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- In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God.
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- The same was in the begynnyng with God.
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- All thynges were made by it: and without it, was made nothyng that was made.
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- In it was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of men,
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- And the lyght shyneth in darkenesse: and the darknesse comprehended it not.
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- There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn:
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- The same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of the lyght, that all men through hym myght beleue.
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- He was not that lyght: but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght.
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- That [lyght] was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.
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- He was in the worlde, and the worlde was made by hym, and the worlde knewe hym not.
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- He came among his owne, and his owne receaued hym not.
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- But as many as receaued hym, to them gaue he power to be the sonnes of God, euen them that beleued on his name.
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- Which were borne, not of blood, nor of the wyll of the fleshe, nor yet of the wyll of man, but of God.
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- And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.
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- Iohn beareth witnesse of hym, and cryeth, saying: This was he of whom I spake, he that commeth after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me.
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- And of his fulnesse haue all we receaued, and grace for grace.
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- For the lawe was geuen by Moyses: but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe.
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- No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.
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- And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent priestes and leuites from Hierusalem, to aske hym: What art thou?
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- And he confessed and denyed not, and sayde playnely, I am not that Christe.
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- And they asked hym: What then?
art thou Elias? And he sayth, I am not. Art thou that prophete? And he aunswered, no.
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- Then sayde they vnto hym: What art thou?
that we may geue an aunswere to them that sent vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe?
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- He sayde: I am the voyce of a cryer in the wildernesse, make strayght the way of the Lorde, as sayde the prophete Esaias.
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- And they which were sent, were of the pharisees.
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- And they asked hym, and sayde vnto hym: Why baptizest thou then, yf thou be not Christe, nor Elias, neither that prophete?
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- Iohn aunswered them, saying: I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you, whom ye knowe not,
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- He it is, which though he came after me, was before me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose.
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- These thynges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordane, where Iohn dyd baptize.
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- The next day, Iohn seeth Iesus comming vnto hym, and saith, beholde the lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the worlde.
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- This is he of whom I sayde, After me commeth a man, which is preferred before me, for he was before me.
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- And I knewe hym not: but that he shoulde be declared to Israel, therfore am I come, baptizing with water.
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- And Iohn bare recorde, saying: I sawe the spirite descende from heauen, lyke vnto a doue, and abode vpon hym,
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- And knewe hym not.
But he that sent me to baptize with water, the same saide vnto me: vpon whom thou shalt see the spirite descende, and tary styll on hym, the same is he which baptizeth with the holy ghost.
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- And I sawe, and bare recorde, that he is the sonne of God.
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- The next day after, Iohn stoode agayne, and two of his disciples.
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- And he behelde Iesus as he walked by, & sayth: beholde the lambe of God.
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- And the two disciples hearde hym speake, and they folowed Iesus.
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- And Iesus turned about, and sawe them folowe hym, & sayth vnto them: What seeke ye?
They sayde vnto hym: Rabbi (which is to say yf one interprete it, Maister) where dwellest thou?
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- He sayeth vnto them: come and see.
They came, and sawe where he dwelt, and abode with hym that day: For it was about the tenth houre.
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- One of the two which hearde Iohn speake, & folowed hym, was Andrewe, Simon Peters brother.
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- The same founde his brother Simon first, and sayth vnto hym: We haue founde Messias, which is by interpretation, the annoynted.
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- And brought hym to Iesus.
And Iesus behelde hym, and sayde: Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone.
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- The day folowyng, Iesus woulde go into Galilee, & founde Philip, and sayth vnto hym, folowe me.
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- Philip was of Bethsaida, the citie of Andrewe and Peter.
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- Philip founde Nathanael, and sayth vnto hym: We haue founde hym, of whom Moyses in the lawe, and the prophetes, dyd write: Iesus of Nazareth, the sonne of Ioseph.
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- And Nathanael sayde vnto hym: Can there any good thyng come out of Nazareth?
Philip sayth vnto him: come and see.
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- Iesus sawe Nathanael commyng to hym, & sayeth of hym: Beholde a ryght Israelite, in whom is no guile.
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- Nathanael sayth vnto hym: Whence knewest thou me?
Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast vnder the fygge tree, I sawe thee.
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- Nathanael aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: Rabbi, thou art euen the [very] sonne of God, thou art ye kyng of Israel.
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- Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Because I sayde vnto thee, I saw thee vnder the fygge tree, thou beleuest: Thou shalt see greater thynges then these.
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- And he sayth vnto hym: Ueryly, veryly I say vnto you, hereafter shall ye see heauen open, and the Angels of God ascendyng & descendyng vpon the sonne of man.
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