After that / Iesus w&ebar;t about in Galile ∧ wolde not go about in Iewry / for the Iewes sought to kill him. The Iewes tabernacle feast was at honde. His brethren therfore sayde vnto him: get þe; hence ∧ go into Iewry þt; thy disciples maye se thy workes þt; thou doest. C   For ther is no man þt; doeth eny thing secretly / and he him selfe seketh to be knowen. Yf thou do soche thinges / shewe thy selfe to the worlde. For as yet his brethr&ebar; beleved not in him.

Then Iesus sayd vnto them: My tyme is not yet come / youre tyme is all waye redy. The worlde c&abar;not hate you. Me it hateth: because I testify of it / that the workes of it are evyll. Go ye vp vnto this feast. I will not go vp yet vnto this feast / for my tyme is not yet full come. These wordes he sayde vnto them and abode still in Galile. But assone as his brethren were goone vp / then went he also vp vnto the feast: not openly but as it were prevely. Then sought him the Iewes at þe; feast / ∧ sayde: Where is he? And moche murmurynge was ther of him amonge the people. Some sayde: He is good. Wother sayde naye / but he deceaveth the people. How be it no m&abar; spake openly of him / for feare of the Iewes &cross3;

&cross2; In þe; middes of the feast / Iesus went vp into the temple and taught. And the Iewes

marveylled sayinge: How knoweth he þe; scriptures / seynge þt; he never learned? Iesus answered them / and sayde: My doctrine is not myne: but his that sent me. If eny man will do his ^note will / he shall knowe of the doctrine / whether it be of God / or whether I speake of my selfe. He that speaketh of him selfe / seketh his awne prayse. But he that seketh his prayse that sent him / the same is true / and no vnrightewesnes is in him.

Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe / ∧ yet none of you kepeth þe; lawe? Why goo ye aboute to kyll me? The people answered ∧ sayde: thou hast the devyll: who goeth aboute to kyll the? Iesus answered and sayde to them: I have done one worke / and ye all marvayle. Moses therfore gave vnto you circumcision: D    ^note not because it is of Moses / but of the fathers. And yet ye on the Saboth daye / ^note circumcise a man. If a man on the Saboth daye receave circumcision without breakinge of the lawe of Moses: disdayne ye at me / ^note because I have made a man every whit whoale on the saboth daye? Iudge not after the vtter aperaunce: but iudge rightewes iudgement.

Then sayd some of them of Ierusalem: Is not this he wh&obar; they goo aboute to kyll? Beholde he speaketh boldly / and they saye nothinge to him. Do the rulars knowe in dede / that this is very Christ? How be it we knowe this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh / no man shall knowe whence he is.

Then cryed Iesus in þe; temple as he taught

sayinge: ye knowe me / and whence I am ye knowe. And yet I am not come of my selfe / but he þt; sent me is true / whom ye knowe not. I knowe him: for I am of him / ∧ he hath sent me. Then they sought to take him: but no m&abar; layde hondes on him / because his tyme was not yet come. Many of the people beleved on him ∧ sayde: when Christ cometh / will he do moo miracles then this man hath done?

E   The pharises hearde that the people murmured suche thinges about him. Wherfore þe; pharises and hye prestes sent ministres forthe to take him. Then sayde Iesus vnto th&ebar;: Yet am I a lytell whyle with you / and then goo I vnto him that sent me. Ye shall seke me / and shall not fynde me: and where I am / thyther can ye not come. Then sayde the Iewes bitwene th&ebar; selves: whyther will he goo / that we shall not fynde him? Will he goo amonge the gentyls which are scattered all a broade / and teache the gentyls? What maner of sayinge is this that he sayde: ye shall seke me / and shall not fynde me: and where I am / thyther can ye not come?

F   In the last daye / that great daye of the feaste / Iesus stode and cryed sayinge: If eny man thyrst / let him come vnto me and drinke. He that beleveth on me / as sayeth the scripture / ^note out of his belly shall flowe ryvers of water of lyfe. This spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him / shuld receave. &cross3; For the holy goost was not yet there / because that Iesus was not yet glorifyed.

&cross2; Many of the people / when they hearde this sayinge sayd: of a truth this is a prophet Other sayde: this is Christ. Some sayde: shall Christ come out of Galile? Sayeth not the scripture that Christ shall come of the seed of ^note David: ∧ out of the toune of Bethleem where David was? So was ther dissencion amonge the people aboute him. And some of them wolde have taken him: but no man layed hondes on him.

G   Then came þe; ministres to þe; hye prestes ∧ pharises. And they sayde vnto th&ebar;: why have ye not brought him? The serva&ubar;t&es; answered never man spake as this man doeth. Then answered th&ebar; the pharises: are ye also disceaved? ^noteDoth eny of the rulers or of the pharises beleve on him? But the comen people whiche knowe not þe; lawe / are cursed. Nicodemus sayde vnto them: He that came to Iesus by nyght / and was one of them. Doth oure lawe iudge eny man / before it heare him / ∧ knowe what he hath done? They answered ∧ sayde vnto him: arte thou also of Galile? Searche and loke / for out of Galile aryseth no Prophet. And every man went vnto his awne housse. &cross3;

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