John 12:15-40

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.

²⁶If ony man serue me, sue he me; and where Y am, there my mynystre schal be. If ony man serue me, my fadir schal worschipe hym.

²⁷Now my soule is troublid, and what schal Y seie? Fadir, saue me fro this our; but therfor Y cam in to this our;

²⁸fadir, clarifie thi name. And a vois cam fro heuene, and seide, And Y haue clarified, and eft Y schal clarifie.

²⁹Therfor the puple that stood, and herde, seide, that `thundur was maad; othere men seide, an aungel spak to hym.

³⁰Jhesus answerde, and seide, This vois cam not for me, but for you.

³¹Now is the doom of the world, now the prince of this world schal be cast out.

³²And if Y schal be enhaunsid fro the erthe, Y schal drawe alle thingis to my silf.

³³And he seide this thing, signifiynge bi what deth he `was to die.

³⁴And the puple answeride to hym, We han herd of the lawe, that Crist dwellith with outen ende; and hou seist thou, It bihoueth mannys sone to be arerid?

³⁵Who is this mannus sone? And thanne Jhesus seith to hem, Yit a litil liyt is in you; walke ye, the while ye han liyt, that derknessis catche you not; he that wandrith in derknessis, woot nere whidur he goith.

³⁶While ye han liyt, bileue ye in liyt, that ye be the children of liyt. Jhesus spak these thingis, and wente, and hidde hym fro hem.

³⁷And whanne he hadde don so many myraclis bifor hem, thei bileueden not `in to hym;

³⁸that the word of Ysaie, the prophete, schulde be fulfillid, which he seide, Lord, who bileuede to oure heryng, and to whom is the arm of the Lord schewid?

³⁹Therfor thei myyten not bileue, for eft Ysaye seide,

⁴⁰He hath blyndid her iyen, and he hath maad hard the herte of hem, that thei se not with iyen, and vndurstonde with herte; and that thei be conuertid, and Y heele hem.