1   The beginning of the Gospel of Iesvs Christ the sonne of God.

2   As it is vvritten in ^note Esay the Prophet, (Behold I send mine Angel before thy face, vvho shal prepare thy vvay before thee,)

3   A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the vvay of our Lord, make straight his pathes. ^note

4    ^noteIohn vvas in the desert baptizing, and preaching the baptisme of penance ^note vnto remission of sinnes.

5   And there vvent forth to him al the countrie of Ievvrie, and al they of Hierusalem: and vvere baptized of him in the riuer of Iordan,09Q0586 confessing09Q0587 their sinnes.

6   And Iohn vvas 09Q0588 clothed vvith camels heare, and a girdle of a skinne about his loines: and he did eate locustes and vvild honie.

7   And he preached, saying, There commeth a stronger then I after me: vvhose latchet of his shoes I am not vvorthie stouping dovvne to vnloose.

8   I haue baptized you09Q0589 vvith vvater: but he shal baptize you vvith the holy Ghost.

9   And it came to passe: in those daies came Iesvs from Nazareth of Galilee: and vvas09Q0590 baptized of Iohn in Iordan.

10   And forthvvith comming vp out of the vvater, he savv the heauens opened, and09Q0591 the Spirit as a doue descending, and remaining on him.

11   And a voice vvas made from heauen, Thou art my beloued sonne, in thee I am vvel pleased.

12   And forthvvith ^note the Spirit droue him out into09Q0592 the desert.

13   And he vvas in the desert fourtie daies, and fourtie nightes: and vvas tempted of Satan. and he vvas vvith beastes, and the Angels ministred to him. ^note

14   And ^note after that Iohn vvas deliuered vp, Iesvs came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God,

15   and saying, That the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: ^note be penitent, and beleeue the Gospel.

16    ^noteAnd passing by the sea of Galilee, he savv Simon and Andrevv his brother, casting nettes into the sea (for they vvere fishers)

17   and Iesvs said to them, Come after me, and I vvil make you to become fishers of men.

18   And immediatly leauing their nettes, they folovved him.

19   And being gone thence a litle further, he savv Iames of Zebedee, and Iohn his brother, and them repairing their nettes in the shippe:

20   and forthvvith he called them. And leauing their father Zebedee in the shippe vvith his hired men, they folovved him.

21   And ^note they enter into Capharnaum, and he forthvvith vpon the Sabboths going into the Synagogue, taught them.

22   And they vvere astonied at his doctrine. for he vvas teaching them as hauing povver, and not as the Scribes.

23   And ^note there vvas in their Synagogue a man in an vncleane spirit: and he cried out,

24   saying, What to vs and to thee Iesvs of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy vs? I knovv vvho thou art, the Sainct of God.

25   And Iesvs threatened him, saying, Hold thy peace, and goe out of the man.

26   And the vncleane spirit tearing him, and crying out vvith a great voice, vvent out of him.

27   And they marueled al, in so much that they questioned among them selues, saying, what thing is this? vvhat is this nevv doctrine? for vvith povver he commaundeth the vncleane spirits also, and they obey him.

28   And the bruite of him vvent forth incontinent into al the countrie of Galilee.

29   And immediatly ^note going forth out of the Synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrevv, vvith Iames and Iohn.

30   And Simons vviues mother lay in a fit of a feuer: and forthvvith they tel him of her.

31   And comming neere he lifted her vp taking her by the hand: and inc&obar;tinent the ague left her, and she ministred vnto them.

32   And vvhen it vvas euening after sunne set, they brought to him al that vvere il at ease and that had deuils.

33   And al the citie vvas

gathered together at the doore.

34   And he cured many that vvere vexed vvith diuerse diseases: and he cast out many deuils, and he suffred not them to speake that they knevv him.

35   And rising very early, and going forth he vvent into 09Q0593 a desert place: and there he prayed.

36   And Simon sought after him, and they that vvere vvith him.

37   And vvhen they had found him, they said to him, That al seeke for thee.

38   And he saith to them, Let vs goe into the next tovvnes and cities, that I may preach there also: for to this purpose am I come.

39   And he vvas preaching in their Synagogs, and in al Galilee: and casting out deuils.

40   And a ^note leper commeth to him beseeching him: and kneeling dovvne saith to him, If thou vvilt, thou canst make me cleane.

41   And Iesvs hauing compassion on him, stretched forth his hand: and touching him, he saith vnto him, I vvil, be thou made cleane.

42   And vvhen he had spoken, immediatly the leprosie departed from him, and he vvas made cleane.

43   And he threatened him, and forthvvith cast him forth.

44   and he saith to him, See thou tel no body: but goe, shevv thy self ^note to the high priest, and offer for thy cleansing the things that ^note Moyses commaunded, for a testimonie to them.

45   But he being gone forth, began to publish, and to blase abrode the vvord: so that novv he could not openly goe into the citie, but vvas abrode in desert places, and they came together vnto him from al sides.

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