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[^TEXT:  THE NEW TESTAMENT.
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM TYNDALE, 1534.
ED. N. H. WALLIS, WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY I. FOOT.
CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1938.
JOHN 1.1 - 11.57^]

[^THE VERSE NUMBER REFERENCES FOLLOW
THOSE OF THE AUTHORIZED VERSION.^]

<P I,1>
[}THE GOSPELL OF SAINCTE IOHN.}]
[}THE FYRST CHAPTER.}]

   In the beginnynge was the worde, and the worde was with      #
God: and the
worde was God. The same was in the beginnynge with God. All     #
thinges were
made by it, and with out it, was made nothinge, that was made.  #
In it was lyfe,
and the lyfe was the lyght of men, and the lyght shyneth in     #
the darcknes, but
the darcknes comprehended it not.
   There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn. The      #
same cam as
a witnes to beare witnes of the lyght, that all men through     #
him myght beleve.
He was not that lyght: but to beare witnes of the lyght. That   #
was a true lyght,
which lyghteth all men that come into the worlde. He was in     #
the worlde, and
the worlde was made by him: and yet the worlde knewe him not.
   He cam amonge his awne and his awne receaved him not. But    #
as meny
as receaved him, to them he gave power to be the sonnes of God  #
in that they
beleved on his name: which were borne, not of bloude nor of     #
the will of the
flesshe, nor yet of the will of man: but of God.
   And the worde was made flesshe and dwelt among vs, and we    #
sawe the
glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the     #
father, which worde
was full of grace and verite.
   Iohn bare witnes of him and cryed sayinge: This was he of    #
whome I spake,
he that cometh after me, was before me, because he was yer      #
then I. And of his
fulnes have all we receaved, even grace for grace. For the lawe #
was geven by
Moses, but grace and truthe came by Iesus Christ. No man hath   #
sene God at eny
tyme. The only begotten sonne, which is in the bosome of the    #
father, he hath
declared him.
   And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent         #
Prestes and Levites
from Ierusalem, to axe him, what arte thou?                     #
<P I,20>
And he confessed and denyed not, and
sayde playnly: I am not Christ.                                 #
And they axed him: what then? arte thou Helyas?
And he sayde: I am not. Arte thou a Prophete? And he answered   #
no. Then sayd
they vnto him: what arte thou that we maye geve an answer to    #
them that sent
vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe? He sayde: I am the voyce of  #
a cryar in the
wyldernes, make strayght the waye of the Lorde, as sayde the    #
Prophete Esaias.
   And they which were sent, were of the pharises. And they     #
axed him, and
sayde vnto him: why baptisest thou then, yf thou be not Christ  #
nor Helyas,
nether a Prophet? Iohn answered them sayinge: I baptise with    #
water: but one
is come amonge you, whom ye knowe not he it is that cometh      #
after me, whiche
was before me, whose sho latchet I am not worthy to vnlose.     #
These thinges were
done in Bethabara beyonde Iordan, where Iohn dyd baptyse.
   The nexte daye, Iohn sawe Iesus commynge vnto him, and       #
sayde: beholde
the lambe of God, which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde.   #
This is he of
whom I sayde. After me cometh a man, which was before me, for   #
he was yer
them I,                                                         #
and I knew him not: but that he shuld be declared to Israell,   #
therfore
am I come baptisynge with water.
   And Iohn bare recorde sayinge: I sawe the sprete descende    #
from heven,
lyke vnto a dove, and abyde apon him, and I knewe him not. But  #
he that sent
me to baptise in water, the same sayde vnto me: apon whom thou  #
shalt se the
sprete descende and tary styll on him, the same is he which     #
baptiseth with the
holy goost. And I sawe and bare recorde, that this is the sonne #
of God.
   The next daye after, Iohn stode agayne, and two of his       #
disciples. And he
behelde Iesus as he walked by, and sayde: beholde the lambe of  #
God. And the
two disciples hearde him speake; and folowed Iesus. And Iesus   #
turned about,
and sawe them folowe, and sayde vnto them: What seke ye? They   #
sayde vnto
him: Rabbi (which is to saye by interpretacion, Master) where   #
dwellest thou?
He sayde vnto them: come and se. They came and sawe where he    #
dwelt: and
abode with him that daye. For it was about the tenthe houre. 
<P I,40>
   One of the two which hearde Iohn speake and folowed Iesus,   #
was Andrew
Simon Peters brother.                                           #
The same founde his brother Simon fyrst, and sayde vnto
him: we have founde Messias, which is by interpretacion,        #
annoynted: and
brought him to Iesus. And Iesus behelde him and sayde: thou     #
arte Simon the
sonne of Ionas, thou shalt be called Cephas: which is by        #
interpretacion, a stone.
   The daye folowynge Iesus wolde goo into Galile, and found    #
Philip, and
sayde vnto him, folowe me. Philip was of Bethsaida the cite of  #
Andrew and
Peter. And Philip founde Nathanael, and sayde vnto him. We      #
have founde
him of whom Moses in the lawe, and the prophetes dyd wryte.     #
Iesus the sonne
of Ioseph of Nazareth. And Nathanael sayde vnto him: can ther   #
eny good thinge
come out of Nazareth? Philip sayde to him: come and se.
   Iesus sawe Nathanael commynge to him, and sayde of him.      #
Beholde a
ryght Israelite, in whom is no gyle. Nathanael sayd vnto him:   #
where knewest
thou me? Iesus answered, and sayde vnto him: Before that        #
Philip called the,
when thou wast vnder the fygge tree, I sawe the. Nathanael      #
answered and sayde
vnto him: Rabbi, thou arte the sonne of God, thou arte the      #
kynge of Israel. Iesus
answered and sayd vnto him: Because I sayde vnto the, I sawe    #
the vnder the fygge
tree, thou belevest. Thou shalt se greater thinges then these.  #
And he sayde vnto
him: Verely, verely, I saye vnto you: herafter shall ye se      #
heven open, and the
angels of God ascendynge and descendynge over the sonne of man.

<P II,1>
[}THE SECONDE CHAPTER.}]

   And the thryde daye, was ther a mariage in Cana a cite of    #
Galile: and the
mother of Iesus was there. And Iesus was called also and his    #
disciples vnto the
mariage. And when the wyne fayled, the mother of Iesus sayde    #
vnto him: they
have no wyne. Iesus sayde vnto her: woman, what have I to do    #
with the? myne
houre is not yet come. His mother sayde vnto the ministres:     #
whatsoever he sayeth
vnto you, do it. And ther were stondynge theare, six            #
waterpottes of stone after
the maner of the purifyinge of the Iewes, contaynynge two or    #
thre fyrkins a pece.
   And Iesus sayde vnto them: fyll the water pottes with        #
water. And they 
fylled them vp to the brym. And he sayde vnto them: drawe out   #
now, and
beare vnto the governer of the feaste. And they bare it. When   #
the ruler of the
feast had tasted the water that was turned vnto wyne, and       #
knewe not whence
it was (but the ministres which drue the water knew) He called  #
the brydegrome,
and sayde vnto him. All men at the beginnynge, set forth good   #
wyne, and when
men be dronke, then that which is worsse. But thou hast kept    #
backe the good
wyne, vntyll now. 
   This beginnynge of miracles dyd Iesus in Cana of Galile,     #
and shewed
his glory, and his disciples beleved on him. After that he      #
descended in to
Capernaum, and his mother, and his brethren, and his            #
disciples: but contynued
not manye dayes there.
   And the Iewes ester was even at honde, and Iesus went vp to  #
Ierusalem,
and founde syttynge in the temple, those that solde oxen and    #
shepe and doves,
and chaungers of money. And he made a scourge of small cordes,  #
and drave
them all out of the temple, with the shepe and oxen, and        #
powred oute the
changers money, and overthrue the tables, and sayde vnto them   #
that solde
doves: Have these thinges hence, and make not my fathers        #
housse an housse of
marchaundyse. And his disciples remembred, how that it was      #
wrytten: the zele
of thyne housse hath even eaten me.
   Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: what token       #
shewest thou
vnto vs, seynge that thou dost these thinges? Iesus answered    #
and sayd vnto
them: destroye this temple, and in thre dayes I will reare it   #
vp agayne.                                                      #
<P II,20>
Then                                                            
sayde the Iewes: xlvi. yeares was this temple abuyldinge: and   #
wylt thou reare
it vp in thre dayes?                                            #
But he spake of the temple of his body. Assone therfore as
he was rysen from deeth agayne, his disciples remembred that    #
he thus sayde.
And they beleved the scripture, and the wordes which Iesus had  #
sayde.  
   When he was at Ierusalem at ester in the feaste, many        #
beleved on his name,
when they sawe his miracles which he dyd. But Iesus put not     #
him selfe in their
hondes, because he knewe all men, and neded not, that eny man   #
shuld testify of
man. For he knewe what was in man.

<P III,1>
[}THE III. CHAPTER.}]

   Ther was a man of the pharises named Nicodemus a ruler       #
amonge the
Iewes. The same cam to Iesus by nyght, and sayde vnto him:      #
Rabbi, we knowe
that thou arte a teacher whiche arte come from God. For no man  #
coulde do
suche miracles as thou doest, except God were with him. Iesus   #
answered and
sayde vnto him: Verely verely I saye vnto the: except a man be  #
boren a newe,
he cannot se the kyngdom of God. Nicodemus sayde vnto him: how  #
can a man
be boren when he is olde? can he enter his moders wombe and be  #
boren
agayne? Iesus answered: verely, verely I saye vnto the: except  #
that a man be
boren of water and of the sprete, he cannot enter into the      #
kyngdome of god.
That which is boren of the flesshe, is flesshe: and that which  #
is boren of the sprete,
is sprete. Marvayle not that I sayd to the, ye must be boren a  #
newe. The wynde
bloweth where he listeth, and thou hearest his sounde: but      #
canst not tell whence
he cometh and whether he goeth. So is every man that is boren   #
of the sprete.
   And Nicodemus answered and sayde vnto him: how can these     #
thinges be?
Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: arte thou a master in        #
Israel, and knowest
not these thinges?                                              #
Verely verely, I saye vnto the, we speake that we knowe, and
testify that we have sene: and ye receave not oure witnes. Yf   #
when I tell you
erthely thinges, ye beleve not: how shuld ye beleve, yf I       #
shall tell you of hevenly
thinges?
   And no man ascendeth vp to heaven, but he that came doune    #
from heaven,
that is to saye, the sonne of man which is in heaven.
   And as Moses lifte vp the serpent in the wyldernes, even so  #
must the sonne
of man be lifte vp, that none that beleveth in him perisshe:    #
but have eternall lyfe.  
   For God so loveth the worlde, that he hath geven his only    #
sonne, that none
that beleve in him, shuld perisshe: but shuld have              #
everlastinge lyfe. For God sent
not his sonne into the worlde, to condempne the worlde: but     #
that the worlde
through him, might be saved. He that beleveth on him, shall     #
not be condempned.
But he that beleveth not, is condempned all redy, be cause he   #
beleveth not in the
name of the only sonne of God. And this is the condempnacion:   #
that light is
come into the worlde, and the men loved darcknes more then      #
light, because
their dedes were evill.                                         #
<P III,20>
For every man that evyll doeth, hateth  the light: nether
commeth the light, lest his dedes shuld be reproved.            #
But he that doeth truth,
commeth to the light, that his dedes might be knowen, how that  #
they are
wrought in God.
   After these thinges cam Iesus and his disciples into the     #
Iewes londe, and
ther he haunted with them and baptised. And Iohn also baptised  #
in Enon
besydes Salim, because ther was moche water there, and they     #
came and were
baptised. For Iohn was not yet cast into preson.
   And ther arose a question bitwene Iohns disciples and the    #
Iewes a bout
purifiynge. And they came vnto Iohn, and sayde vnto him: Rabbi, #
he that was
with the beyonde Iordan, to whom thou barest witnes. Beholde    #
the same
baptyseth, and all men come to him. Iohn answered, and sayde:   #
a man can
receave no thinge at all except it be geven him from heaven.    #
Ye youre
selves are witnesses, how that I sayde: I am not Christ but am  #
sent before
him. He that hath the bryde, is the brydegrome. But the frende  #
of the
brydegrome which stondeth by and heareth him, reioyseth         #
greately of the
brydgromes voyce. Tis my ioye is fulfilled. He must increase:   #
and I must
decreace.
   He that commeth from an hye is above all: He that is of the  #
erth, is of the
erth, and speaketh of the erth. He that commeth from  heaven,   #
is above all,
and what he hath sene and hearde: that he testifieth: but no    #
man receaveth his
testimonye. How be it he that hath receaved hys testimonye      #
hath set to his
seale that God is true. For he whom God hath sent, speaketh     #
the wordes of God.
For God geveth not the sprete by measure. The father loveth     #
the sonne and
hath geven all thinges into his honde. He that beleveth on the  #
sonne, hath
everlastynge lyfe: and he that beleveth not the sonne, shall    #
not se lyfe, but the
wrathe of God abydeth on him.

<P IV,1>
[}THE IIII. CHAPTER.}]

   Assone as the Lorde had knowledge, how the Pharises had      #
hearde, that
Iesus made and baptised moo disciples then Iohn (though that    #
Iesus him selfe
baptised not: but his disciples) he lefte Iewry, and departed   #
agayne into Galile.
And it was so that he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria. Then      #
came he to a
cyte of Samaria called Sichar, besydes the possession that      #
Iacob gave to his
sonne Ioseph. And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then weryed in   #
his iorney, sate
thus on the well.
   And it was about the sixte houre: and there came a woman of  #
Samaria to
drawe water. And Iesus sayde vnto her: geve me drynke. For his  #
disciples were
gone awaye vnto the toune to bye meate. Then sayde the woman    #
of Samaria
vnto him: how is it, that thou beinge a Iewe, axest drinke of   #
me, which am a 
Samaritane? for the Iewes medle not with the Samaritans. Iesus  #
answered and
sayde vnto hir: yf thou knewest the gyfte of God, and who it    #
is that sayeth to
the geve me drynke, thou woldest have axed of him, and he       #
wolde have geven
the water of lyfe.                                              #
The woman sayde vnto him. Syr thou hast no thinge to
drawe with, and the well is depe: from whence then hast thou    #
that water of
lyfe? Arte thou greater then oure father Iacob which gave vs    #
the well, and he
him silfe dranke therof, and his chyldren, and his catell?
   Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: whosoever drinketh of     #
this water,
shall thurst agayne. But whosoever shall drinke of the water    #
that I shall
geve him, shall never be more a thyrst: but the water that I    #
shall geve him,
shalbe in him a well of water, springinge vp in to              #
everlastinge lyfe. The
woman sayd vnto him: Syr geve me of that water, that I thyrst   #
not, nether
come hedder to drawe. Iesus sayde vnto her. Go and call thy     #
husband, and
come hydder. The woman answered and sayde to him: I have no     #
husband.
Iesus sayde to her. Thou hast well sayd, I have no husbande.    #
For thou haste had
five husbandes, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband.  #
That saydest
thou truely.
   The woman sayde vnto him: Syr I perceave that thou arte a    #
prophet.
<P IV,20>
Oure fathers worshipped in this mountayne: and ye saye that in  #
Hierusalem is
the place where men ought to worshippe.                         #
Iesus sayde vnto her: woman beleve
me, the houre cometh, when ye shall nether in this mountayne    #
nor yet at
Ierusalem, worshippe the father. Ye worshippe, ye wot not       #
what: we knowe
what we worshippe. For salvacion commeth of the Iewes. But the  #
houre
commeth and nowe is, when the true worshippers shall worshippe  #
the father
in sprete and in trouthe. For verely suche the father           #
requyreth to worshippe
him. God is a sprete, and they that worshippe him, must         #
worshippe him, in
sprete and trouthe. 
   The woman sayde vnto him: I wot well Messias shall come,     #
which is
called Christ. When he is come, he will tell vs all thinges.    #
Iesus sayde vnto hir:
I that speake vnto the am he. And even at that poynte, came     #
his disciples, and
marvelled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man sayde vnto  #
him: what
meanest thou, or why talkest thou with her? The woman then      #
lefte her waterpot,
and went her waye into the cite, and sayde to the men. Come se  #
a man which
tolde me all thinges that ever I dyd. Is not he Christ? Then    #
they went out of the
cite, and came vnto him.
   And in the meane while his disciples prayed him sayinge:     #
Master, eate.
He sayde vnto them: I have meate to eate, that ye knowe not     #
of. Then sayd
the disciples bitwene them selves: hath eny man brought him     #
meate? Iesus
sayde vnto them: my meate is to doo the will of him that sent   #
me. And to
fynnysshe his worke. Saye not ye: there are yet foure           #
monethes, and then
commeth harvest? Beholde I saye vnto you, lyfte vp youre eyes,  #
and loke on
the regions: for they are whyte all redy vnto harvest. And he   #
that repeth receaveth 
rewarde, and gaddereth frute vnto life eternall: that bothe he  #
that soweth, and
he that repeth myght reioyse to gether. And herin is the        #
sayinge true, that one
soweth, and another repeth. I sent you to repe that wheron ye   #
bestowed no
laboure. Other men laboured, and ye are entred into their       #
labours.
   Many of the Samaritans of that cyte beleved on him, for the  #
sayinge of the
woman, which testified: he tolde me all thinges that ever I     #
dyd. 
<P IV,40>
Then when                                                       #
the Samaritans were come vnto him, they besought him, that he   #
wolde tary with
them. And he aboode there two dayes.                            #
And many moo beleved because of his 
awne wordes, and sayd vnto the woman: Now we beleve not         #
because of thy
sayinge. For we have herde him oure selves, and knowe that      #
this is even in dede
Christ the savioure of the worlde.  
   After two dayes he departed thence, and went awaye into      #
Galile. And Iesus
him selfe testified, that a Prophete hath none honoure in his   #
awne countre. Then 
assone as he was come into Galile, the Galileans receaved him   #
which had sene
all the thinges that he dyd at Ierusalem at the feast. For      #
they went also vnto the
feast daye. And Iesus came agayne into Cana of Galile, wher he  #
turned water
into wyne.
   And ther was a certayne ruler, whose sonne was sicke at      #
Capernaum.
Assone as the same herde that Iesus was come out of Iewry into  #
Galile, he went
vnto him, and besought him, that he wolde descende, and heale   #
his sonne: For
he was even readie to dye. Then sayde Iesus vnto him: excepte   #
ye se signes and
wondres, ye cannot beleve. The ruler sayd vnto him: Syr come    #
awaye or ever
that my chylde dye. Iesus sayde vnto him, goo thy waye, thy     #
sonne liveth.
And the man beleved the wordes that Iesus had spoken vnto him,  #
and went
his waye.                                                       #
And anone as he went on his waye, his servantes met him, and    #
tolde
him sayinge: thy chylde liveth. Then enquyred he of them the    #
houre when he
beganne to amende. And they sayde vnto him: Yester daye the     #
seventhe houre,
the fever lefte him. And the father knew that it was the same   #
houre in which
Iesus sayde vnto him: Thy sonne liveth. And he beleved, and     #
all his housholde.
Thys is agayne the seconde myracle, that Iesus dyd, after he    #
was come oute of  
Iewry into Galile.

<P V,1>
[}THE V. CHA.}]

   After that ther was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp  #
to Ierusalem.
And ther is at Ierusalem, by the slaughterhousse, a pole        #
called in the Ebrue
tonge, Bethseda, havinge five porches, in which laye a greate   #
multitude of sicke
folke, of blinde, halt and wyddered, waytinge for the movinge   #
of the water.
For an angell went doune at a certayne ceason the into pole     #
and troubled the
water. Whosoever then fyrst after the steringe of the water,    #
stepped in, was
made whoale of what soever disease he had. And a certayne man   #
was theare,
which had bene diseased .xxxviii. yeares. When Iesus sawe him   #
lye, and knewe
that he now longe tyme had bene diseased, he sayde vnto him.    #
Wilt thou be
made whoale? The sicke answered him: Syr I have no man when     #
the water is
troubled, to put me into the pole. But in the meane tyme,       #
whill I am about to
come, another steppeth doune before me.
   And Iesus sayde vnto him: ryse, take vp thy beed, and        #
walke. And 
immediatly the man was made whole, and toke vp his beed, and    #
went. And
the same daye was the Saboth daye. The Iewes therfore sayde     #
vnto him that 
was made whole. It is the Saboth daye, it is not laufull for    #
the to cary thy beed.
He answered them: he that made me whole, sayde vnto me: take    #
vp thy beed,
and get the hence. Then axed they him: what man is that which   #
sayde vnto
the, take vp thy beed and walke. And he that was healed, wist   #
not who it was.
For Iesus had gotten him selfe awaye, because that ther was     #
preace of people in
the place.
   And after that, Iesus founde him in the temple, and sayd     #
vnto him: beholde
thou arte made whole, synne no moore, lest a worsse thinge      #
happen vnto the.
The man departed, and tolde the Iewes that yt was Iesus,        #
whiche had made him
whole. And therfore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus and sought    #
the meanes to
slee him, because he had done these thinges on the Saboth       #
daye. And Iesus
answered them: my father worketh hidder to, and I worke.        #
Therfore the Iewes
sought the moare to kill him, not only because he had broken    #
the Saboth: but
sayde also that God was his father, and made him selfe equall   #
with God.
   Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto them: verely, verely, I   #
saye vnto you:
the sonne can do no thinge of him selfe, but that he seeth the  #
father do. For
whatsoever he doeth, that doeth the sonne also.                 #
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For the father loveth the sonne,
and sheweth him all thinges, whatsoever he him selfe doeth.     #
And he will shewe
him greter workes then these, because ye shoulde marvayle.      #
For lykwyse as the
father rayseth vp the deed, and quickeneth them, even so the    #
sonne quyckeneth
whom he will. Nether iudgeth the father eny man: but hath       #
committed all
iudgement vnto the sonne, because that all men shuld honoure    #
the sonne, even
as they honoure the father. He that honoureth not the sonne,    #
the same honoureth
not the father which hath sent him. Verely verely I saye vnto   #
you: He that 
heareth my wordes, and beleveth on him that sent me, hath       #
everlastinge lyfe,
and shall not come in to damnacion: but is scaped from deth     #
vnto lyfe.
   Verely, verely I saye vnto you: the tyme shall come, and     #
now is, when the
deed shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God. And they that   #
heare, shall live.
For as the father hath life in him silfe: so lyke wyse hath he  #
geven to the sonne
to have lyfe in him silfe: and hath geven him power also to     #
iudge, in that he
is the sonne of man. Marvayle not at this, the houre shall      #
come in the which
all that are in the graves, shall heare his voice, and shall    #
come forthe: they that
have done good vnto the resurreccion of lyfe: and they that     #
have done evyll,
vnto the resurreccion of dampnacion.
   I can of myne awne selfe do nothinge at all. As I heare, I   #
iudge, and my
iudgement is iust, be cause I seke not myne awne will, but the  #
will of the father
which hath sent me.                                             #
Yf I beare witnes of my selfe, my witnes is not true. Ther
is a nother that beareth witnes of me, and I am sure that the   #
witnes whiche he
beareth of me, is true.
   Ye sent vnto Iohn, and he bare witnes vnto the truthe. But   #
I receave not
the recorde of man. Neverthelesse, these thinges I saye, that   #
ye might be safe.
He was a burninge and a shyninge light, and ye wolde for a      #
season have
reioysed in his light. But I have greater witnes then the       #
witnes of Iohn. For the
workes which the father hath geven me to fynisshe: the same     #
workes which
I do, beare witnes of me, that the father sent me. And the      #
father him silfe
which hath sent me, beareth witnes of me. Ye have not hearde    #
his voyce at
eny tyme, nor ye have sene his shape: therto his wordes have    #
ye not abydinge in
you. For whome he hath sent: him ye beleve not.
   Searche the scriptures, for in them ye thinke ye have        #
eternall lyfe: and they
are they which testify of me.                                   #
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And yet will ye not come to me, that ye might
have lyfe.                                                      #
I receave not prayse of men. But I knowe you, that ye have not  #
the
love of God in you, I am come in my fathers name, and ye        #
receave me not. Yf
another shall come in his awne name, him will ye receave. How   #
can ye beleve
which receave honoure one of another, and seke not the honoure  #
that commeth
of God only?
   Doo not thinke that I wyll accuse you to my father. Ther is  #
one that
accuseth you, even Moses in whom ye trust. For had ye beleved   #
Moses, ye wold
have beleved me: for he wrote of me. But now ye beleve not his  #
writinge: how
shall ye beleve my wordes.

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[}THE. VI. CHAPTER.}]

   After these thinges Iesus went his waye over the see of      #
Galile nye to a cyte 
called Tiberias. And a greate multitude folowed him, because    #
they had sene
his myracles which he dyd on them that were diseased. And       #
Iesus went vp into
a mountayne, and there he sate with his disciples. And ester,   #
a feast of the Iewes,
was nye. Then Iesus lifte vp his eyes, and sawe a greate        #
company  come vnto
him, and sayde vnto Philip: whence shall we bye breed that      #
these might eate.
This he sayde to prove him: for he  him sylfe knewe what he     #
wolde do.
   Philip answered him, two hondred peny worthe of breed are    #
not sufficient 
for them, that every man have a litell. Then sayde vnto him,    #
one of his disciples, 
Andrew Simon Peters brother. There ys a lad here, which hath    #
fyve barly loves
and two fisshes: but what is that amonge so many? And Iesus     #
sayde. Make the
people sit doune: Ther was moche grasse in the place. And the   #
men sate doune, 
in nombre, about five thousande. And Iesus toke the breed, and  #
gave thankes, 
and gave to the disciples, and his disciples to them that were  #
set doune. And 
lykwyse of the fysshes, as  moche as they wolde.
   When they had eaten ynough, he sayd vnto his disciples:      #
gadder vp the
broken meate that remayneth: That nothinge be loost. And they   #
gadered it to
geder, and fylled twelve baskettes with the broken meate, of    #
the five barly loves,
which broken meate remayned vnto them that had eaten. Then the  #
men, when 
they had sene the myracle that Iesus dyd, sayde: This is of a   #
trueth the Prophet
that shuld come into the worlde.
   When Iesus perceaved that they wolde come, and take him vp,  #
to make him
kinge, he  departed agayne into a mountayne him silfe a lone.
   And when even was come, his disciples went vnto the see and  #
entred into 
a shyppe, and went over the see vnto Capernaum. And anonne it   #
was darcke, 
and Iesus was not come to them. And the see arose with a        #
greate winde that
blew. And when they had rowen aboute a. xxv. or a xxx.          #
furlonges, they sawe
Iesus walke on the see, and drawe nye vnto the shyp, and they   #
were afrayed. 
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And he sayde vnto them: It is I, be not a frayde. Then wolde    #
they  have receaved
him into the shyp, and the ship was by and by at the londe      #
whyther they went. 
   The daye folowynge, the people which stode on the other      #
syde of the see, 
sawe that ther was none other shyp theare, save that one wher   #
in his disciples
were entred, and that Iesus went  not in with his disciples     #
into the ship: but that 
his disciples were gone awaye alone. How be it, ther came       #
other shippes from
Tiberias nye vnto place, where they ate breed, when the Lorde   #
had blessed. 
Then when the people sawe that Iesus was not there nether his   #
disciples, they 
also toke shippinge and came to Caparnaum sekinge for Iesus. 
   And when they had founde him on the other syde of the see    #
they sayd
vnto him: Rabbi, when camest thou hidder? Iesus answered them   #
and sayde: 
verely verely I saye vnto you: ye seke me, not because ye sawe  #
the myracles:
but be cause ye ate of the loves, and were filled. Laboure,     #
not for the meate
which perissheth, but for the meate that endureth vnto          #
everlastynge lyfe, 
whiche meate the sonne of man shall geve vnto you. For him      #
hath god the
father sealed.
   Then sayd they vnto him: what shall we do that myght worke   #
the
workes of God. Iesus answered and sayde vnto them. This is the  #
worke of
God, that ye beleve on him, whom he hath sent. They sayde vnto  #
him: what 
signe shewest thou then, that we maye se and beleve the? What   #
doest thou 
worke? Oure fathers dyd eate Manna in the desert, as yt is      #
written: He gave 
them breed from heaven to eate. Iesus sayde vnto them: verely,  #
verely I saye 
vnto you: Moses gave you breed from heaven: but my father       #
geveth you the 
true breed from heaven. For the breed of God is he which        #
commeth doune
from heaven and geveth lyfe vnto the worlde.
   Then sayde they vnto him: Lorde, ever moore geve vs this     #
breed. And 
Iesus sayde vnto them: I am that breed of life. He that commeth #
to me, shall
not honger: and he that beleveth on me shall never thurst. But  #
I sayed vnto 
you: that ye have sene me, and yet beleve not. All that the     #
father geveth me:
shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I cast not awaye.  #
For I came
doune from heaven: not to do myne awne will, but his will       #
which hath sent me:
And this is the fathers will which hath sent me, that of all    #
which he hath geven 
me, I shuld loose no thinge: but shuld rayse it vp agayne at    #
the last daye. 
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And                                                             #
this is the wyll of him that sent me: that every man which      #
seith the sonne and 
beleveth on him, have everlastinge lyfe. And I will rayse him   #
vp at the last daye. 
   The Iewes then murmured at him, because he sayde: I am that  #
breed which
is come doune from heaven. And they sayde: Is not this Iesus    #
the sonne of 
Ioseph, whose father and mother we knowe? How ys yt then that   #
he sayeth,       
I came  doune from heaven? Iesus answered and sayde vnto them.  #
Murmur
not betwene youre selves. No man can come to me except the      #
father which
hath sent me, drawe him. And I will rayse him vp at the last    #
daye. It is written
in the Prophetes, that they shall all be taught of God. Every   #
man therfore that
hath hearde and hath learned of the father commeth vnto me.     #
Not that eny man
hath sene the father, save he which is of God: the same hath    #
sene the father. 
   Verely verely I saye vnto you, he that beleveth on me, hath  #
everlastinge
lyfe. I am that breed of lyfe. Youre fathers dyd eate Manna in  #
the wildernes
and are deed. This is that breed which commeth from heaven,     #
that he which
eateth of it, shuld also not dye. I am that lyvinge breed       #
which came doune
from heaven. Yf eny man eate of this breed, he shall live       #
forever. And the
breed that I will geve, is my flesshe, which I will geve for    #
the lyfe of the worlde.
   And the Iewes strove amonge them selves sayinge: How can     #
this felowe
geve vs his flesshe to eate? Then Iesus sayde vnto them:        #
Verely, verely I saye
vnto you, except ye eate the flesshe of the sonne of man, and   #
drinke his bloude,
ye shall not have lyfe in you. Whosoever eateth my flesshe,     #
and drinketh my
bloude, hath eternall lyfe: and I will rayse him vp at the      #
last daye. For my
flesshe is meate in dede: and my bloude is drynke in dede. He   #
that eateth my
flesshe and drynketh my bloude, dwelleth in me and I in him.    #
As the lyvinge
father hath sent me, even so lyve I by my father: and he that   #
eateth me, shall
live by me. This is the breed which cam from heaven: not as     #
youre fathers have
eaten Manna and are deed. He that eateth of this breed, shall   #
live ever. 
   These thinges sayd he in the synagoge as he taught in        #
Capernaum.
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Many                                                            #
of his disciples, when they had herde this, sayde: this is an   #
herde sayinge: who
can abyde the hearinge of it? Iesus knew in him selfe, that     #
his disciples 
murmured at it, and sayde vnto them: Doth this offende you?     #
What and yf ye
shall se the sonne of man ascende vp where he was before? It    #
is the sprete that
quyckeneth, the flesshe proffeteth nothinge. The wordes that I  #
speake vnto you,
are sprete and lyfe. But ther are some of you that beleve not.  #
For Iesus knewe
from the begynnynge, which they were that beleved not, and who  #
shuld betraye
him. And he sayde: Therfore sayde I vnto you: that no man can   #
come vnto me, 
except it were geven vnto him of my father.
   From that tyme many of his disciples went backe, and walked  #
no moore
with him. Then sayde Iesus to the twelve: will ye alsoo goo     #
awaye? Then 
Simon Peter answered: Master to whom shall we goo? Thou haste   #
the 
wordes of eternall lyfe, and we beleve and knowe, that thou     #
arte Christ the 
sonne of the lyvinge God. Iesus answered them: Have not I       #
chosen you 
twelve, and yet one of you is the devyll? He spake it of Iudas  #
Iscariot the 
sonne of Simon. For he it  was that shuld betraye him, and was  #
one of the 
twelve.

<P VII,1>
[}THE. VII. CHAPTER.}]

   After that, Iesus went about in Galile and wolde not go      #
about in Iewry,
for the Iewes sought to kill him. The Iewes tabernacle feast    #
was at honde. His
brethren therfore sayde vnto him: get the hence and go into     #
Iewry that thy
disciples maye se thy workes that thou doest. For ther is no    #
man that doeth eny
thinge secretly, and he him selfe seketh to be knowen. Yf thou  #
do soche thinges,
shewe thy selfe to the worlde. For as yet his brethren beleved  #
not in him.
   Then Iesus sayd vnto them: My tyme is not yet come, youre    #
tyme is all
waye redy. The worlde cannot hate you. Me it hateth: be cause   #
I testify of it, 
that the workes of it are evyll. Go ye vp vnto this feast. I    #
will not go vp yet
vnto this feast, for my tyme is not yet full come.  These       #
wordes he sayde vnto
them and abode still in Galile. But assone as his brethren      #
were goone vp, then
went he also vp vnto the feast: not openly but as it were       #
prevely. Then sought
him the Iewes at the feast, and sayde: Where is he? And moche   #
murmurynge
was ther of him amonge the people. Some sayde: He is good.      #
Wother sayde
naye, but he deceaveth the people. How be it no man spake       #
openly of him,
for feare of the Iewes.
   In the middes of the feast, Iesus went vp into the temple    #
and taught. And 
the Iewes marveylled sayinge: How knoweth he the scriptures,    #
seynge that he 
never learned? Iesus answered them, and sayde: My doctrine is   #
not myne: but
his that sent me. If eny man will do his will, he shall knowe   #
of the doctrine, 
whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe. He that  #
speaketh of him
selfe, seketh his awne prayse. But he that seketh his prayse    #
that sent him, the
same is true, and no vnrightewesnes is in him. 
   Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe, and yet  none of you kepeth   #
the lawe?
Why goo ye a boute to kyll me?                                  #
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The people answered and  sayde: thou hast the
devyll: who goeth aboute to kyll the? Iesus answered and sayde  #
to them: I have
done one worke, and ye all marvayle. Moses therfore gave vnto   #
you circumcision
not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers. And yet ye on   #
the Saboth
daye, circumcise a man. If a man on the Saboth daye receave     #
circumcision 
without breakinge of the lawe of Moses: disdayne ye at me,      #
because I have made
a man every whit whoale on the saboth daye? Iudge not after     #
the vtter aperaunce:
but iudge rightewes iudgement.
   Then sayd some of them of Ierusalem: Is not this he whom     #
they goo aboute 
to kyll? Beholde he speaketh boldly, and they saye nothinge to  #
him. Do the
rulars knowe in dede, that this is very Christ? How be it we    #
knowe this man
whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man shall knowe        #
whence he is.
   Then cryed Iesus in the temple as he taught sayinge: ye      #
knowe me, and
whence I am ye knowe. And yet I am not come of my selfe, but    #
he that sent
me is true, whom ye knowe not. I knowe him: for I am of him,    #
and he hath 
sent me. Then they sought to take him: but no man layde hondes  #
on him,
because his tyme was not yet come. Many of the people beleved   #
on him and
sayde: when Christ cometh, will he do moo miracles then this    #
man hath done?
   The pharises hearde that the people murmured suche thinges   #
about him. 
Wherfore the pharises and hye prestes  sent ministres forthe    #
to take him. Then
sayde Iesus vnto them: Yet am I a lytell whyle with you, and    #
then goo I vnto
him that sent me. Ye shall seke me, and shall not fynde me:     #
and where I am,
thyther can ye not come. Then sayde the Iewes bitwene them      #
selves: whyther
will he goo, that we shall not fynde him? Will he goo amonge    #
the gentyls 
which are scattered all a broade, and teache the gentyls? What  #
maner of sayinge
is this that he sayde: ye shall seke me, and shall not fynde    #
me: and where I am,
thyther can ye not come? 
   In the last daye, that great daye of the feaste, Iesus       #
stode and cryed sayinge:
If eny man thyrst, let him come vnto me and drinke. He that     #
beleveth on me, 
as sayeth the scripture, out of his belly shall flowe ryvers    #
of water of lyfe. This
spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him, shuld     #
receave. For the
holy goost was not yet there, because that Iesus was not yet    #
glorifyed.
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   Many of the people, when they hearde this sayinge sayd: of   #
a truth this is 
a prophet. Other sayde: this is Christ. Some sayde: shall       #
Christ come out of 
Galile? Sayeth not the scripture that Christ shall come of the  #
seed of David:
and out of the toune of Bethleem where David was? So was ther   #
dissencion 
amonge the people aboute him. And some of them wolde have       #
taken him: but
no man layed hondes on him. 
   Then came the ministres to the hye prestes and pharises.     #
And they sayde 
vnto them: why have ye not brought him?  The servauntes         #
answered never 
man spake as this man doeth. Then answered them the             #
pharises: are ye also
disceaved? Doth eny of the rulers or the pharises beleve on     #
him? But the 
comen people whiche knowe not the lawe, are cursed. Nicodemus   #
sayde vnto 
them: He that came to Iesus by nyght, and was one of them.      #
Doth oure lawe
iudge eny man, before it heare him, and knowe what he hath      #
done? They
answered and sayde vnto him: arte thou also of Galile? Searche  #
and loke, for
out of Galile aryseth no Prophet. And every man went vnto his   #
awne housse.

<P VIII,1>
[}THE. VIII. CHAPTER.}]

   And Iesus went vnto mounte Olivete and erly in the mornynge  #
came
agayne in to the temple and all the people came vnto him, and   #
he sate doune and
taught them. And the scribes and the pharises brought vnto him  #
a woman
taken in advoutry, and set hyr in the myddes and sayde vnto     #
him: Master, this
woman was taken in advoutry, even as the dede was a doyng.      #
Moses in the lawe
commaunded vs that suche shuld be stoned. What sayest thou      #
ther fore? And
this they sayde to tempt him: that they myght have, wherof to   #
accuse him.
Iesus stouped doune, and with his fynger wrote on the grounde.  #
And whyll
they continued axynge him, he lyfte him selfe vp, and sayde     #
vnto them: let him
that is amonge you with out synne cast the fyrst stone at her.  #
And agayne  he 
stouped doune and wrote on the grounde. And assone as they      #
hearde that, they
went out one by one the eldest fyrst. And Iesus was lefte a     #
lone, and the 
woman stondynge in the myddes. When Iesus had lyfte vp him      #
selfe agayne, 
and sawe no man but the woman, he sayde vnto hyr. Woman, where  #
are those
thyne accusars? Hath no man condempned the? She sayde: No man   #
Lorde. 
And Iesus sayde: Nether do I condempne the. Goo, and synne no   #
moare. 
   Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them sayinge: I am the light    #
of the worlde. 
He that foloweth me shall not walke in darcknes: but shall      #
have the light of lyfe.
The pharises sayde vnto him: thou bearest recorde of thy sylfe  #
thy recorde is
not true. Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: Though I beare    #
recorde of my 
selfe yet my recorde is true: for I knowe whence I came and     #
whyther I goo.
But ye cannot tell whence I come, and whyther I goo. Ye iudge   #
after the flesshe.
I iudge noman, though I iudge yet is my iudgment true. For I    #
am not alone:
but I and the father that sent me. It is also written in youre  #
lawe, that the
testimony of two men is true. I am one that beare witnes of my  #
selfe, and the
father that sent me, beareth witnes of me. Then sayde they      #
vnto him: where is
thy father? Iesus answered: ye nether knowe me, nor yet my      #
father. Yf ye had
knowen me, ye shuld have knowen my father also.                 #
<P VIII,20>
These wordes spake Iesus 
in the tresury, as he taught in the temple, and noman layde     #
hondes on him, for
his tyme was not yet come. 
   Then sayde Iesus agayne vnto them. I goo my waye, and ye     #
shall seke me,
and shall dye in youre synnes. Whyther I goo, thyther can ye    #
not come. Then 
sayde the Iewes: will he kyll him selfe, because he sayth:      #
whyther I goo, thyther
can ye not come? And he sayde vnto them: ye are from beneth, I  #
am from 
above. Ye are of this worlde, I am not of this worlde. I sayde  #
therfore vnto you,
that ye shall dye in youre synnes. For except ye beleve that I  #
am he, ye shall
dye in youre synnes. 
   Then sayde they vnto him, who arte thou? And Iesus sayde     #
vnto them: 
Even the very same thinge that I saye vnto you. I have many     #
thinges to saye,
and to iudge of you. But he that sent me is true. And I speake  #
in the worlde, 
those thinges which I have hearde of him. They vnderstode not   #
that he spake
of his father. 
   Then sayde Iesus vnto them: when ye have lyft vp an hye the  #
sonne of man,
then shall ye knowe that I am he, and that I do nothinge of my  #
selfe: but as
my father hath taught me, even so I speake: and he that sent    #
me, is with me. 
The father hath not lefte me alone, for I do alwayes those      #
thinges that please
him. As he spake these wordes, many beleved on him. 
   Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleved on him. If ye  #
continue 
in my wordes, then are ye my very disciples, and shall knowe    #
the trueth: and
the trueth shall make you free. They answered him: We be        #
Abrahams seede, 
and were never bonde to eny man: why sayest thou then, ye       #
shalbe made fre. 
Iesus answered them: verely verely I saye vnto you, that        #
whosoever committeth
synne, is the servaunt of synne. And the servaunt abydeth not   #
in the
housse for ever: But the sonne abydeth ever. If the sonne       #
therfore shall make 
you fre, then are ye fre in dede. I knowe that ye are Abrahams  #
seed: but ye 
seke meanes to kyll me, because my sayings have no place in     #
you. I speake
that I have sene with my father: and ye do that which ye have   #
sene with 
youre father. 
   They answered and sayde vnto him: Abraham is oure father.    #
Iesus sayde vnto 
them. If ye were Abrahams chyldren, ye wolde do the dedes of    #
Abraham. But
now ye goo about to kyll me a man that have tolde you the       #
truthe, which I have
herde of god: this dyd not Abraham. Ye do the dedes of youre    #
father. Then 
sayde they vnto him: we were not borne of fornicacion. We have  #
one father, 
which is God. Iesus sayde vnto them: yf God were youre father,  #
then wolde ye
love me. For I proceaded forthe and come from God. Nether came  #
I of my 
selfe, but he sent me. Why do ye not knowe my speache? Even     #
because ye
cannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes.    
   Ye are of youre father the devyll, and the lustes of youre   #
father ye will 
folowe. He was a murtherer from the beginnynge, and aboode not  #
in the trueth,
because ther is no trueth in him. When he speaketh a lye, then  #
speaketh he of 
his awne. For he is a lyar, and the father therof. And because  #
I tell you the
trueth, therfore ye beleve me not. 
   Which of you can rebuke me of synne? If I saye the trueth,   #
why do not ye 
beleve me? He that is of God, heareth goddes wordes. Ye         #
therfore heare them 
not, because ye are not of God. 
   Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: Saye we not      #
well that thou
arte a Samaritane, and hast the devyll? Iesus answered: I have  #
not the devyll:
but I honour my father, and  ye have dishonoured me. I seke     #
not myne awne
prayse: but ther is one that seketh and iudgeth.
   Verely verely I saye vnto you, yf a man kepe my sayinges,    #
he shall never
se deeth. Then sayde the Iewes to him: Now knowe we that thou   #
hast the devyll.
Abraham is deed, and also the Prophetes: and yet thou sayest,   #
yf a man kepe my 
sayinge, he shall never tast of deeth. Arte thou greater then   #
oure father Abraham
which is deed? and the Prophetes are deed. Whome makest thou    #
thy selfe?
   Iesus answered: Yf I honoure my selfe, myne honoure is       #
nothinge worth.
It is my father that honoureth me, which ye saye, is youre      #
God, and ye have not
knowen him: but I knowe him. And yf I shuld saye, I knowe him   #
not, I shuld 
be a lyar lyke vnto you. But I knowe him, and kepe his          #
sayinge. 
   Youre father Abraham was glad to se my daye, and he sawe it  #
and reioysed. 
Then sayde the Iewes vnto him: thou arte not yet. l. yere       #
olde, and hast thou
sene Abraham? Iesus sayd vnto them: Verely verely I saye vnto   #
you: yer
Abraham was, I am. Then toke they vp stones, to caste at him.   #
But Iesus hid 
him selfe, and went out of the temple. 

<P IX,1>
[}THE. IX. CHA.}]

   And as Iesus passed by, he sawe a man which was blynde from  #
his birth. 
And his disciples axed him sayinge. Master, who dyd synne:      #
this man or his 
father and mother, that he was borne blynde?  Iesus answered:   #
Nether hath 
this man synned, nor yet his father and mother: but that the    #
workes of God 
shuld be shewed on him. I must worke the workes of him that     #
sent me, whyll it 
is daye. The nyght cometh when noman can worke. As longe as I   #
am in the 
worlde, I am the lyght of the worlde. 
   Assone as he had thus spoken, he spate on the grounde and    #
made claye of
the spetle, and rubbed the claye on the eyes of the blynde,     #
and sayde vnto him:
Goo wesshe the in the pole of Syloe, which by interpretacion,   #
signifieth sent.
He went his waye and wasshed, and cam agayne seinge. The        #
neghboures and 
they that had sene him before how that he was a begger, sayde:  #
is not this he
that sate and begged? Some sayde: this is he. Other sayd: he    #
is lyke him. But
he him selfe sayde: I am even he. They sayde vnto him: How are  #
thyne eyes 
opened then? He answered and sayde. The man that is Iesus,      #
made claye, 
and anoynted myne eyes, and sayd vnto me: Goo to the pole       #
Syloe and wesshe.
I went and wesshed and receaved my syght. They sayde vnto him:  #
where is he? 
He sayde: I cannot tell.
   Then brought they to the pharises, him that a lytell before  #
was blynde: 
for it was the Saboth daye when Iesus made the claye and        #
opened his eyes. Then 
agayne the pharises also axed him how he had receaved his       #
syght. He sayde
vnto them: He put claye apon myne eyes and I wasshed, and do    #
se. Then sayde 
some of the pharises: this man is not of God, because he        #
kepeth not the saboth
daye. Other sayde: how can a man that is a synner, do suche     #
myracles? And 
ther was stryfe amonge them. Then spake they vnto the blynde    #
agayne: What
sayst thou of him, because he hath openned thyne eyes? And he   #
sayd: He is a 
Prophet. 
   But the Iewes dyd not beleve of the felowe, how that he was  #
blynde and 
receaved his syght, vntyll they had called the father and       #
mother of him that had
receaved his syght. And they axed them saying: Is this youre    #
sonne, whome
ye saye was borne blynde? How doth he now se then?              #
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His father and mother 
answered them and sayde: we wote well that this is oure sonne,  #
and that he 
was borne blynde: but by what meanes he now seith, that can we  #
not tell, or
who hath opened his eyes, can we not tell. He is olde ynough,   #
axe him, let him
answer for him selfe. Suche wordes spake his father and         #
mother, because they
feared the Iewes. For the Iewes had conspyred all redy that yf  #
eny man dyd
confesse that he was Christ, he shuld be excommunicat out of    #
the synagoge. 
Therfor sayde his father and mother: he is olde ynough, axe     #
him. 
   Then agayne called they the man that was blynde, and sayd    #
vnto him: 
Geve God the prayse: we know that this man is a synner. He      #
answered and 
sayde: Whyther he be a synner or noo, I cannot tell: One        #
thinge I am sure of, 
that I was blynde, and now I se. Then sayde they to him         #
agayne. What dyd he 
to the? How opened he thyne eyes? He answered them, I tolde     #
you yerwhyle, 
and ye dyd not heare. Wherfore wolde ye heare it agayne? Will   #
ye also be his
disciples? Then rated they him, and sayde: Thou arte his        #
disciple. We be Moses
disciples. We are sure that God spake with Moses. This felowe   #
we knowe not 
from whence he is. 
   The man answered and sayde vnto them: this is a merveleous   #
thinge that
ye wote not whence he is, seinge he hath opened myne eyes. For  #
we be sure
that God heareth not synners. But yf eny man be a worshipper    #
of God and 
do his will, him heareth he. Sence the worlde beganne was it    #
not hearde that
eny man opened the eyes of one that was borne blynd. If this    #
man were not 
of God, he coulde have done no thinge. They answered and sayd   #
vnto him:
thou arte altogeder borne in synne: and dost thou teache vs?    #
And they cast 
him out. 
   Iesus hearde that they had excommunicate him: and assone as  #
he had 
founde him, he sayd vnto him:  doest thou beleve on the sonne   #
of God? He 
answered and sayde: Who is it Lorde, that I myght beleve on     #
him? And Iesus
sayde vnto him: Thou hast sene him, and he it is that talketh   #
with the. And he 
sayde: Lorde I beleve: and worshipped him. Iesus sayde: I am    #
come vnto 
iudgement into this worlde: that they which se not, myght se,   #
and they which
se, myght be made blynde.                                       #
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And some of the pharises which were with him, 
hearde these wordes and sayde vnto him: are we then blynde?     #
Iesus sayde vnto 
them: yf ye were blynde, ye shuld have no synne. But now ye     #
saye, we se, 
therfore youre synne remayneth.

<P X,1>
[}THE. X. CHAPTER.}]

   Verely verely I saye vnto you: he that entreth not in by     #
the dore, into the 
shepefolde, but clymeth vp some other waye: the same is a       #
thefe and a robber. 
He that goeth in by the dore, is the shepeherde of the shepe:   #
to him the porter
openeth, and the shepe heare his voyce, and he calleth his      #
awne shepe by name,
and leadeth them out. And when he hath sent forthe his awne     #
shepe, he goeth
before them, and the shepe folowe him: for they knowe his       #
voyce. A straunger 
they will not followe, but will flye from him: for they knowe   #
not the voyce of
straungers. This similitude spake Iesus vnto them. But they     #
vnderstode not what 
thinges they were which he spake vnto them. 
   Then sayde Iesus vnto them agayne. Verely verely I saye      #
vnto you: I am 
the dore of the shepe. All, even as many as came before me,     #
are theves and 
robbers: but the shepe dyd not heare them. I am the dore: by    #
me yf eny man 
enter in, he shalbe safe, and shall goo in and out and fynde    #
pasture. The thefe 
cometh not but forto steale, kyll and destroye. I am come that  #
they myght have
lyfe, and have it more aboundantly. 
   I am the good shepeheerd. The good shepeheerd geveth his     #
lyfe for the
shepe. An heyred servaunt, which is not the shepeherd, nether   #
the shepe are
his awne, seith the wolfe commynge, and leveth the shepe, and   #
flyeth, and the
wolfe catcheth them, and scattereth the shepe. The heyred       #
servaunt flyeth, 
because he is an heyred servaunt, and careth not for the        #
shepe. I am that
good shepeheerd, and knowe myne, and am knowen of myne. As my   #
father
knoweth me: even so knowe I my father. And I geve my lyfe for   #
the shepe:
and other shepe I have, which are not of this folde. Them also  #
must I bringe,
that they maye heare my voyce, and that ther maye be one        #
flocke and 
one shepeherde.
   Therfore doth my father love me, because I put my lyfe from  #
me, that I
myght take it agayne. No man taketh it from me: but I put it    #
awaye of my 
selfe. I have power to put it from me, and  have power to take  #
it agayne:
This commaundment have I receaved of my father. And ther was a  #
dissencion
agayne amonge the Iewes for these sayinges,                     #
<P X,20>
and many of them sayd.
He hath the devyll, and is mad: why heare ye him? Other sayde,  #
these are
not the wordes of him that hath the devyll. Can the devyll      #
open the eyes of
the blynde? 
   And it was at Ierusalem the feaste of the dedicacion, and    #
it was wynter:
and Iesus walked in Salomons porche. Then came the Iewes        #
rounde aboute him,
and sayde vnto him: How longe dost thou make vs doute? Yf thou  #
be Christ,
tell vs playnly. Iesus answered them: I tolde you and ye        #
beleve not. The workes
that I do in my fathers name they beare witnes of me. But ye    #
beleve not,
because ye are not of my shepe. As I sayde vnto you: my shepe   #
heare my voyce, 
and I knowe them, and they folowe me, and I geve vnto them      #
eternall lyfe, and
they shall never perisshe, nether shall eny man plucke them     #
oute of my honde. 
My father which gave them me, is greatter then all, and no man  #
is able to take
them out of my fathers honde. And I and my father are one. 
   Then the Iewes agayne toke vp stones, to stone him with      #
all. Iesus answered
them: many good workes have I shewed you from my father: for    #
which of 
them will ye stone me? The Iewes answered him sayinge. For thy  #
good workes 
sake we stone the not: but for thy blasphemy, and because that  #
thou beinge a 
man, makest thy selfe God. Iesus answered them: Is it not       #
written in youre lawe:
I saye, ye are goddes? If he called them goddes vnto whom the   #
worde of God
was spoken (and the scripture can not be broken) saye ye then   #
to him, whom
the father hath sainctified, and sent into the worlde, thou     #
blasphemest, because
I sayd I am the sonne of God? If I do not the workes of my      #
father, beleve me
not. But if I do though ye beleve not me, yet beleve the        #
workes, that ye maye
knowe and beleve that the father is in me, and I in him.
   Agayne they went aboute to take him: but he escaped out of   #
their hondes,
<P X,40>
and went awaye agayne beyonde Iordan, into the place where      #
Iohn before had
baptised, and there aboode. And many resorted vnto him, and     #
sayd. Iohn dyd
no miracle: but all thinges that Iohn spake of this man are     #
true. And many 
beleved on him theare.

<P XI,1>
[}THE. XI. CHAP.}]

   A Certayne man was sicke, named Lazarus of Bethania the      #
toune of Mary
and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which annoynted Iesus   #
with oyntment, 
and wyped his fete with her heere, whose brother Lazarus was    #
sicke, and his
sisters sent vnto him sayinge. Lorde behold, he whom thou       #
lovest, is sicke. 
When Iesus hearde that, he sayd: this infirmite is not vnto     #
deth, but for the
laude of God, that the sonne of God myght be praysed by the     #
reason of it. 
Iesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. After he         #
hearde, that he was 
sicke, then aboode he two dayes still in the same place where   #
he was. 
   Then after that sayd he to his disciples: let vs goo into    #
Iewry agayne. His
disciples sayde vnto him. Master, the Iewes lately sought       #
meanes to stone the, 
and wilt thou goo thyther agayne? Iesus answered: are ther not  #
twelve houres
in the daye? Yf a man walke in the daye, he stombleth not,      #
because he seith the
lyght of this worlde. But yf a man walke in the nyght, he       #
stombleth, because
ther is no lyght in him. This sayde he, and after that, he      #
sayde vnto them: oure
frende Lazarus slepeth, but I goo to wake him out of slepe.     #
Then sayde his
disciples: Lorde yf he slepe, he shall do well ynough. How be   #
it Iesus spake of
his deeth: but they  thought that he had spoken of the          #
naturall slepe.  Then sayde
Iesus vnto them playnly, Lazarus is deed, and I am glad for     #
youre sakes, that I
was not there, because ye maye beleve. Neverthelesse let vs go  #
vnto him. Then
sayde Thomas which is called Dydimus, vnto the disciples: let   #
vs also goo, that
we maye dye with him.
   Then went Iesus, and founde, that he had lyne in his grave   #
foure dayes
already. Bethanie was nye vnto Ierusalem, aboute .xv. furlonges #
of, and many 
of the Iewes were come to Martha and Mary, to comforte them     #
over their 
brother.                                                        #
<P XI,20>
Martha assone as she hearde that Iesus was comynge,             #
went and 
met him: but Mary sate still in the housse. 
   Then sayde Martha vnto Iesus: Lorde yf thou haddest bene     #
here, my 
brother had not bene deed: but neverthelesse, I knowe that      #
whatsoever thou
axest of God, God will geve it the. Iesus sayde vnto her: Thy   #
brother shall ryse
agayne. Martha sayde vnto him: I knowe that he shall ryse       #
agayne in the 
resurreccion at the last daye. Iesus sayde vnto her: I am the   #
resurreccion and the
lyfe: He that beleveth on me, ye though he were deed, yet       #
shall he lyve. And 
whosoever lyveth and beleveth on me, shall never dye. Belevest  #
thou this?
She sayde vnto him: ye Lorde, I beleve that thou arte Christ    #
the sonne of god
which shuld come into the worlde. 
   And assone as she had so sayde, she went her waye and        #
called Marie her
sister secretly sayinge: The master is come and calleth for     #
the And she assone as
she hearde that, arose quickly, and came vnto him. Iesus was    #
not yet come into
the toune: but was in the place where Martha met him. The       #
Iewes then which 
were with her in the housse and comforted her, when they sawe   #
Mary that she
rose vp hastely, and went out, folowed her, saying: She goeth   #
vnto the grave,
to wepe there. 
   Then when Mary was come where Iesus was, and sawe him, she   #
fell doune
at his fete, sayinge vnto him: Lorde yf thou haddest bene       #
here, my brother
had not bene deed. 
   When Iesus sawe her wepe, and the Iewes also wepe, which     #
came with
her, he groned in the sprete, and was troubled in him selfe     #
and sayde: Where
have ye layed him? They sayde vnto him: Lorde come and se. And  #
Iesus 
wept. Then sayde the Iewes: Beholde howe he loved him. And      #
some of 
them sayde: coulde not he which openned the eyes of the         #
blynde, have made
also, that this man shuld not have dyed? Iesus agayne groned    #
in him selfe, and
came to the grave. It was a caue, and a stone layde on it. 
   And Iesus sayd: take ye awaye the stone. Martha the sister   #
of him that was
deed, sayd vnto him: Lorde by this tyme he stinketh. For he     #
hath bene deed 
foure dayes: Iesus sayde vnto her:                              #
<P XI,40> 
Sayde I not vnto the, that if thou didest
beleve, thou shuldest se the glory of God. Then they toke       #
awaye the stone from
the place where the deed was layde. And Iesus lyfte vp his      #
eyes and sayde: 
Father I thanke the because that thou hast hearde me. I wot     #
that thou hearest
me all wayes: but because of the people that stonde by I sayde  #
it, that they maye
beleve, that thou hast sent me. 
   And when he thus had spoken, he cryed with a loud voyce.     #
Lazarus come
forthe. And he that was deed, came forth, bounde hand and fote  #
with grave
bondes, and his face was bounde with a napkin. Iesus sayde      #
vnto them: loowse
him, and let him goo. Then many of the Iewes which came to      #
Mary, and had
sene the thinges which Iesus dyd, beleved on him. But some of   #
them went their
wayes to the Pharises, and tolde them what Iesus had done. 
   Then gadered the hye prestes and the Pharises a counsell,    #
and sayde: what
do we? This man doeth many miracles. Yf we let him scape thus,  #
all men will
beleve on him, and the Romaynes shall come and take awaye oure  #
countre and
the people. And one of them named Cayphas which was the         #
hieprest that same
yeare, sayde vnto them: Ye perceave nothinge at all nor yet     #
consider that it is
expedient for vs, that one man dye for the people, and not      #
that all the people
perisshe. This spake he not of him selfe, but beinge hye        #
preste that same yeare,
he prophesied that Iesus shulde dye for the people, and not     #
for the people
only, but that he shuld gader to geder in one the chyldren of   #
God which were
scattered abroode. From that daye forth they held a counsell    #
to geder, for to
put him to deeth. 
   Iesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the Iewes: but   #
went his 
waye thence vnto a countre nye to a wildernes, into a cite      #
called Ephraim, and 
there haunted with his disciples. And the Iewes ester was nye   #
at hand, and many
went out of the countre vp to Ierusalem before the ester, to    #
purify them selves. 
Then sought they for Iesus, and spake bitwene themselves as     #
they stode in the
temple: What thinke ye, seynge he commeth not to the feast.     #
The hye prestes
and Pharises had geven a commaundement, that yf eny man knew    #
where he
were, he shuld shewe it, that they myght take him. 



