¹ And Iesus went vnto mounte Olivete

² and erly in ye mornynge came agayne into ye temple and all the people came vnto him and he sate doune and taught them.

³ And the scribes and ye pharises brought vnto him a woman taken in advoutry and set hyr in the myddes

⁴ and sayde vnto him: Master this woman was taken in advoutry even as the dede was a doyng.

⁵ Moses in the lawe comaunded vs yt suche shuld be stoned. What sayest thou therfore?

⁶ And this they sayde to tempt him: that they myght have wherof to accuse him. Iesus stouped doune and with his fynger wrote on the grounde.

⁷ And whyll they continued axynge him he lyfte him selfe vp and sayde vnto them: let him yt is amoge you wt out synne cast the fyrst stone at her.

⁸ And agayne he stouped doune and wrote on ye grounde.

⁹ And assone as they hearde that they went out one by one the eldest fyrst. And Iesus was lefte a lone and the woman stondynge in ye myddes.

¹⁰ When Iesus had lyfte vp him selfe agayne and sawe no man but the woman he sayde vnto hyr. Woman where are those thyne accusars? Hath no man condempned the?

¹¹ She sayde: No man Lorde. And Iesus sayde: Nether do I condempne the. Goo and synne no moare.

¹² Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them sayinge: I am the light of the worlde. He that foloweth me shall not walke in darcknes: but shall have the light of lyfe.

¹³ The pharises sayde vnto him: thou bearest recorde of thy sylfe thy recorde is not true.

¹⁴ Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: Though I beare recorde of my selfe yet my recorde is true: for I knowe whece I came and whyther I goo. But ye cannot tell whece I come and whyther I goo.

¹⁵ Ye iudge after ye flesshe. I iudge no man

¹⁶ though I iudge yet is my iudgmet true. For I am not alone: but I and the father that sent me.

¹⁷ It is also written in youre lawe that the testimony of two men is true.

¹⁸ I am one yt beare witnes of my selfe and the father that sent me beareth witnes of me.

¹⁹ Then sayde they vnto him: where is thy father? Iesus answered: ye nether knowe me nor yet my father. Yf ye had knowen me ye shuld have knowen my father also.

²⁰ These wordes spake Iesus in the tresury as he taught in the temple and no man layde hondes on him for his tyme was not yet come.

²¹ Then sayde Iesus agayne vnto them. I goo my waye and ye shall seke me and shall dye in youre synnes. Whyther I goo thyther can ye not come.

²² Then sayde the Iewes: will he kyll him selfe because he sayth: whyther I goo thyther can ye not come?

²³ And he sayde vnto the: ye are fro beneth I am from above. Ye are of this worlde I am not of this worlde.

²⁴ I sayde therfore vnto you that ye shall dye in youre synnes. For except ye beleve that I am he ye shall dye in youre synnes.

²⁵ Then sayde they vnto him who arte thou? And Iesus sayde vnto them: Even ye very same thinge yt I saye vnto you.

²⁶ I have many thinges to saye and to iudge of you. But he yt sent me is true. And I speake in ye worlde those thinges which I have hearde of him.

²⁷ They understode not that he spake of his father.

²⁸ Then sayde Iesus vnto them: when ye have lyft vp an hye the sonne of man then shall ye knowe that I am he and that I do nothinge of my selfe: but as my father hath taught me even so I speake:

²⁹ and he that sent me is with me. The father hath not lefte me alone for I do alwayes those thinges that please him.

³⁰ As he spake these wordes many beleved on him.

³¹ Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleved on him. If ye cotinue in my wordes then are ye my very disciples

³² and shall knowe the trueth: and the trueth shall make you free.

³³ They answered him: We be Abrahams seede and were never bonde to eny man: why sayest thou then ye shalbe made fre.

³⁴ Iesus answered them: verely verely I saye vnto you that whosoever committeth synne is the servaunt of synne.

³⁵ And the servaunt abydeth not in the housse for ever: But ye sonne abydeth ever.

³⁶ If the sonne therfore shall make you fre then are ye fre in dede.

³⁷ I knowe that ye are Abrahams seed: But ye seke meanes to kyll me because my sayinges have no place in you.

³⁸ I speake that I have sene with my father: and ye do that which ye have sene with youre father.

³⁹ They answered and sayde vnto him: Abraham is oure father. Iesus sayde vnto them. If ye were Abrahams chyldren ye wolde do the dedes of Abraham.

⁴⁰ But now ye goo about io kyll me a man that have tolde you the truthe which I have herde of god: this dyd not Abraham.

⁴¹ Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: we were not borne of fornicacion. We have one father which is God.

⁴² Iesus sayde vnto them: yf God were youre father then wolde ye love me. For I proceaded forthe and come from God. Nether came I of my selfe but he sent me.

⁴³ Why do ye not knowe my speache? Even because ye cannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes.

⁴⁴ Ye are of youre father the devyll and the lustes of youre father ye will folowe. He was a murtherer from the beginnynge and aboode not in the trueth because ther is no trueth in him. When he speaketh a lye then speaketh he of his awne. For he is a lyar and the father therof.

⁴⁵ And because I tell you ye trueth therfore ye beleve me not.

⁴⁶ Which of you can rebuke me of synne? If I saye ye trueth why do not ye beleve me?

⁴⁷ He that is of God heareth goddes wordes Ye therfore heare them not because ye are not of God.

⁴⁸ Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto him: Saye we not well that thou arte a Samaritane and hast the devyll?

⁴⁹ Iesus answered: I have not the devyll: but I honour my father and ye have dishonoured me.

⁵⁰ I seke not myne awne prayse: but ther is one that seketh and iudgeth.

⁵¹ Verely verely I saye vnto you yf a man kepe my sayinges he shall never se deeth.

⁵² Then sayde the Iewes to him: Now knowe we that thou hast the devyll. Abraha is deed and also the Prophetes: and yet thou sayest yf a man kepe my sayinge he shall never tast of deeth.

⁵³ Arte thou greater then oure father Abraham which is deed? and the Prophetes are deed. Whome makest thou thy selfe?

⁵⁴ Iesus answered: Yf I honoure my selfe myne honoure is nothinge worth. It is my father that honoureth me which ye saye is youre God