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¹At that tyme Herod the tetrarcha hearde of the fame of Iesu

²and sayde vnto his servautes: This is Ihon the baptist. He is risen agayne from deeth and therfore are soche myracles wrought by him.

³For Herod had taken Ihon and bounde him and put him in preson for Herodias sake his brother Philips wyfe.

⁴For Ihon sayde vnto him: That is not lawfull for the to have her.

⁵And when he wold have put him to deeth he feared the people because they counted him as a prophet.

⁶But when Herodes birth daye was come the doughter of Herodias daunsed before them and pleased Herod.

⁷Wherfore he promised with an oth that he wolde geve hir whatsoever she wolde axe.

⁸And she beinge informed of her mother before sayde: geve me here Ihon baptistes heed in a platter.

⁹And the kynge sorowed. Neverthelesse for his othes sake and for their sakis which sate also at the table he commaunded that to be geven hir:

¹⁰and sent and beheeded Ihon in the preson

¹¹and his heed was brought in a platter and geven to the damsell and she brought it to her mother.

¹²And his disciples came and toke vp his body and buryed it: and went and tolde Iesus.

¹³When Iesus hearde that he departed thence by shippe in to a desert place out of the waye. And when the people had hearde therof they folowed him afote out of their cities.

¹⁴And Iesus went forth and sawe moche people and his herte did melte vpon them and he healed of them those that were sicke.

¹⁵When even was come his disciples came to him sayinge. This is a deserte place and the daye is spent: let the people departe that they maye go into the tounes and bye them vytayllis.

¹⁶But Iesus sayde vnto them. They have no neade to go awaye. Geve ye them to eate.

¹⁷Then sayde they vnto him: we have here but .v. loves and two fysshes.

¹⁸And he sayde: bringe the hyther to me.

¹⁹And he commaunded the people to syt downe on the grasse: and toke the .v. loves and the .ii. fysshes and loked vp to heven and blessed and brake and gave the loves to his disciples and the disciples gave them to the people.

²⁰And they dyd all eate and were suffised. And they gadered vp of the gobbetes that remayned vii. basketes full.

²¹And they that ate werein nobre about .v.M. men besyde wemen and chyldren.

²²And strayght waye Iesus made his disciples enter into a shippe and to goo over before him whill he sent the people awaye.

²³And assone as he had sent the people awaye he went vp into a moutayne alone to praye. And when nyght was come he was there him silf alone.

²⁴And the shippe was now in the middes of the see and was toost with waves for it was a cotrary wynde.

²⁵In the fourthe watche of the night Iesus came vnto them walkynge on the see.

²⁶And when his disciples sawe him walkynge on the see they were troubled sayinge: it is some spirite and cryed out for feare.

²⁷And streyght waye Iesus spake vnto them sayinge: be of god cheare it is I be not afrayed.

²⁸Peter answered him and sayde: master if thou be he bid me come vnto the on the water.

²⁹And he sayde come. And when Peter was come doune out of the shippe he walked on the water to go to Iesus.

³⁰But when he sawe a myghty wynde he was afrayed. And as he beganne to synke he cryed sayinge: master save me.

³¹And immediatly Iesus stretched forth his hode and caught him and sayde to him: O thou of lytell faith wherfore diddest thou dout?

³²And assone as they were come in to the shippe the wynde ceassed.

³³Then they that were in the shippe came and worshipped him sayinge: of a truth thou arte the sonne of God.

³⁴And when they were come over they went in to the londe of Genazareth.

³⁵And when the men of that place had knowledge of him they sent out in to all that countre rounde about and brought vnto him all that were sicke

³⁶and besought him that they myght touche the hemme of his vesture only. And as many as touched it were made safe.