Matthew 14:1-21

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.