Mark — The Tyndale New Testament (1534)

The Gospel of Mark in Tyndale's revised New Testament of 1534, translated from the Greek. It is printed here from the copy in the British Library as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership, in the spelling of 1534; the margin notes are given as footnotes, and the crosses ✚ and ⊢ mark where the lessons read in church begin and end.

Chapter 1

¶ The fyrste Chapter. ✚

1 [A]¹ THe beginnynge of the Gospell of Iesu Christ the sonne of God /

2 as yt is wrytten in the Prophetes:² beholde I sende my messenger before thy face / which shall prepared thy waye before yᵉ.

3 ³ The voyce of a cryer in the wildernes: prepare ye the waye of the Lorde / make his pathes streyght.

4 ⁴ Iohn dyd baptise in the wyldernes / & preche the baptyme of repentaūce / for the remission of synnes.

5 And all the londe of Iurie & they of Ierusalem / went out vnto him / & were all baptised of him in the ryver Iordan / confessynge their synnes.

6 ⁵ Iohn was clothed with cammylles heer / & with a gerdyll of a skyn about hys loynes. And he dyd eate locustes & wylde hony /

7 and preached sayinge: a stronger then I commeth after me / whose shue latchet I am not worthy to stoupe doune and vnlose.

8 I have baptised you with water: but he shall baptise you with the holy goost. ⊢

9 [B]⁶ And yt came to passe in those dayes / that Iesus cam from Nazareth / a cyte of Galile: & was baptised of Iohn in Iordan.

10 And assone as he was come out of the water / Iohn sawe heaven open / and the holy goost descendinge vpon him / lyke a dove.

11 And ther came a voyce from heaven: Thou arte my dere sonne in whom I delyte.

12 ⁷ And immediatly the sprete drave him into wildernes:

13 and he was there in the wildernes xl / dayes / and was tempted of Satan / & was with wilde beestes. And the aungels ministred vnto him.

14 ⁸ After Iohn was taken / Iesus came in to Galile / preachinge the gospell of the kyngdome of God /

15 and sayinge: the tyme is come / & the kyngdome of God is at honde / repent and beleve the gospell.

16 ⁹ As he walked by the see of Galile / he sawe Simon & Andrew his brother / castinge nettꝭ in to yᵉ see / for they were fysshers.

17 And Iesus sayde vnto them: folowe me / and I will make you fisshers of men.

18 And strayght waye / they forsoke their nettes / and folowed him.

19 ¹⁰ And when he had gone a lytell further thence / he sawe Iames the sonne of zebede / & Iohn his brother / even as they were in the shyppe mendinge their nettes.

20 And anōne he called them. And they leeft their father zebede in the shippe with his hyred servauntes / and went their waye after him.

21 [C]¹¹ And they entred in to Capernaū: & streight waye on yᵉ Saboth dayes / he entred in to yᵉ synagoge & taught.

22 And they merveled at his learninge. For he taught them as one that had power with him / & not as the Scribes.

23 ¹² And there was in their synagoge a mā vexed wᵗ an vnclene spirite / yᵗ cried

24 sayinge: let be: what have we to do with the thou Iesus of Nazareth? Arte thou come to destroye vs? I knowe the what thou arte / euē that holy of god.

25 And Iesus rebuked him sayinge: hoolde thy peace & come out of him.

26 And yᵉ vnclene spirite tare him / & cryed with a loude voyce / & came out of him.

27 And they were all amased / in so moche that they demaunded one of another amōge them selves saying: what thinge is this? what newe doctryne is this? For he cōmaundeth the foule spirites with power / & they obeye him.

28 And immediatly his fame spreed abroade throughoute all the region borderinge on Galile.

29 ¹³ And forth with / assone as they were come out of the synagoge / they entred in to yᵉ housse of Symon and Andrew / with Iames & Ihon.

30 And Symons mother in lawe lay sicke of a fever. And anone they tolde him of her.

31 And he came and toke her by the honde and lifte her vp: and the fever sorsoke hir by and by: & she ministred vnto them.

32 [D] And at even when the sunne was downe / they brought to him all that were diseased / & them that were possessed with devyls.

33 And all the cite gaddred to gedder at the dore /

34 & he healed many yᵗ were sicke of divers deseases. And he cast out many devyls / and suffred not yᵉ devyls to speake / because they knewe him.

35 And in the morninge very erly / Iesus arose and went out in to a solitary place / & there prayed.

36 And Simon and they that were with him folowed after him.

37 And when they had founde him / they sayde vnto him: all men seke for the.

38 And he sayd vnto them: let vs go in to the next tounes / that I maye preache there also: for truly I cam out for that purpose.

39 And he preached in their synagogꝭ / throughout all Galile / and cast the devyls out.

40 ¹⁴ And there came a leper to him / besechinge him / & kneled doune vnto him / & sayde to him: yf thou wilt / thou cānest make me clene.

41 And Iesus had cōpassion on him / & put forth his honde / touched him / & sayde to him: I will be thou clene.

42 And assone as he had spokē / immediatly yᵉ leprosy departed frō him / & was clensed.

43 And he charged him / & sent him awaye forthwith

44 & sayd vnto him: Se thou saye nothinge to any man: but get the hence & shewe thy silfe to yᵉ preste / & offer for thy clensinge / those thingꝭ which Moses cōmaunded / for a testimoniall vnto them.

45 But he (assone as he was departed) beganne to tell many thingꝭ / & to publyshe the dede: in so moche that Iesus coulde no more opēly entre in to the cite / but was with out in desert places. And they came to him frō every quarter.

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2

¶ The .ii. Chapt.

1 [A]¹⁵ AFter a feawe dayes / he entred into Capernaum agayne / & it was noysed that he was in a housse.

2 And anone many gadered to geder / in so moche that now there was no roume to receave them: no / not so moche as about the dore. And he preached the worde vnto them.

3 And there came vnto him that brought one sicke of the palsie / borne of fower men.

4 And because they coulde not come nye vnto him for preace / they vncovered yᵉ rofe of the housse where he was. And when they had broken it opē / they let doune yᵉ beed where in yᵉ sicke of the palsie laye.

5 When Iesus sawe their fayth / he sayde to the sicke of the palsie / sonne thy sinnes are forgeven the.

6 [B] And ther were certayne of yᵉ scribꝭ sittinge there / & reasoninge in their hertꝭ:

7 how doeth this felowe so blaspheme? Who can forgeve synnes / but God only?

8 And immediatly whē Iesus perceaved in his sprete / yᵗ they so reasoned in thē selves / he sayde vnto them: why thynke ye soche thingꝭ in youre hertꝭ?

9 Whether is it easyer to saye to yᵉ sicke of yᵉ palsie / thy synnes are forgeven the: or to saye / aryse take vp thy beed / and walke?

10 That ye maye knowe yᵗ the sonne of man hath power in erth to¹⁶ forgeve synnes / he spake vnto yᵉ sicke of the palsie:

11 I saye vnto yᵉ / aryse & take vp thy beed / & get yᵉ hense in to thyne awne housse.

12 And by and by he arose / toke vp the beed / and went forth before them all: in so moche that they were all amased / and glorified God sayinge: we never sawe it on this fassion.

13 [C]¹⁷ And he went agayne vnto the see / and all the people resorted vnto him / & he taught thē.

14 And as Iesus passed by / he sawe Levy yᵉ sonne of Alphey syt at the receyte of custome / & sayde vnto him: folowe me. And he arose & folowed him.

15 And it came to passe / as Iesus sate at meate in his housse / many publicans & synners sate at meate also with Iesus & his disciples. For there were many that folowed him.

16 And when the Scribes & Pharises sawe him eate with publicās and synners¹⁸ / they sayde vnto his disciples: how is it / that he eateth & drynketh with publicās and synners?

17 When Iesus hearde yᵗ / he sayde vnto them. The whole have no nede of the phisiciō / but the sicke. I came not to call the rightwise / but the synners to repentaunce.

18 ¹⁹ And the disciples of Iohn & the Pharises dyd faste: & therfore came & sayde vnto him. Why do yᵉ disciples of Iohn & of the Pharises faste / & thy disciples fast not.

19 And Iesus sayde vnto them: can the chyldren of a weddinge faste / while the brydgrome is wᵗ them. As longe as they have the brydgrome with them / they cannot faste.

20 But the dayes will come when the brydgrome shalbe taken from them & then shall they faste in those dayes.

21 [D]²⁰ Also no mā soweth a pece of newe cloth vnto an olde garmēt / for then taketh he awaye yᵉ newe pece frō the olde / & so is the rent worsse.

22 In lyke wyse / no man poureth newe wyne in to olde vessels: for yf he do / the newe wyne breaketh the vessels / and the wyne runneth out / and the vessels are marred. But new wyne must be poured in to new vessels.

23 ²¹ And it chaunsed that he wēt thorow / yᵉ corne feldes on the Saboth daye: and his disciples as they went on their waye / beganne to plucke the eares of corne.

24 And the Pharises sayde vnto him: beholde / why do they on the Saboth dayes yᵗ which is not laufull?

25 And he sayde to them: have ye never rede what Dauid dyd / when he had nede / & was anhōgred / bothe he & they that were with him?

26 How he went into the housse of God in the dayes of Abiathar yᵉ hye preste / & dyd eate yᵉ halowed loves / which is not laufull to eate / but for yᵉ prestes only: & gave also to thē which were with him?

27 And he sayde to them: the Saboth daye was made for man / and not man for the Saboth daye.

28 Wherfore the sonne of man is Lorde evē of the Saboth daye.

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3

¶ The .iii. Cha. ✚

1 [A]²² ANd he entred agayne into yᵉ synagoge / & there was a man there which had a widdred honde.

2 And they watched him to se / whether he wolde heale him on the Saboth daye / yᵗ they might accuse him.

3 And he sayde vnto yᵉ man which had yᵉ wyddred honde: arise & stonde in yᵉ middes.

4 And he sayd to them: whether is it laufull to do a good dede on yᵉ Saboth dayes / or an evyll? to save life or kyll? But they helde their peace.

5 And he loked round aboute on them angerly / mournyge on the blindnes of their hertes / and sayde to the man: stretch forth thyne honde. And he stretched it oute. And his honde was restored / even as whole as the other. ⊢

6 And yᵉ Pharises departed / & streyght waye gaddred a counsell with thē that belonged to Herode agaynst him / yᵗ they might destroye him.

7 And Iesus auoyded wᵗ his disciples to yᵉ sea. And a greate multitude folowed him frō Galile & frō Iurie /

8 & frō Hierusalem / & frō Idumea / & frō beyonde Iordane: & they yᵗ dwelled about Tyre & Sidon / a greate multitude: which whē they had herde what thinges he dyd / came vnto him.

9 [B] And he cōmaunded his disciples / yᵗ a shippe shuld wayte on him / because of the people / leste they shuld throūge him.

10 For he had healed many / in somoche that they preased apon him / for to touche him / as many as had plages.

11 And when the vnclene spritꝭ sawe him / they fell doune before him / & cryed sayinge: thou arte the sonne of God.

12 And he straygtly charged them that they shuld not vtter him.

13 ²³ And he wēt vp into a mountayne / & called vnto him whom he wolde / & they came vnto him.

14 And he ordeyned yᵉ .xii. that they shuld be wᵗ him / & that he myght sende thē to preache:

15 and that they might have power to heale syknesses / & to cast out devyls.

16 And he gave vnto Simon / to name Peter.

17 And he called Iames the sonne of zebede & Iohn Iames brother / & [C] gave them Bonarges to name / which is to saye the sonnes of thounder.

18 And Andrew / & Philip / & Bartlemew / & Mathew / & Thomas / & Iames the sonne of Alphey / and Taddeus / & Symon of Cane /

19 & Iudas Iscarioth / which same also betrayed him.²⁴ And they came vnto housse /

20 & the people assembled togedder agayne / so greatly that they had not leesar so moche as to eate breed.

21 And when they that longed vnto him hearde of it / they went out to holde him. For they thought he had bene beside him selfe.

22 And yᵉ Scribes which came frō Ierusalem / sayde: he hath Belzebub / & by yᵉ power of the chefe devyll / casteth out devyls.

23 And he called them vnto him / & sayde vnto them in similitudes. How can Satan drive out Satan:

24 For yf a realme be devided ageynste it silfe / that realme cannot endure.

25 Or yf a housse be devided agaynste it silfe / that housse cannot continue:

26 So yf Satā make insurreccion agaynste him silfe and be devided / he cannot continue: but is at an ende.

27 No man can entre into a stronge mans housse / & take awaye hys gooddes / excepte he fyrst bynde that stronge man / and then spoyle hys housse.

28 [D]²⁵ Verely I saye vnto you / all synnes shalbe forgeven vnto mens chyldren & blasphemy wherwith they blaspheme.

29 But he that blasphemeth yᵉ holy goost / shall never have forgevenes: but is in daūger of eternall dāpnacion:

30 because they sayde / he had an vnclene sprete.

31 ²⁶ Then came his mother & his brethrē / & stode with out / & sent vnto him and called him.

32 And the people sate aboute hym / & sayde vnto him: beholde thy mother & thy brethrē seke for the with out.

33 And he answered them sayinge: who is my mother and my brethrē.

34 And he loked rounde about on his disciples which sate in compasse about hym / & sayde: beholde my mother & my brethren.

35 For whosoever doeth yᵉ will of God / he is my brother my syster and mother.

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4

¶ The .iiii. Chapter. ✚

1 [A]²⁷ ANd he began agayne to teache by the see syde. And there gadered to gedder vnto him moche people / so greatly yᵗ he entred into a ship / and sate in the see / & all the people was by the see side on the shoore.²⁸

2 And he taught them many thynges in similitudes / and sayde vnto them in his doctrine:

3 Herken to. Beholde / There wēt out a sower to sowe.

4 And it fortuned as he sowed / that some fell by the waye syde / and the fowles of the ayre came and devoured it vp.

5 Some fell on stony grounde / where it had not moche erth: and by and by sprange vp / because it had not deepth of erth:

6 but assone as the sunne was vp it caught heet / and because it had not rotynge / wyddred awaye.

7 And some fell amonge the thornes / and the thornes grewe vp and choked it / so that it gave no frute.

8 And some fell vpon good grounde and dyd yelde frute that sprōge and grewe / and brought forthe: some thirty folde / some sixtie folde and some an hundred folde.

9 And he sayde vnto them: he that hath eares to heare / let him heare. ⊢

10 [B]²⁹ And when he was alone / they yᵗ were aboute him with yᵉ .xii. axed him of yᵉ similitude.

11 And he sayde vnto thē. To you it is gevē to knowe the mistery of the kyngdome of God. But vnto them that are wᵗ out / shall all thinges be done in similitudes:³⁰

12 yᵗ when they se / they shall se / & not discerne: & when they heare they shall heare / & not vnderstonde: leste at any tyme they shulde tourne / & their synnes shuld be forgevē thē.

13 And he sayde vnto thē: Perceave ye not this similitude? how then shulde ye vnderstonde all other similitudes?

14 The sower soweth yᵉ worde.

15 And they that are by the wayes syde / where the worde is sowen / are they to whom assone as they have herde it / Sathā cometh immediatly / & takith awaye the worde that was sowē in their hertes.

16 And likewise they that are sowen on the stonye groūde / are they: which when they have harde the worde / at once receave it wᵗ gladnes /

17 yet have no rotes in them selves / & so endure but a tyme: & anone as trouble & persecucion aryseth for yᵉ wordes sake / they fall immediatly.

18 And they that are sowē amōge the thornes / are soche as heare yᵉ worde:

19 and yᵉ carꝭ of this worlde & yᵉ disseytfulnes of ryches & the lustes of other thingꝭ / entre in & choocke yᵉ worde / & it is made vnfrutfull.

20 And those that weare sowē in good grounde / are they that heare the worde and receave it / and bringe forth frute / some thirty folde / some sixty folde / some an hundred folde.

21 [C]³¹ And he sayde vnto them: is yᵉ candle lighted / to be put vnder a busshell / or vnder yᵉ table / & not rather to be put on a cādelstick?

22 For there is nothinge so prevy / that shall not be opened: nether so secreet / but that it shall come abroade.

23 Yf eny man have eares to heare / let him heare.

24 ³² And he sayde vnto them: take hede what ye heare. With what measure ye mete / with the same shall it be measured vnto you agayne. And vnto you that heare shall more be gevē.³³

25 For vnto him yᵗ hath / shall it be geven: and from him that hath not / shalbe taken awaye / even that he hath.

26 And he sayde: so is the kyngdome of God / even as yf a man shuld sowe seede in yᵉ groūde /

27 & shulde slepe & ryse vp night & daye: and the seede shuld springe & growe vp / he not ware.

28 For yᵉ erth bringeth forthe frute of her silfe: fyrst the blade / then the eares / after that full corne in the eares.

29 And as sone as the frute is brought forth / anōne he throusteth in yᵉ sykell / because the hervest is come.

30 ³⁴ And he sayde: where vnto shall we lykē the kyngdome of God? or with what cōpareson shall we cōpare it?

31 It is lyke a grayne of mustard seed / which when it is sowē in the erth / is the leest of all seedes that be in the erth:

32 but after that it is sowen / it groweth vp / and is greatest of all yerbes: & bereth greate braūches / so that yᵉ fowles of the ayre maye dwell vnder the shadowe of it.

33 [D] And with many soche similitudꝭ he preached the worde vnto thē / after as they myght heare it.

34 And without similitude spake he no thinge vnto them. But when they were aparte / he expounded all thinges to his disciples.

35 ³⁵ And the same daye when even was come / he sayde vnto them: let vs passe over vnto the other syde.

36 And they lefte the people / & toke him even as he was in the shyp. And ther were also with him other shippes.

37 ³⁶ And ther arose a great storme of wynde / & dasshed yᵉ waves into the ship / so that it was full.

38 And he was in the sterne aslepe on a pelowe. And they awoke him / & sayde to him: Master / carest thou not yᵗ we perisshe?

39 And he rose vp / & rebuked the wynde / & sayde vnto the see: peace & be still. And the winde alayed / and ther folowed a greate calme.

40 And he sayde vnto them: why are ye so fearfull? How is it that ye have no fayth?

41 And they feared excedingly / & sayde one to another: what felowe is this? For booth winde & see obey him.

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5

¶ The .v. Chapter.

1 [A]³⁷ ANd they cam over to the other syde of yᵉ see in to the coūtre of yᵉ Gaderenites.

2 And when he was come out of yᵉ shippe / there met him out of the graves a man possessyd of an vncleane sprete /

3 which had his abydinge amōge the graves. And no man coulde bynde him: no not with cheynes /

4 because that when he was often bounde wᵗ fetters & chaynes / he plucked yᵉ chaynes asundre / & brake the fetters in peacꝭ. Nether coulde eny man tame him.

5 And alwayes bothe nyght & daye / he cryed in yᵉ moūtaynes & in yᵉ graves / & bet him silfe wᵗ stones.

6 When he had spied Iesus afarre of / he rāne & worshipped him /

7 & cryed wᵗ a lowde voyce & sayde: what have I to do wᵗ the Iesus yᵉ sonne of the moost hyest God? I requyre yᵉ in the name of God yᵗ thou tormēt me not.

8 For he had sayd vnto hym: come out of the man thou fowle sprete.

9 And he axed him: what is thy name? And he answered sayinge: my name is Legion / for we are many.³⁸

10 And he prayd him instantly / that he wolde not sende thē awaye out of the countre.

11 [B]³⁹ And ther was there nye vnto yᵉ moūtayns a greate heerd of swyne fedinge /

12 & all the devyls besought him sayinge: sende vs into the heerde of swyne / yᵗ we maye enter in to them.

13 And anone Iesus gave them leave. And the vnclene spretꝭ wēt out & entred in to yᵉ swyne. And the heerd starteled / & ran hedling in to the see. They were about .ii. M. swyne / & they were drouned in the see.

14 And the swyne heerde fleed / & tolde it in yᵉ cyte / & in the countre. And they came out for to se what had hapened:

15 & came to Iesus / & sawe hym that was vexed wᵗ the fende & had the legiō / syt / both clothed & in his right mynde / and were afrayed.

16 And they that sawe it tolde them / how it had happened vnto him that was possessed with the devyll: & also of the swyne.

17 And they begāne to praye him / that he wolde departe frō their coostes.

18 And when he was come in to the shyppe / he that had yᵉ devyll / prayed him that he myght be with him.

19 Howbeit Iesus wolde not suffre him / but sayde vnto him: goo home in to thyne awne housse and to thy frendes / & shewe thē what great thingꝭ yᵉ Lorde hath done vnto the / & how he had cōpassion on the.

20 And he departed / & begāne to publisshe in yᵉ ten cyties / what greate thingꝭ Iesus had done vnto him / & all mē dyd merveyle.

21 [C]⁴⁰ And when Iesus was come over agayne by shyp vnto the other syde / moche people gadered vnto him / & he was nye vnto the see.

22 Andbeholde / ther came one of the rulers of yᵉ Synagoge / whose name was Iairus: & when he sawe him / he fell doune at his fete /

23 & besought hym greatly sayinge: my doughter lyith at poynt of deeth / I wolde thou woldest come and laye thy honde on her / that she myght be safe and live.

24 And he wēt with him / & moche people folowed him / and thronged him.

25 ⁴¹ And ther was a certen woman / which was diseased of an yssue of bloude .xii. yeeres

26 & had suffred many thingꝭ of many phisiciōs / and had spēt all yᵗ she had / & felte none amendmēt at all / but wexed worsse & worsse.

27 When she had herde of Iesus: she came into the preace behynde him / & touched his garmēt.

28 For she thought: yf I maye but touche his clothes / I shall be whole.

29 And streyght waye her foūtayne of bloude was dryed vp / aud she felt in her body / that she was healed of the plage.

30 And Iesus immediatly felt in him silfe / yᵉ vertue that wēt out of him / and tourned him roūde aboute in the preace / & sayde: who touched my clothes?

31 And his disciples sayde vnto him: seist thou yᵉ people thrust the / and yet axest / who dyd touche me?

32 And he loked roūd about / for to se her that had done that thinge.

33 The woman feared and trembled (for she knew what was done within her) & she came & fell doune before him / & tolde him yᵉ truth of every thinge.

34 And he sayde to her: Doughter / thy fayth hath made the whoale: goo in peace / and be whole of thy plage.

35 [D] Whyll he yet spake / ther came frō the ruler of yᵉ synagoges housse / certayne which sayde: thy doughter is deed: why diseasest thou yᵉ master eny further?

36 Assone as Iesus herde that worde spokē / he sayde vnto the ruler of yᵉ synagoge: be not afrayed / only beleve.

37 And he suffred no man to folowe him moo then Peter and Iames and Ihon the brother of Iames.

38 And he came vnto the housse of the ruler of yᵉ synagoge / & sawe y[ᵉ] wondrynge / & them that wepte and wayled greatly /

39 & went in & sayde vnto them: why make ye this adoo & wepe? The maydē is not deed / but slepith.

40 And they lawght him to scorne. Then he put them all out / and toke yᵉ father & the mother of yᵉ mayden / and them that were with him / & entred in where the mayden laye /

41 & toke the mayden by the honde / & sayde vnto hyr: Tabitha / cumi: which is by interpretacion: maydē I saye vnto the / aryse.

42 And streyght the mayden arose / and went on her fete. For she was of the age of twelve yeres. And they were astonied at it out of measure.

43 And he charged thē straytely that no man shuld knowe of it / & cōmaunded to geve her meate.

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6

¶ The .vi. Chap. ✚

1 [A]⁴² ANd he departed thence / & cam into his awne countre / & his disciples folowed him.

2 And whē the saboth daye was come / he beganne to teache in yᵉ synagsge. And many that hearde him were astonyed / & sayde: From whens hath he these thinges? & what wysdō is this that is gevē vnto him? & suche vertues yᵗ are wrought by his honds?

3 Is not this that carpēter Maryes sonne / yᵉ brother of Iames & Ioses and of Iuda & Simon? & are not his systers here with vs? And they were offended by him.

4 And Iesus sayde vnto thē: a prophet is not despysed but in his awne coūtre / & amonge his awne kynne / & amonge thē that are of the same housholde.

5 And he coulde there shewe no miracles / but leyd his hondes apon a feawe sicke foolke and healed thē.

6 And he merveyled at their vnbelefe. ⊢ [B]⁴³ And he went aboute by yᵉ tounes yᵗ laye on every syde / teachynge.

7 And he called yᵉ twelve & beganne to sende them / two and two / & gave them power over vnclene spretes.

8 And cōmaunded thē / that they shuld take nothinge vnto their Iorney / save a rodde only: Nether scrippe / nether breed / nether mony in their pourses:

9 but shuld be shood with sandals. And that they shuld not put on two coottes.

10 And he sayd vnto thē:⁴⁴ whersoever ye entre in to an house / there abyde tyll ye departe thence

11 And whosoever shall not receave you / nor heare you / when ye departe thence / shake of the duste that is vnder youre fete / for a witnesse vnto them. I saye verely vnto you / it shalbe easyer for zodom and Gomor at the daye of iudgement / then for that cite.

12 And they went out and preached / that they shuld repent:

13 and they caste out many devylles.⁴⁵ And they annoynted many that were sicke / with oyle and healed them.

14 [C]⁴⁶ And kynge Herode herde of him (for his name was spreed abroade) and sayd: Iohn Baptiste is rysen agayne from deeth / & therfore miracles are wrought by him.

15 Wother sayd / it is Helyas: and some sayde: it is a Prophet or as one of yᵉ Prophetes.

16 But when Herode hearde of him / he sayd: it is Iohn whom I beheded / he is rysen from deeth agayne.

17 ✚⁴⁷ For Herode him sylfe / had sent forth and had taken Iohn / and bounde him & cast him into preson for Herodias sake which was his brother Philippes wyfe. For he had maried her.

18 Iohn sayd vnto Herode: It is not laufull for the to have thy brothers wyfe.

19 Herodias layd wayte for him / & wolde have killed him / but she coulde not.

20 For Herode feared Iohn / knowynge yᵗ he was a iuste man and an holy: & gave him reverence: & when he hearde him / he dyd many thingꝭ / and hearde him gladly.

21 [D] But when a cōuenient daye was come: Herode on his birthdaye made a supper to yᵉ lordes / captayns / & chefe estate of Galile.

22 And yᵉ doughter of yᵉ sayde Herodias came in & daūsed / and pleased Herode and them that sate at bourde also. Then yᵉ kynge sayd vnto yᵉ mayden: axe of me what thou wilt / & I will geve it yᵉ.

23 And he sware vnto hyr / whatsoever thou shalt axe of me / I will geve it yᵉ / even vnto yᵉ one halfe of my kyngdome.

24 And she wēt forth and sayde to her mother: what shall I axe? And she sayde: Iohn Baptistes heed.

25 And she cam in streygth waye with haste vnto yᵉ kynge / & axed sayinge: I will / that thou geve me by & by in a charger yᵉ heed of Iohn Baptist.

26 And yᵉ kynge was sory: howbeit for his othes sake / and for their sakes which sate at supper also / he wolde not put her besyde her purpose.

27 And immediatly yᵉ kynge sent yᵉ hangmā and cōmaunded his heed to be brought in. And he went and beheeded him in the preson /

28 and brought his heed in a charger / & gave it to the mayden / & the mayden gave it to her mother.

29 And when his disciples hearde of it / they came & toke vp his body / & put it in a toumbe. ⊢

30 ⁴⁸ And the apostels gaddered them selves to geddre to Iesus / & tolde him all thingꝭ / booth what they had done / & what they had taught.

31 And he sayd vnto them: come ye aparte into the wyldernes / & rest a whyle. For there were many cōmers and goers / that they had no leasure so moche as to eate.

32 And he wēt by ship out of the waye into a deserte place.

33 But the people spyed them when they departed: and many knewe him / & ranne afote thyther out of all cities / and cam thyther before them / & came togedder vnto him.

34 ⁴⁹ And Iesus went out and sawe moche people / and had compassion on them / because they were lyke shepe which had no shepeherde. And he beganne to teache them many thinges.

35 [B]⁵⁰ And when yᵉ daye was nowe farre spēt / his disciples came vnto him sayinge: this is a desert place / and now the daye is farre passed /

36 let thē departe / that they maye goo into the countrey rounde about / & into the tounes / & bye thē breed: for they have nothinge to eare.

37 He answered & sayde vnto them: geve ye thē to eate. And they sayde vnto him: shall we goo & bye ii.C. penyworth of breed / & geve thē to eate?

38 He sayde vnto thē: how many loves have ye? Goo and loke. And when they had serched / they sayde: v. & .ii. fysshes.

39 And he cōmaunded them to make them all syt doune by companyes apon the grene grasse.

40 And they sate doune here a rowe and there arowe / by houndrede & by fyfties.

41 And he toke yᵉ .v. loves & yᵉ [C] ii. fysshes / & loked vp to heven & blessed & brake the loves / & gave them to his disciples to put before thē: & the .ii. fysshes he devyded amonge them all.

42 And they all dyd eate / & were satisfied.

43 And they toke vp twelve baskettes full of the gobbettes & of y[ᵉ] fysshes.

44 And they that ate were about fyve thousand men.

45 ⁵¹ And streyght waye he caused his disciples to goo into the shipe / & to goo over the water before vnto Bethsaida / whyll he sent awaye the people.

46 And assone as he had sent them away / he departed into a moūtayne to praye.

47 ✚ And when even was come / the ship was in the midde of the see / & he alone on the londe /

48 and he sawe thē troubled in rowynge / for the wynde was cōtrary vnto them. And aboute yᵉ fourth quartre of yᵉ nyght / he came vnto thē / walkinge apon the see / and wolde have passed by thē.

49 When they sawe him walkinge apon the see / they supposed it had bene a sprete / & cryed oute:

50 For they all sawe him / and were afrayed. And anon he talked with them / & sayde vnto them: be of good chere / it is I / be not afrayed.

51 And he went vp vnto them into the shippe / & the wynde ceased / and they were sore amased in them selves beyonde measure / & marveyled.

52 For they remembred not / of the loves / because their hertes were blynded.

53 ⁵² And they came over / & went into the londe of Genezareth / and drue vp into the haven.

54 And assone as they were come out of yᵉ shippe / streyght they knewe him /

55 and ran forth throughout all yᵉ region rounde about / and began to cary aboute in beeddꝭ all yᵗ were sicke / to the place where they heard tell yᵗ he was.

56 And whyther soever he entred into tounes / cities or villages / they layde their sicke in the stretes / and prayed him / that they myght touche / and it were but the edge of his vesture.⁵³ And as many as touched him were safe. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 6

Chapter 7

¶ The .vii. Chapter.

1 [A]⁵⁴ ANd yᵉ pharises came togedder vnto him & dyvers of yᵉ scribes which came from Ierusalem.

2 And whē they sawe certayne of his disciples eate breed wᵗ cōmen hondꝭ (that is to saye / wᵗ vnwesshen hondꝭ) they cōplayned.

3 For the pharises and all the Iewes / excepte they washe their hondꝭ ofte / eate not observinge the tradicions of the elders.

4 And whē they come from the market / escept they washe / they eate not. And many other thingꝭ ther be / which they have taken apon them to observe / as the wasshinge of cuppes and cruses / and of Brasen vessels / and of tables.

5 Then axed him the pharises & scribe / why walke not thy disciples accordinge to yᵉ tradicions [B] of the elders / but eate breede with vnweshen hondes?

6 He answered and sayde vnto them: well prophesied Esaias of you ypocrites / as it is writtē:⁵⁵ This people honoreth me with their lyppes / but their hert is farre from me:

7 In vayne they worshippe me / teachinge doctryns which are nothinge but yᵉ cōmaundementes of men.

8 For ye laye the commaundement of God aparte / & observe the tradicions of men / as the wesshinge of cruses and of cuppes / and many other suche lyke thingꝭ ye do.

9 ⁵⁶ And he sayde vnto them: well / ye cast asyde the cōmaundement of God / to mayntayne youre owne tradiciōs.

10 For Moses sayde: Honoure thy father & thy mother: & whosoever cursseth father or mother / let him dye for it.

11 But ye saye: a man shall saye to father or mother Corban: which is: that thou desyrest of me to helpe the with / is geven God.

12 And so ye soffre him no more to do ought for his father or his mother /

13 makinge the worde of God of none effecte / through youre awne tradicions which ye have ordeyned. And many soche thinges ye do. [C]⁵⁷

14 And he called all the people vnto him / & sayde vnto them: Herken vnto me / every one of you & vnderstonde.

15 There is no thinge with out a man that can defyle him when it entreth into him: but thoo thinges which procede out of him are those which defyle yᵉ man.

16 If eny man have eares to heare / let him heare

17 And whē he came to house awaye frō the people / his disciples axed him of the similitude.

18 And he sayd vnto thē: Are ye so without vnderstondinge? Do ye not yet perceave / yᵗ what soever thinge from wᵗ out entreth into a man / it can not defyle him /

19 because it entrith not in to his hert / but into yᵉ belly: and goeth out into the draught that porgeth oute all meates.

20 ⁵⁸ And he sayde: yᵗ defileth a mā which cometh oute of a man.

21 For frō wᵗ in / even oute of the herte of men / proceade evill thoughtes: advoutry / fornicacion / murder /

22 theeft / coveteousnes / wickednes / diceyte / vnclennes / & a wicked eye / blasphemy / pryde / folysshnes:

23 all these evyll thinges come from with in / and defile a man.

24 ⁵⁹ And from thence he rose & went into yᵉ borders of Tyre & Sidon / & entred into an housse / & wolde that no man shuld have knowen: But he coulde not be hyd.

25 For a certayne womā whose doughter had a foule sprete hearde of him / & came & fell at his fete.

26 The woman was a Greke oute of Syrophenicia / & she besought him yᵗ he wolde caste out yᵉ devyll oute of her doughter.

27 And Iesus sayde vnto her: let the chyldren fyrst be feed. For it is not mete / to take the chyldrēs breed / & to caste it vnto whelppꝭ.

28 She answered and sayde vnto him: even soo master / neverthelesse / the whelppes also eate vnder the table of the chyldrens cromes.

29 And he sayde vnto her: for this sayinge goo thy waye / the devyll is gone out of thy doughter.

30 And when she was come home to her housse / she founde the devyll departed / and her doughter lyinge on the beed.

31 [D] ✚⁶⁰ And he departed agayne from the coostes of Tyre & Sidon / & came vnto the see of Galile thorowe yᵉ middꝭ of the coostes of yᵉ .x. cities.

32 And they brought vnto him one yᵗ was deffe & stambred in his speche / & prayde him to laye his honde apon him.

33 And he toke him a syde from yᵉ people / & put his fyngers in his eares / & dyd spyt & touched his tounge /

34 and loked vp to heven and sygthed / and sayde vnto him: ephatha / that is to saye / be openned.

35 And streyght waye his eares were openned / and the stringe of his tounge was loosed / & he spake playne.

36 And he cōmaunded them that they shuld tell no man. But the more he forbad them / soo moche the more a greate deale they publesshed it:

37 and were beyonde measure astonyed / sayinge:⁶¹ He hath done all thingꝭ well / and hath made booth the deffe to heare / & the dōme to speake. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 7

Chapter 8

¶ The .viii. Cha. ✚

1 [A]⁶² IN those dayes whē ther was a very greate companye / & had nothinge to eate / Iesus called his disciples to him & sayd vnto thē:

2 I have cōpassion on this people / because they have nowe bene with me .iii. dayes & have nothinge to eate:

3 And yf I shuld sende thē awaye fastinge to their awne houses / they shulde faynt by the waye. For dyvers of thē came from farre.

4 And his disciples answered him: where shuld a man have breade here in the wildernes to satisfie these?

5 And he axed them: how many loves have ye? They sayde: seven.

6 And he commaunded the people to syt doune on the grounde. And he toke the .vii. loves / gave thankes / brake / & gave to his disciples / to set before them. And they dyd set thē before the people.

7 And they had a feawe smale fysshes. And he blessed them & cōmaunded them also to be set before them.

8 And they ate & were suffysed: And they toke vp yf the broken meate that was lefte .vii. baskettes full.

9 And they yᵗ ate / werein nomber aboute fowre thousand. And he sent them awaye. ⊢

10 [B]⁶³ And a none he entred into a ship wᵗ his disciples / & came into the parties of Dalmanutha.

11 And the pharises cam forth / & begane to dispute with him / sekinge of him a signe frō heven and temptinge him.

12 And he sygthed in his sprete and sayde: why doth this generacion seke a signe? Verely I saye vnto you / ther shall no signe be geven vnto this generacion.

13 And he lefte thē and went into the ship agayne / and departed over the water.

14 ⁶⁴ And they had forgottē to take breed wᵗ thē / nether had they in the ship with them more then one loofe.

15 And he charged thē sayinge. ✚ Take hede / & beware of yᵉ leven of yᵉ pharises / & of yᵉ levē of Herode.

16 And they reasoned amonge thē selves sayinge: we have no breed

17 And whē Iesus knewe yᵗ / he sayde vnto thē: why take ye thought because ye have no bread? perceave ye not yet / nether vnderstonde? Have ye youre hertes yet blynded?

18 Have ye eyes & se not? & have ye eares and heare not? Do ye not remember?

19 When I brake v. loves⁶⁵ amonge .v. M. How many baskettes full of brokē meate toke ye vp? They sayde vnto him twelve.

20 When I brake .vii. amonge .iiii. M. How many baskete of the levinge of broken meate toke ye vp? they sayde .vii.

21 And he sayde vnto thē: how is it yᵗ ye vnderstonde not?

22 ✚ [C]⁶⁶ And he came to Bethsaida / & they brought a blynde man vnto him and desyred him to touche him.

23 And he caught the blynde by the honde / and leade him out of the toune / & spat in his eyes and put his hondes apon him / and axed him whether he saw ought.

24 And he loked vp and sayde: I se yᵉ men: For I se thē walke / as they were trees.

25 After that he put his honde agayne apon his eyes & made him see. And he was restored to his sight / and sawe every mā clerly.

26 And he sent him home to his housse sayinge: nether goo into the toune / nor tell it to eny in the toune. ⊢

27 ⁶⁷ And Iesus went out and his disciples into the tounes that longe to the cite called Cesarea Philippi. And by the waye he axed his disciples sayinge: whom do men saye yᵗ I am?

28 And they answered: some saye that thou arte Iohn Baptiste: some saye Helyas: and some / one of the Prophetꝭ.

29 And he sayde vnto thē: But whom saye ye that I am? Peter answered & sayd vnto him: Thou arte very Christe.

30 And he charged them / that they shuld tell no man of it.

31 And he beganne to teache them / [D]⁶⁸ how that the sonne of man must suffre many thinges / and shuld be reproved of the elders and of the hye prestes and scribes / and be kylled / and after thre dayes aryse agayne.

32 And he spake that sayinge openly. And Peter toke him a syde / and began to chyde him.

33 Then he tourned aboute and looked on his disciples /⁶⁹ & rebuked Peter sayinge: Goo after me Satan. For thou saverest not yᵉ thinges of God but the thinges of men.

34 And he called the people vnto him / with his disciples also / and sayd vnto them: Whosoever will folowe me / let him forsake him sylfe / and take vp his crosse / and folowe me.

35 For whosoever will save his lyfe / shall lose it But whosoever shall lose his lyfe for my sake & yᵉ gospels / yᵉ same shall save it.

36 What shall it profet a mā / yf he shuld wynne all yᵉ worlde & loose his awne soule?

37 or els what shall a mā geve / to redeme his soule agayne?⁷⁰

38 Whosoever therfore shall be asshamed of me & of my worde / amonge this advoutrous and sinfull generacion: of him shall the sonne of man be ashamed / when he cometh in the glory of his father wᵗ the holy angels.

9:1 And he sayde vnto them:⁷¹ Verely I saye vnto you: There be some of thē that stonde here / which shall not taste of deeth / tyll they have sene the kyngdome of God come wᵗ power.

Notes to Chapter 8

Chapter 9

¶ The .ix. Chap.

2 [A]⁷² ANd after .vi. dayes Iesus toke Peter / Iames / and Iohn and leede them vp into an hye mountayne out of yᵉ waye alone / and he was transfigured before them.

3 And his rayment dyd shyne / and was made very whyte / even as snowe: so whyte as noo fuller can make apon the erth.

4 And ther apered vnto them Helyas with Moses: and they talked with Iesu.

5 And Peter answered & sayde to Iesu: Master / here is good beinge for vs / let vs make .iii. tabernacles / one for the / one for Moses / and one for Helyas.

6 And yet he wist not what he sayde: for they were afrayde.

7 And ther was a cloude that shaddowed thē. And a voyce came out of the cloude sayinge: This is my dere sonne / here him.⁷³

8 And sodenly they loked rounde aboute them / & sawe no man more then Iesus only wᵗ thē.

9 [B]⁷⁴ And as they came doune from the hyll / he charged thē / that they shuld tell no mā what they had sene / tyll the sonne of man were rysen frō⁷⁵ deeth agayne.

10 And they kepte that sayinge with them / & demaunded one of a nother / what yᵗ rysinge from deeth agayne shuld meane?

11 And they axed him sayinge: why then saye yᵉ scribꝭ / that Helyas muste fyrste come?

12 He answered & sayde vnto them: Helyas verelye shall fyrst come and restore all thinges.⁷⁶ And also yᵉ sonne of mā as it is wryttē / shall suffre many thinges / & shall be set at nought.

13 Moreouer I saye vnto you / that Helyas is come / and they have done vnto him whatsoever pleased them as it is wrytten of him.

14 And he came to his disciples / & sawe moche people aboute them / & the scribes disputinge with them.

15 And streyght waye all the people when they behelde him / were amased / & ran to him and saluted him.

16 And he sayde vnto the Scribes: what dispute ye with them?

17 ✚ And one of the cōpanye answered & sayde: Master / I have brought my sonne vnto the / [C] which hath a dōme spirite.

18 And whensoever he taketh him / he teareth him / and he fometh / & gnassheth with his tethe / & pyneth awaye. And I spake to thy disciples that they shuld caste him out / and they coulde not.

19 He answered him & sayd: O generacion wᵗ out faith how longe shall I be with you? How longe shall I suffre you? Bringe him vnto me.

20 And they brought him vnto him. And assone as yᵉ sprete sawe him / he tare him. And he fell doune on the grounde walowinge and fomynge.

21 And he axed his father: how longe is it a goo / sens this hath happened him? And he sayde / of a chylde:

22 & ofte tymes casteth him into the fyre / & also into the water / to destroye him. But yf thou canste do eny thinge / have mercy on vs / and helpe vs.

23 And Iesus sayde vnto him: ye yf thou couldest beleve / all thinges are possible to him yᵗ belevith.

24 ⁷⁷ And streygth waye the father of the chylde cryed with teares sayinge: Lorde I beleve / helpe myne vnbelefe.

25 [D]⁷⁸ When Iesus sawe / that the people came runnynge togedder vnto him / he rebuked the foule sprete / sayinge vnto him: Thou domme & deffe sprete / I charge the come out of him / and entre no more into him.

26 And the sprete cryed / & rent him sore / and came out: And he was as one that had bene deed / in so moche yᵗ many sayde / he is deed.

27 But Iesus caught his honde / and lyfte him vp: and he roose.

28 And when he was come into the housse / his disciples axed him secretly: why coulde not we caste him out?

29 And he sayde vnto them:⁷⁹ this kynde can by no nother meanes come forth / but by prayer and fastynge. ⊢

30 ✚ [E]⁸⁰ And they departed thens / and toke their iorney thorow Galile / & he wolde not that eny man shuld have knowen it.

31 For he taught his disciples / and sayde vnto them:⁸¹ The sonne of man shalbe delyvered into yᵉ hondes of men / and they shall kyll him / and after that he is kylled he shall aryse agayne the thryd daye.

32 But they wiste not what that sayinge meāt / and were affrayed to axe him.

33 [B]⁸² And he came to Capernaum. And when he was come to housse / he axed thē: what was it that ye disputed bytwene you by the waye?

34 And they helde their peace: for by the waye they reasoned amonge thē selves / who shuld be the chefest.

35 And he sate doune and called the twelve vnto him / and sayd to them: yf eny man desyre to be fyrst / the same shalbe last of all / and servaunt vnto all.

36 And he toke a chylde & set him in yᵉ middes of them / & toke him in his armes and sayde vnto them.

37 Whosoever receave eny soche a chylde in my name / receaveth me. And whosoever receaveth me / receaveth not me / but him that sent me. ⊢

38 Iohn answered him sayinge: ✚ Master / we sawe one castynge out devyls in thy name / which foloweth not vs / and we forbade him / because he foloweth vs not.

39 But Iesus sayde⁸³ forbid him not. For ther is no mā that shall do a miracle in my name / that can lightlyge speake evyll of me.

40 Whosoever is not agaynste [C] you / is on youre parte.

41 And whosoever shall geve you a cuppe of water to drinke for my names sake / because ye belonge to Christe / verely I saye vnto you / he shall not loose his⁸⁴ rewarde.

42 ⁸⁵ And whosoever shall offende one of these lytel ons / yᵗ beleve in me / it were better for him / yᵗ a mylstone were hanged aboute his necke / & yᵗ he he were cast into yᵉ see:

43 wherfore yf thy hande offende yᵉ / cut him of. It is better for yᵉ / to entre into lyffe maymed / then havynge two hondes / goo into hell / into fire yᵗ never shalbe quenched /

44 where there worme dyeth not / & the fyre never goeth oute.

45 Lykewyse yf thy fote offende the / cut him of. For it is better for the to goo halt into lyfe / then havynge two fete to be cast into hell / into fyre that never shalbe quenched:

46 where there worme dyeth not / & the fyre never goeth oute.

47 Even so yf thyne eye offende the / plucke him oute. It is better for the to goo into the kyngdom of god with one eye / then havynge two eyes / to be caste into hell fyre:⁸⁶

48 where there worme dyeth not / & the fyre never goeth oute. ⊢

49 ⁸⁷ Every man therfore shalbe salted wᵗ fyre: And every sacrifise shalbe seasoned with salt.

50 Salt is good. But yf yᵉ salt be vnsavery: what shall ye salte therwith? Se yᵗ ye have salt in youre selves: & have peace amonge youre selves / one with another.

Notes to Chapter 9

Chapter 10

¶ The .x. Chap.

1 [A]⁸⁸ ANd he rose from thence / & went into yᵉ coostes of Iurie through the region yᵗ is beyonde Iordan. And yᵉ people resorted vnto him afresshe: and as he was wont / he taught them agayne.

2 And the pharises came & axed him a question: whether it were laufull for a mā to put awaye his wyfe: to prove him.

3 And he answered & sayd vnto thē: what dyd Moses byd you do?

4 And they sayde: Moses suffred to wryte a testimoniall of devorsement / & to put hyr awaye.

5 And Iesus answered & sayd vnto thē: For yᵉ hardnes of youre herte he wrote this precept vnto you.

6 But at the fyrste creacion / God made thē man & woman.⁸⁹

7 And for this thingꝭ sake shall mā leve his father & mother / & bide by his wyfe /

8 & they twayne shalbe one flesshe. So then are they⁹⁰ now not twayne / but one flesshe.

9 Therfore what God hath cuppled / let not mā separat.

10 And in the housse his disciples axed him [B]⁹¹ agayne of yᵗ matter.

11 And he sayde vnto them: Whosoever putteth awaye his wyfe & maryeth another / breaketh wedlocke to herwarde.

12 And yf a woman forsake her husband and be maryed to another / she cōmitteth advoutrie.

13 And they brought chyldren to him / that he⁹² should touche thē. And his disciples rebuked thoose that brought thē.

14 When Iesus sawe that / he was displeased / & sayd to thē: Suffre⁹³ the chyldrē to come vnto me & forbid thē not. For of suche is yᵉ kyngdome of God.

15 Verely I saye vnto you / whosoever shall not receave y[ᵉ] kyngdome of God as a chylde / he shall not entre therin.

16 And he toke thē vp in his armes & put his honde vpon them / & blessed thē. ⊢

17 ✚ And when he was come in to the waye /⁹⁴ ther came one runninge & kneled to him / and axed him: good master / what shall I do / that I maye enheret eternall lyfe?

18 Iesus sayde to [C] him: why callest thou me good? There is no⁹⁵ mā good but one / which is God.

19 Thou knowest the cōmaundementes: breake not matrimony: kyll not: steale not: bere not falce wytnes: defraude no man: honoure thy father & mother.

20 He answered & sayde to him: master / all these I have observed frō my youth.

21 Iesus behelde him & had a favour to him / and sayde vnto him: one thynge is lackinge vnto the. Goo and sell all that thou hast / and geve to the povre / and thou shalt have treasure in heven / and come and folowe me / and take vp thy⁹⁶ crosse.

22 But he was discūforted with yᵗ sayinge / and wēt awaye morninge / for he had greate possessions.

23 And Iesus loked rounde aboute / & sayde [D] vnto his disciples: what an harde thinge is it for them that have riches / to entre into the kyngdome of God.

24 And his disciples were astonneyd at his wordes. But Iesus answered agayne / & sayde vnto them: chyldrē / how harde is it for them / that trust in riches / to entre in to the kyngdome of God.

25 It is easyer⁹⁷ for a camell to go thorowe yᵉ eye of an nedle / then for a riche man to entre into the kyngdome of God.

26 And they were astonnyed out of measure / sayinge betwene them selves: who then can be saved?

27 Iesus loked vpon them / & sayde: with men it is vnpossible / but not with God: for with God all thynges are possible.

28 And Peter begāne to saye vnto him: Lo / we have forsaken all / & have folowed the.

29 Iesus answered and sayde: Verely I saye vnto you / ther is no man that for saketh housse / or brethren / or sisters / or father / or / mother / or wyfe /⁹⁸ other chyldren / or londes / for my sake & the gospelle /

30 which shall not receave an houndred foolde nowe in this lyfe: houses / and brethren / & sisters / & mothers / & chyldren / & londes with persecucions: & in the worlde to came / eternall lyfe.

31 Many that are fyrst / shalbe last: & the last / fyrst.

32 And they were in y[ᵉ] waye goinge vp to Ierusalem. And Iesus wēt before them: and they were amased / and as they folowed / were affrayde. And Iesus toke yᵉ .vii. agayne / & begāne to [E]⁹⁹ tell thē what thingꝭ shuld happē vnto him.

33 Beholde we goo vp to Ierusalem / & the sonne of man shalbe delyvered vnto the hye preestes & vnto the Scribes: & they shall condempne him to deeth / & shall delyvre him to the gentyls:

34 and they shall mocke hym / & scourge him / and spit vpō hym / and kyll him. And the thirde daye he shall ryse agayne.

35 And then Iames & Iohn yᵉ sonnes of zebede¹⁰⁰ came vnto him / sayinge: master / we wolde that thou shuldest do for vs what soever we desyre.

36 He sayde vnto them: what wolde ye I shuld do vnto you?

37 They sayd to him: graūt vnto vs that we maye sitte one on thy right honde / & the other on thy lyfte honde / in thy glory.

38 But Iesus sayd vnto thē: Ye wot not what ye axe. Can ye dryncke of the cup that I shall dryncke of / & be baptised in yᵉ baptime that I shalbe baptised in?

39 And they sayde vnto him: that we can. Iesus sayde vnto them: [F] ye shall dryncke of the cup that I shall dryncke of / & be baptised with the baptyme that I shalbe baptised in:

40 but to sit on my right honde and on my lyfte honde ys not myne to geve / but to them for whom it is prepared.

41 And when the .x. hearde that / they begā to¹⁰¹ disdayne at Iames & Iohn.

42 But Iesus called thē vnto him / & sayde to them: ye knowe that they which seme to beare rule amonge¹⁰² the gentyls / raygne as lordes over thē. And they that be greate amōge them / exercyse auctorite over them.

43 So shall it not be amonge you / but whosoever of you wilbe greate amōge you / shalbe youre minister.

44 And whosoever wilbe chefe / shalbe servaunt vnto all.

45 For evē the sonne of man came not to be ministred vn to: but to minister / and to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many.

46 And they came to Hierico. And as he went [G]¹⁰³ oute of Hierico with his disciples / & a greate nōbre of people: Barthime⟨illegible⟩s yᵉ sonne of Thimeus which was blinde / sate by yᵉ hye wayes syde begginge.

47 And when he hearde that it was Iesus of Nazareth / he began to crye and to saye: Iesus the sonne of David / have mercy on me.

48 And many rebuked him / yᵗ he shuld holde is peace. But he cryed the moore a greate deale / thou sonne of David have mercy on me.

49 And Iesus stode still / and commaunded hym to be called. And they called the blinde / sayinge vnto him: Be of good conforte: ryse / he calleth the.

50 And he threwe awaye his clooke / and roose and came to Iesus.

51 And Iesus answered & sayde vnto hym: what wilt thou that I do vnto the? The blynde sayde vnto hym: master / that I myght see.

52 Iesus sayde vnto him. goo thy waye / thy faith hath saved the. And by and by he receaved his sight / and folowed Iesus in the waye.

Notes to Chapter 10

Chapter 11

¶ The .xi. Chapter.

1 ANd when they came nye to Hierusalem [A]¹⁰⁴ vnto Bethphage & Bethanie / besydes moūt olivete / he sent forth two of his hisciples /

2 & sayde vnto thē: Goo youre wayes into the toune that is over agaynst you. And assone as ye be entred into it / ye shall fynde a¹⁰⁵ coolte bounde / wheron never man sate: loose him & bringe him.

3 And if eny man saye vnto you: why do ye soo? Saye that the Lorde hath neade of him: & streight waye he will sende him hidder.

4 And they wēt their waye / & foūd a coolte tyed by the dore with out in a place where two wayes met / & they losed him.

5 And divers of thē that stode there / sayde vnto thē: what do ye loosinge yᵉ coolte?

6 And they sayd¹⁰⁶ vnto them evē as Iesus had cōmaunded thē. And they let them goo.

7 And they brought y[ᵉ] coolte to Iesus / & caste their garmēte on him: and he sate vpō him.

8 And many sprede there garmētes in the waye. Other cut doune braūches of the trees / & strawed them in yᵉ waye.

9 And they yᵗ went before & they that folowed / cryed sayinge: Hosanna: blessed be he that cōmeth¹⁰⁷ in yᵉ name of yᵉ Lorde.

10 Blessed be yᵉ kingdome that cōmeth in yᵉ name of him yᵗ is Lorde of oure father David. Hosanna in yᵉ hyest.

11 And yᵉ Lorde entred in to Ierusalem / & into [B]¹⁰⁸ the tēple. And when he had loked roūdabout vpon all thingꝭ / & now yᵉ evē tyde was come / he went out vnto Bethany / with yᵉ twelve.

12 And on the morowe when they were come out frō Bethany / he hungred /

13 & spyed a fygge¹⁰⁹ tree a farre of havinge leves / & wēt to se whether he myght finde eny thinge ther on. But when he came therto / he foūde no thinge but leves: for the tyme of fygges was not yet.

14 And Iesus answered and sayde to it: never man eate frute of the here after whill yᵉ worlde stondith. And his disciples hearde it.

15 And they came to Ierusalem. And Iesus wēt into the tēple / & begāne to cast out yᵉ sellers¹¹⁰ & byers in the tēple / & overthrewe the tables of the money chaungers / and the stoles of them that solde doves:

16 & wolde not suffre that eny man caried a vessell thorow the temple.

17 And he taught sayinge vnto them / is it not written: my housse shalbe called the¹¹¹ housse of prayer vnto all nacions? But ye have made it a deen of theves.

18 And the Scribes & hye prestes hearde yt & [C] sought howe to distroye him. For they feared him / because all the people marveled at his doctrine.

19 And when evē was come / he went out of the cite.

20 And in the mornynge as they¹¹² passed by / they sawe the fygge tree dryed vp by yᵉ rotes.

21 And Peter remembred / & sayde vn to him: master / beholde / the fygge tree which thou cursedest / is widdred awaye.

22 And Iesus answered / & sayde vnto them: Have confidēs in God.

23 ✚ Verely I saye vnto you / that who soever shall saye vnto this mountayne: take awaye thy silfe / & cast thy silfe in to the see / & shall not waver in his herte / but shall beleve y[ᵗ] those thinges which he sayeth shall come¹¹³ to passe / what soever he sayeth / shalbe done to him.

24 Therfore I saye vnto you / what soever ye desyre when ye praye / beleve yᵗ ye shall have it / & it shalbe done vnto you.

25 And when ye stōd & praye / forgeve / yf ye have eny thinge agaynste eny man / yᵗ youre father also which is in hevē / maye forgeve you youre trespases.

27 And they came agayne to Hierusalem. And [D] as he walked in the tēple / ther came to him yᵉ¹¹⁴ hye prestes / & the Scribes / and the elders /

28 & sayd vnto him: by what auctorite doest thou these thinges? & who gave the this auctorite / to do these thinges?

29 Iesus answered & sayde vnto them: I will also axe of you a certayne thinge: & answere ye me / & I wyll tell you by¹¹⁵ what auctorite I do these thinges.

30 The baptyme of Iohn / was it from heven or of men? Answer me.

31 And they thought in them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye from heven: he will saye why then dyd ye not beleve him?

32 but if we shall saye / of mē: then feare we yᵉ people. For all men counted Iohn / that he was a verie Prophete.

33 And they answered & sayd vn to Iesu: we cannot tell. And Iesus answered & sayd vnto them: nether wyll I tell you / by what auctorite I do these thynges. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 11

Chapter 12

¶ The .xii. Chapter.

1 ANd he beganne to speake vnto them in [A]¹¹⁶ similitudes. A certayne man planted a vineyarde / & cōpased it with an hedge / & ordeyned a wyne presse / and bylt a toure in yt. And let yt out to hyre vnto husbandmē / and went into a straunge countre.

2 And when¹¹⁷ the tyme was come / he sent to the tennauntes a servaunt / that he myght receave of the tenauntes of the frute of the vyneyarde.

3 And they caught him & bet him & sent him agayne emptye.

4 And moreover he sent vnto them another servaunt / & at him they cast stones & brake his heed / and sent him agayne all to revyled.

5 And agayne he sent another / and him they kylled: and many other / beetynge some / and kyllinge some.

6 Yet had he one sonne whom he loved tenderly / him also he sent at the last vnto them sayinge: they wyll feare my sonne.

7 But the tenauntes sayde amongest them selves: this is the heyre: come let vs kyll hym / & yᵉ inheritaūce shalbe oures.

8 And they toke him and kyll'id him / & cast him out of the vyneyarde.

9 What shall then the lorde of the vyneyarde do? He will come & destroye yᵉ tenaunte / & let out the vyneyarde to other.

10 Have ye not redde this scripture? The stoone which yᵉ bylders dyd refuse / is¹¹⁸ made yᵉ chefe stoone in yᵉ corner:

11 this was done of yᵉ Lorde / & is mervelous in oure eyes.

12 And they went about to take him / but they feared the people. For they perceaved that he spake that similitude agaynst them. And they left him and went their waye.

13 And they sent vnto him certayne of y[ᵉ] Pharises [B]¹¹⁹ with Herodes servante / to take him in his wordes.

14 And allone as they were come / they sayd vnto him: master we knowe yᵗ thou arte true / & carest for no man: for thou consyderest not the degre of men / but teachest the waye of God truly: Ys it laufull to paye tribute¹²⁰ to Cesar / or not?

15 Dught we to geve / or ought we not to geve? He vnderstode their simulacion / and sayde vnto them: Why tēpte ye me? Brynge me apeny / that I maye se yt.

16 And they brought. And he sayde vnto them: Whose ys thys ymage and superscripcion? And they sayde vnto him / Cesars.

17 And Iesus answered & saide vnto thē: Then geve to Cesar¹²¹ that which belongeth to Cesar: & to God / that which perteyneth to God. And they mervelled at him.

18 Then came the Saduces vnto him / which¹²² saye / ther is no resurreccion. And they axed hym sayinge:

19 Master / Moses wroote vnto vs yf eny mans brother dye / & leve his wyfe behinde him / & leve no chyldren: that then hys brother shuld take his wyfe / & reyse vp seed vnto his brother.

20 Ther were seven brethren: and the fyrst toke a wyfe / and when he dyed leeft no seed behynde him.

21 And the seconde toke hir / & dyed: nether leeft eny seed. And the thyrde lyke wyse.

22 And sevē had her / and leeft no seed behynde them. Last of all the wyfe dyed also.

23 In the resurrecciō then / when they shall ryse agayne: whose wyfe shall she be of them? For seven had her to wyfe.

24 Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: Are ye not therfore deceaved and vnderstonde not the scryptures / nether the power of God?

25 For when they shall ryse agayne frō deeth / they nether mary / nor are maryed: but are as the angels which are in heven.

26 As touchynge the deed /¹²³ that they shall ryse agayne: have ye not redde in the boke of Moses / howe in the busshe God spake vnto him sayinge: I am the God¹²⁴ of Abraham / and God of Ysaac / and the God¹²⁵ of Iacob?

27 He is not the God of the deed / but the God of the livynge. Ye are therfore greatly deceaved.

28 And ther came one of the scribes that had [C] hearde them disputynge to gedder / and perceaved that he had answered them well / and¹²⁶ axed him: Which is the fyrste of all the commaundemētes?

29 Iesus answered him: the fyrste of all the cōmaundementes is. Heare Israel: The Lorde God / is one Lorde.

30 And thou shalt love the Lorde thy God with all thy hert / and with all thy soule / and with all thy¹²⁷ mynde / and with all thy strength. This is the fyrste commaundement.

31 And the seconde is lyke vnto this: Thou shalt love thy neghbour as thy silfe. Ther is none other commaundement greater then these.

32 And the Scribe sayde vnto him: well master / thou hast sayd y[ᵉ] truthe / that ther ys one God / and that ther is none but he.

33 And to love him with all the herte / & with all the mynde / & with all the soule / & with all the strēgth: and to love a mans neghbour as him silfe / ys a greater thinge then all burnt offerings & sacrifices.

34 And when Iesus sawe that he answered discretly / he sayde vnto him: Thou arte not farre from the kyngdome of God. And no man after that / durst axe him eny questiō. [D]¹²⁸

35 And Iesus answered and sayde / teachynge in the temple: how saye the Scribes yᵗ Christ is the sonne of David?

36 For David him selfe inspyred with the holy goost / sayde: The Lorde sayde to my Lorde / syt on my right honde / tyll I make thyne enemyes thy fote stole.

37 Then David hym silfe calleth him Lorde: & by what meanes is he then his sonne? And moche people hearde him gladly.¹²⁹

38 And he sayde vnto them in his doctrine: beware of the Scribes which love to goo in longe clothinge: and love salutacions in yᵉ market places /

39 and the chefe seates in the synagoges / and to syt in the vppermost roumes at feastes /

40 and devoure widowes houses / & that vnder coloure of longe prayinge. These shall receave greater dampnacion.

41 ✚ And Iesus sat over agaynst the treasury / and behelde how the people put money into the treasury. And many that were ryche / cast in moch.

42 And ther cam a certayne povre widowe / and she threwe in two mytes / which make a farthynge.

43 And he called vnto him his disciples and sayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you / that this pover widowe hath cast moare in / then all they which have caste into the treasury.

44 For they all dyd cast in of their superfluyte: but she of her poverte / dyd cast in all that she had / evē all her livynge. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 12

Chapter 13

¶ The .xiii. Chapter.

1 ANd as he went out of the tēple one of¹³⁰ his disciples sayde vnto him: Master / [A] se what stones / and what byldynges are here.

2 And Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: Seist thou these greate byldinges? There shall not be leefte one stone vpon a another / that shall not be throwen doune.

3 And as he sate on moūte olivete / over agēst the tēple / Peter / & Iames / & Iohn / & Andrew axed him secretly:

4 tell vs / when shall these thingꝭ be? And what is yᵉ signe whē all these thinges shalbe fulfilled?

5 And Iesus answered thē / & begā to saye: take hede lest eny man¹³¹ deceave you.

6 For many shall come in my name sayinge: I am Christ / & shall deceave many.

7 When ye shall heare of warre and tydinge of warre / be ye not troubled. For soche thinges muste nedes be. But the ende is not yet.

8 For ther shall nacion aryse agaynste nacion / and kyngdome agaynst kyngdome. And ther shalbe erth quakes in all quarters / & famyshment and troubles. These are the begynnynge of sorowes.

9 But take ye hede to youre selves. For they [B] shall bringe you vp to yᵉ counsels & into y[ᵉ] synagoges / and ye shalbe beaten: ye and shalbe brought before rulers & kynges for my sake / for a testimoniall vnto them.

10 And the gospell must fyrste be publysshed amōge all nacions.

11 But when they leade you and present you /¹³² toke noo thought afore honde what ye shall saye / nether ymagion: but whatsoever is gevē you at the same tyme / that speake. For it shall¹³³ not be ye that shall speake / but yᵉ holy goost.

12 Ye and the brother shall delyvre the brother to deeth / & the father the sonne / & the chyldrē shall ryse agaynste their fathers & mothers / & shall put them to deeth.

13 And ye shalbe hated of all men for my names sake. But whosoever shall endure vnto the ende / the same shalbe safe.

14 Moreover whē ye se the abhominaciō that [C]¹³⁴ betokeneth desolacion / wherof is spoken by Daniel the Prophet / stonde where it ought not / let him that redeth vnderstonde. Then let them that be in Iurie / fle to the mountaynes.

15 And let him that is on the housse toppe / not descende doune into the housse / nether entre therin / to fetche eny thinge oute of his housse.

16 And let hym that is in the felde / not tourne backe agayne vnto the thinges which he leeft behynde him / for to take his cloothes with him.

17 Woo is then to them that are wᵗ chylde / & to them that geve soucke in thoose dayes.

18 But praye / that youre flyght be not in the wynter.

19 For ther shalbe in those dayes suche tribulacion / as was not from the begynninge¹³⁵ of creatures which God created / vnto this tyme / nether shalbe.

20 And excepte y[ᵗ] the¹³⁶ Lorde shuld shorten those dayes / no mā shuld be saved. But for the electes sake / which he hath chosen / he hath shortened those dayes.

21 And then / y[f] [e]ny man saye to you: loo / here¹³⁷ is Christ: loo / he is there / beleve not.

22 For fal[c]e Christes shall aryse / and falce Prophetes and shall shewe myracles and wondres / to deceave yf it were possible / evyn the electe.

23 But take ye hede: beholde I have shewed you¹³⁸ all thinges before.

24 Moreover in thoose dayes / after that tribulaciō / the sunne shall wexe darke / and the moue shall not geve her light /

25 and the starres of heven shall fall: and the powers wich are in heven / shall move.

26 And then shall they se the [D] sonne of man cōmynge in the cloudes / with greate power and glory.

27 And then shall he sende his angels / and shall gaddre to gedder his electe from the fower wyndes / and from the one ende of the worlde to the other.

28 Learne a similitude of yᵉ fygge tree. When¹³⁹ his braunches are yet tender / & hath brought forthe leves / ye knowe that sommer is neare.

29 So in lyke maner when ye se these thinges come to passe: vnderstond / that it ys nye even at the dores.

30 Verely I saye vnto you / yᵗ this generacion shall not passe / tyll all these thinges be done.

31 Heven and erth shall passe / but¹⁴⁰ my wordes shall not passe.

32 But of the daye & the houre knoweth no mā: no not the angels which are in heven: nether the sonne him silfe / save the father only.

33 Take hede / watche & praye / for ye knowe¹⁴¹ not when the tyme ys.

34 As a man which is gone in to a straunge countrey / & hath lefte hys housse / and geven auctorite to his servaūtes / and to every man hys worke / and commaunded the porter to watche.

35 Watche therfore / for ye knowe not when the master of yᵉ housse will come / whether at evē or at mydnyght / whether at the cocke crowynge or in the daunynge:

36 left yf he come sodenly / he shuld fynde you slepynge.

37 And that I saye vnto you / I saye vnto all men / watche.

Notes to Chapter 13

Chapter 14

¶ The .xiiii. Chapter.

1 AFter two dayes folowed ester / and the [A]¹⁴² dayes of swete breed. And the hye prestes and the Scrybes sought meanes / how they myght take hym by crafte and put him to deeth.

2 But they sayde: not in the feast daye / leest eny busynes aryse amonge the people.

3 When he was in Bethania / in the housse¹⁴³ of Simon the leper / even as he sate at meate / ther came a womā hauynge an alablaster boxe of oyntment called narde / that was pure and costly: and she brake the boxe and powred it on is heed.

4 And ther were some that were¹⁴⁴ not content in them selves / & sayde: what neded this waste of oyntment?

5 For it myght have bene soolde for more then thre hundred pens / and bene gevē vnto the poore. And they grudged agaynste hir.

6 And Iesus sayde: let hir be in reest / why trouble ye hir? She hath done a good worke on me.

7 For ye shall have poore with you all wayes: and when soever ye will / ye maye do them good: but me ye shall not have alwayes.

8 She hath done that she coulde: she came a fore honde to anoynt my boddy to his buryinge warde.

9 Verely I saye vnto you: wheresoever this gospell shalbe preached thorowout the whole worlde: thys also that she hath done / shalbe rehearsed in remembraunce of her.

10 And Iudas Iscarioth / one of the twelve / [B]¹⁴⁵ went awaye vnto the hye prestes / to betraye hym vnto them.

11 When they herde that / they were gladde / & promised yᵉ they wolde geve him money. And he sought / howe he myght conveniently betraye him.

12 And the fyrste daye of swete breed / when¹⁴⁶ men offer yᵉ pascall lambe / his disciples sayd vnto him: where wilt thou that we goo & prepare / that thou mayst eate the ester lambe?

13 And he sent forth two of his disciples / & sayde vnto them: Goo ye into the cyte / and ther shall a man mete you beringe a pitcher of water / folowe him.

14 And whither soever he goeth in / saye ye to yᵉ good man of yᵉ housse: the master axeth where is the geest chambre / where I shall eate yᵉ ester lambe with my disciples.

15 And he will shewe you a greate parlour / paved & prepared: there make ready for vs.

16 And his disciples went forth & came to the cyte / & founde as he had sayd vnto them: and made¹⁴⁷ ready the ester lambe.

17 And at even he came with the .xii.

18 And as [C]¹⁴⁸ they sate at borde and ate / Iesus sayde: Derely I saye vnto you: that one of you shall betraye me / which cateth with me.

19 And they begāne to morne / & to saye to him one by one: ys it I? And a nother sayde: ys it I?

20 He answered and sayde vnto them: It ys one of the .xii. and the same deppeth with me in the platter.

21 The sonne of man goeth / as it ys written of¹⁴⁹ him: but woo be to that man / by whome the sonne of man is betrayed. Good were it for him / if that man had never bene borne.

22 And as they ate Iesus toke breede / blessed¹⁵⁰ & brake & gave to them and sayde: Take / eate / this ys my body.

23 And he toke the cup / gave thankes / and gave it to them / & they all dranke¹⁵¹ of it.

24 And he sayde vnto them: This is my bloude of the new testament which is sheed for many.

25 Derely I saye vnto you: I will drinke no moore of this frute of the vyne / vntyll that daye / that I drinke it new in the kyngdome of God.

26 And when they had sayd grace / they went out to mount Olyvete.

27 And Iesus sayde vnto them: All ye shalbe offended thorow me this nyght. For it is¹⁵² wryttē: I will smyte yᵉ shepeherd / & the shepe shalbe scattered.

28 But after that I am rysen agayne / I will goo into Galile before you.

29 Peter sayde vnto him: And though all men¹⁵³ shuld be offended / yet wolde not I.

30 And Iesus sayd vnto him: Derely I saye vnto y[ᵉ] / this daye even in this nyght / before yᵉ cocke crowe twyse / thou shalt denye me thryse.

31 And he spake boldlyer: no / yf I shulde dye wᵗ the / I will not deny the. Lyke wyse also sayd they all.

32 And they came into a place named Gethsemani. [D]¹⁵⁴ And he sayde to his disciples: Syt ye here / whyll I goo aparte & praye.

33 And he toke with him Peter / Iames & Iohn / & he began to waxe abasshed & to be in an agonye

34 & sayde vnto thē: My soule is very hevy even vnto¹⁵⁵ the deeth / tary here and watche.

35 And he went forth a lytle and fell doune on yᵉ grounde & prayed: & prayed: that yf it were possible / the houre myght passe from him.

36 And he sayd: Abba father / all thinges are possible vnto the / take awaye this cup from me. Neverthelesse not that I will / but that thou wilt / be done.

37 And he cam & founde thē slepinge / & sayd to Peter: Simon / slepest thou? Couldest not thou watche with me one houre?

38 watche ye / & praye / leest ye entre into temptacion: yᵉ sprete is redy / but yᵉ flessh is weeke.

39 And agayne he went awaye & prayde / & spake yᵉ same wordes.

40 And he returned and founde them a slepe agayne / for their eyes were hevy: nether wist they what to answere him.

41 And he cam the thyrde tyme / & sayd vnto thē: slepe hens forth & take youre ease / it is ynough. The houre is come / beholde yᵉ sonne of man shalbe delyveted into yᵉ hondes of synners.

42 Ryse vp / let vs goo. Loo he that betrayeth me / is at hande.

43 And immediatly whyll he yet spake / came¹⁵⁶ Iudas one of the twelve / & with him a greate nomber of people with sweardes & staves [E] from the hye prestes and scribes and elders.

44 And he that betrayed him / had geven them a generall¹⁵⁷ tokē sayinge: whosoever I do kisse / he it is: take him & leade him awaye warely.

45 And assone as he was come / he went streyght waye to him / and sayd vnto him: master master / and kissed him.

46 And they layde their hondes on him / & toke him.

47 And one of them that stode by / drue out a swearde / and smote a setvaunt of the hye preste / and cut of his eare.¹⁵⁸

48 And Iesus answered & sayd vnto thē: ye be come out as vnto a thefe wᵗ sweardes & with staves / for to take me.

49 I was dayly with you in yᵉ temple teachinge & ye toke me not: but yᵗ the scriptures shuld be fulfilled.

50 And they all forsoke him & ranne awaye.

51 And ther folowed him a certerne yonge man / cloothed in lynnen¹⁵⁹ apon y[ᵉ] bare / & the yongemen caught him /

52 & he lefte his lynnen and fleed from them naked.

53 And they leed Iesus awaye to yᵉ hyest preste of all / and to him came all the hye prestes / and the elders / and the scribes.

54 And Peter folowed him a greate waye of / even into the pallys of the hye preste / & sat with the servauntes / and warmed him sylfe at the fyre.

55 And the hye prestes & all yᵉ counsell sought for witnes agaynste Iesu / to put him to death / and [F] founde noone.

56 Yet many bare falce witnes agaynste him / but their witnes aggreed not to geder.

57 And ther aroose certayne and brought falce witnes agaynste him / sayinge.¹⁶⁰

58 We herde him saye: I will destroye this temple made with hondes / and with in thre dayes I will bylde another / made with out honde.

59 But their witnes agreed not to geder.

60 And the hyeste preste stode vp amongest¹⁶¹ them / & axed Iesus sayinge: answerest thou nothinge? How is it that these beure witnes agaynst the?

61 And he helde his peace / and answered noothinge. Agayne the hyeste Preste axed him / & sayde vnto him: Arte thou Christ the sonne of the blessed?

62 And Iesus sayde: I am. And ye shall se the sonne of man syt on the ryght honde of power / and come in the cloudes of heven.

63 Then the hyest preste rent¹⁶² his cloothes and sayd: what nede we eny further of witnes?

64 Ye have herde the blasphemy what thinke ye? And they all gave sentence yᵗ he was worthy of deeth.

65 And some begāne to spit at him / & to cover his face / & to bete him with fistes / & to saye vnto him / arede vnto vs. And the servauntes boffeted him on the face.

66 And as Peter was beneeth in yᵉ pallys / ther came one of y[ᵉ] wēches of yᵉ hyest preste:

67 & whē [G]¹⁶³ she saw Petre warmynge him sylfe / she loked on him / & sayd: wast not thou also wᵗ Iesus of Nazareth?

68 And he denyed it sayinge: I knowe him not / nether wot I what thou sayest. And he went out into yᵉ poorche / & the cocke crewe.¹⁶⁴

69 And a damsell sawe him / & agayne beganne to saye to thē that stode by / this is one of thē.

70 And he denyed it agayne. And anone after / they that stode by / sayde agayne to Peter: suerly thou arte one of thē / for thou arte of Galile / &¹⁶⁵ thy speache agreth therto.

71 And he beganne to cursse & to sweare sayinge: I knowe not this man of whom ye speake.

72 And agayne the cocke krewe / and Peter remembred the worde that Iesus sayd vnto him: before the cocke crowe twyse / thou shalt deny me thryse & beganne to wepe.

Notes to Chapter 14

Chapter 15

¶ The .xv. Chap.¹⁶⁶

1 ANd anone in y[ᵉ] dawnynge the hye prestes helde counsell wᵗ yᵉ elders & y[ᵉ] scribes / & [A] yᵉ whoole cōgregacion / & bounde Iesus & ledde him awaye / & delivered him to Pilate.

2 And Pilate axed him: arte thou the¹⁶⁷ kynge of the Iewes? And he answered & sayde vnto him: thou sayest it.

3 And the hye prestes accused him of many thinges.

4 Wherfore Pilate axed him agayne sayinge: Answerest¹⁶⁸ thou nothinge? Beholde how many thinges they lay vnto thy charge.

5 Iesus yet answered never aworde / so that Pilate merveled.¹⁶⁹

6 At that feast Pilate was wont to delivre at their pleasure a presoner: whomsoever they wolde desyre.

7 And ther was one named Barrabas / which laye bounde with thē that made¹⁷⁰ insurreccion / & in the insurreccion cōmitted murther.

8 And y[ᵉ] people called vnto him / & began to desyre accordinge as he had ever done vnto them.

9 Pylate answered them and sayd: Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes?

10 For he knewe that the hye Prestes had delyvered him of envy.

11 But the hye prestes had moved the people / that he shuld¹⁷¹ rather delyvre Barrabas vnto them.

12 And Pylate answered agayne / and sayd vnto thē: What will ye then that I do wᵗ him [B] whom ye call y[ᵉ] kynge of yᵉ Iewes?

13 And they cryed agayne: crucifie him.

14 Pylate sayde vnto them: What evell hath he done? And they cryed y[ᵉ] moore fervently: crucifie him.

15 And so Pylate willinge to content the people / lowsed them Barrabas / and delyvered Iesus when he had scourged him / for to be crucified.

16 And the souddeers ledde him awaye into yᵉ commen hall / and called togedder the whoole¹⁷² multitude /

17 & they clothed him with purple / and they platted a croune of thornes & crouned¹⁷³ him with all /

18 and beganne to salute him. Hayle kynge of the Iewes.

19 And they smoote¹⁷⁴ him on the heed wᵗ a rede / and spat apon him / and kneled doune and worsheped him.

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

21 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.

22 And they brought him to a place named Golgotha (which is by¹⁷⁵ interpretacion / the place of deed mens scoulles)

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

24 [C] And when they had crucified him / they parted his garmentes / castinge loottes for them / what every man shulde have.

25 And it was aboute y[ᵉ] thyrde houte / and they crucified him.

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

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

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

29 And they that went by / rayled on him: waggynge¹⁷⁶ their heedes and sayinge: Awretche / that destroyest the temple and byldest it in¹⁷⁷ thre dayes:

30 fave thy fylfe / and come doune from the crosse.

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

32 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.

33 And when the sixte houre was come / darknes [D] aroose over all the erth / vntyll y[ᵉ] nynthe houre.

34 And at the nynthe houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce sayinge: Eloi / Eloi / lamaasbathani / which¹⁷⁸ is yf it be interpreted: my God / my God / why hast thou forsaken me?

35 And some of them that stode by / when they hearde yᵗ / sayde: beholde he calleth for Helyas¹⁷⁹

36 And one ran & 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.

37 But Iesus cryed with aloude voyce / & gave¹⁸⁰ vp the gooste.

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

39 And when the Centurion which¹⁸¹ stode before him / sawe that he so cryed & gave vp the gooste / he sayd: truly this man was the sonne of God.

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

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

42 And now when nyght was come (because¹⁸² it was y[ᵉ] even that goeth before y[ᵉ] saboth)

43 Ioseph of Arimathia a noble councelour which [E] also loked for y[ᵉ] kyngdome of God / came and went in booldly vnto Pylate / & begged yᵉ boddy of Iesu.

44 And Pylate merveled that he was alredy deed / & called vnto him y[ᵉ] Centurion /¹⁸³ & axed of him / whether he had bene eny whyle deed.

45 And when he knewe the trueth of the Centurion / he gave y[ᵉ] body to Ioseph.

46 And he bought a lynnen cloothe / and toke him doune & wrapped him in y[ᵉ] lynnen cloothe / & layde him in a tombe yᵗ was hewen oute of y[ᵉ] rocke / & / rolled a stone vnto the dore of the sepulcre.

47 And Mary Magdalen & Mary Ioses beheld where he was layde.

Notes to Chapter 15

Chapter 16

¶ The .xvi. Chap.

1 ANd when y[ᵉ] saboth daye was past / Mary [A]¹⁸⁴ Magdalen / & ✚ Mary Iacobi / & Salome / bought odures / that they myght come & anoynt him.

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

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

4 And when they looked / they sawe how the stone was rolled awaye: For it was a¹⁸⁵ very greate one.

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

6 And he sayd vnto thē / be not afrayed: ye seke Iesus of Nazareth which was crucified. [B] He is rysen / he is not here. Beholde the place /¹⁸⁶ where they put him.

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

8 ✚ And they went oute quickly and fleed from the sepulcre. For they trembled & were amased. Nether sayd they enythinge to eny man / for they were afrayed.

9 ✚ When Iesus was rysen the morow after¹⁸⁷ y[ᵉ] saboth daye / he appered fyrst to Mary Magdalen / oute of whom he cast seven devyls.

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

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

12 After that /¹⁸⁸ he appered vnto two of them in a straunge figure / as they walked and went into the country.

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

14 ✚ After that he appered vnto the elevē as [C]¹⁸⁹ they sate at meate: and cast in their tethe their vnbelefe & hardnes of herte: because they beleued not them which had sene him after his resurrecciō.

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

16 he that beleueth and is baptised / shallbe saved. But he that beleveth not / shalbe dampned.

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

18 and shall kyll serpentes. And yf they drinke eny dedly thinge / yt shall not hurte thē. They shall laye their honde on y[ᵉ] sicke / & they shall recover.

19 So then when the lorde had spoken vnto¹⁹⁰ them / he was receaued in to heauen / and is set doune on the ryght honde of God.

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

¶ The ende of the gospell of S. Marcke.

Notes to Chapter 16

Colophon

Transcribed from The newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale (Antwerp: Marten Emperowr, November 1534; STC 2826), British Library copy, as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP Phase I, text A68940): keyed by Apex CoVantage from the ProQuest page images in 2005, then sampled and proofread by Judith Siefring. The TCP transcription was released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. The printed text is in the public domain.

Spelling, capitals, punctuation (including the virgule /), abbreviation marks (the macron, as in thē, and ꝭ) and the signs ¶ ✚ ⊢ ❧ are kept as printed. The only changes are these: long s (ſ) is set as s; superscript letters are set as ᵉ ᵗ ᵒ (yᵉ = the, yᵗ = that); ▪ marks a stop the transcribers could not identify; a word divided at the end of a line, with or without a printed hyphen, is joined into one word; a letter supplied from another text, as explained below, is set in square brackets; page breaks and catchwords are removed. Woodcuts and decorated initials are not reproduced, but woodcut captions are given. The margin notes are given as numbered footnotes. Printed headings are kept, including their misprints, as italic lines under the library's chapter headings. The letters [A] to [G] are the section letters printed in the margin, by which the 1534 margin references (for example "Esaie vij. c.") and the table of lessons find a passage.

The 1534 print has no verse numbers. They are supplied here from the eBible.org Tyndale New Testament (1534), a public-domain, verse-numbered electronic text of the same edition. A word-by-word alignment showed that about 97 per cent of the two texts' words are identical across the New Testament, and the remainder differ in spelling and abbreviation, with a few slips of keying in one text or the other. The paragraphs of the print give way to one paragraph per verse. This edition divides some chapters differently from later Bibles: verse 9:1 of later Bibles stands in chapter 8 of this edition. Such verses are numbered in chapter:verse form. This edition has no text for Mark 11:26, a verse found in later Bibles, so that number does not appear.

Words that the transcribers could not read are marked ⟨illegible⟩ (11 places on this page, 10 of them in the margin notes).

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