John 1:6 Cross References - Coverdale

⁶ There was sent from God a man, whose name was Ihon.

³ A voyce crieth: Prepare ye waye for the LORDE in the wyldernesse, make straight ye path for oure God in the deserte. ⁴ Let all valleis be exalted, and euery mountayne and hill be layde lowe. What so is croked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made playne feldes. ⁵ For the glory of the LORDE shal apeare, & all flesh shal se it, for why, ye mouth of the LORDE hath spoken it.

¹ Beholde, I wil sende my messaunger, which shal prepare the waye before me: and the LORDE whom ye wolde haue, shal soone come to his temple, yee euen the messaunger of the couenaunt whom ye longe for. Beholde, he commeth, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes.

⁵ Beholde, I will sende you Elias ye prophet: before the comynge off the daye of the great and fearfull LORDE. ⁶ He shall turne the hertes of the fathers to their children and the hertes of the children to their fathers, that I come not, and smyte the earth with cursynge.

¹ In those dayes Ihon the Baptyst came and preached in the wildernes of Iury, ² saynge: Amede youre selues, the kyngdome of heuen is at honde. ³ This is he, of whom it is spoke by ye Prophet Esay, which sayeth: The voyce of a cryer in ye wyldernes, prepare the LORDES waye, and make his pathes straight. ⁴ This Ihon had his garment of camels heer, and a lethre gerdell aboute his loynes. Hys meate was locustes and wylde hony. ⁵ Then went out to hym Ierusalem, and all Iury, and all the region rounde aboute Iordan, ⁶ and were baptised of him in Iordan, cofessynge their synnes. ⁷ Now when he sawe many of the Pharises and of ye Saduces come to hys baptim, he sayde vnto them: ye generacio of vipers, who hath certified you, that ye shal escape ye vengeaunce to come? ⁸ Bewarre, brynge forth due frutes of pennaunce. ⁹ Thinke not now, to saye in your selues, we haue Abraham to oure father. For I saye vnto you, that God is able of these stones to rayse vp chyldren vnto Abraham. ¹⁰ Euen now is the axe put vnto ye rote of the trees: therfore euery tre which bringeth not forth good frute, shalbe hewe downe, and cast into the fyre. ¹¹ I baptise you with water to repentaunce: but he that cometh after me, is myghtier the I, whose shues I am not worthy to beare. He shall baptise you with ye holy goost & wt fyre:

¹⁰ For this is he, of who it is written: Beholde, I sende my messauger before thy face, which shal prepare thy waye before the.

²⁵ The baptime of Iho, whece was it? from heaue, or of men? Then thought they amoge them selues, and saide: Yf we saye it was from heaue, then shal he saye vnto us: Why dyd ye not then beleue him?

¹ This is the begynnynge of the gospell of Iesus Christ the sonne of God, ² as it is wrytte in the prophetes. Beholde, I sende my messauger before thy face, which shal prepare thy waye before the. ³ The voyce of a cryer is in the wyldernes: Prepare the waye of the LORDE, make his pathes straight. ⁴ Ihon was in the wyldernes, and baptysed, and preached the baptyme of amendment, for the remyssion of synnes. ⁵ And there wente out vnto him the whole londe of Iewry, and they of Ierusalem, and were all baptysed of him in Iordan, and knowleged their synnes. ⁶ Ihon was clothed with Camels heer, and with a lethron gerdell aboute his loynes, and ate locustes and wylde hony, ⁷ and preached, and sayde: There commeth one after me, which is stronger then I: before whom I am not worthy to stoupe downe, and to lowse vp ye lachet of his shue. ⁸ I baptyse you with water, but he shal baptyse you with the holy goost.

¹³ But the angell sayde vnto him: Feare not Zachary, for thy prayer is herde. And yi wife Elizabeth shal beare the a sonne, whose name thou shalt call Ihon,

¹⁵ for he shal be greate before the LORDE. Wyne and stronge drynke shal he not drynke. And he shalbe fylled wt the holy goost, euen in his mothers wombe. ¹⁶ And many of the children of Israel shal he turne vnto the LORDE their God. ¹⁷ And he shal go before him in the sprete and power of Elias, to turne the hertes of ye fathers vnto the children, and the vnfaithfull vnto the wyssdome of the righteous, to make the people ready for the LORDE.

⁶¹ And they sayde vnto her: There is none in yi kynne, yt is so called. ⁶² And they made signes vnto his father, how he wolde haue him called. ⁶³ And he axed for wrytinge tables, wrote & sayde: His name is Ihon. And they marueyled all.

⁷⁶ And thou childe shalt be called a prophet of the Hyest: for thou shalt go before ye LORDE, to prepare his wayes.

² when Hannas and Caiphas were hye prestes, the came ye worde of God vnto Ihon the sonne of Zachary in the wyldernes. ³ And he came in to all ye coastes aboute Iordan, and preached the baptyme of repetaunce for the remyssion of synnes. ⁴ As it is wrytte in ye boke of ye sayenges of Esaye the prophet, which sayeth: The voyce of a cryer in the wyldernes: prepare the waye of the LORDE, and make his pathes straight. ⁵ Euery valley shalbe fylled, and euery mountayne & hyll shalbe brought lowe. And what so is croked, shalbe made straight: and what rough is, shalbe made smooth, ⁶ and all flesh shal se the Sauioure of God. ⁷ Then sayde he vnto the people, yt wente out to be baptysed of him: Ye generacion of vipers, who hath certified you, that ye shal escape ye wrath to come? ⁸ Take hede, brynge forth due frutes of repetauce, & begynne not to saye: We haue Abraha to or father. For I saye vnto you: God is able of these stones to rayse vp children vnto Abraham. ⁹ The axe is put vnto the tre allready: so that euery tre which bryngeth not forth good frute, shalbe hewen downe, and cast in to the fyre. ¹⁰ And the people axed him, and sayde: What shal we do then? ¹¹ He answered, & sayde vnto the: He that hath two coates, let him parte wt him yt hath none: and he that hath meate, let him do likewyse. ¹² The publicans came also, to be baptysed and sayde vnto him: Master, what shal we do? ¹³ He sayde vnto them: Requyre nomore, then is appoynted you. ¹⁴ Then ye soudyours axed him likewyse, and sayde: What shal we do then? And he sayde vnto the: Do no man violence ner wronge, and be content with youre wages. ¹⁵ But whan the people were in a doute, & thought all in their hertes, whether he were Christ, ¹⁶ Ihon answered, and sayde vnto the all: I baptyse you with water, but after me there cometh one stronger the I, whose shue lachet I am not worthy to lowse: he shal baptyse you with the holy goost and with fyre. ¹⁷ Whose fanne is in his hande, and he shal pourge his floore, and shal gather ye wheate in to his barne, and shal burne the chaffe with vnquencheable fyre. ¹⁸ And many other thynges more exorted he, & preached vnto the people. ¹⁹ But Herode the Tetrarcha (wha he was rebuked of him because of Herodias his brothers wife, and for all the euels that Herode dyd) ²⁰ besydes all this he layed Iho in preson.

³³ & I knewe him not. But he that sent me to baptyse with water, ye same sayde vnto me: Vpon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tary styll on him, the same is he, that baptyseth with the holy goost.

²⁸ Ye youreselues are my witnesses, how that I sayde, I am not Christ, but am sent before him.

²⁴ whan Ihon had first preached before his comynge the baptyme of repentaunce vnto Israel.