Papyrus 138

Papyrus 138

New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy 5346
Sign	𝔓138
Text	Luke 13:13–17, 25–30
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus
Now at	University of Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxford, England
Cite	Parsons, Peter John and Nikos Gonis and W E H Cockle, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 83, no. 5346, Egypt Exploration Society: London, England, 2018.
Type	Alexandrian

Papyrus 138 (designated as 𝔓¹³⁸ in the Gregory-Aland numbering system) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of Luke. The text survives on fragments from one edge of a single leaf containing parts of verses 13:13–17 on the front and 13:25-30 on the back. The manuscript has been assigned paleographically to the 3rd century.

Location

𝔓¹³⁸ is housed at the Sackler Library (P. Oxy 5346) at the University of Oxford.

Textual variant

In Luke 13:29, 𝔓¹³⁸ reads απο immediately preceding the beginning of βορρα, as do the Alexandrian manuscripts 𝔓⁷⁵ and 070. But according to the reconstruction of Parsons based on line-spacing, it lacks και before απο.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri