John 7:9-35

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?