Textus Receptus Bibles
Wessex Gospels c.1175
Anglo-Saxon
| 7:1 | Ða comen to hym farisej & sume bokeres cumende fram ierusalem. |
| 7:2 | & þa hyo ge-seagen sume of his leorning-cnihten be-smitene handen þt is un-þwogenen handen æten. hyo telden hyo & cwæðen. |
| 7:3 | Farisej & ealle iudeas ne æteð buton hyo heore hande ge-lomlice þwean healdende heora yldre ge-setnysse. |
| 7:4 | & on stræte hi ne ætað. buton hyo geþwegen beon. & manege oðre synde þe heom ge-sette synde. þt is calice frymþa & ceaca. & apfata & manslage. (sic). |
| 7:5 | Ac þa axode hine farisej & þa boceres hwi ne gad þine leorning-cnihtes æfter ure yldrena ge-setnysse. ac be-smitenen handen heora hlaf þiggieð. |
| 7:6 | Ða andswerede he heom. Wel witegede ysaias be eow liceteren swa hit awriten is. Ðis folc me mid weleren wurðed. soðlice heore heorten his feor fram me. |
| 7:7 | on ydel hyo me wurðiað. & manna lare & bebode læred. |
| 7:8 | Soðlice ge for-læteð godes bebod. & healded manna lage. þweala ceaca & calica. & manege oðre þellice þing ge doð. |
| 7:9 | Þa sæde he heom. wel ge on ydel dyden godes be-bod. þt ge eower lage healden. |
| 7:10 | Moyses cwæð wurðe þinne fæder & þine moder. & se þe wergeð his fader & his moder swelte se deaðe. |
| 7:11 | Soðlice ge cweðad. gyf hwa sægd his fader & his moder corban. þæt is on ure þeode gyfu. gyf hwilc is of me þe fremeð. |
| 7:12 | & ofer þæt ge ne læteð hine anig þing. þanne his fæder odðe his moder |
| 7:13 | to-slitende godes be-bod for eower stunten lage. þe ge ge-sætten. & manege oðre þing þise gelice ge doð. |
| 7:14 | And eft þa manige he him to-clepede & cwæð. Ge-herað me ealle & ongetað. |
| 7:15 | Nis nan þing of þam menn on hine gangende þt hine be-smiten mage. Ac þa þing þe of þam men forð gæð. þa hine be-smiteð. |
| 7:16 | gyf hwa earan hæfð hleste me. |
| 7:17 | End þa se hælend fram þare manigeo eode his leorning-cnihtes hine on bispellen axoden. |
| 7:18 | Ða cwæð he. & sende ge swa ungleawe ne on-geate ge. þt eall þt utan cymð on þane mann gangende. ne maig hine be-smiten. |
| 7:19 | for þan hit ne gæð on his heorten. ac on his innoð. & on forðgang ge-witeð ealle metas clænsiende. |
| 7:20 | Ða saigde he heom. þt þa þing þe of þam men gað. þa hine besmiteð. |
| 7:21 | in-nen of manne heorten yfele geþances cumæð. unriht-hameðe. & forleigre. manslihte. |
| 7:22 | stale. gytsunge. man facnu. scamelest. yfel ge-sihðe. desynysse. ofer-modignessa. stunt-scipe. |
| 7:23 | ealle þas yfele of þan innoðe cumeð. & þane man be-smiteð. |
| 7:24 | Þa ferde he þanen on þa ændes tyri & sidonis. & he in-agan on þæt hus. he nolde þt hit anig wiste. & he ne mihte hit be-miðan. |
| 7:25 | Sona þa an wif be him ge-hirde. þare dohter hæfde un-clæne gast. hyo in eode & to his foten hyo astrehte. |
| 7:26 | Soðlice þt wif wæs hæðene sye-rofeniscas cynnes. & bæd hine. þæt he þane deofel of hire dohter adrife. |
| 7:27 | Ða saigde he hire. Læt ærest þa bearn beo ge-fylled. Nis na göd þt man neme þare bearne hlaf. & hunden weorpe. |
| 7:28 | Þa andswerede hyo. & quoth. Drihten þt is soð. Witodlice ða hwelpes æted under þare mysan; of þare cyldrene crumen. |
| 7:29 | Þa saide he hire for þare spæce. Ga. nu se deofel of þinre dohter ge-wit. |
| 7:30 | And þa hyo on hire us eode. hyo ge-mette þt maigden on hire bedde liggende. & þane deofel ut-agan. |
| 7:31 | Ænd eft he eode of tyrum ge-mæren & com þurh sydonem to þare galileiscan sæ. be-tweox mid ændes decapoleos. |
| 7:32 | & hyo lædden him ænne deafne & dumbne. & hine bæden. þt he his hand on him asette. |
| 7:33 | Ða nam he hine asundre of þare manige. & his fingre on his earen dyde. & spættende his tunge on-hran. |
| 7:34 | & on þanne heofen be-healdende. ge-morede. & cwæð. Effeta. þt is on ure ge-þeode syo þu untyned. |
| 7:35 | Ænd sone wurðan his earen ge-openede. & his tunge bend warð un-slyped & he rihte spæc. |
| 7:36 | & he be-bead heom þt hyo hit nanen menn ne säigden. Soðlice swa he heom swidre be-bead. swa hyo swidere bodeden. |
| 7:37 | & þas þe ma wundredon. & cwæðen. ealle þing he wel dyde. & he dyde þt deafe ge-hyrden. & dumbe spræcan. |
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)