Luke 2:13-43

¹³And sudenli ther was maad with the aungel a multitude of heuenli knyythod, heriynge God,

¹⁴and seiynge, Glorie be in the hiyeste thingis to God, and in erthe pees be to men of good wille.

¹⁵And it was don, as the `aungelis passiden awei fro hem in to heuene, the scheephirdis spaken togider, and seiden, Go we ouer to Bethleem, and se we this word that is maad, which the Lord hath `maad, and schewide to vs.

¹⁶And thei hiyynge camen, and founden Marie and Joseph, and the yong child leid in a cratche.

¹⁷And thei seynge, knewen of the word that was seid to hem of this child.

¹⁸And alle men that herden wondriden, and of these thingis that weren seid to hem of the scheephirdis.

¹⁹But Marie kepte alle these wordis, berynge togider in hir herte.

²⁰And the scheepherdis turneden ayen, glorifyinge and heriynge God in alle thingis that thei hadden herd and seyn, as it was seid to hem.

²¹And aftir that the eiyte daies weren endid, that the child schulde be circumcided, his name was clepid Jhesus, which was clepid of the aungel, bifor that he was conceyued in the wombe.

²²And aftir that the daies of the purgacioun of Marie weren fulfillid, aftir Moyses lawe, thei token hym into Jerusalem, to offre hym to the Lord, as it is writun in the lawe of the Lord,

²³For euery male kynde openynge the wombe, schal be clepid holi to the Lord; and that thei schulen yyue an offryng,

²⁴aftir that it is seid in the lawe of the Lord, A peire of turturis, or twei culuer briddis.

²⁵And lo! a man was in Jerusalem, whos name was Symeon; and this man was iust and vertuous, and aboode the coumfort of Israel; and the Hooli Goost was in hym.

²⁶And he hadde takun an answere of the Hooli Goost, that he schulde not se deeth, but he sawy first the Crist of the Lord.

²⁷And he cam in spirit into the temple. And whanne his fadir and modir ledden the child Jhesu to do aftir the custom of the lawe for hym,

²⁸he took hym in to hise armes, and he blesside God,

²⁹and seide, Lord, now thou leuyst thi seruaunt aftir thi word in pees;

³⁰for myn iyen han seyn thin helthe,

³¹which thou hast maad redi bifor the face of alle puplis;

³²liyt to the schewyng of hethene men, and glorie of thi puple Israel.

³³And his fadir and his modir weren wondrynge on these thingis, that weren seid of hym.

³⁴And Symeon blesside hem, and seide to Marie, his modir, Lo! this is set in to the fallyng doun and in to the risyng ayen of many men in Israel, and in to a tokene, to whom it schal be ayenseid.

³⁵And a swerd schal passe thorou thin owne soule, that the thouytis ben schewid of many hertis.

³⁶And Anna was a prophetesse, the douytir of Fanuel, of the lynage of Aser. And sche hadde goon forth in many daies, and hadde lyued with hir hosebonde seuene yeer fro hir maydynhode.

³⁷And this was a widewe to foure scoor yeer and foure; and sche departide not fro the temple, but seruyde to God nyyt and dai in fastyngis and preieris.

³⁸And this cam vpon hem in thilk our, and knoulechide to the Lord, and spak of hym to alle that abiden the redempcioun of Israel.

³⁹And as thei hadden ful don alle thingis, aftir the lawe of the Lord, thei turneden ayen in to Galilee, in to her citee Nazareth.

⁴⁰And the child wexe, and was coumfortid, ful of wisdom; and the grace of God was in hym.

⁴¹And his fadir and modir wenten ech yeer in to Jerusalem, in the solempne dai of pask.

⁴²And whanne Jhesus was twelue yeer oold, thei wenten vp to Jerusalem, aftir the custom of the feeste dai.

⁴³And whanne the daies weren don, thei turneden ayen; and the child abood in Jerusalem, and his fadir and modir knewen it not.