A    ^noteAnd it came to passe / when Iesus had fynisshed all these sayinges / he sayd vnto his disciples: &cross2; Ye knowe that after ii. dayes shalbe ester / ∧ the sonne of man shalbe delyvered to be crucified.

Then assembled togedder the chefe prestes and the scribes and the elders of the people to the palice of the hye preste / called Cayphas / ^note and heelde a counsell / how they mygt take Iesus by suttelte and kyll him. But they sayd / not on the holy daye / lest eny vproure aryse amonge the people.

When Iesus was in Bethany / in the house of Symon the leper / ^note ther came vnto him a woman / which had an alablaster boxe of precious oyntment / and powred it on his heed / as he sate at the bourde. ^noteWhen his disciples sawe that / they had indignacion sayinge: what neded this wast? This oyntm&ebar;t myght have bene well solde / ∧ geven to the povre. When Iesus vnderstod that / he sayde vnto th&ebar;: why trouble ye the woman? She hath wrought a

good worke apon me. For ye shall have povre folcke alwayes with you: but me shall ye not have all wayes. And in þt; she casted this oyntment on my bodye / she dyd it to burye me &wt; all. Verely I saye vnto you / wheresoever this gospell shalbe preached throughoute all the worlde / there shall also this that she hath done / be tolde for a memoriall of her.

B   Then one of the twelve called Iudas Iscarioth / ^note went vnto the chefe prestes / and sayd: what will ye geve me / and I will deliver him vnto you? And they apoynted vnto him thirty peces of sylver. And from that tyme he sought oportunite to betraye him.

The fyrst daye of swete breed þe; disciples cam to Iesus sayinge vnto him: where wylt thou that we prepare for þe; to eate þe; paschall lambe? ^noteAnd he sayd: Go into the cite / vnto soche a man / and saye to him: the master sayeth / my tyme is at hande / I will kepe myne ester at thy housse with my disciples. And the disciples did as Iesus had apoynted them / and made redy the esterlambe.

When the even was come / he sate doune &wt; the .xii. And as they dyd eate / he sayde: Verely I saye vnto you / ^note that one of you shall betraye me. And they were excedinge sorowfull / ∧ beganne every one of th&ebar; to saye vnto him: is it I master? He answered ∧ sayde: he þt; deppeth his honde &wt; me in þe; disshe / the same shall betraye me. The sonne of m&abar; goeth as it is written of him: ^note but wo be to þt; m&abar; / by whom þe; sonne of man shalbe betrayed. It had bene good

for that man / yf he had never bene borne.

C    ^noteThen Iudas wich betrayed him / answered and sayde: is it I master? He sayde vnto him: thou hast sayde. As they dyd eate / Iesus toke breed ∧ gave thankes / brake it / ∧ gave it to the disciples / ∧ sayde: Take / eate / ^note this is my body. And he toke the cup / and thanked / and gave it them / sayinge: drinke of it every one. For this is my bloude of the new testament / that shalbe shedde for many / for the remission of synnes. I saye vnto you: I will not drinke hence forth of this frute of the vyne tree / vntyll that daye / when I shall drinke it new with you in my fathers kyngdome.

^noteAnd when they had sayde grace / they went out into mounte olyvete. Then sayd Iesus vnto them: all ye shall be offended by me this night. For it is wrytten. I will smyte þe; shepe herde / ∧ the shepe of þe; flocke shalbe scattered abroode. But after I am rysen ageyne / I will goo before you into Galile. Peter answered / ∧ sayde vnto him: though all men shulde be offended by þe; / yet wolde I never be offended. Iesus sayde vnto him. Verely I saye vnto þe; / that this same night before the cocke crowe ^note thou shalt denye me thryse. Peter sayde vnto him: Yf I shulde dye with þe; / yet wolde I not denye þe; Lyke wyse also sayde all þe; disciples.

D   Then went Iesus with them into a place which is called Gethsemane / and sayde vnto the disciples / syt ye here / ^note whyll I go ∧ praye yonder. And he toke with him Peter and the two sonnes of zebede / ∧ began to wexe sorowfull

and to be in an agonye. Then sayd Iesus vnto them: my soule is hevy even vnto the deeth. Tary ye here ∧ watche &wt; me. And he went a lytell aparte / and fell flat on his face / and prayed sayinge: O my father / yf it be possible / let this cuppe passe from me: neverthelesse / not as I wyll / but as thou wylt. ^noteAnd he came vnto the disciples / and founde them a slepe / and sayde to Peter: what / coulde ye not watche with me one houre: watche ∧ praye / that ye fall not into temptacion. The spirite is willynge / but the flesshe is weake.

He went awaye once moare / ∧ prayed / sayinge: O my father / yf this cuppe can not passe away from me / but þt; I drinke of it / thy wyll be fulfylled. And he came / ∧ founde th&ebar; a slepe agayne. For their eyes were hevy. And he lefte them ∧ went agayne and prayed þe; thrid tyme sayinge þe; same wordes. Then came he to his disciples ∧ sayd vnto them: Slepe hence forth ∧ take youre reest. Take hede the houre is at honde / ∧ þe; sonne of man shalbe betrayed into þe; hondes of synners. Ryse / let vs be goinge: beholde / he is at honde þt; shall betraye me. ^noteWhyll he yet spake: lo / Iudas one of þe; xii. came ∧ &wt; him a greate multitude &wt; sweardes ∧ staves / E   sent from the chefe prestes ∧ elders of the people. And he that betrayed him / had geven th&ebar; a token / sayinge: whosoever I kysse / þt; same is he / ley hond&es; on him. And forth &wt; all he came to Iesus / ∧ sayde: hayle master / and kyssed him. ^noteAnd Iesus sayde vnto him: frende / wherfore arte thou come? Then came

they and layed hondes on Iesus ∧ toke him.

And beholde / one of them which were with Iesus / stretched oute his honde and drue his swearde / and stroke a servaunt of the hye preste / and smote of his eare. Then sayde Iesus vnto him: put vp thy swearde into his sheathe. For all that ley hond on þe; swearde / ^note shall perisshe with þe; swearde. Ether thinkest thou that I cannot now praye to my father / ∧ he shall geve me moo then .xii. legions of angelles? ^noteBut how then shuld the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be.

F   The same tyme sayd Iesus to the multitude: ye be come out as it were vnto a thefe / ^note with sweardes ∧ staves for to take me. I sate daylie teachinge in the temple am&obar;ge you and ye toke me not. ^noteAll this was done that the scriptures of the Prophetes myght be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsoke him and fleed. And they toke Iesus and leed him to Cayphas the hye preeste / where the Scribes and the Elders where assembled. And Peter folowed him a farre of / vnto the hye prestes place: and went in / and sate with the servauntes / to se the ende.

^noteThe chefe prestes and the elders / and all the counsell / sought false witnes agenste Iesus / for to put him to deeth / but founde none: in somoche that when many false witnesses cam / yet founde they none. At the last came two false witnesses and sayd: ^note This felowe sayde: I can distroye the temple of God / and bylde it agayne in .iii. dayes.

And the chefe preste arose / ∧ sayde to him: answerest thou nothinge? How is it þt; these beare witnes ageynst the? But Iesus helde his peace: And the chefe Preeste answered / and sayd to him: I charge the in the name of the lyvinge God / that thou tell vs whether thou be Christ the sonne of God. Iesus sayd to him: thou haste sayd. Neverthelesse I saye vnto you / hereafter shall ye se the sonne of m&abar; syttinge on the right honde of power / and come in the clowddes of the skye.

G   Then the hye preste rent his clothes sayinge: He hath blasphemed: what nede we of eny moo witnesses? Behold now ye have hearde his blasphemy: what thinke ye? They answered and sayd: he his worthy to dye. Then spat they in his face / and boffeted him with fistes. And other smote him with the palme af their hondes on þe; face / sayinge: tell vs thou Christ / who is he that smote the?

^notePeter sate with out in the palice. And a damsell came to him sayinge: Thou also waste &wt; Iesus of Galilee: but he denyed before th&ebar; all sayinge: I woot not what thou sayst. When he was goone out into the poorche / another wenche sawe him / ∧ sayde vnto them that were there: This felowe was also with Iesus of Nazareth. And agayne he denyed with an oothe that he knew the man. And after a whyle came vnto him they þt; stode bye / and sayde vnto Peter: suerly thou arte even one of th&ebar; / for thy speache bewreyeth þe;. Then beganne he to course ∧ to sweare / that he knewe

not the man. And immedyatly the cocke krewe. And Peter remembred the wordes of Iesu which sayde vnto him: before the cocke crowe / thou shalt deny me thryse: and went out at the dores and wepte bitterly.

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