Papyrus 9

Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁹

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
1 John 4:11-12,14-17
Name	P. Oxy. 402
Text	1 John 4 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	Houghton Library
Cite	Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri III (1903), pp. 2-3
Size	8 x 5.2 c, [11 x 15]
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Hand	irregular

Papyrus 9 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁹, and named Oxyrhynchus papyri 402, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle of John, dating paleographically to the early 3rd century.

Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁹ was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁹ is currently housed at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Semitic Museum Inv. 3736, Cambridge (Massachusetts).