John 12:15-40

¹⁵feare not doughter of Sion beholde thy kynge cometh sittinge on an asses coolte.

¹⁶These thinges vnderstode not his disciples at the fyrst: but when Iesus was gloryfied then remembryd they that soche thinges were written of him and that soche thinges they had done vnto him.

¹⁷The people that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave and raysed him from deeth bare recorde.

¹⁸Therfore met him the people be cause they hearde that he had done soche a myracle.

¹⁹The Pharises therfore sayde amonge them selves: perceave ye how we prevayle no thinge? beholde the worlde goth awaye after him.

²⁰Ther were certayne Grekes amonge them that came to praye at the feast:

²¹the same cam to Philip which was of Bethsayda a cyte in Galile and desired him sayinge: Syr we wolde fayne se Iesus.

²²Philip came and tolde Andrew. And agayne Andrew and Philip tolde Iesus.

²³And Iesus answered them sayinge: the houre is come that the sonne of man must be glorified.

²⁴Verely verely I saye vnto you except the wheate corne fall into the grounde and dye it bydeth alone. Yf it dye it brengeth forth moche frute.

²⁵He that loveth his lyfe shall destroye it: and he that hateth his lyfe in this worlde shall kepe it vnto lyfe eternall.

²⁶If eny man mynister vnto me let him folowe me and where I am there shall also my minister be. And yf eny man minister vnto me him will my father honoure.

²⁷Now is my soule troubled and what shall I saye? Father delyver me from this houre: but therfore came I vnto this houre.

²⁸Father glorify thy name. Then came ther a voyce from heaven: I have glorified it and will glorify it agayne.

²⁹Then sayd the people that stode by and hearde: it thoundreth. Other sayde an angell spake to him.

³⁰Iesus answered and sayde: this voyce cam not because of me but for youre sakes.

³¹Now is the iudgement of this worlde: now shall the prince of this worlde be cast out.

³²And I yf I were lifte vp from the erthe will drawe all men vnto me.

³³This sayde Iesus signifyinge what deeth he shuld dye.

³⁴The people answered him: We have hearde of the lawe that Christ bydeth ever: and how sayest thou then that the sonne of man must be lifte vp? who is that sonne of man?

³⁵Then Iesus sayde vnto them: yet a lytell whyle is the light with you. Walke whill ye have light lest the darcknes come on you. He that walketh in the darke wotteth not whither he goeth.

³⁶Whyll ye have light beleve on the light that ye maye be the chyldren of light. These thinges spake Iesus and departed and hyd him silfe from them.

³⁷And though he had done so many myracles before them yet beleved not they on him,

³⁸that the sayinge of Esayas the Prophet myght be fulfilled that he spake. Lorde who shall beleve oure sayinge? And to whom ys the arme of the Lorde opened?

³⁹Therfore coulde they not beleve because that Esaias sayth agayne:

⁴⁰he hath blinded their eyes and hardened their hertes that they shuld not se with their eyes and vnderstonde with their hertes and shuld be converted and I shuld heale them.