John 7:24-45

²⁴Nile ye deme aftir the face, but deme ye a riytful doom.

²⁵Therfor summe of Jerusalem seiden, Whethir this is not he, whom the Jewis seken to sle?

²⁶and lo! he spekith opynli, and thei seien no thing to hym. Whether the princes knewen verili, that this is Crist?

²⁷But we knowun this man, of whennus he is; but whanne Crist schal come, no man woot of whennus he is.

²⁸Therfor Jhesus criede in the temple `techynge, and seide, Ye knowen me, and `ye knowen of whennus Y am; and Y cam not of my silf, but he is trewe that sente me, whom ye knowen not.

²⁹Y knowe hym, and if Y seie that Y knowe hym not, Y schal be lijk to you, a liere; but Y knowe hym, for of hym Y am, and he sente me.

³⁰Therfor thei souyten to take hym, and no man sette on hym hoondis, for his our cam not yit.

³¹And many of the puple bileueden in hym, and seiden, Whanne Crist schal come, whether he schal do mo tokenes, than tho that this doith?

³²Farisees herden the puple musinge of hym these thingis; and the princis and Farisees senten mynystris, to take hym.

³³Therfor Jhesus seide to hem, Yit a litil tyme Y am with you, and Y go to the fadir, that sente me.

³⁴Ye schulen seke me, and ye schulen not fynde; and where Y am, ye may not come.

³⁵Therfor the Jewis seiden to hem silf, Whidur schal this gon, for we schulen not fynde hym? whether he wole go in to the scateryng of hethene men, and wole teche the hethene?

³⁶What is this word, which he seide, Ye schulen seke me, and ye schulen not fynde; and where Y am, ye moun not come?

³⁷But in the laste dai of the greet feeste, Jhesus stood, and criede, and seide, If ony man thirstith, come he to me, and drynke.

³⁸He that bileueth in me, as the scripture seith, Floodis of quyk watir schulen flowe fro his wombe.

³⁹But he seide this thing of the Spirit, whom men that bileueden in hym schulden take; for the Spirit was not yit youun, for Jhesus was not yit glorified.

⁴⁰Therfor of that cumpanye, whanne thei hadden herd these wordis of hym, thei seiden, This is verili a prophete.

⁴¹Othere seiden, This is Crist. `But summe seiden, Whether Crist cometh fro Galilee?

⁴²Whether the scripture seith not, that of the seed of Dauid, and of the castel of Bethleem, where Dauid was, Crist cometh?

⁴³Therfor discencioun was maad among the puple for hym.

⁴⁴For summe of hem wolden haue take hym, but no man sette hondis on hym.

⁴⁵Therfor the mynystris camen to bischopis and Farisees, and thei seiden to hem, Whi brouyten ye not hym?