Hebrews — The Tyndale New Testament (1534)

The epistle to the Hebrews in Tyndale's revised New Testament of 1534, translated from the Greek, with his prologue on the epistle and its authority. Like James, Jude and Revelation, it stands after the epistles of John and unnumbered in the 1534 list of books. 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.

¶ The Prologe to the episile of S. Paul to the Hebrues.

ABoute this pistle hath euer beē noche doutynge and that amōte great learned mē who shuld be the auctor therof: diuerse affirminge that it was not Paules partlye because the stile so disagreeth & is so vnlyk: his other epistles / & parrlye because it stondeth in the seconde Chapter / this learninge was confyrmed to vs warde: that is to saye taught vs by them that heard it them selues of the Lorde. Now Paule testifieth Gala. j. that he receaued not his gospell of man ner by man but ymmediatlye of Christ & that by reuelacion. Wherfore saye they / seinge this mā confesseth that he receaued his doctryne of the Apostles it cānot be Pauls / but some disciple of the Apostles. Now whether it were Pauls or no I saye not / but permytit to other mennes iudgementes / ne ther thinke I it to be an article of anye mannes fayth / but that a man maye doute of the auctor.

Moreouer / manye there hath been which not onlye haue denyed this pistle to haue been wrytten by anye of the Apostles / but haue also refused yt altogether as no catholick or godlye pistle / because of certen textes written therin. For fyrst it sayth in the si⟨illegible⟩te: it is impossible that they which were once lyghted / & haue tasted of the heuenly gyfte & were become partakers of the holy goost / & haue tasted of the good worde of God & of the power of the worlde to come if they fall / shuld be renewed agayne to repentaūce or conuersion. And in the tēth it sayeth / if we synne wyllynglye after we haue receaued the knowledge of the truthe / there remarneth no more sacrifice for synnes / but a fearfull lokynge for iudgemēt & vyolent fyer which shall destroye the aduersaries. And in the .xij. it sayeth that Esau founde no waye to repentaūce or cōuersyon ⟨illegible⟩no though he sought it with teares. Which textes saye they / sounde that if a mā syn ne anye more after he is once baptised / he can be nomore forgeuen / and that is contrary to all the scripture / and therfore to be refused to be catholyck and godlye.

Vnto which I answer: yf we shuld denie this pistle for those textes sakes / so shuld we denye fyrst Mathew which in his .xij. chap. affirmeth that he which blasphemeth the holy goost / shall nether be forgeuē here ner in y⟨illegible⟩ worlde to come. And then Marke which in his .iij. chap. sayeth that he that blasphemeth the holy goost / shall neuer haue forgeuenes / but shal be in daūger of eternall dānaciō. And thyrdly Luke which sayth there shal be no remissiō to hī that blasphemeth the spirite of God. Moreouer Iohn in his .j. pistle sayth there is a synne vnto deeth / for which a mā shuld not praye. And .ij. Petr. ij. sayth: yf a mā be fled frō the vnclennes of the worlde thorow the knowlege of the sau your Iesus Christ / and then be wropt in agayne / his ende is worse then the begininge & that it had bene better for him neuer to haue knowē the truthe. And Paul ij. timo. iij. cursseth Alexāder the copersinith / desyringe the Lorde to rewarde him accordinge to his dedes. Which is a signe that ether the pistle shuld not be good / or that Alexāder had synned past forgeuenes / no more to be prayed for. Wherfore seinge no scripture is of priuat inter pretaciō: but must be expounded accordinge to the generall articles of oure fayth & agreable to other opē & euidēt textes / & cōfirmed or cōpared to lyke sentēces / why shuld we not vnderstōee these places with lyke reuerēce as we do the other / namely when all the remnāt of the pistle is so godlye and of so great learninge.

The fyrst place in the .vj. Chapter will no more then that they which knowe the truthe / & yet willinglye refuse the light / and chose rather to dwell in darcknes / & refuse Christ & make a mocke of him (as the Pharises which when they were ouercome with scripture & myracles that Christ was the verye Messias / yet had soche lust in iniquite that they for soke him / persecuted him slewe him & did all the shame that coulde be ymagined to him) cānot be renued (eis Me tano iam) sayth the Greke / to be conuerted: that is to saye / soche malycious vnkyndnes which is none no⟨illegible⟩ her then the blaspheminge of the holy ghoost / deserueth that the spirite shall neuer come more at them to conuert th⟨illegible⟩ / which I beleue to be as true as eny other texte in all the scripture.

And what is meant by that place in the tēth chapter where he sayth / yf we synne willinglie after we haue receaued the knowledge of the truthe / there remayneth no more sacrifice for synne / is declared ymediatlye after. For he maketh a comparyson betwene Moses & Christ / sayenge: if he which despised Moses lawe dyed without mercie how moche worse punishement is he worthye of / that treadeth the sonne of God vnder fote & counteth the bloude of the couenaūt / by which bloude he was sanctified / as an vnholy thinge & blasphemeth the spirite of grace. By which wordes it is manyfest that he meaneth none other by the fore wordes / then the synne of blasphemye of the spirite.

For them that synne of ignoraunce or infirmitie / there is reamedie / but for him that knoweth the trouthe / & yet willinglye yeldeth himselfe to synne / and consenteth vnto the lyfe of synne with soule and bodye / and had leuer lye in synne then haue his poysoned nature healed by the helpe of the spirite of grace / & malyciouslye persecuteth the truthe: for him I saye there is no remeadye the waye to mercie is locked vp & the spirite is taken frō him for his vnthankfulnes sake no more to be geuen him. Trouthe it is yf a man can tourne to God and beleue in Christ / he must be forgeuē how depe soeuer he hath synned: but that wyll not be with oute the spirite / & soche blasphemers shall no more haue the spirite offered them. Let euery mā therfore feare God & beware that he yelde not him selfe to serue synne / but how ofte soeuer he synne let him begynne agayne & fyght afreshe / & no doute he shall at the last ouercome / & in the meantyme yet be vnder mercie for Christes sake because his harte worketh and wolde fayne belowsed from vnder the bondage of fynne.

And that it sayeth in the. xi⟨illegible⟩. Esau foūde no waye (eis Metanono iam) to beconuerted & recōciled vnto God & restored vnto his byrthright agayne / though he sought it with teares / that text must haue a spiritualleye. For Esau in sellynge his byrthryght despised not only that tēporall promocion / that he shuld haue been lorde ouer all his brethren & kynge of that coūtre: but he also refused the grace & mercie of God & the spirituall blessinges of Abraham & Isaac & all the mercie that is promised vs in Christ which shuld have been his seed. Of this ye se that this epistle ought no more to be refused for holye / godlye & catholicke then the other autenticke scriptures.

Now therfore to come to oure purpose agayne / though this epistle (as it sayth in the sixte) saye not the grounde of the fayth of Christ / yet it buyldeth conynglye theron pure golde / syluer & preciouse stones / & proueth the presthode of Christ with scriptures ineuitable. Moreouer ther is no worke in all the scripture that so playnlye declareth the meaninge & significacions of the sacrifices / ceremonies & fygures of the olde testamēt / as this pistle: in so moche that if wilfull blindnes and malicious malyce were not the cause this epistle onlye were ynough to wede oute of the heartes of the Papistes that cankred heresye of iustifyenge of workes / concerninge oure sacramentes / ceremonies and all maner tradicions of their awne inuencion.

And finallye in that ye se in the tenth that he had bene in bondes and pryson for Christes sake and in that he so myghtelye dryueth all to Christ to be saued thorow him / and so cared for the flocke of Christ that he bothe wrote & sent / where he harde that they begonne to faynte / to comforte / courage and strength them with the worde of God / and in that also that he sent Timothe Pauls disciple both verteous / well learned and had in great reuerence / it is easie to se that he was a faythfull seruaunt of Christes & of the same doctryne that Timothe was of / ye and Paule him selfe was / and that he was an Apostle or in the Apostles tyme or nere therunto. And seinge the pistle agreeth to all the r⟨illegible⟩st of the scripture / yf it be indifferētlye loked on / how shuld it not be of auctoryte and taken for holye scrypture?

The text

Chapter 1

¶ The fyrst Chapter. ✚

1 GOd in tyme past diversly and many [A] wayes / spake vnto the fathers by Prophete:

2 but in these last dayes he hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne / whom he hath made heyre of all thinges: by whō also he made the worlde.

3 Which sonne beynge the brightnes of his glory / & very ymage of his substance / bearinge vp all thinges with the worde of his power / hath in his awne person pourged oure synnes / & is sitten on the right honde of the maiestie an hye /

4 and [B]¹ is more excellent then the angels / in as moche as he hath by inheritaunce obteyned an excellenter name then have they.

5 For vnto which of the angele sayde he ateny tyme: Thou arte my sonne / this daye begate I the? And agayne: I will be his father /² and he shalbe my sonne.

6 And agayne whē he bringeth in the fyrst begotten sonne in to the worlde / he sayth: And all the angels of God shall worshippe him.

7 And of the angels he [C] sayth: He maketh his angels spretes / and his³ ministres flammes of fyre.

8 But vnto the sonne he sayth: God thy seate shalbe forever and ever. The cepter of thy kyngdome is a right⁴ cepter.

9 Thou hast loved rightewesnes & hated iniquyte⟨illegible⟩. Wherfore God which is thy God / hath anoynted the with yᵉ oyle of gladnes⁵ above thy felowes.

10 And thou Lorde in the begynninge hast layde the foundacion of the erth. And the hevēs are the workes of thy hondes.

11 They shall perisshe / but thou shalt endure. They all shall wexe olde as doth a garment:

12 and as a vesture shalt thou chaunge them / and they shalbe [D] chaunged. But thou arte all wayes / and thy yeres shall not fayle.

13 ✚ Vnto which of the angels sayde he at eny tyme? Sit on my ryght honde / tyll I make thyne enemyes thy fote⁶ stole.

14 Are they not all mynistrynge spretes / sent to minister for their sakes which shalbe heyres of salvacion?

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2

The .ii. Chapter.

1 VVherfore we ought to geve yᵉ more hede⁷ to yᵉ thingꝭ we have herde lest we [A] perysshe.

2 For yf the worde which was spokē by angels was stedfast: so yᵗ every trāsgressiō & disobediēce receaved a iust r⟨illegible⟩cōpēce to rewarde:

3 how shall we escape / yf we despyse so great saluaciō which at yᵉ fyrst begā to be preached of yᵉ lorde him silfe / & afterwarde was cōformed vnto vs warde / by thē yᵉ hearde it /

4 god bearynge witnes therto / bothe with sygnes and wonders also / and with divers⁸ miracles / & gyftes of the holy gooste / accordynge to his awne will.

5 He hath not vnto the angels put in subieccion the worlde to come / where of we speake.

6 But one in a certayne place witnessed / sayinge. [B] What is man / that thou arte myndfull of him?

7 After thou haddest for a feason made him lower then the angels: tho⟨illegible⟩ crounedst him with honour and glory / and hast set him above the workes of thy hondes.

8 Thou hast put all thynges in subieccion vnder his fete. In that he put all thynges vnder him / he left nothynge that is not put vnder him.

9 Neverthelesse we yet se not all thynges subdued but him yᵗ was made lesse thē yᵉ angelles: we se that it was Iesus which is crouned with glory and honour for the sofferinge of death: that he by the grace of god / shulde tast of deeth for all men.

10 For it becam him / for whom are all thyngꝭ [C] & by whom are all thynges / after that he had brought many sonnes vnto glory / that he shuld make the lorde of their saluacion parfect thorow sofferynge.

11 For he that sanctifieth / and they which are sanctified⟨illegible⟩ are all of one▪ For which causes sake / he is not a sham⁹ de to call thē brethren

12 sayinge: I will declare thy name vnto my brethren / and in the myddes of the congregaciō will I prayse the.

13 And agayne: I will put my trust in him. And agayne. beholde here am I and the children which god hath geven me.

14 [D] For as moche then as the children were¹⁰ parte takers offlesshe and bloud / he also him silfelyke wyse toke parte with them / for to put doune thorow deth / him that had lordshippe over deeth / that i[s] to saye the devyll /

15 & y[ᵗ] he myght delyver thē which thorow feare of deeth were all their lyfe tyme in daūger of bondage.

16 For he in no place taketh on him the angels: but the seede of Abraham taketh he on him.

17 Wherfore in all thynges it became him to be made lyke vnto his brethrē / [t]hat he myght be mercifull and a faythfull hye preste in thynges concernynge god / for to pourge the peoples synnes.

18 For in that he him silfe suffered and was tempted / he is able to sucker them that are tempted.

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3

The .iii. Chapter.

1 VVherfore holy brethren / partakers of the celestiall callinge / cōsyder the embasseatour and hye prest of oure profession / Christ Iesus

2 which was faythfull to him that made him / even as was Moses in all his housse.

3 And this man was counted¹¹ worthy of more glory then Moses: In as moche as he which hath prepared the housse hath most honoure in the housse.

4 Every housse is prepared of some man. But he that ordeyned [B] all thinges is god.

5 And Moses verely was faythfull in all his housse as a minister / to beare witnes of tho thinges which shuld be spoken afterwarde.

6 But Christ as a sonne hath rule over the housse / whose housse are we / so that we hold fast the confydence & the reioysynge of that hope / vnto the ende.

7 Wherfore as the holy goost sayth: to daye if ye shall heare his voyce /

8 harden not youre¹² hertes / after the rebellyon in the daye of temptacion in the wildernes /

9 where youre fathers tempted me / proved me / and sawe my workes xl. yeare longe.

10 Wherfore I was greved wᵗ [C] y[ᵉ] generaciō & sayde. They erre ever in their hertes: they verely have not knowē my wayes /

11 so that I sware in my wrathe / that they shuld not enter into my rest.

12 Take hede brethren that therbe in none of you an evyll herte in vnbeleve / that he shuld departe from yᵉ lyvynge god:

13 but exhorte one another dayly / whill it is called to daye / lest eny of you wexe harde herted thorow y[ᵉ] deceytfullnesse of sinne

14 We are partetakers of Christ yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the fyrst substance /

15 so longe¹³ as it is sayd: to daye yf ye heare his voyce / [D] hardē not youre hertes / as when ye rebelled.

16 For some / whē they hearde / rebelled: howbe it not all yᵗ cā out of Egypt vnder Moses.

17 But with whō was he despleased. yl. yeares? Was he not displeased with them that synned:¹⁴ whose carkases were over thorwen in the desert?

18 To whom sware he that they shuld not enter into his rest: but vnto them that beleved not?

19 And we se that they coulde not enter in / because of¹⁵ vnbeleve.

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4

The .iiii. Chapter.

1 LEt vs feare therfore lest eny of vs forsakynge the promes of entrynge into his rest / shulde seme to come behinde.

2 [A] For vnto vs was it declared / as well as vnto them. But it proffited not them that they hearde the worde / because they which hearde it / coupled it not with fayth.

3 But we which have beleved / do enter into his rest / as contrary¹⁶ wyse he sayde to the other: I have sworne [B] in my wrath / they shall not enter into my rest. And that spake he verely longe after that the workes were made & the foūdaciō of yᵉ worlde layde.

4 For he spake in a certayne place of yᵉ sevēth daye / on this wyse: And god did rest yᵉ seventh¹⁷ daye frō all his worke.

5 And in this place agayne: They shall not come into my rest.

6 Seynge therfore it foloweth that some muste enter therinto / & they to whō it was fyrst preached / entred not therin for vnbeleves sake.

7 Agayne he apoynteth in David a certayne present daye after so longe a tyme / sayinge as [C] it is rehearsed: this daye if ye heare his voyce / be not harde herted.

8 For if Iosue had geven them rest / then wolde he not afterwarde have spokē of another daye.

9 There remayneth therfore yet a rest to yᵉ people of God.

10 For he yᵗ is is entred into his [r]est doth¹⁸ cease from his awne workes / as god did from his.

11 Let vs study therfore to entre into that rest / lest eny man faule after the same ensample / [D] in to vnbelefe.

12 For the worde of god is quycke / and myghty in operacion / and sharper then eny two edged swearde: and entreth through / even vnto the dividynge a sonder of the soule and the sprete / and of the ioyntes and the mary: and iudgeth the thoughtes and the intentes of the herte:

13 nether is there eny creature invisible¹⁹ in the sight of it. For all thynges are naked and bare vnto the eyes of him / of whō we speake.

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5

¶ The .v. Chapter.

4:14 SEynge then that we have a great hye²⁰ prest whych is entred into heven (I [A] meane Iesus the sonne of God) let vs holde oure profession.

4:15 For we have not an hye prest / which can not have compassion on oure infirmities: but was in all poyntes tempted / lyke as we are: but yet with out synne.

4:16 Let vs therfore goo boldely vnto the seate of grace / that we maye receave mercy / and fynde grace to helpe in tyme of nede.

1 ✚ For every hye prest that is taken from amōge men / is ordeyned for men / in thynges pertaynynge to god: to offer gyftes and sacryfyses for synne:

2 which can have compassion on the ignoraunt / and on them that are out of the waye / because that he him silfe also is compased with infirmitie:

3 For the which infirmities sake / he is bounde to offer for synnes / as well for hys awne parte / as for the peoples.

4 And noman taketh honour vnto him silfe / but²¹ he that is called of God / as was Aaron.

5 [B] Even so lykewise / Christ glorified not him silfe / to be made the hye prest: but he that sayde vnto him: thou arte my sonne / this daye begat²² I the / glorified him.

6 As he also in another place speaketh: Thou arte a prest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.

7 ✚ Which in²³ the dayes of his flesshe / did offer vp prayers and supplicacions / with stronge cryinge and teares / vnto him that was able to save him from deeth: and was also hearde / because of his godlines.

8 And though he were Goddes sonne / yet learned he obediēce / by tho thynge which he suffered /

9 and was made parfaite / & the cause of eternall saluacion vnto all them that obey him:

10 and is called of God an hye prest / after the order of Melchisedech.

11 Wherof we have many thynges to saye which are harde to be vitered: because ye are dull of hearinge.

12 For when as cōcerninge yᵉ tyme / ye ought to be teachers / yet have ye nede agayne that we teache you the fyrst principles of the worde of god: and are become soche as [C] have nede of mylke / and not of stronge meate:

13 For every man that is feed with mylke / is inexperte in the worde of rightewesnes. For he is but a babe.

14 But stronge meate belongeth to them that are parfecte which thorow custome have their wittes exercised / to iudge both good and evyll also.

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

1 VVherfore let vs leave y[ᵉ] doctryne pertayninge to the beginninge of a Christen [A] man / & let vs go vnto perfecciō / and now no more laye the foundaciō of repentaunce from deed workes / & of fayth towarde God /

2 of baptyme / of doctryne / & of layinge on of hondes / & of resurreccion from deeth / & of eternall iudgemēt.

3 And so will we do / yf God permitte.

4 For it is not possible yᵗ they / which were once lyghted / and have tasted of the hevenly²⁴ gyft / and were become partetakers of the holy goost /

5 & have tasted of the good worde of God / & of the power of the worlde to come:

6 yf they faule / shuld be renued agayne vnto repentaunce: for as moche as they have (as concerninge them selves) crucified the sonne of God a fresshe / makynge a mocke of him.

7 [B] For that erth which drinketh in the rayne wich cōmeth ofte vpon it / and bringeth forth erbes mete for them that dresse it / receaveth blessynge of god.

8 But that grounde / which beareth thornes & bryars / is reproved / & is nye vnto cursynge: whose ende is to be burned.

9 Neverthelesse deare frendes / we trust to se better of you and thynges which accompany saluacion / though we thus speake.

10 For god is not vnrighteous that he shuld forget youre worke and laboure that procedeth of love / which love shewed in his name / which have ministred vnto the saynctes / and yet minister

11 [C] Yee / & we desyre that every one of you shew the same diligence / to the stablysshynge of hope / even vnto the ende:

12 that ye faynt not / but folowe them / which thorow fayth & pacience inheret the promyses.

13 For when god made promes to Abraham / because he had no greater thinge to sweare by he sware by him silfe

14 sayinge: Surely I will²⁵ blesse the and multiply the in dede.

15 And so after that he had taryed a longe tyme / he enioyed the promes.

16 Men verely sweare by him that [D] is greater then them selves / and an othe to confyrme the thynge / ys amonge them an ende of all stryfe.

17 So god willynge very aboundanly to shewe vnto the heyres of promes / the stablenes of his counsayle / he added an othe /

18 that by two²⁶ immutable thinges (in which it was vnpossible that god shuld lye) we myght have parfect consolacion / which have fled / for to holde fast the hope that is set before vs /

19 which hope we have as an ancre of the soule both sure and stedfast. Which hope also entreth in / into tho thynges which are with in the vayle /

20 whither yᵉ fore runner is for vs entred in / I meā Iesus that is made an hye prest for ever / after the order of Melchisedech.

Notes to Chapter 6

Chapter 7

The .vii. Chapter.

1 THis Melchisedech kynge of Salem (which beinge prest of yᵉ most hye god [A]²⁷ met Abraham / as he returned agayne from the slaughter of the kynges / and blessed him:

2 to whom also Abraham gave tythes of all thynge) fyrst is by interpretacion kynge of rightewesnes: after yᵉ he is kynge of Salē / yᵗ is to saye kynge of peace /

3 with out father / wᵗ out mother / with out kynne / and hath nether begynnynge of his tyme / nether yet ende of his lyfe: but is lykened vnto the sonne of god and continueth a preste for ever.

4 Consyder what a man this was / vnto whō the patriarke Abraham gave tythes of the spoyles.

5 And verely those children of levy / which receave the office of the prestes / have a commaundement to take a cordyng⟨illegible⟩ to the lawe / tythes of the people / that is to saye / of their brethren / yee though they spronge out of [B] the loynes of Abraham.

6 But he whose kynred is not counted amonge them / receaved tythes of Abraham / and blessed him that had the promyses.

7 And no man denyeth but that which is lesse / receaveth blessinge of yᵗ which is greater.

8 And here men that dye receave tythes. But there he receaveth tythes of whom it is witnessed / that he liveth.

9 And to saye the trueth / Levy him silfe also which receaveth tythes / payed tythes in Abraham.

10 For he was yet in the loynes of his father Abraham when Melchisech met him.

11 Yf now therfore perfeccion came by the presthod of the levites (for vnder that presthod the people recaved the lawe) what neded [C] it further more that an other prest shuld ryse / after the order of Melchisedech / and not after the order of Aaron?

12 Now no dout / yf the presthod be translated / then of necessitie must the lawe be translated also.

13 For he of whom these thynges are spoken / pertayneth vnto another trybe / of which never man served at the aultre.

14 For it is evidēt that oure lorde sprouge of the trybe of Iuda / of which trybe spake Moses nothynge concernynge presthod.

15 And it is yet a more evydent thinge / yf after the similitude of Melchisedech / ther aryse a nother prest /

16 which is not made after the lawe of the carnall commaundmēt: but after the power of the endlesse lyfe

17 (For he testifieth:²⁸ Thou arte a prest forever / after the order of Melchysedech)

18 Then the commaundmēt that went a fore / is disanulled / because of hir weaknes and vnproffitablenes.

19 For the lawe made nothynge parfecte: but was an introduccion of a better hope / by which hope / we drawe nye vnto god.

20 And for this cause it is a better hope / that it was not promysed with out an othe.

21 Those prestes were made wᵗ out an oth: but this [D]²⁹ prest with an oth / by him that saide vnto him The lorde sware / and will not repent: Thou arte a prest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.

22 And for that cause was Iesus a stablyssher of a better testament.

23 And amonge them many were made prestes / because they were not suffred to endure by the reason of deeth.

24 But this man / because he endureth ever / hath an everlastinge presthod.

25 Wherfore he is able also ever to save them that come vnto god by him / seynge he ever lyveth / to make intercession for vs.

26 Soche an hye prest it became vs to have / which is wholy / harmlesse / vndefyled / separat from synners / & made hyar then heven.

27 Which nedeth not dayly (as yonder hie prestes) to offer vp sacrifice / fyrst for his awne³⁰ synnes / and then for the peoples synnes. For that did he at once for all when he offered vp him silfe.

28 For the lawe maketh men prestes / which have infirmitie: but the worde of the othe that came sence y[ᵉ] lawe / maketh the sonne prest / which is parfecte for ever more.

Notes to Chapter 7

Chapter 8

The .viii. Chapter

1 OF the thynges which we have spokē / this is the pyth: that we have soche [A] an hye preste that is sitten on yᵉ right honde of the seate of maieste in heven /

2 and is a minister of holy thynges / and of the very tabernacle / which God pyght / and not mā.

3 For every hye prest is ordeyned to offer gyfres and sacryfises / wherfore it is of necessitie / that this man have some what also to offer.

4 For he were not a preste / yf he were on y[ᵉ] erth where [B] are prestes that acordynge to y[ᵉ] lawe / offer giftes /

5 which prestes serve vnto yᵉ ensample & shadowe of hevenly thynges: even as the answer of God was geven vnto Moses when he was about to fynnishe the tabernacle: Take³¹ hede (sayde he) that thou make all thynges accordynge to the patrone shewed to the in the mount.

6 Now hath he obtayned a more excellent office / in as moche as he is the mediator of a better testament / which was made for better promyses.

7 For yf that fyrst testament had bene fautelesse: then shuld no place have bene sought for the seconde.

8 For in rebukynge thē he sayth: Beholde the dayes will come (sayth³² the lorde) and I will fynnyshe apon the housse of Israhel / and apon the housse of Iuda / a newe testament:

9 not lyke the testament that³³ I made with their fathers at that tyme / whē I toke them by the hondes / to lede them oute of the londe of Egipte / for they continued not in my testament / and I regarded them not sayth the lorde.

10 For this is the testament that I will make with the housse of Israhell: After those dayes [D] sayth the lorde: I will put my lawes in their myndes / and in their hertes I will wryte thē / and I wilbe their God / and they shalbe my people.

11 And they shall not teache / every man his neghboure / and every man his brother / sayinge: knowe the lorde: For they shall knowe me / from the lest to the moste of them:

12 For I wilbe mercifull over their vnrightwesnes / & on their synnes and on their iniquities.

13 In yᵗ he sayth a new testament he hath abrogat the olde. Now that which is disanulled and weyed▪ olde / is redy to vannysshe awaye.

Notes to Chapter 8

Chapter 9

The .ix. Chapter.

1 THat fyrst tabernacle verely had ordinaunces / and servynges of god / & wordly [A] holynes.

2 ✚ For there was a fore tabernacle made / wherin was the candlesticke / and the table / and the shewe breed / which is called wholy.

3 But with in the secōde vayle was ther a tabernacle / which is called holiest of all /

4 which had the golden senser / and the arcke of the testamēt overlayde round about with golde / wherin was the golden pot with manna / and Aarons rodde that spronge / and the tables of the testament.

5 Over the arcke were the cherubis of glory shadowynge the seate of grace. Of which thynges / we wyll not now speake perticularly.

6 [B] When these thynges were thus ordeyned / the prestes went all wayes into the fyrst tabernacle & executed the service of god.

7 But into the seconde went the hye prest alone / once every yeare: and not with out bloud / which he offered for him silfe / and for the ignoraunce of yᵉ people.

8 Wherwith yᵉ holy goost this signifyeng / yᵗ the waye of holy thynge / was not yet opēned / whill as yet yᵉ fyrst tabernacle was stondynge.

9 Which was a similitude for [C] the tyme then present / and in which were offered gyftes and sacrifises that coulde not make them that minister parfecte / as pertaynynge to the conscience /

10 with only meates & drinkes / and divers wesshynges and iustifyinges of the flesshe / which were ordeyned vntyll the tyme of reformacion.

11 ✚ But Christ beynge an hye prest of good thynges to come / came by a greater and a moare parfecte tabernacle / not made with hondes: [D] that is to saye / not of this maner bildynge /

12 nether by the bloud of gotes and calves: but by his awne bloud we entred once for all into the holy place / and founde eternall redemcion.

13 ✚ For yf the bloud of ox[en] and of Gotes³⁴ & the asshes of an heyfer / whē it was sprynckled / puryfied the vnclene / as touchynge³⁵ the purifiynge of the flesshe:

14 How moche more shall the bloud of Christ (which thorow the eternall sprete / offered him silfe with out spot to God) pourdge youre consciences from deed workes for to serve the livynge god?

15 And for this cause is he the mediator of yᵉ newe testament / that thorow deeth which chaunsed [E] for the redempcion of those transgressions that were in yᵉ fyrst testamēt) they which were called / myght receave the promes of eternall inheritaunce.

16 ✚ For whersoever is a testament / there must also be the deeth of him that³⁶ maketh the testament.

17 For the testament taketh auctoritie when men are deed: For it is of no value as longe as he that made it is a live.

18 For which cause also / nether that fyrst testament was ordeyned with out bloud.

19 For [F] when all the commaundementes were redde of Moses vnto all the people / he toke yᵉ bloud of calves and of Gotes / with water and purple³⁷ woll and ysope / and sprynkled both the boke and all the people /

20 sayinge: this is the bloud of the testament which god hath apoynted vnto you.

21 Morover / he sprenkled the tabernacle with bloud also / and all the ministrynge vessels.

22 And almost all thynges / are bye the lawe / pourged with bloud / and with out effusion of bloud / is no remission.

23 [G] It is then nede that the similitudes of hevenly thynges be purified with soche thynges: but the hevenly thynges them selves are purified with better sacrifises then are those.

24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places that are made with hondes / which are but similitudes [D] of true thynges: but is entred into very heven / for to appere now in the syght of God for vs:

25 not to offer him silfe often / as the hye prest entreth in to yᵉ holy place every yeare with straunge bloud /

26 for then must he have of ten suffered sence the worlde begā. But now in the ende of the worlde / hath he appered once / to put synne to flyght / by the offerynge vp of him silfe.

27 And as it is apoynted vnto men that they shall once dye / and then commeth the iudgement /

28 even so Christ was once offered to take a waye the synnes of many / and³⁸ vnto them that loke for him / shall he appeare agayne without synne / vnto saluacion.

Notes to Chapter 9

Chapter 10

The .x. Chapter.

1 FOr the lawe which hath but the shadowe [A] of good thynges to come / and not the thynges in their awne fassion / can³⁹ never with yᵉ sacryfises which they offer yere by yere continually / make the cōmers ther vnto parfayte.

2 For wolde not then those sacrifises have ceased to have bene offered / because that the offerers once pourged / shuld have had no moare consciēces of sinnes.

3 Neverthelesse in those sacrifises is ther mencion made of synnes every yeare.

4 For it is vnpossible that the bloud of oxen / and of gotes shuld take awaye synnes.

5 [B] Wherfore when he commeth into the worlde / he⁴⁰ sayth: Sacrifice and offeringe thou woldest not have: but a bodie hast thou ordeyned me.

6 In sacrifices and synneofferynges thou⁴¹ hast no lust.

7 Then I sayde: Lo I come / in the chefest of the boke it is written of me / that I shuld doo thy will / o god.

8 Above when he had sayed sacrifice and offerynge / and burnt sacrifices and synneofferynges thou woldest not have / nether hast alowed (which yet are offered by the lawe)

9 and then sayde: Lo I come to do thy will o god: he taketh a waye the fyrst⁴² to stablisshe the latter.

10 By the which will we are sanctified / by the offeringe of the body of Iesu Christe once for all.

11 And every prest is redy dayly ministrynge / [C] and ofte tymes offereth one maner of offerynge / which can never take awaye synnes.

12 But this man after he had offered one sacrifyce for synnes / sat him doune for ever on the right honde of god /

13 and from hence forth tarieth⁴³ till his foes be made his fotestole.

14 For with one offerynge hath he made parfecte for ever them y[ᵗ] are sanctified.

15 And yᵉ holy goost also beareth vs recorde of this / even when he tolde before:

16 This is the testament that I will make vnto them after those dayes sayth the lorde. I will put my lawes in their hertes⁴⁴ and in their mynde I will write them

17 & their⁴⁵ synnes and iniquyties will I remember no moare.

18 And where remission of these thinges [D] is / there is no moare offerynge for synne.

19 Seynge brethren that by the meanes of the bloud of Iesu / we maye be bolde to enter into that holy place /

20 by the newe and livynge waye / which he hath prepared for vs / through the vayle / that is to saye by his flesshe.

21 And seynge also that we have an hye prest which is ruler over yᵉ housse of god /

22 let vs drawe nye with a true herte in a fullfayth / sprynckeled in oure hertes from an evyll conscience / and wesshed in oure bodies with pure water /

23 and let vs kepe the profession of oure hope / with oute waveringe (for he is faythfull that promysed)

24 & let vs consyder one another to provoke⁴⁶ vnto love / & to good workes:

25 & let vs not [E] forsake the felishippe that we have amōge oure selves / as the maner of some is: but let vs exhorte one another / and that so moche the more / because ye se that the daye draweth nye.

26 For yf we synne willyngly after that we have receaved the knowledge of the trueth / there remayneth no more sacrifice for synnes

27 but a fearfull lokynge for iudgement / and violent fyre which shall devoure the adversaries

28 He that despiseth Moses lawe / dyeth without mercy vnder two or thre witnesses.

29 Of⁴⁷ how moche sorer punyshment suppose ye [F] shall he be counted worthy / which treadeth vnder fote the sonne of god: and counteth the bloude of the testament as an vnholy thynge wherwith he was sanctified / and doth dishonoure to the sprete of grace.

30 For we knowe him that hath sayde / vengeaunce belongeth vnto me / I will recompence fayth the lorde.⁴⁸ And agayne: the lorde shall iudge his people.

31 It is a fearfull thynge to faule into the hondes of the livynge God.

32 Call to remēbraunce the dayes that are passed / in the which after ye had receaved light / ye endured a greate fyght in adversities /

33 partly whill all men wondred and gased at you for the shame and triōulacion that was done vnto you / and partly whill ye became companyons of thē which so passed their tyme.

34 For ye suffered also with my bondes / and toke a worth the spoylynge of youre goodes / & that with gladnes / knowynge in youre selves how [G] that ye had in heven a better and an endurynge substaunce

35 Cast not awaye therfore youre confidence / which hath great rewarde to recōpence.

36 For ye have nede of paciēce / that after ye have done yᵉ will of god / ye myght receave the promes.

37 For yet a very lytell whyle / and he that shall come will come / and will not tary.

38 But the iust shall live by faith. And yf he⁴⁹ withdrawe him silfe / my soule shall have no pleasure in him.

39 We are not whiche with drawe oure selves vnto dampnaciō / but partayne to fayth to the wynnynge of the soule.

Notes to Chapter 10

Chapter 11

¶ The .xi. Chapter.

1 FAyth is a sure confidence of thynges⁵⁰ which are hoped for / and a certayntie [A] of thynges which are not sene.

2 By it yᵉ elders were well reported of.

3 Thorow fayth we vnderstonde that the worlde was ordeyned by the worde of god: and that thynges which are sene / were made of thynges which ere not sene.

4 By fayth Abell offered vnto god ⟨illegible⟩ more plenteous sacrifice then Cayn: by vhich / he obteyned witnes that he was rightous / god testifyinge of his gyftes: by which also he beynge deed / yet speaketh.

5 By fayth was Enoch trāslated y[ᵗ] he shuld not se deeth: nether was he founde: for God⁵¹ had taken him awaye. Before he was taken awaye / he was reported of / that he had pleased [B] God:

6 but with out fayth it is vnpossible to please him. For he that commeth to God / must beleve that God is / and that he is a rewarder of them that seke him.

7 By fayth Noe honored God / after that he was warned of thinges which were not sene /⁵² and prepared the arcke to the savinge of his houssholde / thorowe the which arcke / he condempned the worlde / and became heyre of the rightewesnes which commeth by fayth.

8 By fayth Abrahā / whē he was called obeyed / to⁵³ goo out into a place / which he shuld afterwarde receave to inheritaunce / and he wēt out not knowynge whether he shuld goo.

9 By fayth he removed into the londe yᵗ was promysed him / as into a straunge countre / & [C] dwelt in tabernacles: & so dyd Isaac & Iacob heyres with him of the same promes.

10 For he loked for a citie havinge a foundaciō / who[s]e bylder and maker is God.

11 Thorow fayth Sara also receaved strēgth⁵⁴ to be with chylde / & was delivered of a chylde when she was past age / because she iudged him faythfull which had promysed.

12 And therfore spronge therof one (& of one⁵⁵ which was as good as deed) so many in multitude / as the starres of yᵉ skye / & as the son[d] of the see shore which is innumerable.

13 And they all dyed in fayth / & receaved not the promyses: but sawe them a farre of / & beleved [D] them / and saluted them: and confessed that they were straungers and pilgrems on the erthe.

14 They that saye soche thinges / declare that they seke a coūtre.

15 Also yf they had bene myndfull of that countre / from whence they came oute / they had leasure to have returned agayne.

16 But now they desyre a better / that is to saye a hevenlye. Wherfore God is not a shamed of them even to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.

17 In fayth Abraham offered vp Isaac / whē he was tempted / & he offered him beinge his⁵⁶ only begotten sonne / which had receaved the promyses

18 of whō it was sayde / in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

19 for he cōsidered / that God⁵⁷ was able to rayse vp agayne frō deeth. Wherfore receaved he him / for an ensample.

20 In⁵⁸ fayth Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau / concerninge thinges to come.

21 By fayth Iacob when he was a dyinge / blessed both the sonnes of Ioseph / & bowed⁵⁹ him selfe towarde the toppe of his cepter.

22 [F] By fayth Ioseph when he dyed / remēbred⁶⁰ the departinge of the chyldren of Israel / and gave commaundement of his bones.

23 By fayth Moses when he was borne / was⁶¹ hid thre monethes of his father & mother / because they sawe he was a proper chylde: nether⁶² feared they the kynges commaundemēt.

24 By fayth Moses when he was great / refused⁶³ to be called yᵉ sonne of Pharaos doughter /

25 & chose rather to suffre adversitie wᵗ the people of God / then to enioye the pleasurs of synne for a ceason /

26 and estemed the rebuke of Christ greater ryches then the treasure of Egypt. For he had a respect vnto yᵉ rewarde.

27 By fayth he forsoke Egypt / and feared not the fearcenes of the kynge. For he endured / even as he had sene him which is invisible.

28 Thorow fayth he ordeyned the ester lambe / and the effusion of bloud / lest he that destroyed⁶⁴ the fyrst borne / shuld touche them.

29 By fayth they passed thorow the reed see as by drye londe / which when the Egypcians had assayed to do / they were drouned.⁶⁵

30 By fayth the walles of Ierico fell doune after they were cōpased about / seven dayes.⁶⁶

31 By fayth yᵉ harlot Raab perisshed not with [F] the vnbelevers / whē she had receaved the spyes⁶⁷ to lodgynge peaseably.

32 And what shall I more saye / yᵉ tyme wold be to short for me to tell of Gedeō / of Barach & of Samson / & of Iephthae: also of David & Samuel / & of the Prophetes:

33 ✚ which thorowe fayth subdued kyngdomes / wrought righteousnes / obteyned the promyses / stopped the mouthes of lyons /

34 quēched the violence of fyre / escaped the edge of the swearde / of weake were made strōge / wayed valient in fight / turned to flyght the armyes of the alient.

35 And the wemen receaved their deed raysed to lyfe agayne. Other were racked / & wolde not be delyvered / that they myght receave a better resurreccion.

36 Other tasted of mockynges & scourginginges / morover of bondes & presonmēt:

37 were stoned / were hewen a sunder / were tēpted / were slayne with sweardes / walked vppe & doune in shepes skynnes / in gotes skynnes / in nede / tribulaciō / & vexaciō /

38 which y[ᵉ] worlde was not worthy of: they wādred in wildernes / in moūtaynes / in dennes and caves of the erth.

39 And these all thorow fayth obtayned good reporte ✚and receaved not the promes /

40 God provydinge a better thinge for vs / that they with out vs shuld not be made parfecte.

Notes to Chapter 11

Chapter 12

¶ The .xii. Chapter.

1 VVherfore let vs also (seynge that we [A]⁶⁸ are cōpased with so great a multitude of witnesses) laye a waye all that presseth doune / & the synne that hāgeth on / & let vs rūne with paciēce vnto the battayle y[ᵗ]⁶⁹ is set before vs /

2 lokynge vnto Iesus / the auctor & fynnyssher of oure fayth / which for the ioye that was set before him / abode the crosse / and despysed the shame / & is set doune on the right honde of y[ᵉ] trone of God.

3 Consider therfore how that he endured suche speakinge agaynst him of synners / lest ye shuld be weried and faynte in youre myndes.

4 For ye have not [B] yet resisted vnto bloud sheddinge / stryvinge⁷⁰ agaynst synne.

5 And ye have forgorten the consolacion / which speaketh vnto you / as vnto chyldren: My sonne despyse not the chastenynge of the Lorde / nether faynt when thou arte rebuked of him:

6 For whom the Lordeloveth / him he *chasteneth: yee / & he scourgeth every sonne that he receaveth.

7 Yf ye endure chastninge / God offereth him [B] selfe vnto you / as vnto sonnes. What sonne is that whom the father chasteneth not?

8 If ye be not vnder correcciō (where of all are part takers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes.

9 Moreover seynge we had fathers of oure flesshe which corrected vs / and we gave them reverence: shuld we not moche rather be in subieccion vnto the father of spretuall gyftes / [C] that we myght live?

10 And they verely for a feaue dayes / nurtred vs after their awne pleasure: but he learneth vs vnto that which is⁷¹ proffitable / that we myght receave of his holines.

11 No manner chastisynge for the present tyme semeth to be ioyeous / but greveous: neverthelesse afterwarde it bryngeth the quyet frute of rightewesnes vnto them which are therin exercysed.

12 Stretch for the therfore agayne the hondes which were let doune / & the weake knees /

13 & se that ye have strayght steppes vnto youre fete / left eny haltinge turne out of yᵉ waye: yee / [D]⁷² let it rather be healed.

14 Embrace peace with all men / & holynes: with out the which / no man shall se the Lorde.

15 And looke to / that no man be destitue of the grace of God / & that no rote of bitternes springe vp & trouble / & therby many be defiled:

16 and that there be no fornicator / or vnclene person / as Esau / which for one breakfast solde his birthright.

17 Ye knowe⁷³ how that afterwarde when he wolde have in herited the blessinge / he was put by / & he foūde no meanes to come therby agayne: no though he desyred it with teares.

18 [E] For ye are not come vnto the mounte that can be touched / & vnto burninge fyre / nor yet⁷⁴ to myst & darcknes and tempest of wedder /

19 nether vnto the sounde of a trōpe & the voyce of wordes: which voyce they that hearde it / wisshed awaye / that the cōmunicacion shuld not⁷⁵ be spoken to them.

20 For they were not able to abyde that which was spoken. If a beast had touched the mountayne / it must have bene stoned / or thrust thorowe with a darte:

21 evē so terreble was y[ᵉ] sight which appered. Moses sayde / I feare & quake.

22 But ye are come vnto the moūte Sion / & to the citie of the livinge god / the celestiall Ierusalem: and to an innumerable [F] sight of angels /

23 & vnto the congregacion of y[ᵉ]⁷⁶ fyrst borne sonnes / which are writtē in heven / and to God the iudge of all and to the spretes of iust and parfecte men /

24 and to Iesus the mediator of the newe testament / & to the spryncklynge of bloud that speaketh better then the bloud of Abell.

25 Se that ye despise not him y[ᵗ] speaketh. For yf they escaped not which refused him that spake on erth: moche more shall we not escape / yf we turne awaye frō him y[ᵗ] speaketh frō [G] hevē:

26 whose voyce thē shouke the erth / & now declareth sayinge: yet once more will I shake not the erth only / but also heven.

27 No dout y[ᵗ] same that he sayth / yet once more / signifieth⁷⁷ the removinge a waye of those thingꝭ which are shaken / as of thinges which have ended their course: that the thynges which are not shaken maye remayne.

28 Wherfore if we receave a kyngdom which is not moved / we have grace / wherby we maye serve god and please him with reverence and godly feare.

29 For oure god is a consumynge fyre.⁷⁸

Notes to Chapter 12

Chapter 13

¶ The .xiii. Chapter.

1 LEt brotherly love continue.

2 Be not forgetfull⁷⁹ to lodge straungers. For therby have dyvers receaved angels into their houses vnwares.

3 Remember them that are in bondes / even as though ye were bounde with them. Be myndfull of them which are in adversitie / as ye which are yet in youre bodies.

4 Let wedlocke be had in pryce in all poyntes / and let the chamber be vndefiled: for whore kepers and advoutrars god will iudge.

5 Let youre conversacion be with out coveteousnes and be contēt with that ye have all redy. For⁸⁰ he verely sayd: I will not fayle the / nether for sake the:

6 that we maye boldly saye: the lorde is my helper / and I will not feare what man doeth vnto me.

7 Remember them which have the oversight of you / which have declared vnto [B] you the worde of god. The ende of whose conversacion se that ye looke vpon / and folowe their fayth.

8 Iesus Christ yesterdaye and to daye / & the same continueth for ever.

9 Be not caryed aboute with divers and straunge learnynge. For it is a good thynge that the herte be stablisshed with grace / and not with meates / which have not proffeted them that have had their pastyme in them.

10 We have an altre wherof they maye not eate which serve in the tabernacle.

11 [C] For yᵉ bodies of those beastes whose bloud is brought into the holy place by the hie prest to⁸¹ pourge sinne / are burnt with out the tentes.

12 Therfore Iesus / to sanctifye the people with his awne bloud / suffered with out the gate.

13 Let vs goo forth therfore out of the tentes / &⁸² suffer rebuke with him.

14 For here have we no continuynge citie: but we seke one to come.

15 For by him offer we the sacrifice of laude all wayes to god: that is to saye / the frute of those lyppes / which confesse his name.

16 To do good / and to distribute forget not / for with suche sacrifises god is pleased.

17 Obeye thē that have the oversight of you / and submit youre selves to them / for they watch for youre soules / even as they that must geve a comptes: that they maye do it with ioye / and not with grefe. For that is an vnproffitable thynge for you.

18 Praye for vs. We have confidence because we have a good conscience in all thynges / & desyre to live honestly.

19 I desire you therfore somwhat the moare aboundantly / that ye so do / that I maye be restored to you quyckly.

20 The god of peace that brought agayne frō [D] deth oure lorde Iesus / the gret shepperde of the shepe / thorowe the bloud of the everlastyn ge testamēt /

21 make you parfect in all good workes / to do his will / workynge in you y[ᵗ] which is pleasaūt in his syght thorow Iesus christ To whom be prayse for ever whill the worlde endureth Amen. ⊢

22 I beseche you brethren / suffre the wordes of exhortaciō: For we have written vnto you in feawe wordes:

23 knowe the brother Timothe / whom we have sent frō vs / with whom (yf he come shortly) I will se you.

24 Salute thē that have the oversight of you / & all the saync tes. They of Italy salute you.

25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

¶ Sent from Italy by Timotheus.

Notes to Chapter 13

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: verses 4:14, 4:15 and 4:16 of later Bibles stand in chapter 5 of this edition. Such verses are numbered in chapter:verse form.

Words that the transcribers could not read are marked ⟨illegible⟩ (25 places on this page, 12 of them in the margin notes).

In the verse text of this book, 24 places that the transcribers could not read in the printed book have been supplied from the eBible.org Tyndale New Testament (1534), a later electronic transcription of Tyndale's New Testament whose transcriber is not named. Each supplied letter is set in square brackets, as in y[ᵉ] or fal[c]e, so that it can be told from a letter the transcribers read in the print. A place was supplied only where the verse alignment was exact on both sides, the eBible reading agreed letter for letter with every legible letter, and no macron could have stood in the gap. Where the small superscript letter after y was supplied, the eBible text is the only evidence for that letter.

This is an archival transcription of Tyndale's printed English, not a Good Works Translation: nothing here has been translated or modernised by the library.

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