John 1:2-41

²This was in the bigynnyng at God.

³Alle thingis weren maad bi hym, and withouten hym was maad no thing, that thing that was maad.

⁴In hym was lijf, and the lijf was the liyt of men; and the liyt schyneth in derknessis,

⁵and derknessis comprehendiden not it.

⁶A man was sent fro God, to whom the name was Joon.

⁷This man cam in to witnessyng, that he schulde bere witnessing of the liyt, that alle men schulden bileue bi hym.

⁸He was not the liyt, but that he schulde bere witnessing of the liyt.

⁹There was a very liyt, which liytneth ech man that cometh in to this world.

¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was maad bi hym, and the world knew hym not.

¹¹He cam in to his owne thingis, and hise resseyueden hym not.

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.

²⁵And thei axiden hym, and seiden to hym, What thanne baptisist thou, if thou art not Crist, nether Elie, nether a profete?

²⁶Joon answeride to hem, and seide, Y baptise in watir, but in the myddil of you hath stonde oon, that ye knowen not;

²⁷he it is, that schal come aftir me, that was maad bifor me, of whom Y am not worthi to louse the thwong of his schoo.

²⁸These thingis weren don in Bethanye biyende Jordan, where Joon was baptisyng.

²⁹Anothir day Joon say Jhesu comynge to hym, and he seide, Lo! the lomb of God; lo! he that doith awei the synnes of the world.

³⁰This is he, that Y seide of, Aftir me is comun a man, which was maad bifor me; for he was rather than Y.

³¹And Y knew hym not, but that he be schewid in Israel, therfor Y cam baptisynge in watir.

³²And Joon bar witnessyng, and seide, That Y saiy the spirit comynge doun as a culuer fro heuene, and dwellide on hym.

³³And Y knew hym not; but he that sente me to baptise in watir, seide to me, On whom thou seest the Spirit comynge doun, and dwellynge on hym, this is he, that baptisith in the Hooli Goost.

³⁴And Y say, and bar witnessyng, that this is the sone of God.

³⁵Anothir dai Joon stood, and tweyne of hise disciplis;

³⁶and he biheeld Jhesu walkinge, and seith, Lo! the lomb of God.

³⁷And twei disciplis herden hym spekynge,

³⁸and folewiden Jhesu. And Jhesu turnede, and say hem suynge hym, and seith to hem, What seken ye? And thei seiden to hym, Rabi, that is to seie, Maistir, where dwellist thou?

³⁹And he seith to hem, Come ye, and se. And thei camen, and sayn where he dwellide; and dwelten with hym that dai. And it was as the tenthe our.

⁴⁰And Andrewe, the brother of Symount Petir, was oon of the tweyne, that herden of Joon, and hadden sued hym.

⁴¹This foond first his brother Symount, and he seide to him, We han foundun Messias, that is to seie, Crist; and he ledde him to Jhesu.