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West Saxon II [1878], THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN IN ANGLO-SAXON AND NORTHUMBRIAN VERSIONS SYNOPTICALLY ARRANGED, WITH COLLATIONS EXHIBITING ALL THE READINGS OF ALL THE MSS. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press, by the REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A. Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge (F. A. BROCKHAUS, LEIPZIG) [word count] [B01220].
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CHAPTER XIV.


1    noteÐa wæs ge-worðen þa he eode on sumes phariseas ealdres hus on ræste-daige. þæt he hlaf æte. ∧ hyo be-gymden hine.


2   þa wæs þær sum wæter-seoc mann be-foran hym.


3   Ða cwæð se hælend to þam lage-gleawen. ∧ farisean. is hit alyfed þæt man on reste-dagen hæle.

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4   Ða swegedon hyo. þa nam he hine ∧ hælde ∧ for-let hine.


5   Ða cwæð he to heom andsweriende. Hwilces eowres asse oððe oxa be-feald on ænne pyt. ∧ ne teod he hine rædlice up on reste daige.


6   Ða ne mihton hyo agen þis hym ge-andswerian.


7   Þa saigde he heom sum bispell. be þam inge-laðedon gymende hu hyo þa fyrmestan setle ge-curan. ∧ þus cwæð.


8   Þanne þu beost to gyften ge-laðed. ne site þu on þa fyrmeste settle þi-læs wenunga sum wurðfulra cume.


9   ∧ se þe inge-laðede segge þe rem þisen menn settl. ∧ þu þanne mid scame nyme &thaet; ytemesten settle.


10   Ac þanne þu ge-clyped beost. ga ∧ site on þam ytemesten settle. þæt se þe inge-laðode þanne he kymð cweðe to þe. La freond; site ufor. þanne beoð þe wurðment beforan mid-sittenden.


11   For-þan ælc þe hine up-ahefð byð ge-nyðered. ∧ se þe hine niðered se beoð up-ahafen.


12   Þa cwæð he to þam þe hine in laðede. Þanne þu dest wyste oððe ferme. ne cleope þu þine freond ne þine broðre. ne þine cuðan. ne þine welegen. nehhebures. þe-læs hyo þe agen laðian ∧ þu hæbbe edlean.

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13   Ac þanne þu beorscype do; cleope þearfen ∧ wanhæften ∧ healte ∧ blinde.


14   þanne beost þu eadig. for-þan þe hyo næbbed hwanen hyo hit þe folgeldon (sic). Soðlice hit beoð þe for-golden on riht-wisra ariste.


15   Ða þis ge-herde sum of þam sittenden. þa cwæð he. eadig is se þe hlaf æt on godes riche.


16   Þa sægde he heom sum man worhte mycele ferme ∧ manega ge-laðode.


17   þa sente he his þeowen to þare ferme timan. þæt he saide þam ge-laðedon þæt hyo coman. for-þan þe ealle þing gearewe wæren.


18   Ða ongamnan (sic) hyo ealle hyo be-laðedian. Se forme hym saigde ic bohte ænne tun; ich hæbbe neode þæt ic fare ∧ hine ge-seo. ic bidde þe þæt þu me be-ladie.


19   Ða cwæð se oðer. ich bohte an ge-teme oxana. nu wille ich faren ∧ fandian hyre. nu bidde ic þe be-lade me.


20   Ða cwæð sum ich ladde wif ham. for-þam ic ne mæg cuman.


21   Ða cyrde se þeowa ∧ kydde his hlaforde þæt. Ða cwæð se hlaford mid yrre to þam þeowan. Ga raðe on þa stræte. ∧ on wic þissere cestere. ∧ þærfan ∧ wan-hæften. ∧ blinde. ∧ healte. ∧ læð (sic) hider in.

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22   Ða cwæð se þeowa. Hlaford hit is ge-don swa þu bæde. ∧ nu gyt her is emtig stowe.


23   Ða cwæð se hlaford gyt þa to þam þeowan. Ga geond þas wegas ∧ hegas ∧ nyd hyo &thaet; hyo gan in. &thaet; min hus syo ge-felled.


24   Soðlice ic eow segge &thaet; nan þare manna þe ge-clepede synde. ne on-byriad mire (sic) ferme.


25    noteSoðlice mid him ferde micel menige. þa "h;. he to heom be-wend.


26   Gyf hwa to me cymð ∧ ne hated hys fader ∧ moder. ∧ wif ∧ bearn. ∧ broðre ∧ swustre. ∧ þanne geot his sawle ne maig he beon min leorning-cniht.


27   ∧ se þe ne bered hys cwelmenge ∧ cymð efter me ne maig he beon min leorning-cniht.


28   hwylc eower wile timbrian ænne stepel. hu ne sit he arest ∧ teleð þa and-fenges þe him be-hefe synde. hwæðer he haebbe hine to fulfremenne.


29   þe-læs siððan he þanne grund-wall leigð. ∧ ne maig hine fulfremman. ealle þe hit ge-seoð aginned hine tælen.


30   ∧ cweðen. hwæt þes man agan tymbrian. ∧ ne mihte hit ge-endian.

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31   Oððe gyf hwilc kyning wile faran ∧ feohten on-gean oðerne kyng. hu ne sit he ær ∧ þencd hwaðer he mage mid teon þusenden cumen agen þane þe him agen kymð mid twentigen þusenden.


32   ∧ gyf he þanne wið hine fihten ne maig; he sent erendraken ∧ bit sibbe.


33   Witodlice swa ys ælc of eow þe ne wið-sæcð ealle þingen þe he ah; ne maig he beon min leorning-cniht.


34   G&odia;d is salt gif hit awurð on þam þe hit ge-selt beoð.


35   nys hyt nyt. ne on eorðen ne on mixene. ac hit beoð ut-aworpen. Ge-here se ðe earen hæbbe. to ge-herene.
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West Saxon II [1878], THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN IN ANGLO-SAXON AND NORTHUMBRIAN VERSIONS SYNOPTICALLY ARRANGED, WITH COLLATIONS EXHIBITING ALL THE READINGS OF ALL THE MSS. Edited for the Syndics of the University Press, by the REV. WALTER W. SKEAT, M.A. Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge (F. A. BROCKHAUS, LEIPZIG) [word count] [B01220].
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