12-14
Size	11.5 cm by 4.5 cm
Type	mixed
Category	III

Papyrus 21 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum ${\mathfrak {P}}$ 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.

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).

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