The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

And when they had moocked him they toke the purple of him and put his awne cloothes on him and ledde him oute to crucifie him.

And they compelled one that passed by called Symon of Cyrene (which cam oute of the felde and was father of Alexander and Rufus) to beare his crosse.

And they brought him to a place named Golgotha (which is by interpretacion the place of deed mens scoulles)

and they gave him to drinke wyne myngled with myrte but he receaved it not.

And when they had crucified him they parted his garmentes castinge loottes for them what every man shulde have.

And it was aboute the thyrde houre and they crucified him.

And the tytle of his cause was wrytten: The kynge of the Iewes.

And they crucified with him two theves: the one on the ryght honde and the other on his lyfte.

And the scripture was fulfilled which sayeth: he was counted amonge the wicked.

And they that went by rayled on him: waggynge their heedes and sayinge: A wretche that destroyest the temple and byldest it in thre dayes:

save thy sylfe and come doune from the crosse.

Lyke wyse also mocked him the hye preestes amonge them selves with the scribes and sayde: He saved other men him sylfe he cannot save.

Let Christ the kynge of Israel now descende from the crosse that we maye se and beleve. And they that were crucified with him checked him also.

And when the sixte houre was come darknes aroose over all the erth vntyll the nynthe houre.

And at the nynthe houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce sayinge: Eloi Eloi lamaasbathani which is yf it be interpreted: my God my God why hast thou forsaken me?

And some of them that stode by when they hearde that sayde: beholde he calleth for Helyas

And one ran and filled a sponge full of veneger and put it on a rede and gave him to drinke sayinge: let him alone let vs se whether Helyas will come and take him doune.

But Iesus cryed with aloude voyce and gave vp the gooste.

And the vayle of the temple dyd rent in two peces, from the toppe to the boottome.

And when the Centurion which stode before him sawe that he so cryed and gave vp the gooste he sayd: truly this man was the sonne of God.

Ther were also wemen a good waye of beholdinge him: amonge whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of Iames the lytle and of Ioses and Mary Salome

which also when he was in Galile folowed him and ministred vnto him and many other wemen which came vp with him to Hierusalem.

And now when nyght was come (because it was the even that goeth before the saboth)

Ioseph of Arimathia a noble councelour which also loked for the kyngdome of God came and went in booldly vnto Pylate and begged the boddy of Iesu.

And Pylate merveled that he was alredy deed and called vnto him the Centurion and axed of him whether he had bene eny whyle deed.

And when he knewe the trueth of the Centurion he gave the body to Ioseph.

And he bought a lynnen cloothe and toke him doune and wrapped him in the lynnen cloothe and layde him in a tombe that was hewen oute of the rocke and rolled a stone vnto the doze of the sepulcre.

And Mary Magdalen and Mary Ioses beheld where he was layde.

And when the saboth daye was past Mary Magdalen and Mary Iacobi and Salome bought odures that they myght come and anoynt him.

And erly in the morninge the nexte daye after the saboth day they came vnto the sepulcre when the sunne was rysen.

And they sayd one to another: who shall rolle vs awaye the stone from the dore of the sepulcre:

And when they looked they sawe how the stone was rolled awaye: for it was a very greate one.

And they went into the sepulcre and sawe a yonge man syttinge on the ryght syde cloothed in a longe whyte garmet and they were abasshed.

And he sayd vnto the be not afrayed: ye seke Iesus of Nazareth which was crucified. He is rysen he is not here. Beholde the place where they put him.

But go youre waye and tell his disciples and namely Peter: he will goo before you into Galile: there shall ye se him as he sayde vnto you.

And they went oute quickly and fleed from the sepulcre. For they trembled and were amased. Nether sayd they eny thinge to eny man for they were afrayed.

When Iesus was rysen the morow after the saboth daye he appered fyrst to Mary Magdalen oute of whom he cast seven devyls.

And she went and toolde them that were with him as they morned and weapte.

And when they herde that he was alyve and he had appered to hyr they beleved it not.

After that he appered vnto two of them in a straunge figure as they walked and went into the country.

And they went and toolde it to the remnaunt. And they beleved them nether.

After that he appered vnto the eleve as they sate at meate: and cast in their tethe their vnbelefe and hardnes of herte: be cause they beleued not them which had sene him after his resurreccion.

And he sayd vnto them: Goo ye in to all the worlde and preache the glad tyges to all creatures

he that beleueth and is baptised shall be saved. But he that beleveth not shalbe dampned.

And these signes shall folowe them that beleve: In my name they shall cast oute devyls and shall speake with newe tonges

and shall kyll serpentes. And yf they drinke eny dedly thinge that shall not hurte the. They shall laye their hondes on the sicke and they shall recover.

So then when the lorde had spoken vnto them he was receaued into heauen and is set doune on the ryght honde of God.

And they went forth and preached every where. And the Lorde wrought with them and confirmed the worde with miracles that folowed.

For as moche as many have take in hand to compyle a treates of thoo thinges which are surely knowen amonge vs

even as they declared them vnto vs which from the beginnynge sawe them their selves and were ministers at the doyng:

I determined also assone as I had searched out diligently all thinges from the beginnynge that then I wolde wryte vnto the good Theophilus:

that thou myghtest knowe the certente of thoo thinges wher of thou arte informed.

There was in the dayes of Herode kynge of Iurie a certayne prest named zacharias of the course of Abia. And his wyfe was of the doughters of Aaron: And her name was Elizabeth.

Booth were perfect before God and walked in all the lawes and ordinaunces of the Lorde that no man coulde fynde fawte with them.

And they had no chylde because that Elizabeth was barre and booth were well stricken in age.

And it cam to passe as he executed the prestes office before god as his course came

(accordinge to the custome of the prestes office) his lot was to bourne incence. And went into the temple of the Lorde

and the whoale multitude of the people were with out in prayer whill the incense was aburnynge.

And ther appered vnto him an angell of the lorde stondinge on the ryght syde of the altare of incense.

And when Zacharias sawe him he was abasshed and feare came on him.

And the angell sayde vnto him: feare not Zachary for thy prayer is hearde: And thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare the a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iohn

and thou shalt have ioye and gladnes and many shall reioyce at his birth.

For he shalbe greate in the sight of the lorde and shall nether drinke wyne ner stronge drinke. And he shalbe filled with the holy goost even in his mothers wombe:

and many of the chyldren of Israel shall he tourne to their Lorde God.

And he shall goo before him in the sprete and power of Helyas to tourne the hertes of the fathers to the chyldren and the vnbelevers to the wysdom of the iuste men: to make the people redy for the Lorde.

And Zacharias sayde vnto the angell: Wher by shall I knowe this? seinge that I am olde and my wyfe well stricken in yeares.

And the angell answered and sayde vnto him: I am Gabriell that stonde in the presens of God and am sent to speake vnto the: and to shewe the these glad tydinges.

And beholde thou shalt be domme and not able to speake vntyll the tyme that these thinges be performed because thou belevedst not my wordes which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

And the people wayted for zacharias and mervelled that he taryed in the temple.

And when he cam oute he could not speake vnto them. Wherby they perceaved that he had sene some vision in the temple. And he beckened vnto them and remayned speachlesse.

And it fortuned assone as the tyme of his office was oute he departed home into his awne housse.

And after thoose dayes his wyfe Elizabeth conceaved and hyd her sylfe .v. monethes sayinge:

This wyse hath God dealte with me in the dayes when he loked on me to take from me the rebuke that I suffred amonge men.

And in the .vi. moneth the angell Gabriel was sent from god vnto a cite of Galile named Nazareth

to a virgin spoused to a man whose name was Ioseph of the housse of David and the virgins name was Mary.

And the angell went in vnto her and sayde: Hayle full of grace the Lorde is with the: blessed arte thou amonge wemen.

When she sawe him she was abasshed at his sayinge: and cast in her mynde what maner of salutacion that shuld be.

And the angell sayde vnto her: feare not Mary: for thou hast founde grace with god.

Loo: thou shalt conceave in thy wombe and shalt beare a sonne and shalt call his name Iesus.

He shalbe greate and shalbe called the sonne of the hyest. And the lorde God shall geve vnto him the seate of his father David

and he shall raygne over the housse of Iacob forever and of his kyngdome shalbe none ende.

Then sayd Mary vnto the angell: How shall this be seinge I knowe not a man?

And the angell answered and sayd vnto her: The holy goost shall come apon the and the power of the hyest shall over shaddowe the. Therfore also the holy thinge which shalbe borne shalbe called the sonne of god.

And beholde thy cosen Elizabeth she hath also conceaved a sonne in her age. And this is hyr sixte moneth though she be called barren:

for with god can nothinge be vnpossible.

And Mary sayd: beholde the honde mayden of the lorde be it vnto me even as thou hast sayde. And the angell departed from her.

And Mary arose in thoose dayes and went into the mountayns with hast into a cite of Iurie

and entred into the housse of zachary and saluted Elizabeth.

And it fortuned as Elizabeth hearde the salutacion of Mary the babe spronge in her belly. And Elizabeth was filled with the holy goost

and cryed with a loude voyce and sayde: Blessed arte thou amonge wemen and blessed is the frute of thy wombe.

And whence hapeneth this to me that the mother of my Lorde shuld come to me?

For loo assone as the voyce of thy salutacion sownded in myne eares the babe sprange in my belly for ioye.

And blessed arte thou that belevedst: for thoose thinges shalbe performed wich were tolde the from the lorde.

And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieth the Lorde.

And my sprete reioyseth in god my savioure

For he hath loked on the povre degre of his honde mayde. Beholde now from hence forth shall all generacions call me blessed.

For he that is myghty hath done to me greate thinges and holye is his name.

And his mercy is on them that feare him thorow oute all generacions.

He sheweth strength with his arme he scattereth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hertes.

He putteth doune the myghty from their seates and exalteth them of lowe degre.