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The Great Bible 1539
| 2:1 | After a feawe dayes also, he entred into Capernaum agayne, and it was noysed that he was in the house. |
| 2:2 | And anone many were gathered together, in so moch that now there was no rome to receaue them, no not so moche as about the dore. And he preached the worde vnto them. |
| 2:3 | And they came vnto him, bringing one sycke of the palsye whych was borne of fowre men. |
| 2:4 | And when they coulde not come nye vnto him for prease, they vncouered the rofe of the house that he was in. And when they had broken vp the rofe, they dyd (wyth coardes) let downe the bed wherin the sycke of the palsye laye. |
| 2:5 | When Iesus sawe their fayth, he sayde vnto the sycke of the palsye: sonne thy synnes be forgeuen the. |
| 2:6 | But ther were certayne of the Scribes syttinge there, & thinking in their hertes: |
| 2:7 | why doth he speake thys blasphemyes? who can forgeue synnes, but God onely? |
| 2:8 | And immediatly when Iesus perceaued in hys sprete, that they so thought wyth in them selues, he sayeth vnto them: why thynke ye soch thinges in youre hertes? |
| 2:9 | Whether is it esayer to saye to the sycke of the palsye: thy synnes be forgeuen the: or to saye, aryse, take vp thy bed, and walke? |
| 2:10 | But that ye maye knowe, that the sonne of man hath power in earth to forgeue synnes, he spake vnto the sycke of the palsye: |
| 2:11 | I saye vnto the: aryse, and take vp thy beed, and get the hense vnto thyne awne house. |
| 2:12 | And immediatly he arose, toke vp the bed, and went forth before them all: in so moch that they were all amased, & glorifyed God, sayinge: we neuer sawe it on this fassyon. |
| 2:13 | And he went agayne vnto the see, & all the people resorted vnto hym, and he taught them. |
| 2:14 | And as Iesus passed by, he sawe Leuy the sonne of Alphe, sytting at the receyte of custome, and sayde vnto him: folowe me. And he arose, and folowed hym. |
| 2:15 | And it came to passe that whan Iesus sate at meate in hys house, many publicans and synners sate also together at meate wyth Iesus and his disciples. For there were many, that folowed hym. |
| 2:16 | And when the Scrybes and Pharises sawe him eate with publicans and synners, they sayde vnto his disciples: how happeneth it, that he eateth & dryncketh wyth publicans and synners? |
| 2:17 | When Iesus hearde that, he sayde vnto them: They that be whole, haue no nede of the Phisycion, but they that are sycke. I came not to call the ryghtwyse, but synners to repentaunce. |
| 2:18 | And the disciples of Iohn and the Pharises dyd fast: and they come and saye vnto him. Why do the disciples of Iohn and of the Pharises fast, but thy disciples fast not? |
| 2:19 | And Iesus sayde vnto them: can the children of the weddinge fast while the brydgrome is with them? As longe as they haue the brydgrome with them, they cannot fast. |
| 2:20 | But the dayes wyll come, when the brydgrome shalbe taken awaye from them, and then shall they fast in those dayes. |
| 2:21 | No man also soweth a pece of new cloth vnto an olde garment, els taketh he awaye the new pece therof from the olde, & so is the rent worse. |
| 2:22 | And no man powreth new wine into olde botels: els the new wynd doth burst the bottels, and the wyne runneth out, and the bottels are marred. But new wine must be putt into new bottels. |
| 2:23 | And it chaunsed that he went thorow the corne feldes on the Sabboth dayes, and hys disciples, beganne by the waye to plucke the eares of corne. |
| 2:24 | And the Pharises sayde vnto him: beholde, why do they on the Sabboth dayes, that whych is not laufull? |
| 2:25 | And he sayde vnto them: haue ye neuer red what Dauid dyd, when he had nede, & was an hongred, both he, and they that were with him? |
| 2:26 | How he went into the house of God in the dayes of Abiathar the hye Preast, and dyd eate the shewbread, (whych is not lawfull to eate, but for the Prestes onely) & gaue also to them whych were wyth hym? |
| 2:27 | And he sayde vnto them: the Sabboth was made for man, & not man for the Sabboth. |
| 2:28 | Therfore is the sonne of man, Lorde also of the Sabboth. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."