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Papyrus 140 (designated as 𝔓140 in the Gregory-Aland numbering system) is a small surviving portion of an early copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts. The text survives on a single fragment of a codex, the recto containing the initial letters of 4 lines of the second column of a page, and the verso the final letters of 4 lines (plus minimal traces of a fifth) of the first column of the next page. The manuscript has been assigned paleographically to the fifth century.

Location
𝔓140 is housed at the Papyrological Institute in Florence, Italy.

Ć== Textual Variants == επ α̣υ̣τ̣ο̣[ν πληρηϲ δε ϋπ̣[αρχων πν̅ι α̣[γιω ατε- νιϲα[ϲ ειϲ τον demonstrating a transposition of πληρηϲ and ϋπ̣αρχων, and a change from the genitive πν̅ϲ α̣γιου to the dative πν̅ι α̣γιω, as compared to the reading in most manuscripts of Acts. οµοθ]υµαδο[ν επ αυ]τον εκ- βαλον]τεϲ δε εξω τη]ϲ πολεωϲ ελιθο]β̣[ο
 * 7:54-55 According to the PSI reconstruction, the recto reads
 * 7:57-58 According to the PSI reconstruction, the verso reads

showing the omission of και at the beginning of verse 58.