The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

He sayde vnto them: how many loves have ye? Goo and loke. And when they had serched they sayde: v. and .ii. fysshes.

And he commaunded them to make them all syt doune by companyes apon the grene grasse.

And they sate doune here a rowe and there arowe by houndredes and by fyfties.

And he toke the .v. loves and the ii. fysshes and loked vp to heven and blessed and brake the loves and gave them to his disciples to put before the: and the .ii. fysshes he devyded amonge them all.

And they all dyd eate and were satisfied.

And they toke vp twelve baskettes full of the gobbettes and of the fysshes.

And they that ate were about fyve thousand men.

And streyght waye he caused his disciples to goo into the shipe and to goo over the water before vnto Bethsaida whyll he sent awaye the people.

And assone as he had sent them away he departed into a moutayne to praye.

And when even was come the ship was in the middes of the see and he alone on the londe,

and he sawe the troubled in rowynge for the wynde was cotrary vnto them. And aboute the fourth quartre of the nyght he came vnto the walkinge apon the see and wolde have passed by them.

When they sawe him walkinge apon the see they supposed it had bene a sprete and cryed oute:

For they all sawe him and were afrayed. And anon he talked with them and sayde vnto them: be of good chere it is I be not a frayed.

And he went vp vnto them into the shippe and the wynde ceased and they were sore amased in them selves beyonde measure and marveyled.

For they remembred not of the loves because their hertes were blynded.

And they came over and went into the londe of Genezareth and drue vp into the haven.

And assone as they were come out of the shippe streyght they knewe him

and ran forth throughout all the region rounde about and began to cary aboute in beeddes all that were sicke to the place where they heard tell that he was.

And whyther soever he entred into tounes cities or villages they layde their sicke in the stretes and prayed him that they myght touche and it were but the edge of his vesture. And as many as touched him were safe.

And the pharises came togedder vnto him and dyvers of the scribes which came from Ierusalem.

And when they sawe certayne of his disciples eate breed with comen hondes (that is to saye with vnwesshen hondes) they complayned.

For the pharises and all the Iewes excepte they washe their hondes ofte eate not observinge the tradicions of the elders.

And when they come from the market except they washe they eate not. And many other thinges ther be which they have taken apon them to observe as the wasshinge of cuppes and cruses and of brasen vessels and of tables.

Then axed him the pharises and scribes why walke not thy disciples accordinge to the tradicions of the elders but eate breede with vnweshen hondes?

He answered and sayde vnto them: well prophesied Esaias of you ypocrites as it is writte: This people honoreth me with their lyppes but their hert is farre from me:

In vayne they worshippe me teachinge doctryns which are nothinge but the comaundementes of men.

For ye laye the commaundement of God aparte and observe the tradicions of men as the wesshinge of cruses and of cuppes and many other suche lyke thinges ye do.

And he sayde vnto them: well ye cast asyde the comaundement of God to mayntayne youre owne tradicions.

For Moses sayde: Honoure thy father and thy mother: and whosoever cursseth father or mother let him dye for it.

But ye saye: a man shall saye to father or mother Corban: which is: that thou desyrest of me to helpe the with is geven God.

And so ye soffre him no more to do ought for his father or his mother

makinge the worde of God of none effecte through youre awne tradicions which ye have ordeyned. And many soche thinges ye do.

And he called all the people vnto him and sayde vnto them: Herken vnto me every one of you and vnderstonde.

There is no thinge with out a man that can defyle him when it entreth into him: but thoo thinges which procede out of him are those which defyle the man.

If eny man have eares to heare let him heare

And when he came to house awaye from the people his disciples axed him of the similitude.

And he sayd vnto them: Are ye so without vnderstondinge? Do ye not yet perceave that whatsoever thinge from with out entreth into a man it can not defyle him

because it entrith not in to his hert but into the belly: and goeth out into the draught that porgeth oute all meates.

And he sayde: that defileth a man which cometh oute of a man.

For from with in even oute of the herte of men proceade evill thoughtes: advantry fornicacion murder

theeft coveteousnes wickednes diceyte vnclennes and a wicked eye blasphemy pryde folysshnes:

all these evyll thinges come from with in and defile a man.

And from thence he rose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon and entred into an housse and wolde that no man should have knowen: But he coulde not be hyd.

For a certayne woman whose doughter had a foule sprete hearde of him and came and fell at his fete.

The woman was a Greke oute of Syrophenicia and she besought him that he wolde caste out the devyll oute of her doughter.

And Iesus sayde vnto her: let the chyldren fyrst be feed. For it is not mete to take the chyldres breed and to caste it vnto whelppes.

She answered and sayde vnto him: even soo master neverthelesse the whelppes also eate vnder the table of the chyldrens cromes.

And he sayde vnto her: for this sayinge goo thy waye the devyll is gone out of thy doughter.

And when she was come home to her housse she founde the devyll departed and her doughter lyinge on the beed.

And he departed agayne from the coostes of Tyre and Sidon and came vnto the see of Galile thorowe the middes of the coostos of the .x. cities.

And they brought vnto him one that was deffe and stambred in his speche and prayde him to laye his honde apon him.

And he toke him asyde from the people and put his fyngers in his eares and dyd spyt and touched his tounge

and loked vp to heven and sygthed and sayde vnto him: ephatha that is to saye be openned.

And streyght waye his eares were openned and the stringe of his tounge was loosed and he spake playne.

And he commaunded them that they shuld tell no man. But the more he forbad them soo moche the more a greate deale they publesshed it:

and were beyonde measure astonyed sayinge: He hath done all thinges well and hath made booth the deffe to heare and the dome to speake.

In those dayes when ther was a very greate companye and had nothinge to eate Iesus called his disciples to him and sayd vnto them:

I have compassion on this people because they have nowe bene with me .iii. dayes and have nothinge to eate:

And yf I shuld sende the awaye fastinge to their awne houses they shulde faynt by the waye. For dyvers of the came from farre.

And his disciples answered him: where shuld a man have breade here in the wildernes to satisfie these?

And he axed them: how many loves have ye? They sayde: seven.

And he commaunded the people to syt doune on the grounde. And he toke the .vii. loves gave thankes brake and gave to his disciples to set before them. And they dyd set the before the people.

And they had a feawe smale fysshes. And he blessed them and commaunded them also to be set before them.

And they ate and were suffysed: And they toke vp yf the broken meate that was lefte .vii. baskettes full.

And they that ate were in nomber aboute fowre thousand. And he sent them awaye.

And a none he entred into a ship with his disciples and came into the parties of Dalmanutha.

And the pharises cam forth and begane to dispute with him sekinge of him a signe from heven and temptinge him.

And he sygthed in his sprete and sayde: why doth this generacion seke a signe? Verely I saye vnto you ther shall no signe be geven vnto this generacion.

And he lefte the and went into the ship agayne and departed over the water.

And they had forgotten to take breed with the nether had they in the ship with them more then one loofe.

And he charged the sayinge. Take hede and beware of the leven of the pharises and of the leve of Herode.

And they reasoned amonge the selves sayinge: we have no breed

And when Iesus knewe that he sayde vnto the: why take ye thought because ye have no bread perceave ye not yet nether vnderstonde? Have ye youre hertes yet blynded?

Have ye eyes and se not? and have ye eares and heare not? Do ye not remember?

When I brake v. loves amonge .v.M. How many baskettes full of broke meate toke ye vp? They sayde vnto him twelve.

When I brake .vii. amonge .iiii. M. How many basketes of the levinges of broken meate toke ye vp? they sayde .vii.

And he sayde vnto the: how is it that ye vnderstonde not?

And he came to Bethsaida and they brought a blynde man vnto him and desyred him to touche him.

And he caught the blynde by the honde and leade him out of the toune and spat in his eyes and put his hondes apon him and axed him whether he saw ought.

And he loked vp and sayde: I se the men: For I se the walke as they were trees.

After that he put his hondes agayne apon his eyes and made him see. And he was restored to his sight and sawe every man clerly.

And he sent him home to his housse sayinge: nether goo into the toune nor tell it to eny in the toune.

And Iesus went out and his disciples into the tounes that longe to the cite called Cesarea Philippi. And by the waye he axed his disciples sayinge: whom do men saye that I am?

And they answered: some saye that thou arte Iohn Baptiste: some saye Helyas: and some one of the Prophetes.

And he sayde vnto them: But whom saye ye that I am? Peter answered and sayd vnto him: Thou arte very Christe.

And he charged them that they shuld tell no man of it.

And he beganne to teache them how that the sonne of man must suffre many thinges and shuld be reproved of the elders and of the hye prestes and scribes and be kylled and after thre dayes aryse agayne.

And he spake that sayinge openly. And Peter toke him asyde and began to chyde him.

Then he tourned aboute and looked on his disciples and rebuked Peter sayinge: Goo after me Satan. For thou saverest not the thinges of God but the thinges of men.

And he called the people vnto him with his disciples also and sayd vnto them: Whosoever will folowe me let him forsake him sylfe and take vp his crosse and folowe me.

For whosoever will save his lyfe shall lose it But whosoever shall lose his lyfe for my sake and the gospels the same shall save it.

What shall it profet a man yf he shuld wynne all the worlde and loose his awne soule?

or els what shall a man geve to redeme his soule agayne?

Whosoever therfore shall be asshamed of me and of my wordes amonge this advoutrous and sinfull generacion: of him shall the sonne of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his father with the holy angels.

And he sayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you: There be some of the that stonde here which shall not taste of deeth tyll they have sene the kyngdome of God come with power.

And after .vi. dayes Iesus toke Peter Iames and Iohn and leede them vp into an hye mountayne out of the waye alone and he was transfigured before them.

And his rayment dyd shyne and was made very whyte even as snowe: so whyte as noo fuller can make apon the erth.

And ther apered vnto them Helyas with Moses: and they talked with Iesu.

And Peter answered and sayde to Iesu: Master here is good beinge for vs let vs make .iii. tabernacles one for the one for Moses and one for Helyas.

And yet he wist not what he sayde: for they were afrayde.