Textus Receptus Bibles
Wessex Gospels c.1175
Anglo-Saxon
| 12:1 | Se hælend com syx dagen ær þam eastren to bethania. þær lazarus wæs dead. þe se hælend a-wehte. |
| 12:2 | Hyo wrohten hym þær ge-beorscipe. & martha þenede Note: MS. þeonede, alt. to þenede. . Lazarus wæs an þare; þe mid heom sæt. |
| 12:3 | Maria nam an pund deorewurðre sealfe mid þam wyrt ge-mengð þe nardus hatað. and smerede þas hælendes fet. & dreigde mid hire locken. & þt hus wæs ge-fylled of þare sealfe swetnysse. |
| 12:4 | Þa cwæð an hys leorning-cnihte. Iudas scarioth þe hyne be-leawde. |
| 12:5 | Hwy ne sealde hyo þas sealfe for þrem hundreð panega þæt man mihta daelen þarfian. |
| 12:6 | Ne cwæð he na þæt for-ðyg þe hym ge-byrede to þam þærfan. ac for-þan þe he wæs þeof; & hæfde scrin; & bær þa þing; þe man sende. |
| 12:7 | Ða cwæð se hælend. Læt hyo þt hyo healde þæt oð þane dayg; þe man me berige. |
| 12:8 | Ge hæbbeð symle þa þearfan mid eow; ac ge næbbeð me symle. |
| 12:9 | Mychel menio þare iudea. ge-cneowen þæt he wæs þær. & hyo comen. næs na for þas hælendes þingan sunderliche. ac þæt hyo woldan ge-seon lazarum; þe he awehte of deaðe. |
| 12:10 | Þa sacerdas aldres þohtan þæt hyo woldan lazarum of-slean. |
| 12:11 | for-þan þe manega foren fram þam iudeam for hys þingan. & ge-lyfdan on þanne hælend. |
| 12:12 | On morgan mycel menio þe coman to þam freols-daige. þa hyo ge-hirdan þæt se hælend com to ierusalem. |
| 12:13 | hyo naman palmtreowene twiggan & geoden ut to-geanes hym; & cleopedan. Syo israele kyng hal & ge-bledsed; þe com on drihtenes name. |
| 12:14 | Ænd se hælend ge-mette ænne assan & rad on-uppan þam. swa hit awritan ys. |
| 12:15 | ne on-dræd þu þe syones dohter; nu þin cyng kymð uppon assen folan sittende. |
| 12:16 | Ne under-geaten hys leorning-cnihtes þas þinge arest. Ac þa se halend wæs ge-wuldred. þa ge-munden hyo þæt þas þing wæren ge-writena be him. & þas þing hio dydon him. |
| 12:17 | Syo menio þe wæs mid him. þa he lazarum clypede of þare berigenne. & hine awehte of deaðe cydde ge-wytnisse. |
| 12:18 | & for-þy him com syo menio on-gean. for-þam þe hyo ge-herdon þæt he worhte þæt taccen. |
| 12:19 | Ða farisei cwæðen be-tweox heom sylfum. we ge-syeð þæt we nan þing ne fremiað. nu wile eall midden-eard gan æfter hym. |
| 12:20 | Sume þæmge wæren hæðene þe foren þæt hyo wolden hyo ge-byddan on þam freols-daige. |
| 12:21 | Ða hyo neahlahten to philippe se wæs of þare galileissan bethsaida. & hyo beden hine & cwæðen leof we willeð þonne hælend ge-seon. |
| 12:22 | Ða eode philippus. & sægde hyt andrea (sic). & æft andreas & phillippus hit sægde þam hælende. |
| 12:23 | Se hælend heom andswerede. & cwæð. Syo tyd cymð. þæt mannes sune byð ge-swuteled. |
| 12:24 | Soðlice ic segge eow þæt hwætene corn wunað ane bute hit falle on eorðan & syo dead. Gyf hit dead byð hyt bringð mycele wæstme. |
| 12:25 | Se þe lufað hys sawle for-spyld hyo. & se þe hateð hys sawle on þisen middan-earde. ge-halt hyo on æche life. |
| 12:26 | Gyf hwa þenige me fylgie me. & my þeing beoð þær; þær ic eom. Gyf hwa me þenað min fæder hine lufað. & wurðað. |
| 12:27 | Nu min sawle is ge-drefeð. & hwæt segge ic; fader ge-hald me of þisse tide. ac for-þan ic com on þas tid. |
| 12:28 | Fader ge-wuldre þine namen. Ða com stefne of hefene þus cweðende. Ænd ic ge-wuldrede & eft ic wuldrie. |
| 12:29 | Syo menio þe þær stod. & þæt ge-hyrden sægden þæt hyt þunrede. & sume sægden þæt ængel spræc wið hyne. |
| 12:30 | Se hælend heom andswerede & cwæð. Ne com þyos stëfne for minan þingen; ac for eowrum þingen. |
| 12:31 | Nu ys middan-eardes dom. nu beod þises middan-eardes ealdor ut aworpen. |
| 12:32 | & gyf ic byo up ahafan fram eorðan. ic teo ealle þyng to me sylfum. |
| 12:33 | Ðæt he sægde & tacnede hwylcen deaðe he woldan sweltan. |
| 12:34 | Syo menio hym andswerede & cwæð. We ge-hyrdan on þare lage. þæt crist byoð on ecnysse. & hu-mæte sægst þu; hyt gebyrað þt mannes sunu beo up ahafen. Hwæt ys þes mannes sunu. |
| 12:35 | Ða cwæð se hælend. Nu geot ys litel leoht on eow. gað þa hwile þe ge leoht hæbbað; þæt þeostwe (sic) eow ne be-fon. Se þe gað on þeostran. he nat hwiðer he gað. |
| 12:36 | Ða hwile þe ge leoht hæbbeð ge-lefað on leoht þæt ge seon leohtes bearn. Ðas þing se hælend heom sægde. & eode & be-dyglede hine fram heom. |
| 12:37 | Ða he swa michele tacne dyde be-foran heom. hyo ne ge-lefden on hine. |
| 12:38 | þæt þas witegena word ysaias wære ge-fellað þe he cwæð. Drihten hwa ge-lefde þæs þe we ge-hyrden. & hwam wæs drihtenes strengþe ge-swuteled. |
| 12:39 | for-þy hy ne mihton ge-lyefan for-þam ysaias cwæð eft. |
| 12:40 | he ablende here eagen. & ä-herte heora heorta. þæt hyo ne syon mid heora eagen. & mid heorta ne on-geten & syon ge-cyrde. & ic ge-hæle. |
| 12:41 | Ysaias sægde þas þing. þa he ge-seah hys wuldor & spræc be hym. |
| 12:42 | & þeh manega of þam ealdron ge-lefdon on hine. Ac hyo hyt ne kyddan for þare farisea þingon. þe-læs hyo me ut adrifan of heora samnunge. |
| 12:43 | Hyo lufedon manne wuldor; swiðere þanne godes wuldor. |
| 12:44 | Se hælend cleopede. & cwæð to heom. Se þe lefð on me. ne ge-lefð he nä on me; ac on þonne þe me sente. |
| 12:45 | & se þe me ge-syhð; he ge-sihð þanne þe me sente. |
| 12:46 | Ich com to leohten on midden-eard. & nan þare þe ge-lefd on me ne wuniað on þeostran. |
| 12:47 | Ænd gyf hwa ge-herð mine word & ne ge-healt; ne deme ic hine. Ne com ich middan-eard to demenne. ac þæt ic hæle middan-eard. |
| 12:48 | Se ðe me for-higð. & mine word ne underfehð. he hæfð hwa him deme. Syo spæce þe ic spæc sye him demð on þam ytemestan daige. |
| 12:49 | for-þam ic ne sprece of me sylfan. Ac se fader þe me sente. he me be-bead. hwæt ic cweðe & hwæt ic spreke. |
| 12:50 | And ic wat þæt hys bebod ys eche lyf. þa þing þe ic sprece; ic speke swa se fader me saigde. |
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)