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How did St. Jerome revise the Latin text of the Gospels?

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José de Ribera: Saint Jerome — St. Jerome *Saint Jerome*, oil on canvas by José de Ribera (Jusepe de Ribera, Lo Spagnoletto), c. 1638–40; in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

In 382, Pope Damasus I commissioned St. Jerome to produce a standardized Latin version of the Bible to replace the various, inconsistent translations then in use.12

Regarding the Gospels, Jerome completed his revised Latin translation around 383. While he later undertook extensive original translations of the Old Testament from Hebrew, his work on the New Testament primarily involved revising existing Old Latin versions. This revised collection of texts eventually became a foundational component of the Vulgate, which served as the authoritative Bible for Western Christendom for centuries.213