John 12:14-25

¹⁴And Jhesus foond a yonge asse, and sat on hym,

¹⁵as it is writun, The douytir of Syon, nyle thou drede; lo! thi kyng cometh, sittynge on `an asse fole.

¹⁶Hise disciplis knewen not first these thingis, but whanne Jhesus was glorified, thanne thei hadden mynde, for these thingis weren writun of hym, and these thingis thei diden to hym.

¹⁷Therfor the puple bar witnessyng, that was with hym, whanne he clepide Lazarus fro the graue, and reiside hym fro deth.

¹⁸And therfor the puple cam, and mette with hym, for thei herden that he hadde don this signe.

¹⁹Therfor the Farisees seiden to hem silf, Ye seen, that we profiten no thing; lo! al the world wente aftir hym.

²⁰And there weren summe hethene men, of hem that hadden come vp to worschipe in the feeste dai.

²¹And these camen to Filip, that was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and preieden hym, and seiden, Sire, we wolen se Jhesu.

²²Filip cometh, and seith to Andrew; eft Andrew and Filip seiden to Jhesu.

²³And Jhesus answerde `to hem, and seide, The our cometh, that mannus sone be clarified.

²⁴Treuli, treuli, Y seie to you, but a corn of whete falle in to the erthe, and be deed, it dwellith aloone;

²⁵but if it be deed, it bryngith myche fruyt. He that loueth his lijf, schal leese it; and he that hatith his lijf in this world, kepith it in to euerlastynge lijf.