The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

And Pylate called to geder the hye prestes and the rulers and the people

and sayde vnto them: Ye have brought this man vnto me as one that perverted the people. And beholde I have examined him before you and have founde no faute in this man of those thinges where of ye accuse him.

No nor yet Herode. For I sent you to him: and lo no thinge worthy of deeth is done to him.

I will therfore chasten him and let him lowsse.

For of necessite he must have let one lowse vnto them at that feast.

And all the people cryed at once sayinge: awaye with him and delyvre to vs Barrabas:

which for insurreccion made in the cite and morther was cast into preson.

Pylate spake agayne to them willynge to let Iesus lowse.

And they cryed sayinge: Crucify him Crucify him

He sayde vnto them the thyrde tyme. What evyll hath he done? I fynde no cause of deeth in him. I will therfore chasten him and let him lowse.

And they cryed with loude voyce and required that he myght be crucifyed. And the voyce of them and of the hye Prestes prevayled.

And Pylate gave sentence that it shuld be as they required

and let lowse vnto them him that for insurreccion and morther was cast into preson whom they desyred: and delyvered Iesus to do with him what they wolde.

And as they ledde him awaye they caught one Symon of Syrene commynge out of the felde: and on him layde they the crosse to beare it after Iesus.

And ther folowed him a greate company of people and of wemen which weme bewayled and lamented him.

But Iesus turned backe vnto them and sayde: Doughters of Ierusalem, wepe not for me: but wepe for youre selves and for youre chyldren.

For beholde, the dayes will come, when men shall saye: happy are the baren and the wombes that never bare and the pappes which never gave sucke.

Then shall they beginne to saye to the mountaynes fall on vs: and to the hilles cover vs.

For yf they do this to a grene tree what shalbe done to the drye?

And ther were two evyll doers ledde with him to be slayne.

And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary there they crucified him and the evyll doers one on ryght honde and the other on the lefte.

Then sayde Iesus: father forgeve them for they woot not what they do. And they parted his rayment and cast loottes.

And the people stode and behelde. And the rulers mocked him with thee saying: he holpe other men let him helpe him selfe yf he be Christ the chosen of god.

The soudiers also mocked him and came and gave him veneger

and sayde: yf thou be that kynge of the Iewes save thy silfe.

And his superscripcion was written over him in greke in latine and Ebreu: This is the kynge of the Iewes.

And one of the evyll doers which hanged rayled on him sayinge: If thou be Christ save thy selfe and vs.

The other answered and rebuked him sayinge. Net herfearest thou god because thou arte in the same damnacion?

We are ryghteously punesshed for we receave accordynge to oure dedes: But this man hath done nothinge amysse.

And he sayde vnto Iesus: Lorde remember me when thou comest into thy kyngdome.

And Iesus sayde vnto him: Verely I saye vnto the to daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse.

And it was about the sixt houre. And ther came a darcknes over all the londe vntyll the nynth houre

and the sonne was darckened. And the vayle of the temple dyd rent even thorow the myddes.

And Iesus cryed with a greate voyce and sayd: Father into thy hondes I comende my sprete. And when he thus had sayd he gave vp the goost.

When the Centurion sawe what had happened he glorified God sayinge: Of a surtie this man was perfecte.

And all the people that came to geder to that sight beholdynge the thinges which were done: smoote their bestes and returned home.

And all his acquayntaunce and the wemen that folowed him from Galile stode a farre of beholdynge these thinges.

And beholde ther was a man named Ioseph a councelloure and was a good man and a iuste

and dyd not consent to the counsell and dede of them which was of Aramathia a cite of the Iewes: which same also wayted for the kyngdome of God:

he went vnto Pilate and begged the boddy of Iesus

and toke it doune and wrapped it in a lynnen clooth and layed it in an hewen toumbe wherin was never man before layed.

And that daye was the Saboth even and the Saboth drue on.

The wemen that folowed after which came with him from Galile behelde the sepulcre and how his body was layed.

And they returned and prepared odoures and oyntmetes: but rested the Saboth daye accordynge to the commaundement.

On the morowe after the saboth erly in the morninge they came vnto the toumbe and brought the odoures which they had prepared and other wemen with them

And they founde the stone rouled awaye from the sepulcre

and went in: but founde not the body of the Lorde Iesu.

And it happened as they were amased therat: Beholde two men stode by them in shynynge vestures.

And as they were a frayde and bowed doune their faces to the erth: they sayd to them: why seke ye the lyvinge amonge the deed?

He is not here: but is rysen. Remember how he spake vnto you when he was yet with you in Galile

sayinge: that the sonne of man must be delyvered into the hondes of synfull men and be crucified and the thyrde daye ryse agayne.

And they remembred his wordes

and returned from the sepulcre and tolde all these thinges vnto the eleven and to all the remanaunt.

It was Mary Magdalen and Ioanna and Mary Iacobi and other that were with the which tolde these thinges vnto the Apostles

and their wordes semed vnto them fayned thinges nether beleved they them.

Then aroose Peter and ran vnto the sepulcre and stouped in and sawe the lynnen cloothes layde by them selfe and departed wondrynge in him selfe at that which had happened.

And beholde two of them went that same daye to a toune which was from Ierusalem about thre scoore for longes called Emaus:

and they talked togeder of all these thinges that had happened.

And it chaunsed as they commened togeder and reasoned that Iesus him selfe drue neare and went with them.

But their eyes were holden that they coulde not knowe him.

And he sayde vnto them: What maner of communicacions are these that ye have one to another as ye walke and are sadde.

And the one of them named Cleophas answered and sayd vnto him: arte thou only a straunger in Ierusalem and haste not knowen the thinges which have chaunsed therin in these dayes?

To whom he sayd: what thinges? And they sayd vnto him: of Iesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet myghtie in dede and worde before god and all the people.

And how the hye prestes and oure rulers delyvered him to be condempned to deeth: and have crucified him.

But we trusted that it shuld have bene he that shuld have delyvered Israel. And as touchynge all these thinges to daye is even the thyrd daye that they were done.

Ye and certayne wemen also of oure company made vs astonyed which came erly vnto the sepulcre,

and founde not his boddy: and came sayinge that they had sene a vision of angels which sayde that he was alyve.

And certayne of them which were with vs went their waye to the sepulcre and founde it even so as the wemen had sayde: but him they sawe not.

And he sayde vnto the: O foles and slowe of herte to beleve all that the prophetes have spoken.

Ought not Christ to have suffred these thinges and to enter into his glory?

And he began at Moses and at all the prophetes and interpreted vnto them in all scriptures which were wrytten of him.

And they drue neye vnto the toune wich they went to. And he made as though he wolde have gone further.

But they constrayned him sayinge: abyde with vs for it draweth towardes nyght and the daye is farre passed. And he went in to tary with them.

And it came to passe as he sate at meate with them he toke breed blessed it brake and gave to them.

And their eyes were openned and they knewe him: and he vnnisshed out of their syght.

And they sayde betwene them selves: dyd not oure hertes burne with in vs whyll he talked with vs by the waye and as he opened to vs the scriptures?

And they roose vp the same houre and returned agayne to Ierusalem and founde the eleven gadered to geder and them that were with them

which sayde: the Lorde is rysen in dede and hath apered to Simon.

And they tolde what thinges was done in the waye and how they knewe him in breakynge of breed.

As they thus spake Iesus him selfe stode in the myddes of them and sayde vnto them: peace be with you.

And they were abasshed and afrayde supposinge that they had sene a sprete

And he sayde vnto them: Why are ye troubled and why do thoughtes aryse in youre hertes?

Beholde my hondes and my fete that it is even my selfe. Handle me and se: for spretes have not flesshe and bones as ye se me have.

And when he had thus spoken he shewed them his hondes and his fete.

And whyll they yet beleved not for ioye and wondred he sayde vnto the: Have ye here eny meate?

And they gave him a pece of a broyled fisshe and of an hony combe.

And he toke it and ate it before them.

And he sayde vnto them. These are the wordes which I spake vnto you whyll I was yet with you: that all must be fulfilled which were written of me in the lawe of Moses and in the Prophetes and in the Psalmes.

Then openned he their wyttes that they myght vnderstond the scriptures

and sayde vnto them. Thus is it written and thus it behoved Christ to suffre and to ryse agayne from deeth the thyrde daye

and that repentaunce and remission of synnes shuld be preached in his name amonge all nacions and must beginne at Ierusalem.

And ye are witnesses of these thinges.

And beholde I will sende the promes of my father apon you. But tary ye in the cite of Ierusalem vntyll ye be endewed with power from an hye.

And he ledde the out into Bethany and lyfte vp his hondes and blest them.

And it cam to passe as he blessed the he departed from the and was caryed vp in to heven.

And they worshipped him and returned to Ierusalem with greate ioye

and were continually in the temple praysinge and laudinge God. Amen.

In the beginnynge was the worde and the worde was with God: and the worde was God.

The same was in the beginnynge with God.

All thinges were made by it and with out it was made nothinge that was made.