John 7:4-52

⁴For ther is no man that doeth eny thing secretly and he him selfe seketh to be knowen. Yf thou do soche thinges shewe thy selfe to the worlde.

⁵For as yet his brethren beleved not in him.

⁶Then Iesus sayd vnto them: My tyme is not yet come youre tyme is all waye redy.

⁷The worlde cannot hate you. Me it hateth: because I testify of it that the workes of it are evyll.

⁸Go ye vp vnto this feast. I will not go vp yet vnto this feast for my tyme is not yet full come.

⁹These wordes he sayde vnto them and abode still in Galile.

¹⁰But assone as his brethren were goone vp then went he also vp vnto the feast: not openly but as it were prevely.

¹¹Then sought him the Iewes at the feast and sayde: Where is he?

¹²And moche murmurynge was ther of him amonge the people. Some sayde: He is good. Wother sayde naye but he deceaveth the people.

¹³How be it no man spake openly of him for feare of the Iewes

¹⁴In the middes of the feast Iesus went vp into the temple and taught.

¹⁵And the Iewes marveylled sayinge: How knoweth he the scriptures seynge that he never learned?

¹⁶Iesus answered them and sayde: My doctrine is not myne: but his that sent me.

¹⁷If eny man will do his will he shall knowe of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speake of my selfe.

¹⁸He that speaketh of him selfe seketh his awne prayse. But he that seketh his prayse that sent him the same is true and no vnrightewesnes is in him.

¹⁹Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe and yet none of you kepeth the lawe? Why goo ye aboute to kyll me?

²⁰The people answered and sayde: thou hast the devyll: who goeth aboute to kyll the?

²¹Iesus answered and sayde to them: I have done one worke and ye all marvayle.

²²Moses therfore gave vnto you circumcision: not because it is of Moses but of the fathers. And yet ye on the Saboth daye circumcise a man.

²³If a man on the Saboth daye receave circumcision without breakinge of the lawe of Moses: disdayne ye at me because I have made a man every whit whoale on the saboth daye?

²⁴Iudge not after the vtter aperaunce: but iudge rightewes iudgement.

²⁵Then sayd some of them of Ierusalem: Is not this he who they goo aboute to kyll?

²⁶Beholde he speaketh boldly and they saye nothinge to him. Do the rulars knowe in dede that this is very Christ?

²⁷How be it we knowe this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh no man shall knowe whence he is.

²⁸Then cryed Iesus in the temple as he taught sayinge: ye knowe me and whence I am ye knowe. And yet I am not come of my selfe but he that sent me is true whom ye knowe not.

²⁹I knowe him: for I am of him and he hath sent me.

³⁰Then they sought to take him: but no man layde hondes on him because his tyme was not yet come.

³¹Many of the people beleved on him and sayde: when Christ cometh will he do moo miracles then this man hath done?

³²The pharises hearde that the people murmured suche thinges about him. Wherfore the pharises and hye prestes sent ministres forthe to take him.

³³Then sayde Iesus vnto the: Yet am I a lytell whyle with you and then goo I vnto him that sent me.

³⁴Ye shall seke me and shall not fynde me: and where I am thyther can ye not come.

³⁵Then sayde the Iewes bitwene the selves: whyther will he goo that we shall not fynde him? Will he goo amonge the gentyls which are scattered all a broade and teache the gentyls?

³⁶What maner of sayinge is this that he sayde: ye shall seke me and shall not fynde me: and where I am thyther can ye not come?

³⁷In the last daye that great daye of the feaste Iesus stode and cryed sayinge: If eny man thyrst let him come vnto me and drinke.

³⁸He that beleveth on me as sayeth the scripture out of his belly shall flowe ryvers of water of lyfe.

³⁹This spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him shuld receave. For the holy goost was not yet there because that Iesus was not yet glorifyed.

⁴⁰Many of the people when they hearde this sayinge sayd: of a truth this is a prophet.

⁴¹Other sayde: this is Christ. Some sayde: shall Christ come out of Galile?

⁴²Sayeth not the scripture that Christ shall come of the seed of David: and out of the toune of Bethleem where David was?

⁴³So was ther dissencion amonge the people aboute him.

⁴⁴And some of them wolde have taken him: but no man layed hondes on him.

⁴⁵Then came the ministres to the hye prestes and pharises. And they sayde vnto the: why have ye not brought him?

⁴⁶The servautes answered never man spake as this man doeth.

⁴⁷Then answered the the pharises: are ye also disceaved?

⁴⁸Doth eny of the rulers or of the pharises beleve on him?

⁴⁹But the comen people whiche knowe not the lawe are cursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus sayde vnto them: He that came to Iesus by nyght and was one of them.

⁵¹Doth oure lawe iudge eny man before it heare him and knowe what he hath done?

⁵²They answered and sayde vnto him: arte thou also of Galile? Searche and loke for out of Galile aryseth no Prophet.