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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 XVII.


1   Þas þing se hælend spræc ∧ a-hof up hys eagen to heofene æend cwæð. Fader tid ys cuman ge-swutele þine sunu þæt þin sune ge-swutelige þe.


2   ∧ swa þu hym sealdest anweald. ælches mannes þæt he sylle eche lyf. ealle þan þe þu hym sealdest.


3   Ðis ys soðliche eche lyf þæt hyo on-cnawen. þæt þu ert an soð god. ∧ se þe þu sendest hælend crist.


4   Ic þe ge-swutelode ofer eorðan. Ic ge-endede þæt weorc þe þu me sealdest to donne.


5   Ænd nu þu fæder ge-brohte me mid þe sylfen. þare brihtnysse þe ic hæfde mid þe ær þan þe midden-eard wære.


6   Ic ge-swutelode þinne naman þam mannan þe þu me sealdest of middan-earde. Hyo wæran þine. ∧ þu hyo sealdest me. ∧ hyo ge-heoldan þine spræce.


7   Nu hyo ge-cneowen þæt ealle þa þing þe þu me sealdest synd of þe.


8   for-þam ic sealde heom þa word þe þu sealdest me; ∧ hy underfengen. ∧ on-cneowan soðlice þæt ic eom of þe. ∧ hye ge-lefdon þæt þu me sentest.


9   Ic bidde for hyo ne bidde ic for middan-earde. ac for þa þe þu me sealdest for-þan hyo synde þine.


10   ∧ ealle þine synde mine. Mine synde þine. ∧ ic eom ge-swutelod on heom.

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11   ∧ nu ic ne eom on middan-eard. ∧ hye synd on middan-earde ∧ ich cume to þe.
On þare tide se hælend be-heold hys leorning-cnihtes. ∧ cwæð. Halig fæder heald on þinen naman. þæt þu me sealdest. þæt hyo syn an; swa wit synde.


12   Þa ic wæs mid heom ic heold hyo on þinan namen. ic heold þa þe þu me sealdest. ∧ ne for-warð here nan buton for-spillednysse bearn. þæt þæt halige writ syo ge-fylled.


13   Nu ic cume to þe ∧ þas þing ic spræce on midden-earde. þæt hyo habben mine fean. ge-fellende (sic) on heom sylfan.


14   Ic sealde heom þine spræce. ∧ middan-eard hyo hafð on hatienge for-þan hyo ne synde of middan-earde. swa eac ic nem of middan-earde.


15   Ne bidde ic þæt þu hyo neme of middan-earde. ac þæt þu hyo healde of yfele.


16   Ne synde hyo of middan-earde swa ic ne eom of middan-earde.


17   Ge-halege hyo on soðfæstnysse. þin spræce is sodfestnysse.


18   Swa þu me sentest on middan-earde. Ic sende hyo on middan-eard.


19   ∧ for hyo ic halegie me sylfne. þæt hye eac syen ge-halegede on sodfæstnysse.


20   Witodlice ne ge-bidde ic for hyo ane. ac eac for þa þe gyt sculon ge-lefan þurh heore word on me.

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21   Þæt ealle syn an. swa þu fæder ert on me. ∧ ic eom on þe. þæt hyo syn eac an on unc. þæt midden-eard ge-lefe þæt þu me sendest.


22   Ænd ic sealde heom þa brihtnysse þe þu me sealdest þæt hy sien an; swa wit synd an.


23   Ich eom on heom. ∧ þu ert on me. þæt hye syen endod on an. þæt midden-eard on-cnawe þæt þu me sændest. ∧ lufedest hye swa þu me lufedest.


24   Fader ic wille þæt þa þe þu me sealdest syen mid me þær ich eom. þæt hye ge-syen mine brihtnysse þe þu me sealdest. for-þan þu lufedest me; ær midden-eard ge-set wære.


25   La rihtwise fæder middan-eard þe ne ge-cneow. witodlice ich þe ge-cneow ∧ hyo on-cneowen þæt þu me sendest.


26   ∧ ich heom kydde þinne nama. ∧ gyt wille kyþan. þæt syo lufe þe þu me lufedest syo on heom; ænd ich eom on heom.
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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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