Luke 3:3-19

³And he cam in to al the cuntre of Jordan, and prechide baptym of penaunce in to remyssioun of synnes.

⁴As it is wrytun in the book of the wordis of Isaye, the prophete, The voice of a crier in desert, Make ye redi the weie of the Lord, make ye hise pathis riyt.

⁵Ech valey schal be fulfillid, and euery hil and litil hil schal be maad lowe; and schrewid thingis schulen ben in to dressid thingis, and scharp thingis in to pleyn weies;

⁶and euery fleisch schal se the heelthe of God.

⁷Therfor he seid to the puple, which wente out to be baptisid of hym, Kyndlyngis of eddris, who schewide to you to fle fro the wraththe to comynge?

⁸Therfor do ye worthi fruytis of penaunce, and bigynne ye not to seie, We han a fadir Abraham; for Y seie to you, that God is myyti to reise of these stoonys the sones of Abraham.

⁹And now an axe is sett to the roote of the tree; and therfor euery tre that makith no good fruyt, schal be kit doun, and schal be cast in to the fier.

¹⁰And the puple axide hym, and seiden, What thanne schulen we do?

¹¹He answeride, and seide to hem, He that hath twei cootis, yyue to hym that hath noon; and he that hath metis, do in lijk maner.

¹²And pupplicans camen to be baptisid; and thei seiden to hym, Maister, what schulen we do?

¹³And he seide to hem, Do ye no thing more, than that that is ordeyned to you.

¹⁴And knyytis axiden hym, and seiden, What schulen also we do? And he seide to hem, Smyte ye wrongfuli no man, nethir make ye fals chalenge, and be ye apayed with youre sowdis.

¹⁵Whanne al the puple gesside, and alle men thouyten in her hertis of Joon, lest perauenture he were Crist,

¹⁶Joon answeride, and seide to alle men, Y baptize you in watir; but a stronger than Y schal come aftir me, of whom Y am not worthi to vnbynde the lace of his schoon; he schal baptize you in the Hooli Goost and fier.

¹⁷Whos `wynewyng tool in his hond, and he schal purge his floor of corn, and schal gadere the whete in to his berne; but the chaffis he schal brenne with fier vnquenchable.

¹⁸And many othere thingis also he spak, and prechide to the puple. But Eroude tetrark, whanne he was blamed of Joon for Erodias,

¹⁹the wijf of his brother, and for alle the yuelis that Eroude dide,