Textus Receptus Bibles
Wessex Gospels c.1175
Anglo-Saxon
| 8:1 | Soðlice þa se hælend of þam munte niðer-astah. þa felgden hym michele menige. |
| 8:2 | Ða ge-neohlahte an hreofola to hym. & hine to hym ge-eadmede & þus cwæð. Drihten gif þu wilt þu miht me ge-clænsien. |
| 8:3 | Ða astrehte se hælend his hand. & repede hine. & þus cwæð. Ic wille. beo ge-clænsed. & hys hreofla wæs rædlice ge-claensed. |
| 8:4 | Ða cwæð se hælend to hym. warne þe þæt þu hyt nane gume ne segge. ac gä. & atewe þe þam sacerde. & bring hym þa lac þe moyses be-bead on heore ge-cyðnisse. |
| 8:5 | Soðlice þa se hælend in-eode on capharnaum. þa ge-neahlahte him an hundredes ealdor. hine biddende |
| 8:6 | & þus cweðende. Drihten. min cnape lið on mine huse lame. & mid yfele ge-þred. |
| 8:7 | Ða quoth se hælend to hym. ich cume & hine ge-hæle. |
| 8:8 | Þa answerede se hundredes ealdor & þus cwæð. Drihtem (sic) ne eom ic wurðe þæt þu ingange under mine þecene äc cweð þin an worð (sic). & min cnape beoð ge-hæled. |
| 8:9 | Soðlice ic eom man under anwealde ge-set. & ic hæbbe þeignes under me. & ic cweðe to þisen gang. & hyo gað. & ich cweðe to oðren cum. & hye cumeð. to minen þeowe werc þis. & he wercð. |
| 8:10 | Witodlice þa se hælend þis gehyrde. þa wundrede he. & cwæð to þan þe hym fylgden. Soð ich segge eow. ne gemette ich swa mychele geleafan on israel. |
| 8:11 | To soðen ic segge eow ðæt manege cumeð fram þan east-dæle. & west-dæle. & wunieð mid abrahame. & ysace. & Iacobe. on heofene riche. |
| 8:12 | Witodlice þis riches bearn beoð aworpene on þa ytemesten þeostre. þar beoð wop. & toþene gristbitung. |
| 8:13 | & se hælend cwæð to þam hundredes ealdre. Ga. & gewurðe þe swa swa þu ge-lyfdest. & se cnape wæs ge-hæled on þare ylcan tide. |
| 8:14 | Þa se hælend com on peteres huse þa geseah he his swygre liggende. & hriðiende. |
| 8:15 | & he æt-ran hyre hand & se feofer hyo for-let. þa aras hyo. & þeignede hym. |
| 8:16 | Soðliche ða hyt æfen wæs. hyo brohten hym manege deofel-seoke. & he ut-adraf þa unclæne gastes. mid hys worde. & he ealle ge-hælde þa yfel-hæbbenden. |
| 8:17 | þæt wære ge-fylled þæt þe gecweðen wæs þurh ysaian þane witega. þus cweðende. He on-feng ure untrumnysse. & he bær ure adle. |
| 8:18 | Ða ge-seah se hælend mycele manige ymbuton hine þa het he hyo faren ofer þane muðe. |
| 8:19 | Ða neahleahte hym an bokere. & cwæð. Lareow ich felgie þe swa hwider swa þu færst. |
| 8:20 | Ða cweð se hælend to hym. Foxas hæbbeð holo. & heofene fugeles nyst. soðlice mannes sune næfð hwær he hys heafod änhelde. |
| 8:21 | Ða cwæð to hym oðer of hys leorning-cnihton. Drihten alyf me ærest to farene to be-berienne minne fæder. |
| 8:22 | þa cwæð se hælend to heom. felgieð me. & læt þan deade be-byrian hyra deadan. |
| 8:23 | & he on-stah on scyp. & hys leorning-cnihtes hym felgdon. |
| 8:24 | Ða warð mychel steriung ge-worðen on þare sæ. swa þt þt scip wærð ofergoten mid yþum. witodlice he slep. |
| 8:25 | & hyo ge-neohlahton. & hyo awehten hine þus cweðende. Drihten hæl us. we motan for-wurðen. |
| 8:26 | Þa cwæð he to heom. to hwi sænde ge offirhte ge litles geleafan. Ða aras he. & bebead þam winde. & þare sæ. & þær warð ge-worðen mychel smoltnyss. |
| 8:27 | Ge-witodlice þa men wundreden & þus cwæðen. hwæt is þes. þe windes & sæ. hym hersumiað. |
| 8:28 | Þa se hælend com ofer þanne muþun on ge-raseniscre riche. þa urnen hym to-genes twegen þe hæfden deofel-seocnysse. of beregene ut-gangende. þa wæren swiðe reþe swa þæt nan man ne mihte faren þurh þanne weig. |
| 8:29 | And hyo remden & cwæðen. La hælend godes sune hwæt ys þe & us ge-mæne. come þu hider ær tide us to þreatigenne. |
| 8:30 | Þær wæs soðlice un-feor an swyna heord manegre manne læswiende. |
| 8:31 | þa deofle soðlice hine bæden þus cweðende. gif þu us ut-adrifst äsend us on þas swina heordan. |
| 8:32 | Ða cwæð se hælend to heom farað. & hyo þa ut-gangende & ferden on þa swin. & þær-rihte ferde eall seo heord miclum on-ræse niwel on þa sæ. & hyo wurðon deade on þam wætere. |
| 8:33 | Ða heordes witodlice flugen ænd comen on þa ceastre ænd kydden ealle þas þing & be þam þe þa deofel-seocnysse hæfdon. |
| 8:34 | Ða eode eall syo ceaster-ware togenes þam hælende & þa þa hyo. hine ge-sægen þa beden hyo hine þæt he ferde fram here gemæron. |
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)