== Sejarah ==
Naskah ini ditemukan di Oxyrhynchus (now al-Bahnasā), Mesir, dalam ekskavasi oleh Bernard Grenfell dan Arthur Hunt, yang mempublikasikannya dalam ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' Volume 15 (1922).<ref>Fragmen kodeks kuno yang memuat [[Injil Yohanes]], dibuat sebagai salinan (~ 275-300 M) untuk digunakan dalam komunitas Kristen di Oxyrhynchus. The large, careful uncial letters suggest that this codex was produced by a professional scribe for public reading.</ref> Menjadi milik Egypt Exploration Fund sampai tahun 1922, kemudian dihadiahkan kepada Crozer Theological Seminary di Chester, Pennsylvania, yang kemudian menjadi ''Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School'' di Rochester, New York.<ref>[http://www.trismegistos.org/tm/detail.php?tm=61638 Rochester, Ambrose Swasey Library, Inv. 886.4]</ref> Pernah dilelang oleh Sotheby’s pada tahun 2003 dan berkaitan dengan William Noah selama tahun 2004-2008. Tidak berhasil dilelang<ref>Dijual oleh Sotheby’s Londonbulan padaJuni tanggal2003 3lot Desember 200897. DibeliLihat dariSotheby’s penjualNew swastaYork, olehFine [[GreenBooks Collection]]and padaManuscripts tahunIncluding 2010,Americana (auction kemudiancatalogue), disumbangkanJune ke20, [[Museum2003, of93-95.</ref> theTidak Bible]]berhasil padadilelang tahunoleh 2012Sotheby’s danLondon pernahpada dipertontonkantanggal ke3 seluruhDesember dunia dalam pameran berjudul [http://explorepassages.com/ ''Passages'']2008.<ref>Notes: [1] Scholarly attempts to date this fragment on the basis of paleography have ranged from as early as 150 to as late as 400 CE. See Pasquale Orsini and Willy Clarysse, “Early New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 88/4 (2012), pp. 443-474, especially pp. 462 and 470 for P39. [2] A.M. Luijendijk, “Sacred Scripture as Trash: Biblical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus,” Vigiliae Christianae 64 (2010), 217-254, especially, p. 247. [3] Oxyrhynchus Papyri, v. 15, pp. 7–8. [4] The Egyptian Exploration Fund, which sponsored Grenfell and Hunt’s work, began distributing papyri as gifts to supporting institutions in 1900. By 1922, it had gifted approximately three thousand items to 103 institutions, including Crozer Theological Seminary; cf. Oxyrhynchus Papyri, v. 16, pp. 275–279. [57] Rochester,Reuters Ambrosenews Swasey Library, Inv. 886.4 httparticle://www.trismegistos.org/tm/detail.php?tm=61638 [6]Rare soldgospel byfragment Sotheby’sfails Juneto 2003sell lotat 97Sotheby's.</ref><ref Seename=motb/> Sotheby’sDibeli Newdari York,penjual Fineswasta Booksoleh and[[Green ManuscriptsCollection]] Includingpada Americanatahun (auction catalogue)2010, June 20,kemudian 2003,disumbangkan 93-95.ke [7[Museum of the Bible]] Reuterspada newstahun article:2012 Raredan gospelpernah fragmentdipertontonkan failske toseluruh selldunia atdalam Sotheby's.pameran berjudul [8]http://explorepassages.com/ ''Passages''].<ref>There was much academic speculation about the sale of P39 in 2003 and its later appearance in the Green Collection; cf. Roberta Mazza, “Papyri Ethics, and Economics: A Biography of P.Oxy. 15.1780 (P39),” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 52 (2015), pp. 113–142.</ref><ref name=motb/>
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