Textus Receptus Bibles
Wessex Gospels c.1175
Anglo-Saxon
| 13:1 | Þær wæren sume on þare tide of galilëën hym keðende. þara blod pilates mengde mid hyre offrunge. |
| 13:2 | Þa cwæð he heom andsweriende. wene ge wæren þa galileiscan synfulle to-foran eallen galileiscan. for-þan-þe hyo swylc þoleden. |
| 13:3 | Ne segge ic na. ac ealle ge gelice for-wurðeð. buton ge deadbote don; |
| 13:4 | swa þa ehte-tyna. ofer þa feoll se stepel on syloa. & hyo of-sloh. Wene ge þæt hyo wæren scyldige ofer ealle menn þe on ierusalem wunedon. |
| 13:5 | Ne segge ic ac swa ge for-wurðed. bute ge deadbote don. |
| 13:6 | Ða sæde he heom þis bispell. Summan hæfde an fic-treow ge-plantod on his win-gearde. þa com he & sohte his wæstmes on hym. þa ne fand he nane. |
| 13:7 | Þa cwæð he to þam hyrde nu synde þreo gear seððan ich com wæstme secende on þissen fic-treowe. & ic ne funde. For-scrif (sic) hine hwy ofer-stricð (sic) he þæt land. |
| 13:8 | Ða cwæð he. hlaford læt hine geat þis gear oð Ic hine be-delfe. & ic hine be-weorpe mid dunge. |
| 13:9 | & witodlice he wæstmes bringeð. Gif hit elles hwæt beoð. for-scrif hine syððan. |
| 13:10 | Ða wæs he reste-dagen on hiore gesamnunge; lærende. |
| 13:11 | þa wæs þær sum wif seo hafde untrumnysse gast ehtetyne gear. & hyo wæs abogen ne hyo allunge ne mihte up beseon. |
| 13:12 | Ða se hælend hyo ge-seah he cleopede hyo to him. & saide hire. Wif þu ert for-læten of þinre untrumnysse. |
| 13:13 | & his hand hire on sette. þa wæs hyo sona up arerd. & hyo god wuldrede. |
| 13:14 | Ða ge-bealh se duguðe ealder hine for-þan þe se hælend on reste-daige helde & sæde þam manigeo. Syx dages synde on þam ge-bereð þæt man wyrce. cumeð on þam & beoð ge-hælde. & na on reste daige. |
| 13:15 | Þa andswerede se hælend & cwæð. La liceteras ne un-tygð eower ælc on reste-daige his oxen oððe assen fram þare binne & læt to wætere. |
| 13:16 | Ðas abrahames dohter þe satanas ge-band nu ehtetyna gear. ne beryde hire beon un-bundon of þisen benden on reste-daige. |
| 13:17 | Ða he þis saide þa scamede eallen his wiðer-winnan. & eall folc ge-blissode on eallen þan þe wunderfullice fram him ge-wurðon. |
| 13:18 | Soðlice he cwæð. hwam is godes rice gelic; & hwam wene ic þæt hit beo ge-lich. |
| 13:19 | hit is gelic sepenes (sic) corne þe se man onfeng & seow on his wertun. & hit weox & warð mycel treow & heofene fugeles resten on his bogen. |
| 13:20 | Ænd eft he cwæð. hwam wene ic þæt godes rice seo gelic. |
| 13:21 | hit ys gelic þam beorman þe þæt wif onfeng & be-hedde on þam melewe þreo ge-mitte. oððe hit warð eall ahafen. |
| 13:22 | Ða ferde he þurh ceastre & castella to ierusalem & þær lærde. |
| 13:23 | Ða cwæð sum man to him. drihten feawe synde þe synde ge-hælede. Ða cwæð he to heom. |
| 13:24 | efstað þet ge gangen þurh þa nærewe gate for-þan ich segge eow manege secað þæt hyo ingan & hyo ne magen. |
| 13:25 | Þanne se hirdes ealdor ingæð & his dure be-clyst. ge standeð þær ute & þa dure cnokieð & cweðað. Ðrihten atyn us. Þanne cweð he to eow. Ne can ich eow naht (sic) ich hwanen ge synde. |
| 13:26 | Þanne on-ginnen ge cweðen. we æten & druncen be-foren þe & on uren stræten þu lærdest. |
| 13:27 | þanne saið he eow ne can ic hwanen ge synde. ge-witeð fram me ealle unriht-wyrhten. |
| 13:28 | þær beoð wop & toðe gristbihung Note: MS. gristhung (sic), with bi written above. . Þanne ge ge-seoð abraham & ysääc. & iacob & ealle witegen on godes rice. & ge beoð ut adrifene. |
| 13:29 | & hyo cumeð fram east-dæle & west-dæ & suð-dæle. & sittað on godes rice. |
| 13:30 | & efne synde ytemeste þa þe beoð fyrmeste & synde fyrmeste þa þe beoð ytemeste. |
| 13:31 | On þam daige him ge-neohlacten sume farisei & him saigdon. Far & ga heonon. for-þam þe herodes þe wile of-slean. |
| 13:32 | And þa cwæð he to heom. Gað & seggeð þam foxe. deofel-seocnysse ich ut adrife. & ic hæle ge-fremme to-daig & to-morgen & ðridden daige ich beo for-numen. |
| 13:33 | Þeah-hwæðere me ge-bereð to-daig & to-morgen. & þy æftere daige gan. forþan ne bëreð þæt se witega for-wurðe buton ierusalem. |
| 13:34 | Eale ierusalem ierusalem. þu þe þa witegen of-sleahst. & hænst þa þe to þe asent synden. hu ofte ic wolde þine bearn ge-gaderian. swa se fugel doð his nyst under his fyðeren & þu noldest. |
| 13:35 | Nu beoð eower hus eow for-lætan. Soðlice ic eow segge þt ge me ne ge-seoð ær þan þe cume se þanne ge cweðed ge-bletsod syo se þe com on drihtnes namen. |
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)