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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 21:1 | And I sawe heauen & a new earthe. For the fyrst heauen, & the first earth were vanyshed away & there was no more sea. |
| 21:2 | And I Iohn saw that holye cyty new Ierusalem come doune from God out of heauen prepared as a bryd garnyshed for her husband |
| 21:3 | And I heard a great voyce out of heauen saying: beholde, the tabernacle of God is wt men, and he wyll dwell with them. And they shal be his people, & God hym selfe shalbe with them & be theyr God. |
| 21:4 | And god shal wipe away al teares from their eyes. And there shalbe no more death, neyther sorow neither criyng, neither shal there be any more paine, for the olde thinges are gone. |
| 21:5 | And he that sate vpon the seate, said: Behold I make al thinges new. And he sayd vnto me: wryte for these wordes are faythfull and true. |
| 21:6 | And he said vnto me: it is done, I am Alpha & Omega, the beginning & the ende. I will geue to hym that is a thyrst of the wel of the water of lyfe free. |
| 21:7 | He that ouercometh, shal inherete all thynges, & I wilbe his God, & he shall be my sonne. |
| 21:8 | But the fearful and vnbeleuing, & the abhominable, & murtherers, & whoremongers, & sorcerers, & ydolaters, & al lyars shall haue their parte in the lake which burneth wt fyre & brymstone, which is the seconde death. |
| 21:9 | And there came vnto nie one of the .vij. aungels which had the .vij. vials ful of the .vij. last plages: & talked with me saiyng: come hyther I wil shewe the the bryde, the lambes wyfe. |
| 21:10 | And he caryed me away in the spirite to a great & hygh mountayne, & he shewed me the great citie, holy Ierusalem, descendyng out of heauen from God, |
| 21:11 | hauyng the bryghtnes of god And her shinyng was lyke vnto a stone most precyous, euen a Iasper cleare as Chrystal, |
| 21:12 | & had walles great and hye, and had twelue gates, & at the gates .xij. angelles: & names wrytten, which are the twelue trybes of Israel: |
| 21:13 | on the easte parte thre gates, & on the northe syde thre gates, & towardes the south .iij. gates, and from the west thre gates, |
| 21:14 | & the wal of the citie had .xij. foundacyons, & in them the names of the lambes twelue Apostles. |
| 21:15 | And he that talked with me, had a golden rede to measure the cytie with al & the gates therof & the wal thereof. |
| 21:16 | And the citie was buylt .iiij. square, & the length was as large as the bredth of it, & he measured the citie with the rede .xij.M. furlonges: & the length and the bredth, & the heyth of it were equall. |
| 21:17 | And he measured the wal therof an .cxliiij. cubites, the measure that the angel had, was after the measure the man vseth. |
| 21:18 | And the buyldyng of the wall of it was of Iaspar. And the citie was pure golde lyke vnto cleare glasse, |
| 21:19 | and the foundacyons of the wall of the cytye were garnyshed with all maner of precious stones. The first foundacyon was Iaspar, the seconde saphyre, the thyrde a calcedony, the fourth an emerald: |
| 21:20 | the fyft sardonix: the .vi. sardeos: the .vij. chrysolite the .viij. beral: the .ix. a topas, the tenth a chrisoprasos: the .xi. a Iacint: and the .xij. an amatist. |
| 21:21 | The .xij. gates were .xij. pearles, euery gate was of one pearle, & the strete of the cytie was pure golde, as thorowe shynyng glasse. |
| 21:22 | And there was no temple therein. For the Lord God almyghty & the lambe are the temple of it |
| 21:23 | & the cytye hath no nede of the sunne neyther of the mone to lyghten it. For the bryghtnes of God dyd lyght it, & the lambe was the lyght of it. |
| 21:24 | And the people which are saued, shall walke in the light of it: & the kinges of the earth shal brynge theyr glory vnto it. |
| 21:25 | And the gates of it are not shut by daye. For there shalbe no myght there. |
| 21:26 | n/a |
| 21:27 | And there shal enter into it none vncleane thyng, neyther whatsoeuer worketh abominacyon: or maketh lyes: but they onely which are wrytten in the lambes boke of lyfe. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.