Textus Receptus Bibles
Wessex Gospels c.1175
Anglo-Saxon
| 10:1 | Ænd to-somne ge-cheigde his twelf leorning-cnihton. he sealde heom unclænre gaste anweald. þæt hyo adrifen hyo ut & helden adle & ælche untrumnysse. |
| 10:2 | Þis sende soðlice þare twelf apostle namen. Se forme ys symon þe is ge-nemned petrus. & Andreas his broðer. Iacobus zebedei. & Iohannes his broðer. |
| 10:3 | Philippus. & Bartholomeus. & thomas. & Matheus publicanus. & Iacobus alphei. & Taddeus. |
| 10:4 | Symon chaneus. & Iudas scarioth. þe hine be-læwde. |
| 10:5 | Þas twelf se hælend sende heom be-bydende & cweðende. ne fare ge on ðeode weig. & ne gä ge innan samaritane ceastre. |
| 10:6 | ac gað ma to þam scepan þe for-wurdon isræle hywrædene. |
| 10:7 | Se Hælend cwæð to his leorning-cnihten gað & bodieð cweðende þæt heofene riche geneohlæceð. |
| 10:8 | Hæled untrume. ä-weccheð deade. clænsieð hreofle. drifeð ut deofle. ge on-fengen to gyfe. sylled to gyfe. |
| 10:9 | næbben ge gold ne selfer ne feoh on eowren bygerdlen. |
| 10:10 | ne cod on weige. ne twa tunekan. ne ge-scy. ne gyrde. soðlice se wercta is wurðe his metas (sic). |
| 10:11 | On swa hwilce burh oððe ceastre swa ge ingað. acsiað hwa sy wurðe on þare. ænd wuniað þær oð ge ut-gan. |
| 10:12 | þanne ge ingan soðlice on þæt hus greteð hyt cweðende. syo sibban þisum huse. |
| 10:13 | & gyf þæt hus witodlice wurðe byeð. eower sib cymð ofer hit. Gyf hyt soðlice wurðe ne byð. eower sibbe to eow gecherreð. |
| 10:14 | And swa hwa swa eow ne underfehð. ne owre spraece ne gehyreð. þanne ge ut-gan of þam huse oððe of þare ceastre. ä-scakeð þæt dust of eowren foten. |
| 10:15 | Soðlice ic eow segge acumendlicre beoð sodome lande & gomorre on domes daig þane þare cestre. |
| 10:16 | Nu ich eow sænde swa scep onmang wulfen. beoð eornestlice gleawe swa næddren. & bylehwitte swa culfren. |
| 10:17 | warniað eow soðlice fram mannen. hyo selled eow soðlice on ge-moten & swingað eow on heora ge-somnenga. |
| 10:18 | & ge beoð ge-lædde to demen. & to kyningen. for me. to heora dome & þeodon. |
| 10:19 | þonne be-læweð sylled eow. Ne þenche ge hu oððe hwæt ge sprecan. eow beoð ge-seald soðlice on þare tyde hwæt ge spræken. |
| 10:20 | ne synde ge na þe þær sprecað. ac eowres fæder gast þe sprecð on eow. |
| 10:21 | Soðlice se broðer sylled his broðer to deaðe & fæder hys sune. & bearn arisað on-gen mages. & to deaðe hyo fordoð |
| 10:22 | & ge beoð on hatigunge eallen mannen for minen namen. Soðlice se þurh-wuneð oð ende se beoð hal. |
| 10:23 | Þonne hyo eow ehtað on þisse berig. fleoð on oðre. Ænd þanne hyo eow on þare ehtniað fleoð on þa þridden. Soðlice ic eow segge ne be-fare ge israele burgan ær þan þe mannes sune cume. |
| 10:24 | Nis se leorning-cniht ofer his lareow. ne þeow ofer hys hlaford. |
| 10:25 | ge-noh beoð soðlice þam leorning-cnihte þæt he beo swilce his lareow. & þeow swilce his hlaford. Gyf hy þas hyrdes fæder belzebub clypodon mycele swiðer hyo eow clepiað. |
| 10:26 | eornestlice ne ondræde ge hyo. Nis soðlice nan þing dihle þæt ne wurð geswuteled. ne nan þing ge-hyð þæt ne wurð geopened. |
| 10:27 | Þæt ic segge eow on þeostre. seggeð hyt on lihte. & þæt ge on eare ge-hyreð bodyað Note: bodiað, alt. to bodyað. uppon hrofen. |
| 10:28 | & ne on-drædon ge þa þe owre lichamen of-sleað. ne mugen hyo soðlice þa sawle of-slean. ac on-drædeð ma þanne þe maig sawle & lic-hamen for-don on helle. |
| 10:29 | Hu ne be-chypeð hyo twegan sparewon to panige. & an of þam ne befalð on eorðen buton owren fæder. |
| 10:30 | Ænd soðlice ealle eowres hæfdes lockes synd ge-tealde. |
| 10:31 | Ne ondræde ge ge synd selren þanne manega sparewan. |
| 10:32 | Ælcne eornestlice þe me kyð be-foren mannen. ic kyðe hine be-fore mine fæder. þe on heofene ys. |
| 10:33 | Se þe me wið-sæcð be-foran mannen. & ic wið-sake hine be-foran mine fæder. þe on hefene ys. |
| 10:34 | Ne wene ge þt ic come sybbe on eorþan to sændenne. ne com ic sybbe to sendenne ac swurd. |
| 10:35 | Ich com soðlice man äsundrian on-gen his fæder. & dohter on-gen hyra moder. & snore on-gean hire swegre. |
| 10:36 | & mannes fynd hys ge-husan. |
| 10:37 | Se hælend cwæð to hys leorning-cnihten se þe lufeð fæder oþþe moder mä þonne me. nys he me wurþe. & se þe lufeð sune oððe dother swiðere þanne me. nys he me wurðe. |
| 10:38 | & se þe ne nymð his cwelminge. & felh me nys he me wurðe. |
| 10:39 | Se þe met hys sawle se for-spilð hyo. & se þe for-spylð his sawle for me he ge-met hyo. |
| 10:40 | Se þe eow under-fehð. he under-fehð me. & se þe me under-fehð. he under-fehð þane þe me sente. |
| 10:41 | Se þe under-fehð witegan on witegena name. he on-fehð witegena mede. Ænd se þe underfehð rihtwisne on rihtwises namen. he on-fehð rihtwises meden. |
| 10:42 | & swa hwilc swa syld ænne drinc chealdes wæteres änan þissa lytlera manne on leorning-cnihtes naman. soð ic segge eow ne amerð he his mede. |
Wessex Gospels c.1175
The Wessex Gospels (also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a full translation of the four gospels of the Christian Bible into a West Saxon dialect of Old English. Designated Royal MS 1 A XIV, it is historically important.
- The Wessex Gospels are the oldest translations into English without the Latin.
- The gospels are written in the Old English West Anglo-Saxon dialect of Northumbria.
- Royal MS 1 A XIV is written on parchment and is also known as the Codex Evangeliorum Anglice.
- The title written at the top of the page, ‘Text[us] iv evangelior[um] anglice’, is reproduced in the 14th-century catalogue of the Benedictine Christ Church library, but at the Reformation this book was one of many acquired from religious houses by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1532 to 1534, whose name is written at the top of the page.
- Seven extant copies exist today. The earliest version dates from 990AD.
- Royal MS 1 A XIV was copied directly from MS 441 in the Bodleian library at Oxford. We know this as the same passages have been omitted from both. It has a transmission jump of 185 years.
- MS 441 (990AD) is extant and still resides in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, England. It was given to the library by Baron Hatton in 1671. Paleographical evidence suggests a Canterbury origin. The earliest extant evidence of ownership is through Archbishop Matthew Parker (1504-75).
- MS Corp. Ch Coll Camb 140 (1000AD) is in Corpus Christi College Cambridge.
- Royal MS 1 A XIV (1175AD) is in the British Library and was presented to the British Museum by King George II in 1757 from the Old Royal Library.
- Royal MS 1 A XIV once belonged to the Prince of Wales: Henry Frederick, (1594-1612), eldest child of King James the First.
Why is this important?
- Desiderius Erasmus had access to these MSS before starting his translation of the Textus Receptus. In the five years prior to starting his translation work Erasmus was Professor of Divinity at Cambridge at a time when the university's benefactors owned these manuscripts.
- The King James Bible translators had access to these manuscripts. All the six KJV translation companies where housed at Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster and all had access to the Wessex Gospels.
- The codex contains the long ending in Mark chapter 16.
- The codex contains the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11)