1THE VERSE NUMBER REFERENCES FOLLOW
2THOSE OF THE AUTHORIZED VERSION.
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4

THE GOSPELL OF SAINCTE IOHN.

5

THE FYRST CHAPTER.

6
7    In the beginnynge was the worde, and the worde was with God: and the
8worde was God. The same was in the beginnynge with God. All thinges were
9made by it, and with out it, was made nothinge, that was made. In it was lyfe,
10and the lyfe was the lyght of men, and the lyght shyneth in the darcknes, but
11the darcknes comprehended it not.
12    There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn. The same cam as
13a witnes to beare witnes of the lyght, that all men through him myght beleve.
14He was not that lyght: but to beare witnes of the lyght. That was a true lyght,
15which lyghteth all men that come into the worlde. He was in the worlde, and
16the worlde was made by him: and yet the worlde knewe him not.
17    He cam amonge his awne and his awne receaved him not. But as meny
18as receaved him, to them he gave power to be the sonnes of God in that they
19beleved on his name: which were borne, not of bloude nor of the will of the
20flesshe, nor yet of the will of man: but of God.
21    And the worde was made flesshe and dwelt among vs, and we sawe the
22glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father, which worde
23was full of grace and verite.
24    Iohn bare witnes of him and cryed sayinge: This was he of whome I spake,
25he that cometh after me, was before me, because he was yer then I. And of his
26fulnes have all we receaved, even grace for grace. For the lawe was geven by
27Moses, but grace and truthe came by Iesus Christ. No man hath sene God at eny
28tyme. The only begotten sonne, which is in the bosome of the father, he hath
29declared him.
30    And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent Prestes and Levites
31from Ierusalem, to axe him, what arte thou?

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And he confessed and denyed not, and
32sayde playnly: I am not Christ. And they axed him: what then? arte thou Helyas?
33And he sayde: I am not. Arte thou a Prophete? And he answered no. Then sayd
34they vnto him: what arte thou that we maye geve an answer to them that sent
35vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe? He sayde: I am the voyce of a cryar in the
36wyldernes, make strayght the waye of the Lorde, as sayde the Prophete Esaias.
37    And they which were sent, were of the pharises. And they axed him, and
38sayde vnto him: why baptisest thou then, yf thou be not Christ nor Helyas,
39nether a Prophet? Iohn answered them sayinge: I baptise with water: but one
40is come amonge you, whom ye knowe not he it is that cometh after me, whiche
41was before me, whose sho latchet I am not worthy to vnlose. These thinges were
42done in Bethabara beyonde Iordan, where Iohn dyd baptyse.
43    The nexte daye, Iohn sawe Iesus commynge vnto him, and sayde: beholde
44the lambe of God, which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde. This is he of
45whom I sayde. After me cometh a man, which was before me, for he was yer
46them I, and I knew him not: but that he shuld be declared to Israell, therfore
47am I come baptisynge with water.
48    And Iohn bare recorde sayinge: I sawe the sprete descende from heven,
49lyke vnto a dove, and abyde apon him, and I knewe him not. But he that sent
50me to baptise in water, the same sayde vnto me: apon whom thou shalt se the
51sprete descende and tary styll on him, the same is he which baptiseth with the
52holy goost. And I sawe and bare recorde, that this is the sonne of God.
53    The next daye after, Iohn stode agayne, and two of his disciples. And he
54behelde Iesus as he walked by, and sayde: beholde the lambe of God. And the
55two disciples hearde him speake; and folowed Iesus. And Iesus turned about,
56and sawe them folowe, and sayde vnto them: What seke ye? They sayde vnto
57him: Rabbi (which is to saye by interpretacion, Master) where dwellest thou?
58He sayde vnto them: come and se. They came and sawe where he dwelt: and
59abode with him that daye. For it was about the tenthe houre.

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60    One of the two which hearde Iohn speake and folowed Iesus, was Andrew
61Simon Peters brother. The same founde his brother Simon fyrst, and sayde vnto
62him: we have founde Messias, which is by interpretacion, annoynted: and
63brought him to Iesus. And Iesus behelde him and sayde: thou arte Simon the
64sonne of Ionas, thou shalt be called Cephas: which is by interpretacion, a stone.
65    The daye folowynge Iesus wolde goo into Galile, and found Philip, and
66sayde vnto him, folowe me. Philip was of Bethsaida the cite of Andrew and
67Peter. And Philip founde Nathanael, and sayde vnto him. We have founde
68him of whom Moses in the lawe, and the prophetes dyd wryte. Iesus the sonne
69of Ioseph of Nazareth. And Nathanael sayde vnto him: can ther eny good thinge
70come out of Nazareth? Philip sayde to him: come and se.
71    Iesus sawe Nathanael commynge to him, and sayde of him. Beholde a
72ryght Israelite, in whom is no gyle. Nathanael sayd vnto him: where knewest
73thou me? Iesus answered, and sayde vnto him: Before that Philip called the,
74when thou wast vnder the fygge tree, I sawe the. Nathanael answered and sayde
75vnto him: Rabbi, thou arte the sonne of God, thou arte the kynge of Israel. Iesus
76answered and sayd vnto him: Because I sayde vnto the, I sawe the vnder the fygge
77tree, thou belevest. Thou shalt se greater thinges then these. And he sayde vnto
78him: Verely, verely, I saye vnto you: herafter shall ye se heven open, and the
79angels of God ascendynge and descendynge over the sonne of man.
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81

THE SECONDE CHAPTER.

82
83    And the thryde daye, was ther a mariage in Cana a cite of Galile: and the
84mother of Iesus was there. And Iesus was called also and his disciples vnto the
85mariage. And when the wyne fayled, the mother of Iesus sayde vnto him: they
86have no wyne. Iesus sayde vnto her: woman, what have I to do with the? myne
87houre is not yet come. His mother sayde vnto the ministres: whatsoever he sayeth
88vnto you, do it. And ther were stondynge theare, six waterpottes of stone after
89the maner of the purifyinge of the Iewes, contaynynge two or thre fyrkins a pece.
90    And Iesus sayde vnto them: fyll the water pottes with water. And they
91fylled them vp to the brym. And he sayde vnto them: drawe out now, and
92beare vnto the governer of the feaste. And they bare it. When the ruler of the
93feast had tasted the water that was turned vnto wyne, and knewe not whence
94it was (but the ministres which drue the water knew) He called the brydegrome,
95and sayde vnto him. All men at the beginnynge, set forth good wyne, and when
96men be dronke, then that which is worsse. But thou hast kept backe the good
97wyne, vntyll now.
98    This beginnynge of miracles dyd Iesus in Cana of Galile, and shewed
99his glory, and his disciples beleved on him. After that he descended in to
100Capernaum, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: but contynued
101not manye dayes there.
102    And the Iewes ester was even at honde, and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem,
103and founde syttynge in the temple, those that solde oxen and shepe and doves,
104and chaungers of money. And he made a scourge of small cordes, and drave
105them all out of the temple, with the shepe and oxen, and powred oute the
106changers money, and overthrue the tables, and sayde vnto them that solde
107doves: Have these thinges hence, and make not my fathers housse an housse of
108marchaundyse. And his disciples remembred, how that it was wrytten: the zele
109of thyne housse hath even eaten me.
110    Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: what token shewest thou
111vnto vs, seynge that thou dost these thinges? Iesus answered and sayd vnto
112them: destroye this temple, and in thre dayes I will reare it vp agayne.

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Then
113sayde the Iewes: xlvi. yeares was this temple abuyldinge: and wylt thou reare
114it vp in thre dayes? But he spake of the temple of his body. Assone therfore as
115he was rysen from deeth agayne, his disciples remembred that he thus sayde.
116And they beleved the scripture, and the wordes which Iesus had sayde.
117    When he was at Ierusalem at ester in the feaste, many beleved on his name,
118when they sawe his miracles which he dyd. But Iesus put not him selfe in their
119hondes, because he knewe all men, and neded not, that eny man shuld testify of
120man. For he knewe what was in man.
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122

THE III. CHAPTER.

123
124    Ther was a man of the pharises named Nicodemus a ruler amonge the
125Iewes. The same cam to Iesus by nyght, and sayde vnto him: Rabbi, we knowe
126that thou arte a teacher whiche arte come from God. For no man coulde do
127suche miracles as thou doest, except God were with him. Iesus answered and
128sayde vnto him: Verely verely I saye vnto the: except a man be boren a newe,
129he cannot se the kyngdom of God. Nicodemus sayde vnto him: how can a man
130be boren when he is olde? can he enterenter into his moders wombe and be boren
131agayne? Iesus answered: verely, verely I saye vnto the: except that a man be
132boren of water and of the sprete, he cannot enter into the kyngdome of god.
133That which is boren of the flesshe, is flesshe: and that which is boren of the sprete,
134is sprete. Marvayle not that I sayd to the, ye must be boren a newe. The wynde
135bloweth where he listeth, and thou hearest his sounde: but canst not tell whence
136he cometh and whether he goeth. So is every man that is boren of the sprete.
137    And Nicodemus answered and sayde vnto him: how can these thinges be?
138Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: arte thou a master in Israel, and knowest
139not these thinges? Verely verely, I saye vnto the, we speake that we knowe, and
140testify that we have sene: and ye receave not oure witnes. Yf when I tell you
141erthely thinges, ye beleve not: how shuld ye beleve, yf I shall tell you of hevenly
142thinges?
143    And no man ascendeth vp to heaven, but he that came doune from heaven,
144that is to saye, the sonne of man which is in heaven.
145    And as Moses lifte vp the serpent in the wyldernes, even so must the sonne
146of man be lifte vp, that none that beleveth in him perisshe: but have eternall lyfe.
147    For God so loveth the worlde, that he hath geven his only sonne, that none
148that beleve in him, shuld perisshe: but shuld have everlastinge lyfe. For God sent
149not his sonne into the worlde, to condempne the worlde: but that the worlde
150through him, might be saved. He that beleveth on him, shall not be condempned.
151But he that beleveth not, is condempned all redy, be cause he beleveth not in the
152name of the only sonne of God. And this is the condempnacion: that light is
153come into the worlde, and the men loved darcknes more then light, because
154their dedes were evill.

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For every man that evyll doeth, hateth the light: nether
155commeth theto light, lest his dedes shuld be reproved. But he that doethdoth truth,
156commeth to the light, that his dedes might be knowen, how that they are
157wrought in God.
158    After these thinges cam Iesus and his disciples into the Iewes londe, and
159ther he haunted with them and baptised. And Iohn also baptised in Enon
160besydes Salim, because ther was moche water there, and they came and were
161baptised. For Iohn was not yet cast into preson.
162    And ther arose a question bitwene Iohns disciples and the Iewes a bout
163purifiynge. And they came vnto Iohn, and sayde vnto him: Rabbi, he that was
164with the beyonde Iordan, to whom thou barest witnes. Beholde the same
165baptyseth, and all men come to him. Iohn answered, and sayde: a man can
166receave no thinge at all except it be geven him from heaven. Ye youre
167selves are witnesses, how that I sayde: I am not Christ but am sent before
168him. He that hath the bryde, is the brydegrome. But the frende of the
169brydegrome which stondeth by and heareth him, reioyseth greately of the
170brydgromes voyce. Tis my ioye is fulfilled. He must increase: and I must
171decreace.
172    He that commeth from an hye is above all: He that is of the erth, is of the
173erth, and speaketh of the erth. He that commeth from heaven, is above all,
174and what he hath sene and hearde: that he testifieth: but no man receaveth his
175testimonye. How be it he that hath receaved hys testimonye hath set to his
176seale that God is true. For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the wordes of God.
177For God geveth not the sprete by measure. The father loveth the sonne and
178hath geven all thinges into his honde. He that beleveth on the sonne, hath
179everlastynge lyfe: and he that beleveth not the sonne, shall not se lyfe, but the
180wrathe of God abydeth on him.
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182

THE IIII. CHAPTER.

183
184    Assone as the Lorde had knowledge, how the Pharises had hearde, that
185Iesus made and baptised moo disciples then Iohn (though that Iesus him selfe
186baptised not: but his disciples) he lefte Iewry, and departed agayne into Galile.
187And it was so that he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria. Then came he to a
188cyte of Samaria called Sichar, besydes the possession that Iacob gave to his
189sonne Ioseph. And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then weryed in his iorney, sate
190thus on the well.
191    And it was about the sixte houre: and there came a woman of Samaria to
192drawe water. And Iesus sayde vnto her: geve me drynke. For his disciples were
193gone awaye vnto the toune to bye meate. Then sayde the woman of Samaria
194vnto him: how is it, that thou beinge a Iewe, axest drinke of me, which am a
195Samaritane? for the Iewes medle not with the Samaritans. Iesus answered and
196sayde vnto hir: yf thou knewest the gyfte of God, and who it is that sayeth to
197the geve me drynke, thou woldest have axed of him, and he wolde have geven
198the water of lyfe. The woman sayde vnto him. Syr thou hast no thinge to
199drawe with, and the well is depe: from whence then hast thou that water of
200lyfe? Arte thou greater then oure father Iacob which gave vs the well, and he
201him silfe dranke therof, and his chyldren, and his catell?
202    Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: whosoever drinketh of this water,
203shall thurst agayne. But whosoever shall drinke of the water that I shall
204geve him, shall never be more a thyrst: but the water that I shall geve him,
205shalbe in him a well of water, springinge vp in to everlastinge lyfe. The
206woman sayd vnto him: Syr geve me of that water, that I thyrst not, nether
207come hedder to drawe. Iesus sayde vnto her. Go and call thy husband, and
208come hydder. The woman answered and sayde to him: I have no husband.
209Iesus sayde to her. Thou hast well sayd, I have no husbande. For thou haste had
210five husbandes, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. That saydest
211thou truely.
212    The woman sayde vnto him: Syr I perceave that thou arte a prophet.

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213Oure fathers worshipped in this mountayne: and ye saye that in Hierusalem is
214the place where men ought to worshippe. Iesus sayde vnto her: woman beleve
215me, the houre cometh, when ye shall nether in this mountayne nor yet at
216Ierusalem, worshippe the father. Ye worshippe, ye wot not what: we knowe
217what we worshippe. For salvacion commeth of the Iewes. But the houre
218commeth and nowe is, when the true worshippers shall worshippe the father
219in sprete and in trouthe. For verely suche the father requyreth to worshippe
220him. God is a sprete, and they that worshippe him, must worshippe him, in
221sprete and trouthe.
222    The woman sayde vnto him: I wot well Messias shall come, which is
223called Christ. When he is come, he will tell vs all thinges. Iesus sayde vnto hir:
224I that speake vnto the am he. And even at that poynte, came his disciples, and
225marvelled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man sayde vnto him: what
226meanest thou, or why talkest thou with her? The woman then lefte her waterpot,
227and went her waye into the cite, and sayde to the men. Come se a man which
228tolde me all thinges that ever I dyd. Is not he Christ? Then they went out of the
229cite, and came vnto him.
230    And in the meane while his disciples prayed him sayinge: Master, eate.
231He sayde vnto them: I have meate to eate, that ye knowe not of. Then sayd
232the disciples bitwene them selves: hath eny man brought him meate? Iesus
233sayde vnto them: my meate is to doo the will of him that sent me. And to
234fynnysshe his worke. Saye not ye: there are yet foure monethes, and then
235commeth harvest? Beholde I saye vnto you, lyfte vp youre eyes, and loke on
236the regions: for they are whyte all redy vnto harvest. And he that repeth receaveth
237rewarde, and gaddereth frute vnto life eternall: that bothe he that soweth, and
238he that repeth myght reioyse to gether. And herin is the sayinge true, that one
239soweth, and another repeth. I sent you to repe that wheron ye bestowed no
240laboure. Other men laboured, and ye are entred into their labours.
241    Many of the Samaritans of that cyte beleved on him, for the sayinge of the
242woman, which testified: he tolde me all thinges that ever I dyd.

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243Then when the Samaritans were come vnto him, they besought him, that he wolde tary with
244them. And he aboode there two dayes. And many moo beleved because of his
245awne wordes, and sayd vnto the woman: Now we beleve not because of thy
246sayinge. For we have herde him oure selves, and knowe that this is even in dede
247Christ the savioure of the worlde.
248    After two dayes he departed thence, and went awaye into Galile. And Iesus
249him selfe testified, that a Prophete hath none honoure in his awne countre. Then
250assone as he was come into Galile, the Galileans receaved him which had sene
251all the thinges that he dyd at Ierusalem at the feast. For they went also vnto the
252feast daye. And Iesus came agayne into Cana of Galile, wher he turned water
253into wyne.
254    And ther was a certayne ruler, whose sonne was sicke at Capernaum.
255Assone as the same herde that Iesus was come out of Iewry into Galile, he went
256vnto him, and besought him, that he wolde descende, and heale his sonne: For
257he was even readie to dye. Then sayde Iesus vnto him: excepte ye se signes and
258wondres, ye cannot beleve. The ruler sayd vnto him: Syr come awaye or ever
259that my chylde dye. Iesus sayde vnto him, goo thy waye, thy sonne liveth.
260And the man beleved the wordes that Iesus had spoken vnto him, and went
261his waye. And anone as he went on his waye, his servantes met him, and tolde
262him sayinge: thy chylde liveth. Then enquyred he of them the houre when he
263beganne to amende. And they sayde vnto him: Yester daye the seventhe houre,
264the fever lefte him. And the father knew that it was the same houre in which
265Iesus sayde vnto him: Thy sonne liveth. And he beleved, and all his housholde.
266Thys is agayne the seconde myracle, that Iesus dyd, after he was come oute of
267Iewry into Galile.
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269

THE V. CHA.

270
271    After that ther was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem.
272And ther is at Ierusalem, by the slaughterhousse, a pole called in the Ebrue
273tonge, Bethseda, havinge five porches, in which laye a greate multitude of sicke
274folke, of blinde, halt and wyddered, waytinge for the movinge of the water.
275For an angell went doune at a certayne ceason the into pole and troubled the
276water. Whosoever then fyrst after the steringe of the water, stepped in, was
277made whoale of what soever disease he had. And a certayne man was theare,
278which had bene diseased .xxxviii. yeares. When Iesus sawe him lye, and knewe
279that he now longe tyme had bene diseased, he sayde vnto him. Wilt thou be
280made whoale? The sicke answered him: Syr I have no man when the water is
281troubled, to put me into the pole. But in the meane tyme, whill I am about to
282come, another steppeth doune before me.
283    And Iesus sayde vnto him: ryse, take vp thy beed, and walke. And
284immediatly the man was made whole, and toke vp his beed, and went. And
285the same daye was the Saboth daye. The Iewes therfore sayde vnto him that
286was made whole. It is the Saboth daye, it is not laufull for the to cary thy beed.
287He answered them: he that made me whole, sayde vnto me: take vp thy beed,
288and get the hence. Then axed they him: what man is that which sayde vnto
289the, take vp thy beed and walke. And he that was healed, wist not who it was.
290For Iesus had gotten him selfe awaye, because that ther was preace of people in
291the place.
292    And after that, Iesus founde him in the temple, and sayd vnto him: beholde
293thou arte made whole, synne no moore, lest a worsse thinge happen vnto the.
294The man departed, and tolde the Iewes that yt was Iesus, whiche had made him
295whole. And therfore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus and sought the meanes to
296slee him, because he had done these thinges on the Saboth daye. And Iesus
297answered them: my father worketh hidder to, and I worke. Therfore the Iewes
298sought the moare to kill him, not only because he had broken the Saboth: but
299sayde also that God was his father, and made him selfe equall with God.
300    Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto them: verely, verely, I saye vnto you:
301the sonne can do no thinge of him selfe, but that he seeth the father do. For
302whatsoever he doeth, that doeth the sonne also.

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For the father loveth the sonne,
303and sheweth him all thinges, whatsoever he him selfe doeth. And he will shewe
304him greter workes then these, because ye shoulde marvayle. For lykwyse as the
305father rayseth vp the deed, and quickeneth them, even so the sonne quyckeneth
306whom he will. Nether iudgeth the father eny man: but hath committed all
307iudgement vnto the sonne, because that all men shuld honoure the sonne, even
308as they honoure the father. He that honoureth not the sonne, the same honoureth
309not the father which hath sent him. Verely verely I saye vnto you: He that
310heareth my wordes, and beleveth on him that sent me, hath everlastinge lyfe,
311and shall not come in to damnacion: but is scaped from deth vnto lyfe.
312    Verely, verely I saye vnto you: the tyme shall come, and now is, when the
313deed shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God. And they that heare, shall live.
314For as the father hath life in him silfe: so lyke wyse hath he geven to the sonne
315to have lyfe in him silfe: and hath geven him power also to iudge, in that he
316is the sonne of man. Marvayle not at this, the houre shall come in the which
317all that are in the graves, shall heare his voice, and shall come forthe: they that
318have done good vnto the resurreccion of lyfe: and they that have done evyll,
319vnto the resurreccion of dampnacion.
320    I can of myne awne selfe do nothinge at all. As I heare, I iudge, and my
321iudgement is iust, be cause I seke not myne awne will, but the will of the father
322which hath sent me. Yf I beare witnes of my selfe, my witnes is not true. Ther
323is a nother that beareth witnes of me, and I am sure that the witnes whiche he
324beareth of me, is true.
325    Ye sent vnto Iohn, and he bare witnes vnto the truthe. But I receave not
326the recorde of man. Neverthelesse, these thinges I saye, that ye might be safe.
327He was a burninge and a shyninge light, and ye wolde for a season have
328reioysed in his light. But I have greater witnes then the witnes of Iohn. For the
329workes which the father hath geven me to fynisshe: the same workes which
330I do, beare witnes of me, that the father sent me. And the father him silfe
331which hath sent me, beareth witnes of me. Ye have not hearde his voyce at
332eny tyme, nor ye have sene his shape: therto his wordes have ye not abydinge in
333you. For whome he hath sent: him ye beleve not.
334    Searche the scriptures, for in them ye thinke ye have eternall lyfe: and they
335are they which testify of me.

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And yet will ye not come to me, that ye might
336have lyfe. I receave not prayse of men. But I knowe you, that ye have not the
337love of God in you, I am come in my fathers name, and ye receave me not. Yf
338another shall come in his awne name, him will ye receave. How can ye beleve
339which receave honoure one of another, and seke not the honoure that commeth
340of God only?
341    Doo not thinke that I wyll accuse you to my father. Ther is one that
342accuseth you, even Moses in whom ye trust. For had ye beleved Moses, ye wold
343have beleved me: for he wrote of me. But now ye beleve not his writinge: how
344shall ye beleve my wordes.
345

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346

THE. VI. CHAPTER.

347
348    After these thinges Iesus went his waye over the see of Galile nye to a cyte
349called Tiberias. And a greate multitude folowed him, because they had sene
350his myracles which he dyd on them that were diseased. And Iesus went vp into
351a mountayne, and there he sate with his disciples. And ester, a feast of the Iewes,
352was nye. Then Iesus lifte vp his eyes, and sawe a greate company come vnto
353him, and sayde vnto Philip: whence shall we bye breed that these might eate.
354This he sayde to prove him: for he him sylfe knewe what he wolde do.
355    Philip answered him, two hondred peny worthe of breed are not sufficient
356for them, that every man have a litell. Then sayde vnto him, one of his disciples,
357Andrew Simon Peters brother. There ys a lad here, which hath fyve barly loves
358and two fisshes: but what is that amonge so many? And Iesus sayde. Make the
359people sit doune: Ther was moche grasse in the place. And the men sate doune,
360in nombre, about five thousande. And Iesus toke the breed, and gave thankes,
361and gave to the disciples, and his disciples to them that were set doune. And
362lykwyse of the fysshes, as moche as they wolde.
363    When they had eaten ynough, he sayd vnto his disciples: gadder vp the
364broken meate that remayneth: That nothinge be loost. And they gadered it to
365geder, and fylled twelve baskettes with the broken meate, of the five barly loves,
366which broken meate remayned vnto them that had eaten. Then the men, when
367they had sene the myracle that Iesus dyd, sayde: This is of a trueth the Prophet
368that shuld come into the worlde.
369    When Iesus perceaved that they wolde come, and take him vp, to make him
370kinge, he departed agayne into a mountayne him silfe a lone.
371    And when even was come, his disciples went vnto the see and entred into
372a shyppe, and went over the see vnto Capernaum. And anonne it was darcke,
373and Iesus was not come to them. And the see arose with a greate winde that
374blew. And when they had rowen aboute a. xxv. or a xxx. furlonges, they sawe
375Iesus walke on the see, and drawe nye vnto the shyp, and they were afrayed.

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376And he sayde vnto them: It is I, be not a frayde. Then wolde they have receaved
377him into the shyp, and the ship was by and by at the londe whyther they went.
378    The daye folowynge, the people which stode on the other syde of the see,
379sawe that ther was none other shyp theare, save that one wher in his disciples
380were entred, and that Iesus went not in with his disciples into the ship: but that
381his disciples were gone awaye alone. How be it, ther came other shippes from
382Tiberias nye vnto place, where they ate breed, when the Lorde had blessed.
383Then when the people sawe that Iesus was not there nether his disciples, they
384also toke shippinge and came to Caparnaum sekinge for Iesus.
385    And when they had founde him on the other syde of the see they sayd
386vnto him: Rabbi, when camest thou hidder? Iesus answered them and sayde:
387verely verely I saye vnto you: ye seke me, not because ye sawe the myracles:
388but be cause ye ate of the loves, and were filled. Laboure, not for the meate
389which perissheth, but for the meate that endureth vnto everlastynge lyfe,
390whiche meate the sonne of man shall geve vnto you. For him hath god the
391father sealed.
392    Then sayd they vnto him: what shall we do that myght worke the
393workes of God. Iesus answered and sayde vnto them. This is the worke of
394God, that ye beleve on him, whom he hath sent. They sayde vnto him: what
395signe shewest thou then, that we maye se and beleve the? What doest thou
396worke? Oure fathers dyd eate Manna in the desert, as yt is written: He gave
397them breed from heaven to eate. Iesus sayde vnto them: verely, verely I saye
398vnto you: Moses gave you breed from heaven: but my father geveth you the
399true breed from heaven. For the breed of God is he which commeth doune
400from heaven and geveth lyfe vnto the worlde.
401    Then sayde they vnto him: Lorde, ever moore geve vs this breed. And
402Iesus sayde vnto them: I am that breed of life. He that commeth to me, shall
403not honger: and he that beleveth on me shall never thurst. But I sayed vnto
404you: that ye have sene me, and yet beleve not. All that the father geveth me:
405shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I cast not awaye. For I came
406doune from heaven: not to do myne awne will, but his will which hath sent me:
407And this is the fathers will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath geven
408me, I shuld loose no thinge: but shuld rayse it vp agayne at the last daye.

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409And this is the wyll of him that sent me: that every man which seith the sonne and
410beleveth on him, have everlastinge lyfe. And I will rayse him vp at the last daye.
411    The Iewes then murmured at him, because he sayde: I am that breed which
412is come doune from heaven. And they sayde: Is not this Iesus the sonne of
413Ioseph, whose father and mother we knowe? How ys yt then that he sayeth,
414I came doune from heaven? Iesus answered and sayde vnto them. Murmur
415not betwene youre selves. No man can come to me except the father which
416hath sent me, drawe him. And I will rayse him vp at the last daye. It is written
417in the Prophetes, that they shall all be taught of God. Every man therfore that
418hath hearde and hath learned of the father commeth vnto me. Not that eny man
419hath sene the father, save he which is of God: the same hath sene the father.
420    Verely verely I saye vnto you, he that beleveth on me, hath everlastinge
421lyfe. I am that breed of lyfe. Youre fathers dyd eate Manna in the wildernes
422and are deed. This is that breed which commeth from heaven, that he which
423eateth of it, shuld also not dye. I am that lyvinge breed which came doune
424from heaven. Yf eny man eate of this breed, he shall live forever. And the
425breed that I will geve, is my flesshe, which I will geve for the lyfe of the worlde.
426    And the Iewes strove amonge them selves sayinge: How can this felowe
427geve vs his flesshe to eate? Then Iesus sayde vnto them: Verely, verely I saye
428vnto you, except ye eate the flesshe of the sonne of man, and drinke his bloude,
429ye shall not have lyfe in you. Whosoever eateth my flesshe, and drinketh my
430bloude, hath eternall lyfe: and I will rayse him vp at the last daye. For my
431flesshe is meate in dede: and my bloude is drynke in dede. He that eateth my
432flesshe and drynketh my bloude, dwelleth in me and I in him. As the lyvinge
433father hath sent me, even so lyve I by my father: and he that eateth me, shall
434live by me. This is the breed which cam from heaven: not as youre fathers have
435eaten Manna and are deed. He that eateth of this breed, shall live ever.
436    These thinges sayd he in the synagoge as he taught in Capernaum.

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437Many of his disciples, when they had herde this, sayde: this is an herde sayinge: who
438can abyde the hearinge of it? Iesus knew in him selfe, that his disciples
439murmured at it, and sayde vnto them: Doth this offende you? What and yf ye
440shall se the sonne of man ascende vp where he was before? It is the sprete that
441quyckeneth, the flesshe proffeteth nothinge. The wordes that I speake vnto you,
442are sprete and lyfe. But ther are some of you that beleve not. For Iesus knewe
443from the begynnynge, which they were that beleved not, and who shuld betraye
444him. And he sayde: Therfore sayde I vnto you: that no man can come vnto me,
445except it were geven vnto him of my father.
446    From that tyme many of his disciples went backe, and walked no moore
447with him. Then sayde Iesus to the twelve: will ye alsoo goo awaye? Then
448Simon Peter answered: Master to whom shall we goo? Thou haste the
449wordes of eternall lyfe, and we beleve and knowe, that thou arte Christ the
450sonne of the lyvinge God. Iesus answered them: Have not I chosen you
451twelve, and yet one of you is the devyll? He spake it of Iudas Iscariot the
452sonne of Simon. For he it was that shuld betraye him, and was one of the
453twelve.
454

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455

THE. VII. CHAPTER.

456
457    After that, Iesus went about in Galile and wolde not go about in Iewry,
458for the Iewes sought to kill him. The Iewes tabernacle feast was at honde. His
459brethren therfore sayde vnto him: get the hence and go into Iewry that thy
460disciples maye se thy workes that thou doest. For ther is no man that doeth eny
461thinge secretly, and he him selfe seketh to be knowen. Yf thou do soche thinges,
462shewe thy selfe to the worlde. For as yet his brethren beleved not in him.
463    Then Iesus sayd vnto them: My tyme is not yet come, youre tyme is all
464waye redy. The worlde cannot hate you. Me it hateth: be cause I testify of it,
465that the workes of it are evyll. Go ye vp vnto this feast. I will not go vp yet
466vnto this feast, for my tyme is not yet full come. These wordes he sayde vnto
467them and abode still in Galile. But assone as his brethren were goone vp, then
468went he also vp vnto the feast: not openly but as it were prevely. Then sought
469him the Iewes at the feast, and sayde: Where is he? And moche murmurynge
470was ther of him amonge the people. Some sayde: He is good. Wother sayde
471naye, but he deceaveth the people. How be it no man spake openly of him,
472for feare of the Iewes.
473    In the middes of the feast, Iesus went vp into the temple and taught. And
474the Iewes marveylled sayinge: How knoweth he the scriptures, seynge that he
475never learned? Iesus answered them, and sayde: My doctrine is not myne: but
476his that sent me. If eny man will do his will, he shall knowe of the doctrine,
477whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe. He that speaketh of him
478selfe, seketh his awne prayse. But he that seketh his prayse that sent him, the
479same is true, and no vnrightewesnes is in him.
480    Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe, and yet none of you kepeth the lawe?
481Why goo ye a boute to kyll me?

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The people answered and sayde: thou hast the
482devyll: who goeth aboute to kyll the? Iesus answered and sayde to them: I have
483done one worke, and ye all marvayle. Moses therfore gave vnto you circumcision:
484not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers. And yet ye on the Saboth
485daye, circumcise a man. If a man on the Saboth daye receave circumcision
486without breakinge of the lawe of Moses: disdayne ye at me, because I have made
487a man every whit whoale on the saboth daye? Iudge not after the vtter aperaunce:
488but iudge rightewes iudgement.
489    Then sayd some of them of Ierusalem: Is not this he whom they goo aboute
490to kyll? Beholde he speaketh boldly, and they saye nothinge to him. Do the
491rulars knowe in dede, that this is very Christ? How be it we knowe this man
492whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man shall knowe whence he is.
493    Then cryed Iesus in the temple as he taught sayinge: ye knowe me, and
494whence I am ye knowe. And yet I am not come of my selfe, but he that sent
495me is true, whom ye knowe not. I knowe him: for I am of him, and he hath
496sent me. Then they sought to take him: but no man layde hondes on him,
497because his tyme was not yet come. Many of the people beleved on him and
498sayde: when Christ cometh, will he do moo miracles then this man hath done?
499    The pharises hearde that the people murmured suche thinges about him.
500Wherfore the pharises and hye prestes sent ministres forthe to take him. Then
501sayde Iesus vnto them: Yet am I a lytell whyle with you, and then goo I vnto
502him that sent me. Ye shall seke me, and shall not fynde me: and where I am,
503thyther can ye not come. Then sayde the Iewes bitwene them selves: whyther
504will he goo, that we shall not fynde him? Will he goo amonge the gentyls
505which are scattered all a broade, and teache the gentyls? What maner of sayinge
506is this that he sayde: ye shall seke me, and shall not fynde me: and where I am,
507thyther can ye not come?
508    In the last daye, that great daye of the feaste, Iesus stode and cryed sayinge:
509If eny man thyrst, let him come vnto me and drinke. He that beleveth on me,
510as sayeth the scripture, out of his belly shall flowe ryvers of water of lyfe. This
511spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him, shuld receave. For the
512holy goost was not yet there, because that Iesus was not yet glorifyed.

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513    Many of the people, when they hearde this sayinge sayd: of a truth this is
514a prophet. Other sayde: this is Christ. Some sayde: shall Christ come out of
515Galile? Sayeth not the scripture that Christ shall come of the seed of David:
516and out of the toune of Bethleem where David was? So was ther dissencion
517amonge the people aboute him. And some of them wolde have taken him: but
518no man layed hondes on him.
519    Then came the ministres to the hye prestes and pharises. And they sayde
520vnto them: why have ye not brought him? The servauntes answered never
521man spake as this man doeth. Then answered them the pharises: are ye also
522disceaved? Doth eny of the rulers or the pharises beleve on him? But the
523comen people whiche knowe not the lawe, are cursed. Nicodemus sayde vnto
524them: He that came to Iesus by nyght, and was one of them. Doth oure lawe
525iudge eny man, before it heare him, and knowe what he hath done? They
526answered and sayde vnto him: arte thou also of Galile? Searche and loke, for
527out of Galile aryseth no Prophet. And every man went vnto his awne housse.
528

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529

THE. VIII. CHAPTER.

530
531    And Iesus went vnto mounte Olivete and erly in the mornynge came
532agayne in to the temple and all the people came vnto him, and he sate doune and
533taught them. And the scribes and the pharises brought vnto him a woman
534taken in advoutry, and set hyr in the myddes and sayde vnto him: Master, this
535woman was taken in advoutry, even as the dede was a doyng. Moses in the lawe
536commaunded vs that suche shuld be stoned. What sayest thou ther fore? And
537this they sayde to tempt him: that they myght have, wherof to accuse him.
538Iesus stouped doune, and with his fynger wrote on the grounde. And whyll
539they continued axynge him, he lyfte him selfe vp, and sayde vnto them: let him
540that is amonge you with out synne cast the fyrst stone at her. And agayne he
541stouped doune and wrote on the grounde. And assone as they hearde that, they
542went out one by one the eldest fyrst. And Iesus was lefte a lone, and the
543woman stondynge in the myddes. When Iesus had lyfte vp him selfe agayne,
544and sawe no man but the woman, he sayde vnto hyr. Woman, where are those
545thyne accusars? Hath no man condempned the? She sayde: No man Lorde.
546And Iesus sayde: Nether do I condempne the. Goo, and synne no moare.
547    Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them sayinge: I am the light of the worlde.
548He that foloweth me shall not walke in darcknes: but shall have the light of lyfe.
549The pharises sayde vnto him: thou bearest recorde of thy sylfe thy recorde is
550not true. Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: Though I beare recorde of my
551selfe yet my recorde is true: for I knowe whence I came and whyther I goo.
552But ye cannot tell whence I come, and whyther I goo. Ye iudge after the flesshe.
553I iudge noman, though I iudge yet is my iudgment true. For I am not alone:
554but I and the father that sent me. It is also written in youre lawe, that the
555testimony of two men is true. I am one that beare witnes of my selfe, and the
556father that sent me, beareth witnes of me. Then sayde they vnto him: where is
557thy father? Iesus answered: ye nether knowe me, nor yet my father. Yf ye had
558knowen me, ye shuld have knowen my father also.

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These wordes spake Iesus
559in the tresury, as he taught in the temple, and noman layde hondes on him, for
560his tyme was not yet come.
561    Then sayde Iesus agayne vnto them. I goo my waye, and ye shall seke me,
562and shall dye in youre synnes. Whyther I goo, thyther can ye not come. Then
563sayde the Iewes: will he kyll him selfe, because he sayth: whyther I goo, thyther
564can ye not come? And he sayde vnto them: ye are from beneth, I am from
565above. Ye are of this worlde, I am not of this worlde. I sayde therfore vnto you,
566that ye shall dye in youre synnes. For except ye beleve that I am he, ye shall
567dye in youre synnes.
568    Then sayde they vnto him, who arte thou? And Iesus sayde vnto them:
569Even the very same thinge that I saye vnto you. I have many thinges to saye,
570and to iudge of you. But he that sent me is true. And I speake in the worlde,
571those thinges which I have hearde of him. They vnderstode not that he spake
572of his father.
573    Then sayde Iesus vnto them: when ye have lyft vp an hye the sonne of man,
574then shall ye knowe that I am he, and that I do nothinge of my selfe: but as
575my father hath taught me, even so I speake: and he that sent me, is with me.
576The father hath not lefte me alone, for I do alwayes those thinges that please
577him. As he spake these wordes, many beleved on him.
578    Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleved on him. If ye continue
579in my wordes, then are ye my very disciples, and shall knowe the trueth: and
580the trueth shall make you free. They answered him: We be Abrahams seede,
581and were never bonde to eny man: why sayest thou then, ye shalbe made fre.
582Iesus answered them: verely verely I saye vnto you, that whosoever committeth
583synne, is the servaunt of synne. And the servaunt abydeth not in the
584housse for ever: But the sonne abydeth ever. If the sonne therfore shall make
585you fre, then are ye fre in dede. I knowe that ye are Abrahams seed: but ye
586seke meanes to kyll me, because my sayings have no place in you. I speake
587that I have sene with my father: and ye do that which ye have sene with
588youre father.
589    They answered and sayde vnto him: Abraham is oure father. Iesus sayde vnto
590them. If ye were Abrahams chyldren, ye wolde do the dedes of Abraham.

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But
591now ye goo about to kyll me a man that have tolde you the truthe, which I have
592herde of god: this dyd not Abraham. Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then
593sayde they vnto him: we were not borne of fornicacion. We have one father,
594which is God. Iesus sayde vnto them: yf God were youre father, then wolde ye
595love me. For I proceaded forthe and come from God. Nether came I of my
596selfe, but he sent me. Why do ye not knowe my speache? Even because ye
597cannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes.
598    Ye are of youre father the devyll, and the lustes of youre father ye will
599folowe. He was a murtherer from the beginnynge, and aboode not in the trueth,
600because ther is no trueth in him. When he speaketh a lye, then speaketh he of
601his awne. For he is a lyar, and the father therof. And because I tell you the
602trueth, therfore ye beleve me not.
603    Which of you can rebuke me of synne? If I saye the trueth, why do not ye
604beleve me? He that is of God, heareth goddes wordes. Ye therfore heare them
605not, because ye are not of God.
606    Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: Saye we not well that thou
607arte a Samaritane, and hast the devyll? Iesus answered: I have not the devyll:
608but I honour my father, and ye have dishonoured me. I seke not myne awne
609prayse: but ther is one that seketh and iudgeth.
610    Verely verely I saye vnto you, yf a man kepe my sayinges, he shall never
611se deeth. Then sayde the Iewes to him: Now knowe we that thou hast the devyll.
612Abraham is deed, and also the Prophetes: and yet thou sayest, yf a man kepe my
613sayinge, he shall never tast of deeth. Arte thou greater then oure father Abraham
614which is deed? and the Prophetes are deed. Whome makest thou thy selfe?
615    Iesus answered: Yf I honoure my selfe, myne honoure is nothinge worth.
616It is my father that honoureth me, which ye saye, is youre God, and ye have not
617knowen him: but I knowe him. And yf I shuld saye, I knowe him not, I shuld
618be a lyar lyke vnto you. But I knowe him, and kepe his sayinge.
619    Youre father Abraham was glad to se my daye, and he sawe it and reioysed.
620Then sayde the Iewes vnto him: thou arte not yet. l. yere olde, and hast thou
621sene Abraham? Iesus sayd vnto them: Verely verely I saye vnto you: yer
622Abraham was, I am. Then toke they vp stones, to caste at him. But Iesus hid
623him selfe, and went out of the temple.
624

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625

THE. IX. CHA.

626
627    And as Iesus passed by, he sawe a man which was blynde from his birth.
628And his disciples axed him sayinge. Master, who dyd synne: this man or his
629father and mother, that he was borne blynde? Iesus answered: Nether hath
630this man synned, nor yet his father and mother: but that the workes of God
631shuld be shewed on him. I must worke the workes of him that sent me, whyll it
632is daye. The nyght cometh when noman can worke. As longe as I am in the
633worlde, I am the lyght of the worlde.
634    Assone as he had thus spoken, he spate on the grounde and made claye of
635the spetle, and rubbed the claye on the eyes of the blynde, and sayde vnto him:
636Goo wesshe the in the pole of Syloe, which by interpretacion, signifieth sent.
637He went his waye and wasshed, and cam agayne seinge. The neghboures and
638they that had sene him before how that he was a begger, sayde: is not this he
639that sate and begged? Some sayde: this is he. Other sayd: he is lyke him. But
640he him selfe sayde: I am even he. They sayde vnto him: How are thyne eyes
641opened then? He answered and sayde. The man that is called Iesus, made claye,
642and anoynted myne eyes, and sayd vnto me: Goo to the pole Syloe and wesshe.
643I went and wesshed and receaved my syght. They sayde vnto him: where is he?
644He sayde: I cannot tell.
645    Then brought they to the pharises, him that a lytell before was blynde:
646for it was the Saboth daye when Iesus made the claye and opened his eyes. Then
647agayne the pharises also axed him how he had receaved his syght. He sayde
648vnto them: He put claye apon myne eyes and I wasshed, and do se. Then sayde
649some of the pharises: this man is not of God, because he kepeth not the saboth
650daye. Other sayde: how can a man that is a synner, do suche myracles? And
651ther was stryfe amonge them. Then spake they vnto the blynde agayne: What
652sayst thou of him, because he hath openned thyne eyes? And he sayd: He is a
653Prophet.
654    But the Iewes dyd not beleve of the felowe, how that he was blynde and
655receaved his syght, vntyll they had called the father and mother of him that had
656receaved his syght. And they axed them saying: Is this youre sonne, whome
657ye saye was borne blynde? How doth he now se then?

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His father and mother
658answered them and sayde: we wote well that this is oure sonne, and that he
659was borne blynde: but by what meanes he now seith, that can we not tell, or
660who hath opened his eyes, can we not tell. He is olde ynough, axe him, let him
661answer for him selfe. Suche wordes spake his father and mother, because they
662feared the Iewes. For the Iewes had conspyred all redy that yf eny man dyd
663confesse that he was Christ, he shuld be excommunicat out of the synagoge.
664Therfor sayde his father and mother: he is olde ynough, axe him.
665    Then agayne called they the man that was blynde, and sayd vnto him:
666Geve God the prayse: we know that this man is a synner. He answered and
667sayde: Whyther he be a synner or noo, I cannot tell: One thinge I am sure of,
668that I was blynde, and now I se. Then sayde they to him agayne. What dyd he
669to the? How opened he thyne eyes? He answered them, I tolde you yerwhyle,
670and ye dyd not heare. Wherfore wolde ye heare it agayne? Will ye also be his
671disciples? Then rated they him, and sayde: Thou arte his disciple. We be Moses
672disciples. We are sure that God spake with Moses. This felowe we knowe not
673from whence he is.
674    The man answered and sayde vnto them: this is a merveleous thinge that
675ye wote not whence he is, seinge he hath opened myne eyes. For we be sure
676that God heareth not synners. But yf eny man be a worshipper of God and
677do his will, him heareth he. Sence the worlde beganne was it not hearde that
678eny man opened the eyes of one that was borne blynd. If this man were not
679of God, he coulde have done no thinge. They answered and sayd vnto him:
680thou arte altogeder borne in synne: and dost thou teache vs? And they cast
681him out.
682    Iesus hearde that they had excommunicate him: and assone as he had
683founde him, he sayd vnto him: doest thou beleve on the sonne of God? He
684answered and sayde: Who is it Lorde, that I myght beleve on him? And Iesus
685sayde vnto him: Thou hast sene him, and he it is that talketh with the. And he
686sayde: Lorde I beleve: and worshipped him. Iesus sayde: I am come vnto
687iudgement into this worlde: that they which se not, myght se, and they which
688se, myght be made blynde.

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And some of the pharises which were with him,
689hearde these wordes and sayde vnto him: are we then blynde? Iesus sayde vnto
690them: yf ye were blynde, ye shuld have no synne. But now ye saye, we se,
691therfore youre synne remayneth.
692

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693

THE. X. CHAPTER.

694
695    Verely verely I saye vnto you: he that entreth not in by the dore, into the
696shepefolde, but clymeth vp some other waye: the same is a thefe and a robber.
697He that goeth in by the dore, is the shepeherde of the shepe: to him the porter
698openeth, and the shepe heare his voyce, and he calleth his awne shepe by name,
699and leadeth them out. And when he hath sent forthe his awne shepe, he goeth
700before them, and the shepe folowe him: for they knowe his voyce. A straunger
701they will not followe, but will flye from him: for they knowe not the voyce of
702straungers. This similitude spake Iesus vnto them. But they vnderstode not what
703thinges they were which he spake vnto them.
704    Then sayde Iesus vnto them agayne. Verely verely I saye vnto you: I am
705the dore of the shepe. All, even as many as came before me, are theves and
706robbers: but the shepe dyd not heare them. I am the dore: by me yf eny man
707enter in, he shalbe safe, and shall goo in and out and fynde pasture. The thefe
708cometh not but forto steale, kyll and destroye. I am come that they myght have
709lyfe, and have it more aboundantly.
710    I am the good shepeheerd. The good shepeheerd geveth his lyfe for the
711shepe. An heyred servaunt, which is not the shepeherd, nether the shepe are
712his awne, seith the wolfe commynge, and leveth the shepe, and flyeth, and the
713wolfe catcheth them, and scattereth the shepe. The heyred servaunt flyeth,
714because he is an heyred servaunt, and careth not for the shepe. I am that
715good shepeheerd, and knowe myne, and am knowen of myne. As my father
716knoweth me: even so knowe I my father. And I geve my lyfe for the shepe:
717and other shepe I have, which are not of this folde. Them also must I bringe,
718that they maye heare my voyce, and that ther maye be one flocke and
719one shepeherde.
720    Therfore doth my father love me, because I put my lyfe from me, that I
721myght take it agayne. No man taketh it from me: but I put it awaye of my
722selfe. I have power to put it from me, and have power to take it agayne:
723This commaundment have I receaved of my father. And ther was a dissencion
724agayne amonge the Iewes for these sayinges,

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and many of them sayd.
725He hath the devyll, and is mad: why heare ye him? Other sayde, these are
726not the wordes of him that hath the devyll. Can the devyll open the eyes of
727the blynde?
728    And it was at Ierusalem the feaste of the dedicacion, and it was wynter:
729and Iesus walked in Salomons porche. Then came the Iewes rounde aboute him,
730and sayde vnto him: How longe dost thou make vs doute? Yf thou be Christ,
731tell vs playnly. Iesus answered them: I tolde you and ye beleve not. The workes
732that I do in my fathers name they beare witnes of me. But ye beleve not,
733because ye are not of my shepe. As I sayde vnto you: my shepe heare my voyce,
734and I knowe them, and they folowe me, and I geve vnto them eternall lyfe, and
735they shall never perisshe, nether shall eny man plucke them oute of my honde.
736My father which gave them me, is greatter then all, and no man is able to take
737them out of my fathers honde. And I and my father are one.
738    Then the Iewes agayne toke vp stones, to stone him with all. Iesus answered
739them: many good workes have I shewed you from my father: for which of
740them will ye stone me? The Iewes answered him sayinge. For thy good workes
741sake we stone the not: but for thy blasphemy, and because that thou beinge a
742man, makest thy selfe God. Iesus answered them: Is it not written in youre lawe:
743I saye, ye are goddes? If he called them goddes vnto whom the worde of God
744was spoken (and the scripture can not be broken) saye ye then to him, whom
745the father hath sainctified, and sent into the worlde, thou blasphemest, because
746I sayd I am the sonne of God? If I do not the workes of my father, beleve me
747not. But if I do though ye beleve not me, yet beleve the workes, that ye maye
748knowe and beleve that the father is in me, and I in him.
749    Agayne they went aboute to take him: but he escaped out of their hondes,

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750and went awaye agayne beyonde Iordan, into the place where Iohn before had
751baptised, and there aboode. And many resorted vnto him, and sayd. Iohn dyd
752no miracle: but all thinges that Iohn spake of this man are true. And many
753beleved on him theare.
754

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755

THE. XI. CHAP.

756
757    A Certayne man was sicke, named Lazarus of Bethania the toune of Mary
758and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which annoynted Iesus with oyntment,
759and wyped his fete with her heere, whose brother Lazarus was sicke, and his
760sisters sent vnto him sayinge. Lorde behold, he whom thou lovest, is sicke.
761When Iesus hearde that, he sayd: this infirmite is not vnto deth, but for the
762laude of God, that the sonne of God myght be praysed by the reason of it.
763Iesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. After he hearde, that he was
764sicke, then aboode he two dayes still in the same place where he was.
765    Then after that sayd he to his disciples: let vs goo into Iewry agayne. His
766disciples sayde vnto him. Master, the Iewes lately sought meanes to stone the,
767and wilt thou goo thyther agayne? Iesus answered: are ther not twelve houres
768in the daye? Yf a man walke in the daye, he stombleth not, because he seith the
769lyght of this worlde. But yf a man walke in the nyght, he stombleth, because
770ther is no lyght in him. This sayde he, and after that, he sayde vnto them: oure
771frende Lazarus slepeth, but I goo to wake him out of slepe. Then sayde his
772disciples: Lorde yf he slepe, he shall do well ynough. How be it Iesus spake of
773his deeth: but they thought that he had spoken of the naturall slepe. Then sayde
774Iesus vnto them playnly, Lazarus is deed, and I am glad for youre sakes, that I
775was not there, because ye maye beleve. Neverthelesse let vs go vnto him. Then
776sayde Thomas which is called Dydimus, vnto the disciples: let vs also goo, that
777we maye dye with him.
778    Then went Iesus, and founde, that he had lyne in his grave foure dayes
779already. Bethanie was nye vnto Ierusalem, aboute .xv. furlonges of, and many
780of the Iewes were come to Martha and Mary, to comforte them over their
781brother.

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Martha assone as she hearde that Iesus was comynge, went and
782met him: but Mary sate still in the housse.
783    Then sayde Martha vnto Iesus: Lorde yf thou haddest bene here, my
784brother had not bene deed: but neverthelesse, I knowe that whatsoever thou
785axest of God, God will geve it the. Iesus sayde vnto her: Thy brother shall ryse
786agayne. Martha sayde vnto him: I knowe that he shall ryse agayne in the
787resurreccion at the last daye. Iesus sayde vnto her: I am the resurreccion and the
788lyfe: He that beleveth on me, ye though he were deed, yet shall he lyve. And
789whosoever lyveth and beleveth on me, shall never dye. Belevest thou this?
790She sayde vnto him: ye Lorde, I beleve that thou arte Christ the sonne of god
791which shuld come into the worlde.
792    And assone as she had so sayde, she went her waye and called Marie her
793sister secretly sayinge: The master is come and calleth for the And she assone as
794she hearde that, arose quickly, and came vnto him. Iesus was not yet come into
795the toune: but was in the place where Martha met him. The Iewes then which
796were with her in the housse and comforted her, when they sawe Mary that she
797rose vp hastely, and went out, folowed her, saying: She goeth vnto the grave,
798to wepe there.
799    Then when Mary was come where Iesus was, and sawe him, she fell doune
800at his fete, sayinge vnto him: Lorde yf thou haddest bene here, my brother
801had not bene deed.
802    When Iesus sawe her wepe, and the Iewes also wepe, which came with
803her, he groned in the sprete, and was troubled in him selfe and sayde: Where
804have ye layed him? They sayde vnto him: Lorde come and se. And Iesus
805wept. Then sayde the Iewes: Beholde howe he loved him. And some of
806them sayde: coulde not he which openned the eyes of the blynde, have made
807also, that this man shuld not have dyed? Iesus agayne groned in him selfe, and
808came to the grave. It was a caue, and a stone layde on it.
809    And Iesus sayd: take ye awaye the stone. Martha the sister of him that was
810deed, sayd vnto him: Lorde by this tyme he stinketh. For he hath bene deed
811foure dayes: Iesus sayde vnto her:

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Sayde I not vnto the, that if thou didest
812beleve, thou shuldest se the glory of God. Then they toke awaye the stone from
813the place where the deed was layde. And Iesus lyfte vp his eyes and sayde:
814Father I thanke the because that thou hast hearde me. I wot that thou hearest
815me all wayes: but because of the people that stonde by I sayde it, that they maye
816beleve, that thou hast sent me.
817    And when he thus had spoken, he cryed with a loud voyce. Lazarus come
818forthe. And he that was deed, came forth, bounde hand and fote with grave
819bondes, and his face was bounde with a napkin. Iesus sayde vnto them: loowse
820him, and let him goo. Then many of the Iewes which came to Mary, and had
821sene the thinges which Iesus dyd, beleved on him. But some of them went their
822wayes to the Pharises, and tolde them what Iesus had done.
823    Then gadered the hye prestes and the Pharises a counsell, and sayde: what
824do we? This man doeth many miracles. Yf we let him scape thus, all men will
825beleve on him, and the Romaynes shall come and take awaye oure countre and
826the people. And one of them named Cayphas which was the hieprest that same
827yeare, sayde vnto them: Ye perceave nothinge at all nor yet consider that it is
828expedient for vs, that one man dye for the people, and not that all the people
829perisshe. This spake he not of him selfe, but beinge hye preste that same yeare,
830he prophesied that Iesus shulde dye for the people, and not for the people
831only, but that he shuld gader to geder in one the chyldren of God which were
832scattered abroode. From that daye forth they held a counsell to geder, for to
833put him to deeth.
834    Iesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the Iewes: but went his
835waye thence vnto a countre nye to a wildernes, into a cite called Ephraim, and
836there haunted with his disciples. And the Iewes ester was nye at hand, and many
837went out of the countre vp to Ierusalem before the ester, to purify them selves.
838Then sought they for Iesus, and spake bitwene themselves as they stode in the
839temple: What thinke ye, seynge he commeth not to the feast. The hye prestes
840and Pharises had geven a commaundement, that yf eny man knew where he
841were, he shuld shewe it, that they myght take him.