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¹ After that ther was a feast of the Iewes and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem.² And ther is at Ierusalem by ye slaughterhousse a pole called in ye Ebrue toge Bethseda havinge five porches³ in which laye a greate multitude of sicke folke of blinde halt and wyddered waytinge for the movinge of the water.⁴ For an angell wet doune at a certayne ceason into ye pole and troubled ye water. Whosoever then fyrst after the steringe of the water stepped in was made whoale of what soever disease he had.⁵ And a certayne ma was theare which had bene diseased .xxxviii. yeares⁶ When Iesus sawe him lye and knewe that he now longe tyme had bene diseased he sayde vnto him. Wilt thou be made whoale?⁷ The sicke answered him: Syr I have no man whe the water is troubled to put me into the pole. But in the meane tyme whill I am about to come another steppeth doune before me.⁸ And Iesus sayde vnto him: ryse take vp thy beed and walke.⁹ And immediatly the man was made whole and toke vp his beed and went. And the same daye was the Saboth daye¹⁰ The Iewes therfore sayde vnto him that was made whole. It is ye Saboth daye it is not laufull for the to cary thy beed¹¹ He answered them: he that made me whole sayde vnto me: take vp thy beed and get the hence.¹² Then axed they him: what man is that which sayde vnto the take vp thy beed and walke.¹³ And he yt was healed wist not who it was. For Iesus had gotte him selfe awaye be cause yt ther was preace of people in ye place.¹⁴ And after that Iesus founde him in the teple and sayd vnto him: beholde thou arte made whole synne no moore lest a worsse thinge happe vnto the.¹⁵ The man departed and tolde ye Iewes that yt was Iesus whiche had made him whole.¹⁶ And therfore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus and sought the meanes to slee him because he had done these thinges on the Saboth daye.

¹⁷ And Iesus answered them: my father worketh hidder to and I worke.¹⁸ Therfore the Iewes sought the moare to kill him not only because he had broken the Saboth: but sayde also that God was his father and made him selfe equall with God.¹⁹ Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto them: verely verely I saye vnto you: the sonne can do no thinge of him selfe but that he seeth ye father do. For whatsoever he doeth yt doeth the sonne also.²⁰ For the father loveth ye sonne and sheweth him all thinges whatsoever he him selfe doeth. And he will shewe him greter workes then these because ye shoulde marvayle.²¹ For lykwyse as the father rayseth vp ye deed and quickeneth them even so the sonne quyckeneth whom he will.²² Nether iudgeth ye father eny ma: but hath comitted all iudgemet vnto the sonne²³ because that all men shuld honoure the sonne eve as they honoure the father. He that honoureth not ye sonne the same honoureth not the father which hath sent him.²⁴ Verely verely I saye vnto you: He that heareth my wordes and beleveth on him that sent me hath everlastinge lyfe and shall not come into damnacion: but is scaped fro deth vnto lyfe.²⁵ Verely verely I saye vnto you: the tyme shall come and now is when the deed shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God. And they yt heare shall live.²⁶ For as the father hath life in him silfe: so lyke wyse hath he geven to ye sonne to have lyfe in him silfe:²⁷ and hath geven him power also to iudge in that he is the sonne of man.²⁸ Marvayle not at this ye houre shall come in the which all yt are in the graves shall heare his voice²⁹ and shall come forthe: they that have done good vnto the resurreccion of lyfe: and they that have done evyll vnto the resurreccion of dampnacion.³⁰ I can of myne awne selfe do nothinge at all. As I heare I iudge and my iudgemet is iust because I seke not myne awne will but the will of ye father which hath sent me.

³¹ Yf I beare witnes of my selfe my witnes is not true.³² Ther is a nother that beareth witnes of me and I am sure that the witnes whiche he beareth of me is true.³³ Ye sent vnto Iohn and he bare witnes vnto the truthe.³⁴ But I receave not the recorde of man. Neverthelesse these thinges I saye that ye might be safe.³⁵ He was a burninge and a shyninge light and ye wolde for a season have reioysed in his light.³⁶ But I have greater witnes then the witnes of Iohn. For ye workes which ye father hath geve me to fynisshe: the same workes which I do beare witnes of me that ye father sent me.³⁷ And the father him silfe which hath sent me beareth witnes of me. Ye have not hearde his voyce at eny tyme nor ye have sene his shape:³⁸ therto his wordes have ye not abydinge in you. For whome he hath sent: him ye beleve not.³⁹ Searche the scriptures for in them ye thinke ye have eternall lyfe: and they are they which testify of me.⁴⁰ And yet will ye not come to me that ye might have lyfe.⁴¹ I receave not prayse of men.⁴² But I knowe you that ye have not the love of God in you⁴³ I am come in my fathers name and ye receave me not. Yf another shall come in his awne name him will ye receave.⁴⁴ How can ye beleve which receave honoure one of another and seke not the honoure that commeth of God only?⁴⁵ Doo not thinke that I wyll accuse you to my father. Ther is one that accuseth you eve Moses in whom ye trust.⁴⁶ For had ye beleved Moses ye wold have beleved me: for he wrote of me.⁴⁷ But now ye beleve not his writinge: how shall ye beleve my wordes.