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Coverdale Bible 1535
| 8:1 | And it fortuned afterwarde, that he wente thorow the cities and townes, and preached, and shewed ye Gospell of the kyngdome of God, and the twolue wt him. |
| 8:2 | And certayne wemen also, who he had healed fro euell spretes and infirmities: Namely, Mary which is called Magdalene, out of whom wente seuen deuels, |
| 8:3 | and Ioanna ye wife of Chusa Herodes stewarde, and Susanna, and many other, that mynistred vnto them of their substaunce. |
| 8:4 | Now wha moch people were gathered together, and haisted vnto him out of the cities, He spake by a symilitude: |
| 8:5 | There wente out a sower to sowe his sede, & whyle he was sowynge, some fell by the waye syde, and was trodde vnder fote, and the foules of the ayre ate it vp. |
| 8:6 | And some fell on stone, and whan it was spronge vp, it wythred awaye, because it had no moystnesse. |
| 8:7 | And some fell amonge thornes, and the thornes sprange vp with it, and choked it. |
| 8:8 | And some fell vpo a good grounde, and sprange vp, and bare frute an hundreth folde. Wha he sayde this he cryed: Who so hath eares to heare, let him heare. |
| 8:9 | And his disciples axed him, and sayde: What symilitude is this? |
| 8:10 | And he sayd, Vnto you it is giuen to know the secrets of ye kingdome of God, but to other in parables, that when they see, they shoulde not see, and when they heare, they should not vnderstand. |
| 8:11 | This is the parable: The sede is the worde of God: |
| 8:12 | As for those that are by ye waye syde, they are they that heare it, afterwarde commeth the deuell, and taketh awaye the worde out of their hertes, that they shulde not beleue, and be saued. |
| 8:13 | But they on ye stone, are soch as whan they heare it, receaue the worde with ioye, and these haue no rote: they beleue for a whyle, and in the tyme of temptacion they fall awaye. |
| 8:14 | As for it that fel amonge the thornes, are soch as heare it, and go forth amonge the cares, riches and volupteousnesses of this life, and are choked and brynge forth no frute. |
| 8:15 | But that on the good grounde, are they that heare the worde, and kepe it in a pure good hert, and brynge forth frute in pacience. |
| 8:16 | No man lighteth a cadell, and couereth it with a vessell, or putteth it vnder a table, but setteth it vpon a candelsticke, that soch as go in maye se light. |
| 8:17 | For there is nothinge hyd, that shal not be openly shewed: and there is nothinge secrete, that shal not be knowne, and come to light. |
| 8:18 | Take hede therfore how ye heare. For who so hath, vnto him shalbe geue: but who so hath not, from him shalbe taken awaye, eue the same that he thynketh to haue. |
| 8:19 | There wente vnto him his mother and his brethren, and coude not come at him for the people. |
| 8:20 | And it was tolde him. Thy mother and thy brethren stonde without, and wolde se the. |
| 8:21 | But he answered, & sayde vnto the: My mother and my brethren are these, which heare the worde of God, and do it. |
| 8:22 | And it fortuned vpon a certayne daye, yt he wente in to a shippe, and his disciples wt him, & he sayde vnto the: Let vs passe ouer to the other syde of ye lake. And they thurst of fro the lode. |
| 8:23 | And as they sayled, he slepte. And there came a storme of wynde vpon ye lake, and the wawes fell vpon the, and they stode in greate ioperdy. |
| 8:24 | Then wete they vnto him, and waked him vp, & sayde: Master master, we perishe. Then he arose, and rebuked the wynde, and the tepest of water, and they ceassed, and it waxed calme. |
| 8:25 | But he sayde vnto the: Where is youre faith? Neuertheles they were afrayed, and wodred, and sayde one to another: What is he this? For he comaundeth the wyndes and the water, and they are obedient vnto him. |
| 8:26 | And they sayled forth in to the countre of the Gadarenites, which is ouer agaynst Galile. |
| 8:27 | And whan he wente out to londe, there met him out of ye cite a ma, which had a deuell longe tyme, & ware no clothes, & taried in no house, but in the graues. |
| 8:28 | Neuertheles wha he sawe Iesus, he cried, and fell downe before him, and cried loude, & sayde: What haue I to do with the Iesus, thou sonne of the Hyest God? I beseke the, that thou wilt not tormete me. |
| 8:29 | For he comaunded the foule sprete, that he shulde departe out of the ma, for he had plaged hi a loge season. And he was bounde with cheynes, and kepte wt fetters, and he brake the bondes in sonder, and was caried of the deuell in to the wyldernesse. |
| 8:30 | And Iesus axed him, and sayde: What is thy name? He sayde: Legion. For there were many deuels entred in to him. |
| 8:31 | And they besought him, that he wolde not comaunde the to go in to the depe. |
| 8:32 | But there was there a greate heerd of swyne fedynge vpon the mountayne, and they besought him, that he wolde geue them leue, to entre in to ye same. And he gaue the leue. |
| 8:33 | Then departed ye deuels out of the ma, and entred into the swyne. And the heerd russhed headlynges with a storme in to the lake, and were drowned. |
| 8:34 | But wha ye herdmen sawe what had chaunsed, they fled, and tolde it in the cite and in the vyllagies. |
| 8:35 | Then wente they out, for to se what was done, and came to Iesus, and founde the ma (out of whom the deuyls were departed) syttinge at Iesus fete, clothed, and in his right mynde, and they were afrayed. |
| 8:36 | And they yt had sene it, tolde the how the possessed was healed. |
| 8:37 | And the whole multitude of ye countre of the Gadarenites besought him, that he wolde departe from them, for there was a greate feare come vpon the. And he gat him in to ye shippe, and turned agayne. |
| 8:38 | And the man out of who the deuels were departed, besought him, yt he might be with him. But Iesus sent him awaye, and sayde: |
| 8:39 | Go home agayne, and shewe how greate thinges God hath done for the. And he wente his waye, & preached thorow out all ye cite, how greate thinges Iesus had done for hi. |
| 8:40 | And it fortuned wha Iesus came agayne, the people receaued him, for they wayted for him. |
| 8:41 | And beholde, there came a man named Iairus (and he was a ruler of the synagoge) and fell at Iesus fete, & besought him, that he wolde come in to his house. |
| 8:42 | For he had but one doughter (vpon a twolue yeare of age) and she laye at ye poynt of death. And as he wente, the people thronged him. |
| 8:43 | And a woma hauynge the bloudyssue twolue yeares, (which had spent all hir substaunte vpon phisicians, and coude be healed of none) |
| 8:44 | came behynde, & touched the hemme of his garmet, and immediatly hir yssue of bloude was staunched. |
| 8:45 | And Iesus sayde: Who hath touched me? But whan they all denyed, Peter sayde, and they that were with him: Master, the people thronge the and thrust the, and thou sayest: Who hath touched me? |
| 8:46 | Iesus saide: Some body hath touched me, for I fele, that there is vertue gone out fro me. |
| 8:47 | But whan the woman sawe that she was not hyd, she came treblynge, and fell downe before him, and tolde him before all the people, for what cause she had touched him, & how she was healed immediatly. |
| 8:48 | And he sayde vnto her: Doughter, be of good comforte, thy faith hath made the whole, go thy waye in peace. |
| 8:49 | Whyle he yet spake, there came one fro ye ruler of ye synagoges house, and sayde vnto him: Thy doughter is deed, disease not the master. |
| 8:50 | Whan Iesus herde that, he answered him, and sayde: Feare not, beleue onely, and she shal be made whole. |
| 8:51 | But whan he came in to the house, he suffred no man to go in, saue Peter, and Iames and Iho, and the father and mother of the mayden. |
| 8:52 | They wepte all, and sorowed for her. But he sayde: Wepe not, for she is not deed, but slepeth. |
| 8:53 | And they laughed hi to scorne, knowynge well that she was deed. |
| 8:54 | But he thrust them all out, and toke her by the hande, and cryed, and sayde: Mayde aryse. |
| 8:55 | And hir sprete came agayne, & she arose straight waye. And he comaunded to geue her meate. |
| 8:56 | And hir elders were astonnyed. But he charged them, that they shulde tell no man, what was done. |
Coverdale Bible 1535
The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535, was the first complete English translation of the Bible to contain both the Old and New Testament and translated from the original Hebrew and Greek. The later editions (folio and quarto) published in 1539 were the first complete Bibles printed in England. The 1539 folio edition carried the royal license and was, therefore, the first officially approved Bible translation in English.
Tyndale never had the satisfaction of completing his English Bible; but during his imprisonment, he may have learned that a complete translation, based largely upon his own, had actually been produced. The credit for this achievement, the first complete printed English Bible, is due to Miles Coverdale (1488-1569), afterward bishop of Exeter (1551-1553).
The details of its production are obscure. Coverdale met Tyndale in Hamburg, Germany in 1529, and is said to have assisted him in the translation of the Pentateuch. His own work was done under the patronage of Oliver Cromwell, who was anxious for the publication of an English Bible; and it was no doubt forwarded by the action of Convocation, which, under Archbishop Cranmer's leading, had petitioned in 1534 for the undertaking of such a work.
Coverdale's Bible was probably printed by Froschover in Zurich, Switzerland and was published at the end of 1535, with a dedication to Henry VIII. By this time, the conditions were more favorable to a Protestant Bible than they had been in 1525. Henry had finally broken with the Pope and had committed himself to the principle of an English Bible. Coverdale's work was accordingly tolerated by authority, and when the second edition of it appeared in 1537 (printed by an English printer, Nycolson of Southwark), it bore on its title-page the words, "Set forth with the King's most gracious license." In licensing Coverdale's translation, King Henry probably did not know how far he was sanctioning the work of Tyndale, which he had previously condemned.
In the New Testament, in particular, Tyndale's version is the basis of Coverdale's, and to a somewhat less extent this is also the case in the Pentateuch and Jonah; but Coverdale revised the work of his predecessor with the help of the Zurich German Bible of Zwingli and others (1524-1529), a Latin version by Pagninus, the Vulgate, and Luther. In his preface, he explicitly disclaims originality as a translator, and there is no sign that he made any noticeable use of the Greek and Hebrew; but he used the available Latin, German, and English versions with judgment. In the parts of the Old Testament which Tyndale had not published he appears to have translated mainly from the Zurich Bible. [Coverdale's Bible of 1535 was reprinted by Bagster, 1838.]
In one respect Coverdale's Bible was groundbreaking, namely, in the arrangement of the books of the. It is to Tyndale's example, no doubt, that the action of Coverdale is due. His Bible is divided into six parts -- (1) Pentateuch; (2) Joshua -- Esther; (3) Job -- "Solomon's Balettes" (i.e. Canticles); (4) Prophets; (5) "Apocrypha, the books and treatises which among the fathers of old are not reckoned to be of like authority with the other books of the Bible, neither are they found in the canon of the Hebrew"; (6) the New Testament. This represents the view generally taken by the Reformers, both in Germany and in England, and so far as concerns the English Bible, Coverdale's example was decisive.