Matthew(i)
2 as it is written in the prophetes. Beholde, I send my messenger before thy face which shal prepare thy waye before the
3 The voyce of a cryer in the wildernes prepare the waye of the Lord: make hys pathes strayghte.
4 Iohn dyd baptyse in the wyldernes, and preache the baptisme of repentaunce: for the remissyon of synnes.
5 And all the lande of Iury and they of Ierusalem wente out vnto him, & were all baptysed of hym in the riuer Iordan: confessyng theyr synnes.
6 Iohn was clothed with camylles heare, & with a gerdyll of a skyn about hys loynes. And he dyd eate locustes, and wilde honey,
7 & preached saiynge: a stronger then I commeth after me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to stoupe doune, and vnlose.
8 I haue baptysed you with water: but he shal baptyse you with the holye ghost.