Matthew(i)
15 Iohn bare witnes of him & cried saiyng: This was he of whom I spake, he that cometh after me was before me, because he was yer then I.
16 And of his fulnes haue all we receyued, euen (grace) for grace.
17 For the lawe was geuen by Moyses, but grace and truthe came by Iesus Christ.
18 No man hath sene God at anye tyme. The onlye begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.
19 And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent pryestes and Leuites from Ierusalem, to axe him what arte thou?
20 And he confessed and denied not, and sayd plainlye: I am not Chryste.
21 And they axed hym: what then? Art thou Helias? And he sayed: I am not. Art thou a Prophete? And he aunswered no.
22 Then sayed they vnto him: what art thou? that we may geue an aunswere to them that sent vs? What sayest thou of thy selfe?
23 He sayde: I am the voice of a cryar in the wyldernes, make strayght the waye of the Lorde, as sayde the Prophete Esaias.
24 And they which were sent, were of the pharyseis.
25 And they axed him: and sayd vnto him: why baptysest thou then if thou be not Christ, nor Helias, neyther a Prophete?
26 Iohn aunswered them saiynge: I baptyse with water, but one is come amonge you whom ye knowe not,
27 he it is that cometh after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to vnlose.
28 These thinges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordaine wher Iohn did baptyse.
29 The nexte daye Iohn sawe Iesus commynge vnto him, and sayde: beholde the lambe of God, which taketh away the synne of the worlde.
30 This is he of whom I sayde. After me cometh a man which was before me, for he was yer then I,
31 and I knowe him not: but that he shoulde be declared to Israel, therfore am I come baptysynge with water.
32 And Iohn bare recorde saiynge: I saw the sprete descende from heauen, lyke vnto a doue, and abide vpon him,
33 and I knewe him not. But he that sent me: to baptyse in water, the same sayde vnto me: vpon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tarye styll on him, the same is he, whych baptyseth wyth the holye ghost.
34 And I sawe and beare recorde that this is the sonne of God.
35 The next daye after Iohn stode againe, and two of his disciples.
36 And he behelde Iesus as he walked by, & sayde: beholde the lambe of God.