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¹ After that wente Iesus aboute in Galile, for he wolde not go aboute in Iewry, because the Iewes sought to kyll him.² But the Iewes feast of Tabernacles was at hande.³ Then sayde his brethren vnto him: Get the hece, and go into Iewry, that thy disciples also maye se thy workes, that thou doest.⁴ He that seketh to be openly knowne, doth nothinge in secrete. Yf thou do soch thinges, the shewe yi self before the worlde:⁵ For his awne brethren also beleued not in him.⁶ Then sayde Iesus vnto them: My tyme is not yet come, but youre tyme is allwaye ready.⁷ The worlde can not hate you, but me it hateth: because I testifye of it, that the workes of it are euell.⁸ Go ye vp vnto this feast, I wyll not go vp yet vnto this feast, for my tyme is not yet fulfylled.⁹ Whan he sayde this vnto them, he abode styll in Galile.¹⁰ But as soone as his brethren were gone vp, then wente he vp also vnto the feast, not openly, but as it were secretly.¹¹ Then sought him ye Iewes at ye feast, and sayde: Where is he?¹² And there was a greate murmur of him amonge the people. Some sayde: He is good. But other sayde: No, he doth but disceaue the people.¹³ Howbeit no man spake frely of him, for feare of the Iewes.

¹⁴ But in the myddes of the feast wete Iesus vp in to the temple, and taught.¹⁵ And the Iewes marueyled and sayde: How can he ye scrypture, seynge he hath not lerned it?¹⁶ Iesus answered them, and sayde: My doctryne is not myne, but his that hath sent me.¹⁷ Yf eny man wyl do his will, he shal knowe, whether this doctryne be of God, or whether I speake of my self.¹⁸ He that speaketh of himself, seketh his awne prayse: but he that seketh the prayse of him that sent him, the same is true, & there is no vnrighteousnes in him.¹⁹ Hath not Moses geuen you the lawe? and none of you kepeth the lawe? Why go ye aboute to kyll me?²⁰ The people answered, and sayde: Thou hast the deuell, who goeth aboute to kyll the?²¹ Iesus answered and sayde: One worke haue I done, and ye all maruayle.²² Moses gaue you the circumcision, (not because it commeth of Moses, but of ye fathers:) Yet do ye circumcyse a man vpon the Sabbath.²³ Yf a man receaue circucision vpon the Sabbath, that the lawe of Moses shulde not be broken, dissdayne ye then at me, because I haue made a ma euery whyt whole on the Sabbath?²⁴ Iudge not after the vtter appearauce, but iudge righteous iudgment.²⁵ Then sayde some of them of Ierusalem: Is not this he, who they go aboute to kyll?²⁶ And beholde, he speaketh boldely, and they saye nothinge to him. Do oure rulers knowe in dede, that he is very Christ?²⁷ Howbeyt we knowe, whence this is. But wha Christ commeth, no man shal knowe whence he is.²⁸ Then cryed Iesus in the temple as he taught, and sayde: Yee ye knowe me, and whence I am ye knowe, and of my self am I not come, but he yt sent me, is true, whom ye knowe not.²⁹ But I knowe him, for I am of him, and he hath sent me.³⁰ Then sought they to take him, but no mam layed handes vpon him, for his houre was not yet come.³¹ But many of the people beleued on him, and sayde: Whan Christ commeth, shall he do mo tokens, then this doth?³² And it came to the Pharises eares, that ye people murmured soch thinges of him. And the Pharises and hye prestes sent out seruauntes, to take him.³³ Then sayde Iesus vnto them: I am yet a litle whyle with you and then go I vnto him that hath sent me.³⁴ Ye shal seke me, & not fynde me: and where I am, thither can ye not come.³⁵ Then sayde the Iewes amonge them selues: Whyther wil he go, that we shal not fynde him? Wyl he go amoge the Grekes that are scatred abrode, and teach the Grekes?³⁶ What maner of sayenge is this, that he sayeth: ye shal seke me, and not fynde me: and where I am, thither can not ye come?

³⁷ But in the last daye which was ye most solempne daye of the feast, Iesus stode vp, cried, and sayde: Who so thyrsteth, let him come vnto me, and drynke.³⁸ He that beleueth on me, as the scripture sayeth, out of his body shal flowe ryuers of the water of life.³⁹ (But this spake he of the sprete, which they that beleue on him, shulde receaue. For the holy goost was not yet there, because Iesus was not yet glorifyed.)⁴⁰ Many of the people now whan they herde this sayenge, sayde: This is a very prophet.⁴¹ Other sayde: He is Christ. But some sayde: Shal Christ come out of Galile?⁴² Sayeth not the scripture, that Christ shal come of the sede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Bethleem, where Dauid was?⁴³ Thus was there discencion amonge the people for his sake.⁴⁴ Some of them wolde haue taken him, but no man layed handes on him.

⁴⁵ The seruauntes came to the hye prestes and pharises, and they sayde vnto them: Why haue ye not brought him?⁴⁶ The seruauntes answered: Neuer ma spake as this man doth.⁴⁷ Then answered them the pharises: Are ye also disceaued?⁴⁸ Doth eny of the rulers or pharises beleue on him?⁴⁹ But the comon people which knowe not the lawe, are cursed.⁵⁰ Nicodemus sayde vnto them, he that came to him by night, which was one of them:⁵¹ Doth oure lawe iudge eny man, before it heare him, and knowe what he hath done?⁵² They answered and sayde vnto him? Art thou a Galilean also? Searche and loke, out of Galile aryseth no prophet.⁵³ And so euery man wente home.