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¹ There laye one sicke, named Lazarus of Bethania, in ye towne of Mary & hir sister Martha.² It was yt Mary which anoynted ye LORDE wt oyntment, & dryed his fete wt hir heer, whose brother Lazarus laye sicke.)³ The sent his sisters vnto hi, & sayde: LORDE, beholde, he who thou louest lyeth sicke.⁴ Wha Iesus herde that, he sayde: This sicknesse is not vnto death, but for the prayse of God, yt the sonne of God maye be praysed there thorow.⁵ Iesus loued Martha & hir sister, & Lazarus.⁶ Now wha he herde that he was sicke, he abode two dayes in ye place where he was.⁷ Afterwarde sayde he vnto his disciples: Let vs go agayne i to Iewry.⁸ His disciples sayde vnto him: Master, lately wolde the Iewes haue stoned the, & wilt thou go thither agayne:⁹ Iesus answered: Are there not twolue houres in ye daye? He yt walketh in the daye, stombleth not, for he seyeth ye light of this worlde.¹⁰ But he that walketh in the night, stobleth: for there is no light in him.¹¹ This he spake, & after warde sayde he vnto the: Lazarus or frende slepeth, but I go to wake him out of slepe.¹² The sayde his disciples: LORDE, yf he slepe, he shal do well ynough¹³ (Howbeyt Iesus spake of his death but they thought yt he had spoke of ye bodely slepe.)¹⁴ The sayde Iesus vnto the planely: Lazarus is deed,¹⁵ & I am glad for yor sakes, yt I was not there, that ye maye beleue. Neuertheles let vs go vnto hi.¹⁶ The sayde Thomas (which is called Didimus) vnto ye disciples: Let vs go also, yt we maye dye wt hi.

¹⁷ The came Iesus, & founde yt he had lyen in ye graue foure dayes allready.¹⁸ Bethanye was nye vnto Ierusale, aboute fiftene furloges.¹⁹ And many of the Iewes were come to Martha & Mary, to coforte the ouer their brother.²⁰ Now wha Martha herde yt Iesus came, she wete to mete him. But Mary satt styl at home.²¹ The sayde Martha vnto Iesus: LORDE, yf thou haddest bene here, my brother had not bene deed.²² But neuertheles I knowe also, what soeuer thou axest of God, that God wyl geue it the.²³ Iesus sayde vnto her: Thy brother shal ryse agayne.²⁴ Martha sayde vnto hi: I knowe, yt he shal ryse agayne in the resurreccion at ye last daye.²⁵ Iesus saide vnto her: I am the resurreccion & the life He yt beleueth on me, shal lyue, though he were deed allready:²⁶ & whosoeuer lyueth and beleueth on me, shal neuer dye. Beleuest thou this?²⁷ She saide vnto him: Yee LORDE, I beleue, that thou art Christ the sonne of God, which shulde come into the worlde.²⁸ And wha she had sayde this, she wete hir waye, & called Mary hir sister secretly, & saide: The maister is come, & calleth for the.²⁹ She whan she herde that, rose vp quyckly, and came vnto him:³⁰ For Iesus was not yet come in to ye towne, but was yet in the place, where Martha met him.³¹ The Iewes that were wt her in the house and comforted her, whan they sawe Mary, that she rose vp haistely, & wente out, they folowed her, & saide: She goeth to the graue, to wepe there.³² Now wha Mary came where Iesus was & sawe him, she fell downe at his fete, & sayde vnto hi: LORDE, yf thou haddest bene here, my brother had not bene deed.

³³ Wha Iesus sawe her wepe, & the Iewes wepinge also yt came wt her, he groned in the sprete, & was sory wt in himself,³⁴ & sayde: Where haue ye layed him? They sayde: LORDE come, & se it.³⁵ And Iesus wepte.³⁶ Then sayde ye Iewes: Beholde how he loued him.³⁷ But some of the saide: Coulde no the which opened the eyes of ye blynde, haue made also, that this ma shulde not haue dyed?³⁸ But Iesus groned agayne in himself, and came to the graue. It was a caue, and a stone layed on it.³⁹ Iesus saide: Take awaye ye stone. Martha the sister of him yt was deed, saide vnto hi: LORDE, he stynketh allready, for he hath bene deed foure dayes.⁴⁰ Iesus sayde vnto her: Sayde I not vnto the, that yf thou dyddest beleue, thou shuldest se the glory of God?⁴¹ Then toke they awaye the stone, where the deed laye. Iesus lift vp his eyes, and sayde: Father, I thake ye, that thou hast herde me.⁴² Howbeit I knowe, that thou hearest me allwaye: but because of ye people that stonde by, I sayde it, that they maye beleue, that thou hast sent me.⁴³ Whan he had sayde this, he cryed loude: Lazarus come forth.⁴⁴ And ye deed came forth bounde hande & fote wt graue clothes, & his face bounde wt a napkyn. Iesus sayde vnto the: Lowse him, & let him go.

⁴⁵ Many now of ye Iewes which mere come vnto Mary, and sawe what Iesus dyd, beleued on him.⁴⁶ But some of the wente their waye vnto the pharises, and tolde the what Iesus had done.⁴⁷ Then the hye prestes, and the pharises gathered a councell, and sayde: What do we? This man doth many tokens.⁴⁸ Yf we let him go thus, all me wyl beleue in him: the shal the Romaynes come, and take awaye oure londe and people.⁴⁹ But one of them, named Caiphas, which was hye prest that same yeare, sayde vnto them: Ye knowe nothinge nether considre ye eny thinge at all.⁵⁰ It is better for us that one ma dye for the people, then that all the people shulde perishe.⁵¹ This spake he not of himself, but for so moch as he was hye prest of the same yeare, he prophecied. For Iesus was for to dye for the people,⁵² and not for the people onely, but that he shulde gather together the children of God, which were scatered abrode:⁵³ From that daye forth they toke coucell, how they might put him to death.⁵⁴ Iesus walked nomore openly amonge the Iewes, but wente from thence in to a countre by the wyldernesse, to a cite called Ephraim, & there had he his beynge with his disciples.⁵⁵ The Iewes Easter was nye at hande. And there wente vp many to Ierusale out of that countre before ye Easter, to purifye them selues.⁵⁶ Then stode they vp, and axed after Iesus, and spake amonge them selues in the temple: What thynke ye, that he cometh not to ye feast?⁵⁷ The hye prestes & pharises had geuen a commaundement, that yf eny man knewe where he were, he shulde shewe it, that they might take him.