The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

And Y yyue to hem euerelastynge lijf, and thei schulen not perische with outen ende, and noon schal rauysche hem fro myn hoond.

That thing that my fadir yaf to me, is more than alle thingis; and no man may rauysche fro my fadris hoond.

Y and the fadir ben oon.

The Jewis token vp stoonys, to stoone hym.

Jhesus answerde to hem, Y haue schewide to you many good werkis of my fadir, for which werk of hem stonen ye me?

The Jewis answerden to hym, We stoonen thee not of good werk, but of blasfemye, and for thou, sithen thou art a man, makist thi silf God.

Jhesus answerde to hem, Whether it is not writun in youre lawe, That Y seide, Ye ben goddis?

Yf he seide that thei weren goddis, to whiche the word of God was maad, and scripture may not be vndon,

thilke that the fadir hath halewid, and hath sent in to the world, ye seien, That `thou blasfemest, for Y seide, Y am Goddis sone?

Yf Y do not the werkis of my fadir, nyle ye bileue to me;

but if Y do, thouy ye wolen not bileue to me, bileue ye to the werkis; that ye knowe and bileue, that the fadir is in me, and Y in the fadir.

Therfor thei souyten to take hym, and he wente out of her hondis.

And he wente eftsoone ouer Jordan, in to that place where Joon was firste baptisynge, and he dwelte there.

And manye camen to hym, and seiden, For Joon dide no myracle;

and alle thingis what euer Joon seide of this, weren sothe. And many bileueden in hym.

And ther was a sijk man, Lazarus of Bethanye, of the castel of Marie and Martha, hise sistris.

And it was Marye, which anoyntide the Lord with oynement, and wipte hise feet with hir heeris, whos brother Lazarus was sijk.

Therfor hise sistris senten to hym, and seide, Lord, lo! he whom thou louest, is sijk.

And Jhesus herde, and seide to hem, This syknesse is not to the deth, but for the glorie of God, that mannus sone be glorified bi hym.

And Jhesus louyde Martha, and hir sistir Marie, and Lazarus.

Therfor whanne Jhesus herde, that he was sijk, thanne he dwellide in the same place twei daies.

And after these thingis he seide to hise disciplis, Go we eft in to Judee.

The disciplis seien to hym, Maister, now the Jewis souyten for to stoone thee, and eft goist thou thidir?

Jhesus answerde, Whether ther ben not twelue ouris of the dai? If ony man wandre in the dai, he hirtith not, for he seeth the liyt of this world.

But if he wandre in the niyt, he stomblith, for liyt is not in him.

He seith these thingis, and aftir these thingis he seith to hem, Lazarus, oure freend, slepith, but Y go to reise hym fro sleep.

Therfor hise disciplis seiden, Lord, if he slepith, he schal be saaf.

But Jhesus hadde seid of his deth; but thei gessiden, that he seide of slepyng of sleep.

Thanne therfor Jhesus seide to hem opynli, Lazarus is deed;

and Y haue ioye for you, that ye bileue, for Y was not there; but go we to hym.

Therfor Thomas, that is seid Didymus, seide to euen disciplis, Go we also, that we dien with hym.

And so Jhesus cam, and foond hym hauynge thanne foure daies in the graue.

And Bethany was bisidis Jerusalem, as it were fiftene furlongis.

And many of the Jewis camen to Mary and Martha, to coumforte hem of her brothir.

Therfor as Martha herde, that Jhesu cam, sche ran to hym; but Mary sat at home.

Therfor Martha seide to Jhesu, Lord, if thou haddist be here, my brother hadde not be deed.

But now Y woot, that what euere thingis thou schalt axe of God, God schal yyue to thee.

Jhesus seith to hir, Thi brother schal rise ayen.

Martha seith to hym, Y woot, that he schal rise ayen in the ayen risyng in the laste dai.

Jhesus seith to hir, Y am ayen risyng and lijf; he that bileueth in me, yhe, thouy he be deed,

he schal lyue; and ech that lyueth, and bileueth in me, schal not die with outen ende. Bileuest thou this thing?

Sche seith to hym, Yhe, Lord, Y haue bileued, that thou art Crist, the sone of the lyuynge God, that hast come in to this world.

And whanne sche hadde seid this thing, sche wente, and clepide Marie, hir sistir, in silence, and seide, The maister cometh, and clepith thee.

Sche, as sche herd, aroos anoon, and cam to hym.

And Jhesus cam not yit `in to the castel, but he was yit in that place, where Martha hadde comun ayens hym.

Therfor the Jewis that weren with hir in the hous, and coumfortiden hir, whanne thei sayn Marie, that sche roos swithe, and wente out, thei sueden hir, and seiden, For sche goith to the graue, to wepe there.

But whanne Marie was comun where Jhesus was, sche seynge hym felde doun to his feet, and seide to hym, Lord, if thou haddist be here, my brother hadde not be deed.

And therfor whanne Jhesu saiy hir wepyng, and the Jewis wepynge that weren with hir, he `made noise in spirit, and troblide hym silf,

and seide, Where han ye leid hym? Thei seien to hym, Lord, come, and se.

Therfor the Jewis seiden, Lo! hou he louede hym.

And summe of hem seiden, Whethir this man that openyde the iyen of the borun blynde man, myyte not make that this schulde not die?

Therfor Jhesus eft makynge noise in hym silf, cam to the graue. And there was a denne, and a stoon was leid theronne.

And Jhesus seith, Take ye awey the stoon. Martha, the sistir of hym that was deed, seith to hym, Lord, he stynkith now, for he hath leye foure daies.

Jhesus seith to hir, Haue Y not seid to thee, that if thou bileuest, thou schalt se the glorie of God?

Therfor thei token awei the stoon. And Jhesus lifte vp hise iyen, and seide, Fadir, Y do thankyngis to thee, for thou hast herd me; and Y wiste,

that thou euermore herist me, but for the puple that stondith aboute, Y seide, that thei bileue, that thou hast sent me.

Whanne he hadde seid these thingis, he criede with a greet vois, Lazarus, come thou forth.

And anoon he that was deed, cam out, boundun the hondis and feet with boondis, and his face boundun with a sudarie. And Jhesus seith to hem, Vnbynde ye hym, and suffre ye hym to go forth.

Therfor many of the Jewis that camen to Marie and Martha, and seyn what thingis Jhesus dide, bileueden in hym.

But summe of hem wente to the Farisees, and seiden to hem, what thingis Jhesus `hadde don.

Therfor the bischopis and the Farisees gadriden a counsel ayens Jhesu, and seiden, What do we? for this man doith many myraclis.

If we leeue hym thus, alle men schulen bileue in hym; and Romayns schulen come, and schulen take our place and oure folk.

But oon of hem, Cayfas bi name, whanne he was bischop of that yeer, seide to hem,

Ye witen nothing, ne thenken, that it spedith to you, that o man die for the puple, and that al the folc perische not.

But he seide not this thing of hym silf, but whanne he was bischop of that yeer, he prophesiede, that Jhesu was to die for the folc,

and not oneli for the folc, but that he schulde gadere in to oon the sones of God that weren scaterid.

Therfor fro that day thei souyten for to sle hym.

Therfor Jhesus walkide not thanne opynli among the Jewis; but he wente in to a cuntre bisidis desert, in to a citee, that is seid Effren, and there he dwellide with hise disciplis.

And the pask of the Jewis was niy, and many of the cuntrey wenten vp to Jerusalem bifor the pask, to halewe hem silf.

Therfor thei souyten Jhesu, and spaken togidere, stondynge in the temple, What gessen ye, for he cometh not to the feeste day?

Therfor Jhesus bifor sixe daies of pask cam to Bethanye, where Lazarus hadde be deed, whom Jhesus reiside.

And thei maden to hym a soopere there, and Martha mynystride to hym; and Lazarus was oon of men that saten at the mete with hym.

Therfor Marie took a pound of oynement of trewe narde precious, and anoyntide the feet of Jhesu, and wipte hise feet with hir heeris; and the hous was fulfillid of the sauour of the oynement.

Therfor Judas Scarioth, oon of hise disciplis, that was to bitraye hym,

seide, Whi is not this oynement seeld for thre hundrid pens, and is youun to nedi men?

But he seide this thing, not for it perteynede to hym of nedi men, but for he was a theef, and he hadde the pursis, and bar tho thingis that weren sent.

Therfor Jhesus seide, Suffre ye hir, that in to the day of my biriyng sche kepe that;

for ye schulen euermore haue pore men with you, but ye schulen not euermore haue me.

Therfore myche puple of Jewis knew, that Jhesus was there; and thei camen, not oonli for Jhesu, but to se Lazarus, whom he hadde reisid fro deth.

But the princis of prestis thouyten to sle Lazarus,

for manye of the Jewis wenten awei for him, and bileueden in Jhesu.

But on the morew a myche puple, that cam togidere to the feeste dai, whanne thei hadden herd, that Jhesus cam to Jerusalem,

token braunchis of palmes, and camen forth ayens hym, and crieden, Osanna, blessid is the kyng of Israel, that cometh in the name of the Lord.

And Jhesus foond a yonge asse, and sat on hym,

as it is writun, The douytir of Syon, nyle thou drede; lo! thi kyng cometh, sittynge on `an asse fole.

Hise disciplis knewen not first these thingis, but whanne Jhesus was glorified, thanne thei hadden mynde, for these thingis weren writun of hym, and these thingis thei diden to hym.

Therfor the puple bar witnessyng, that was with hym, whanne he clepide Lazarus fro the graue, and reiside hym fro deth.

And therfor the puple cam, and mette with hym, for thei herden that he hadde don this signe.

Therfor the Farisees seiden to hem silf, Ye seen, that we profiten no thing; lo! al the world wente aftir hym.

And there weren summe hethene men, of hem that hadden come vp to worschipe in the feeste dai.

And these camen to Filip, that was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and preieden hym, and seiden, Sire, we wolen se Jhesu.

Filip cometh, and seith to Andrew; eft Andrew and Filip seiden to Jhesu.

And Jhesus answerde `to hem, and seide, The our cometh, that mannus sone be clarified.

Treuli, treuli, Y seie to you, but a corn of whete falle in to the erthe, and be deed, it dwellith aloone;

but if it be deed, it bryngith myche fruyt. He that loueth his lijf, schal leese it; and he that hatith his lijf in this world, kepith it in to euerlastynge lijf.

If ony man serue me, sue he me; and where Y am, there my mynystre schal be. If ony man serue me, my fadir schal worschipe hym.

Now my soule is troublid, and what schal Y seie? Fadir, saue me fro this our; but therfor Y cam in to this our;

fadir, clarifie thi name. And a vois cam fro heuene, and seide, And Y haue clarified, and eft Y schal clarifie.

Therfor the puple that stood, and herde, seide, that `thundur was maad; othere men seide, an aungel spak to hym.