John 8:12-56

¹²Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them sayinge: I am the light of the worlde. He that foloweth me shall not walke in darcknes: but shall have the light of lyfe.

¹³The pharises sayde vnto him: thou bearest recorde of thy sylfe thy recorde is not true.

¹⁴Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: Though I beare recorde of my selfe yet my recorde is true: for I knowe whence I came and whyther I goo. But ye cannot tell whence I come and whyther I goo.

¹⁵Ye iudge after the flesshe. I iudge no man though I iudge yet is my iudgmet true. For I am not alone: but I and the father that sent me.

¹⁶It is also written in youre lawe that the testimony of two men is true.

¹⁷I am one that beare witnes of my selfe and the father that sent me beareth witnes of me.

¹⁸Then sayde they vnto him: where is thy father? Iesus answered: ye nether knowe me nor yet my father. Yf ye had knowen me ye shuld have knowen my father also.

¹⁹These wordes spake Iesus in the tresury as he taught in the temple and no man layde hondes on him for his tyme was not yet come.

²⁰Then sayde Iesus agayne vnto them. I goo my waye and ye shall seke me and shall dye in youre synnes. Whyther I goo thyther can ye not come.

²¹Then sayde the Iewes: will he kyll him selfe because he sayth: whyther I goo thyther can ye not come?

²²And he sayde vnto the: ye are from beneth I am from above. Ye are of this worlde I am not of this worlde.

²³I sayde therfore vnto you that ye shall dye in youre synnes. For except ye beleve that I am he ye shall dye in youre synnes.

²⁴Then sayde they vnto him who arte thou? And Iesus sayde vnto them: even the very same thinge that I saye vnto you.

²⁵I have many thinges to saye and to iudge of you. But he that sent me is true. And I speake in the worlde those thinges which I have hearde of him.

²⁶They understode not that he spake of his father.

²⁷Then sayde Iesus vnto them: when ye have lyft vp an hye the sonne of man then shall ye knowe that I am he and that I do nothinge of my selfe: but as my father hath taught me even so I speake:

²⁸and he that sent me is with me. The father hath not lefte me alone for I do alwayes those thinges that please him.

²⁹As he spake these wordes many beleved on him.

³⁰Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleved on him. If ye continue in my wordes then are ye my very disciples

³¹and shall knowe the trueth: and the trueth shall make you free.

³²They answered him: We be Abrahams seede and were never bonde to eny man: why sayest thou then ye shalbe made fre.

³³Iesus answered them: verely verely I saye vnto you that whosoever committeth synne is the servaunt of synne.

³⁴And the servaunt abydeth not in the housse for ever: But the sonne abydeth ever.

³⁵If the sonne therfore shall make you fre then are ye fre in dede.

³⁶I knowe that ye are Abrahams seed: But ye seke meanes to kyll me because my sayinges have no place in you.

³⁷I speake that I have sene with my father: and ye do that which ye have sene with youre father.

³⁸They answered and sayde vnto him: Abraham is oure father. Iesus sayde vnto them. If ye were Abrahams chyldren ye wolde do the dedes of Abraham.

³⁹But now ye goo about to kyll me a man that have tolde you the truthe which I have herde of god: this dyd not Abraham.

⁴⁰Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: we were not borne of fornicacion. We have one father which is God.

⁴¹Iesus sayde vnto them: yf God were youre father then wolde ye love me. For I proceaded forthe and come from God. Nether came I of my selfe but he sent me.

⁴²Why do ye not knowe my speache? even because ye cannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes.

⁴³Ye are of youre father the devyll and the lustes of youre father ye will folowe.

⁴⁴He was a murtherer from the beginnynge and aboode not in the trueth because ther is no trueth in him. When he speaketh a lye then speaketh he of his awne. For he is a lyar and the father therof.

⁴⁵And because I tell you the trueth therfore ye beleve me not.

⁴⁶Which of you can rebuke me of synne? If I saye the trueth why do not ye beleve me?

⁴⁷He that is of God heareth goddes wordes Ye therfore heare them not because ye are not of God.

⁴⁸Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: Saye we not well that thou arte a Samaritane and hast the devyll?

⁴⁹Iesus answered: I have not the devyll: but I honour my father and ye have dishonoured me.

⁵⁰I seke not myne awne prayse: but ther is one that seketh and iudgeth.

⁵¹Verely verely I saye vnto you yf a man kepe my sayinges he shall never se deeth.

⁵²Then sayde the Iewes to him: Now knowe we that thou hast the devyll. Abraham is deed and also the Prophetes: and yet thou sayest yf a man kepe my sayinge he shall never tast of deeth.

⁵³Arte thou greater then oure father Abraham which is deed? and the Prophetes are deed. Whome makest thou thy selfe?

⁵⁴Iesus answered: Yf I honoure my selfe myne honoure is nothinge worth. It is my father that honoureth me which ye saye is youre God

⁵⁵and ye have not knowen him: but I knowe him. And yf I shuld saye I knowe him not I shuld be a lyar lyke vnto you. But I knowe him and kepe his sayinge.

⁵⁶Youre father Abraham was glad to se my daye and he sawe it and reioysed.