The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Ye youre selves are witnesses how that I sayde: I am not Christ but am sent before him.

He that hath the bryde is the brydegrome. But the frende of the brydegrome which stondeth by and heareth him reioyseth greately of the brydgromes voyce. Tis my ioye is fulfilled.

He must increace: and I muste decreace.

He that commeth from an hye is above all: He that is of the erth is of the erth and speaketh of the erth. He that cometh from heaven is above all

and what he hath sene and hearde: that he testifieth: but no man receaveth his testimonye.

How be it he that hath receaved hys testimonye hath set to his seale that God is true.

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the wordes of God. For God geveth not the sprete by measure.

The father loveth the sonne and hath geven all thinges into his honde.

He that beleveth on the sonne hath everlastynge lyfe: and he that beleveth not the sonne shall not se lyfe but the wrathe of God abydeth on him.

Assone as the Lorde had knowledge how the Pharises had hearde that Iesus made and baptised moo disciples then Iohn

(though that Iesus him selfe baptised not: but his disciples)

he lefte Iewry and departed agayne into Galile.

And it was so that he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria.

Then came he to a cyte of Samaria called Sichar besydes the possession that Iacob gave to his sonne Ioseph.

And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then weryed in his iorney sate thus on the well. And it was about the sixte houre:

and there came a woman of Samaria to drawe water. And Iesus sayde vnto her: geve me drynke.

For his disciples were gone awaye vnto the toune to bye meate.

Then sayde the woman of Samaria vnto him: how is it that thou beinge a Iewe axest drinke of me which am a Samaritane? for the Iewes medle not with the Samaritans.

Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: yf thou knewest the gyfte of God and who it is that sayeth to the geve me drynke thou woldest have axed of him and he wolde have geven the water of lyfe.

The woman sayde vnto him. Syr thou hast no thinge to drawe with and the well is depe: from whence then hast thou that water of lyfe?

Arte thou greater then oure father Iacob which gave vs the well and he him silfe dranke therof and his chyldren and his catell?

Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: whosoever drinketh of this water shall thurst agayne.

But whosoever shall drinke of the water that I shall geve him shall never be more a thyrst: but the water that I shall geve him shalbe in him a well of water springinge vp in to everlastinge lyfe.

The woman sayd vnto him: Syr geve me of that water that I thyrst not nether come hedder to drawe.

Iesus sayde vnto her. Go and call thy husband and come hydder.

The woman answered and sayde to him: I have no husband. Iesus sayde to her. Thou hast well sayd I have no husbande.

For thou haste had five husbandes and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. That saydest thou truely.

The woman sayde vnto him: Syr I perceave that thou arte a prophet.

Oure fathers worshipped in this mountayne: and ye saye that in Hierusalem is the place where men ought to worshippe.

Iesus sayde vnto her: woman beleve me the houre cometh when ye shall nether in this moutayne nor yet at Ierusalem worshippe the father.

Ye worshippe ye wot not what: we knowe what we worshippe. For salvacion cometh of the Iewes.

But the houre commeth and nowe is when the true worshippers shall worshippe the father in sprete and in trouthe. For verely suche the father requyreth to worshippe him.

God is a sprete and they that worshippe him must worshippe him in sprete and trouthe.

The woman sayde vnto him: I wot well Messias shall come which is called Christ. When he is come he will tell vs all thinges.

Iesus sayde vnto hir: I that speake vnto the am he.

And even at that poynte came his disciples and marvelled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man sayde vnto him: what meanest thou or why talkest thou with her?

The woman then lefte her waterpot and went her waye into the cite and sayde to the men.

Come se a man which tolde me all thinges that ever I dyd. Is not he Christ?

Then they went out of the cite and came vnto him.

And in ye meane while his disciples prayed him sayinge: Master eate.

He sayde vnto the: I have meate to eate that ye knowe not of.

Then sayd the disciples bitwene them selves: hath eny man brought him meate?

Iesus sayde vnto them: my meate is to doo the will of him that sent me. And to fynnysshe his worke.

Saye not ye: there are yet foure monethes and then cometh harvest? Beholde I saye vnto you lyfte vp youre eyes and loke on the regions: for they are whyte all redy vnto harvest.

And he that repeth receaveth rewarde and gaddereth frute vnto life eternall: that bothe he that soweth and he that repeth myght reioyse to gether.

And herin is the sayinge true that one soweth and another repeth.

I sent you to repe that wheron ye bestowed no laboure. Other men laboured and ye are entred into their labours.

Many of the Samaritas of that cyte beleved on him for the sayinge of the woman which testified: he tolde me all thinges that ever I dyd.

Then when the Samaritas were come vnto him they besought him that he wolde tary with the. And he aboode there two dayes.

And many moo beleved because of his awne wordes

and sayd vnto the woman: Now we beleve not because of thy sayinge. For we have herde him oure selves and knowe that this is even in dede Christ the savioure of the worlde.

After two dayes he departed thence and wet awaye into Galile.

And Iesus him selfe testified that a Prophete hath none honoure in his awne countre.

Then assone as he was come into Galile the Galileans receaved him which had sene all the thinges that he dyd at Ierusalem at the feast. For they wet also vnto the feast daye.

And Iesus came agayne into Cana of Galile wher he turned water into wyne. And ther was a certayne ruler whose sonne was sicke at Capernaum.

Assone as the same herde that Iesus was come out of Iewry into Galile he wet vnto him and besought him that he wolde descende and heale his sonne: For he was even readie to dye.

Then sayde Iesus vnto him: excepte ye se signes and wodres ye cannot beleve.

The ruler sayd vnto him: Syr come awaye or ever that my chylde dye.

Iesus sayde vnto him goo thy waye thy sonne liveth. And the man beleved the wordes that Iesus had spoke vnto him and wet his waye.

And anone as he went on his waye his servantes met him and tolde him sayinge: thy chylde liveth.

Then enquyred he of the the houre when he begane to amende. And they sayde vnto him: Yester daye the sevethe houre the fever lefte him.

And the father knew that it was the same houre in which Iesus sayde vnto him: Thy sonne liveth. And he beleved and all his housholde.

Thys is agayne the seconde myracle that Iesus dyd after he was come oute of Iewry into Galile.

After that ther was a feast of the Iewes and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem.

And ther is at Ierusalem by the slaughterhousse a pole called in the Ebrue tonge Bethseda havinge five porches

in which laye a greate multitude of sicke folke of blinde halt and wyddered waytinge for the movinge of the water.

For an angell wet doune at a certayne ceason into the pole and troubled the water. Whosoever then fyrst after the steringe of the water stepped in was made whoale of what soever disease he had.

And a certayne man was theare which had bene diseased .xxxviii. yeares.

When Iesus sawe him lye and knewe that he now longe tyme had bene diseased he sayde vnto him. Wilt thou be made whoale?

The sicke answered him: Syr I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pole. But in the meane tyme whill I am about to come another steppeth doune before me.

And Iesus sayde vnto him: ryse take vp thy beed and walke.

And immediatly the man was made whole and toke vp his beed and went. And the same daye was the Saboth daye.

The Iewes therfore sayde vnto him that was made whole. It is the Saboth daye it is not laufull for the to cary thy beed.

He answered them: he that made me whole sayde vnto me: take vp thy beed and get the hence.

Then axed they him: what man is that which sayde vnto the take vp thy beed and walke.

And he that was healed wist not who it was. For Iesus had gotte him selfe awaye be cause that ther was preace of people in the place.

And after that Iesus founde him in the temple and sayd vnto him: beholde thou arte made whole synne no moore lest a worsse thinge happen vnto the.

The man departed and tolde the Iewes that that was Iesus whiche had made him whole.

And therfore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus and sought the meanes to slee him because he had done these thinges on the Saboth daye.

And Iesus answered them: my father worketh hidder to and I worke.

Therfore the Iewes sought the moare to kill him not only because he had broken the Saboth: but sayde also that God was his father and made him selfe equall with God.

Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto them: verely verely I saye vnto you: the sonne can do no thinge of him selfe but that he seeth the father do. For whatsoever he doeth that doeth the sonne also.

For the father loveth the sonne and sheweth him all thinges whatsoever he him selfe doeth. And he will shewe him greter workes then these because the shoulde marvayle.

For lykwyse as the father rayseth vp the deed and quickeneth them even so the sonne quyckeneth whom he will.

Nether iudgeth the father eny man: but hath committed all iudgement vnto the sonne

because that all men shuld honoure the sonne even as they honoure the father. He that honoureth not the sonne the same honoureth not the father which hath sent him.

Verely verely I saye vnto you: He that heareth my wordes and beleveth on him that sent me hath everlastinge lyfe and shall not come into damnacion: but is scaped from deth vnto lyfe.

Verely verely I saye vnto you: the tyme shall come and now is when the deed shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God. And they that heare shall live.

For as the father hath life in him silfe: so lyke wyse hath he geven to the sonne to have lyfe in him silfe:

and hath geven him power also to iudge in that he is the sonne of man.

Marvayle not at this the houre shall come in the which all that are in the graves shall heare his voice

and shall come forthe: they that have done good vnto the resurreccion of lyfe: and they that have done evyll vnto the resurreccion of dampnacion.

I can of myne awne selfe do nothinge at all. As I heare I iudge and my iudgement is iust because I seke not myne awne will but the will of the father which hath sent me.

Yf I beare witnes of my selfe my witnes is not true.

Ther is a nother that beareth witnes of me and I am sure that the witnes whiche he beareth of me is true.

Ye sent vnto Iohn and he bare witnes vnto the truthe.

But I receave not the recorde of man. Neverthelesse these thinges I saye that ye might be safe.

He was a burninge and a shyninge light and ye wolde for a season have reioysed in his light.

But I have greater witnes then the witnes of Iohn. For the workes which the father hath geve me to fynisshe: the same workes which I do beare witnes of me that the father sent me.

And the father him silfe which hath sent me beareth witnes of me. Ye have not hearde his voyce at eny tyme nor ye have sene his shape: