Papyrus 63


Papyrus 63, designated by ?63, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving text of John are verses 3:14-18; 4:9-10. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 4th century.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but with some the Byzantine readings. Aland placed it in Category II.
In John 3:16 it has the textual variant υιον αυτου supported by the manuscript's second corrector of Sinaiticus, A, L, Θ, Ψ, 063, 083, 086, 0113, f1, f13, Byz, Didache.

Location

The codex is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Berlin.