The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

In it was lyfe and the lyfe was the lyght of men

and the lyght shyneth in the darcknes but the darcknes comprehended it not.

There was a man sent from God whose name was Iohn.

The same cam as a witnes to beare witnes of the lyght that all men through him myght beleve.

He was not that lyght: but to beare witnes of the lyght.

That was a true lyght which lyghteth all men that come into the worlde.

He was in the worlde and the worlde was made by him: and yet the worlde knewe him not.

He cam amonge his (awne) and his awne receaved him not.

But as meny as receaved him to them he gave power to be the sonnes of God in that they beleved on his name:

which were borne not of bloude nor of the will of the flesshe nor yet of the will of man: but of God.

And the worde was made flesshe and dwelt amonge vs and we sawe the glory of it as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father which worde was full of grace and verite.

Iohn bare witnes of him and cryed sayinge: This was he of whome I spake he that cometh after me was before me because he was yer then I.

And of his fulnes have all we receaved even (grace) for grace.

For the lawe was geven by Moses but grace and truthe came by Iesus Christ.

No man hath sene God at eny tyme. The only begotte sonne which is in the bosome of the father he hath declared him.

And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent Prestes and Levites from Ierusalem to axe him what arte thou?

And he confessed and denyed not and sayde playnly: I am not Christ.

And they axed him: what then? arte thou Helyas? And he sayde: I am not. Arte thou a Prophete? And he answered no.

Then sayd they vnto him: what arte thou that we maye geve an answer to them that sent vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe?

He sayde: I am the voyce of a cryar in the wyldernes make strayght the waye of the Lorde as sayde the Prophete Esaias.

And they which were sent were of the pharises.

And they axed him and sayde vnto him: why baptisest thou then yf thou be not Christ nor Helyas nether a Prophet?

Iohn answered them sayinge: I baptise with water: but one is come amonge you whom ye knowe not

he it is that cometh after me whiche was before me whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to vnlose.

These thinges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordan where Iohn dyd baptyse.

The nexte daye Iohn sawe Iesus commyge vnto him and sayde: beholde the lambe of God which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde.

This is he of whom I sayde. After me cometh a man which was before me for he was yer then I

and I knew him not: but that he shuld be declared to Israell therfore am I come baptisynge with water.

And Iohn bare recorde sayinge: I sawe the sprete descende from heven lyke vnto a dove and abyde apon him

and I knewe him not. But he that sent me to baptise in water the same sayde vnto me: apon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tary styll on him the same is he which baptiseth with the holy goost.

And I sawe and bare recorde that this is the sonne of God.

The next daye after Iohn stode agayne and two of his disciples.

And he behelde Iesus as he walked by and sayde: beholde the lambe of God.

And the two disciples hearde him speake and folowed Iesus.

And Iesus turned about and sawe them folowe and sayde vnto them: what seke ye? They sayde vnto him: Rabbi (which is to saye by interpretacion Master) where dwellest thou?

He sayde vnto them: come and se. They came and sawe where he dwelt: and abode with him that daye. For it was about the tenthe houre.

One of the two which hearde Iohn speake and folowed Iesus was Andrew Simon Peters brother.

The same founde his brother Simon fyrst and sayde vnto him: we have founde Messias which is by interpretacion annoynted:

and brought him to Iesus. And Iesus behelde him and sayde: thou arte Simon the sonne of Ionas thou shalt be called Cephas: which is by interpretacion a stone.

The daye folowynge Iesus wolde goo into Galile and founde Philip and sayde vnto him folowe me.

Philip was of Bethsaida the cite of Andrew and Peter.

And Philip founde Nathanael and sayde vnto him. We have founde him of whom Moses in the lawe and the prophetes dyd wryte. Iesus the sonne of Ioseph of Nazareth.

And Nathanael sayde vnto him: can ther eny good thinge come out of Nazareth? Philip sayde to him: come and se.

Iesus sawe Nathanael commynge to him and sayde of him. Beholde a ryght Israelite in who is no gyle.

Nathanael sayd vnto him: where knewest thou me? Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: Before that Philip called the when thou wast vnder the fygge tree I sawe the.

Nathanael answered and sayde vnto him: Rabbi thou arte the sonne of God thou arte the kynge of Israel.

Iesus answered and sayd vnto him: Because I sayde vnto the I sawe the vnder the fygge tree thou belevest. Thou shalt se greater thinges then these.

And he sayde vnto him: Verely verely I saye vnto you: herafter shall ye se heven open and the angels of God ascendynge and descendynge over the sonne of man.

And the thryde daye was ther a mariage in Cana a cite of Galile: and the mother of Iesus was there.

And Iesus was called also and his disciples vnto the mariage.

And when the wyne fayled the mother of Iesus sayde vnto him: they have no wyne.

Iesus sayde vnto her: woman what have I to do with the? myne houre is not yet come.

His mother sayde vnto the ministres: whatsoever he sayeth vnto you do it.

And therwere stondynge theare sixe water pottes of stone after the maner of the purifyinge of the Iewes contaynynge two or thre fyrkins a pece.

And Iesus sayde vnto them: fyll the water pottes with water. And they fylled them vp to the brym.

And he sayde vnto them: drawe out now and beare vnto the governer of the feaste. And they bare it.

When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was turned vnto wyne and knewe not whence it was (but the ministres which drue the water knew). He called the brydegrome

and sayde vnto him. All men at the beginnynge set forth good wyne and when men be dronke then that which is worsse. But thou hast kept backe the good wyne vntyll now.

This beginnynge of miracles dyd Iesus in Cana of Galile and shewed his glory and his disciples beleved on him.

After that he descended in to Capernaum and his mother and his brethren and his disciples: but contynued not manye dayes there.

And the Iewes ester was even at honde and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem

and founde syttynge in the temple those that solde oxen and shepe and doves and chaungers of money.

And he made a scourge of small cordes and drave them all out of the temple with the shepe and oxen and powred oute the changers money and overthrue the tables

and sayde vnto them that solde doves: Have these thinges hence and make not my fathers housse an housse of marchaundyse.

And his disciples remembred how that it was wrytten: the zele of thyne housse hath even eaten me.

Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: what token shewest thou vnto vs seynge that thou dost these thinges?

Iesus answered and sayd vnto them: destroye this temple and in thre dayes I will reare it vp agayne.

Then sayde the Iewes: xlvi. yeares was this temple abuyldinge: and wylt thou reare it vp in thre dayes:

But he spake of the temple of his body.

Assone therfore as he was rysen from deeth agayne his disciples remembred that he thus sayde. And they beleved the scripture and the wordes which Iesus had sayde.

When he was at Ierusalem at ester in the feaste many beleved on his name when they sawe his miracles which he dyd.

But Iesus put not him selfe in their hondes because he knewe all men

and neded not, that eny man shuld testify of man. For he knewe what was in man.

Ther was a man of the pharises named Nicodemus a ruler amonge the Iewes.

The same cam to Iesus by nyght and sayde vnto him: Rabbi we knowe that thou arte a teacher whiche arte come from God. For no man coulde do suche miracles as thou doest except God were with him.

Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: Verely verely I saye vnto the: except a man be boren a newe he cannot se the kyngdom of God.

Nicodemus sayde vnto him: how can a man be boren when he is olde? can he enter into his moders wombe and be boren agayne?

Iesus answered: verely verely I saye vnto the: except that a man be boren of water and of the sprete he cannot enter into the kyngdome of god.

That which is boren of the flesshe is flesshe: and that which is boren of the sprete is sprete.

Marvayle not that I sayd to the ye must be boren a newe.

The wynde bloweth where he listeth and thou hearest his sounde: but canst not tell whence he cometh and whether he goeth. So is every man that is boren of the sprete.

And Nicodemus answered and sayde vnto him: how can these thinges be?

Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: arte thou a master in Israel and knowest not these thinges?

Verely verely I saye vnto the we speake that we knowe and testify that we have sene: and ye receave not oure witnes.

Yf when I tell you erthely thinges ye beleve not: how shuld ye beleve yf I shall tell you of hevenly thinges?

And no man ascendeth vp to heaven but he that came doune from heaven that is to saye the sonne of man which is in heaven.

And as Moses lifte vp the serpent in the wyldernes even so must the sonne of man be lifte vp,

that none that beleveth in him perisshe: but have eternall lyfe.

For God so loveth the worlde that he hath geven his only sonne that none that beleve in him shuld perisshe: but shuld have everlastinge lyfe.

For God sent not his sonne into the worlde to condempne the worlde: but that the worlde through him might be saved.

He that beleveth on him shall not be condempned. But he that beleveth not is condempned all redy be cause he beleveth not in the name of the only sonne of God.

And this is the condempnacion: that light is come into the worlde and the me loved darcknes more then light because their dedes were evill.

For every man that evyll doeth hateth the light: nether commeth to light lest his dedes shuld be reproved.

But he that doth truth commeth to the light that his dedes might be knowen how that they are wrought in God.

After these thinges cam Iesus and his disciples into the Iewes londe and ther he haunted with them and baptised.

And Iohn also baptised in Enon besydes Salim because ther was moche water there and they came and were baptised.

For Iohn was not yet cast into preson.

And ther arose a question bitwene Iohns disciples and the Iewes about purifiynge.

And they came vnto Iohn and sayde vnto him: Rabbi he that was with the beyonde Iordan to whom thou barest witnes. Beholde the same baptyseth and all me come to him.

Iohn answered and sayde: a man can receave no thinge at all except it be geve him from heaven.