1    ^noteAnd going out from thence, he vvent into his countrie: and his Disciples folovved him.

2   and vvhen the Sabboth vvas come, he began to teach in the Synagogue: and many hearing him vvere in admiration at his doctrine, saying, How came this felovv by al these things?

and vvhat vvisedom is this that is giuen to him, and such vertues as are vvrought by his hands?

3   Is not this09Q0615 the Carpenter, the sonne of Marie, the brother of Iames and Ioseph and Iude and Simon? why, are not also his sisters here vvith vs? And they09Q0616 vvere scandalized in him.

4   And Iesvs said to them, That there is not a Prophet vvithout honour, but in his ovvne countrie, and in his ovvne house, and in his ovvne kinred.

5   and09Q0617 he could not doe any miracle there, but only cured a fevv that vvere sicke, imposing his hands

6   and he marueled because of their incredulity, and he vvent about the tovvnes in circuite teaching.

7    ^noteAnd he called the Tvvelue: and began to send them tvvo and tvvo, and gaue them povver ouer vncleane spirits.

8   And he commaunded them that they should take nothing for the vvay, but a rod only: not skrippe, not bread, nor money in their purse,

9   but shod vvith sandals, and that they should not put on09Q0618 tvvo coates.

10   And he said to them, whithersoeuer you shal enter into an house, there tarie til you depart thence.

11   and vvhosoeuer shal not receiue you, nor heare you: going forth from thence shake of the dust from your feete for a testimonie to them.

12   And going forth they preached that they should doe penance:

13   and they cast-out many diuels, and ^note anointed09Q061909Q0620 vvith ^note oile many sicke, and healed them.

14   And ^note king Herod heard (for his name vvas made manifest) and he said, That Iohn the Baptist is risen againe from the dead, and therfore vertues vvorke in him.

15   And others said, That it is Elias. But others said, That it is a Prophet, as one of the Prophets.

16   Which Herod hearing, said, Iohn vvhom I beheaded, he is risen againe from the dead.

17    ^noteFor the said Herod sent and apprehended Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias the vvife of ^note Philippe his brother, because he had maried her.

18   For Iohn said to Herod, ^note It is not lavvful for thee to haue thy brothers vvife.

19   And Herodias lay in vvaite for him: and vvas desirous to kil him, and could not.

20   For Herod feared Iohn, knovving him to be a iust and holy man: and he kept him, and by hearing him did many things: and he heard him gladly.

21   And vvhen a conuenient day vvas fallen, Herod made the supper of his birth-day to the Princes and the Tribunes and the cheefe of Galilee.

22   And vvhen the daughter of the same Herodias

came in, and had daunced, and pleased Herod, and them that sate vvith him at the table: the King said to the damsel, Aske of me vvhat thou vvilt, and I vvil giue it thee.

23   and he svvate to her, That vvhatsoeuer thou shalt aske I vvil giue thee, though the halfe of my kingdom.

24   who vvhen she vvas gone forth, said to her mother, what shal I aske? But she said, The head of Iohn the Baptist.

25   And vvhen she vvas gone in by and by vvith hast to the King, she asketh saying, I vvil that forthvvith thou giue me in a platter the head of Iohn the Baptist.

26   And the King vvas stroken sad. Because of his othe and for them that sate together at table he vvould not displease her:

27   but sending the hangman, commaunded that his head should be brought in a platter.

28   And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a platter: and gaue it to the damsel, and the damsel gaue it to her mother.

29   Which his disciples hearing came, and tooke his body: and they put it in a monument. &cross4;

30   And ^note the Apostles gathering together vnto Iesus, made relation to him of al things that they had done and taught.

31   And he said to them, Come apart into the desert place, and rest a litle. For there vvere that came and vvent, many: and they had not so much as space to eate.

32   And ^note going vp into the boate, they vvent into a desert place apart.

33   And they savv them going avvay, and many knevv: and they ranne flocking thither on foote from al cities, and preuented them.

34   And going forth, Iesvs savv a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they vvere as sheepe not hauing a shepheard, and he began to teach them many things.

35   And ^note vvhen the day vvas novv farre spent, his Disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the houre is novv past:

36   dimisse them, that going out into the next villages and tovvnes, they may bie them selues meates to eate.

37   And he ansvvering said, Giue ye them to eate. And they said to him, Let vs goe and bie bread for tvvo hundred pence: and vve vvil giue them to eate.

38   And he saith to them, Hovv many loaues haue you? goe and see. And vvhen they knevv, they say, Fiue, and tvvo fishes.

39   And he commaunded them that they should make al sit dovvne, by companies vpon the greene grasse.

40   And they sate dovvne in rankes by hundreds and fifties.

41   And vvhen he had taken the fiue loaues, and the tvvo fishes: looking vp vnto heauen,

he blessed, and brake the loaues, and gaue to his Disciples to set before them: and the tvvo fishes he deuided to al.

42   And al did eate, and had their fill.

43   And they tooke vp the leauings, tvvelue ful baskets of fragments: and of the fishes.

44   And they that did eate, vvere fiue thousand men.

45   And immediatly he compelled his Disciples to goe vp into the boate, that they might goe before him beyond the straite to Bethsaida: vvhiles him self did dimisse the people.

46    ^noteAnd ^note vvhen he had dimissed them, he vvent into the mountaine to pray.

47   And vvhen it vvas late, the boate vvas in the middes of the sea, and him self alone on the land.

48   And seeing them labouring in rovving (for the vvinde vvas against them) and about the fourth vvatch of the night he commeth to them vvalking vpon the sea: and he vvould haue passed by them.

49   But they seeing him vvalking vpon the sea, thought it vvas a ghost, and cried out.

50   For al savv him, and vvere troubled. And immediatly he talked vvith them, and said to them, Haue confidence, it is I, feare ye not.

51   And he vvent vp to them into the shippe, and the vvinde ceased: and they vvere farre more astonied vvithin them selues:

52   for they vnderstoode not concerning the loaues: for their hart vvas blinded.

53   And ^note vvhen they had passed ouer, they came into the land of Genezareth, and set to the shore.

54   And vvhen they vvere gone out of the boate, incontinent they knevv him:

55   and running through that vvhole countrie, they began to carie about in couches those that vvere il at ease, vvhere they heard he vvas.

56   And vvhithersoeuer he entred into tovvnes or into villages or cities, they laid the sicke in the streates, and besought him that they might touche but the hemme of his garment: and as many as touched him, vvere made vvhole. &cross4;

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