Textus Receptus Bibles
Wessex Gospels c.1175
Anglo-Saxon
| 8:1 | Note: Cum turba multa esset cum iesu. Eft on þam dagen him wæs mide mycel manigeo. & næfden hwæt hyo æten. Ða cwæð he to-somne ge-clepeden his leorning-cnihten. |
| 8:2 | Ic ge-miltsie þisse manigeo. for þan hy þri dages me ambidiað. & næbbed hwæt hyo æten. |
| 8:3 | Gyf ich hyo fæstende to hyre huse læte be weige hyo ge-teorieð. sume hyo comen feorran. |
| 8:4 | þa andswerede him hys leorning-cnihtes. Hwanen maig anig man þas mid hlafen on þissen westen ge-fellen. |
| 8:5 | Þa axode he hyo hu fele hlafe hæbbe ge. hyo cwæðen seofen. |
| 8:6 | Þa het he sitten þa manige ofer þa eorðan. & nam þa seofe hlafes & gode þancede. & hyo bræc & sealde his leorning-cnihten. þt hyo to-foran heom asetten. & hyo swa dydon. |
| 8:7 | & hyo næfden buten feawe fisxe. & he þä bletsede. & het be-foren heom asetten. & hyo swa dyden. |
| 8:8 | & hyo æten & wurðen fylde. & hy namen þæt of þam brithmen (sic) be-laf seofen wilien fulle. |
| 8:9 | Soðlice þa þe þær æten. wæren feower þusendæ. & he hyo for-let. |
| 8:10 | End sone he on scyp mid his leorning-cnihten astah. & com on þa dæles dalmanu-ða. |
| 8:11 | & þa ferden þa farisei & on-gunnen mid hym smeagen. & tacne of hefene sohten & his fandeden. |
| 8:12 | Þa cwæð he reowsiende on his gaste. hwi secd þeos cneorys taken. Soðlice ic eow segge ne beoð þisse cneorisse tacen ge-seald. |
| 8:13 | & hyo þa for-lætende eft on scyp astah. & ferde ofer þanne muðan. |
| 8:14 | & hyo ofer-geaten þt hyo hlafes ne namen. & hyo næfden on scype mid heom buten ænne hlaf. |
| 8:15 | & he heom. bæd & cwæð. Lokiað & warniað fram farisea & herodes hæfe. |
| 8:16 | Þa þohten hyo be-tweoxe heom. & cwæðen. næbbe we nane hlafes. |
| 8:17 | þa se hælend þt wiste. he cwæð. hwæt þence ge for þan ge hlæfes næbbeð. gyt ge ne on-cnaweð ne on-gyteð. gyet ge hæbbeð eowre heorte ge-blende. |
| 8:18 | Eagen ge hæbbeð & ne ge-seoð. & earen & ge ne hereð. ne ge ne þenceð |
| 8:19 | hwanne ic bræc fif hlafes & twegen fixas. & hu fela wiligenne ge naman fulle. Hy cwæðon þa twelfe. |
| 8:20 | Ænd hwanne seofan hlafas feower þusende. & hu fele wiligene britsena ge namen fulle. hy saiden seofen. |
| 8:21 | Ða saigde he heom. hwi ne ongyte ge hyt. |
| 8:22 | & hyo comen þa to bethsaida. & hyo brohten hym þa ænne blindne. & hine bæden þt he hine æt-rine. |
| 8:23 | & þa æt-ran he þas blinden hand end lædde hine buton þa wic. & spætte on his eagen. & his hand on asette & hine axode. hwæder he aht ge-seage. |
| 8:24 | Ða quoth. he. þa þæ he hine be-seag. ic ge-seo men swilce treow gangende. |
| 8:25 | Eft he asette his hand ofer his eagen. & he ge-seah þa. & warð ge-eodneowed. swa þt he brihtlice eall ge-seah. |
| 8:26 | Ða sende he hine to his huse. & cwæd. ga to þinen huse. & þeah þu on tun gä nanen þu hit ne segge. |
| 8:27 | Þa eode he & his leorning-cnihtes on þt castell ceastre philippi. & he on weige his leorning-cnihtes axode. hwæt seggeð men þt ic syo. |
| 8:28 | Ða andswereden hyo. sume Johannem þanne fulluhtere. sume heliam. sume sumne of þam witegen. |
| 8:29 | Ða cwæð he. hwæt segge ge þt ic syo. Þa andswerede petrus hym. & quoth. Þu ert crist. |
| 8:30 | & þa bead he hym þt hyo nanen be him ne saigden. |
| 8:31 | Ða on-gan he hyo læren þt mannes sune ge-bered feole þinge þolien. & beo aworpen fram ealdor-mannen. & heah-sacerden. & bokeren. & beon of-slagen. & æfter þreom dagen arisan. |
| 8:32 | & spæcen þa openlice. & þa nam petrus hine. & gan hine þreatigen. |
| 8:33 | þa be-wende he hine & kydde petre. & quoth. Ga on bæcc sathanas for þan þu nast þa þing þe synde godes. Ac þa þing þe synde manne. |
| 8:34 | Ða cwæð he to-gædere ge-clepede manega mid his leorning-cnihten. Gyf hwa wile me felgien wið-sace hine sylfne. & nime his cwolmenge & folgie me. |
| 8:35 | Se þe wile his sawle hæle ge-don. se hyo for-spilð. Se þe for-spild his sawle for me. & for þam godspelle se hyo ge-hælð. |
| 8:36 | Hwæt fremed men þeah he ealne midden-eard ge-streonig. & do his sawle for-wurðe. |
| 8:37 | odðe hwilc ge-wrixl syld se man for his sawle. |
| 8:38 | Soðlice se þe me for-sihð & mine word on þisre unriht-hameðen & synfullen cneorysse. þane mannes sune for-sihð. þanne he cemð on his fader wulder mid his halgen ænglen. |
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)