Matthew 3:1 Cross References - Coverdale

¹ In those dayes Ihon the Baptyst came and preached in the wildernes of Iury,

¹⁰ And now hath the LORDE letten me lyue, acordinge as he sayde. It is now fyue and fortie yeare sence ye LORDE spake this vnto Moses, wha Israel walked in the wildernesse. And now lo, this daie am I fyue and foure score yeare olde

⁶¹ And in the wyldernesse was Betharaba, Middin, Sechacha, ⁶² Nibsan, and the Salt cite, and Engaddi. These are sixe cities and their vyllagies.

¹⁶ And the childre of ye Kenyte Moses brother in lawe, wente vp out of the palme cite, with the children of Iuda in to the wyldernesse of Iuda, that lyeth on ye south syde of the cite Arad: and wente their waye, & dwelt amonge the people.

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. ⁶ The same voyce spake: Now crie. And I sayde: what shal I crie? Then spake it: that, all flesh is grasse, and that all the bewtie therof, is as the floure of the felde.

⁸ Bewarre, brynge forth due frutes of pennaunce.

⁷ Whan they wente their waye, Iesus beganne to speake vnto the people, concernynge Ihon: What are ye gone out for to se in the wyldernes? Wolde ye se a rede shaken with the wynde?

¹¹ Verely I saye vnto you: Amonge ye children of wemen arose there not a greater then Ihon the baptist. Not withstondinge he that is lesse in the kyngdome of Heauen, is greater then he.

² & sayde vnto his seruautes: This is Iho ye baptist. He is rysen agayne fro the deed, therfore are his dedes so mightie. ³ For Herode had take Iho bounde hi, & put him in preson for Herodias sake his brothers Philips wife. ⁴ For Ihon sayde vnto him: It is not laufull for ye to haue her. ⁵ And fayne wolde he haue put him to death, but he feared the people, because they helde him for a Prophet. ⁶ But whan Herode helde his byrth daye, the doughter of Herodias daunsed before the, and that pleased Herode well, ⁷ wherfore he promysed her with an ooth, yt he wolde geue her, what soeuer she wolde axe. ⁸ And she (beynge instructe of hir mother afore) sayde: geue me Ihon baptistes heade in a platter. ⁹ And the kynge was sory. Neuertheles for ye ooth sake, & the yt sat with him at ye table, he comaunded it to be geuen her, ¹⁰ and sent, & beheeded Ihon in the preson. ¹¹ And his heed was brought in a platter, and geuen to the damsell, & she brought it vnto her mother. ¹² Then came his disciples, and toke his body, and buried it, and wente and tolde Iesus. ¹³ Whan Iesus hetde yt, he departed thence by shippe in to a desert place alone. And wha the people herde therof, they folowed him on fote out of ye cities. ¹⁴ And Iesus wete forth, and sawe moch people, and had pytie vpon them, and healed their sicke.

¹⁴ They sayde: Some saye, yt thou art Iho the baptist, Some yt thou art Elias, Some yt thou art Ieremy, or one of ye prophetes.

¹² But I saye vnto you: Elias is come all ready, & they knewe him not, but haue done vnto him what they wolde. Eue so shal also the sonne of man suffre of them. ¹³ Then the disciples perceaued, that he spake vnto them of Ihon the baptist.

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? ²⁶ But yf we saye it was of men, the feare we the people: For euery ma helde Ihon for a prophet. ²⁷ And they answered Iesus, & sayde: We can not tell. Then sayde he vnto them: Nether tell I you, by what auctorite I do these thinges.

³² For Ihon came vnto you, and taught you ye right waye and ye beleued him not: but the publicans & harlottes beleued hi. As for you, though ye sawe it, yet were ye not moued with repetaunce, that ye might afterwarde haue beleued him.

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.

¹⁵ and sayde: the tyme is fulfylled, and the kyngdome of God is at hande: Amende youre selues, and beleue the gospell.

¹⁶ But when Herode herde it, he sayde: It is Ihon whom I beheeded, he is rysen againe from the deed. ¹⁷ This Herode had sent forth, and taken Ihon, and put him in preson, because of Herodias his brother Philippes wife, for he had maried her. ¹⁸ Neuertheles Ihon sayde vnto Herode It is not laufull for the to haue yi brothers wife. ¹⁹ But Herodias layed wayte for him, and wolde haue slayne him, and coude not. ²⁰ Notwithstodinge Herode feared Iho, for he knew that he was a iust and holy man: and he kepte him, and herkened vnto him in many thinges, and herde him gladly. ²¹ And there came a conuenient daye, that Herode on his byrth daye made a supper to the lordes, captaynes and chefe estates of Galile. ²² Then the daughter of Herodias came in, and daunsed, and pleased Herode, and them that sat at the table. Then sayde the kynge vnto ye damsel: Axe of me what thou wilt, I wil geue it the. ²³ And he sware vnto her: What soeuer thou shalt axe of me, I wil geue it the, euen vnto ye one half of my kyngdome. ²⁴ She wente forth, and sayde vnto hir mother: what shal I axe? She sayde: Ihon baptistes heade. ²⁵ And immediatly she wete in to the kinge with haist, and sayde: I will that thou geue me straight waye in a platter the heed of Ihon the baptist. ²⁶ Then the kynge was sory: Yet for the oothes sake and the that sat at the table, he wolde not saye her nay. ²⁷ And immediatly he sent the hangman, and commaunded his heade to be brought in. So he wete, and heeded him in the preson, ²⁸ and brought his heade in a platter, and gaue it vnto the damsell, and the damsell gaue it vnto hir mother. ²⁹ And whan his disciples herde that, they came and toke his body, & layed it in a graue.

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, ¹⁴ & thou shalt haue ioye and gladnesse: and many shal reioyce at his byrth, 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.

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

¹ In the fiftenth yeare of the raigne of Tiberius the Emperoure, wha Pontius Pilate was leftenaut in Iewry and Herode one of the foure princes in Galile, and his brother Philippe one of the foure prynces in Iturea, & in the coastes of Traconites, and Lysanias one of the foure princes of Abilene, 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.

²⁴ Whan the messaungers of Iho were departed, Iesus begane to speake vnto ye people cocernynge Iho: What are ye gone out for to se in ye wyldernesse? Wolde ye se a rede, that is shake wt the wynde?

⁶ There was sent from God a man, whose name was Ihon. ⁷ The same came for a witnesse, to beare wytnesse of ye light, that thorow him they all might beleue. ⁸ He was not that light, but that he might beare witnesse of ye light.

¹⁵ Ihon bare wytnesse of him, cryed, and sayde: It was this, of whom I spake: After me shal he come, that was before me, For he was or euer I: ¹⁶ and of his fulnesse haue all we receaued grace for grace. ¹⁷ For the lawe was geuen by Moses, grace and trueth came by Iesus Christ. ¹⁸ No man hath sene God at eny tyme. The onely begotte sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared the same vnto vs. ¹⁹ And this is the recorde of Ihon, whan the Iewes sent prestes and Leuites fro Ierusalem, to axe him: Who art thou? ²⁰ And he confessed and denyed not. And he confessed, and sayde: I am not Christ. ²¹ And they axed him: What the? Art thou Elias? He sayde: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered: No. ²² Then sayde they vnto him: What art thou the, yt we maye geue answere vnto the that sent vs? What sayest thou of yi self? ²³ He sayde: I am ye voyce of a cryer in the wyldernesse. Make straight ye waye of the LORDE. As ye prophet Esay sayde: ²⁴ And they that were sent, were of ye Pharises. ²⁵ And they axed him, & sayde vnto him: Why baptysest thou then, yf thou be not Christ, ner Elias, ner a prophet? ²⁶ Ihon answered them, and sayde: I baptyse with water, but there is one come in amonge you, whom ye knowe not. ²⁷ It is he that cometh after me, which was before me: whose shue lachet I am not worthy to vnlowse. ²⁸ This was done at Bethabara beyonde Iordane, where Ihon dyd baptyse. ²⁹ The nexte daye after, Ihon sawe Iesus commynge vnto him, and sayde: Beholde the labe of God, which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde. ³⁰ This is he, of whom I sayde vnto you: After me commeth a man, which was before me. For he was or euer I, ³¹ and I knewe him not: but that he shulde be declared in Israel, therfore am I come to baptyse with water. ³² And Ihon bare recorde, & sayde: I sawe the sprete descende from heauen like vnto a doue, and abode vpon him, 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. ³⁴ And I sawe it, and bare recorde, that this is the sonne of God. ³⁵ The nexte daye after, Ihon stode agayne, and two of his disciples. ³⁶ And wha he sawe Iesus walkynge, he sayde: Beholde the labe of God.

²⁷ Ihon answered and sayde: A man can receaue nothinge, excepte it be geuen him from heaue. ²⁸ Ye youreselues are my witnesses, how that I sayde, I am not Christ, but am sent before him. ²⁹ He that hath the bryde, is the brydegrome: but the frende of the brydegrome stondeth, and herkeneth vnto him, and reioyseth greatly ouer the voyce of the brydegrome, this same ioye of myne is now fulfilled. ³⁰ He must increace, but I must decreace. ³¹ He that commeth from an hye, is aboue all. He that is of the earth, is earthly, and speaketh of the earth. He that commeth fro heauen, is aboue all, ³² and testifieth what he hath sene & herde, and no man receaueth his wytnesse. ³³ But he that receaueth it, hath set to his seale, that God is true. ³⁴ For he who God hath sent, speaketh ye wordes of God: for God geueth not the sprete (vnto him) by measure. ³⁵ The father loueth the sonne, and hath geuen him all thinges in to his hande. ³⁶ He that beleueth on the sonne, hath euerlastinge life: he that beleueth not the sonne, shal not se the life, but ye wrath of God abydeth vpon him.

²² begynnynge from the baptyme of Ihon, vntyll ye daye that he was take vp from vs) must one be a wytnesse with vs of his resurreccion.

²⁴ whan Ihon had first preached before his comynge the baptyme of repentaunce vnto Israel. ²⁵ But whan Ihon had fulfylled his course, he sayde: I am not he, that ye take me for. But beholde, there commeth one after me, whose shues of his fete I am not worthy to lowse.

³ He sayde vnto them: Where with then were ye baptysed? They sayde: With the baptyme of Ihon. ⁴ Paul sayde: Ihon baptysed with the baptyme of repentaunce, and spake vnto ye people, that they shulde beleue on him, which shulde come after him, that is, on Iesus, that the same is Christ.