3 John — The Tyndale New Testament (1534)

The third epistle of John in Tyndale's revised New Testament of 1534, translated from the Greek; Tyndale's prologue to the three epistles of John is printed before the first and is given on that page. 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.

Chapter 1

1 THe Elder vnto the beloven [A] Gayus / whom I love in yᵉ trueth.

2 Beloved / I wisshe in all thinges that thou prosperedest and faredest well evē as thy soule prospereth.

3 I reioysed greatly when the brethren came / and testified of the trueth that is in the / how thou walkest in trouthe.

4 I have no greater ioye then for to heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie.

5 Beloved / thou doest faythfully what soever [B] thou doest to the brethren / and to straungers /

6 which bare witnes of thy love before all the congregacion. Which brethren whē thou bryngest forwardes on their iorney (as it besemeth god) thou shalt do well:

7 because that for his names sake they went forth / and toke nothinge of the gentyls.

8 We therfore ought to receave soche / that we also myght be helpers to the trueth.

9 I wrote vnto the congregaciō: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the [p]reeminence amōge them / receaveth vs not.

10 Wherfore yf I come / I will declare his dedes which he doeth / iestinge on vs with malicious wordes / nether is therewith content. Not only he him silfe receaveth not the brethrē: but also he for biddeth them that wolde / and thrusteth them out of the congregacion.

11 Beloved / folowe not that which is evyll / but that which is good. [H]e that doeth well is of God: but he y[ᵗ] doeth evyll seith not God.

12 Demetrius hath good reporte of all men / and of the trueth: ye and we oure selves also beare recorde / & ye knowe that oure recorde is true.

13 [D] I have many thinges to wryte: but I will not with ynke and penne wryte vnto the.

14 For I trust I shall shortly se the / and we shall speake mouth to mouth. Peace be with the. The lovers salute the. Grete the lovers by name.

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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.

No word on this page is marked illegible.

In the verse text of this book, 3 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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