John 1:12-24

¹²But hou many euer resseyueden hym, he yaf to hem power to be maad the sones of God, to hem that bileueden in his name; the whiche not of bloodis,

¹³nether of the wille of fleische, nether of the wille of man, but ben borun of God.

¹⁴And the word was maad man, and dwellyde among vs, and we han seyn the glorie of hym, as the glorie of the `oon bigetun sone of the fadir, ful of grace and of treuthe.

¹⁵Joon berith witnessyng of hym, and crieth, and seith, This is, whom Y seide, He that schal come aftir me, is maad bifore me, for he was tofor me;

¹⁶and of the plente of hym we alle han takun, and grace for grace.

¹⁷For the lawe was youun bi Moises; but grace and treuthe `is maad bi Jhesu Crist.

¹⁸No man sai euer God, no but the `oon bigetun sone, that is in the bosum of the fadir, he hath teld out.

¹⁹And this is the witnessyng of Joon, whanne Jewis senten fro Jerusalem prestis and dekenes to hym, that thei schulden axe hym, Who art thou?

²⁰He knoulechide, and denyede not, and he knoulechide, For Y am not Crist.

²¹And thei axiden hym, What thanne? Art thou Elie? And he seide, Y am not. Art thou a profete? And he answeride, Nay.

²²Therfor thei seiden to hym, Who art thou? that we yyue an answere to these that senten vs. What seist thou of thi silf?

²³He seide, Y am a vois of a crier in deseert, Dresse ye the weie of the Lord, as Ysaie, the prophete, seide.

²⁴And thei that weren sent, weren of the Fariseis.