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.

Papyrus 138

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.

Papyrus 138

See also

List of New Testament papyri

References

New Testament papyri

3rd-century biblical manuscripts

Early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament

Papyrus 138