iiTyndale New Testament

The Tyndale New Testament (1534)Public DomainLanguage: EnglishDialect: archaic BritishTranslation by: William Tyndale

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Contents

Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Romans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401 Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1532 Corinthians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Galatians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Ephesians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Philippians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Colossians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1871 Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1902 Thessalonians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1931 Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1952 Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Titus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Philemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Hebrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2151 Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2192 Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2231 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2262 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2303 John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Jude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

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Matthew 1:1 1 Matthew 2:12

THE GOSPEL ACCORDINGTO ST. MATTHEW1 This is the boke of the generacion of

Iesus Christ the sonne of Dauid the sonnealso of Abraham. 2 Abraham begat Isaac:Isaac begat Iacob: Iacob begat Iudas andhis brethren: 3 Iudas begat Phares andzaram of Thamar: Phares begat Hesrom:Hesrom begat Aram: 4 Aram begat Ami-nadab: Aminadab begat Naasson: Naassonbegat Salmon: 5 Salmon begat Boos ofRahab: Boos begat Obed of Ruth: Obedbegat Iesse: 6 Iesse begat Dauid the kynge:Dauid the kynge begat Salomon of her thatwas the wyfe of Ury: 7 Salomon begatRoboam: Roboam begat Abia: Abia begatAsa: 8 Asa begat Iosaphat: Iosaphat begatIoram: Ioram begat Osias: 9 Osias begatIoatham: Ioatham begat Achas: Achasbegat Ezechias: 10 Ezechias begat Man-asses: Manasses begat Amon: Amon be-gat Iosias: 11 Iosias begat Iechonias andhis brethren aboute the tyme they werecaryed awaye to Babylon. 12 And afterthey were brought to Babylon Iechoniasbegat Salathiel: Salathiel begat zorobabel:13 zorobabel begat Abiud: Abiud begat Eli-achim: Eliachim begat Azor: 14 Azor begatSadoc: Sadoc begat Achin: Achin begatEliud: 15 Eliud begat Eleasar: Eleasar begatMatthan: Matthan begat Iacob: 16 Iacob be-gat Ioseph the husbande of Mary of whichwas boren that Iesus that is called Christ.17 All the generacions from Abraham toDavid are fowretene generacions. Andfrom David vnto the captivite of Babylonare fowretene generacions. And from thecaptivite of Babylon vnto Christ are alsofowrtene generacions. 18 The byrthe ofIesus Christ was on thys wyse. When hysmother Mary was betrouthed to Iosephbefore they came to dwell to gedder shewas foude with chylde by the holy goost.19 The Ioseph her husbande beinge a per-fect man and loth to make an ensampleof her was mynded to put her awaye se-cretely. 20 Whill he thus thought beholdthe angell of the Lorde appered vnto himin a dreame saynge: Ioseph the sonne of

David feare not to take vnto ye Mary thywyfe. For that which is conceaved in heris of the holy goost. 21 She shall bryngeforthe a sonne and thou shalt call his nameIesus. For he shall save his peple fromtheir synnes. 22 All this was done to fulfillthat which was spoken of the Lorde by theProphet saynge: 23 Beholde a mayde shallbe with chylde and shall brynge forthe asonne and they shall call his nameEmanuelwhich is by interpretacion God with vs.24 And Ioseph assone as he awoke out ofslepe did as the angell of the Lorde badehym and toke hys wyfe vnto hym 25 andknewe her not tyll she had brought forthhir fyrst sonne and called hys name Iesus.

21 When Iesus was borne at Bethleem

in Iury in the tyme of Herode the kynge.Beholde there came wyseme from the eestto Ierusalem saynge: 2Where is he that isborne kynge of the Iues? We have senehis starre in the eest and are come toworship him. 3 When Herode the kyngehad herde thys he was troubled and allIerusalem with hym 4 and he gathered allthe chefe Prestes and Scribes of the peopleand axed of them where Christ shulde beborne. 5 And they sayde vnto hym: atBethlee in Iury. For thus it is written bythe Prophet. 6 And thou Bethleem in thelonde of Iury art not the leest concernyngethe princes of Iuda. For out of the shallcome the captayne that shall govern mypeople Israhel. 7ThenHerod prevely calledthe wyse men and dyligetly enquyred ofthem the tyme of the starre that appered8and sent the to Bethleem saynge: Goo andsearche dyligetly for the chylde. Andwhenye have founde hym bringe me worde thatI maye come and worshippe hym also.9 When they had heard the kynge theydeparted: and lo the starre which theysawe in the eeste went before them tyllit came and stode over the place wherethe chylde was. 10 When they sawe thestarre they were marvelously glad: 11 andwent into the house and found the chyldewith Mary hys mother and kneled douneand worshipped hym and opened theirtreasures and offred vnto hym gyftes goldfrackynsence and myrre. 12And after they

Matthew 2:13 2 Matthew 4:3were warned of God in a dreame that theyshuld not go ageyne to Herod they re-tourned into their awne countre anotherwaye. 13 When they were departed: be-holde the angell of the Lorde appered toIoseph in dreame sayinge: aryse and takethe chylde and his mother and flye intoEgypte and abyde there tyll I brynge theworde. For Herod will seke the chylde todestroye hym. 14 The he arose and tokethe chylde and his mother by night anddeparted into Egypte 15 and was there vntothe deeth of Herod to fulfill that whichwas spoken of the Lorde by the Prophetwhich sayeth out of Egypte haue I calledmy sonne. 16 Then Herod perceavyngethat he was moocked of the wyse men wasexcedynge wroth and sent forth and slueall the chyldren that were in Bethleem andin all the costes there of as many as weretwo yere olde and vnder accordynge to thetyme which he had diligetly searched outeof the wyse men. 17 Then was fulfilled thatwhich was spoken by the Prophet Ieremysayinge: 18On the hilles was a voyce herdemornynge wepynge and greate lamenta-cion: Rachel wepynge for her chyldren andwolde not be conforted because they werenot. 19 When Herode was deed: beholdean angell of the Lorde appered in a dreameto Ioseph in Egypte 20 sayinge: arise andtake the chylde and his mother and gointo the londe of Israel. For they are deedwhich sought the chyldes life. 21 Thenhe arose vp and toke the chylde and hismother and cam into the londe of Israhel.22 But when he hearde that Archelaus didraygne in Iury in the roume of his fatherHerode he was afrayde to goo thither. Notwithstondynge after he was warned of godin a dreame he turned a syde into theparties of Galile 23 and wet and dwelt ina cite called Nazareth to fulfill that whichwas spoken by the Prophetes: he shalbecalled a Nazarite

31 In those dayes Ihon the Baptyst came

and preached in the wildernes of Iury2 saynge; Repet the kyngdome of heue is athonde. 3This is he of whom it is spoken bythe Prophet Esay which sayeth: The voyceof a cryer in wyldernes prepare the Lordes

waye and make hys pathes strayght. 4 ThisIhon had hys garmet of camels heer anda gerdell of a skynne aboute his loynes.Hys meate was locustes and wylde hony.5 Then went oute to hym Ierusalem andall Iury and all the region roude abouteIorda 6 and were baptised of him in Iordaconfessynge their synnes 7 When he sawemany of the Pharises and of the Saducescome to hys baptism he sayde vnto the:O generacion of vipers who hath taughtyou to fle from the vengeauce to come?8 Brynge forth therfore the frutes belong-ynge to repentaunce. 9 And se that theons thynke not to saye in your selues wehaue Abraham to oure father. For I sayevnto you that God is able of these stones torayse vp chyldern vnto Abraham. 10 Euennowe is the axe put vnto the rote of thetrees: soo that every tree which bringethnot forthe goode frute is hewe doune andcast into the fyre. 11 I baptise you inwater in toke of repentaunce: but he thatcometh after me is myghtier then I whoseshues I am not worthy to beare. He shallbaptise you with the holy gost and withfyre: 12which hath also his fan in his hondand will pourge his floure and gadre thewheet into his garner and will burne thechaffe with vnquecheable fyre. 13 Thencam Iesus from Galile to Iordan vnto Ihonto be baptised of hym. 14 But Ihon forbadehym saynge: I ought to be baptysed of the:and comest thou to me? 15 Iesus answeredand sayd to hym: Let it be so now. For thusit becommeth vs to fulfyll all rightwesnes.Then he suffred hym. 16 And Iesus assoneas hewas baptised came strayght out of thewater. And lo heue was open over hym:and Ihon sawe the spirite of God descendelyke a doue and lyght vpon hym. 17 Andlo there came a voyce from heven sayng:Thys ys that my beloved sonne in whom ismy delyte.

41 Then was Iesus ledd awaye of the

spirite into wildernes to be tempted ofthe devyll. 2 And when he had fastedfourtye dayes and fourtye nightes he wasafterward an hungred. 3 Then came tohym the tempter and sayde: yf thou be

Matthew 4:4 3 Matthew 5:16the sonne of God commaunde that thesestones be made breed. 4 He answeredand sayde: that is wrytten man shall notlyve by brede onlye but by every wordethat proceadeth out of the mouth of God.5 Then the devyll tooke hym vp into theholy cite and set hym on a pynacle of thetemple 6and sayd vnto hym: yf thou be thesonne of God cast thy sylfe doune. For itis wrytte he shall geve his angels chargeover the and with their handes they shallholde that vp that thou dashe not thy foteagaynst a stone. 7 And Iesus sayde to hymit ys wrytten also: Thou shalt not temptethy Lorde God. 8 The devyll toke hym vpagayne and ledde hym in to an excedyngehye mountayne and shewed hym all thekyngdomes of the worlde and all the glorieof them 9 And sayde to hym: all thesewill I geue the if thou wilt faull doune andworshipme. 10Then sayde Iesus vnto hym.Avoyd Satan. For it is writte thou shaltworshyp the Lorde thy God and hym onlyshalt thou serve. 11 Then the dyvell lefthymandbeholde the angels cameandmin-istred vnto hym. 12When Iesus had heardethat Ihonwas taken he departed into Galile13and left Nazareth andwent and dwelte inCapernaum which is a cite apon the see inthe coostes of zabulon and Neptalim 14 tofulfill that whiche was spoken by Esay theProphet sayinge: 15 The londe of zabulonand Neptalim the waye of the see beyondeIordan Galile of the Gentyls 16 the peoplewhich sat in darknes sawe greate lyghtand to them which sate in the region andshadowe of deeth lyght is begone to shyne.17 From that tyme Iesus begane to preacheand to saye: repet for ye kigdome of hevenis at honed. 18 As Iesus walked by thesee of Galile he sawe two brethren: Simonwhich was called Peter and Andrew hisbrother castynge a neet into the see forthey were fisshers 19 and he sayde vntothem folowe me and I will make you fis-shers of men. 20 And they strayght wayelefte their nettes and folowed hym. 21Andhewent forthe from thence and sawe othertwoo brethren Iames the sonne of zebedeand Ihon his brother in the shippe withzebede their father mendynge their nettesand called them. 22 And they with outtaryinge lefte the shyp and their father and

folowed hym. 23 And Iesus went abouteall Galile teachyng in their synagoges andpreachynge the gospell of the kyngdomeand healed all maner of sicknes and allmaner dyseases amonge the people. 24Andhis fame spreed abroode through oute allSiria. And they brought vnto hym all sickepeople thatwere takenwithdivers diseasesand gripinges and them that were pos-sessed with devils and those which werelunatyke and those that had the palsie: andhe healed them. 25 And ther folowed hyma greate nombre of people from Galile andfrom the ten cyties and from Ierusalemandfrom Iury and from the regions that lyebeyonde Iordan.

51 When he sawe the people he went vp

into a mountayne and when he was set hisdisciples came to hym 2 and he opened hysmouthe and taught them sayinge: 3Blessedare the povre in sprete: for theirs isthe kyngdome of heven. 4 Blessed arethey that morne: for they shalbe con-forted. 5 Blessed are the meke: for theyshall inheret the erth. 6 Blessed are theywhich honger and thurst for rightewesnes:for they shalbe filled. 7 Blessed are themercifull: for they shall obteyne mercy.8 Blessed are the pure in herte: for theyshall se God. 9 Blessed are the peacemak-ers: for they shalbe called the chyldren ofGod. 10 Blessed are they which suffre per-secucion for rightwesnes sake: for theirsys the kyngdome of heuen. 11 Blessedare ye when men reuyle you and perse-cute you and shall falsly say all mannerof yvell saynges agaynst you for my sake.12 Reioyce and be glad for greate is yourerewarde in heven. For so persecuted theythe Prophetes which were before youredayes. 13 ye are the salt of the erthe: butand yf the salt have lost hir saltnes whatcan be salted ther with? It is thence forthegood for nothynge but to be cast oute andto be troade vnder fote of men. 14 ye arethe light of the worlde. A cite that is seton an hill cannot be hid 15 nether do menlyght a cadell and put it vnder a busshellbut on a candelstick and it lighteth allthat are in the house. 16 Let youre lightso shyne before men that they maye se

Matthew 5:17 4 Matthew 6:1youre goodworkes and glorify youre fatherwhich is in heven. 17 Thinke not that I amcome to destroye the lawe or the Prophets:no I am nott come to destroye them butto fulfyll them. 18 For truely I saye vntoyou till heven and erth perisshe one iottor one tytle of the lawe shall not scapetyll all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever breakethone of these lest commaundmentes andteacheth men so he shalbe called the leestin the kyngdome of heven. But whoso-ever obserueth and teacheth the sameshal be called greate in the kyngdome ofheven. 20 For I saye vnto you except yourerightewesnes excede the righetewesnes ofthe Scribes and Pharises ye cannot entreinto the kyngdome of heven. 21 ye haveherde howe it was sayd vnto the of the oldetyme: Thou shalt not kyll. For whoso everkylleth shall be in daunger of iudgement.22 But I say vnto you, whosoever is angrewith hys brother, shalbe in daunger ofiudgement. Whosoeuer sayeth vnto hisbrotherRacha shalbe in dauger of a consell.But whosoeuer sayeth thou fole shalbe indauger of hell fyre. 23 Therfore when thouoffrest thy gifte at the altare and theirremembrest that thy brother hath oughtagaynst the: 24 leue there thyne offryngebefore the altre and go thy waye first andbe reconcyled to thy brother and thencome and offre thy gyfte. 25 Agre withthyne adversary quicklye, whyles thou artein the waye with hym lest that adversarydeliver ye to the iudge and the iudge, de-livre ye to the minister, and the thou becast into preson. 26 I say vnto ye verely:thou shalt not come out thece till thouhave payed the utmost farthige. 27 ye hauehearde howe it was sayde to the of oldetyme: Thou shalt not committ advoutrie.28 But I say vnto you that whosoeuerlooketh on a wyfe lustynge after her hathecommitted advoutrie with hir alredy in hishert. 29Wherfore yf thy right eye offendeye plucke hym out, and caste him from the.Better it is for the that one of thymembresperisshe then that thy hole bodye shuld becast into hell. 30 Also if thy right hondeoffend the cut hym of and caste hym fromthe. Better that ys that one of thymembresperisshe then that all thy body shulde becaste in to hell. 31 It ys sayd, whoso-

ever put awaye his wyfe let hym geve hera testymonyall also of the devorcement.32But I say vnto you: whosoever put awayehis wyfe, (except it be for fornicacion),causeth her to breake matrymony. Andwhosoever maryeth her that is devorsedbreaketh wedlocke. 33 Agayne ye hauehearde how it was sayd to the of olde tymethou shalt not forsuere thy selfe but shaltperforme thyne othe to God. 34 But I sayevnto you swere not at all nether by heuefor it ys Goddes seate: 35nor yet by the erthfor it is his fote stole: nether by Ierusalemfor it ys the cyte of that greate kynge:36 nether shalt thou sweare by thy heedbecause thou canst not make one whiteheer or blacke: 37But your communicacionshalbe ye ye: nay nay. For whatsoeuer ismore then that cometh of yvell. 38 ye havehearde how it ys sayd an eye for an eye:a tothe for a tothe. 39 But I saye to youthat ye resist not wronge. But whosoevergeve the a blowe on thy right cheke tourneto him the other. 40 And yf eny man willsue the at the lawe and take awaye thycoote let hym have thy cloocke also. 41Andwhosoever wyll compell the to goo a mylegoo wyth him twayne. 42 Geve to him thataxeth and from him that wolde borowetourne not awaye. 43 ye have hearde howit is sayde: thou shalt love thyne neghbourand hate thine enimy. 44 But I saye vntoyou love youre enimies. Blesse the thatcoursse you. Do good to them that hateyou. Praye for themwhich doo youwrongeand persecute you 45 that ye maye be thechyldern of youre father that is in heauen:for he maketh his sunne to aryse on theyvell and on the good and sendeth his reynon the iuste and vniuste. 46 For yf ye lovethem which love you: what rewarde shallye have? Doo not the Publicans euen so?47 And yf ye be frendly to youre brethrenonlye: what singuler thynge doo ye? 48 Donot the Publicans lyke wyse? ye shalltherfore be perfecte even as youre fatherwhich is in heauen is perfecte.

61 Take hede to youre almes. That ye geve

it not in the syght of men to the intentthat the wolde be sene of them. Or els ye

Matthew 6:2 5 Matthew 6:34get no rewarde of youre father which is inheven. 2When soever therfore thou gevestthine almes thou shalt not make a tropetto be blowe before the as the ypocrites doin the synagogis and in the stretis for to bepreysed of men. Verely I say vnto you theyhave their rewarde. 3 But when thou doestthine almes let not thy lyfte had knowewhat thy righte had doth 4 that thine almesmay be secret: and thy father which seithin secret shall rewarde ye openly. 5 Andwhen thou prayest thou shalt not be as theypocrytes are. For they love to stond andpraye in the synagoges and in the cornersof the stretes because they wolde be seneof men. Verely I saye vnto you they hauetheir rewarde. 6 But when thou prayestentre into thy chamber and shut thy doreto the and praye to thy father which ysin secrete: and thy father which seith insecret shall rewarde the openly. 7 Andwhen ye praye bable not moche as thehethe do: for they thincke that they shalbeherde for their moche bablynges sake. 8Beye not lyke them therfore. For youre fatherknoweth wherof ye haue neade before yeaxe of him. 9 After thys maner therforepraye ye. O oure fatherwhich arte in hevenhalowed be thy name. 10Let thy kyngdomecome. Thy wyll be fulfilled as well in erthas it ys in heven. 11 Geve vs this daye ouredayly breede. 12And forgeve vs oure treas-pases even as we forgeve oure trespacers.13 And leade vs not into temptacion: butdelyver vs from evell. For thyne is the kyn-gedome and the power and the glorye forever. Amen. 14 For and yf ye shall forgeveother men their treaspases youre hevenlyfather shall also forgeve you. 15 But andye wyll not forgeve men their trespasesnomore shall youre father forgeve youretreaspases. 16 Moreoure when ye faste benot sad as the ypocrytes are. For theydisfigure their faces that they myght besene of me how they faste. Verely I sayvnto you they have their rewarde. 17 Butthou when thou fastest annoynte thyneheed and washe thy face 18 that it apperenot vnto men howe that thou fastest: butvnto thy fatherwhich is in secrete: and thyfather which seeth in secret shall rewardethe openly. 19 Se that ye gaddre you not

treasure vpon the erth where rust andmothes corrupte and where theves breakethrough and steale. 20But gaddre the trea-sure togeder in heven where nether rustnor mothes corrupte and where thevesnether breake vp nor yet steale. 21 Forwhere soever youre treasure ys there willyoure hertes be also. 22 The light of thebody is thyne eye. Wher fore if thyneeye besyngle all thy body shalbe full oflight. 23 But and if thyne eye be wyckedthen all thy body shalbe full of derckenes.Wherfore yf the light that is in the bedarckenes: how greate is that darckenes.24No man an serve two masters. For etherhe shall hate the one and love the other: orels he shall lene to the one and despise theother: ye can not serve God and mammon.25 Therfore I saye vnto you be not carefullfor your lyfe what ye shall eate or what yeshall drincke nor yet for youre body whatye shall put on. ys not the lyfe more worththen meate and the body more of valuethen raymeut? 26Beholde the foules of theayer: for they sowe not nether reepe noryet cary into the barnes: and yet yourehevely father fedeth the. Are ye notmochebetter the they? 27 Which of you (thoughhe toke thought therfore) coulde put onecubit vnto his stature? 28 And why careye then for raymet? Considre the lyliesof the felde how they growe. They labournot nether spynne. 29 And yet for all thatI saye vnto you that euen Salomon in allhis royalte was not arayed lyke vnto oneof these. 30Wherfore yf God so clothe thegrasse which ys to daye in the felde andto morowe shalbe caste in to the fournace:shall he not moche more do the same vntoyou o ye of lytle fayth? 31 Therfore takeno thought sayinge: what shall we eate orwhat shall we drincke or wherwith shallwe be clothed? 32 After all these thyngesseke the getyls. For youre hevely fatherknoweth that ye have neade of all thesethynges. 33 But rather seke ye fyrst thekyngdome of heuen and the rightwisnestherof and all these thynges shalbe min-istred vnto you. 34 Care not then for themorow but let the morow care for it selfe:for the daye present hath ever ynough ofhis awne trouble.

Matthew 7:1 6 Matthew 8:97

1 Ivdge not that ye be not iudged. 2 Foras ye iudge so shall ye be iudged. And withwhatmesure yemetewith the same shall itbemesured to you agayne. 3Why seist thouamoote in thy brothers eye and perceavestnot the beame that ys yn thyne awne eye.4 Or why sayest thou to thy brother: suf-fre me to plucke oute the moote oute ofthyne eye and behold a beame is in thyneawne eye. 5 ypocryte fyrst cast oute thebeame oute of thyne awne eye and thenshalte thou se clearly to plucke oute themoote out of thy brothers eye. 6 Geve notthat which is holy to dogges nether castye youre pearles before swyne lest theytreade them vnder their fete and the othertourne agayne and all to rent you. 7 Axeand it shalbe geven you. Seke and ye shallfynd. knocke and it shalbe opened vntoyou. 8 For whosoever axeth receaveth andhe that seketh fyndeth and to hym thatknocketh it shalbe opened. 9 Ys there enyman amonge you which if his sonne axedhym bread wolde offer him astone? 10 Orif he axed fysshe wolde he proffer hym aserpet? 11 yf ye then which are evyll canegeve to youre chyldren good gyftes: howmochemoore shall youre fatherwhich is inheven geve good thynges to them that axehym? 12 Therfore whatsoever the woldethat men shulde do to you even so do ye tothem. This ys the lawe and the Prophettes.13 Enter in at the strayte gate: for wydeis the gate and broade is the waye thatleadeth to destruccion: and many ther bewhich goo yn therat. 14 But strayte isthe gate and narowe ys the waye whichleadeth vnto lyfe: and feawe there be thatfynde it. 15 Beware of false Propheteswhich come to you in shepes clothingebut inwardly they are ravenynge wolves.16 Ye shall knowe them by their frutes. Domen gaddre grapes of thornes? or figgesof bryres? 17 Euen soo every good treebryngeth forthe good frute. But a corruptetree bryngethe forthe evyll frute. 18A goodtree cannot brynge forthe bad frute: noryet a bad tree can bringe forthe good frute.19 Every tree that bryngethe not forthegood frute shalbe hewedoune and cast intothe fyre. 20 Wherfore by their frutes ye

shall knowe them. 21Not all they that sayevntomeMasterMaster shall enter in to thekyngdome of heven: but he that dothe myfathers will which ys in heven. 22Manywillsaye tome in that dayeMastermaster havewe not in thy name prophesied? And inthy name have caste oute devyls? And inthynamehavedonemanymiracles? 23Andthenwill I knowlege vnto them that I neverknewe them. Departe from me ye workersof iniquite. 24 Whosoever heareth of methese sayinges and doethe the same I wylllyken hym vnto a wyse man which bylthys housse on a rocke: 25 and aboundanceof rayne descended and the fluddes cameand the wyndes blewe and bet vpon thatsame housse and it fell not because it wasgrounded on the rocke. 26 And whosoeverheareth of me these sayinges and doththe not shalbe lykened vnto a folysh manwhich bilt hys housse apon the sonde:27 and abundaunce of rayne descended andthe fluddes came and the wyndes bleweand beet vpon that housse and it fell andgreat was the fall of it. 28 And it cameto passe that when Iesus had ended thesesaynges the people were astonnyed at hysdoctryne. 29 For he taught them as onehavynge power and not as the Scribes.

81 When he was come downe from the

moutaynemochpeople folowedhim. 2Andlo ther came a lepre and worsheped himsayinge: Master if thou wylt thou canstmake me clene. 3 And Iesus put forthehys hond and touched hym sayinge: I wyllbe thou clene and immediatly hys leprosiewas clensed. 4 And Iesus sayde vnto him.Se thou tell no man but go and shewe thyselfe to the preste and offer the gyfte thatMoses commaunded in witnes to them.5 When Iesus was entred into Capernauther came vnto him a certayne Centurionand besought hym sayinge: 6 Master myseruaunt lyeth sicke at home of the palsyeand ys greuously payned. 7And Iesus saydvnto hym: I will come and heale him. 8TheCenturion answered and sayde: Syr I amnot worthy that thou shuldest come vndermy rofe but speake the worde only andmy servaut shalbe healed. 9 For I alsomy selfe am a man vndre power and have

Matthew 8:10 7 Matthew 9:10sowdiers vndre me and I saye to one goand he goeth and to anothre come andhe cometh: and to my seruaut do thisand he doeth it. 10 When Iesus heardethat he marveled and sayd to them thatfolowed hym. Derely I say vnto you I havenot foude so great fayth: no not in Israel.11 I say therfore vnto you that many shallcome from the eest and weest and shallrest with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in thekingdome of heven: 12 and the chyldrenof the kyngdome shalbe cast out in tovtter darcknes: there shalbe wepinge andgnasshing of tethe. 13 The Iesus sayd vntothe Centurion go thy waye and as thoubelevest so be it vnto the. And his servauntwas healed the selfe houre. 14 And thenIesus went to Peters housse and sawe hyswyves mother lyinge sicke of a fevre 15 andtouched her hande and the fevre left hir:and she arose and ministred vnto them.16 When the euen was come they broughtvn to him many that were possessed withdevyllis. And he cast out the spirites witha worde and healed all that were sicke17 to fulfill that which was spoke by Esayasthe Prophet sayinge. He toke on himoure infirmities and bare oure sickneses18 When Iesus sawe moche people abouthim he commaunded to go over the water.19 And ther came a scribe and sayd vntohym: master I wyll folowe the whyther soever thou goest. 20 And Iesus sayd vntohim: the foxes have holes and the bryddesof the ayer have nestes but the sonne of themanhathnotwheron to rest his heede. 21Anothre that was one of hys disciples saydvnto hym: master suffreme fyrst to go andburye my father. 22 But Iesus sayd vntohim: foloweme and let the deed burie theirdeed. 23 And he entred in to a shyppe andhis disciples folowed him. 24 And beholdethere arose a a greate tempest in the seein so moche that the shippe was coveredwith waves and he was a slepe. 25 And hisdisciples came vn to him and awoke hymsayinge: master save vs we perishe. 26Andhe sayd vnto them: why are ye fearfull o yeof lytell faithe? Then he arose and rebukedthe wyndes and the see and ther foloweda greate calme. 27 And the men marveyledand sayd: whatman is this that bothewyn-des and see obey hym? 28Andwhen hewascome to the other syde in to the countre of

the Gergesites ther met him two possessedof devylles which came out of the gravesand were out of measure fearce so that nomanmyght go by that waye. 29And beholdthey cryed out sayinge: O Iesu the sonneof God what have we to do with the? Artthou come hyther to torment vs before thetyme be come? 30 And ther was a goodwaye of from them a greate heerd of swynefedinge. 31 Then the devyles besought himsayinge: if thou cast vs out suffre vs to gooure waye in to the heerd of swyne. 32Andhe sayd vnto the: go youre wayes. Thenwet they out and departed into the heerdof swyne And beholde the whoale heerd ofswyne was caryed with violence hedlingein to the see and perisshed in the water.33 Then the heerdmen fleed and wet theirways in to the cyte and tolde every thingeand what had fortuned vnto the possessedof the devyls. 34 And beholde all the cytecame out and met Iesus. And when theysawe hym they besought hym to departeoute of their costes.

91 Then he entred in to a shippe and

passed over and came in to his awne cite.2 And lo they brought to him a man sickeof the palsie lyinge in his bed. And whenIesus sawe the faith of the he sayd to thesicke of the palsie: sonne be of good cherethy sinnes be forgeve the. 3 And beholdecerteyne of the scribes sayd in the selvesthis man blasphemeth. 4 And when Iesussawe their thoughtes he sayd: wherforethinke ye evill in youre hertes? 5Whetherys esyer to saye thy synnes be forgevenye or to saye: arise and walke? 6 That yemaye knowe that the sonne of man hathpower to forgeve sinnes in erth then saydhe vnto the sicke of the palsye: arise takevp thy beed and go home to thine housse.7 And he arose and departed to his awnehousse. 8Andwhen the people sawe it theymarveyled and glorified god which hadgeve suche power to men. 9 And as Iesuspassed forth from thencehe sawe aman syta receyuinge of custome named Mathewand sayd to him: folowe me. And he aroseand folowed him. 10 And it came to passeas he sat at meate in the housse: beholdemany publicans and synners came and sate

Matthew 9:11 8 Matthew 10:8downe also with Iesus and hys disciples.11 When the Pharises sawe that they saydto hys disciples: why eateth youre mas-ter with publicans and synners? 12 WhenIesus herde that he sayde vnto them: Thewhole neade not the phisicion but theythat are sicke. 13Goo and learne what thatmeaneth: I have pleasure in mercy and notin offerynge. For I am not come to call therightewes but the synners to repentaunce.14 Then came the disciples of Ihon to hymsayinge: why do we and the Pharises fastofte: but thy disciples fast not? 15And Iesussayde vnto them: Can the weddynge chyl-dren morne as longe as the bridegromeis with them? The tyme will come whenthe bridegrome shalbe take from them andthen shall they faste. 16 Noo man pecethand olde garment with a pece of newecloothe. For then taketh he awaye the peceagayne from the garmet and the rent ysmade greater. 17 Nether do men put newewyne into olde vessels for then the vesselsbreake and the wyne runneth oute and thevessels perysshe. But they powre newewyne into newe vessels and so are bothsaved togeder. 18Whyls he thus spake vntothe beholde ther came a certayne ruler andworshipped him sayinge: my doghter iseuen now deceased but come and lay thyhonde on her and she shall live. 19 AndIesus arose and folowed hym with hys dis-ciples. 20And beholde a woman which wasdiseased with an yssue of bloude .xii. yerescame behynde hym and toched the hem ofhys vesture. 21 For she sayd in her silfe:yf I maye toche but even his vesture onlyI shalbe safe. 22 Then Iesus tourned himabout and behelde her sayinge: Doughterbe of good conforte thy faithhathmade thesafe. And she was made whole even thatsame houre. 23 And when Iesus came intothe rulers housse and sawe the minstrelsand the people raginge 24 he sayde vntothem: Get you hence for the mayde is notdeed but slepeth. And they laughed hymto scorne. 25 Assone as the people wereput forthe he went in and toke her by thehond and the mayde arose. 26And this wasnoysed through out all that lande. 27 Andas Iesus departed thence two blynde menfolowed hym crying and saying: O thousonne of David have mercy on vs. 28 And

when he was come to housse the blyndcame to hym And Iesus sayde vnto them:Beleve ye that I am able to do thys? Andthey sayde vnto hym: ye Lorde. 29 Thentouched he their eyes saying: acordyngeto youre faythe be it vnto you. 30 Andtheir eyes were opened. And Iesus chargedthe saying: Se that no man knowe of it.31 But they assone as they were departedspreed abroade his name through oute allthe londe. 32As theywent out beholde theybrought to hym a domeman possessed af adevyll. 33And as sone as the devyll was castoute the domme spake: And the peoplemerveled sayinge: it was never so sene inIsrael. 34But the Pharises sayde: he castethoute devyls by the power of the chefedevyll. 35 And Iesus went about all citiesand tounes teachynge in their synagogesand preachyng the glad tidinges of thekyngdome and healinge all maner sicknesand desease amonge the people. 36 Butwhen he sawe the people he had com-passion on the because they were pynedawaye and scattered abroade even as shepehavinge no shepherd. 37 Then sayde heto hys disciples: the hervest is greate butthe laborers are feawe. 38Wherfore prayethe Lorde of the harvest to sende forthelaborers into hys harvest.

101 And he called his .xii. disciples vnto

hym and gave them power over vnclenesprites to cast them oute and to heale allmaner of sicknesses and all maner of de-seases. 2The names of the .xii. Apostles arethese. The fyrst Simon called also Peter:and Andrew his brother. Iames the sonneof zebede and Ihon his brother. 3 Philipand Bartlemew. Thomas and Mathewthe Publican. Iames the sonne of Alpheand Lebbeus otherwyse called Taddeus.4 Simon of Cane and Iudas Iscarioth whichalso betrayed hym. 5 These .xii. sent Iesusand commaunded them sayinge: Go notin to the wayes that leade to the gentylsand in to the cities of the Samaritans enterye not. 6 But go rather to the lost shepeof the housse of Israel. 7 Go and preachsayinge: that the kyngdome of heven isat hande. 8 Heale the sicke clense thelepers rayse the deed caste oute the devils.

Matthew 10:9 9 Matthew 11:3Frely ye have receved frely geve agayne.9 Posses not golde nor silver nor brassseyn youre gerdels 10 nor yet scrip towardesyour iorney: nether two cotes nether shuesnor yet a staffe. For theworkman isworthyto have his meate. 11 In to whatsoevercite or toune ye shall come enquyre whoys worthy yn it and there abyde till yegoo thence. 12 And when ye come in toan housse salute the same. 13 And yf thehousse be worthy youre peace shall comeapon it. But yf it be not worthy yourepeace shall retourne to you agayne. 14Andwhosoever shall not receave you nor willheare youre preachynge: when ye departeoute of that housse or that cite shake of theduste of youre fete. 15Truly I say vnto you:it shalbe easier for the londe of zodomaandGomorra in the daye of iudgement then forthat cite. 16 Beholde I sende you fortheas shepe amonge wolves. Be ye therforewyse as serpetes and innocent as doves.17Beware of men for they shall deliver youvp to the consels and shall scourge you intheir synagoges. 18And ye shall be broughtto the heed rulers and kynges for my sakein witnes to them and to the gentyls. 19Butwhen they delyver you vp take no thoughthow or what ye shall speake for that shalbegeve you even in that same houre what yeshall saye. 20 For it is not ye that speke butthe sprite of your father which speakethin you. 21 The brother shall betraye thebrother to deeth and the father the sonne.And the chyldre shall aryse agaynste theirfathers and mothers and shall put them todeethe: 22and ye shall be hated of allme formyname. But he that endureth to the endeshalbe saved. 23When they persecute youin one cite flye in to another. I tell you fora treuth ye shall not fynysshe all that citiesof Israel tyll the sonne of man be come.24 The disciple ys not above hys master:nor yet the servaut above his lorde. 25 It isynough for the disciple to be as hys masterys and that the servaunt be as his lordeys. yf they have called the lorde of thehousse beelzebub: how moche more shallthey call themof his housholde so? 26Fearethe not therfore. There is no thinge soclose that shall not be openned and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.27 What I tell you in dercknes that speake

ye in lyght. And what ye heare in the earethat preache the on the housse toppes.28 And feare ye not them which kyll thebody and be not able to kyll the soule. Butrather feare hym which is able to destroyebothe soule and body into hell. 29 Are nottwo sparowes solde for a farthinge? Andnone of them dothe lyght on the groundewith out youre father. 30 And now areall the heeris of youre heedis numbred.31 Feare ye not therfore: ye are of morevalue then many sparowes. 32 Who so-ever therfore shall knowledge me beforemen hym will I knowledge also before myfather which is in heuen. 33 But whosoever shall denye me before men hym willI also denye before my father which is inheven. 34 Thynke not that I am come tosende peace into the erth. I came not tosend peace but a swearde. 35 For I amcome to set a man at varyaunce ageynsthys father and the doughter ageynst hyrmother and the doughterlawe ageynst hermotherlawe: 36And a mannes fooes shalbethey of hys owne housholde. 37 He thatlovith hys father or mother more then meis not mete for me. And he that lovethhis sonne or doughter more then me is notmete for me. 38 And he that taketh not hiscrosse and folowethme ys notmete forme.39He that fyndeth hys lyfe shall lose it: andhe that losith hys lyfe for my sake shallfynde it. 40He that receavith you receavithme: and he that receavith me receavithhim that sent me. 41 He that receavitha prophet in the name of a prophet shallreceave a prophetes rewarde. And he thatreceavith a righteous man in the name ofa righteous man shall receave the rewardeof a righteousman. 42Andwhosoever shallgeve vnto one of these lytle ones to drinckea cuppe of colde water only in the name ofa disciple: I tel you of a trueth he shall notlose his rewarde.

111 And it came to passe when Iesus had

made an ende of commaundinge his .xii.disciples that he departed thence to teacheand to preache in their cities. 2 WhenIhon beinge in preson hearde the workesof Christ he sent two of his disciples 3 andsayde vnto him. Arte thou he that shall

Matthew 11:4 10 Matthew 12:11come: or shall we loke for another. 4 Iesusanswered and sayde vnto them. Go andshewe Ihon what ye have hearde and sene.5 The blynd se the halt goo the lepersare clensed: the deef heare the ded ryseageyne and the glad tidinges is preachedto the povre. 6 And happy is he that is notoffended by me. 7 And as they departedIesus begane to speake vnto the people ofIhon. What for to se wet ye out in to thewyldernes? wet ye out to se a rede shakewith the wynde? 8 other what wet ye outfor to se? Aman clothed in soofte raymet:?Beholde they that weare soofte clothingare in kynges howses. 9 But what wet yeoute for to se? A prophete? Ye I saye toyou and more the a prophete. 10 For thisis he of who it is wrytte. Beholde I sendemy messenger before thy face which shallprepare thywaye before the 11Verely I sayevnto you amonge the chyldren of wemenarose therenot a gretter then Ihon the bap-tist. Notwithstondinge he that ys lesse inthe kyngdome of heven ys gretter then he.12 From the tyme of Ihon Baptist hythertothe kyngdome of heven suffreth violenceand they that go to it with violence pluckit vnto them. 13 For all the prophetes andthe lawe prophesyed vnto to the tyme ofIhon. 14 Also yf ye wyll receave it thisis Helyas which shuld come. 15 He thathathe eares to heare let him heare. 16 Butwher vnto shall I lyken this generacion?It ys lyke vnto chyldre which syt in themarket and call vnto their felowes 17 andsaye: we have pyped vnto you and ye havenot daunsed? We have morned vnto youand ye have not sorowed. 18 For Ihon camenether eatingenor drinkinge and they sayehe hath the devyll. 19 The sonne of mancame eatinge and drinkinge and they sayebeholde a glutton and drynker of wyneand a frend vnto publicans and synners.Never the later wysdome ys iustified of hirchildren. 20 Then began he to vpbrayd thecities in which most of his miracles weredone because they meded not. 21 Wo beto the Chorasin. Wo be to the Betzaida:for if the miracles which were shewd inyou had bene done in Tyre and Sidon theyhad repented longe agone in sackcloth andasshes. 22 Neverthelesse I say to you: itshall be esier for Tyre and Sidon at the

day of iudgement then for you. 23 Andthou Capernaum which art lift vp vntoheven shalt be brought doune to hell. Forif the miracles which have bene done inthe had bene shewed in zodom: they hadremayned to this daye. 24 Neverthelesse Isaye vnto you: it shalbe easiar for the londeof zodom in the daye of iudgement thenfor the. 25 At that tyme Iesus answeredand sayd: I prayse the o father lorde ofheven and erth because thouhast hid thesethinges from the wyse and prudet and hastopened the vnto babes: 26 even so fatherfor so it pleased the. 27All thinges are gevevnto me of my father. And noma knoweththe sonne but the father: nether knowetheny man the father save the sonne andhe to whome the sonne will open him.28Come vntome all ye that laboure and areladen and I wyll ease you. 29 Take my yokeon you and lerne of me for I am meke andlowly in herte: and ye shall fynd rest vntoyoure soules. 30Formy yoke is easy andmyburden is light.

121 In that tyme went Iesus on the Sabot

dayes thorow the corne and his discipleswere anhogred and begane to plucke theeares of coorne and to eate. 2 When thepharises sawe that they sayde vnto him:Beholde thy disciples do that which is notlawfull to do apon the saboth daye. 3 Hesayde vnto the: Haue ye not reed whatDavid did when he was anhougered andthey also which were with him? 4 How heentred into the housse of God and ate thehalowed loves which were not lawfull forhim to eate nether for the whichwere withhim but only for the prestes. 5 Or have yenot reed in the lawe how that the prestesin the temple breake the saboth daye andyet are blamlesse? 6 But I saye vnto you:that here is one greater then the temple.7Wherfore yf ye hadwist what this sayingemeneth: I require mercy and not sacrifice:ye wold never have condemned innocetes.8 For the sonne of man is lord even of thesaboth daye. 9And he departed thence andwent into their synagoge: 10 and beholdether was a man whiche had his handedryed vp. And they axed him sayinge: ysit lawfull to heale apon the saboth dayes?because they myght acuse him. 11 And he

Matthew 12:12 11 Matthew 12:44sayde vnto the: whiche of you wolde it beyf he had a shepe fallen into a pitte onthe saboth daye that wolde not take himand lyft him out? 12 And how moche isa man better the a shepe? Wherfore itis lefull to do a good dede on the sabothdayes. 13Then sayde he to theman: stretchforth thy had. And he stretched it forthe.And it was made whole agayne lyke vntothe other. 14 Then the Pharyses wet outand helde a consell agaynst hym how theymyght destroye hym. 15When Iesus knewethat he departed thece and moche peoplefolowed him and he healed the all 16 andcharged the that they shuld not make himknowe: 17 to fulfyll that which was spo-den by Esay the Prophet which sayeth.18 Beholde my chylde who I have chosenmy beloved in who my soule deliteth. Iwyll put my sprete on hym and he shallshewe iudgement to the gentyls. 19He shallnot stryve he shall not crye nether shalleny man heare his voyce in the streetes20 a brosed rede shall he not breacke andflaxe that begynneth to burne he shall notqueche tyll he sende forth iudgement vntovictory 21and in hys name shall the gentylstruste. 22 Then was brought to hym onepossessed with a devyll which was bothblynde and domme: and he healed hyminsomoch that he which was blynd anddomme both spake and sawe. 23 And allthe people were amased and sayde: Ys notthis that sonne of David? 24 But whenthe Pharises hearde that they sayde: Thisfelow dryveth the devyls no nother wyseoute but by the helpe of Belzebub thechefe of the devyls. 25 But Iesus knewetheir thoughtes and sayde to the. Everykingdome devided with in it sylfe shalbebrought to naught. Nether shall eny citeor housholde devyded agest it sylfe con-tynue. 26 So if satan cast out satan the ishe devyded agenst him sylfe. How shallthen his kyngdome endure? 27 Also if I bythe helpe of Belzebub cast oute devyls: bywhose helpe do youre chyldren cast themout? Therfore they shalbe youre iudges.28 But if I cast out the devyls by the spriteof God: then is the kyngdome of god comeon you? 29 Ether how can a man enterinto a stroge mannes housse and violently

take awaye his goodes: excepte he fyrstbinde the stroge man and the spoyle hishousse? 30 He that is not with me isagaynst me. And he that gaddereth notwith me scattereth abrode. 31 WherforeI say vnto you all maner of synne andblasphemy shalbe forgeven vnto men: butthe blasphemy of the sprite shall not beforgeven vnto men. 32 And whosoeverspeaketh a worde agaynst the sonne ofman it shalbe forgeven him. But whoso-ever speaketh agaynst the holy goost itshall not be forgeven hym: no nether inthis worlde nether in the worlde to come.33 Ether make the tree good and his frutegood also: or els make the tree evyll andhis frute evyll also. For the tree is knoweby his frute. 34O generacion of viperes howcan ye saye well when ye youre selves areevyll? For of the aboundance of the hertthe mouthe speaketh. 35 A good man outeof the good treasure of his hert bringethforth good thynges. And an evyll man outof his evyll treasure bringeth forth evyllthinges. 36 But I say vnto you that of everyydell worde that men shall have spoken:they shall geve acountes at the daye ofiudgement. 37For by thy wordes thou shaltbe iustifyed: and by thy wordes thou shaltbe condemned. 38Then answered certeyneof the scribes and of the Pharises sayinge:Master we wolde fayne se a sygne of the.39He answered and sayde to the: The evylland advoutrous generacion seketh a signebut ther shall no signe be geve to the sauethe signe of the Prophete Ionas. 40 Foras Ionas was thre dayes and thre nyghtesin the whales belly: soo shall the sonneof man be thre dayes and thre nyghtesin the hert of the erth. 41 The men ofNinivie shall rise at the daye of iugdementwith this nacion and condemne them: forthey amended at the preachinge of Ionas.And beholde a greater then Ionas is here.42 The quene of the south shall ryse at thedaye of iudgement with this generacionand shall condemne the: for she came fromthe vtmost parties of the worlde to hearethe wysdome of Salomon. And beholdea greater then Salomon is here. 43 Whenthe vnclene sprite is gone out of a manhe walketh throughout dry places sekingreest and fyndeth none. 44Then he sayeth:

Matthew 12:45 12 Matthew 13:28I will retourne ageyne intomy housse fromwhence I came oute. And when he is comehe fyndeth the housse empty and swepteand garnisshed. 45 Then he goeth his wayeand taketh vnto him seven other spretesworsse then himsilfe and so entre they inand dwell there. And the ende of thatman is worsse then the beginning. Even soshall it be with this evell nacion. 46 Whillhe yet talked to the people: beholde hismother and his brethren stode withoutdesyringe to speake with him. 47 Then onesayde vnto hym: beholde thy mother andthy brethren stonde without desiringe tospeke with the. 48He answered and sayd tohim that tolde hym: Who ismymother? orwho are my brethren? 49And he stretchedforth his hond over his disciples and sayd:behold mymother andmy brethren. 50 Forwhosoever dothe my fathers will which isin heven the same ismy brother suster andmother.

131 The same daye wet Iesus out of the

house and sat by the see syde 2 and mochpeople resorted vnto him so gretly that hewet and sat in a shippe and all the peoplestode on the shoore. 3 And he spake manythynges to the in similitudes sayinge: Be-holde the sower wet forth to sowe. 4 Andas he sowed some fell by the wayessydeand the fowlles came and devoured it vp.5 Some fell apon stony groude where it hadnot moche erth and a none it sproge vpbecause it had no depth of erth: 6andwhenthe sunne was vp it cauht heet and forlake of rotynge wyddred awaye. 7Some fellamonge thornes and the thornes sproge vpand chooked it. 8 Parte fell in good groundand brought forth good frute: some anhundred fold some sixtie fold some thyrtyfolde. 9 Whosoever hath eares to hearelet him heare. 10 And the disciples cameand sayde to him: Why speakest thou tothe in parables? 11He answered and saydevnto them: it is geve vnto you to knowethe secretes of the kyngdome of hevenbut to the it is not geve 12 For whosoeverhath to him shall be geven: and he shallhave aboundance. But whosoever hathnot: from hym shalbe takyn awaye eventhat he hath. 13 Therfore speake I to them

in similitudes: for though they se they senot: and hearinge they heare not: nethervnderstonde. 14 And in them is fulfilledthe Prophesie of Esayas which prophesiesayth: with the eares ye shall heare andshall not vnderstonde and with the eyesye shall se and shall not perceave. 15 Forthis peoples hertes are wexed grosse andtheir eares were dull of herynge and theireyes have they closed lest they shulde sewith their eyes and heare with their earesand shuld vnderstonde with their hertesand shuld tourne that I myght heale them.16 But blessed are youre eyes for they se:and youre eares for they heare. 17 VerelyI say vnto you that many Prophetes andperfaicte me have desired to se tho thingeswhich ye se and have not sene the: andto heare tho thinges which ye heare andhave not herde the. 18 Heare ye therforethe similitude of the sower. 19Whosoeverheareth the worde of the kingdome andvnderstondeth it not ther cometh the evyllman and catcheth awaye that which wassowne in his hert. And this is he whichwas sowne by the wayesyde. 20 But hethat was sowne in the stony grounde ishe which heareth the worde of God andanone with ioye receaveth it 21 yet hath heno rottes in him selfe and therfore durethbut a season: for assone as tribulacion orpersecucion aryseth because of the wordeby and by he falleth. 22He that was sowneamonge thornes is he that heareth theworde of God: but the care of this worldeand the dissaytfulnes of ryches choke theworde and so is he made vnfrutfull. 23 Hewhich is sowne in the good grounde is hethat heareth the worde and vnderstodethit which also bereth frute and bringethforth some an hundred folde some sixtiefolde and some thirty folde. 24 Anothersimilitude put he forth vnto the sayinge:The kyngdome of heven is lyke vnto aman which sowed good seed in his felde.25 But whyll men slepte ther came his fooand sowed tares amonge the wheate andwet his waye. 26 When the blade wasspronge vp and had brought forth frutethe appered the tares also. 27 The ser-vaunts came to the housholder and saydevnto him: Syr sowedest not thou goodseed in thy closse from whence the hathit tares? 28 He sayde to the the envious

Matthew 13:29 13 Matthew 14:4man hath done this. Then the servauntessayde vnto him: wilt thou then that wego and gader them? 29 But he sayde naylest whill ye go aboute to wede out thetares ye plucke vppe also with them thewheate by the rottes: 30 let bothe groweto gether tyll harvest come and in tyme ofharvest I wyll saye to the repers gather yefyrst the tares and bind the in sheves to bebret: but gather the wheete intomy barne.31 Another parable he put forthe vnto thesayinge. The kyngdome of heven is lykevnto a grayne ofmustard seedwhich amantaketh and soweth in his felde 32 whichis the leest of all seedes. But when it isgroune it is the greatest amonge yerbesand it is a tree: so that the bryddes ofthe ayer come and bylde in the brauchesof it. 33 Another similitude sayde he tothem. The kyngdome of heven is lykevnto leve which a woman taketh and hy-deth in .iii. peckes of meele tyll all belevended. 34 All these thynge spake Iesusvnto the people by similitudes and withoute similitudes spakehenothinge to them35 to fulfyll that which was spoke by theProphet sayinge: I wyll open my mouth insimilitudes and wyll speake forth thingeswhich have bene kepte secrete from thebegynninge of the worlde. 36 Then sentIesus thepeople awaye and came tohousse.And his disciples came vnto him sayinge:declare vnto vs the similitude of the taresof the felde. 37Then answeredhe and saydeto them. He that soweth the good seed isthe sonne of man. 38 And the felde is theworlde. And the chyldre of the kingdomethey are the good seed. And the tares arethe chyldren of the wicked. 39 And theenemye that soweth the is the devell. Theharvest is the end of the worlde. And therepers be the angels. 40 For even as thetares are gaddred and bret in the fyre: soshall it be in the ende of this worlde. 41Thesonne of man shall send forth his angelsand they shall gather out of his kyngdomeall thinges that offende and them whichdo iniquite 42 and shall cast them into afurnes of fyre. There shalbe waylynge andgnasshing of teth. 43 Then shall the iustemen shyne as bryght as the sunne in thekyngdome of their father. Whosoever hatheares to heare let him heare. 44Agayne the

kyngdome of heven is lyke vnto treasurehidde in the felde the which aman fyndethand hideth: and for ioy therof goeth andselleth all that he hath and byeth thatfelde. 45 Agayne the kyngdome of hevenis lyke vnto a marchaunt that seketh goodpearles 46 which when he had founde oneprecious pearle wet and solde all that hehad and bought it. 47 Agayne the kyn-gdome of heven is lyke vnto a neet castinto the see that gadereth of all kyndesof fysshes: 48 which when it is full mendrawe to londe and sitte and gadre thegood into vessels and cast the bad awaye.49 So shall it be at the ende of the worlde.The angels shall come oute and sever thebad from the good 50 and shall cast theminto a furnes of fyre: there shalbe waylingeand gnasshynge of teth. 51 Iesus sayde vntothem: vnderstonde ye all these thynges?They sayde ye Lorde. 52 Then sayde hevnto them: Therfore every scribe whichis taught vnto the kyngdome of heven islyke an housholder which bryngeth forthout of hys treasure thynges bothe newand olde. 53 And it came to passe whenIesus had finisshed these similitudes thathe departed thece 54 and came in to hisawne countre and taught them in theirsynagoges in so moche that they wereastonyed and sayde: whence cometh allthis wysdome and power vnto him? 55 Isnot this the carpeters sonne? Is not hismother called Mary? and his brethrenbe called Iames and Ioses and Simon andIudas? 56 And are not his susters all herewith vs? Whence hath he all these thynge.57 And they were offended by him. TheIesus sayd to the a Prophet is not without honoure save in hys awne countre andamonge his awne kynne. 58And he dyd notmany miracles there for there vnbelefessake.

141 At that tyme Herod the tetrarcha

hearde of the fame of Iesu 2 and sayde vntohis servautes: This is Ihon the baptist. Heis risen agayne from deeth and therforeare soche myracles wrought by him. 3 ForHerod had taken Ihon and bounde him andput him in preson for Herodias sake hisbrother Philips wyfe. 4For Ihon sayde vnto

Matthew 14:5 14 Matthew 15:7him: That is not lawfull for the to have her.5And when he wold have put him to deethhe feared the people because they countedhim as a prophet. 6ButwhenHerodes birthdaye was come the doughter of Herodiasdaunsed before them and pleased Herod.7 Wherfore he promised with an oth thathe wolde geve hir whatsoever she woldeaxe. 8 And she beinge informed of hermother before sayde: geve me here Ihonbaptistes heed in a platter. 9And the kyngesorowed. Neverthelesse for his othes sakeand for their sakis which sate also at thetable he commaunded that to be geven hir:10 and sent and beheeded Ihon in the pre-son 11and his heedwas brought in a platterand geven to the damsell and she broughtit to her mother. 12 And his disciples cameand toke vp his body and buryed it: andwent and tolde Iesus. 13When Iesus heardethat he departed thence by shippe in to adesert place out of the waye. And whenthe people had hearde therof they folowedhim afote out of their cities. 14 And Iesuswent forth and sawe moche people and hisherte did melte vpon them and he healedof them those that were sicke. 15 Wheneven was come his disciples came to himsayinge. This is a deserte place and thedaye is spent: let the people departe thattheymaye go into the tounes and bye themvytayllis. 16 But Iesus sayde vnto them.They have no neade to go awaye. Geve yethem to eate. 17Then sayde they vnto him:we have here but .v. loves and two fysshes.18 And he sayde: bringe the hyther to me.19 And he commaunded the people to sytdowne on the grasse: and toke the .v. lovesand the .ii. fysshes and loked vp to hevenand blessed and brake and gave the lovesto his disciples and the disciples gave themto the people. 20And they dyd all eate andwere suffised. And they gadered vp of thegobbetes that remayned vii. basketes full.21 And they that ate werein nobre about.v.M. men besyde wemen and chyldren.22 And strayght waye Iesus made his dis-ciples enter into a shippe and to goo overbefore him whill he sent the people awaye.23 And assone as he had sent the peopleawaye he went vp into a moutayne aloneto praye. And when nyght was come hewas there him silf alone. 24And the shippe

was now in the middes of the see andwas toost with waves for it was a cotrarywynde. 25 In the fourthe watche of thenight Iesus came vnto them walkynge onthe see. 26Andwhen his disciples sawe himwalkynge on the see they were troubledsayinge: it is some spirite and cryed outfor feare. 27And streyght waye Iesus spakevnto them sayinge: be of god cheare it is Ibe not afrayed. 28 Peter answered him andsayde: master if thou be he bid me comevnto the on the water. 29 And he saydecome. And when Peter was come douneout of the shippe hewalked on thewater togo to Iesus. 30 But when he sawe a myghtywynde he was afrayed. And as he beganneto synke he cryed sayinge: master saveme.31And immediatly Iesus stretched forth hishode and caught him and sayde to him: Othou of lytell faith wherfore diddest thoudout? 32 And assone as they were come into the shippe the wynde ceassed. 33 Thenthey that were in the shippe came andworshipped him sayinge: of a truth thouarte the sonne of God. 34 And when theywere come over they went in to the londeof Genazareth. 35 And when the men ofthat place had knowledge of him they sentout in to all that countre rounde about andbrought vnto him all that were sicke 36 andbesought him that they myght touche thehemme of his vesture only. And asmany astouched it were made safe.

151 Then came to Iesus scribes and phar-

ises from Ierusalem sayinge: 2why do thydisciples transgresse the tradicions of theelders? for they wesshe not their hondeswhen they eate breed. 3 He answered andsayde vnto them: why do ye also trans-gresse the commaundment of God thoroweyoure tradicions? 4 For God commaundedsayinge: honoure thy father and motherand he that cursseth father ormother shallsuffer deeth. 5 But ye saye every man shallsaye to his father or mother: That whichthou desyrest of me to helpe the with: isgeven God: 6 and so shall he not honourehis father or his mother. And thus haueyemade that the commaundment of God iswith out effecte through youre tradicions.7 Ypocrites well prophesyed of you Esay

Matthew 15:8 15 Matthew 16:4sayinge: 8 This people draweth nye vntome with their mouthes and honoureth mewith their lippes howbe it their hertesare farre from me: 9 but in vayne theyworshippe me teachinge doctrines whicheare nothing but mens precepts. 10 Andhe called the people vnto him and saydeto them: heare and vnderstande. 11 Thatwhich goeth into the mouth defyleth notthe man: but that which commeth outof the mouth defyleth the man. 12 Thencame his disciples and sayde vnto him.Perceavest thou not how that the pharisesare offended in hearinge thys sayinge?13 He answered and sayde: all planteswhich my hevely father hath not plantedshalbe plucked vp by the rotes. 14 Let themalone they be the blynde leaders of theblynde. If the blynde leede the blyndeboothe shall fall into the dyche. 15Then an-swered Peter and sayd to him: declare vntovs this parable. 16 Then sayde Iesus: are yeyet with oute vnderstondinge? 17perceaveye not that what soever goeth in at themouthdescendethdoune in to the bely andis cast out into the draught? 18 But thosethingis which procede out of the mouthcome from the herte and they defyle theman. 19 For out of the herte come evyllthoughtis murder breakyng of wedlockewhordo theefte falce witnes berynge blas-phemye. 20 These are the thingis whichdefyle a man. But to eate with vnwesshenhondes defyleth not a man. 21 And Iesuswent thence and departed in to the costisof Tyre and Sidon. 22And beholde awomanwhichwas a Cananite came out of the samecoostis and cryed vnto him sayinge: havemercy on me Lorde the sonne of David mydoughter is pytiously vexed with a devyll.23 And he gave her never a worde to an-swer. Then came to him his disciples andbesought him sayinge: sende her awaye forshe foloweth vs cryinge. 24 He answeredand sayde: I am not sent but vnto the loostshepe of the housse of Israel. 25 Then shecame andworshipped him sayinge: masterhelpe me. 26 He answered and sayde: itis not good to take the chyldrens breedand to cast it to whelpes. 27 She answeredand sayde: truthe Lorde: neverthelessethe whelpes eate of the cromes which fall

from their masters table. 28 Then Iesusanswered and sayde vnto her. O womangreate is thy faith be it to the even asthou desyrest. And her doughterwasmadewhole even at that same houre. 29 ThenIesus went awaye from thence and camenye vnto the see of Galile and went vp in toa mountayne and sat doune there. 30 Andmoche people came vnto himhavingewiththe halt blynde dommemaymed and othermany: and cast them doune at Iesus fete.And he healed them 31 in so moche thatthe people wondred to se the dome speakethe maymed whole the halt to go and theblynde to se. And they glorified the God ofIsrael. 32 Then Iesus called his disciples tohim and sayde: I have compassion on thepeople because they have cotynued withme now .iii. dayes and have nought to eate:and I wyll not let them departe fastingeleste they perisshe in the waye. 33 Andhis disciples sayd vnto him: whence shuldwe get so moche breed in the wildernes asshuld suffise so greate a multitude? 34AndIesus sayde vnto them: how many loveshave ye? And they sayde: seven and afeawe litle fysshes. 35And he commaundedthe people to syt doune on the grounde:36 and toke the seven loves and the fysshesand gave thankes and brake them and gaveto his disciples and the disciples gave themto the people. 37 And they dyd all eateand were suffised. And they toke vp of thebroke meate that was lefte .vii. basketesfull. 38 And yet they that ate were .iiii.M.men besyde wemen and chyldren. 39 Andhe sent awaye the people and toke shippeand came into the parties of Magdala.

161 Then came the pharises and saduces

and did tempte him desyringe him toshewe them some signe from heven. 2 Heanswered and sayde vnto the. At evenye saye we shall have fayre wedder andthat because the skye is reed: 3 and in themorninge ye saye to daye shalbe foulewed-der and that because the skye is cloudy andreed. O ye ypocrites ye can discerne thefassion of the skye: and can ye not discernethe signes of the tymes? 4 The frowardenacion and advoutrous seketh a signe andthere shall non other signe be geven vnto

Matthew 16:5 16 Matthew 17:10them but the signe of the prophet Ionas.So lefte he them and departed. 5 Andwhen his disciples were come to the otherside of the water they had forgotten totake breed with them. 6 Then Iesus saydvnto them: Take hede and beware of theleve of the Pharises and of the Saduces.7And they thought in them selves sayinge:because we have brought no breed withvs. 8 When Iesus vnderstode that he saydvnto the. O ye of lytell faith why are youremindes cumbred because ye have broughtno breed? 9 Do ye not yet perceave netherremember those .v. loves when there were.v.M. men and how many baskettes toke yevp? 10 Nether the .vii. loves when therewere .iiiii.M. and how many baskettes tokeye vp? 11Why perceave ye not then that Ispake not vnto you of breed when I saydebeware of the leven of the Pharises and ofthe Saduces? 12Then vnderstode they howthat he badnot thembeware of the leven ofbreed: but of the doctrine of the Pharisesand of the Saduces. 13When Iesus cam into the costes of the cite which is called Ce-sarea Philippi he axedhis disciples sayinge:whom do men saye that I the sonne ofman am? 14 They saide some saye thatthou arte Ihon Baptist some Helias someIeremias or one of the prophetes. 15 Hesayde vnto the: but who saye ye that I am?16 Simon Peter answered and sayde: Thouarte Christ the sonne of the lyvinge God.17 And Iesus answered and sayde to him:happy arte thou Simon the sonne of Ionasfor fleshe and bloud hath not opened vntothe that but my father which is in heven.18 And I saye also vnto the that thou artePeter: and apon this rocke I wyll byldemy congregacion. And the gates of hellshall not prevayle ageynst it. 19 And I wyllgeve vnto the the keyes of the kyngdom ofheven: and whatsoever thou byndest vponerth shall be bounde in heven: and what-soever thou lowsest on erthe shalbe lowsedin heven. 20 Then he charged his disciplesthat they shulde tell no man that he wasIesus Christ. 21 From that tyme forth Iesusbegan to shewe vnto his disciples how thathemust go vnto Ierusalemand suffermanythinges of the Elders and of the hye prestesand of the scribes and must be killed andryse agayne the thirde daye. 22 But Petertoke him asyde and began to rebuke him

sayinge: master faver thy sylfe this shallnot come vnto the. 23 Then tourned heaboute and sayde vnto Peter: come afterme Satan thou offendest me because thousauourest not godly thinges but wordlythinges. 24 Iesus then sayde to his disci-ples. If eny man wyll folowe me leet himforsake him sylfe and take vp his crosseand foloweme. 25 For who soever wyll savehis lyfe shall loose it. And whosoever shallloose his lyfe for my sake shall fynde it.26 What shall it proffet a man though heshulde wynne all the whoole worlde: yf heloose his owne soule? Or els what shalla man geve to redeme his soule agaynewith all? 27 For the sonne of man shallcome in the glory of his father with hisangels: and then shall he rewarde everyman accordinge to his dedes. 28 Verely Isaye vnto you some ther be amonge themthat here stonde which shall not taste ofdeeth tyll they shall have sene the sonneof man come in his kyngdomen.

171 And after. vi. dayes Iesus toke Pe-

ter and Iames and Ihon his brother andbrought them vp into an hye mountayneout of the waye 2 and was transfyguredbefore them: and his face did shyne as thesunne and his clothes were as whyte as thelight. 3 And beholde ther appered vntothe Moses and Helyas talkinge with him.4 Then answered Peter and sayde to Iesus:master here is good beinge for vs. If thouwylt leet vs make here .iii. tabernaclesone for the and one for Moses and onefor Helyas. 5 Whyll he yet spake beholdea bright cloude shadowed them. And be-holde there came a voyce out of the cloudesayinge: this is my deare sonne in whom Idelite heare him. 6And when the discipleshearde that they fell on their faces andwere soore afrayed. 7 And Iesus came andtouched them and sayde: aryse and be notafrayed. 8 And when they looked vp theysaw no man saue Iesus onely. 9And as theycame doune from the mountayne Iesuscharged them sayinge: se that ye shewethe vision to no man vntyll the sonne ofman be rysen ageyne from deeth. 10 Andhis disciples axed of him sayinge: Whythen saye the scribes that Helyas muste

Matthew 17:11 17 Matthew 18:16fyrst come? 11 Iesus answered and saydvnto them: Helyas shall fyrst come andrestore all thinges. 12 And I saye vntoyou that Helyas is come alredy and theyknewe him not: but have done vnto himwhatsoever they lusted. In lyke wyse shallalso the sonne ofman suffre of the. 13Thenthe disciples perceaved that he spake vntothem of Ihon baptist. 14 And when theywere come to the people ther cam to him acertaynemanandkneled doune tohimandsayde: 15Master have mercy on my sonnefor he is franticke: and is sore vexed. Andoft tymes he falleth into the fyre and oftinto the water. 16And I brought him to thydisciples and they coulde not heale him.17 Iesus answered and sayde: O generacionfaythles and croked: how longe shall I bewith you? how longe shall I suffre you?bring him hidder to me. 18 And Iesusrebuked the devyll and he came out of him.And the child was healed even that samehoure 19 Then came the disciples to Iesussecretly and sayde: Why could not we casthim out? 20 Iesus sayd vnto the: Because ofyoure vnbelefe For I saye veryly vnto you:yf ye had faythe as a grayne of musterdseed ye shuld saye vnto this moutayneremovehence to yonder place andhe shuldremove: nether shuld eny thinge be vn-possible for you to do. 21 How be it thiskynde goeth not oute but by prayer andfastinge. 22 As they passed the tyme inGalile Iesus sayde vnto them: the sonneof man shalbe betrayed into the hondesof men 23 and they shall kill him and thethyrd daye he shall ryse agayne. And theysorowed greatly. 24 And when they werecome to Capernaum they that were wontto gadre poll money came to Peter andsayde: Doth youre master paye tribute?25He sayd: ye. And when he was come intothe house Iesus spake fyrst to him sayingWhat thinkest thou Simon? of whome dothe kynges of the erth take tribute or pollmoney? of their chyldren or of straungers?26 Peter sayde vnto him: of straungers.Then sayd Iesus vnto him agayne: Thenare the chyldren fre. 27 Neverthelesse lestwe shuld offende the: goo to the see andcast in thyne angle and take the fysshethat fyrst cometh vp: and when thou hastopened his mouthe thou shalt fynde a pece

of twentie pence: that take andpaye formeand the.

181 The same tyme the disciples came

vnto Iesus saying: who is the greatest inthe kyngdome of heven? 2 Iesus called achylde vnto him and set him in the middesof them: 3 and sayd. Verely I say vntoyou: except ye tourne and become as chyl-dren ye cannot enter into the kyngdomof heven. 4 Whosoever therfore humblehim sylfe as this chylde the same is thegreatest in the kyngdome of heven. 5 Andwhosoever receaveth suche a chylde in myname receaveth me. 6 But whosoever of-fende one of these lytelons which beleve inme: it were better for him that a milstonewere hanged aboute his necke and thathe were drouned in the depth of the see.7Wobe vnto theworld because of offences.How be it it cannot be avoided but thatoffences shalbe geven. Neverthelesse woobe to the man by who the offence cometh.8 Wherfore yf thy honde or thy fote of-fende the cut him of and cast him fromthe. It ys better for the to enter into lyfehalt or maymed rather then thou shuldesthavinge two hondes or two fete be castinto everlasting fyre. 9 And yf also thyneeye offende the plucke him oute and castehim from the. It is better for the to enterinto lyfe with one eye then havyng twoeyes to be cast into hell fyre. 10 Se that yedespise not one of these litelons. For I sayevnto you that in heven their angels alwayesbehold the face of my father which is inheven. 11Ye and the sonne of man is cometo saue that which is lost. 12 How thinkeye? Yf a man have an hondred shepe andone of them be gone astray dothe he notleve nynty and nyne in the moutains andgo and seke that one which is gone astray?13 If it happen that he fynd him veryly Isay vnto you: he reioyseth more of thatshepe then of the nynty and nyne whichwent not astray. 14 Even so it is not thewyll of youre father in heven that one ofthese lytelons shulde perishe. 15Moreoveryf thy brother treaspace agenst the. Goand tell him his faute betwene him and thealone. Yf he heare the thou hast wone thybrother: 16 But yf he heare the not thentake yet with the one or two that in the

Matthew 18:17 18 Matthew 19:15mouth of two or thre witnesses all thingesmaye be stablisshed. 17 If he heare notthem tell it vnto the congregacion. If heheare not the congregacion take him as anhethen man and as a publican. 18 VerelyI say vnto you what soever ye bynde onerth shalbe bounde in heven. And whatsoever ye lowse on erth shalbe lowsed inheven. 19 Agayn I say vnto you that yf twoof you shall agre in erth apon eny manerthynge what soever they shall desyre: itshalbe geven them of my father which isin heven. 20 For where two or thre aregathered togedder in my name there amI in the myddes of them. 21 Then camePeter to him and sayde: master howe ofteshall I forgeve my brother yf he synneagaynst me seven tymes? 22 Iesus saydvnto him: I saye not vnto the seven tymes:but seventy tymes seventymes. 23Therforeis the kingdome of heven lykened vnto acertayne kyngewhichwolde take a countisof his servauntis. 24 And when he hadbegone to recken one was broughte vntohim whiche ought him ten thousande tal-entis: 25 whome be cause he had noughtto paye his master commaunded him to besolde and his wyfe and his chyldren andall that he had and payment to be made.26 The servaunt fell doune and besoughthim sayinge: Sir geve me respyte and Iwyll paye it every whit. 27 Then had theLorde pytie on that servaunt and lowsedhim and forgave him the det. 28 And thesayde servaut wet oute and founde one ofhis felowes which ought him an hundredpence and leyed hondes on him and tokehim by the throote sayinge: paye me thatthou owest. 29 And his felowe fell douneand besought him sayinge: have paciencewith me and I wyll paye the all. 30 Andhe wolde not but went and cast him intopreson tyll he shulde paye the det. 31Whenhis other felowes sawe what was done theywere very sory and came and tolde vntotheir lorde all that had happened. 32 Thenhis lorde called him and sayde vnto him.O evyll servaut I forgave the all that detbecause thou prayedst me: 33 was it notmete also that thou shuldest have hadcompassion on thy felow even as I had pitieon the? 34 And his lorde was wrooth anddelyuered him to the iaylers tyll he should

paye all that was due to him. 35 So lykewyse shall my hevenly father do vnto youexcept ye forgeve with youre hertes eacheone to his brother their treaspases.

191 And it came to passe when Iesus

had fynisshed those sayinges he gat himfrom Galile and came into the coostesof Iewry beyonde Iordan 2 and mochepeople folowed him and he healed themtheare. 3 Then came vnto him the phar-ises temptinge him and sayinge to him:Ys it lawfull for a man to put awaye hiswyfe for all maner of causes? 4 He an-swered and sayd vnto them: Have ye notredde how that he which made man at thebeginninge made them man and woman5 and sayde: for this thinge shall a manleve father and mother and cleve vnto hiswyfe and they twayne shalbe one flesshe.6 Wherfore now are they not twayne butone flesshe. Let not man therfore put asunder that which God hath cuppled togedder. 7 The sayde they to him: whydid Moses commaunde to geve a testimo-niall of divorsement and to put hyr awaye?8 He sayde vnto them: Moses because ofthe hardnes of youre hertes suffred youto put awaye youre wyfes: But from thebeginnynge it was not so. 9 I saye ther-fore vnto you whosoever putteth awayehis wyfe (except it be for fornicacion) andmaryeth another breaketh wedlocke. Andwhosoever maryeth her which is divorseddoeth commyt advoutry. 10 Then saydehis disciples to him: yf the mater be sobetwene man and wyfe then is it not goodtomary? 11He sayde vnto them: all me cannot awaye with that sayinge save they towhom it is geven. 12Ther are chaste whichwere so borne out of their mothers belly.And ther are chaste which bemade ofmen.And ther be chaste which have made themselves chaste for the kyngdome of hevessake. He that can take it let him take it.13Thenwere brought to him yonge chyldrethat he shuld put his hondes on themand praye And the disciples rebuked them.14 But Iesus sayde: suffre the chyldren andforbid themnot to come tome: for of sucheis the kyngdome of heven. 15And when hehad put his hondes on them he departed

Matthew 19:16 19 Matthew 20:21thence. 16 And beholde one came andsayde vnto him: good master what goodthinge shall I do that I maye have eternalllyfe? 17 He sayde vnto him: why callestthou me good? there is none good but oneand that is God. But yf thou wylt entre into lyfe kepe the commaundementes. 18Theother sayde to him Which? And Iesussayde: breake no wedloke kill not stealenot: beare not falce witnes: 19 honourefather and mother: and love thyne neigh-bour as thy sylfe. 20 And the younge mansayde vnto him: I have observed all thesethingis from my youth what lacke I yet?21 And Iesus sayde vnto him yf thou wyltbe perfecte goo and sell that thou hast andgeve it to the povre and thou shalt havetreasure in heven and come and foloweme. 22When the younge man hearde thatsayinge he wet awaye mourninge. Forhe had greate possessions. 23 Then Iesussayde vnto his disciples: Verely I saye vntoyou: that is harde for a ryche man toenter into the kyngdome of heaven. 24Andmoreover I saye vnto you: it is easier fora camell to go through the eye of a nedlethen for a ryche man to enter into thekyngdome of God. 25 When his discipleshearde that they were excedingly amasedsayinge: who then can be saved? 26 Iesusbehelde the and sayde vnto them: withmen this is vnpossible but with God allthinges are possible. 27 Then answeredPeter and sayde to him: Beholde we haveforsaken all and folowed the what shall wehave? 28 Iesus sayde vnto them: verely Isaye to you: when the sonne of man shallsyt in the seate of his maieste ye whichfolowe me in the seconde generacion shallsyt also vpon .xii. seates and iudge the.xii. tribes of Israel. 29 And whosoeverforsaketh housses or brethren or systersother father ormother orwyfe or chyldrenor landes formy names sake the same shallreceave an hundred folde and shall inhereteverlastynge lyfe. 30 Many that are fyrsteshalbe laste and the laste shalbe fyrste.

201 For the kyngdomeof hevenys lyke vnto

an houssholder which went out erly in themorninge to hyre labourers into hys vyne-yarde. 2 And he agreed with the labourers

for a peny a daye and sent them intohis vyneyarde. 3 And he went out aboutthe thyrde houre and sawe other stondingydell in the market place 4 and sayd vntothem go ye also into my vyneyarde: andwhatsoever is right I will geve you. Andthey went there waye. 5Agayne he wet outabout the sixte and nynthe houre and dydlyke wyse. 6 And he went out aboute theeleventhe houre and founde other ston-dynge ydell and sayde vnto them: Whystonde ye here all the daye ydell? 7 Theysayde vnto hym: because no man hathhyred vs. He sayde to them: goo yealsoo into my vyneyarde and whatsoeveris right that shall ye receave. 8 Wheneven was come the lorde of the vyneyardesayde vnto hys steward: call the labour-ers and geve them their hyre beginnyngat the laste tyll thou come to the fyrste.9 And they whiche were hyred aboute theeleventhe houre came and receaved everyman a peny. 10 Then came the fyrst sup-posyng that they shuld receavemoare: andthey likewyse receaved every man a peny.11 And when they had receaved it theymurmured agaynst the good man of thehousse 12 saying: These laste have wroughtbut one houre and thou hast made themequall vnto vs which have born the burtheand heet of the daye. 13 He answered toone of the sayinge: frende I do the nowronge: dyddest thou not agre with mefor a peny? 14 Take that which is thyduty and go thy waye. I will geve vntothis last as moche as to the. 15 Ys it notlawfull for me to do as me listeth withmyne awne? Ys thyne eye evyll becauseI am good? 16 Soo the laste shalbe fyrsteand the fyrste shalbe laste. For many arecalled and feawe be chosen. 17 And Iesusascended to Ierusalem and toke the .xii.disciples a parte in the waye and sayde tothe. 18Beholde we goo vp to Ierusalem andthe sonne of man shalbe betrayed vnto thechefe prestes and vnto the scribes and theyshall condemne him to deeth 19 and shalldelyvre him to the getils to bemocked to bescourged and to be crucified: and the thyrddaye he shall ryse agayne. 20 Then cameto hym the mother of zebedes chyldrenwith her sonnes worshippynge him anddesyringe a certayne thinge of him. 21And

Matthew 20:22 20 Matthew 21:21he sayd vnto her: what wilt thou have?She sayde vnto him: Gravnte that thesemytwo sonnes may sit the one on thy righthond and the other on the lifte hond inthy kyngdome. 22 Iesus answered and sayd:Ye wot not what ye axe. Are ye able todrynke of the cuppe that I shall drynke ofand to be baptised with the baptyme thatI shalbe baptised with? They answeredto him that we are. 23 And he sayd vntothe: Ye shall drinke of my cvp and shalbebaptised with the baptyme that I shalbebaptisedwith. But to syt onmy ryght hondand on my lyst hond is not myne to geve:but to them for whom it is prepared of myfather. 24 And when the ten hearde thisthey disdayned at the two brethren: 25 ButIesus called them vnto him and sayde: Yeknowe that the lordes of the gentyls havedominacion over them. And they that aregreat exercise power over them. 26 It shallnot be so amonge you. But whosoever wyllbe greate amonge you let him be youreminister: 27 and whosoever wilbe chefelet him be youre servaut 28 even as thesonne of man came not to be ministredvnto but to minister and to geve his lyfefor the redempcion of many. 29 And asthey departed from Hierico moche peoplefolowed him. 30 And beholde two blindemen sittinge by the waysyde when theyhearde Iesus passe by cryed sayinge: ThouLorde the sonne of David have mercy onvs. 31 And the people rebuked them because they shulde holde their peace. Butthey cryed the moare sayinge: have mercyon vs thou Lorde which arte the sonne ofDavid. 32 Then Iesus stode styll and calledthe and sayde: what will ye that I shuldedo to you: 33 They sayd to him: Lorde thatoure eyes maye be opened. 34 Iesus hadcompassion on the and touched their eyes.And immediatly their eyes receaved syght.And they folowed him.

211 When they drewe neye vnto Ierusalem

and were come to Betphage vnto mounteolivete: then sent Iesus two of his disciples2 saiynge to the. Go in to the toune thatlyeth over agaynste you and anone ye shallfynde an asse bounde and her colte withher: lose them and bringe them vnto me.

3And if eny man saye ought vnto you sayeye that the lorde hath neade of them: andstreyght waye he will let them go. 4 Allthis was done to fulfyll that which wasspoken by the Prophet sayinge: 5 Tell yethe doughter of Sion: beholde thy kyngecometh vnto the meke and sittinge vponan asse and a colte the fole of an asse vsedto the yooke. 6 The disciples went and dydas Iesus commaunded them 7 and broughtthe asse and the colte and put on themtheir clothes and set him theron. 8 Andmany of the people spreed their garmentesin the waye. Other cut doune braunchesfrom the trees and strawed them in thewaye. 9 Moreover the people that wentbefore and they also that came after cryedsayinge: Hosanna to the sonne of David.Blessed be he that cometh in the name ofthe Lorde Hosanna in the hyest. 10 Andwhen he was come in to Ierusalem allthe cyte was moved sayinge: who is this?11 And the people sayde: this is Iesus theProphet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile. 12AndIesus went in to the temple of God andcast out all them that soulde and boughtin the temple and overthrew the tablesof the mony chaugers and the seates ofthem that solde doves 13and sayde to them:It is wrytten my housse shalbe called thehousse of prayer. But ye have made it adenne of theves. 14 And the blinde andthe halt came to him in the temple and hehealed them. 15 When the chefe prestesand scribes sawe the marveylles that hedyd and the chyldren cryinge in the templeand sayinge Hosanna to the sonne of Davidthey disdayned 16 and sayde vnto him:hearest thou what these saye? Iesus saydevnto them yee: have ye never redde of themouth of babes and suckelinges thou hasteordeyned prayse? 17 And he lefte the andwet out of the cite vnto Bethanie and hadhis abydige there. 18 In themornynge as hereturned in to the cyte ageyne he hungred19 and spyed a fygge tree in the waye andcame to it and founde nothinge theronbut leves only and sayd to it never frutegrowe on the hence forwardes. And anonthe fygge tree wyddered awaye. 20 Andwhenhis disciples sawe that theymarveledsayinge: Howe sone is the fygge tree wyd-dered awaye? 21 Iesus answered and sayde

Matthew 21:22 21 Matthew 22:5vnto the: Verely I saye vnto you yf ye shallhave faith and shall not dout ye shall notonly do that which I have done to the fyggetree: but also yf ye shall saye vnto thismoutayne take thy silfe awaye and cast thysilfe into the see it shalbe done. 22 Andwhatsoever ye shall axe in prayer (if yebeleve) ye shall receave it. 23And when hewas come into the temple the chefe prestesand the elders of the people came vnto himas he was teachinge and sayde: by whatauctorite doest thou these thinges? andwhogave the this power? 24 Iesus answeredand sayde vnto them: I also will axe ofyou a certayne questionwhich if ye assoyleme I in lyke wyse wyll tell you by whatauctorite I do these thinges. 25 The bap-tisme of Iohn: whence was it? from hevenor of men? Then they reasoned amongethem selves sayinge: yf we shall saye fromheven he will saye vnto vs: why dyd ye notthen beleve hym? 26 But and if we shallsaye of men then feare we the people. Forall men helde Iohn as a Prophet. 27 Andthey answered Iesus and sayde: we cannottell. And he lyke wyse sayd vnto them:nether tell I you by what auctorite I dothese thinges. 28 What saye ye to this? Acertayne man had two sonnes and came tothe elder and sayde: sonne go andworke todaye in my vineyarde. 29He answered andsayde I will not: but afterwarde repentedand went. 30 Then came he to the secondand sayde lyke wyse. And he answered andsayde: I will syr: yet wet not. 31 Whetherof the twayne dyd the will of the father?And they sayde vnto hym: the fyrst. Iesussayde vnto the: verely I saye vnto youthat the publicans and the harlotes shallcome into the kyngdome of God beforeyou. 32 For Iohn came vnto you in thewaye of rightewesnes and ye beleved hymnot. But the publicans and the harlotesbeleved him. And yet ye (though ye saweit) were not yet moved with repentauncethat ye myght afterwarde have belevedhym. 33 Herken another similitude. Therwas a certayne housholder which planteda vineyarde and hedged it roude about andmade a wynpresse in it and bilt a towerand let it out to husbandmen and wet into a straunge countre. 34 And when the

tyme of the frute drewe neare he sent hisservauntes to the husbandmen to receavethe frutes of it. 35 And the husbandmecaught his servauntes and bet one kylledanother and stoned another. 36 Agayne hesent other servantes moo then the fyrst:and they served them lyke wyse. 37 Butlast of all he sent vnto the his awne sonnesayinge: they will feare my sonne. 38 Butwhen the husbandmen sawe the sonnethey sayde amonge the selves: This is theheyre: come let vs kyll him and let vs takehis inheritaunce to oure selves. 39 Andthey caught him and thrust him out ofthe vineyarde and slewe him. 40When thelorde of the vyneyarde commeth what willhe do with those husbandmen? 41 Theysayde vnto him: he will cruellye destroyethose evyll persons and wyll let out hisvyneyarde vnto other husbandmen whichshall delyver him the frute at tymes con-venient. 42 Iesus sayde vnto the: dydye never redde in the scriptures? Thestone which the bylders refused the sameis set in the principall parte of the cor-ner: this was the lordes doinge and that ismervelous in oure eyes. 43 Therfore sayeI vnto you the kyngdome of God shalbetake from you and shalbe geve to the getylswhich shall brynge forth the frutes of it.44 And whosoever shall fall on this stonehe shalbe broken but on whosoever it shallfall vpon it will grynde him to powder.45Andwhen the chefe prestes and Phariseshearde these similitudes they perceavedthat he spake of the. 46And they wet aboutto laye hondes on him but they fearedthe people because they tooke him as aProphet.

221 And Iesus answered and spake vnto

them agayne in similitudes sayinge. 2 Thekingdome of heven is lyke vnto a certaynekynge which maryed his sonne 3 and sentforth his servantes to call them that werebyd to the weddinge and they wolde notcome. 4 Ageyne he sent forth other ser-vauntes sayinge: Tell them which are by-dden: beholde I have prepared my dynnermyne oxen andmy fatlinges are kylled andall thinges are redy comevnto themariage.5 But they made light of it and went their

Matthew 22:6 22 Matthew 23:4wayes: one to his ferme place anotherabout his marchaundise 6 the remnaunttoke his seruantes and intreated them vn-godly and slewe them. 7 When the kingehearde that he was wroth and send forthhis warryers and distroyed those murther-ers and brent vp their cyte. 8 Then saydehe to his servauutes: the weddinge wasprepared. But they which were byddenwere not worthy. 9 Go ye therfore out intothe hyewayes and as many as ye finde bydthem to the mariage. 10 The seruaunteswet out into the hiewayes and gadderedto gedder as many as they coulde fyndeboth good and bad and the weddinge wasfurnysshed with gestes. 11 Then the kyngecame in to viset the gestes and spyed therea man which had not on a weddinge gar-ment 12 and sayde vnto him: frende howfortuned it that thou camest in hither andhast not on a weddyng garment? And hewas even spechlesse. 13 Then sayde thekynge to his ministers: take and byndehym hand and fote and caste hym intovtter darcknes there shalbe wepinge andgnasshinge of teth. 14 For many are calledand feawe be chosen. 15 Then went thePharises and toke counsell how theymighttagle him in his wordes. 16 And they sentvnto him their disciples with Herodes ser-vauntes sayinge: Master we knowe thatthou are true and teachest the waye of godtrulie nether carest for eny man for thouconsydrest not menes estate. 17 Tell vstherfore: how thynkest thou? Is it lawfullto geve tribute vnto Cesar or not? 18 Iesusperceaved their wikednes and sayde: Whytempte ye me ye ypocrites? 19 Let me sethe tribute money. And they toke hym apeny. 20 And he sayde vnto them: whoseis this ymage and superscripcion? 21 Theysayde vnto him: Cesars. Then sayde hevnto them. Geve therfore to Cesar thatwhich is Cesars: and geve vnto god thatwhich is goddes. 22 When they heardethat theymarveled and lefte hymandwentthere waye. 23 The same daye the Saducescame to him (which saye that there isno resurreccion) and axed him 24 sayinge:Master Moses bade yf a man dye havingeno chyldre that the brother mary his wyfeand reyse vp seed vnto his brother. 25Therwere with vs seven brethren and the fyrste

maried and deceased with oute yssue andlefte his wyfe vnto his brother. 26 Lykewise the seconde and the thryd vnto thesevethe. 27 Laste of all the woman dyedalso. 28 Now in the resurreccion whosewyfe shall she be of the seven? For all hadher. 29 Iesus answered and sayde vnto the:ye are deceaved and vnderstonde not thescriptures nor yet the power of God. 30 Forin the resurreccion they nether mary norare maryed: but are as the angels of Godin heven. 31As touchynge the resurreccionof the deed: have ye not redde what issayde vnto you of God which sayeth: 32 Iam Abrahams God and Ysaacks God andthe God of Iacob? God is not the God ofthe deed: but of the lyvinge. 33 And whenthe people hearde that they were astonyedat his doctrine. 34 When the Pharises hadhearde how that he had put the Saduces tosilence they drewe to gedder 35 and one ofthem which was a doctoure of lawe axeda question temptinge him and sayinge:36 Master which is the chefe commaund-ment in the lawe? 37 Iesus sayde vnto him:love the Lorde thy God with all thine hertewith all thy soule and with all thy mynde.38 This is the fyrst and the chefe comaun-dement. 39 And ther is another lyke vntothis. Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.40 In these two commaundemetes hange allthe lawe and the Prophetes. 41 Whyll thePharises were gaddered togeder Iesus axedthe sayinge: 42 what thinke ye of Christ?Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him:the sonne of David. 43He sayde vnto them:how then doeth David in spirite call himLorde sayinge? 44 The Lorde sayde to myLorde syt on my right honde: tyll I makethyne enemyes thy fote stole. 45 Yf Davidcall him Lorde: how is he then his sonne?46 And none coulde answere him ageyneone worde: nether dueste eny from thatdaye forth axe him eny moo questions.

231 Then spake Iesus to the people and

to his disciples 2 sayinge. The Scribesand the Pharises sit in Moses seate. 3 Alltherfore whatsoever they byd you observethat observe and do: but after their workesdo not: For they saye and do not. 4 Ye andthey bynde hevy burthes and grevous tobe borne and ley the on menes shulders:

Matthew 23:5 23 Matthew 23:39but they themsylfes will not heave at themwith one of their fyngers. 5All theirworkesthey do for to be sene of me. They setabroade their philateries and make largeborders on there garmetes 6 and love tosit vppermooste at feastes and to havethe chefe seates in the synagoges 7 andgretinges in the marketes and to be calledof men Rabi. 8 But ye shall not suffreyoure selves to be called Rabi. For oneis youre master that is to wyt Christ andall ye are brethren. 9 And call no manyoure father vpon the erth for there isbut one youre father and he is in heven.10 Be not called masters for there is butone youre master and he is Christ. 11 Hethat is greatest amonge you shalbe youreseruaunte. 12But whosoever exalteth him-silfe shalbe brought lowe. And he thathubleth himsilfe shalbe exalted. 13 Wo bevnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocritesfor ye shutte vp the kyngdome of hevenbefore men: ye youre selves goo not innether suffre ye them that come to enterin. 14Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharisesypocrites: ye devoure widdowes housesand that vnder a coloure of praying longeprayers: wherfore ye shall receave greaterdamnacion. 15 Wo be vnto you Scribesand Pharises ypocrites which compassesee and londe to bringe one in to yourebelefe: and when he ys brought ye makehim two folde more the chylde of hell thenye youre selves are. 16 Wo be vnto youblynd gides which saye whosoever sweareby the temple it is no thinge: but whoso-ever sweare by the golde of the temple heoffendeth. 17Ye foles and blinde? whetheris greater the golde or the temple thatsanctifieth the golde. 18 And whosoeversweareth by the aulter it is nothinge: butwhosoever sweareth by the offeringe thatlyeth on the aultre offendeth. 19 Ye folesand blinde: whether is greater the of-feringe or the aultre which sanctifieth theofferinge? 20Whosoever therfore swearethby the aultre sweareth by it and by all thatthere on is. 21And whosoever sweareth bythe temple sweareth by it and by hym thatdwelleth therin. 22 And he that swearethby heven swereth by the seate of God andby hym that sytteth theron. 23 Wo be toyou Scribes and Pharises ypocrites which

tythe mynt annyse and comen and leavethe waygthtyer mattres of the lawe vn-done: iudgement mercy and fayth. Theseought ye to have done and not to haveleft the othre vndone. 24 Ye blinde gydeswhich strayne out a gnat and swalowe acammyll. 25 Wo be to you scribes andpharises ypocrites which make clene thevtter syde of the cuppe and of the platter:but within they are full of brybery andexcesse. 26 Thou blinde Pharise clensefyrst the outsyde of the cup and platterthat the ynneside of them maye be clenealso. 27 Wo be to you Scribe and Phar-ises ypocrite for ye are lyke vnto payntedtombeswhich appere beautyfull outwarde:but are with in full of deed bones and ofall fylthynes. 28 So are ye for outwarde yeappere righteous vnto me when within yeare full of ypocrisie and iniquite. 29Wo bevnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites:ye bylde the tombes of the Prophetes andgarnisshe the sepulchres of the righteous30 and saye: Yf we had bene in the dayesof oure fathers we wolde not have beneparteners with them in the bloud of theProphetes. 31 So then ye be witnesses vntoyoure selfes that ye are the chyldren ofthem which killed the prophetes. 32 Fulfillye lyke wyse the measure of youre fathers.33 Yee serpentes and generacion of vipershow shuld ye scape the dampnacion ofhell? 34Wherfore beholde I sende vnto youprophetes wysemen and scribes and of theye shall kyll and crucifie: and of the ye shallscourge in youre synagoges and persecutefrom cyte to cyte 35 that vpon you mayecome all the righteous bloude that wassheed vpon the erth from the bloudof righ-teous Abell vnto the bloud of zacharias thesonne of Barachias who ye slewe betwenethe temple and the altre. 36 Verely I sayvnto you all these thinges shall light vponthis generacion. 37Hierusalem hierusalemwhich kyllest prophetes and stonest thewhich are sent to the: how often woldeI have gadered thy chyldren to gether asthe henne gadreth her chickes vnder herwinges but ye wolde not: 38 Beholde yourehabitacion shalbe lefte vnto you desolate.39 For I saye to you ye shall not se mehenceforthe tyll that ye saye: blessed is hethat cometh in the name of the Lorde.

Matthew 24:1 24 Matthew 24:4024

1 And Iesus went out and departed fromthe temple: and his disciples came tohym for to shewe him the byldinge ofthe temple. 2 Iesus sayde vnto the: seye not all these thinges? Verely I sayevnto you: ther shall not be here lefte onestone vpon another that shall not be castdoune. 3 And as he sat vpon the moutOlivete his disciples came vnto hym se-cretely sayinge. Tell vs when these thingesshalbe? and what signe shalbe of thycomynge and of the ende of the worlde?4And Iesus answered and sayde vnto them:take hede that no man deceave you. 5 Formany shall come in my name sayinge: Iam Christ and shall deceave many. 6 Yeshall heare of warres and of the fame ofwarres: but se that ye be not troubled.For all these thinges must come to passebut the ende is not yet. 7 For nacion shallryse ageynste nacion and realme ageynsterealme: and ther shalbe pestilence hongerand erthquakes in all quarters. 8 All theseare the beginninge of sorowes. 9 Thenshall they put you to trouble and shall kyllyou: and ye shalbe hated of all nacions formy names sake. 10 And then shall manybe offended and shall betraye one anotherand shall hate one the other. 11 And manyfalce Prophetes shall aryse and shall de-ceave many. 12 And because iniquite shallhave the vpper hande the love of manyshall abate. 13 But he that endureth tothe ende the same shalbe safe. 14 Andthis gladtidingees of the kyngdome shalbepreached in all theworlde for awitnes vntoall nacions: and then shall the ende come.15When ye therfore shall se the abhomina-cion that betokeneth desolacion spoken ofby Daniell the Prophet stonde in the holyplace: let him that redeth it vnderstondeit. 16 Then let them which be in Iury flyeinto themoutaynes. 17And let himwhich ison the housse toppe not come downe to feteny thinge out of his housse. 18Nether lethim which is in the felde returne backe tofetche his clothes. 19Wo be in those dayesto the that are with chylde and to the thatgeve sucke. 20 But praye that youre flightbe not in the winter nether on the sabothdaye. 21 For then shalbe greate tribulacionsuche as was not from the beginninge of

the worlde to this tyme ner shalbe. 22 Yeand except those dayes shuld be shortenedthere shuld no fleshe be saved: but forthe chosens sake those dayes shalbe short-ened. 23 Then yf eny man shall saye vntoyou: lo here is Christ or there is Christ:beleve it not. 24 For there shall arise falsechristes and false prophete and shall dogreat myracles and wondres. In so mochethat if it were possible the verie electeshuld be deceaved. 25 Take hede I havetolde you before. 26Wherfore if they shallsaye vnto you: beholde he is in the desertgo not forth: beholde he is in the secretplaces beleve not. 27 For as the lightningecometh out of the eest and shyneth vntothe weest: so shall the comynge of thesonne of man be. 28 For wheresoever adeed karkas is even thyther will the eglesresorte. 29 Immediatly after the tribulaciosof those dayes shall the sunne be derkened:and the mone shall not geve hir light andthe starre shall fall from heven and thepowers of heven shall move. 30 And thenshall appere the sygne of the sonne of manin heven. And then shall all the kynreddesof the erth morne and they shall se thesonne of man come in the cloudes of hevenwith power and greate glorie. 31 And heshall sende his angeles with the greatevoyce of a trope and they shall gader together his chosen from the fower wyndesand from the one ende of the worlde to theother. 32 Learne, a similitude of the fyggetree: when his braunches are yet tenderand his leves sproge ye knowe that sommeris nye. 33 So lyke wyse ye when ye see allthese thynges be ye sure that it is neareeven at the dores. 34Verely I saye vnto youthat this generacion shall not passe tyll allthese be fulfilled. 35 Heven and erth shallperisshe: butmywordes shall abyde. 36Butof that daye and houre knowith no man nonot the angels of heven but my father only.37 As the tyme of Noe was so lyke wyseshall the cominge of the sonne of man be.38 For as in the dayes before the floud: theydyd eate anddrynkemary andweremariedeven vnto the daye that Noe entred intothe shyppe 39 and knewe of nothynge tyllthe floude came and toke them all awaye.So shall also the commynge of the sonneof man be. 40Then two shalbe in the feldes

Matthew 24:41 25 Matthew 25:29the one shalbe receaved and the othershalbe refused 41 two shalbe gryndinge atthe myll: the one shalbe receaved and theother shalbe refused. 42 Wake therforebecause ye knowe not what houre youremaster wyll come. 43 Of this be sure thatyf the good man of the housse knewe whathoure the thefe wolde come: he woldesuerly watche and not suffre his housse tobe broke vppe. 44 Therfore be ye also redyfor in the houre ye thinke he wolde not:wyll the sonne of man come. 45 If there beany faithfull servaut and wyse whome hismaster hathmade ruler over his housholdeto geve the meate in season convenient:46happy is that servaunt whom his master(when he cometh) shall finde so doinge.47 Verely I saye vnto you he shall makehim ruler over all his goodes. 48 But andyf that evill servaut shall saye in his hertemy master wyll defer his comynge 49 andbeginne to smyte his felowes ye and to eateand to drinkewith the dronken: 50 that ser-vauntes master wyll come in adaye whenhe loketh not for him and in an houre thathe is not ware of 51 and wyll devyde himand geve him his rewarde with ypocrites.There shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge oftethe.

251 Then the kyngdome of heven shalbe

lykened vnto .x. virgins which toke theirlampes and wet to mete the brydgrome:2 fyve of them were folysshe and fyve werewyse. 3 The folysshe toke their lampesbut toke none oyle with the. 4 But thewyse tooke oyle with the in their vesselleswith their lampes also. 5 Whill the bry-dgrome taryed all slombred and slepte.6 And even at mydnyght there was a cryemade: beholde the brydgrome cometh gooout against him. 7 Then all those virginsarose and prepared their lampes. 8 Andthe folysshe sayde to the wyse: geve vs ofyoure oyle for our lampes goo out? 9 butthe wyse answered sayinge. Not so lestther be not ynough for vs and you: butgoo rather to them that sell and by foryoure selves. 10And whill they went to byethe brydgrome came: and they that wereredy went in with him to the weddingeand the gate was shett vp: 11 Afterwardes

came also the other virgins sayinge: mas-ter master open to vs. 12 But he answeredand sayde: verely I saye vnto you: I knowenot you. 13Watche therefore: for ye knowenether the daye nor yet the houre whenthe sonne of man shall come. 14 Lykwyseas a certeyne man redy to take his iorneyto a straunge countre called his servautesand delivered to them his gooddes. 15 Andvnto one he gave .v. talentes to another.ii. and to another one: to every man afterhis abilite and streyght waye departed.16 Then he that had receaved the fyve tal-entes went and bestowed them and wanneother fyve talentes. 17 Lykwyse he thatreceaved .ii. gayned other .ii. 18 But hethat receaved the one went and digged apit in the erth and hyd his masters money.19 After a longe season the lorde of thoseservauntes came and rekened with them.20 Then came he that had receaved fyvetalentes and brought other fyve talentessayinge: master thou deliveredst vnto onefyve talentes: beholde I have gayned withthe fyve talentes moo. 21 The his mastersayde vnto him: well good servaut andfaithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytellI will make the ruler over moche: entrein into thy masters ioye. 22 Also he thatreceaved .ii. talentes came and sayde: mas-ter thou deliveredest vnto me .ii. talentes:beholde I have wone .ii. other talenteswith them. 23 And his master sayde vntohimwell good servaunt and faithfull. Thouhast bene faithfull in lytell I wyll makethe ruler over moche: go in into thy mas-ters ioye. 24 Then he which had receavedthe one talent came and sayd: master Iconsidered that thou wast an harde manwhich repest where thou sowedst not andgadderest where thou strawedst not 25 andwas therfore afrayde and went and hydthy talent in the erth: Beholde thou hastthyn awne. 26 His master answered andsayde vnto him: thou evyll servaut andslewthfull thou knewest that I repe whereI sowed not and gaddre where I strawednot: 27 thou oughtest therfore to have hadmy money to the chaugers and then atmy comynge shulde I have receaved myneawne with vauntage. 28 Take therfore thetalent fromhimandgeve it vnto himwhichhath .x. talentes 29 For vnto every man

Matthew 25:30 26 Matthew 26:21that hath shalbe geven and he shall haveaboundance: and from him that hath notshalbe taken awaye even that he hath.30And cast that vnprofitable servaunt intovtter dercknes: there shalbe wepynge andgnasshinge of teeth. 31 When the sonneof man cometh in his glorie and all theholy angels with him then shall he sytvpon the seate of his glorie 32 and beforehim shalbe Gaddred all nacions. And heshall seperate the one from a nother asa shepherde deuideth the shepe from thegootes. 33 And he shall set the shepe onhis right honde and the gotes on the lyfte.34Then shall the kynge saye to them on hisright honde: Come ye blessed chyldren ofmy father inheret the the kyngdo preparedfor you from the beginninge of the worlde.35 For I was anhongred and ye gave memeate. I thursted and ye gave me drinke.I was herbourlesse and ye lodged me. 36 Iwas naked and ye clothed me. I was sickeand ye visited me. I was in preson and yecame vnto me. 37 Then shall the righteousanswere him sayingemasterwhen sawewethe anhongred and feed the? or a thurstand gave the drinke? 38when sawe we theherbourlesse and lodged the? or naked andclothed the? 39 or when sawe we the sickeor in preson and came vnto the? 40And thekynge shall answere and saye vnto them:verely I saye vnto you: in as moche asye have done it vnto one of the leest ofthese my brethren ye have done it to me.41Then shall the kynge saye vnto them thatshalbe on the lyfte hande: departe fromme ye coursed into everlastinge fire whichis prepared for the devyll and his angels.42 For I was an hungred and ye gave meno meate. I thursted and ye gave me nodrinke. 43 I was herbourlesse and ye lodgedme not. I was naked and ye clothed menot. Iwas sicke and inpreson andye visitedme not. 44 Then shall they also answerehim sayinge: master when sawe we thean hungred or a thurst or herbourlesseor naked or sicke or in preson and didnot ministre vnto the? 45 Then shall heanswere the and saye: Verely I saye vntoyou in as moche as ye did it not to one ofthe leest of these ye did it not tome. 46Andthese shall go into everlastinge payne: And

the righteous into lyfe eternall.

261 And it came to passe when Iesus had

fynisshed all these sayinges he sayd vntohis disciples: 2 Ye knowe that after ii.dayes shalbe ester and the sonne of manshalbe delyvered to be crucified. 3 Thenassembled togedder the chefe prestes andthe scribes and the elders of the people tothe palice of the hye preste called Cayphas4and heelde a counsell how theymygt takeIesus by suttelte and kyll him. 5 But theysayd not on the holy daye lest eny vprourearyse amonge the people. 6When Iesuswasin Bethany in the house of Symon the leper7 ther came vnto him a woman which hadan alablaster boxe of precious oyntmentand powred it on his heed as he sate atthe bourde. 8When his disciples sawe thatthey had indignacion sayinge: what nededthis wast? 9This oyntmetmyght have benewell solde and geven to the povre. WhenIesus vnderstod that he sayde vnto the:10 why trouble ye the woman? She hathwrought a good worke apon me. 11 Forye shall have povre folcke alwayes withyou: but me shall ye not have all wayes.12 And in that she casted this oyntmenton my bodye she dyd it to burye me withall. 13 Verely I saye vnto you wheresoeverthis gospell shalbe preached throughouteall the worlde there shall also this thatshe hath done be tolde for a memoriallof her. 14 Then one of the twelve calledIudas Iscariothwent vnto the chefe prestes15 and sayd: what will ye geve me and I willdeliver him vnto you? And they apoyntedvnto him thirty peces of sylver. 16 Andfrom that tyme he sought oportunite tobetraye him. 17 The fyrst daye of swetebreed the disciples cam to Iesus sayingevnto him: wherewylt thou thatwe preparefor the to eate the paschall lambe? 18 Andhe sayd: Go into the cite vnto soche a manand saye to him: the master sayeth mytyme is at hande I will kepe myne ester atthy housse with my disciples. 19 And thedisciples did as Iesus had apoynted themand made redy the esterlambe. 20 Whenthe even was come he sate doune with the.xii. 21 And as they dyd eate he sayde:Verely I saye vnto you that one of you shall

Matthew 26:22 27 Matthew 26:57betraye me. 22 And they were excedingesorowfull and beganne every one of theto saye vnto him: is it I master? 23 Heanswered and sayde: he that deppeth hishondewithme in the disshe the same shallbetraye me. 24 The sonne of man goethas it is written of him: but wo be to thatman by whom the sonne of man shalbebetrayed. It had bene good for that manyf he had never bene borne. 25 Then Iudaswich betrayed him answered and sayde: isit I master? He sayde vnto him: thou hastsayde. 26As they dyd eate Iesus toke breedand gave thankes brake it and gave it to thedisciples and sayde: Take eate this is mybody. 27 And he toke the cup and thankedand gave it them sayinge: drinke of it everyone. 28 For this is my bloude of the newtestament that shalbe shedde for many forthe remission of synnes. 29 I saye vnto you:I will not drinke hence forth of this fruteof the vyne tree vntyll that daye when Ishall drinke it new with you in my fatherskyngdome. 30 And when they had saydegrace they went out into mounte olyvete.31 Then sayd Iesus vnto them: all ye shallbe offended by me this night. For it iswrytten. I will smyte the shepe herde andthe shepe of the flocke shalbe scatteredabroode. 32 But after I am rysen ageyneI will goo before you into Galile. 33 Peteranswered and sayde vnto him: though allmen shulde be offended by the yet wolde Inever be offended. 34 Iesus sayde vnto him.Verely I saye vnto the that this same nightbefore the cocke crowe thou shalt denyeme thryse. 35 Peter sayde vnto him: Yf Ishulde dye with the yet wolde I not denyethe Lyke wyse also sayde all the disciples.36 Then went Iesus with them into a placewhich is called Gethsemane and sayde vntothe disciples syt ye here whyll I go andpraye yonder. 37 And he toke with him Pe-ter and the two sonnes of zebede andbeganto wexe sorowfull and to be in an agonye.38 Then sayd Iesus vnto them: my soule ishevy even vnto the deeth. Tary ye here andwatche with me. 39 And he went a lytellaparte and fell flat on his face and prayedsayinge: O my father yf it be possible letthis cuppe passe from me: neverthelessenot as I wyll but as thou wylt. 40 And he

came vnto the disciples and founde thema slepe and sayde to Peter: what coulde yenot watche with me one houre: 41 watcheand praye that ye fall not into temptacion.The spirite is willynge but the flesshe isweake. 42 He went awaye once moare andprayed sayinge: O my father yf this cuppecan not passe away from me but that Idrinke of it thy wyll be fulfylled. 43And hecame and founde the a slepe agayne. Fortheir eyes were hevy. 44 And he lefte themand went agayne and prayed the thridtyme sayinge the same wordes. 45 Thencame he to his disciples and sayd vntothem: Slepe hence forth and take yourereest. Take hede the houre is at hondeand the sonne of man shalbe betrayed intothe hondes of synners. 46 Ryse let vs begoinge: beholde he is at honde that shallbetraye me. 47 Whyll he yet spake: loIudas one of the xii. came and with him agreate multitude with sweardes and stavessent from the chefe prestes and elders ofthe people. 48 And he that betrayed himhad geven the a token sayinge: whosoeverI kysse that same is he ley hondes onhim. 49 And forth with all he came toIesus and sayde: hayle master and kyssedhim. 50 And Iesus sayde vnto him: frendewherfore arte thou come? Then came theyand layed hondes on Iesus and toke him.51 And beholde one of them which werewith Iesus stretched oute his honde anddrue his swearde and stroke a servauntof the hye preste and smote of his eare.52 Then sayde Iesus vnto him: put vp thyswearde into his sheathe. For all that leyhond on the swearde shall perisshe withthe swearde. 53 Ether thinkest thou that Icannot nowpraye tomy father andhe shallgevememoo then .xii. legions of angelles?54But how then shuld the scriptures be ful-fylled: for so must it be. 55 The same tymesayd Iesus to the multitude: ye be comeout as it were vnto a thefe with sweardesand staves for to take me. I sate daylieteachinge in the temple amonge you andye toke me not. 56 All this was done thatthe scriptures of the Prophetes myght befulfilled. Then all the disciples forsoke himand fleed. 57 And they toke Iesus and leedhim to Cayphas the hye preeste where theScribes and the Elders where assembled.

Matthew 26:58 28 Matthew 27:2058 And Peter folowed him a farre of vntothe hye prestes place: and went in andsate with the servauntes to se the ende.59 The chefe prestes and the elders and allthe counsell sought false witnes agensteIesus for to put him to deeth 60 but foundenone: in somoche that when many falsewitnesses cam yet founde they none. Atthe last came two false witnesses and sayd:61 This felowe sayde: I can distroye thetemple of God and bylde it agayne in .iii.dayes. 62 And the chefe preste arose andsayde to him: answerest thou nothinge?How is it that these beare witnes ageynstthe? 63 But Iesus helde his peace: And thechefe Preeste answered and sayd to him: Icharge the in the name of the lyvinge Godthat thou tell vs whether thou be Christthe sonne of God. 64 Iesus sayd to him:thou haste sayd. Neverthelesse I saye vntoyou hereafter shall ye se the sonne of mansyttinge on the right honde of power andcome in the clowddes of the skye. 65 Thenthe hye preste rent his clothes sayinge:He hath blasphemed: what nede we ofeny moo witnesses? Behold now ye havehearde his blasphemy: 66 what thinke ye?They answered and sayd: he his worthyto dye. 67 Then spat they in his face andboffeted him with fistes. And other smotehim with the palme af their hondes on theface 68 sayinge: tell vs thou Christ whois he that smote the? 69 Peter sate without in the palice. And a damsell came tohim sayinge: Thou also waste with Iesusof Galilee: 70 but he denyed before theall sayinge: I woot not what thou sayst.71When hewas goone out into the poorcheanother wenche sawe him and sayde vntothem that were there: This felowe wasalso with Iesus of Nazareth. 72 And agaynehe denyed with an oothe that he knewthe man. 73 And after a whyle came vntohim they that stode bye and sayde vntoPeter: suerly thou arte even one of thefor thy speache bewreyeth the. 74 Thenbeganne he to course and to sweare thathe knewe not the man. And immedyatlythe cocke krewe. 75 And Peter remembredthe wordes of Iesu which sayde vnto him:before the cocke crowe thou shalt denyme thryse: and went out at the dores andwepte bitterly.

271 When the mornynge was come all the

chefe prestes and the elders of the peoplehelde a counsayle agenst Iesu to put himto deeth 2 and brought him bounde anddelivered him vnto Poncius Pilate the deb-ite. 3Thenwhen Iudas which betrayed himsawe that hewas condempned he repentedhim sylfe and brought ageyne the .xxx.plattes of sylver to the chefe prestes andelders 4 sayinge: I have synned betrayingethe innocent bloud. And they sayde: whatis that to vs? Se thou to that. 5And he castdoune the sylver plattes in the temple anddeparted and went and hounge him sylfe.6 And the chefe prestes toke the sylverplattes and sayd: it is not lawfull for to putthem in to the treasury because it is thepryce of bloud. 7 And they toke counselland bought with them a potters felde tobury strangers in. 8Wherfore that felde iscalled the felde of bloud vntyll this daye.9Thenwas fulfylled that which was spokenby Ieremy the Prophet sayinge: and theytoke .xxx. sylver plattes the prise of himthat was valued whom they bought of thechyldren of Israel 10and they gave them forthe potters felde as the Lorde appoyntedme. 11 Iesus stode before the debite: andthe debite axed him sayinge: Arte thou thekynge of the Iues? Iesus sayd vnto him:Thou sayest 12 and when he was accused ofthe chefe prestes and elders he answerednothinge. 13 Then sayd Pilate vnto him:hearest thou not how many thinges theylaye ageynste the? 14 And he answeredhim to never a worde: in so moche thatthe debite marveylled greatlie. 15 At thatfeest the debite was wonte to deliver vntothe people a presoner whom they woldedesyer. 16 He had then a notable presonercalled Barrabas. 17 And when they weregadered together Pilate sayde vnto the:whether wyll ye that I geve losse vnto youBarrabas or Iesus which is called Christ?18 For he knewe well that for envie theyhad delivred him. 19 When he was setdoune to geve iudgement his wyfe sent tohim sayinge: have thou nothinge to dowith that iuste man. For I have sufferedmany thinges this daye in a dreame abouthim. 20 But the chefe preestes and theelders had parswaded the people that they

Matthew 27:21 29 Matthew 27:60shulde axe Barrabas and shulde destroyeIesus. 21 Then the debite answered andsayde vnto them: whether of the twaynewyll ye that I let loosse vnto you? Andthey sayde Barrabas. 22 Pilate sayde vntothem: what shall I do then with Iesuswhich is called Christ? They all sayde tohim: let him be crucified. 23 Then saydethe debite: what evyll hath he done? Andthey cryed the more sayinge: let him becrucified. 24 When Pilate sawe that heprevaylednothinge but thatmoare busineswas made he toke water and wasshed hishondes before the people sayinge: I am in-nocent of the bloud of this iuste person andthat ye shall se. 25 Then answered all thepeople and sayde: his bloud be on vs andon oure chyldren. 26 Then let he Barrabasloose vnto them and scourged Iesus anddelivered him to be crucified. 27 Then thesoudeours of the debite toke Iesus vnto thecomen hall and gaddered vnto him all thecompany. 28 And they stripped him andput on him a purpyll roobe 29 and platteda croune of thornes and put vpon his heedand a rede in his ryght honde: and bowedtheir knees before him and mocked himsaying: hayle kinge of the Iewes: 30 andspitted vpon him and toke the rede andsmoote him on the heed. 31And when theyhad mocked him they toke the robe of himageyne and put his awne reymet on himand leed him awaye to crucify him. 32 Andas they came out they fonnde a man ofCyren named Simon: him they compelledto beare his crosse. 33 And when they camvnto the place called Golgotha (that is tosaye a place of deed mens sculles) 34 theygave him veneger to drinke mengled withgall. And when he had tasted therof hewolde not drinke. 35 When they had cru-cified him they parted his garmentes anddid cast lottes: to fulfyll thatwas spoken bythe prophet. They deuyded my garmetesamonge them: and apon my vesture didcast loottes. 36 And they sate and watchedhim there. 37 And they set vp over hisheed the cause of his deeth written. Thisis Iesus the kynge of the Iewes. 38 Andther were two theves crucified with himone on the right honde and another onthe lyfte. 39 They that passed by revyledhimwaggynge ther heeddes 40and sayinge:

Thou that destroyest the temple of God andbyldest it in thre dayes save thy sylfe. Ifthou be the sonne of God come doune fromthe crosse. 41 Lykwyse also the hye prestesmockinge him with the scribes and elderssayde: 42 He saved other him sylfe he cannot save. If he be the kynge of Israel: lethim now come doune from the crosse andwe will beleve him. 43He trusted in God lethim deliver him now yf he will have him:for he sayde I am the sonne of God. 44Thatsame also the theves which were crucifiedwith him cast in his tethe. 45 From thesixte houre was there dercknes over all thelonde vnto the nynth houre. 46 And aboutthe nynth houre Iesus cryed with a loudevoyce sayinge: Eli Eli lama asbathani. Thatis to saye my God my God why hast thouforsaken me? 47 Some of them that stodethere when they herde that sayde: Thisman calleth for Helyas. 48 And streyghtwaye one of them ranne and toke a spongeand filled it full of veneger and put it on arede and gave him to drinke. 49Other saydelet be: let vs se whyther Helyas will comeand deliver him. 50 Iesus cryed agaynewitha lowde voyce and yelded vp the goost.51 And beholde the vayle of the templedyd rent in twayne from the toppe to thebottome and the erth dyd quake and thestones dyd rent 52 and graves dyd open:and the bodies of many sainctes whichslept arose 53 and came out of the gravesafter his resurreccion and came into theholy cite and appered vnto many. 54Whenthe Centurion and they that were with himwatchinge Iesus sawe the erth quake andthose thinges which hapened they fearedgreatly sayinge. Of a surete this was thesonne of God. 55 And many wemen werethere beholdinge him a farre of whichfolowed Iesus from Galile ministringe vntohim. 56 Amonge which was Mary Mag-dalen and Mary the mother of Iames andIoses and the mother of zebedes chyldren.57 When the even was come there camea ryche man of Aramathia named Iosephwhich same also was Iesus disciple. 58 Hewent to Pilate and begged the body ofIesus. Then Pilate commaunded the bodyto be delivered. 59 And Ioseph toke thebody and wrapped it in a clene lynnynclooth 60 and put it in his newe tombe

Matthew 27:61 30 Matthew 28:20which he had hewen out even in the rokeand rolled a greate stone to the dore ofthe sepulcre and departed. 61 And therewas Mary Magdalene and the other Marysittynge over ageynste the sepulcre. 62Thenexte daye that foloweth good frydaye thehye prestes and pharises got them selvesto Pilate 63 and sayde: Syr we rememberthat this deceaver sayde whyll he was yetalyve After thre dayes I will aryse agayne.64 Commaunde therfore that the sepulcrebe made sure vntyll the thyrd daye lestparaventure his disciples come and stealehim awaye and saye vnto the people he isrysen from deeth and the laste erroure beworsse then the fyrst. 65 Pilate sayde vntothem. Take watche men: Go and make itas sure as ye can. 66 And they went andmade the sepulcre sure with watche menand sealed the stone.

281 The Sabboth daye at even which

dauneth the morowe after the SabbothMary Magdalene and the other Mary cameto se the sepulcre. 2 And beholde ther wasa greate erth quake. For the angell of thelorde descended from heven: and cameand rowlled backe the stone from the doreand sate apon it. 3 His countenaunce waslyke lyghtnynge and his raymet whyte assnowe. 4 And for feare of him the keperswere astunnyed and became as deed men.5 The angell answered and sayde to thewemen feare ye not. I knowe that ye sekeIesus which was crucified: 6 he is not here:he is rysen as he sayde. Come and sethe place where the lorde was put: 7 andgoo quickly and tell his disciples that heis rysen from deeth. And beholde he willgo before you into Galile there ye shallse him. Lo I have tolde you. 8 And theydeparted quickly from the sepulcre withfeare and greate Ioye: and did runne tobringe his disciples worde. 9 And as theywent to tell his disciples: beholde Iesusmetthem sayinge: All hayle. And they cameand held him by the fete and worshippedhim. 10 Then sayde Iesus vnto them: benot afrayde. Go and tell my brethren thatthey goo in to Galile and there shall theyse me. 11 When they were gone: beholdesome of the kepers came into the cyte

and shewed vnto the hie prestes all thethinges that were hapened. 12 And theygaddered them to gedder with the eldersand toke counsell and gave large moneyvnto the soudiers 13 sayinge: Saye thathis disciples came by nyght and stole himawaye whill ye slept. 14And if this come tothe rulers careswewyll pease him and saveyou harmeles. 15And they toke the moneyand dyd as they were taught. And thissayinge is noysed amonge the Iewes vntothis daye. 16 Then the .xi. disciples wentawaye into Galile in to a mountayne whereIesus had appoynted them. 17 And whenthey sawe hym they worshipped him. Butsome of them douted. 18 And Iesus cameand spake vnto them sayinge: All power ysgeve vnto me in heven and in erth. 19 Gotherfore and teache all nacions baptysingethem in the name of the father and thesonne and the holy goost: 20 Teachingethem to observe all thynges what soever Icomcommaunded you. And lo I am withyou all waye even vntyll the ende of theworlde.

Mark 1:1 31 Mark 1:39

THE GOSPEL ACCORDINGTO ST. MARK1 The beginnynge of the Gospell of Iesu

Christ the sonne of God 2 as that is wryt-ten in the Prophetes: beholde I sende mymessenger before thy face which shall pre-pared thy waye before the. 3The voyce of acryer in thewildernes: prepare ye thewayeof the Lorde make his paches streyght.4 Iohn dyd baptise in the wyldernes andpreche the baptyme of repentaunce for theremission of synnes. 5 And all the londeof Iurie and they of Ierusalem went outvnto him and were all baptised of him inthe ryver Iordan confessynge their synnes.6 Iohn was clothed with cammylles heerand with a gerdyll of a skyn a bout hysloynes. And he dyd eate locustes andwylde hony 7 and preached sayinge: astronger then I commeth after me whoseshue latchet I am not worthy to stoupedoune and vnlose. 8 I have baptised youwith water: but he shall baptise you withthe holy goost. 9And that came to passe inthose dayes that Iesus cam from Nazaretha cyte of Galile: and was baptised of Iohnin Iordan. 10 And assone as he was comeout of the water Iohn sawe heaven openand the holy goost descendinge vpon himlyke a dove. 11 And ther came a voycefrom heaven: Thou arte my dere sonnein whom I delyte. 12 And immediatly thesprete drave him into wildernes: 13 and hewas there in the wildernes xl dayes andwas tempted of Satan and was with wildebeestes. And the aungels ministred vntohim. 14 After Iohn was taken Iesus camein to Galile preachinge the gospell of thekyngdome of God 15 and sayinge: the tymeis come and the kyngdome of God is athonde repent and beleve the gospell. 16Ashe walked by the see of Galile he saweSimon and Andrew his brother castingenettes into the see for they were fysshers.17 And Iesus sayde vnto them: folowe meand I will make you fisshers of men. 18Andstrayght waye they forsoke their nettesand folowed him. 19 And when he hadgone a lytell further thence he sawe Iamesthe sonne of zebede and Ihon his brother

even as they were in the shyppe mendingetheir nettes. 20And anonne he called them.And they leeft their father zebede in theshippe with his hyred servauntes andwenttheir waye after him. 21 And they entredinto Capernaum: and streight waye on theSaboth dayes he entred in to the synagogeand taught. 22 And they merveled at hislearninge. For he taught them as one thathad power with him and not as the Scribes.23 And there was in their synagoge a manvexed with an vnclene spirite that cried24 sayinge: let be: what have we to dowith the thou Iesus of Nazareth? Arte thoucome to destroye vs? I knowe the whatthou arte euen that holy of god. 25 AndIesus rebuked him sayinge: hoolde thypeace and come out of him. 26 And thevnclene spirite tare him and cryed with aloude voyce and came out of him. 27 Andthey were all amased in so moche thatthey demaunded one of another amongethem selves saying: what thinge is this?what newe doctryne is this? For he com-maundeth the foule spirites with powerand they obeye him. 28And immediatly hisfame spreed abroade throughoute all theregion borderinge on Galile. 29 And forthwith assone as they were come out of thesynagoge they entred into the housse ofSymon and Andrew with Iames and Ihon.30 And Symons mother in lawe lay sicke ofa fever. And anone they tolde him of her.31 And he came and toke her by the hondeand lifte her vp: and the fever forsokehir by and by: and she ministred vntothem. 32 And at even when the sunne wasdowne they brought to him all that werediseased and them that were possessedwith devyls. 33 And all the cite gaddred togedder at the dore 34 and he healed manythat were sicke of divers deseases. Andhe cast out many devyls and suffred notthe devyls to speake because they knewehim. 35And in themorninge very erly Iesusarose andwent out into a solitary place andthere prayed. 36 And Simon and they thatwere with him folowed after him. 37 Andwhen they had founde him they sayde vntohim: all men seke for the. 38 And he saydvnto them: let vs go into the next tounesthat I maye preache there also: for trulyI cam out for that purpose. 39 And he

Mark 1:40 32 Mark 2:24preached in their synagoges throughoutall Galile and cast the devyls out. 40 Andthere came a leper to him besechinge himand kneled doune vnto him and sayde tohim: yf thou wilt thou canest make meclene. 41 And Iesus had compassion onhim and put forth his honde touched himand sayde to him: I will be thou clene.42 And assone as he had spoke immediatlythe leprosy departed from him and wasclensed. 43 And he charged him and senthim awaye forthwith 44 and sayd vnto him:Se thou saye no thinge to any man: butget the hence and shewe thy silfe to thepreste and offer for thy clensinge thosethinges which Moses commaunded for atestimoniall vnto them. 45 But he (assoneas he was departed) beganne to tell manythinges and to publyshe the dede: in somoche that Iesus coulde no more opelyentre in to the cite but was with out indesert places. And they came to him fromevery quarter.

21 After a feawe dayes he entred into

Capernaum agayne and it was noysed thathe was in a housse. 2 And anone manygadered to geder in so moche that nowthere was no roume to receave them: nonot so moche as about the dore. And hepreached theworde vnto them. 3And therecame vnto him that brought one sicke ofthe palsie borne of fower men. 4 Andbecause they coulde not come nye vntohim for preace they vncovered the rofeof the housse where he was. And whenthey had broken it open they let doune thebeed where in the sicke of the palsie laye.5When Iesus sawe their fayth he sayde tothe sicke of the palsie sonne thy sinnes areforgeven the. 6 And ther were certayne ofthe scribes sittinge there and reasoningein their hertes: 7 how doeth this feloweso blaspheme? Who can forgeve synnesbut God only? 8 And immediatly whenIesus perceaved in his sprete that they soreasoned in the selves he sayde vnto them:why thynke ye soche thinges in yourehertes? 9Whether is it easyer to saye to thesicke of the palsie thy synnes are forgeventhe or to saye aryse take vp thy beed andwalke? 10 That ye maye knowe that the

sonne ofmanhath power in erth to forgevesynnes he spake vnto ye sicke of the palsie:11 I saye vnto the aryse and take vp thybeed and get the hense into thyne awnehousse. 12 And by and by he arose tokevp the beed and went forth before themall: in so moche that they were all amasedand glorified God sayinge: we never saweit on this fassion. 13 And he went agaynevnto the see and all the people resortedvnto him and he taught them. 14 And asIesus passed by he sawe Levy the sonne ofAlphey syt at the receyte of custome andsayde vnto him: folowe me. And he aroseand folowed him. 15 And it came to passeas Iesus sate at meate in his housse manypublicans and synners sate at meate alsowith Iesus and his disciples. For there weremany that folowed him. 16 And when theScribes and Pharises sawe him eate withpublicans and synnere they sayde vnto hisdisciples: how is it that he eateth and dryn-keth with publicans and synners? 17WhenIesus hearde that he sayde vnto them. Thewhole have no nede of the phisicion butthe sicke. I came not to call the rightwisebut the synners to repentaunce. 18 Andthe disciples of Iohn and the Pharises dydfaste: and therfore came and sayde vntohim. Why do the disciples of Iohn andof the Pharises faste and thy disciples fastnot. 19 And Iesus sayde vnto them: canthe chyldren of a weddinge faste while thebrydgrome is with them. As longe as theyhave the brydgrome with them they can-not faste. 20 But the dayes will come whenthe brydgrome shalbe taken from themand then shall they faste in those dayes.21Also noman soweth a pece of newe clothvnto an olde garmet for then taketh heawaye the newe pece from the olde and sois the rent worsse. 22 In lyke wyse no manpourethnewewyne into olde vessels: for yfhe do the newe wyne breaketh the vesselsand the wyne runneth out and the vesselsare marred. But new wynemust be pouredinto newvessels. 23And it chaunsed that hewet thorow the corne feldes on the Sabothdaye: and his disciples as they went ontheir waye beganne to plucke the eares ofcorne. 24And the Pharises sayde vnto him:beholde why do they on the Saboth dayes

Mark 2:25 33 Mark 3:35thatwhich is not laufull? 25Andhe sayde tothem: have ye never rede what David dydwhen he had nede andwas anhogred bothehe and they that were with him? 26How hewent into the housse of God in the dayesof Abiathar the hye preste and dyd eatethe halowed loves which is not laufull toeate but for the prestes only: and gave alsoto the which were with him? 27 And hesayde to them: the Saboth daye was madefor man and not man for the Saboth daye.28Wherfore the sonne ofman is Lorde evenof the Saboth daye.

31 And he entred agayne into the syna-

goge and there was a man there which hada widdred honde. 2 And they watched himto se whether he wolde heale him on theSaboth daye that they might accuse him.3And he sayde vnto themanwhich had thewyddred honde: arise and stonde in themiddes. 4 And he sayd to them: whetheris it laufull to do a good dede on the Sabothdayes or an evyll? to save life or kyll? Butthey helde their peace. 5 And he lokedround aboute on them angerly mournygeon the blindnes of their hertes and sayde tothe man: stretch forth thyne honde. Andhe stretched it oute. And his honde wasrestored even as whole as the other. 6 Andthe Pharises departed and streyght wayegaddred a counsell with the that belongedto Herode agaynst him that they mightdestroye him. 7And Iesus auoydedwith hisdisciples to the sea. And a greatemultitudefolowed him from Galile and from Iurie8 and from Hierusalem and from Idumeaand from beyonde Iordane: and they thatdwelled about Tyre and Sidon a greatemultitude: which when they had herdewhat thinges he dyd came vnto him. 9Andhe commaunded his disciples that a shippeshuld wayte on him because of the peopleleste they shuld througe him. 10 For he hadhealedmany in somoche that they preasedapon him for to touche him asmany as hadplages. 11 And when the vnclene spritessawe him they fell doune before him andcryed sayinge: thou arte the sonne of God.12And he straygtly charged them that theyshuld not vtter him. 13 And he wet vp intoa mountayne and called vnto him whom

he wolde and they came vnto him. 14 Andhe ordeyned the .xii. that they shuld bewith him and that he myght sende theto preache: 15 and that they might havepower to heale syknesses and to cast outdevyls. 16And he gave vnto Simon to namePeter. 17 And he called Iames the sonne ofzebede and Iohn Iames brother and gavethem Bonarges to name which is to sayethe sonnes of thounder. 18 And Andrewand Philip and Bartlemew andMathew andThomas and Iames the sonne of Alpheyand Taddeus and Symon of Cane, 19 andIudas Iscarioth which same also betrayedhim. And they came vnto housse 20 andthe people assembled togedder agayne sogreatly that they had not leesar so mocheas to eate breed. 21 And when they thatlonged vnto him hearde of it they went outto holde him. For they thought he hadbene beside him selfe. 22 And the Scribeswhich came from Ierusalem sayde: he hathBelzebub and by the power of the chefedevyll casteth out devyls. 23 And he calledthem vnto him and sayde vnto them insimilitudes. How can Satan drive out Sa-tan? 24For yf a realme be devided ageynsteit silfe that realme cannot endure. 25 Oryf a housse be devided agaynste it silfethat housse cannot continue: 26So yf Satanmake insurreccion agaynste himsilfe andbe devided he cannot continue but is at anende. 27 No man can entre into a strongemans housse and take awaye hys gooddesexcepte he fyrst bynde that stronge manand then spoyle hys housse. 28 Verely Isaye vnto you all synnes shalbe forgevenvnto mens chyldren and blasphemy wher-with they blaspheme. 29 But he that blas-phemeth the holy goost shall never haveforgevenes: but is in dauger of eternalldampnacion: 30 because they sayde hehad an vnclene sprete. 31 Then came hismother and his brethren and stode without and sent vnto him and called him.32 And the people sate aboute hym andsayde vnto him: beholde thy mother andthy brethren seke for the with out. 33 Andhe answered them sayinge: who is mymother and my brethren? 34 And he lokedrounde about on his disciples which sate incompasse about hym and sayde: beholdemy mother and my brethren. 35 For who

Mark 4:1 34 Mark 4:35soever doeth the will of God he is mybrother my syster and mother.

41 And he began agayne to teache by

the seesyde. And there gadered to geddervnto him moche people so greatly that heentred into a ship and sate in the see andall the people was by the seeside on theshoore. 2 And he taught them many thyn-ges in similitudes and sayde vnto them inhis doctrine: 3 Herken to. Beholde Therewet out a sower to sowe. 4 And it fortunedas he sowed that some fell by thewaye sydeand the fowles of the ayre came and de-voured it vp. 5 Some fell on stony groundewhere it had not moche erth: and by andby sprange vp because it had not deepth oferth: 6 but as sone as the sunne was vp itcaught heet and because it had not rotyngewyddred awaye. 7 And some fell amongethe thornes and the thornes grewe vp andchoked it so that it gave no frute. 8 Andsome fell vpon good grounde anddyd yeldefrute that sproge and grewe and broughtforthe: some thirty folde some sixtie foldeand some an hundred folde. 9And he saydevnto them: he that hath eares to hearelet him heare. 10 And when he was alonethey that were aboute him with the .xii.axed him of the similitude. 11And he saydevnto them. To you it is geve to knowe themistery of the kyngdome of God. But vntothem that are with out shall all thingesbe done in similitudes: 12 That when theyse they shall se and not discerne: andwhen they heare they shall heare and notvnderstonde: leste at any tyme they shuldetourne and their synnes shuld be forgevethem. 13 And he sayde vnto the: Perceaveye not this similitude? how then shulde yevnderstonde all other similitudes? 14 Thesower soweth the worde. 15 And they thatare by the wayes syde where the worde issowen are they to whom assone as theyhave herde it Satha cometh immediatlyand takith awaye the worde that was sowein their hertes. 16 And likewise they thatare sowen on the stonye groude are they:which when they have harde the worde atonce receave it with gladnes 17 yet haveno rotes in them selves and so endure but

a tyme: and anone as trouble and perse-cucion aryseth for the wordes sake theyfall immediatly. 18 And they that are soweamonge the thornes are soche as heare theworde: 19 and the care of this worlde andthe disseytfulnes of ryches and the lustesof other thinges entre in and choocke theworde and it is made vnfrutfull. 20 Andthose that weare sowe in good grounde arethey that heare the worde and receave itand bringe forth frute some thirty foldesome sixty folde some an hundred folde.21 And he sayde vnto them: is the candlelighted to be put vnder a busshell or vnderthe table and not rather to be put on acandelstick? 22 For there is nothinge soprevy that shall not be opened: netherso secreet but that it shall come abroade.23 Yf eny man have eares to heare let himheare. 24 And he sayde vnto them: takehede what ye heare. With what measureyemete with the same shall it bemeasuredvnto you agayne. And vnto you that heareshall more be geve. 25 For vnto him thathath shall it be geven: and from him thathath not shalbe taken awaye even that hehath. 26 And he sayde: so is the kyngdomeof God even as yf a man shuld sowe seedin the groude 27 and shulde slepe and rysevp night and daye: and the seede shuldspringe and growe vp he not ware. 28 Forthe erth bringeth forthe frute of her silfe:fyrst the blade then the eares after that fullcorne in the eares. 29 And as sone as thefrute is brought forth anone he throustethin the sykell because the hervest is come.30 And he sayde: where vnto shall welyke the kyngdome of God? or with whatcompareson shall we compare it? 31 It islyke a grayne of mustard seed which whenit is sowe in the erth is the leest of all seedesthat be in the erth: 32 but after that it issowen it groweth vp and is greatest of allyerbes: and bereth greate brauches so thatthe fowles of the ayre maye dwell vnderthe shadowe of it. 33And with many sochesimilitudes he preached the worde vntothe after as they myght heare it. 34 Andwith out similitude spake he no thingevnto them. But when they were apartehe expounded all thinges to his disciples.35And the same daye when even was comehe sayde vnto them: let vs passe over vnto

Mark 4:36 35 Mark 5:31the other syde. 36And they lefte the peopleand toke him even as he was in the shyp.And therwere alsowith him other shippes.37 And ther arose a great storme of wyndeand dasshed thewaves into the ship so thatit was full. 38 And he was in the sterne aslepe on apelowe. And they awokehimandsayde to him: Master carest thou not thatweperisshe? 39Andhe rose vp and rebukedthe wynde and sayde vnto the see: peaceand be still. And the winde alayed and therfolowed a greate calme. 40 And he saydevnto them: why are ye so fearfull? How isit that ye have no fayth? 41And they fearedexcedingly and sayde one to another: whatfelowe is this? For booth winde and seeobey him.

51 And they cam over to the other syde of

the see in to the countre of the Gaderen-ites. 2 And when he was come out of theshippe there met him out of the gravesa man possessyd of an vncleane sprete3 which had his abydinge amonge thegraves. And no man coulde bynde him: nonot with cheynes 4 because that when hewas often bounde with fetters and cheyneshe plucked the chaynes asundre and brakethe fetters in peaces. Nether coulde enyman tame him. 5And alwayes bothe nyghtand daye he cryed in the moutaynes andin the graves and bet him silfe with stones.6When he had spied Iesus afarre of he raneand worshipped him 7 and cryed with alowde voyce and sayde: what have I to dowith the Iesus the sonne of themoost hyestGod? I requyre the in the name of Godthat thou torment me not. 8 For he hadsayd vnto hym: come out of the man thoufowle sprete. 9 And he axed him: what isthy name? And he answered sayinge: myname is Legion for we are many. 10 Andhe prayd him instantly that he wolde notsende the awaye out of the countre. 11Andther was there nye vnto the moutayns agreate heerd of swyne fedinge 12 and allthe devyls besought him sayinge: sendevs into the heerde of swyne that we mayeenter in to them. 13 And anone Iesus gavethem leave. And the vnclene spretes wetout and entred into the swyne. And theheerd starteled and ran hedling into the

see. They were about .ii.M. swyne and theywere drouned in the see. 14And the swyneheerdes fleed and tolde it in the cyte andin the countre. And they came out for tose what had hapened: 15 and came to Iesusand sawe hym that was vexed with thefende and had the legion syt both clothedand in his right mynde and were afrayed.16 And they that sawe it tolde them how ithad happened vnto him thatwas possessedwith the devyll: and also of the swyne.17 And they begane to praye him that hewolde departe from their coostes. 18 Andwhen he was come in to the shyppe hethat had the devyll prayed him that hemyght be with him. 19Howbeit Iesus woldenot suffre him but sayde vnto him: goohome in to thyne awne housse and to thyfrendes and shewe the what great thingesthe Lorde hath done vnto the and how hehad compassion on the. 20And he departedand begane to publisshe in the ten cytieswhat greate thinges Iesus had done vntohim and all me dyd merveyle. 21And whenIesus was come over agayne by shyp vntothe other syde moche people gadered vntohim and he was nye vnto the see. 22 Andbeholde ther came one of the rulers ofthe Synagoge whose name was Iairus: andwhen he sawe him he fell doune at his fete23 and besought hym greatly sayinge: mydoughter lyith at poynt of deeth I woldethou woldest come and laye thy hondeon her that she myght be safe and live.24 And he wet with him and moche peoplefolowedhimand throngedhim. 25And therwas a certen woman which was diseased ofan yssue of bloude .xii. yeres 26 and hadsuffred many thinges of many phisicionsand had spet all that she had and felte noneamendment at all but wexed worsse andworsse. 27 When she had herde of Iesus:she came into the preace behynde him andtouched his garmet. 28 For she thought:yf I maye but touche his clothes I shall bewhole. 29 And streyght waye her foutayneof bloude was dryed vp and she felt inher body that she was healed of the plage.30And Iesus immediatly felt in him silfe thevertue thatwet out of himand tournedhimroude aboute in the preace and sayde: whotouched my clothes? 31 And his disciplessayde vnto him: seist thou the people

Mark 5:32 36 Mark 6:22thrust the and yet axest who dyd toucheme? 32 And he loked roud about for tose her that had done that thinge. 33 Thewoman feared and trembled (for she knewwhat was done with in her) and she cameand fell doune before him and tolde himthe truth of everythinge. 34 And he saydeto her: Doughter thy fayth hath made thewhoale: goo in peace and be whole of thyplage. 35 Whyll he yet spake ther camefrom the ruler of the synagoges houssecertayne which sayde: thy doughter isdeed: why diseasest thou the master enyfurther? 36 Assone as Iesus herde thatworde spoke he sayde vnto the ruler ofthe synagoge: be not afrayed only beleve.37 And he suffred no man to folowe himmoo then Peter and Iames and Ihon thebrother of Iames. 38 And he came vntothe housse of the ruler of the synagogeand sawe the wondrynge and them thatwepte and wayled greatly 39 and went inand sayde vnto them: why make ye thisadoo and wepe? The mayde is not deedbut slepith. 40 And they lawght him toscorne. Then he put them all out andtoke the father and the mother of themayden and them that were with him andentred in where the mayden laye 41 andtoke the mayden by the honde and saydevnto hyr: Tabitha cumi: which is by in-terpretacion: mayde I saye vnto the aryse.42And streyght themayden arose andwenton her fete. For she was of the age oftwelve yeres. And they were astonied atit out of measure. 43 And he charged thestraytely that noman shuld knoweof it andcommaunded to geve her meate.

61 And he departed thence and cam into

his awne countre and his disciples folowedhim. 2Andwhen the saboth dayewas comehe beganne to teache in the synagoge. Andmany that hearde him were astonyed andsayde: From whens hath he these thinges?and what wysdo is this that is geve vntohim? and suche vertues that are wroughtby his hondes? 3 Is not this that carpeterMaryes sonne the brother of Iames andIoses and of Iuda and Simon? and arenot his systers here with vs? And theywere offended by him. 4 And Iesus saydevnto the: a prophet is not despysed but

in his awne countre and amonge his awnekynne and amonge the that are of the samehousholde. 5 And he coulde there sheweno miracles but leyd his hondes apon afeawe sicke foolke and healed them. 6 Andhe merveyled at their vnbelefe. And hewent aboute by the tounes that laye onevery syde teachynge. 7 And he called thetwelve and beganne to sende them two andtwo and gave them power over vnclenespretes. 8 And commaunded the that theyshuld take nothinge vnto their Iorney savea rodde only: Nether scrippe nether breednether mony in their pourses: 9 but shuldbe shoodwith sandals. And that they shuldnot put on two coottes. 10 And he saydvnto them: whersoever ye entre in to anhouse there abyde tyll ye departe thence11Andwhosoever shall not receave you norheare you when ye departe thence shakeof the duste that is vnder youre fete fora witnesse vnto them. I saye verely vntoyou it shalbe easyer for zodom and Gomorat the daye of iudgement then for thatcite. 12 And they went out and preachedthat they shuld repent: 13 and they casteout many devylles. And they annoyntedmany that were sicke with oyle and healedthem. 14 And kynge Herode herde of him(for his name was spreed abroade) andsayd: Iohn Baptiste is rysen agayne fromdeeth and therfore miracles are wroughtby him. 15 Wother sayd it is Helyas: andsome sayde: it is a Prophet or as one of theProphetes. 16 But when Herode hearde ofhim he sayd: it is Iohn whom I beheded heis rysen from deeth agayne. 17 For Herodehim sylfe, had sent forth and had takenIohn, and bounde him and cast him intopreson for Herodias sake which was hisbrother Philippes wyfe. For he had mariedher. 18 Iohn sayd vnto Herode: It is notlaufull for the to have thy brothers wyfe.19 Herodias layd wayte for him and woldehave killed him but she coulde not. 20 ForHerode feared Iohn knowynge that he wasa iuste man and an holy: and gave himreverence: and when he hearde him hedyd many thinges and hearde him gladly.21 But when a conuenient daye was come:Herode on his birth daye made a supperto the lordes captayns and chefe estates ofGalile. 22 And the doughter of the sayde

Mark 6:23 37 Mark 6:56Herodias came in and daused and pleasedHerode and them that sate at bourde also.Then the kynge sayd vnto themayden: axeof me what thou wilt and I will geve itthe. 23 And he sware vnto hyr whatsoeverthou shalt axe of me I will geve it the evenvnto the one halfe of my kyngdome. 24Andshe wet forth and sayde to her mother:what shall I axe? And she sayde: IohnBaptistes heed. 25And she cam in streygthwaye with haste vnto the kynge and axedsayinge: I will that thou geve me by andby in a charger the heed of Iohn Baptist.26 And the kynge was sory: howbe it forhis othes sake and for their sakes whichsate at supper also he wolde not put herbesyde her purpose. 27And immediatly thekynge sent the hangma and commaundedhis heed to be brought in. And he wentand beheeded him in the preson, 28 andbrought his heed in a charger and gave it tothe mayden and the mayden gave it to hermother. 29 And when his disciples heardeof it they came and toke vp his body andput it in a toumbe. 30 And the apostelsgaddered them selves to ggedre to Iesusand tolde him all thinges booth what theyhad done andwhat they had taught. 31Andhe sayd vnto them: come ye aparte intothe wyldernes and rest awhyle. For thereweremany comers and goers that they hadno leasure so moche as to eate. 32 And hewent by ship out of the waye into a deserteplace. 33 But the people spyed them whenthey departed: and many knewe him andranne afote thyther out of all cities andcam thyther before them and came toged-der vnto him. 34 And Iesus went out andsawemochepeople andhad compassion onthem because they were lyke shepe whichhad no shepeherde. And he beganne toteache them many thinges. 35 And whenthe daye was nowe farre spet his disciplescame vnto him sayinge: this is a desertplace and now the daye is farre passed 36 letthe departe that they maye goo into thecountrey rounde about and into the tounesand bye the breed: for they have nothingeto eate. 37 He answered and sayde vntothem: geve ye them to eate. And theysayde vnto him: shall we goo and bye ii.C.penyworth of breed and geve them to eate?

38 He sayde vnto them: how many loveshave ye? Goo and loke. And when theyhad serched they sayde: v. and .ii. fysshes.39 And he commaunded them to makethem all syt doune by companyes apon thegrene grasse. 40 And they sate doune herea rowe and there arowe by houndredes andby fyfties. 41 And he toke the .v. loves andthe ii. fysshes and loked vp to heven andblessed and brake the loves and gave themto his disciples to put before the: and the.ii. fysshes he devyded amonge them all.42And they all dyd eate and were satisfied.43And they toke vp twelve baskettes full ofthe gobbettes and of the fysshes. 44 Andthey that ate were about fyve thousandmen. 45 And streyght waye he caused hisdisciples to goo into the shipe and to gooover thewater before vnto Bethsaidawhyllhe sent awaye the people. 46And assone ashe had sent them away he departed into amoutayne to praye. 47And when even wascome the ship was in the middes of the seeand he alone on the londe, 48 and he sawethe troubled in rowynge for the wyndewas cotrary vnto them. And aboute thefourth quartre of the nyght he came vntothe walkinge apon the see and wolde havepassed by them. 49 When they sawe himwalkinge apon the see they supposed it hadbene a sprete and cryed oute: 50For they allsawe him and were afrayed. And anon hetalked with them and sayde vnto them: beof good chere it is I be not a frayed. 51Andhe went vp vnto them into the shippeand the wynde ceased and they were soreamased in them selves beyonde measureand marveyled. 52 For they remembrednot of the loves because their hertes wereblynded. 53 And they came over and wentinto the londe of Genezareth and drue vpinto the haven. 54 And assone as theywere come out of the shippe streyght theyknewe him 55 and ran forth throughoutall the region rounde about and began tocary aboute in beeddes all that were sicketo the place where they heard tell thathe was. 56 And whyther soever he entredinto tounes cities or villages they laydetheir sicke in the stretes and prayed himthat they myght touche and it were butthe edge of his vesture. And as many as

Mark 7:1 38 Mark 7:36touched him were safe.

71 And the pharises came togedder vnto

him and dyvers of the scribes which camefrom Ierusalem. 2 And when they sawecertayne of his disciples eate breed withcomen hondes (that is to saye with vn-wesshen hondes) they complayned. 3 Forthe pharises and all the Iewes exceptethey washe their hondes ofte eate notobservinge the tradicions of the elders.4 And when they come from the marketexcept they washe they eate not. Andmany other thinges ther be which theyhave taken apon them to observe as thewasshinge of cuppes and cruses and ofbrasen vessels and of tables. 5 Then axedhim the pharises and scribes why walkenot thy disciples accordinge to the tradi-cions of the elders but eate breede withvnweshen hondes? 6 He answered andsayde vnto them: well prophesied Esaias ofyou ypocrites as it is writte: This peoplehonoreth me with their lyppes but theirhert is farre from me: 7 In vayne theyworshippe me teachinge doctryns whichare nothinge but the comaundementes ofmen. 8 For ye laye the commaundementof God aparte and observe the tradicionsof men as the wesshinge of cruses and ofcuppes and many other suche lyke thingesye do. 9 And he sayde vnto them: well yecast asyde the comaundement of God tomayntayne youre owne tradicions. 10 ForMoses sayde: Honoure thy father and thymother: and whosoever cursseth father ormother let him dye for it. 11 But ye saye: aman shall saye to father ormother Corban:which is: that thou desyrest of me to helpethe with is geven God. 12 And so ye soffrehim no more to do ought for his father orhis mother 13 makinge the worde of Godof none effecte through youre awne tradi-cions which ye have ordeyned. And manysoche thinges ye do. 14 And he called allthe people vnto him and sayde vnto them:Herken vnto me every one of you andvnderstonde. 15There is no thingewith outa man that can defyle him when it entrethinto him: but thoo thinges which procedeout of him are those which defyle the man.16 If eny man have eares to heare let him

heare 17Andwhen he came to house awayefrom the people his disciples axed him ofthe similitude. 18 And he sayd vnto them:Are ye so without vnderstondinge? Do yenot yet perceave that whatsoever thingefrom with out entreth into a man it cannot defyle him 19 because it entrith not into his hert but into the belly: and goethout into the draught that porgeth oute allmeates. 20 And he sayde: that defileth aman which cometh oute of a man. 21 Forfrom with in even oute of the herte ofmen proceade evill thoughtes: advantryfornicacion murder 22 theeft coveteousneswickednes diceyte vnclennes and a wickedeye blasphemy pryde folysshnes: 23 allthese evyll thinges come from with in anddefile a man. 24 And from thence he roseand went into the borders of Tyre andSidon and entred into an housse andwoldethat no man should have knowen: But hecoulde not be hyd. 25For a certaynewomanwhose doughter had a foule sprete heardeof him and came and fell at his fete. 26 Thewoman was a Greke oute of Syropheniciaand she besought him that he wolde casteout the devyll oute of her doughter. 27AndIesus sayde vnto her: let the chyldren fyrstbe feed. For it is not mete to take the chyl-dres breed and to caste it vnto whelppes.28 She answered and sayde vnto him: evensoo master neverthelesse the whelppesalso eate vnder the table of the chyldrenscromes. 29 And he sayde vnto her: for thissayinge goo thy waye the devyll is goneout of thy doughter. 30 And when she wascome home to her housse she founde thedevyll departed and her doughter lyingeon the beed. 31 And he departed agaynefrom the coostes of Tyre and Sidon andcame vnto the see of Galile thorowe themiddes of the coostos of the .x. cities.32 And they brought vnto him one thatwas deffe and stambred in his speche andprayde him to laye his honde apon him.33 And he toke him asyde from the peopleand put his fyngers in his eares and dydspyt and touchedhis tounge 34and lokedvpto heven and sygthed and sayde vnto him:ephatha that is to saye be openned. 35Andstreyght waye his eares were openned andthe stringe of his tounge was loosed andhe spake playne. 36 And he commaundedthem that they shuld tell no man. But the

Mark 7:37 39 Mark 8:35more he forbad them soo moche the morea greate deale they publesshed it: 37 andwere beyonde measure astonyed sayinge:He hath done all thinges well and hathmade booth the deffe to heare and thedome to speake.

81 In those dayes when ther was a very

greate companye and had nothinge to eateIesus called his disciples to him and saydvnto them: 2 I have compassion on thispeople because they have nowe bene withme .iii. dayes and have nothinge to eate:3 And yf I shuld sende the awaye fastingeto their awne houses they shulde faynt bythe waye. For dyvers of the came fromfarre. 4 And his disciples answered him:where shuld a man have breade here inthe wildernes to satisfie these? 5 And heaxed them: howmany loves have ye? Theysayde: seven. 6 And he commaunded thepeople to syt doune on the grounde. Andhe toke the .vii. loves gave thankes brakeand gave to his disciples to set before them.And they dyd set the before the people.7And they had a feawe smale fysshes. Andhe blessed them and commaunded themalso to be set before them. 8 And they ateand were suffysed: And they toke vp yf thebroken meate that was lefte .vii. baskettesfull. 9 And they that ate were in nomberaboute fowre thousand. And he sent themawaye. 10 And a none he entred into aship with his disciples and came into theparties of Dalmanutha. 11 And the phar-ises cam forth and begane to dispute withhim sekinge of him a signe from hevenand temptinge him. 12 And he sygthedin his sprete and sayde: why doth thisgeneracion seke a signe? Verely I saye vntoyou ther shall no signe be geven vnto thisgeneracion. 13 And he lefte the and wentinto the ship agayne and departed over thewater. 14 And they had forgotten to takebreed with the nether had they in the shipwith them more then one loofe. 15 Andhe charged the sayinge. Take hede andbeware of the leven of the pharises and ofthe leve of Herode. 16 And they reasonedamonge the selves sayinge: we have nobreed 17 And when Iesus knewe that hesayde vnto the: why take ye thought be-cause ye have no bread perceave ye not yet

nether vnderstonde? Have ye youre hertesyet blynded? 18 Have ye eyes and se not?and have ye eares and heare not? Do yenot remember? 19 When I brake v. lovesamonge .v.M. How many baskettes full ofbroke meate toke ye vp? They sayde vntohim twelve. 20When I brake .vii. amonge.iiii. M. Howmany basketes of the levingesof broken meate toke ye vp? they sayde.vii. 21 And he sayde vnto the: how is itthat ye vnderstondenot? 22Andhe came toBethsaida and they brought a blynde manvnto him and desyred him to touche him.23 And he caught the blynde by the hondeand leade him out of the toune and spat inhis eyes and put his hondes apon him andaxed him whether he saw ought. 24And heloked vp and sayde: I se the men: For I sethe walke as they were trees. 25 After thathe put his hondes agayne aponhis eyes andmade him see. And he was restored to hissight and sawe every man clerly. 26 Andhe sent him home to his housse sayinge:nether goo into the toune nor tell it toeny in the toune. 27 And Iesus went outand his disciples into the tounes that longeto the cite called Cesarea Philippi. Andby the waye he axed his disciples sayinge:whom do men saye that I am? 28 Andthey answered: some saye that thou arteIohn Baptiste: some saye Helyas: and someone of the Prophetes. 29 And he saydevnto them: But whom saye ye that I am?Peter answered and sayd vnto him: Thouarte very Christe. 30 And he charged themthat they shuld tell no man of it. 31 Andhe beganne to teache them how that thesonne of man must suffre many thingesand shuld be reproved of the elders and ofthe hye prestes and scribes and be kylledand after thre dayes aryse agayne. 32 Andhe spake that sayinge openly. And Petertoke him asyde and began to chyde him.33 Then he tourned aboute and looked onhis disciples and rebuked Peter sayinge:Goo after me Satan. For thou saverestnot the thinges of God but the thinges ofmen. 34And he called the people vnto himwith his disciples also and sayd vnto them:Whosoever will folowe me let him forsakehim sylfe and take vp his crosse and foloweme. 35Forwhosoeverwill save his lyfe shalllose it But whosoever shall lose his lyfe

Mark 8:36 40 Mark 9:31for my sake and the gospels the same shallsave it. 36What shall it profet a man yf heshuld wynne all the worlde and loose hisawne soule? 37or els what shall a man geveto redeme his soule agayne? 38Whosoevertherfore shall be asshamed ofme and ofmywordes amonge this advoutrous and sinfullgeneracion: of him shall the sonne of manbe ashamed when he cometh in the gloryof his father with the holy angels.

91 And he sayde vnto them: Verely I

saye vnto you: There be some of the thatstonde here which shall not taste of deethtyll they have sene the kyngdome of Godcome with power. 2 And after .vi. dayesIesus toke Peter Iames and Iohn and leedethem vp into an hye mountayne out of thewaye alone and he was transfigured beforethem. 3 And his rayment dyd shyne andwas made very whyte even as snowe: sowhyte as noo fuller can make apon theerth. 4 And ther apered vnto them Helyaswith Moses: and they talked with Iesu.5 And Peter answered and sayde to Iesu:Master here is good beinge for vs let vsmake .iii. tabernacles one for the one forMoses and one for Helyas. 6And yet hewistnot what he sayde: for they were afrayde.7 And ther was a cloude that shaddowedthe. And a voyce came out of the cloudesayinge: This is my dere sonne here him.8 And sodenly they loked rounde aboutethem and sawe no man more then Iesusonly with them. 9And as they came dounefrom the hyll he charged the that theyshuld tell no man what they had sene tyllthe sonne of man were rysen from deethagayne. 10 And they kepte that sayingewith them and demaunded one of a notherwhat that rysinge fromdeeth agayne shuldmeane? 11 And they axed him sayinge:why then saye the scribe that Helyasmustefyrste come? 12 He answered and saydevnto them: Helyas verelye shall fyrst comeand restore all thinges. And also thesonne of man as it is wrytte shall suffremany thinges and shall be set at nought.13 Moreouer I saye vnto you that Helyasis come and they have done vnto himwhatsoever pleased them as it is wryttenof him. 14 And he came to his disciples

and sawe moche people aboute them andthe scribes disputinge with them. 15 Andstreyght waye all the people when theybehelde him were amased and ran to himand saluted him. 16 And he sayde vntothe Scribes: what dispute ye with them?17 And one of the companye answered andsayde: Master I have brought my sonnevnto the which hath a dome spirite. 18Andwhensoever he taketh him he teareth himand he fometh and gnassheth with histethe and pyneth awaye. And I spake tothy disciples that they shuld caste him outand they coulde not. 19 He answered himand sayd: O generacion with out faith howlonge shall I be with you? How longe shallI suffre you? Bringe him vnto me. 20 Andthey brought him vnto him. And assone asthe sprete sawe him he tare him. And hefell doune on the grounde walowinge andfomynge. 21 And he axed his father: howlonge is it a goo sens this hath happenedhim? And he sayde of a chylde: 22 andofte tymes casteth him into the fyre andalso into the water to destroye him. Butyf thou canste do eny thinge have mercyon vs and helpe vs. 23 And Iesus saydevnto him: ye yf thou couldest beleve allthinges are possible to him that belevith.24 And streygth waye the father of thechylde cryed with teares sayinge: LordeI beleve helpe myne vnbelefe. 25 WhenIesus sawe that the people came runnyngetogedder vnto him he rebuked the foulesprete sayinge vnto him: Thou domme anddeffe sprete I charge the come out of himand entre no more into him. 26 And thesprete cryed and rent him sore and cameout: And he was as one that had bene deedin so moche that many sayde he is deed.27But Iesus caught his honde and lyfte himvp: and he roose. 28 And when he wascome into the housse his disciples axedhim secretly: why coulde not we caste himout? 29Andhe sayde vnto them: this kyndecanbynonothermeanes come forth but byprayer and fastynge. 30And they departedthens and toke their iorney thorow Galileand he wolde not that eny man shuld haveknowen it. 31 For he taught his disciplesand sayde vnto them: The sonne of manshalbe delyvered into the hondes of men

Mark 9:32 41 Mark 10:18and they shall kyll him and after that heis kylled he shall aryse agayne the thryddaye. 32 But they wiste not what thatsayingemeat andwere affrayed to axe him.33 And he came to Capernaum. And whenhe was come to housse he axed the: whatwas it that ye disputed bytwene you bythe waye? 34 And they helde their peace:for by the waye they reasoned amonge theselves who shuld be the chefest. 35 Andhe sate doune and called the twelve vntohim and sayd to them: yf eny man desyreto be fyrst the same shalbe last of all andservaunt vnto all. 36 And he toke a chyldeand set him in the middes of them andtoke him inhis armes and sayde vnto them.37 Whosoever receave eny soche a chyldein my name receaveth me. And whoso-ever receaveth me receaveth not me buthim that sent me. 38 Iohn answered himsayinge: Master we sawe one castynge outdevyls in thy name which foloweth not vsand we forbade him because he folowethvs not. 39 But Iesus sayde forbid him not.For ther is no man that shall do a miraclein my name that can lightlyge speake evyllof me. 40 Whosoever is not agaynste youis on youre parte. 41 And whosoever shallgeve you a cuppe of water to drinke for mynames sake because ye belonge to Christeverely I saye vnto you he shall not loose hisrewarde. 42 And whosoever shall offendeone of these lytelons that beleve in me itwere better for him that a mylstone werehanged aboute his necke and that he hewere cast into the see: 43 wherfore yf thyhande offende the cut him of. It is betterfor the to entre into lyffe maymed thenhavynge two hondes goo into hell into firethat never shalbe quenched 44where thereworme dyeth not and the fyre never goethoute. 45 Lykewyse yf thy fote offende thecut him of. For it is better for the to goohalt into lyfe then havynge two fete to becast into hell into fyre that never shalbequenched: 46where therewormedyeth notand the fyre never goeth oute. 47Even so yfthyne eye offende the plucke him oute. Itis better for the to goo into the kyngdomof god with one eye then havynge two eyesto be caste into hell fyre: 48 where thereworme dyeth not and the fyre never goethoute. 49 Every man therfore shalbe salted

with fyre: And every sacrifise shalbe sea-soned with salt. 50 Salt is good. But yf thesalt be vnsavery: what shall the salte ther-with? Se that ye have salt in youre selves:and have peace amonge youre selves onewith another.

101 And he rose from thence and went

into the coostes of Iurie through the regionthat is beyonde Iordan. And the peopleresorted vnto him afresshe: and as he waswont he taught them agayne. 2 And thepharises came and axed him a question:whether it were laufull for a man to putawaye his wyfe: to prove him. 3 And heanswered and sayd vnto the: what dydMoses byd you do? 4 And they sayde:Moses suffred to wryte a testimoniall ofdevorsement and to put hyr awaye. 5 AndIesus answered and sayd vnto the: For thehardnes of youre hertes he wrote this pre-cept vnto you. 6 But at the fyrste creacionGod made the man and woman. 7 Andfor this thinges sake shall man leve hisfather and mother and bide by his wyfe8 and they twayne shalbe one flesshe. Sothen are they now not twayne but oneflesshe. 9 Therfore what God hath cuppledlet not man separat. 10 And in the houssehis disciples axed him agayne of that mat-ter. 11 And he sayde vnto them: Whoso-ever putteth awaye his wyfe and maryethanother breaketh wedlocke to her warde.12 And yf a woman forsake her husbandand be maryed to another she comittethadvoutrie. 13 And they brought chyldrento him that he should touche the. And hisdisciples rebuked thoose that brought the.14When Iesus sawe that he was displeasedand sayd to the: Suffre the chyldre to comevnto me and forbid the not. For of sucheis the kyngdome of God. 15 Verely I sayevnto you whosoever shall not receave thekyngdome of God as a chylde he shall notentre therin. 16 And he toke the vp in hisarmes and put his hondes vpon them andblessed the. 17 And when he was come into the waye ther came one runninge andkneled to him and axed him: good masterwhat shall I do that Imaye enheret eternalllyfe? 18 Iesus sayde to him: why callestthou me good? There is no man good

Mark 10:19 42 Mark 10:51but one which is God. 19 Thou knowestthe commaundementes: breake not mat-rimony: kyll not: steale not: bere notfalce wytnes: defraude no man: honourethy father and mother. 20 He answeredand sayde to him: master all these I haveobserved from my youth. 21 Iesus beheldehim and had a favour to him and saydevnto him: one thynge is lackinge vnto the.Goo and sell all that thou hast and geve tothe povre and thou shalt have treasure inheven and come and folowe me and takevp thy crosse. 22 But he was discufortedwith that sayinge andwet awayemorningefor he had greate possessions. 23And Iesusloked rounde aboute and sayde vnto hisdisciples: what an harde thinge is it forthem that have riches to entre into thekyngdome of God. 24 And his discipleswere astonneyd at his wordes. But Iesusanswered agayne and sayde vnto them:chyldre how harde is it for them that trustin riches to entre in to the kyngdome ofGod. 25 It is easyer for a camell to gothorowe the eye of annedle then for a richeman to entre into the kyngdome of God.26And theywere astonnyed out ofmeasuresayinge betwene them selves: who thencan be saved? 27 Iesus loked vpon them andsayde: with men it is vnpossible but notwith God: for with God all thynges are pos-sible. 28AndPeter begane to saye vnto him:Lo we have forsaken all and have folowedthe. 29 Iesus answered and sayde: Verely Isaye vnto you ther is noman that forsakethhousse or brethren or sisters or father ormother or wyfe other chyldren or londesformy sake and the gospelles 30which shallnot receave an houndred foolde nowe inthis lyfe: houses and brethren and sistersandmothers and chyldren and londes withpersecucions: and in the worlde to comeeternall lyfe. 31Many that are fyrst shalbelast: and the last fyrst. 32And they were inthewaye goinge vp to Ierusalem. And Iesuswet before them: and they were amasedand as they folowed were affrayde. AndIesus toke the .xii. agayne and begane totell the what thinges shuld happen vntohim. 33Beholdewe goo vp to Ierusalemandthe sonne of man shalbe delyvered vntothe hye preestes and vnto the Scribes: andthey shall condempne him to deeth and

shall delyvre him to the gentyls: 34 andthey shall mocke hym and scourge himand spit vpo hym and kyll him. And thethirde daye he shall ryse agayne. 35 Andthen Iames and Iohn the sonnes of zebedecame vnto him sayinge: master we woldethat thou shuldest do for vs what soeverwe desyre. 36 He sayde vnto them: whatwolde ye I shuld do vnto you? 37They saydto him: graut vnto vs that we maye sitteone on thy right honde and the other onthy lyfte honde in thy glory. 38 But Iesussayd vnto the: Ye wot not what ye axe. Canye dryncke of the cup that I shall drynckeof and be baptised in the baptisme thatI shalbe baptised in? 39 And they saydevnto him: that we can. Iesus sayde vntothem: ye shall dryncke of the cup that Ishall dryncke of and be baptised with thebaptyme that I shalbe baptised in: 40 butto sit on my right honde and on my lyftehonde ys not myne to geve but to themfor whom it is prepared. 41 And when the.x. hearde that they began to disdayne atIames and Iohn. 42 But Iesus called thevnto him and sayde to them: ye knowe thatthey which seme to beare rule amonge thegentyls raygne as lordes over them. Andthey that be greate amonge them exercyseauctorite over them. 43 So shall it not beamonge you but whosoever of you wilbegreate amonge you shalbe youre minister.44 And whosoever wilbe chefe shalbe ser-vaunt vnto all. 45 For even the sonne ofman came not to be ministred vnto: butto minister and to geve his lyfe for theredempcion of many. 46 And they came toHierico. And as he went oute of Hiericowith his disciples and a greate nobre ofpeople: Barthimeus the sonne of Thimeuswhich was blinde sate by the hye wayessyde begginge. 47Andwhen he hearde thatit was Iesus of Nazareth he began to cryeand to saye: Iesus the sonne of David havemercy on me. 48 And many rebuked himthat he shuld holde is peace. But he cryedthe moore a greate deale thou sonne ofDavid havemercy onme. 49And Iesus stodestill and commaunded hym to be called.And they called the blinde sayinge vntohim: Be of good conforte: ryse he calleththe. 50 And he threwe awaye his clookeand roose and came to Iesus. 51 And Iesus

Mark 10:52 43 Mark 11:32answered and sayde vnto hym: what wiltthou that I do vnto the? The blynde saydevnto hym: master that Imyght see. 52 Iesussayde vnto him: goo thy waye thy faithhath saved the. And by and by he receavedhis sight and folowed Iesus in the waye.

111 And when they came nye to

Hierusalem vnto Bethphage and Bethaniebesydes mout olivete he sent forth two ofhis disciples 2 and sayde vnto the: Gooyoure wayes into the toune that is overagaynst you. And assone as ye be entredinto it ye shall fynde a coolte boundewheron never man sate: loose him andbringe him. 3 And if eny man saye vntoyou: why do ye soo? Saye that the Lordehath neade of him: and streight waye hewill sende him hidder. 4 And they wettheir waye and foud a coolte tyed by thedore with out in a place where two wayesmet and they losed him. 5 And diversof the that stode there sayde vnto the:what do ye loosinge the coolte? 6 Andthey sayd vnto them even as Iesus hadcommaunded the. And they let them goo.7 And they brought the coolte to Iesusand caste their garmetes on him: and hesate vpo him. 8 And many sprede theregarmetes in the waye. Other cut dounebrauches of the trees and strawed them inthe waye. 9And they that went before andthey that folowed cryed sayinge: Hos anna:blessed be he that cometh in the name ofthe Lorde. 10Blessed be the kingdome thatcometh in the name of him that is Lorde ofoure father David. Hos anna in the hyest.11 And the Lorde entred in to Ierusalemand into the temple. And when he hadloked roudabout vpon all thinges and nowthe even tyde was come he went out vntoBethany with the twelve. 12 And on themorowe when they were come out fromBethany he hungred 13 and spyed a fyggetree a farre of havinge leves and wet to sewhether he myght finde eny thinge theron. But when he came therto he foude nothinge but leves: for the tyme of fyggeswas not yet. 14 And Iesus answered andsayde to it: never man eate frute of thehere after whill the worlde stondith. Andhis disciples hearde it. 15And they came to

Ierusalem. And Iesus wet into the templeand begane to cast out the sellers and byersin the temple and overthrewe the tablesof the money chaungers and the stolesof them that solde doves: 16 and woldenot suffre that eny man caried a vessellthorow the temple. 17 And he taughtsayinge vnto them is it not written: myhousse shalbe called the housse of prayervnto all nacions? But ye have made it adeen of theves. 18And the Scribes and hyeprestes hearde that and sought howe todistroye him. For they feared him becauseall the people marveled at his doctrine.19And when even was come he went out ofthe cite. 20 And in the mornynge as theypassed by they sawe the fygge tree dryedvp by the rotes. 21 And Peter remembredand sayde vnto him: master beholde thefygge tree which thou cursedest is widdredawaye. 22 And Iesus answered and saydevnto them: Have confides in God. 23VerelyI saye vnto you that whosoever shall sayevnto this mountayne: take awaye thy silfeand cast thy silfe in to the see and shallnot waver in his herte but shall beleve thatthose thinges which he sayeth shall cometo passewhat soever he sayeth shalbe doneto him. 24 Therfore I saye vnto you whatsoever ye desyrewhen ye praye beleve thatye shall have it and it shalbe done vnto you.25 And when ye stod and praye forgeve yfye have eny thinge agaynste eny man thatyoure father also which is in heven mayeforgeve you youre trespases. 26 27 And theycame agayne to Hierusalem. And as hewalked in the temple ther came to him thehye prestes and the Scribes and the elders28 and sayd vnto him: by what auctoritedoest thou these thinges? and who gavethe this auctorite to do these thinges?29 Iesus answered and sayde vnto them:I will also axe of you a certayne thinge:and answere ye me and I wyll tell you bywhat auctorite I do these thinges. 30 Thebaptyme of Iohn was it from heven or ofmen? Answer me. 31 And they thoughtin them selves sayinge: yf we shall sayefrom heven: he will saye why then dyd yenot beleve him? 32 but if we shall saye ofme: then feare we the people. For all mencounted Iohn that he was a verie Prophete.

Mark 11:33 44 Mark 12:3233 And they answered and sayd vnto Iesu:we cannot tell. And Iesus answered andsayd vnto them: nether wyll I tell you bywhat auctorite I do these thynges.

121 And he beganne to speake vnto them

in similitudes. A certayne man planted avineyarde and compased it with an hedgeand ordeyned a wyne presse and bylt atoure in that. And let that out to hyrevnto husbandme and went into a straungecountre. 2 And when the tyme was comehe sent to the tennauntes a servaunt thathe myght receave of the tenauntes of thefrute of the vyneyarde. 3 And they caughthim and bet him and sent him agayneemptye. 4 And moreoever he sent vntothem another servaunt and at him theycast stones and brake his heed and senthim agayne all to revyled. 5 And agaynehe sent another and him they kylled: andmany other beetynge some and kyllingesome. 6 Yet had he one sonne whom heloved tenderly him also he sent at the lastvnto them sayinge: they wyll feare mysonne. 7But the tenauntes sayde amongestthem selves: this is the heyre: come letvs kyll hym and the inheritaunce shalbeoures. 8 And they toke him and kyllid himand cast him out of the vyneyarde. 9Whatshall then the lorde of the vyneyarde do?He will come and destroye the tenauntesand let out the vyneyarde to other. 10Haveye not redde this scripture? The stoonewhich the bylders dyd refuse is made thechefe stoone in the corner: 11 this was doneof the Lorde and is mervelous in oure eyes.12 And they went about to take him butthey feared the people. For they perceavedthat he spake that similitude agaynst them.And they left him and went their waye.13 And they sent vnto him certayne of thePharises with Herodes servantes to takehim in his wordes. 14 And assone as theywere come they sayd vnto him: masterwe knowe that thou arte true and carestfor no man: for thou consyderest not thedegre of men but teachest the waye of Godtruly: Ys it laufull to paye tribute to Cesaror not? 15 Ought we to geve or ought wenot to geve? He vnderstode their simu-lacion and sayde vnto them: Why tepte

ye me? Brynge me a peny that I maye sethat. 16 And they brought. And he saydevnto them: Whose ys thys ymage andsuperscripcion? And they sayde vnto himCesars. 17 And Iesus answered and saidevnto the: Then geve to Cesar that whichbelongeth to Cesar: and to God that whichperteyneth to God. And they mervelled athim. 18 Then came the Saduces vnto himwhich saye ther is no resurreccion. Andthey axed hym sayinge: 19 Master Moseswroote vnto vs yf eny mans brother dyeand leve his wyfe behinde him and leveno chyldren: that then hys brother shuldtake his wyfe and reyse vp seed vnto hisbrother. 20 Ther were seven brethren: andthe fyrst toke a wyfe and when he dyedleeft no seed behynde him. 21 And theseconde tokehir anddyed: nether leeft enyseed. And the thyrde lyke wyse. 22 Andseven had her and leeft no seed behyndethem. Last of all the wyfe dyed also.23 In the resurreccion then when they shallryse agayne: whose wyfe shall she be ofthem? For seven had her to wyfe. 24 Iesusanswered and sayde vnto them: Are ye nottherfore deceaved and vnderstonde notthe scryptures nether the power of God?25 For when they shall ryse agayne fromdeeth they nether mary nor are maryed:but are as the angels which are in heven.26 As touchynge the deed that they shallryse agayne: have ye not redde in the bokeof Moses howe in the busshe God spakevnto him sayinge: I am theGod of Abrahamand God of Ysaac and the God of Iacob?27 He is not the God of the deed but theGod of the livynge. Ye are therfore greatlydeceaved. 28 And ther came one of thescribes that had hearde them disputyngeto gedder and perceaved that he had an-swered them well and axed him: Whichis the fyrste of all the commaundemetes?29 Iesus answered him: the fyrste of allthe comaundementes is. Heare Israel: TheLorde God is one Lorde. 30 And thou shaltlove the Lorde thyGodwith all thy hert andwith all thy soule and with all thy myndeand with all thy strength. This is the fyrstecommaundement. 31 And the seconde islyke vnto this: Thou shalt love thy negh-bour as thy silfe. Ther is none other com-maundement greater then these. 32 Andthe Scribe sayde vnto him: well master

Mark 12:33 45 Mark 13:19thou hast sayd the truthe that ther ys oneGod and that ther is none but he. 33And tolove him with all the herte and with all themynde and with all the soule and with allthe stregth: and to love a mans neghbouras him silfe ys a greater thinge then allburntofferings and sacrifices. 34And whenIesus sawe that he answered discretly hesayde vnto him: Thou arte not farre fromthe kyngdome of God. And no man afterthat durst axe him eny question. 35 AndIesus answered and sayde teachynge in thetemple: how saye the Scribes that Christis the sonne of David? 36 for David himselfe inspyred with the holy goost sayde:The Lorde sayde to my Lorde syt on myright honde tyll I make thyne enemyesthy fote stole. 37 Then David hym silfecalleth him Lorde: and by what meanesis he then his sonne? And moche peoplehearde him gladly. 38 And he sayde vntothem in his doctrine: beware of the Scribeswhich love to goo in longe clothinge: andlove salutacions in themarket places 39andthe chefe seates in the synagoges and to sytin the vppermost roumes at feastes 40 anddevoure widowes houses and that vndercoloure of longe prayinge. These shall re-ceave greater dampnacion. 41And Iesus satover agaynst the treasury and behelde howthe people put money in to the treasury.And many that were ryche cast in moch.42 And ther cam a certayne povre widoweand she threwe in two mytes which makea farthynge. 43 And he called vnto him hisdisciples and sayde vnto them: Verely Isaye vnto you that this pover widowe hathcast moare in then all they which havecaste into the treasury. 44 For they all dydcast in of their superfluyte: but she of herpoverte dyd cast in all that she had even allher livynge.

131 And as he went out of the temple one

of his disciples sayde vnto him: Masterse what stones and what byldynges arehere. 2And Iesus answered and sayde vntohim: Seist thou these greate byldinges?There shall not be leefte one stone vpon aanother that shall not be throwen doune.3 And as he sate on moute olivete overagest the temple Peter and Iames and Iohn

and Andrew axed him secretly: 4 tell vswhen shall these thinges be? And whatis the signe when all these thinges shalbefulfilled? 5 And Iesus answered them andbegan to saye: take hede lest eny mandeceave you. 6 For many shall come in myname sayinge: I am Christ and shall de-ceavemany. 7When ye shall heare of warreand tydinges of warre be ye not troubled.For soche thinges muste nedes be. But theende is not yet. 8For ther shall nacion aryseagaynste nacion and kyngdome agaynstkyngdome. And ther shalbe erth quakesin all quarters and famyshment and trou-bles. These are the begynnyngeof sorowes.9But take ye hede to youre selves. For theyshall bringe you vp to the counsels andinto the synagoges and ye shalbe beaten:ye and shalbe brought before rulers andkynges for my sake for a testimoniall vntothem. 10 And the gospell must fyrste bepublysshed amonge all nacions. 11 Butwhen they leade you and present you tokenoo thought afore honde what ye shallsaye nether ymagion: but whatsoever isgeve you at the same tyme that speake.For it shall not be ye that shall speakebut the holy goost. 12 Ye and the brothershall delyvre the brother to deeth and thefather the sonne and the chyldre shallryse agaynste their fathers and mothersand shall put them to deeth. 13 And yeshalbe hated of all men for my names sake.But whosoever shall endure vnto the endethe same shalbe safe. 14 Moreover whenye se the abominacion that betokenethdesolacion wherof is spoken by Daniel theProphet stonde where it ought not let himthat redeth vnderstonde. Then let themthat be in Iurie fle to the mountaynes.15 And let him that is on the housse toppenot descende doune into the housse netherentre therin to fetche eny thinge oute ofhis housse. 16 And let hym that is in thefelde not tourne backe agayne vnto thethinges which he leeft behynde him forto take his cloothes with him. 17 Woo isthen to them that are with chylde and tothem that geve soucke in thoose dayes.18But praye that youre flyght be not in thewynter. 19 For ther shalbe in those dayessuche tribulacion as was not from the beg-ynninge of creatures which God created

Mark 13:20 46 Mark 14:18vnto this tyme nether shalbe. 20 And ex-cepte that the Lorde shuld shorten thosedayes no man shuld be saved. But for theelectes sake which he hath chosen he hathshortened those dayes. 21 And then yf enyman saye to you: loo here is Christ: loo heis there beleve not. 22 For falce Christesshall aryse and falce Prophetes and shallshewe myracles and wondres to deceaveyf it were possible evyn the electe. 23 Buttake ye hede: beholde I have shewed youall thinges before. 24 Moreover in thoosedayes after that tribulacion the sunne shallwexe darke and the mone shall not geveher light 25 and the starres of heven shallfall: and the powers wich are in hevenshall move. 26 And then shall they se thesonne of man comynge in the cloudes withgreate power and glory. 27 And then shallhe sende his angels and shall gaddre togedder his electe from the fower wyndesand from the one ende of the worlde tothe other. 28 Learne a similitude of thefygge tree. When his braunches are yettender and hath brought forthe leves yeknowe that sommer is neare. 29 So inlyke maner when ye se these thinges cometo passe: vnderstond that it ys nye evenat the dores. 30 Verely I saye vnto youthat this generacion shall not passe tyll allthese thinges be done. 31 Heven and erthshall passe but my wordes shall not passe.32 But of the daye and the houre knowethno man: no not the angels which are inheven: nether the sonne him silfe savethe father only. 33 Take hede watche andpraye for ye knowe not when the tyme ys.34 As a man which is gone in to a straungecountrey and hath lefte hys housse andgeven auctorite to his servautes and to ev-ery man hys worke and commaunded theporter to watche. 35Watche therfore for yeknowe not when the master of the houssewill come whether at even or at mydnyghtwhether at the cocke crowynge or in thedaunynge: 36 lest yf he come sodenly heshuld fynde you slepynge. 37 And that Isaye vnto you I saye vnto all men watche.

141 After two dayes folowed ester and the

dayes of swete breed. And the hye prestesand the Scrybes sought meanes how they

myght take hym by crafte and put him todeeth. 2 But they sayde: not in the feastdaye leest eny busynes aryse amonge thepeople. 3When he was in Bethania in thehousse of Simon the leper even as he sateat meate ther came a woman hauynge analablaster boxe of oyntment called nardethatwas pure and costly: and she brake theboxe and powred it on is heed. 4 And therwere some that were not content in themselves and sayde: what neded this waste ofoyntment? 5For it myght have bene sooldefor more then thre hundred pens and benegeve vnto the poore. And they grudgedagaynste hir. 6 And Iesus sayde: let hir bein reest why trouble ye hir? She hath donea good worke on me. 7 For ye shall havepoore with you all wayes: and when soeverye will ye maye do them good: but me yeshall not have alwayes. 8 She hath donethat she coulde: she came a fore honde toanoynt my boddy to his buryinge warde.9 Verely I saye vnto you: wheresoeverthis gospell shalbe preached thorowout thewhole worlde: thys also that she hath doneshalbe rehearsed in remembraunce of her.10 And Iudas Iscarioth one of the twelvewent awaye vnto the hye prestes to betrayehym vnto them. 11 When they herde thatthey were gladde and promised that theywolde geve him money. And he soughthowe he myght conveniently betraye him.12And the fyrste daye of swete breed whenmen offer the pascall lambe his disciplessayd vnto him: where wilt thou that wegoo and prepare that thou mayst eate theester lambe? 13 And he sent forth two ofhis disciples and sayde vnto them: Goo yeinto the cyte and ther shall a man meteyou beringe a pitcher of water folowe him.14 And whither soever he goeth in sayeye to the good man of the housse: themaster axeth where is the geest chambrewhere I shall eate the ester lambe with mydisciples. 15And he will shewe you a greateparlour paved and prepared: there makeready for vs. 16And his disciples went forthand came to the cyte and founde as he hadsayd vnto them: and made ready the esterlambe. 17 And at even he came with the.xii. 18 And as they sate at borde and ateIesus sayde: Verely I saye vnto you: thatone of you shall betraye me which eateth

Mark 14:19 47 Mark 14:59with me. 19 And they begane to morneand to saye to him one by one: ys it I?And a nother sayde: ys it I? 20He answeredand sayde vnto them: It ys one of the.xii. and the same deppeth with me in theplatter. 21 The sonne of man goeth as it yswritten of him: but woo be to that man bywhome the sonne ofman is betrayed. Goodwere it for him if that man had never beneborne. 22And as they ate Iesus toke breedeblessed and brake and gave to them andsayde: Take eate this ys my body. 23 Andhe toke the cup gave thankes and gave itto them and they all dranke of it. 24 Andhe sayde vnto them: This is my bloudeof the new testament which is sheed formany. 25 Verely I saye vnto you: I willdrinke no moore of this frute of the vynevntyll that daye that I drinke it new inthe kyngdome of God. 26 And when theyhad sayd grace they went out to mountOlyvete. 27 And Iesus sayde vnto them: Allye shalbe offended thorow me this nyght.For it is wrytte: I will smyte the shepeherdand the shepe shalbe scattered. 28 Butafter that I am rysen agayne I will goo intoGalile before you. 29 Peter sayde vnto him:And though all men shuld be offended yetwolde not I. 30 And Iesus sayd vnto him:Verely I saye vnto the this daye even in thisnyght before the cocke crowe twyse thoushalt denye me thryse. 31 And he spakeboldlyer: no yf I shulde dye with the I willnot deny the. Lyke wyse also sayd theyall. 32 And they came into a place namedGethsemani. And he sayde to his disciples:Syt ye here whyll I goo aparte and praye.33 And he toke with him Peter Iames andIohn and he began to waxe abasshed andto be in an agonye 34 and sayde vnto the:My soule is very hevy even vnto the deethtary here and watche. 35 And he wentforth a lytle and fell doune on the groundeand prayed: that yf it were possible thehoure myght passe from him. 36 And hesayd: Abba father all thinges are possiblevnto the take awaye this cup from me.Neverthelesse not that I will but that thouwilt be done. 37And he cam and founde theslepinge and sayd to Peter: Simon slepestthou? Couldest not thou watche with meone houre? 38watche ye and praye leest yeentre into temptacion: the sprete is redy

but the flessh is weeke. 39 And agayne hewent awaye andprayde and spake the samewordes. 40 And he returned and foundethem a slepe agayne for their eyes werehevy: nether wist they what to answerehim. 41 And he cam the thyrde tyme andsayd vnto the: slepe hens forth and takeyoure ease it is ynough. The houre is comebeholde the sonne ofman shalbe delyveredinto the hondes of synners. 42Ryse vp let vsgoo. Loo he that betrayeth me is at hande.43And immediatly whyll he yet spake cameIudas one of the twelve and with him agreate nomber of people with sweardesand staves from the hye prestes and scribesand elders. 44 And he that betrayed himhad geven them a generall toke sayinge:whosoever I do kisse he it is: take him andleade him awaye warely. 45 And assoneas he was come he went streyght waye tohim and sayd vnto him: mastermaster andkissed him. 46And they layde their hondeson him and toke him. 47 And one of themthat stode by drue out a swearde and smotea servaunt of the hye preste and cut ofhis eare. 48 And Iesus answered and saydvnto the: ye be come out as vnto a thefewith sweardes and with staves for to takeme. 49 I was dayly with you in the templeteachinge and ye toke me not: but that thescriptures shuld be fulfilled. 50 And theyall forsoke him and ranne awaye. 51 Andther folowed him a certeyne yonge mancloothed in lynnen apon the bare and theyongemen caught him 52 and he lefte hislynnen and fleed from them naked. 53Andthey leed Iesus awaye to the hyest presteof all and to him came all the hye prestesand the elders and the scribes. 54And Peterfolowed him a greate waye of even into thepallys of the hye preste and sat with theservauntes and warmed him sylfe at thefyre. 55 And the hye prestes and all thecounsell sought for witnes agaynste Iesuto put him to death and founde noone.56 Yet many bare falce witnes agaynstehim but their witnes aggreed not to geder.57 And ther aroose certayne and broughtfalce witnes agaynste him sayinge. 58 Weherde him saye: I will destroye this templemade with hondes and with in thre dayes Iwill bylde another made with out hondes.59 But their witnes agreed not to geder.

Mark 14:60 48 Mark 15:2760And the hyeste preste stode up amongestthem and axed Iesus sayinge: answerestthou nothinge? How is it that these bearewitnes agaynst the? 61 And he helde hispeace and answered noothinge. Agaynethe hyeste Preste axed him and sayde vntohim: Arte thou Christ the sonne of theblessed? 62 And Iesus sayde: I am. Andthe shall se the sonne of man syt on theryght honde of power and come in thecloudes of heven. 63 Then the hyest presterent his cloothes and sayd: what nede weeny further of witnes? 64 Ye have herdethe blasphemy what thinke ye? And theyall gave sentence that he was worthy ofdeeth. 65 And some begane to spit at himand to cover his face and to bete him withfistes and to saye vnto him arede vnto vs.And the servauntes boffeted him on theface. 66 And as Peter was beneeth in thepallys ther came one of the weches of thehyest preste: 67 and when she saw Petrewarmynge him sylfe she loked on him andsayd: wast not thou also with Iesus ofNazareth? 68 And he denyed it sayinge:I knowe him not nether wot I what thousayest. And he went out into the poorcheand the cocke crewe. 69And a damsell sawehimand agayne beganne to saye to the thatstode by this is one of them. 70 And hedenyed it agayne. And anone after theythat stode by sayde agayne to Peter: suerlythou arte one of the for thou arte of Galileand thy speache agreth therto. 71 And hebeganne to cursse and to sweare sayinge:I knowe not this man of whom ye speake.72 And agayne the cocke krewe and Peterremembred the worde that Iesus sayd vntohim: before the cocke crowe twyse thoushalt denyme thryse and beganne towepe.

151 And anone in the dawnynge the hye

prestes helde counsell with the elders andthe scribes and the whoole congregacionand bounde Iesus and ledde him awaye anddelivered him to Pilate. 2 And Pilate axedhim: arte thou the kynge of the Iewes?Andhe answered and sayde vnto him: thousayest it. 3 And the hye prestes accusedhim of many thinges. 4 Wherfore Pilateaxed him agayne sayinge: Answerest thounothinge? Beholde howmany thinges they

lay vnto thy charge. 5 Iesus yet answerednever aworde so that Pilate merveled. 6Atthat feast Pilate was wont to delivre attheir pleasure a presoner: whomsoeverthey wolde desyre. 7 And ther was onenamed Barrabas which laye bounde withthe that made insurreccion and in the in-surreccion committed murther. 8 And thepeople called vnto himandbegan to desyreaccordinge as he had ever done vnto them.9 Pylate answered them and sayd: Will yethat I lowse vnto you the kynge of theIewes? 10For he knewe that the hye Presteshad delyvered him of envy. 11 But thehye prestes had moved the people that heshuld rather delyvre Barrabas vnto them.12 And Pylate answered agayne and saydvnto the: What will ye then that I dowith him whom ye call the kynge of theIewes? 13 And they cryed agayne: crucifiehim. 14 Pylate sayde vnto them: Whatevell hath he done? And they cryed themoore fervently: crucifie him. 15 Andso Pylate willinge to content the peoplelowsed them Barrabas and delyvered Iesuswhen he had scourged him for to be cru-cified. 16 And the souddeers ledde himawaye into the commen hall and calledtogedder the whoole multitude 17 and theyclothed him with purple and they platteda croune of thornes and crouned him withall 18 and beganne to salute him. Haylekynge of the Iewes. 19 And they smootehim on the heed with a rede and spat aponhim and kneled doune andworsheped him.20 And when they had moocked him theytoke the purple of him and put his awnecloothes on him and ledde him oute tocrucifie him. 21 And they compelled onethat passed by called Symon of Cyrene(which camoute of the felde andwas fatherofAlexander andRufus) to bearehis crosse.22 And they brought him to a place namedGolgotha (which is by interpretacion theplace of deed mens scoulles) 23 and theygave him to drinke wyne myngled withmyrte but he receaved it not. 24And whenthey had crucified him they parted hisgarmentes castinge loottes for them whatevery man shulde have. 25 And it wasaboute the thyrde houre and they crucifiedhim. 26 And the tytle of his cause waswrytten: The kynge of the Iewes. 27 And

Mark 15:28 49 Mark 16:15they crucified with him two theves: theone on the ryght honde and the other onhis lyfte. 28 And the scripture was fulfilledwhich sayeth: he was counted amonge thewicked. 29And they that went by rayled onhim: waggynge their heedes and sayinge:A wretche that destroyest the temple andbyldest it in thre dayes: 30 save thy sylfeand come doune from the crosse. 31 Lykewyse also mocked him the hye preestesamonge them selves with the scribes andsayde: He saved other men him sylfe hecannot save. 32 Let Christ the kynge ofIsrael now descende from the crosse thatwe maye se and beleve. And they thatwere crucified with him checked him also.33 And when the sixte houre was comedarknes aroose over all the erth vntyll thenynthe houre. 34 And at the nynthe houreIesus cryed with a loude voyce sayinge:Eloi Eloi lamaasbathani which is yf it beinterpreted: my God my God why hastthou forsaken me? 35 And some of themthat stode bywhen they hearde that sayde:beholde he calleth for Helyas 36 And oneran and filled a sponge full of veneger andput it on a rede and gave him to drinkesayinge: let him alone let vs se whetherHelyas will come and take him doune.37 But Iesus cryed with aloude voyce andgave vp the gooste. 38 And the vayle ofthe temple dyd rent in two peces, from thetoppe to the boottome. 39 And when theCenturion which stode before him sawethat he so cryed and gave vp the gooste hesayd: truly this man was the sonne of God.40 Ther were also wemen a good waye ofbeholdinge him: amonge whom was MaryMagdalen and Mary the mother of Iamesthe lytle and of Ioses and Mary Salome41which alsowhen hewas in Galile folowedhim and ministred vnto him and manyother wemen which came vp with him toHierusalem. 42 And now when nyght wascome (because it was the even that goethbefore the saboth) 43 Ioseph of Arimathiaa noble councelour which also loked forthe kyngdome of God came and went inbooldly vnto Pylate and begged the boddyof Iesu. 44And Pylate merveled that he wasalredy deed and called vnto him the Centu-rion and axed of him whether he had beneeny whyle deed. 45 And when he knewe

the trueth of the Centurion he gave thebody to Ioseph. 46And he bought a lynnencloothe and toke him doune and wrappedhim in the lynnen cloothe and layde him ina tombe that was hewen oute of the rockeand rolled a stone vnto the doze of thesepulcre. 47And Mary Magdalen and MaryIoses beheld where he was layde.

161 And when the saboth daye was past

Mary Magdalen and Mary Iacobi and Sa-lome bought odures that theymyght comeand anoynt him. 2 And erly in themorninge the nexte daye after the sabothday they came vnto the sepulcre whenthe sunne was rysen. 3 And they saydone to another: who shall rolle vs awayethe stone from the dore of the sepulcre:4 And when they looked they sawe howthe stone was rolled awaye: for it was avery greate one. 5 And they went into thesepulcre and sawe a yongeman syttinge onthe ryght syde cloothed in a longe whytegarmet and they were abasshed. 6 Andhe sayd vnto the be not afrayed: ye sekeIesus of Nazareth which was crucified. Heis rysen he is not here. Beholde the placewhere they put him. 7 But go youre wayeand tell his disciples and namely Peter: hewill goo before you into Galile: there shallye se him as he sayde vnto you. 8 Andthey went oute quickly and fleed from thesepulcre. For they trembled and wereamased. Nether sayd they eny thinge toeny man for they were afrayed. 9 WhenIesuswas rysen themorow after the sabothdaye he appered fyrst to Mary Magdalenoute of whom he cast seven devyls. 10Andshe went and toolde them that were withhim as they morned and weapte. 11 Andwhen they herde that he was alyve andhe had appered to hyr they beleved it not.12 After that he appered vnto two of themin a straunge figure as they walked andwent into the country. 13 And they wentand toolde it to the remnaunt. And theybeleved them nether. 14 After that he ap-pered vnto the eleve as they sate at meate:and cast in their tethe their vnbelefe andhardnes of herte: be cause they beleuednot themwhich had sene him after his res-urreccion. 15 And he sayd vnto them: Goo

Mark 16:16 50 Mark 16:20ye in to all the worlde and preache the gladtyges to all creatures 16 he that beleuethand is baptised shall be saved. But hethat beleveth not shalbe dampned. 17 Andthese signes shall folowe them that beleve:In my name they shall cast oute devylsand shall speake with newe tonges 18 andshall kyll serpentes. And yf they drinkeeny dedly thinge that shall not hurte the.They shall laye their hondes on the sickeand they shall recover. 19 So then whenthe lorde had spoken vnto them he wasreceaued into heauen and is set doune onthe ryght honde of God. 20 And they wentforth and preached every where. And theLorde wrought with them and confirmedthe worde with miracles that folowed.

Luke 1:1 51 Luke 1:35

THE GOSPEL ACCORDINGTO ST. LUKE1 For as moche as many have take in

hand to compyle a treates of thoo thingeswhich are surely knowen amonge vs 2 evenas they declared them vnto vs which fromthe beginnynge sawe them their selves andwere ministers at the doyng: 3 I deter-mined also assone as I had searched outdiligently all thinges from the beginnyngethat then I wolde wryte vnto the goodTheophilus: 4 that thou myghtest knowethe certente of thoo thinges wher of thouarte informed. 5 There was in the dayesof Herode kynge of Iurie a certayne prestnamed zacharias of the course of Abia. Andhis wyfe was of the doughters of Aaron:And her name was Elizabeth. 6 Booth wereperfect before God and walked in all thelawes and ordinaunces of the Lorde thatno man coulde fynde fawte with them.7 And they had no chylde because thatElizabeth was barre and booth were wellstricken in age. 8 And it cam to passe ashe executed the prestes office before godas his course came 9 (accordinge to thecustome of the prestes office) his lot was tobourne incence. And went into the templeof the Lorde 10 and the whoale multitudeof the people were with out in prayer whillthe incense was aburnynge. 11 And therappered vnto him an angell of the lordestondinge on the ryght syde of the altare ofincense. 12 And when Zacharias sawe himhe was abasshed and feare came on him.13And the angell sayde vnto him: feare notZachary for thy prayer is hearde: And thywyfe Elizabeth shall beare the a sonne andthou shalt call his name Iohn 14 and thoushalt have ioye and gladnes andmany shallreioyce at his birth. 15 For he shalbe greatein the sight of the lorde and shall netherdrinke wyne ner stronge drinke. And heshalbe filled with the holy goost even inhis mothers wombe: 16 and many of thechyldren of Israel shall he tourne to theirLorde God. 17 And he shall goo before himin the sprete and power of Helyas to tournethe hertes of the fathers to the chyldrenand the vnbelevers to the wysdom of theiuste men: to make the people redy for

the Lorde. 18And Zacharias sayde vnto theangell: Wher by shall I knowe this? seingethat I am olde and my wyfe well strickenin yeares. 19 And the angell answered andsayde vnto him: I am Gabriell that stondein the presens of God and am sent to speakevnto the: and to shewe the these gladtydinges. 20 And beholde thou shalt bedomme and not able to speake vntyll thetyme that these thinges be performed be-cause thou belevedst notmywordes whichshalbe fulfilled in their season. 21 And thepeople wayted for zacharias andmervelledthat he taryed in the temple. 22 Andwhen he cam oute he could not speakevnto them. Wherby they perceaved thathe had sene some vision in the temple.And he beckened vnto them and remaynedspeachlesse. 23 And it fortuned assone asthe tyme of his office was oute he departedhome into his awne housse. 24 And afterthoose dayes his wyfe Elizabeth conceavedand hyd her sylfe .v. monethes sayinge:25This wyse hath God dealte withme in thedayes when he loked on me to take fromme the rebuke that I suffred amonge men.26And in the .vi. moneth the angell Gabrielwas sent from god vnto a cite of Galilenamed Nazareth 27 to a virgin spoused to aman whose name was Ioseph of the housseof David and the virgins name was Mary.28 And the angell went in vnto her andsayde: Hayle full of grace the Lorde is withthe: blessed arte thou amonge wemen.29 When she sawe him she was abasshedat his sayinge: and cast in her myndewhat maner of salutacion that shuld be.30And the angell sayde vnto her: feare notMary: for thou hast founde grace with god.31 Loo: thou shalt conceave in thy wombeand shalt beare a sonne and shalt call hisname Iesus. 32He shalbe greate and shalbecalled the sonne of the hyest. And thelorde God shall geve vnto him the seateof his father David 33 and he shall raygneover the housse of Iacob forever and ofhis kyngdome shalbe none ende. 34 Thensayd Mary vnto the angell: How shall thisbe seinge I knowe not a man? 35 And theangell answered and sayd vnto her: Theholy goost shall come apon the and thepower of the hyest shall over shaddowethe. Therfore also the holy thinge which

Luke 1:36 52 Luke 1:80shalbe borne shalbe called the sonne ofgod. 36 And beholde thy cosen Elizabethshe hath also conceaved a sonne in her age.And this is hyr sixte moneth though she becalled barren: 37 for with god can nothingebe vnpossible. 38 And Mary sayd: beholdethe honde mayden of the lorde be it vntome even as thou hast sayde. And the angelldeparted from her. 39 And Mary arose inthoose dayes andwent into themountaynswith hast into a cite of Iurie 40 and entredinto the housse of zachary and salutedElizabeth. 41 And it fortuned as Elizabethhearde the salutacion of Mary the babespronge in her belly. And Elizabeth wasfilled with the holy goost 42 and cryed witha loude voyce and sayde: Blessed arte thouamonge wemen and blessed is the fruteof thy wombe. 43 And whence hapeneththis to me that the mother of my Lordeshuld come to me? 44 For loo assone asthe voyce of thy salutacion sownded inmyne eares the babe sprange in my bellyfor ioye. 45 And blessed arte thou thatbelevedst: for thoose thinges shalbe per-formedwichwere tolde the from the lorde.46 And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieththe Lorde. 47 And my sprete reioyseth ingodmy savioure 48For he hath loked on thepovre degre of his honde mayde. Beholdenow from hence forth shall all generacionscall me blessed. 49 For he that is myghtyhath done to me greate thinges and holyeis his name. 50 And his mercy is on themthat feare him thorowoute all generacions.51 He sheweth strength with his arme hescattereth them that are proude in theymaginacion of their hertes. 52He puttethdoune the myghty from their seates andexalteth them of lowe degre. 53 He filleththehongrywith good thinges: and sendethawaye the ryche emptye. 54 He remem-breth mercy: and helpeth his servaunt Is-rael. 55Even as he promised to oure fathersAbraham and to his seede for ever. 56 Andmary aboode with hyr aboute a .iii. mon-ethes and retourned agayne to hyr awnehousse. 57 Elizabethes tyme was come thatshe shuld be delyvered and she broughtforth a sonne. 58 And her neghboures andher cosins hearde tell how the lorde hadshewed great mercy vpon her and theyreioysed with her. 59 And it fortuned the

eyght daye: they cam to circumcise thechylde: and called his name zacharias afterthe name of his father. 60 How be it hismother answered and sayd: not so but heshalbe called Ihon. 61 And they sayd vntohyr: Ther is none of thy kynne that isnamed with this name. 62 And they madesignes to his father how hewolde have himcalled. 63 And he axed for wrytynge tablesand wroote saying: his name is Iohn. Andthey marvelled all. 64 And his mouthe wasopened immediatly and his tonge also andhe spake lawdynge God. 65And feare cameon all the that dwelt nye vnto them. Andall these sayinges were noysed abroadethroughout all the hyll countre of Iurie66 and all they that herde the layde themvp in their hertes saying: What manerchylde shall this be? And the honde ofthe lorde was with him. 67 And his fatherzacharias was filled with the holy goostand prophisyed sayinge: 68 Blessed be theLorde God of Israel for he hath visited andredemed his people. 69 And hath reysedvp an horne of salvacion vnto vs in thehousse of his servaunt David. 70 Even ashe promised by the mouth of his holyprophetes which were sens the worlde be-gan 71 That we shuld be saved from oureenemies and from the hondis of all thathate vs: 72 To fulfill the mercy promisedto oure fathers and to remember his holycovenaunt. 73 And to performe the oothewhich he sware to oure father Abraham,for to geve vs. 74That we delyvered oute ofthe hondes of oure enemyes myght servehim with oute feare 75 all the dayes of ourelyfe in suche holynes and ryghtewesnesthat are accept before him. 76 And thouchylde shalt be called the Prophet of thehyest: for thou shalt goo before the face ofthe lorde to prepare his wayes: 77 And togeve knowlege of salvacion vnto his peoplefor the remission of synnes: 78Through thetender mercy of oure God wherby the dayespringe from an hye hath visited vs. 79 Togeve light to the that sate in darcknes andin shadowe of deth and to gyde oure feteinto the waye of peace. 80 And the chyldegrew and wexed stronge in sprete and wasin wyldernes tyll the daye cam when heshuld shewe him sylfe vnto the Israhelites.

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1 And it chaunced in thoose dayes: thatther went oute a commaundment fromAuguste the Emperour that all the woorldeshuld be taxed. 2And this taxynge was thefyrst and executed when Syrenius was left-enaut in Syria. 3And every man went vntohis awne citie to be taxed. 4 And Iosephalso ascended from Galile oute of a citecalled Nazareth into Iurie: vnto the citeof David which is called Bethleem becausehe was of the housse and linage of David5 to be taxed with Mary his spoused wyfewhich was with chylde. 6 And it fortunedwhyll they were there her tyme was comethat she shuld be delyvered. 7 And shebrought forth her fyrst begotten sonne andwrapped him in swadlynge cloothes andlayed him in amanger because ther was noroume for them within in the ynne. 8 Andther were in the same region shepherdesabydinge in the felde and watching theirflocke by nyght. 9And loo: the angell of thelorde stode harde by the and the brightnesof the lorde shone rounde aboute themand they were soare afrayed. 10 But theangell sayd vnto them: Be not afrayed. Forbeholde I bringe you tydinges of greateioye that shal come to all the people: 11 forvnto you is borne this daye in the cite ofDavid a saveoure which is Christ the lorde.12 And take this for a signe: ye hall fyndethe chylde swadled and layed in a manger.13 And streight waye ther was with theangell a multitude of hevenly sowdierslaudynge God and sayinge: 14 Glory to Godan hye and peace on the erth: and vntomen reioysynge. 15And it fortuned assoneas the angels were gone awaye from themin to heven the shepherdes sayd one toanother: let vs goo even vnto Bethleemand se this thynge that is hapened whichthe Lorde hath shewed vnto vs. 16 Andthey cam with haste and founde Mary andIoseph and the babe layde in a manger.17 And when they had sene it they publis-shed a brode the sayinge which was toldethem of that chylde. 18And all that heardeit wondred at those thinges which weretolde the of the shepherdes. 19 But Marykept all thoose sayinges and ponderedthem in hyr hert. 20 And the shepherdesretourned praysinge and laudinge God for

all that they had herde and sene evyn asit was told vnto them. 21 And when theeyght daye was come that the chylde shuldbe circucised his name was called Iesuswhich was named of the angell before hewas conceaved in the wombe. 22And whenthe tyme of their purificacion (after thelawe of Moyses) was come they broughthim to Hierusalem to present hym to theLorde 23 (as that is written in the lawe ofthe Lorde: every man that fyrst openeththe matrix shalbe called holy to the Lorde)24 and to offer (as it ys sayde in the laweof the Lorde) a payre of turtle doves ortwo yonge pigions. 25 And beholde therwas a man in Hierusalem whose name wasSimeon. And the same man was iuste andfeared God and longed for the consolacionof Israel and the holy goost was in him.26And an answerwas geven himof the holygoost that he shulde not se deethe beforehe had sene the lordes Christ. 27 And hecame by inspiracion into the temple. Andwhen the father and mother brought inthe chylde Iesus to do for him after thecustome of the lawe 28 then toke he himvp in his armes and sayde. 29 Lorde Nowlettest thou thy seruaut departe in peaceaccordinge to thy promes. 30 For myneeyes have sene the saveour sent from the31Wich thou hast prepared before the faceof all people. 32 A light to lighten thegentyls and the glory of thy people Israel.33 And his father and mother mervelled atthose thinges which were spoke of him.34 And Simeon blessed them and saydevnto Mary his mother: beholde this chyldshalbe the fall and resurreccion of manyin Israel and a signe which shalbe spokeagaynste. 35 And morover the sweardeshall pearce thy soule that the thoughtes ofmany hertes maye be opened. 36 And therwas a Prophetesse one Anna the doughterof Phanuel of the tribe of Aser: whichwas of a greate age and had lyved with anhusbande. vii. yeres from her virginite.37 And she had bene a wedowe aboute .iiii.scoore and .iiii. yere which went neveroute of the temple but served God withfastinge and prayer nyght and daye. 38Andthe same came forth that same houre andpraysed the Lorde and spake of him to allthat loked for redempcion in Hierusalem.39 And assone as they had performed all

Luke 2:40 54 Luke 3:20thinges accordinge to the lawe of the Lordethey returned into Galile to their awne citeNazareth. 40 And the chylde grewe andwexed stronde in sprete andwas filledwithwysdome and the grace of God was withhym. 41 And his father and mother wentto Hierusalem every yeare at the feeste ofester. 42 And when he was .xii. yere oldethey went vp to Hierusalem after the cus-tome of the feeste. 43 And when they hadfulfilled the dayes as they returned homethe chylde Iesus boode styll in Hierusalemvnknowynge to his father and mother.44 For they supposed he had bene in thecompany and therfore came a days iorneyand sought him amonge their kynsfolkeand acquayntaunce. 45 And when theyfounde hymnot theywent backe agayne toHierusalem and sought him. 46 And it for-tuned after .iii. dayes that they founde himin the temple sittinge in the middes of thedoctours both hearynge them and posingethem. 47And all that hearde himmervelledat his wit and answers. 48 And when theysawe him they were astonyed. And hismother sayde vnto him: sonne why hastthou thus dealte with vs? Beholde thyfather and I have sought the sorowenge.49 And he sayde vnto the: how is it that yesought me? Wist ye not that I must gooaboute my fathers busines? 50 And theyvnderstode not the sayinge that he spaketo them. 51 And he went with them andcame to Nazareth and was obedient to the.But hismother kept all these thinges in herhert. 52And Iesus increased in wisdom andage and in favoure with god and man.

31 In the fiftenthe yeare of the raygne

of Tiberius the Emperoure Pontius Py-late beinge leftenaut of Iurie and Herodebeinge Tetrach of Galile and his brotherPhilip Tetrach in Iturea and in the regionof Traconites and Lysanias the Tetrach ofAbyline 2 when Anna and Cayphas werethe hye prestes: the worde of God camevnto Iohn the sonne of zacharias in thewildernes. 3 And he came in to all thecoostes aboute Iordan preachynge the bap-tyme of repentaunce for the remission ofsynnes 4 at it is written in the boke ofthe sayinges of Esaias the Prophet which

sayeth: The voyce of a cryar in wyldernesprepare the waye of the Lorde make hyspathes strayght. 5 Every valley shalbefylled and every moutayne and hyll shalbebrought lowe. And crocked thinges shalbemade streight: and the roughwayes shalbemade smoth: 6 and all flesshe shall se thesaveour sent of God. 7 Then sayde he tothe people that were come to be baptysedof him: O generacion of vipers who hathtaught you to flye from the wrath to come?8 Bringe forth due frutes of repentaunceand begynne not to saye in youre selves wehave Abraham to oure father. For I sayevnto you: God is able of these stones toreyse vp chyldren vnto Abraham. 9 Nowalso ys the axe leyd vnto the rote of thetrees: so that every tree which bringethnot forth good frute shalbe hewe douneand caste in to the fyre. 10 And the peopleaxed him sayinge: What shall we do then?11 He answered and sayde vnto them: Hethat hath two coottes let him parte withhim that hath none: and he that hathmeate let him do lykewyse. 12 Then camether Publicans to be baptised and saydevnto him: Master what shall we do? 13Andhe sayde vnto the: requyre no more thenthat which ys appoynted vnto you. 14 Thesoudyoures lyke wyse demaunded of hymsayinge: and what shall we do? And hesayde to them: Do violence to noo man:nether trouble eny man wrongfully: butbe content with youre wages. 15 As thepeople were in a doute and all men dis-puted in their hertes of Iohn whether hewere very Christ: 16 Ihon answered andsayde to them all: I baptyse you withwater but a stronger then I cometh afterme whose shue latchet I am not worthyto vnlouse: he will baptise you with theholy goost and with fyre: 17which hath hisfanne in his hond andwill pourge his flooreand will gader the corne into his barne:but the chaffe wyll he bourne with fyrethat never shalbe quenched. 18 And manyother thinges in his exhortacion preachedhe vnto the people. 19 Then Herode theTetrach (when he was rebuked of him forHerodias his brother Philippes wyfe andfor all the evyls which Herod had done)20 added this above all and leyd Iohn in

Luke 3:21 55 Luke 4:16preson. 21And that fortuned as all the peo-ple receaved baptyme (and when Iesus wasbaptised and dyd praye) that heaven wasopened 22 and the holy goost came dounein a bodely shape lyke a dove vpo him and avoyce came from heven sayinge: Thou artemy dere sonne in the do I delyte. 23 AndIesus him silfe was about thirty yere of agewhen he begane beinge as men supposedthe sonne of Ioseph. which Ioseph wasthe sonne of Heli: 24which was the sonneof Mathat: which was the sonne of Levi:which was the sonne of Melchi: whichwas the sonne of Ianna: which was thesonne of Ioseph: 25which was the sonne ofMatatthias: which was the sonne of Amos:which was the sonne of Nahum: which wasthe sonne of Esli: which was the sonne ofNagge: 26 which was the sonne of Maath:which was the sonne of Matathias: whichwas the sonne of Semei: which was thesonne of Ioseph: which was the sonne ofIuda: 27 which was the sonne of Iohanna:which was the sonne of Rhesya: whichwas the sonne of zorobabel: which was thesonne of Salathiel: which was the sonneof Neri: 28which was the sonne of Melchi:which was the sonne of Addi: which wasthe sonne of Cosam: which was the sonneof Helmadam: which was the sonne ofHer: 29which was the sonne of Ieso: whichwas the sonne of Helieser: which was thesonne of Ioram: which was the sonneof Mattha: which was the sonne of Levi:30 which was the sonne of Simeon: whichwas the sonne of Iuda: which was thesonne of Ioseph: which was the sonne ofIonam: which was the sonne of Heliachim:31 which was the sonne of Melea: whichwas the sonne of Menam: which was thesonne of Mathathan: which was the sonneof Nathan: which was the sonne of David:32which was the sonne of Iesse: which wasthe sonne of Obed: which was the sonneof Boos: which was the sonne of Salmon:which was the sonne of Naason: 33 whichwas the sonne of Aminadab: which wasthe sonne of Aram: which was the sonneof Esrom: which was the sonne of Phares:which was the sonne of Iuda: 34 whichwas the sonne of Iacob: which was thesonne of Ysaac: which was the sonne ofAbraham: which was the sonne of Tharra:which was the sonne of Nachor: 35 whichwas the sonne of Saruch: which was thesonne of Ragau: which was the sonne ofPhalec: which was the sonne of Heber:which was the sonne of Sala: 36which wasthe sonne of Cainan: which was the sonne

of Arphaxat: which was the sonne of Sem:which was the sonne of Noe: which wasthe sonne of Lameth: 37 which was thesonne of Mathusala: which was the sonneof Enoch: which was the sonne of Iareth:which was the sonne of Malalehel. whichwas the sonne of Cainan: which was thesonne of Enos: 38 which was the sonne ofSeth: which was the sonne of Adam: whichwas the sonne of God.

41 Iesus then full of the holy goost re-

turnyd from Iordan and was caryed of thesprete into wildernes 2 and was .xl. dayestempted of the devyll. And in thoose dayesate he no thinge. And when they wereended he afterward hongred. 3And the de-vyll sayde vnto him: yf thou be the sonneof God commaunde this stone that it bebreed. 4 And Iesus answered hym sayinge:It is written: man shall not live by breedonly but by every worde of God. 5 And thedevyll toke him vp into an hye moutayneand shewed him all the kyngdoms of theworlde even in the twincklinge of an eye.6 And the devyll sayde vnto him: all thispower will I geve the every whit and theglory of them: for that is delyvered to meand to whosoever I will I geve it. 7 Yf thoutherfore wilt worshippe me they shalbe allthyne. 8 Iesus answered him and sayde:hence from me Sathan. For it is written:Thou shalt honour the Lorde thy God andhim only serve. 9 And he caryed him toIerusalem and set him on a pynacle of thetemple and sayd vnto him: Yf thou be thesonne of God cast thy silfe doune fromhens. 10 For it is written he shall geve hisangels charge over the to kepe the, 11 andwith there hondis they shall stey the vpthat thou dasshe not thy fote agaynst astone. 12 Iesus answered and sayde to himit is sayd: thou shalt not tempte the Lordethy God. 13Assone as the devyll had endedall his temptacions he departed from himfor a season. 14 And Iesus retourned bythe power of the sprete in to Galile andthere went a fame of him thorowe oute allthe region roude aboute. 15 And he taughtin their synagoges and was commendedof all men. 16 And he came to Nazarethwhere he was noursed and as hys customewas went in to the synagoge on the Saboth

Luke 4:17 56 Luke 5:4dayes and stode vp for to rede. 17And therwas delyvered vnto him the boke of theProphete Esaias. And when he had openedthe boke he founde the place where it waswritten. 18The sprete of the lorde vponmebecause he hath annoyntedme: to preachethe gospell to the poore he hath sent me:and to heale the broken harted: to preachedelyverauce to the captive and sight to theblinde and frely to set at lyberte them thatare brused 19and to preache the acceptableyeare of the Lorde. 20 And he cloosed thebooke and gave it agayne to the minis-ter and sate doune. And the eyes of allthat were in the synagoge were fastenedon him. 21 And he began to saye vntothem. This daye is this scripture fulfilledin youre eares. 22 And all bare him witnesandwondred at the gracious wordes whichproceded oute of his mouth and sayde: Isnot this Iosephs sonne? 23 And he saydevnto them: Ye maye very well saye vntome this proverbe: Phisicion heale thy silfe.Whatsoever we have heard done in Caper-naum do the same here lyke wyse in thyneawne countre. 24 And he sayde verely Isaye vnto you: No Prophet is accepted inhis awne countre. 25 But I tell you of atruthmanywyddoweswere in Israell in thedayes of Helias when hevyn was shet threyeres and syxemonetheswhen greate fam-misshemet was throughoute all the londe26 and vnto none of them was Helias sentsave in to Sarephta besydes Sidon vnto awoman that was a widow. 27 And manyleperswere in Israel in the tymeofHeliseusthe Prophete: and yet none of them washealed savinge Naaman of Siria. 28 And asmany as were in the sinagoge when theyherde that were filled with wrath: 29 androose vp and thrust him oute of the citeand ledde him even vnto the edge of thehill wher on their cite was bilte to cast himdoune hedlynge. 30 But he went his wayeeven thorow the myddes of them: 31 andcame in to Capernaum a cyte of Galileand there taught the on the Saboth dayes.32 And they were astonyed at his doctrine:for his preachinge was with power. 33 Andin the synagoge ther was a man whichhad a sprete of an vncleane devell andcryed with aloude voyce 34 sayinge: let

me alone what hast thou to do with vsthou Iesus of Nazareth? Arte thou cometo destroye vs? I knowe the what thouarte even the holy of God. 35 And Iesusrebuked him sayinge: holde thy peace andcome oute of him. And the devyll threwehim in the myddes of them and came outeof him and hurt him not. 36 And fearecame on them all and they spake amongethem selves sayinge: what maner a thingeis this? For with auctorite and power hecommaundeth the foule spretes and theycome out? 37 And the fame of him spreedabroode thorowoute all places of the coun-tre round aboute. 38 And he roose vp andcame oute of the sinagoge and entred in toSimons housse. And Simons motherelawewas take with a greate fever and theymadeintercession to him for her. 39And he stodeover her and rebuked the fever: and itleeft her. And immediatly she arose andministred vnto them. 40 When the sonnewas doune all they that had sicke takewith divers deseases brought them vntohim: and he layde his hondes on every oneof them and healed them. 41 And devilsalso cam out of many of them crying andsaying: thou arte Christ the sonne of God.And he rebuked them and suffered themnot to speake: for they knewe that he wasChrist. 42Assone as it was daye he departedand went awaye into a desert place and thepeople sought him and came to him andkept him that he shuld not departe fromthem. 43 And he sayde vnto them: I musteto other cities also preache the kyngdomeof God: for therfore am I sent. 44 And hepreached in the synagoges of Galile.

51 It came to passe as the people preased

vpon him to heare the worde of God thathe stoode by the lake of Genezareth: 2 andsawe two shippes stonde by the lake sydebut the fisshermen were gone out of theand were wasshynge their nettes. 3 Andhe entred in to one of the shippes whichperteyned to Simon and prayed him thathe wolde thrust out a litell from the londe.And he sate doune and taught the peopleout of the ship. 4 When he had leeftspeakynge he sayde vnto Simon: Launcheout in to the depe and let slippe youre

Luke 5:5 57 Luke 5:37nettes to make a draught 5 And Simon an-swered and sayde to him: Master we havelabored all nyght and have taken nothinge.Neverthelater at thy worde I will looseforthe the net. 6 And when they had sodone they inclosed a greate multitude offisshes. And their net brake: 7 but theymade signes to their felowes which werein the other ship that they shuld comeand helpe the And they came: and filledbothe the shippes that they soncke agayne.8WhenSimonPeter sawe that he fell douneat Iesus knees sayinge: Lorde goo from mefor I am a synfull man. 9 For he was vtterlyastonyed and all that were with him at thedraught of fisshe which they toke: 10 andso was also Iames and Iohn the sonnes ofzebede which were parteners with Simon.And Iesus sayde vnto Simon: feare notfrom hence forthe thou shalt catche men.11 And they brought the shippes to londeand forsoke all and folowed him. 12 Andit fortuned as he was in a certayne cite:beholde ther was a man full of leprosy:and when he had spied Iesus he fell onhis face and besought him sayinge: Lordeyf thou wilt thou canst make me cleane.13 And he strethed forth the hond andtouched him sayinge: I will be thou cleane.And immediatly the leprosy departed fromhim. 14 And he warned him that he shuldtell no man: but that he shuld goo andshewe him selfe to the Preste and offer forhis clensynge accordinge as Moses com-maundement was for a witnes vnto them.15But somoche themoarewent ther a fameabroade of him and moche people cam togeder to heare and to be healed of him oftheir infirmities. 16 And he kepte him silfeaparte in the wildernesses and gave himsilfe to prayer. 17 And it happened on acertayne daye that he taught: and ther satethe pharises: and docturs of lawe whichwere come out of all the tounes of GalileIurie and Hierusalem. And the power ofthe Lorde was to heale them. 18 And be-holde me brought a man lyinge in his beedwhich was taken with a palsie: and soughtmeanes to brynge him in and to laye himbefore him. 19 And when they coulde notfinde by what waye they might bringe himin be cause of the prease they wet vp onthe toppe of the housse and let him dounethorowe the tylinge beed and all in the

middes before Iesus. 20When he sawe theirfayth he sayde vnto him: man thy synnesare forgeven the. 21 And the Scribes andthe Parises begane to thinke sayinge: Whatfelow is this which speaketh blasphemy?Who can forgeve synnes but God only?22 When Iesus perceaved their thoughteshe answered and sayde vnto them: Whatthinke ye in youre hertes? 23 Whether iseasyar to saye thy synnes are forgeve the orto saye: rise andwalke? 24But that yemayeknowe that the sonneofmanhathpower toforgeve synnes on erth he sayde vnto thesicke of the palsie: I saye to the aryse takevp thy beed and go home to thy housse.25 And immediatly he rose vp before themand toke vp his beed where on he layeand departed to his awne housse praysingeGod. 26 And they were all amased andthey lauded God and were filled with fearesayinge: We have sene straunge thyngesto daye. 27 And after that he went fortheand sawe a Publican named Levi sittingeat the receyte of custome and sayde vntohim: folow me. 28 And he leeft all roosevp and folowed him. 29And that same Levimade him a greate feaste at home in hisawne housse. And ther was a greate com-pany of publicans and of other that sate atmeate with him. 30 And the Scribes andPharises murmured agaynst his disciplessayinge: Why eate ye and drinke ye withpublicans and synners? 31 Iesus answeredand sayde vnto the: They that are wholenede not of the phisicion: but they that aresicke. 32 I came not to call the rightewesbut synners to repentaunce. 33 Then theysayde vnto him: Why do the disciples ofIohn fast often and praye and the disciplesof the Pharises also: and thine eate anddrinke? 34 And he sayde vnto them: Canye make the chyldren of the weddinge fastas longe as the brydgrome is present withthem? 35 The dayes will come when thebrydgrome shalbe take awaye from them:then shall they fast in those dayes 36 Thenhe spake vnto them in a similitude: Nomanputteth a pece of a newe garment in to anolde vesture: for yf he do: then breakethhe the newe and the pece that was takenout of the newe agreeth not with the olde.37 Also no man poureth newe wyne into

Luke 5:38 58 Luke 6:34olde vessels. For yf he do the newe wynebreaketh the vessels and runneth out itsilfe and the vessels perisshe: 38 But newewyne must be poured into newe vesselsand bothe are preserved. 39 Also no manthat drinketh olde wine strayght waye canawaye with newe for he sayeth the olde isplesauter.

61 It happened on an after saboth that

he went thorow the corne felde and thathis disciples plucked the eares of corneand ate and rubbed them in their hondes.2 And certayne of the Pharises sayde vntothem: Why do the that which is not laufullto do on the saboth dayes? 3 And Iesusanswered them and sayde: Have ye notredde what David dyd when he him sylfewas anhungred and they which were withhim: 4 how he went into the housse of Godand toke and ate the loves of halowedbreedand gave also to them which were withhim: which was not laufull to eate but forthe prestes only. 5And he sayde vnto them:The sonne of man is Lorde of the sabothdaye. 6 And it fortuned in a nother sabothalso that he entred in to the sinagoge andtaught. And ther was a man whose righthonde was dryed vp. 7 And the Scribesand Pharises watched him to se whetherhe wolde heale on the Saboth daye thatthey myght fynde an accusacion agaynsthim. 8 But he knewe their thoughtes andsayde to the man which had the wyddredhonde: Ryse vp and stonde forthe in themyddes. And he arose and stepped forthe.9 Then sayde Iesus vnto them: I will axeyou a question: Whether is it laufull onthe saboth dayes to do good or to do evill?to save lyfe or for to destroye it? 10 Andhe behelde them all in compasse and saydvnto the man: Stretche forth thy honde.And he dyd so and his honde was restoredand made as whoole as the other. 11 Andthey were filled full of madnes and com-muned one with another what they myghtdo to Iesu. 12 And it fortuned in thoosedayes that he went out into a mountaynefor to praye and cotinued all nyght inprayer to god. 13 And assone as it wasdaye he called his disciples and of the hechose twelve which also he called apostles.14Simonwho he named Peter: and Andrew

his brother. Iames and Ihon Philip andBartlemew 15 Mathew and Thomas Iamesthe sonne of Alpheus and Simon calledzelotes 16 and Iudas Iames sonne and IudasIscarioth which same was the traytour.17And he came doune with them and stodein the playne feldewith the company of hisdisciples and agreate multitude of peopleout of all parties of Iurie and Ierusalem andfrom the see cooste of Tire and Sidonwhichcame to heare hym and to be healed oftheir diseases: 18 and they also that werevexed with foule spretes and they werehealed. 19 And all the people preased totouche him: for there went vertue outof him and healed them all. 20 And helifted vp his eyes apon the disciples andsayde: Blessed be the poore: for yours isthe kyngdome of God. 21 Blessed are yethat honger now: for ye shalbe satisfied.22 Blessed are ye that wepe now: for yeshall laugh. Blessed are ye when men hateyou and thrust you oute of their companyeand rayle and abhorre youre name as anevyll thinge for the sonne of manes sake.23 Reioyse ye then and be gladde: for be-holde youre rewarde is greate in heven.After this manner their fathers entreatedthe Prophetes. 24But wo be to you that areryche: for ye have therin youre consola-cion. 25 Wo be to you that are full: for yeshall honger. Wo be to you that now laugh:for ye shall wayle and wepe. 26 Wo be toyou when all men prayse you: for so dydtheir fathers to the false prophetes. 27 ButI saye vnto you which heare: Love youreenemyes. Do good to the which hate you.28Blesse the that course you. And praye forthe which wrongfully trouble you. 29 Andvnto him that smyteth the on the onecheke offer also the other. And him thattaketh awaye thy goune forbid not to takethy coote also. 30 Geve to every man thataxeth of the. And of him that taketh awayethy goodes axe them not agayne. 31And asthe wolde that men shuld doo to you: sodo ye to them lyke wyse. 32 If ye love thewhich love you: what thanke are yeworthyof? For the very synners love their lovers.33 And yf ye do for them which do for you:what thanke are yeworthy of? For the verysynners do even the same. 34 If ye lende tothem of whome ye hoope to receave: what

Luke 6:35 59 Luke 7:16thanke shall ye have: for the very syn-ners lende to synners to receave as mochagayne. 35Wherfore love ye youre enemysdo good and lende lokynge for nothingeagayne and youre rewarde shalbe greateand ye shalbe the chyldren of the hyest:for he is kynde vnto the vnkynde and tothe evyll. 36 Be ye therfore mercifull asyoure father is mercifull. 37 Iudge not andye shall not be Iudged. Condemne not: andye shall not be condemned. Forgeve and yeshalbe forgeven. 38 Geve and that shalbegeven vnto you: good measure presseddoune shaken to geder and runnynge overshall men geve into youre bosomes. Forwith what measure ye mete with ye sameshall men mete to you agayne. 39 And heput forthe a similitude vnto the: Can theblynde leade the blynde? Do they not boththen fall into the dyche? 40 The disciple isnot above his master. Every man shalbeperfecte even as his master is. 41 Whyseyst thou a moote in thy brothers eye andconsiderest not the beame that is in thyneawne eye? 42 Ether how cannest thou sayeto thy brother: Brother let me pull outthe moote that is in thyne eye: when thouperceavest not the beame that is in thyneawne eye? Ypocrite cast out the beame outof thyne awne eye fyrst and then shalt thouse perfectly to pull out the moote out ofthy brothers eye. 43 It is not a good treethat bringeth forthe evyll frute: netheris that an evyll tree that bringeth forthegood frute. 44 For every tree is knowen byhis frute. Nether of thornes gader menfygges nor of busshes gader they grapes.45 A good man out of the good treasureof his hert bringeth forthe that which isgood. And an evyll man out of the evylltreasure of his hert bringeth forthe thatwhich ys evyll. For of the aboundaunceof the her his mouthe speakethe. 46 Whycall ye me Master, Master: and do not as Ibid you? 47 whosoever cometh to me andheareth my sayinges and dothe the same Iwill sheweyou towhomeheys lyke. 48He islike amanwhich bilt an housse: and diggeddepe and layde the foundacion on a rocke.When the waters arose the fludde bet aponthat housse and coulde not move that. Foritwas grounded apona rocke. 49Buthe that

heareth and doth not is lyke a man thatwith out foundacion bylt an housse aponthe erth agaynst which the fludde did bet:and it fell by and by. And the fall of thathousse was greate.

71 When he had ended all his sainges in

the audience of the people he entred intoCapernaum. 2 And a certayne Centurionsseruaunte was sicke and redy to dye whomhe made moche of. 3 And when he heardeof Iesu he sent vnto him the elders ofthe Iewes besechinge him that he woldecome and heale his servaunt. 4 And theycame to Iesus and besought him instantlysayinge: He is worthi that thou shuldest dothis for him. 5 For he loveth oure nacionand hath bilt vs a sinagoge 6 And Iesuswent with them. And when he was notfarre from the housse the Centurion sentfrendes to him sayinge vnto him: Lordetrouble not thy silfe: for I am not worthythat thou shuldest enter vnder my roffe.7Wherfore I thought notmy silfeworthy tocome vnto the: but saye the worde and myservaunt shalbe whoole. 8 For I lyke wyseam a man vnder power and have vnderme soudiers and I saye vnto won goo: andhe goeth. And to another come: and hecometh. And to my servaunt do this: andhe doeth it. 9 When Iesus herde this hemerveyled at him and turned him aboutand sayd to the people that folowed him:I saye vnto you I have not founde so greatefaith noo not in Israel. 10 And they thatwere sent turned backe home agayne andfounde the servaunt that was sickewhoole.11 And it fortuned after that that he wentinto a cite called Naim and many of hisdiscipleswentwith him andmoche people.12When he came nye to the gate of the cite:beholde ther was a deed man caried outwhich was the only sonne of his motherand she was a widowe and moche peopleof the cite was with her. 13 And whenthe lorde sawe her he had compassion onher and sayde vnto her: wepe not. 14 Andhe went and touched the coffyn and theythat bare him stode still. And he sayde:Yonge man I saye vnto the aryse. 15 Andthe deed sate vp and beganne to speake.Andhe delyvered him to hismother. 16Andther came a feare on the all. And they

Luke 7:17 60 Luke 7:49glorified god sayinge: a greate prophet isrysen amonge vs and god hath visited hispeople 17And this rumor of him wet forthethroughout all Iurie and thorowout all theregions which lye rounde about. 18And thedisciples of Iohn shewed him of all thesethinges. 19And Iohn called vnto him .ii. ofhis disciples and sent the to Iesus sayinge:Arte thou he that shall come: or shall weloke for another? 20 When the men werecome vnto him they sayde: Iohn baptistesent vs vnto ye sayinge: Arte thou he thatshall come: or shall we wayte for another?21 And at the same tyme he cured manyof their infirmites and plages and of evyllspretes and vntomany thatwere blynde hegave sight. 22And Iesus answered and saydvnto them: Goo youre wayes and sheweIohn what thinges ye have sene and harde:how that the blynde se the halt goo thelepers are clensed the deafe heare the deedaryse to the poore is the glad tydingespreached 23 and happy is he that is notoffended by me. 24 When the messengersof Iohn were departed he began to speakevnto the people of Iohn What wet ye outeinto the wildernes for to se? went ye to searede shaken with the wynde? 25 But whatwent ye out for tose? A man clothed insoofte rayment? Beholde they which aregorgeously apparelled and lyve delicatlyare in kynges courtes. 26 But what wentye forth to se? A prophete? Ye I saye toyou and moare then a prophete. 27 This ishe of who it is wrytten: Beholde I sendemy messenger before thy face to preparethy waye before the. 28 For I saye vntoyou: a greater prophete then Iohn amongewemes chyldre is ther none. Neverthelesseone that is lesse in the kyngdo of god isgreater the he. 29 And all the people thathearde and the publicans iustified God andwere baptised with the baptism of Iohn.30But the pharises and scribes despised thecounsell of god agaynst them selves andwere not baptised of him. 31And the lordesayd: Wher vnto shall I lyke the men ofthis generacion and what thinge are theylyke? 32 They are lyke vnto chyldre sit-tynge in the market place and cryinge oneto another and sayinge: We have pypedvnto you and ye have not daunsed: we

havemourned to you and yehave notwept.33 For Iohn baptist cam nether eatyngebreed ner drinkynge wyne and ye saye:he hath the devyll. 34 The sonne of manis come and eateth and drinketh and yesaye: beholde a man which is a glotton anda drinker of wyne a frende of publicansand synners. 35 Yet is wysdome iustifiedof all her chyldren. 36 And one of thepharises desyred him that he wolde eatewith him. And he went into the phariseshousse and sate doune to meate. 37 Andbeholde a woman in that cite which wasa synner assone as she knewe that. Iesussate at meate in the pharises housse shebrought an alablaster boxe of oyntment38 and she stode at his fete behynde himwepynge and beganne to wesshe his fetewith teares and dyd wipe the with theheares of her heed and kyssed his fete andanoynted them with oyntment. 39 Whenthe pharise which bade him sawe that hespake with in him sylfe sayinge: If thisman were a prophete he wolde surely haveknowen who and what maner woman thisis which toucheth him for she is a synner.40And Iesus answered and sayde vnto him:Simon I have some what to saye vnto the.And he sayd master saye on. 41 There wasa certayne lender which had two dettersthe one ought five hondred pence and theother fyfty. 42 When they had nothingeto paye he forgave the boothe. Which ofthem tell mewill love himmoost? 43Simonanswered and sayde: I suppose that he towhom he forgave moost. And he saydevnto him: Thou hast truly iudged. 44 Andhe turned to the woman and sayde vntoSimon: Seist thou this woman? I entredinto thy housse and thou gavest me noowater to my fete but she hath wesshedmy fete with teares and wiped the withthe heeres of her heed. 45 Thou gavestme no kysse: but she sence the tyme Icame in hath not ceased to kysse my fete46 Myne heed with oyle thou dydest notanoynte: but she hath annoynted my fetewith oyntmet. 47 Wherefore I saye vntothe: many synnes are forgeve her for sheloved moche. To whom lesse is forgeventhe same doeth lesse love. 48 And hesayde vnto her thy synnes are forgeventhe. 49 And they that sate at meate with

Luke 7:50 61 Luke 8:30him beganne to saye within them selves:Who is this which forgeveth synnes also?50 And he sayde to the woman: Thy faithhath saved the Goo in peace.

81 And it fortuned after that that he him

sylfe went throughout cities and tounespreachynge and shewinge the kyngdom ofGod and the twelve with him. 2 And alsocertayne wemen which wer healed of evellspretes and infirmities: Mary called Mag-dalen out of whomwent seven devyls 3 andIoanna the wyfe of Chusa Herodees stew-arde and Susanna and many other: whichministred vnto the of their substaunce.4Whenmoch peoplewere gadred to getherand were come to him out of all cities hespake by a similitude. 5A sowerwent out tosowe his seede: and as he sowed some fellby the waye syde and it was troden vnderfete and the foules of the ayre devoured itvp. 6And some fell on ston and assone as itwas spronge vp itwiddred awaye because itlacked moystnes. 7 And some fell amongethornes and the thornes spronge vp withit and choked it. 8 And some fell on goodgrounde and sproge vp and bare frute anhondred foolde. And as he sayde thesethinges he cryed: He that hath eares toheare let him heare. 9 And his disciplesaxed him sayinge: what maner similitudeis this? 10 And he sayde: vnto you is itgeven to knowe the secretes of the kyng-domofGod: but to other in similitudes thatwhen they se they shuld not se: and whenthey heare they shuld not vnderstonde.11 The similitude is this. The seede is thewordeofGod. 12Thoose that are besyde thewaye are they that heare and afterwardecometh the devyll and taketh awaye theworde out of their hertes lest they shuldbeleve and be saved. 13They on the stonnesare they which when they heare receavethe worde with ioye. But these have noorootes which for a whyle beleve and intyme of temptacion goo awaye. 14 Andthat which fell amonge thornes are theywhich heare and goo forth and are chokedwith cares and with riches and volupteouslyvinge and bringe forth noo frute. 15Thatin the good grounde are they which witha good and pure hert heare the worde

and kepe it and bringe forth frute withpacience. 16Noman lyghteth a candell andcovereth it vnder a vessell nether puttethit vnder the table: but setteth it on acandelsticke that they that enter in mayese the lyght. 17 No thinge is in secret thatshall not come abroode: Nether eny thingehyd that shall not be knowen and come tolyght. 18 Take hede therfore how ye heare.For whosoever hath to him shalbe geve:And whosoever hath not from him shalbetake even that same which he supposeththat he hath. 19 Then came to him hismother and his brethren and coulde notcome at him for prease. 20 And they toldehim sayinge: Thymother and thy brethrenstonde with out and wolde se the. 21 Heanswered and sayd vnto them: my motherand my brethren are these which hearethe worde of God and do it. 22 And itchaunsed on a certayne daye that he wentinto a shippe and his disciples also and hesayde vnto them: Let vs goo over vnto theother syde of the lake. And they Lanchedforthe. 23And as they sayled he fell a slepeand there arose a storme of wynde in thelake and they were fylled with water andwere in ieopardy. 24 And they went to himand awoke him sayinge: Master Masterwe are loost. Then he arose and rebukedthe wynde and the tempest of water andthey ceased and it wexed calme. 25 Andhe sayd vnto them: where is youre faith?They feared and wondred sayinge one toanother: what felowe is this? for he com-maundeth bothe the wyndes and waterand they obey him? 26 And they sayledvnto the region of the Gaderenites which isover agaynst Galile. 27 And as he went outto londe ther met him a certayne man outof the cite which had a devyll longe tymeandware noo clothes nether aboode in enyhousse: but amonge graves. 28 When hesawe Iesus he cryed and fell doune beforehim and with a loude voyce sayde: Whathave I to do with the Iesus the sonne of theGod moost hyest? I beseche the tormentme not. 29 Then he commaunded the foulesprete to come out of the man. For oftetymes he caught him and he was boundewith chaynes and kept with fetters: andhe brake the bondes and was caryed of thefende into wyldernes. 30 And Iesus axed

Luke 8:31 62 Luke 9:7him sayinge: what is thy name? And hesayde: Legion because many devyls wereentred into him. 31 And they besoughthim that he wolde not commaunde theto goo out into the depe. 32 And therwas there by an heerde of many swynefedynge on an hyll: and they besoughthim that he wolde soffre the to enter intothem. And he soffred them. 33 Thenwent the devyls out of the man and entredinto the swyne: And the heerd toke theircourse and ran heedlynge into the lake andwere choked. 34 When the herdmen sawewhat had chaunsed they fleed and toldeit in the cite and in the villages. 35 Andthey came out to se what was done: andcame to Iesus and founde the man out ofwho the devyls were departed sittynge atthe fete of Iesus clothed and in his rightmynde and they were afrayde. 36 Theyalso wich sawe it tolde the by what meaneshe that was possessed of the devyll washealed. 37 And all the whole multitude ofthe cotrye of theGaderenites besought himthat he wolde departe from the: for theywere taken with greate feare. And he gatehim into the shippe and returned backeagayne. 38 Then the man out of whom thedevyls were departed besought him thathe myght be with him: But Iesus sent himawaye sayinge: 39 Goo home agayne intothyne awne housse and shewe what greatthinges God hath done to the. And he wenthis waye and preached thorow out all thecitewhat great thinges Iesus haddonevntohim. 40 And it fortuned when Iesus wascomeagayne that the people receavedhim.For they all wayted for him. 41And beholdether came a man named Iairus (and hewas a ruler of the synagoge) and he felldoune at Iesus fete and besought him thathewolde come into his housse 42 for he hadbut a doughter only apon a twelve yere ofage and she laye a dyinge. And as he wentthe people thronged him. 43 And a womanhavynge an issue of bloud twelve yeres(which had spent all her substance amongephisicions nether coulde be holpen of eny)44 came behinde him and touched the hemof his garmet and immediatly her issue ofbloud staunched. 45 And Iesus sayde: Whois it that touched me? when every mandenyed Peter and they that were with him

sayde: Master the people thrust the andvexe the: and sayest thou who touchedme? 46And Iesus sayd: Some body touchedme. For I perceave that vertue is goneout of me. 47 When the woman sawe thatshe was not hid she came trimblynge andfell at is fete and tolde him before all thepeople for what cause she had touchedhim and how she was healed immediatly.48 And he sayde vnto hyr: Doughter be ofgood comforte Thy faith hath made thehoale goo in peace. 49 Whyll he yet spakethere came one from the rulers of thesynagogis housse which sayde to him: thydoughter is deed disease not the master.50 When Iesus hearde that He answeredthe father sayinge: Feare not beleve onlyand she shalbe made whole. 51 And whenhe came to the housse he suffred no manto goo in with him save Peter Iames andIohn and the father and the mother of themayden. 52 Every body weept and sorowedfor her. And he sayde: Wepe not: forshe is not deed but slepeth. 53 And theylewgh him to scorne. For they knew thatshe was deed. 54 And he thrust the all outand caught her by the honde and cryedsayinge: Mayde aryse. 55 And hyr spretecame agayne and she roose strayght waye.And he commaunded to geve her meate.56 And the father and the mother of hyrwere astonyed. But he warned the thatthey shuld tell noo man what was done.

91 Then called he the .xii. to gether and

gave them power and auctorite over alldevyls and that they myght heale diseases.2 And he sent them to preache the kyng-dome of God and to cure the sick. 3 Andhe sayd to them: Take nothinge to suckeryou by the waye: nether staffe nor scripenether breed nether money nether havetwoo cootes. 4 And whatsoever housseye enter into there abyde and thence de-parte. 5 And whosoever will not receaveyouwhen ye go out of that cite shake of thevery dust from youre fete for a testimonyagaynst them. 6 And they went out andwent thorow the tounes preachinge thegospell and healynge every wheare. 7 AndHerod the tetrarch herde of all that wasdone of him and douted because that itwas sayde of some that Iohn was rysen

Luke 9:8 63 Luke 9:41agayne from deeth: 8 and of some thatHelyas had apered: and of other that oneof the olde prophetes was rysen agayne.9 And Herod sayde: Iohn have I behedded:who then is this of whom I heare suchethinges? And he desyred to se him. 10Andthe Apostles retourned and tolde himwhatgreat thinges they had done. And he tokethem and went a syde into a solitary placenye to a citie called Bethsaida. 11 And thepeople knewe of it and folowed him. Andhe receaved them and spake vnto them ofthe kyngdome of God andhealed them thathad nede to be healed. 12 And when thedaye beganne to weare awaye then camethe twelve and sayde vnto him: sende thepeople awaye that they maye goo into thetounes and villages roundabout and lodgeand get meate for we are here in a placeof wyldernes. 13 But he sayde vnto them:Geve ye them to eate. And they sayde.We have no moo but fyve loves and twofisshes except we shuld goo and bye meatefor all this people. 14 And they were abouta fyve thousand men. And he sayde tohis disciples: Cause them to syt doune byfyfties in a company. 15 And they dyd sooand made them all syt doune. 16 And hetoke the fyve loves and the two fisshes andloked vp to heven and blessed them andbrake and gave to the disciples to set beforethe people. 17 And they ate and were allsatisfied. And ther was taken vp of thatremayned to the twelve baskettes full ofbroken meate. 18 And it fortuned as hewas alone prayinge his disciples were withhim and he axed the sayinge: Who sayeye people that I am? 19 They answeredand sayd: Iohn Baptist. Some saye Helyas.And some saye one of the olde prophetesis rysen agayne. 20 He sayde vnto the:Who saye ye that I am? Peter answeredand sayde: thou arte the Christ of god.21 And he warned and commaunded themthat they shuld tell no man that thinge22 sayinge: that the sonne of man mustsuffremany thinges and be reproved of theelders and of the hye prestes and scribesand be slayne and the thirde daye ryseagayne. 23 And he sayde to them all yfeny man will come after me let him denyehim sylfe and take vp his crosse dayly and

folowe me. 24Whosoever will save his lyfeshall lose it. And who soever shall losehis lyfe for my sake the same shall save it.25 For what avauntageth it a man to wynnethe whole worlde yf he loose him sylfeor runne in domage of him sylfe? 26 Forwhosoever is ashamed of me and of mysayinges: of him shall the sonne of manbe ashamed when he cometh in his awneglorie and in the glorie of his father andof the holy angels. 27 And I tell you of asurety: There be some of the that stondehere which shall not tast of deeth tyll theyse the kyngdome of god. 28 And it folowedabout an .viii. dayes after thoose sayingesthat he toke Peter Iames and Iohn andwentvp into a moutayne to praye. 29 And as heprayed the facion of his countenaunce waschanged and his garment was whyte andshoone. 30 And beholde two men talkedwith him and they were Moses and Helyas31 which appered gloriously and spake ofhis departinge which he shuld ende atIerusalem. 32Peter and they thatwerewithhim were hevy with slepe. And when theywoke they sawe his glorie and two menstondinge with him. 33 And it chaunsed asthey departed from him Peter sayde vntoIesus: Master it is good beinge here for vs.Let vs make thre tabernacles one for theand one for Moses and one for Helyas: andwist not what he sayde. 34 Whyll he thusspake ther came a cloude and shadowedthem: and they feared when they werecome vnder the cloude. 35And ther came avoyce out of the cloude sayinge: This is mydeare sonne heare him. 36 And assone asthe voyce was past Iesus was founde alone.And they kept it cloose and tolde noo manin thoose dayes eny of those thinges whichthey had sene. 37 And it chaunsed onthe nexte daye as they came doune fromthe hyll moche people met him. 38 Andbeholde a man of the company cryed outsayinge: Master I beseche the beholde mysonne for he is all that I have: 39 andse a sprete taketh him and sodenly hecryeth and he teareth him that he fomethagayne and with moche payne departethfrom him when he hath rent him 40 andI besought thy disciples to cast him outand they coulde not. 41 Iesus answeredand sayde: O generacion with oute fayth

Luke 9:42 64 Luke 10:14and croked: how longe shall I be with you?and shall suffre you? Bringe thy sonnehidder. 42 As he yet was a cominge thefende ret him and tare him. And Iesusrebuked the vnclene sprete and healed thechilde and delivered him to his father. Andthey were all amased at the mighty powerof God. 43 Whyll they wondred every oneat all thinges which he dyd he sayd vntohis disciples: 44 Let these sayinges synkedoune into youre eares. The tyme willcome when the sonne of man shalbe deliv-ered into the hondes of men. 45 But theywist not what that worde meant and thatwas hyd from the that they vnderstodethat not. And they feared to axehimof thatsayinge. 46 Then ther arose a disputacionamonge the: who shuld be the greatest.47When Iesus perceaved the thoughtes oftheir hertes he toke a chylde and set himhard by him 48 and sayd vnto the: Whoso-ever receaveth this chylde in my namereceaveth me. And whosoever receavethme receaveth him that sentme. For he thatis least amonge you all the same shalbegreate. 49 And Iohn answered and sayde:Master we sawe one castinge out devyls inthy name and we forbade him because hefoloweth not with vs. 50 And Iesus saydevnto him: forbyd ye him not. For he that isnot agaynst vs is with vs. 51And it folowedwhen the tymewas come that he shulde bereceaved vp then he set his face to goo toHierusalem 52 and sent messengers beforehim. And they went and entred into acitie of the Samaritans to make redy forhim. 53 But they wolde not receave him because his face was as though he wolde gooto Ierusalem. 54 When his disciples Iamesand Iohn sawe that they sayde: Lorde wiltthou that we commaunde that fyre comedoune fromheven and consume themevenas Helias dyd? 55 Iesus turned about andrebuked them sayinge: ye wote not whatmaner sprete ye are of. 56The sonne ofmanys not come to destroye mennes lives butto save them. And they went to anothertoune. 57 And it chaunsed as he went inthe waye a certayne man sayd vnto him:I will folowe the whither soever thou goo.58 Iesus sayd vnto him: foxes have holesand bryddes of the ayer have nestes: butthe sonne ofmanhath notwhere on to laye

his heed. 59 And he sayde vnto another:folowe me. And the same sayde: Lordesuffre me fyrst to goo and bury my father.60 Iesus sayd vnto him: Let the deed burytheir deed: but goo thou and preache thekyngdome of God. 61 And another sayde:I wyll folowe the Lorde: but let me fyrstgoo byd them fare well which are at homeat my housse. 62 Iesus sayde vnto him: Noman that putteth his honde to the ploweand loketh backe is apte to the kyngdomeof God.

101 After these thinges the Lorde apoynted

other seventie also and sent them two andtwo before him into every citie and placewhither he him silfe wolde come. 2And hesayde vnto them the harvest is greate: butthe laborers are feawe. Praye therfore theLorde of the harvest to send forth laborersinto his hervest. 3 Goo youre wayes: be-holde I sende you forthe as lambes amongewolves. 4 Beare noo wallet nether scryppenor shues and salute nooman by the waye.5 Into whatsoever housse ye enter fyrstsaye: Peace be to this housse. 6 And yf thesonne of peace be theare youre peace shallrest vpon him: yf not that shall returneto you agayne. 7 And in the same houssetary still eatinge and drinkinge soche asthey have. For the laborer is worthy of hisrewarde. Go not from housse to housse:8 and in to whatso ever citye ye enter yfthey receave you eate soche thinges as areset before you 9and heale the sicke that aretheare and saye vnto them: the kyngdomeof God is come nye vpon you. 10 But intowhatsoever citie ye shall enter yf they re-ceave you not goo youre wayes out into thestretes of the same and saye: 11 even thevery dust which cleaveth on vs of your citiewewipe of agaynst you: Notwithstondingemarke this that the kyngdome of God wascome nie vpon you. 12 Ye and I saye vntoyou: that it shalbe easier in that daye forSodom then for that cytie. 13Wo be to theChorazin: wo be to the Bethsaida. For yfthe miracles had bene done in Tyre andSidon which have bene done in you theyhad a greate whyle agone repeted sittingin heere and asshes. 14 Neverthelesse itshalbe easier for Tyre and Sidon at the

Luke 10:15 65 Luke 11:5iudgement then for you. 15 And thou Ca-pernau which art exalted to heaven shaltbe thrust doune to hell. 16He that hearethyou heareth me: and he that dispiseth youdespiseth me: and he that dispiseth medespiseth him that sent me. 17 And thesevetie returned agayne with ioye sayinge:Lorde even the very devyls are subdued tovs thorowe thy name. 18And he sayde vntothem: I sawe satan as it had bene light-enyng faule doune fromheaven. 19BeholdeI geve vnto youpower to treade on serpetesand scorpions and over all maner power ofthe enimye and no thinge shall hurte you.20 Neverthelesse in this reioyse not thatthe spretes are vnder youre power: butreioyse be cause youre names are wryttenin heaven. 21 That same tyme reioysedIesus in the sprete and sayde: I confessevnto the father Lorde of heaven and erththat thou hast hyd these thynges from thewyse and prudent andhast opened them tothe babes. Even so father for soo pleasedit the. 22 All thinges are geven me of myfather. And no man knoweth who thesonne is but the father: nether who thefather is save the sonne and he to who thesonne wyll shewe him. 23 And he turnedto his disciples and sayde secretly: Happyare the eyes which se that ye se. 24 For Itell you that many prophetes and kyngeshave desired to se those thinges which yese and have not sene them: and to hearethose thinges which ye heare and have nothearde them. 25 And beholde a certayneLawere stode vp and tempted him sayinge:Master what shall I do to inheret eternalllife? 26He sayd vnto him: What is writtenin the lawe? How redest thou? 27 Andhe answered and sayde: Loue thy LordeGod with all thy hert and with all thysoule and with all thy stregthe and withall thy mynde: and thy neghbour as thysylfe. 28 And he sayde vnto him: Thouhast answered right. This do and thoushalt live. 29 He willinge to iustifie himsilfe sayde vnto Iesus: Who is then myneghbour? 30 Iesus answered and sayde: Acertayne man descended from Hierusaleminto Hierico and fell in to the hondes oftheves which robbed him of his raymetand wounded him and departed levyngehim halfe deed. 31 And by chaunce ther

came a certayne preste that samewaye andwhen he sawe him he passed by. 32 Andlykewyse a Levitewhenhewas comenye tothe place wet and loked on him and passedby. 33 Then a certayne Samaritane as heiornyed came nye vnto him and when hesawe him had compassion on him 34 andwent to and bounde vp his woundes andpoured in oyle and wyne and put himon his awne beaste and brought him to acomen ynne and made provision for him.35 And on the morowe when he departedhe toke out two pece and gave them tothe host and sayde vnto him. Take cureof him andwhatsoever thou spedestmoarewhen I come agayne I will recompence the.36 Which now of these thre thynkest thouwas neighbour vnto him that fell into thetheves hondes? 37 And he sayde: he thatshewed mercy on him. Then sayde Iesusvnto him. Goo and do thou lyke wyse.38 It fortuned as they wet that he entredin to a certayne toune. And a certaynewoman named Martha receaved him intoher housse. 39And this woman had a sistercalled Mary which sate at Iesus fete andhearde his preachinge. 40 And Martha wascombred about moche servinge and stodeand sayde: Master doest thou not carethat my sister hath leeft me to ministeralone? Byd her therfore that she helpeme. 41 And Iesus answered and sayde vntoher: Martha Martha thou carest and artetroubled aboutmany thinges: 42verely oneis nedfull. Mary hath chosen her that goodparte which shall not be taken awaye fromher.

111 And it fortuned as he was prayinge in a

certayne place: when he ceased one of hisdisciples sayde vnto him: Master teachevs to praye as Iohn taught his disciples.2 And he sayd vnto the: When ye prayesaye: O oure father which arte in heaven,halowed be thy name. Thy kyngdomecome. Thy will be fulfilled, even in erthas it is in heaven. 3 Oure dayly breedgeve vs evermore. 4 And forgeve vs ouresynnes: For even we forgeve every manthat treaspaseth vs. And ledde vs notinto temptacion. But deliver vs from evill.5 And he sayde vnto them: if any of you

Luke 11:6 66 Luke 11:39shuld have a frede and shuld goo to him atmid nyght and saye vnto him: frende lendeme thre loves 6 for a frende ofmyne is comeout of the waye to me and I have nothingeto set before him: 7 and he within shuldanswere and saye trouble me not the doreis now sheet and my servautes are withme in the chamber I cannot ryse and gevethem to the. 8 I saye vnto you though hewold not aryse and geve him because he ishis frede: yet because of his importunitehe wold rise and geve him as many as heneded. 9 And I saye vnto you: axe andit shalbe geven you. Seke and ye shallfynde. knocke and it shalbe opened vntoyou. 10 For every one that axeth receaveth:and he that seketh fyndeth: and to himthat knocketh shall it be openned. 11Yf thesonne shall axe breed of eny of you that isa father: wyll he geve him a stone? Or yfhe axe fisshe wyll he for a fysshe geve hima serpent? 12Or yf he axe an egge: wyll heoffer him a scorpion? 13 Yf ye then whichare evyll canne geve good giftes vnto yourechyldren howmoche more shall the fatherof heaven geve an holy sprete to them thatdesyre it of him? 14And he was a castyngeout a devyll which was dome. And itfolowed when the devyll was gone out thedomme spake and the people wondred.15 But some of the sayde: he casteth outdevyls by the power of Belzebub the chefeof the devyls. 16 And other tempted himsekinge of him a signe from heaven. 17 Buthe knewe their thoughtes and sayde vntothem: Every kingdome devided with init silfe shalbe desolate: and one housseshall fall vpon another. 18 So if Satan bedevided with in him silfe: how shall hiskyngdome endure? Because ye saye that Icast out devyls by the power of Belzebub.19Yf I by the power of Belzebub caste outedevyls: by whome do youre chyldren castthem out? Therfore shall they be youreiudges. 20 But if I with the finger of Godcast out devyls noo doute the kyngdomeof God is come vpon you. 21 When astronge man armed watcheth his housse:that he possesseth is in peace. 22But whena stronger then he cometh vpo him andovercometh him: he taketh from him hisharnes wherin he trusted and devideth hisgooddes. 23 He that is not with me is

agaynstme. And he that gadereth not withme scattereth. 24When the vnclene spreteis gone out of a man he walketh throughwaterlesse places sekinge reest. And whenhe fyndeth none he sayeth: I will returneagayne vnto my housse whence I cameout. 25 And when he cometh he fyndeth itswept and garnissed. 26Then goeth he andtaketh to him seve other spretes worssethen himsilfe: and they enter in and dwellthere. And the ende of that man is worssethen the begynninge. 27And it fortuned ashe spake those thinges a certayne womanof the company lyfte vp her voyce andsayde vnto him: Happy is the wombe thatbare the and the pappes which gave thesucke. 28 But he sayde: Ye happy are theythat heare the worde of God and kepe it.29When the people were gadered thicke togeder: he began to saye. This is an evyllnacion: they seke a signe and ther shallno signe be geven them but the signe ofIonas the Prophet. 30 For as Ionas was asigne to the Ninivites so shall the sonneof man be to this nacion. 31 The quene ofthe southe shall ryse at iudgementwith themen of this generacion and condempnethem: for she came from the ende of theworlde to heare the wysdome of Salomon.And beholde a greater then Salomon ishere. 32 The men of Ninive shall ryse atthe iudgement with this generacion andshall condempne them: for they repentedat the preachinge of Ionas. And beholdea greater then Ionas is here. 33 Noo manlighteth a candell, and putteth it in a previeplace nether vnder a busshell: But on acandelsticke that they that come in mayese the light. 34 The light of thy body isthe eye. Therfore when thine eye is single:then is all thy body full of light. But if thineeye be evyll: then shall thy body also befull of darknes. 35 Take hede therfore thatthe light which is in the be not darknes.36 For if all thy body shalbe light havyngenoo parte darke: then shall all be full oflight even as when a candell doeth lightthe with his brightnes. 37 And as he spakea certayne Pharise besought him to dynewith him: and he went in and sate dounetomeate. 38When the Pharise sawe that hemarveylled that he had not fyrst wesshedbefore dyner. 39 And the Lorde sayde to

Luke 11:40 67 Luke 12:18him: Now do the Pharises make clene theout side of the cup and of the platter: butyoure inwarde parties are full of raveningeand wickednes. 40 Ye foles dyd not he thatmade that which is without: make thatwhich is within also? 41Neverthelesse gevealmose of that ye have and beholde all isclene to you. 42 But wo be to you Pharisesfor ye tithe the mynt and rewe and allmanner erbes and passe over iudgmentand the love of God. These ought ye tohave done and yet not to have left the othervndone. 43 Wo be to you Pharises: for yelove the vppermost seates in the synagogesand gretinges in the markets. 44Wo be toyou scribes and pharises ypocrites for yeare as graves which appere not, and themen that walke over them, are not ware ofthem. 45Then answered one of the lawearsand sayd vnto him: Master thus sayingethou puttest vs to rebuke also. 46 Then hesayde: Wo be to you also ye lawears: forye lade men with burthens greveous to beborne and ye youre selves touche not thepackes with one of youre fyngers. 47 Wobe to you: ye bylde the sepulchres of theProphetes and youre fathers killed them:48 truly ye beare witnes that ye alowe thededes of youre fathers for they kylled themand ye bylde their sepulchres. 49 Therforesayde the wisdome of God: I will sendthem Prophetes and Apostles and of themthey shall slee and persecute: 50 that thebloude of all Prophetes which was sheedfrom the beginninge of the worlde mayebe requyred of this generacion 51 from thebloud of Abell vnto the bloud of zacharywhich perisshed bitwene the aulter andthe temple. Verely I saye vnto you: itshalbe requyred of this nacion. 52 Wo beto you lawears: for ye have taken awayethe keye of knowledge ye entred not inyoure selves and them that came in yeforbade. 53When he thus spake vnto themthe lawears and the Pharises began towexebusye about him and to stop his mouthwith many questions 54 layinge wayte forhim and sekinge to catche somethinge ofhismoughtwherby theymight accuse him.

121 As ther gadered together an innumer-

able multitude of people (in so moche that

they trood one another) he began to sayevnto his disciples: Fyrst of all beware ofthe leve of the Pharises which is ypocrisy.2 For ther is no thinge covered that shallnot be vncovered: nether hyd that shallnot be knowen. 3 For whatsoever ye havespoken in in darknes: that same shalbehearde in light. And that which ye havespoken in the the eare even in secret placesshalbe preached even on the toppe of thehousses. 4 I saye vnto you my fredes: Benot afrayde of them that kyll the body andafter that have no moare that they can do.5 But I will shewe you whom ye shall feare.Feare him which after he hath killed hathpower to cast into hell. Ye I saye vntoyou him feare. 6 Are not five sparowesbought for two farthinges? And yet notone of them is forgotten of God. 7 Alsoeven the very heres of youre heedes arenombred. Feare not therfore: ye aremoareof value then many sparowes. 8 I saye vntoyou: Whosoever confessethme beforemeneven him shall the sonne of man confessealso before the angels of God. 9And he thatdenyeth me before men: shalbe denyedbefore the angels of God. 10Andwhosoeverspeaketh a worde agaynst the sonne ofman it shalbe forgeven him. But vnto himthat blasphemeth the holy goost it shallnot be forgeven. 11When they bringe youvnto the synagoges and vnto the rulersand officers take no thought how or whatthinge ye shall answer or what ye shallspeake. 12 For the holy goost shall teacheyou in the same houre what ye ought tosaye. 13 One of the company sayde vntohym: Master byd my brother devide theenheritauce with me. 14 And he saydevnto him: Man who made me a iudgeor a devider over you? 15 Wherfore hesayde vnto them: take hede and beware ofcovetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondethin the aboundaunce of the thinges whichhe possesseth. 16 And he put forth a simil-itude vnto them sayinge: The groude ofa certayne riche man brought forth frutesplenteously 17 and he thought in himsilfesayinge: what shall I do? because I havenoo roume where to bestowe my frutes?18 And he sayde: This will I do. I willdestroye my barnes and bilde greater and

Luke 12:19 68 Luke 12:53therin will I gadder all my frutes and mygoodes: 19and Iwill saye tomy soule: Soulethou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoorefor many yeares take thyne ease: eatedrinke and be mery. 20 But God sayde vntohim: Thou fole this night will they fetcheawaye thy soule agayne from the. Thenwhose shall thoose thinges be which thouhast provyded? 21 So is it with him thatgadereth ryches and is not ryche in God.22Andhe spake vnto his disciples: TherforeI saye vnto you: take no thought for yourelyfe what ye shall eate nether for yourebody what ye shall put on. 23 The lyfe ismoare then meate and the bodye is moarethen rayment. 24 Considre the ravens forthey nether sowe nor repe which netherhave stoorehousse ner barne and yet Godfedeth them. How moche are ye betterthen the foules. 25 Which of you withtakynge thought can adde to his statureone cubit? 26 Yf ye then be not able todo that thinge which is least: why take yethought for the remmaunt? 27 Considrethe lylies how they growe: They labourenot: they spyn not: and yet I saye vntoyou that Salomon in all this royalte was notclothed lyke to oneof these. 28Yf the grassewhich is todaye in the felde and tomoroweshalbe cast into the fornace God so clothe:how moche moore will he clothe you o yeendued with litell faith? 29 And axe notwhat ye shall eate or what ye shall drinkenether clyme ye vp an hye 30 for all suchethinges the hethen people of the worldeseke for. Youre father knoweth that yehave nede of suche thinges. 31 Wherforeseke ye after the kyngedome of God and allthese thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.32 Feare not litell floocke for it is yourefathers pleasure to geve you a kingdome.33 Sell that ye have and geve almes. Andmake you bagges which wexe not oldeand treasure that fayleth not in heavenwhere noo these commeth nether mothcorrupteth. 34 For where youre treasure isthere will youre hertes be also. 35Let youreloynes be gerdde about and youre lightesbrennynge 36 and ye youre selves lyke vntomen that wayte for their master when hewill returne from a weddinge: that assoneas he cometh and knocketh they maye

open vnto him. 37 Happy are those ser-vauntes which the Lorde when he comethshall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vntoyou he will gerdde him selfe about andmake them sit doune to meate and walkeby and minister vnto them. 38 And yf hecome in the seconde watche ye if he comein the thyrde watche and shall fynde themsoo happy are those servauntes. 39 Thisvnderstonde that yf the good man of thehousse knewe what houre ye these woldecome he wolde suerly watche: and notsuffer his housse to be broken vp. 40 Beye prepared therfore: for the sonne ofman will come at an houre when ye thinkenot. 41 Then Peter sayde vnto him: Mastertellest thou this similitude vnto vs or to allmen? 42 And the Lorde sayde: If there beany faith full servaut and wise whom hisLorde shall make ruler over his housholdeto geve them their duetie of meate at dueseason: 43 happy is that servaunt whomhis master when he cometh shall finde soodoinge. 44Of a trueth I saye vnto you: thathe will make him ruler over all that hehath. 45 But and yf the evyll servaunt shallsaye in his hert: My master wyll differrehis cominge and shall beginne to smyte theservauntes and maydens and to eate anddrinke and to be dronken: 46 the Lorde ofthat servaunt will come in a daye whenhe thinketh not and at an houre when heis not ware and will devyde him and willgeve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers.47 The servaut that knewe his masters willand prepared not him selfe nether dyd ac-cordinge to his will shalbe bete with manystrypes. 48 But he that knewe not and yetdyd committe thinges worthy of strypesshalbe beaten with feawe strypes. For vntowhommoche is geven of him shalbemocherequyred. And to whom men moche com-myt the moare of him will they axe. 49 I amcome to sende fyre on erth: andwhat ismydysyre but that it were all redy kyndled?50 Not with stondinge I must be baptisedwith a baptyme: and how am I payned tillit be ended? 51 Suppose ye that I am cometo sende peace on erth? I tell you naye:but rather debate. 52For fromhence forthether shalbe five in one housse devidedthre agaynst two and two agaynst thre.53 The father shalbe devided agaynst thesonne and the sonne agaynst the father.

Luke 12:54 69 Luke 13:27The mother agaynst the doughter and thedoughter agaynst the mother. The motereleawe agaynst hir doughterelawe and thedoughterelawe agaynst hir motherelawe.54Then sayde he to the people: when ye sea cloude ryse out of the west strayght wayeye saye: we shall have a shower and soo itis. 55Andwhen ye se the southwynde blowye saye: we shall have heet and it comethto passe. 56 Ypocrites ye can skyll of thefassion of the erth and of the skye: butwhat is the cause that ye cannot skyll ofthis time? 57 Ye and why iudge ye not ofyoure selves what is righte? 58Whill thougoest with thyne adversary to the ruler: asthou arte in the waye geve diligence thatthou mayst be delivered from him leasthe bringe the to the iudge and the iudgedelyver the to the iaylar and the iaylar castthe in to preson. 59 I tell the thou departestnot thence tyll thou have made good thevtmost myte.

131 Ther were present at the same season

that shewed him of the Galileas whosebloude Pylate mengled with their awnesacrifice. 2 And Iesus answered and saydevnto them: Suppose ye that these Galileanswere greater synners then all the otherGalileas because they suffred suche punis-shment? 3 I tell you naye: but except yerepent ye shall all in lyke wyse perysshe.4 Or those .xviii. apon which the toure inSyloe fell and slewe the thinke ye that theywere synners above all men that dwell inIerusalem? 5 I tell you naye: But excepte yerepent ye all shall lykewyse perisshe. 6Heput forthe this similiiude A certayne manhad a fygge tree planted in his veneyardeand he came and sought frute theron andfounde none. 7 Then sayde he to thedresser of his vyneyarde: Beholde this threyeare have I come and sought frute in thisfygge tree and fynde none: cut it doune:why combreth it the grounde? 8 And heanswered and sayde vnto him: lorde letit alone this yeare also till I digge roundeaboute it and doge it to se whether it willbeare frute: 9 and if it beare not then afterthat cut it doune. 10 And he taught inone of their sinagoges on the saboth dayes.11 And beholde ther was a woman which

had a sprete of infirmite .xviii. yeares:and was bowed to gether and coulde notlifte vp hersilfe at all. 12When Iesus saweher he called her to him and sayde toher: woman thou arte delyvered from thydisease. 13 And he layde his hondes onher and immediatly shewasmade strayghtand glorified God. 14 And the ruler of thesinagoge answered with indignacion (because that Iesus had healed on the sabothdaye) and sayde vnto the people. Ther aresixe dayes in which men ought to worke:in them come and be healed and not onthe saboth daye. 15Then answered him theLorde and sayd: Ypocrite doth not eacheone of you on the saboth daye lowse hisoxe or his asse from the stall and leadehim to the water? 16 And ought not thisdoughter of Abraham whom Sathan hathbounde loo .xviii. yeares be lowsed fromthis bonde on the saboth daye? 17 Andwhen he thus sayde all his adversarieswere ashamed and all the people reioysedon all the excellent dedes that were doneby him. 18 Then sayde he: What is thekyngdome of God lyke? or wherto shall Icompare it? 19 It is lyke a grayne ofmustardseede which a man toke and sowed in hisgarden: and it grewe and wexed a greatetree and the foules of the ayer made nestesin the braunches of it. 20 And agayne hesayde: wher vnto shall I lyken the kyng-dome of god? 21 it is lyke leven which awoman toke and hidde in thre busshels offloure tyll all was thorow levended. 22Andhe went thorow all maner of cities andtounes teachinge and iorneyinge towardesIerusalem. 23 Then sayde one vnto him:Lorde are ther feawe that shalbe saved?And he sayde vnto them: 24 stryve withyoure selves to enter in at the strayte gate:For many I saye vnto you will seke to enterin and shall not be able. 25 When thegood man of the housse is rysen vp andhath shett to the dore ye shall beginneto stonde with out and to knocke at thedore sayinge: Lorde lorde open vnto vs:and he shall answer and saye vnto you: Iknowe younotwhence ye are. 26Then shallye begin to saye. We have eaten in thypresence and dronke and thou hast taughtin oure stretes. 27 And he shall saye: I tellyou I knowe you not whence ye are: de-

Luke 13:28 70 Luke 14:24parte from me all the workers of iniquite.28There shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge ofteth when ye shall se Abraham and Isaacand Iacob and all the prophetes in thekyngdom of God and youre selves thrustoute at dores. 29 And they shall comefrom the eest and from the weest andfrom the northe and from the southe andshall syt doune in the kyngdome of God.30 And beholde ther are last which shalbefyrst: And ther are fyrst which shalbelast. 31The same daye there came certayneof the pharises and sayd vnto him: Getthe out of the waye and departe hence:for Herode will kyll the. 32 And he saydvnto them. Goo ye and tell that foxebeholde I cast oute devyls and heale thepeople to daye and to morowe and thethird daye Imake an ende. 33NeverthelesseI must walke todaye and tomorowe and thedaye folowinge: For it cannot be that aProphet perishe eny other where save atIerusalem. 34O Ierusalem Ierusalem whichkyllest prophetes and stonest them thatare sent to the: how often wolde I havegadered thy childre to gedder as the hengathereth her nest vnder her wynges butye wolde not. 35 Beholde youre habitacionshalbe left vnto you desolate. For I tell youye shall not semevntill the tyme come thatye shall saye blessed is he that commeth inthe name of the Lorde.

141 And it chaunsed that he went into

the housse of one of the chefe pharisesto eate breed on a saboth daye: and theywatched him. 2 And beholde ther was aman before him which had the dropsye.3 And Iesus answered and spake vnto thelawears and pharises sayinge: is it lau-full to heale on the saboth daye? 4 Andthey helde their peace. And he toke himand healed him and let him goo: 5 andanswered the sayinge whiche of you shallhave an asse or an oxe fallen into a pittand will not strayght waye pull him out onthe Saboth daye? 6 And they coulde notanswer him agayne to that. 7He put forthea similitude to the gestes when he markedhow they preased to the hyest roumes andsayd vnto them: 8 When thou arte biddeto a weddynge of eny man syt not doune

in the hyest roume lest a more honorableman then thou be bidden of him 9 and hethat bade bothe him and the come andsaye to the: geve this man roume andthou then beginne with shame to take thelowest roume. 10But ratherwhen thou artebidden goo and syt in the lowest roumethat when he that bade the cometh hemaye saye vnto the: frende syt vp hyer.Then shalt thou have worshippe in thepresence of them that syt at meate withthe. 11 For whosoever exalteth him sylfeshalbe brought lowe. And he that hublethhim sylfe shalbe exalted 12 Then sayde healso to him that had desyred him to diner:When thoumakest a diner or a supper: callnot thy frendes nor thy brethren netherthy kinsmen nor yet ryche neghbours: lestthey bidde the agayne and a recompencebe made the. 13 But when thou makestafeast call the poore the maymed the lameand the blynde 14 and thou shalt be happyfor they cannot recompence the. But thoushalt be recompensed at the resurreccionof the iuste men. 15When one of them thatsate at meate also hearde that he saydevnto him: happy is he that eateth breedin the kyngdome of God. 16 Then saydhe to him. A certayne man ordened agreate supper and bade many 17 and senthis servaunt at supper tyme to saye tothem that wer bidden come: for all thingesare now redy. 18And they all atonce beganeto make excuse. The fyrst sayd vnto him:I have bought a ferme and I must nedesgoo and se it I praye the have me excused.19 And another sayd: I hove bought fyveyooke of oxen and I goo to prove them Ipraye the have me excused. 20 The thyrdesayd: I have maried a wyfe and therfore Icannot come. 21And the servauntwent andbrought his master worde therof. Thenwas the goodman of the housse displeasedand sayd to his servaut: Goo out quicklyinto the stretes and quarters of the citeand bringe in hidder the poore and themaymed and the halt and the blynde.22And the servaut sayd: lorde it is done asthou commaundedst and yet ther is roume.23 And the lorde sayd to the servaunt: Goout into the hye wayes and hedges andcompell them to come in that my houssemaye be filled. 24 For I saye vnto you

Luke 14:25 71 Luke 15:25that none of those men which were biddeshall tast of my supper. 25 Ther wentagreate company with him and he turnedand sayde vnto them: 26 If a man cometo me and hate not his father and motherand wyfe and chyldren and brethren andsisters more over and his awne lyfe hecannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoeverbeare not his crosse and come after mecannot be my disciple. 28 Which of youdisposed to bilde a toure sytteth not dounebefore and counteth the cost whether hehave sufficient to performe it? 29 lestafter he hath layde the foundacion and isnot able to performe it all that beholde itbeginne to mocke him 30 sayinge: this manbeganne to bilde and was not able to makean ende. 31 Or what kynge goeth to makebatayle agaynst another kinge and sittethnot doune fyrst and casteth in his myndewhether he be able with ten thousande tomete him that cometh agaynst him with.xx thousand. 32Or els whyll ye other is yeta greate waye of he will sende embassea-tours and desyre peace. 33 So lykewysenone of you that forsaketh not all that hehath can be my disciple. 34 Salt is good butyf salt have loste hyr saltnes what shall beseasoned ther with? 35 It is nether goodfor the londe nor yet for the donge hill butmen cast it out at the dores. He that hatheares to heare let him heare.

151 Then resorted vnto him all the pub-

licans and synners for to heare him.2 And the pharises and scribes murmuredsayinge: He receaved to his company syn-ners and eateth with them. 3 Then puthe forthe this similitude to the sayinge:4 What man of you havynge an hundredshepe yf he loose one of thee doth not levenynty and nyne in the wyldernes and gooafter that which is loost vntyll he fyndehim? 5 And when he hath founde himhe putteth him on his shulders with ioye:6And assone as he cometh home he callethto gedder his lovers andneghbours sayingevnto them: reioyse with me for I havefounde my shepe which was loost. 7 Isay vnto you that lyke wyse ioye shalbein heven over one synner that repentethmoore then over nynety and nyne iustepersons whiche nede noo repentaunce.

8 Ether what woman havynge .x. grotesyf she loose one doth not lyght a candelland swepe the housse and seke diligentlytyll she fynde it? 9 And when she hathfounde it she calleth her lovers and herneghbours sayinge: Reioyce with me for Ihave founde the groate which I had loost.10 Lykwyse I saye vnto you ioye is made inthe presence of the angels of god over onesynner that repenteth. 11 And he sayde: acertayne man had two sonnes 12 and theyonger of them sayde to his father: fathergeve me my parte of the goodes that tome belongeth. And he devided vnto themhis substaunce. 13 And not longe after theyonger sonne gaddered all that he had togedder and toke his iorney into a farrecountre and theare he wasted his goodeswith royetous lyvinge. 14And when he hadspent all that he had ther rose a greatederth thorow out all that same londe andhe began to lacke. 15 And he went andclave to a citesyn of that same countrewhich sent him to his felde to kepe hisswyne. 16 And he wold fayne have filledhis bely with the coddes that the swyneate: and noo man gave him. 17 Then hecame to him selfe and sayde: how manyhyred servauntes at my fathers have breedynough and I dye for honger. 18 I will aryseand goo to my father and will saye vntohim: father I have synned agaynst hevenand before the 19 and am no moare worthyto be called thy sonne make me as one ofthy hyred servauntes. 20 And he arose andwent to his father. And when he was yet agreate waye of his father sawe him and hadcompassion and ran and fell on his neckeand kyssed him. 21 And the sonne saydvnto him: father I have synned agaynstheven and in thy sight and am no moareworthy to be called thy sonne. 22 But hisfather sayde to his servautes: bringe forththat best garment and put it on him andput a rynge on his honde and showes onhis fete. 23 And bringe hidder that fattedcaulfe and kyll him and let vs eate andbe mery: 24 for this my sonne was deedand is alyve agayne he was loste and isnow founde. And they began to be merye.25 The elder brother was in the felde andwhen he cam and drewe nye to the housse

Luke 15:26 72 Luke 16:26he herde minstrelcy and daunsynge 26 andcalled one of his servauntes and axed whatthoose thinges meate. 27 And he saydvnto him: thy brother is come and thyfather had kylled the fatted caulfe becausehe hath receaved him safe and sounde.28 And he was angry and wolde not goo in.Then came his father out and entreatedhim. 29 He answered and sayde to hisfather: Loo these many yeares have I donethe service nether brake at eny tyme thycommaundment and yet gavest thou menever soo moche as a kyd to make merywith my lovers: 30 but assone as this thysonne was come which hath devoured thygoodes with harlootes thou haste for hispleasure kylled the fatted caulfe. 31And hesayd vnto him: Sonne thou wast ever withme and all that I have is thyne: 32 it wasmete that we shuldmakemery and be glad:for this thy brother was deed and is a lyveagayne: and was loste and is founde.

161 And he sayd also vnto his disciples.

Ther was a certayne rych man which had astewarde that was acused vnto him that hehad wasted his goodes. 2And he called himand sayd vnto him: How is it that I hearethis of the? Geve a comptes of thy stewardshippe: For thou mayste be no longerstewarde. 3 The stewarde sayd with in himselfe: what shall I do? for my master willtake awaye from me the stewarde shippe.I cannot digge and to begge I am ashamed.4 I woote what to do that when I am put outof the stewardshippe they maye receaveme into their houses. 5 Then called he allhismasters detters and sayd vnto the fyrst:how moche owest thou vnto my master?6 And he sayd: an hondred tonnes of oyle.And he sayd to him: take thy bill and sytdoune quickly andwryte fiftie. 7Then saydhe to another: what owest thou? Andhe sayde: an hondred quarters of wheate.He sayd to him: Take thy bill and writefoure scoore. 8 And the lorde comendedthe vniust stewarde because he had donewysly. For the chyldren of this worlde arein their kynde wyser then the chyldren oflyght. 9 And I saye also vnto you: makeyou frendes of the wicked mammon thatwhen ye shall departe they may receave

you into everlastinge habitacions. 10 Hethat is faithfull in that which is leste thesame is faithfull in moche. And he that isvnfaithfull in the least: is vnfaithfull also inmoche. 11 So then yf ye have not ben faith-full in the wickedmamon? who will beleveyou in that which is true? 12 And yf yehave not bene faithfull in another manesbusines: who shall geve you youre awne?13 No servaunt can serve .ii. masters forother he shall hate ye one and love ye otheror els he shall lene to the one and despysethe other. Ye can not serve God and mam-mon. 14 All these thinges herde the phar-ises also which were coveteous and theymocked him. 15And he sayd vnto them: Yeare they which iustifie youre selves beforeme: but God knoweth youre hertes. Forye which is highlie estemed amonge me isabhominable in the sight of god. 16 Thelawe and the Prophetes raygned vntyll thetyme of Iohn: and sence that tyme the kyn-gdom of God is preached and every manstryveth to goo in. 17 Soner shall hevenand erth perisshe then one tytle of the laweshall perisshe. 18Whosoever forsaketh hiswyfe and marieth another breaketh mat-rimony. And every man which mariethher that is devorsed from her husbandecommitteth advoutry also. 19 Ther was acertayne ryche man which was clothed inpurple and fyne bysse and fared deliciouslyevery daye. 20 And ther was a certaynebegger named Lazarus whiche laye at hisgate full of soores 21 desyringe to be re-fresshed with the cromes whiche fell fromthe ryche manes borde. Neverthelessethe dogges came and licked his soores.22 And that fortuned that the begger dyedand was caried by the angelles into Abra-hams bosome. The riche man also diedand was buried. 23 And beinge in hell intormentes he lyfte vp his eyes and saweAbraham a farre of and Lazarus in hisbosome 24 and he cryed and sayd: fatherAbraham have mercy on me and sendeLazarus that he maye dippe the tippe ofhis fynger in water and cole my tonge:for I am tourmented in this flame. 25 ButAbraham sayd vnto him Sonne remembrethat thou in thy lyfe tyme receavedst thypleasure and contrarywyse Lazarus payne.Now therfore is he comforted and thou artpunysshed. 26 Beyonde all this bitwene

Luke 16:27 73 Luke 17:31you and vs ther is a greate space set sothat they which wolde goo from thenceto you cannot: nether maye come fromthence to vs. 27 Then he sayd: I prayethe therfore father send him to my fathershousse. 28 For I have fyve brethren: forto warne the left they also come into thisplace of tourment. 29 Abraham sayd vntohim: they have Moses and the Propheteslet them heare them. 30And he sayd: nayefather Abraham but yf one came vnto thefrom the ded they wolde repent. 31He saydvnto him: If they heare not Moses and theprophetes nether will they beleve thoughone roose from deeth agayne.

171 Then sayde he to the disciples it can

not be avoyded but that offenceswill come.Neverthelesse wo be to him thorow whomthey come. 2 It were better for him thata mylstone were hanged aboute his neckeand that he were cast into ye see then thathe shuld offende one of this lytleons. 3Takehede to youre selves. If thy brother trespasagaynst the rebuke him: and yf he repentforgeve him. 4 And though he sinne agestthe .vii. tymes in a daye and seve tymes ina daye tourne agayne to the sayinge: it re-penteth me forgeve him 5And the apostlessayde vnto the Lorde: increase oure faith.6And the Lorde sayde: yf ye had faith lykea grayne of mustard sede and shuld sayevnto this sycamine tree plucke thy selfe vpby the rootes and plant thy selfe in the see:he should obey you. 7Who is it of you yf hehad a servaute plowinge or fedinge catellthat wolde saye vnto him when he werecome from the felde Goo quickly and sytdoune to meate: 8 and wolde not rathersaye to him dresse wherwith I maye supand gyrde vp thy selfe and serve me tyll Ihave eaten and dronken: and afterwardeeate thou and drinke thou? 9 Doeth hethanke that servaunt because he dyd thatwhichwas commaunded vnto him? I trowenot. 10Soo lyke wyse ye when ye have doneall thoose thinges which are commaundedyou: saye we are vnprofitable servautes.We have done: ye which was oure duetyeto do. 11 And it chaunsed as he went toIerusalem that he passed thorow Samariaand Galile. 12 And as he entred into a

certayne toune ther met him ten men thatwere lepers. Which stode a farre of 13 andput forth their voyces and sayde: Iesumaster have mercy on vs. 14 When hesawe the he sayde vnto them: Goo andshewe youre selves to the prestes. And itchaunsed as they went they were clensed.15 And one of them when he sawe thathe was clensed turned backe agayne andwith a loude voyce praysed God 16 and felldoune on his face at his fete and gave himthankes. And the same was a Samaritane.17 And Iesus answered and sayde: are thernot ten clensed? But where are thosenyne? 18Ther are not founde that returnedagane to geve God prayse save only thisstraunger. 19And he sayde vnto him: aryseand goo thy waye thy faith hath made thewhoale. 20 When he was demaunded ofthe pharises when the kyngdome of Godshuld come: he answered them and sayde:The kyngdome of God cometh not withwaytinge for. 21Nether shall men saye: Loohere loo there. For beholde the kyngdomeof God is with in you. 22 And he saydevnto the disciples: The dayes will comewhen ye shall desyre to se one daye ofthe sonne of man and ye shall not se it.23 And they shall saye to you: Se here Sethere. Goo not after them nor folowe them24 for as the lyghtenynge that apereth outof the one parte of the heven and shynethvnto the other parte of heven: Soo shallthe sonne of man be in his dayes. 25 Butfyrst must he suffre many thinges and berefused of this nacion. 26 As it happenedin the tyme of Noe: So shall it be in thetyme of the sonne of man. 27 They atethey dranke they maryed wyves and weremaryed even vnto the same daye that Noewent into the arke: and the floud cam anddestroyed the all. 28 Lykewyse also as itchaunsed in the dayes of Lot. They atethey dranke they bought they solde theyplanted they bilte. 29 And even the samedaye that Lot went out of Zodom it raynedfyre and brymstone from heven and de-stroyed them all. 30 After these ensamplesshall it be in the daye when the sonne ofman shall appere. 31 At that daye he thatis on the housse toppe and his stuffe in thehousse: let him not come doune to take itout. And lykewyse let not him that is in

Luke 17:32 74 Luke 18:34the feldes turne backe agayne to that helefte behynde. 32 Remember Lottes wyfe.33 Whosoever will goo about to save hislyfe shall loose it: And whosoever shallloose his lyfe shall save it. 34 I tell you: Inthat nyght ther shalbe two in one beed theone shalbe receaved and the other shalbeforsaken. 35 Two shalbe also a grindyngeto gedder: the one shalbe receaved and theother forsaken. 36 37 And they answeredand sayde to him: wheare Lorde? And hesayd vnto the: whersoever the body shalbethyther will the egles resoorte.

181 And he put forth a similitude vnto

the signifyinge that men ought alwayes topraye and not to be wery 2 sayinge: Therwas a Iudge in a certayne cite which fearednot god nether regarded man. 3 And therwas a certayne wedowe in the same citewhich came vnto him sayinge: avenge meof myne adversary. 4And he wolde not fora whyle. But afterwarde he sayd vnto himselfe: though I feare not God nor care forman 5 yet because this wedowe troublethme I will avenge her lest at the laste shecome and hagge on me. 6 And the lordesayd: heare what the vnrightewes Iudgesayeth. 7 And shall not god avenge hiselecte which crye daye and nyght vnto himye though he differre them. 8 I tell you hewill avenge them and that quickly. Nev-erthelesse when the sonne of man comethsuppose ye that he shall fynde faithe onthe erthe. 9 And he put forthe this simil-itude vnto certayne which trusted in theselves that they were perfecte and de-spysed other. 10 Two men went vp intothe temple to praye: the one a phariseand the other a publican. 11 The pharisestode and prayed thus with him selfe. GodI thanke the that I am not as other menare extorsioners vniuste advoutrers or asthis publican. 12 I fast twyse in the weke.I geve tythe of all that I possesse. 13 Andthe publican stode afarre of and wolde notlyfte vp his eyes to heven but smote hisbrest sayinge: God be mercyfull to me asynner. 14 I tell you: this man departedhome to his housse iustified moore thenthe other. For every man that exaltethhim selfe shalbe brought low: And he that

hubleth him selfe shalbe exalted 15 Theybrought vnto him also babes that he shuldtouche them. When his disciples sawe thatthey rebuked them. 16 But Iesus called thevnto him and sayde: Suffre chyldren tocome vnto me and forbidde the not. Forof soche is the kyngdome of God. 17VerelyI saye vnto you: whosoever receaveth notthe kyngdome of God as a chylde: he shallnot enter therin. 18 And a certayne ruleraxed him sayinge: Good Master: whatought I to do to obtayne eternall lyfe?19 Iesus sayd vnto him: Why callest thoume good? No man is good save God only.20 Thou knowest the commaundmentes:Thou shalt not commit advoutry: thoushalt not kyll: thou shalt not steale: thoushalt not beare false witnes: Honoure thyfather and thy mother. 21And he sayde: allthese have I kept frommy youthe. 22WhenIesus hearde that he sayde vnto him: Yetlackest thou one thinge. Sell all that thouhast and distribute it vnto the poore andthou shalt have treasure in heven andcome and folowe me. 23 When he heardthat he was hevy: for he was very ryche.24 When Iesus sawe him morne he sayde:with what difficulte shall they that haveryches enter into the kyngdome of God:25 it is easyer for a camell to goo thorow anedles eye then for a ryche man to enterinto the kyngdome of God. 26 Then saydethey that hearde that: And who shall thenbe saved? 27 And he sayde: Thinges whichare vnpossible with men are possible withGod. 28 Then Peter sayde: Loo we havelefte all and have folowed the. 29 And hesayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto youther is noo man that leaveth housse otherfather and mother other brethren or wyfeor chyldren for the kyngdome of Goddessake 30which same shall not receavemochemoore in this worlde: and in the worlde tocome lyfe everlastinge. 31He toke vnto himtwelve and sayde vnto them. Beholde wego vp to Ierusalem and all shalbe fulfilledthat are written by the Prophetes of thesonne of man. 32He shalbe delivered vntothe gentils and shalbe mocked and shalbedespytfully entreated and shalbe spettedon: 33 and when they have scourged himthey will put him to deeth and the thyrdedaye he shall aryse agayne. 34 But they

Luke 18:35 75 Luke 19:29vnderstode none of these thinges. Andthis sayinge was hid from them. And theyperceaved not the thinges which were spo-ken. 35And it came to passe as hewas comenye vnto Hierico a certayne blynde mansate by the waye syde begginge. 36 Andwhen he hearde the people passe by heaxed what it meant. 37 And they saydevnto him that Iesus of Nazareth passed by.38 And he cryed sayinge: Iesus the sonneof David have thou mercy on me. 39 Andthey which went before rebuked him thathe shuld holde his peace. But he cryedso moche the moare thou sonne of Davidhave mercy on me. 40And Iesus stode stylland commaunded him to be brought vntohim. And when he was come neare heaxed him 41 sayinge: What wilt thou thatI do vnto the? And he sayde: Lorde thatI maye receave my sight. 42 Iesus saydevnto him: receave thy sight: thy faith hathsaved the. 43 And immediatly he sawe andfolowed him praysinge God. And all thepeople when they sawe it gave laude toGod.

191 And he entred in and went thorow

Hierico. 2 And beholde ther was a mannamed Zacheus which was a ruler amongethe Publicans and was riche also. 3 Andhe made meanes to se Iesus what he shuldbe: and coulde not for the preace becausehe was of a lowe stature. 4 Wherfore heran before and asceded vp into a wildefygge tree to se him: for he shulde comethat same waye. 5 And when Iesus camto the place he loked vp and sawe himand sayd vnto him: zache attonce comedoune for to daye I must abyde at thyhousse. 6And he came doune hastelye andreceaved him ioyfully. 7 And when theysawe that they all groudged sayinge: Heis gone in to tary with a man that is asynner. 8 And zache stode forth and saydvnto the Lorde: beholde Lorde the haulfeof my gooddes I geve to the povre and if Ihave done eny man wronge I will restorehim fower folde. 9 And Iesus sayd to him:this daye is healthe come vnto this houssefor asmoche as it also is become the chyldeof Abraham. 10 For the sonne of man iscome to seke and to save that which waslooste. 11 As they hearde these thinges

he added ther to a similitude be causehe was nye to Hierusalem and becausealso they thought that the kyngdome ofGod shuld shortely appere. 12 He saydetherfore: a certayne noble man wet into afarre countre to receave him a kyngdomeand then to come agayne. 13And he calledhis ten servauntes and delyvered them tenpounde sayinge vnto them: by and selltill I come. 14 But his citesens hated himand sentmessengers after him sayinge: Wewill not have this man to raygne over vs.15 And it came to passe when he was comeagayne and had receaved his kyngdome hecommaunded these servautes to be calledto him (to whom he gave his money) towitt what every man had done. 16 Thencame the fyrst sayinge: Lorde thy poundehath encreased ten poude. 17And he saydevnto him: Well good servaute because thouwast faithfull in a very lytell thynge takethou auctorite over ten cities. 18 And theother came sayinge: Lorde thy poude hathencreased fyve pounde. 19And to the samehe sayde: and be thou also ruler ouer fyvecities. 20 And the thyrde came and sayde:Lorde beholde here thy pounde which Ihave kepte in a napkyn 21 for I feared thebecause thou arte a strayte man: thoutakest vp that thou laydest not doune andrepest that thou dyddest not sowe. 22 Andhe sayde vnto him: Of thine awne mouthiudge I the thou evyll servaunt. knewestthou that I am a strayte man takinge vpthat I layde not doune and repinge thatI dyd not sowe? 23 Wherfore then gavestnot thou my money into the banke that atmy cominge I might have required myneawne with vauntage? 24 And he sayde tothem that stode by: take from him thatpounde and geve it him that hath tenpounde. 25 And they sayd vnto him: Lordehe hath ten pounde. 26 I saye vnto youthat vnto all the that have it shalbe geve:and from him that hath not even that hehath shalbe taken from him. 27 Moreoverthose myne enemys which wolde not thatI shuld raigne over them bringe hidder andslee them before me. 28 And when he hadthus spoken he proceded forthe before assendinge vp to Ierusalem. 29 And it for-tunedwhen hewas come nye to Bethphageand Bethany besydesmoute olivete he sent

Luke 19:30 76 Luke 20:17two of his disciples 30 sayinge: Goo ye in tothe toune which is over agaynste you. Inthe which assone as ye are come ye shallfinde a colte tyed wheron yet never mansate. Lowse him and bringe him hider.31 And if eny man axe you why that yeloowse him: thus saye vnto him the lordehath nede of him. 32 They that were sentwent their waye and founde even as hehad sayde vnto them. 33 And as they werealoosinge the coolte the owners sayde vntothe: why lowse ye the coolte? 34 Andthey sayde: for the Lorde hath nede ofhim. 35 And they brought him to Iesus.And they cast their raymet on the colteand set Iesus theron. 36 And as he wetthey spredde their clothes in the waye.37 And when he was now come wheare heshuld goo doune from the moute olivetethe whole multitude of the disciples beganto reioyce and to lawde God with a loudevoyce for all the miracles that they hadsene 38 sayinge: Blessed be the kynge thatcometh in the name of the Lorde: peacein heaven and glory in the hyest. 39 Andsome of the Pharises of the company saydevnto him: Master rebuke thy disciples.40 He answered and sayde vnto the: I tellyou yf these shuld holde their peace thestoneswold crye. 41Andwhenhewas comeneare he behelde the citie and wept on it42 sayinge: Yf thou haddest dest knowenthose thinges which belonge vn thy peaceeven at this thy tyme. But now are theyhydde from thyne eyes. 43 For the dayesshall come vpo the that thy enemys shallcast a banke aboute the and compasse therounde andkepe the in on every syde 44andmake the even with the grounde with thychyldren which are in the. And they shallnot leve in the one stone vpo anotherbecause thou knewest not the tyme of thyvisitacion. 45And he went in to the templeand begane to cast out them that soldetherin and them that bought 46 sayingevnto them that is written: my housse is thehousse of prayer: but ye havemade it a denof theves. 47 And he taught dayly in thetemple. The hye Prestes and the Scribesand the chefe of the people went about todestroye him: 48 but coulde not finde whatto do. For all the people stacke by him and

gave him audience.

201And that fortuned in one of those dayes

as he taught the people in the temple andpreached the gospell: the hye prestes andthe scribes came with the elders 2 andspake vnto him sayinge. Tell vs by whatauctorite thou doest these thinges? Etherwho is he that gave ye this auctorite? 3Heanswered and saide vnto the: I also willaxe you a questio and answer me. 4 Thebaptyme of Iohn: was it from heaven orof men? 5 And they thought with inthem selves sayinge: yf we shall saye fromheaven: he will saye: why then belevedye him not? 6 But and yf we shall sayeof men all the people will stone vs. Forthey be persuaded that Ihon is a Prophet.7 And they answered that they coulde nottell whence it was. 8 And Iesus sayde vntothem: nether tell I you by what auctoriteI do these thinges. 9 Then begane he toput forthe to the people this similitude.A certayne man planted a vyneyarde andlet it forthe to fermers and went him selfeinto a straunge countre for a greate season.10 And when the tyme was come he sent aservaut to his tennauntes that they shuldgeve him of the frutes of the vyneyarde.And the tennauntes dyd bet him and senthim awaye empty. 11 And agayne he sentyet another servaunt. And they dyd bethim and foule entreated him also and senthim awaye emptye. 12 More over he sentthe thyrde to and him they wouded andcast out. 13 Then sayde the lorde of thevyneyarde: what shall I do? I will sendemy deare sonne him peradventure theywill reverence when they se him. 14 Butwhen the fermers sawe him they thoughtin them selves sayinge: this is the heyrecome let vs kyll him that the inheritauncemaye be oures. 15 And they cast him outof the vyneyarde and kylled him. Nowwhat shall the Lorde of the vyneyardedo vnto them? 16 He will come and de-stroye those fermers and will let out hisvyneyarde to other. When they heardethat they sayde: God forbyd. 17 And hebehelde them and sayde: what meaneththis then that is wrytten: The stone thatthe bylders refused the same is made the

Luke 20:18 77 Luke 21:10heed corner stone? 18whosoever stombleat that stone shalbe broken: but on whoso-ever it faul vpon it wyll grynde him topowder. 19 And the hye Prestes and theScribes the same howre went about to layehondes on him but they feared the people.For they perceaved that he had spokenthis similitude agaynst them. 20 And theywatched him and sent forth spies whichshuld fayne them selves perfecte to takehim in his wordes and to delyvre himvnto the power and auctorite of the debite.21 And they axed him sayinge: Master weknowe that thou sayest and teachest ryghtnother cosiderest thou eny manes degrebut teachest the waye of God truly. 22 Ysit laufull for vs to geve Cesar tribute or no?23 He perceaved their craftynes and saydevnto them: why tept ye me? 24 Shewe mea peny. Whose ymage and superscripcionhath it? They answered and sayde: Cesars.25And he sayde vnto them: Geve then vntoCesar that which belongeth vnto Cesar:and to God that which pertayneth to God.26And they coulde not reprove his sayingebefore the people. But they marvayled athis answer and helde their peace. 27 Thencame to him certayne of the Saduceswhichdenye that ther is eny resurreccion. Andthey axed him 28 sayinge: Master Moseswrote vnto vs if eny mannes brother dyehavinge a wyfe and the same dye with outyssue: that then his brother shuld take hiswyfe and reyse vp seede vnto his brother.29Ther were seven brethren and the fyrstetoke a wyfe and dyed with out children.30 And the seconde toke the wyfe and hedyed chyldlesse. 31And the thyrde toke herand in lyke wyse the resydue of the sevenand leeft no chyldren be hynde them anddyed. 32 Last of all the woman dyed also.33 Now at the resurreccio whose wyfe ofthem shall she be? For seven had her towyfe. 34 Iesus answered and sayde vntothem. The chyldre of this worlde marywyves and are maryed 35 but they whichshalbe made worthy to enioye that worldeand the resurreccion from deeth nethermary wyves nether are maryed 36 nor yetcan dye eny moare. For they are equallvnto the angels: and are the sonnes of Godin as moche as they are the chyldre of the

resurreccion. 37 And that the deed shallryse agayne even Moses signified besydesthe busshe when he sayde: the Lorde Godof Abraham and the God of Isaac and theGod of Iacob. 38 For he is not the God of thedeed but of them which live. For all livein him. 39 Then certayne of the Pharisesanswered and sayde: Master thou hast wellsayde. 40 And after that durst they notaxe him eny question at all. 41 Then saydehe vnto them: how saye they that Christis Davids sonne? 42 And David him selfesayth in the boke of the Psalmes: The Lordesayde vntomy Lorde syt onmy right honde43 tyll I make thine enemys thy fothe stole.44 Seinge David calleth him Lorde: How ishe then his sonne. 45 Then in the audienceof all the people he sayde vnto his disciples46 beware of the Scribes which desyre togoo in longe clothinge: and love gretyngesin the markets and the hyest seates inthe synagoges and chefe roumes at feastes47 which devoure widdowes houses andthat vnder a coloure of longe prayinge: thesame shall receave greater damnacion.

211 As he behelde he sawe the ryche men

how they cast in their offeringes into thetreasury. 2 And he sawe also a certaynepovre widdowe which cast in thyther twomites. 3 And he sayde: of a trueth I sayevnto you this poore wyddowe hath putin moare then they all. 4 For they allhave of their superfluyte added vnto theofferynge of God: but she of her penuryhath cast in all the substaunce that shehad. 5 As some spake of the temple howit was garnesshed with goodly stones andiewels he sayde. 6 The dayes will comewhen of these thynges which ye se shallnot be lefte stone apon stone that shall notbe throwen doune. 7 And they axed himsayinge: Master when shall these thingesbe and what signe will therbe when suchethinges shall come to passe. 8And he sayd:take hede that ye be not deceaved. Formany will come in my name saying: I amhe: and the tyme draweth neare. Foloweye not them therfore. 9 But when ye heareof warre and of dissencion: be not afrayd.For these thinges must fyrst come: butthe ende foloweth not by and by. 10 Then

Luke 21:11 78 Luke 22:11sayd he vnto the: Nacion shall ryse agaynstnacion and kingdom agaynst kyngdome11 and greate erthquakes shall be in allquarters and honger and pestilence: andfearfull thinges. And greate signes shalltherbe from heven. 12 But before all thesethey shall laye their hondes on you andpersecute you delyueringe you vp to thesinagoges and into preson and bringe youbefore kynges and rulers for my namessake. 13 And this shall chaunce you for atestimoniall. 14 Let it sticke therfore fastein youre hertes not once to stody beforewhat ye shall answere: 15 for I will geveyou a mouth and wisdome where agaynsteall youre adversarys shall not be able tospeake nor resist. 16 Ye and ye shalbebetrayed of youre fathers andmothers andof youre brethren and kynsmen and loversand some of you shall they put to deeth.17 And hated shall ye be of all men for mynames sake. 18 Yet ther shall not one heerof youre heedes perisshe. 19With youre pa-cience possesse youre soules. 20And whenye se Ierusalembesegedwith an hoste thenvnderstonde that the desolacion of thesame is nye. 21 Then let them which arein Iewrye flye to the mountaynes. And letthem which are in the middes of it departeoute. And let not them that are in othercountreis enter ther in. 22 For these bethe dayes of vengeance to fulfill all thatare written. 23 But wo be to them that bewith chylde and to them that geve sucke inthose dayes: for ther shalbe greate troublein the londe and wrath over all this people.24 And they shall fall on the edge of theswearde and shalbe leed captive into allnacions. And Ierusalem shalbe troodenvnder fote of the gentyls vntyll the tyme ofthe gentyls be fulfilled. 25 And ther shalbesignes in the sunne ad in the mone andin the starres: and in the erth the peopleshalbe in soche perplexite that they shallnot tell which waye to turne them selves.The see and the waters shall roore 26 andmenes hertes shall fayle them for feareand for lokinge after thoose thinges whichshall come on the erth. For the powers ofheven shall move. 27 And then shall theyse the sonne of man come in a clowde withpower and greate glory. 28 When thesethinges begyn to come to passe: then loke

vp and lifte vp youre heddes for youre re-dempcion draweth neye. 29And he shewedthem a similitude: beholde the fygge treeand all other trees 30when they shute forththeir buddes ye se and knowe of youreawne selves that sommer is then nye athond. 31 So lyke wyse ye (when ye se thesethinges come to passe) vnderstonde thatthe kyngdome of God is neye. 32 Verely Isaye vnto you: this generacion shall notpasse tyll all be fulfilled. 33Heaven and erthshall passe: but my wordes shall not passe.34 Take hede to youre selves lest yourehertes be overcome with surfettinge anddronkennes and cares of this worlde: andthat that daye come on you vnwares. 35Foras a snare shall it come on all them that siton the face of the erthe. 36Watche therforecontinually and praye that ye maye ob-tayne grace to flye all this that shall comeand that ye maye stonde before the sonneof man. 37 In the daye tyme he taught inthe temple and at night he went out andhad abydinge in the mount olivete. 38 Andall the people came in themorninge to himin the temple for to heare him.

221 The feaste of swete breed drue nye

whiche is called ester 2 and the hye prestesand Scribes sought how to kyll him butthey feared the people. 3 Then entred Sa-tan into Iudas whose syr namewas Iscariot(which was of the nombre of the twelve)4 and he went his waye and communedwith the hye Prestes and officers how hemight betraye him to them. 5 And theywere glad: and promysed to geve himmoney. 6 And he consented and soughtoportunite to betraye him vnto themwhenthe people were awaye. 7 Then came thedaye of swete breed when of necessitethe esterlambe must be offered. 8 Andhe sent Peter and Iohn sayinge: Goo andprepare vs the ester lambe that we mayeeate. 9 They sayde to him. Where wiltthou that we prepare? 10And he sayd vntothem. Beholde when ye be entred into thecite ther shall a man mete you bearinge apitcher of water him folowe into the samehousse that he entreth in 11 and saye vntothe good man of the housse. The mastersayeth vnto the: where is the gest chamber

Luke 22:12 79 Luke 22:52where I shall eate myne ester lambe withmy disciples? 12 And he shall shew you agreate parloure paved. Ther make redy.13And they went and foude as he had saydvnto the: and made redy the ester lambe.14 And when the houre was come he satedoune and the twelve Apostles with him.15And he sayde vnto them: I have inwardlydesyred to eate this ester lambe with youbefore that I suffre. 16 For I saye vnto you:hence forthe I will not eate of it eny moorevntill it be fulfilled in the kingdome of God.17 And he toke the cup and gave thankesand sayde. Take this and devyde it amongeyou. 18For I saye vnto you: I will not drinkeof the frute of the vyne vntill the kingdomeof God be come. 19And he toke breed gavethankes and gave to them sayinge: This ismy body which is geven for you. This doin the remembraunce of me. 20 Lykewysealso when they had supped he toke the cupsayinge: This cup is the newe testament inmy bloud which shall for you be shedde.21 Yet beholde the honde of him that be-trayeth me is with me on the table. 22 Andthe sonne of man goeth as it is appoynted:But wo be to that man by whom he isbetrayed. 23 And they began to enquyreamonge them selveswhich of them it shuldbe that shuld do that. 24 And ther was astryfe amonge the which of them shuld betaken for the greatest. 25 And he saydevnto them: the kynges of the getyls raygneover them and they that beare rule overthem are called gracious lordes. 26 But yeshall not be so. But he that is greatestamonge you shalbe as the yongest: andhe that is chefe shalbe as the minister.27 For whether is greater he that sitteth atmeate: or he that serveth? Is not he thatsitteth at meate? And I am amonge you ashe that ministreth. 28 Ye are they whichhave bidden with me in my temptacions.29 And I apoynt vnto you a kyngdome asmy father hath appoynted to me: 30 thatye maye eate and drynke at my table in mykyngdome and sit on seates and iudge thetwelve tribes of Israell. 31 And the Lordesayde: Simon Simon beholde Satan hathdesired you to sifte you as it were wheate:32 but I have prayed for the that thy faithfayle not. And when thou arte convertedstrengthe thy brethren. 33 And he sayd

vnto him. Lorde I am redy to go with thein to preson and to deth. 34 And he sayde:I tell the Peter the cocke shall not crowethis daye tyll thou have thryse denyed thatthou knewest me. 35 And he sayde vntothem: when I sent you with out wallet andscripe and shoes? lacked ye eny thinge?And they sayd no. 36And he sayde to them:but nowe he that hath a wallet let him takeit vp and lykewyse his scrippe. And he thathath no swearde let him sell his coote andbye one. 37For I saye vnto you that yet thatwhich is written must be performed in me:evenwith thewyckedwas he nombred. Forthose thingeswhich arewritten ofme havean ende. 38And they sayde: Lorde beholdehere are two sweardes. And he sayde vntothem: it is ynough. 39 And he came outandwent as hewaswote tomounte olivete.And the disciples folowed him. 40 Andwhen he came to the place he sayde tothe: praye lest ye fall into temptacion.41 And he gate him selfe from them abouta stones cast and kneled doune and prayed42 sayinge: Father yf thou wilt withdrawethis cup from me. Neverthelesse not mywill but thyne be be fulfilled. 43 And therappered an angell vnto him from heavenconfortinge him. 44 And he was in anagonye and prayed somwhat longer. Andhys sweatewas lyke droppes of bloud trick-lynge doune to the grounde. 45And he rosevp from prayer and came to his disciplesand foude them slepinge for sorowe 46 andsayde vnto them: Why slepe ye? Ryse andpraye lest ye fall into temptacion. 47Whillhe yet spake: beholde ther came a com-pany and he that was called Iudas one ofthe twelve wet before them and preasednye vnto Iesus to kysse him. 48 And Iesussayd vnto him: Iudas betrayest thou thesonne of man with a kysse? 49When theywhich were about him sawe what woldefolow they sayde vnto him. Lorde shall wesmite with swearde. 50 And one of themsmote a servaut of the hiest preste of alland smote of his right eare. 51 And Iesusanswered and sayd: Soffre ye thus farreforthe. And he touched his eare and healedhim. 52 Then Iesus sayde vnto the hyeprestes and rulers of the temple and theelders which were come to him. Be yecomeout as vnto a thefewith sweardes and

Luke 22:53 80 Luke 23:23staves? 53 When I was dayly with you inthe temple ye stretched not forth hondesagaynst me. But this is even youre veryhoure and the power of darcknes. 54 Thentoke they him, and ledde him, and broughthim to the hye prestes housse. And peterfolowed a farre of. 55 When they hadkyndled a fyre in the middes of the palysand were set doune to geder Peter alsosate doune amonge them. 56 And woneof the wenches behelde him as he sateby the fyer and set good eyesight on himand sayde: this same was also with him.57 Then he denyed hym sayinge: woman Iknowe him not 58 And after a lytell whyleanother sawehimand sayde: thou arte alsoof them. And Peter sayd man I am not.59 And aboute the space of an houre afteranother affirmed sayinge: verely even thisfelowe was with hym for he is of Galile60 and Peter sayde: man I woote not whatthou sayest. And immediatly whyll he yetspake the cocke crewe. 61 And the Lordetourned backe and loked apon Peter. AndPeter remembred the wordes of the Lordehow he sayde vnto him before the cockecrowe thou shalt denye me thryse. 62 AndPeter went out and wepte bitterly. 63 Andthe men that stode about Iesus mockedhim and smoote him 64 and blyndfoldedhim and smoote his face. And axed himsayinge: arede who it is that smoote the?65 And many other thinges despytfullyesayd they agaynst him. 66 And assone asit was daye the elders of the people andthe hye prestes and scribes came to gedderand ledde him into their counsell sayinge:67 arte thou very Christ? tell vs. And hesayde vnto the: yf I shall tell you yewill notbeleve 68 And yf also I axe you ye will notanswere me or let me goo. 69Herafter shallthe sonne of man sit on the ryght honde ofthe power of God. 70 Then sayde they all:Arte thou then the sonne of God? He saydto them: ye saye that I am. 71 Then saydethey: what nede we eny further witnes?We oure selves have herde of his awnemouthe.

231 And thewholemultitude of them arose

and ledde him vnto Pylate. 2 And theybeganne to accuse him sayinge: We have

founde this felowe pervertynge the peopleand forbiddynge to paye tribute to Cesar:sayinge that he is Christ a kynge. 3 AndPylate apposed him sayinge: arte thou thekynge of the iewes? He answered himand sayde: thou sayest it. 4 Then saydePylate to the hye prestes and to the people:I fynde noo faute in this man. 5 Andthey were the moore fearce sayinge. Hemoveth the people teachynge thorowoutall Iewry and beganne at Galile even to thisplace. 6 When Pilate hearde mencion ofGalile he axed whether the man were ofGalile. 7 And assone as he knewe that hewas of Herodes iurisdiccion he sent himto Herode which was also at Ierusalem inthose dayes. 8 And when Herode saweIesus he was excedinglie gladde. For hewas desyrous to se him of a longe seasonbecause he had hearde many thinges ofhim and trusted to have sene somemyracledone by him. 9 Then questeoned he withhim of many thinges. But he answeredhim not one worde. 10 The hye prestesand scribes stode forthe and accused himstraytly. 11 And Herod with his men ofwarre despysed him and mocked him andarayed him in whyte and sent him agayneto Pylate. 12 And the same daye Pylateand Herod were made frendes togeder. Forbefore they were at variaunce. 13 AndPylate called to geder the hye prestes andthe rulers and the people 14 and sayde vntothem: Ye have brought this man vnto meas one that perverted the people. Andbeholde I have examined him before youand have founde no faute in this man ofthose thingeswhere of ye accuse him. 15Nonor yet Herode. For I sent you to him:and lo no thinge worthy of deeth is doneto him. 16 I will therfore chasten him andlet him lowsse. 17 For of necessite he musthave let one lowse vnto them at that feast.18And all the people cryed at once sayinge:awayewith him and delyvre to vs Barrabas:19which for insurreccion made in the citeandmortherwas cast into preson. 20Pylatespake agayne to them willynge to let Iesuslowse. 21 And they cryed sayinge: Crucifyhim Crucify him 22He sayde vnto them thethyrde tyme. What evyll hath he done?I fynde no cause of deeth in him. I willtherfore chasten him and let him lowse.23 And they cryed with loude voyce and

Luke 23:24 81 Luke 24:6required that he myght be crucifyed. Andthe voyce of them and of the hye Prestesprevayled. 24 And Pylate gave sentencethat it shuld be as they required 25 and letlowse vnto them him that for insurreccionand morther was cast into preson whomthey desyred: and delyvered Iesus to dowith him what they wolde. 26 And as theyledde him awaye they caught one Symonof Syrene commynge out of the felde: andon him layde they the crosse to beare itafter Iesus. 27 And ther folowed him agreate company of people and of wemenwhich weme bewayled and lamented him.28 But Iesus turned backe vnto them andsayde: Doughters of Ierusalem, wepe notfor me: but wepe for youre selves and foryoure chyldren. 29 For beholde, the dayeswill come, whenmen shall saye: happy arethe baren and the wombes that never bareand the pappes which never gave sucke.30 Then shall they beginne to saye to themountaynes fall on vs: and to the hillescover vs. 31 For yf they do this to a grenetree what shalbe done to the drye? 32 Andther were two evyll doers ledde with himto be slayne. 33 And when they were cometo the place which is called Calvary therethey crucified him and the evyll doers oneon ryght honde and the other on the lefte.34 Then sayde Iesus: father forgeve themfor they woot not what they do. And theyparted his rayment and cast loottes. 35Andthe people stode and behelde. And therulers mocked him with thee saying: heholpe other men let him helpe him selfeyf he be Christ the chosen of god. 36 Thesoudiers also mocked him and came andgave him veneger 37 and sayde: yf thoube that kynge of the Iewes save thy silfe.38And his superscripcion was written overhim in greke in latine and Ebreu: This isthe kynge of the Iewes. 39 And one of theevyll doers which hanged rayled on himsayinge: If thou be Christ save thy selfeand vs. 40The other answered and rebukedhim sayinge. Net herfearest thou godbecause thou arte in the same damnacion?41 We are ryghteously punesshed for wereceave accordynge to oure dedes: But thisman hath done nothinge amysse. 42 Andhe sayde vnto Iesus: Lorde remember mewhen thou comest into thy kyngdome.

43 And Iesus sayde vnto him: Verely I sayevnto the to daye shalt thou be with mein Paradyse. 44 And it was about the sixthoure. And ther came a darcknes over allthe londe vntyll the nynth houre 45 andthe sonne was darckened. And the vayleof the temple dyd rent even thorow themyddes. 46 And Iesus cryed with a greatevoyce and sayd: Father into thy hondes Icomende my sprete. And when he thushad sayd he gave vp the goost. 47 Whenthe Centurion sawe what had happened heglorified God sayinge: Of a surtie this manwas perfecte. 48 And all the people thatcame to geder to that sight beholdyngethe thinges whichwere done: smoote theirbestes and returned home. 49 And allhis acquayntaunce and the wemen thatfolowed him from Galile stode a farre ofbeholdynge these thinges. 50 And beholdether was a man named Ioseph a councel-loure andwas a goodman and a iuste 51anddyd not consent to the counsell and dedeof them which was of Aramathia a cite ofthe Iewes: which same also wayted for thekyngdome of God: 52 he went vnto Pilateand begged the boddy of Iesus 53 and tokeit doune and wrapped it in a lynnen cloothand layed it in an hewen toumbe wherinwas never man before layed. 54 And thatdaye was the Saboth even and the Sabothdrue on. 55 The wemen that folowed afterwhich came with him from Galile beheldethe sepulcre and how his body was layed.56And they returned and prepared odouresand oyntmetes: but rested the Saboth dayeaccordynge to the commaundement.

241 On the morowe after the saboth erly in

the morninge they came vnto the toumbeand brought the odoures which they hadprepared and other wemen with them2 And they founde the stone rouled awayefrom the sepulcre 3andwent in: but foundenot the body of the Lorde Iesu. 4 And ithappened as they were amased therat: Be-holde two men stode by them in shynyngevestures. 5 And as they were a frayde andbowed doune their faces to the erth: theysayd to them: why seke ye the lyvingeamonge the deed? 6 He is not here: butis rysen. Remember how he spake vnto

Luke 24:7 82 Luke 24:44you when he was yet with you in Galile7 sayinge: that the sonne of man must bedelyvered into the hondes of synfull menand be crucified and the thyrde daye ryseagayne. 8And they remembred his wordes9 and returned from the sepulcre and toldeall these thinges vnto the eleven and to allthe remanaunt. 10 It was Mary Magdalenand Ioanna andMary Iacobi and other thatwere with the which tolde these thingesvnto the Apostles 11 and their wordessemed vnto them fayned thinges netherbeleved they them. 12 Then aroose Peterand ran vnto the sepulcre and stoupedin and sawe the lynnen cloothes layde bythem selfe and departedwondrynge in himselfe at that which had happened. 13 Andbeholde two of them went that same dayeto a tounewhichwas from Ierusalem aboutthre scoore for longes called Emaus: 14 andthey talked togeder of all these thingesthat had happened. 15 And it chaunsedas they commened togeder and reasonedthat Iesus him selfe drue neare and wentwith them. 16 But their eyes were holdenthat they coulde not knowe him. 17 Andhe sayde vnto them: What maner of com-municacions are these that ye have oneto another as ye walke and are sadde.18And the one of themnamed Cleophas an-swered and sayd vnto him: arte thou onlya straunger in Ierusalem and haste notknowen the thinges which have chaunsedtherin in these dayes? 19To whom he sayd:what thinges? And they sayd vnto him:of Iesus of Nazareth which was a Prophetmyghtie in dede and worde before godand all the people. 20 And how the hyeprestes andoure rulers delyveredhim tobecondempned to deeth: and have crucifiedhim. 21 But we trusted that it shuld havebene he that shuld have delyvered Israel.And as touchynge all these thinges to dayeis even the thyrd daye that theywere done.22 Ye and certayne wemen also of ourecompany made vs astonyed which cameerly vnto the sepulcre, 23 and founde nothis boddy: and came sayinge that they hadsene a vision of angels which sayde thathe was alyve. 24 And certayne of themwhich were with vs went their waye tothe sepulcre and founde it even so as the

wemen had sayde: but him they sawe not.25And he sayde vnto the: O foles and sloweof herte to beleve all that the propheteshave spoken. 26 Ought not Christ to havesuffred these thinges and to enter intohis glory? 27 And he began at Moses andat all the prophetes and interpreted vntothem in all scriptures which were wryttenof him. 28 And they drue neye vnto thetoune wich they went to. And he made asthough he wolde have gone further. 29 Butthey constrayned him sayinge: abyde withvs for it draweth towardes nyght and thedaye is farre passed. And he went in totary with them. 30 And it came to passeas he sate at meate with them he tokebreed blessed it brake and gave to them.31 And their eyes were openned and theyknewe him: and he vnnisshed out of theirsyght. 32 And they sayde betwene themselves: dyd not oure hertes burne with invs whyll he talked with vs by the wayeand as he opened to vs the scriptures?33 And they roose vp the same houre andreturned agayne to Ierusalem and foundethe eleven gadered to geder and them thatwere with them 34which sayde: the Lordeis rysen in dede and hath apered to Simon.35 And they tolde what thinges was donein the waye and how they knewe him inbreakynge of breed. 36 As they thus spakeIesus him selfe stode in themyddes of themand sayde vnto them: peace be with you.37 And they were abasshed and afraydesupposinge that they had sene a sprete38 And he sayde vnto them: Why are yetroubled and why do thoughtes aryse inyoure hertes? 39 Beholde my hondes andmy fete that it is even my selfe. Handleme and se: for spretes have not flessheand bones as ye se me have. 40 And whenhe had thus spoken he shewed them hishondes and his fete. 41 And whyll theyyet beleved not for ioye and wondred hesayde vnto the: Have ye here eny meate?42 And they gave him a pece of a broyledfisshe and of an hony combe. 43 And hetoke it and ate it before them. 44 And hesayde vnto them. These are the wordeswhich I spake vnto you whyll I was yetwith you: that all must be fulfilled whichwere written of me in the lawe of Moses

Luke 24:45 83 Luke 24:53and in the Prophetes and in the Psalmes.45 Then openned he their wyttes that theymyght vnderstond the scriptures 46 andsayde vnto them. Thus is it written andthus it behoved Christ to suffre and to ryseagayne from deeth the thyrde daye 47 andthat repentaunce and remission of synnesshuld be preached in his name amonge allnacions and must beginne at Ierusalem.48 And ye are witnesses of these thinges.49 And beholde I will sende the promes ofmy father apon you. But tary ye in thecite of Ierusalemvntyll ye be endewedwithpower from an hye. 50 And he ledde theout into Bethany and lyfte vp his hondesand blest them. 51 And it cam to passe ashe blessed the he departed from the andwas caryed vp in to heven. 52 And theyworshippedhimand returned to Ierusalemwith greate ioye 53 and were continuallyin the temple praysinge and laudinge God.Amen.

John 1:1 84 John 1:42

THE GOSPEL ACCORDINGTO ST. JOHN1 In the beginnynge was the worde and

the worde was with God: and the wordewas God. 2The samewas in the beginnyngewith God. 3 All thinges were made by itandwith out itwasmadenothinge thatwasmade. 4 In it was lyfe and the lyfe was thelyght of men 5 and the lyght shyneth in thedarcknes but the darcknes comprehendedit not. 6 There was a man sent from Godwhose name was Iohn. 7 The same cam asa witnes to beare witnes of the lyght thatall men through him myght beleve. 8 Hewas not that lyght: but to beare witnesof the lyght. 9 That was a true lyghtwhich lyghteth all men that come into theworlde. 10 He was in the worlde and theworlde was made by him: and yet theworlde knewe him not. 11He cam amongehis (awne) and his awne receaved him not.12But as meny as receaved him to them hegave power to be the sonnes of God in thatthey beleved on his name: 13 which wereborne not of bloude nor of the will of theflesshe nor yet of the will of man: but ofGod. 14 And the worde was made flessheanddwelt amonge vs andwe sawe the gloryof it as the glory of the only begotten sonneof the father which worde was full of graceand verite. 15 Iohn bare witnes of him andcryed sayinge: This was he of whome Ispake he that cometh after me was beforeme because he was yer then I. 16And of hisfulnes have all we receaved even (grace) forgrace. 17 For the lawe was geven by Mosesbut grace and truthe came by Iesus Christ.18No man hath sene God at eny tyme. Theonly begotte sonne which is in the bosomeof the father he hath declared him. 19 Andthis is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewessent Prestes and Levites from Ierusalem toaxe him what arte thou? 20 And he con-fessed and denyed not and sayde playnly:I am not Christ. 21 And they axed him:what then? arte thou Helyas? And hesayde: I am not. Arte thou a Prophete?And he answered no. 22 Then sayd theyvnto him: what arte thou that we mayegeve an answer to them that sent vs: Whatsayest thou of thy selfe? 23He sayde: I am

the voyce of a cryar in the wyldernes makestrayght thewaye of the Lorde as sayde theProphete Esaias. 24 And they which weresent were of the pharises. 25And they axedhim and sayde vnto him: why baptisestthou then yf thou be not Christ nor Helyasnether a Prophet? 26 Iohn answered themsayinge: I baptise with water: but oneis come amonge you whom ye knowe not27 he it is that cometh after me whichewas before me whose shoe latchet I am notworthy to vnlose. 28 These thinges weredone in Bethabara beyonde Iordan whereIohn dyd baptyse. 29 The nexte daye Iohnsawe Iesus commyge vnto him and sayde:beholde the lambe of God which takethawaye the synne of the worlde. 30 This ishe of whom I sayde. After me cometh aman which was before me for he was yerthen I 31 and I knew him not: but that heshuld be declared to Israell therfore am Icome baptisynge with water. 32 And Iohnbare recorde sayinge: I sawe the spretedescende from heven lyke vnto a dove andabyde apon him 33 and I knewe him not.But he that sent me to baptise in waterthe same sayde vnto me: apon whom thoushalt se the sprete descende and tary styllon him the same is hewhich baptisethwiththe holy goost. 34 And I sawe and barerecorde that this is the sonne of God. 35Thenext daye after Iohn stode agayne and twoof his disciples. 36 And he behelde Iesus ashewalked by and sayde: beholde the lambeof God. 37 And the two disciples heardehim speake and folowed Iesus. 38And Iesusturned about and sawe them folowe andsayde vnto them: what seke ye? Theysayde vnto him: Rabbi (which is to sayeby interpretacion Master) where dwellestthou? 39 He sayde vnto them: come andse. They came and sawe where he dwelt:and abode with him that daye. For it wasabout the tenthe houre. 40 One of thetwowhich hearde Iohn speake and folowedIesus was Andrew Simon Peters brother.41The same founde his brother Simon fyrstand sayde vnto him: we have founde Mes-sias which is by interpretacion annoynted:42 and brought him to Iesus. And Iesusbehelde him and sayde: thou arte Simonthe sonne of Ionas thou shalt be calledCephas: which is by interpretacion a stone.

John 1:43 85 John 3:243The daye folowynge Iesus wolde goo intoGalile and founde Philip and sayde vntohim folowe me. 44 Philip was of Bethsaidathe cite of Andrew and Peter. 45And Philipfounde Nathanael and sayde vnto him. Wehave founde him of whom Moses in thelawe and the prophetes dyd wryte. Iesusthe sonne of Ioseph of Nazareth. 46 AndNathanael sayde vnto him: can ther enygood thinge come out of Nazareth? Philipsayde to him: come and se. 47 Iesus saweNathanael commynge to him and sayde ofhim. Beholde a ryght Israelite in who is nogyle. 48 Nathanael sayd vnto him: whereknewest thou me? Iesus answered andsayde vnto him: Before that Philip calledthe when thou wast vnder the fygge tree Isawe the. 49Nathanael answered and saydevnto him: Rabbi thou arte the sonne ofGod thou arte the kynge of Israel. 50 Iesusanswered and sayd vnto him: Because Isayde vnto the I sawe the vnder the fyggetree thou belevest. Thou shalt se greaterthinges then these. 51 And he sayde vntohim: Verely verely I saye vnto you: her-after shall ye se heven open and the angelsof God ascendynge and descendynge overthe sonne of man.

21 And the thryde daye was ther a

mariage in Cana a cite of Galile: and themother of Iesus was there. 2 And Iesuswas called also and his disciples vnto themariage. 3 And when the wyne fayled themother of Iesus sayde vnto him: they haveno wyne. 4 Iesus sayde vnto her: womanwhat have I to do with the? myne houreis not yet come. 5 His mother sayde vntothe ministres: whatsoever he sayeth vntoyou do it. 6And therwere stondynge thearesixe water pottes of stone after the manerof the purifyinge of the Iewes contaynyngetwo or thre fyrkins a pece. 7 And Iesussayde vnto them: fyll thewater potteswithwater. And they fylled them vp to thebrym. 8 And he sayde vnto them: draweout nowand beare vnto the governer of thefeaste. And they bare it. 9When the rulerof the feast had tasted the water that wasturned vnto wyne and knewe not whenceit was (but the ministres which drue thewater knew). He called the brydegrome

10 and sayde vnto him. All men at thebeginnynge set forth good wyne and whenmen be dronke then that which is worsse.But thou hast kept backe the good wynevntyll now. 11 This beginnynge of miraclesdyd Iesus in Cana of Galile and shewedhis glory and his disciples beleved on him.12After that he descended in to Capernaumand his mother and his brethren and hisdisciples: but contynued not manye dayesthere. 13 And the Iewes ester was evenat honde and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem14 and founde syttynge in the temple thosethat solde oxen and shepe and doves andchaungers of money. 15 And he made ascourge of small cordes and drave themall out of the temple with the shepe andoxen and powred oute the changersmoneyand overthrue the tables 16 and sayde vntothem that solde doves: Have these thingeshence and make not my fathers houssean housse of marchaundyse. 17 And hisdisciples remembred how that it was wryt-ten: the zele of thyne housse hath eveneaten me. 18 Then answered the Iewesand sayde vnto him: what token shewestthou vnto vs seynge that thou dost thesethinges? 19 Iesus answered and sayd vntothem: destroye this temple and in thredayes I will reare it vp agayne. 20 Thensayde the Iewes: xlvi. yeares was thistemple abuyldinge: and wylt thou reare itvp in thre dayes: 21 But he spake of thetemple of his body. 22 Assone therforeas he was rysen from deeth agayne hisdisciples remembred that he thus sayde.And they beleved the scripture and thewordes which Iesus had sayde. 23 Whenhe was at Ierusalem at ester in the feastemany beleved on his namewhen they sawehis miracles which he dyd. 24 But Iesus putnot him selfe in their hondes because heknewe all men 25 and neded not, that enyman shuld testify of man. For he knewewhat was in man.

31 Ther was a man of the pharises named

Nicodemus a ruler amonge the Iewes. 2Thesame cam to Iesus by nyght and sayde vntohim: Rabbi we knowe that thou arte ateacher whiche arte come from God. Forno man coulde do suche miracles as thou

John 3:3 86 John 4:6doest except Godwerewithhim. 3 Iesus an-swered and sayde vnto him: Verely verelyI saye vnto the: except a man be boren anewe he cannot se the kyngdom of God.4 Nicodemus sayde vnto him: how can aman be boren when he is olde? can heenter into his moders wombe and be borenagayne? 5 Iesus answered: verely verelyI saye vnto the: except that a man beboren of water and of the sprete he cannotenter into the kyngdome of god. 6 Thatwhich is boren of the flesshe is flesshe: andthat which is boren of the sprete is sprete.7Marvayle not that I sayd to the yemust beboren a newe. 8The wynde bloweth wherehe listeth and thou hearest his sounde:but canst not tell whence he cometh andwhether he goeth. So is every man that isboren of the sprete. 9 And Nicodemus an-swered and sayde vnto him: how can thesethinges be? 10 Iesus answered and saydevnto him: arte thou a master in Israeland knowest not these thinges? 11 Verelyverely I saye vnto the we speake that weknowe and testify that we have sene: andye receave not oure witnes. 12 Yf whenI tell you erthely thinges ye beleve not:how shuld ye beleve yf I shall tell you ofhevenly thinges? 13And noman ascendethvp to heaven but he that came doune fromheaven that is to saye the sonne of manwhich is in heaven. 14 And as Moses liftevp the serpent in the wyldernes even somust the sonne of man be lifte vp, 15 thatnone that beleveth in him perisshe: buthave eternall lyfe. 16 For God so loveththe worlde that he hath geven his onlysonne that none that beleve in him shuldperisshe: but shuld have everlastinge lyfe.17 For God sent not his sonne into theworlde to condempne the worlde: but thatthe worlde through him might be saved.18 He that beleveth on him shall not becondempned. But he that beleveth not iscondempned all redy be cause he belevethnot in the name of the only sonne of God.19 And this is the condempnacion: thatlight is come into the worlde and the meloved darcknes more then light becausetheir dedes were evill. 20 For every manthat evyll doeth hateth the light: nethercommeth to light lest his dedes shuld bereproved. 21 But he that doth truth com-

meth to the light that his dedes might beknowen how that they are wrought in God.22 After these thinges cam Iesus and hisdisciples into the Iewes londe and ther hehaunted with them and baptised. 23 AndIohn also baptised in Enon besydes Salimbecause ther was moche water there andthey came and were baptised. 24 For Iohnwas not yet cast into preson. 25 And therarose a question bitwene Iohns disciplesand the Iewes about purifiynge. 26 Andthey came vnto Iohn and sayde vnto him:Rabbi he that was with the beyonde Iordanto whom thou barest witnes. Beholde thesame baptyseth and all me come to him.27 Iohn answered and sayde: a man canreceave no thinge at all except it be gevehim from heaven. 28 Ye youre selves arewitnesses how that I sayde: I am not Christbut am sent before him. 29He that hath thebryde is the brydegrome. But the frendeof the brydegrome which stondeth by andheareth him reioyseth greately of the bry-dgromes voyce. Tis my ioye is fulfilled.30He must increace: and I muste decreace.31 He that commeth from an hye is aboveall: He that is of the erth is of the erth andspeaketh of the erth. He that cometh fromheaven is above all 32 and what he hathsene and hearde: that he testifieth: but noman receaveth his testimonye. 33How be ithe that hath receaved hys testimonye hathset to his seale that God is true. 34 For hewhom God hath sent speaketh the wordesof God. For God geveth not the sprete bymeasure. 35 The father loveth the sonneand hath geven all thinges into his honde.36 He that beleveth on the sonne hath ev-erlastynge lyfe: and he that beleveth notthe sonne shall not se lyfe but the wratheof God abydeth on him.

41 Assone as the Lorde had knowledge

how the Pharises had hearde that Iesusmade andbaptisedmoodisciples then Iohn2 (though that Iesus him selfe baptisednot: but his disciples) 3 he lefte Iewry anddeparted agayne into Galile. 4And it was sothat he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria.5 Then came he to a cyte of Samaria calledSichar besydes the possession that Iacobgave to his sonne Ioseph. 6 And there was

John 4:7 87 John 4:45Iacobs well. Iesus then weryed in his ior-ney sate thus on the well. And it was aboutthe sixte houre: 7 and there came a womanof Samaria to drawe water. And Iesussayde vnto her: geve me drynke. 8 For hisdisciples were gone awaye vnto the touneto bye meate. 9 Then sayde the womanof Samaria vnto him: how is it that thoubeinge a Iewe axest drinke of me whicham a Samaritane? for the Iewes medle notwith the Samaritans. 10 Iesus answered andsayde vnto hir: yf thou knewest the gyfteof God and who it is that sayeth to the geveme drynke thou woldest have axed of himand he wolde have geven the water of lyfe.11 The woman sayde vnto him. Syr thouhast no thinge to drawewith and thewell isdepe: fromwhence thenhast thou thatwa-ter of lyfe? 12 Arte thou greater then ourefather Iacob which gave vs the well and hehim silfe dranke therof and his chyldrenand his catell? 13 Iesus answered and saydevnto hir: whosoever drinketh of this watershall thurst agayne. 14But whosoever shalldrinke of the water that I shall geve himshall never be more a thyrst: but the waterthat I shall geve him shalbe in him awell ofwater springinge vp in to everlastinge lyfe.15 The woman sayd vnto him: Syr geve meof that water that I thyrst not nether comehedder to drawe. 16 Iesus sayde vnto her.Go and call thy husband and come hydder.17 The woman answered and sayde to him:I have no husband. Iesus sayde to her.Thou hast well sayd I have no husbande.18For thouhaste hadfivehusbandes andhewhom thou now hast is not thy husband.That saydest thou truely. 19 The womansayde vnto him: Syr I perceave that thouarte a prophet. 20Oure fathers worshippedin this mountayne: and ye saye that inHierusalem is the place where men oughtto worshippe. 21 Iesus sayde vnto her:woman beleve me the houre cometh whenye shall nether in this moutayne nor yet atIerusalem worshippe the father. 22Ye wor-shippe ye wot not what: we knowe whatwe worshippe. For salvacion cometh of theIewes. 23But the houre commeth and noweis when the true worshippers shall wor-shippe the father in sprete and in trouthe.For verely suche the father requyreth toworshippe him. 24God is a sprete and they

that worshippe him must worshippe himin sprete and trouthe. 25The woman saydevnto him: I wot well Messias shall comewhich is called Christ. When he is come hewill tell vs all thinges. 26 Iesus sayde vntohir: I that speake vnto the am he. 27 Andeven at that poynte came his disciples andmarvelled that he talked with the woman.Yet no man sayde vnto him: what meanestthou or why talkest thou with her? 28 Thewoman then lefte her waterpot and wenther waye into the cite and sayde to themen. 29 Come se a man which tolde me allthinges that ever I dyd. Is not he Christ?30Then they went out of the cite and camevnto him. 31 And in ye meane while hisdisciples prayed him sayinge: Master eate.32He sayde vnto the: I have meate to eatethat ye knowe not of. 33 Then sayd thedisciples bitwene them selves: hath enyman brought him meate? 34 Iesus saydevnto them: my meate is to doo the willof him that sent me. And to fynnysshehis worke. 35 Saye not ye: there are yetfoure monethes and then cometh harvest?Beholde I saye vnto you lyfte vp youreeyes and loke on the regions: for they arewhyte all redy vnto harvest. 36And he thatrepeth receaveth rewarde and gadderethfrute vnto life eternall: that bothe he thatsoweth and he that repeth myght reioyseto gether. 37 And herin is the sayinge truethat one soweth and another repeth. 38 Isent you to repe that wheron ye bestowedno laboure. Othermen laboured and ye areentred into their labours. 39 Many of theSamaritas of that cyte beleved on him forthe sayinge of the woman which testified:he tolde me all thinges that ever I dyd.40 Then when the Samaritas were comevnto him they besought him that he woldetary with the. And he aboode there twodayes. 41 And many moo beleved becauseof his awne wordes 42 and sayd vnto thewoman: Now we beleve not because of thysayinge. Forwe have herde himoure selvesand knowe that this is even in dede Christthe savioure of the worlde. 43 After twodayes he departed thence and wet awayeinto Galile. 44 And Iesus him selfe testifiedthat a Prophete hath none honoure in hisawne countre. 45 Then assone as he wascome into Galile the Galileans receavedhim which had sene all the thinges that

John 4:46 88 John 5:25he dyd at Ierusalem at the feast. For theywet also vnto the feast daye. 46 And Iesuscame agayne into Cana of Galile wher heturned water into wyne. And ther was acertayne ruler whose sonne was sicke atCapernaum. 47 Assone as the same herdethat Iesuswas come out of Iewry into Galilehe wet vnto him and besought him that hewolde descende and heale his sonne: Forhe was even readie to dye. 48 Then saydeIesus vnto him: excepte ye se signes andwodres ye cannot beleve. 49The ruler saydvnto him: Syr come awaye or ever that mychylde dye. 50 Iesus sayde vnto him goothy waye thy sonne liveth. And the manbeleved the wordes that Iesus had spokevnto him andwet hiswaye. 51And anone ashe went on his waye his servantes met himand tolde him sayinge: thy chylde liveth.52Then enquyred he of the the hourewhenhe begane to amende. And they sayde vntohim: Yester daye the sevethe houre thefever lefte him. 53 And the father knewthat it was the same houre in which Iesussayde vnto him: Thy sonne liveth. And hebeleved and all his housholde. 54 Thys isagayne the secondemyracle that Iesus dydafter hewas come oute of Iewry into Galile.

51 After that ther was a feast of the

Iewes and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem.2 And ther is at Ierusalem by the slaugh-terhousse a pole called in the Ebrue tongeBethseda havinge five porches 3 in whichlaye a greate multitude of sicke folke ofblinde halt and wyddered waytinge for themovinge of the water. 4 For an angellwet doune at a certayne ceason into thepole and troubled the water. Whosoeverthen fyrst after the steringe of the wa-ter stepped in was made whoale of whatsoever disease he had. 5 And a certayneman was theare which had bene diseased.xxxviii. yeares. 6 When Iesus sawe himlye and knewe that he now longe tyme hadbene diseased he sayde vnto him. Wiltthou be made whoale? 7 The sicke an-swered him: Syr I have no man when thewater is troubled to put me into the pole.But in the meane tyme whill I am aboutto come another steppeth doune beforeme. 8 And Iesus sayde vnto him: ryse take

vp thy beed and walke. 9 And immediatlythe man was made whole and toke vp hisbeed and went. And the same daye wasthe Saboth daye. 10 The Iewes therforesayde vnto him that was made whole. Itis the Saboth daye it is not laufull for theto cary thy beed. 11He answered them: hethat made me whole sayde vnto me: takevp thy beed and get the hence. 12 Thenaxed they him: what man is that whichsayde vnto the take vp thy beed and walke.13 And he that was healed wist not who itwas. For Iesus had gotte him selfe awayebe cause that ther was preace of people inthe place. 14 And after that Iesus foundehim in the temple and sayd vnto him:beholde thou arte made whole synne nomoore lest a worsse thinge happen vntothe. 15 The man departed and tolde theIewes that that was Iesus whiche hadmadehim whole. 16 And therfore the Iewes dydpersecute Iesus and sought the meanes tosleehimbecausehehaddone these thingeson the Saboth daye. 17And Iesus answeredthem: my father worketh hidder to and Iworke. 18 Therfore the Iewes sought themoare to kill him not only because he hadbroken the Saboth: but sayde also that Godwas his father and made him selfe equallwith God. 19 Then answered Iesus andsayde vnto them: verely verely I saye vntoyou: the sonne can do no thinge of himselfe but that he seeth the father do. Forwhatsoever he doeth that doeth the sonnealso. 20 For the father loveth the sonneand sheweth him all thinges whatsoeverhe him selfe doeth. And he will shewehim greter workes then these because theshoulde marvayle. 21 For lykwyse as thefather rayseth vp the deed and quickeneththem even so the sonne quyckeneth whomhe will. 22 Nether iudgeth the father enyman: but hath committed all iudgementvnto the sonne 23 because that all menshuld honoure the sonne even as they hon-oure the father. He that honoureth not thesonne the same honoureth not the fatherwhich hath sent him. 24 Verely verely Isaye vnto you: He that heareth my wordesand beleveth on him that sent me hatheverlastinge lyfe and shall not come intodamnacion: but is scaped from deth vntolyfe. 25 Verely verely I saye vnto you: thetyme shall come and now is when the deed

John 5:26 89 John 6:19shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God.And they that heare shall live. 26 For asthe father hath life in him silfe: so lykewyse hath he geven to the sonne to havelyfe in him silfe: 27 and hath geven himpower also to iudge in that he is the sonneof man. 28Marvayle not at this the houreshall come in the which all that are in thegraves shall heare his voice 29 and shallcome forthe: they that have done goodvnto the resurreccion of lyfe: and theythat have done evyll vnto the resurreccionof dampnacion. 30 I can of myne awneselfe do nothinge at all. As I heare I iudgeand my iudgement is iust because I sekenot myne awne will but the will of thefather which hath sent me. 31 Yf I bearewitnes of my selfe my witnes is not true.32 Ther is a nother that beareth witnes ofme and I am sure that the witnes whichehe beareth of me is true. 33 Ye sent vntoIohn and he bare witnes vnto the truthe.34 But I receave not the recorde of man.Neverthelesse these thinges I saye that yemight be safe. 35 He was a burninge and ashyninge light and ye wolde for a seasonhave reioysed in his light. 36 But I havegreater witnes then thewitnes of Iohn. Forthe workes which the father hath geve meto fynisshe: the same workes which I dobeare witnes of me that the father sentme. 37And the father him silfe which hathsent me beareth witnes of me. Ye havenot hearde his voyce at eny tyme nor yehave sene his shape: 38 therto his wordeshave ye not abydinge in you. For whomehe hath sent: him ye beleve not. 39 Searchethe scriptures for in them ye thinke yehave eternall lyfe: and they are they whichtestify of me. 40 And yet will ye not cometo me that ye might have lyfe. 41 I receavenot prayse of men. 42 But I knowe youthat ye have not the love of God in you43 I am come in my fathers name and yereceave me not. Yf another shall come inhis awne name him will ye receave. 44Howcan ye beleve which receave honoure oneof another and seke not the honoure thatcommeth of God only? 45 Doo not thinkethat I wyll accuse you to my father. Ther isone that accuseth you evenMoses inwhomye trust. 46 For had ye beleved Moses yewold have beleved me: for he wrote of me.47 But now ye beleve not his writinge: how

shall ye beleve my wordes.

61 After these thinges Iesus wet his waye

over the see of Galile nye to a cyte calledTiberias. 2And a greate multitude folowedhim because they had sene his myracleswhich he dyd on them that were diseased.3And Iesus went vp into a mountayne andthere he sate with his disciples. 4 Andester a feast of the Iewes was nye. 5 ThenIesus lifte vp his eyes and sawe a greatecompany come vnto him and sayde vntoPhilip: whence shall we bye breed thatthese might eate. 6 This he sayde to provehim: for he him sylfe knewewhat he woldedo. 7 Philip answered him two hondredpeny worthe of breed are not sufficientfor them that every man have a litell.8 Then sayde vnto him one of his disciplesAndrew Simon Peters brother. 9 Thereys a lad here which hath fyve barly lovesand two fisshes: but what is that amongeso many? 10 And Iesus sayde. Make thepeople sit doune: Ther was moche grassein the place. And the men sate dounein nombre about five thousande. 11 AndIesus toke the breed and gave thankes andgave to the disciples and his disciples tothem that were set doune. And lykwyseof the fysshes as moche as they wolde.12When they had eate ynoughhe sayd vntohis disciples: gadder vp the broke meatethat remayneth: that nothinge be loost.13 And they gadered it to geder and fylledtwelve baskettes with the broken meate ofthe five barly loves which broken meateremayned vnto the that had eaten. 14Thenthe men when they had sene the myraclethat Iesus dyd sayde: This is of a trueth theProphet that shuld come into the worlde.15 When Iesus perceaved that they woldecome and take him vp to make him kingehe departed agayne into a mountayne himsilfe a lone. 16 And when even was comehis disciples wet vnto the see 17 and entredinto a shyppe and went over the see vntoCapernaum. And anone it was darcke andIesus was not come to them. 18And the seearose with a greate winde that blew. 19Andwhen they had rowe aboute a .xxv. or axxx. furlonges they sawe Iesus walke onthe see and drawe nye vnto the shyp and

John 6:20 90 John 6:57they were afrayed. 20 And he sayde vntothem: It is I be not a frayde. 21 Then woldethey have receaved him into the shypand the ship was by and by at the londewhyther they went. 22The daye folowyngethe people which stode on the other sydeof the see sawe that ther was none othershyp theare save that one wher in hisdisciples were entred and that Iesus wentnot in with his disciples into the ship: butthat his disciples were gone awaye alone.23How be it, ther came other shippes fromTiberias nye vnto the place where theyate breed when the Lorde had blessed.24 Then when the people sawe that Iesuswas not there nether his disciples they alsotoke shippinge and came to Caparnaumsekinge for Iesus. 25 And when they hadfounde him on the other syde of the seethey sayd vnto him: Rabbi when camestthou hidder? 26 Iesus answered them andsayde: verely verely I saye vnto you: yeseke me not because ye sawe the myracles:but because ye ate of the loves and werefilled. 27 Laboure not for the meate whichperissheth but for themeate that endurethvnto everlastynge lyfe whiche meate thesonne of man shall geve vnto you. For himhath god the father sealed. 28 Then saydthey vnto him: what shall we do that wemyght worke the workes of God? 29 Iesusanswered and sayde vnto them. This isthe worke of God that ye beleve on himwho he hath sent. 30 They sayde vntohim: what signe shewest thou then that wemaye se and beleve the? What doest thouworke? 31 Oure fathers dyd eate Mannain the desert as that is writte: He gavethem breed from heaven to eate. 32 Iesussayde vnto the: verely verely I saye vntoyou: Moses gave you breed from heaven:but my father geveth you the true breedfrom heaven. 33 For the breed of God ishe which cometh doune from heaven andgeveth lyfe vnto the worlde. 34Then saydethey vnto him: Lorde ever moore geve vsthis breed. 35 And Iesus sayde vnto them:I am that breed of life. He that cometh tome shall not honger: and he that belevethon me shall never thurst. 36 But I sayedvnto you: that ye have sene me and yetbeleve not. 37All that the father geveth meshall come to me: and him that cometh to

me I cast not awaye. 38 For I came dounefrom heaven: not to do myne awne willbut his will which hath sent me. 39 Andthis is the fathers will which hath sentme that of all which he hath geven me Ishuld loose no thinge: but shuld rayse itvp agayne at the last daye. 40 And this isthe wyll of him that sent me: that everyman which seith the sonne and belevethon him have everlastinge lyfe. And I willrayse him vp at the last daye. 41 The Iewesthenmurmured at him because he sayde: Iam that breed which is come doune fromheaven. 42 And they sayde: Is not thisIesus the sonne of Ioseph whose fatherand mother we knowe? How ys that thenthat he sayeth I came doune from heaven?43 Iesus answered and sayde vnto them.Murmur not betwene youre selves. 44 Noman can come to me except the fatherwhich hath sent me, drawe him. And Iwill rayse him vp at the last daye. 45 It iswritten in the Prophetes, that they shallall be taught of God. Every man therforethat hath hearde and hath learned of thefather commeth vnto me. 46 Not that enyman hath sene the father save he whichis of God: the same hath sene the father.47 Verely verely I saye vnto you he thatbeleveth on me hath everlastinge lyfe. 48 Iam that breed of lyfe. 49 Youre fathersdyd eate Mana in the wildernes and aredeed. 50 This is that breed which comethfrom heaven that he which eateth of itshuld also not dye. 51 I am that lyvingebreed which came doune from heaven. Yfeny man eate of this breed he shall liveforever. And the breed that I will geve ismy flesshe which I will geve for the lyfe ofthe worlde 52And the Iewes strove amongethem selves sayinge: How can this felowegeve vs his flesshe to eate? 53 Then Iesussayde vnto them: Verely, verely I saye vntoyou except ye eate the flesshe of the sonneof man and drinke his bloude ye shall nothave lyfe in you. 54 Whosoever eatethmy flesshe and drinketh my bloude hatheternall lyfe: and I will rayse him vp atthe last daye. 55 For my flesshe is meatein dede: and my bloude is drynke in dede.56He that eateth my flesshe and drynkethmy bloude dwelleth in me and I in him.57 As the lyvinge father hath sent me evenso lyve I by my father: and he that eateth

John 6:58 91 John 7:29me shall live by me. 58 This is the breedwhich cam from heaven: not as yourefathers have eaten Manna and are deed.He that eateth of this breed shall live ever.59 These thinges sayd he in the synagogeas he taught in Capernaum. 60Many of hisdisciples when they had herde this sayde:this is an herde sayinge: who can abydethe hearinge of it? 61 Iesus knew in himselfe that his disciples murmured at it andsayde vnto them: Doth this offende you?62 What and yf ye shall se the sonne ofman ascede vp where he was before? 63 Itis the sprete that quyckeneth the flessheproffeteth nothinge. The wordes that Ispeake vnto you are sprete and lyfe. 64 Butther are some of you that beleve not. ForIesus knewe from the begynnynge whichthey were that beleved not and who shuldbetraye him. 65 And he sayde: Therforesayde I vnto you: that no man can comevnto me except it were geven vnto him ofmy father. 66 From that tyme many of hisdisciples wet backe and walked no moorewithhim. 67Then sayde Iesus to the twelve:will ye alsoo goo awaye? 68 Then SimonPeter answered: Master to whom shall wegoo? Thou haste the wordes of eternalllyfe, 69 and we beleve and knowe that thouarte Christ the sonne of the lyvinge God.70 Iesus answered them: Have not I chosenyou twelve and yet one of you is the devyll?71He spake it of Iudas Iscariot the sonne ofSimon. For he itwas that shuld betrayehimand was one of the twelve.

71 After that Iesus wet about in Galile and

wolde not go about in Iewry for the Iewessought to kill him. 2 The Iewes tabernaclefeast was at honde. 3 His brethren ther-fore sayde vnto him: get ye hence and gointo Iewry that thy disciples maye se thyworkes that thou doest. 4 For ther is noman that doeth eny thing secretly and hehim selfe seketh to be knowen. Yf thoudo soche thinges shewe thy selfe to theworlde. 5 For as yet his brethren belevednot in him. 6 Then Iesus sayd vnto them:My tyme is not yet come youre tyme isall waye redy. 7 The worlde cannot hateyou. Me it hateth: because I testify of itthat the workes of it are evyll. 8 Go yevp vnto this feast. I will not go vp yet

vnto this feast for my tyme is not yet fullcome. 9 These wordes he sayde vnto themand abode still in Galile. 10 But assoneas his brethren were goone vp then wenthe also vp vnto the feast: not openly butas it were prevely. 11 Then sought himthe Iewes at the feast and sayde: Whereis he? 12 And moche murmurynge wasther of him amonge the people. Somesayde: He is good. Wother sayde nayebut he deceaveth the people. 13 How beit no man spake openly of him for feareof the Iewes 14 In the middes of the feastIesus went vp into the temple and taught.15 And the Iewes marveylled sayinge: Howknoweth he the scriptures seynge that henever learned? 16 Iesus answered them andsayde: My doctrine is not myne: but histhat sent me. 17 If eny man will do his willhe shall knowe of the doctrine whether itbe of God or whether I speake of my selfe.18 He that speaketh of him selfe sekethhis awne prayse. But he that seketh hisprayse that sent him the same is true andno vnrightewesnes is in him. 19 Dyd notMoses geve you a lawe and yet none of youkepeth the lawe? Whygoo ye aboute to kyllme? 20 The people answered and sayde:thou hast the devyll: who goeth aboute tokyll the? 21 Iesus answered and sayde tothem: I have done one worke and ye allmarvayle. 22Moses therfore gave vnto youcircumcision: not because it is ofMoses butof the fathers. And yet ye on the Sabothdaye circumcise a man. 23 If a man on theSaboth daye receave circumcision withoutbreakinge of the lawe of Moses: disdayneye at me because I have made a man everywhit whoale on the saboth daye? 24 Iudgenot after the vtter aperaunce: but iudgerightewes iudgement. 25 Then sayd someof them of Ierusalem: Is not this he whothey goo aboute to kyll? 26 Beholde hespeaketh boldly and they saye nothingeto him. Do the rulars knowe in dedethat this is very Christ? 27 How be it weknowe this man whence he is: but whenChrist cometh noman shall knowewhencehe is. 28 Then cryed Iesus in the templeas he taught sayinge: ye knowe me andwhence I am ye knowe. And yet I amnot come of my selfe but he that sent meis true whom ye knowe not. 29 I knowe

John 7:30 92 John 8:16him: for I am of him and he hath sent me.30 Then they sought to take him: but noman layde hondes onhimbecause his tymewas not yet come. 31 Many of the peoplebeleved on him and sayde: when Christcometh will he do moo miracles then thisman hath done? 32 The pharises heardethat the people murmured suche thingesabout him. Wherfore the pharises and hyeprestes sent ministres forthe to take him.33 Then sayde Iesus vnto the: Yet am I alytell whyle with you and then goo I vntohim that sent me. 34 Ye shall seke me andshall not fyndeme: andwhere I am thythercan ye not come. 35 Then sayde the Iewesbitwene the selves: whyther will he goothat we shall not fynde him? Will he gooamonge the gentyls which are scattered alla broade and teache the gentyls? 36Whatmaner 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?37 In the last daye that great daye of thefeaste Iesus stode and cryed sayinge: Ifeny man thyrst let him come vnto me anddrinke. 38He that beleveth onme as sayeththe scripture out of his belly shall floweryvers of water of lyfe. 39 This spak heof the sprete which they that beleved onhim shuld receave. For the holy goost wasnot yet there because that Iesus was notyet glorifyed. 40Many of the people whenthey hearde this sayinge sayd: of a truththis is a prophet. 41 Other sayde: this isChrist. Some sayde: shall Christ come outof Galile? 42 Sayeth not the scripture thatChrist shall come of the seed of David: andout of the toune of Bethleem where Davidwas? 43 So was ther dissencion amonge thepeople aboute him. 44 And some of themwolde have taken him: but no man layedhondes on him. 45Then came theministresto the hye prestes and pharises. And theysayde vnto the: why have ye not broughthim? 46 The servautes answered neverman spake as this man doeth. 47 Thenanswered the the pharises: are ye alsodisceaved? 48 Doth eny of the rulers orof the pharises beleve on him? 49 Butthe comen people whiche knowe not thelawe are cursed. 50 Nicodemus sayde vntothem: He that came to Iesus by nyght andwas one of them. 51 Doth oure lawe iudge

eny man before it heare him and knowewhat he hath done? 52 They answered andsayde vnto him: arte thou also of Galile?Searche and loke for out of Galile arysethno Prophet. 53 And every man went vntohis awne housse.

81 And Iesus went vnto mounte Olivete

2 and erly in the mornynge came agayneinto the temple and all the people camevnto him and he sate doune and taughtthem. 3 And the scribes and the pharisesbrought vnto him a woman taken in ad-voutry and set hyr in the myddes 4 andsayde vnto him: Master this woman wastaken in advoutry even as the dede was adoyng. 5 Moses in the lawe commaundedvs that suche shuld be stoned. What sayestthou ther fore? 6 And this they sayde totempt him: that they myght have wherofto accuse him. Iesus stouped doune andwith his fynger wrote on the grounde.7And whyll they continued axynge him helyfte him selfe vp and sayde vnto them: lethim that is amonge youwith out synne castthe fyrst stone at her. 8 And agayne hestouped doune and wrote on the grounde.9And assone as they hearde that they wentout one by one the eldest fyrst. And Iesuswas lefte a lone and the woman stondyngein the myddes. 10 When Iesus had lyftevp him selfe agayne and sawe no man butthe woman he sayde vnto hyr. Womanwhere are those thyne accusars? Hathno man condempned the? 11 She sayde:No man Lorde. And Iesus sayde: Netherdo I condempne the. Goo and synne nomoare. 12 Then spake Iesus agayne vntothem sayinge: I am the light of the worlde.He that foloweth me shall not walke indarcknes: but shall have the light of lyfe.13The pharises sayde vnto him: thou bear-est recorde of thy sylfe thy recorde is nottrue. 14 Iesus answered and sayde vntothem: Though I beare recorde of my selfeyet my recorde is true: for I knowe whenceI came and whyther I goo. But ye cannottell whence I come andwhyther I goo. 15Yeiudge after the flesshe. I iudge no manthough I iudge yet ismy iudgmet true. For Iamnot alone: but I and the father that sentme. 16 It is also written in youre lawe that

John 8:17 93 John 8:55the testimony of two men is true. 17 I amone that beare witnes of my selfe and thefather that sent me beareth witnes of me.18 Then sayde they vnto him: where is thyfather? Iesus answered: ye nether knoweme nor yet my father. Yf ye had knowenme ye shuld have knowen my father also.19 These wordes spake Iesus in the tresuryas he taught in the temple and no manlayde hondes on him for his tyme was notyet come. 20 Then sayde Iesus agayne vntothem. I goo my waye and ye shall seke meand shall dye in youre synnes. Whyther Igoo thyther can ye not come. 21Then saydethe Iewes: will he kyll him selfe because hesayth: whyther I goo thyther can ye notcome? 22 And he sayde vnto the: ye arefrom beneth I am from above. Ye are ofthis worlde I am not of this worlde. 23 Isayde therfore vnto you that ye shall dyein youre synnes. For except ye beleve that Iam he ye shall dye in youre synnes. 24Thensayde they vnto him who arte thou? AndIesus sayde vnto them: even the very samethinge that I saye vnto you. 25 I have manythinges to saye and to iudge of you. But hethat sent me is true. And I speake in theworlde those thinges which I have heardeof him. 26 They understode not that hespake of his father. 27 Then sayde Iesusvnto them: when ye have lyft vp an hyethe sonne of man then shall ye knowe thatI am he and that I do nothinge of my selfe:but as my father hath taught me even soI speake: 28 and he that sent me is withme. The father hath not lefte me alone forI do alwayes those thinges that please him.29 As he spake these wordes many belevedon him. 30 Then sayde Iesus to those Ieweswhich beleved on him. If ye continue inmywordes then are yemy very disciples 31andshall knowe the trueth: and the truethshall make you free. 32They answered him:We be Abrahams seede and were neverbonde to enyman: why sayest thou then yeshalbe made fre. 33 Iesus answered them:verely verely I saye vnto you that whoso-ever committeth synne is the servaunt ofsynne. 34 And the servaunt abydeth not inthe housse for ever: But the sonne abydethever. 35 If the sonne therfore shall makeyou fre then are ye fre in dede. 36 I knowethat ye are Abrahams seed: But ye seke

meanes to kyll me because my sayingeshave no place in you. 37 I speake that I havesene with my father: and ye do that whichye have sene with youre father. 38 Theyanswered and sayde vnto him: Abrahamis oure father. Iesus sayde vnto them. Ifye were Abrahams chyldren ye wolde dothe dedes of Abraham. 39 But now ye gooabout to kyll me a man that have tolde youthe truthe which I have herde of god: thisdyd not Abraham. 40 Ye do the dedes ofyoure father. Then sayde they vnto him:we were not borne of fornicacion. We haveone father which is God. 41 Iesus saydevnto them: yf God were youre father thenwolde ye love me. For I proceaded fortheand come from God. Nether came I ofmy selfe but he sent me. 42 Why do yenot knowe my speache? even because yecannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes.43Ye are of youre father the devyll and thelustes of youre father ye will folowe. 44Hewas a murtherer from the beginnynge andaboode not in the trueth because ther is notrueth in him. Whenhe speaketh a lye thenspeaketh he of his awne. For he is a lyarand the father therof. 45And because I tellyou the trueth therfore ye beleve me not.46Which of you can rebuke me of synne? IfI saye the trueth why do not ye beleve me?47He that is of God heareth goddes wordesYe therfore heare them not because ye arenot of God. 48 Then answered the Iewesand sayde vnto him: Saye we not wellthat thou arte a Samaritane and hast thedevyll? 49 Iesus answered: I have not thedevyll: but I honour my father and ye havedishonoured me. 50 I seke not myne awneprayse: but ther is one that seketh andiudgeth. 51 Verely verely I saye vnto youyf a man kepe my sayinges he shall neverse deeth. 52 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 mysayinge he shall never tast of deeth. 53Artethou greater then oure father Abrahamwhich is deed? and the Prophetes are deed.Whome makest thou thy selfe? 54 Iesusanswered: Yf I honoure my selfe mynehonoure is nothinge worth. It is my fatherthat honoureth me which ye saye is youreGod 55 and ye have not knowen him: but

John 8:56 94 John 9:33I knowe him. And yf I shuld saye I knowehim not I shuld be a lyar lyke vnto you. ButI knowe him and kepe his sayinge. 56Yourefather Abrahamwas glad to semy daye andhe sawe it and reioysed. 57 Then sayde theIewes vnto him: thou arte not yet.l. yereolde and hast thou sene Abraham? 58 Iesussayd vnto them: Verely verely I saye vntoyou: yer Abraham was I am. 59 Then tokethey vp stones to caste at him. But Iesushid him selfe and went out of the temple.

91 And as Iesus passed by he sawe a man

which was blynde from his birth. 2 Andhis disciples axed him sayinge. Masterwho dyd synne: this man or his father andmother that he was borne blynde. 3 Iesusanswered: Nether hath this man synnednor yet his father andmother: but that theworkes of God shuld be shewed on him. 4 Imust worke the workes of him that sentme whyll it is daye. The nyght comethwhen no man can worke. 5 As longe asI am in the worlde I am the lyght of theworlde. 6 Assone as he had thus spokenhe spate on the grounde and made claye ofthe spetle and rubbed the claye on the eyesof the blynde 7 and sayde vnto him: Goowesshe the in the pole of Syloe which byinterpretacion signifieth sent. He went hiswaye and wasshed and cam agayne seinge.8 The neghboures and they that had senehimbefore how that hewas a begger sayde:is not this he that sate and begged? 9 Somesayde: this is he. Other sayd: he is lykehim. But he him selfe sayde: I am evenhe. 10They sayde vnto him: How are thyneeyes opened then? 11 He answered andsayde. The man that is called Iesus madeclaye and anoynted myne eyes and saydvntome: Goo to the pole Syloe andwesshe.Iwent andwesshed and receavedmy syght.12 They sayde vnto him: where is he? Hesayde: I cannot tell. 13 Then brought theyto the pharises him that a lytell beforewas blynde: 14 for it was the Saboth dayewhen Iesus made the claye and opened hiseyes. 15Then agayne the pharises also axedhim how he had receaved his syght. Hesayde vnto the: He put claye apon myneeyes and I wasshed and do se. 16 Thensayde some of the pharises: this man is not

of God because he kepeth not the sabothdaye. Other sayde: how can a man that is asynner do suche myracles? And ther wasstryfe amonge them. 17 Then spake theyvnto the blynde agayne: What sayst thouof him because he hath openned thyneeyes? And he sayd: He is a Prophet. 18 Butthe Iewes dyd not beleve of the felowehow that he was blynde and receaved hissyght vntyll they had called the father andmother of him that had receaved his syght.19 And they axed the saying: Is this youresonne whome ye saye was borne blynde?How doth he now se then? 20 His fatherand mother answered them and sayde:we wote well that this is oure sonne andthat he was borne blynde: 21 but by whatmeanes he now seith that canwe not tell orwho hath opened his eyes can we not tell.He is olde ynough axe him let him answerfor him selfe. 22 Suche wordes spake hisfather andmother because they feared theIewes. For the Iewes had conspyred allredy that yf eny man dyd confesse thathe was Christ he shuld be excommunicatout of the synagoge. 23 Therfore sayde hisfather and mother: he is olde ynough axehim. 24 Then agayne called they the manthat was blynde and sayd vnto him: GeveGod the prayse: we knowe that this manis a synner. 25 He answered and sayde:Whyther he be a synner or noo I cannottell: One thinge I am sure of that I wasblynde and now I se. 26 Then sayde theyto him agayne. What dyd he to the? Howopened he thyne eyes? 27 He answeredthem I tolde you yerwhyle and the dydnot heare. Wherfore wolde ye heare itagayne? Will ye also be his disciples?28 Then rated they him and sayde: Thouarte his disciple. We be Moses disciples.29We are sure that God spake with Moses.This felowe we knowe not from whencehe is. 30 The man answered and saydevnto them: this is a merveleous thingethat ye wote not whence he is seinge hehath opened myne eyes. 31 For we be surethat God heareth not synners. But yf enyman be a worshipper of God and do hiswill him heareth he. 32 Sence the worldebeganne was it not hearde that eny manopened the eyes of one that was borneblynd. 33 If this man were not of God

John 9:34 95 John 10:33he coulde have done no thinge. 34 Theyanswered and sayd vnto him: thou artealtogeder borne in synne: and dost thouteache vs? And they cast him out. 35 Iesushearde that they had excommunicate him:and assone as he had founde him he saydvnto him: doest thou beleve on the sonneof God? 36 He answered and sayde: Whois it Lorde that I myght beleve on him?37 And Iesus sayde vnto him: Thou hastsene him and he it is that talketh withthe. 38 And he sayde: Lorde I beleve: andworshipped him. 39 Iesus sayde: I am comevnto iudgement into this worlde: that theywhich se not myght se and they which semyght be made blynde. 40 And some ofthe pharises which were with him heardethese wordes and sayde vnto him: are wethen blynde? 41 Iesus sayde vnto them: yfyewere blynde ye shuldhaveno synne. Butnow ye saye we se therfore youre synneremayneth.

101 Verely verely I saye vnto you: he that

entreth not in by the dore into the shep-efolde but clymeth vp some other waye:the same is a thefe and a robber. 2He thatgoeth in by the dore is the shepeherde ofthe shepe: 3 to him the porter openeth andthe shepe heare his voyce and he callethhis awne shepe by name and leadeth themout. 4 And when he hath sent forthe hisawne shepe he goeth before them and theshepe folowe him: for they knowe hisvoyce. 5 A straunger they will not folowebut will flye from him: for they knowe notthe voyce of straungers. 6 This similitudespake Iesus vnto them. But they vnder-stode not what thinges theywere which hespake vnto them. 7 Then sayde Iesus vntothem agayne. Verely verely I saye vntoyou: I am the dore of the shepe. 8 All evenas many as came before me are theves androbbers: but the shepe dydnot heare them.9 I am the dore: by me yf eny man enter inhe shalbe safe and shall goo in and out andfynde pasture. 10The thefe cometh not butforto steale kyll and destroye. I am comethat theymyght have lyfe and have it moreaboundantly. 11 I am the good shepeheerd.The good shepeheerd geveth his lyfe forthe shepe. 12 An heyred servaut which is

not the shepeherd nether the shepe arehis awne seith the wolfe comynge andleveth the shepe and flyeth and the wolfecatcheth them and scattereth the shepe.13 The heyred servaut flyeth because he isan heyred servaunt and careth not for theshepe. 14 I am that good shepeheerd andknowe myne and am knowe of myne. 15Asmy father knowethme: even so knowe Imyfather. And I geve my lyfe for the shepe:16 and other shepe I have which are not ofthis folde. Them also must I bringe thatthey maye heare my voyce and that thermaye be one flocke and one shepeherde.17Therfore dothmy father loveme becauseI put my lyfe from me that I myght takeit agayne. 18 No man taketh it from me:but I put it awaye of my selfe. I havepower to put it fromme and have power totake it agayne: This commaundment haveI receaved of my father. 19 And ther wasa dissencion agayne amonge the Iewes forthese sayinges 20 and many of them sayd.He hath the devyll and is mad: why heareye him? 21 Other sayde these are not thewordes of him that hath the devyll. Canthe devyll open the eyes of the blynde?22And it was at Ierusalem the feaste of thededicacion and it was wynter: 23 and Iesuswalked in Salomons porche. 24 Then camethe Iewes rounde aboute him and saydevnto him: How longe dost thou make vsdoute? Yf thou be Christ tell vs playnly.25 Iesus answered them: I tolde you andye beleve not. The workes that I do inmy fathers name they beare witnes of me.26 But ye beleve not because ye are notof my shepe. As I sayde vnto you: 27 myshepe heare my voyce and I knowe themand they folowe me and 28 I geve vnto theeternall lyfe and they shall never perisshenether shall eny man plucke the oute ofmy honde. 29 My father which gave theme is greatter then all and no man is ableto take them out of my fathers honde.30 And I and my father are one. 31 Thenthe Iewes agayne toke up stones to stonehimwith all. 32 Iesus answered them: manygood workes have I shewed you from myfather: for which of themwill ye stoneme?33 The Iewes answered him sayinge. Forthy good workes sake we stone ye not: but

John 10:34 96 John 11:34for thy blasphemy and because that thoubeinge amanmakest thy selfe God. 34 Iesusanswered them: Is it not written in yourelawe: I saye ye are goddes? 35 If he calledthe goddes vnto whom the worde of Godwas spoken (and the scripture can not bebroken) 36 saye ye then to him whom thefather hath sainctified and sent into theworlde thou blasphemest because I saydI am the sonne of God? 37 If I do notthe workes of my father beleve me not.38 But if I do though ye beleve not me yetbeleve the workes that ye maye knowe andbeleve that the father is inme and I in him.39 Agayne they went aboute to take him:but he escaped out of their hondes 40 andwent awaye agayne beyonde Iordan intothe place where Iohn before had baptisedand there aboode. 41 And many resortedvnto him and sayd. Iohn dyd no miracle:but all thinges that Iohn spake of this manare true. 42 And many beleved on himtheare.

111 A certayne man was sicke named

Lazarus of Bethania the toune of Maryand her sister Martha. 2 It was that Marywhich annoynted Iesus with oyntmentand wyped his fete with her heere whosebrother Lazarus was sicke 3 and his sisterssent vnto him sayinge. Lorde behold hewhom thou lovest is sicke. 4 When Iesushearde that he sayd: this infirmite is notvnto deth but for the laude of God thatthe sonne of God myght be praysed by thereason of it. 5 Iesus loved Martha and hersister and Lazarus. 6 After he hearde thathe was sicke then aboode he two dayes stillin the same place where he was. 7 Thenafter that sayd he to his disciples: let usgoo into Iewry agayne. 8His disciples saydevnto him. Master the Iewes lately soughtmeanes to stone the and wilt thou goothyther agayne? 9 Iesus answered: are thernot twelve houres in the daye? Yf a manwalke in the dayehe stomblethnot becausehe seith the lyght of this worlde. 10 Butyf a man walke in the nyght he stomblethbecause ther is no lyght in him. 11 Thissayde he and after that he sayde vnto the:oure frende Lazarus slepeth but I goo towake him out of slepe. 12 Then sayde hisdisciples: Lorde yf he slepe he shall do well

ynough. 13 How be it Iesus spake of hisdeeth: but they thought that he had spokeof the naturall slepe. 14 Then sayde Iesusvnto the playnly Lazarus is deed 15 andI am glad for youre sakes that I was notthere because ye maye beleve. Neverthe-lesse let vs go vnto him. 16 Then saydeThomas which is called Dydimus vnto thedisciples: let vs also goo that we mayedye with him. 17 Then went Iesus andfounde that he had lyne in his grave fouredayes already. 18 Bethanie was nye vntoIerusalem aboute. xv. furlonges of 19 andmany of the Iewes were come to Marthaand Mary to comforte them over theirbrother. 20 Martha assone as she heardethat Iesus was comyngewent andmet him:but Mary sate still in the housse. 21 Thensayde Martha vnto Iesus: Lorde yf thouhaddest bene here my brother had notbene deed: 22 but neverthelesse I knowethat whatsoever thou axest of God Godwillgeve it the. 23 Iesus sayde vnto her: Thybrother shall ryse agayne. 24Martha saydevntohim: I knowe that he shall ryse agaynein the resurreccion at the last daye. 25 Iesussayde vnto her: I am the resurreccion andthe lyfe: He that beleveth onme ye thoughhe were deed yet shall he lyve. 26 Andwhosoever lyveth and belevest onme shallnever dye. Beleveth thou this? 27She saydevnto him: ye Lorde I beleve that thou arteChrist the sonne of god which shuld comeinto theworlde. 28And assone as shehad sosayde she went her waye and called Marieher sister secretly sayinge: The master iscome and calleth for the 29And she assoneas she hearde that arose quickly and camevnto him. 30 Iesus was not yet come intothe toune: but was in the place whereMartha met him. 31 The Iewes then whichwere with her in the housse and comfortedher when they sawe Mary that she rose vphastely and went out folowed her saying:She goeth vnto the grave to wepe there.32 Then when Mary was come where Iesuswas and sawe him she fell doune at his fetesayinge vnto him: Lorde yf thou haddestbene here my brother had not bene deed.33When Iesus sawe her wepe and the Iewesalso wepe which came with her he gronedin the sprete and was troubled in him selfeand sayde: 34 Where have ye layed him?

John 11:35 97 John 12:14They sayde vnto him: Lorde come andse. 35 And Iesus wept. 36 Then sayde theIewes: Beholde howe he loved him. 37 Andsome of the sayde: coulde not he whichopenned the eyes of the blynde have madealso that this man shuld not have dyed?38 Iesus agayne groned in him selfe andcame to the grave. It was a caue and astone layde on it. 39 And Iesus sayd: takeye awaye the stone. Martha the sister ofhim that was deed sayd vnto him: Lordeby this tyme he stinketh. For he hath benedeed foure dayes: 40 Iesus sayde vnto her:Sayde I not vnto the that if thou didestbeleve thou shuldest se the glory of God.41 Then they toke awaye the stone fromthe place where the deed was layde. AndIesus lyfte vp his eyes and sayde: Father Ithanke the because that thou hast heardeme. 42 I wot that thou hearestme all wayes:but because of the people that stonde by Isayde it that they maye beleve that thouhast sent me. 43 And when he thus hadspokenhe cryedwith a loud voyce. Lazaruscome forthe. 44And he that was deed cameforth bounde hand and fote with gravebondes and his face was bounde with anapkin. Iesus sayde vnto the: loowse himand let him goo. 45Thenmany of the Ieweswhich came to Mary and had sene thethinges which Iesus dyd beleved on him.46 But some of them went their wayes tothe Pharises and tolde themwhat Iesus haddone. 47 Then gadered the hye prestes andthe Pharises a counsell and sayde: what dowe? This man doeth many miracles. 48 Yfwe let him scape thus all men will beleveon him and the Romaynes shall come andtake awaye oure countre and the people.49 And one of them named Cayphas whichwas the hieprest that same yeare saydevnto them: Ye perceave nothinge at all50 nor yet consider that it is expedient forvs that oneman dye for the people and notthat all the people perisshe. 51 This spakehe not of him selfe but beinge hye prestethat same yeare he prophesied that Iesusshulde dye for the people 52 and not forthe people only but that he shuld gaderto geder in one the chyldren of God whichwere scattered abroode. 53 From that dayeforth they held a counsell to geder for toput him to deeth. 54 Iesus therfore walked

no more opely amonge the Iewes: but wethis waye thence vnto a countre nye to awildernes into a cite called Ephraim andthere hauted with his disciples. 55And theIewes esterwasnye at hand andmanywentout of the countre vp to Ierusalem beforethe ester to purify them selves. 56 Thensought they for Iesus and spake bitwenethe selves as they stode in the temple:What thinke ye seynge he cometh not tothe feast. 57 The hye prestes and Phariseshad geven a commaundement that yf enyman knew where he were he shuld sheweit that they myght take him.

121Then Iesus sixe dayes before ester came

to Bethany where Lazarus was which wasdeed and who Iesus raysed from deeth.2 There they made him a supper andMartha served: But Lazarus was one ofthem that sate at the tablewithhim. 3ThentokeMary a pounde of oyntmet called Nar-dus perfecte and precious and anoyntedIesus fete and wipt his fete with her heerand the houssewas filled of the savre of theoyntmet. 4 Then sayde one of his disciplesname Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne whichafterwarde betrayed him: 5 why was notthis oyntmet solde for thre hondred penceand geve to the poore? 6 This sayde he notthat he cared for the pooer: but becausehe was a thefe and kept the bagge andbare that which was geven. 7 Then saydeIesus: Let her alone agaynst the daye ofmy buryinge she kept it. 8 The poore allwayes shall ye have with you but me shallye not all wayes have. 9 Moche peopleof the Iewes had knowledge that he wasthere. And they came not for Iesus sakeonly but that they myght se Lazarus alsowhom he raysed from deeth. 10 The hyeprestes therfore held a counsell that theymyght put Lazarus to deeth also 11becausethat for his sake many of the Iewes wentawaye and beleved on Iesus. 12 On themorowe moche people that were cometo the feast when they hearde that Iesusshuld come to Ierusalem 13 toke braunchesof palme trees and went and met himand cryed: Hosanna blessed is he that inthe name of the Lorde commeth kyngeof Israel. 14 And Iesus got a yonge asse

John 12:15 98 John 12:50and sate theron accordinge to that whichwas writte: 15 feare not doughter of Sionbeholde thy kynge cometh sittinge on anasses coolte. 16 These thinges vnderstodenot his disciples at the fyrst: but whenIesus was gloryfied then remembryd theythat soche thinges were written of himand that soche thinges they had done vntohim. 17 The people that was with himwhen he called Lazarus out of his graveand raysed him from deeth bare recorde.18 Therfore met him the people be causethey hearde that he had done soche amyracle. 19 The Pharises therfore saydeamonge them selves: perceave ye how weprevayle no thinge? beholde the worldegoth awaye after him. 20 Ther were cer-tayne Grekes amonge them that came topraye at the feast: 21 the same cam to Philipwhichwas of Bethsayda a cyte in Galile anddesired him sayinge: Syr we wolde faynese Iesus. 22 Philip came and tolde Andrew.And agayne Andrew and Philip tolde Iesus.23 And Iesus answered them sayinge: thehoure is come that the sonne of man mustbe glorified. 24 Verely verely I saye vntoyou except the wheate corne fall into thegrounde and dye it bydeth alone. Yf itdye it brengeth forth moche frute. 25 Hethat loveth his lyfe shall destroye it: andhe that hateth his lyfe in this worlde shallkepe it vnto lyfe eternall. 26 If eny manmynister vnto me let him folowe me andwhere I am there shall also my ministerbe. And yf eny man minister vnto me himwill my father honoure. 27Now is my souletroubled and what shall I saye? Fatherdelyver me from this houre: but therforecame I vnto this houre. 28 Father glorifythy name. Then came ther a voyce fromheaven: I have glorified it andwill glorify itagayne. 29Then sayd the people that stodeby and hearde: it thoundreth. Other saydean angell spake to him. 30 Iesus answeredand sayde: this voyce cam not becauseof me but for youre sakes. 31 Now is theiudgement of this worlde: now shall theprince of this worlde be cast out. 32 AndI yf I were lifte vp from the erthe willdrawe all men vnto me. 33This sayde Iesussignifyingewhat deethhe shuld dye. 34Thepeople answered him: We have hearde of

the lawe that Christ bydeth ever: and howsayest thou then that the sonne of manmust be lifte vp? who is that sonne ofman? 35 Then Iesus sayde vnto them: yeta lytell whyle is the light with you. Walkewhill ye have light lest the darcknes comeon you. He that walketh in the darkewotteth not whither he goeth. 36Whyll yehave light beleve on the light that ye mayebe the chyldren of light. These thingesspake Iesus and departed and hyd him silfefrom them. 37 And though he had doneso many myracles before them yet belevednot they on him, 38 that the sayinge ofEsayas the Prophet myght be fulfilled thathe spake. Lorde who shall beleve ouresayinge? And to whom ys the arme ofthe Lorde opened? 39 Therfore couldethey not beleve because that Esaias saythagayne: 40 he hath blinded their eyes andhardened their hertes that they shuld notse with their eyes and vnderstonde withtheir hertes and shuld be converted and Ishuld heale them. 41 Soche thinges saydeEsaias when he sawe his glory and spakeof him. 42Neverthelesse amonge the cheferulers many beleved on him. But becauseof the pharises theywolde not be a knowenof it lest they shuld be excommunicate.43For they loved the prayse that is geven ofmen more then the prayse that cometh ofGod. 44And Iesus cryed and sayde: he thatbeleveth on me beleveth not on me but onhim that sent me. 45 And he that seeth meseeth him that sentme. 46 I am come a lightinto the worlde that whosoever belevethon me shuld not byde in darcknes. 47 Andyf eny man heare my wordes and belevenot I iudge him not. For I came not toiudge the worlde: but to save the worlde.48 He that refuseth me and receaveth notmywordes hath one that iudgeth him. Thewordes that I have spoken they shall iudgehim in the last daye. 49 For I have notspoken of my selfe: but the father whichsent me he gave me a commaundementwhat I shuld saye and what I shuld speake.50 And I knowe that this comaundementis lyfe everlastinge. Whatsoever I speaketherfore even as the father bade me so Ispeake.

John 13:1 99 John 13:3813

1 Before the feast of ester when Iesusknewe that his houre was come that heshuld departe out of this worlde vnto thefather. When he loved his which werein the worlde vnto the ende he lovedthem. 2 And when supper was ended af-ter that the devyll had put in the hertof Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne to betrayehim: 3 Iesus knowinge that the father hadgeve all thinges into his hondes. And thathe was come from God and went to God4 he rose from supper and layde a sydehis vpper garmentes and toke a towell andgyrd him selfe. 5 After that poured hewater into a basyn and beganne to washhis disciples fete and to wype them withthe towell wherwith he was gyrde. 6 Thencame he to Simon Peter. And Peter saydeto him: Lorde shalt thou wesshe my fete?7 Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: whatI do thou wotest not now but thou shaltknowe herafter. 8 Peter sayd vnto him:thou shalt not wesshe my fete whill theworlde stondeth. Iesus answered him: yfI wasshe the not thou shalt have no partwith me. 9 Simon Peter sayde vnto him:Lorde notmy fete only: but alsomyhandesand my heed. 10 Iesus sayde to him: hethat is wesshed nedeth not save to wesshehis fete and is clene every whit. And yeare clene: but not all. 11 For he knewe hisbetrayer. Therfore sayde he: ye are notall clene. 12 After he had wesshed theirfete and receaved his clothes and was setdoune agayne he sayde vnto them? wotye what I have done to you? 13 Ye call memaster and Lorde and ye saye well for soam I. 14 If I then youre Lorde and masterhave wesshed youre fete ye also ought towesshe one anothers fete. 15 For I havegeven you an ensample that ye shuld do asI have done to you. 16 Verely verely I sayevnto you the servaunt is not greater thenhis master nether the messenger greaterthen he that sent him. 17 If ye vnderstondethese thinges happy are ye yf ye do them.18 I speake not of you all I knowe whomI have chosen. But that the scripture befulfilled: he that eateth breed with mehath lyfte vp his hele agaynste me. 19Nowtell I you before it come: that when it iscome to passe yemight beleve that I amhe.20 Verely verely I saye vnto you. He that

receaveth who soever I sende receavethme. And he that receaveth me receavethhim that sent me. 21 When Iesus hadthus sayd he was troubled in the spreteand testified sayinge: verely verely I sayevnto you that one of you shall betrayeme. 22And then the disciples loked one onanother doutinge of who he spake. 23 Therwas one of his disciples which leaned onIesus bosome whom Iesus loved. 24 To himbeckened Simon Peter that he shuld axewho it was of whom he spake. 25 He thenas he leaned on Iesus brest sayde vnto him:Lorde who ys it? 26 Iesus answered he thatys towhom I geve a soppewhen I have deptit. And he wet a soppe and gave it to IudasIscarioth Simons sonne. 27 And after thesoppe Satan entred into him. Then saydIesus vnto him: that thou dost do quickly.28 That wist no man at the table for whatintent he spake vnto him. 29 Some of thethought because Iudas had the bagge thatIesus had sayd vnto him bye those thingesthat we have nede af agaynst the feast: orthat he shulde geve some thinge to thepoore. 30 Assone then as he had receavedthe soppe he wet immediatly out. And itwas night. 31When he was gone out Iesussayde: now is the sonne of man glorified.And God is glorified by him. 32 Yf Godbe glorified by him God shall also glorifyhim in him selfe: and shall strayght wayeglorify him. 33 Deare chyldren yet a lytellwhyle am I with you. Ye shall seke meand as I sayde vnto the Iewes whither Igoo thither can ye not come. Also to yousaye I nowe. 34 A newe commaundmentgeve I vnto you that ye love to gedder asI have loved you that even so ye love oneanother. 35 By this shall all me knowethat ye are my disciples yf ye shall havelove one to another. 36 Simon Peter saydvnto him: Lorde whither goest thou? Iesusanswered him: whither I goo thou canstnot folowe me now but thou shalt foloweme afterwardes. 37 Peter sayd vnto him:Lorde why cannot I folowe the now? Iwill geve my lyfe for thy sake? 38 Iesusanswered him: wilt thou geve thy lyfe formy sake? Verely verely I saye vnto thethe cocke shall not crowe tyll thou havedenyed me thryse.

John 14:1 100 John 15:514

1 And he sayd vnto his disciples: Let notyoure hertes be troubled. Beleve in godand beleve in me. 2 In my fathers housseare many mansions. If it were not so Iwolde have tolde you. I go to prepare aplace for you. 3 And yf I go to preparea place for you I will come agayne andreceave you even vnto my selfe that whereI am there maye ye be also. 4 And whitherI go ye knowe and the waye ye knowe.5Thomas sayde vnto him: Lorde we knowenot whyther thou goest. Also how is itpossible for vs to knowe the waye? 6 Iesussayd vnto him: I am the waye the trutheand the life. And no man cometh vnto thefather but by me. 7 Yf ye had knowen meye had knowen my father also. And nowye knowe him and have sene him. 8 Philipsayd vnto him: Lorde shew vs the fatherand it suffiseth vs. 9 Iesus sayde vnto him:have I bene so longe tyme with you: andyet hast thou not knowen me? Philip hethat hath sene me hath sene the father.And how sayest thou then: shew vs thefather? 10Belevest thounot that I am in thefather and the father in me? The wordesthat I speake vnto you I speakee not of myselfe: but the father that dwelleth in meis he that doeth the workes. 11 Beleve methat I am [in] the father and the father inme. At the leest beleve me for the veryworkes sake. 12 Verely verely I saye vntoyou: he that beleveth on me the workesthat I doo the same shall he do and greaterworkes then these shall he do because I govnto my father. 13 And whatsoever ye axein my name that will I do that the fathermight be glorified by the sonne. 14 Yf yeshall axe eny thige in my name I will do it15 If ye love me kepe my comaundementes16 and I will praye the father and he shallgeve you a nother comforter that he mayebyde with you ever 17which is the sprete oftruthe whome the worlde cannot receavebecause the worlde seyth him not netherknoweth him. But ye knowe him. For hedwelleth with you and shalbe in you. 18 Iwill not leave you comfortlesse: but willcome vnto you. 19 Yet a litell whyle andthe worlde seith me no moare: but ye shallse me. For I live and ye shall live. 20 Thatdaye shall ye knowe that I am in my father

and you in me and I in you. 21He that hathmy commaundementes and kepeth themthe same is he that loveth me. And hethat loveth me shall be loved of my father:and I will love him and will shewe myneawne selfe vnto him. 22 Iudas sayde vntohim (not Iudas Iscarioth) Lorde what is thecause that thouwilt shewe thy selfe vnto vsand not vnto theworlde? 23 Iesus answeredand sayde vnto him: yf a man love me andwyll kepe my sayinges my father also willlove him and we will come vnto him andwill dwelle with him. 24 He that lovethme not kepeth not my sayinges. And thewordes which ye heare are not myne butthe fathers which sent me. 25 This have Ispoken vnto you beynge yet present withyou. 26But that comforterwhich is theholygost (whom my father will sende in myname) he shall teache you all thinges andbringe all thinges to youre remembrauncewhatsoever I have tolde you. 27Peace I levewith you my peace I geve vnto you. Notas the worlde geveth geve I vnto you. Letnot youre hertes be greved nether feare ye.28 Ye have hearde how I sayde vnto you: Igo and come agayne vnto you. If ye lovedme ye wolde verely reioyce because I saydeI go vnto the father. 29 For the father isgreater then I. And now have I shewed youbefore it come thatwhen it is come to passeye might beleve. 30 Here after will I nottalke many mordes vnto you. For the rularof this worlde commeth and hath noughtin me. 31 But that the worlde maye knowethat I love the father: therfore as the fathergaveme commaundment even so do I. Ryselet vs go hence.

151 I am the true vyne and my father ys

an husbande man. 2 Every braunche thatbeareth not frute in me he will take awaye.And every braunche that beareth frute willhe pourge that it maye bringemoare frute.3 Now are ye cleane thorow the wordeswhich I have spoke vnto you. 4 Byde in meand let me byde in you. As the braunchecannot beare frute of it sylfe excepte itbyde in the vyne: no more can ye excepteye abyde in me. 5 I am the vyne and yeare the braunches. He that abydeth inme and I in him the same bringeth forth

John 15:6 101 John 16:16moche frute. For with out me can ye donothinge. 6 Yf a man byde not in me he yscast forthe as a braunche and is wyddered:and men gadder it and cast it into the fyreand it burneth. 7 Yf ye byde in me andmy wordes also byde in you: axe what yewill and it shalbe done to you. 8 Heare inis my father glorified that ye beare mochefrute and be made my disciples. 9 Asthe father hath loved me even so have Ileved you. Continue in my love. 10 Yf yeshall kepe my commaudementes ye shallbyde in my love even as I have kept myfathers comaundementes and byde in hislove. 11 These thinges have I spoken vntoyou that my ioye myght remayne in youand that youre ioye might be full. 12This ismy commaundement that ye love togedderas I have loved you. 13 Gretter love thenthis hath no man then that a man bestowehis lyfe for his frendes. 14Ye are my fredesyf ye do whatsoever I commaunde you.15Hence forth call I you not servauntes: forthe servaunt knoweth not what his Lordedoeth. But you have I called frendes: forall thinges that I have hearde of my fatherI have opened to you. 16Ye have not chosenme but I have chosen you and ordeynedyou that ye go and bringe forthe frute andthat youre frute remayne that whatsoeverye shall axe of the father in my name heshulde geve it you. 17 This commaundeI you that ye love to gedder. 18 Yf theworlde hate you ye knowe that he hatedme before he hated you. 19 Yf ye wereof the worlde the worlde wolde love hisawne. How be it because ye are not ofthe worlde but I have chosen you out ofthe worlde therfore hateth you the worlde.20Remember the sayinge that I sayde vntoyou: the servaute is not greater then hislorde. Yf they have persecuted me so willthey persecute you Yf they have kept mysayinge so will they kepe youres. 21 But allthese thinges will they do vnto you for mynames sake because they have not knowenhim that sent me. 22 If I had not come andspoken vnto them they shulde not havehad synne: but now have they nothingeto cloke their synne with all. 23 He thathateth me hateth my father. 24 If I had notdoneworkes amonge thewhichnone otherman dyd they had not had synne. But now

have they sene and yet have hated botheme and my father: 25 even that the sayingemyght be fulfilled that is written in theyrlawe: they hated me wtout a cause. 26 Butwhen the comforter is come whom I willsende vnto you from the father which isthe sprete of truthe which proceadeth ofthe father he shall testifie of me. 27 Andye shall beare witnes also because ye havebene with me from the begynninge.

161 These thinges have I sayde vnto you

because ye shuld not be offended. 2 Theyshall excommunicat you: ye the tymeshall come that whosoever killeth you willthinke that he doth God service. 3 Andsuche thinges will they do vnto you be-cause they have not knowen the fathernether yet me. 4 But these thinges haveI tolde you that when that houre is comeye myght remember them that I tolde youso. These thinges sayde I not unto youat the begynninge because I was presentwith you. 5 But now I goo my waye tohim that sent me and none of you axethme: whither goest thou? 6 But because Ihave sayde suche thinges vnto you yourehertes are full of sorowe. 7 NeverthelesseI tell you the trueth it is expedient foryou that I goo awaye. For yf I goo notawaye that comforter will not come vntoyou. But yf I departe I will sende him vntoyou. 8And when he is come he will rebukethe worlde of synne and of rightwesnesand of iudgement. 9 Of synne becausethey beleve not on me: 10 Of rightwesnesbecause I go to my father and ye shall seme no moare: 11 and of iudgement becausethe chefe ruler of this worlde is iudgedall ready. 12 I have yet many thinges tosaye vnto you: but ye cannot beare themawaye now. 13 How be it when he is come(I meane the sprete of truthe) he will leadeyon into all trueth. He shall not speake ofhim selfe: but whatsoever he shall hearethat shall he speake and he will sheweyou thinges to come. 14 He shall glorifyme for he shall receave of myne and shallshewe vnto you. 15 All thinges that thefather hath aremyne. Therfore sayd I vntoyou that he shall take of myne and shewevnto you. 16 After a whyle ye shall not se

John 16:17 102 John 17:16me and agayne after a whyle ye shall seme: For I goo to the father. 17 Then saydsome of his disciples bitwene them selves:what is this that he sayth vnto vs after awhyle ye shall not se me and agayne aftera whyle ye shall se me: and that I go tothe father. 18 They sayd therfore: what isthis that he sayth after a whyle? we cannottell what he sayth. 19 Iesus perceaved thatthey wolde axe him and sayd vnto them:This is it that ye enquyre of bitwene youreselves that I sayd after a whyle ye shall notse me and agayne after a whyle ye shallse me. 20 Verely verely I saye vnto you:ye shall wepe and lamet and the worldeshall reioyce. Ye shall sorowe: but youresorowe shalbe tourned to ioye. 21Awomanwhen she traveyleth hath sorowe becauseher houre is come: but assone as she isdelivered of the chylde she remembreth nomoare the anguysshe for ioye that a manis borne in to the worlde. 22 And ye noware in sorowe: but I will se you agayne andyoure hertes shall reioyce and youre ioyeshall no man take from you. 23And in thatdaye shall ye axe me no question. Verelyverely I saye vnto you whatsoever ye shallaxe the father in my name he will geve ityou. 24 Hitherto have ye axed nothinge inmy name. Axe and ye shall receave it: thatyoure ioye maye be full. 25 These thingeshave I spoken vnto you in proverbes. Thetyme will come when I shall no moarespeake to you in proverbes: but I shallshewe you playnly from my father. 26 Atthat daye shall ye axe in myne name. And Isaye not vnto you that I will speake vntomy father for you. 27 For the father himselfe loveth you because ye have loved meand have beleved that I came out fromGod.28 I went out from the father and came intothe worlde: and I leve the worlde agayneand go to the father. 29 His disciples saydvnto him: loo now speakest thou playnlyand thou vsest no proverbe. 30Noweknowewe that thou vnderstondest all thinges andnedest not that eny man shuld axe the enyquestion. Therfore beleve we that thoucamst from god. 31 Iesus answered them:Now ye do beleve. 32 Beholde the houredraweth nye and is already come that yeshalbe scatered every man his wayes and

shall leave me alone. And yet am I notalone. For the father is with me. 33 Thesewordes have I spoke vnto you that inme yemight have peace. For in the worlde shallye have tribulacion: but be of good cheareI have over come the worlde.

171 These wordes spake Iesus and lyfte vp

his eyes to heven and sayde: father thehoure is come: glorify thy sonne that thysonne maye glorify the: 2 as thou hast gevehim power over all fleshe that he shuldgeve eternall lyfe to as many as thou hastgeven him. 3 This is lyfe eternall that theymyght knowe the that only very God andwhom thou hast sent Iesus Christ. 4 I haveglorified the on the erth. I have fynysshedthe worke which thou gavest me to do.5And now glorifyme thou fatherwith thynawne selfe with the glory which I had withye yerre the worlde was. 6 I have declaredthy name vnto the men which thou gavestme out of the worlde. Thyne they wereand thou gavest them me and they havekept thy sayinges. 7 Now they knowe thatall thinges whatsoever thou hast gevenme are of the. 8 For I have geven vntothem thewordeswhich thougavestme andthey have receaved them and knowe surelythat I came out from the: and doo belevethat thou dyddest send me. 9 I praye forthem and praye not for the worlde: butfor the which thou hast geve me for theyare thyne. 10 And all myne are thyne andthyne are myne and I am glorified in them.11Andnow am I nomoare in theworlde butthey are in the worlde and I come to the.Wholy father kepe in thyne awne name thewhich thou hast geven me that they mayebe one as we are. 12Whyll I was with the inthe worlde I kepte the in thy name. Thosethat thou gavest me have I kepte and noneof the is lost but that lost chylde that thescripture myght be fulfilled. 13 Now comeI to the and these wordes speake I in theworlde that they myght have my ioye fullin them. 14 I have geven them thy wordesand the worlde hath hated them becausethey are not of the worlde even as I am notof the worlde. 15 I desyre not that thoushuldest take the out of the worlde: butthat thou kepe them fromevyll. 16They are

John 17:17 103 John 18:27not of the worlde as I am not of the worlde.17 Sanctify the with thy truth. Thy sayingeis truth. 18 As thou dyddest send me intothe worlde even so have I sent them intothe worlde 19 and for their sakes sanctify Imy selfe that they alsomyght be sanctifiedthorowe the trueth. 20 I praye not for themalone: but for them also which shall beleveon me thorowe their preachynge 21 thatthey all maye be one as thou father arte inme and I in the that they maye be also onein vs that theworldemaye beleve that thouhast sent me. 22 And that glory that thougavest me I have geven them that theymaye be one as we are wone 23 I in themand thou in me that they maye be madeperfecte in one and that the worlde mayeknowe that thou hast sent me and hastloved them as thou hast lovedme. 24FatherI will that they which thou hast geven mebe with me where I am that they maye semy glory which thou hast geven me. Forthou lovedest me before the makynge ofthe worlde. 25 O ryghteous father the veryworlde hath not knowen the: but I haveknowen the and these have knowen thatthou hast sent me. 26 And I have declaredvnto them thyname andwill declare it thatthe love wher with thou hast loved me bein them and that I be in them.

181 When Iesus had spoken these wordes

he wet forth with his disciples over thebroke Cedron where was a garden intothe which he entred with his disciples.2 Iudas also which betrayed him knewethe place: for Iesus ofte tymes resortedthyther with his disciples. 3 Iudas thenafter he had receaved abonde of men andministres of the hye Prestes and Pharisescame thyther with lanterns and fyerbron-des and wepens. 4 Then Iesus knowyngeall thinges that shuld come on him wentforth and sayde vnto them: whom seke ye?5 They answered him: Iesus of Nazareth.Iesus sayde vnto them: I am he. 6 Iudasalso which betrayed him stode with them.7 But assone as he had sayd vnto themI am he they went backe wardes andfell to the grounde. 8 And he axed theagayne: whome seke ye? They saydeIesusof Nazareth. 9 Iesus answered I sayde vntoyou I am he. If ye seke me let these goo

their waye. 10 That the sayinge might befulfilled which he spake: of the which thougavest me have I not lost one. 11 Simon Pe-ter had a swearde anddrue it and smote thehye prestes servaunt and cut of his ryghteare. The servauntes name was Malchas.12 Then sayde Iesus vnto Peter: put vp thyswearde into the sheath: shall I not drinkeof the cupwhichmy father hath gevenme?13Then the company and the captayne andtheministres of of the Iewes toke Iesus andbounde him 14 and led him awaye to Annafyrst: For hewas fatherelawe vnto Cayphaswhich was the hye preste that same yeare.15Cayphas was he that gave counsell to theIewes that it was expediet that one manshuld dye for the people. 16 And SimonPeter folowed Iesus and another disciple:that disciple was knowen of the hye presteand went in with Iesus into the pallys ofthe hye preste. 17 But Peter stode at thedore with out. Then went out that otherdisciple which was knowen vnto the hyepreste and spake to the damsell that keptthe dore and brought in Peter. 18 Thensayde the damsell that kept the dore vntoPeter: Arte not thou one of this mannesdisciples? He sayde: I am not. 19 Theservauntes and the ministres stode thereand had made a fyre of coles: for it wascolde: and theywarmed them selves. Peteralso stode amonge them and warmed himselfe. 20 The hye preste axed Iesus of hisdisciples and of his doctrine. 21 Iesus an-swered him: I spake openly in the worlde.I ever taught in the synagoge and in thetemple whyther all the Iewes resorted andin secrete have I sayde nothynge: 22 Whyaxest thou me? Axe them whiche heardeme what I sayde vnto them. Beholde theycan tell what I sayde. 23 When he hadthus spoken one of the ministres whichstode by smote Iesus on the face sayinge:answerest thou the hyepreste so? 24 Iesusanswered him. If I have evyll spoke bearewitnes of the evyll: yf I have well spokewhy smytest thou me? 25 And Annas senthim bounde vnto Caiphas the hye preste.26SimonPeter stode andwarmedhim selfe.And they sayde vnto him: arte not thoualso one of his disciples? He denyed it andsayde: I am not. 27 One of the servauntesof the hye preste (his cosyn whose eare

John 18:28 104 John 19:19Peter smote of) sayde vnto him: dyd notI se the in the garden with him? 28 Peterdenyed it agayne: and immediatly thecocke crewe. 29 Then led they Iesus fromCayphas into the hall of iudgement. Itwas in the mornynge and they them selveswent not into the iudgement hall lest theyshuld be defyled but that they myght eatethe paschall lambe. 30 Pylate then wentout vnto the and sayde: what accusacionbringe ye agaynste this man? 31 They an-swered and sayd vnto him. If he were notan evyll doar we wolde not have delyveredhim vnto the. 32 Then sayd Pylate vntothe: take ye him and iudge him after youreawne lawe. Then the Iewes sayde vnto him.It is not lawfull for vs to put eny man todeeth. 33That thewordes of Iesusmyght befulfilled which he spake signifyinge whatdeeth he shuld dye. 34 Then Pylate entredinto the iudgement hall agayne and calledIesus and sayd vnto him: arte thou thekynge of the Iewes? 35 Iesus answered:sayst thou that of thy selfe or dyd othertell it the of me: Pylate answered: Am I aIewe? Thyne awne nacion and hye presteshavedelyvered ye vntome. What hast thoudone? 36 Iesus answered: my kyngdome isnot of this worlde. Yf my kyngdome wereof this worlde then wolde my ministressuerly fight that I shuld not be delyveredto the Iewes but now is my kyngdome notfrom hence. 37Pylate sayde vnto him: Artethou a kynge then? Iesus answered: Thousayst that I am a kynge. For this causewas I borne and for this cause came I intothe worlde that I shuld beare witnes vntothe trueth. And all that are of the truethheare my voyce. 38 Pilate sayde vnto him:what thinge is trueth? And when he hadsayd that he went out agayne vnto theIewes and sayde vnto them: I fynde inhim no cause at all. 39 Ye have a customethat I shuld delyver you one lowsse atester. Will ye that I lowse vnto you thekynge of the Iewes. 40 Then cryed they allagayne sayinge: Not him but Barrabas thatBarrabas was a robber.

191 Then Pylate toke Iesus and scourged

him. 2 And the soudiers wounde a crouneof thornes and put it on his heed. And

they dyd on him a purple garment 3 andsayd: hayll kynge of the Iewes: and theysmote himon the face. 4Pylatewent fortheagayne and sayde vnto them: beholdeI bringe him forth to you that ye mayeknowe that I fynde no faute in him. 5 Thencame Iesus forthe wearynge a croune ofthorne and a robe of purple. And Pylatesayd vnto them: beholde the man. 6Whenthe hye Prestes and ministres sawe himthey cryed sayinge: crucify him crucifyhim. Pylate sayde vnto them. Take ye himand crucify him: for I fynde no cause inhim. 7 The Iewes answered him. We havea lawe and by oure lawe he ought to dye:because he made him selfe the sonne ofGod. 8When Pylate hearde that sayinge hewas the moare afrayde 9 and went agayneinto the iudgment hall and sayde vntoIesus: whence arte thou? But Iesus gavehim none answere. 10 Then sayde Pylatevnto him. Speakest thou not vnto me?knowest thou not that I have power tocrucify the and have power to lowse the?11 Iesus answered: Thou couldest have nopower at all agaynst me except it weregeven the from above. Therfore he thatdelyvered me vnto the is moare in synne.12 And from thence forthe sought Pylatemeanes to lowse him: but the Iewes cryedsayinge: yf thou let him goo thou arte notCesars frende. For whosoever maketh hiselfe a kynge is agaynst Cesar 13When Py-late hearde that sayinge he brought Iesusforthe and sate doune to geve sentence ina place called the pavement: but in the He-brue tonge Gabbatha. 14 It was the Sabotheven which falleth in the ester fest andaboute the sixte houre. And he sayde vntothe Iewes: beholde youre kynge. 15 Theycryed awaye with him awaye with himcrucify him. Pylate sayde vnto them. ShallI crucify youre kynge? The hye Prestesanswered: we have no kynge but Cesar.16 Then delyvered he him vnto them tobe crucified. And they toke Iesus and ledhim awaye. 17 And he bare his crosse andwent forthe into a place called the placeof deed mens sculles which is named inHebrue Golgatha. 18Where they crucifiedhim and two other with him on ether sydeone and Iesus in the myddes. 19And Pylatewrote his tytle and put it on the crosse.

John 19:20 105 John 20:11The writynge was Iesus of Nazareth kyngeof the Iewes. This tytle reed many of theIewes. 20 For the place where Iesus wascrucified was nye to the cite. And it waswritten inHebrueGreke and Latyn. 21Thensayde the hye prestes of the Iewes to Py-late: wryte not kynge of the Iewes: but thathe sayde I am kynge of the Iewes. 22 Pylateanswered: what I have written that haveI written. 23 Then the soudiers when theyhad crucified Iesus toke his garmentes andmade foure partes to every soudier a parteand also his coote. The coote was with outseme wrought vpon thorowe out. 24 Andthey sayde one to another. Let vs notdevyde it: but cast loostes who shall haveit That the scripture myght be fulfilledwhich sayth. They parted my raymentamonge them and on my coote dyd castlottes. And the soudiers dyd soche thingesin dede. 25 Ther stode by the crosse ofIesus his mother and his mothers sisterMary the wyfe of Cleophas and Mary Mag-dalene. 26When Iesus sawe his mother andthe disciple stondynge whom he loved hesayde vnto his mother: woman beholdethy sonne. 27Then sayde he to the disciple:beholde thy mother. And from that hourethe disciple toke her for his awne. 28 Afterthat when Iesus perceaved that all thingeswere performed: that the scripture myghtbe fulfilled he sayde: I thyrst. 29 Therstode a vessell full of veneger by. And theyfilled a sponge with veneger andwounde itabout with ysope and put it to his mouth.30 Assone as Iesus had receaved of theveneger he sayd: It is fynesshed and bowedhis heed and gaue vp the goost. 31 TheIewes then because it was the saboth eventhat the bodyes shuld not remayne aponthe crosse on the saboth daye (for thatsaboth daye was an hye daye) besought Py-late that their legges myght be broken andthat they myght be taken doune. 32 Thencame the soudiers and brake the leggesof the fyrst and of the other which wascrucifiedwith Iesus. 33Butwhen they cameto Iesus and sawe that he was deed alreadythey brake not his legges: 34 but one of thesoudiers with a speare thrust him into thesyde and forthwith came ther out bloudand water. 35 And he that sawe it barerecorde and his recorde is true. And he

knoweth that he sayth true that ye myghtbeleve also. 36 These thinges were donethat the scripture shuld be fulfilled: Yeshall not breake a boone of him. 37 Andagayne another scripture sayth: They shalllooke on him whom they pearsed. 38 Afterthat Ioseph of Aramathia (which was adisciple of Iesus: but secretly for feare ofthe Iewes) besought Pylate that he myghttake doune the body of Iesus. And Pylategave him licence. 39 And ther cam alsoNicodemus which at the beginnynge cameto Iesus by nyght and brought ofmyrre andaloesmingled to gether aboute an hundredpoundewayght. 40Then toke they the bodyof Iesu and wounde it in lynnen clotheswith the odoures as themaner of the Iewesis to bury. 41 And in the place whereIesus was crucified was a garden and inthe garden a newe sepulchre wherin wasnever man layd. 42 There layde they Iesusbecause of the Iewes saboth even for thesepulcre was nye at honde.

201 Themorow after the saboth daye came

Mary Magdalene erly when it was yet dar-cke vnto the sepulcre and sawe the stonetaken awaye from the toumbe. 2 Thenshe ranne and came to Simon Peter andto the other disciple whome Iesus lovedand sayde vnto them. They have takenawaye the Lorde out of the toumbe andwe cannot tell where they have layde him.3 Peter went forth and that other discipleand came vnto the sepulcre. 4 They rannebothe to gether and that other discipledyd out runne Peter and came fyrst to thesepulcre. 5And he stouped doune and sawethe lynnen clothes lyinge yet wet he notin. 6 Then came Simon Peter folowyngehim and went into the sepulcre and sawethe lynnen clothes lye 7 and the napkynthat was aboute his heed not lyinge withthe lynnen clothe but wrapped togeder ina place by it selfe. 8 Then went in alsothat other disciple which came fyrst to thesepulcre and he sawe and beleved. 9 Foras yet they knew not the scriptures thathe shuld ryse agayne from deeth. 10 Andthe disciples wet awaye agayne vnto theirawne home. 11Mary stode with out at thesepulcre wepynge. And as she wept she

John 20:12 106 John 21:11bowed her selfe into the sepulcre 12 andsawe two angels in whyte sittyng the oneat the heed and the other at the fete wherethey had layde the body of Iesus. 13 Andthey sayde vnto her: woman why wepestthou? She sayde vnto the: For they havetaken awayemy lorde and Iwote notwherethey have layde him. 14When she had thussayde she turned her selfe backe and saweIesus stondynge and knewe not that it wasIesus. 15 Iesus sayde vnto her: woman whywepest thou? Whom sekest thou? Shesupposynge that he had bene the gardenersayde vnto him. Syr yf thou have bornehim hence tell me where thou hast laydehim that I maye fet him. 16 Iesus saydevnto her: Mary. She turned her selfe andsayde vnto him: Rabboni which is to sayemaster. 17 Iesus sayde vnto her touche menot for I am not yet ascended to my father.But goo to my brethren and saye vntothem I ascende vnto my father and yourefather to: my god and youre god. 18MaryMagdalene came and tolde the disciplesthat she had sene the lorde and that hehad spoken soche thinges vnto her. 19 Thesame daye at nyght which was the moroweafter the saboth daye when the dores wereshutwhere the discipleswere assembled togeder for feare of the Iewes came Iesus andstode in themyddes and sayd to the: peacebe with you. 20 And when he had so saydehe shewed vnto them his hondes and hissyde. Then were the disciples glad whenthey sawe the Lorde. 21 Then sayde Iesusto them agayne: peace be with you. As myfather sent me even so sende I you. 22Andwhen he had sayde that he brethed onthem and sayde vnto the: Receave the holygoost. 23Whosoevers synnes ye remyt theyare remitted vnto the. And whosoeverssynnes ye retayne they are retayned. 24ButThomas one of the twelve called Didymuswas not with the when Iesus came. 25 Theother disciples sayd vnto him: we havesene the lorde. And he sayde vnto the:except I se in his hondes the prent of thenayles and put my fynger in the holes ofthe nayles and thrust my honde into hissyde I will not beleve. 26 And after .viii.dayes agayne his disciples were with inand Thomas with them. Then came Iesuswhen the dores were shut and stode in

the myddes and sayde: peace be with you.27 After that sayde he to Thomas: bringethy fynger hether and se my hondes andbringe thy honde and thrust it into mysyde and be not faythlesse but belevynge.28 Thomas answered and sayde vnto him:my Lorde and my God. 29 Iesus sayde vntohim. Thomas because thou hast sene metherfore thou belevest: Happy are theythat have not sene and yet beleve. 30 Andmany other signes dyd Iesus in the pres-ence of his disciples which are not writtenin this boke. 31 These are written that yemyght beleve that Iesus is Christ the sonneof God and that in belevynge ye myghthave lyfe thorowe his name.

211 After that Iesus shewed him selfe

agayne at the see of Tyberias. And on thiswyse shewed he him selfe. 2 There wereto geder Simon Peter and Thomas whichis called Didymus: and Nathanael of Canaa citie of Galile and the sonnes of Zebedeiand two other of the disciples. 3 SimonPeter sayde vnto them: I goo a fysshynge.They sayde vnto him: we also will goowith the. They wet their waye and en-tred into a shippe strayght waye and thatnyght caught they nothinge. 4 But whenthe mornynge was now come Iesus stodeon the shore: neverthelesse the disciplesknewe not that it was Iesus. 5 Iesus saydevnto the: syrs have ye eny meate? Theyanswered him no. 6 And he sayde vntothem: cast out the net on the ryght sydeof the ship and ye shall fynde. They castout and anone they were not able to draweit for the multitude of fysshes 7Then saydethe disciple whom Iesus loved vnto Peter:It is the Lorde. When Simon Peter heardethat it was the lorde he gyrde his mantellto him (for he was naked) and sprange intothe see. 8The other disciples came by ship:for they were not farre from londe butas it were two hondred cubites and theydrewe the net with fysshes. 9 Assone asthey were come to londe they sawe hootcoles and fysshe layd ther on and breed.10 Iesus sayde vnto them: bringe of thefysshewhich ye have now caught. 11SimonPeter stepped forthe and drewe the netto londe full of greate fysshes an hondred

John 21:12 107 John 21:25and .liii. And for all ther were so manyyet was not the net broken. 12 Iesus saydevnto them: come and dyne. And none ofthe disciples durste axe him: what artethou? For they knewe that it was the lorde.13 Iesus then came and toke breed and gavethem and fysshe lykwyse. 14 And this isnow the thyrde tyme that Iesus appered tohis disciples after that hewas rysen agaynefrom deeth. 15When they had dyned Iesussayde to Simon Peter: Simon Ioana lovestthou me more then these? He sayde vntohim: ye Lorde thou knowest that I love the.He sayde vnto him: fede my lambes. 16Hesayde to him agayne the seconde tyme: Si-mon Ioana lovest thou me? He sayde vntohim: ye lorde thou knowest that I love the.He sayde vnto him: fede my shepe. 17 Hesayde vnto him the thyrde tyme: SimonIoanna lovest thoume? And Peter sorowedbecause he sayde to him the thyrde tymelovest thou me and sayde vnto him: Lordethou knowest all thinge thou knowest thatI love the. Iesus sayde vnto him: fede myshepe. 18 Verely verely I saye vnto thewhen thou wast yonge thou gerdedst thyselfe and walkedst whyther thou woldest:butwhen thou arte olde thou shalt stretcheforthe thy hondes and a nother shall gyrdethe and leade the whyther thou woldestnot. 19 That spake he signifyinge by whatdeeth he shuld glorify God. And whenhe had sayde thus he sayd to him foloweme. 20 Peter turned about and sawe thatdisciple who Iesus loved folowynge: whichalso lened on his brest at supper and sayde:Lorde which is he that shall betraye the?21When Peter sawe him he sayde to Iesus:Lorde what shall he here do? 22 Iesus saydvnto him Yf I will have him to tary tyll Icome what is that to the? folowe thou me.23Thenwent this sayinge a broode amongethe brethren that that disciple shulde notdye. Yet Iesus sayde not to him he shall notdye: but yf I will that he tary tyll I comewhat is that to the? 24 The same discipleis he which testifieth of these thinges andwrote these thinges. And we knowe thathis testimony is true. 25 There are alsomany other thinges which Iesus dyd: thewhich yf they shuld be written every wonI suppose the worlde coulde not contayne

the bokes that shuld be written.

Acts 1:1 108 Acts 2:4

THE ACTS OF THEAPOSTLES1 In the former treatise (Deare frende

Theophilus) I have written of all that Iesusbeganne to do and teache 2 vntyll thedaye in the which he was taken vp af-ter that he thorowe the holy goost hadgeven commaundementes vnto the Apos-tles which he had chosen: 3 to whomalso he shewed him selfe alyve after hispassion by many tokens apperynge vntothem fourty dayes and speakynge of thekyngdome of god 4 and gaddered themtogeder and commaunded the that theyshuld not departe from Ierusalem: but towayte for the promys of the fatherwhereofye have herde of me. 5 For Iohn baptisedwith water: but ye shalbe baptised withthe holy goost and that with in this feawedayes. 6 When they were come togederthey axed of him sayinge: Lorde wilt thouat this tyme restore agayne the kyngdometo Israel? 7 And he sayde vnto them: It isnot for you to knowe the tymes or the sea-sons which the father hath put in his awnepower: 8 but ye shall receave power of theholy goost which shall come on you. Andye shall be witnesses vnto me in Ierusalemand in all Iewrye and in Samary and evenvnto the worldes ende. 9 And when hehad spoken these thinges whyll they be-helde hewas take vp and a cloude receavedhim vp out of their sight. 10 And whilethey looked stedfastly vp to heaven as hewent beholde two men stode by them inwhite apparell 11which also sayde: ye menof Galile why stonde ye gasinge vp intoheaven? This same Iesus which is takenvp from you in to heaven shall so comeeven as ye haue sene him goo into heaven.12Then returned they vnto Ierusalem frommount olivete which is nye to Ierusalemcoteyninge a Saboth dayes iorney. 13 Andwhen they were come in they went vpinto a parler where abode both Peter andIames Iohn and Andrew Philip and ThomasBartlemew and Mathew Iames the sonneof Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and IudasIames sonne. 14 These all continued withone acorde in prayer and supplicacionwith

the wemen and Mary the mother of Iesuand with his brethren. 15 And in thosedayes Peter stode vp in the myddes of thedisciples and sayde (the noumbre of namesthat were to gether were aboute an hon-dred and twenty) 16 Ye men and brethrenthis scripturemust have nedes ben fulfilledwhich the holy goost thorow the mouthof David spake before of Iudas which wasgyde to them that tooke Iesus. 17 For hewas noubred with vs and had obtaynedfellouship in this ministracion. 18 And thesame hath nowpossessed a plot of groundewith the rewarde of iniquite and when hewas hanged brast a sondre in the myddesand all his bowels gusshed oute. 19And it isknowe vnto all the inhabiters of Ierusalem:in so moche that that felde is called intheir mother tonge Acheldama that is tosaye the bloud felde. 20 It is written in theboke of Psalmes: His habitacion be voydeand no man be dwellinge therin: and hisbisshoprycke let another take. 21Wherforeof these me which have companyed withvs all the tyme that the Lorde Iesus wentin and out amonge vs 22 begynninge atthe baptyme of Iohn vnto that same dayethat he was taken vp from vs must one beordeyned to be are witnes with vs of hisresurreccion. 23 And they appoynted twoIoseph called Barsabas (whose syr namewas Iustus) and Mathias. 24 And theyprayed sayinge: thou Lordewhich knowestthe hertes of all me shewe whether ofthese two thou hast chosen 25 that the onemaye take the roume of this ministracionand apostleshippe from thewhich Iudas bytransgression fell that he myght go to hisawne place. 26 And they gave forthe theirlottes and the lot fell on Mathias and hewas counted with the eleven Apostles.

21 When the fyftith daye was come they

were all with one accorde togeder in oneplace. 2 And sodenly ther cam a soundefrom heaven as it had bene the commingeof a myghty wynde and it filled all thehousse where they sate. 3 And ther ap-pered vnto them cloven tonges lyke as theyhad bene fyre and it sate vpon eache ofthem: 4 and they were all filled with theholy goost and beganne to speake with

Acts 2:5 109 Acts 2:40other tonges even as the sprete gave themvtteraunce. 5 And ther were dwellinge atIerusalem Iewes devoute men which wereof all nacions vnder heaven. 6 When thiswas noysed aboute the multitude came together and were astonyed because thatevery man hearde the speake his awnetounge. 7They wondred all and marveyledsayinge amonge them selves: Beholdeare not all these which speake of Galile?8 And how heare we every man his awnetouge wherein we were boren? 9 ParthiansMedes and Elamytes and the inhabitersof Mesopotamia of Iury and of Capadociaof Ponthus and Asia 10 Phrigia Pamphiliaand of Egypte and of the parties of Libiawhich is besyde Syrene and straungers ofRome Iewes and convertes 11 Grekes andArabians: we have herde them speake withoure awne tonges the greate workes ofGod. 12They were all amased and wondredsayinge one to another: what meaneththis? 13 Other mocked the sayinge: theyare full of newe wyne. 14But Peter steppedforth with the eleven and lift vp his voyceand sayde vnto them: Ye men of Iewryeand all the that inhabite Ierusalem: be thisknowevnto you andwith youre eares hearemy wordes. 15 These are not dronken as yesuppose: for it is yet but the thyrde houreof the daye. 16 But this is that which wasspoken by the Prophete Iohel: 17 It shalbein the last dayes sayth God: of my sprete Iwill powre out vpon all flesshe. And youresonnes and youre doughters shall proph-esy andyoure yogemen shall se visions andyoure olde me shall dreme dremes. 18 Andonmy servauts and onmy honde maydensI will powre out of my sprete in thosedayes and they shall prophesye. 19 And Iwill shewe wonders in heaven a bove andtokens in the erth benethe bloud and fyreand the vapour of smoke. 20 The sunneshalbe turned into darknes and the moneinto bloud before that greate and notabledaye of the Lorde come. 21 And it shalbethat whosoever shall call on the name ofthe Lorde shalbe saved. 22Ye men of Israelheare these wordes. Iesus of Nazareth aman approved of God amonge you withmyracles wondres and signes which Goddyd by him in the myddes of you as yeyoure selves knowe: 23 him have ye taken

by the hondes of vnrightewes personesafter he was delivered by the determinatcounsell and foreknoweledge of God andhave crucified and slayne: 24 whom Godhath raysed vp and lowsed the sorowes ofdeeth because it was vnpossible that heshuld be holden of it. 25For David speakethof him: Afore honde I sawe God alwayesbefore me: For he is on my ryght hondethat I shuld not be moved. 26 Therfore dydmy hert reioyce and my tonge was glad.Moreover alsomy flesshe shall rest in hope27because thouwilt not levemy soul in hellnetherwilt suffre thyne holye to se corrup-cion. 28 Thou hast shewed me the wayesof lyfe and shalt make me full of ioye withthy countenaunce. 29Men and brethren letme frely speake vnto you of the partriarkeDavid: For he is both deed and buryedand his sepulcre remayneth with vs vntothis daye. 30 Therfore seinge he was aProphet and knewe that God had swornewith an othe to him that the frute of hisloynes shuld sit on his seat (in that Christshulde ryse agayne in the flesshe) 31 hesawe before: and spake in the resurreccionof Christ that his soule shulde not be left inhell: nether his flesse shuld se corrupcion.32 This Iesus hath God raysyd vp wherofwe all are witnesses. 33 Sence now that heby the right honde of God exalted is andhath receaved of the father the promyseof the holy goost he hath sheed forthethat which ye nowe se and heare. 34 ForDavid is not ascendyd into heaven: but hesayde. The Lorde sayde to my Lorde sit onmy right honde 35 vntill I make thy fooesthy fote stole. 36 So therfore let all thehousse of Israel knowe for a suerty thatGod hath made the same Iesus whom yehave crucified lorde and Christ. 37 Whenthey hearde this they were pricked in theirhertes and sayd vnto Peter and vnto theother Apostles: Ye men and brethren whatshall we do? 38 Peter sayde vnto them:repent and be baptised every one of you inthe name of Iesus Christ for the remissionof synnes and ye shall receave the gyfteof the holy goost. 39 For the promyse wasmade vnto you and to youre chyldren andto all that are afarre even as many as theLorde oure God shall call. 40 And withmany other wordes bare he witnes and

Acts 2:41 110 Acts 3:26exhorted them sayinge: Save youre selvesfrom this vntowarde generacion. 41 Thenthey that gladly receaved his preachyngewere baptised: and the same daye therwere added vnto them aboute thre thou-sande soules. 42And they continued in theApostles doctrine and felloushippe and inbreakinge of breed and in prayer. 43 Andfeare came over every soule. And manywondres and signes were shewed by theApostles. 44 And all that beleved keptthem selves to gedder and had all thingescommen 45 and solde their possessions andgoodes and departed them to allmen as ev-ery man had nede. 46 And they continueddayly with one acorde in the temple andbrake breed in every housse and dyd eatetheir meate to gedder with gladnes andsinglenes of hert 47 praysinge God and hadfaveour with all the people. And the Lordeadded to the congregacion dayly soche asshuld be saved.

31 Peter and Iohn went up togedder into

the temple at the nynthe houre of prayer.2And therwas a certaynemanhalt fromhismothers wobewho they brought and laydeat the gate of the temple called beutifullto axe almes of them that entred into thetemple. 3Which same when he sawe Peterand Iohn that they wolde in to the templedesyred to receave an almes. 4 And Peterfastened his eyes on him with Iohn andsayde: looke on vs. 5 And he gaue hedevnto the trustinge to receave somthinge ofthem. 6 Then sayd Peter: Silver and goldehave I none suche as I have geve I the. Inthe name of Iesu Christ of Nazareth ryse vpand walke. 7 And he toke him by the righthonde and lifte him vp. And immediatlyhis fete and ancle bones receaved strenght.8And he sprage stode and also walked andentredwith them into the templewalkingeand leapinge and laudynge God. 9 Andall the people sawe him walke and laudeGod. 10 And they knewe him that it washe which sate and begged at the beutifullgate of the temple. And they wondredandwere sore astonnyed at that which hadhappened vnto him. 11 And as the haltwhich was healed helde Peter and Iohnall the people ranne amased vnto them in

Salomons porche. 12When Peter sawe thathe answered vnto the people. Ye men ofIsrael whymarvayle ye at this orwhy lookeye so stedfastly on vs as though by oureawne power or holynes we had made thisman goo? 13The God of Abraham Isaac andIacob the God of oure fathers hath glorifiedhis sonne Iesus whom ye delyvered anddenyed in the presence of Pylate when hehad iudged him to be lowsed. 14 But yedenyed the holy and iust and desyred amortherar to be geven you 15 and kylledthe Lorde of lyfe whom God hath raysedfrom deeth of the which we are wytnesses.16 And his name thorow the fayth of hisname hath made this man sound whom yese and knowe. And the fayth which is byhim hath geven to him this health in thepresence of you all. 17 And now brethrenI wote well that thorow ignoraunce ye didit as dyd also youre heddes. 18 But thosethinges which God before had shewed bythe mouth of all his Prophetes how thatChrist shuld suffre he hath thus wyse ful-filled. 19 Repent ye therfore and turnethat youre synnes maye be done awayewhen the tyme of refresshinge commethwhich we shall have of the presence of theLorde 20 and when God shall sende himwhich before was preached vnto you thatis to wit Iesus Christ 21which must receaveheaven vntyll the tyme that all thingeswhich God hath spoken by the mouth ofall his holy Prophetes sence the worldebegan be restored agayne. 22 For Mosessayd vnto the fathers: A Prophet shallthe Lorde youre God rayse vp vnto youeven of youre brethren lyke vnto me: himshall ye heare in all thinges whatsoeverhe shall saye vnto you. 23 For the tymewill come that every soule which shall notheare that same Prophet shalbe destroyedfrom amonge the people. 24 Also all theProphetes fromSamuel and thence forth asmany as have spoken have in lykwyse toldeof these dayes. 25 Ye are the chyldren ofthe Prophetes and of the covenaunt whichGod hath made vnto oure fathers sayingeto Abraham: Even in thy seede shall all thekinredes of the erth be blessed. 26 Fyrstvnto you hath God raysed vp his sonneIesus and him he hath sent to blysse you

Acts 4:1 111 Acts 4:34that every one of you shuld turne fromyoure wickednes.

41 As they spake vnto the people the

prestes and the rular of the temple andthe Saduces came vpon them 2 takynge itgrevously that they taught the pople andpreached in Iesus the resurreccion fromdeeth. 3 And they layde hondes on themand put them in holde vntill the nextedaye: for it was now even tyde. 4 How beit many of them which hearde the wordesbeleved and the noumbre of the men wasaboute fyve thousande. 5 And it chaunsedon the morowe that their rulars and eldersand Scribes 6 as Annas the chefe Prest andCayphas and Iohn and Alexander and asmany as were of the kynred of the hyeprestes gadered to geder at Ierusalem 7andset the other before them and axed: bywhat power or what name have ye donethis syrs? 8ThenPeter full of theholy goostsayd vnto them: ye rulars of the peopleand elders of Israel 9 yf we this daye areexamined of the good dede done to thesycke man by what meanes he is madewhoale: 10be that knowen vnto you all andto the people of Israel that in the name ofIesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucifiedand whom God raysed agayne from deeth:even by him doth this man stonde herepresent before you whoale. 11 This is thestone cast a syde of you bylders whichis set in the chefe place of the corner.12 Nether is ther salvacion in eny other.Nor yet also is ther eny other name gevento men wherin we must be saved. 13Whenthey sawe the boldnes of Peter and Iohnand vnderstode that they were vnlernedmen and laye people they marveyled andthey knew them that they were with Iesu:14 and beholdinge also the man which washealed stondinge with the they coulde notsaye agaynst it. 15 But they commaundedthem to go a syde out of the counsell andcounceled amonge them selves 16 sayinge:what shall we do to these men? For amanifest signe is done by the and is openlyknowen to all them that dwell in Ierusalemand we cannot denye it. 17 But that itbe noysed no farther amonge the peoplelet us threaten and charge them that they

speake hence forth to noman in this name.18 And they called them and commaundedthem that in no wyse they shuld speake orteache in the name of Iesu. 19 But Peterand Iohn answered vnto them and sayde:whether it be right in the syght of Godto obeye you moare then God iudge ye.20 For we cannot but speake that which wehave sene and hearde. 21 So threatenedthey them and let them goo and founde nothinge how to punysshe them because ofthe people. For all me lauded God for themyracle which was done: 22 for the manwas above fourty yeare olde on whom thismyracle of healinge was shewed. 23Assoneas they were let goo they came to theirfelowes and shewed all that the hye prestesand elders had sayde to them. 24And whenthey hearde that they lyfte vp their voycesto God with one accorde and sayde: Lordethou arte God which hast made heavenand erth the see and all that in them is25 which by the mouth of thy servauntDavid hast sayd: Why dyd the hethen rageand the people immagen vayne thinges.26 The kynges of the erth stode vp andthe rulars came to gedder agaynst theLorde and agaynst his Christ. 27 For ofa trueth agaynst thy holy chylde Iesuswhom thou hast annoynted bothe Herodeand also Poncius Pylate with the Gentilsand the people of Israel gaddered themselves to gedder 28 forto do whatsoever thyhonde and thy counsell determined beforeto be done. 29 And now Lorde beholdetheir threatenynges and graunte vnto thyservauntes with all confidence to speakethy worde. 30 So that thou stretche forththy honde that healynge and signes andwonders be done by the name of thy holychylde Iesus. 31 And assone as they hadprayed the place moved wheare they wereassembled to gedder and they were allfilled with the holy goost and they spakethe worde of God boldely. 32 And themultitude of them that belevedwere of onehert and of one soule. Also none of themsayde that eny of the thinges which hepossessedwas his awne: but had all thingescommen. 33 And with greate power gavethe Apostles witnes of the resurreccionof the Lorde Iesu. And greate grace waswith them all. 34 Nether was ther eny

Acts 4:35 112 Acts 5:28amonge them that lacked. For as many aswere possessers of londes or housses soldethem and brought the pryce of the thingesthat were solde 35 and layed that doune atthe Apostles fete. And distribucion wasmade vnto everyman accordinge as he hadnede. 36And Ioses which was also called ofthe Apostles Barnabas (that is to saye thesonne of consolacion) beynge a Levite andof the countre of Cipers 37 had londe andsolde it. and layde the pryce doune at theApostles fete.

51 A certayne man named Ananias with

Saphira his wyfe solde a possession 2 andkepte awaye parte of the pryce (his wyfealso beynge of counsell) and brought acertayne parte and layde it doune at theApostles fete. 3 Then sayde Peter: Ananiashow is it that Satan hath filled thyne hertthat thou shuldest lye vnto the holy goostand kepe awaye parte of the pryce of thelyvelod: 4 Pertayned it not vnto the onlyand after it was solde was not the prycein thyne awne power? How is it that thouhast conceaved this thinge in thyne herte?Thou hast not lyed vntomen but vnto God.5WhenAnanias herde thesewordes. he felldoune and gave vp the goost. And greatfeare came on all the that these thingeshearde. 6 And the yonge men roose vpand put him a parte and caryed him outand buryed him. 7 And it fortuned asit were aboute the space of .iii. houresafter that his wyfe came in ignoraunt ofthat which was done. 8 And Peter saydevnto her: Tell me gave ye the londe for somoche? And she sayde: ye for so moche9 Then Peter sayde vnto her: why have yeagreed to gether to tept the sprete of theLorde? Beholde the fete of them whichhave buryed thy husbande are at the doreand shall cary the out. 10 Then she felldoune strayght waye at his fete and yeldedvp the goost. And the yonge men camein and founde her ded and caryed her outand buryed her by her husbande. 11 Andgreat feare came on all the congregacionand on as many as hearde it. 12 By thehondes of the Apostles were many signesand wondres shewed amonge the people.And theywere all togetherwith one acorde

in Salomons porche. 13 And of other durstnoman ioyne him selfe to them: neverthe-later the people magnyfied them. 14 Thenoumbre of them that beleved in the Lordebothe ofmen andwemen grewemoare andmoare: 15 in so moche that they broughtthe sicke into the strettes and layde themonbeddes andpalettes that at the lestwayethe shadowe of Peter when he came bymyght shadowe some of them. 16 Therecame also a multitude out of the citiesroud about vnto Ierusalem bringynge sickefolkes and themwhichwere vexedwith vn-clene spretes. And they were healed everyone. 17 Then the chefe preste rose vp andall they that were with him (which is thesecte of the Saduces) andwere full of indig-nacion 18 and layde hondes on the Apostlesand put them in the comen preson. 19 Butthe angell of the Lorde by nyght opennedthe preson dores and brought them fortheand sayde: 20 goo steppe forthe and speakein the temple to the people all the wordesof this lyfe. 21 When they hearde thatthey entred into the temple erly in themorninge and taught. The chefe prestcame and they that were with him andcalled a counsell to gedder and all theelders of the chyldren of Israel and sentto the preson to fet them. 22 When theministres came and founde themnot in thepreson they returned and tolde 23 sayinge:the preson founde we shut as sure as waspossible and the kepers stondynge without before the dores. But when we hadopenedwe founde nomanwith in. 24Whenthe chefe prest of all and the ruler of thetemple and the hye prestes hearde thesethinges they douted of them whervntothis wolde growe. 25 Then came one andshewed them: beholde the men that yeput in preson stonde in the temple andteache the people. 26 Then went the rulerof the temple with ministers and broughtthe with out violence. For they feared thepeople lest they shuld have bene stoned.27 And when they had brought them theyset them before the counsell. And thechefe preste axed them 28 sayinge: dyd notwe straytely commaunde you that ye shuldnot teache in this name? And beholde yehave filled Ierusalem with youre doctrineand ye intende to brynge this mans bloud

Acts 5:29 113 Acts 7:3vpon vs. 29 Peter and the other Apostlesanswered and sayde: We ought moare toobey God then men. 30 The God of ourefathers raysed vp Iesus whom ye slewe andhanged on tre. 31 Him hath god lifte vpwith his right hand to be a ruler and asavioure for to geve repentaunce to Israelland forgevenes of synnes. 32 And we arehis recordes concernynge these thingesand also the holy goost whom God hathgeve to them that obey him. 33 Whenthey hearde that they clave asunder: andsought meanes to slee them. 34Then stodether vp one in the counsell a Phariseynamed Gamaliel a doctoure of lawe had inauctorite amonge all the people and com-maunded to put the Apostles a syde a lytellspace 35and sayde vnto them: Menof Israeltake hede to youre selves what ye entendeto do as touchinge these men. 36 Beforethese dayes rose vp one Theudas bostingehim selfe to whom resorted a nombre ofmen about a foure hondred which wasslayn and they all which beleved him werescatred a broode and brought to nought.37 After this man arose ther vp one Iudasof Galile in the tyme when tribute beganand drewe awaye moche people after him.He also perisshed: and all even as manyas harkened to him are scattered a brood.38And now I saye vnto you: refrayne youreselves from these men let them alone. Foryf the consell or this worke be of men itwill come to nought. 39 But and yf it beof God ye can not destroye it lest haply yebe founde to stryve agaynst God. 40 Andto him they agreed and called the Apostlesand bet them and commaunded that theyshuld not speake in the name of Iesu andlet them goo. 41 And they departed fromthe counsell reioysynge that they werecounted worthy to soffre rebuke for hisname. 42 And dayly in the temple and inevery housse they ceased not teachingeand preachinge Iesus Christ.

61 In those dayes as the nombre of

the disciples grewe ther arose a grudgeamonge the Grekes agaynst the Ebrues be-cause their wyddowes were despysed inthe dayly mynystracion. 2Then the twelvecalled the multitude of the disciples to

gether and sayde: it is not mete that weshuld leave the worde of God and serve atthe tables. 3Wherfore brethren loke ye outamonge you seven men of honest reporteand full of the holy goost and wysdomewhich we maye apoynte to this nedfullbusynes. 4But we will geve oure selves cot-inually to prayer and to theministracion ofthe worde. 5 And the sayinge pleased thewhoale multitude. And they chose Stevena man full of fayth and of the holy goostand Philip and Prochorus and Nichanorand Timon and Permenas and Nicholas aconverte of Antioche. 6 Which they setbefore the Apostles and they prayed andlayde their hondes on them. 7 And theworde of God encreased and the noubreof the disciples multiplied in Ierusalemgreatly and a great company of the presteswere obedient to the faythe. 8 And Stevenfull of faythe and power dyd great wondresand myracles amonge the people. 9 Thenther arose certayne of the synagoge whichare called Lybertines and Syrenites andof Alexandria and of Cilicia and Asia anddisputed with Steven. 10 And they couldenot resist thewysdome and the spretewithwhich he spake. 11 Then sent they in menwhich sayd: we have hearde him speakeblasphemous wordes agaynst Moses andagaynst God. 12And theymoved the peopleand the elders and the scribes: and cameapon him and caught him and brought himto the counsell 13 and brought forth falcewitnesses which sayde. This man ceasithnot to speake blasphemouswordes agaynstthis holy place and the lawe: 14 for wehearde him saye: this Iesus of Nazarethshall destroye this place and shall chaungethe ordinaunces which Moses gave vs.15 And all that sate in the counsell lokedstedfastly on him and sawe his face as ithad bene the face of an angell.

71 Then sayde the chefe prest: is it even

so? 2 And he sayde: ye men brethrenand fathers harken to. The God of gloryappered vnto oure father Abraham whyllhe was yet inMesopotamia before he dweltin Charran 3 and sayd vnto him: come outof thy contre and from thy kynred andcome into the londe which I shall shewe

Acts 7:4 114 Acts 7:37the. 4 Then came he out of the londeof Chaldey and dwelt in Charran. Andafter that assone as his father was deedhe brought him into this lande in whichye now dwell 5 and he gave him noneinheritaunce in it no not the bredeth of afote: but promised that he wolde geve itto him to possesse and to his seed afterhim when as yet he had no chylde. 6 Godverely spake on this wyse that his seadeshulde be a dweller in a straunge londe andthat they shulde kepe them in bondage andentreate them evyll .iiii.C. yeares. 7But thenacion to whom they shalbe in bondagewill I iudge sayde God. And after thatshall they come forthe and serveme in thisplace. 8 And he gave him the covenauntof circumcision. And he begat Isaac andcircumcised him the viii. daye and Isaacbegat Iacob and Iacob the twelve patri-arkes. 9 And the patriarkes havinge indig-nacion solde Ioseph into Egipte. And Godwas with him 10 and delivered him out ofall his adversities. And gave him faveourand wisdome in the sight of Pharao kyngeof Egipte which made him governer overEgipte and over all his housholde. 11 Thencame ther a derth over all the londe ofEgipt and Canaan and great affliccion thatour fathers founde no sustenauce. 12 Butwhen Iacob hearde that ther was corne inEgipte he sent oure fathers fyrst 13 and atthe seconde tyme Ioseph was knowen ofhis brethren and Iosephs kynred was madeknowne vnto Pharao. 14 Then sent Iosephand caused his father to be brought andall his kynne thre score and xv. soules.15 And Iacob descended into Egipte anddyed bothe he and oure fathers 16 andwere translated into Sichem and were putin the sepulcre that Abraham bought formoney of the sonnes of Emor at Sichem.17 When the tyme of the promes druenye (which God had sworme to Abraham)the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte18 till another kynge arose which knewenot of Ioseph. 19 The same dealte sut-telly with oure kynred and evyll intreatedoure fathers and made them to cast outetheir younge chyldren that they shuld notremayne alyve. 20 The same tyme wasMoses borne andwas a proper childe in thesight of God which was norisshed vp in his

fathers housse thre monethes. 21When hewas cast out Pharoes doughter toke him vpand norisshed him vp for her awne sonne.22 And Moses was learned in all manerwisdome of the Egipcians and was mightyin dedes and in wordes. 23 And whenhe was full forty yeare olde it came intohis hert to visit his brethren the chyldrenof Israhel. 24 And when he sawe one ofthem suffre wronge he defended him andavenged his quarrell that had the harmedone to him and smote the Egypcian. 25Forhe supposed hys brethren wolde have vn-derstonde how that God by his hondesshuld save them But they vnderstode not.26 And the next daye he shewed him selfevnto them as they strove and wolde haveset the at one agayne sayinge: Syrs yeare brethren why hurte ye one another?27 But he that dyd his neghbour wrongethrust him awaye sayinge: whomade the arular and a iudge amonge vs? 28What wiltthou kyll me as thou dyddest the Egyptianyester daye? 29 Then fleed Moses at thatsayenge and was a stranger in the londeof Madian where he begat two sonnes.30 And when .xl. yeares were expired therappered to him in thewyldernes ofmounteSyna an angell of the Lorde in a flamme offyre in a busshe. 31 When Moses sawe ithe wondred at the syght. And as he drueneare to beholde the voyce of the Lordecame vnto him: 32 I am the God of thy fa-thers the God of Abraham the God of Isaacand the God of Iacob. Moses trembled anddurst not beholde. 33Then sayde the Lordeto him: Put of thy showes from thy fetefor the place where thou stondest is holygrounde. 34 I have perfectly sene the afflic-cion of my people which is in Egypte and Ihave hearde their gronynge and am comedoune to delyver them. And now comeand I will sende the into Egypte. 35 ThisMoses whom they forsoke sayinge: whomade the a ruelar and a iudge: the sameGod sent bothe a ruler and delyverer bythe hondes of the angell which appered tohim in the busshe. 36And the samebroughtthem out shewynge wonders and signesin Egypte and in the reed see and in thewyldernes .xl. yeares. 37This is that Moseswhich sayde vnto the chyldre of Israel: AProphet shall the Lorde youre God rayse vp

Acts 7:38 115 Acts 8:10vnto you of youre brethren lyke vnto mehim shall ye heare. 38 This is he that wasin the congregacion in the wyldernes withthe angell which spake to him in themouteSyna and with oure fathers. This manreceaved the worde of lyfe to geve vntovs 39 to who oure fathers wolde not obeyebut cast it from them and in their hertesturned backe agayne into Egypte 40 sayingevnto Aaron: Make vs goddes to goo beforevs. For this Moses that brought vs out ofthe londe of Egypte we wote not what isbecome of him. 41And they made a calfe inthose dayes and offered sacrifice vnto theymage and reioysed in the workes of theirawne hondes. 42ThenGod turned him selfeand gave them vp that they shuld worshipthe starres of the skye as it is written inthe boke of the prophetes. O ye of thehousse of Israel gave ye to me sacreficesand meate offerynges by the space of xl.yeares in the wildernes? 43 And ye tokevnto you the tabernacle of Moloch and thestarre of youre god Remphanfigureswhichye made to worshippe them. And I willtranslate you beyonde Babylon. 44 Ourefathers had the tabernacle of witnes inthe wyldernes as he had apoynted thespeakynge vnto Moses that he shuld makeit acordynge to the fassion that he hadsene. 45 Which tabernacle oure fathersreceaved and brought it in with Iosue intothe possession of the gentyls which Goddrave out before the face of oure fathersvnto the tyme of David 46 which foundefavour before God and desyred that hemyght fynde a tabernacle for the God ofIacob. 47 But Salomon bylt him an housse.48How be it he that is hyest of all dwellethnot in temple made with hondes as saiththe Prophete: 49 Heven is my seate anderth is my fote stole what housse will yebylde for me sayth the Lorde? or whatplace is it that I shuld rest in? 50 hath notmy honde made all these thinges? 51 Yestiffenecked and of vncircumcised hertesand eares: ye have all wayes resisted theholy goost: as youre fathers dyd so doye. 52 Which of the prophetes have notyoure fathers persecuted? And they haveslayne them which shewed before of thecommynge of that iust whom ye have nowbetrayed and mordred. 53 And ye also

have receaved a lawe by the ordinaunce ofangels and have not kept it. 54When theyhearde these thinges their hertes clave asunder and they gnasshed on him withtheir tethe. 55 But he beynge full of theholy goost loked vp stedfastlye with hiseyes into heven and sawe the glorie of Godand Iesus stondynge on the ryght honde ofGod 56 and sayde: beholde I se the hevensopen and the sonne of man stondynge onthe ryght honde of god. 57 Then they gavea shute with a loude voyce and stoppedtheir eares and ranne apon him all at once58 and caste him out of the cite and stonedhim. And the witnesses layde doune theirclothes at a yongemannes fete named Saul.59And they stoned Steven callynge on andsayinge: Lorde Iesu receave my sprete.60 And he kneled doune and cryed witha loude voyce: Lorde laye not this synneto their charge. And when he had thusspoken he fell a slepe.

81 Saul had pleasure in his deeth. And

at that tyme there was a great persecu-cion agaynst the congregacion which wasat Ierusalem and they were all scatteredabroade thorowout the regions of Iury andSamaria except the Apostles. 2 Then de-vout men dressed Steven and made greatlamentacion over him. 3 But Saul madehavocke of the congregacion entrynge intoevery housse and drewe out botheman andwoman and thrust the into preson. 4 Theythat were scattered abroade went everywhere preachyng the worde. 5 Then camePhilip into a cite of Samaria and preachedChrist vnto them. 6 And the people gavehede vnto those thingeswhichPhilip spakewith one acorde in that they hearde andsawe the miracles which he dyd. 7 Forvnclene spretes cryinge with loude voycecame out of many that were possessed ofthem. And manye taken with palsies andmany that halted were healed 8 And therwas great ioye in that cite. 9 And therwas a certayne man called Simon whichbefore tyme in the same cite vsed witchecrafte andbewitched thepeople of Samariesayinge that he was a man that couldedo greate thinges 10 Whom they regarded

Acts 8:11 116 Acts 9:4from the lest to the greatest sayinge: thisfelow is the great power of God. 11 Andhim they set moche by because of longetyme with sorcery he had mocked them.12 But assone as they beleved Philippespreachynge of the kyngdome of God and ofthe name of Iesu Christ they were baptisedbothemen and wemen. 13Then Simon himselfe beleved also and was baptised andcotinuedwith Phillip andwondered behol-dynge the miracles and signes which wereshewed. 14When the Apostles which wereat Ierusalem hearde saye that Samaria hadreceaved the worde of God: they sentvnto them Peter and Iohn 15 which whenthey were come prayed for the that theymyght receave the holy goost 16 For as yethe was come on none of them: But theywere baptised only in the name of ChristIesu. 17 Then layde they their hondes onthem and they receaved the holy goost.18When Simon sawe that thorowe layingeon of theApostles hondes on them theholygoost was geven: he offered the moneysayinge: 19 Geve me also this power thaton whom soever I put the hondes he mayereceave the holy goost. 20 Then saydePeter vntohim: thymonyeperyshwith thebecause thou wenest that the gifte of Godmaye be obteyned with money. 21 Thouhast nether parte nor felloushippe in thisbusines. For thy hert is not ryght in thesyght of God. 22Repent therfore of this thywickednes and praye God that the thoughtof thyne hert maye be forgeven the. 23 ForI perceave that thou arte full of bitter galland wrapped in iniquite. 24Then answeredSimon and sayde: Praye ye to the lorde forme that none of these thinges whiche yehave spoken fall on me. 25 And they whenthey had testified and preached the wordeof the lorde returned toward Ierusalemand preached the gospell in many cities ofthe Samaritas. 26 Then the angell of thelorde spake vnto Phillip sayinge: aryse andgoo towardes mydde daye vnto the wayewith goeth doune from Ierusalem vntoGaza which is in the desert. 27And he aroseand wet on. And beholde aman of Ethiopiawhich was a chaberlayne and of grete auc-torite with Candace quene of the Ethiopiasand had the rule of all her treasure cameto Ierusalem for to praye. 28 And as he re-

turned home agayne sittynge in his charethe rede Esay the prophet. 29 Then thesprete sayde vnto Phillip: Goo neare andioyne thy selfe to yonder charet. 30 AndPhilip ranne to him and hearde him redethe prophet Esayas and sayde: Vnderston-dest thou what thou redest? 31 And hesayd: how can I except I had a gyde? Andhe desyred Philip that he wold come vpand sit with him. 32 The tenoure of thescripture which he redde was this. Hewas ledde as a shepe to be slayne: andlyke a lambe dome before his sherer soopened he not his mouth. 33 Because ofhis humblenes he was not estemed: whoshall declare his generacion? for his lyfe istaken from the erthe. 34The chamberlayneanswered Philip and sayde: I praye theof whom speaketh the Prophet this? ofhim selfe or of some other man? 35 AndPhilip opened his mouth and beganne atthe same scripture and preached vnto himIesus. 36 And as they went on their wayethey came vnto a certayne water and thechamberlayne sayde: Se here iswaterwhatshall let me to be baptised? 37 Philip saydevnto him: Yf thou beleve with all thynehert thou mayst. He answered and sayde:I beleve that Iesus Christe is the sonne ofGod. 38And he commaunded the charet tostonde still. And they went doune botheinto the water: bothe Philip and also thechamberlayne and he baptised him. 39Andassone as they were come out of the wa-ter the sprete of the lorde caught awayePhilip that the chamberlayne sawe him nomoore. And he wet on his waye reioysinge:40 but Philip was founde at Azotus. And hewalked thorowout the countre preachyngein their cities tyll he came to Cesarea.

91 And Saul yet brethynge oute threat-

nynges and slaughter agaynst the disciplesof the lorde went vnto the hye preste2 and desyred of him letters to Damasco tothe synagoges: that yf he founde eny ofthis waye whether they were men or we-men he myght bringe them bounde vntoIerusalem. 3But as he went on his iorney itfortuned that he drue nye to Damasco andsodenly ther shyned rounde about him alyght from heven. 4And he fell to the erth

Acts 9:5 117 Acts 9:38and hearde a voyce sayinge to him: SaulSaul why persecutest thou me? 5 And hesayde what arte thou lorde? And the lordesayd I am Iesus whom thou persecutest itshalbe harde for the to kycke agaynst thepricke. 6 And he bothe tremblynge andastonyed sayde: Lorde what wilt thou haveme to do? And the Lorde sayde vnto him:aryse and goo into the cite and it shalbetolde the what thou shalt do. 7 The menwhich iornayed with him stode amased forthey herde a voyce but sawe noman. 8AndSaul arose from the erth and opened hiseyes but sawe no man. Then ledde theyhim by the honde and brought him intoDamasco. 9 And he was .iii. dayes with outsyght and nether ate nor dranke. 10 Andther was a certayne disciple at Damasconamed Ananias and to him sayde the lordein a vision: Ananias. And the he sayde:beholde I am here lorde. 11 And the lordesayde to him: aryse and goo into the stretewhich is called strayght and seke in thehousse of Iudas after one called Saul ofTharsus. For beholde he prayeth 12 andhath sene in a vision a man named Ana-nias comynge in to him and puttynge hishondes on him that he myght receave hissyght. 13 Then Ananias answered: LordeI have hearde by many of this man howmoche evell he hath done to thy sainctesat Ierusalem 14 and here he hath auctoriteof the hye prestes to bynde all that callon thy name. 15 The lorde sayde vntohim: Goo thy wayes: for he is a chosenvessell vnto me to beare my name beforethe gentyls and kynges and the chyldrenof Israel. 16 For I will shewe him how greatthinges he must suffre for my names sake.17 Ananias went his waye and entryd intothe housse and put his hondes on him andsayde: brother Saul the lorde that apperydvnto the in the waye as thou camst hathsent me that thou myghtest receave thysyght and be filled with the holy goost.18 And immediatly ther fell from his eyesas it had bene scales and he receaved syghtand arose andwas baptised 19and receavedmeate and was comforted. Then was Saula certayne daye with the disciples whichwere at Damasco. 20 And streyght waye hepreached Christ in the synagoges how thathe was the sonne of God. 21All that hearde

him were amased and sayde: is not thishe that spoyled the which called on thisname in Ierusalem and came hyther forthe entent that he shuld bringe the boundevnto the hye prestes? 22But Saul encreasedin stregth and confounded the Ieweswhichdwelte at Damasco affirminge that this wasvery Christ. 23 And after a good whyle theIewes toke counsell to gether to kyll him.24 But their layinge awayte was knowen ofSaul. And they watched at the gates dayeand nyght to kyll him. 25Then the disciplestoke him by night and put him thorowthe wall and let him doune in a basket.26Andwhen Saul was come to Ierusalemheassayde to cople him silfe with the discy-ples and they were all afrayde of hym andbeleued not that he was a disciple. 27 ButBernabas tokehymandbroughthymto theapostles and declared to the how he hadsene the Lorde in the waye and had spokewyth hym: and howhe had done boldely atdamasco in the name of Iesu. 28And he hadhis conuersacion with them at Ierusalem29 and quit hym silfe boldly in the name ofthe lorde Iesu. And he spake and disputedwyth the grekes: and they went abouteto slee hym. 30 But when the brethrenknew of that they brought hym to cesareaand sent hym forth to Tharsus. 31 Thenhad the congregacions rest thorowoute allIewry and galile and Samary and wereedified and walked in the feare of thelorde and multiplied by the comforte ofthe holy gost. 32 And it chaunsed thatas Peter walked throughoute all quartershe came to the saynctes which dwelt atLydda 33 and there he foude a certayneman namyd Eneas whych had kepte hysbed viii. yere sicke of the palsie. 34 Thensayde Peter vnto hym: Eneas Iesus Christmake the whole. Aryse andmake thy beed.And he arose immedyatly. 35 And all thatdwelt at lydda and assaron sawe hym andtourned to the lorde. 36 Ther was at Ioppea certayne woman (whiche was a disciplenamed Tabitha which by interpretacion iscalled dorcas) the same was full of goodworkes and almes dedes which she did.37 And it chaunsed in those dayes thatshe was sicke and dyed. When they hadwesshed her and layd her in a chamber:38 Because Lydda was nye to Ioppa and the

Acts 9:39 118 Acts 10:29disciples had hearde that Peter was therethey sent vnto hym desyrynge him that hewolde not be greved to come vnto them.39 Peter arose and came with them andwhen he was come they brought him in tothe chamber. And all the wydowes stoderoude aboute hymwepynge and shewyngethe cotes and garmentes which Dorcasmade whill she was with them. 40 AndPeter put the all forth and kneled douneand prayde and turned him to the bodyand sayde: Tabitha aryse. And she openedher eyes and when she sawe Peter she satvp. 41 And he gave her the honde andlyft her up and called the sainctes andwydowes and shewed her alyve. 42 And itwas knowne throwout all Ioppa and manybeleved on the Lorde. 43 And it fortunedthat he taryed many dayes in Ioppa withone Simon a tanner.

101 Ther was a certayne man in Cesarea

called Cornelius a captayne of the soudiersof Italy 2a devouteman and one that fearedGod with all his housholde which gavemoche almes to the people and prayde Godalwaye. 3 The same man sawe in a visionevydetly aboute the nynthe houre of thedaye an angell of god comynge into himand sayinge vnto him: Cornelius. 4 Whenhe lookedonhimhewas afrayde and sayde:what is it lorde? He sayde vnto him. Thyprayers and thy almeses are come vp intoremembraunce before God. 5 And nowsende men to Ioppa and call for one Simonnamed also Peter. 6 He lodgeth with oneSimon a tanner whose housse is by the seesyde. He shall tell the what thou oughtestto doo. 7 When the angell which spakevnto Cornelius was departed he called twoof his housholde servauntes and a devoutesoudier of them that wayted on him 8 andtolde them all the mater and sent themto Ioppa. 9 On the morowe as they weton their iorney and drewe nye vnto thecite Peter went vp into the toppe of thehousse to praye aboute the .vi. houre.10 Then wexed he an hongred and woldehave eate. But whyll they made redy. Hefell into a trauce 11 and sawe heven openedand a certayne vessell come doune vntohim as it had bene a greate shete knyt

at the .iiii. corners and was let doune tothe erth 12 where in wer all maner of .iiii.foted beastes of the erth and vermen andwormes and foules of the ayer. 13 Andther came a voyce to him: ryse Peter kylland eate. 14 But Peter sayde: God forbydLorde for I have never eaten eny thingethat is comen or vnclene. 15And the voycespake vnto him agayne the seconde tyme:what God hath clensed that make thou notcomen. 16 This was done thryse and thevessell was receaved vp agayne into heven.17Whyle Petermused inhim selfewhat thisvision which he had sene meant beholdethe men which were sent from Corneliushad made inquirance for Simons housseand stode before the dore. 18 And calledout won and axed whether Simon whichwas also called Peter were lodged there.19 Whyll Peter thought on this vision thesprete sayde vnto him: Beholde men sekethe: 20 aryse therfore get the doune andgoo with them and doute not. For I havesent them. 21Peter went doune to the menwhich were sent vnto him from Corneliusand sayde Beholde I am he whom ye sekewhat is the cause wherfore ye are come?22 And they sayde vnto him: Corneliusthe captayne a iust man and won thatfeareth God and of good reporte amongeall the people of the Iewes was warnedby an holy angell to sende for the intohis housse and to heare wordes of the.23Then called he them in and lodged them.And on the morowe Peter wet awaye withthem and certayne brethren from Ioppaaccompanyed hym. 24 And the thyrd dayeentred they into Cesaria. And Corneliuswayted for them and had called to getherhis kynsmen and speciall frendes. 25 Andas it chaunsed Peter to come in Corneliusmet hym and fell doune at his fete andworshipped hym. 26 But Peter toke himvp sayinge: stonde vp: for evyn I my silfeam a man. 27 And as he talked with himhe cam in and founde many that werecome to gether. 28 And he sayde vntothem: Ye do knowe how that that ys anvnlawfull thynge for a man that is a Ieweto company or come vnto an alient: Butgod hath shewed me that I shuld not calleny man commen or vnclene: 29 therforecame I vnto you with oute sayege nayeassone as I was sent for. I axe therfore for

Acts 10:30 119 Acts 11:17what intent have ye sent for me? 30 AndCornelius sayde: This daye now .iiii. dayesI fasted and at the nynthe houre I praydein my housse: and beholde a man stodebefore me in bright clothynge and sayde:31Cornelius thy prayer is hearde and thynealmes dedes are had in remembraunce inthe sight of God. 32Sende therfore to Ioppaand call for Simon which is also calledPeter. He is lodged in the housse of oneSimon a tanner by the see syde the wichassone as he is come shall speake vnto the.33 Then sent I for the immediatly and thouhast well done for to come. Now are weall here present before god to heare allthynges that are commaunded vnto the ofGod. 34 Then Peter opened his mouth andsayde: Of a trueth I perseave that God is notparciall 35 but in all people he that fearethhim and worketh rightewesnes is acceptedwith him. 36 Ye knowe the preachyngethat God sent vnto the chyldren of Israelpreachinge peace by Iesus Christe (which isLorde over all thinges: 37Whichpreachingewas published thorow oute all Iewrye andbegane in Galile after the baptyme whichIohn preached 38 how God had annoyntedIesus of Nazareth with the holy goostand with power which Iesus went aboutedoinge good and healynge all that wereoppressed of the develles for God was withhim. 39And we are witnesses of all thingeswhich he dyd in the londe of the Iewes andat Ierusalem whom they slew and hongeon tree. 40 Him God reysed vp the thyrdedaye and shewed him openly 41 not to allthe people but vnto vs witnesses chosynbefore of God which ate and dronke withhim after he arose from deeth. 42 Andhe commaunded vs to preache vnto thepeople and testifie that it is he that isordened of God a iudge of quycke anddeed. 43 To him geve all the Propheteswitnes that thorowehis name shall receaveremission of synnes all that beleve in him.44Whyle Peter yet spake these wordes theholy gost fell on all them which heardethe preachinge. 45 And they of the cir-cucision which beleved were astonyed asmany as came with Peter because that onthe Gentyls also was sheed oute the gyfteof the holy gost. 46 For they hearde themspeakewith tonges andmagnify God. Then

answered Peter: 47 can eny man forbydwater that these shuld not be baptisedwhich have receaved the holy goost as wellas we? 48And he commaunded them to bebaptysed in the name of the Lorde. Thenprayde they him to tary a feawe dayes.

111 And the Apostles and the brethren that

were thorowout Iewry harde saye that thehethenhad also receaved theworde of God.2AndwhenPeterwas comevp to Ierusalemthey of the circumcision reasoned wythhim 3 sayinge: Thou wentest in to menvncircumcised and atest with them. 4ThenPeter began and expounded the thinge inorder to the sayinge: 5 I was in the cyteof Ioppa prayinge and in a traunce I sawea vision a certen vessell descende as ithad bene a large lynnyn clothe let dounefrom hevin by the fower corners and itcam to me. 6 Into the which when I hadfastened myn eyes I consydered and sawefowerfoted beastes of the erth and vermenand wormes and foules of the ayer. 7And Iherde a voyce sayinge vntome: aryse Petersley and eate. 8 And I sayd: God forbydlorde for nothinge comen or vnclene hathat eny tyme entred into my mouth. 9 Butthe voyce answeredme agayne fromhevencount not thou those thinges come whichgod hath clensed. 10 And this was donethre tymes. And all were takin vp agayneinto heven. 11 And beholde immediatlyther were thre men come vnto the houssewhere I was sent from Cesarea vnto me.12And the sprete sayde vntome that I shuldgo with them with out doutinge. Moroverthe sixe brethren accompanyed me: andwe entred into the mans housse. 13And heshewed vs how he had sene an angell in hishousse which stod and sayde to him: Sendmen to Ioppa and call for Symon namedalso Peter: 14 he shall tell the wordeswherby both thou and all thyne housseshalbe saved. 15 And as I begane to preachthe holy goost fell on them as he dyd onvs at the begynninge. 16 Then came tomy remembraunce thewordes of the Lordehow he sayde: Iohn baptised with waterbut ye shalbe baptysedwith the holy goost.17 For as moche then as God gave the lykegyftes as he dyd vnto vs when we belevedon the Lorde Iesus Christ: what was I that

Acts 11:18 120 Acts 12:17I shuld have with stonde God? 18 whentheyhearde this theyhelde their peace andgloryfied God sayinge: then hath God alsoto the gentyls graunted repentaunce vntolyfe. 19 They which were scattryd abroadethorow the affliccion that arose abouteSteven walked thorow oute tyll they camevnto Phenices and Cypers and Antiochepreachynge the worde to no man but vntothe Iewes only. 20 Some of them weremen of Cypers and Syrene which whenthey were come into Antioche spake vntothe Grekes and preched the Lorde Iesus.21 And the honde of the Lorde was withthem and a greate nombre beleved andturned vnto the Lorde. 22 Tydinges ofthese thinges came vnto the eares of thecongregacionwhichwas in Ierusalem. Andthey sente forth Barnabas that he shuld govntoAntioche. 23Whichwhenhewas comeand had sene the grace of God was gladand exhorted them all that with purposeof hert they wolde continually cleave vntothe Lorde. 24 For he was a good man andfull of the holy goost and of faythe: andmoche people was added vnto the Lorde.25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus forto seke Saul. 26 And when he had foundehim he brought him vnto Antioche. And itchaunsed that a whole yere they had theirconversacion with the congregacion thereand taught moche people: in so mochethat the disciples of Antioche were thefyrst that were called Christen. 27 In thosedayes cameProphetes from IerusalemvntoAntioche. 28And ther stode vp one of themnamed Agabus and signified by the spretethat ther shuld be great derth through-oute all the worlde which came to passein the Emproure Claudius dayes. 29 Thenthe disciples every man accordinge to hisabilite purposed to sende socoure vnto thebrethren which dwelt in Iewry. 30 Whichthinge they also dyd and sent it to theelders by the hondes of Barnabas and Saul.

121 In that tyme Herode the kynge

stretched forthe his handes to vexecertayne of the congregacion. 2 And hekylled Iames the brother of Iohn with theswerde: 3 and because he sawe that itpleased the Iewes he proceded forther and

toke Peter also. Then were the dayes ofswete breed. 4 And when he had caughthim he put him in preson and delyveredhim to .iiii. quaternions of soudiers to bekepte entendynge after ester to bryngehim forth to the people. 5 Then was Peterkepte in preson. But prayer was made without ceasynge of the congregacion vnto Godfor him. 6 And when Herode wolde havebrought himoute vnto the people the samenyght slepte Peter bitwene two soudiersbounde with two chaynes and the kepersbefore the dore kepte the preson. 7 Andbeholde the angell of the Lorde was therepresent and a lyght shyned in the lodge.And smote Peter on the syde and sterydhim vp sayinge: aryse vp quyckly. And hischeynes fell of from his hondes. 8 And theangell sayd vnto him: gyrde thy selfe andbynde on thy sandales. And so he dyd. Andhe sayde vnto him: cast thy mantle aboutethe and folowe me. 9 And he came outeand folowed him and wist not that it wastruthe which was done by the angell butthought he had sene a vision. 10When theywere past the fyrst and the secondewatchethey came vnto the yron gate that ledethvnto the cyte which opened to them byhis awne accorde. And they went out andpassed thorowe one strete and by and bythe angell departed fromhim. 11AndwhenPeter was come to him selfe he sayde: nowI knowe of a surety that the Lorde hath senthis angell and hath delyveredme out of thehonde ofHerode and fromall thewaytyngefor of the people of the Iewes. 12 And ashe consydred the thinge he cam to thehousse of Mary the mother of one Iohnwhich was called Marke also where manywere gaddered to gedder in prayer. 13 AsPeter knocked at the entry dore a damsellcam forth to herken named Rhoda. 14 Andwhen she knew Peters voyce she openednot the entrey for gladnes but ran in andtold how Peter stode before the entrey.15 And they sayde vnto her: thou artemad. And she bare them doune that it waseven so. Then sayde they: it is his angell.16 Peter contynued knockinge. When theyhad opened the dore and sawe him theywere astonyed. 17 And he beckened vntothem with the honde to holde their peaceand tolde them by what meanes the Lorde

Acts 12:18 121 Acts 13:22had brought him oute of the preson. Andsayde: goo shew these thinges vnto Iamesand to the brethren. And he departedand went into a nother place. 18 Assoneas it was daye ther was no lyttell a dooamonge the soudyers what was becumof Peter. 19 When Herode had called forhim and founde him not he examinedthe kepers and commaunded to departe.And he descended from Iewry to Cesareaand ther abode. 20 Herode was displeasedwith them of Tyre and Sydon. And theycame all at once and made intercessionvnto Blastus the kynges chamberlen anddesyred peace because their countrey wasnorysshed by the kynges londe. 21 Andupon a daye appoynted Herode arayedhim in royall apparell and set him in hisseate and made an oraycon vnto them.22 And the people gave a shoute sayinge:it is the voyce of a God and not of a man.23 And immediatly the angell of the Lordesmote him because he gave not God thehonoure and he was eatyn of wormes andgave vp the goost. 24And the worde of Godgrewe andmultiplied. 25And Barnabas andPaul returned to Ierusalem when they hadfulfilled their office and toke with themIohn which was also called Marcus.

131 There were at Antioche in the con-

gregacion certayne Prophetes and teach-ers: as Barnabas and Simon called Nigerand Lucius of Cerene andManahen Herodethe Tetrarkes norsfelowe and Saul. 2 Asthey mynistred to the Lorde and fastedthe holy goost sayde: separate me Barn-abas and Saul for the worke where vntoI have called them. 3 Then fasted theyand prayed and put their hondes on themand let them goo. 4 And they after theywere sent of the holy goost came vntoSeleutia and from thence they sayled toCyprus. 5 And when they were come toSalamine they shewed the worde of Godin the synagoges of the Iewes. And theyhad Iohn to their minister. 6 When theyhad gone thorowout the yle vnto the citeof Paphos they foude a certayne sorserera falce prophet 7which was a Iewe namedBariesu which was with the ruler of thecountre won Sergius Paulus a prudet man.The same ruler called vnto him Barnabas

and Saul and desyred to heare the wordeof God. 8 But Elemas the sorcerar (forso was his name by interpretacion) withstode them and sought to turne awaye theruler from the fayth. 9 Then Saul whichalso is called Paul beinge full of the holygoost set his eyes on him 10 and sayde: Ofull of all sutteltie and disseytfulnes thechylde of the devyll and the enemye of allrighteousnes thou ceasest not to pervertthe strayght wayes of the Lorde. 11 Andnow beholde the honde of the Lorde isvpon the and thou shalt be blinde and notse the sunne for a season. And immediatlyther fell on him amyste and a darcknes andhe went aboute sekinge them that shuldleade him by the honde. 12 Then the rularwhen he sawe what had happened belevedand wodred at the doctryne of the Lorde.13 When they that were with Paule weredeparted by shyppe from Paphus they camto Perga a cite of Pamphilia: and thereIohn departed from them and returned toIerusalem. 14 But they wandred thorowethe countres from Perga to Antioche acite of the countre of Pisidia and wet into the synagoge on the saboth daye andsate doune. 15 And after the lawe andthe Prophetes were redde the rulers of thesynagoge sent vnto them sayinge: Ye menand brethren yf ye have eny sermon toexhorte ye people saye on. 16 Then Paulstode vp and beckened with the honde andsayde: Men of Israel and ye that feare Godgeve audiece. 17 The God of this peoplechose oure fathers and exalted the peoplewhen they dwelt as straugers in the londeof Egypt and with a mighty arme broughtthem oute of it 18 and aboute the tymeof .xl. yeares suffred he their maners inthe wyldernes. 19 And he destroyed .vii.nacions in the londe of Canaan anddevidedtheir londe to them by lot. 20 And afterwardehe gave vnto them iudges aboute thespace of .iiii.C. and .l. yeres vnto the tymeof Samuel the Prophet. 21 And after thatthey desyred a kinge and God gave vntothem Saul the sonne of Cis a man of thetribe of Beniamin by the space of .xl. yeres.22 And after he had put him doune he setvp David to be their kynge of whome hereported sayinge: I have founde David thesonne of Iesse a man after myne awne hert

Acts 13:23 122 Acts 14:4he shall fulfill all my will. 23 Of this manesseed hath God (accordinge to his promes)brought forth to the people of Israel asaviour one Iesus 24 when Iohn had fyrstpreached before his cominge the baptymeof repentaunce to Israel. 25And when Iohnhad fulfylled his course he sayde: whomeye thinke that I am the same am I not. Butbeholde ther cometh one after me whoseshewes of his fete I am not worthy tolowse. 26Ye men and brethren chyldren ofthe generacion of Abraham andwhosoeveramonge you feareth God to you is thisworde of salvacion sent. 27 The inhabitersof Ierusalem and their rulers because theyknewe him not nor yet the voyces of theProphetes which are redde every Sabothdaye they have fulfilled them in condemp-ninge him. 28 And when they founde nocause of deeth in him yet desyred theyPylate to kyll him. 29 And when they hadfulfilled all that were written of him theytoke him doune from the tree and put himin a sepulcre. 30But God raysed him agaynefrom deeth 31 and he was sene many dayesof them which came with him from Galileto Ierusalem. Which are his witnesses vntothe people. 32 And we declare vnto youhow that the promesmade vnto the fathers33God hath fulfilled vnto vs their chyldrenin that he reysed vp Iesus agayne even asit is written in the fyrste psalme: Thouarte my sonne this same daye begat I the.34 As concernynge that he reysed him vpfrom deeth now no more to returne tocorrupcion he sayde on this wyse: Theholy promyses made to David I will gevethem faithfully to you. 35 Wherfore hesaith also in another place: Thou shaltnot soffre thyne holye to se corrupcion.36Howbe it David after he had in his tymefulfilled the will of God he slepte and waslayde with his fathers and sawe corrup-cion. 37 But he whom God reysed agaynesawe no corrupcion. 38 Be it knowne vntoyou therfore ye men and brethren thatthorow this man is preached vnto you theforgevenes of synnes 39 and that by himare all that beleve iustified from all thingesfrom the which ye coulde not be iustifiedby the lawe of Moses. 40 Beware therforelest that fall on you which is spoken of inthe Prophetes: 41Beholde ye despisers and

wonder and perishe ye: for I do aworkein youre dayes which ye shall not beleveyf a man wolde declare it you. 42 Whenthey were come out of the Synagoge of theIewes the getyls besought that they woldepreache the worde to them bitwene theSaboth dayes. 43 When the congregacionwas broken vp many of the Iewes and ver-teous covertes folowed Paul and Barnabaswhich spake to them and exhorted themto cotinue in the grace of God. 44 And thenexte Saboth daye came almoste thewholecite to gether to heare the worde of God.45 When the Iewes sawe the people theywere full of indignacion and spake agaynstthose thinges which were spoken of Paulspekinge agaynst it and raylinge on it.46ThenPaul andBarnabaswexedbolde andsayde: it was mete that the worde of Godshulde fyrst have bene preached to you.But seinge ye put it from you and thinkeyoure selfes onworthy of everlastinge lyfe:lo we turne to the gentyls. 47 For so haththe Lorde commaunded vs: I have madethe a light to the getyls that thou be sal-vacion vnto the ende of the worlde. 48 Thegetyls hearde and were glad and glorifiedthe worde of the Lorde and beleved: evenas many as were ordeyned vnto eternalllyfe. 49 And the worde of the Lorde waspublisshed thorowe oute all the region.50 But the Iewes moved the worshypfulland honorable wemen and the chefe menof the cyte and reysed persecucion agaynstPaul and Barnabas and expelled them outeof their costes. 51 And they shouke of theduste of their fete agaynst them and camevnto Iconium. 52 And the disciples werefilled with ioye and with the holy goost.

141 And it fortuned in Iconium that they

went both to gether into the synagoge ofthe Iewes and so spake that a gret mul-titude both of the Iewes and also of theGrekes beleved. 2 But the unbelevingeIewes steryd vp and vnquyeted the myn-des of the Gentyls agaynste the brethren.3 Longe tyme a bode they there and quytthem selves boldly with the helpe of theLorde the which gave testimony vnto theworde of his grace and caused signes andwondres to be done by their hondes. 4 The

Acts 14:5 123 Acts 15:7people of the cyte were devided: and partehelde with the Iewes and parte with theApostles. 5 When ther was a saute madeboth of the gentyls and also of the Ieweswith their rulers to put them to shame andto stone them 6 they were ware of it andfled vnto Listra and Derba cities of Licao-nia and vnto the region that lyeth roundaboute 7 And there preached the gospell.8 And ther sate a certayne man at Listraweake in his fete beinge creple from hismothers wombe and never walkyd. 9 Thesame hearde Paul preache. Which beheldehim and perceaved that he had fayth tobe whole 10 and sayd with a loude voyce:stond vp right on thy fete. And he stertvp and walked. 11 And when the peoplesawewhat Paul had done they lifte vp theirvoyces sayinge in the speache of Lycaonia:Goddes are come doune to vs in the lyknesofmen. 12And they called Barnabas Iupiterand Paul Mercurius because he was thepreacher. 13 Then Iupiters Preste whichdwelt before their cite brought oxe andgarlondes vnto the churche porche andwolde have done sacrifise with the people.14 But when the Apostles Barnabas andPaul herde that they rent their clothes andran in amonge the people cryinge 15 andsayinge: syrs why do ye this? We aremortall men lyke vnto you and preachevnto you that ye shuld turne from thesevanyties vnto the lyvinge God which madeheaven and erth and the see and all thatin them is: 16 the which in tymes pastsuffred all nacions to walke in their awnewayes. 17 Neverthelesse he lefte not himselfe with outen witnes in that he shewedhis benefites in gevinge vs rayne fromheaven and frutefull ceasons fyllinge ourehertes with fode and gladnes. 18 And withthese sayinges scase refrayned they thepeople that they had not done sacrificevnto them. 19Thither came certayne Iewesfrom Antioche and Iconium and optaynedthe peoples consent and stoned Paul anddrewe him oute of the cyte supposyngehe had bene deed. 20 How be it as thedisciples stode rounde about him he arosevp and cam into the cyte. And the nextedaye he departed with Barnabas to Derba.21After they had preached to that cite andhad taught many they returned agayne

to Lisira and to Iconium and Antioche22 and strengthed the disciples soules ex-hortinge them to continue in the faithaffyrminge that we must thorowe mochetribulacion entre into the kyngdome ofGod. 23 And when they had ordened themelders by eleccion in every congregacionafter they had yrayde and fasted theycomended them to God on whom theybeleved. 24 And they went thorow outPisidia and came into Paphilia 25 and whenthey had preached the worde of God inPerga they descended in to Attalia 26 andthence departed by shippe to Antiochefrom whence they were delivered vnto thegrace of God to the worke which they hadfulfilled. 27When they were come and hadgaddered the congregacion to gedder theyrehersed all that God had done by themand how he had opened the dore of faithvnto the getyls. 28 And ther they abodelonge tyme with the disciples.

151 Then cam certayne from Iewrie and

taught the brethren: excepte ye be circum-cysed after the maner of Moses ye cannotbe saved. 2 And when ther was rysendissencion and disputinge not a litle vntoPaul and Barnabas agaynst them. Theydetermined that Paul and Barnabas andcertayne other of them shuld ascende toIerusalem vnto the Apostles and eldersaboute this question. 3 And after theywere brought on their waye by the con-gregacion they passed over Phenices andSamaria declarynge the conuersion of thegetyls and they brought great ioye vntoall the brethren. 4 And when they werecome to Ierusalem they were receaved ofthe congregacion and of the Apostles andelders. And they declared what thingesGod had done by them. 5 Then arose thervp certayne that were of the secte of thePharises and dyd beleve sayinge that it wasnedfull to circucise them and to enioynethe to kepe the lawe of Moses. 6 Andthe Apostles and elders came to geder toreason of this matter. 7And when ther wasmoche disputinge Peter rose vp and saydevnto them: Ye men and brethren ye knowehow that a good whyle agoo God choseamonge vs that the getyls by my mouth

Acts 15:8 124 Acts 16:1shuld heare the worde of the gospell andbeleve. 8AndGodwhich knoweth the hertebare them witnes and gave vnto them theholy goost even as he dyd vnto vs 9 andhe put no difference bitwene them and vsbutwith fayth purified their hertes. 10Nowtherfore why tempte ye God that ye woldeput a yoke on the disciples neckes whichnether oure fathers nor we were able tobeare. 11 But we beleve that thorowe thegrace of the Lorde Iesu Christ we shalbesaved as they doo. 12Then all themultitudewas peased and gave audience to Barnabasand Paul which toldewhat signes andwon-dres God had shewed amonge the gentylsby them. 13 And when they helde theirpeace Iames answered sayinge: Men andbrethren herken vnto me. 14 Simeon toldehow God at the begynnynge dyd visit thegentyls and receaved of them people vntohis name. 15And to this agreith the wordesof the Prophetes as it is written. 16 Afterthis I will returne and wyll bylde agaynethe tabernacle of David which is fallendoune and thatwhich is fallen in dekey of itwill I bilde agayne and I will set it vp 17 thatthe residue of men might seke after theLorde and also the gentyls vpo whom myname is named saith the Lorde which dothall these thinges: 18 knowne vnto God areall his workes from the begynninge of theworlde. 19 Wherfore my sentence is thatwe trouble not them which from amongethe gentyls are turned to God: 20 but thatwe write vnto them that they abstaynethem selves from filthynes of ymages fromfornicacion fromstraglyd and frombloude.21 For Moses of olde tyme hath in everycite that preache him and he is rede inthe synagoges every saboth daye. 22 Thenpleased it the Apostles and elders withthe whole congregacion to sende chosynmen of their owne company to Antiochewith Paul and Barnabas. They sent Iudascalled also Barsabas and Silas which werechefe men amonge the brethren 23 andgave them lettres in their hondes after thismaner. The Apostles elders and brethrensend gretynges vnto the brethren whichare of the gentyls in Antioche Siria andCelicia. 24 For as moche as we have heardethat certaynewhich departed from vs havetroubled you with wordes and combred

youremyndes sayinge: Yemust be circum-cised and kepe the lawe to whom we gaveno soche commaundement. 25 It semedtherfore to vs a good thinge when wewere come to gedder with one accordeto sende chosyn men vnto you with ourebeloved Barnabas and Paul 26 men thathave ieoperded their lyves for the nameof oure Lorde Iesus Christ. 27 We havesent therfore Iudas and Sylas which shallalso tell you the same thinges by mouth.28 For it semed good to the holy gost andto vs to put no grevous thinge to you morethen these necessary thinges: that is tosaye 29 that ye abstayne from thinges of-fered to ymages from bloud from strangledand fornicacion. From which yf ye kepeyoure selves ye shall do well. So fare yewell. 30 When they were departed theycame to Antioche and gaddred the mul-titude togeder and delyvered the pistle.31When they had redde it they reioysed ofthat consolacion. 32 And Iudas and Sylasbeinge prophetes exhorted the brethrenwith moche preachynge and strengthedthem. 33 And after they had taryed therea space they were let goo in peace of thebrethren vnto the Apostles. 34 Not withstondynge it pleasyd Sylas to abyde therestill. 35 Paul and Barnabas continued inAntioche teachynge and preachynge theworde of the Lorde with other many. 36Butafter a certayne space Paul sayde vntoBarnabas: Let vs goo agayne and visiteoure brethren in every cite where we haveshewed the worde of the Lorde and se howthey do. 37 And Barnabas gave counsellto take with them Iohn called also Marke.38 But Paul thought it not mete to takehim vnto their company whiche departedfrom themat Pamphylia andwent notwiththem to the worke. 39 And the dissencionwas so sharpe bitwene them that theydeparted a sunder one from the other:so that Barnabas toke Marke and sayledvnto Cypers. 40 And Paul chose Sylas anddeparted delyvered of the brethren vntothe grace of god. 41 And he went thoroweall Cyria and Cilicia stablisshynge the con-gregacions.

161 Then came he to Derba and to Lystra.

Acts 16:2 125 Acts 16:35And beholde a certayne disciple was therenamed Timotheus a womans sonne whichwas a Iewas and beleved: but his fatherwas a Greke. 2 Of whom reported well thebrethren of Lystra and of Iconium. 3 Thesame Paul wolde that he shuld goo forthwith him and toke and circumcised himbecause of the Iewes which were in thosequarters: for they knewe all that his fatherwas a Greke. 4 As they went thorow thecities they delyvered the the decrees for tokepe ordeyned of the Apostles and elderswhich were at Ierusalem. 5 And so werethe congregacions stablisshed in the faythand encreased in noumbre dayly. 6 Whenthey had goone thorow out Phrigia andthe region of Galacia and were forbyddeof the holy gost to preach the worde inAsia 7 they came to Misia and sought togoo into Bethinia. But the sprete sofferedthem not. 8 Then they went over Misiaand cam doune to Troada. 9 And a visionappered to Paul in the nyght. There stode amanofMacedonia andprayedhim sayinge:come intoMacedonia and helpe vs. 10Afterhe had sene the vision immediatly we pre-pared to goo into Macedonia certified thatthe lorde had called vs for to preache thegospell vnto them. 11Then lowsedwe forthfrom Troada and with a strayght coursecame to Samothracia and the nexte daye toNeapolim 12 and from thence to Philipposwhich is the chefest citie in the partes ofMacedonia and a fre cite. We were in thatcite abydynge a certayne dayes. 13 And onthe saboth dayes we went out of the citebesydes a ryver where men were wont topraye and we sate doune and spake vntothe wemen which resorted thyther. 14Anda certayne woman named Lydia a seller ofpurple of the cite of Thiatira which wor-shipped God gave vs audience. Whose hertthe Lorde opened that she attended vntothe thinges which Paul spake. 15 Whenshe was baptised and her housholde shebesought vs sayinge: Yf ye thinke that Ibeleve on the Lorde come into my housseand abyde there. And she constrayned vs.16 And it fortuned as we went to prayera certayn damsell possessed with a spretethat prophesied met vs which brought hermaster and mastres moche vauntage withprophesyinge. 17 The same folowed Paul

and vs and cryed sayinge: these men arethe servauntes of the most hye God whichshewe vnto vs thewaye of salvacion. 18Andthis dyd she many dayes. But Paul notcontent, turned about and sayd to thesprete: I commaunde the in the name ofIesu Christ that thou come out of her. Andhe came out the same houre. 19 And whenhermaster andmastres sawe that the hopeof their gaynes was gone they caught Pauland Sylas and drue the into the marketplace vnto the rulars 20 and brought themto the officers sayinge: These men troubleoure cite which are Iewes 21 and preacheordinaunces which are not laufull for vsto receave nether to observe seinge weare Romayns. 22 And the people ranne onthem and the officers rent their clothesand commaunded them to be beaten withroddes. 23 And when they had beatenthem sore they cast them into presoncommaundynge the iayler to kepe themsurely. 24 Which iayler when he had re-ceaved suche commaundment thrust theminto the ynner preson and made their fetefast in the stockes. 25 At mydnyght Pauland Sylas prayed and lauded God. And thepresoners hearde them. 26 And sodenlyther was a greate erth quake so that thefonndacion of the preson was shaken andby and by all the dores opened and everymannes bondes were lowsed. 27When thekeper of the preson waked out of his slepeand sawe the preson dores open he drueout his swearde and wolde have kylled himselfe supposynge the presoners had benefledde. 28 But Paul cryed with a lowdevoyce sayinge: Do thy selfe no harme forwe are all heare. 29 Then he called for alyght and sprange in and came tremblyngeand fell doune before Paul and Sylas 30 andbrought them out and sayde: Syrs whatmust I do to be saved? 31 And they sayde:beleve on the Lorde Iesus and thou shaltbe saved and thy housholde. 32 And theypreached vnto him the worde of the Lordeand to all that were in his housse. 33And hetoke them the same houre of the nyght andwasshed their woundes and was baptisedwith all that belonged vnto him strayghtwaye. 34 When he had brought theminto his housse he set meate before themand ioyed that he with all his housholdebeleved on God. 35 And when it was daye

Acts 16:36 126 Acts 17:24the officers sent the ministres sayinge: Letthose men goo. 36 The keper of the presontolde this sayinge to Paul the officiers havesent worde to lowse you. Now therforeget you hence and goo in peace. 37 Thensayde Paul vnto them: they have beaten vsopenly vncomdempned for all that we areRomayns and have cast vs into preson: andnow wolde they sende vs awaye prevely?Naye not so but let them come the selvesand set vs out. 38 When the ministrestolde these wordes vnto the officers theyfeared when they hearde that they wereRomayns 39 and came and besought themand brought themout and desyred them todeparte out of the cite. 40And they wet outof the preson and entred into the housse ofLidia and when they had sene the brethrenthey comforted them and departed.

171 As they made their iorney thorow

Amphipolis and Appolonia they came toThessalonica where was a synagoge of theIewes. 2And Paul as his maner was went invnto them and thre saboth doyes declaredoute of the scripture vnto them 3openyngeand allegynge that Christ must nedes havesuffred and rysen agayne from deeth andthat this Iesus was Christ whom (sayde he)I preache to you. 4 And some of thembeleved and came and companyed withPaul and Sylas: also of the honourableGrekes a greate multitude and of the chefewemen not a feawe. 5 But the Iewes whichbelevednot havynge indignacion toke vntothe evyll men which were vagabondes andgadered a company and set all the cite ona roore and made asaute vnto the housseof Iason and sought to bringe the out tothe people. 6 But when they founde themnot they drue Iason and certayne brethrenvnto the heedes of the cite cryinge: thesethat trouble the worlde are come hydderalso 7 which Iason hath receaved prevely.And these all do contrary to the elders ofCesar affirmynge another kynge one Iesus.8 And they troubled the people and theofficers of the cite when they hearde thesethinges. 9And when they were sufficientlyanswered of Iason and of the other theylet the goo. 10 And the brethren immedi-atly sent awaye Paul and Sylas by nyght

vnto Berrea. Which when they were comethyther they entred into the synagoge ofthe Iewes. 11 These were the noblest ofbyrthe amonge the of Thessalonia whichreceaved the worde with all diligence ofmynde and searched the scriptures daylywhether those thingeswere even so. 12Andmany of the beleved: also of worshipfullweme which were Grekes and of men notafeawe. 13When the Iewes of Thessaloniahad knowledge that the worde of God waspreached of Paul at Berrea they came thereand moved the people. 14 And then byand by the brethren sent awaye Paul togoo as it were to ye see: but Sylas andTimotheus abode there still. 15 And theythat gyded Paul brought him vnto Attensand receaved a commaundment vnto Sy-las and Timotheus for to come to himat once and came their waye. 16 WhyllPaul wayted for them at Attens his spretewas moved in him to se the cite gevento worshippinge of ymages. 17 Then hedisputed in the synagoge with the Iewesand with the devout persones and in themarket dayly with the that came vnto him.18 Certayne philosophers of the Epicuresand of the stoyckes disputedwith him. Andsome ther were which sayde: what willthis babler saye. Other sayd: he semethto be a tydynges bringer of newe devylsbecause he preached vnto them Iesus andthe resurreccion. 19 And they toke himand brought him into Marsestrete sayinge:maye we not knowe what this newe doc-trine wher of thou speakest is? 20 Forthou bringest straunge tydynges to oureeares. We wolde knowe therfore whatthese thinges meane. 21 For all the At-tenians and straungers which were theregave the selves to nothinge els but etherto tell or to heare newe tydynges. 22 Paulstode in the myddes of Marse strete andsayde: ye men of Attens I perceave that inall thinges ye are to supersticious. 23 Foras I passed by and behelde the maner howyeworship youre goddes I founde an aultrewher in was written: vnto the vnknowengod. Whom ye then ignorantly worshiphim shewe I vnto you. 24 God that madethe worlde and all that are in it seyngethat he is Lorde of heven and erth hedwelleth not in temples made with hon-

Acts 17:25 127 Acts 18:23des 25 nether is worshipped with menneshondes as though he neded of eny thingeseinge he him selfe geveth lyfe and breethto all men every where 26 and hathmade ofone bloud all nacions ofmen for to dwell onall the face of the erthe and hath assignedbefore how longe tyme and also the endesof their inhabitacion 27 that they shuld sekeGod yf they myght fele and fynde himthough he be not farre from every one ofvs. 28 For in him we lyve move and haveoure beynge as certayne of youre awnePoetes sayde. For we are also his genera-cion. 29 For as moche then as we are thegeneracion of God we ought not to thynkethat the godhed is lyke vnto golde silver orstone graven by crafte and ymaginacion ofman. 30 And the tyme of this ignoraunceGod regarded not: but now he byddeth allmen everywhere repent 31because he hathapoynted a daye in the which he will iudgethe worlde acordynge to ryghtewesses bythat man whom he hath apoynted andhath offered faith to all men after thathe had raysed him from deeth. 32 Whentheyhearde of the resurreccion fromdeethsome mocked and other sayde: we willheare the agayne of this matter. 33 So Pauldeparted from amonge them. 34 Howbeitcertayne men clave vnto Paul and belevedamonge the which was Dionysius a sen-atour and a woman named Damaris andother with them.

181 After that Paul departed from At-

tens and came to Corinthum 2 and foundea certayne Iewe named Aquila borne inPonthus latly come from Italie with hiswyfe Priscilla (because that the EmperourClaudius had commaunded all Iewes todeparte from Rome) and he drewe vntothem. 3 And because he was of the samecrafte he abode with them and wrought:their crafte was to make tentes. 4 Andhe preached in the synagoge every sabothdaye and exhorted the Iewes and thegentyls. 5 When Sylas and Timotheuswere come from Macedonia Paul was con-strayned by the sprete to testifie to theIewes that Iesus was very Christ. 6 Andwhen they sayde cotrary and blasphemedhe shoke his rayment and sayde vnto the:youre bloud apon youre awne heeddes and

from hence forth I goo blamelesse vnto thegentyls. 7And he departed thence and en-tred into a certayne manes housse namedIustus a worshiper of god whose housseioyned harde to the synagoge. 8How be itone Crispus the chefe rular of the synagogebeleved on the lorde with all his housholdeand many of the Corinthias gave audienceand beleved and were baptised. 9 Thenspake the lorde to Paul in the nyght bya vision: be not afrayde but speake andholde not thy peace: 10 for I am with theand no man shall invade the that shallhurte the. For I have moche people in thiscite. 11 And he continued there a yeareand sixe monethes and taught them theworde of God. 12When Gallio was rular ofthe countre of Acaia the Iewes made in-surreccion with one accorde agaynst Pauland brought him to the iudgement seate13 saying: this felow counceleth men toworship God contrary to the lawe. 14 Andas Paul was about to open his mouth Galliosayde vnto the Iewes: yf it were amatter ofwronge or an evyll dede (o ye Iewes) reasonwolde that I shuld heare you: 15 but yf itbe a question of wordes or of names or ofyoure lawe loke ye to it youre selves. For Iwilbe no iudge in soche maters 16 and hedrave them from the seate. 17 Then tokeall the Grekes Sostenes the chefe rular ofthe synagoge and smote him before theiudges seate. And Gallio cared for noneof tho thinges. 18 Paul after this taryedthere yet a good whyle and then toke hisleave of the brethren and sayled thenceinto Ciria Priscilla and Aquila accompa-nyinge him. And he shore his heed inCenchrea for he had a vowe. 19 And hecame to Ephesus and lefte them there: buthe him selfe entred into the synagoge andreasoned with the Iewes. 20 When theydesyred him to tary longer tyme with thehe consented not 21 but bad the fare wellsayinge. I must nedes at this feast thatcometh be in Ierusalem: but I will returneagayne vnto you yf God will. And hedeparted from Ephesus 22 and came vntoCesarea: and ascended and saluted thecongregacion and departed vnto Antioche23andwhen he had taryed there awhyle hedeparted. And went over all the countre ofGalacia and Phrigia by order strengthynge

Acts 18:24 128 Acts 19:27all the disciples. 24 And a certayne Iewenamed Apollos borne at Alexandria cameto Ephesus an eloquent man and myghtyin the scriptures. 25 The same was in-formed in the waye of the Lorde and hespake fervently in the sprete and taughtdiligently the thinges of the Lorde andknewe but the baptism of Iohn only. 26Andthe same began to speake boldely in thesynagoge. And when Aquila and Priscillahad hearde him: they toke him vnto themand expounded vnto him the waye of Godmore perfectly. 27 And when he was dis-posed to goo into Acaia the brethren wroteexhortynge the disciples to receave him.After he was come thyther he holpe themmoche which had beleved thorowe grace.28 And myghtely he overcame the Iewesand that openly shewynge by the scrip-tures that Iesus was Christ.

191 It fortuned whyll Appollo was at

Corinthum that Paul passed thorow thevpper costes and came to Ephesus andfoude certayne disciples 2 and sayd vntothem: have ye receaved the holy gostsence ye beleved? And they sayde vntohim: no we have not hearde whether therbe eny holy goost or no. 3 And he saydvnto them: wher with were ye then bap-tised? And they sayd: with Iohns baptism4 Then sayde Paul: Iohn verely baptisedwith the baptism of repentaunce sayingevnto the people that they shuld beleve onhimwhich shuld come after him: that is onChrist Iesus. 5When they hearde that theywere baptised in thenameof the lorde Iesu.6 And Paul layde his hondes apon themand the holy gost came on them and theyspake with tonges and prophesied 7 and allthe men were aboute .xii. 8 And he wentinto the synagoge and behaved him selfeboldely for the space of thre monethes dis-putynge and gevynge them exhortacionsof the kyngdome of God. 9 When dyverswexed harde herted and beleved not butspake evyll of the waye and that beforethe multitude: he departed from themand seperated the disciples. And disputeddayly in the scole of one called Tyranus.10 And this contynued by the space of twoyeares: so that all they which dwelt in Asia

hearde the worde of the lorde Iesu botheIewes and Grekes. 11 And god wroughtno small miracles by the hondes of Paul:12 so that from his body were brought vntothe sicke napkyns or partlettes and thediseases departed from the and the evyllspretes went out of them. 13 Then cer-tayne of the vagabounde Iewes exorcistestoke apon them to call over them whichhad evyll spretes the name of the lordeIesus sayinge: We adiure you by Iesu whoPaul preacheth. 14 And ther wer sevensonnes of one Sceva a Iewe and chefe ofthe prestes which dyd so. 15 And theevyll sprete answered and sayde: Iesus Iknowe and Paul I knowe: but who are ye?16 And the man in who the evyll spretewas ranne on the and overcame the andprevayled agaynst them so that theyfleddeout of that housse naked and wounded.17And this was knowen to all the Iewes andGrekes also which dwelt at Ephesus andfeare came on them all and they magni-fied the name of the lorde Iesus. 18 Andmany that beleved came and confessed andshewed their workes. 19Many of the whichvsed curious craftes brought their bokesand burned the before all men and theycounted the price of the and foude it fiftythousande silverlynges. 20 So myghtelygrewe the worde of god and prevayled.21 After these thinges were ended Paulpurposed in the sprete to passe over Mace-donia and Achaia and to goo to Ierusalemsaying: After I have bene there I must alsose Rome. 22 So sent he into Macedonia twoof the that ministred vnto him Timotheusand Erastus: but he him selfe remaynedin Asia for a season. 23 The same tymether arose no lytell a do aboute that waye.24 For a certayne man named Demetrius asilvermyth which made silver schrynes forDiana was not a lytell beneficiall vnto thecraftes men. 25 Which he called to gederwith theworkemenof lyke occupacion andsayd: Syrs ye knowe that by this craftewe have vauntage. 26 Moreover ye se andheare that not alone at Ephesus but almostthorowe oute all Asia this Paul hath per-suaded and turned awaye moche peoplesaying that they be not goddes which aremade with hondes. 27 So that not onlythis oure crafte cometh into parell to be

Acts 19:28 129 Acts 20:18set at nought: but also that the temple ofthe greate goddas Diana shuld be despysedand her magnificence shuld be destroyedwhich all Asia and theworldeworshippeth.28 When they hearde these sayinges theywere full of wrathe and cryed out saying:Greate is Diana of the Ephesians. 29And allthe cite was on a roore and they russhedin to the comen hall with one assent andcaught Gayus and Aristarcus men of Mace-donia Pauls companions. 30 When Paulwolde have entred in vnto the people thedisciples suffered him not. 31 Certaynealso of the chefe of Asia which were hisfrendes sent vnto him desyrynge him thathe wolde not preace into the comen hall.32 Some cryed one thinge and some an-other and the congregacion was all outof quiet and the moare parte knewe notwherfore they were come togeder. 33 Someof the company drue forth Alexander theIewes thrustynge him forwardes. Alexan-der beckened with the honde and woldehave geven the people an answer. 34Whenthey knewe that he was a Iewe ther arose ashoute almost for the space of two houresof all men cryinge greate is Diana of theEphesians. 35 When the toune clarckehad ceased the people he sayd: ye menof Ephesus what man is it that knowethnot how that the cite of the Ephesians isa worshipper of the great goddas Dianaand of the ymage which came from heven.36 Seinge then that no man sayth hereagaynst ye ought to be content and to donothinge rasshly: 37 For ye have broughthyther these me whiche are nether rob-bers of churches nor yet despisers of youregoddes. 38Wherfore yf Demetrius and thecraftes men which are with him have enysayinge to eny man the lawe is open andther are ruelars let the accuse one another.39Yf ye goo about eny other thinge it mayebe determined in a lawfull congregacion40 For we are in ieoperdy to be accusedof this dayes busines: for as moche asther is no cause wherby we maye gevea rekenynge of this concourse of people.41And when he had thus spoken he let thecongregacion departe.

201 After the rage was ceased Paul called

the disciples vnto him and toke his leave ofthem and departed for to goo into Mace-donia. 2And when he had gone over thoseparties and geven them large exhortacionshe came into Grece 3 and there abode .iii.monethes. And when the Iewes laydewayte for him as he was about to sayleinto Syria he purposed to returne thoroweMacedonia. 4 Ther acompanied him intoAsia Sopater of Berrea and of Thessalo-nia Aristarcus and Secundus and Gayusof Derba and Timotheus: and out of AsiaTychicus and Trophimos. 5 These wentbefore and taryed vs at Troas. 6 And wesayled awaye fromPhilippos after the esterholydayes and came vnto them to Troasin five dayes where we abode seven dayes.7And on the morowe after the saboth dayethe disciples came to geder for to breakebreed and Paul preached vnto them (redyto departe on the morowe) and continuedthe preachynge vnto mydnyght. 8 Andthere were many lyghtes in the chamberwhere thy were gaddered to geder 9 andthere sate in a wyndowe a certayne yongeman named Eutichos fallen into a depeslepe. And as Paul declared he was themoare overcome with slepe and fell dounefrom the thyrde lofte and was taken vpdeed. 10 Paul went doune and fell onhim and embrased him and sayde: makenothinge ado for his lyfe is in him. 11Whenhe was come vp agayne he brake breedand tasted and comened a longe whyleeven tyll the mornynge and so departed.12 And they brought the youge man a lyveand were not alytell comforted. 13 Andwe went a fore to shippe and lowsed vntoAsson there to receave Paul. For so had heapoynted and wolde him selfe goo a fote.14When he was come to vs vnto Asson wetoke him in and came to Mytelenes. 15Andwe sayled thence and came the nexte dayeover agaynst Chios. And the nexte daye wearyved at Samos and taryed at Trogilion.The nexte daye we came to Myleton: 16 forPaul had determined to leave Ephesus asthey sayled because he wolde not spendethe tyme in Asia. For he hasted to be (yf hecoulde possible) at Ierusalem at the dayeof pentecoste. 17 Wherfore from Myletonhe sent to Ephesus and called the eldersof the congregacion. 18 And when they

Acts 20:19 130 Acts 21:12were come to him he sayde vnto the: Yeknowe from the fyrst daye that I came vntoAsia afterwhatmaner I have benewith youat all ceasons 19 servynge the lorde withall humblenes of mynde and with manyteares and temptacions which happenedvntomeby the layinges awayte of the Ieues20 and how I kept backe no thinge that wasprofitable: but that I have shewed you andtaught you openly and at home in yourehouses 21 witnessinge bothe to the Iewesand also to the Grekes the repentauncetoward God and faith towarde oure LordeIesu. 22 And now beholde I goo boundein the sprete vnto Ierusalem and knowenot what shall come on me there 23 butthat the holy goostwitnesseth in every citesayinge: that bondes and trouble abydeme. 24 But none of tho thinges move me:nether is my lyfe dere vnto my selfe thatI myght fulfill my course with ioye andthe ministracion which I have receaved ofthe Lorde Iesu to testify the gospell of thegrace of god. 25And now beholde I am surethat hence forth ye all (thorow who I havegone preachinge the kyngdome of God)shall se my face no moore. 26 WherforeI take you to recorde this same daye thatI am pure from the bloude of all men.27 For I have kepte nothinge backe: buthave shewed you all the counsell of God.28 Take hede therfore vnto youre selvesand to all the flocke wherof the holy goosthath made you oversears to rule the con-gregacion of God which he hath purchasedwith his bloud. 29 For I am sure of thisthat after my departynge shall greveouswolves entre in amonge you which willnot spare the flocke. 30Moreover of youreawne selves shall men aryse speakingeperverse thinges to drawe disciples afterthem. 31 Therfore awake and rememberthat by the space of .iii. yeares I ceasednot to warne every one of you both nyghtand daye with teares. 32And now brethrenI comende you to God and to the wordeof his grace which is able to bylde furtherand to geve you an inheritaunce amongeall them which are sanctified. 33 I havedesyred no mans silver golde or vesture.34 Ye knowe well that these hondes haveministred vnto my necessities and to themthat were with me. 35 I have shewed you

all thinges how that so laborynge ye oughtto receave the weake and to remember thewordes of the Lorde Iesu howe that hesayde: It is more blessed to geve then toreceave. 36 When he had thus spoken hekneled doune and prayed with them all.37 And they wept all aboundantly and fellon Pauls necke and kissed him 38 sorowingemost of all for the wordes which he spakethat they shuld se his face no moore. Andthey acompanyed him vnto the shyppe.

211 And it chaunsed that assone as we

had launched forth and were departedfrom themwe came with a strayght coursevnto Choon and the daye folowinge vntothe Rhodes and from thence vnto Patara.2 And we founde a shippe redy to saylevnto Phenices and went a borde and setforthe. 3Then appered vnto vs Cyprus andwe lefte it on the lefte honde and sayledvnto Syria and came vnto Tyre. For therethe shyppe vnladed her burthen. 4 Andwhen we had founde brethren we taryedthere .vii. dayes. And they tolde Paulthorowe the sprete that he shuld not goovp to Ierusalem. 5 And when the dayeswere ended we departed and went ourewayes and they all brought vs on ourewayewith theirwyves and chyldren tyll wewere come out of the cyte. And we kneleddoune in the shore and prayde. 6Andwhenwe had taken oure leave one of anotherwe toke shyppe and they returned homeagayne. 7 When we had full ended thecourse from Tyre we aryved at Ptolomaidaand saluted the brethren and abode withthe one daye. 8 The nexte daye we thatwere of Pauls company departed and camevnto Cesarea. And we entred into thehousse of Philip the Evagelist which wasone of the seve deacones and abode withhim. 9 The same man had fower doughtersvirges which dyd prophesy. 10 And as wetaried there a goodmany dayes there camea certayne prophete from Iurie namedAgabus. 11 When he was come vnto vs hetoke Pauls gerdell and bounde his hondesand fete and sayde: thus saith the holygoost: so shall the Iewes at Ierusalembynde the man that oweth this gerdell andshall delyver him into the hondes of thegentyls. 12 When we hearde this both we

Acts 21:13 131 Acts 22:1and other of the same place besought himthat he wolde not goo vp to Ierusalem.13 Then Paul answered and sayde: whatdo ye wepynge and breakinge myne hert?I am redy not to be bound only but alsoto dye at Ierusalem for the name of theLorde Iesu. 14 When we coulde not turnehis mynde we ceased sayinge: the will ofthe Lorde be fulfilled. 15 After those dayeswe made oure selfes redy and went vpto Ierusalem. 16 There went with vs alsocertayne of his disciples of Cesarea andbrought with them one Mnason of Cyprusan olde disciplewithwhomwe shuld lodge.17 And when we were come to Ierusalemthe brethren receaved vs gladly. 18 Andon the morowe Paul wet in with vs vntoIames. And all the elders came to geder.19 And when he had saluted them he toldeby order all thinges that God had wroughtamonge the getyls by his ministracion.20 And when they hearde it they glorifiedthe Lorde and sayde vnto him: thou seistbrother how many thousande Iewes therare which beleve and they are all zelousover the lawe. 21 And they are informedof the that thou teachest all the Ieweswhich are amonge the gentyls to forsakeMoses and sayst that they ought not tocircumcise their chyldren nether to liveafter the customes. 22What is it therfore?The multitude must nedes come togeder.For they shall heare that thou arte come.23 Do therfore this that we saye to the. Wehave .iiii. men which have a vowe on them.24 Them take and purifye thy selfe withthem and do cost on them that they mayeshave their heeddes and all shall knowethat tho thinges which they have heardeconcerninge the are nothinge: but thatthou thy selfe also walkest and kepest thelawe. 25For as touchinge the gentyls whichbeleve we have written and concluded thatthey observe no soche thinges: but thatthey kepe them selves from thinges offredto ydoles from bloud from strangled andfrom fornicacion. 26 Then the nexte dayePaul toke the men and purified him selfewith them and entred into the templedeclaringe that he observed the dayes ofthe purificacion vntyll that an offeringeshuld be offred for every one of them.27 And as the seven dayes shuld have bene

ended the Iewes which were of Asia whenthey sawe him in the temple they movedall the people and layde hondes on him28 cryinge: men of Israel helpe. This istheman that teacheth all men everywhereagaynst the people and the lawe and thisplace. Moreover also he hath broughtGrekes into the temple and hath pollutedthis holy place. 29 For they sawe oneTrophimus an Ephesian with him in thecyte. Him they supposed Paul had broughtinto the temple. 30 And all the cyte wasmoved and the people swarmed to geder.And they toke Paul and drue him out ofthe temple and forthwith the dores wereshut to. 31 As they went about to kyll himtydinges came vnto the hye captayne ofthe soudiers that all Ierusalem was moved.32Which immediatly toke soudiers and vn-dercaptaynes and ranne doune vnto them.When they sawe the vpper captayne andthe soudiers they lefte smytinge of Paul.33 Then the captayne came neare and tokehim and commaunded him to be boundewith two chaynes and demaunded what hewas and what he had done. 34 And onecryed this another that amonge the people.And when he coulde not knowe the cer-tayntie for the rage he commaunded himto be caryed into the castle. 35Andwhenhecame vnto a grece it fortuned that he wasborne of the soudiers of the violence of thepeople. 36 For the multitude of the peoplefolowed after cryinge: awaye with him.37And as Paul shuld have bene caryed intothe castle he sayde vnto the hye Captayne:maye I speake vnto the? Which sayde:canst thou speake Greke? 38 Arte not thouthat Egypcian which before these dayesmade an vproure and ledde out into thewildernes .iiii. thousande men that weremortherers? 39 But Paul sayde: I am aman which am a Iewe of Tharsus a cite inCicill a Citesyn of no vyle cite I besechethe soffre me to speake vnto the people.40Whenhe had geve him licence Paul stodeon the steppes andbecknedwith thehondevuto the people and therwasmade a greatesilence. And he spake vnto the in the Ebruetonge sayinge:

221 Ye men brethren and fathers heare

myne answere which I make vnto you.

Acts 22:2 132 Acts 23:32 When they hearde that he spake in theEbrue tonge to them they kept the mooresilence. And he sayde: 3 I am verely amanwhich am a Iewe borne in Tharsus a cite inCicill: neverthelesse yet brought vp in thiscite at the fete of Gamaliel and informeddiligently in the laweof the fathers andwasfervent mynded to Godwarde as ye all arethis same daye 4and I persecuted this wayevnto the deeth byndynge and delyveringeinto preson bothe men and wemen 5 as thechefe prest doth beare me witnes and allthe elders: of whom also I receaved lettersvnto the brethren and wet to Damascoto bringe them which were there boundevnto Ierusalem for to be punysshed. 6Andit fortuned as I made my iorney and wascome nye vnto Damasco aboute none thatsodenly ther shone from heaven a greatelyght rounde abouteme 7and I fell vnto theerth and hearde a voyce sayinge vnto me:Saul Saul why persecutest thou me? 8 AndI answered: what arte thou Lorde? Andhe sayd vnto me: I am Iesus of Nazarethwhom thou persecutest. 9 And they thatwere with me sawe verely a lyght andwere a frayde: but they hearde not thevoyce of him that spake with me. 10 AndI sayde: what shall I do Lorde? And theLorde sayde vnto me: Aryse and goo intoDamasco and there it shalbe tolde the ofall thinges which are apoynted for the todo. 11 And when I sawe nothynge for thebrightnes of that light I was ledde by thehonde of them that were with me andcame into Damasco. 12 And one Ananiasa perfect man and as pertayninge to thelawe havinge good reporte of all the Ieweswhich there dwelt 13 came vnto me andstode and sayd vnto me: Brother Saul lokevp. And that same houre I receaved mysight and sawe him. 14 And he sayde theGod of oure fathers hath ordeyned thebefore that thou shuldest knowe his willand shuldest se that which is rightfull andshuldest heare the voyce of his mouth:15 for thou shalt be his witnes vnto allmen of tho thinges which thou thou hastsene and hearde. 16 And now: why tariestthou? Aryse and be baptised and wessheawaye thy synnes in callinge on the nameof the Lorde. 17And it fortuned when I wascome agayne to Ierusalem and prayde inthe temple that Iwas in a trauce 18and sawe

him sayinge vnto me. Make haste and getthe quickly out of Ierusalem: for they willnot receave thy witnes that thou bearestof me. 19 And I sayde: Lorde they knowethat I presoned and bet in every synagogethem that beleved on the. 20And when thebloud of thy witnes Steven was sheed I alsostode by and consented vnto his deeth andkept the rayment of them that slewe him.21And he sayde vnto me: departe for I willsende the a farre hence vnto the Gentyls.22They gave him audience vnto this wordeand then lifte vp their voyces and sayde:a waye with soche a felowe from the erth:that is pitie that he shuld live. 23 And asthey cryed and cast of their clothes andthrue dust into the ayer 24 the captaynebade him to be brought into the castle andcommaunded him to be scourged and to beexamined that he myght knowe wherforethey cryed on him. 25 And as they boundehimwith thonges Paul sayde vnto the Cen-turion that stode by: Ys it laufull for you toscourge aman that is a Romain and vncon-dempned? 26 When the Centurion heardethat he went and tolde the vpper captaynesayinge: What intendest thou to do? Thisman is a Romayne. 27 Then the vppercaptayne came and sayde to him: tell meart thou a Romayne? He sayde: Yee. 28Andthe captayne answered: with a greate someobtayned I this fredome. And Paul sayde:I was fre borne. 29 Then strayght wayedeparted from him they which shuld haveexamyned him. And the hye captayne alsowas a frayde after he knewe that he wasa Romayne: because he had bounde him.30 On the morowe because he wolde haveknowen the certayntiewherfore hewas ac-cused of the Iewes he lowsed him from hisbondes and commaunded the hye Prestesand all the counsell to come together andbrought Paul and set him before them.

231 Paul behelde the counsell and sayde:

men and brethren I have lived in all goodconscience before God vntill this daye.2 The hye prest Ananias commaunded thethat stode by to smyte him on the mouth.3 Then sayde Paul to him: God smytethe thou payntyd wall. Sittest thou and

Acts 23:4 133 Acts 23:33iudgestme after the lawe: and commaund-est me to be smytten contrary to the lawe?4 And they that stode by sayde: revylestthou Goddes hye preste? 5 Then sayd Paul:I wist not brethren that he was the hyepreste. For it is written thou shalt notcurse the rular of thy people. 6When Paulperceaved that the one parte were Saducesand the other Pharises: he cryed oute inthe counsell. Men and brethren I am aPharisaye the sonne of a Pharisaye. Ofthe hope and resurreccion from deeth I amiudged. 7 And when he had so sayde therarose a debate bitwene the Pharisayes andthe Saduces and the multitude was dev-ided. 8 For the Saduces saye that ther is noresurreccion nether angell nor sprete. Butthe Pharisayes graunt bothe. 9 And therarose a great crye and the Scribes whichwere of the Pharisayes parte arose andstrove sayinge: we fynde none evyll in thisman. Though a sprete or an angell hathapered to him let vs not stryve agaynstGod. 10And when ther arose greate debatethe captayne fearynge lest Paul shuld havebene pluckt asondre of them commaundedthe soudiers to goo doune and to take himfrom amonge them and to bringe him intothe castle. 11 The nyght folowyng Godstode by him and sayde: Be of good chearePaul: for as thou hast testified of me inIerusalem so must thou beare witnes atRome. 12 When daye was come certayneof the Iewes gaddered them selves to gederand made a vowe sayinge that they woldenether eate nor drinke till they had killedPaul. 13 They were aboute .xl. whichhad made this conspiracion. 14 And theycam to the chefe prestes and elders andsayde: we have boude oure selves with avowe that we will eate nothinge vntill wehave slayne Paul. 15Now therfore geve theknowlege to the vpper captayne and to thecounsell that he bringe him forth vnto vsto morow as though we wolde knowe somethinge more perfectly of him. But we (orever he come neare) are redy in the meaneseason to kill him. 16 When Pauls sisterssonne hearde of their layinge awayte hewet and entred into the castle and toldePaul. 17 And Paul called one of the vndercaptaynes vnto him and sayde: bringe thisyounge man vnto the hye captayne: for

he hath a certayne thinge to shewe him.18 And he toke him and sayd: Paul thepresoner called me vnto him and prayedme to brige this yougeman vnto the whichhath a certaynematter to shewe the. 19Thehye captayne toke him by the hond andwet a parte with him out of the waye: andaxed him: what hast thou to saye vntome?20Andhe sayd: the Iewes are determined todesyre the that thou woldest brynge forthPaul tomorowe into the counsell as thoughthey wolde enquyre somwhat of him moreparfectly. 21 But folowe not their mindes:for ther lyein wayte for him of the moothen .xl. men which have boude the selveswith a vowe that they will nether eate nerdrinke till they have killed him. And noware they redy and loke for thy promes.22 The vpper captayne let the yonge mandeparte and charged: se thou tell it outto no man that thou hast shewed thesethinges to me. 23 And he called vnto himtwo vnder captaynes sayinge: make redytwo hondred soudiers to goo to Cesareaand horsmen threscore and ten and spearemen two houndred at the thyrde houre ofthe nyght. 24 And delyvre them beastesthat they maye put Paul on and bringehim safe vnto Felix the hye debite 25 andwrote a letter in this maner. 26 ClaudiusLisias vnto the most mighty rular Felixsendeth gretinges. 27 This man was takeof the Iewes and shuld have bene killedof them. Then cam I with soudiers andrescued him and perceaved that he wasa Romayne. 28 And when I wolde haveknowen the cause wherfore they accusedhim I brought him forth into their consell.29 There perceaved I that he was accusedof questions of their lawe: but was notgiltye of eny thinge worthy of deeth or ofbondes. 30Afterwarde when it was shewedme how that the Iewes layde wayte forthe man I sent him strayght waye to theand gave commaundment to his accusarsyf they had ought agaynst him to tell itvnto the: fare well. 31 Then the soudiersas it was commaunded the toke Paul andbrought him by nyght to Antipatras. 32Onthemorowe they lefte horsmen to goowithhim and returned vnto the castle. 33Whichwhen they cam to Cesarea they deliveredthe epistle to the debite and presented

Acts 23:34 134 Acts 25:3Paul before him. 34 When the debite hadredde the letter he axed of what countrehe was and when he vnderstode that hewas of Cicill 35 I will heare the (sayde he)when thyne accusars are come also: andcommaunded him to be kepte in Herodespallys.

241 After .v. dayes Ananias the hye preste

descended with elders and with a certayneOratour named Tartullus and enformedthe ruelar of Paul. 2When Paul was calledforth Tartullus beganne to accuse him say-ing: Seynge that we live in great quyetnesby the meanes of the and that many goodthinges are done vnto this nacion thorowthy providence: 3 that alowe we ever andin all places most myghty Felix with allthankes. 4 Notwithstondinge that I be nottedeous vnto the I praye the that thouwoldest heare vs of thy curtesy a feawewordes. 5We have founde this man a pesti-lent felowe and a mover of debate vnto allthe Iewes thorowe out the worlde and amayntayner of the secte of the Nazarites6 and hath also enforsed to pollute thetemple. Whom we toke and wolde haveiudged acordinge to oure lawe: 7 but thehye captayne Lisias came vpon vs andwith great violence toke him awaye out ofoure hodes 8 commaundinge his accusarsto come vnto the. Of who thou mayst (yfthou wilt enquyre) knowe the certayne ofall these thinges where of we accuse him.9 The Iewes lyke wyse affermed sayingethat it was even so. 10 Then Paul (afterthat the rular him selfe had beckened vntohim that he shuld speake) answered: I shallwith a moare quyet minde answere for myselfe for as moche as I vnderstonde thatthou hast bene of many yeares a iudgevnto this people 11because that thoumaystknowe that there are yet .xii. dayes senceI went vp to Ierusalem for to praye 12 andthat they nether founde me in the templedisputinge with eny man other raysingevp the people nether in the Synagoges norin the cite. 13 Nether can they prove thethinges wher of they accuse me. 14 Butthis I confesse vnto the that after thatwaye (which they call heresy) so wor-shippe I the God of my fathers belevingeall thinges which are writte in the lawe

and the Prophetes 15 and have hope to-wardes God that the same resurreccionfrom deeth (which they them selves lokefor also) shalbe both of iust and vniust.16 And therfore stody I to have a cleareconsciece towarde God and toward manalso. 17 But after many yeres I came andbrought almes tomy people and offeringesin the which they founde me purified inthe temple nether with multitude nor yetwith vnquyetnes. 18 Howbeit there werecertayne Iewes out of Asia 19which oughtto be here present before the and accuseme yf they had ought agaynst me: 20 orels let these same here saye if they havefounde eny evyll doinge in me whill Istonde here in the counsell: 21 except it befor this one voyce that I cryed stondingeamonge the of the resurreccion fromdeetham I iudged of you this daye. 22When Felixhearde these thinges he deferde them forhe knewe very well of that waye and sayde:when Lisias the captayne is come I willknow the vtmost of youre matters. 23 Andhe commaunded an vndercaptayne to kepePaul and that he shuld have rest and thathe shuld forbyd none of his aquayntauceto minister vnto him or to come vnto him.24 And after a certayne dayes came Felixand his wyfe Drusilla which was a Iewasand called forth Paul and hearde him ofthe fayth which is toward Christ. 25And ashe preached of righteousnes temperaunceand iudgement to come Felix trembled andanswered: thou hast done ynough at thistyme departe when I have a conveniettyme I will sende for the. 26He hoped alsothat money shuld have bene geven him ofPaul that hemyght lowse him: wherfore hecalled him the oftener and comened withhim. 27 But after two yeare Festus Porciuscame into Felix roume. And Felix willingeto shewe the Iewes a pleasure lefte Paul inpreson bounde.

251 When Festus was come into the

province after thre dayes he ascended fromCesarea vnto Ierusalem. 2 Then enformedhim the hye prestes and the chefe of theIewes of Paul. And they besought him3 and desired faveour agaynst him thathe wold sende for him to Ierusalem: andlayde awayte for him in the waye to kill

Acts 25:4 135 Acts 26:5him. 4 Festus answered that Paul shuldbe kept at Cesarea: but that he him selfewold shortly departe thither. 5 Let thetherfore (sayd he) which amonge you areable to do it come doune with vs andaccuse him if ther be eny faute in the man.6When he had taried there moare then tendayes he departed vnto Cesarea and thenexte daye sate doune in the iudgementseate and commaunded Paul to be brought.7When he was come the Iewes which werecome from Ierusalem came aboute himand laydemany and greveous complayntesagaynst Paul which they coulde not prove8 as longe as he answered for him selfethat he had nether agaynst the lawe ofthe Iewes nether agaynst the temple noryet agaynst Cesar offended eny thinge atall. 9 Festus willinge to do the Iewes apleasure answered Paul and sayde: wiltthou goo to Ierusalem and there be iudgedof these thinges before me? 10 Then saydPaul: I stonde at Cesars iudgement seatewhere I ought to be iudged. To the Ieweshave I no harme done as thou verely wellknowest. 11 If I have hurte them or com-mitted eny thinge worthy of deeth I refusenot to dye. If none of these thinges arewhere of they accuse me no man owghtto delyver me to them. I appeale vntoCesar. 12 Then spake Festus with delibera-cion and answered. Thou hast appealedvnto Cesar: vnto Cesar shalt thou goo.13 After a certayne dayes kinge Agrippaand Bernice came vnto Cesarea to saluteFestus. 14And when they had bene there agood ceason Festus rehersed Paules causevnto the kynge sayinge: ther is a cer-tayne man left in preson of Felix 15 aboutwhom when I came to Ierusalem the hyeprestes and elders of the Iewes enformedmeanddesyred to have iudgement agaynsthim. 16 To whom I answered: It is notthe maner of the Romayns to delyver enyman that he shuld perisshe before that hewhich is accused have the accusars beforehim and have licence to answer for himselfe concerninge the cryme layde agaynsthim: 17when they were come hidder without delaye on the morowe I sate to geveiudgement and commaunded the man tobe brought forthe. 18 Agaynst who whenthe accusers stode vp they brought none

accusacion of soche thinges as I supposed:19 but had certayne questions agaynst himof their awne supersticion and of one Iesuswhich was ded: whom Paul affirmed tobe alyve. 20 And be cause I douted ofsochemaner questions I axed himwhytherhe wolde goo to Ierusalem and there beiudged of these matters. 21 Then whenPaul had appealed to be kept vnto theknowledge of Cesar I commaunded himto be kept tyll I myght sende him to Ce-sar. 22 Agrippa sayd vnto Festus: I woldealso heare the man my selfe. To morowe(sayde he) thou shalt heare him. 23 Andon the morowe when Agrippa was comeand Bernice with greate pompe and wereentred into the counsell housse with thecaptaynes and chefe men of the cite atFestus commaundement Paul was broughtforth. 24 And Festus sayde: kynge Agrippaand all men which are heare present withvs: ye se this man about whom all themultitude of the Iewes have bene with meboth at Ierusalem and also here cryingethat he ought not to lyve eny lenger. 25Yetfounde I nothinge worthy of deeth that hehad committed. Neverthelesse seinge thathe hath appealed to Cesar I have deter-mined to sende him. 26 Of whom I haveno certayne thinge towryte vntomy lorde.Wherfore I have brought him vnto you andspecially vnto the kynge Agrippa that afterexaminacion had Imyght have sumwhat towryte. 27 For me thynketh it vnreasonablefor to sende a presoner and not to shewethe causes which are layde agaynst him.

261 Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: thou arte

permitted to speake for thy selfe. ThenPaul stretched forth the honde and an-swered for him selfe. 2 I thynke myselfe happy kynge Agrippa because I shallanswere this daye before the of all thethinges wherof I am accused of the Iewes3 namely because thou arte experte in allcustomes and questions which are amongethe Iewes. Wherfore I beseche the to heareme paciently. 4 My lyvynge of a chyldewhich was at the fyrst amonge myne awnenacion at Ierusalem knowe all the Iewes5 which knew me from the beginnynge yfthey wolde testifie it. For after the most

Acts 26:6 136 Acts 27:4straytest secte of oure laye lyved I a phar-isaye. 6And now I stond and am iudged forthe hope of the promes made of God vntooure fathers: 7 vnto which promes oure.xii. tribes instantly servynge God dayeand nyght hope to come. For which hopessake kynge Agrippa am I accused of theIewes. 8Why shuld it be thought a thingevncredible vnto you that god shuld rayseagayne the deed? 9 I also verely thought inmy selfe that I ought to do many cotrarythinges clene agaynst the name of Iesusof Nazareth: 10 which thinge I also dyd inIerusalem. Where many of the sainctes Ishut vp in preson and had receaved auc-torite of the hye prestes. And when theywere put to deeth I gave the sentence.11And I punysshed them ofte in every syn-agoge and compelled them to blaspheme:and was yet more mad apon them andpersecuted the even vnto straunge cities.12 About the which thinges as I went toDamasco with auctorite and licence of thehye Prestes 13 even at myddaye (o kynge) Isawe in the waye a lyght from heven abovethe brightnes of the sunne shyne roundeabout me and them which iorneyed withme. 14When we were all fallen to the erthI hearde a voyce speakynge vnto me andsayinge in the Hebrue tonge: Saul Saulwhy persecutest thou me? It is harde forthe to kicke agaynste the pricke. 15 AndI sayde: Who arte thou lorde? And hesayde I am Iesus whom thou persecutest.16 But ryse and stond vp on thy fete. ForI have apered vnto the for this purpose tomake the a minister and a witnes both oftho thinges which thou hast sene and oftho thinges in the which I will appere vntothe 17 delyverynge the from the peopleand from the gentyls vnto which nowe Isende the 18 to open their eyes that theymyght turne from darcknes vnto lyght andfrom the power of Satan vnto God thatthey maye receave forgevenes of synnesand inheritaunce amonge the which aresanctified by fayth in me. 19 Wherforekynge Agrippa I was not disobedient vntothe hevenly vision: 20 but shewed fyrstvnto them of Damasco and at Ierusalemand thorow out all the costes of Iewry andto the gentyls that they shuld repent and

turne to God and do the ryght workes ofrepentaunce. 21 For this cause the Iewescaughtme in the temple andwent about tokyll me. 22Neverthelesse I obtayned helpeof God and cotynew vnto this daye wit-nessyng bothe to small and to greate say-ing none other thinges then those whichthe prophetes and Moses dyd saye shuldcome 23 that Christ shulde suffre and thathe shuld be the fyrst that shulde ryse fromdeeth and shuld shewe lyght vnto the peo-ple and the gentyls. 24As he thus answeredfor him selfe: Festus sayde with a lowdevoyce: Paul thou arte besides thy selfe.Moche learnynge hath made the mad.25And Paul sayde: I am not mad most dereFestus: but speake the wordes of truethand sobernes. 26 The kynge knoweth ofthese thinges before whom I speke frely:nether thynke I that eny of these thingesare hydden from him. For this thinge wasnot done in a corner. 27 Kynge Agrippabelevest thou the prophetes? I wote wellthou belevest. 28 Agrippa sayde vnto Paul:Sumwhat thou bringest me in mynde forto be come a Christen. 29 And Paul sayd:I wolde to God that not only thou: butalso all that heare me to daye were notsumwhat only but altogeder soche as I amexcept these bondes. 30 And when he hadthus spoken the kynge rose vp and thedebite and Bernice and they that sate withthem. 31 And when they were gone apartethey talked betwene them selves sayinge:This man doeth nothinge worthy of deethnor of bondes. 32 Then sayde Agrippa vntoFestus: This man myght have bene lowsedyf he had not appealed vnto Cesar.

271 When it was concluded that we shuld

sayle into Italy they delivered Paul andcertayne other presoners vnto one namedIulius an vnder captayne of Cesars soudi-ars. 2And we entred into a ship of Adram-icium and lowsed from lond apoynted tosayle by the costes of Asia one Aristarcusout ofMacedonia of the contre of Thessaliabeinge with vs. 3 And the nexte daye wecame to Sidon. And Iulius courteouslyentreated Paul and gave him liberte to goovnto his frendes and to refresshe him selfe.4 And from thence lanched we and sayled

Acts 27:5 137 Acts 27:39harde by Cypers because the wyndes werecontrarye. 5 Then sayled we over the seeof Cilicia and Pamphylia and came to Myraa cite in Lycia. 6 And there the vnder cap-tayne founde a shippe of Alexander redy tosayle into Italy and put vs therin. 7 Andwhen we had sayled slowly many dayesand scace were come over agaynst Gny-don (because the wynde with stode vs) wesayled harde by the costes of Candy overagaynste Salmo 8 and with moche workesayled beyonde that and came vnto a placecalled good porte. Nye whervnto was acitie called Lasea. 9When moche tyme wasspent and saylinge was now ieoperdeousbecause also that we had overlonge fastedPaul put them in remembraunce 10 andsayde vnto them Syrs I perceave that thisvyage wilbe with hurte and moche do-mage not of the ladynge and ship only:but also of oure lyves. 11 Neverthelatherthe vndercaptayne beleved the governerand the master better then tho thingeswhich were spoken of Paul. 12And becausethe haven was not comodius to wynterin many toke counsell to departe thenceyf by eny meanes they myght attayne toPhenices and there to wynter which is anhaven of Candy and servith to the south-west and northwest wynde. 13 When thesouthwynde blewe they supposynge to ob-tayne their purpose lowsed vnto Asson andsayled paste all Candy. 14 But anone afterther arose agaynste their purpose a flaweof wynde out of the northeeste. 15 Andwhen the ship was caught and coulde notresist the wynde we let her goo and dravewith the wether. 16 And we came vnto anyle named Clauda and had moche worketo come by abote 17 which they toke vpand vsed helpe vndergerdynge the shippefearynge lest we shuld have fallen intoSyrtes and we let doune a vessell and sowere caryed. 18 The nexte daye when wewere tossed with an exceadynge tempestthey lyghtened the ship 19 and the thyrdedaye we cast out with oure awne hondesthe tacklynge of the shippe. 20 When atthe last nether sunne nor starre in manydayes appered and no small tempest layeapon vs all hope that we shuld be savedwas then taken awaye. 21 Then after longe

abstinence Paul stode forth in the myddesof them and sayde: Syrs ye shulde haveharkened to me and not have lowsed fromCandy nether to have brought vnto vs thisharme and losse. 22 And nowe I exhorteyou to be of good chere. For ther shalbeno losse of eny mans lyfe amonge you saveof the ship only. 23 For ther stode by methis nyght the angell of God whose I amandwhom I serve 24 sayinge: feare not Paulfor thou must be brought before Cesar.And lo God hath geven vnto the all thatsayle with the. 25Wherfore Syrs be of goodchere: for I beleve God that so it shalbeeven as it was tolde me. 26 How be it wemust be cast into a certayne ylonde. 27Butwhen the fourtethe nyght was come as wewere caryed in Adria about mydnyght theshipmen demed that ther appered somecountre vnto them: 28 and sounded andfounde it .xx. feddoms. Andwhen theyhadgone a lytell further they sounded agayneand founde .xv. feddoms. 29 Then fearingelest they shuld have fallen on some Rockethey cast .iiii. ancres out of the sterne andwysshed for the daye. 30 As the shipmenwere about to fle out of the ship and hadlet doune the bote into the see vnder acoloure as though they wolde have castancres out of the forshippe: 31 Paul saydvnto the vnder captayne and the soudiers:excepte these abyde in the ship ye cannotbe safe. 32Then the soudiers cut of the ropeof the bote and let it fall awaye. 33 And inthemeane tymebetwixt that anddaye Paulbesought them all to take meate sayinge:this is the fourtenthe daye that ye havetaried and continued fastynge receavingenothinge at all. 34Wherfore I praye you totake meate: for this no dout is for yourehelth: for ther shall not an heere fall fromthe heed of eny of you. 35Andwhen he hadthus spoke he toke breed and gave thankesto God in presence of the all and brake itand begane to eate. 36 Then were they allof good cheare and they also toke meate.37Wewere all together in the ship twohun-dred thre score and sixtene soules. 38 Andwhen they had eate ynough they lightenedthe ship and cast out the wheate into thesee. 39When that was daye they knew notthe lande but they spied a certayne havenwith a banke into the which they were

Acts 27:40 138 Acts 28:24mynded (yf that were possible) to thrust inthe ship. 40 And when they had taken vpthe ancres they comytted them selves vntothe see and lowsed the rudder bondes andhoysed vp the mayne sayle to the wyndeand drue to londe. 41 But they chaunsedon a place which had the see on bothethe sydes and thrust in the ship. And thefoore parte stucke fast and moved not butthe hynder brake with the violence of thewaves. 42The soudears counsell was to kyllthe presoners lest eny of them when hehad swome out shulde fle awaye. 43But thevndercaptayne willinge to save Paul keptthe from their purpose and commaundedthat they that could swyme shulde cast theselves first in to the see and scape to londe.44 And the other he commaunded to goosome on bordes and some on broken pecesof the ship. And so it came to passe thatthey came all safe to londe.

281 And when they were scaped then they

knewe that the yle was called Milete. 2Andthe people of the countre shewed vs nolytell kyndnes: for they kyndled a fyreand receaved vs every one because of thepresent rayne and because of colde. 3 Andwhen Paul had gaddered a boundle ofstickes and put them into the fyre thercame a viper out of the heet and lept on hishonde. 4When the men of the contre sawethe worme hange on his honde they saydeamonge the selves: this man must nedesbe a mortherer. Whome (though he haveescaped the see) yet vengeaunce suffrethnot to lyve. 5 But he shouke of the vermeninto the fyre and felt no harme. 6Howbeitthey wayted when he shuld have swolneor fallen doune deed sodenly. But afterthey had loked a greate whyle and sawe noharme come to him they chaunged theirmyndes and sayde that he was a God. 7 Inthe same quarters the chefe man of the ylewhose name was Publius had a lordshippe:the same receaved vs and lodged vs thredayes courteously. 8 And it fortuned thatthe father of Publius laye sicke of a fieverand of a bluddy flixe. To who Paul entredin and prayde and layde his hondes on himand healed him. 9 When this was doneother also which had diseases in the yle

came and were healed. 10 And they dyd vsgret honoure. And when we departed theyladed vs with thinges necessary. 11 Afterthre monethes we departed in a ship ofAlexandry which had wyntred in the ylewhose badge was Castor and Pollux. 12Andwhenwe came to Cyracusawe taryed there.iii. dayes. 13 And from thence we set acompasse and came to Regium. And afterone daye the south wynde blewe and wecame the next daye to Putiolus: 14 wherewe founde brethren and were desyred totary with them seven dayes and so cameto Rome. 15 And from thence when thebrethren hearde of vs they came agaynstvs to Apiphorum and to the thre taverns.When Paul sawe the he thanked God andwexed bolde. 16 And when he came toRome the vnder captayne delyvered thepresoners to the chefe captayne of thehost: but Paul was suffered to dwell byhim selfe with one soudier that kept him.17 And it fortuned after thre dayes thatPaul called the chefe of the Iewes together.And when they were come he sayde vntothe: Men and brethren though I havecommitted nothinge agaynst the people orlawes of oure fathers: yet was I delyveredpresoner from Ierusalem in to the hondesof the Romayns. 18 Which when they hadexamined me wolde have let me goo be-cause they founde no cause of deeth in me.19But when the Iewes cryed contrary I wasconstrayned to appeale vnto Cesar: notbecause I had ought to accuse my peopleof. 20 For this cause have I called for youeven to se you and to speake with you:because that for the hope of Israel I amboundewith this chayne. 21And they saydevnto him: We nether receaved letters outof Iewry pertayninge vnto the nether cameeny of the brethren that shewed or spakeeny harme of the. 22 But we will heareof the what thou thynkest. For we havehearde of this secte that every wheareit is spoken agaynst. 23 And when theyhad apoynted him a daye ther came manyvnto him into his lodgynge. To whom heexpounded and testifyed the kyngdome ofGod and preached vnto the of Iesu: bothout of the lawe of Moses and also outof the prophetes even from mornynge tonyght. 24 And some beleved the thinges

Acts 28:25 139 Acts 28:31which were spoken and some beleved not.25When they agreed not amonge the selvesthey departed after that Paul had spokenone worde. Well spake the holy goostby Esay the prophet vnto oure fathers26 sayinge: Goo vnto this people and saye:with youre eares shall ye heare and shallnot vnderstonde: andwith youre eyes shallye se and shall not perceave. 27 For thehert of this people is wexed grosse andtheir eares were thycke of hearynge andtheir eyes have they closed: lest they shuldse with their eyes and heare with theireares and vnderstonde with their hertesand shuld be converted and I shulde healethem. 28 Be it knowen therfore vnto youthat this salvacion of God is sent to thegentyls and they shall heare it. 29 Andwhenhe had sayde that the Iewes departedand had grete despicions amonge themselves. 30And Paul dwelt two yeares full inhis lodgynge and receaved all that came tohim 31preachyng the kyngdomeof God andteachynge those thinges which concernedthe lorde Iesus with all confidence vnfor-boden.

Romans 1:1 140 Romans 1:32

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THEAPOSTLE TO THE ROMANS1 Paul the seruaut of Iesus Christ called

to be an Apostle put a parte to preachethe Gospell of God 2 which he promysedafore by his Prophetes in the holy scrip-tures 3 that make mension of his sonne thewhich was begotte of the seed of Davidas pertayninge to the flesshe: 4 and de-clared to be the sonne of God with powerof the holy goost that sanctifieth sencethe tyme that Iesus Christ oure Lorde roseagayne from deeth 5 by whom we have re-ceaved grace and apostleshyppe to bringeall maner hethe people vnto obedience ofthe fayth that is in his name: 6of the whichhethen are ye a part also which are Iesuschristes by vocacion. 7 To all you of Romebeloved of God and saynctes by callinge.Grace bewith you and peace fromGod ourefather and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.8 Fyrst verely I thanke my God thorowIesus Christ for you all because youre faythis publisshed through out all the worlde.9 For God is my witnes whom I serve withmy sprete in the Gospell of his sonne thatwith out ceasinge I make mencion of youalwayes inmy prayers 10besechinge that atone tyme or another a prosperous iorney(by the will of god) myght fortune me tocome vnto you. 11 For I longe to see youthat I myght bestowe amonge you somespirituall gyfte to strength you with all:12 that is that I myght have consolaciontogether with you through the commenfayth which bothe ye and I have. 13 I woldethat ye shuld knowe brethren how that Ihave often tymes purposed to come vntoyou (but have bene let hitherto) to havesome frute amonge you as I have amongeother of the Gentyls. 14 For I am detterboth to the Grekes and to them which areno Grekes vnto the learned and also vntothe vnlearned. 15 Lykewyse as moche as inme is I am redy to preache the Gospell toyou of Rome also. 16 For I am not ashamedof the Gospell of Christ because it is thepower of God vnto salvacion to all thatbeleve namely to the Iewe and also to thegetyle. 17 For by it the rightewesnes which

cometh of god is opened from fayth tofayth. As it is written: The iust shall liveby fayth. 18 For the wrath of God aperethfromheven agaynst all vngodlynes and vn-rightewesnes of me which withholde thetrueth in vnrightewesnes: 19 seynge whatmaye be knowen of God that same is man-ifest amonge them. For God dyd shewe itvnto them. 20 So that his invisible thinges:that is to saye his eternall power andgodhed are vnderstonde and sene by theworkes from the creacion of the worlde. Sothat they are without excuse 21 in asmocheas when they knewe god they glorifiedhim not as God nether were thakfull butwexed full of vanities in their imaginacionsand their folisshe hertes were blynded.22 When they counted them selves wysethey became foles 23 and turned the gloryof the immortall god vnto the similitude ofthe ymage of mortall man and of byrdesand foure foted beastes and of serpentes.24Wherfore god lykewyse gave the vp vntotheir hertes lustes vnto vnclennes to defyletheir awne boddyes bitwene them selves:25which tourned his truthe vnto a lye andworshipped and served the creaturesmorethen the maker which is blessed for ever.Amen. 26 For this cause god gave them vpvnto shamfull lustes. For even their we-men did chaunge the naturall vse vnto thevnnaturall. 27 And lyke wyse also the menlefte the naturall vse of the woman andbret in their lustes one on another. Andman with man wrought filthynes and re-ceaved in them selves the rewarde of theirerroure as it was accordinge. 28 And as itsemed not good vnto them to be aknowenof God even so God delivered them vp vntoa leawde mynd that they shuld do thothinges which were not comly 29 beingefull of all vnrighteous doinge of fornica-cio wickednes coveteousnes maliciousnesfull of envie morther debate disseyteevill condicioned whisperers 30 backbytershaters of God doers of wronge proudebosters bringers vp of evyll thinges dis-obedient to father and mother 31 without vnderstondinge covenaunte break-ers vnlovinge trucebreakers and merciles.32 Which men though they knew therightewesnes of God how that they whichsoche thinges commyt are worthy of deeth

Romans 2:1 141 Romans 3:5yet not only do the same but also havepleasure in them that do them.

21 Therfore arte thou inexcusable o man

whosoever thou be that iudgest. For inthee same wherin thou iudgest anotherthou condemnest thy selfe. For thou thatiudgest doest even the same selfe thinges.2 But we are sure that the iudgement ofGod is accordinge to trueth agaynst themwhich commit soche thinges. 3 Thinkestthou this O thou man that iudgest themwhich do soche thinges and yet doesteven the very same that thou shalt escapethe iudgement of God? 4 Ether despisestthou the riches of his goodnes paciece andlonge sufferaunce? and remembrest nothow that the kyndnes of God ledith theto repentaunce? 5 But thou after thyneharde herte that cannot repet heapest yetogedder the treasure of wrath agaynstethe daye of vengeaucewhen shalbe openedthe rightewes iudgement of god 6 whichwill rewarde every man accordinge to hisdedes: 7 that is to saye prayse honoureand immortalite to them which cotinue ingood doynge and seke eternall lyfe. 8 Butvnto them that are rebellious and disobeythe trueth yet folowe iniquytie shall comeindignacion and wrath 9 tribulacion andanguysshe vpon the soule of every manthat doth evyll: of the Iewe fyrst andalso of the gentyll. 10 To every man thatdoth good shall come prayse honoure andpeace to the Iewe fyrst and also to thegentyll. 11 For ther is no parcialyte withgod. 12 But whosoever hath synned without lawe shall perisshe with out lawe. Andas many as haue synned vnder the laweshalbe iudged by the lawe. 13 For beforegod they are not ryghteous which hearethe lawe: but the doers of the lawe shalbeiustified. 14 For if the gentyls which haveno lawe do of nature the thynges con-tayned in the lawe: then they havynge nolawe are a lawe vnto them selves 15whichshewe the dede of the lawewrytten in theirhertes: whyll their conscience bearethwitnes vnto them and also their thoughtesaccusynge one another or excusynge 16 atthe daye when god shall iudge the secretesof men by Iesus Christ accordinge to my

Gospell. 17 Beholde thou arte called aIewe and trustest in the lawe and reioysistin God 18 and knowest his will and hastexperience of good and bad in that thouarte informed by the lawe: 19 and belevestthat thou thy silfe arte a gyde vnto theblynde a lyght to them which are in dar-cknes 20 an informer of them which lackediscrecion a teacher of vnlearned whichhast the ensample of that which ought tobe knowen and of the truth in the lawe.21 But thou which teachest another teach-est not thy selfe. Thou preachest a manshuld not steale: and yet thou stealest.22 Thou sayst a man shuld not commit ad-voutry: and thou breakest wedlocke. Thouabhorrest ymages and robbest God of hishonoure. 23Thou reioysest in the lawe andthorow breakinge the lawe dishonourestGod. 24 For the name of god is evyll spokenof amonge the Gentyls thorowe you as itis written. 25 Circumcision verely avaylethif thou kepe the lawe. But if thou breakethe lawe thy circumcision is made vncir-cumcision. 26 Therfore if the vncircum-cised kepe the ryght thinges contayned inthe lawe: shall not his vncircumcision becounted for circumcision? 27 And shallnot vncircumcision which is by nature (yfit kepe the lawe) iudge the which beyngevnder the letter and circumcision dosttransgresse the lawe? 28For he is not a Iewewhich is a Iewe out warde. Nether is thatthynge circumcision which is outwarde inthe flesshe. 29 But he is a Iewe which is hidwythin and the circucisio of the herte isthe true circumcisionwhich is in the spreteand not in the letter whose prayse is not ofmen but of god.

31 What preferment then hath the Iewe?

other what a vauntageth circumcision?2 Surely very moche. Fyrst vnto them wascommitted the worde of God 3 What thenthough some of them did not beleve? shalltheir vnbeleve make the promes of godwith out effecte? 4 God forbid. Let god betrue and all men lyars as it is written: Thatthou myghtest be iustifyed in thy sayingeand shuldest overcome when thou arteiudged. 5 Yf oure vnrightewesnes makethe rightewesnes of God more excellent:what shall we saye? Is God vnrighteous

Romans 3:6 142 Romans 4:13which taketh vengeauce? I speake afterthe maner of men. 6 God forbid. For howthen shall God iudge the worlde? 7 Yfthe veritie of God appere moare excellentthorow my lye vnto his prayse why am Ihence forth iudged as a synner? 8 and sayenot rather (as men evyll speake of vs andas some affirme that we saye) let vs doevyll that good maye come therof. Whosedamnacion is iuste. 9What saye we then?Are we better then they? No in no wyse.For we have all ready proved how that bothIewes and Gentils are all vnder synne 10 asit is writte: There is none righteous no notone: 11 There is none that vnderstondiththere is none that seketh after God 12 theyare all gone out of the waye they are allmade vnprofytable ther is none that doethgood no not one. 13Their throte is an opensepulchre with their tounges they havedisceaved: the poyson of Aspes is vndertheir lippes. 14Whose mouthes are full ofcoursynge and bitternes. 15 Their fete areswyfte to sheed bloud. 16 Destruccion andwretchednes are in their wayes. 17 Andthe waye of peace they have not knowen.18There is no feare of God before their eyes.19 Ye and we knowe that whatsoever thelawe sayth he sayth it to them which arevnder the lawe. That all mouthes maye bestopped and all the worlde be subdued togod because that by the dedes of the laweshall no flesshe be iustified in the sightof God. 20 For by the lawe commeth theknowledge of synne. 21 Now verely is therightewesnes that cometh of God declaredwithout the fulfillinge of the lawe havingewitnes yet of the lawe andof the Prophetes.22 The rightewesnes no dout which is goodbefore God cometh by the fayth of IesusChrist vnto all and vpon all that beleve.Ther is no difference: 23 for all have synnedand lacke the prayse that is of valourebefore God: 24 but are iustified frely by hisgrace through the redempcion that is inChrist Iesu 25whom God hath made a seateofmercy thorow faith in his bloud to shewethe rightewesnes which before him is ofvaloure in that he forgeveth the synnesthat are passed which God dyd suffre 26 toshewe at this tyme the rightewesnes thatis alowed of him that he myght be counted

iuste and a iustifiar of him which belevithon Iesus. 27Where is then thy reioysinge?It is excluded. By what lawe? by the laweof workes? Naye: but by the lawe of fayth.28 For we suppose that a man is iustified byfaythwithout the dedes of the lawe. 29 Is hethe God of the Iewes only? Is he not alsothe God of the Gentyls? Yes even of theGentyles also. 30 For it is God only whichiustifieth circumcision which is of faythand vncircumcision thorow fayth. 31Dowethen destroye the lawe thorow fayth? Godforbid. But we rather mayntayne the lawe.

41 What shall we saye then that Abraham

oure father as pertayninge to the flesshedyd finde? 2 If Abraham were iustifiedby dedes the hath he wherin to reioyce:but not with god. 3 For what sayth thescripture? Abraham beleved god and itwas counted vnto him for rightewesnes.4 To him that worketh is the rewarde notreckened of favour: but of duty. 5 Tohim that worketh not but beleveth on himthat iustifieth the vngodly is his faythcounted for rightewesnes. 6 Even as Daviddescribeth the blessedfulnes of the manvnto whom god ascribeth rightewesneswithout dedes. 7 Blessed are they whosevnrightewesnes are forgeven and whosesynnes are covered. 8 Blessed is that manto whom the Lorde imputeth not synne.9 Came this blessednes then vpon the cir-cumcised or vpon the vncircumcised? Wesaye verely how that fayth was rekenedto Abraham for rightewesnes. 10 How wasit rekened? in the tyme of circumcision?or in the tyme before he was circum-cised? Not in tyme of circucision: butwhen he was yet vncircumcised. 11 Andhe receaved the signe of circumcision asa seale of that rightewesnes which is byfayth which fayth he had yet beynge vn-circumcised: that he shuld be the fatherof all them that beleve though they benot circumcised that rightewesnes myghtbe imputed to them also: 12 and that hemyght be the father of the circumcisednot because they are circumcised only: butbecause they walke also in the steppes ofthat fayth that was in oure father Abrahambefore the tyme of circumcision. 13 For

Romans 4:14 143 Romans 5:19the promes that he shuld be the heyre ofthe worlde was not geven to Abraham orto his seed thorow the lawe: but thorowthe rightewesnes which cometh of fayth.14 For yf they which are of the lawe beheyres then is fayth but vayne and thepromes of none effecte. 15 Because thelawe causeth wrathe. For where no laweis there is no trasgression. 16 Therforeby fayth is the inheritaunce geven that itmyght come of faveour: and the promesmyght be sure to all the seed. Not to themonly which are of the lawe: but also tothem which are of the fayth of Abrahamwhich is the father of vs all. 17 As itis wrytten: I have made the a father tomany nacions even before god whom thouhast beleved which quyckeneth the deedand called those thinges which be not asthough they were. 18Which Abraham con-trary to hope beleved in hope that he shuldbe the father of many nacions accordyngeto that which was spoken: So shall thyseed be. 19And he faynted not in the faythnor yet consydered hys awne body whichwas now deed even when he was almost anhondred yeare olde: nether yet that Sarawas past chyldeberinge. 20 He stackerednot at the promes of God thorow vnbelefe:butwasmade stronge in the fayth and gavehonour to God 21 full certifyed that whathe had promised that he was able to makegood. 22 And therfore was it reckened tohim for rightewesnes. 23 It is not writtenfor himonly that itwas reckened to him forrightewesnes: 24 but also for vs to whomit shalbe counted for rightewesnes so webeleve on him that raysed vp Iesus oureLorde from deeth. 25Which was deliveredfor oure synnes and rose agayne forto ius-tifie vs.

51 Because therfore that we are iusti-

fied by fayth we are at peace with godthorow oure Lorde Iesue Christ: 2 by whowe have awaye in thorow fayth vnto thisgrace wherin we stonde and reioyce inhope of the prayse that shalbe geven ofGod. 3 Nether do we so only: but also wereioyce in tribulacion. For we know thattribulacion bringeth pacience 4 paciencebringeth experience experience bringeth

hope. 5 And hope maketh not ashamedfor the love of God is sheed abrod in ourehertes by the holy goost which is gevenvnto vs. 6 For when we were yet weakeaccordynge to the tyme: Christ dyed for vswhich were vngodly. 7 Yet scace will enyman dye for a rightewes man. Paraventurefor a good man durst a man dye. 8 ButGod setteth out his love that he hath tovs seinge that whyll we were yet synnersChrist dyed for vs. 9Moche more then now(seynge we are iustifyed in his bloud) shallwe be saved fromwrath thorow him. 10 Foryf when we were enemyes we were rec-onciled to God by the deeth of his sonne:moche more seinge we are reconciled weshal be preservid by his lyfe. 11Not only sobut we also ioye in God by the meanes ofoure Lorde Iesus Christ by whom we havereceavyd the attonment. 12 Wherfore asby one man synne entred into the worldeand deeth by the meanes of synne. Andso deeth went over all men in somochethat all men synned. 13 For even vntothe tyme of the lawe was synne in theworlde: but synne was not regarded aslonge as ther was no lawe: 14neverthelessedeeth rayned from Adam to Moses evenover them also that synned not with lyketransgression as dyd Adam: which is thesimilitude of him that is to come. 15 Butthe gyfte is not lyke as the synne. For yfthorow the synne of one many be deed:mochemore plenteous vponmany was thegrace of God and gyfte by grace: whichgrace was geven by one man Iesus Christ.16 And the gifte is not over one synneas deeth cam thorow one synne of onethat synned. For damnacion cam of onesynne vnto condemnacion: but the gyftcam to iustify from many synnes. 17 Foryf by the synne of one deeth raigned bythe meanes of one moche more shall theywhich receave aboundance of grace and ofthe gyfte of rightewesnes raygne in lyfe bythe meanes of one (that is to saye) IesusChrist. 18 Lykewyse then as by the synne ofone condemnacion cam on all men: evenso by the iustifyinge of one cometh therightewesnes that bringeth lyfe vpo allmen. 19 For as by one mannes disobediecemany be cam synners: so by the obe-diece of one shall many bemade righteous.

Romans 5:20 144 Romans 7:620But the lawe in themeane tyme entred inthat synne shuld encreace. Neverthelaterwhere aboundaunce of synne was therewas more plenteousnes of grace. 21 Thatas synne had raigned vnto deeth even somight grace raygne thorow rightewesnesvnto eternall lyfe by the helpe of IesuChrist.

61 What shall we saye then? Shall we

continue in synne that there maye beaboundaunce of grace? 2 God forbyd. Howshall we that are deed as touchynge synnelive eny lenger therin? 3 Remember yenot that all we which are baptysed in thename of Iesu Christ are baptysed to dyewith him? 4 We are buryed with him bybaptism for to dye that lykewyse as Christwas raysed vp from deeth by the glorye ofthe father: even so we also shuld walke ina newe lyfe. 5 For yf we be graft in deethlyke vnto him: even so must we be in theresurreccion. 6 This we must rememberthat oure olde man is crucified with himalso that the body of synne myght vtterlybe destroyed that hence forthwe shuld notbe servauntes of synne. 7 For he that isdeed ys iustified from synne. 8 Wherforeyf we be deed with Christ we beleve thatwe shall live with him: 9 remembringe thatChrist once raysed from deeth dyeth nomore. Deeth hath no moare power overhim. 10 For as touchynge that he dyedhe dyed concernynge synne once. Andas touchinge that he liveth he liveth vntoGod. 11 Lykewyse ymagen ye also thatye are deed concernynge synne: but arealive vnto God thorow Iesus Christ oureLorde. 12 Let not synne raygne therforein youre mortall bodyes that ye shuldthervnto obey in the lustes of it. 13Nethergeve ye youre members as instrumentesof vnrightewesnes vnto synne: but geveyoure selves vnto God as they that arealive fromdeeth. And geve youremembresas iustrumetes of rightewesnes vnto God.14 Let not synne have power over you. Forye are not vnder the lawe but vnder grace.15What then? Shall we synne because weare not vnder the lawe: but vnder grace?God forbyd. 16 Remember ye not how thatto whom soever ye comit youre selves as

servautes to obey his servauntes ye are towhomye obey: whether it be of synne vntodeeth or of obedience vnto rightewesnes?17 God be thanked that though ye wereonce the servauntes of synne ye have yetobeyed with herte vnto the forme of doc-tryne wher vnto ye were delyvered. 18 Yeare then made fre from synne and are become the servauntes of rightewesnes. 19 Iwill speake grossly because of the infir-mitie of youre flesshe. As ye have geveyoure membres servauntes to vnclennesand to iniquitie from iniquitie vnto iniq-uitie: even so nowe geve youre membresservantes vnto rightewesnes that ye mayebe sanctified. 20 For when ye were theservauntes of synne ye were not vnderrightewesnes. 21What frute had ye then intho thinges wher of ye are now ashamed.For the ende of tho thynges is deeth. 22Butnow are ye delivered from synne andmadethe servauntes of God and have youre frutethat ye shuld be sanctifyed and the endeeverlastinge lyfe. 23 For the rewarde ofsynne is deeth: but eternall lyfe is the gyfteof God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde.

71 Remember ye not brethren (I speake

to them that know the lawe) how that thelawe hath power over a man as longe asit endureth? 2 For the woman which is insubieccion to a man is bounde by the laweto the man as longe as he liveth. Yf theman be deed she is lowsed from the lawe ofthe man. 3 So then yf whill the man livethshe couple her selfe with another man sheshalbe counted a wedlocke breaker. But yfthemanbe deed she is fre from the lawe: sothat she is nowedlocke breaker though shecouple her selfe with another man. 4 Evenso ye my brethren are deed concerningethe lawe by the body of Christ that ye shuldbe coupled to another (I meane to himthat is rysen agayne from deeth) that weshuld bringe forth frute vnto God. 5 Forwhen we were in the flesshe the lustesof synne which were stered vppe by thelawe raygned in oure membres to bringeforth frute vnto deeth. 6 But now are wedelivered from the lawe and deed fromthat whervnto we werein bondage that weshuld serve in a newe conversacion of thesprete and not in the olde conversacion of

Romans 7:7 145 Romans 8:18the letter. 7 What shall we saye then? isthe lawe synne? God forbid: but I knewenot what synne meant but by the lawe.For I had not knowne what lust had meantexcepte the lawe had sayde thou shalt notlust. 8 But synne toke an occasion bythe meanes of the commaundement andwrought inme all manner of concupiscece.For with out the lawe synne was deed. 9 Ionce lived with out lawe. But when thecommaundement came synne revyved andI was deed. 10 And the very same comaun-dement which was ordeyned vnto lyfe wasfounde to be vnto me an occasion of deeth.11 For synne toke occasion by the meanesof the comaundement and so disceavedmeand by the selfe commaundement sleweme. 12 Wherfore the lawe is holy andthe commaundement holy iust and good.13Was that then which is good made deethvnto me? God forbyd. Naye synne wasdeeth vnto me that it myght appere howthat synne by the meanes of that which isgood had wrought deeth in me: that synnewhich is vnder the commandement myghtbe out of measure synfull. 14 For we knowethat the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnallsolde vnder synne 15 because I wote notwhat I doo. For what I wold that do I not:but what I hate that do I. 16Yf I do now thatwhich I wolde not I graute to the lawe thatit is good. 17 So then nowe it is not I thatdo it but synne that dwelleth in me. 18 ForI knowe that in me (that is to saye in myflesshe) dwelleth no good thinge. To willis present with me: but I fynde no meanesto performe that which is good. 19For I doonot that good thingewhich I wold: but thatevill do I which I wolde not. 20 Finally yfI do that I wolde not then is it not I thatdoo it but synne that dwelleth in me doethit. 21 I fynde then by the lawe that whenI wolde do good evyll is present with me.22 I delite in the lawe of God concerningethe inner man. 23 But I se another lawe inmy membres rebellinge agaynst the laweof my mynde and subduynge me vnto thelawe of synnewhich is inmymembres. 24Owretchedman that I am: who shall delyverme from this body of deeth? 25 I thankeGodthorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde. So then Imy silfe inmymynde serve the lawe of Godand in my flesshe the lawe of synne.

81 Ther is then no damnacion to them

which are in Christ Iesu which walke notafter the flesshe: but after the sprete.2 For the lawe of the sprete that bringethlife thorowe Iesus Christ hath deliveredme from the lawe of synne and deeth.3 For what the lawe coulde not doo inas moche it was weake because of theflesshe: that performed God and sent hissonne in the similitude of synfull flessheand by synne daned synne in the flesshe:4 that the rightewesnes requyred of thelawe myght be fulfilled in vs which walkenot after the flesshe but after the sprete.5 For they that are carnall are carnallymynded. But they that are spirituall aregostly mynded. 6 To be carnally myndedis deeth. But to be spiritually mynded islyfe and peace. 7 Because that the flesshlymynde is emnyte agaynst God: for it isnot obedient to the lawe of God nether canbe. 8 So then they that are geven to theflesshe cannot please God. 9 But ye arenot geven to the flesshe but to the sprete:yf so be that the sprite of God dwell inyou. If ther be eny man that hath notthe sprite of Christ the same is none ofhis. 10 Yf Christ be in you the body is deedbecause of synne: but the sprite is lyfefor rightewesnes sake. 11 Wherfore if thesprite of him that raysed vppe Iesus fromdeeth dwell in you: even he that raysedvp Christ from deeth shall quycken youremortall bodyes because that this spritedwelleth in you. 12 Therfore brethren weare nowe detters not to the flesshe to liveafter the flesshe. 13 For if ye live after theflesshe ye must dye. But yf ye mortifie thededes of the body by the helpe of the spriteye shall lyve. 14 For as many as are ledby the sprete of God: they are the sonnesof god. 15 For ye have not receaved thesprete of bondage to feare eny moare butye have receaved the sprite of adopcionwherby we crye Abba father. 16 The samesprete certifieth oure sprete that we arethe sonnes of God. 17 Yf we be sonnes weare also heyres the heyres I meane of Godand heyres anexed with Christ: if so bethat we suffer togedder that we maye beglorified to gedder. 18 For I suppose thatthe affliccions of this lyfe are not worthy

Romans 8:19 146 Romans 9:14of the glory which shalbe shewed vponvs. 19 Also the fervent desyre of the crea-tures abideth lokynge when the sonnes ofGod shall appere 20 because the creaturesare subdued to vanyte agaynst their will:but for his will which subdueth them inhope. 21 For the very creatures shalbedelivered from the bondage of corrupcioninto the glorious lybertie of the sonnes ofGod. 22 For we knowe that every creaturegroneth with vs also and travayleth inpayne even vnto this tyme. 23 Not theyonly but even we also which have the fyrstfrutes of the sprite morne in oureselvesand wayte for the (adopcio) and loke forthe delivraunce of oure bodyes. 24 For weare savyd by hope. But hope that is sene isno hope. For how can a man hope for thatwhich he seyth? 25 But and yf we hope forthat we se not then do we with pacienceabyde for it. 26 Lyke wyse the sprite alsohelpeth oure infirmities. For we knowenot what to desyre as we ought: but thespretemaketh intercessionmightely for vswith gronynges which cannot be expressidwith tonge. 27 And he that searcheth thehertes knoweth what is the meaninge ofthe sprite: for he maketh intercession forthe sayntes accordinge to the pleasure ofgod. 28For we knowe that all thinges workefor the best vnto them that love God whichalso are called of purpose. 29 For thosewhich he knewe before he also ordeynedbefore that they shuld be lyke fassionedvnto the shape of his sonne that he myghtbe the fyrst begotten sonne amonge manybrethren. 30 Morover which he apoyntedbefore them he also called. And whichhe called them also he iustified which heiustified them he also glorified. 31 Whatshall we then saye vnto these thinges? yfgod be on oure syde: who can be agaynstvs? 32which spared not his awne sonne butgave him for vs all: how shall he not withhim geve vs all thinges also? 33Who shalllaye eny thinge to the charge of goddeschosen? it is god that iustifieth: 34 whothen shall condempne? it is Christ whichis deed the rather which is rysen agaynewhich is also on the ryght honde of Godand maketh intercession for vs. 35 Whoshall seperate vs from the love of god?shall tribulacion? or anguysshe? or perse-

cucion? other honger? other nakednesse?other parell? other swearde? 36 As it iswritten: For thy sake are we kylled all dayelonge and are counted as shepe apoyntedto be slayne. 37 Neverthelesse in all thesethinges we overcome strongly thorow hishelpe that loved vs. 38Ye and I am sure thatnether deeth nether lyfe nether angels norrule nether power nether thinges presentnether thinges to come 39 nether heythnether loweth nether eny other creatureshalbe able to departe vs from the love ofGod shewed in Christ Iesu oure lorde.

91 I saye the trueth in Christ and lye

not in that wherof my conscience bearethme witnes in the holy gost 2 that I havegret hevynes and continuall sorowe in myhert. 3 For I have wysshed my selfe tobe cursed from Christ for my brethrenand my kynsmen as pertayninge to theflesshe 4which are the Israelites. To whompertayneth the adopcion and the glorieand the covenauntes and the law that wasgeven and the service of God and thepromyses: 5 whose also are the fathersand they of whome (as concernynge theflesshe) Christ came which is God over allthinges blessed for ever Amen. 6 I speakenot these thinges as though the wordes ofgod had take none effecte. For they are notall Israelites which came of Israel: 7netherare they all chyldren strayght waye be-cause they are the seed of Abraham. Butin Isaac shall thy seede be called: 8 thatis to saye they which are the chyldren ofthe flesshe are not the chyldren of god.But the chyldren of promes are countedthe seede. 9 For this is a worde of promesaboute this tyme will I come and Sara shallhave a sonne. 10 Nether was it so withher only: but also when Rebecca was withchylde by one I meane by oure father Isaac11yeer the chyldren were borne when theyhad nether done good nether bad: thatthe purpose of God which is by electionmyght stonde it was sayde vnto her notby the reason of workes but by grace ofthe caller: 12 the elder shall serve theyonger. 13 As it is written: Iacob he lovedbut Esau he hated. 14 What shall we sayethen? is there eny vnrightewesses with

Romans 9:15 147 Romans 10:15God? God forbyd. 15 For he sayth to Moses:I will shewe mercye to who I shewe mercy:and will have compassion on whom I havecompassion. 16 So lieth it not then in amans will or cunnynge but in the mercyeof god. 17 For the scripture sayth vntoPharao: Even for this same purpose have Istered ye vp to shewe my power on ye andthat my name myght be declared thorowout all the worlde. 18 So hath he mercyeon whom he will and whom he will hemaketh hearde herted. 19 Thou wilt sayethen vnto me: why then blameth he vsyet? For who can resist his will? 20 Buto man what arte thou which disputestwith God? Shall the worke saye to theworkeman: whyhast thoumademe on thisfassion? 21Hath not the potter power overthe claye even of the same lompe to makeonevessell vntohonoure and another vntodishonoure? 22 Even so God willynge toshewe his wrath and to make his powerknowen suffered with longe pacience thevessels of wrath ordeyned to damnacion23 that he myght declare the ryches of hisglory on the vessels of mercye which hehad prepayred vnto glorie: 24 that is to sayevswhich he called not of the Iewes only butalso of the gentyls. 25 As he sayth in Osee:I will call them my people which were notmy people: and her beloved which was notbeloved. 26 And it shall come to passe inthe place where it was sayd vnto them yeare not my people: that there shalbe calledthe chyldren of the lyvynge God. 27 ButEsaias cryeth concernynge Israel thoughthe nomber of the chyldren of Israel beas the sonde of the see yet shall a rem-naunt be saved. 28He finyssheth the wordeverely and maketh it short in ryghtwesses.For a short worde will god make on erth.29 And as Esaias sayd before: Except theLorde of sabaoth had left us seede wehad bene made as Zodoma and had benelykened to Gomorra. 30What shall we sayethen? We saye that the gentyls whichfollowed not rightewesnes have overtakenrightewesnes: I meane the rightewesneswhich cometh of fayth. 31 But Israel whichfolowed the lawe of rightewesnes couldenot attayne vnto the lawe of rightewesnes.32 And wherfore? Because they sought it

not by fath: but as it were by the workesof the lawe. For they have stombled atthe stomblynge stone. 33 As it is written:Beholde I put in Syon a stomblynge stoneand a rocke which shall make men faule.And none that beleve on him shalbe ashamed.

101 Brethren my hertes desyre and prayer

to God for Israel is that they might besaved. 2 For I beare them recorde thatthey have a fervet mynde to Godwarde butnot accordinge to knowledge. 3 For theyare ignoraunt of the rightewesnes which isalowedbeforeGod andgoo about to stablis-she their awne rightewesnes and therforeare not obedient vnto the rightewesneswhich is of valew before God. 4 ForChrist is the ende of the lawe to iusti-fie all that beleve. 5 Moses describeththe rightewesnes which cometh of thelawe howe that the man which doth thethinges of the lawe shall lyve therin. 6 Butthe rightewesnes which cometh of faythspeaketh on this wyse. Saye not in thynehert who shall ascende into heven? (thatis nothinge els then to fetch Christ doune)7 Other who shall descende into the depe?(that is nothinge els but to fetch vp Christfromdeeth) 8Butwhat sayth the scripture?The worde is nye the even in thy mouthand in thyn herte. This worde is the wordeof fayth which we preache. 9 For yf thoushalt knowledge with thymouth that Iesusis the lorde and shalt beleve with thynhert that God raysed him up from deeththou shalt be safe. 10 For the belefe of thehert iustifieth: and to knowledge with themouth maketh a man safe. 11 For the scrip-ture sayth: whosoever beleveth on himshall not be ashamed. 12 Ther is no differ-ence bitwene the Iewe and the gentyll. Forone is Lorde of all which is ryche vnto allthat call on him. 13Forwhosoever shall callon the name of the lorde shalbe safe. 14Buthow shall they call on him on who theybeleved not? how shall they beleve on himof whom they have not herde? how shallthey heare with out a preacher? 15 Andhow shall they preach except they be sent?As it is written: how beautifull are thefete of them which bringe glad tydyngesof peace and bringe glad tydynges of good

Romans 10:16 148 Romans 11:27thinges. 16 But they have not all obeyed tothe gospell. For Esaias sayth: Lorde whoshall beleve oure sayinges? 17So then faythcometh by hearynge and hearynge comethby the worde of God. 18 But I axe: havetheynot herde? Nodout their soundewentout into all londes: and their wordes in tothe endes of the worlde. 19But I demaundewhether Israel dyd knowe or not? FyrstMoses sayth: I will provoke you for to envyby the that are no people and by a folisshenacion I will anger you. 20 Esaias afterthat is bolde and sayth. I am founde ofthe that sought me not and have apperedto them that axed not after me. 21 Andagaynst Israel he sayth: All daye longehaveI stretched forth my hondes vnto a peoplethat beleveth not but speaketh agaynstme.

111 I saye then: hath god cast awaye his

people? God forbyd. For even I verely aman Israelite of the seed of Abraham and ofthe tribe of Beniamin 2 god hath not castawaye his people which he knew before.Ether wote ye not what the scripture saythby the mouth of Helias how he makethintercession to god agaynst Israel sayinge:3Lorde they have kylled thy prophetes anddygged doune thyn alters: and I am lefteonly and they seke my lyfe. 4 But whatsayth the answer of god to him agayne?I have reserved vnto me seven thousandemen which have not bowed the knee toBaal. 5 Even so at this tyme ys ther aremmaunt lefte thorow the eleccion ofgrace. 6 Yf it be of grace the is it not ofworkes. For then were grace no moaregrace. Yf it be of workes then is it nomoare grace. For then were deservyng nolenger deservynge. 7 What then? Israelhath not obtayned that that he sought. Nobut yet the election hath obtayned it. Theremnaunt are blynded 8 accordynge as itis written: God hath geven the the spreteof vnquyetnes: eyes that they shuld not seand eares that they shuld not heare evenvnto this daye. 9And David sayth: Let theirtable be made a snare to take them withall and an occasion to faule and a rewardevnto them. 10 Let their eyes be blyndedthat they se not: and ever bowe dounetheir backes. 11 I saye then: Have they ther-fore stombled that they shulde but faule

only? God forbyd: but thorowe their fauleis salvacion happened vnto the gentyls forto provoke the with all. 12Wherfore yf thefaule of them be the ryches of the worlde:and the mynysshynge of them the rychesof the gentyls: How moche more shuldit be so yf they all beleved. 13 I speaketo you gentyls in as moche as I am theApostle of the gentyls I will magnify mynoffice 14 that I myght provoke them whichare my flesshe and myght save some ofthem. 15 For yf the castynge awaye of thembe the reconcylynge of the worlde: whatshall the receavynge of them be but lyfeagayne from deeth? 16 For yf one pecebe holy the whole heepe is holy. And yfthe rote be holy the braunches are holyalso. 17 Though some of the brauuchesbe broken of and thou beynge a wyldeolyue tree arte graft in amonge them andmade parttaker of the rote and fatnes ofthe olyve tree 18 bost not thy selfe agaynstthe brauches. For yf thou bost thy selferemember that thou bearest not the rotebut the rote the. 19 Thou wilt saye then:the brauches are broken of that I myghtbe grafte in. 20 Thou sayest well: becauseof vnbeleve they are broken of and thoustondest stedfast in fayth. Be not hyemyn-ded but feare 21 seynge that God sparednot the naturall braunches lest haply healso spare not the. 22 Beholde the kyndnesand rigorousnes of God: on the which fellrigorousnes: but towardes the kyndnesyf thou cotinue in his kyndnes. Or elsthou shalt be hewen of 23 and they yf theybyde not still in vnbelefe shalbe graffedin agayne. For God is of power to graffethem in agayne. 24 For yf thou wast cutout of a naturall wilde olyve tree and wastgraffed contrary to nature in a true olyvetree: how moche more shall the naturallbrauches be graffed in their awne olyvetree agayne. 25 I wolde not that this secreteshuld be hyd from you my brethren (lestye shuld be wyse in youre awne consaytes)that partly blyndnes is happened in Israelvntyll the fulnes of the gentyls be come in:26 and so all Israel shalbe saved. As it iswritte: There shall come oute of Sion hethat doth delyver and shall turne awayethe vngodlynes of Iacob. 27 And this is

Romans 11:28 149 Romans 13:4my covenaunt vnto them when I shall takeawaye their synnes. 28 As concernyngethe gospell they are enemies for youresakes: but as touchinge the election theyare loved for the fathers sakes. 29 Forverely the gyftes and callynge of god aresoche that it cannot repent him of them:30 for loke as ye in tyme passed have notbeleved God yet have now obtayned mercythorow their vnbelefe: 31 even so nowhave they not beleved the mercy which ishappened vnto you that they also mayeobtayne mercy. 32 God hath wrapped allnacions in vnbeleve that he myght havemercie on all. 33 O the depnes of theaboundaunt wysdome and knowledge ofGod: how vnserchable are his iudgementesand his wayes past findyng out. 34 For whohath knowen the mynde of the lorde? orwho was his counseller? 35 other who hathgeven vnto him fyrst that he myght berecompensed agayne? 36 For of him andthorow him and for him are all thinges Tohim be glorye for ever Amen.

121 I beseche you therfore brethren by the

mercyfulnes of God that ye make yourebodyes aquicke sacrifise holy and accept-able vnto God which is youre resonableseruynge of god. 2 And fassion not youreselves lyke vnto this worlde: But be yechaunged in youre shape by the renuyngeof youre wittes that ye maye fele whatthynge that good that acceptable and per-faycte will of god is. 3 For I saye (thorowethe grace that vnto me geve is) to everyman amonge you that noman esteme ofhim selfe moare then it becometh him toesteme: but that he discretely iudge ofhim selfe accordynge as God hath dealteto every man the measure of fayth. 4 Aswe have many members in one body andall members have not one office: 5 sowe beynge many are one body in Christand every man (amonge oure selves) oneanothers members 6 Seynge that we havedyvers gyftes accordynge to the grace thatis geven vnto vs: yf eny man have thegyft of prophesye let him have it that itbe agreynge vnto the fayth. 7 Let himthat hath an office wayte on his office.Let him that teacheth take hede to his

doctrine. 8 Let him that exhorteth geveattendaunce to his exhortacion. Yf enyman geve let him do it with singlenes.Let him that ruleth do it with diligence.Yf eny man shewe mercy let him do itwith cherfulnes. 9 Let love be with outdissimulacion. Hate that which is evyll andcleave vnto that which is good. 10Be kyndeone to another with brotherly love. Ingevynge honoure goo one before another.11 Let not that busynes which ye have inhonde be tedious to you. Be fervet in thesprete. Applye youre selves to the tyme.12Reioyce in hope. Be paciet in tribulacion.Continue in prayer. 13 Distribute vnto thenecessite of the saynctes and diligently toharboure. 14 Blesse the which persecuteyou: blesse but course not. 15 Be merywith the that are mery. Wepe with themthat wepe. 16 Be of lyke affeccion onetowardes another. Be not hye mided: butmake youreselves equall to the of the lowersorte. Be not wyse in youre awne opinions.17 Recompence to no man evyll fore evyll.Provyde afore honde thinges honest in thesyght of all men. 18Yf it be possible howbeit of youre parte have peace with all men.19 Derly beloued avenge not youre selvesbut geve roume vnto the wrath of God. Forit is written: vengeaunce is myne and Iwill rewarde saith the lorde. 20 Therfore yfthyn enemy honger fede him: yf he thurstgeve him drinke. For in so doynge thoushalt heape coles of fyre on his heed: 21 Benot overcome of evyll: But overcome evyllwith goodnes.

131 Let every soule submit him selfe vnto

the auctorite of the hyer powers. For thereis no power but of God. The powers that beare ordeyned of God. 2Whosoever therforeresysteth power resisteth the ordinaunceof God. And they that resist shall receaveto the selfe damnacion. 3 For rulars arenot to be feared for good workes but forevyll. Wilt thou be with out feare of thepower? Do well then: and so shalt thoube praysed of the same. 4 For he is theminister of God for thy welth. But and yfthou do evyll then feare: for he beareth nota swearde for nought: but is the ministerof God to take vengeaunce on them that

Romans 13:5 150 Romans 14:23do evyll. 5Wherfore ye must nedes obeyenot for feare of vengeaunce only: but alsobecause of conscience. 6 And even for thiscause paye ye tribute. For they are goddesministers servynge for the same purpose.7 Geve to every man therfore his duetie:Tribute to whom tribute belongeth: Cus-tome to whom custome is due: feare towhom feare belongeth: Honoure to whohonoure pertayneth. 8 Owe nothinge toeny man: but to love one another. Forhe that loveth another fulfylleth the lawe.For these commaundementes: 9Thou shaltnot commit advoutry: Thou shalt not kyll:Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not bearefalse witnes: Thou shalt not desyre and soforth (yf there be eny other commaunde-ment) they are all comprehended in thissayinge: Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.10Love hurteth not his neghbour. Therforeis love the fulfillynge of the lawe. 11 Thisalsowe knowe Imean the season howe thatit is tyme that we shuld now awake outeof slepe. For now is oure salvacion nearerthen when we beleved. 12 The nyght ispassed and the daye is come nye. Let ustherfore cast awaye the dedes of darcknesand let vs put on the (Armoure) of lyght.13 Let vs walke honestly as it were in thedaye lyght: not in eatynge and drinkynge:nether in chamburynge and wantannes:nether in stryfe and envyinge: 14 but putthe on the Lorde Iesus Christ. And makenot provision for the flesshe to fulfyll thelustes of it.

141 Him that is weake in the fayth receave

vnto you not in disputynge and troublyngehis conscience. 2 One beleveth that hemaye eate all thinge. Another which isweake eateth earbes. 3 Let not him thateateth despise him that eateth not. And letnot him whiche eateth not iudge him thateateth. For God hath receaved him. 4Whatarte thou that iudgest another manes ser-vaut? Whether he stonde or faule thatpertayneth vnto his master: ye he shallstonde. For God is able tomakehim stonde.5Thisman putteth difference bitwene dayeand daye. Another man counteth all dayesalyke. Se that no man waver in his awnemeanynge. 6 He that observeth one dayemore then another doth it for the lordes

pleasure. And he that observeth not onedayemoare then another doeth it to pleasethe lorde also. He that eateth doth it toplease the lorde for he geveth god thankes.And he that eateth not eateth not to pleasethe lorde with all and geveth god thankes.7 For none of vs lyveth his awne servaut:nether doeth anye of vs dye his awne ser-vaunt. 8 Yf we lyve we lyve to be at thelordes will. And yf we dye we dye at thelordes will. Whether we lyve therfore ordye we are the lordes. 9 For Christ therforedyed and rose agayne and revived that hemyght be lorde both of deed and quicke.10 But why doest thou then iudge thybrother? Other why doest thou despysethy brother? We shall all be brought beforethe iudgement seate of Christ. 11 For it iswritten: as truely as I lyve sayth the lordeall knees shall bowe to me and all tongesshall geve a knowledge to God. 12 So shallevery one of vs geve accomptes of him selfeto God. 13 Let vs not therfore iudge oneanother eny more. But iudge this ratherthat no man put a stomblynge blocke oran occasion to faule in his brothers waye.14 For I knowe and am full certified in theLorde Iesus that ther is nothinge comenof it selfe: but vnto him that iudgeth itto be comen: to him is it comen. 15 Ifthy brother be greved with thy meate nowwalkest thou not charitablye. Destroyenot him with thy meate for whom Christdyed. 16 Cause not youre treasure to beevyll spokenof. 17For the kyngdomeofGodis not meate and drinke: but rightewesnespeace and ioye in the holy goost. 18 Forwhosoever in these thinges serveth Christpleaseth well God and is commended ofmen. 19 Let vs folowe tho thinges whichmake for peace and thinges wherwith onemaye edyfie another. 20 Destroye not theworke of god for a lytell meates sake. Allthinges are pure: but it is evyll for thatmanwhich eateth with hurte of his conscience.21 It is good nether to eate flesshe netherto drincke wyne nether eny thinge wherbythy brother stombleth ether falleth or ismade weake. 22 Hast thou fayth? have itwith thy selfe before god. Happy is he thatcondempneth not him selfe in that thingewhich he aloweth. 23 For he that makethconscience is dampned yf he eate: because

Romans 15:1 151 Romans 16:1he doth it not of fayth. For whatsoever isnot of fayth that same is synne.

151 We which are stronge ought to beare

the fraylnes of them which are weake andnot to stonde in oure awne cosaytes. 2 Letevery man please his neghbour vnto hiswelth and edyfyinge. 3 For Christ pleasednot him selfe: but as it is written. Therebukes of the which rebuked the fell oneme. 4Whatsoever thinges arewritten aforetyme are written for oure learnynge thatwe thorow pacience and comforte of thescripture myght have hope. 5 The God ofpacience and consolacion geve vnto ev-ery one of you that ye be lyke myndedone towardes another after the insampleof Christ: 6 that ye all agreynge togethermaye with one mouth prayse God the fa-ther of oure Lorde Iesus. 7 Wherfore re-ceave ye one another as Christ receavedvs to the prayse of God. 8 And I sayethat Iesus Christ was a minister of thecircumcision for the trueth of god to con-ferme the promysesmade vnto the fathers.9 And let the gentyls prayse god for hismercy as it is written: For this cause Iwill prayse the amonge the gentyls andsynge in thy name. 10 And agayne, hesayth: reioyse ye gentyles with his people.11 And agayne, prayse the Lorde all yegentyls and laude him all nacions. 12 Andin another place Esaias sayth: ther shalbethe rote of Iesse and he that shall ryseto raygne over the gentyls: in him shallthe gentyls trust. 13 The God of hope fyllyou with all ioye and peace in belevynge:that ye maye be ryche in hope thorowethe power of the holy goost. 14 I myselfe am full certified of you my brethrenthat ye youre selves are full of goodnesand filled with all knowledge and are ableto exhorte one another. 15 Neverthelessebrethren I have some what boldly writtenvnto you as one that putteth you in remem-braunce thorow the grace that is gevenmeof God 16 that I shuld be the minister ofIesu Christ amonge the gentyls and shuldminister the gladde tydynges of God thatthe gentyls myght be an acceptable offe-rynge sanctyfied by the holy goost. 17 Ihave therfore wherof I maye reioyse in

Christ Iesu in tho thinges which pertayneto God. 18 For I dare not speake of eny oftho thinges which Christ hath not wroughtby me to make the gentyls obedient withworde and dede 19 in myghty signes andwonders by the power of the sprete ofGod: so that from Ierusalem and the costesrounde aboute vnto Illyricum I have fylledall countres with the gladde tydynges ofChrist. 20 So have I enforsed my selfe topreache the gospell not where Christ wasnamed lest I shuld have bylt on anothermannes foundacion: 21 but as it is written:To whom he was not spoken of they shallse: and they that hearde not shall vnder-stonde. 22For this cause I have bene ofte letto come vnto you: 23but now seynge I haveno moare to do in these countres and alsohave bene desyrous many yeares to comevnto you 24 when I shall take my iorneyinto spayne I will come to you. I trustto se you in my iorney and to be broughton my waye thither warde by you afterthat I have somwhat enioyed you. 25 Nowgo I vnto Ierusalem and minister vnto thesaynctes. 26 For it hath pleased them ofMacedonia and Achaia to make a certaynedistribucion vpo the poore saynctes whichare at Ierusalem. 27 It hath pleased themverely and their detters are they. For yfthe getils be made partetakers of theirspirituall thinges their dutie is to ministervnto the in carnall thinges. 28When I haveperformed this andhave brought them thisfrute sealed. I will come backe agayne byyou into Spayne. 29 And I am sure when Icome that I shall come with aboundaunceof the blessinge of the gospell of Christ.30 I beseche you brethren for oure LordeIesus Christes sake and for the love of thesprete that ye helpeme inmybusyneswithyoure prayers to God for me 31 that I mayebe delyvered from them which beleve notin Iewry and that this my service which Ihave to Ierusalem maye be accepted of thesaynctes 32 that I maye come vnto you withioye by the will of God and maye with yoube refresshed. 33 The God of peace be withyou. Amen.

161 I commede vnto you Phebe oure sister

(which is a minister of the congregacion

Romans 16:2 152 Romans 16:27of Chenchrea) 2 that ye receave her inthe Lorde as it becommeth saynctes andthat ye assist her in whatsoever busynesshe neadeth of youre ayde. For she hathsuckered many and myne awne selfe also.3 Grete Prisca and Aquila my helpers inChrist Iesu, 4 which have for my lyfelayde doune their awne neckes. Vntowhich not I only geve thankes but alsothe congregacion of the gentyls. 5 Lykewyse grete all the company that is in thyhousse. Salute my welbeloved Epenetoswhich is the fyrst frute amonge them ofAchaia. 6 Grete Mary which bestowedmoche labour on vs. 7 Salute Andronicusand Iuniamy cosyns which were presonerswithme also which are wele taken amongethe Apostles and were in Christ before me.8 Grete Amplias my beloved in the Lorde.9 Salute Vrban oure helper in Christ andStachys my beloved. 10 Salute Appellesapproved in Christ. Salute them whichare of Aristobolus housholde. 11 SaluteHerodion my kynsman. Grete them of thehousholde of Narcissus which are in theLorde. 12 Salute Triphena and Triphosawhich wemen dyd labour in the Lorde.Salute the beloved Persis which labouredin the Lorde. 13 Salute Rufus chosenin the Lorde and his mother and myne.14 Grete Asincritus, Phlegon, Herman, Pa-trobas, Hermen, and the brethren whichare with them. 15 Salute Philologus andIulia, Nereus and his sister, and Olimphaand all the saynctes which are with them.16 Salute one another with an holy kysse.The congregacions of Christ salute you. 17 Ibeseche you brethren marke them whichcause division and geve occasions of evyllcontrary to the doctrine which ye havelearned: and avoyde them. 18 For theythat are suche serve not the Lorde IesusChrist: but their awne bellyes and withswete preachinges and flatteringe wordesdeceave the hertes of the innocetes. 19 Foryoure obedience extendeth to all men. Iam glad no dout of you. But yet I woldehave you wyse vnto that which is good andto be innocetes concerninge evyll. 20 TheGod of peace treade Satan vnder youre feteshortly. The grace of oure Lorde Iesu Christbe with you. 21 Thimotheus my workefelow and Lucius and Iason and Sopater

my kynsmen salute you. 22 I Tertius saluteyou which wrote this epistle in the Lorde.23 Gaius myne hoste and the hoste of allthe congregacions saluteth you. Erastusthe chamberlayne of the cite saluteth you.And Quartus a brother saluteth you. 24Thegrace of oure Lorde Iesu Christ be withyou all. Amen 25 To him that is of powerto stablisshe you accordinge to my gospelland preachinge of Iesus Christ in vtteringeof the mistery which was kept secret sencethe worlde begane 26 but now is openedby the scriptures of prophesie at the com-maundement of the everlastinge god tostere vp obedience to the faith publisshedamonge all nacions: 27 To the same Godwhich alone is wyse be prayse thoroweIesus Christ for ever. Amen. ‘To theRomayns. Sent fromChorinthumby Phebeshe that was the minister vnto the congre-gacion at Chenchrea.’

1 Corinthians 1:1 153 1 Corinthians 2:4

THE FIRST EPISTLE OFPAUL THE APOSTLE TOTHE CORINTHIANS1 Paul by vocacion an Apostle of Iesus

Christ thorow the will of God and brotherSostenes. 2 Vnto the congregacion of Godwhich is at Corinthum. To them that aresanctified in Christ Iesu sainctes by cal-lynge with all that call on the name of ourelorde Iesus Christ in every place both oftheirs and of oures. 3 Grace be with youand peace from God oure father and fromthe lorde Iesus Christ. 4 I thankemy God allwayes on youre behalfe for the grace of Godwhich is geuen you by Iesus Christ 5 that inall thinges ye are made riche by him in alllerninge and in all knowledge 6 even as thetestimony of Iesus Christ was confermedin you 7 so that ye are behynde in no gyftand wayte for the apperynge of oure lordeIesus Christ 8which shall streght you vntothe ende that ye maye be blamelesse inthe daye of oure lorde Iesus Christ. 9 Forgod is faythfull by whom ye are called vntothe fellishyppe of his sonne Iesus Christeoure lorde. 10 I beseche you brethren inthe name of oure lorde Iesus Christ thatye all speake one thynge and that therebe no dissencion amonge you: but be yeknyt together in one mynde and in onemeaynge. 11 It is shewed vnto me (mybrethren) of you by them that are of thehousse of Cloe that ther is stryfe amongeyou. 12And this is it that I meane: how thatcomelie amonge you one sayeth: I holde ofPaul: another I holde of Apollo: the thyrdeI holde of Cephas: the four ye I holde ofChrist. 13 Ys Christ devided? was Paulcrucified for you? ether were ye baptisedin the name of Paul? 14 I thanke God thatI christened none of you but Crispus andGayus 15 lest eny shulde saye that I hadbaptised in myne awne name. 16 I baptisedalso the housse of Stephana. Forthermoreknowe I not whether I baptised enyman orno. 17For Christ sentme not to baptyse butto preache the gospell not with wysdomeof wordes lest the crosse of Christ shuldhave bene made of none effecte. 18 Forthe preachinge of the crosse is to them

that perisshe folishnes: but vnto vs whichare saved it is the power of God. 19 Forit is written: I will destroye the wysdomeof the wyse and will cast awaye the vn-derstondinge of the prudet. 20 Where isthe wyse? Where is the scrybe? Whereis the searcher of this worlde? Hath notGod made the wysdome of this worldefolisshnes? 21 For when the worlde thorowwysdome knew not God in the wysdomeof God: it pleased God thorow folisshnesof preachinge to save them that beleve.22 For the Iewes requyre a signe and theGrekes seke after wysdome. 23 But wepreache Christ crucified vnto the Iewes anoccasion of fallinge and vnto the Grekesfolisshnes: 24 but vnto the which are calledboth of Iewes andGrekeswe preache Christthe power of God and the wysdome ofGod. 25 For the folishnes of God is wyserthen men: and the weakenes of God isstronger then men. 26 Brethren loke onyoure callinge how that not many wysemen after the flesshe not many myghtynot many of hye degre are called: 27 butGod hath chosen the folysshe thinges ofthe worlde to confounde the wyse. AndGod hath chosyn the weake thinges of theworlde to confounde thinges which aremighty. 28 And vile thinges of the worldeand thinges which are despysed hath Godchosen yee and thinges of no reputacionfor to brynge to nought thinges of reputa-cion 29 that no flesshe shulde reioyce inhis presence. 30 And vnto him partayneye in Christ Iesu which of God is madevnto vs wysdome and also rightewesnesand saunctifyinge and redempcion. 31Thataccordinge as it is written: he which reioy-seth shulde reioyce in the Lorde.

21 And I brethren when I came to you

came not in gloriousnes of wordes or ofwysdome shewynge vnto you the testi-mony of God. 2 Nether shewed I my selfethat I knewe eny thinge amonge you saveIesus Christ even the same that was cru-cified. 3 And I was amonge you in weak-nes and in feare and in moche treblinge.4 And my wordes and my preachinge werenot with entysynge wordes of manes wys-dome: but in shewinge of the sprete and

1 Corinthians 2:5 154 1 Corinthians 4:1of power 5 that youre fayth shuld notstonde in the wysdome of me but in thepower of God. 6 That we speake of iswysdome amonge them that are perfecte:not the wysdome of this worlde netherof the rulars of this worlde (which go tonought) 7 but we speake the wysdome ofGodwhich is in secrete and lieth hydwhichGod ordeyned before the worlde vnto oureglory: 8which wysdome none of the rularsof the worlde knewe. For had they knoweit they wolde not have crucified the Lordeof glory. 9 But as it is written: The eyehath not sene and the eare hath not heardenether have entred into the herte of manthe thinges which God hath prepared forthem that love him. 10 But God hathopened them vnto vs by his sprete. Forthe sprete searcheth all thinges the thebottome of Goddes secretes. 11 For whatman knoweth the thinges of a man: savethe sprete of a man which is with in him?Even so the thinges of God knoweth noman but the sprete of god. 12 And wehave not receaved the sprete of theworlde:but the sprete which cometh of god for toknowe the thinges that are geve to vs ofgod 13 which thinges also we speake notin the conynge wordes of manes wysdomebut with the conynge wordes of the holygoost makynge spretuall comparesons ofspretuall thinges. 14 For the naturall manperceaveth not the thinges of the spreteof god. For they are but folysshnes vntohim. Nether can he perceave thembecausehe is spretually examined. 15 But he thatis spretuall discusseth all thinges: yet hehim selfe is iudged of no man. 16 For whoknoweth themyndeof the Lorde otherwhoshall informe him? But we vnderstondethe mynde of Christ.

31 And I coulde not speake vnto you

brethren as vnto spretuall: but as vntocarnall even as it were vnto babes in Christ.2 I gave youmylke to drinke and notmeate.For ye then were not stronge no nether yetare. 3For ye are yet carnall. As longe verelyas ther is amonge you envyige stryfe anddissencion: are ye not carnall and walkeafter the manner of men? 4 As loge as onesayth I holde of Paul and another I am of

Apollo are ye not carnall? 5What is Paul?What thinge is Apollo? Only ministers arethey by who ye beleved even as the Lordegave every man grace. 6 I have planted:Apollo watred: but god gave increace. 7 Sothen nether is he that planteth eny thingenether he that watreth: but god whichgave the increace. 8 He that planteth andhe that watreth are nether better then theother. Every man yet shall receave his re-warde accordynge to his laboure. 9We aregoddis labourers ye are goddis husbandryeye are goddis byldynge. 10 Accordyngeto the grace of god geven vnto me as awyse bylder have I layde the foundacionAnd another bylt theron But let every mantake hede how he bildeth apon. 11 Forother foundacion can no man laye thenthat which is layde which is Iesus Christ.12 Yf eny man bilde on this foundaciongolde silver precious stones tymber hayeor stoble: 13 every mannes worke shallappere. For the daye shall declare it andit shalbe shewed in fyre. And ye fyre shalltrye euery mannes worke what it is. 14 Yfeny mannes worke that he hath bylt aponbyde he shall receave a rewarde. 15 If enymanes worke burne he shall suffre losse:but he shalbe safe him selfe: neverthelesseyet as it were thorow fyre. 16 Are ye notware that ye are the temple of god and howthat the sprete of goddwelleth in you? 17Yfenyman defyle the temple of god him shallgod destroye. For the temple of god is holywhich temple ye are. 18Let noman deceavehim silfe. Yf eny man seme wyse amongeyou let him be a fole in this worlde thathe maye be wyse. 19 For the wisdome ofthis worlde is folysshnes with god. For itis written: he compaseth the wyse in theircraftynes. 20And agayne God knoweth thethoughtes of the wyse that they be vayne.21 Therfore let no man reioyce in men. Forall thinges are youres 22whether it be Paulother Apollo other Cephas: whether it bethe worlde other lyfe other deeth whetherthey be present thinges or thinges to come:all are youres 23 and ye are Christes andChrist is goddis.

41 Let men this wyse esteme vs even

as the ministers of Christ and disposers

1 Corinthians 4:2 155 1 Corinthians 5:13of the secretes of God. 2 Furthermore itis requyred of the disposers that they befounde faithfull. 3 With me is it but avery smal thinge that I shuld be iudged ofyou ether of (mans daye) No I iudge notmyn awne selfe. 4 I know nought by myselfe: yet am I not therby iustified. Itis the Lorde that iudgeth me. 5 Therforeiudge no thinge before the tyme vntillthe Lorde come which will lighten thingesthat are hyd in darcknes and open thecounsels of the hertes. And then shallevery man have prayse of God. 6 Thesethinges brethren I have described in mynawne person and Apollos for youre sakesthat ye myght learne by vs that no mancounte of him selfe beyonde that which isabove written: that one swell not agaynstanother for eny mans cause. 7 For whopreferreth the? What hast thou that thouhast not receaved? Yf thou have receavedit why reioysest thou as though thou had-dest not receaved it? 8 Now ye are full:now ye are made rych: ye raygne as kingeswith out vs: and I wold to god ye dydraygne that we might raygne with you.9 Me thinketh that God hath set forth vswhich are Apostles for the lowest of all asit were men appoynted to deeth. For weare a gasyngestocke vnto the worlde andto the angels and to men. 10 We are folesfor Christes sake and ye are wyse thorowChrist. We are weake and ye are stroge. Yeare honorable and we are despised. 11Evenvnto this daye we honger and thyrst andare naked and are boffetted with fistes andhave no certayne dwellinge place 12 andlaboure workinge with oure awne hondes.We are revysed and yet we blesse. We arepersecuted and suffer it. 13 We are evyllspoken of and we praye. We are madeas it were the filthynes of the worlde theofscowringe of all thinges even vnto thistyme. 14 I write not these thinges to shameyou: but asmy beloved sonnes I warne you.15 For though ye have ten thousande in-structours in Christ: yet have ye not manyfathers. In Christ Iesu I have begotten youthorowe the gospell. 16Wherfore I desyreyou to folowe me. 17 For this cause have Isent vnto youTimotheuswhich ismydearesonne and faithfull in the Lordewhich shallput you in remembraunce of my wayes

which I have in Christ even as I teacheevery where in all congregacions. 18 Someswell as though I wolde come no more atyou. 19 But I will come to you shortely yfGod will: and will knowe not the wordes ofthe which swell but the power: 20 for thekyngdome of God is not in wordes but inpower. 21What will ye? Shall I come vntoyou with a rodde or els in love and in thesprete of mekenes?

51 There goeth a commen sayinge that

ther is fornicacion amonge you and sochefornicacion as is not once named amongethe gentyls: that one shuld have his fatherswyfe. 2 And ye swell and have not rathersorowed that hewhich hath done this dedemyght be put from amonge you. 3 For Iverely as absent in body even so presentin sprete have determyned all redy (asthough I were present) of him that hathdone this dede 4 in the name of oure LordeIesu Christ when ye are gaddered togedderand my sprete with the power of the LordeIesus Christ 5 to deliver him vnto Satanfor the destruccion of the flesshe that thesprete maye be saved in the daye of theLorde Iesus. 6Youre reioysinge is not good:knowe ye not that a lytle leve sowreth thewhole lompe of dowe. 7 Pourge therforethe olde leven that ye maye be newe doweas ye are swete breed. For Christ oureesterlambe is offered vp for vs. 8 Therforelet vs kepe holy daye not with olde levenether with the leven of maliciousnes andwickednes: but with the swete breed ofpurenes and truth. 9 I wrote vnto you ina pistle that ye shuld not company withfornicatours. 10 And I meant not at all ofthe fornicatours of this worlde ether of thecoveteous or of extorsioners ether of theydolaters: for then must ye nedes havegone out of the worlde. 11 But now I writevnto you that ye company not togedder yfeny that is called a brother be a fornicatoror coveteous or a worshipper of ymagesether a raylar ether a dronkard or an ex-torcionar: with him that is soche se that yeeate not. 12 For what have I to do to iudgethem which are with out? Do ye not iudgethem that are with in? 13 Them that arewith out God shall iudge. Put awaye fromamonge you that evyll parson.

1 Corinthians 6:1 156 1 Corinthians 7:146

1 How dare one of you havinge busineswith another goo to lawe vnder the wickedand not rather vnder the sainctes? 2 Doye not know that the sainctes shall iudgethe worlde? If the worlde shalbe iudgedby you: are ye not good ynough to iudgesmale trifles: 3 knowe ye not how that weshall iudge the angles? How moche moremayewe iudge thinges that partayne to thelyfe? 4 If ye have iudgementes of worldelymatters take them which are despised inthe congregacion and make them iudges.5This I saye to youre shame. Is ther vtterlyno wyse man amonge you? What notone at all that can iudge bitwene brotherand brother 6 but one brother goeth tolawe with another: and that vnder thevnbelevers? 7Now therfore ther is vtterlya faute amonge you because ye goo to laweone with another. Why rather suffer yenot wronge? why rather suffre ye notyoure selves to be robbed? 8Naye ye youreselves do wronge and robbe: and that thebrethren. 9 Do ye not remember how thatthe vnrighteous shall not inheret the kyng-dome of God? Be not deceaved. For netherfornicators nether worshyppers of ymagesnether whormongers nether weaklingesnether abusars of them selves with themankynde 10nether theves nether the cov-eteous nether dronkardes nether cursedspeakers nether pillers shall inheret thekyngdome of God. 11 And soche ware yeverely: but ye are wesshed: ye are sanc-tified: ye are iustified by the name of theLorde Iesus and by the sprete of oure God.12 All thinges are lawfull vnto me: but allthinges are not proffitable. I maye do allthinges: but I will be brought vnder nomans power. 13 Meates are ordeyned forthe belly and the belly for meates: butGod shall destroy bothe it and them. Letnot the body be applied vnto fornicacionbut vnto the Lorde and the Lorde vnto thebody. 14 God hath raysed vp the Lorde andshall rayse vs vp by his power. 15 Etherremember ye not that youre bodyes arethe members of Christ? Shall I now takethe members of Christ and make them themembers of an harlot? God forbyd. 16 Doye not vnderstonde that he which cou-pleth him selfe with an harlot is become

one body? For two (saith he) shalbe oneflesshe. 17 But he that is ioyned vnto theLorde is one sprete. 18 Fle fornicacion. Allsynnes that a man dothe are with out thebody. But he that is a fornicator synnethagaynst his awne body. 19 Ether knowe yenot how that youre bodyes are the templeof the holy goost which is in you whoye have of God and how that ye are notyoure awne? 20 For ye are dearly bought.Therfore glorifie the God in youre bodyesand in youre spretes for they are goddes.

71 As concerninge the thinges wherof

ye wrote vnto me: it is good for a mannot to touche a woman. 2 Neverthelesseto avoyde fornicacion let every man havehis wyfe: and let every woman have herhusbande. 3 Let the man geve vnto thewyfe due benevolence. Lykwyse also thewyfe vnto the man. 4 The wyfe hath notpower over her awne body: but the hus-bande. And lykewyse the man hath notpower over his awne body: but the wyfe.5 Withdrawe not youre selves one fromanother excepte it be with consent for atyme for to geve youre selves to fastyngeand prayer. And afterwarde come agayneto the same thynge lest Satan tempt youfor youre incontinencye. 6 This I saye offaveour not of commaundement. 7 For Iwolde that all men were as I my selfe am:but every man hath his proper gyfte ofGod one after this maner another afterthat. 8 I saye vnto the vnmaried men andwiddowes: it is good for them yf theyabyde even as I do. 9 But and yf theycannot abstayne let them mary. For it isbetter to mary then to burne. 10 Vnto themaryed commaunde not I but the Lorde:that the wyfe separate not her selfe fromthe man. 11 Yf she separate her selfe lether remayne vnmaryed or be reconciledvnto her husbande agayne. And let notthehusbandeput awayehiswyfe fromhim.12 To the remnaunt speake I and not thelorde. Yf eny brother have a wyfe thatbeleveth not yf she be content to dwellwith him let him not put her awaye. 13Andthe woman which hath to her husbandean infidell yf he consent to dwell with herlet her not put him awaye. 14 For the

1 Corinthians 7:15 157 1 Corinthians 8:7vnbelevynge husbande is sanctified by thewyfe: and the vnbelevynge wyfe is sanc-tified by the husbande. Or els were yourechyldren vnclene: but now are they pure.15 But and yf the vnbelevynge departe lethim departe. A brother or a sister is notin subiection to soche. God hath calledvs in peace. 16 For how knowest thou owoman whether thou shalt save that manor no? Other how knowest thou o manwhether thou shalt save that woman orno? 17 but even as God hath distributed toevery man. As the lorde hath called everyperson so let him walke: and so orden I inall congregacions. 18 Yf eny man be calledbeynge circumcised let him adde nothingetherto. Yf eny be called vncircumcised: lethim not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision isnothinge vncircumcision is nothinge: butthe kepyng of the commaundmentes ofgod is altogether. 20 Let every man abydein the same state wherin he was called.21 Arte thou called a servaut? care not forit. Neverthelesse yf thou mayst be fre vseit rather. 22For he that is called in the lordebeynge a servaunt is the lordes freman.Lykwyse he that is called beynge fre isChristes servaut. 23Ye are dearly bought benot mennes seruauntes. 24Brethren let ev-erye man wherin he is called therin abydewith God. 25As concernynge virgins I haveno commaundment of the lorde: yet geve Icounsell as one that hath obtaynedmercyeof the lorde to be faythfull. 26 I supposethat it is good for the present necessite. Forit is good for a man so to be. 27 Arte thoubounde vnto awyfe? seke not to be lowsed.Arte thou lowsed from a wyfe? seke nota wyfe. 28 But and yf thou take a wyfethou synnest not. Lykwyse if a virgin maryshe synneth not. Neverthelesse soche shallhave trouble in their flesshe: but I faveryou. 29 This saye I brethren the tyme isshorte. It remayneth that they which havewives be as though they had none 30 andthey that wepe be as though thy weptnot: and they that reioyce be as thoughthey reioysed not: and they that bye beas though they possessed not: 31 and theythat vse this worlde be as though they vsedit not. For the fassion of this worlde goethawaye. 32 I wolde have you without care:the single man careth for the thinges ofthe lorde how he maye please the lorde.

33 But he that hath maried careth for thethinges of the worlde howe hemaye pleasehis wyfe. 34 There is difference bitwenea virgin and a wyfe. The single womancareth for the thinges of the lorde thatshe maye be pure both in body and alsoin sprete But she that is maryed careth forthe thinges of the worlde how she mayeplease her husband. 35 This speake I foryoure proffit not to tangle you in a snare:but for that which is honest and comlyvnto you and that ye maye quyetly cleavevnto the lorde with out separacion. 36 Ifeny man thinke that it is vncomly for hisvirgin if she passe the tyme of mariagead if so nede requyre let him do what helisteth he synneth not: let the be coupledin mariage. 37 Neverthelesse he that pur-poseth surely in his herte havynge nonenede: but hath power over his awne will:and hath so decreed in his herte that hewill kepe his virgin doth well. 38 So thenhe that ioyneth his virgin in maryage dothwell. But he that ioyneth not his virgin inmariage doth better. 39The wyfe is boundeto the lawe as longe as her husband livethIf her husbande slepe she is at liberte tomarywithwhomshewyll only in the lorde.40 But she is happiar yf she so abyde in myiudgmet And I thinke verely that I have thesprete of God.

81 To speake of thinges dedicate vnto

ydols we are sure that we all have knowl-edge. knowledge maketh a man swell: butlove edifieth. 2 If eny man thinke that heknoweth eny thinge he knoweth nothyngeyet as he ought to knowe. 3 But yf enyman love god the same is knowen of him.4 To speake of meate dedicat vnto ydolswe are sure that ther is none ydoll in theworlde and that ther is none other god butone. 5 And though ther be that are calledgoddes whether in heven other in erth (asther be goddes many and lordes many)6 yet vnto vs is there but one god whichis the father of whom are all thinges andwe in him: and one lorde Iesus Christ bywhom are all thinges and we by him. 7 Butevery man hath not knowledge. For somesuppose that ther is an ydoll vntyll this

1 Corinthians 8:8 158 1 Corinthians 9:27houre and eate as of a thinge offered vntothe ydole and so their consciences beyngeyet weake are defyled. 8Meate maketh vsnot acceptable to god. Nether yf we eatearewe the better. Nether yf we eate not arewe the worsse. 9 But take hede that yourelibertie cause not the weake to faule. 10 Foryf some man se ye which hast knowledgesit at meate in the ydoles temple shall notthe conscience of hym which is weake beboldened to eate those thinges which areoffered vnto the ydole? 11 And so thorowthy knowledge shall the weake brotherperisshe for whom christ dyed. 12When yesynne so agaynst the brethren andwoundetheir weake consciences ye synne agaynstChrist. 13 Wherfore yf meate hurt mybrother I will eate no flesshe whill theworlde stondeth because I will not hurtemy brother.

91 Am I not an Apostle? am I not fre?

have I not sene Iesus Christ oure lorde? Arenot ye my worke in the lorde. 2 Yf I benot an Apostle vnto other yet am I vntoyou. For the seale of myne Apostleshippeare ye in the lorde. 3Myne answer to themthat axe me is this. 4 Have we not powerto eate and to drynke? 5 Ether have we notpower to leade about a sister to wyfe as welas other Apostles and as the brethren ofthe lorde and Cephas? 6 Ether only I andBarnabas have not power this to do? 7whogoeth a warfare eny tyme at his awne cost?who planteth a vynearde and eateth not ofthe frute? Who fedeth a flocke and eatethnot of the mylke? 8 Saye I these thingesafter the manner of men? Or sayth not thelawe the same also? 9 For it ys written inthe lawe of Moses. Thou shall not mosellthe mouth of the oxe that treadeth out thecorne. Doth God take thought for oxen?10 Ether sayth he it not all to gedder foroure sakes? For oure sakes no doute thisis written: that he which eareth shuld earein hope: and that he which thressheth inhope shuld be parttaker of his hope. 11 Yfwe sowe vnto you spirituall thynges: is ita greate thynge yf we reepe youre carnallthynges 12 Yf other be parttakers of thispower over you? wherfore are not werather. Neverthelesse we have not vsedthis power: but suffre all thinges lest we

shuld hynder the gospell of Christ. 13 Doye not vnderstoder how that they whichminister in the temple have their fyndyngeof the temple? And they which wayte atthe aulter are partakers with the aultre?14 Even so also dyd the lorde ordayne thatthey which preache the gospell shuld liveof the gospell. 15 But I have vsed none ofthese thinges. Netherwrote I these thingesthat it shuld be so done vnto me. For itwere better for me to dye the that enymanshould take this reioysinge from me. 16 Inthat I preache the gospell I have nothingeto reioyce of. For necessite is put vntome. Wo is it vnto me yf I preache notthe gospell. 17 If I do it with a good willI have a rewarde. But yf I do it agaynstmy will an office is committed vnto me.18 What is my rewarde then? Verely thatwhen I preache the gospell I make thegospell of Christ fre that I misvse notmyneauctorite in the gospel 19 For though I befre from all men yet have I made my silfeservaunt vnto all men that I myght wynnethe moo. 20 Vnto the Iewes I became asa Iewe to winne the Iewes. To the thatwere vnder the lawewas Imade as though Ihad bene vnder the lawe to wynne the thatwere vnder the lawe. 21 To them that werewithout lawe became I as though I hadbenewithout lawe (when Iwas notwithoutlawe as perteyninge to god but vnder alawe as concerninge Christ) to wynne thethat were without lawe. 22 To the weakebecame I as weake to wynne the weake. Inall thinge I fassioned my silfe to all men tosave at the lest waye some. 23 And this Ido for the gospels sake that I might havemy parte therof. 24 Perceave ye not howthat they which runne in a course runneall yet but one receaveth the rewarde. Sorunne that ye maye obtayne. 25 Euery manthat proveth masteryes abstaineth fromall thinges. And they do it to obtaynea corruptible croune: but we to obtaynean vncorruptible croune: 26 I therfore sorunne not as at an vncertayne thinge. Sofyght I not as one that beateth the ayer:27 but I tame my body and bringe it intosubieccion lest after that I have preachedto other I my silfe shuld be a castawaye.

1 Corinthians 10:1 159 1 Corinthians 11:610

1 Brethren I wolde not that ye shuld beignoraunt of this how that oure fatherswere all vnder a cloude and all passedthorow the see 2 and were all baptisedvnder Moses in the cloude and in thesee: 3 and dyd all eate of one spirituallmeate 4 and did all drincke of one manerof spirituall drincke. And they drankeof that spretuall rocke that folowed themwhich rocke was Christ. 5 But in many ofthem had god no delite. For they wereoverthrowen in the wildernes. 6 These areensamples to vs thatwe shuld not lust afterevyll thinges as they lusted. 7 Nether beye worshippers of Images as were someof them accordynge as it is written: Thepeople sate doune to eate and drynke androse vp agayne to playe. 8 Nether let vscomit fornicacion as some of them com-mitted fornicacion and were destroyed inone daye .xxiii. thousande. 9 Nether letvs tempte Christ as some of them temptedand were destroyed of serpentes. 10Nethermurmure ye as some of them murmuredand were destroyed of the destroyer. 11Allthese thinges happened vnto them for en-samples and were written to put vs inremembraunce whom the endes of theworlde are come apon. 12Wherfore let hymthat thynketh he stodeth take hede leasthe fall. 13 There hath none other tempta-cion taken you but soche as foloweth thenature of man. But God is faythfull whichshall not suffer you to be tempted aboveyoure strenght: but shall in the myddesof the temptacion make awaye to escapeout. 14 Wherfore my deare beloued flefrom worshippynge of ydols. 15 I speakeas vnto them which have discrecion Iudgeye what I saye. 16 Ys not the cuppe ofblessinge which we blesse partakynge ofthe bloude of Christ? ys not the breedwhich we breake partetakynge of the bodyof Christ? 17 because that we (though webe many) yet are one breed and one bodyein as moch as we all are partetakers of onebreed. 18 Beholde Israhell which walkethcarnally. Are not they which eate of thesacrifyse partetakers of the aultre? 19Whatsaye I then? that the ymage is eny thinge?or that it which is offered to ymages iseny thinge? 20 Nay but I saye that those

thinges which the gentyle offer they offerto devyls and not to god. And I woldenot that ye shuld have fellishippe with thedevils. 21 Ye cannot drincke of the cup ofthe lorde and of that cup of the deuyls. Yecannot be partetakers of the lordes tableand of the table of deuelles. 22 Ether shallwe provoke the lorde? Or are we strongerthen he? 23 All thynges are laufull vntome but all thynges are not expedient. Allthynges are lawfull to me but all thingesedifye not. 24 Let no man seke his awneproffet: but let every man seke anotherswelthe. 25 What soever is solde in themarket that eate and axe no questions forconscience sake. 26For the erth is the lordisand all that therein is. 27 Yf eny of themwhich beleve not bid you to a feest and yfye be disposed to goo what soever is seetbefore you: eate axinge no question forconscience sake. 28 But and yf eny mansaye vnto you: this is dedicate vnto ydolseate not of it for his sake that shewed it andfor hurtynge of conscience. The erth is thelordes and all that there in is. 29ConscienceI saye not thyne: but the conscience of thatother. For why shuld my liberte be iudgedof another manes conscience: 30 For yf Itake my parte with thakes: why am I evellspoken of for that thynge wherfore I gevethankes. 31 Whether therfore ye eate ordryncke or what soever ye do do all to theprayse of God. 32 Se that ye geve occasionof evell nether to the Iewes nor yet to thegentyls nether to the congregacion of god:33 euen as I please all men in all thinges notsekyngemyne awne proffet but the proffetof many that they myght be saved.

111 Foloweme as I do Christ. 2 I commende

you brethren that ye remember me in allthinges and kepe the ordinaunces even asI delyvered them to you. 3 I wolde ye knewthat Christ is the heed of every man. Andthe man is the womans heed. And God isChristes heed. 4 Every man prayinge orprophesyinge havynge eny thynge on hisheed shameth his heed. 5 Every womanthat prayeth or prophisieth bare heddeddishonesteth hyr heed. For it is even allone and the very same thinge even asthough she were shaven. 6 If the woman

1 Corinthians 11:7 160 1 Corinthians 12:12be not covered lett her also be shoren. Ifit be shame for a woman to be shorne orshave let her cover her heed. 7 A manought not to cover his heed for as mocheas he is the image and glory of God. Thewoman is the glory of the man. 8 For theman is not of the woman but the womanof the man. 9Nether was the man createdfor the womans sake: but the woman forthe mannes sake. 10 For this cause oughtthe woman to have power on her heed forthe angels sakes. 11 Neverthelesse netheris the man with oute the woman netherthe woman with out the man in the lorde.12 For as the woman is of the man even sois the man by the woman: but all is of God.13 Iudge in youre selves whether it be colythat a woman praye vnto god bare heeded.14 Or els doth not nature teach you thatit is a shame for a man if he have longeheere: 15 and a prayse to a woman yf shehave longe heere? For her heere is gevenher to cover her with all. 16 If there be enyman amonge you that lusteth to stryve lethim knowe that we have no soche customenether the congregacions of God. 17 ThisI warne you of and commende not that yecome to gedder: not after a better manerbut after a worsse. 18 Fyrst of all when yecome togedder in the congregacion I hearethat ther is dissencion amonge you: and Ipartly beleve it. 19 For ther must be sectesamonge you that they which are perfecteamonge you myght be knowen. 20 Whenye come to gedder a man cannot eate thelordes supper. 21 For every man begynnetha fore to eate his awne supper. And one ishongrye and another is dronken. 22 Haveye not houses to eate and to drinke in? Orels despyse ye the congregacion of god andshame them that have not? What shall Isaye vnto you? shall I prayse you: In thisprayse I you not. 23That which I delyveredvnto you I receaved of the lorde. For thelorde Iesus the same nyght in which hewas betrayed toke breed: 24 and thankedand brake and sayde. Take ye and eateye: this is my body which is broken foryou. This do ye in the remembraunce ofme. 25 After the same maner he toke thecup when sopper was done sayinge. Thiscup is the newe testament in my bloude.This do as oft as ye drynke it in the re-membraunce of me. 26 For as often as ye

shall eate this breed and drynke this cup yeshall shewe the lordes deeth tyll he come.27 Wherfore whosoevere shall eate of thisbred or drynke of the cup vnworthelyshalbe giltie of the body and bloud of theLorde 28 Let a man therfore examen himsilfe and so let hi eate of the breed anddrynke of the cup. 29 For he that eateth ordrinketh vnworthely eateth and drynkethhis awne damnacion because hemaketh nodifference of the lordis body. 30 For thiscause many are weake and sicke amongeyou and many slepe. 31 Yf we had trulyiudged oure selves we shuld not have beneiudged. 32 But when we are iudged of thelorde we are chastened because we shuldnot be daned with the worlde. 33Wherforemy brethren when ye come to gedder toeate tary one for another. 34 Yf eny manhonger let hi eate at home that ye comenot togedder vnto condemnacion. Otherthinges will I set in order when I come.

121 In spirituall thinges brethren I wolde

not have you ignoraunt. 2 Ye knowe thatye were gentyls and went youre wayesvnto domme ydoles even as ye were ledde.3Wherfore I declare vnto you that no manspeakynge in the sprete of god defiethIesus. Also no man can saye that Iesus isthe lorde: but by the holy goost. 4 Therare diversities of gyftes verely yet but onesprete. 5 And ther are differences of ad-ministracions and yet but one lorde. 6Andther are divers maners of operacions andyet but one God which worketh all thingesthat are wrought in all creatures. 7 Thegyftes of the sprete are geven to everyman to proffit ye congregacion. 8 To oneis geven thorow the spirite the vtteraunceof wisdome? To another is geven the vt-teraunce of knowledge by ye same sprete.9 To another is geuen fayth by the samesprete. To another the gyftes of healyngeby the same sprete. 10 To another powerto do myracles. To another prophesie? Toanother iudgement of spretes. To anotherdivers tonges. To another the interpreta-cion of toges. 11And these all worketh eventhe silfe same sprete devydynge to everyman severall gyftes even as he will. 12 Foras the body is one and hathmanymembres

1 Corinthians 12:13 161 1 Corinthians 14:6and all the membres of one body thoughthey be many yet are but one body: evenso is Christ. 13 For in one sprete are we allbaptysed to make one body whether we beIewes or getylswhetherwe be bonde or fre:andhave all dronke of one sprete. 14For thebody is not one member but many. 15 Yfthe fote saye: I am not the honde therforeI am not of the body: is he therfore notof the body: 16 And if the eare saye I amnot the eye: therfore I am not of the body:is he therfore not of the body? 17 If allthe body were an eye where were then theeare? If all were hearynge: where were thesmellynge? 18 But now hath god disposedthe membres every one of them in thebody at his awne pleasure. 19 If they wereall one member: where were the body?20Now are thermanymembres yet but onebody. 21And the eye can not saye vnto thehonde I have no nede of the: nor the heedalso to the fete. I have no nede of you.22 Ye rather a greate deale those membresof the body which seme to be most febleare most necessary. 23 And apon thosemembres of that body which we thinkelest honest put we most honestie on. Andoure vngodly parties have most beauty on.24 For oure honest members nede it not.But God hath so disposed the body ad hathgeven most honoure to that parte whichlaked 25 lest there shuld be eny stryfe in thebody: but that the members shuld indif-feretly care one for another. 26 And yf onemember suffer all suffer with him: yf onemember be had in honoure all membersbe glad also. 27 Ye are the body of Christand members one of another. 28 And Godhath also ordeyned in the congregacionfyrst the Apostels secondarely prophetesthyrdly teachers then the that domiracles:after that the gyftes of healynge helpersgoverners diversite of tonges. 29 Are allApostles? Are all Prophetes? Are all teach-ers? Are all doars of miracles? 30 Have allthe gyftes of healinge? Do all speake withtonges? Do all interprete? 31 Covet afterthe best giftes. Amd yet shewe I vnto you amoare excellent waye.

131 Though I spake with the tonges of me

and angels and yet had no love I were even

as soundinge brasse: or as a tynklyngeCymball. 2 And though I coulde prophesyand vnderstode all secretes and all knowl-edge: yee yf I had all fayth so that I couldemove mountayns oute of ther places andyet had no love I were nothynge. 3 Andthough I bestowed all my gooddes to fedethe poore and though I gave my body eventhat I burned and yet had no love it pro-feteth me nothinge. 4 Love suffreth longeand is corteous. Love envieth not. Lovedoth not frowardly swelleth not 5 dealethnot dishonestly seketh not her awne isnot provoked to anger thynketh not evyll6 reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioysethin the trueth 7 suffreth all thynge belevethall thynges hopeth all thynges endureth inall thynges. 8 Though that prophesyingefayle other tonges shall cease )or knowl-edge vanysshe awaye yet love falleth neverawaye. 9 For oure knowledge is vnparfectand oure prophesyinge is vnperfet. 10 Butwhen that which is parfect is come thenthat which is vnparfet shall be done awaye.11When I was a chylde I spake as a chyldeI vnderstode as a childe I ymagened as achylde. But assone as I was a man I putawaye childesshnes. 12 Now we se in aglasse even in a darke speakynge: but thenshall we se face to face. Now I knowevnparfectly: but then shall I knowe evenas I am knowen. 13Now abideth fayth hopeand love even these thre: but the chefe ofthese is love.

141 Labour for love and covet spretuall

giftes: and most chefly for to prophesye.2 For he that speaketh with toges speakethnot vnto men but vnto god for no manheareth him how be it in the sprete hespeaketh misteries. 3 But he that proph-esieth speaketh vnto men to edifyinge toexhortacion and to comforte. 4 He thatspeaketh with tonges proffiteth him silfe:he that prophesyeth edifieth the congre-gacion. 5 I wolde that ye all spake withtonges: but rather that ye prophesied.For greater is he that prophisieth? thenhe that speaketh with tonges except heexpounde it also that the congregacionmaye have edifyinge. 6 Now brehren ifI come vnto you speakige with tonges:

1 Corinthians 14:7 162 1 Corinthians 15:1what shall I profit you excepte I speakevnto you other by revelacion or knowledgeor prophesyinge or doctrine. 7 Moreoverwhen thinges with out lyfe geve sounde:whether it be a pype or an harpe: exceptthey make a distinccion in the soundes:how shall it be knowen what is pyped orharped? 8 And also if the trope geve anvncertayne voyce who shall prepare himsilfe to fyght? 9 Even so lykwyse whenye speake with toges excepte ye speakewordes that have signification how shallthat be vnderstonde what is spoke? Forye shall but speake in the ayer. 10 Manykyndes of voyces are in the worlde andnone of them are with out signification.11 If I knowe not what the voyce meanethI shalbe vnto him that speaketh an alient:and and he that speaketh shalbe an alientvnto me 12 Even so ye (for as moche as yecovet spretuall giftes) seke that ye mayehave plentye vnto the edifyinge of thecongregacion. 13 Wherfore let him thatspeaketh with tonges praye that he mayeinterpret also. 14 If I praye with tonge mysprete prayeth: but my mynde is with outfrute. 15 What is it then? I will prayewith the sprete ad will praye with themynde also. I will singe with the spreteand will singe with the mynde also. 16 Forels when thou blessest with the spretehow shall he that occupieth the roume ofthe vnlearned saye amen at thy gevingeof thankes seynge he vnderstondeth notwhat thou sayest. 17 Thou verely gevestthankes well but the other is not edyfied.18 I thanke my god I speake with togesmoare then ye all. 19 Yet had I lever inthe congregacion to speake five wordeswith my mynde to the informacio of otherrather then ten thousandewordeswith thetonge. 20 Brethren be not chyldre in witte.How be it as concerninge maliciousnes bechyldre: but in witte be perfet. 21 In thelawe it is writtenwith other toges andwithother lyppes wyll I speake vnto this peopleand yet for all that will they not heare mesayth the Lorde. 22 Wherfore tonges arefor a signe not to them that beleve: butto them that beleve not. Contrary wyseprophesyinge serveth not for them thatbeleve not: but for them which beleve.

23Yf therfore when all the congregacion iscome to gedder and all speake with tongesther come in they that are vnlearned orthey which beleve not: will they not sayethat ye are out of youre wittes? 24 Butand yf all prophesy and ther come in onethat beleveth not or one vnlearned he isrebuked of all men and is iudged of everyman: 25 and so are the secretes of his hertopened and so falleth he doune on his faceand worshippeth God and sayth that Godis with you in dede. 26 How is it thenbrethren? When ye come to gedder ev-ery man hath his songe hath his doctrynehath his tonge hath his revelacion hathhis interpretacion. Let all thinges be donevnto edifyinge. 27 If eny man speake withtonges let it be two at once or at the mostthre at once and that by course: and letanother interprete it. 28 But yf ther beno interpreter let him kepe silence in thecongregacion and let him speake to himselfe and to God. 29 Let the Prophetesspeake two at once or thre at once andlet other iudge. 30 Yf eny revelacion bemade to another that sitteth by let thefyrst holde his peace. 31 For ye maye allprophesy one by one that all maye learneand all maye have comforte. 32 For thespretes of the Prophetes are in the powerof the Prophetes. 33 For God is not causerof stryfe: but of peace as he is in all othercongregacions of the saynctes. 34Let yourewyves kepe silence in the congregacions.For it is not permitted vnto them to speake:but let them be vnder obedience as sayththe lawe. 35 If they will learne enythingelet the axe their husbandes at home. Forit is a shame for wemen to speake in thecongregacion. 36 Spronge the worde of godfrom you? Ether came it vnto you only?37 Yf eny man thinke him sylfe a prophetether spirituall: let him vnderstonde whatthinges I write vnto you. For they arethe comaundementes of the Lorde. 38 Butand yf eny man be ignorant let him beignorant. 39 Wherfore brethren covet toprophesye and forbyd not to speake withtonges. 40 And let all thinges be donehonestly and in order.

151 Brethren as pertayninge to the gospell

1 Corinthians 15:2 163 1 Corinthians 15:43which I preached vnto you which ye havealso accepted and in the which ye continue2by which also ye are saved: I do you to witafter what maner I preached vnto you yfye kepe it except ye have beleved in vayne.3 For fyrst of all I delivered vnto you thatwhich I receaved: how that Christ dyedfor oure synnes agreinge to the scriptures:4 and that he was buried and that he aroseagayne the thyrd daye accordinge to thescriptures: 5 and that he he was sene ofCephas then of the twelve. 6 After that hewas sene of moo the five hodred brethrenat once: of which many remayne vnto thisdaye and many are fallen aslepe. 7 Afterthat appered he to Iames then to all theApostles. 8And last of all he was sene ofmeas of one that was borne out of due tyme.9 For I am the lest of all the Apostles whicham not worthy to be called an Apostlebecause I persecuted the congregacion ofGod. 10 But by the grace of God I am that Iam. Andhis gracewhich is inmewas not invayne: but I labored moare aboundauntlythen they all not I but the grace of Godwhich is with me. 11 Whether it wereI or they so we preache and so have yebeleved. 12 If Christ be preached how thathe rose fromdeeth: how saye some that areamonge you that ther is no resurreccionfromdeeth? 13 If ther beno rysynge agaynefrom deeth: then is Christ not rysen. 14 IfChrist be not rysen then is oure preachingevayne and youre faith is also in vayne. 15Yeand we are founde falce witnesses of God.For we have testifyed of God how that heraysyd vp Christ whom he raysyd not vp yfit be so that the deed ryse not vp agayne.16 For yf the deed ryse not agayne thenis Christ not rysen agayne. 17 If it besothat Christ rose not then is youre faythin vayne and yet are ye in youre synnes.18And therto they which are fallen a slepein Christ are perished. 19 If in this lyfe onlywe beleve on christ then are we of all menthe miserablest. 20 But now is Christ rysenfrom deeth and is become the fyrst frutesof them that slept. 21 For by a man camedeeth and by a man came resurreccionfrom deeth. 22 For as by Adam all dye:Even so by Christ shall all be made alive23 and every man in his awne order. Thefyrst is Christ then they that are Christis at

his commynge. 24 Then cometh the endewhen he hath delivered vp the kyngdometo God the father when he hath put douneall rule auctorite and power. 25For hemustraygne tyll he have put all his enemyesvnder his fete. 26 The last enemye thatshalbe destroyed is deeth. 27 For he hathput all thinges vnder his fete. But whenhe sayth all thinges are put vnder him itis manyfest that he is excepted which dydput all thinges vnder him. 28 When allthinges are subdued vnto him: then shallthe sonne also him selfe be subiecte vntohim that put all thinges vnderhim thatGodmaye be all in all thinges. 29 Ether els whatdo they which are baptised over the deedyf the deed ryse not at all? Why are theythen baptised over the deed? 30 Ye andwhy stonde we in ieoperdy every houre?31By oure reioysinge which I have in ChristIesu oure Lorde I dye dayly. 32 That I havefought with beastes at Ephesus after themaner of men what avautageth it me yfthe deed ryse not agayne? Let vs eate anddrynke to morowe we shall dye. 33 Be notdeceaved: malicious speakinges corruptegood maners. 34 Awake truely out of slepeand synne not. For some have not theknowlege of God. I speake this vnto yourerebuke. 35 But some man will saye: howaryse the deed? with what bodyes comethey in? 36 Thou fole that which thou sow-est is not quickened except it dye. 37 Andwhat sowest thow? Thow sowest not thatbody that shalbe: but bare corne (I meaneether of wheet or of some other) 38 andGod geveth it a body at his pleasure toevery seed a severall body. 39 All flessheis not one manner of flesshe: but ther isone maner flesshe of men another manerflesshe of beastes another maner flessheof fysshes and another of byrdes. 40 Therare celestiall bodyes and ther are bodyesterrestriall. But the glory of the celestiallis one and the glory of the terrestriall isanother. 41 Ther is one maner glory ofthe sonne and another glory of the moneand another glory of the starres. For onestarre differth from another in glory. 42 Sois the resurreccion of the deed. It is sowein corrupcion and ryseth in incorrupcion.43 It is sowen in dishonoure and ryseth inhonoure. It is sowe in weaknes and ryseth

1 Corinthians 15:44 164 1 Corinthians 16:24in power. 44 It is sowne a naturall body andryseth a spretuall body. Ther is a naturallbodye and ther is a spretuall body: 45 asit is written: the fyrste man Adam wasmade a livinge soule: and the last Adamwas made a quickeninge sprete. 46 Howbe it that is not fyrst which is spirituall:but that which is naturall and then thatwhich is spretuall. 47 The fyrst man is ofthe erth erthy: the seconde man is theLorde from heaven. 48As is the erthy socheare they that are erthye. And as is thehevely soche are they that are hevenly.49 And as we have borne the ymage of theerthy so shall we beare the ymage of thehevenly. 50This saye I brethren that flessheand bloud cannot inheret the kyngdome ofGod. Nether corrupcion inhereth vncor-rupcion. 51Beholde I shewe you a mystery.We shall not all slepe: but we shall all bechaunged 52 and that in a moment and inthe twinclinge of an eye at the sounde ofthe last trompe. For the trompe shall bloweand the deed shall ryse incorruptible andwe shalbe chaunged. 53For this corruptiblemust put on incorruptibilite: and thismor-tall must put on immortalite. 54When thiscorruptible hath put on incorruptibiliteand this mortall hath put on immortalite:then shalbe brought to passe the sayingethat is written. Deeth is consumed in tovictory. 55Deeth where is thy stynge? Hellwhere is thy victory? 56 The stynge ofdeeth is synne: and the strength of synneis the lawe. 57 But thankes be vnto Godwhich hath geven vs victory thorow oureLorde Iesus Christ. 58 Therfore my dearebrethren be ye stedfast and unmovablealwayes ryche in the workes of the Lordefor as moch as ye knowe how that yourelabour is not in vayne in the Lorde.

161 Of the gadderynge for the saynctes as

I have ordeyned in the congregacions ofGalacia even sodoye. 2Vpon some sondayelet every one of you put a syde at home andlaye vp what soever he thinketh mete thatther beno gaderingeswhen I come. 3WhenI am come whosoever ye shall alowe byyoure letters them will I sende to bringeyoure liberalite vnto Ierusalem. 4And yf itbe mete that I goo they shall go with me.

5 I will come vnto you after I have goneover Macedonia. For I will goo thorowoutMacedonia. 6 With you paraveture I wyllabyde awhyle: or els winter that ye mayebrynge me on my waye whyther soever Igoo. 7 I will not se you now in my passage:but I trust to abyde a whyle with you yfGod shall suffre me. 8 I will tary at Ephesusuntyll whitsontyde. 9 For a greate doreand a frutefull is opened vnto me: andther are many adversaries. 10 If Timotheuscome se that he be with out feare withyou. For he worketh the worke of theLorde as I doo. 11 Let no man despysehim: but convaye him forthe in peacethat he maye come vnto me. For I lokefor him with the brethren. 12 To speakeof brother Apollo: I greatly desyred himto come vnto you with the brethren buthis mynde was not at all to come at thistyme. How be it he will come when heshall have conveniet tyme. 13 Watche yestonde fast in the fayth auyte you lykemenand be stronge. 14 Let all youre busynesbe done in love. 15 Brethren (ye knowe thehousse of Stephana how that they are thefyrst frutes of Achaia and that they haveappoynted them selves to minister vntothe saynctes) 16 I beseche you that ye beobedient vnto soche and to all that helpeand laboure. 17 I am gladde of the comyngeof Stephana Fortunatus and Achaicus: forthat which was lackinge on youre partethey have supplied. 18 They have com-fortedmy sprete and youres. Loke therforethat ye knowe them that are soche. 19 Thecongregacions of Asia salute you. Aquilaand Priscilla salute youmoche in the Lordeand so doeth the congregacion that is intheir housse. 20All the brethren grete you.Grete ye one another with an holy kysse.21 The salutacion of me Paul with myneawne hande. 22 Yf eny man love not theLorde Iesus Christ the same be anathemamaranatha. 23The grace of the Lorde IesusChrist be with you all. 24 My love be withyou all in Christ Iesu. Amen. ‘The epistlevnto the Corinthyans sent from Philipposby Stephana and Fortunatus and Acaichusand Timotheus.’

2 Corinthians 1:1 165 2 Corinthians 2:8

THE SECOND EPISTLE OFPAUL THE APOSTLE TOTHE CORINTHIANS1 Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by

the will of God and brother Timotheus.Vnto the congregacion of God which is atCorinthum with all the saynctes which arein all Achaia. 2Grace bewith you and peacefrom God oure father and from the LordeIesus Christ. 3 Blessed be God the fatherof oure Lorde Iesus Christ the father ofmercy and the God of all comforte 4whichcomforteth vs in all oure tribulacion inso moche that we are able to comfortethem which are troubled in whatsoevertribulacion it be with the same comfortewher with we oure selves are conforted ofGod. 5 For as the affliccions of Christ arepleteous in vs even so is oure consolacionplenteous by Christ. 6Whether we be trou-bled for youre consolacion and salvacionwhich salvacion sheweth her power in thatye soffre the same affliccions which wealso suffre: or whether we be confortedfor youre consolacion and salvacion: 7 yetoure hope is stedfast for you in as mochas we know how that as ye have youreparte in affliccions so shall ye be parttakersof consolacion. 8 Brethren I wolde nothave you ignoraunt of oure trouble whichhappened vnto vs in Asia. For we weregreved out of measure passynge strengthso greatly that we despeared even of lyfe.9 Also we receaved an answer of deethin oure selves and that because we shuldnot put oure trust in oure selves: but inGod which rayseth the deed to lyfe agayne10 and which delivered vs from so gret adeeth and doth delivre. On whom we trustthat yet hereafter he will deliver 11 by thehelpe of youre prayer for vs: that by themeanes of many occasions thankes mayebe geven of many on oure behalfe for thegrace geven vnto vs. 12 Oure reioysyngeis this the testimony of oure consciencethat in synglenes and godly purenes andnot in flesshly wysdome but by the graceof God we have had oure conuersacion inthe worlde and most of all to you wardes.13 We write no nother thinges vnto youthen that ye reade and also knowe. Yeeand I trust ye shall fynde vs vnto the ende

14 even as ye have founde vs partly: for weare youre reioysynge even as ye are ouresin the daye of the Lorde Iesus. 15 And inthis confidence was I mynded the othertyme to have come vnto you that ye myghthave had yet one pleasure moare: 16 and tohave passed by you into Macedonia and tohave come agayne out of Macedonia vntoyou and to have bene ledde forth to Iewryewarde of you. 17 When I thus wyse wasmynded: dyd I vse lightnes? Or thinke Icarnally those thingeswhich I thinke? thatwith me shuld be ye ye and naye naye.18 God is faythfull: For oure preachyngevnto youwas not ye and naye. 19For Goddissonne Iesus Christ which was preachedamonge you by vs (that is to saye by meand Silvanus and Timotheus) was not yeand naye: but in him it was ye. 20 For allthe promyses of God in him are ye: and arein himAmen vnto the lawde of God thorowvs. 21 For it is God which stablissheth vsand you in Christ and hath annoynted vswhich hath also sealed vs 22and hath geventhe ernest of the sprete into oure hertes.23 I call God for a recorde vnto my soulethat forto faver you with all I came notenymoare vnto Corinthum. 24Not that webe lordes over youre fayth: but helpers ofyoure ioye. For by fayth ye stode.

21 But I determened this in my silfe that I

wolde not come agayne to you in hevines.2For yf Imake you soryewho is it that shuldmake me glad but the same which is madesory by me? 3 And I wrote this same pistlevnto you lest yf I came I shuld take hevynesof them of whom I ought to reioyce. Cer-taynly this confidence have I in you allthat my ioye is the ioye of you all. 4 Forin great affliccion and anguysshe of hert Iwrote vnto you with many teares: not tomake you sory but that ye myght perceavethe love which I have most specially vntoyou. 5 If eny man hath caused sorow thesame hath not made me sory but partely:lest I shuld greve you all. 6 It is sufficientvnto the same man that he was rebukedof many. So that now contrary wyse yeought to forgeve him and comforte him:7 lest that same persone shuld be swalowedvp with over moche hevines. 8 Wherfore

2 Corinthians 2:9 166 2 Corinthians 4:6I exhorte you that love maye have stregthover him. 9 For this cause verely dyd Iwrite that I myght knowe the profe of youwhether ye shuld be obediet in all thinges.10To whom ye forgeve enythinge I forgevealso. And verely if I forgeve enythinge towhom I forgave it for youre sakes forgaveI it in the roume of Christ 11 lest Satanshuld prevet vs. For his thoughtes are notvnknowen vnto vs. 12 When I was cometo Troada for Christes gospels sake (anda great dore was openned vnto me of theLorde) 13 I had no rest inmy sprete becauseI founde not Titus my brother: but tokemy leave of them and went awaye intoMacedonia. 14 Thankes be vnto God whichalwayes geveth vs the victorie in Christ andopeneth the saver of his knowledge by vsin every place. 15 For we are vnto Godthe swete savoure of Christ both amongethem that are saved and also amonge themwhich perisshe. 16 To the one parte arewe the savoure of deeth vnto deeth. Andvnto the other parte are we the savoure oflyfe vnto lyfe. And who is mete vnto thesethinges? 17 For we are not as many arewhich choppe and chaungewith thewordeof God: but even oute of purenes and bythe power of God and in the sight of Godso speake we in Christ.

31Webegyn to prayse oure selves agayne.

Nede we as some other of pistles of rec-ommendacion vnto you? or letters ofrecommendacion from you? 2 Ye are ourepistle written in oure hertes which is vn-derstonde and reed of all men 3 in that yeare knowen how that ye are the pistle ofChristministred by vs andwritten notwithynke: but with the sprete of the livyngeGod not in tables of stone but in flesshlytables of the herte. 4 Suche trust havewe thorow Christ to god ward 5 not thatwe are sufficient of oure selves to thinkeenythinge as it were of oure selves: butoure ablenes cometh of God 6 which hathmade vs able to minister the newe testa-ment not of the letter but of the sprete.For the letter kylleth but the sprete gevethlyfe. 7Yf the ministracion of deeth thorowthe letters figured in stones was gloriousso that the chyldren of Israel coulde not

beholde the face of Moses for the gloryof his countenauce (which glory never-thelesse is done awaye) 8 why shall notthe ministracion of the sprete be mochemore glorious? 9 For if the ministringe ofcondempnacion be glorious: moche moredo the the ministracion of rightewesnesexcede in glory. 10 For no dout that whichwas there glorified is not once glorified inrespecte of this excedynge glory. 11 Thenif that which is destroyed was gloriousmoche more shall that which remaynethbe glorious. 12 Seynge then that we havesoche trust we vse gret boldnes 13 and donot as Moses which put a vayle over hisface that the children of Israel shuld not sefor what purpose that served which is putawaye. 14 But their myndes were blinded.For untill this daye remayneth the samecoveringe vntake awaye in the olde testa-ment when they reade it which in Christis put awaye. 15 But even vnto this dayewhen Moses is redde the vayle hangethbefore their hertes. 16Neverthelesse whenthey tourne to the Lorde the vayle shalbetaken awaye. 17 The Lorde no dout is asprete. And where the sprete of the Lordeis there is libertie. 18 But we all beholdethe glorye of the Lorde with his face openand are chaunged vnto the same similitudefromglory to glory even of the sprite of theLorde.

41 Therfore seinge that we have soche

an office even as mercy is come on vswe faynte not: 2 but have cast from vsthe clokes of vnhonestie and walke not incraftines nether corrupte we the worde ofGod: but walke in open trueth and reporteoure selves to every mannes conscience inthe sight of God. 3 Yf oure Gospell be yethyd it is hid amonge them that are lost 4 inwhom the god of this worlde hath blyndedthe myndes of them which beleve not lestthe light of the glorious gospell of Christwhich is the ymage of god shuld shynevnto them. 5 For we preache not oureselves but Christ Iesus to be the Lorde andoure selves youre servautes for Iesus sake.6 For it is God that commauded the light toshyne out of darcknes which hath shynedin oure hertes for to geve the light of the

2 Corinthians 4:7 167 2 Corinthians 5:21knowledge of the glorie of God in the faceof Iesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasurein erthe vessels that the excellent powerof it myght appere to be of God and not ofvs. 8We are troubled on every side yet arewe not with out shyft. We are in povertie:but not vtterly without somwhat. 9We arepersecuted: but are not forsake. We arecast doune: neverthelesse we perisshe not.10 And we all wayes beare in oure bodyesthe dyinge of the Lorde Iesus that the lyfeof Iesumyght appere in oure bodyes. 11Forwe which live are alwayes delyvered vntodeeth for Iesus sake that the lyfe also ofIesu myght appere in oure mortall flesshe.12 So then deeth worketh in vs and lyfe inyou. 13 Seynge then that we have the samesprete of fayth accordinge as it is written:I beleved and therfore have I spoken. Wealso beleve and therfore speake. 14 For weknowe that he which raysed vp the LordeIesus shall rayse vp vs also by the meanesof Iesus and shall seet vs with you. 15For allthinges do I for youre sakes that the plen-teous grace by thankes geve of many mayeredounde to the prayse of god. 16Wherforewe are not weried but though oure vttwardman perisshe yet the inwarde man is re-newed daye by daye. 17 For oure excedingetribulacion which is momentany and lightprepareth an excedinge and an eternallwayght of glorye vnto vs 18 whill we lokenot on the thynges which are sene buton the thynges which are not sene. Forthinges which are sene are temporall: butthynges which are not sene are eternall

51 We knowe suerly yf oure erthy man-

cion wherin we now dwell were destroyedthat we have a bildinge ordeyned of godan habitacion not made with hondes buteternall in heven. 2 And herefore sigh wedesyringe to be clothed with ouremansionwhich is from heven: 3 so yet if that webe founde clothed and not naked. 4 Foras longe as we are in this tabernacle wesigh and are greved for we wold not bevnclothed but wolde be clothed apon thatmortalite myght be swalowed vp of lyfe.5He that hath ordeyned vs for this thyngeys god which very same hath geven vntovs the ernest of the sprete. 6 Therfore we

are alwaye of good chere and knowe wellthat as longe as we are at home in the bodywe are absent from God. 7 For we walke infayth and se not. 8Neverthelesse we are ofgood comforte and had lever to be absentfrom the body and to be present with thelorde. 9Wherfore whether we be at homeor from home we endeuoure oure selvesto please him. 10 For we must all apperebefore the iudgement seate of Christ thatevery man maye receave the workes ofhis body accordynge to that he hath donewhether it be good or bad? 11 Seyngethen that we knowe how the lorde is to befeared we fare fayre with men. For we areknowen wel ynough vnto God. I trust alsothat we are knowen in youre consciences.12 We prayse not oure selves agayne vntoyou but geve you an occasion to reioyce ofvs that ye maye have some what agaynstthe whych reioyce in the face and notin the hert. 13 For yf we be to ferventto God are we to fervent. Yf we kepemeasure for youre cause kepe we measure.14 For the love of Christ costrayneth vsbe cause we thus iudge yf one be deedfor all that then are all deed 15 and thathe dyed for all that they which live shuldnot hence forth live vnto them selves butvnto hym whith died for them and roseagayne. 16 Wherfore henceforth knowewe no man after the flesshe. In somochethough we have knowe Christ after theflesshe now hence forthe knowe we hymso no more. 17 Therfore yf eny man be inChrist he is a newe creature. Olde thyngesare passed awaye beholde all thinges arebe come newe. 18Neverthelesse all thingesare of god which hath reconciled vs vntohim sylfe by Iesus Christ and hath gevenvnto vs the office to preach the atonement.19For godwas in Christ andmade agrementbitwene the worlde and hym sylfe andimputed not their synnes vnto them: andhath committed to vs the preachynge ofthe atonment. 20Now then are wemessen-gers in the roume of Christ: even as thoughGod did beseche you thorow vs: So prayewe you in Christes stede that ye be atonewith God: 21 for he hath made him to besynne for vswhich kneweno synne thatweby his meanes shuld be that rightewesneswhich before God is aloved.

2 Corinthians 6:1 168 2 Corinthians 7:146

1 We as helpers therfore exhorte youthat ye receave not the grace of god in(vayne) 2 For he saith: I have hearde thein a tyme accepted: and in the daye ofsaluacion have I suckered the. Beholdenow is that well accepted tyme: beholdenow is that daye of saluacion. 3 Let vsgeve no man occasion of evyll that in oureoffice be founde no faute: 4 but in allthynges let vs behave oure selves as theministers of God. In moche pacience inaffliccions in necessite in anguysshe 5 instrypes in presonmet in stryfe in labourein watchinge in fastyng 6 in purenes inknowledge in longe sufferynge in kyndnesin the holy goost in love vnfayned 7 inthe wordes of trueth in the power of Godby the armoure of rightewesnes on theright honde and on the lyfte 8 in honoureand dishonoure in evyll reporte and goodreporte as desceauers and yet true 9 asunknowen and yet knowen: as dyinge andbeholde we yet live: as chastened and notkilled: 10 as sorowynge and yet alwayemery: as poore and yet make many ryche:as havynge nothynge and yet possessyngeall thynges. 11 O ye Corinthyans ouremouth is open vnto you. Oure herte ismade large: 12 ye are in no strayte in vsbut are in a strayte in youre awne bowelles:13 I promyse you lyke rewarde with me asto my childre. Set youreselues therforeat large 14 and beare not a straugers yokewyth the vnbelevers. For what fellishippehath rightewesnes with vnrightewesnes?What company hath light with darcknes?15What concorde hath Christ with beliall?Ether what parte hath he that belevethwith an infidele? 16 how agreeth thetemple of god with ymages? And ye arethe temple of that lyuynge god as saydegod. I will dwell amonge the and walkeamonge the and wilbe their god: and theyshalbe my people. 17 Wherfore come outfrom amonge the and separate youreselues(sayth the lorde) and touche none vn-cleane thynge: so wyll I receave you 18 andwilbe a father vnto you and ye shalbe vntome sonnes and doughters sayth the lordealmyghty.

71 Seynge that we have soche promeses

derely beloved let vs clense oure selvesfrom all fylthynes of the flesshe and spreteand growe vp to full holynes in the feareof God. 2 Vnderstonde vs. we have hurteno man: we have corrupte no man: wehave defrauded no man. 3 I speake notthis to condempne you: for I have shewedyou before that ye are in oure hertes todye and live with you. I am very boldeover you and reioyce greatly in you. 4 Iam filled with comforte and am excadingeioyouse in all oure tribulacions. 5For whenwe were come intoMacedonia oure flesshehad no rest but we were troubled on everysyde. Outwardewasfightynge inwardewasfeare. 6Neverthelesse God that comfortiththe abiecte comforted vs at the commyngeof Titus. 7 And not with his commyngeonly: but also with the consolacion wher-with he was comforted of you. For he toldevs youre desyre youre mornynge yourefervent mynde to me warde: so that I nowreioyce the more. 8 Wherfore though Imade you sory with a letter I repent not:though I did repent. For I perceave that thesame pistle made you sory though it werebut for a ceason. 9 But I now reioyce notthat ye were sory but that ye so sorowedthat ye repented. For ye sorowed godly:so that in nothynge ye were hurte by vs.10 For godly sorowe causeth repentauncevnto salvacion not to be repented of: whenworldly sorow causeth deeth. 11 Beholdewhat diligence this godly sorowe that yetoke hath wrought in you: yee it causedyou to cleare youre selves. It causedindignacion it caused feare that causeddesyre it caused a fervent mynde it causedpunysshment. For in all thynges ye haveshewed youreselues that ye were cleare inthat matter. 12 Wherfore though I wrotevnto you I did it not for his cause thatdid hurte nether for his cause that washurte: but that oure good mynde whychwe have towarde you in the sight of godmyght appere vnto you. 13 Therfore weare comforted because ye are comforted:yee and excedyngly the moare ioyed wefor the ioye that Titus had: because hissprete was refresshed of you all. 14 I amtherfor, not now ashamed though I bosted

2 Corinthians 7:15 169 2 Corinthians 9:4my sylfe to hym of you. For as all thyngeswhich I preached vnto you are true evenso is oure bostynge that I bosted my silfeto Titus with all founde true. 15 And nowis his inwarde affection more aboundanttowarde you when he remembreth theobedience of every one of you: how withfeare and trymblynge ye receaved hym. 16 Ireioyce that I maye be bolde over you in allthynges.

81 I do you to wit brethren of the grace of

god which is geven in the congregacions ofMacedonia 2 how that the aboundaunce oftheir reioysing is that they are tried withmoche tribulacion. And therto thoughthey were excedinge poore yet haue theygeue excedinge richly and that in sin-glenesse. 3 For to their powers (I bearerecorde) yee and beyonde their power theywere willynge of their owne accorde 4 andprayed vs with great instaunce that wewolde receave their benefite and suffrethem to be parttakers with other inminist-rynge to the saynctes. 5 And this they didnot as we loked for: but gave their awneselves fyrst to the lorde and after vnto vsby the will of God: 6 so that we couldenot but desyre Titus to acomplysshe thesame benivolence amonge you also evenas he had begonne. 7 Now therfore as yeare ryche in all parties in fayth in wordein knowledge in all fervetnes and in lovewhich ye have to vs: even so se that ye beplenteons in this benivolence. 8Thys saye Inot as commaundynge: but be cause otherare so fervent therfore prove I youre lovewhether it be perfait or no. 9 Ye knowethe liberalitie of oure lorde Iesus Christwhich though he were riche yet for youresakes be came poore: that ye thorow hispovertie myght be made ryche. 10 And Igeve counsell hereto. For this is expedientfor you which beganne not to do only: butalso to will a yeare agoo. 11 Now therforeperforme the dede: that as ther was in youa redines to will even so ye maye performethe dede of that which ye have. 12 For ifther be fyrst a willynge mynde it is ac-cepted accordynge to that a man hath andnot accordinge to that he hath not. 13 It isnotmymynde that other be set at ease and

ye brought into combraunce: 14 but thatther be egalnes nowat this tyme that youreaboundaunce sucker their lacke: that theiraboundaunce maye supplie youre lacke:that ther maye be equalite 15 agreynge tothat which is written. He that gadderedmoche had never the more aboundaunceand he that gaddered lytell had never thelesse. 16 Thankes be vnto god which putin the hert of Titus the same good myndetoward you. 17 For he accepted the requestyee rather he was so well willynge that ofhis awne accorde came vnto you. 18 Wehaue sent with him that brother whoselaude is in the gospell thorow out all thecongregacions: 19 and not so only but isalso chosen of the congregacions to be afelowe with vs in oure iorney concerningethis benivolence that is ministred by vsvnto the prayse of the lorde and to sterevp youre prompt mynde. 20 For thys we es-chue that eny man shuld rebuke vs in thisplenteous distribucion that is ministredby vs 21 and therfore make provision forhonest thynges not in the sight of god onlybut also in the sight of men. 22 We havesent with them a brother of oures whomwe have ofte tymes proved diliget in manythynges but nowmochemore diligent. Thegreat confidence which I have in you: hathcaused me this to do: 23 partly for Titussake which is my felowe and helper asconcernynge you partly because of otherwhich are oure brethren and the messen-gers of the congregacions and the glory ofChrist. 24 Wherfore shewe vnto them theproffe of youre love and of the reioysyngethat we have of you that the congregacionsmaye se it.

91 Of the ministrynge to the saynctes it

is but superfluous for me to write vntoyou: 2 for I knowe youre redynes of midewherof I bost my silfe vnto them of Mace-donia and saye that Achaia was prepareda yeare a goo and youre ferventnes hathprovoked many. 3 Never thelesse yet haveI sent these brethren lest oure reioysyngeover you shuld be in vayne in this behalfeand that ye (as I have sayd) preparareyoure selues 4 lest paraveture yf they ofMacedonia come with me and fynde you

2 Corinthians 9:5 170 2 Corinthians 10:18vnprepared the boost that I made in thismatter shuld be a shame to vs: I saye notvnto you. 5Wherfore I thought it necessaryto exhorte the brethren to come beforehode vnto you forto prepare youre goodblessynge promysed afore that it myght beredy: so that it be a blessynge and not adefraudynge. 6 This yet remember howethat he which soweth lytell shall reepelytell: and he that soweth plenteously shallreepe plenteously. 7 And let every mando accordynge as he hath purposed inhis herte not groudgyngly or of necessite.For god loveth a chearfull gever. 8 Godis able to make you ryche in all gracethat ye in all thynges havynge sufficietvnto the vttmoste maye be ryche vnto allmanner good workes 9 as it is written: Hethat sparsed abroade and hath geven tothe povre his rightewesnes remayneth forever. 10 He that fyndeth the sower seedshallminister breed for fode and shallmul-tiplie youre seed and increace the frutes ofyoure rightewesnes 11 that on all parties yemaye bemade ryche in all synglenes whichcauseth thorowe vs thankes gevynge vntogod. 12 For the office of this ministracionnot only supplieth the nede of the sayntes:but also is aboundaunt herein that for thislaudable ministrynge thankes myght begeven to god of many 13whiche prayse godfor the obedience of youre professynge thegospell of Christ and for youre synglenes indistributynge to them and to all me: 14 andin their prayers to God for you longe afteryou for the aboundaunt grace of God gevenvnto you. 15Thankes be vnto God for his vnspeakeable gyft.

101 I Paule my silfe beseche you by

the mekenes and softnes of Christ whichwhen I am present amonge you am ofno reputacion but am bolde towarde youbeinge absent. 2 I besech you that Inede not to be bolde when I am present(with that same confidence wher with Iam supposed to be bolde) agaynst somewhich repute vs as though we walked car-nally. 3 Neverthelesse though we walkecompased with the fleshe yet we warrenot flesshlye 4 For the weapes of oure

warre are not carnall thinges but thyn-ges myghty in god to cast doune strongeholdes 5 wherwith we overthrowe ymagi-nacyons and every hye thynge that exaltehit silfe agaynst the knowledge of god andbrynge into captivite all vnderstondyngeto the obedience of Christ 6 and are redyto take vengeaunce on all disobediencewhen youre obedience is fulfilled. 7 Lokeye on thynges after the vtter apparence?Yf eny man trust in him silfe that he isChristis let the same also considre of himsilfe that as he is Christis even so are weChristes. 8 And though I shuld bost mysilfe somewhat moare of oure auctoritewhich the lorde hath geven vs to edifieand not to destroye you it shulde not beto my shame. 9 This saye I lest I shuldseme as though I went about to make youa frayde with letters. 10 For the pistles(sayth he) are sore and stronge: but hisbodyly presence is weake and his speacherude. 11 Let him that is soche thynke onthis wyse that as we are in wordes byletters when we are absent soche are wein dedes when we are present. 12 For wecannot fynde in oure hertes to make oureselves of the nombre of them or to com-pare oure selves to them which laude theselves neuerthelesse whill they measurethe selves with them selves and comparethe selves with the selves they vnderstodenought. 13 But we wyll not reioyce abovemeasure: but accordynge to the quantitieof the measure which god hath distributedvnto vs a measure that reacheth even vntoyou. 14 For we stretche uot out oure selvesbeyode measure as though we had notreached vnto you. For even vnto you havewe come with the gospell of Christ 15 andwe bost not oure selves out of measure inother mens labours. Ye and we hope whenyoure fayth is increased amonge you tobe magnified acordynge to oure measuremore largely 16 and to preache the gospellin those regionswhich are beyode you: andnot to reioyce of that which is by anothermansmeasure prepared all redy. 17Let himthat reioyseth reioyce in the lorde. 18 Forhe that prayseth him silfe is not alowed:but he whom the lorde prayseth.

2 Corinthians 11:1 171 2 Corinthians 12:211

1 Wolde to god ye coulde suffre me alytell in my folysshnes: yee and I prayeyou forbeare me. 2 For I am gelous overyou with godly gelousy. For I coupled youto one man to make you a chaste virgento Christ. 3 But I feare lest as the serpentbegyled Eve thorow his sutteltie even soyoure wittes shuld be corrupte from thesinglenes that is in Christ. 4 For if hethat commeth preache another Iesus thenhym whom we preached: or if ye receaveanother sprete then that which ye havereceaved: other another gospell then thatye have receaved ye myght right wel havebene content. 5 I suppose that I was notbehynde the chefe apostles. 6 Though Ibe rude in speakynge yet I am not so inknowledge. How be it amonge you we areknowen to the vtmost what we are in allthynges. 7Did I therin synne be cause I sub-mitted my silfe that ye myght be exaltedand because I preached to you the gospellof God fre? 8 I robbed other congregacionsand toke wages of the to do you servicewith all. 9 And when I was present withyov and had nede I was greuous to noman for that which was lackynge vnto methe brethren which came from Macedoniasupplied: and in all thynges I kept my silfethat I shuld not be greveous to you: andso will I kepe my silfe. 10 Yf the truethof Christ be in me this ieioysynge shallnot be taken from me in the regions ofAchaia. 11 Wherfore? Be cause I loveyou not? God knoweth. 12 Neverthe lessewhat I doo that will I do to cut awayeoccasion from themwhich desyre occasionthat they myght be founde lyke vnto vsin that wherin they reioyce. 13 For thesefalce apostles are disceatefull workers andfassion them selves lyke vnto the apostlesof Christ. 14 And no marvayle for satanhim silfe is chaunged into the fassion of anangell of light. 15 Therfore it is no greatthynge though his ministers fassion themselves as though they were the ministersof rightewesnes: whose ende shalbe acor-dynge to their dedes. 16 I saye agayne lesteny man thynke that I am folishe: or elseven now takeme as a fole that I maye bostmy silfe a lytell. 17 That I speake I speake

it not after the wayes of the lorde: but asit were folysshly whill we are now cometo bostynge. 18 Seynge that many reioyceafter the flesshe I will reioyce also. 19 Forye suffre foles gladly be cause that ye youreselves are wyse. 20 For ye suffre even if aman brynge you into bondage: yf a mandevoure: yf aman take: yf aman exalt hymsilfe: yf a man smyte you on the face. 21 Ispeake as concernynge rebuke as thoughwe had bene weake. How be it wherinsoever eny man dare be bolde (I speakefolisshly) I dare be bolde also 22 They areEbrues so am I: They are Israelites even soam I. They are the seede of Abraham evenso am I. 23 They are the ministers of Christ(I speake as a fole) I am moare: In laboursmoare aboundant: In strypes above mea-sure: In presonmore plenteously: In deethofte. 24 Of the Iewes five tymes receaved Ievery tyme .xl. strypes saue one. 25Thrysewas I betenwith roddes. I was once stoned.I suffered thryse shipwracke. Nyght anddaye have I bene in the depe of the see.26 In iorneyinge often: In parels of waters:In parels of robbers: In ieoperdies of myneawne nacion: In ieoperdies amonge thehethen. I have bene in parels in cities inparels in wildernes in parels in the see inparels amonge falce brethren 27 in laboureand travayle in watchynge often in hongerin thirst in fastynges often in colde andin nakednes. 28 And besyde the thyngeswhich outwardly happen vnto me I amcombred dayly and do care for all congre-gacions. 29Who is sicke and I am not sicke?Who is hurte in the fayth and my hertburneth not? 30 Yf I must nedes reioyceI will reioyce of myne infirmities. 31 TheGod and father of oure lorde Iesus Christwhich is blessed for evermore knoweththat I lye not 32 In the citie of Damasconthe governer of the people vnder kyngeAretas layde watche in the citie of theDamasces andwolde have caughtme 33andat a wyndowe was I let doune in a basketthorowe thewall and so scaped his hondes.

121 It is not expediet for me (no dout

to reioyce. Neverthelesse I will come tovisions and revelacions of the lorde. 2 Iknowe a man in Christ above .xiiij. yeares

2 Corinthians 12:3 172 2 Corinthians 13:10agone (whether he weare in the body Icannot tell or whether he were oute of thebody I cannot tell god knoweth) which wastake vp into the thyrd heven. 3And I knowethe same man (whether in the body orout of the body I cannot tell god knoweth)4 howe that he was take vp into paradiseand hearde wordes not to be spoke whichno man can vtter. 5 Of this man will Ireioyce of my silfe will I not reioyce exceptit be of myne infirmities. 6And yet thoughI wolde reioyce I shuld not be a fole: forI wolde saye the trouthe. Neverthe lesseI spare lest eny man shuld thynke of meabove that he seith me to be or heareth ofme. 7 And lest I shuld be exalted out ofmeasure thorow the aboundance of revela-cions ther was geven vnto me vnquyetnesof the flesshe the messenger of Satan tobuffet me: be cause I shuld not be exaltedout of measure 8 For this thynge besoughtI the lorde thryse that it myght departefromme. 9Andhe sayde vntome: mygraceis sufficient for the. For my strength ismade perfact thorowweaknes. Very gladlytherfore will I reioyce of my weaknes thatthe strength of Christ maye dwell in me10 Therfore have I delectacion in infirmi-ties in rebukes in nede in persecucions inanguyshe for Christis sake. For when I amweake then am I stronge. 11 I am made afole in bostynge my silfe. Ye have com-pelledme: I ought to have bene comededofyou. For in nothingewas I inferior vnto thechefe apostels Though I be nothynge 12 yetthe tokens of an apostle were wroughtamonge you with all pacience: with signesand wonders and myghty dedes. 13 Forwhat is it wherin ye were inferiors vntoother congregacions except it be therinthat I was not greveous vnto you. Forgeveme this wronge done vnto you. 14 Beholdenow the thyrde tyme I am redy to comevnto you: and yet will I not be grevousvnto you. For I seke not youres but you.Also the children ought not to laye vp forthe fathers and mothers: but the fathersand mothers for the children. 15 I willvery gladly bestowe and wilbe bestowedfor youre soules: though the moare I loveyou the lesse I am loved agayne. 16 But beit that I greved you not: never the lesse Iwas crafty and toke you with gile. 17 Did

I pill you by eny of the which I sent vntoyou? 18 I desyred Titus and with him Isent a brother. Did Titus defraude youof eny thynge? walked we not in onesprete? walked we not in lyke steppes?19 Agayne thynke ye that we excuse oureselves? We speake in Christ in the sight ofGod. But we do all thynges dearly belovedfor youre edifyinge. 20 For I feare lest itcome to passe that when I come I shall notfynde you soche as I wolde: and I shalbefoude vnto you soche as ye wolde not: Ifeare lest ther be founde amonge you de-bate envyinge wrath stryfe backbytyngeswhisperynges swellynges and discorde. 21 Ifeare lest when I come agayne God bryngeme lowe amonge you and I be constraynedto bewaylemany of the which have synnedall redy and have not repented of the vn-clennes fornicacion and wantanes whichthey haue committed.

131 Now come I the thyrd tyme vnto you.

In themouth of two or thre witnesses shallevery thinge stonde. 2 I tolde you beforeand tell you before: and as I sayde whenI was present with you the seconde tymeso wryte I now beynge absent to themwhich in tyme past have synned and to allother: that if I come agayne I will not spare3 seynge that ye seke experience of Christwhich speaketh in me which amonge youis not weake but is myghty in you. 4 Andverely though it came of weaknes thathe was crucified yet liveth he thorow thepower of God. And we no dout are weakein him: but we shall live with him by themyght of God amonge you. 5 Prove youreselves whether ye are in the fayth or not.Examen youre owne selves: knowe ye notyoure awne selves how that Iesus Christis in you excepte ye be castawayes? 6 Itrust that ye shall knowe that we are notcastawayes. 7 I desyre before God thatye do none evyll not that we shuld semecomendable: but that ye shuld do thatwhich is honest: and let vs be counted asleawde persones. 8 We can do no thingeagaynst the trueth but for the trueth. 9Weare gladwhenwe areweake and ye stronge.This also we wisshe for even that ye wereperfect. 10 Therfore write I these thinges

2 Corinthians 13:11 173 2 Corinthians 13:14beynge absent lest when I am presentI shuld vse sharpenes accordinge to thepower which the Lorde hath geven meto edifie and not to destroye. 11 Finallyebrethren fare ye well be perfect be of goodcomforte be of one mynde lyve in peaceand the God of love and peace shalbe withyou. 12Grete one another in an holy kysse.13 All ye saynctes salute you. 14 The graceof oure Lorde Iesus Christ and the love ofGod and the fellishippe of the holy goost bewith you all. Amen. ‘The seconde epistleto the Corinthians. Sent from Philippos acitie in Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.’

Galatians 1:1 174 Galatians 2:9

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THEAPOSTLE TO THEGALATIANS1 Paul an Apostle, not of men, nether by

man, but by Iesus Christ, and by God thefather which raysed him from deeth: 2 andall the brethren which are with me. Vntothe congregacions of Galacia. 3 Grace bewith you and peace from God the father,and from oure Lorde Iesus Christ, 4 whichgave him selfe for oure synnes to delivervs from this present evyll worlde thorowthe will of God oure father 5 to whombe prayse for ever and ever. Amen. 6 Imarvayle that ye are so sone turned fromhim that called you in the grace of Christvnto another gospell: 7 which is nothingeels but that ther be some which troubleyou and intende to pervert to gospell ofChrist. 8 Neverthelesse though we oureselves or an angell from heven preacheeny other gospell vnto you the that whichwe have preached vnto you holde him asa cursed. 9 As I sayde before so saye Inow agayne yf eny man preache eny otherthinge vnto you then that ye have receavedholde him accursed. 10 Preache I mannesdoctrine or Godes? Ether go I about toplease men? If I stodyed to please men Iwere not the servaunt of Christ. 11 I certifieyou brethren that the gospell which waspreached of me was not after the manerof men 12 nether receaved I it of mannether was I taught it: but receaved it bythe revelacion of Iesus Christ. 13 For yehave hearde of my conversacion in tymepast in the Iewes wayes how that beyondemeasure I persecuted the congregacion ofGod and spoyled it: 14 and prevayled in theIewes laye above many of my companionswhich were of myne awne nacion and wasa moche more fervet mayntener of thetradicions of the elders. 15 But when itpleased God which seperated me from mymothers wombe and calledme by his grace16 for to declare his sonne by me that Ishuld preache him amonge the hethen:immediatly I comened not of the matterwith flesshe and bloud 17 nether returnedto Ierusalem to them which were Apostlesbefore me: but wet my wayes into Arabia

and came agayne vnto Damasco. 18 Thenafter thre yeare I returned to Ierusalem tose Peter and abode with him .xv. dayes19 no nother of the Apostles sawe I saveIames the Lordes brother. 20 The thingeswhich I write beholde God knoweth I lyenot. 21 After that I went into the costes ofSiria and Cilicia: 22 and was vnknowen astouchinge my person vnto the congrega-cions of Iewryewhichwere in Christ. 23Butthey hearde only that he which persecutedvs in tyme past now preacheth the faythwhich before he destroyed. 24 And theyglorified God on my behalffe.

21 Then .xiiii. yeares after that I wet

vp agayne to Ierusalem with Barnabas andtoke with me Titus also. 2 Ye and I wentvp by revelacion and comened with themof the Gospell which I preache amongethe gentyls: but apart with them whichwere counted chefe lest it shuld have benethought that I shuld runne or had runnein vayne. 3 Also Titus which was with methough he were a Greke yet was not com-pelled to be circumcised 4and that becauseof incommers beynge falce brethrenwhichcame in amonge other to spye out ourelibertie which we have in Christ Iesus thatthey might bringe vs into bondage. 5 Towhom we gave no roume no not for thespace of an houre as concerninge to bebrought into subieccion: and that becausethat the trueth of the gospell myght con-tinue with you. 6 Of the which seme tobe great (what they were in tyme passedit maketh no matter to me: God lokethon no mans person) neverthelesse theywhich seme great added nothynge to me.7 But contrary wyse when they sawe thatthe gospell over the vncircumcision wascommitted vnto me as the gospell overthe circucision was vnto Peter: 8 for hethat was myghty in Peter in the Apos-tleshippe over the circumcision the samewas myghty in me amonge the gentyls:9 and therfore when they perceaved thegrace that was geve vnto me then IamesCephas and Iohn which semed to be pilersgave to me and Barnabas the ryght hondesand agreed with vs that we shuld preacheamonge the Hethen and they amonge the

Galatians 2:10 175 Galatians 3:21Iewes: 10 warnynge only that we shulderemember the poore. Which thinge also Iwas diligent to do. 11 And when Peter wascome to Antioche I withstode him in theface for he was worthy to be blamed. 12 Foryerr that certayne came from Iames heate with the gentyls. But when they werecome he withdrue and separated him selfefearinge them which were of the circum-cision. 13 And the other Iewes dissembledlyke wyse in so moche that Barnabas wasbrought into their simulacion also. 14 Butwhen I sawe that they went not the ryghtwaye after the trueth of the gospell I saydevnto Peter before all men yf thou beynge aIewe livest after the maner of the gentylsand not as do the Iewes: why causest thouthe getyls to live as do the Iewes? 15 Wewhich are Iewes by nature and not synnersof the gentyls, 16 knowe that a man is notiustified by the dedes of the lowe: but bythe fayth of Iesus Christ. And therforewe have beleved on Iesus Christ that wemyght be iustified by the fayth of Christand uot by the dedes of the lawe: becausethat by the dedes of the lawe no flessheshalbe iustified. 17 Yf then whill we seketo be made rightewes by Christ we oureselves are founde synners is not thenChristthe minister of synne? God forbyd. 18 Foryf I bylde agayne that which I destroyed.then make I my selfe a treaspaser. 19 ButI thorow the lawe amen deed to the lawe:that Imyght live vnto God. 20 I am crucifiedwith Christ. I live verely: yet now not I butChrist liveth in me. For the lyfe which Inow live in the flesshe I live by the faythof the sonne of God which loved me andgave him selne for me. 21 I despyse not thegrace of God. For if rightewesnes come ofthe lawe then Christ dyed in vayne.

31 O folisshe Galathyas: who hath be-

witched you that ye shuld not beleve thetrueth? To whom Iesus Christ was de-scribed before the eyes and amonge youcrucified. 2 This only wolde I learne ofyou: receaved ye the sprete by the dedesof the lawe or els by preachinge of thefaith? 3 Are ye so vnwyse that after yehave begonne in the sprete thewolde noweende in the flesshe? 4 So many thinges

there ye have suffred in vayne if that bevayne. 5 Which ministered to you thesprete and worketh myracles amonge youdoth he it thorow the dedes of the laweor by preachinge of the fayth? 6 Even asAbraham beleved God and it was asscribedto him for rightewesnes. 7 Vnderstondetherfore that they which are of fayth thesame are the chyldren of Abraham. 8 Forthe scripture sawe afore honde that Godwolde iustifie the hethen thorow faythand therfore shewed before honde gladtydinges vnto Abraham: In the shall allnacions be blessed. 9 So then they whichbe of fayth are blessed with faythfull Abra-ham. 10 For as many as are vnder thededes of the lawe are vnder malediccion.For it is written: cursed is every manthat cotinueth not in all thinges which arewritte in the boke of the lawe to fulfillthem. 11 That no man is iustified by thelawe in the sight of God is evidet. For theiuste shall live by fayth. 12 The lawe isnot of fayth: but the man that fulfilleththe thinges contayned in the lawe (shalllive in the.) 13 But Christ hath delivered vsfrom the curse of the lawe and was madea cursed for vs. For it is writte: cursedis every one that hangeth on tree 14 thatthe blessynge of Abraham might come onthe getyls thorow Iesus Christ and that wemight receave the promes of the spretethorow fayth. 15 Brethren I will speakeafter the maner of men. Though it be but amans testament yet no man despiseth it oraddeth eny thinge therto when it is oncealowed. 16 To Abraham and his seed werethe promises made. He sayth not in theseedes as in many: but in thy sede as inone which is Christ. 17 This I saye that thelawe which beganne afterwarde beyonde.iiii.C and. xxx. yeares doth not disanullthe testament that was confermed afore ofGod vnto Christ ward to make the promesof none effect. 18 For yf the inheritauncecome of the lawe it cometh not of promes.But God gave it vnto Abraham by promes.19 Wherfore then serveth the lawe? Thelawe was added because of transgression(tyll the seed cam towhich the promes wasmade) and it was ordeyned by angels inthe honde of a mediator. 20 A mediatoris not a mediator of one. But God is one.21 Ys the lawe then agaynst the promes of

Galatians 3:22 176 Galatians 4:31God? God forbid. How be it yf ther hadbene a lawe geve which coulde have gevenlyfe: then no doute rightewesnes shuldhave come by the lawe. 22But the scriptureconcluded all thinges vnder synne that thepromes by the fayth of Iesus Christ shuldbe geve vnto them that beleve. 23 Beforethat fayth cam, we were kept and shut vpvnder the lawe, vnto the fayth which shuldafterwarde be declared. 24 Wherfore thelawe was oure scolemaster vnto the tymeof Christ that we might be made rightewesby fayth. 25 But after that fayth is comenow are we no lenger vnder a scolemaster.26 For ye are all the sonnes of God by thefayth which is in Christ Iesus. 27 For allye that are baptised have put on Christ.28 Now is ther no Iewe nether getyle: theris nether bonde ner fre: ther is nethermanner woman: but ye are all one thinge inChrist Iesu. 29Yf ye be Christes then are yeAbrahams seed and heyres by promes.

41 And I saye that the heyre as longe as

he is a chylde differth not from a servauntthough he be Lorde of all 2 but is vndertuters and governers vntill the tyme ap-poynted of the father. 3 Even so we aslonge aswewere chyldrenwere in bondagevnder the ordinaunces of the worlde. 4Butwhen the tyme was full come God senthis sonne borne of a woman and madebonde vnto the lawe 5 to redeme the whichwere vnder the lawe: that we thoroweleccion myght receave the inheritauncethat belongeth vnto the naturall sonnes.6 Because ye are sonnes God hath sent thesprete of his sonne in to oure hertes whichcryeth Abba father. 7 Wherfore now thouart not a servaunt but a sonne. Yf thou bethe sonne thou arte also the heyre of Godthorow Christ. 8 Notwithstondinge whenye knewe not God ye dyd service vnto themwhich by naturewere no goddes. 9But nowseinge ye knowe god (yee rather are knoweof God) how is it that ye tourne agaynevnto the weake and bedgarly cerimonieswhervnto agayne ye desyre afresshe tobe in bondage? 10 Ye observe dayes andmonethes and tymes and yeares. 11 I amin feare of you lest I have bestowed onyou laboure in vayne. 12 Brethern I besech

you be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Yehave not hurte me at all. 13 Ye knowe howthorow infirmite of the flesshe I preachedthe gospell vnto you at the fyrst. 14 Andmy temptacion which I suffered by rea-son of my flesshe ye despysed not netherabhorred: but receaved me as an angellof god: ye as Christ Iesus. 15 How happywere ye then? for I beare you recordethat yf it had bene possible ye wolde haveplucked out youre awne eyes and havegeven them tome. 16Am I therfore becomeyoure enemie because I tell you the truth?17 They are gelous over you amysse. Yethey intede to exclude you that ye shuld beferuet to them warde. 18 It is good alwayesto be fervent so it be in a good thinge andnot onlywhen I ampresentwith you. 19Mylittel children (of whom I travayle in birthagaine vntill Christ be fassioned in you)20 I wolde I were with you now and couldechaunge my voyce: for I stonde in a douteof you 21Tell me ye that desyre to be vnderthe lawe have ye not hearde of the lawe?22 For it is written that Abraham had twosonnes the one by a bondemayde the otherby a fre woman. 23 Yee and he which wasof the bonde woman was borne after theflesshe: but hewhichwas of the fre womanwas borne by promes. 24 Which thingesbetoken mystery. For these wemen aretwo testamentes the one from the mounteSina which gendreth vnto bondage whichis Agar. 25 For mounte Sina is called Agarin Arabia and bordreth vpo the citie whichis now Ierusalem and is in bondage withher chyldren. 26 But Ierusalem which isabove is fre: which is the mother of vs all.27 For it is written: reioyce thou bare thatbearest no chyldre: breake forthe and cryethou that travelest not. For the desolatehath many moo chyldren then she whichhath an husband. 28 Brethren we are afterthe maner of Isaac chyldren of promes.29 But as then he that was borne carnallypersecuted him that was borne spiritually.Even so is it now. 30 Neverthelesse whatsayth the scripture: put awaye the bondewoman and her sonne. For the sonne ofthe bonde woman shall not be heyre withthe sonne of the fre woman. 31 So thenbrethren we are not chyldre of the bondewoman: but of the fre woman.

Galatians 5:1 177 Galatians 6:155

1 Stond fast therfore in the libertie wherwith Christ hath made vs fre and wrappenot youre selves agayne in the yoke ofbondage. 2 Beholde I Paul saye vnto youthat yf ye be circumcised Christ shall prof-fit you nothinge at all. 3 I testifie agayneto every man which is circumcised that heis bounde to kepe the whole lawe. 4 Yeare gone quyte from Christ as many as areiustified by the lawe and are fallen fromgrace. 5We loke for and hope in the spriteto be iustified thorow fayth. 6 For in IesuChrist nether is circumcision enythingeworth nether yet vncircomcision but faithwhich by love is mighty in operacion. 7 Yedid runne well: who was a let vnto youthat ye shuld not obey the trueth? 8 Eventhat counsell that is not of him that calledyou. 9 A lytell leven doth leven the wholelompe of dowe. 10 I have trust towardeyou in the Lorde that ye wyll be noneother wyse mynded. He that troublethyou shall beare his iudgement what soeverhe be. 11 Brethren yf I yet preache cir-cucision: why do I then yet suffre perse-cucion? For then had the offence whichthe crosse geveth ceased. 12 I wolde toGod they were seperated from you whichtrouble you. 13 Brethren ye were called into (libertie) only let not youre libertie bean occasion vnto the flesshe but in loveserve one another. 14 For all the lawe isfulfilled in one worde which is this: thoushalt love thyneneghbour as thy selfe. 15Yfye byte and devoure one another: takehede lest ye be consumed one of another.16 I saye walke in the sprete and fulfillnot the lustes of the flesshe. 17 For theflesshe lusteth contrary to the sprete andthe sprete cotrary to the flesshe. These arecontrary one to the other so that ye cannotdo that which ye wolde. 18But and yf ye beledde of the sprete then are ye not vnderthe lawe. 19 The dedes of the flesshe aremanyfest whiche are these advoutrie for-nicacion vnclenes wantannes 20 ydolatryewitchecraft hatred variaunce zele wrathstryfe sedicion sectes 21 envyinge murtherdronkenes glottony and soche lyke: of thewhich I tell you before as I have toldeyou in tyme past that they which comitsoche thinges shall not inherite the kyng-

dome of God. 22 But the frute of sprete isloue ioye peace longesufferinge gentlenesgoodnes faythfulnes 23meknes temperan-cye. Agaynst suche ther is no lawe. 24Theyye are Christis have crucified the flesshewith the appetites and lustes 25 Yf we lyvein the sprete let vs walke in the sprete.26 Let vs not be vayne glorious provokingeone another and envyinge one another.

61 Brethren yf eny man be fallen by

chauce into eny faute: ye which are spir-ituall helpe to amende him in the sprete ofmeknes: consyderynge thy silfe lest thoualso be tempted. 2 Beare ye one anothersburthen and so fulfill the lawe of Christ.3 If eny man seme to him silfe that he issomwhat when in dede he is nothynge thesame deceaveth hym silfe in his ymagina-cion. 4Let everyman prove his awneworkeand then shall he have reioysinge in hisawne silfe and not in another. 5 For everyman shall beare his awne burthen. 6 Lethim that is taught in the worde ministervnto him that teacheth him in all goodthinges. 7 Be not deceaved God is notmocked. For what soever a man soweththat shall he reepe. 8He that soweth in hisflesshe shall of the flesshe reepe corrup-cion. But he that soweth in the sprete shallof the sprete reepe lyfe everlastinge. 9 Letvs not be wery of well doynge. For whenthe tyme is come we shall repe with outwerines. 10Whill we have therfore tyme letvs do good vnto all men and specially vntothem which are of the housholde of fayth.11Beholde how large a letter I have writtenvnto you with myne awne honde. 12 Asmany as desyre with vtwarde apperauceto please carnally they constrayne you tobe circumcised only be cause they woldenot suffre persecucion with the crosse ofChrist. 13 For they them selves which arecircumcised kepe not the lawe: but desyreto have you circumcised that they myghtreioyce in youre flesshe. 14 God forbydthat I shuld reioyce but in the crosse ofoure Lorde Iesu Christ wherby the worldeis crucified as touchinge me and I as con-cerninge the worlde. 15 For in Christ Iesunether circucision avayleth eny thinge atall nor vncircumcision: but a new creature.

Galatians 6:16 178 Galatians 6:1816And as many as walke accordinge to thisrule peace be on them andmercy and vponIsrael that pertayneth to God. 17 Fromhence forth let no man put me to busynes.For I beare in my bodye the markes of theLorde Iesu. 18 Brethren the grace of oureLorde Iesu Christe be with youre sprete.Amen. ‘Vnto the Galathyans written fromRome.’

Ephesians 1:1 179 Ephesians 2:10

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THEAPOSTLE TO THEEPHESIANS1 Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the

will of God. To the saynctes which areat Ephesus and to them which beleve onIesus Christ. 2Grace be with you and peacefrom God oure father and from the LordeIesus Christ. 3 Blessed be God the father ofoure lorde Iesus Christ which hath blessedvs with all maner of spirituall blessingesin hevely thynges by Chryst 4 accordyngeas he had chosen vs in him before thefoundacion of the worlde was layde thatwe shuld be saintes and without blamebefore him thorow loue. 5 And ordeynedvs before thorow Iesus Christ to be heyresvnto him silfe accordinge to the pleasureof his will 6 to the prayse of the glorieof his grace where with he hath made vsaccepted in the beloved. 7 By whom wehave redemption thorow his bloude euenthe forgevenes of synnes accordynge tothe riches of his grace 8 which grace heshed on vs aboundantly in all wisdomeand perceavaunce. 9 And hath opennedvnto vs the mistery of his will accordingeto his pleasure and purposed the same inhym silfe 10 to have it declared when thetymewere full come that all thynges bothethe thynges which are in heven and alsothe thynges which are in erthe shuld begaddered togedder even in Christ: 11 thatis to saye in him in whom we are madeheyres and were therto predestinate ac-cordynge to the purpose of him whichworketh all thinges after the purpose ofhis awne will: 12 that we which beforebeleved in Christ shuld be vnto the prayseof his glory. 13 In whom also ye (afterthat ye hearde the worde of trueth I meanethe gospell of youre saluacion wherin yebeleved) were sealed with the holy spreteof promes 14which is the ernest of oure in-heritaunce to redeme the purchased pos-session and that vnto the laude of his glory.15 Wherfore even I (after that I hearde ofthe fayth which ye have in the lorde Iesuand love vnto all the saynctes) 16 cease notto geve thankes for you makynge mencion

of you in my prayers 17 that the God ofoure lorde Iesus Christ and the father ofglory myght geve vnto you the sprete ofwisdome and open to you the knowledgeof him silfe 18 and lighten the eyes of youremyndes that ye myght knowe what thathope is where vnto he hath called youand what the riches of his glorious inher-itaunce is apon the sainctes 19 and whatis the excedynge greatnes of his powerto vs warde which beleve accordynge tothe workynge of that his mighty power20 which he wrought in Christ when heraysed him from deeth and set him on hisright honde in hevenly thynges 21 above allrule power andmyght and dominacion andabove all names that are named not in thisworlde only but also in theworlde to come:22 and hath put all thynges vnder his feteand hath made him aboue all thynges yeheed of the congregacion 23 which is hisbody and the fulnes of him that filleth allin all thynges.

21 And hath quickened you also that were

deed in treaspasse and synne 2 in thewhichin tyme passed ye walked acordynge tothe course of this worlde and after thegoverner that ruleth in the ayer the spretethat now worketh in the children of vn-belefe 3 amonge which we also had oureconversacion in tyme past in the lustesof oure flesshe and fullfilled the will ofthe flesshe and of the mynde: and werenaturally the children of wrath even aswel as other. 4 But God which is rich inmercy thorow his greate love wherwithhe loved vs 5 even when we were deedby synne hath quickened vs together inChrist (for by grace are ye saved) 6 andhath raysed vs vp together and made vssitte together in hevenly thynges thorowChrist Iesus 7 for to shewe in tymes tocome the excedynge ryches of his gracein kyndnes to vs warde in Christ Iesu.8 For by grace are ye made safe thorowefayth and that not of youre selves. Forit is the gyfte of God 9 and commeth notof workes lest eny man shuld bost himsilfe. 10 For we are his worckmanshippecreated in Christ Iesu vnto good workesvnto the which god ordeyned vs before

Ephesians 2:11 180 Ephesians 4:4that we shuld walke in them. 11Wherforeremember that ye beynge in tyme passedgetyls in the flesshe and were called vn-circumcision to the which are called cir-cucision in the flesshe which circucisionis made by hondes: 12 Remember I sayethat ye were at that tyme with oute Christand were reputed aliantes from the comenwelth of Israel andwere straugers from thetestamentes of promes and had no hopeandwerewith out god in thisworlde. 13Butnow in Christ Iesu ye which a whyle agoowere farre of are made nye by the bloudeof Christ. 14 For he is oure peace whychhath made of both one and hath brokendoune the wall that was a stoppe bitwenevs 15 and hath also put awaye thorow hisflesshe the cause of hatred (that is to sayethe lawe of commaundementes contaynedin the lawe written) for to make of twayneone newe man in him silfe so makyngepeace: 16 and to reconcile both vnto godin one body thorow his crosse and slewehatred therby: 17 and came and preachedpeace to you which were afarre of and tothem that were nye. 18 For thorow him weboth have an open waye in in one spretevnto the father. 19Now therfore ye are nomoare straugers and foreners: but citesynswith the saynctes and of the housholde ofgod: 20 and are bilt apon the foundacionof the apostles and prophetes Iesus Christbeynge the heed corner stone 21 in whomevery bildynge coupled togedder growethvnto an holy temple in the lorde 22 inwhom ye also are bilt togedder and madean habitacion for god in the sprete.

31 For this cause I Paul a in the bodes

of Iesus christ for youre sakes which arehethen: 2 Yf ye have hearde of the min-istracion of the grace of god which isgeven me to you warde. 3 For by rev-elacion shewed he this mistery vnto meas I wrote above in feawe wordes 4 wherby when ye rede ye maye knowe mynevnderstondynge in the mistery of Christ5 which mistery in tymes passed was notopened vnto the sonnes of men as it isnowe declared vnto his holy apostles andprophetes by the sprete: 6 that the gentylsshuld be inheritours also and of the same

body and partakers of his promis that isin Christ by the meanes of the gospell7whereof I ammade aminister by the gyfteof the grace of god geve vnto me thorowthe workynge of his power. 8 Vnto methe lest of all sayntes is this grace geventhat I shuld preache amonge the gentylsthe unsearchable ryches of Christ 9 and tomake all men se what the felyshippe of themistery is which from the begynnynge ofthe worlde hath bene hid in God whichmade all thynges thorow Iesus Christ 10 tothe intent that now vnto the rulars andpowers in heven myght be knowe by thecongregacion the many folde wisdome ofgod 11 accordinge to the eternall purposewhich he purposed in Christ Iesu ourelorde 12bywhomwe are bolde to drawenyein ye trust which we have by faith on him.13 Wherfore I desire that ye faynt not be-cause of my trybulacions for youre sakes:which is youre prayse. 14 For this causeI bowe my knees vnto the father of ourelorde Iesus Christ 15 which is father overall that ys called father In heven and inerth 16 that hewolde graunt you acordyngeto the ryches of his glory that ye mayebe strenghted with myght by his sprete inthe inner man 17 that Christ maye dwell inyoure hertes by fayth that ye beynge rotedand grounded in loue 18 myght be ableto comprehende with all sayntes what ysthat bredth and length deepth and heyth:19 and to knowe what is the love of Christwhich love passeth knowledge: that yemight be fulfilled with all manner of fulneswhich commeth of God. 20 Vnto him thatis able to do excedynge aboudantly aboveall that we axe or thynke accordynge to thepower thatworketh in vs 21be prayse in thecongregacionby Iesus Christ thorowout allgeneracios from tyme to tyme Amen.

41 I therfore which am in bondes for

the lordes sake exhorte you that ye walkeworthy of the vocacion wherwith ye arecalled 2 in all humblenes of mynde andmeknes and longe sufferynge forbearingeone another thorowe love 3 and that ye bedyliget to kepe the vnitie of the sprete inthe bonde of peace 4 beynge one body andone sprete even as ye are called in one

Ephesians 4:5 181 Ephesians 5:12hope of youre callynge. 5 Let ther be butone lorde one fayth one baptism: 6 onegod and father of all which is above allthorow all and in you all. 7 Vnto everyone of vs is geven grace acordinge to themeasure of the gyft of christ. 8 Wherforehe sayth: He is gone vp an hye and hathledde captivitie captive and hath gevengyftes vnto men. 9That he ascended: whatmeaneth it but that he also descended fyrstinto the lowest parties of the erth? 10 Hethat descended is even the same also thatascended vp even above all hevens to fulfillall thinges. 11 And the very same madesome Apostles some prophetes some Evan-gelistes some Sheperdes some Teachers:12 that the sainctes might have all thingesnecessarie to worke and minister with allto the edifyinge of the body of christ 13 tyllwe every one (in the vnitie of fayth andknowledge of the sonne of god) growe vpvnto a parfayte man after the measure ofage of the fulnes of Christ. 14 That wehence forth be no moare chyldren waue-rynge and caryedwith everywynde of doc-tryne by the wylynes of men and craftyneswherby they laye a wayte for vs to deceavevs. 15 But let vs folowe the trueth in loueand in all thynges growe in him which isthe heed that ys to saye Christ 16 in whomall the body ys coupled and knet togedderin every ioynt wherwith one ministrethto another (accordinge to the operacionas every parte hath his measure) and in-creaseth the body vnto the edyfyinge ofit silfe in love. 17 This I saye therfore andtestifie in the lorde that ye hence forthwalke not as other gentyls walke in vanitieof their mynde 18 blynded in their vnder-stondynge beynge straungers from the lyfewhich is in god thorow the ignorancy thatis in them because of the blyndnes of theirhertes: 19which beynge past repentauncehave geven them selves vnto wantannes toworke all manner of vnclennes even withgredynes. 20 But ye have not so learnedChrist, 21 if so be ye have hearde of himand are taught in him even as the truethis in Iesu. 22 So then as concernynge thecoversacion in tyme past laye from youthat olde man which is corrupte thorowthe deceavable lustes 23 and be ye renued

in the sprete of youre myndes 24 and puton that newe man which after the ymageof God is shapen in ryghtewesnes and trueholynes. 25Wherfore put awaye lyinge andspeake every man truth vnto his neghbourfor as moche as we are members one ofanother. 26 Be angrye but synne not letnot the sonne go doune apon your wrathe27 nether geue place vnto the backbyter.28Let him that stole steale nomoare but lethim rather laboure with his hondes somegood thinge that he maye have to gevevnto him that nedeth. 29 Let no filthy com-municacion procede out of youremouthes:but that whych is good to edefye with allwhen nede ys: that it maye have faveourwith the hearers. 30 And greve not theholy sprete of God by whome ye are sealedvnto the daye of redempcion. 31 Let allbitternes fearsnes and wrath rorynge andcursyd speakynge be put awaye from youwith all maliciousnes. 32 Be ye courteouseone to another and mercifull forgevyngeone another even as god for Christes sakeforgave you.

51 Be ye folowers of god as dere children

2 and walke in love even as Christ lovedvs and gave him silfe for vs an offeryngeand a sacrifyce of a swete saver to god.3 So that fornicacion and all vnclennes orcoveteousnes be not once named amongeyou as it be commeth saynctes: 4 netherfilthynes nether folishe talkyng nethergestinge which are not comly: but rathergevynge of thankes 5For this ye knowe thatno whormonger other vnclene person orcoveteous person which is the worshipperof ymages hath eny inheritaunce in thekyngdome of Christ and of God. 6 Let noman deceave you with vayne wordes. Forthorow soche thinges cometh the wrathof God vpon the chyldre of vnbelefe. 7 Benot therfore companions with them. 8 Yewere once dercknes but are now light inthe Lorde. Walke as chyldren of light. 9 Forthe frute of the sprete is in all goodnesrightewesnes and trueth. 10 Accept thatwhich is pleasinge to the Lorde: 11andhaveno fellishippewith the vnfrutfull workes ofdercknes: but rather rebuke them. 12 Forit is shame even to name those thinges

Ephesians 5:13 182 Ephesians 6:20which are done of them in secrete: 13 butall thinges when they are rebuked of thelight are manifest. For whatsoever is man-ifest that same is light. 14 Wherfore hesayth: awake thou that slepest and stondvp from deeth and Christ shall geve thelight. 15 Take hede therfore that ye walkecircuspectly: not as foles: but as wyse16 redemynge the tyme: for the dayes areevyll. 17 Wherfore be ye not vnwyse butvnderstonde what the will of the Lorde is18 and be not dronke with wyne wherin isexcesse: but be fulfilled with the sprete19 speakynge vnto youre selves in psalmesand ymnes and spretuall songes syngingeandmakingemelodie to the Lorde in yourehertes 20 gevinge thankes all wayes for allthinges vnto God the father in the nameof oure Lorde Iesu Christ: 21 submittingeyoure selves one to another in the feare ofGod. 22 Wemen submit youre selves vntoyoure awne husbandes as vnto the Lorde.23 For the husbande is the wyves heedeven as Christ is the heed of the congre-gacion and the same is the saveoure of thebody. 24 Therfore as the congregacion is insubieccion to Christ lykwyse let the wyvesbe in subieccion to their husbandes in allthinges. 25 Husbandes love youre wyveseven as Christ loved the congregacion andgave him silfe for it 26 to sanctifie it andclensed it in the fountayne ofwater thorowthe worde 27 to make it vnto him selfe aglorious congregacion with oute spot orwrynckle or eny soche thinge: but that itshuld be holy and with out blame. 28 Soought men to love their wyves as theirawne bodyes. He that loveth his wyfeloveth him sylfe. 29 For no man ever yethated his awne flesshe: but norissheth andcherisseth it even as the lorde doth thecongregacion. 30 For we are members ofhis body of his flesshe and of his bones.31 For this cause shall a man leave fatherandmother and shall cotinuewith hiswyfeand two shalbe made one flesshe. 32This isa great secrete but I speake bitwene Christand the congregacion. 33Neverthelesse doye so that every one of you love his wyfetruely even as him silfe. And let the wyfese that she feare her husbande.

61 Chyldrenobey youre fathers andmoth-

ers in the Lorde: for so is it right. 2Honourethy father and mother that is the fyrstcommaundement that hath eny promes3 that thoumayst be in good estate and lyvelonge on the erthe. 4 And ye fathers movenot youre children towrath: but bringe thevp with the norter and informacion of theLorde. 5 Servautes be obedient vnto yourecarnall masters with feare and trimblingein singlenes of youre hertes as vnto Christ:6 not with service in the eye sight as menpleasars: but as the servautes of Christdoynge the will of God from the herte7 with good will servinge the Lorde andnotmen. 8And remember that whatsoevergood thinge eny man doeth that shall hereceave agayne of the Lorde whether hebe bonde or fre. 9 And ye masters doeven the same thinges vnto them puttingeawaye threateninges: and remember thateven youre master also is in heven netheris ther eny respecte of person with him.10 Finally my brethren be stronge in theLorde and in the power of his myght. 11Puton the armour of God that ye maye stondestedfast agaynst the crafty assautes of thedevyll. 12 For we wrestle not agaynstflesshe andbloud: but agaynst rule agaynstpower and agaynst worldy rulars of thedarckenes of this worlde agaynst spretuallwickednes for hevenly thinges. 13 For thiscause take vnto you the armoure of Godthat ye maye be able to resist in the evylldaye and to stonde perfect in all thinges.14 Stonde therfore and youre loynes gyrdaboute with veritie havinge on the brestplate of rightewesnes 15 and shood withshowes prepared by the gospell of peace.16Above all take to you the shelde of faythwherwith ye maye quenche all the fyriedartes of the wicked. 17 And take thehelmet of salvacion and the swearde of thesprete which is the worde of God. 18 Andpraye all wayes with all maner prayer andsupplicacion: and that in the sprete: andwatch thervnto with all instance and sup-plicacion for all saynctes 19 and for methat vttraunce maye be geve vnto me thatI maye open my mouth boldly to vtterthe secretes of the gospell 20 whereof Iam a messenger in bondes that therin Imaye speake frely as it becommeth me to

Ephesians 6:21 183 Ephesians 6:24speake. 21 But that ye maye also knowewhat condicion I am in and what I doTichicus my deare brother and faythfullminister in the Lorde shall shewe you ofall thinges 22whom I sent vnto you for thesame purpose that ye myght knowe whatcase I stonde in and that hemyght comfortyoure hertes. 23Peace bewith the brethrenand love with fayth from God the fatherand from the Lorde Iesu Christ. 24Grace bewith all them which love oure lorde IesusChrist in puernes. Amen. ‘Sent from Romevnto the Ephesyans by Tichicus.’

Philippians 1:1 184 Philippians 2:7

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THEAPOSTLE TO THEPHILIPPIANS1 Paul and Timotheus the servauntes of

Iesu Christ To all the sainctes in Christ Iesuwhich are at Philippos with the Bisshopsand Deacons. 2 Grace be with you andpeace from God oure father and from theLorde Iesus Christ. 3 I thanke my Godwith all remembraunce of you 4 all wayesin all my prayers for you and praye withgladnes 5 because of the fellowshyp whichye have in the gospell from the fyrst dayevnto now: 6 and am suerly certified ofthis that he which beganne a good workein you shall go forthe with it vntyll thedaye of Iesus Christ 7 as it becometh meso to iudge of you all because I have youin my herte and have you also every onecompanions of grace with me even in mybondes as I defende and stablysshe thegospell. 8 For God beareth me recordehow greatly I longe after you all from thevery herte rote in Iesus Christ. 9 Andthis I praye that youre love maye increacemore and more in knowledge and in allfealinge 10 that ye myght accepte thingesmost excellent that ye myght be pure andsoche as shuld hurte no manes consciencevntyll the daye of Christ 11 filled with thefrutes of rightewesnes which frutes comeby Iesus Christ vnto the glory and laudeof God. 12 I wolde ye vnderstode brethernthat my busynes is happened vnto thegreater furtherynge of the gospell. 13 Sothat my bondes in Christ are manyfestthorow out all the iudgement hall and inall other places: 14 In so moche that manyof the brethren in the lorde are boldnedthorow my bodes and dare more largelyspeake the worde with out feare. 15 Somether are which preache Christ of envie andstryfe and some of good wyll. 16 The oneparte preacheth Christ of stryfe and notpurely supposinge to adde more adversitieto my bondes. 17 The other parte of lovebecause they se that I am set to defend thegospell. 18 What then? So that Christ bepreached all maner wayes whether it beby occasion or of true meaninge I therin

ioye: ye and will ioye. 19 For I knowethat this shall chaunce to my salvacionthorow youre prayer and ministringe ofthe sprete of Iesu Christ, 20 as I hertelyloke for and hope that in nothinge I shalbeashamed: but that with all confidence asall wayes in tymes past even so now Christshalbe magnified in my body whether it bethorowe lyfe or els deeth. 21 For Christ isto me lyfe and deeth is to me a vauntage.22 Yf it chaunce me to live in the flesshethat is tome frutefull fortoworke andwhatto chose I wote not. 23 I am constraynedof two thinges: I desyre to be lowsed andto be with Christ which thinge is best ofall. 24Neverthelesse to abyde in the flessheis moare nedfull for you. 25 And this am Isure of that I shall abyde and with you allcontinue for the furtheraunce and ioye ofyoure fayth 26 that ye maye moare aboun-dantly reioyce in Iesus Christ thorowe meby my comminge to you agayne. 27 Onlylet yovre conversacion be as it be comeththe gospell of Christ: that whether I comeand se you or els be absent I maye yetheare of you that ye contynue in one spreteand in one soule labouringe as we do tomayntayne the fayth of the gospell 28 andin nothynge fearinge youre adversaries:which is to them a token of perdicion andto you of salvacion and that of God. 29 Forvnto you it is geven that not only ye shuldebeleve onChrist: but also suffre for his sake30 and have even the same fight which yesawe me have and now heare of me.

21 If ther be amonge you eny consolacion

in Christ yf ther be eny cofortable love yfthere be eny fellishippe of the sprete yfther be eny compassion or mercy: 2 fulfyllmy ioye that ye drawe one waye havingeone love beynge of one accorde and ofonemynde 3 that nothinge be done thorowstryfe or vayne glory but that in mekenesof mynde every man esteme other betterthen him selfe 4 and that no man consyderhis awne but what is mete for other. 5 Letthe same mynde be in you that was inChrist Iesu: 6 Which beynge in the shapeof god and thought it not robbery to beequall with god. 7 Neverthelesse he madehim silfe of no reputacion and toke on him

Philippians 2:8 185 Philippians 3:12the shape of a servaunte and became lykevntomen 8 and was founde in his aparell asa man. He humbled him silfe and becameobediet vnto the deeth even the deeth ofthe crosse. 9 Wherfore god hath exaltedhim and geve him a name above all names:10 that in the name of Iesus shuld everyknee bowe bothe of thinges in heven andthinges in erth and thinges vnder erth11 and that all tonges shuld confesse thatIesus Christ is the lorde vnto the prayseof God the father. 12 Wherfore my dearlybeloved as ye have always obeyednotwhenI was present only but now moche morein myne absence even so worke out youreawne saluacionwith feare and tremblynge.13 For it is god which worketh in you boththewill and also that dede evenof goodwill14Do all thynge with out murmurynge anddisputynge 15 that ye maye be fautelesseand pure and the sonnes of God with outrebuke in the middes of a croked and aperverse nacion amonge which se that yeshyne as lightes in the worlde 16 holdingefast the worde of lyfe vnto my reioysyngein the daye of Christ that I have not runnein vayne 17 nether have labored in vayne.Yee and though I be offered vp vpon theofferynge and sacrifice of youre fayth: Ireioyce and reioyce with you all. 18 Forthe same cause also reioyce ye and reioyceye with me. 19 I trust in the lorde Iesusfor to sende Timotheus shortly vnto youthat I also maye be of good comforte whenI knowe what case ye stonde in. 20 ForI have no man that is so lyke mynded tomewhich with so pure affeccion careth foryoure matters. 21 For all other seke ytirawne and not that which is Iesus Christes.22Ye knowe the proffe of him howe that asa sonewith the father sowithme bestowedhe his labour apon the gospell. 23 Him Ihope to sende assone as I knowe how it willgo with me. 24 I trust in the lorde I alsomy silfe shall come shortly. 25 I supposedit necessary to sende brother Epaphroditusvnto you my companion in laboure andfelowe soudier youre Apostel and my min-ister at my nedes. 26 For he longed afteryou and was full of hevines because thatye had hearde saye that he shuld be sicke.27 And no doute he was sicke and that nyevnto deeth. But god had mercy on him:

not on him only but on me also lest I shuldhave had sorowe apon sorowe. 28 I senthim therfore the diligentliar that when yeshuld se him ye myght reioyce agayne andI myght be the lesse sorowfull. 29 Receavehim therfore in the lorde with all gladnesand make moche of soche: 30 because thatfor the worke of Christ he went so farrethat he was nye vnto deeth and regardednot his lyfe to fulfill that service which waslackynge on youre parte towarde me.

31 Morover my brethren reioyce in the

lorde. It greveth me not to write onethinge often to you. For to you it is asure thynge. 2 Beware of dogges bewareof evyll workers. Beware of dissencion.3For we are circumcision which worshippegod in the sprete and reioyce in ChristIesu and have no confidence in the flesshe:4 though I have wherof I myght reioyce inthe flesshe. Yf eny other man thynkeththat he hath wherof he myght trust inthe flesshe: moche moare I: 5 circumcisedthe eyght daye of the kynred of Israhellof the trybe of Beniamyn an Ebrue borneof the Ebrues: as concernynge the lawea pharisaye 6 and as concernynge fer-vetnes I perseuted the congregacion andas touchynge the rightewesnes which isin the lawe I was vnrebukable. 7 But thethynges that were vauntage vnto me Icounted losse for Christes sake. 8 Ye Ithinke all thynges but losse for that ex-cellet knowledges sake of Christ Iesu mylorde. For whom I have counted all thyngelosse and do iudge them but donge thatI myght wynne Christ 9 and myght befounde in him not havynge myne awnerightewesnes which is of the lawe: Butthat which spryngeth of the fayth whichis in Christ. I meane the rightewesneswhich cometh of God thorowe fayth 10 inknowynge him and the vertue of his res-urreccion and the fellowshippe of his pas-sions that I myght be conformable vntohis (deeth) 11 yf by eny meanes I myghtattayne vnto the resurreccion from deeth.12 Not as though I had all redy attaynedto it Ether were all redy parfect: but Ifolowe yf that I maye comprehende thatwherin I am comprehended of Christ Iesu.

Philippians 3:13 186 Philippians 4:2313Brethren I counte notmy silfe that I havegotten it: but one thynge I saye: I forgetthatwhich is behynde and stretchemy silfevnto that which is before 14 and preacevnto the marke apoynted to obtayne therewarde of the hye callynge of god in ChristIesu. 15 Let vs therfore as many as beperfect be thus wyse minded: and yf yebe other wyse mynded I praye God openeven this vnto you. 16Neverthelesse in thatwher vnto we are come let vs procede byone rule that we maye be of one acorde.17 Brethren be folowers of and me loke onthem which walke even so as ye have vsfor an ensample. 18 For many walke (ofwhom I have tolde you often and now tellyouwepynge) that they are the enemyes ofthe crosse of Christ 19whose ende is damp-nacion whose God is their bely and whoseglory is to their shame which are worldelymynded. 20 But oure conversacion is inheven from whence we loke for a saveourenen the lorde Iesus Christ 21 which shallchaunge oure vile bodies that they mayebe fassioned lyke vnto his glorious bodyacordinge to the workynge wherby he isable to subdue all thinges vnto hym silfe.

41 Herfore my brethren dearly beloved

and longed for my ioye and croune socontinue in the lorde ye beloved. 2 I prayeEvodias and beseche Sintiches that theybe of one accorde in the lorde. 3 Yee andI beseche the faythfull yockfelowe helpethe wemen which labored with me in thegospell and with Clement also and withother my labour felowes whose names arein the boke of lyfe. 4 Reioyce in the Lordealwaye and agayne I saye reioyce. 5 Letyoure softenes be knowen vnto all men.The lorde is even at honde. 6Be not carfull:but in all thynges shewe youre peticionvnto god in prayer and suplicacion withgevynge of thankes. 7 And the peaceof god which passeth all vnderstondingekepe youre hertes and myndes in christIesu. 8 Furthermore brethren whatsoeverthinges are true whatsoever thynges arehonest what soever thynges are iust what-soever thynges are pure whatsoever thyn-ges pertayne to love whatsoever thyngesare of honest reporte: yf ther be eny

verteous thynge yf there be eny laudablethynge those same have ye in youremynde9which ye have both learned and receavedherde and also sene in me: those thyngesdo and the god of peace shalbe with you.10 I reioyse in the lorde greatly that now atthe last ye are revived agayne to care forme in that wherein ye were also carefullbut ye lacked oportunite. 11 I speake notbecause of necessitie. For I have learnedin whatsoever estate I am therewith tobe content. 12 I can both cast doune mysilfe I can also excede. Every where andin all thynges I am instructed both to befull and to be hongry: to have plenty andto suffre nede. 13 I can do all thyngesthorow the helpe of Christ which streng-theth me. 14 Not wistondynge ye havewell done that ye bare parte with me inmy tribvlacion. 15 Ye of Philippos knowethat in the begynnyngeof the gospellwhenI departed from Macedonia no congrega-cion bare parte with me as concernyngegevynge and receavynge but ye only. 16Forwhen I was in Tessalonica ye sent once andafterwarde agayne vnto my nedes: 17 notthat I desyre gyftes: but I desyre aboudantfrute on youre parte. 18 I receaved all andhave plentie. I was even filled after that Ihad receaved of Epaphroditus that whichcame from you an odour that smellethswete a sacrifice accepted and plesauntto God. 19 My god fulfill all youre nedesthorow his glorious riches in Iesu Christ.20 Vnto God and oure father be prayse forever more. Amen. 21 Salute all the sainctesin Christ Iesu. The brethrenwhich arewithme grete you. 22 All the saynctes saluteyou: and most of all they which are of theEmperours housholde. 23The grace of ourelorde Iesu Christ be with you all. Amen.‘Sent from Rome by Epaphroditus.’

Colossians 1:1 187 Colossians 2:3

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THEAPOSTLE TO THECOLOSSIANS1 Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by

the wyll of God and brother Timotheus.2 To the sayntes which are at Colossa andbrethren that beleve in Christ. Grace bewith you and peace from God oure fatherand from the Lorde Iesus Christ. 3 Wegeve thankes to God the father of oureLorde Iesus Christ alwayes prayenge foryou 4 sence we hearde of youre faith whichye have in Christ Iesu and of the love whichye beare to all sayntes 5 for the hopes sakewhich is layde vp in store for you in hevenof which hope ye have herde before by thetrue worde of the gospell 6 which is comevnto you even as it is in to all the worldeand is frutefull as it is amonge you fromthe fyrst daye in the which ye herde of itand had experiece in the grace of God inthe trueth 7 as ye learned of Epaphra ouredeare felowe servaunt which is for you afaythfull minister of Christ 8 which alsodeclared vnto vs youre love which ye havein the sprete. 9 For this cause we also sencethe daye we herde of it have not ceasydprayinge for you and desyringe 10 that yemyght be fulfilled with the knowledge ofhis will in all wisdome and spretuall vnder-stodynge that ye myght walke worthy ofthe lorde in all thynges that please beyngefrutfull in all goodworkes and encreasyngein the knowledge of God 11 strengthed withallmyght thorowe hys glorious power vntoall pacience and longe sufferyngewith ioy-fulnes 12 gevynge thankes vnto the fatherwhich hath made vs mete to be part takersof the enheritaunce of sainctes in light.13Which hath delivered vs from the powerof dercknes and hath translated vs in to thekyngdome of his dere sone 14 in whom wehave redempcion thurow his bloud that isto saye the forgevenes of sinnes 15which isthe ymage of the invisible god fyrst begot-ten of all creatures. 16 For by him were allthynges created thynges that are in hevenand thynges that are in erth: thynges visi-ble and thynges invisible: whether they bemaieste or lordshippe ether rule or power.

All thinges are creatyd by hym and in him17 and he is before all thinges and in himall thynges have their beynge. 18 And heis the heed of the body that is to wit ofthe congregacion: he is the begynnyngeand fyrst begotten of the deed that in allthynges he might have the preeminence.19 For it pleased the father that in himshuld all fulnes dwell 20 and by him toreconcile all thynge vnto him silfe and toset at peace by him thorow the bloud of hiscrosse both thynges in heven and thyngesin erth. 21 And you (which were in tymespast straungers and enymes because youremyndes were set in evyll workes) hath henow reconcilied 22 in the body of his flesshethorowe deeth to make you holy vnblame-able and with out faut in his awne syght23yf ye continue grounded and stablysshedin the fayth and be not moved awaye fromthe hope of the gospell wher of ye haveherde howe that it is preached amongeall creatures which are vnder heven wherof I Paul am made a minister. 24 Nowioye I in my soferinges which I suffre foryou and fulfill that which is behynde ofthe passions of Christ in my flesshe forhis bodies sake which is the congregacion25wherof I am made a minister acordyngeto the ordinaunce of godwhich ordinauncewas geven me vnto you warde to fulfillthe worde of god 26 that mistery hid sencethe worlde beganne and sence the begyn-nynge of generacions: but now is openedto his saynctes 27 to whom god wolde makeknowen the glorious riches of this misteryamonge the gentyls which riches is Christin you the hope of glory 28whomwepreachwarnynge all men and teachinge all menin all wisdome to make all men parfect inChrist Iesu. 29 Wherin I also laboure andstryve even as farforth as hys workyngeworketh in me myghtely.

21 I wolde ye knewewhat fyghtinge I have

for youre sakes and for them of Laodiciaand for as many as have not sene myparson in the flesshe 2 that their hertesmyght be conforted and knet togedder inlove and in all ryches of full vnderston-dynge for to knowe the mistery of God thefather and of Christ 3 in whom are hid all

Colossians 2:4 188 Colossians 3:16the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.4This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle youwith entysinge wordes. 5 For though I beabsent in the flesshe yet am I present withyou in the sprete ioyinge and beholdingethe order that ye kepe and youre stedfastfayth in Christ. 6 As ye have therfore re-ceaved Christ Iesu the Lorde even so walke7 roted and bylt in him and stedfaste inthe fayth as ye have learned: and therinbe plenteous in gevynge thankes. 8Bewarelest eny man come and spoyle you thorowphilosophy and disceatfull vanitie, thorowthe tradicions of me and ordinaunces afterthe worlde and not after christ. 9 For inhim dwelleth all the fulnes of the godheedbodyly 10and ye are complete in himwhichis the heed of all rule and power 11 in whomalso ye are circucised with circumcisionmade mith out hondes by puttinge of thesinfull boddy of the flesshe thorow thecircumcision that is in Christ 12 in that yeare buryed with him thorow baptism inwhom ye are also rysen agayne thorowefayth that is wrought by the operacion ofgod which raysed him from deeth. 13 Andye which weare deed in synne thorow thevncircumcision of youre flesshe hath hequyckened with him and hath forgeve vsall oure trespases 14 and hath put out thehandwritinge that was agaynst vs con-tayned in the lawe writte and that hathhe take out of the waye and hath fastenedit to his crosse 15 and hath spoyled ruleand power and hath made a shewe of theopenly and hath triumphed over them inhis awne persone. 16 Let noman therforetrouble youre conscieces aboutemeate anddrynke or for a pece of an holydaye asthe holydaye of the newe mone or of thesabboth dayes 17 which are nothinge butshaddowes of thynges to come: but thebody is in Christ. 18 Let no man make youshote at a wronge (marke) which after hisawne ymaginacion walketh in the hum-blenes andholynes of angels thingeswhichhe never sawe: causlesse puft vp with hisflesshlymynde 19and holdeth not the heedwherof all the body by ioyntes and couplesreceaveth norisshment and is knet to ged-der and encreaseth with the in creasyngethat commeth of god. 20 Wherfore if ye

be deed with Christ from ordinaunces ofthe worlde why as though ye yet lived inthe worlde are ye ledde with tradicions ofthem that saye? 21 Touche not tast nothandell not: 22which all perysshe with thevsinge of the and are after the commaun-dmentes and doctrins of men 23 whichthinges have the similitude of wisdome inchosen holynes and humblenes and in thatthey spare not the body and do the flessheno worshype vnto his nede.

31 If ye be then rysen agayne with christ

seke those thynges which are above whereChrist sitteth on the right honde of god.2 Set youre affeccion on thynges that areabove and not on thinges which are onthe erth. 3 For ye are deed and yourelyfe is hid with Christ in god. 4 WhenChrist which is oure lyfe shall shewe himsilfe then shall ye also appere with himin glory. 5 Mortifie therfore youre mem-bres which are on the erth fornicacion vn-clennes vnnaturall lust evyll concupisceceand coveteousnes which is worshippyngeof ydols: 6 for which thynges sakes thewrath of God cometh on the chyldren ofvnbeleve. 7 In which thynges ye walkedonce. when ye lived in them. 8But now putye also awaye from you all thynges wrathfearsnes maliciousnes cursed speakyngefilthy speakynge out of youre mouthes.9 Lye not one to another that the olde manwith his workes be put of 10 and the newput on which is renued in knowledge afterthe ymage of him that made him 11whereis nether gentile ner Iewe circumcisionnor vncircumcision Barbarous or Sithianbonde or fre: but Christe is all in all thyn-ges. 12 Now therfore as electe of god holyand beloved put on tender mercie kyndneshumblenes of myndes meknes longe suf-ferynge 13 forbearynge one another andforgevynge one another if eny man have aquarrell to a nother even as Christ forgaveyou even so do ye. 14 Above all thesethinges put on love which is the bondeof parfectnes. 15 And the peace of godrule in youre hertes to the which peaceye are called in one body. And se that yebe thankfull. 16 Let the worde of Christdwell in you plenteously in all wisdome.

Colossians 3:17 189 Colossians 4:18Teache and exhorte youre awne selves inpsalmes and hymnes and spretuall songeswhich have favour with them syngyngein youre hertes to the lorde. 17 And allthynges (whatsoever ye do in worde ordede) do in the name of the lorde Iesugevinge thakes to god the father by him.18 Wyves submit youre selves vnto youreawne husbandes as it is comly in the Lorde.19 Husbandes love youre wyves and benot bitter vnto them. 20 Children obeyyoure fathers and mothers in all thingesfor that is wel pleasynge vnto the lorde.21 Fathers rate not youre children lest theybe of a desperate mynde. 22 Servauntesbe obedient vnto youre bodyly masters inall thynges: not with eye service as menpleasers but in synglenes of herte fearyngegod. 23And whatsoever ye do do it hertelyas thoughyedid it to the lorde andnot vntomen 24 for as moche as ye knowe that ofthe lorde ye shall receave the rewarde ofinheritaunce for ye serve the lorde Christ.25But he that dothwronge shall receave forthe wronge that he hath done: for there isno respect of persons.

41 Ye masters do vnto youre servauntes

that which is iust and egall seinge yeknowe that ye also have a master in heven.2Continue in prayer andwatch in the samewith thankes gevynge 3 prayenge also forvs that God open vnto vs the dore of vt-teraunce that we maye speake the misteryof Christ wherfore I am in bondes: 4 that Imaye vtter it as it becometh me to speake.5 Walke wysely to them that are with outand redeme the tyme. 6 Let youre speachebe all wayes well favoured and be powdredwith salt that yemaye knowhow to answerevery man. 7 The deare brother Tichicosshall tell you of all my busynes which isa faythfull minister and felowe servauntin the Lorde 8 whom I have sent vntoyou for the same purpose that he myghtknowehowye do andmyght comfort yourehertes 9with one Onesimus a faythfull anda beloved brother which is one of you.They shall shewe you of all thinges whichare adoynge here. 10 Aristarchus my pre-son felowe saluteth you and Marcus Barn-

abassis systers sonne: touchinge whom yereceaved commaundementes. Yf he comevnto you receave him: 11and Iesus which iscalled Iustuswhich are of the circumcision.These only are my workefelowes vnto thekyngdome of God which were vnto myconsolacion. 12 Epaphras the servaut ofChrist which is one of you saluteth youand all wayes laboreth fervently for youin prayers that ye maye stonde perfectand full in all that is the will of god. 13 Ibeare him recorde that he hath a fervetmynde towarde you and towarde them ofLaodicia and them of Hierapolis. 14 DeareLucas the Phisicion greteth you andDemas.15Salute the brethrenwhich are of Laodiciaand salute Nymphas and the congregacionwhich is in his housse. 16 And when thepistle is reed of you make that it be reedin the congregacion of the Laodicians also:and that ye lyke wyse reade the epistle ofLaodicia. 17 And saye to Archippus: takehede to the office that thou hast receavedin the Lorde that thou fulfill it. 18 Thesalutacion by the honde of me Paul. Re-member my bondes. Grace be with you.Amen. ‘Sent from Rome by Tichicus andOnesimus.’

1 Thessalonians 1:1 190 1 Thessalonians 2:18

THE FIRST EPISTLE OFPAUL THE APOSTLE TOTHE THESSALONIANS1 Paul Syluanus and Timotheus. Vnto

the congregacion of the Tessalonyans inGod the father and in the Lorde IesusChrist. Grace be with you and peace fromGod oure father and from the Lorde IesusChrist. 2 We geve God thakes all waye foryou all makinge mension of you in oureprayers 3 with out ceasynge and call toremembraunce youre worke in the faytheand labour in love and perseveraunce inthe hope of oure lorde Iesus Christ in thesight of God oure father: 4 because weknowe brethren beloved of god how thatye are electe. 5 For oure gospell came notvnto you in worde only but also in powerand also in the holy gost and in mochecertayntie as ye knowe after what manerwe behaued oure selves amonge you foryoure sakes. 6Andye became folowers of vsand of the lord and receaved the worde inmoche affliccionwith ioye of the holy gost:7 so that ye were an ensample to all thatbeleve inMacedonia andAchaia. 8For fromyou sounded out the worde of the lordenot in Macedonia and in Achaia only: butyoure fayth also which ye have vnto godspred her silfe abroade in all quartars sogreatly that it nedeth not vs to speake enythynge at all. 9 For they the selves sheweof you what maner of entrynge in we hadvnto you and how ye tourned to God fromymages for to serve the livynge and truegod 10 and for to loke for his sonne fromheven whom he raysed from deeth: I meanIesus which delivereth vs from wrath tocome.

21 For ye youre selves knowe brethren of

oure entraunce in vnto you howe that itwas not in vayne: 2 but even after thatwe had suffered before andwere shamfullyentreated at Phillippos (as ye well knowe)then were we bolde in oure God to speakevnto you the gospell of God with mochestrivynge. 3 Oure exhortacion was not tobrynge you to erroure nor yet to vnclennesnether was it with gyle: 4 but as we were

alowed of God that the gospell shuld becommitted vnto vs: even so we speake notas though we entended to please men butGod which trieth oure hertes. 5 Netherwas oure conversacion at eny tyme withflatteryngewordes as yewell knowenetherin cloked coveteousnes God is recorde:6nether sought we prayse ofmen nether ofyou nor yet of eny other when we myghthave bene chargeable as the apostles ofChrist 7 but we were tender amonge youeven as a norsse cheressheth her children8 so was oure affeccion towarde you ouregood will was to have dealte vnto you notthe gospell of God only: but also oureawne soules because ye were deare vntovs. 9 Ye remember brethren oure laboureand travayle. For we laboured daye andnyght because we wolde not be greveousvnto eny of you and preached vnto youthe gospell of God. 10Ye are witnesses andso is god how holyly and iustly and vn-blameable we behaved oure selves amongeyou that beleve: 11 as ye knowe how thatwe exhorted and comforted and besoughtevery one of you as a father his children12 that yewoldewalkeworthy of Godwhichhath called you vnto his kyngdome andglory. 13 For this cause thanke we godwith out ceasynge because that when yereceaved of vs the worde wherwith Godwas preached ye receaved it not as theworde of man: but even as it was in dedethe worde of God which worketh in youthat beleve. 14 For ye brethren becamefolowers of the congregacions of godwhichin Iewry are in Christ Iesu: for ye havesuffered lyke thynges of youre kynsmen aswe oure selves have suffered of the Iewes.15Which as they kylled the lorde Iesus andtheir awne prophetes even so have theypersecuted vs and God they please not andare contrary to all men 16 and forbid vs topreache vnto the gentyls that they myghtbe saved to fulfill their synnes all waye. Forthe wrath of God is come on them evento the vtmost. 17 For as moch brethrenas we are kept from you for a season asconcernynge the bodyly presence but notin the herte we enforsed the more to seyou personally with great desire. 18 Andtherfore we wolde have come vnto you Ipaul once and agayne: but Satanwith stode

1 Thessalonians 2:19 191 1 Thessalonians 5:2vs. 19 For what is oure hope or ioye orcroune of reioysynge? are not ye it in thepresence of oure lorde Iesus Christ at hiscomynge? 20yes ye are oure glory and ioye.

31 Wherfore sence we coulde no lenger

forbeare it pleased vs to remayne at Athensalone 2 and sent Timotheus oure brotherand minister of god and oure labourefelowe in the gospell of Christ to stablyssheyou and to comforte you over youre fayth3 that no man shulde be moved in theseaffliccions. For ye youre selves knowe thatwe are even apoynted therevnto. 4 Forverely when I was with you I tolde youbefore that we shulde suffre tribulacioneven as it came to passe and as ye knowe.5 For this cause when I coulde no lengerforbeare I sent that I myght have knowl-edge of youre fayth lest haply the tempterhad tempted you and that oure laboure hadbene bestowed in vayne. 6 But now latelywhen Timotheus came from you vnto vsand declared to vs youre fayth and yourelove and how that ye have good remem-braunce of vs all wayes desyringe to se vs aswedesyre to se you. 7Therfore brethrenwehad consolacion in you in all oure adversiteand necessite through youre fayth. 8 Fornow are we alyve yf ye stonde stedfastin the lorde. 9 For what thankes can werecompence to god agayne for you overall the ioye that we ioye for youre sakesbefore oure god 10 whyle we nyght anddaye praye excedingly that we myght seyou presently and myght fulfill that wichis lackynge in youre fayth. 11 God himsilfe oure father and oure lorde Iesus Christgyde oure iorney vnto you: 12and the lordeincreace you and make you flowe ouerin love one towarde another and towardeall men even as we do towarde you 13 tomake youre hertes stable and vnblameablein holynes before God oure father at thecommynge of oure Lorde Iesus Christ withall his sainctes.

41 Furthermore we beseche you brethren

and exhorte you in the lorde Iesus that yeincreace more and more euen as ye havereceaved of vs how ye ought to walke and

to please god. 2 Ye remember what com-maundmentes we gave you in oure lordeIesu Christ. 3For this is the will of god eventhat ye shuld be holy 4and that ye shuld ab-stayne from fornicacion that every one ofyou shuld knowe how to kepe his vessell inholynes and honoure 5 and not in the lustof concupiscence as do the hethen whichknowe not god 6 that noman goo to farreand defraude his brother in bargayninge:because the lorde is a venger of all suchethinges as we tolde you before tyme andtestified. 7 For god hath not called vs vntovnclennes: but vnto holynes. 8He therforethat despiseth despiseth not man but Godwhich hath sent his holy sprete amongeyou. 9 But as touchynge brotherly loveye nede not that I wryte vnto you. Forye are taught of God to love on another.10 Ye and that thinge verely ye do vntoall the brethren which are thorow oute allMacedonia. We beseche you brethren thatye encreace more and more 11 and thatye studye to be quyet and to medle withyoure awne busynes and to worke withyoure awne hondes as we commaundedyou: 12 that ye maye behave youre selveshonestly towarde them that are with outand that nothinge be lackynge vnto you.13 I wolde not brethren have you ignorauntconcerninge them which are fallen aslepethat ye sorowe not as other do which haveno hope. 14For yf we beleve that Iesus dyedand rose agayne: even so them also whichslepe by IeIesus will God brynge agaynewith him. 15 And this saye we vnto you inthe worde of the Lorde that we which liveand are remayninge in the comminge ofthe Lorde shall not come yerre they whichslepe. 16 For the Lorde him selfe shall de-scende from heven with a showte and thevoyce of the archangell and trompe of God.And the deed in Christe shall aryse fyrst:17 then shall we which live and remayne becaught vp with them also in the cloudes tomete the Lorde in the ayer. And so shallwe ever be with the Lorde. 18 Wherforecomforte youre selves one another withthese wordes

51 Of the tymes and seasons brethren ye

have no nede that I write vnto you: 2 for

1 Thessalonians 5:3 192 1 Thessalonians 5:28ye youre selves knowe parfectly that thedaye of the Lorde shall come even as athefe in the nyght. 3When they shall sayepeace and no daunger than commeth onthe soden destruccion as the travalyngeof a woman with childe and they shallnot scape. 4 But ye brethren are not indarcknes that that daye shuld come onyou as it were a thefe. 5 Ye are all thechildren of light and the children of thedaye. We are not of the nyght nether ofdarcknes. 6 Therfore let vs not slepe asdo other: but let vs watch and be sober.7 For they that slepe slepe in the nyght:and they that be dronken are dronken inthe nyght. 8 But let vs which are of thedaye be sober armedwith the brest plate offayth and love and with hope of salvacionas an helmet. 9 For god hath not apoyntedvs vnto wrath: but to obtayne salvacionby the meanes of oure lorde Iesu Christ10 which died for vs: that whether wewake or slepe we shuld lyve togedder withhim. 11 Wherfore comforte youre selvestogedder and edifie one another even asye do. 12 We beseche you brethren thatye knowe themwhich laboure amonge youand have the oversight of you in the Lordeand geve you exhortacion 13 that ye havethem themore in love for theirworkes sakeand be at peace with them. 14 We desyreyou brethren warne them that are vnrulycomforte the feble mynded forbeare theweake have continuall pacience towardeall men. 15 Se that none recopence evillfor evyll vnto eny man: but ever folowethat which is good both amonge youreselves and to all men. 16 Reioyce ever.17 Praye continually. 18 In all thinges gevethankes. For this is the wyll of God inChrist Iesu towarde you. 19 Quenche notthe sprete. 20 Despise not prophesyinge.21 Examen all thinges and kepe that whichis good. 22 Abstayne from all suspiciousthinges. 23 The very God of peace sanctifieyou thorow out. And I praye God thatyourewhole sprete soulse andbodybe keptfautlesse vnto the comynge of oure LordeIesus Christ 24 Faythfull is he which calledyou: whichwill also do it. 25Brethrenprayefor vs. 26 Grete all the brethren with anholy kysse. 27 I charge you in the Lorde

that this pistle be reed vnto all the holybrethren. 28 The grace of the Lorde IesusChrist be with you. Amen. ‘The fyrst pistlevnto the Tessalonyans sent from Athens.’

2 Thessalonians 1:1 193 2 Thessalonians 3:1

THE SECOND EPISTLE OFPAUL THE APOSTLE TOTHE THESSALONIANS1 Paul Syluanus and Timotheus. Vnto

the congregacion of the Tessalonyanswhich are in God oure father and inthe Lorde Iesus Christ. 2 Grace be withyou and peace from God oure fatherand from the Lorde Iesus Christ. 3 Weare bounde to thanke God all wayes foryou brethren as it is mete because thatyoure fayth groweth excedyngly and everyone of you swymmeth in love towardeanother betwene youre selves 4 so thatwe oureselves reioyce of you in thecongregacions of God over youre pacienceand fayth in all youre persecucions andtribulacions that ye suffre 5 which is atoken of the ryghtewes iudgement of godthat ye are countedworthy of the kyngdomof god for which ye also suffre. 6 It is verelya rightewes thinge with God to recopencetribulacion to them that trouble you: 7 andto you which are troubled rest with vswhen the lorde Iesus shall shewe him silfefrom heven with his myghty angels 8 inflammynge fyre rendrynge vengeauncevnto them that knowe not God and tothem that obeye not vnto the gospell ofoure Lorde Iesus Christ 9 which shalbepunysshed with everlastynge damnacionfrom the presence of the lorde and fromthe glory of his power 10 when he shallcome to be glorified in his sainctes andto be made marvelous in all them thatbeleve: because oure testimonye that wehad vnto you was beleved even the samedaye that we preached it. 11 Wherfore wepraye all wayes for you that oure godmakeyou worthy of the callynge and fulfill alldelectacion of goodnes and the worke offayth with power: 12 that the name of ourelorde Iesus Christ maye be gloryfied in youand ye in him thorowe the grace of oureGod and of the lorde Iesus Christ.

21 We beseche you brethren by the com-

mynge of oure lorde Iesu Christ and in thatwe shall assemble vnto him 2 that ye benot sodely moved from youre mynde and

be not troubled nether by sprete netherby wordes nor yet by letter which shuldseme to come fromvs as though the daye ofChrist were at honde. 3Let noman deceaveyou by eny meanes for the lorde commethnot excepte ther come a departynge fyrstand that that synfnll man be opened thesonne of perdicion 4which is an adversarieand is exalted above all that is called godor that is worshipped: so that he shallsitt as God in temple of god and shewhim silfe as god. 5 Remember ye not thatwhen I was yet with you I tolde you thesethynges? 6 And nowe ye knowe what withholdeth: even that he myght be vtteredat his tyme. 7 For the mistery of thatiniquitie doeth he all readie worke whichonlie loketh vntill it be taken out of thewaye. 8 And then shall that wicked be vt-tered whom the lorde shall consume withthe sprete of hys mouth and shall destroyewith the apearaunce of his commynge9 even him whose commynge is by theworkynge of Satan wyth all lyinge powersignes and wonders: 10 and in all deceav-ablenes of vnrightewesnes amonge themthat perysshe: because they receaved notthe (love) of the truth that they myghthave bene saved. 11And therfore god shallsende them stronge delusion that theyshuld beleve lyes: 12 that all they myghtbe damned which beleved not the truethbut had pleasure in vnrightewesnes. 13Butwe are bounde to geve thankes alwaye togod for you brethren beloved of the lordefor because that God hath from the beg-ynnynge chosen you to saluacion thorowsanctifyinge of the sprete and thorowebelevynge the trueth: 14 whervnto hecalled you byoure gospell to obtayne theglorye that cometh of oure lord Iesu Christ.15 Therfore brethren stonde fast and kepethe ordinaunces which ye have learned:whether it were by oure preachynge orby pistle. 16 Oure lorde Iesu Christ hymsilfe and God oure father which hath lovedvs and hath geven vs everlastynge con-solacion and good hope thorowe grace17 comforte youre hertes and stablyssheyou in all doctrine and good doynge.

31 Furthermore brethrenpraye for vs that

2 Thessalonians 3:2 194 2 Thessalonians 3:18the worde of god maye have fre passageand be gloryfied as it is with you: 2and thatwe maye be delivered from vnresonableand evyll men. For all men have not fayth:3 but the lorde is faythfull which shallstablysshe you and kepe you from evyll.4 We have confidence thorow the lorde toyou warde that ye both do and will do thatwhich we commaude you. 5 And the lordegyde youre hertes vnto the love of Godand paciece of Christ. 6 We requyre youbrethren in the name of oure lorde IesuChrist that yewith draweyoure selves fromevery brother thatwalketh inordinatly andnot after the institucionwhich ye receavedof vs. 7Ye youre selves knowehowye oughtto folowe vs. For we behaved not oureselves inordinatly amonge you. 8 Nethertoke we breed of eny man for nought: butwrought with laboure and travayle nyghtand daye because we wolde not be grevousto eny of you: 9 not but that we hadauctoritie: but to make oure selves aninsample vnto you to folowe vs. 10 Forwhenwewerewith you thiswewarned youof that yf ther were eny which wolde notworke that the same shuld not eate. 11Wehave hearde saye no doute that ther aresomewhich walke amonge you inordinatlyand worke not at all but are besy bodies.12 Them that are soche we commaundeand exhorte by oure lorde Iesu Christ thatthey worke with quyetnes and eate theirawne breed. 13 Brethren be not wery inwell doynge. 14 Yf eny man obey not ouresayinges sende vs worde of him by a letter:and have no companie with him that hemaye be ashamed. 15 And count him notas an enemy: but warne him as a brother.16 The very lorde of peace geve you peaceall wayes by all meanes. The lorde be withyou all. 17 The salutacion of me Paul withmyne awne honde. This is the token in allpistles. So I write. 18 The grace of ourelorde Iesus Christ be with you all Amen.‘Sent from Athens.’

1 Timothy 1:1 195 1 Timothy 2:15

THE FIRST EPISTLE OFPAUL THE APOSTLE TOTIMOTHY1 Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the

commaundement of God oure savioure andLorde Iesus Christ which is oure hope.2 Vnto Timothe his naturall sonne in thefayth. Grace mercy and peace from Godoure father and Lorde Iesus Christ oureLorde. 3As I besought the to abyde styll inEphesus when I departed into Macedoniaeven so do that thou commaunde somethat they teache no nother wise: 4 nethergeve hede to fables and genealogies whichare endlesse and brede doutes more thengodly edyfyinge which is by fayth: 5 forthe ende of the commaundement is lovethat cometh of a pure herte and of agood conscience and of fayth vnfayned:6 from the which thinges some have erredand have turned vnto vayne iangelinge7because theywolde be doctours the scrip-ture and yet vnderstonde not what theyspeake nether wherof they affirme. 8 Weknowe that the lawe is good yf a man vseit lawfully 9 vnderstondinge this how thatthe lawe is not geven vnto a righteous manbut vnto the vnrighteous and disobedientto the vngodly and to synners to vnholyand vnclean to murtherers of fathers andmurtherers of mothers to manslears 10 andwhormongers: to them that defile themselves with mankynde: to menstealers: tolyars and to periured and so forth yf therbe eny other thinge that is contrary to hol-some doctrine 11 accordinge to the gospellof the glory of the blessed God whichgospell is committed vnto me. 12 And Ithanke Christ Iesus oure Lorde which hathmade me stronge: for he counted me trueand put me in office 13when before I was ablasphemar and a persecuter and a tyraut.But I obtaynedmercy because I dyd it igno-rauntly thorow vnbelefe. 14 Neverthelaterthe grace of oure Lorde was more abound-aunt with fayth and love which is in ChristIesu. 15 This is a true sayinge and by allmeanes worthy to be receaved that ChristIesus came into the world to save synnersof whom I am chefe. 16 Notwithstondingefor this cause was mercy geve vnto me

that Iesus Christ shuld fyrst shewe on meall longe pacience vnto the ensample ofthem which shall in tyme to come beleveon him vnto eternall lyfe. 17 So thenvnto god kynge everlastinge immortallinvisible and wyse only be honoure andprayse for ever and ever Amen. 18 Thiscommaundement commit I vnto the sonneTimotheus accordynge to the prophisieswhich in tyme past were prophisied of thethat thou in them shuldest fyght a goodfyght 19 havinge fayth and good consciecewhich some have put awaye from themand as concerninge fayth have made ship-wracke. 20 Of whose nombre is Himeneusand Alexander which I have delivered vntoSatan that they myght be taught not toblaspheme

21 I exhorte therfore that above all thyn-

ges prayers supplicacions intercessionsand gevynge of thankes behad for all men:2 for kynges and for all that are in auctoritethat we maye live a quyet and a peasablelife in all godlines and honestie. 3 For thatis good and accepted in the sight of godoure savioure 4 which will have all mensaved and to come vnto the knowledge ofthe trueth. 5 For ther is one god and one(mediator) bitwene god and man which isthe man Christ Iesus 6which gave him silfea raunsome for all men that it shuld betestified at his tyme 7 where vnto I amordayned a preacher and an apostle: I tellthe trueth in Christ and lye not beynge theteacher of the gentyls in fayth and veritie.8 I wyll therfore that the men praye everywhere liftynge vp pure hondes withoutwrath or dowtinge. 9 Lykwyse also thewemen that they araye themselves in com-lye aparell with shamfastnes and discretebehaveour not with broyded heare othergolde or pearles or costly araye: 10but withsuche as becometh wemen that professethe worshippynge of God thorow goodworkes. 11 Let the woman learne in silencewith all subieccion. 12 I suffre not a womanto teache nether to have auctoricie over aman: but forto be in silence. 13 For Adamwas fyrst formed and then Eve. 14 AlsoAdam was not deceaved but the womanwas deceaved and was in transgression.15 Notwithstondynge thorow bearinge of

1 Timothy 3:1 196 1 Timothy 5:4chyldre they shalbe saved so they continuein fayth love and holynes with discrecion.

31 This is a true sayinge. Yf a man covet

the office of a bysshope he desyreth agood worke. 2 Ye and a bisshope must befautlesse the husband of one wyfe soberdiscrete honestly aparelled harberous aptto teache 3 not dronken no fighter notgeve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorryngefightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes 4 andone that rueleth his awne housse honestlyhavynge chyldren vnder obedience withall honeste. 5 For yf a man cannot rulehis owne housse how shall he care forthe congregacion of God. 6 He maye notbe a yonge skoler lest he swell and fauleinto the iudgement of the evyll speaker.7He must also be well reported of amongethem which are with out forth lest hefall into rebuke and snare of the evyllspeaker. 8 Lykwyse must the deacons behonest not double tonged not geve vntomoche drynkinge nether vnto filthy lucre:9 but havynge the mistery of the fayth inpure conscience. 10 And let them fyrst beproved and then let them minister yf theybe founde fautlesse. 11 Even so must theirwynes be honest not evyll speakers: butsober and faythfull in all thinges. 12Let thedeacons be the husbandes of one wyfe andsuche as rule their chyldren well and theirawne housholdes. 13 For they that ministerwell get them selves good degre and greatelibertie in the fayth which is in Christ Iesu.14 These thinges write I vnto the trustingeto come shortly vnto the: 15 but and yf Itarie longe that then thou mayst yet haveknowledge how thou oughtest to behavethy silfe in the housse of God which is thecongregacion of the livinge God the pillarand grounde of trueth. 16 And with outnaye great is that mistery of godlines: Godwas shewed in the flesshe was iustified inthe sprete was sene of angels was preachedvnto the gentylswas beleved on in erth andreceaved vp in glory.

41 The sprete speaketh evydently that in

the latter tymes some shall departe fromthe fayth and shall geve hede vnto spretes

of erroure and dyvelysshe doctrine 2 ofthem which speake falce thorow ypocrisyeand have their consciencesmarkedwith anhote yron 3 forbyddinge to mary and com-maundinge to abstayne frommeateswhichGod hath created to be receaved withgevynge thankes of themwhich beleve andknowe the trueth. 4 For all the creatures ofGod are good andnothynge to be refused yfit be receaved with thankes gevynge. 5 Forit is sanctyfyed by the worde of God andprayer. 6 Yf thou shalt put the brethren inremembraunce of these thynges thou shaltbe a good minister of Iesu Christ whichhast bene norisshed vp in thewordes of thefayth and good doctryne which doctrynethou hast continually followed. 7 But castawaye vngostly and olde wyves fables. Ex-ercyse thy silfe vnto godlines. 8 For bodelyexercise proffiteth lyttll: But godlines isgood vnto all thynges as a thynge whichhath promyses of the lyfe that is now andof the lyfe to come. 9 This is a sure sayingeand of all parties worthy to be receaved.10 For therfore we laboure and suffre re-buke because we beleve in the livyngegod which is the savioure of all men: butspecially of those that beleve. 11 Suchethynges commaunde and teache. 12 Letno man despyse thy youth: but be vntothem that beleve an insample in wordein conversacion in love in sprete in faythand in purenes. 13 Till I come geve atten-daunce to redynge to exhortacion and todoctryne. 14Despyse not the gyfte that is inye which was geven the thorow prophesyeand with layinge on of the hondes of anelder. 15 These thynges exercyse and gevethy silfe vnto them that it maye be senehow thou profetest in all thinges. 16 Takehede vnto thy silfe and vnto learnynge andcontinue therin. For if thou shalt so dothou shalt save thy silfe and them thatheare the.

51 Rebuke not an elder: but exhorte him

as a father and the yonger me as brethren2 the elder wemen as mothers the yongeras sisters with all purenes. 3 Honourewiddowes which are true wyddowes. 4 Yfeny wyddowe have chyldren or neves letthem learne fyrst to rule their awnehouses

1 Timothy 5:5 197 1 Timothy 6:13godly and to recompence their elders. Forthat is good and acceptable before God.5She that is a verywyddowe and frendlesseputteth her trust in god and continueth insupplicacion and prayer nyght and daye.6 But she that liveth in pleasure is deedeven yet alive. 7 And these thynges com-maunde that they maye be without faut8 Yf ther be eny that provideth not for hisawne and namly for them of his housholdethe same denyeth the fayth and is worssethen an infydell. 9 Let no wyddowe be cho-sen vnder threscore yere olde and sochea one as was the wyfe of one man 10 andwell reported of in good workes: yf shehave noresshed children yf she have beneliberall to straugers yf she have wesshedthe saynctes fete yf she have ministredvnto them which were in adversite yf shewere continually geve vnto all maner goodworkes. 11 The yonger widdowes refuse.For when they have begone to wexe wan-tone to the dishonoure of Christ then willthey mary 12 havynge damnacion becausethey have broke their fyrst fayth. 13 Andalso they learne to goo from housse tohousse ydle yenot ydle only but also tryfly-nge and busybodyes speakynge thyngeswhich are not comly. 14 I will therfore thatthe yonger weme mary and beare childreand gyde the housse and geve none occa-sion to the adversary to speake evill 15 Formany of them are all redy turned bake andare gone after Satan. 16 And yf eny manor woman that beleveth have widdowes letthe minister vnto them and let not thecongregacion be charged: that that mayehave sufficient for them that are widdowesin dede. 17 The elders that rule wel areworthy of double honoure most speciallythey which laboure in the worde and inteachinge. 18 For the scripture sayth: Thoushalt notmousell themouth of the oxe thattreadeth out the corne. And the labourer isworthy of his rewarde. 19Agaynst an elderreceave none accusacion: but vnder two orthre witnesses. 20 Them that synne rebukeopenly that other maye feare. 21 I testi-fie before god and the lorde Iesus Christand the electe angels that thou observethese thynges with out hasty iudgementand do nothynge parcially. 22 Laye hondessodely on no man nether be partaker of

other mens synnes: kepe thy silfe pure.23 Drynke no lenger water but vse a lytellwyne for thy stommakes sake and thyneoften diseases. 24 Some mennes synnes areopen before honde and goo before vntoiudgement: some mennes synnes foloweafter. 25 Lykwyse also good workes aremanyfest before honde and they that areother wyse cannot be hid.

61 Let as many servauntes as are vnder

the yoke counte their masters worthy ofall honour that the name of god and hisdoctryne be not evyll spoken of. 2 Se thatthey which have belevynge masters de-spyse them not because they are brethren:but so moche the rather do service for asmoche as they are belevynge and belovedand partakers of the benefite. These thyn-ges teache and exhorte. 3 Yf eny manteache other wise and is not content withthe wholsome wordes of oure lorde Iesuchrist and with the doctryne of godlines4 he is pufte vp and knoweth nothynge:but wasteth his braynes aboute questionsand stryfe of wordes wherof sprynge enviestryfe raylinges evyll surmysinges 5 andvayne disputacions of men with corruptemyndes and destitute of the trueth whichthynke that lucre is godlines. From socheseperate thy silfe. 6 Godlines is greatryches yf a man be content with that hehath. 7 For we brought nothynge intothe worlde and it is a playne case thatwe can cary nothynge out. 8 When wehave fode and rayment let vs therwith becontent. 9 They that wilbe ryche fauleinto temptacion and snares and into manyfolysshe and noysome lustes which drouneme in perdicion and destruccion. 10 Forcoveteousnes is the rote of all evyll whichwhill some lusted after they erred fromthe fayth and tanglyd them selves withmany sorowes. 11 But thou which artethe man of god flye soche thynges Folowerightewesnes godlines love pacience andmeknes. 12 Fyght the good fyght of fayth.Laye honde on eternall lyfe where vntothou arte called and hast professed a goodprofession beforemanywitnesses. 13 I gevethe charge in the sight of God which quick-neth all thinges and before Iesu Christ

1 Timothy 6:14 198 1 Timothy 6:21which vnder Pocius Pilate witnessed agood witnessinge 14 that thou kepe thecommaundement and be with out spotteand vnrebukeable vntyll the apperynge ofoure lorde Iesus Christ 15 which aperynge(when the tyme ys come) he shall shewethat is blessed and myghty only kynge ofkynges and lorde of lordes 16 which onlyhath immortalite and dwelleth in light thatnoman can attaynewhomneverman sawenether can se: vnto whom be honoure andrule everlastynge. Amen. 17 Charge themthat are ryche in this worlde that they benot excedynge wyse and that they trustnot in the vncertayne ryches but in thelivynge god which geveth vs aboundantlyall thynges to enioye them 18 and that theydo good and be ryche in good workes andredy to geve and to distribute 19 layinge vpin store for them selves a good foundacionagaynst the tyme to come that they mayeobteyne eternall lyfe 20 O Timothe savethat which is geve ye to kepe and avoydevngostly vanities of voyces and opposiciosof sciece falsly so called 21 which sciencewhyll some professed they have erred asconcernynge the fayth. Grace be with theAmen. ‘Sent from Laodicea which is thechefest cite of Phrigia Pacaciana.’

2 Timothy 1:1 199 2 Timothy 2:17

THE SECOND EPISTLE OFPAUL THE APOSTLE TOTIMOTHY1 Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the

will of God to preache the promes of lyfewhich lyfe is in Christ Iesu. 2 To Timothehis beloved sonne. Grace mercy and peacefrom God the father and from Christ Iesuoure Lorde. 3 I thanke god whom I servefrommyne elders with pure consciece thatwith out ceasynge I make mencion of thein my prayres nyght and daye 4 desyryngeto se the myndfull of thy teares: so that Iam filled with ioye 5when I call to remem-braunce the vnfayned fayth that is in thewhich dwelt fyrst in thy graumoder Loisand in thy mother Eunica: and am assuredthat it dwelleth in the also. 6 Wherfore Iwarne the that thou stere vp the gyfte ofgod which is in the by the puttynge on ofmy hondes. 7 For god hath not geven tovs the sprete of feare: but of power and oflove and of sobrenes of mynde. 8 Be nota shamed to testyfye oure lorde nether bea shamed of me which am bounde for hissake: but suffre adversite with the gospellalso thorow the power of god 9which savedvs and called vs with an holy callinge notacordinge to oure dedes but accordynge tohis awne purpose and grace which gracewas geve vs thorowe Christ Iesu beforethe worlde was 10 but is nowe declaredopenly by the appearynge of oure savioureIesu Christ which hath put away derth andhath brought lyfe and immortalite vntolight thorow the gospell 11whervnto I amapoynted a preacher and an Apostle anda teacher of the gentyls: 12 for the whichcause I also suffre these thinges. Neverthe-lesse I am not a shamed For I knowe who Ihave beleved and am sure that he is ableto kepe that which I have committed to hiskepynge agaynst that daye. 13Se thou havethe ensample of the holsomewordeswhichthou heardest of me in fayth and lovewhich is in Iesu Christ. 14That good thingewhiche was committed to thy kepyngekepe in the holy goost which dwelleth invs. 15 This thou knowest how that all theywhich are in Asia be turned from me. Of

which sorte are Phigelos and hermogenes.16 The lorde geve mercie vnto the housseof Onesiphoros for he ofte refresshed meand was not a shamed of my chayne: 17butwhen he was at Rome he sought me outvery diligently and founde me. 18 Thelorde graunt vnto him that he maye fyndemercie with the lorde at that daye. And inhow many thynges he ministred vnto meat Ephesus thou knowest very wel.

21 Thou therfore my sonne be stronge in

the grace that is in Christ Iesu. 2And whatthynges thou hast hearde of memany bea-rynge witnes the same diliver to faythfullmen which are apte to teache other 3Thoutherfore suffre affliccion as a good soudierof Iesu Christ. 4 No man that warrethentanglith him silfe with worldely busynesand that be cause he wolde please him thathath chosen him to be a soudier. 5 Andthough a man strive for a mastery yet yshe not crouned except he strive laufully.6Thehusbandman that laborethmust fyrstreceave of the frutes. 7 Consyder whatI saye. The lorde geve the vnderston-dynge in all thynges. 8 Remember thatIesus Christ beynge of he sede of Davidrose agayne from deth accordynge to mygospell 9wherin I suffre trouble as an evylldoar even vnto bondes. But the worde ofgod was not bounde. 10 Herefore I suffreall thinges for the electes sakes that theymyght also obtayne that saluacion whichis in Christ Iesu with eternall glory. 11 Itis a true sayinge if we be deed with himwe also shall live with him. 12 Yf webe pacient we shall also raigne with him.If we denye him he also shall denye vs.13Yf we beleve not yet abideth he faithfull.He cannot denye him silfe. 14 Of thesethynges put them in remembraunce andtestifie before the lorde that they stryvenot aboutwordeswhich is to no proffet butto pervert the hearers. 15 Study to shewethy silfe laudable vnto god a workman thatnedeth not to be a shamed dividynge theworde of trueth iustly. 16 Vngostly andvayne voyces passe over. For they shallencreace vnto greater vngodlynes 17 andtheir wordes shall fret even as doeth acancre: of whose nombre ys Hymeneos

2 Timothy 2:18 200 2 Timothy 4:10and Philetos 18 which as concernynge thetrueth have erred sayinge that the resur-reccion is past all redy and do destroyethe fayth of divers persones. 19 But thesure grounde of god remayneth and haththis seale: the lorde knoweth them thatare his and let every man that calleth onthe name of Christ departe from iniquite.20Notwithstondinge in a greate housse arenot only vesselles of golde and of silver:but also of wood and of erthe some forhonoure and some vnto dishonoure. 21ButYf a man purdge him silfe from suchefelowes he shalbe a vessell sanctified vntohonoure mete for the lorde and preparedvnto all good workes. 22 Lustes of youthavoyde and folowe rightwesnes fayth loveand peace with them that call on the lordewith pure herte. 23 Folisshe and vnlearnedquestions put from the remebrynge thatthey do but gendre stryfe. 24 But theservaunt of the lorde must not stryve: butmust be peasable vnto all men and apteto teache and one that can suffre: theevyll in meknes 25 and can informe themthat resist yf that god at eny tyme willgeve them repentaunce for to knowe thetrueth: 26 that they maye come to theselves agayne out of the snare of the devyllwhich are now taken of him at his will.

31 This understonde that in the last dayes

shall come parelous tymes. 2 For the meshalbe lovers of their awne selves cov-eteous bosters proude cursed speakers dis-obedient to father and mother vnthakfullvnholy 3 vnkinde trucebreakers stubbornfalce accusars ryatours fearce despisers ofthe which are good 4 traytours heddy hyemynded gredy apon volupteousnes morethen the lovers of god 5 havynge a simil-itude of godly lyvynge but have denyedthe power ther of and soche abhorre.6 Of this sorte are they which entre into houses and brynge into bondage wym-men laden with synne which wemen areledde of divers lustes 7 ever learnynge andnever able to come vnto the knowledgeof the trueth. 8 As Iannes and Iambreswithstode Moses even so do these resistthe trueth men they are of corrupt myn-des and leawde as concernynge the fayth:9 but they shall prevayle no lenger. For

their madnes shalbe vttered vnto all menas theirs was. 10 But thou hast senethe experience of my doctrine fassion oflyuynge purpose fayth longe sufferyngelove pacience 11 persecucions and afflic-cionswhich happened vntome at Antiocheat Iconium and at lystra: which persecu-cions I suffered paciently. And from themall the lorde deliveredme. 12Ye and all thatwill live godly in Christ Iesu must suffrepersecucions. 13 But the evyll men anddisceavers shall wexe worsse and worssewhill they deceave and are deceaved themselves. 14But continue thou in the thyngeswhich thou hast learned which also werecommitted vnto the seynge thou knowestof whom thou hast learned them 15 andfor as moche also as thou hast knowe holyscripture of a chylde which is able to makethe wyse vnto saluacion thorowe the faythwhich ys in Christ Iesu. 16 For all scripturegeve by inspiracion of god is proffitableto teache to improve to amende and toinstruct in rightewesnes 17 that the man ofgod maye be perfect and prepared vnto allgood workes.

41 I testifie therfore before god and before

the lorde Iesu Christ which shall iudgequicke and deed at his aperynge in hiskyngdom 2 preache the worde be ferventbe it in season or out of season. Improverebuke exhorte with all longe sufferingeand doctryne. 3 For the tyme will comewhen they wyll not suffer wholsome doc-tryne: but after their awne lustes shallthey (whose eares ytche) gett the an heepeof teachers 4 and shall turne their earesfrom the trueth and shalbe geven vntofables. 5 But watch thou in all thyngesand suffre adversitie and do the workeof an evangelist fulfill thyne office vntothe vtmost. 6 For I am now redy to beoffered and the tyme of my departynge isat honde. 7 I have fought a good fight andhave fulfilled my course and have kept thefayth. 8Fromhence forth is layde vp formea croune of rightewesnes which the lordethat is a righteous iudge shall geve me atthat daye: not tome only but vnto all themthat love his commynge. 9 Make spede tocome vnto me at once. 10 For Demas hathleft me and hath loved this present worlde

2 Timothy 4:11 201 2 Timothy 4:22and is departed into Tessalonica. Crescensis gone to Galacia and Titus vnto Dalmacea.11 Only Lucas is with me. Take Marke andbringe him with the for he is necessaryvnto me forto minister. 12 And Tichicushave I sent to Ephesus. 13 The cloke thatI lefte at Troada with Carpus when thoucommest brynge with the and the bokesbut specially the partchemet. 14Alexanderthe coppersmyth did me moche evyll thelorde rewarde him accordynge to his dedes15 of whom be thou ware also. For hewithstode oure preachynge sore. 16 Atmy fyrst answerynge no man assissted mebut all forsoke me. I praye God that itmaye not be layde to their charges: 17 notwithstondinge the Lorde assisted me andstregthed me that by me the preachingeshuld be fulfilled to the vtmost and thatall the gentyls shuld heare. And I wasdelivered out of the mouth of the lyon.18 And the Lorde shall delivre me from allevyll doynge and shall kepe me vnto hishevenly kyngdome. To who be prayse forever and ever. Amen. 19 Salute Prisca andAquila and the housholde of Onesiphorus.20 Erastus abode at Corinthum. TrophimosI lefte at Miletum sicke. 21 Make spede tocome before winter. Eubolus gretith theand Pudes and Linus and Claudia and allthe brethren. 22 The Lorde Iesus Christ bewith thy sprete. Grace be with you. Amen.‘The seconde pistle written from Romevnto Timothe when Paul was presentedthe seconde tyme vp before the EmperoureNero.’

Titus 1:1 202 Titus 3:1

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THEAPOSTLE TO TITUS1 Paul the seruaunt of God and an Apos-

tle of Iesu Christ to preache the faythof goddis electe and the knowledge ofthat trueth which is after godlynes 2 vponthe hope of eternall lyfe which lyfe Godthat cannot lye hath promised beforethe worlde beganne: 3 but hath openedhis worde at the tyme apoynted thorowpreachynge which preachynge is commit-ted vnto me by the commaundement ofgod oure saveoure. 4 To Titus his natu-rall sonne in the commen fayth. Gracemercie and peace from God the father andfrom the lord Iesu Christ oure saveoure.5 For this cause left I ye in Creta that thoushuldest performe that which was lack-ynge and shuldest ordeyne elders in everycitie as I apoynted the. 6 Yf eny be faute-lesse the husbande of one wyfe havyngefaythfull childre which are not selandredof royote nether are disobedient. 7 For abisshoppe must be fautelesse as it be com-meth the minister of God: not stubbornenot angrye no dronkarde no fyghter notgeven to filthy lucre: 8 but herberous onethat loveth goodnes sobre mynded righ-teous holy temperat 9 and suche as clevethvnto the true worde of doctryne that hemaye be able to exhorte with wholsomlearnynge and to improve them that sayeagaynst it. 10 For ther are many disobedi-ent and talkers of vanite and disceavers ofmyndes namely they of the circumcision11 whose mouthes must be stopped whichpervert whole houses teachinge thingeswhich they ought not because of filthy lu-cre. 12One beynge of the selves which wasa poyet of their awne sayde: The Cretaynsare all wayes lyars evyll beastes and slowebelies. 13 This witnes is true wherforerebuke them sharply that they maye besounde in the fayth 14 and not takyngehede to Iewes fables and commaudmentesof men that turne from the trueth. 15Vntothe pure are all thynges pure: but vntothem that are defiled and vnbelevynge isnothynge pure: but even the very myn-des and consciences of them are defiled.

16 They confesse that they knowe god: butwith the dedes they denye hym and areabhominable and disobedient and vnto allgood workes discommendable.

21 But speake thou that which becometh

wholsome learninge. 2 That the eldermen be sober honest discrete sounde inthe fayth in love and in paciece. 3 Andthe elder weme lykewyse that they bein soche rayment as becommeth holynesnot falce accusars not geven to mochedrinkynge but teachers of honest thynges4 to make the younge wemen sobremyn-ded to love their husbandes to love theirchildren 5 to be discrete chast huswyflygood and obediet vnto their awne husban-des that the worde of god be not evyllspoken of. 6 Yonge men lykwyse exhortethat they be sobre mynded. 7 Above allthynges shewe thy silfe an insample ofgoodworkeswithuncorrupt doctrynewithhonestie 8 and with the wholsome wordewhich cannot be rebuked that he whichwithstondeth maye be a shamed havyngeno thinge in you that he maye disprayse.9 The servautes exhorte to be obediet vntotheir awne masters and to please in allthynges not answerynge agayne 10 netherbe pickers but that they shewe all goodfaythfulnes that they maye do worshippeto the doctryne of oure saveoure God in allthynges. 11 For the grace of god that bryn-geth saluacion vnto all men hath appered12 and teacheth vs that we shuld denyevngodlynes and worldy lustes and that weshuld live sobre mynded righteously andgodly in this present worlde 13 lokinge forthat blessed hope and glorious apperengeof the myghty god and of oure savioureIesu Christ 14 which gave him silfe for vsto redeme vs from all vnrightewesnes andto pourge vs a peculiar people vnto himsilfe fervently geven vnto good workes.15 These thinges speake and exhorte andrebuke with all commaundynge Se that noman despise the.

31 Warne the that they submitte them

selves to rule and power to obey the of-ficers that they be readie vnto all good

Titus 3:2 203 Titus 3:15workes 2 that they speake evyll of noman that they be no fyghters but softeshewynge allmeknes vnto allmen. 3Forweoure selves also were in tymes past vnwysedisobedient deceaved in daunger to lustesand to diuers maners of volupteousneslivynge in maliciousnes and envie full ofhate hatinge one another. 4 But after thatthe kyndnes and love of oure saveoure Godto manwarde appered 5 not of the dedes ofrightewesnes which we wrought but of hismercie he saved vs by the foutayne of thenewe birth and with the renuynge of theholy goost 6 which he shed on vs aboun-dantly thorow Iesus Christ oure saveoure7 that we once iustified by his grace shuldbe heyres of eternall lyfe thorowe hope8 This is a true sayinge. Of these thingesI wolde thou shuldest certifie that theywhich beleve God myght be diligent to goforwarde in good workes. These thingesare good andproffitable vntome. 9Folisshequestions and genealogies and braulingesand stryfe aboute the lawe avoyde for theyare vnproffitable and superfluous. 10 Aman that is geue to heresie after thefyrst and the seconde admonicion avoyde11 remembrynge that he that is soche isperverted and synneth even damned byhisawne iudgement. 12 When I shall sendeArtemas vnto the or Tichicus be diliget tocome to me vnto Nichopolis. For I have de-termined ther to wynter. 13 Brynge zenasthe lawear and Apollos on their iorneydiligently that nothynge be lackynge vntothem. 14And let oures olso learne to excellin good workes as farforth as nede re-quyreth that they be not vnfrutefull. 15Allthat are with me salute the. Grete themthat love vs in the fayth. Grace be with youall Amen. ‘Written from Nichopolis a citieof Macedonia.’

Philemon 1 204 Philemon 25

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THEAPOSTLE TO PHILEMON1 Paul the presoner of Iesu Christ and

brother Timotheus. Vnto Philemon thebeloved and oure helper 2 and to thebeloved Appia and to Archippus ourefelowe soudier and to the congregacionof thy housse. 3 Grace be with you andpeace from God oure father and from theLorde Iesus Christ. 4 I thake my Godmakinge mencio all wayes of the in myprayers 5 when I heare of thy love andfayth which thou hast towarde the LordeIesu and towarde all saynctes: 6 so thatthe fellisshippe that thou hast in the faythis frutefull thorow knowledge of all goodthinges which are in you by Iesus Christ.7 And we have great ioye and consolacionover thy love: for by the (brother) thesaynctes hertes are comforted. 8Wherforethough I be bolde in Christ to enioyne thethat which becometh the: 9 yet for lovessake I rather beseche the though I be asI am even Paul aged and now in bondesfor Iesu Christes sake. 10 I beseche thefor my sonne Onesimus whom I begat inmy bondes 11 which in tyme passed wasto the vnproffetable: but now proffetablebothe to the and also to me 12 whom Ihave sent home agayne. Thou therforereceave him that is to saye myne awnebowels 13 whom I wolde fayne have re-tayned with me that in thy stede he myghthave ministred vnto me in the bondes ofthe gospell. 14 Neverthelesse without thymyndewolde I doonothinge that that goodwhich springeth of the shuld not be as itwere of necessitie but willingly. 15 Haplyhe therfore departed for a season that thoushuldest receave him for ever 16 not noweas a servaut: but above a servaunt I meanea brother beloved specially to me: but howmoche more vnto the both in the flessheand also in the Lorde? 17 Yf thou countme a felowe receave him as my selfe. 18 Yfhe have hurt the or oweth the ought thatlaye to my charge. 19 I Paul have written itwith myne awne hode. I will recompenceit. So that I do not saye to the howe thatthou owest vnto me even thyne awne silfe.

20 Even so brother let me enioye the in theLorde. Comforte my bowels in the Lorde.21Trustinge in thyne obediece I wrote vntothe knowynge that thou wilt do more thenI saye for. 22Moreover prepare me lodgy-nge: for I trust thorow the helpe of youreprayers I shalbe geven vnto you. 23 Thersalute ye Epaphras my felowe presoner inChrist Iesu 24 Marcus Aristarchus DemasLucas my helpers. 25 The grace of oureLorde Iesu Christ be with youre spretes.Amen. ‘Sent from Rome by Onesimus aservaunt.’

Hebrews 1:1 205 Hebrews 2:16

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THEAPOSTLE TO THEHEBREWS1 God in tyme past diversly and many

wayes spake vnto the fathers by Prophetes:2 but in these last dayes he hath spokenvnto vs by his sonne whom he hath madeheyre of all thinges: by who also he madethe worlde. 3 Which sonne beynge thebrightnes of his glory and very ymage ofhis substance bearinge vp all thinges withthe worde of his power hath in his awneperson pourged oure synnes and is sittenon the right honde of the maiestie an hye4 and is more excellent then the angelsin as moche as he hath by inheritaunceobteyned an excellenter name then havethey. 5 For vnto which of the angels saydehe ateny tyme: Thou arte my sonne thisdaye be gate I the? And agayne: I willbe his father and he shalbe my sonne.6And agayne when he bringeth in the fyrstbegotten sonne in to the worlde he sayth:And all the angels of God shall worshippehim. 7 And of the angels he sayth: Hemaketh his angels spretes and his min-istres flammes of fyre. 8But vnto the sonnehe sayth: God thy seate shalbe forever andever. The cepter of thy kyngdome is a rightcepter. 9Thou hast loved rightewesnes andhated iniquyte. Wherfore God which is thyGod hath anoynted the with the oyle ofgladnes above thy felowes. 10 And thouLorde in the begynninge hast layde thefoundacion of the erth. And the heves arethe workes of thy hondes. 11 They shallperisshe but thou shalt endure. They allshall wexe olde as doth a garment: 12 andas a vesture shalt thou chaunge them andthey shalbe chaunged. But thou arte allwayes and thy yeres shall not fayle. 13Vntowhich of the angels sayde he at eny tyme?Sit on my ryght honde tyll I make thyneenemyes thy fote stole. 14 Are they not allmynistrynge spretes sent to minister fortheir sakes which shalbe heyres of salva-cion?

21 Wherfore we ought to geve the more

hede to the thinges we have herde lest weperysshe. 2 For yf the worde which wasspoke by angels was stedfast: so that everytrasgression and disobediece receaved aiust recompence to rewarde: 3 how shallwe escape yf we despyse so great saluacionwhich at ye fyrst began to be preachedof the lorde him silfe and afterwarde wasconfermed vnto vs warde by the ye heardeit 4 god bearynge witnes therto bothe withsygnes and wonders also and with diversmiracles and gyftes of the holy goosteaccordynge to his awne will. 5 He hathnot vnto the angels put in subieccion theworlde to come where of we speake. 6 Butone in a certayne place witnessed sayinge.What is man that thou arte myndfull ofhim? 7 After thou haddest for a seasonmade him lower then the angels: thoucrounedst him with honour and glory andhast set him above the workes of thy hon-des. 8 Thou hast put all thynges in subiec-cion vnder his fete. In that he put allthynges vnder him he left nothynge thatis not put vnder him. 9 Neverthelesse weyet se not all thynges subdued but him thatwasmade lesse the the angelles: we se thatit was Iesus which is crouned with gloryand honour for the sofferinge of death:that he by the grace of god shulde tast ofdeeth for all men. 10 For it became him forwhom are all thynges and by whom are allthynges after that he had brought manysonnes vnto glory that he shuld make thelorde of their saluacion parfect thorowsofferynge. 11 For he that sanctifieth andthey which are sanctified are all of one.For which causes sake he is not ashamde tocall the brethren 12 sayinge: I will declarethy name vnto my brethren and in themyddes of the congregacion will I praysethe. 13 And agayne: I will put my trustin him. And agayne. beholde here am Iand the childrenwhich god hath gevenme.14 For as moche then as the children wereparte takers of flesshe and bloud he alsohim silfe lyke wyse toke parte with themfor to put doune thorow deth him that hadlordshippe over deeth that is to saye thedevyll 15 and that he myght delyver thewhich thorow feare of deeth were all theirlyfetyme in dauger of bondage. 16 For hein no place taketh on him the angels: but

Hebrews 2:17 206 Hebrews 4:15the seede of Abraham taketh he on him.17 Wherfore in all thynges it became himto be made lyke vnto his brethren thathe myght be mercifull and a faythfull hyepreste in thynges concernynge god for topourge the peoples synnes. 18 For in thathe him silfe suffered and was tempted heis able to sucker them that are tempted.

31 Wherfore holy brethren partakers of

the celestiall callinge consyder the em-basseatour and hye prest of oure profes-sion Christ Iesus 2 which was faythfull tohim that made him even as was Mosesin all his housse. 3 And this man wascounted worthy of more glory then Moses:In as moche as he which hath prepared thehousse hath most honoure in the housse.4 Every housse is prepared of some man.But he that ordeyned all thinges is god.5 And Moses verely was faythfull in all hishousse as a minister to beare witnes oftho thinges which shuld be spoken after-warde. 6 But Christ as a sonne hath ruleover the housse whose housse are we sothat we hold fast the confydence and thereioysynge of that hope vnto the ende.7 Wherfore as the holy goost sayth: todaye if ye shall heare his voyce 8 hardennot youre hertes after the rebellyon inthe daye of temptacion in the wildernes9where youre fathers tempted me provedme and sawe my workes xl. yeare longe.10Wherfore I was greved with the genera-cion and sayde. They erre ever in theirhertes: they verely have not knowe mywayes 11 so that I sware in my wrathethat they shuld not enter into my rest.12 Take hede brethren that therbe in noneof you an evyll herte in vnbeleve that heshuld departe from the lyvynge god: 13 butexhorte one another dayly whill is it calledto daye lest eny of you wexe harde hertedthorow the deceytfullnesse of sinne. 14Weare partetakers of Christ yf we kepe surevnto the ende the fyrst substance 15 solonge as it is sayd: to daye yf ye heare hisvoyce harde not youre hertes as when yerebelled. 16 For some when they hearderebelled: howbe it not all that came outof Egypt vnder Moses. 17 But with whowas he despleased .xl. yeares? Was he notdispleased with them that synned: whose

carkases were overthorwen in the desert?18 To whom sware he that they shuld notenter into his rest: but vnto them thatbeleved not? 19And we se that they couldenot enter in because of vnbeleve.

41 Let vs feare therfore lest eny of vs

forsakynge the promes of entrynge intohis rest shulde seme to come behinde.2 For vnto vs was it declared as well asvnto them. But it proffited not them thatthey hearde the worde because they whichhearde it coupled it not with fayth. 3 Butwe which have beleved do enter into hisrest as contrarywyse he sayde to the other:I have sworne in my wrath they shall notenter into my rest. And that spake heverely longe after that the workes weremade and the foundacion of the worldelayde. 4 For he spake in a certayne placeof the seventh daye on this wyse: Andgod did rest the seventh daye from all hisworkes. 5 And in this place agayne: Theyshall not come into my rest. 6 Seyngetherfore it foloweth that some muste en-ter therinto and they to who it was fyrstpreached entred not therin for vnbelevessake. 7Agayne he apoynteth in David a cer-tayne present daye after so longe a tymesayinge as it is rehearsed: this daye if yeheare his voyce be not harde herted. 8 Forif Iosue had geven them rest then woldehe not afterwarde have spoke of anotherdaye. 9 There remayneth therfore yet arest to the people of God. 10 For he thatis is entred into his rest doth cease fromhis awne workes as god did from his. 11 Letvs study therfore to entre into that restlest enyman faule after the same ensamplein to vnbelefe. 12 For the worde of godis quycke and myghty in operacion andsharper then eny two edged swearde: andentreth through even vnto the dividyngeasonder of the soule and the sprete and ofthe ioyntes and the mary: and iudgeth thethoughtes and the intentes of the herte:13 nether is there eny creature invisible inthe sight of it. For all thynges are nakedand bare vnto the eyes of him of whom wespeake. 14Seynge then that we have a greathye prest whych is entred into heven (Imeane Iesus the sonne of God) let vs holdeoure profession. 15 For we have not an

Hebrews 4:16 207 Hebrews 6:18hye prest which can not have compassionon oure infirmities: but was in all poyntestempted lyke as we are: but yet with outsynne. 16 Let vs therfore goo boldely vntothe seate of grace that we maye receavemercy and fynde grace to helpe in tyme ofnede.

51 For every hye prest that is taken from

amonge men is ordeyned for men in thyn-ges pertaynynge to god: to offer gyftesand sacryfyses for synne: 2which can havecompassion on the ignoraunt and on themthat are out of the waye because that hehim silfe also is compased with infirmi-tie: 3 For the which infirmities sake he isbounde to offer for synnes as well for hysawne parte as for the peoples. 4 And noman taketh honour vnto him silfe but hethat is called of God as was Aaron. 5Even solykewise Christ glorified not him silfe to bemade the hye prest: but he that sayde vntohim: thou arte my sonne this daye begat Ithe glorified him. 6 As he also in anotherplace speaketh: Thou arte a prest for everafter the order ofMelchisedech. 7Which inthe dayes of his flesshe did offer vp prayersand sup plicacions with stronge cryingeand teares vnto him that was able to savehim from deeth: and was also hearde be-cause of his godlines. 8 And though hewere Goddes sonne yet learned he obe-diece by tho thynges which he suffered9 and was made parfaite and the cause ofeternall saluacion vnto all them that obeyhim: 10 and is called of God an hye prestafter the order of Melchisedech. 11Wherofwe have many thynges to saye which areharde to be vttered: because ye are dull ofhearinge. 12 For when as concerninge thetyme ye ought to be teachers yet have yenede agayne that we teache you the fyrstprinciples of the worde of god: and arebecome soche as have nede of mylke andnot of strongemeate: 13For everyman thatis feedwithmylke is inexperte in thewordeof rightewesnes. For he is but a babe. 14Butstronge meate belongeth to them that areparfecte which thorow custome have theirwittes exercised to iudge both good andevyll also.

61Wherfore let vs leave the doctryne per-

tayninge to the beginninge of a Christenman and let vs go vnto perfeccion andnow no more laye the foundacion of re-pentaunce from deed workes and of faythtowarde God 2 of baptyme of doctryne andof layinge on of hondes and of resurrec-cion fromdeeth and of eternall iudgement.3And so will we do yf God permitte. 4 For itis not possible that they which were oncelyghted and have tasted of the hevenlygyft and were become partetakers of theholy goost 5 and have tasted of the goodworde of God and of the power of theworlde to come: 6 yf they faule shuld berenued agayne vnto repentaunce: for asmoche as they have (as concerninge themselves) crucified the sonne of God a fresshemakynge a mocke of him. 7 For that erthwhich drinketh in the rayne wich comethofte vpon it and bringeth forth erbes metefor them that dresse it receaveth blessyngeof god. 8 But that grounde which beareththornes and bryars is reproved and isnye vnto cursynge: whose ende is to beburned. 9 Neverthelesse deare frendeswe trust to se better of you and thyn-geswhich accompany saluacion thoughwethus speake. 10 For god is not vnrigh-teous that he shuld forget youre worke andlaboure that procedeth of love which loveshewed in his name which have ministredvnto the saynctes and yet minister 11 Yee,and we desyre that every one of you shewthe same diligence to the stablysshyngeof hope even vnto the ende: 12 that yefaynt not but folowe them which thorowfayth and pacience inheret the promyses.13 For when god made promes to Abrahambecause he had no greater thinge to sweareby he sware by him silfe 14 sayinge: SurelyI will blesse the and multiply the in dede.15 And so after that he had taryed a longetyme he enioyed the promes. 16Men verelysweare by him that is greater then themselves and an othe to confyrme the thyngeys amonge them an ende of all stryfe. 17 Sogod willynge very aboundanly to shewevnto the heyres of promes the stablenesof his counsayle he added an othe 18 thatby two immutable thinges (in which it was

Hebrews 6:19 208 Hebrews 8:2vnpossible that god shuld lye) we myghthave parfect consolacion which have fledfor to holde fast the hope that is set beforevs 19which hope we have as an ancre of thesoule both sure and stedfast. Which hopealso entreth in into tho thynges which arewith in the vayle 20whither the fore runneris for vs entred in I mean Iesus that is madean hye prest for ever after the order ofMelchisedech.

71 This Melchisedech kynge of Salem

(which beinge prest of the most hye godmet Abraham as he returned agayne fromthe slaughter of the kynges and blessedhim: 2 to whom also Abraham gave tythesof all thynges) fyrst is by interpretacionkynge of rightewesnes: after that he iskynge of Sale that is to saye kynge of peace3 with out father with out mother without kynne and hath nether begynnyngeof his tyme nether yet ende of his lyfe:but is lykened vnto the sonne of god andcotinueth a preste for ever. 4 Consyderwhat a man this was vnto who the patri-arke Abraham gave tythes of the spoyles.5 And verely those children of levy whichreceave the office of the prestes have acommaundement to take a cordyng to thelawe tythes of the people that is to sayeof their brethren yee though they sprongeout of the loynes of Abraham. 6 But hewhose kynred is not counted amonge themreceaved tythes of Abraham and blessedhim that had the promyses. 7 And no mandenyeth but that which is lesse receavethblessinge of that which is greater. 8 Andhere men that dye receave tythes. Butthere he receaveth tythes of whom it iswitnessed that he liveth. 9And to saye thetrueth Levy him silfe also which receavethtythes payed tythes in Abraham. 10 For hewas yet in the loynes of his father Abrahamwhen Melchisech met him. 11 Yf nowtherfore perfeccion came by the presthodof the levites (for vnder that presthodthe people recaved the lawe) what nededit furthermore that an other prest shuldryse after the order of Melchisedech andnot after the order of Aaron? 12 Now nodout yf the presthod be translated then ofnecessitiemust the lawe be translated also.

13For he ofwhom these thynges are spokenpertayneth vnto another trybe of whichnever man served at the aultre. 14 For itis evident that oure lorde spronge of thetrybe of Iuda of which trybe spake Mosesnothynge concernynge presthod. 15 Andit is yet a more evydent thinge yf afterthe similitude of Melchisedech ther arysea nother prest 16 which is not made afterthe lawe of the carnall commaundment:but after the power of the endlesse lyfe17 (For he testifieth: Thou arte a prestforever after the order of Melchysedech)18 Then the commaundment that went afore is disanulled because of hir weaknesand vnproffitablenes. 19 For the lawe madenothynge parfecte: but was an introduc-cion of a better hope by which hope wedrawe nye vnto god. 20 And for this causeit is a better hope that it was not promysedwith out an othe. 21 Those prestes weremade with out an oth: but this prest withan oth by him that saide vnto him Thelorde sware and will not repent: Thouarte a prest for ever after the order ofMelchisedech. 22 And for that cause wasIesus a stablyssher of a better testament.23 And amonge them many were madeprestes because they were not suffred toendure by the reason of deeth. 24 But thisman because he endureth ever hath aneverlastinge presthod. 25 Wherfore he isable also ever to save them that come vntogod by him seynge he ever lyveth to makeintercession for vs. 26 Soche an hye prestit became vs to have which is wholy harm-lesse vndefyled separat from synners andmade hyar then heven. 27 Which nedethnot dayly (as yonder hie prestes) to offer vpsacrifice fyrst for his awne synnes and thenfor the peoples synnes. For that did he atonce for all when he offered vp him silfe.28 For the lawe maketh men prestes whichhave infirmitie: but the worde of the othethat came fence the lawemaketh the sonneprest which is parfecte for ever more.

81 Of the thynges which we have spoke

this is the pyth: that we have soche anhye preste that is sitten on the right hondeof the seate of maieste in heven 2 andis a minister of holy thynges and of thevery tabernacle which God pyght and not

Hebrews 8:3 209 Hebrews 9:17man. 3 For every hye prest is ordeyned tooffer gyftes and sacryfises wherfore it isof necessitie that this man have somewhatalso to offer. 4 For he were not a preste yfhe were on the erth where are prestes thatacordynge to the lawe offer giftes 5whichprestes serve vnto the ensample and shad-owe of hevenly thynges: even as the an-swer of Godwas geven vntoMoseswhenhewas about to fynnishe the tabernacle: Takehede (sayde he) that thoumake all thyngesaccordynge to the patrone shewed to thein the mount. 6 Now hath he obtayned amore excellent office in as moche as he isthe mediator of a better testament whichwas made for better promyses. 7 For yfthat fyrst testament had bene fautelesse:then shuld no place have bene sought forthe seconde. 8 For in rebukynge the hesayth: Beholde the dayes will come (sayththe lorde) and I will fynnyshe apon thehousse of Israhel and apon the housse ofIuda a newe testament: 9 not lyke thetestament that I made with their fathers atthat tyme when I toke them by the hondesto lede them oute of the londe of Egipte forthey continued not in my testament and Iregarded them not sayth the lorde. 10 Forthis is the testament that I will make withthe housse of Israhell: After those dayessayth the lorde: I will put my lawes in theirmyndes and in their hertes I will wrytethe and I wilbe their God and they shalbemy people. 11 And they shall not teacheevery man his neghboure and every manhis brother sayinge: knowe the lorde: Forthey shall knowe me from the lest to themoste of them: 12For I wilbemercifull overtheir vnrightwesnes and on their synnesand on their iniquiries. 13 In that he saytha new testament he hath abrogat the olde.Now that which is disanulled and wexedolde is redy to vannysshe awaye.

91 That fyrst tabernacle verely had

ordinaunces and servynges of god andwordly holynes. 2 For there was afore tabernacle made wherin was thecandlesticke and the table and the shewebreed which is called wholy. 3 Butwith in the seconde vayle was ther atabernacle which is called holiest of all4 which had the golden senser and the

arcke of the testament overlayde roundabout with golde wherin was the goldenpot with manna and Aarons rodde thatspronge and the tables of the testament.5 Over the arcke were the cherubis ofglory shadowynge the seate of grace. Ofwhich thynges we wyll not now speakeperticularly. 6 When these thynges werethus ordeyned the prestes went all wayesinto the fyrst tabernacle and executed theservice of god. 7But into the seconde wentthe hye prest alone once every yeare: andnot with out bloud which he offered forhim silfe and for the ignoraunce of thepeople. 8 Wherwith the holy goost thissignifyeng that the waye of holy thyngeswas not yet opened whill as yet the fyrsttabernacle was stondynge. 9 Which wasa similitude for the tyme then presentand in which were offered gyftes andsacrifises that coulde not make themthat minister parfecte as pertaynyngeto the conscience 10 with only meatesand drinkes and divers wesshynges andiustifyinges of the flesshe which wereordeyned vntyll the tyme of reformacion.11 But Christ beynge an hye prest of goodthynges to come came by a greater anda moare parfecte tabernacle not madewith hondes: that is to saye not of thismaner bildynge 12 nether by the bloud ofgotes and calves: but by his awne bloudwe entred once for all into the holy placeand founde eternall redempcion. 13 Foryf the bloud of oxen and of Gotes and theasshes of an heyfer when it was sprynckledpuryfied the vnclene as touchynge thepurifiynge of the flesshe: 14 How mochemore shall the bloud of Christ (whichthorow the eternall sprete offered himsilfe with out spot to God) pourdge youreconsciences from deed workes for to servethe livynge god? 15 And for this cause ishe the mediator of the newe testamentthat thorow deeth which chaunsed for theredempcion of those transgressions thatwere in the fyrst testament) they whichwere called myght receave the promes ofeternall inheritaunce. 16 For whersoever isa testament there must also be the deethof him that maketh the testament. 17 Forthe testament taketh auctoritie when menare deed: For it is of no value as longe

Hebrews 9:18 210 Hebrews 10:25as he that made it is a live. 18 For whichcause also nether that fyrst testament wasordeyned with out bloud. 19 For whenall the commaundementes were redde ofMoses vnto all the people he toke thebloud of calves and of Gotes with waterand purple woll and ysope and sprynkledboth the boke and all the people 20 sayinge:this is the bloud of the testament whichgod hath apoynted vnto you. 21 Moroverhe sprenkled the tabernacle with bloudalso and all the ministrynge vessels.22 And almost all thynges are bye the lawepourged with bloud and with out effusionof bloud is no remission. 23 It is then nedethat the similitudes of hevenly thyngesbe purified with soche thynges: but thehevenly thynges them selves are purifiedwith better sacrifises then are those. 24 ForChrist is not entred into the holy placesthat are made with hondes which are butsimilitudes of true thynges: but is entredinto very heven for to appere now in thesyght of God for vs: 25not to offer him silfeoften as the hye prest entreth in to theholy place every yearewith straunge bloud26 for then must he have often sufferedsence the worlde began. But now in theende of the worlde hath he appered onceto put synne to flyght by the offeryngevp of him silfe. 27 And as it is apoyntedvnto men that they shall once dye andthen commeth the iudgement 28 even soChrist was once offered to take awaye thesynnes of many and vnto them that lokefor him shall he appeare agayne withoutsynne vnto saluacion.

101 For the lawe which hath but the shad-

owe of good thynges to come and notthe thynges in their awne fassion cannever with the sacryfises which they of-fer yere by yere continually make thecomers thervnto parfayte. 2 For woldenot then those sacrifises have ceased tohave bene offered because that the offerersonce pourged shuld have had no moareconscieces of sinnes. 3 Neverthelesse inthose sacrifises is ther mencion made ofsynnes every yeare. 4 For it is vnpossiblethat the bloud of oxen and of gotes shuldtake awaye synnes. 5 Wherfore when he

commeth into the worlde he sayth: Sacri-fice and offeringe thou woldest not have:but a bodie hast thou ordeyned me. 6 Insacrifices and synne offerynges thou hastno lust. 7 Then I sayde: Lo I come inthe chefest of the boke it is written of methat I shuld doo thy will o god. 8 Abovewhen he had sayed sacrifice and offeryngeand burnt sacrifices and synne offeryngesthou woldest not have nether hast alowed(which yet are offered by the lawe) 9 andthen sayde: Lo I come to do thy will ogod: he taketh awaye the fyrst to stablisshethe latter. 10 By the which will we aresanctified by the offeringe of the body ofIesu Christe once for all. 11And every prestis redy dayly ministrynge and ofte tymesoffereth one maner of offerynge whichcan never take awaye synnes. 12 But thisman after he had offered one sacrifyce forsynnes sat him doune for ever on the righthonde of god 13 and from hence forth tari-eth till his foes bemade his fotestole. 14Forwith one offerynge hath he made parfectefor ever them that are sanctified. 15 Andthe holy goost also beareth vs recorde ofthis even when he tolde before: 16 This isthe testament that I will make vnto themafter those dayes sayth the lorde. I willput my lawes in their hertes and in theirmynde Iwill write them 17and their synnesand iniquyties will I remember no moare.18 And where remission of these thingesis there is no moare offerynge for synne.19 Seynge brethren that by the meanes ofthe bloud of Iesuwemaye be bolde to enterinto that holy place 20 by the newe andlivynge waye which he hath prepared forvs through the vayle that is to saye by hisflesshe. 21And seynge also that we have anhye prest which is ruler over the housse ofgod 22 let vs drawenyewith a trueherte in afull fayth sprynckeled in oure hertes froman evyll conscience and wesshed in ourebodies with pure water 23 and let vs kepethe profession of oure hope with oute wa-veringe (for he is faythfull that promysed)24 and let vs consyder one another to pro-voke vnto love and to good workes: 25 andlet vs not forsake the felishippe that wehave amonge oure selves as the maner ofsome is: but let vs exhorte one another andthat so moche the more because ye se that

Hebrews 10:26 211 Hebrews 11:17the daye draweth nye. 26 For yf we synnewillyngly after that we have receaved theknowledge of the trueth there remaynethno more sacrifice for synnes 27 but a fear-full lokynge for iudgement and violent fyrewhich shall devoure the adversaries 28 Hethat despiseth Moses lawe dyeth with outmercy vnder two or thre witnesses. 29 Ofhow moche sorer punyshment suppose yeshall he be countedworthywhich treadethvnderfote the sonne of god: and coun-teth the bloude of the testament as anvnholy thynge wherwith he was sancti-fied and doth dishonoure to the sprete ofgrace. 30 For we knowe him that hathsayde vengeaunce belongeth vntome Iwillrecompence sayth the lorde. And agayne:the lorde shall iudge his people. 31 It is afearfull thynge to faule into the hondes ofthe livynge God. 32 Call to remembrauncethe dayes that are passed in thewhich afterye had receaved light ye endured a greatefyght in adversities 33 partly whill all menwondred and gased at you for the shameand trioulacion that was done vnto youand partly whill ye became companyonsof the which so passed their tyme. 34 Forye suffered also with my bondes and tokea worth the spoylynge of youre goodesand that with gladnes knowynge in youreselves how that ye had in heven a betterand an endurynge substaunce 35 Cast notawaye therfore youre confidence whichhath great rewarde to recompence. 36 Forye have nede of paciece that after ye havedone the will of god ye myght receave thepromes. 37 For yet a very lytell whyle andhe that shall come will come and will nottary. 38 But the iust shall live by faith.And yf he withdrawe him silfe my souleshall have no pleasure in him. 39 We arenot whiche withdrawe oure selves vntodampnacion but partayne to fayth to thewynnynge of the soule.

111 Fayth is a sure confidence of thynges

which are hoped for and a certayntie ofthynges which are not sene. 2 By it theelders were well reported of. 3 Thorowfayth we vnderstonde that the worlde wasordeyned by the worde of god: and that

thyngeswhich are seneweremade of thyn-ges which are not sene. 4 By fayth Abelloffered vnto god amoreplenteous sacrificethen Cayn: by which he obteyned witnesthat hewas righteous god testifyinge of hisgyftes: by which also he beynge deed yetspeaketh. 5 By fayth was Enoch traslatedthat he shuld not se deeth: nether washe founde: for God had taken him awaye.Before hewas taken awaye hewas reportedof that he had pleased God: 6 but with outfayth it is vnpossible to please him. Forhe that commeth to God must beleve thatGod is and that he is a rewarder of themthat seke him. 7By fayth Noe honored Godafter that he was warned of thinges whichwere not sene and prepared the arcke tothe savinge of his houssholde thorowe thewhich arcke he condempned the worldeand became heyre of the rightewesneswhich commeth by fayth. 8 By fayth Abra-ham when he was called obeyed to gooout into a place which he shuld afterwardereceave to inheritaunce and he wet outnot knowynge whether he shuld goo. 9 Byfayth he removed into the londe that waspromysed him as into a straunge countreand dwelt in tabernacles: and so dyd Isaacand Iacob heyres with him of the samepromes. 10 For he loked for a citie havingea foundacion whose bylder and maker isGod. 11 Thorow fayth Sara also receavedstregth to be with chylde and was deliv-ered of a chylde when she was past agebecause she iudged him faythfull whichhad promysed. 12 And therfore sprongetherof one (andof onewhichwas as good asdeed) so many in multitude as the starresof the skye and as the sond of the see shorewhich is innumerable. 13And they all dyedin fayth and receaved not the promyses:but sawe them a farre of and beleved themand saluted them: and confessed that theywere straungers and pilgrems on the erthe.14 They that saye soche thinges declarethat they seke a countre. 15 Also yf theyhad bene myndfull of that countre fromwhence they came oute they had leasureto have returned agayne. 16 But now theydesyre a better that is to saye a hevenlye.Wherfore God is not ashamed of them evento be called their God: for he hath preparedfor them a citie. 17 In fayth Abraham

Hebrews 11:18 212 Hebrews 12:10offered vp Isaac when he was tempted andhe offered him beinge his only begottensonne which had receaved the promyses18 of whom it was sayde in Isaac shall thyseed be called: 19 for he considered thatGod was able to rayse vp agayne fromdeeth. Wherfore receaved he him for anensample. 20 In fayth Isaac blessed Iacoband Esau concerninge thinges to come.21 By fayth Iacob when he was a dyingeblessed both the sonnes of Ioseph andbowed him selfe towarde the toppe of hiscepter. 22 By fayth Ioseph when he dyedremembred the departinge of the chyldrenof Israel and gave commaundement of hisbones. 23 By fayth Moses when he wasborne was hid thre monethes of his fatherand mother be cause they sawe he was aproper chylde: nether feared they the kyn-ges commaundement. 24 By fayth Moseswhen he was great refused to be called thesonne of Pharaos doughter 25 and choserather to suffre adversitie with the peopleof God then to enioye the pleasurs of synnefor a ceason 26 and estemed the rebukeof Christ greater ryches then the treasureof Egypt. For he had a respect vnto therewarde. 27 By fayth he forsoke Egypt andfeared not the fearcenes of the kynge. Forhe endured even as he had sene himwhichis invisible. 28 Thorow fayth he ordeynedthe ester lambe and the effusion of bloudlest he that destroyed the fyrst borne shuldtouche them. 29 By fayth they passedthorow the reed see as by drye londewhichwhen the Egypcians had assayed to do theywere drouned. 30 By fayth the walles ofIerico fell doune after they were compasedabout seven dayes. 31 By fayth the harlotRaab perisshed not with the vnbeleverswhen she had receaved the spyes to lodg-ynge peaseably. 32 And what shall I moresaye the tyme wold be to short for meto tell of Gedeo of Barach and of Samsonand of Iephthae: also of David and Samueland of the Prophetes: 33 which thorowefayth subdued kyngdomes wrought righ-teousnes obteyned the promyses stoppedthe mouthes of lyons 34 quenched the vi-olence of fyre escaped the edge of theswearde of weake were made stroge waxedvalient in fight turned to flyght the armyesof the alientes. 35And the wemen receaved

their deed raysed to lyfe agayne. Otherwere racked and wolde not be delyveredthat they myght receave a better resur-reccion. 36 Other tasted of mockyngesand scourgingingesmorover of bondes andpresonment: 37 were stoned were hewena sunder were tepted were slayne withsweardeswalked vppe and doune in shepesskynnes in gotes skynnes in nede tribula-cion and vexacion 38which the worlde wasnot worthy of: they wadred in wildernes inmoutaynes in dennes and caves of the erth.39 And these all thorow fayth obtaynedgood reporte and receaved not the promes40 God provydinge a better thinge for vsthat they with out vs shuld not be madeparfecte.

121 Wherfore let vs also (seynge that we

are compased with so great a multitudeof witnesses) laye awaye all that pressethdoune and the synne that hangeth on andlet vs rune with pacience vnto the battaylethat is set before vs 2 lokynge vnto Iesusthe auctor and fynnyssher of oure faythwhich for the ioye that was set before himabode the crosse and despysed the shameand is set doune on the right honde ofthe trone of God. 3 Consider therfore howthat he endured suche speakinge agaynsthim of synners lest ye shuld be weriedand faynte in youre myndes. 4 For yehave not yet resisted vnto bloud sheddingestryvinge agaynst synne. 5 And ye haveforgotten the consolacion which speakethvnto you as vnto chyldren: My sonne de-spyse not the chastenynge of the Lordenether faynt when thou arte rebuked ofhim: 6 For whom the Lorde loveth him hechasteneth: yee and he scourgeth everysonne that he receaveth. 7 Yf ye endurechastninge God offereth him selfe vntoyou as vnto sonnes. What sonne is thatwhom the father chasteneth not? 8 If yebe not vnder correccion (where of all arepart takers) then are ye bastardes and notsonnes. 9Moreover seynge we had fathersof oure flesshe which corrected vs and wegave them reverence: shuld we not mocherather be in subieccion vnto the father ofspretuall gyftes that wemyght live? 10Andthey verely for a feaue dayes nurtred vs

Hebrews 12:11 213 Hebrews 13:14after their awne pleasure: but he lear-neth vs vnto that which is proffitable thatwe myght receave of his holines. 11 Nomanner chastisynge for the present tymesemeth to be ioyeous but greveous: never-thelesse afterwarde it bryngeth the quyetfrute of rightewesnes vnto them whichare therin exercysed. 12 Stretch forthetherfore agayne the hondes which were letdoune and the weake knees 13 and se thatye have strayght steppes vnto youre fetelest eny haltinge turne out of thewaye: yeelet it rather be healed. 14 Embrace peacewith all men and holynes: with out thewhich no man shall se the Lorde. 15 Andlooke to that no man be destitute of thegrace of God and that no rote of bitternesspringe vp and trouble and therby manybe defiled: 16 and that there be no forni-cator or vnclene person as Esau which forone breakfast solde his birthright. 17 Yeknowehow that afterwardewhen hewoldehave inherited the blessinge he was put byand he foude no meanes to come therbyagayne: no though he desyred it withteares. 18 For ye are not come vnto themounte that can be touched and vntoburninge fyre nor yet to myst and darck-nes and tempest of wedder 19 nether vntothe sounde of a trope and the voyce ofwordes: which voyce they that hearde itwisshed awaye that the communicacionshuld not be spoken to them. 20 For theywere not able to abyde that which wasspoken. If a beast had touched the moun-tayne it must have bene stoned or thrustthorowe with a darte: 21 even so terreblewas the sight which appered. Moses saydeI feare and quake. 22 But ye are come vntothe mounte Sion and to the citie of thelivinge god the celestiall Ierusalem: andto an innumerable sight of angels 23 andvnto the congregacion of the fyrst bornesonnes which are writte in heven and toGod the iudge of all and to the spretes ofiust and parfecte men 24 and to Iesus themediator of the newe testament and tothe spryncklynge of bloud that speakethbetter then the bloud of Abell. 25 Se that yedespise not him that speaketh. For yf theyescaped not which refused him that spakeon erth: moche more shall we not escapeyf we turne awaye from him that speaketh

from heven: 26 whose voyce the shoukethe erth and now declareth sayinge: yetonce more will I shake not the erth onlybut also heven. 27 No dout that samethat he sayth yet once more signifieth theremovinge a waye of those thinges whichare shaken as of thinges which have endedtheir course: that the thynges which arenot shaken maye remayne. 28Wherfore ifwe receave a kyngdom which is not movedwe have grace wherby we maye serve godand please him with reverence and godlyfeare. 29For oure god is a consumynge fyre.

131 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be

not forgetfull to lodge straungers. Fortherby have dyvers receaved angels intotheir houses vnwares. 3 Remember themthat are in bondes even as though ye werebounde with them. Be myndfull of themwhich are in adversitie as ye which are yetin youre bodies. 4 Let wedlocke be had inpryce in all poyntes and let the chamberbe vndefiled: for whore kepers and ad-voutrars god will iudge. 5 Let youre con-versacion be with out coveteousnes and becontent with that ye have all redy. Forhe verely sayd: I will not fayle the netherforsake the: 6 that we maye boldly saye:the lorde is my helper and I will not fearewhat man doeth vnto me. 7 Rememberthem which have the oversight of youwhich have declared vnto you the wordeof god. The ende of whose conversacion sethat ye looke vpon and folowe their fayth.8 Iesus Christ yesterdaye and to daye andthe same continueth for ever. 9 Be notcaryed aboute with divers and straungelearnynge. For it is a good thynge thatthe herte be stablisshed with grace andnot with meates which have not proffetedthem that have had their pastyme in them.10We have an altre wherof they maye noteate which serve in the tabernacle. 11 Forthe bodies of those beastes whose bloud isbrought into the holy place by the hie prestto pourge sinne are burnt with out thetentes. 12 Therfore Iesus to sanctifye thepeople with his awne bloud suffered without the gate. 13 Let vs goo forth therforeout of the tentes and suffer rebuke withhim. 14 For here have we no continuynge

Hebrews 13:15 214 Hebrews 13:25citie: but we seke one to come. 15 For byhim offer we the sacrifice of laude allwayesto god: that is to saye the frute of thoselyppes which confesse his name. 16 To dogood and to distribute forget not for withsuche sacrifises god is pleased. 17 Obeyethe that have the oversight of you andsubmit youre selves to them for theywatchfor youre soules even as they that mustgeve a comptes: that they maye do itwith ioye and not with grefe. For that isan vnproffitable thynge for you. 18 Prayefor vs. We have confidence because wehave a good conscience in all thynges anddesyre to live honestly. 19 I desire youtherfore somwhat the moare aboundantlythat ye so do that I maye be restored to youquyckly. 20 The god of peace that broughtagayne from deth oure lorde Iesus the gretshepperde of the shepe thorowe the bloudof the everlastynge testament 21make youparfect in all good workes to do his willworkynge in you that which is pleasaut inhis syght thorow Iesus christ To whom beprayse for ever whill the worlde endurethAmen. 22 I beseche you brethren suffre thewordes of exhortacio: For we have writtenvnto you in feawe wordes: 23 knowe thebrother Timothe whom we have sent fromvs with whom (yf he come shortly) I will seyou. 24 Salute the that have the oversightof you and all the saynctes. They of Italysalute you. 25Grace be with you all. Amen.‘Sent from Italy by Timotheus.’

James 1:1 215 James 2:8

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OFJAMES1 Iames the seruaut of God and of the

Lorde Iesus Christ sendeth gretinge to thee.xii. trybes which are scattered here andthere. 2 My brethren count it excedyngeioye when ye faule into divers tempta-cions 3 for as moche as ye knowe howthat the tryinge of youre fayth bringethpacience: and let pacience 4 have her par-fect worke that ye maye be parfecte andsounde lackinge nothinge. 5 Yf eny ofyou lacke wysdome let him axe of Godwhich geveth to all men indifferentlie andcasteth no man in the teth: and it shalbe geven him. 6 But let him axe in faythand waver not. For he that douteth is lykethe waves of the see tost of the wyndeand caried with violence. 7 Nether letthat man thinke that he shall receave enythinge of the Lorde. 8Awaveringemyndedman is vnstable in all his wayes. 9 Let thebrother of lowe degre reioyce in that heis exalted 10 and the ryche in that he ismade lowe. For even as the flower of thegrasse shall he vanysshe awaye. 11 Thesonne ryseth with heate and the grassewydereth and his flower falleth awaye andthe beautie of the fassion of it perissheth:even so shall the ryche man perisshe withhis aboundance. 12 Happy is the man thatendureth in temptacion for when he istryed he shall receave the croune of lyfewhich the Lorde hath promysed to themthat love him. 13 Let no man saye whenhe is tepted that he is tempted of God. ForGod tepteth not vnto evyll nether teptethhe anie man. 14 But every man is tepteddrawne awaye and entysed of his awneconcupiscece. 15Then when lust hath con-ceaved she bringeth forth synne and synnewhen it is fynisshed bringeth forthe deeth.16 Erre not my deare brethren. 17 Everygood gyfte and every parfayt gyft is fromabove and commeth doune from the fa-ther of light with whom is no variablenesnether is he chaunged vnto darcknes. 18Ofhis awne will begat he vs with the wordeof lyfe that we shuld be the fyrst frutes ofhis creatures. 19Wherfore deare brethren

let every man be swyfte to heare slowe tospeake and slowe towrath. 20For thewrathof man worketh not that which is rygh-teous before God. 21Wherfore laye a parteall fylthynes all superfluite ofmaliciousnesand receave with meknes the worde that isgrafted in you which is able to save youresoules . 22 And se that ye be doars of theworde and not hearers only deceavingeyoure awne selves with sophistrie 23 For yfeny heare the worde and do it not he islyke vnto a man that beholdeth his bodylyface in a glasse. 24 For assone as he hathloked on him silfe he goeth his waye andforgetteth immediatlie what his fassionwas. 25 But whoso loketh in the parfaictlawe of libertie and continueth ther in (yfhe be not a forgetfull hearer but a doarof the worke) the same shall be happiein his dede. 26 Yf eny man amonge youseme devoute and refrayne not his tonge:but deceave his awne herte this mannesdevocion is in vayne 27 Pure devocion andvndefiled before God the father is this: tovysit the frendlesse and widdowes in theiradversite and to kepe him silfe vnspottedof the worlde.

21 Brethren have not the fayth of oure

lorde Iesus Christ the lorde of glory inrespecte of persons. 2 Yf ther come intoyoure company a man with a golden ryngeand in goodly aparell and ther come inalso a poore man in vyle rayment 3 andye have a respecte to him that weareththe gaye clothynge and saye vnto him. Sitthou here in a good place: and saye vntothe poore stonde thou there or sit herevnder my fotestole: 4 are ye not parciallin youre selves and have iudged after evyllthoughtes? 5 Harken my deare belovedbrethren. Hath not God chosen the pooreof this worlde which are ryche in fayth andheyres of the kyngdomwhich he promysedto them that love him? 6 But ye havedespised the poore. Are not the rych theywhich opresse you: and they which draweyou before iudges? 7 Do not they speakeevyll of that good name after which ye benamed. 8Yf ye fulfill the royall lawe accor-dynge to the scripture which sayth. Thoushallt love thyne neghbour as thy silfe ye

James 2:9 216 James 4:1do well. 9 But yf ye regarde one personmore then another ye commit synne andare rebuked of the lawe as transgressours.10 Whosoever shall kepe the whole laweand yet fayle in one poynt he is gyltie inall. 11 For he that sayd. Thou shallt notcommit adulterie sayed also: thou shalltnot kyll. Though thou do none adulterieyet yf thou kill thou arte a transgresserof the lawe. 12 So speake ye and so doas they that shalbe iudged by the laweof libertie. 13 For ther shalbe iudgementmerciles to him that sheweth no mercyand mercy reioyseth agaynst iudgement:14 What a vayleth it my brethren thougha man saye he hath fayth when he hathno dedes? Can fayth save him? 15 If abrother or a sister be naked or destituteof dayly fode 16 and one of you saye vntothem: Departe in peace God sende youwarmnes and fode: not withstondinge yegeve the not tho thynges which are nedfullto the body: what helpeth it the? 17 Evenso fayth yf it have no dedes is deed in itselfe. 18 Ye and a man myght saye: Thouhast fayth and I have dedes: Shewe methy fayth by thy dedes: and I will shewethe my fayth by my dedes. 19 Belevestthou that ther is one God? Thou doestwell. The devyls also beleve and tremble.20Wilt thou vnderstonde o thou vaynemanthat fayth with out dedes is deed? 21 Wasnot Abraham oure father iustified thorowworkes when he offered Isaac his sonnevpo the aultre? 22Thou seist how that faythwrought with his dedes and through thededes was the fayth made parfect: 23 andthe scripture was fulfilled which sayth:Abraham beleved God and it was reputedvnto him for rightewesnes: and he wascalled the frede of God. 24 Ye se then howthat of dedes a man is iustified and not offayth only. 25 Lyke wyse also was not Raabthe harlot iustifyed thorow workes whenshe receaved the messengers and sent theout another waye? 26 For as the body withoute the sprete is deed even so fayth without dedes is deed.

31 My brethren, be not every man a

master remembringe how that we shallreceave themore damnacion: 2 for inmany

thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne notin worde the same is a parfecte man andable to tame all the body. 3Beholde we putbittes into the horses mouthes that theyshuld obeye vs and we turne aboute all thebody. 4 Beholde also the shyppes whichthough they be so gret and are dryven offearce windes yet are they turned aboutwith a very smale helme whither soeverthe violence of the governer wyll. 5Even sothe tonge is a lyttell member and bostethgreat thinges. Beholde how gret a thingea lyttell fyre kyndleth 6 and the tonge isfyre and a worlde of wyckednes. So is thetonge set amonge oure members that itdefileth the whole body and setteth a fyreall that we have of nature and is it selfeset a fyre even of hell. 7 All the naturesof beastes and of byrdes and of serpentesand thinges of ye see are meked and tamedof the nature of man. 8 But the tonge canno man tame. That is an vntuely evyll fullof deedly poyson. 9 Therwith blesse weGod the father and therwith cursse we mewhich aremade after the similitude of God.10 Out of one mouth proceadeth blessyngeand cursynge. My brethren these thingesought not so to be. 11 Doth a fountaynesende forth at one place swete water andbytter also? 12 Can the fygge tree myBrethren beare olive beries: other a vynebeare fygges? So can no fountayne gevebothe salt water and fresshe also. 13 If enyman be wyse and endued with learnyngeamonge you let him shewe the workes ofhis good conversacion in meknes that yscoupled with wisdome. 14 But Yf ye havebitter envyinge and stryfe in youre hertesreioyce not: nether be lyars agaynst thetrueth. 15 This wisdome descedeth notfrom a boue: but is erthy and naturalland divelisshe. 16 For where envyinge andstryfe is there is stablenes and all manerof evyll workes. 17 But the wisdom thatis from above is fyrst pure then peasablegentle and easy to be entreated full ofmercy and good frutes without iudgyngeand without simulacion: 18 yee and thefrute of rightewesnes is sowen in peace ofthem that mayntene peace.

41 From whence commeth warre and

James 4:2 217 James 5:17fighttynge amonge you: come they nothere hence? even of youre volupteousnesthat rayne in youre members. 2 Ye lustand have not. Ye envie and have indig-nacion and cannot obtayne. Ye fight andwarre and have not because ye axe not.3 Ye axe and receave not because ye axea mysse: even to consume it apon yourevolupteousnes. 4 Ye advouterars and we-men that breke matrimonie: knowe ye nothow that the freshippe of the worlde isennimite to godwarde? Whosoeverwilbe afrende of the worlde is made the enemie ofgod. 5Ether do ye thinke that the scripturesayth in vayne The sprite that dwelleth inyou lusteth even contrary to envie: 6 butgeveth more grace. 7 Submit youre selvesto god and resist the devyll and he will flyefrom you. 8 Drawe nye to god and he willdrawe nye to you. Clense youre hondesye synners and pourdge youre hertes yewaverynge mynded. 9 Suffre affliccions:sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughterbe turned to mornynge and youre ioyeto hevynes. 10 Cast doune youre selvesbefore the lorde and he shall lift you vp.11 Backbyte not one another brethren. Hethat backbyteh hys brother and he thatiudgeth his brother backbyteth the laweand iudgeth the lawe. But and yf thouiudge the lawe thou art not an observerof the lawe: but a iudge. 12 Ther is onelawe gever which is able to save and todistroye. What art thou that iudgest an-other man? 13 Go to now ye that saye: todaye and to morow let vs go into soche acitie and continue there a yeare and byeand sell and wynne: 14 and yet can nottell what shall happen to morowe. Forwhat thynge is youre lyfe? It is even avapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme andthe vanyssheth awaye: 15 For that ye oughtto saye: yf the lorde will and yf we live letvs do this or that. 16 But nowe ye reioycein youre bostinges. All soche reioysyngeis evyll. 17 Therfore to him that knowethhow to do good and doth it not to him it issynne.

51 Goo to now ye ryche men. Wepe

and howle on yourewretchednes that shallcome apon you. 2Youre ryches is corrupte

youre garmentes are motheaten. 3 Youregolde and youre silver are cankred andthe rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto youand shall eate youre flesshe as it werefyre. Ye have heaped treasure togedder inyoure last dayes: 4 Beholde the hyre of thelabourers which have reped doune yourefeldes (which hyer is of you kept backeby fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of themwhich have reped are entred into the earesof the lorde Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived inpleasure on the erth and in wantannes. Yehave norysshed youre hertes as in a daye ofslaughter. 6Ye have condempned and havekilled the iust and he hath not resisted you.7 Be pacient therfore brethren vnto thecommynge of the lorde. Beholde the hus-bande man wayteth for the precious fruteof the erth and hath longe pacience thervppon vntill he receave (the erly and thelatter rayne.) 8 Be ye also pacient therforeand settle youre hertes for the commyngeof the lorde draweth nye. 9 Grodge notone agaynst another brethren lest ye bedampned. Beholde the iudge stondethbefore the dore. 10 Take (my brethren) theprophettes for an ensample of sufferyngeadversitie and of longe pacience whichspake in the name of the lorde. 11 Beholdewe counte them happy which endure. Yehavehearde of the pacience of Iob andhaveknowenwhat ende the lordemade. For thelorde is very pitifull and mercifull. 12 Butabove all thynges my brethren sweare notnether by heven nether by erth netherby eny other othe. Let youre ye be yeand youre maye naye: lest ye faule intoypocrecy. 13 Yf eny of you be evyll vexedlet him praye. Yf eny of you be mery lethim singe Psalmes. 14 Yf eny be defeatedamonge you let him call for the elders ofthe congregacion and let the praye overhim and anoynte him with oyle in thename of the lorde: 15 and the prayer offayth shall save the sicke and the lordeshall rayse him vp: and yf he have com-mitted synnes they shalbe forgeuen him.16 knowledge youre fautes one to another:and praye one for another that ye mayebe healed. The prayer of a ryghteous manavayleth moche yf it be fervet. 17 Heliaswas a man mortall even as we are and

James 5:18 218 James 5:20he prayed in his prayer that it myght notrayne: and it rayned not on the erth bythe space of thre yeares and sixemonethes.18 And he prayed agayne and the hevengave rayne and the erth brought forth herfrute. 19 Brethren yf eny of you erre fromthe trueth and an other convert him 20 letthe same knowe that he which convertedthe synner from goynge a straye out ofhis waye shall save a soule from deeth andshall hyde the multitude of synnes.

1 Peter 1:1 219 1 Peter 2:6

THE FIRST EPISTLEGENERAL OF PETER1 Peter an Apostle of Iesu Christ to them

that dwell here and there as straungersthorowout Pontus Galacia Capadocia Asiaand Bethinia 2 electe by the forknowledgeof God the father thorow the sanctifyingeof the sprete vnto obedience and springk-linge of the bloud of Iesus Christ. Gracebe with you and peace be multiplyed.3 Blessed be God the father of oure LordeIesus Christ which thorow is aboundantmercie begat vs agayne vnto a lively hopeby the resurreccion of Iesus Christ fromdeeth 4 to enioye an inheritaunce immor-tall and vndefiled and that purifieth notreserved in heven for you 5which are keptby the power of God thorow fayth vntosalvacion which salvacion is prepared allredy to be shewed in the last tyme 6 in thewhich tyme ye shall reioyce though nowfor a season (if nede requyre) ye are inhevines thorowe manifolde temptacions,7 that youre fayth once tried beinge mochemore precious then golde that perissheth(though it be tried with fyre) myght befounde vnto lawde glory and honoure atthe apperinge of Iesus Christ: 8 whomye have not sene and yet love him inwhom even now though ye se him notye yet beleue and reioyce with ioye vn-speakable and glorious: 9 receavynge theende of youre fayth the salvacion of youresoules. 10 Of which salvacion have theProphetes enquyred and searched whichprophisied of the grace that shuld comevnto you 11 searchinge when or at whattyme the sprete of Christ which was inthem shuld signifie which sprete testifiedbefore the passions that shuld come vntoChrist and the glory that shuld foloweafter: 12 vnto which Prophetes it was de-clared that not vnto them selves but vntovs they shuld minister the thinges whichare now shewed vnto you of them whichby the holy goost sent doune from hevenhave preached vnto you the thinges whichthe angels desyre to beholde. 13Wherforegyrde vp the loynes of youre myndes besober and trust perfectly on the grace that

is brought vnto you by the declaringe ofIesus Christ 14 as obedient chyldren notfacioninge youre selves vnto youre oldelustes of ignorancye: 15 but as he whichcalled you is holy even so be ye holy inall maner of conuersacion 16 because it iswritten. Be ye holy for I am holy. 17And yfso be that ye call on the father which without respecte of person iudgeth accordingeto every manes worke se that ye passe thetyme of youre pilgremage in feare. 18 Foras moche as ye know how that ye were notredemed with corruptible sylver and goldefrom youre vayne conversacion which yereceaved by the tradicions of the fathers:19 but with the precious bloud of Christas of a lambe vndefiled and withoutenspot 20 which was ordeyened before theworlde was made: but was declared in thelast tymes for youre sakes 21 which by hismeanes have beleved on god that raysedhim fromdeth and glorified him that yourefayth and hopemyght be in god. 22And foras moche as ye have purified youre soulesthorowe the sprete in obeyinge the truethfor to love brotherly withouten saynyngese that ye love one another with a purehert fervently: 23 for ye are borne a newenot of mortall seed but of immortall bythe worde of god which liveth and lastethfor ever. 24 For all flesshe is as grasseand all the glory of man is as the floureof grasse. The grasse widdereth and theflower falleth awaye 25but theworde of thelorde endureth ever. And this is the wordewhich by the gospell was preached amongeyou.

21 Wherfore laye asyde all maliciousnes

and all gyle and dissimulacion and envieand all backbytynge: 2 and as newe bornebabes desyre that reasonable mylke whichis with out corrupcion that ye maye growetherin. 3 If so be that ye have tasted howplesaunt the lorde is 4 to whom ye comeas vnto a livynge stone disalowed of menbut chosen of god and precious: 5 andye as lyvynge stones are made a spretuallhousse and an holy presthode for to offervp spretuall sacryfice acceptable to god byIesus Christ. 6 Wherfore it is contaynedin the scripture: beholde I put in Sion

1 Peter 2:7 220 1 Peter 3:14an heed corner stone electe and precious:and he that beleveth on him shall not beashamed. 7Vnto you therforewhich belevehe is precious: but vnto themwhich belevenot the stone which the bylders refusedthe same is made the heed stone in thecorner 8 and a stone to stomble at anda rocke to offende them which stombleat the worde and beleve not that whereon they were set. 9 But ye are a chosyngeneracion a royall presthod an holy na-cion and a peculiar people that ye shuldshewe the vertues of him that called youout of darknes into hys marvelous light10 which in tyme past were not a peopleyet are now the people of God: which werenot vnder mercye but now have obteynedmercye. 11 Derly beloved I beseche youas straugers and pilgrems abstayne fromflesshly lustes which fyght agaynst thesoule 12 and se that ye have honest conver-sacion amonge the getyls that they whichbackbyte you as evyll doars maye se youregood workes and prayse god in the daye ofvisitacion. 13 Submit youre selves vnto allmanner ordinaunce of man for the lordessake whether it be vnto the kynge as vntothe chefe heed: 14 other vnto rulars asvnto them that are sent of him for thepunysshment of evyll doars: but for thelaude of them that do well. 15 For so isthe will of god that ye put to sylence theygnorancie of the folyshe men: 16 as freand not as havinge the libertie for a clokeof maliciousnes but even as the servautesof god. 17 Honoure all men. Love broth-erly felishippe. Feare god and honour thekynge. 18 Servauntes obey youre masterswith all feare not only yf they be goodand courteous: but also though they befrowarde. 19 For it is thankeworthye yf aman for conscience towarde god enduregrefe sufferinge wrongfully. 20 For whatprayse is it if when ye be buffeted for yourefautes ye take it paciently? But and yfwhen ye do well ye suffer wronge and takeit paciently then is there thanke with God.21 For herevnto verely were ye called: forChrist also suffered for vs levinge vs aninsample that ye shuld folowe his steppes,22which dyd no sinne nether was ther gylefounde in his mouth: 23 which when hewas reviled reviled not agayne: when hesuffered he threatened not: but committed

the cause to him that iudgeth ryghteously24 which his awne silfe bare oure synnesin his body on the tree that we shuld bedelyvered from synne and shuld lyve inrightewesnes. By whose strypes ye werehealed. 25 For ye were as shepe goingeastraye: but are now returned vnto theshepheerd and bisshoppe of youre soules.

31 Lykewyse let the wyves be in subiec-

cion to their husbandes that even theywhich beleve not the worde maye without the worde be wonne by the conver-sacion of the wyves: 2 whill they beholdeyoure pure coversacion coupledwith feare.3 Whose apparell shall not be outwardewith broyded heare and hanginge on ofgolde other in puttinge on of gorgiousaparell: 4 but let the hyd man of the hertebe incorrupt with a meke and a quyetsprete which sprete is before God a thingemoche set by. 5 For after this maner inthe olde tyme dyd the holy wemen whichtrusted in God tyer the selves and wereobediet to their husbades 6 even as Saraobeyed Abraham and called him Lorde:whose doughters ye are as longe as ye dowell and be not afrayde of every shadowe.7 Lyke wyse the men dwell with them ac-cordinge to knowledge gevinge honourevnto the wyfe as vnto the weaker vesselland as vnto them that are heyres also ofthe grace of lyfe that youre prayers be notlet. 8 In conclusion be ye all of one myndeone suffrewith another love as brethren bepetifull be courteous 9 not redringe evyllfor evyll nether rebuke for rebuke: butcontrary wyse blesse remembringe thatthe are thervnto called even that ye shuldbe heyres of blessinge. 10 If eny man longeafter life and loveth to se good dayes lethim refrayne his tonge from evyll and hislippes that they speake not gyle. 11 Lethim eschue evyll and do good: let him sekepeace and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of theLorde are over the righteous and his earesare open vnto their prayers. But the faceof the Lorde beholdeth the that do evyll.13 Moreover who is it that will harme youyf ye folowe that which is good? 14 Notwithstondynge happy are ye yf ye suffre

1 Peter 3:15 221 1 Peter 5:2for rightewesnessis sake. Ye and feare notthough they seme terrible vnto you netherbe troubled: 15 but sanctifie the Lorde Godin youre hertes. Be redy all wayes to gevean answere to every man that axeth youa reason of the hope that is in you andthat with meaknes and feare: 16 havingea good consciece that when they backbyteyou as evyll doars they maye be ashamedfor as moche as they have falsely accusedyoure good conversacion in Christ. 17 Itis better (yf the wyll of God be so) thatye suffre for well doynge then for evylldoynge. 18 For as moche as Christ hathonce suffered for synnes the iuste for thevniuste forto bringe vs to God and waskylled as pertayninge to the flesshe: butwas quyckened in the sprete. 19 In whichsprete he also wet and preached vntothe spretes that were in preson 20 whichwere in tyme passed disobedient when thelonge sufferinge of God abode excedingepaciently in the dayes of Noe whyll thearcke was a preparinge wherin feawe (thatis to saye.viii soules) were saved by wa-ter 21 which signifieth baptism that nowsaveth vs not the puttinge awaye of thefilth of the flesshe but in that a good con-science consenteth to God by the resurrec-cion of Iesus Christ 22 which is oure righthonde of God and is gone into heven angelspower and myght subdued vnto him.

41 For as moche as christ hath suffred

for vs in the flesshe arme youre selveslyke wyse with the same mynde: for hewhich suffereth in the flesshe ceasith fromsynne 2 that he hence forwarde shuld lyveasmoche tymeas remayneth in theflesshe:not after the lustes of men but after thewill of God. 3 For it is sufficient for vsthat we have spent the tyme that is pastof the lyfe after the will of the gentylswalkinge in wantannes lustes dronkennesin eatinge drinkinge and in abominableydolatrie. 4 And it semeth to them astraunge thinge that ye runnenot alsowiththem vnto the same excesse of ryote andtherfore speake they evill of you 5 whichshall geve a comptes to him that is redy toiudge quycke and deed. 6For vnto this pur-pose verely was the gospell preached vnto

the (deed) that they shuld be condempnedof men in the flesshe but shuld live beforeGod in the sprete. 7The ende of all thingesis at honde. Be ye therfore discrete andsober that yemaye be apte to prayers. 8Butabove all thinges have fervet love amongeyou. For love covereth the multitude ofsynnes. 9 Be ye herberous one to anotherand that with out grudginge. 10 As everyman hath receaved the gyfte minister thesame one to another as good ministers ofthe manyfolde grace of God. 11Yf eny manspeake let him talke as though he spakethe wordes of God. If eny man minister lethim do it as of the abilitie which god min-istreth vnto him. That god in all thingesmaye be glorified thorow Iesus Christ towhom be prayse and dominion for everand whyll the worlde stondeth. Amen.12 Dearly beloved be not troubled in thisheate which now is come amonge you totrye you as though some strauge thingehad happened vnto you: 13 but reioyce inas moche as ye are partetakers of Christespassions that when his glory appereth yemaye be mery and glad. 14 If ye be rayledvpon for the name of Christ happie are ye.For the sprete of glory and the sprete ofgod resteth apon you. On their parte he isevyll spoken of: but on youre parte he isglorified. 15 Se that none of you suffre as amurtherer or as a thefe or an evyll doar oras a busybody in other mens matters. 16Yfeny man suffre as a Christe man let himnot be ashamed: but let him glorifie godon his behalfe. 17For the tyme is come thatiudgement must begynne at the housse ofgod. If it fyrst begynne at vs what shallthe ende be of them which beleve not thegospell of god? 18 And yf the righteousscasly be saved: where shall the vngodlyand the sinner appere? 19 Wherfore letthem that suffer accordynge to the will ofgod commit their soules to him with welldoynge as vnto a faythfull creator.

51 The elders which are amonge you I

exhorte which am also an elder and awitnes of the affliccions of Christ and alsoa partaker of the glory that shalbe opened:2 se that ye fede Christes flocke whichis amonge you takynge the oversyght of

1 Peter 5:3 222 1 Peter 5:14them 3 not as though ye were compelledtherto but willyngly: not for the desyreof filthy lucre but of a good mynde. notas though ye were lordes over the paris-shes: but that ye be a insample to theflocke. 4 And when the chef shepheerdeshall appere ye shall receave an incorrupt-ible croune of glorye. 5 Lykwyse ye yongersubmit youre selves vnto the elder. Submityoure selves every man one to anotherknet youre selves togedder in lowlines ofmynde. For god resisteth the proude andgeveth grace to thehumble. 6Submit youreselves therfore vnder the myghty hondeof god that he maye exalt you when thetyme is come. 7 Cast all youre care tohim: for he careth for you. 8 Be sober andwatch for youre adversary the devyll as arorynge lion walketh about sekynge whomhemaye devoure: 9whom resist stedfust inthe fayth remebrynge that ye do but fulfillthe same affliccions which are apoyntedto youre brethren that are in the worlde.10 The God of all grace which called youvnto his eternall glory by Christ Iesus shallhis awne silfe after ye have soffred a lytellaffliccion make you perfect: shall settlestrenght and stablishe you. 11 To him beglory and dominion for ever and whill theworlde endureth Amen. 12 By Silvanus afaythfull brother vnto you (as I suppose)have I written brefly exhortynge and testi-fyinge how that this is the true grace of godwherin ye stonde. 13 The companions ofyoure eleccion that are at Babilon, salutethyou and Marcus my sonne. 14 Grete yeone another with the kysse of love. Peacebe with you all which are in Christ Iesus.Amen.

2 Peter 1:1 223 2 Peter 2:8

THE SECOND EPISTLEGENERAL OF PETER1 Simon Peter a seruaunt and an Apos-

tle of Iesus Christ to them which haveobtayned lyke precious fayth with vs inthe rightewesnes that commeth of oureGod and savioure Iesus Christ. 2 Gracewith you and peace be multiplied in theknowledge of God and of Iesus oure Lorde.3Accordinge as his godly power hath gevenvnto vs all thinges that pertayne vnto lyfeand godlynes thorow the knowledge of himthat hath called vs by vertue and glory4 by the meanes whereof are geven vntovs excellent and moste greate promisesthat by the helpe of them ye shuld bepartakers of the godly nature in that yeflye the corrupcion of worldy lust. 5 Andhervnto geve all diligence: in youre faythminister vertve and in vertue knowledge6 and in knowledge temperancy and intemrancy pacience in pacience godlynes7 in godlynes brotherly kyndnes in broth-erly kyndnes love. 8 For yf these thinges beamonge you and are plenteous they wyllmake you that ye nether shalbe ydle norvnfrutefull in the knowledge of oure lordeIesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh thesethynges is blynde and gropeth for thewaye with his honde and hath forgottenthat he was pourged from his olde synnes.10Wherfore brethren geve the moare dili-gence forto make youre callynge and elec-cion sure. For yf ye do soche thynges yeshall never erre. 11 Ye and by this meanesan entrynge in shall be ministred vntoyou aboundantly in to the everlastyngekyngdomeof oure lorde and saveoure IesusChrist. 12Wherfore I will not be necgligentto put you allwayes in remembraunce ofsoche thinges though that ye knowe themyoure selves and be also stablisshed inthe present trueth. 13 Notwithstodinge Ithynke that mete (as longe as I am in thistabernacle) to stere you vp by puttyngeyou in remembraunce 14 for as moch as Iam sure howe that the tyme is at hondethat I must put of my tabernacle even asoure lorde Iesus Christ hath shewed me.15 I will enfource therfore that on every

syde ye myght have wherwith to stere vpthe remembraunce of these thynges aftermy departynge. 16 For we folowed notdecevable fables when we openned vntoyou the power and commynge of ourelorde Iesus Christ but with oure eyes wesawe his maieste: 17 even then verely whenhe receaved of god the father honour andglory and when ther came soche a voyceto him from excellent glorie. This is mydere beloved sonne in whom I have delite.18 This voyce we hearde when it camefrom heven beynge with him in the holymounte. 19We have also a right sure wordeof prophesye wher vnto yf ye take hede asvnto a lyght that shyneth in a darke placeye do wel vntill the daye dawne and thedaye starre aryse in youre hertes. 20So thatye fyrst knowe this. that no prophesye inthe scripture hath eny private interpreta-cion. 21For the scripture camenever by thewill of man: but holy men of god spake asthey were moved by the holy goost.

21 Ther were falce prophetes amonge the

people even as ther shalbe falce teachersamonge you: wich prevely shall bryngein damnable sectes even denyinge theLorde that hath bought them and bryngevpon them selves swyft damnacion 2 andmany shall folowe their damnable wayesby which the waye of trueth shalbe evyllspoken of 3 and thorow coveteousnesshall they with fayned wordes makemarchandyse of you whose iudgement isnot farre of and their dampnacion slepethnot. 4 For yf god spared not the angels thatsynned but cast them doune into hell anddelyuered them in chaynes of darknes tobe kept vnto iudgement. 5 Nether sparedthe olde worlde but saved Noe the ryghtepreacher of rightewesnes and brought inthe flud vpon the worlde of the vngodly6and turned the cities of zodomandGomorinto asshes: overthrewe them damnedthem and made on them an ensamplevnto all that after shuld live vngodly.7 And iust Lot vexed with the vnclenlyconversacion of the wicked delivered he.8 For he beynge ryghteous and dwellyngeamonge them in seynge and hearyngevexed his righteous soule from daye to

2 Peter 2:9 224 2 Peter 3:14daye with their vnlawfull dedes. 9 Thelorde knoweth how to deliver the godlyout of temptacion and how to reserve thevniuste vnto the daye of iudgement for tobe punisshed: 10 namely them that walkeafter the flesshe in the lust of vnclennesand despyse the rulars. Presumpteous arethey and stubborne and feare not to speakeevyll of them that are in auctorite. 11Whenthe angels which are greater bothe inpower and myght receave not of the lorderaylynge iudgement agaynst them. 12 Butthese as brute beastes naturally made tobetaken and destroyed speake evyll ofthat they knowe not and shall perisshethrough their awne destruccion 13 andreceave the rewarde of vnrightewesnes.They count it pleasure to live deliciouslyfor a season. Spottes they are and filthineslivinge at pleasure and in disceaveablewayes feastynge with you: 14 havinge eyesfull of advoutrie and that cannot cease tosynne begylynge vnstable soules. Hertesthey have exercised with coveteousnes.They are cursed chyldren 15 and haveforsaken the right waye and are goneastraye folowinge the waye of Balam thesonne of Bosor which loved the rewardeof vnrightewesnes: 16 but was rebuked ofhis iniquitie. The tame and dome beastspeakinge with manes voyce forbade thefolisshnes of the Prophete. 17 These arewelles without water and cloudes cariedabout of a tempest to whome the myst ofdarcknes is reserved for ever. 18 For whenthey have spoke the swellinge wordesof vanytie they begyle with wantanesthorowe that lustes of the flesshe themthat were clene escaped: but now arewrapped in errours. 19 They promys themlibertye and are them selves the bondeservauntes of corrupcion. For of whomsoever a man is over come vnto the sameis he in bondage. 20 For yf they afterthey have escaped from the filthynes ofthe worlde thorowe the knowledge ofthe Lorde and of the saviour Iesus Christthey are yet tagled agayne therin andovercome: then is the latter ende worssewith them then the beginninge. 21 Forit had bene better for the not to haveknowne the waye of righteousnes thenafter they have knowe it to turne from

the holy commaundment geve vnto them.22 It is happened vnto them accordinge tothe true proverbe: The dogge is turned tohis vomet agayne and the sow that waswesshed to her wallowynge in the myre.

31 This is the seconde pistle that I now

wryte vnto you beloved wherwith I sterevp and warne youre pure myndes 2 to callto remembraunce the wordes which weretolde before of the holy prophetes and alsothe commaundement of vs the apostles ofthe lorde and saveour. 3 This fyrst vnder-stode that ther shall come in the last dayesmockers which will walke after their awnelustes 4 and saye. Where is the promes ofhis comynge? For sence the fathers dyedall thinges cotinue in the same estate wherin they were at the begynninge. 5 Thisthey knowe not (and that willyngly) howthat the hevens a great whyle ago wereand the erth that was in the water apperedvp out of the water by the worde of god:6by thewhich thinges theworlde that thenwas perisshed over flowen with the water.7 But the heves verely and erth which arenow are kept by the same worde in storeand reserved vnto fyre agaynst the daye ofiudgement and perdicion of vngodly men.8Derely beloved be not ignorant of this onethynge how that one daye is with the lordeas a thousande yeare and a thousand yeareas one daye. 9The lorde is not slacke to ful-fill his promes as somemen count slacknes:but is pacient to vs warde and wolde haveno man lost but wolde receave all men torepentaunce. 10Neverthelesse the daye ofthe lorde will come as a thefe in the nyghtin the which daye the hevens shall peris-she with terrible noyes and the elemetesshall melt with heet and the erth with theworkes that are therin shall burne. 11 Yfall these thinges shall perisshewhatmanerpersons ought ye to be in holy conver-sacion and godlynes: 12 lokynge for andhastynge vnto the commynge of the dayeof God in which the hevens shall peris-she with fyre and the elementes shalbeconsumed with heate. 13 Neverthelessewe loke for a newe heven and a neweerth accordynge to his promes where indwelleth rightewesnes. 14 Wherfore derly

2 Peter 3:15 225 2 Peter 3:18beloved seynge that ye loke for soche thyn-ges be diliget that ye maye be founde ofhim in peace with out spotte and vndefiled15And suppose that the longe sufferynge ofthe lorde is saluacion even as oure derelybeloved brother Paul accordynge to thewysdomegeve vnto himwrote to you 16yeealmost in very pistle speakynge of sochethynges: amonge which are many thyn-ges harde to be vnderstonde which theythat are vnlearned and vnstable pervert asthey do other scriptures vnto their awnedestruccion. 17Ye therfore beloved seyngeye knowe it before hande beware lest yebe also plucked a waye with the erroureof the wicked and fall from youre awnestedfastnes: 18 but growe in grace and inthe knowledge of oure lorde and saveoureIesus Christ. To whom he glory bothe nowand for ever. Amen.

1 John 1:1 226 1 John 2:22

THE FIRST EPISTLEGENERAL OF JOHN1 That which was from the begynninge

concerninge which we have hearde whichwehave senewith oure eyeswhichwehaveloked vpon and oure hondes have hadled oftheworde of life. 2For the lyfe appered andwe have sene and beare witnes and shewevnto you that eternall lyfe which was withthe father and appered vnto vs. 3 Thatwhich we have sene and herde declare wevnto you that ye maye have felloushippewith vs and that oure fellishippe maye bewith the father and his sonne Iesus Christ.4And this write we vnto you that oure ioyemaye be full. 5 And this is the tydyngeswhich we have hearde of him and declarevnto you that god is lyght and in him isno darknes at all 6 yf we saye that wehave fellishippe with him and yet walkein darknes we lye and do not the truth:7 but and yf we walke in (lyght) even as heis in lyght then have we fellishippe withhim and the bloud of Iesus Christ his sonneclenseth vs from all synne. 8 Yf we sayethat we have no synne we deceave oureselves and trueth is not in vs. 9 Yf weknowledge oure synnes he is faythfull andiust to forgeve vs oure synnes and to clensevs from all vnrightewesnes. 10 Yf we sayewe have not sinnedwemake him a lyar andhis worde is not in vs.

21 My lytell children these thynges write

I vnto you that ye synne not: yf enyman synne yet we have an advocate withthe father Iesus Christ which is righteous:2 and he it is that obteyneth grace foroure synnes: not for oure synnes only:but also for the synnes of all the worlde.3 And herby we are sure that we knowehim yf we kepe his commaundementes.4 He that sayth I knowe him and kepethnot his commaundementes is a lyar andthe veritie is not in him. 5 Whosoeverkepeth his (worde) in him is the love ofgod parfect in dede. And therby knowewe that we are in him. 6 He that saythhe bydeth in him ought to walke even ashe walked. 7 Brethren I write no newe

commaundement vnto you: but that oldecommaundement which ye hearde fromthe begynnynge. The olde commaunde-ment is the worde which ye hearde fromthe begynnynge. 8 Agayne a newe com-maundement I write vnto you a thyngethat is true in him and also in you: forthe darknes is past and the true lyght nowshyneth. 9 He that sayth how that he isin the light and yet hateth his brother isin darknes even vntyll this tyme. 10 Hethat loveth his brother abydeth in the lightand ther is none occasion of evyll in him.11He that hateth his brother is in darknesand walketh in darknes: and cannot tellwhither he goeth because that darkneshath blynded his eyes. 12Babes I write vntoyou how that youre synnes are forgevenyou for his names sake. 13 I wryte vnto youfathers how that ye have knowen him thatwas from the begynnynge. I wryte vntoyou yongemen how that ye have overcomethewicked. I wryte vnto you lytell childrenhow that ye have knowne the father. 14 Iwryte vnto you fathers how that ye haveknowe him that was from the begynnynge.I wryte vnto you youge men how that yeare stronge: and the worde of God abydethin you and ye have overcome that wicked.15 Se that ye love not the worlde netherthe thynges that are in the worlde. Yfeny man love the worlde the love of thefather is not in him. 16 For all that is inthe worlde (as the lust of the flesshe thelust of the eyes and the pryde of gooddes)is not of the father: but of the worlde17 And the worlde vannyssheth awaye andthe lust therof: but he that fulfilleth thewill of god abydeth ever. 18 Lytell childrenit is the last tyme and as ye have herdehow that Antichrist shall come: even noware there many Antichristes come allredy.Wherby we knowe that it is the last tyme.19 They went oute from vs but they werenot of vs. For yf they had bene of vs theywolde no dout have continued with vs. Butthat fortuned that that myght appere thatthey were not of vs. 20 And ye have anoyntment of the holy gost and ye knoweall thynges. 21 I wrote not vnto you asthough ye knewe not the trueth: but asthough ye knewe it and knowe also that nolye commeth of trueth. 22 Who is a lyar:

1 John 2:23 227 1 John 4:3but he that denyeth that Iesus is Christ?The same is the Antichrist that denyeththe father and the sonne. 23 Whosoeverdenyeth the sonne the same hath not thefather. 24 Let therfore abyde in you thatsame which ye hearde from the begyn-nynge. Yf that which ye hearde from thebegynnynge shall remayne in you ye alsoshall continewe in the sonne and in the fa-ther 25And this is the promes that he hathpromysed vs even eternall lyfe. 26 Thishave I written vnto you concernynge thethat disceave you. 27 And the anoyntyngewhich ye have receaved of him dwelleth inyou. And ye nede not that eny man teacheyou: but as the annoyntynge teaheth youall thynges and is true and is no lye: and asit taught you even so byde therin. 28 Andnowe babes abyde in him that when heshall appere we maye be bolde and not bemade a shamed of him at his commynge.29 Yf ye knowe that he is righteous knowealso that he which foloweth rightewesnesis borne of him.

31 Beholde what love the father hath

shewed on vs that we shuld be called thesonnes of god. For this cause the worldeknoweth you not because it knoweth nothim. 2 Derely beloved now are we thesonnes of God and yet it dothe not apperewhat we shal be. But we knowe that whenit shall appere we shal be lyke him. For weshall se him as he is. 3And every man thathath thys hope in him pourgeth him silfeeven as he ys pure. 4Whosover committethsynne committeth vnrighteousnes also forsynne is vnrighteousnes. 5 And ye knowethat he appered to take awaye oure synnesand in him is no synne. 6 As many as bydein him synne not: whosoever synneth hathnot sene him nether hath knowen him.7 Babes let no man deceave you He thatdoeth righteousnes is righteous even as heis righteous. 8He that committeth synne isof the devill: for the devyll synneth sencethe begynnynge. For this purpose apperedthe sonne of god to lowse the workes ofthe devill. 9 Whosoever is borne of godsinneth not: for his seed remayneth inhim and he cannot sinne because he isborne of god. 10 In this are the children

of god knowen and the children of thedevyll. Whosoever doeth not rightewesnesis not of God nether he that loveth not hisbrother. 11 For this is the tydinges that yehearde from the begynninge that we shuldlove one another: 12 not as Cayn whichwas of the wicked and slewe his brother.And wherfore slewe he him? Because hisawne workes were evyll and his brothersgood. 13Marvayle not my brethren thoughthe worlde hate you. 14 We knowe thatwe are translated from deeth vnto lyfebe cause we love the brethren. He thatloveth not his brother abydeth in deeth.15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a manslear. And ye knowe that noman slear hatheternall lyfe abydinge in him. 16 Herbyperceave we love: that he gave his lyfe forvs: and therfore ought we also to geve ourelyves for the brethren. 17Whosoever haththis worldes good and seith his brotherhave neade: and shutteth vp his compas-sion from him: how dwelleth the love ofGod in him? 18 My babes let vs not lovein worde nether in tonge: but with dedeand in veritie: 19 for therby we knowe thatwe are of the veritie and can before himquiet oure hertes. 20 But yf oure hertescondempne vs God is gretter then ourehertes and knoweth all thinges. 21 Belovedyf oure hertes condempne vs not thenhavewe trust to god warde: 22 and what soeverwe axe we shall receave of him: be causewe kepe his commaundementes and dothose thinges which are pleasinge in hissight. 23 And this is his commaundementthat we beleve on the name of his sonneIesus Christ and love one another as hegave commaundement. 24 And he thatkepeth his commaundementes dwelleth inhim and he in him: and therby we knowethat ther abydeth in vs of the sprete whichhe gave vs.

41 Ye beloved beleve not every sprete:

but prove the spretes whether they are ofGod or no: for many falce Prophetes aregone out into the worlde. 2 Herby shallye knowe the sprete of God. Every spretethat confesseth that Iesus Christ is come inthe flesshe is of God. 3 And every spretewhich confesseth not that Iesus Christ iscome in the flesshe is not of God. And

1 John 4:4 228 1 John 5:19this is that sprete of Antichrist of whomye have hearde howe that he shuld come:and even now alredy is he in the worlde.4 Lytell chyldren ye are of God and haveovercome them: for greater is he that is inyou thenhe that is in theworlde. 5They areof the worlde and therfore speake they ofthe worlde and the worlde heareth them.6 We are of God. He that knoweth Godheareth vs: he that is not of God heareth vsnot. Herby knowe we the sprete of veritieand the sprete of erroure. 7 Beloved letvs love one another: for love cometh ofGod. And every one that loveth is borne ofGod and knoweth God. 8He that loveth notknoweth not God: for God is love. 9 In thisappered the love of god to vs ward becausethat god sent his only begotten sonne intothe worlde that wemyght live thorow him.10 Herin is love not that we loved god butthat he loved vs and sent his sonne tomake agrement for oure sinnes. 11 Belovedyf god so loved vs we ought also to loveone another. 12 No man hath sene godat enytyme. Yf we love one another goddwelleth in vs and his love is parfect in vs.13Herby knowwe that we dwell in him andhe in vs: because he hath geven vs of hissprete. 14And we have sene and do testifiethat the father sent the sonne which isthe saveour of the worlde. 15 Whosoeverconfesseth that Iesus is the sonne of godin him dwelleth god and he in god. 16 Andwe have knowen and beleved the love thatgod hath to vs. God is love and he thatdwelleth in love dwelleth in god and godin him. 17 Herin is the love perfect in vsthat we shuld have trust in the daye ofiudgement: For as he is even so are we inthis worlde. 18 Ther is no feare in love butparfect love casteth out all feare for fearehath paynfulnes. He that feareth is notparfect in love. 19We love him for he lovedvs fyrst. 20 Yf a man saye I love god andyet hate his brother he is a lyar. For howcan he that loveth not his brother whomhe hath sene love god whom he hath notsene? 21 And this commaundement havewe of him: that he which loveth God shuldlove his brother also.

51Whosoever beleveth that Iesus is Christ

is borne of god. And every one that lovethhim which begat loveth him also which

was begotte of him. 2 In this we knowethat we love the children of god when welove god and kepe his commaudementes.3 This is the love of god that we kepe hiscommaundementes and his commaunde-mentes are not greveous 4 For all that isborne of god over commeth the worlde.And this is the victory that overcometh theworlde even oure fayth. 5 Who is it thatovercommeth the worlde: but he whichbeleveth that Iesus is the sonne of god?6 This Iesus Christ is he that cam by waterand bloud not by water only: but by waterand bloud. And it is the sprete that bearethwitnes because the sprete ys trueth. 7 (Forther are thre which beare recorde in heuenthe father the worde and the wholy goost.And these thre are one) 8For there are threwhich beare recorde (in erth:) the spreteand water and bloud: and these thre areone. 9 Yf we receave the witnes of menthe witnes of god is greater. For this isthe witnes of god which he testifyed of hissonne. 10 He that beleveth on the sonneof god hath the witnes in him silfe. Hethat beleveth not Godhathmadehima lyarbe cause he beleved not the recorde thatgod gave of his sonne. 11 And this ys thatrecorde how that god hath geven vnto vseternall lyfe and this lyfe is in his sonne.12 He that hath the sonne hath lyfe: andhe that hath not the sonne of god hath notlyfe. 13 These thynges have I written vntoyou that beleve on the name of the sonneof God that ye maye knowe howe that yehave eternall lyfe and that ye maye beleveon the name of the sonne of god. 14 Andthis is the trust that we have in him: thatyf we axe eny thinge accordynge to his willhe heareth vs. 15 And yf we knowe thathe heare vs what soever we axe we knowethat we shall have the peticions that wedesyre of him. 16Yf eny man se his brothersynne a synne that is not vnto deeth lethim axe and he shall geve him lyfe forthem that synne not vnto deeth. Ther is asynne vnto deeth for which saye I not thata man shuld praye. 17 All vnrightewesnesis synne and ther is synne not vnto deeth.18 We knowe that whosoever is borne ofgod synneth not: but he that is begottenof god kepeth him silfe and that wickedtoucheth him not. 19We knowe that we areof god and that the worlde is altogedder

1 John 5:20 229 1 John 5:21set on wickednes. 20 We knowe that thesonne of God is come and hath geven vs amynde to knowe himwhich is true: and weare in him that is true through his sonneIesu Christ. This same is very god andeternall lyfe. 21 Babes kepe youre selvesfrom ymages. Amen.

2 John 1 230 2 John 13

THE SECOND EPISTLE OFJOHN1 The elder to the electe lady and her

chyldren which I love in the trueth: andnot I only but also all that have knowethe trueth 2 for the truthes sake whichdwelleth in vs and shalbe in vs for ever.3With you be grace mercy and peace fromGod the father and from the Lorde IesusChrist the sonne of the father in truethand love. 4 I reioysed greatly that I foundeof thy chyldre walkinge in trouth as wehave receaved a commaundement of thefather. 5 And nowe beseche I the ladynot as though I wrote a newe commaun-dement vnto the but that same which wehad from the begynninge that we shuldlove one another. 6 And this is the lovethat we shulde walke after his commaun-dementes. This commaundement is (thatas ye have hearde from the begynninge)ye shuld walke in it. 7 For many deceaversare entred in to the worlde which confessenot that Iesus Christ is come in the flesshe.This is a deceaver and an Antichrist. 8 Lokeon youre selves that we loose not that wehavewrought: but that wemaye have a fullrewarde. 9 Whosoever transgresseth andbydeth not in the doctrine of Christ hathnot God. He that endureth in the doctrineof Christ hath bothe the father and thesonne. 10 Yf ther come eny vnto you andbringe not this learninge him receave notto housse: nether bid himGod spede. 11Forhe that biddeth him God spede is parttakerof his evyll dedes. 12 I had many thingesto wryte vnto you neverthelesse I woldenot wryte with paper and ynke: but I trustto come vnto you and speake with youmouth to mouth that oure ioye maye befull. 13The sonnes of thy electe syster gretethe. Amen.

3 John 1 231 3 John 14

THE THIRD EPISTLE OFJOHN1 The Elder vnto the beloven Gayus

whom I love in the trueth. 2 Beloved Iwisshe in all thinges that thou prospere-dest and faredest well even as thy souleprospereth. 3 I reioysed greatly whenthe brethren came and testified of thetrueth that is in the how thou walkest introuthe. 4 I have no greater ioye then forto heare howe that my sonnes walke inveritie. 5 Beloved thou doest faythfullywhat soever thoudoest to the brethren andto straungers 6 which bare witnes of thylove before all the congregacion. Whichbrethren when thou bryngest forwardeson their iorney (as it besemeth god) thoushalt do well: 7 because that for his namessake they went forth and toke nothinge ofthe gentyls. 8We therfore ought to receavesoche that we also myght be helpers to thetrueth. 9 I wrote vnto the congregacion:but Diotrephes which loveth to have thepreeminence amonge them receaveth vsnot. 10 Wherfore yf I come I will declarehis dedes which he doeth iestinge on vswith malicious wordes nether is therewithcontent. Not only he him silfe receavethnot the brethren: but also he forbiddeththem that wolde and thrusteth them outof the congregacion. 11 Beloved folowe notthat which is evyll but that which is good.He that doeth well is of God: but he thatdoeth evyll seith not God. 12 Demetriushath good reporte of all men and of thetrueth: ye and we oure selves also bearerecorde and ye knowe that oure recorde istrue. 13 I have many thinges to wryte: butI will not with ynke and penne wryte vntothe. 14 For I trust I shall shortly se the andwe shall speake mouth to mouth. Peace bewith the. The lovers salute the. Grete thelovers by name.

Jude 1 232 Jude 25

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OFJUDE1 Iudas the servaunt of Iesus Christ the

brother of Iames. To them which arecal and sanctified in god the father andpreserved in Iesu Christ. 2Mercy vnto youand peace and love bemultiplied. 3Belovedwhen I gave all diligence to write vnto youof the commen saluacion: it was nedfull forme to wryte vnto you to exhorte you thatye shuld continually laboure in the faythwhich was once geve vnto the sayntes4 For ther are certayne craftely crept in ofwhich it was write afore tyme vnto socheiudgement. They are vngodly and turnethe grace of oure God vnto wantannes anddenye God the only Lorde and oure LordeIesus Christ. 5 My mynde is therfore toput you in remebraunce for as moche asye once knowe this how that the Lorde(after that he had delivered the peopleout of Egypt) destroyed them which af-terwarde beleved not. 6 The angels alsowhich kept not their fyrst estate: but leftetheir awne habitacion he hath reservedin everlastinge chaynes vnder darcknesvnto the iudgement of the greate daye:7 even as Sodom and Gomor and the citiesaboute them (which in lyke maner defiledthem selves with fornicacion and folowedstraunge flesshe) are set forth for an en-sample and suffre the vengeaunce of eter-nall fyre. 8 Lykwyse these dremers defylethe flesshe despyse rulars and speake evyllof them that are in auctoritie. 9YetMichaelthe archangell when he strove agaynstthe devyll and disputed about the bodyof Moses durst not geve raylinge sentencebut sayde: the Lorde rebuke ye. 10 Butthese speake evyll of those thinges whichthey knowe not: and what thinges theyknowe naturally as beastes which arewith-out reason in tho thinges they corruptethem selves. 11Wo be vnto them for theyhave folowed the waye of Cayn and arevtterly geven to the erroure of Balam forlukers sake and perysshe in the treason ofCore. 12 These are spottes which of yourekindnes feast to gedder with out fearefedynge them selves. Cloudes they are

with outen water caried about of wyndesand trees with out frute at gadringe tymetwyse deed and plucked vp by the rotes.13 They are the ragynge waves of the seefominge out their awne shame. They arewandrynge starres to whom is reservedthe myst of darcknes for ever. 14 Enochthe seventh from Adam prophesied beforeof suche saying: Beholde the lorde shallcomewith thousandes of sayntes 15 to geveiudgement agaynst all men and to rebukeall that are vngodly amonge them of alltheir vngodly dedes which they have vn-godly committed and of all their cruellspeakynges which vngodly sinners havespoken agaynst him. 16 These are mur-murers complayners walkynge after theirawne lustes whosemouthes speake proudethynges. They have men in greate rev-erence be cause of a vauntage. 17 But yebeloved remember the wordes which werespoken before of the Apostles of oure lordeIesus Christ 18 how that they tolde youthat ther shulde be begylers in the lasttyme which shuld walke after ther awnevngodly lustes. 19 These are makers ofsectes fleshlie havynge no sprete. 20 Butye derlye beloved edyfie yovre selves inyouremost holy fayth prayinge in the holygoost 21 and kepe youre selves in the loveof God lokinge for the mercy of oure lordeIesus Christ vnto eternall lyfe. 22And havecompassion on some separatynge them:23 and other save with feare pullinge themout of the fyre and hate the fylthy vestureof the flesshe. 24 Vnto him that is able tokepe you that ye faule not and to presentyou fautlesse before the presence of hisglory with ioye 25 that is to saye to Godoure saveour which only is wyse be glorymaiestie dominion and power now and forever. Amen.

Revelation 1:1 233 Revelation 2:7

THE REVELATION OF ST.JOHN THE DIVINE1 The reuelacion of Iesus Christe which

god gave vnto him for to shewe vnto hisservauntes thinges which muste shortlycome to passe. And he sent and shewed byhis angell vnto his servaunt Ihon 2 whichbare recorde of the worde of god and ofthe testimony of Iesus Christe and of allthinges that he sawe. 3 Happy is he thatredith and they that heare the wordes ofthe prophesy and kepe thoo thinges whichare written therin. For the tyme is athonde. 4 Ihon to the .vii. congregacionsin Asia. Grace be with you and peace fromhim which is and which was and which isto come and from the .vii. spretes whichare present before his trone 5 and fromIesus Christ which is a faythfull witnes andfyrst begotte of the deed: and Lorde overthe kinges of the erth. Vnto him thatloved vs and wesshed vs from synnes inhis awne bloud 6 and made vs kinges andPrestes vnto God his father be glory anddominion for ever more. Amen. 7 Beholdehe commethwith cloudes and all eyes shallse him: and they also which peersed him.And all kinredes of the erth shall wayle.Even so. Amen. 8 I am Alpha and Omegathe begynninge and the endinge sayth theLorde almyghty which is and which wasand which is to come. 9 I Ihon yourebrother and companyon in tribulacion andin the kyngdom and pacience which is inIesu Christe was in the yle of Pathmos forthe worde of god and for the witnessyngeof Iesu Christe. 10 I was in the sprete ona sondaye and herde behynde me a gretvoyce as it had bene of a trompe 11 sayinge:I am Alpha and Omega the fyrst and thelaste. That thou seist write in a boke andsende it vnto the congregacions which arein Asia vnto Ephesus and vnto Smyrnaand vnto Pargamos and vnto Thiatira andvnto Sardis and vnto Philadelphia and vntoLaodicia. 12 And I turned backe to se thevoyce that spake to me. And when I wasturned: I sawe .vii golde candelstyckes13 and in the myddes of the candelstyckesone lyke vnto the sone of man clothed

with a lynnen garmet doune to the groundand gyrd aboute the pappes with a goldengyrdle 14 His heed and his heares werewhyte as whyte woll and as snowe: andhis eyes were as a flame of fyre: 15 andhis fete lyke vnto brasse as though theybrent in a fornace: and his voyce as thesounde of many waters. 16 And he had inhis right honde vii. starres. And out of hismouth wet a sharpe twoo edged swearde.And his face shone even as the sonne inhis strength. 17 And when I sawe him Ifell at his fete even as deed. And he laydehys ryght honde aponme sayinge vntome:feare not. I am the fyrst and the laste 18andam alyve and was deed. And beholde I amalyve for ever more and have the kayes ofhell and of deeth. 19 wryte therfore thethynges which thou haste sene and thethynges which are and the thynges whichshalbe fulfylled hereafter: 20 and the mys-tery of the vii. starres which thou sawestin my ryght honde and the vii. goldencandelstyckes. The vii. stares are themessengers of the vii. congregacions: Andthe vii. candlestyckes which thou sawestare the vii. congregacions.

21 Unto the messenger of the congre-

gacion of Ephesus wryte: These thyngessayth he that holdeth the vii. starres in hisright honde and walketh in the myddes ofthe vii. golden candlestyckes. 2 I knowe thyworkes and thy labour and thy pacienceand howe thou cannest not forbeare thewhich are evyll: and examinedst themwhich saye they are Apostles and are not:and hast founde them lyars 3 and dydestwasshe thy self. And hast pacience: and formy names sake hast labored and hast notfaynted. 4 Neverthelesse I have sumwhatagaynst the for thou haste lefte thy fyrstlove. 5 Remember therfore from whencethou art fallen and repent and do the fyrstworkes. Or elles I wyll come vnto theshortly and will remove thy candlestykeout of his place excepte thou repent. 6 Butthis thou haste because thou hatest thededes of the Nicolaitans which dedes I alsohate. 7Lett him that hath eares heare whatthe sprete sayth vnto the congregacions.To him that overcometh will I geve to

Revelation 2:8 234 Revelation 3:5eate of the tree of lyfe which is in themyddes of the paradice of god. 8 And vntothe angell of the congregacion of Smyrnawryte: These thynges sayth he that is fyrstand the laste which was deed and is alive.9 I knowe thy workes and tribulacion andpoverte but thou art ryche: And I knowethe blaspemy of them whiche call themselves Iewes and are not: but are the con-gregacion of sathan. 10 Feare none of thoothynges which thou shalt soffre. Beholdethe devyll shall caste of you into preson totempte you and ye shall have tribulacion.x. dayes. Be faythfull vnto the deeth andI will geve the a croune of lyfe. 11 Let himthat hath ears heare what the sprete saythto the congregacions: He that overcomethshall not be hurte of the seconde deeth.12 And to the messenger of the congre-gacion in Pergamos wryte: This sayth hewhich hath the sharpe swearde with twoedges. 13 I knowe thy workes and wherethow dwellest evyn where Sathans seat ysand thou kepest my name and hast notdenyedmy fayth. And inmy dayes Antipaswas a faythfull witnes of myne which wasslayne amonge youwhere sathan dwelleth.14 But I have a fewe thynges agaynst the:that thou hast there they that mayntaynethe doctryne of Balam which taught inbalake to put occasion of syn before thechylderne of Israhell that they shulde eateof meate dedicat vnto ydoles and to com-myt fornicacion. 15 Even so hast thouthem that mayntayne the doctryne of theNicolaytans which thynge I hate. 16 Butbe converted or elles I will come vnto theshortly and will fyght agaynste the withthes wearde of my mouth 17 Lett him thathath eares heare what the sprete saythvnto the congregacions: To him that over-commeth will I geve to eate manna thatis hyd and will geve him a whyte stoneand in the stone a newe name wryttenwhich no man knoweth savinge he thatreceaveth it. 18 And vnto the messengerof the congregacion of Theatira write: Thissayth the sonne of god which hath his eyeslyke vnto a flame of fyre whose fete are likebrasse: 19 I knowe thy workes and thy loveservice and fayth and thy paciece and thydedes which are mo at the last then at thefyrste. 20 Notwitstondinge I have a feawe

thynges agaynst the that thou sofferestthat woman Iesabell which called her sylfea prophetes to teache and to deceave myservauntes to make them commyt forni-cacion and to eate meates offered vppevnto ydoles. 21 And I gave her space torepent of her fornicacion and she repentednot. 22 Beholde I will caste her into a beedand them that commyt fornicacion withher into gret adversite excepte they tournefrom their deades. 23 And I will kyll herchildren with deeth. And all the congre-gacions shall knowe that I am he whichsearcheth the reynes and hertes. And Iwill geve vnto evere one of you accordyngevnto youre workes. 24Vnto you I saye andvnto other of them of Thiatyra as many ashave not this lerninge and which have notknowen the depnes of Sathan (as they saye)Iwill put apon younone other burthe 25butthat which ye have alreddy. Holde fast tyllI come 26 and whosoever overcometh andkepeth my workes vnto the ende to hymwill I geve power over nacions 27 and heshall rule them with a rodde of yron: andas the vessels of a potter shall he breakethem to shevers. Even as I receaved ofmy father 28 euen so will I geve him themornynge starre. 29 Let him that hatheares heare what the sprete sayth to thecongregacions.

31 And wryte vnto the messenger of the

congregacion of Sardis: this sayth he thathath the sprete of god and the vii. starres.I knowe thy workes thou haste a namethat thou lvyest and thou art deed. 2 Beawake and strength the thynges which re-mayne that are redy to dye. For I havenot founde thy workes perfaycte beforegod. 3 Remember therfore how thou hastreceaved and hearde and hold faste andrepet. Yf thou shalt not watche I willcome on ye as a thefe and thou shalt notknowe what houre I wyll come apon the4Thou haste a feawe names in Sardis whichhave not defyled their garmentes: andthey shall walke with me in whyte for theyare worthy 5 He that overcometh shalbeclothed in whyte araye and I will not putout his name out of the boke of lyfe andI will confesse his name before my father

Revelation 3:6 235 Revelation 4:11and before his angelles. 6Let him that hatheares heare what the sprete sayth vntothe congregacions. 7 And wryte vnto thetydinges bringer of the congregacion ofPhiladelphia: this sayth he that is holy andtrue which hath the keye of Dauid: whichopenyth and noma shutteth and shuttethand noman openeth. 8 I knowe thyworkes.Beholde I have set before the an opendoore and no man can shut it for thouhaste a lyttell strengthe and haste kept mysayinges: and haste not denyed my name.9Beholde I make them of the congregacionof Sathan which call them selves Iewes andare not but do lye: Beholde: I will makethem that they shall come and worshippebefore thy fete: and shall knowe that I lovethe. 10 Because thou hast kept the wordesof my paciece therfore I will kepe the fromthe houre of temptacion which will comeupo all the worlde to tempte them thatdwell vpon the erth. 11 Beholde I comeshortly. Holde that which thou haste thatno man take awaye thy croune. 12 Himthat overcometh will I make a pyllar inthe temple of my God and he shall goo nomore oute. And I will wryt vpo him thename of my God and the name of the citeof my god newe Ierusalem which comethdoune oute of heven from my God and Iwill wryte vpon him my newe name. 13 Lethim that hath eares heare what the spretesayth vnto the congregacions. 14And vntothe messenger of the congregacion whichis in Laodicia wryte: This sayth (amen) thefaythfull and true witnes the begynningeof the creatures of God. 15 I knowe thyworkes that thou arte nether colde nor hot:I wolde thou were colde or hotte. 16 Sothen because thou arte bitwene bothe andnether colde ner hot I will spew the outeof my mouth: 17 because thou sayst thouarte riche and incresyd with goodes andhaste nede of nothynge and knowest nothowe thou arte wretched and miserablepoore blinde and nakyd. 18 I counsell theto bye of me golde tryed in the fyre thatthou mayste be riche and whyte raymetthat thoumayste be clothed that thy fylthynakednes do not apere: and anoynt thyneeyes with eye salve that thou mayste se.19 As many as I love I rebuke and chasten.Be fervent therfore and repent. 20 Beholde

I stode at the doore and knocke. Yf enyman heare my voyce and opon the doreI will come in vnto him and will suppewith him and he with me. 21 To him thatovercommeth will I graunte to sytt withme inmy seate evyn as I overcam and havesytten with my father in his seate. 22 Letthim that hath eares heare what the spretesayth vnto the congregacions.

41 After this I loked and beholde a dore

was open in heven and the fyrste voycewhich I harde was as it were of a trompettalkinge with me which said: come vphydder and I will shewe the thynges whichmust be fulfyllyd hereafter. 2 And imme-diatly I was in the sprete: and beholde aseate was put in heven and one sate onthe seate. 3 And he that sat was to lokeapon like vnto a iaspar stone and a sardynestone: And there was a rayne bowe aboutethe seate in syght lyke to an Emeralde.4 And aboute the seate were .xxiiii. seates.And upon the seates .xxiiii. elders syttingeclothed inwhyte rayment and had on theirheddes crounes of gold. 5 And out of theseate proceded lightnynges and thundryn-ges and voyces and therewer vii. lampes offyre burninge before the seate which arethe vii. sprettes of God. 6 And before theseate there was a see of glasse lyke vntocristall and in the myddes of the seate androunde aboute the seate were iiii. bestesfull of eyes before and behynde. 7 And thefyrste best was lyke a lion the seconde bestlyke a calfe and the thyrde beste had a faceas a man and the fourthe beste was like aflyinge egle. 8And the iiii. bestes had echeone of them vi. wynges aboute him andthey were full of eyes with in. And theyhad noo reste daye nether nyght sayinge:holy holy holy lorde god almyghty whichwas and is and is to come. 9 And whenthose beestes gave glory and honour andthankes to him that sat on the seate whichlyveth for ever and ever: 10 the xxiiii.elders fell doune before him that sat onthe trone and worshipped him that lyvethfor ever and caste their crounes before thetrone sayinge: 11 thou arte worthy lorde toreceave glory and honoure and power forthou haste created all thinges and for thywylles sake they are and were created.

Revelation 5:1 236 Revelation 6:135

1 And I sawe in the right honde of himthat sat in the trone a boke written within and on the backside sealyd with vii.seales. 2And I sawe a stronge angell whichcryed with a loude voyce: Who is worthyto open the boke and to loose the sealesther of. 3And no man in heven ner in erthnether vnder the erth was able to openthe boke nether to loke thereon. 4 And Iwepte moche because no man was foundeworthy to open and to rede the bokenetherto loke thereon. 5 And one of the elderssayde unto me: wepe not: Beholde a lionbeinge of the tribe of Iuda the rote of Dauidhath obtayned to open the boke and to losethe vii. seales ther of. 6 And I beheldeand loo in the myddes of the seate and ofthe .iiii. bestes and in the myddes of theelders stode a lambe as though he had benekylled which had vii. hornes and vii. eyeswhich are the spretes of God sent into alltheworlde. 7And he cam and toke the bokeoute of the right honde of him that sateapon the seate. 8 And when he had takethe boke the .iiii. bestes and xxiiii. eldersfell doune before the labe havynge harpesand golden vialles full of odoureswhich arethe prayers of saynctes 9 and they songea newe songe saynge: thou art worthy totake the boke and to open the seales therof:for thou waste kylled and haste redemedvs by thy bloud out of all kynreddes andtonges and people and nacions 10and hastemade vs vnto oure god kynges and prestesand we shall raygne on the erth. 11 AndI behelde and I herd the voyce of manyangylles aboute the trone and about thebestes and the elders and I herde thou-sand thousandes 12 saynge with a lowdevoyce: Worthy is the lambe that was killedto receave power and riches and wisdomand strenghte and honoure and glory andblyssynge. 13 And all creatures which arein heven and on the erth and vnder theerth and in the see and all that are in themherd I sayinge: blyssinge honour glory andpower be vnto hym that sytteth apon theseate and vnto the lambe for ever more.14 And the .iiii. bestes sayd: Amen. Andthe .xxiiii. elders fell apon their faces andworshypped him that lyveth for evermore.

61 And I sawe when the lambe openyd

one of the seales and I herde one of theiiii. bestes saye as it were the noyse ofthonder come and se. 2 And I sawe andbeholde there was a whyte horsse and hethat sat on him had a bowe and a crounewas gevyn vnto him and he went forthconqueringe and forto overcome. 3 Andwhen he opened the seconde seale I herdethe seconde beste saye: come and se. 4Andthere went out another horsse that wasred and power was geven to him that sattethereon to take peace from the erth andthat they shulde kyll one another. Andthere was geven vnto him a gret swearde.5 And when he opened the thyrde seale Iherde the thyrde beste saye: come and se.And I behelde and loo a blacke hors: and hethat sate on him had a payre of balancesin his honde. 6 And I herd a voyce in themyddes of the .iiii. bestes saye: a measureof whete for a peny and iii. measures ofbarly for a peny: and oyle and wyne sethou hurte not. 7 And when he openedthe fourthe seale I herde the voyce of thefourthe beste saye: come and se. 8 And Iloked and beholde a grene horsse and hisname that sat on him was deeth and hellfolowed after him and power was gevenvnto them over the fourthe parte of theerth to kyll with swearde and with hongerand with deeth that cometh of vermen ofthe erth. 9 And when he opened the fyfteseale I sawe vnder the aultre the soulesof them that were kylled for the wordeof God and for the testymony which theyhad 10 and they cryed with a lowde voycesayinge: How loge tariest thou lorde holyand true to iudge and to avenge oure bloudon them that dwell on the erth? 11 Andlonge whyte garmentes were geven vntoevery one of them. And it was sayde vntothem that they shulde reste for a lyttleseason vntyll the nomber of their felowesand brethren and of them that shulde bekylled as they were were fulfylled. 12 AndI behelde when he opened the sixte sealeand loo there was a grett erth quake andthe sunne was as blacke as sacke clothemade of heare. And the mone wexed evenas bloud: 13 and the starres of heven fellvnto the erth even as a fygge tree castithfrom her her fygges when she is shaken of

Revelation 6:14 237 Revelation 8:8a myghty wynde. 14 And heven vanysshedawaye as a scroll when it is rolled togedder.And all mountayns and yles were movedoute of their places. 15 And the kyngesof the erth and the gret men and theryche men and the chefe captaynes andthe myghty men and every bond man andevery free man hyd them selves in dennesand in rockes of the hylles 16 and sayde tothe hylles and rockes: fall on vs and hydevs from the presence of him that sytteth onthe seate and from the wrath of the lambe17 for the grete daye of hys wrath ys comeAnd who can endure it.

71And after that I sawe .iiii. angels stonde

on the iiii. corners of the erthholdynge theiiii. wyndes of the erth that the wyndesshulde not blowe on the erthe nether onthe see nether on eny tree. 2 And I saweanother angell ascende from the rysyngeof the sunne: which had the seale of thelyvynge god and he cryed with a loudevoyce to the iiii angelles (to whom powerwas geven to hurt the erth and the see)3 saying: Hurt not the erth nether the seenether the trees tyll we have sealed theservauntes of oure god in their forheddes.4 And I herde the nombre of them whichwere sealed and therewere sealed anC. andxliiii. M. 5 of all the trybes of the chyldrenof Israhell. Of the trybe of Iuda were sealedxii.M Of the trybe of Ruben were sealedxii.M. of the trybe of Gadwere sealed xii.M.6 Of the trybe of Asser were sealed xii.M.Of the trybe of Neptalymwere sealed xii.M.Of the trybe of Manasses were sealed xii.M.7Of the trybe of Symeon were sealed xii.M.Of the tribe of Leuy were sealed xii.M. Ofthe trybe of Isacar were sealed xii.M. 8 Ofthe trybe of zabulon were sealed xii.M.Of the tribe of Ioseph were sealed xii.M.Of the trybe of Beniamin were sealed xii.thowsande. 9 After this I behelde andlo a gret multitude (which noman couldenombre) of all nacions and people andtonges stode before the seate and beforethe lambe clothed with longe whyte gar-mentes and palmes in there hondes 10 andcryed with a lowde voyce sayinge: salva-cion be asscribed to him that syttith aponthe seate of oure god and vnto the lambe.

11And all the angelles stode in the compaseof the seate and of the elders and of theiiii. bestes and fel before the seat on theirfaces and worshipped god 12 sayinge amen:Blessynge and glory wisdome and thankesand honour and power and myght be vntooure god for evermore Amen. 13And one ofthe elders answered sayinge vntome: whatare these which are arayed in longe whytegarmentes and whence cam they? 14And Isayde vnto him: lorde thou wottest. Andhe sayde vnto me: these are they whichcam oute of gret tribulacion and madetheir garmetes large andmade themwhytein the bloud of the lambe: 15 therfore arethey in the presence of the seate of God andserve him daye and nyght in hys templeand he that sytteth in the seate wyll dwellamonge them. 16 They shalt honger nomore nether thyrst nether shall the sunnelyght on them nether eny heate: 17 For thelambe which ys in the myddes of the seateshall fede them and shall ledde them vntofountaynes of lyuynge water and god shallwype awaye all teares from their eyes.

81 And when he had opened the seventh

seale there was silence in heven aboutethe space of halfe an houre. 2 And I saweangelles stondynge before god and to themwere geven vii. trompettes. 3And anotherangell cam and stode before the aultrehavynge a golden senser and moche ofodoureswas geven vnto him that he shuldeoffre of the prayers of all saynctes aponthe golden aultre which was before theseate. 4 And the smoke of the odoureswhich came of the prayers of all saynctesascended vppe before god out of the an-gelles honde. 5 And the angell toke thesenser and fylled it with fyre of the aultreand caste it into the erth and voyces weremade and thondrynges and lightnyngesand erthquake. 6 And the .vii. angellswhich had the .vii. tropettes preparedthem selves to blowe. 7 The fyrst angellblewe and there was made hayle and fyrewhich were myngled with bloud and theywere caste into the erth: and the thrydparte of trees was burnt and all grenegrasse was brent. 8And the seconde angellblewe: and as it were a gret mountayne:

Revelation 8:9 238 Revelation 10:1burnynge with fyre was caste in to the see9and the thyrde parte of the see tourned tobloud and the thyrde parte of the creatureswhich had lyfe dyed and the thyrde part ofshippes were destroyed. 10And the thyrdeangell blewe and ther fell a grett starrefrom heven burnynge as it were a lampeand it fell into the thyrde parte of theryvers and into fountaynes of waters 11andthe name of the starre is called wormwod.And the thyrde part was turned to worm-wod. And many me dyed of the watersbecause they were made bytter. 12And thefourth angell blew and the thyrde parteof the sunne was smytten and the thyrdeparte of the mone and the thyrde part ofstarres: so that the thyrde parte of themwas darckned. And the daye was smyttenthat the thyrde part of it shulde not shyneand lyke wyse the nyght. 13 And I beheldeand herd an angell flyinge thorowe themyddes of heven sayinge with a lowdevoyce: Woo wo to the inhabiters of theerth because of the voyces to come of thetrompe of the .iii. angells which were yetto blowe.

91 And the fyfte angell blewe and I sawe a

stare fall from heven vnto the erth. And tohimwas geven the kaye of the bottomlessepytt. 2 And he opened the botomlessepytt and there arose the smoke of a grettfornace. And the sunne and the ayer weredarkned by the reason of the smoke of thepytt. 3 And there cam out of the smokelocustes vpon the erth: and vnto themwasgeve power as the scorpions of the erthhave power. 4 And it hurt the grasse ofthe erth: nether eny grene thinge: nethereny tree: but only those me which havenot the seale in their forhedes 5 and tothe was commaunded that they shulde notkyll them but that they shulde be vexedv monethes and their payne was as thepayne that cometh of a scorpion when hehath stoge a man. 6 And in those dayesshall men seke deeth and shall not fyndeit and shall desyre to dye and deeth shallflye from them. 7 And the similitude ofthe locustes was lyke vnto horses preparedvnto battayll and on their heddes wereas it were crownes lyke vnto golde: and

their faces were as it had bene the faces ofmen. 8 And they had heare as the heareof wemen. And their tethe were as thetethe of lyons. 9And they had habbergionsas it were habbergions of yron. And thesounde of their wynges was as the soundeof charettes when many horsses runne togedder to battayle. 10 And they had tayleslyke vnto scorpions and there were stingesin their tayles. And their power was tohurt men v. monethes. 11 And they hada kynge over them which is the angell ofthe bottomlesse pytt whose name in thehebrew tonge is Abadon: but in the greketonge Apollion. 12 One woo is past andbeholde two wooes come after this. 13Andthe sixte. angell blewe and I herd a voycefrom the iiii. corners of the golden aultrewhich is before god 14 saying to the sixteangell which had the trompe: Loose theiiii. angelles which are bounde in the grettryver Eufrates. 15 And the iiii. angelleswere loosed which wer prepared for anhoure for a daye for a moneth and for ayeare for to slee the thyrde part of men.16And the nombre of horsme ofwarreweretwenty tymes xM. And I herde the nobre ofthem. 17 And thus I sawe the horses in avision and them that sate on the havyngefyry habbergions of a Iacyncte coloure andbrymstony and the heeddes of the horseswerre as the heeddes of lyons. And out oftheir mouthes went forth fyre and smokeand brymstone. 18And of these iii. was thethyrde parte of men kylled: that is to sayeof fyre smoke and brymstone which pro-ceded out of the mouthes of them: 19 Fortheir power was in their mouthes and intheir tayles: for their tayles were lyke vntoserpetes and had heedes and with themthey dyd hurt: 20 And the remnaunt ofthe men which were not kylled by theseplages repented not of the dedes of theirhondes that they shulde not worshyppedevyls and ymages of golde and sylver andbrasse and stone and ofwoodwhich nethercan se nether heare nether goo. 21 Alsothey repented not of their murther andof their sorcery nether of their fornacionnether of their thefte.

101 And I sawe another myghtye angell

Revelation 10:2 239 Revelation 11:18come doune from heven clothed with acloude and the rayne bowe apon his heed.And hys face as it were the sunne and hisfete as that were pyllars of fyre 2 and hehad in his honde a lytell boke opyn: and heput his ryght fote apon the see and his lyftefote on the erth. 3 And cryed with a lowdevoyce as when a lyon roreth. And whenhe had cryed seven thondres spake theirvoyces. 4 And when the vii. thondres hadspoken their voyces I was aboute to wryte.And I herde a voyce from heven sayingevnto me seale vp thoo thynges which thevii. thondres spake and write them not.5 And the angell which I sawe stonde aponthe see and apon the erth lyfte vppe hishonde to heven 6 and swore by him thatliveth for ever more which created hevenand the thynges that ther in are and thesee and the thynges which therin are: thatthere shulde be no lenger tyme: 7 butin the dayes of the voyce of the seventhangell when he shall begyn to blowe: eventhe mistery of god shalbe fynisshed as hepreached by his servauntes the prophetes.8 And the voyce which I herde from hevenspake vnto me agayne and sayde: goo andtake the lytle boke which ys open in thehonde of the angell which stondeth aponthe see and apon the erth. 9 And I wentvnto the angell and sayde to him: geve methe lytle boke and he sayd vnto me: take itand eate it vp and it shall make thy bellybytter but it shalbe in thy mouth as sweteas hony. 10 and I toke the lytle boke outof his honde and ate it vp and it was inmy mouth as swete as hony and as sone asI had eate it my belly was bytter. 11 Andhe sayde vnto me: thou muste prophesyagayne amonge the people and nacionsand tonges and to many kynges.

111 And then was geven me a rede lyke

vnto a rodd and it was sayd vnto me: Ryseand mete the temple of god and the aultreand them that worshippe therin 2 and thequyre which is within the temple cast outeand mete it not: for it is gevyn vnto thegentyles and the holy cite shall they treadevnderfote .xlii. monethes. 3 And I willgeve power vnto my two wytnesses andthey shall prophesy .M.iic. and .lx. dayes

clothed in sacke cloth. 4 These are twoolyve trees and two candlestyckes stodingebefore the god of the erth 5 And if enyman will hurt them fyre shall procedeout of their mouthes and consume theirennemyes. And yf eny man will hurt thethis wyse muste he be kylled. 6 Thesehave power to shut heven that it rayne notin the dayes of their prophesyinge: andhave power over waters to turne them tobloud and to smyte the erth with almanerplages as often as they will. 7 And whenthey have fynysshed their testimony thebeste that cam oute of the bottomlessepytt shall make warre agaynst them andshall overcome them and kyll them. 8 Andtheir boddyes shall lye in the stretes of thegreate citewhich spritually is called zodomand Egyptewhere oure lordewas crucified.9And they of the people and kynredes andtonges and they of the nacions shall setheir bodyes .iii. dayes and an halfe andshall not suffre their boddyes to be put ingraves. 10 And they that dwell apon theerth shall reioyce over them and be gladand shall send gyftes one to another forthese twoprophetes vexed them that dwelton the erth. 11 And after .iii. dayes and anhalffe the sprete of lyfe from god entredinto the. And they stode vp apon their fete:and greate feare came apon thewhich sawethem. 12 And they herde a greate voycefrom heven saying vnto them. Come vphidder. And they ascended vp into hevenin a cloude and their ennemyes sawe them.13And the same houre was ther a gret erthquake and the tenthe parte of the cite felland in the erth quake were slayne namesof men seven .M. and the remnaunt werefeared and gave glory to god of heven.14 The seconde woo is past and beholdethe thyrd woo wyll come anon. 15 Andthe seventh angell blewe and therweremade great voyces in heven sayinge: thekyngdoms of this worlde are oure lordesand his christes and he shall raygne forever more. 16 And the .xxiiii. elders whichsytt before god on their seates fell apontheir faces and worshipped God 17 sayinge:we geve the thankes lorde God allmyghte:which arte and wast and arte to come forthou haste receaved thy great myght andhast raygned. 18 And the nacions were

Revelation 11:19 240 Revelation 13:8angry and thy wrath is come and the tymeof the deed that they shuld be iudged andthat thou shuldest geve rewarde vnto thyservauntes the prophettes and saynctesand to them that feare thy name small andgreat and shuldest destroye them whichdestroye the erth. 19And the temple of Godwas openyd in heven and there was sene inhis temple the arcke of his testament: andther folowed lyghtnynges and voyces andthondrynges and erth quake and mochehayle.

121 And ther appered a gret wonder in

heven A woman clothed with the sunneand the mone vnder her fete and apon herheed a croune of xii. starres. 2And she waswith chylde and cryed travayllinge in byrthand payned redy to be delyvered. 3 Andther appered another wonder in heven forbeholde a gret red dragon havynge .vii.heddes and ten hornes and crounes vponhis heddes: 4 and his tayle drue the thyrdeparte of the starres and cast them to theerth. And the dragon stode before thewoman which was reddy to be delyvred:for to devoure her chylde as sone as itwere borne. 5 And she brought forth aman chylde which shulde rule all nacionswith a rode of yron And her sonne wastaken vp vnto God and to his seate. 6 Andthe woman fleed into wyldernes whereshe had a place prepared of god that theyshulde fede her there a M. .ii .C and lx.dayes. 7 And ther was grett battayll inheven Michael and his angells fowght withthe dragon and the dragon fowght andhis angelles 8 and prevaylled not: netherwas their place founde eny more in heven.9 And the grett dragon that olde serpentcalled the devyll and Sathanas was castout. Which desceaveth all the worlde. Andhe was cast into the erth and his angelleswere cast out also. 10 And I harde a lowdevoyce sayinge: in heven is nowe madesalvacion and strengthe and the kyngdomeof oure God and the power of his ChristFor he is cast doune which accused thembefore god daye and nyght. 11 And theyovercame him by the bloude of the lambeand by the worde of their testimony andthey loved not their lyves vnto the deeth.

12 Therfore reioyce hevens and ye thatdwell in them. Woo to the inhabiters ofthe erth and of the see: for the devyll iscome doune vnto you which hath greetwrath becausehe knoweth that hehath buta short tyme. 13Andwhen the dragon sawethat he was caste vnto the erth he per-secuted the woman which brought forththe man chylde. 14 And to the womanwere geven twowynges of a great egle thatshe myght flye into the wyldrenes into herplace where she is norysshed for a tymetymes and halffe a tyme from the presenceof the sarpent. 15 And the dragon castout of his mouth water after the womanas it had bene a ryver because she huldehave bene caught of the floud. 16 Andthe erth holpe the woman and the erthopened her mouth and swalowed vp therever which the dragon cast out of hysmouth. 17 And the dragon was wroth withthe woman: and went and made warrewith the remnaunt of hyr sede which kepethe commaundmentes of god and have thetestimony of Iesus Christe. And I stode onthe see sonde.

131 And I sawe a best rise out of the see

havinge vii. heddes and x. hornes andapon hys hornes x. crownes and apon hisheed the name of blasphemy. 2 And thebeast which I sawe was lyke a catt of themountayne and his fete were as the fete ofa bear and his mouth as the mouthe of alyon. And the dragon gave him his powerand his seate and grett auctorite: 3 and Isawe one of his heedes as it werewouded todeth and his dedly woude was healed. Andall the worlde wondred at the beast 4 andthey worshipped the dragon which gavepower vnto the beest and they worshippedthe beest sayinge: who is lyke vnto thebeast? who is able to warre with him?5 And ther was a mouth geve vnto himthat spake great thinges and blasphemiesand power was geve vnto him to do xlii.monethes 6And he opened hismowth vntoblasphemy agaynst God to blaspheme hysname and his tabernacle and them thatdwell in heven. 7And itwas gevenvntohimto make warre with the saynctes and toovercome them. And powerwas geven himover all kynred tonge and nacion: 8 and

Revelation 13:9 241 Revelation 14:16all that dwell apon the erth worshipt him:whose names are not written in the bokeof lyfe of the lambe which was kylled fromthe begynnynge of the worlde. 9 Yf enyman have an eare lett him heare. 10 Hethat leadeth into captivite shall goo intocaptivite: he that kylleth with a sweardemust be kylled with a swearde. Heare isthe pacience and the fayth of the saynctes.11 And I behelde another best commyngevp oute of the erth and he had two horneslike a lambe and he spake as dyd thedragon. 12 And he dyd all that the fyrstebeest coulde do in his presence and hecaused the erth and them which dwelltherin to worshippe the fyrst beest whosededly woude was healed. 13 And he dydgrett wonders so that he made fyre comedoune from heven in the syght of men.14 And deceaved them that dwelt on theerth by the meanes of those signes whichhe had power to doo in the sight of thebeest sayinge to the that dwelt on the erth:that they shuld make an ymage vnto thebeest which had the woude of a sweardeand dyd lyve. 15And he had power to gevea sprete vnto the ymage of the beest andthat the ymage of the beest shuld speakeand shuld cause that as many as wolde notworshyppe the ymage of the beest shuldbe kylled. 16 And he made all bothe smaleand grett ryche and poore fre and bond toreceave a marke in their right hondes or intheir forheddes. 17And that nomanmyghtby or sell save he that had the marke orthe name of the beest other the nombreof his name. 18 Here is wisdome. Let himthat hath wytt count the nombre of thebeest. For it is the nombre of a man andhis nombre is sixe hondred threscore andsixe.

141 And I loked and loo a lambe stode on

the mount Syon and with him C. and xliiii.thousande havynge his fathers name writ-ten in their forhedes. 2And I herde a voycefrom heven as the sounde of many watersand as the voyce of a gret thoundre And Iherde the voyce of harpers harpynge withtheir harpes. 3And they songe as it were anewe songe before the seate and before thefoure beestes and the elders and no mancoulde learne that songe but the hondred

and xliiii.M. which were redemed from theerth. 4 These are they which were notdefyled with wemen for they are virgyns.These folowe the lambe whither soever hegoeth. These were redemed from menbeynge the fyrste frutes vnto God and tothe lambe 5and in theirmoutheswas foudeno gyle. For they - are with oute spottbefore the trone of god. 6 And I sawe anangell flye in themyddes of heven havyngean everlastynge gospell to preache vntothem that sytt and dwell on the erth andto all nacions kinreddes and tonges andpeople 7 sayinge with a lowde voyce: FeareGod and geve honour to him for the houreof his iudgement is come: and worshyppehim that made heven and erth and thesee and fountaynes of water. 8 And therefolowed another angell sayinge: Babilonis fallen is fallen that gret cite for shemade all nacions drynke of the wyne ofhyr fornicacion. 9 And the thyrde angellfolowed them sayinge with aloude voyce:Yf eny man worshippe the beest and hisymage and receave hie marke in his forhedor on his honde 10 the same shall drynkeof the wyne of the wrath of God which ispowred in the cuppe of his wrath. And heshalbe punnysshed in fyre and brymstonebefore the holy Angels and before thelambe. 11 And the smoke of their turmentascendeth vp evermore. And they haveno rest daye ner nyght which worshippethe beast and his ymage and whosoeverreceaveth the prynt of his name. 12 Hereis the pacience of saynctes. Heare are theythat kepe the commaundmentes and thefayth of Iesu. 13 And I herde a voyce fromheven sayinge vnto me: wryte. Blessedare the deed which here after dye in thelorde even soo sayth the sprete: that theymaye rest from their laboures but theirworkes shall folowe them. 14 And I lokedand beholde a whyte clowde and apon theclowde one syttynge lyke vnto the sonne ofman havynge on his heed a golde crowneand in his honde a sharpe sykle. 15 Andanother angell came oute of the templecryingewith a lowde voyce to him that sateon the clowde. Thruste in thy sycle andrepe: for the tyme is come to repe for thecorne of the erth is rype. 16 And he thatsate on the clowde thrust in his sykle on

Revelation 14:17 242 Revelation 16:15the erth and the erth was reped. 17 Andanother angell came oute of the templewhich is in heven havynge also a sharpesycle. 18 And another angell came outefrom that aultrewhich had power over fyreand cryed with a lowde crye to him thathad the sharpe sykle and sayde: thrust inthy sharpe sykle and gaddre the clustersof the erth for her grapes are rype. 19 Andthe angell thrust in his sykle on the erthand cut doune the grapes of the vyneyardeof the erth: and cast them into the gretwynefat of the wrath of god 20 and thewynefat was trodden with out the cite andbloud came oute of the fat even vnto thehors brydles by the space of a thowsandeand .vi. C. furlonges.

151And I sawe another signe in heven grett

and mervellous .vii. angells havynge theseven laste plages for in the is fulfylledthe wrath of god. 2 And I sawe as it werea glassye see mingled with fyre and thethat had gotten victory of the beest andof his ymage and of his marke and of thenombre of his name stode on the glassyesee havinge the harpes of god 3 and theysonge the songe of Moses the servaunt ofgod and the songe of the lambe sayinge.Gret and marvellous are thy workes Lordegod almyghty iuste and true are thy wayeskynge of saynctes. 4 Who shall not feareo lorde and gloryfy thy name? For thouonly arte holy and all gentylls shall comeand worshippe before the for thy iudg-mentes are made manyfeste. 5 And afterthat I loked and beholde the temple of thetabernacle of testimonywas opyn in heven6 and the seven angelles cam out of thetemple which had the seven plages clothedin pure and bryght lynnen and havyngetheir brestes gyrdedwith golden gerdelles.7 And one of the fowre beestes gave vntothe seve angells vii. golden vialles full ofthe wrath of God which lyveth for evermore. 8 And the temple was full of thesmoke of the glory of God and of his powerand no man was able to entre into thetemple tyll the seven plages of the sevenangels were fulfilled.

161 And I herde a great voyce out of the

temple sayinge to the seven angels: gooyoure wayes poure out youre vialles ofwrath apon the erth. 2 And the fyrst wentand poured out his viall apon the erthand there fell anoysom and a sore botcheapon the men which had the marke of thebest and apon the which worshipped hisymage. 3 And the seconde angell shed outhis viall apon the see and it turned as itwere into the bloud of a deed man: andevery lyvinge thynge dyed in the see. 4Andthe thyrde angell shed out his vyall aponthe ryvers and fountaynes of waters andthey turned to bloud. 5 And I herde anangell saye: lorde which arte and wastthou arte ryghteous and holy because thouhast geve soche iudgmentes 6 for they shedout the bloude of sayntes and prophettesand therfore hast thou geven them bloudto drynke: for they are worthy. 7 And Iherde another out of the aultre saye: evensoo lorde god almyghty true and righteousare thy iudgementes. 8 And the fourthangell poured out his viall on the sunneand power was geve vnto him to vexemen with heate of fyre. 9 And the menraged in gret heate and spake evyll of thename of God which had power over thoseplages and they repented not to geve himglory. 10And the fifte angell poured out hisvyall apon the seate of the beste and hiskyngdome wexed derke and they gnewetheir tonges for sorowe 11 and blasphemedthe god of heven for sorowe and payne oftheir sores and repented not of their dedes.12And the sixte angell poured out his vyallapon the gret ryver Euphrates and the wa-ter dryed vp that the wayes of the kyngssof the este shulde be prepared. 13 AndI sawe thre vnclene sprettes lyke froggescome out of the mouthe of the dragon andout of the mouthe of the beeste and out ofthe mouthe of the falce prophett. 14 Forthey are the sprettes of devyls workyngemyracles to go out vnto the kynges of theerth and of the whole worlde to gaddrethem to the battayle of that gret daye ofGod allmyghty. 15 Beholde I come as athefe. Happy is he that watcheth andkepeth his garmentes Lest he be founde

Revelation 16:16 243 Revelation 18:4naked and men se his filthynes. 16 Andhe gaddered them togedder into a placecalled in the hebrue tonge Armagedon.17 And the seventhe angell poured out hisviall in to the ayre. And there came avoyce out of heven from the seate sayinge:it is done. 18 And there folowed voycesthondringes and lightnynges and therewas a grett erthquake soche as was notsence men were apon the erth so myghtyan erthquake and so grett. 19 And thegreate cite was devyded into thre partiesAnd the cities of nacions fell. And grettBabilon came in remembraunce beforeGodto geve vnto hyr the cuppe of wyne ofthe fearcenes of his wrathe. 20 Every ylefled awaye and the mountaynes were notfounde. 21 And ther fell a gret hayle asit had bene talentes out of heven aponthe men and the men blasphemed God because of the plage of the hayle for it wasgrett and the plage of it sore.

171 And there cam one of the seven angels

whichhad the seven vialles and talkedwithme sayinge vnto me: come I will shewethe the iudgment of the grett whore thatsytteth apon many waters 2 with whomehave commytted fornicacion the kynges ofthe erth so that the inhabiters of the erthare droken with the wyne of her forni-cacion. 3 And he caryed me a waye intothe wildernes in the sprete. And I sawe awoman sytt apon a rose colored best full ofnames of blaphemie which had ten hornes.4And the woman was arayed in purple androse color and decked with golde preciousstone and pearles and had a cup of goldein her honde full of abominacions andfylthynes of her fornycacion. 5 And inher forhed was a name wrytten a misterygret Babylon themother of whordome andabominacions of the erth. 6 And I sawethewyfe dronkewith the bloud of saynctesandwith the bloud of thewitnesses of Iesu.And when I sawe her I wondred with grettmervayle. 7 And the angell sayde vntome: wherfore mervayllyst thou? I wyllshewe the themistery of thewoman and ofthe best that berith her which hath sevenheddes and ten hornes. 8 The best thatthou seest was and is not and shall ascendeout of the bottomlesse pytt and shall goo

into perdicion and they that dwell on theerth shall wondre (whose names are notwrytten in the boke of lyfe from the beg-ynnynge of theworlde) when they beholdethe best that was and ys nott. 9 And hereys a mynde that hath wisdome. The sevenheddes are seven mountaynes on whichthe woman sytteth: 10 they are also sevenkynges. Fyve are fallen and on ys andonother is not yet come. When he comethhe muste contynew a space. 11 And thebeste that was and ys not is even the ayghtand ys one of the seven and shall goointo destruccion. 12 And the ten horneswhich thou seist are ten kyngeswhichhavereceaved no kyngdome but shall receavepower as kynges at one houre with thebeest. 13 These have one mynde and shallgeve their power and strenghte vnto thebeste. 14 These shall fyght with the lambeand the lambe shall overcome them: Forhe is lorde of lordes and kynge of kynges:and they that are onhys syde are called andchosen and faythfull. 15And he sayde vntome: the waters which thou sawest wherethe whore syttith are people and folke andnacions and tonges. 16 And the ten horneswhich thou sawest apon the best are theythat shall hate the whore and shall makeher desolate and naked and shall eate theirflesshe and burne her with fyre. 17 For Godhathe put in their hertes to fulfyll hys wylland to do with one consent for to geve hirkyngdom vnto the beast vntill the wordesof God be fulfylled. 18 And the womanwhich thou sawest ys that gret cyte whichraigneth over the kynges of the erth.

181 And after that I sawe another angell

come from heven havinge gret power andthe erth was lyghtned with hys bryghtnes.2 And he cryed myghtyly with a strongevoyce sayinge: Great Babilon is fallen ysfallen and ys become the habitation ofdevels and the holde of all fowle sprettesand a cage of all vnclene and hatefullbyrdes 3 for all nacions have dronken ofthe wyne of the wrath of her fornycacion.And the kynges of the erth have committedfornicacion with her and her marchauntesare wexed ryche of the abundance of herpleasures. 4 And I herde another voyce

Revelation 18:5 244 Revelation 19:6from heven saye: come a waye from hermy people that ye be not parttakers in hersynnes that ye receave not of her plages.5 For her synnes are gon vp to hevenand God hath remembred her wyckednes.6 Rewarde her even as she rewarded youand geve her dubble accordynge to herworkes. And poure in dubble to her inthe same cuppe which she fylled vnto you.7 And as moche as she gloryfied her silfeand lyved wantanly so moche poure ye infor her of punysshment and sorowe forshe sayde in her herte: I sytt beinge aquene and am no wyddowe and shall se nosorowe. 8 Therfore shall her plages comeat one daye deeth and sorowe and hongerand she shallbe brentwith fyre: for strongeys the lorde god which iudgeth her. 9 Andthe kynges of the erth shalbe wepe her andwayle over her which have committed for-nicacionwith her and have lyvedwantanlywith her when they shall se the smoke ofher burnynge 10 and shall stonde a farreof for feare of her punnysshment sayinge:AlasAlas that gret cite Babilon thatmyghtycite: For at won houre is her iudgmentcome. 11 And the marchauntes of theerth shall wepe and wayle in them selvesfor no man wyll bye their ware eny more12 the ware of golde and silver and preciousstones nether of pearle and raynes andpurple and skarlet and all thynewodde andalmanner vessels of yvery and almannervessels of most precious wodde and ofbrasse and of yron 13 and synamon andodours and oyntmentes and frankynsenceand wyne and oyle and fyne floure andwheate bestes and shepe and horsys andcharrettes and boddyes and soules of men.14And the apples that thy soule lusted afterare departed from the. And all thyngeswhich were deyntie and had in pryce aredeparted from the and thou shalt fyndethem no more. 15 The marchauntes ofthese thynges which were wexed rycheshall stonde a farre of from her for feareof the punyshment of her wepynge andwaylynge 16 and saying: alas alas thatgrett cite that was clothed in raynes andpurple and scarlett and decked with goldeand precious stone and pearles: 17 forat one houre so great ryches ys come to

nought. And every shippe governer and allthey that occupied shippes and shippmenwhich worke in the see stode a farre of18 and cryed when they sawe the smokeof her burnynge sayinge what cite is lykevnto this grett cite? 19 And they castdust on their heddes and cryed wepyngeand waylinge and sayed: Alas Alas thatgreate cite wherin were made ryche allthat had shyppes in the see by the reasonofher costlynes for atone houre is she madedesolate 20 Reioyce over her thou hevenand the holy Apostles and prophetes: forgod hath geven youre iudgment on her.21 And a myghty angell toke vp a stonelyke a grett mylstone and cast it into thesee sayinge: with suche violence shall thatgret cite Babilon be cast and shallbe foundeno more. 22 And the voyce of harpersand musicions and of pypers and trompet-ters shalbe herde no more in the: andno craftes man of whatsoever craft he beshalbe founde eny more in the. and thesoude of a myll shalbe herde no more inthe 23and the voyce of the brydegrome andof the bryde shalbe herde no more in the:for thy marchauntes were the grett menof the erth. And with thyne inchantmentwere deceaved all nacions: 24 and in herwas founde the bloude of the prophettesand of the saynctes and of all that wereslayne apon the erth.

191 And after that I herde the voyce of

moche people in heven sayinge: Alleluia.Saluacion and glory and honour and powerbe ascribed to the lorde oure god 2 fortrue and ryghteous are his iudgmentes forhe hath iudged the grett whore which didcorrupt the erth with her fornicacion andhath avenged the bloudof his servauntes ofher hond. 3And agayne they said: Alleluya.And smoke rose vp for evermore. 4 Andthe xxiiii. elders and the iiii. bestes felldoune and worshypped god that sate onthe seate sayinge: Amen Alleluya. 5 And avoyce cam out of the seate saying: prayseoure lorde god all ye that are his servauntesand ye that feare him both small and grett.6 And I herde the voyce of moche peopleeven as the voyce of many waters and asthe voyce of stronge thondrynges sayinge:

Revelation 19:7 245 Revelation 20:11Alleluya for god omnipotent raigneth. 7Letvs be glad and reioyce and geve honourto him: for the mariage of the lambe iscome and hys wyffe made her sylfe reddy.8 And to her was graunted that she shuldebe arayedwith pure and goodly raynes. Forthe raynes is the ryghtewesnes of saynctes.9 And he sayde vnto me: happy are theywhich are called vnto the Lambes supper.And he sayde vnto me: these are the truesayinges of God. 10 And I fell at his fete toworshyppe him. And he sayde vnto me sethoudo it not. For I am thy felowe seruauntand one of thy brethern and of them thathave the testimony of Iesus. WorshyppeGod. For the testymony of Iesus ys thesprete of prophesy. 11 And I sawe hevenopen and beholde a whyte horsse: and hethat sat apon him was faythfull and trueand in ryghtewesnes dyd iudge and makebattayle. 12His eyes were as a flame of fyre:and on his heed were many crounes: andhe had a name written that noman knewebut him sylfe. 13 And he was clothed witha vesture dipt in bloud and and hys nameys called the worde of God. 14 And thewarriers which were in heven folowed himapon whyte horsses clothed with whyteand pure raynes: 15 and out of his mouthewent out a sharppe swerde that with thathe shuld smyte the hethen. And he shallrule them with a rodde of yron and hetrode thewynefatt of fearsnes andwrath ofalmyghty god. 16 And hath on his vestureand on his thygh a name written: kyngeof kynges and lorde of lordes. 17 And Isawe an angell stonde in the sunne and hecryed with a lowde voyce sayinge to all thefowles that flye by the myddes of hevencome and gaddre youre selves to geddervnto the supper of the gret god 18 that yemaye eate the flesshe of kynges and of hyecaptaynes and the flesshe of myghty menand the flesshe of horsses and of them thatsytt on them and the flesshe of all freemenand bondmen and of small and gret. 19AndI sawe the beste and the kynges of theerth and their warriers gaddred to gedderto make battayle agaynste him that satton the horsse and agaynst his sowdiers.20 And the beste was take and with himthat falce prophett that wrought myracles

before him with which he desceaved thethat receaved the beestes marke and themthat worshipped his ymage. These bothwere cast into a pode of fyre burnyge withbrymstone: 21 and the remnaunte wereslayne with the swearde of him that satapon the horsse which swearde procededout of his mouthe and all the foules werefulfilled with their flesshe.

201 And I sawe an angell come doune from

heven havinge the kaye of the bottomlessepyt and a gret chayne in his honde. 2 Andhe toke the dragon that olde serpet whichis the devyll and Satanas and he boundehim a thousand yeares: 3 and cast him intothe bottomlesse pit andhe boundehimandset a seale on him that he shuld desceauethe people no moare tyll the .M. yeareswere fulfilled. And after that he mustebe loosed for a litell season. 4 And I saweseattes and they sat apon them and iudge-ment was geven vnto them: and I sawethe soules of them that were beheddedfor the witnes of Iesu and for the wordeof God: which had not worshypped thebest nether his ymage nether had takenhis marke vpon their forheddes or on theirhondes: and they lyved and raygned withChrist a .M. yere: 5 but the wother of thedeed men lyved not agayne vntyll the .M.yere were fynisshed. This is that fyrstresurreccion. 6 Blessed and holy is he thathath parte in the fyrst resurreccion. Foron suche shall the seconde deeth have nopower for they shalbe the prestes of Godand of Christ and shall raygne with him a.M. yere. 7 And when the .M. yeares areexperied Satan shalbe lowsed out of hispreson 8 and shall goo oute to deceave thepeople which are in the foure quarters ofthe erth Gog and Magog to gadder themto gedder to batayle whose nombre is asthe sonde of the see: 9 and they went vpon the playne of the erth and compasedthe tentes of the saynctes about and thebeloved cite. And fyre camdoune fromGodout of heven and devoured them: 10 andthe devyll that desceaved them was castinto a lake of fyre and brymstone wherethe beest and the falce prophet were andshalbe tormented daye and nyght for evermore. 11 And I sawe a grett whyte seate

Revelation 20:12 246 Revelation 21:25and him that sate on it from whose facefleed awaye both the erth and heaven andtheir place was no more founde. 12 And Isawe the deed both grett and small stondebefore God: And the bokes were openedand another boke was opened which is theboke of lyfe and the deed were iudged ofthoo thynges which weer wrytten in thebokes accordinge to their dedes: 13 and thesee gave vp her deedwhichwere in her anddeth and hell delyvered vp the deed whichwere in them: and they were iudged everyman accordinge to his dedes. 14 And dethandhellwere cast into the lake of fyre. Thisis that second deeth. 15Andwhosoeverwasnot founde written in the boke of lyfe wascast into the lake of fyre.

211 And I sawe a newe heven and a newe

erth For the fyrst heven and the fyrst erthwere vanysshed awaye and there was nomore see. 2 And I Ihon sawe that holy citenewe Ierusalemcomedoune fromGodouteof heven prepared as a bryde garnysshedfor hyr husband. 3 And I herde a grettvoyce out of heaven sayinge: beholde thetabernacle of God is with men and hewill dwell with the And they shalbe hispeople and God him sylffe shalbe with theand be their god. 4 And God shall wypeawaye all teares from their eyes. Andthere shalbe nomore deeth nether sorowenether cryinge nether shall there be enymore payne for the olde thynges are gone.5 And he that sate apon the seate sayde:Behold I make all thynges newe. And hesayde vnto me: wryte for these wordes arefaythfull and true. 6 And he sayde vntome: it is done I am Alpha and Omega thebegynnynge and the ende. I will geve tohim that is a thyrst of the well of the waterof lyfe fre. 7 He that overcometh shallinheret all thynges and I will be his Godand he shalbe my sonne. 8But the fearefulland vnbelevynge and the abhominable andmurdrers and whormongers and sorcerersand ydolaters and all lyars shall have theirparte in the lake which burnyth with fyreand brymstone which is the seconde deth.9And there cam vntome one of the vii. an-gels which had the vii. vyals full of the vii.laste plages: and talked with me sayinge:

come hydder I will shewe the the bryde thelambes wyfe. 10 And he caryed me awayein the sprete to a grett and an hye moun-tayne and he shewedme the grett cite holyIerusalem descendinge out of heven fromGod 11 havynge the brightnes of God. Andher shynynge was lyke vnto a stone mosteprecious even a Iaspar cleare as cristall:12 and had walles grett and hye and hadxii gates and at the gates xii. angels: andnames written which are the xii. trybesof Israell: 13 on the est parte iii gatis andon the north syde iii gates and to wardesthe south iii gates and from the west iiigates: 14 and the wall of the cite had xiifoundacions and in them the names of thelambes .xii. Apostles. 15And he that talkedwith me had a golden read to measurethe cite with all and the gates therof andthe wall therof. 16 And the cite was byltiiii. square and the length was as large asthe bredth of it and he measured the citewith the rede .xii M. fur longes: and thelenght and the bredth and the heyth of itwere equall. 17 And he measured the walltherof. an cxliiii. cubittes: the measurethat the angell had was after the measurethat man vseth. 18And the byldinge of thewall of it was of iaspar. And the cite waspure gold lyke vnto cleare glasse 19 and thefoundacions of the wall of the cite was gar-nisshed with all maner of precious stonesThe fyrste foundacion was iaspar the sec-onde saphyre the thyrde a calcedony thefourth an emeralde: 20 the fyft sardonix:the sixt sardeos: the seventh crysolite theayght berall: the nynth a topas: the tentha crysoprasos: the eleventh a iacyncte: thetwelfe an amatist. 21 The xii. gates werexii pearles every gate was of one pearleand the strete of the cite was pure goldeas thorowe shynynge glasse. 22 And therewas no temple therin. For the lord godallmyghty and the lambe are the templeof it 23 and the cite hath no nede of thesonne nether of themone to lyghten it. Forthe bryghtnes of God dyd light it: and thelambe was the light of it. 24And the peoplewhich are saved shall walke in the light ofit: and the kynges of the erth shall bryngetheir glory vnto it. 25 And the gates of itare not shut by daye. For there shalbe no

Revelation 21:26 247 Revelation 22:21nyght there. 26 27 And there shall entreinto it none vnclene thynge: nether whatsoever worketh abhominacion: or makethlyes: but they only which are wrytten inthe lambes boke of lyfe.

221 And he shewed me a pure ryver of

water of lyfe clere as cristall: procedyngeoute of the seate of God and of the lambe.2 In the myddes of the strete of it and ofether syde of the ryver was there wode oflyfe: which bare xii maner of frutes: andgave frute every moneth: and the levesof the wodde served to heale the peoplewith all. 3And there shalbe nomore curssebut the seate of god and the lambe shalbein it: and his servauntes shall serve him:4And shall se his face and his name shalbein their forheddes. 5 And there shall beno nyght there and they nede no candlenether light of the sunne: for the lorde Godgeveth them light and they shall raygne forevermore. 6 And he sayde vnto me: thesesayinges are faythfull and true. And thelorde god of saynctes and prophetes senthis angell to shewe vnto his servauntes thethynges which muste shortly be fulfylled.7 Beholde I come shortly. Happy is hethat kepeth the sayinge of the prophesy ofthis boke. 8 I am Ihon which sawe thesethynges and herde them. And when Ihad herde and sene I fell doune to wor-shippe before the fete of the angell whichshewed me these thynges. 9 And he saydvnto me: se thou do it not for I am thyfeloweservaunt and the feloweservaunt ofthy brethren the prophettes and of themwhich kepe the sayinges of this boke. Butworshippe God. 10 And he sayde vnto me:

seale not the sayinges of prophesy of thisboke. For the tyme is at honde. 11 Hethat doeth evyl let him do evyl still: andhe which is fylthy let him be fylthy still:and he that is righteous let him be morerighteous: and he that is holy let him bemore holy. 12 And beholde I come shortlyand my rewarde with me to geve everyman accordinge as his dedes shalbe. 13 I amAlpha and Omega the begynninge and theende: the fyrst and the last. 14 Blessed arethey that do hys commaundmentes thattheir power maye be in the tree of lyfe andmaye entre in thorow the gates into thecite. 15 For without shalbe dogges and in-chauters and whormongers and morther-ers and ydolaters and whosoever lovethor makith lesynges. 16 I Iesus sent myneangell to testyfye vnto you these thyngesin the congregacions. I am the rote andthe generacion of David and the brightmornynge starre. 17 And the sprete andthe bryde sayde come. And let him thatheareth saye also come. And let him thatis athyrst come. And let whosoever wylltake of the water of lyfe fre. 18 I testifyevnto everyman that heareth the wordes ofprophesy of thys boke. yf eny man shalladde vnto these thynges god shall addevntohim theplages that arewrytten in thisboke. 19 And yf eny man shall mynyshe ofthewordes of the boke of this prophesy godshall take a waye his parte out of the bokeof lyfe and oute of the holy citie and fromthoo thyngewhich arewritten in this boke.20He which testifyeth these thinges sayth:be it I come quyckly Amen. Even soo: comelorde Iesu. 21 The grace of oure lorde IesuChrist be with you all. Amen.