Textus Receptus Bibles
Wessex Gospels c.1175
Anglo-Saxon
| 20:1 | Note: Una sabbati maria magdalene uenit mane cum adhuc tenebre essent ad monumentum. & uidit lapidem sublatum a monumento. Wytodliche on anan reste-dayge sye magdalenisce Marie com on morgen ær hyt leoht wære to þare berigenne. & hyo ge-seah þæt se stan wæs äweig anumen fram þare beregenne. |
| 20:2 | Ða arn hye & com to symone petre. & to þam oðre leorning-cnihton. þe se hælend lufede. Ænd hye cwæd to heom. hyo namen drihten of berigenne. & we nyton hwær hye hine leigdon. |
| 20:3 | Petrus eode ut. & se oðer leorning-cniht. & com in-to þare berigenne. |
| 20:4 | Witodlice hye twegen urnen æt-gadere. & se oðer leorning-cniht for-arn petre fore; & com raðer to þare berigenne. |
| 20:5 | And þa he niðer-abehg he seah þa linwæde liggen. & ne eode þeah in. |
| 20:6 | Witodliche simon petrus com æfter hym and eode in-to þare beregenne. & he ge-seah linwæd liggen. |
| 20:7 | & þæt swat-lin þe wæs up-on his heafde. ne ley hyt na mid þam linwædon ac on-sundron fram þam oðren ge-fealden on are stowe. |
| 20:8 | Þa eode eac in se leorningcniht þe ærest com to þare berienne & ge-seah & ge-lefde. |
| 20:9 | Witodlice þa geot hye ne cuþan haly ge-writ þæt hyt berede þæt he scolde fram deaþe arisan. |
| 20:10 | þa foran eft þa leorningcnihtes to þam oðrum. |
| 20:11 | Note: Maria stabat ad monumentum foris plorans. Wytoðliche Maria stod þær-ute æt þare berienne ænd weop. Ænd þa hye wiop; hye abeag niðer & be-seah innan þa berienne |
| 20:12 | & ge-seah twegen ængles sittan mid hwiton reafe. enne æt þam heafde. & oðerne æt þam fotum. þær þas hælendes lich aleyd wæs. |
| 20:13 | Hye cwæðen to hire wif hwi wepst þu. Ða cwæð hye to heom. for-þan hye namen minne drihtan. & ich nat hwær hye hine leyden. |
| 20:14 | Ða hye þas þing saydon þa bewente hye hi on-bæc & ge-seah hwær se hælend stod. and hye neste þæt hyt se hælend wæs. |
| 20:15 | Þa cwæð se hælend to hire. Wif hwi wepst þu. hwane secst þu. Hyo wende þæt hyt se wyrt-ward wære; & cwæð to hym. Leof gyef þu hine name. sege me hwær þu hine leydest. & ich hine nime. |
| 20:16 | Þa cwæð se hælend to hire. Maria. Hye be-wente hyo. & cwæð to hym. Raboni. þæt is ge-cweðen lareow. |
| 20:17 | Ða cwæð se hælend to hire ne æt-rïn þu mïn. nu geat ich ne ästah to mine fæder. Gang to mine broðren & sege heom. Ich astige to minen fæder. & to eower fæder. & to minan gode; & to eower gode. |
| 20:18 | Ða com sye magdalenisce Maria. & kydde þam leorning-cnihtan. & cwæð. Ich ge-seah drihtan. & þas þing he me sayde. |
| 20:19 | Note: Cum esset sero die illa una sabbatorum & fores essent clause. ubi erant discupuli (sic) congregati. Þa wæs æfen. on an þare reste-daye. & þa duren wæren be-lokene þær þa leorning-cnihtes wæren ge-gaderede. for þare iudean eyge. Se hælend com & stod to-middes heora. & cwæð to heom. Sye sibbe mid eow. |
| 20:20 | & þa he þt cwæð; he ateowede heom hys handen. & hys sydan. Þa leorning-cnihtes wæren bliðe; þa hye hafden drihten ge-sogen. |
| 20:21 | He cwæð eft to heom. sye sibbe mid eow. swa swa se fader me sente; ich sende eow. |
| 20:22 | Þa he þt cwæð; þa bleow he on hyo. & cwæð to heom. under-foð halgne gast. |
| 20:23 | þara synna þe ge for-gyfeð. hye beoð heom for-gefena. & þare þe ge healdeð hyo beoð ge-healdenne. |
| 20:24 | Note: Thomas unus de duodecim qui dicitur didimus. non erat cum eis quando uenit iesus. Wytodliche thomas an of þam twelfen þe ys ge-cweðen didimus. þt is ge-licust on ure þeoðe. he næs mid heom þa se hælend com. |
| 20:25 | Þa cwæðen þa oðre leorning-cnihtes to hym. we seagen drihten. Þa cwæð he to heom. Ne ge-lefe ich. bute ich ge-syo þare nægle fæstnunge on hys handan. & ich do minne finger on þare naygelene stede. & ic do mine hand in-to his siden. |
| 20:26 | Ænd eft þa efter ehte dagen hys leorning-cnihtes wæren inne. & thomas mid heom. Se hælend com be-lokenum durum. & stod to-middes heom. & cwæð. sye eow sibbe. |
| 20:27 | Syððen he sayde to thomase. Do þine finger hyder. & ge-seoh mine handæ. & nim þine hand & do on mine siden. & ne beo þu un-ge-leafful. ac ge-leafful. |
| 20:28 | Thomas andswerede & cwæð to him. Þu ert min god. þu ert min drihten. |
| 20:29 | Se hælend cwæð to hym. þu ge-lyfdest for-þan þu me ge-seage. Þa sænden eadige. þe ne seagen & ge-lyfdon. |
| 20:30 | Witodlice manege oðre tacne se hælend worhte on hys leorning-cnihta ge-sihðe. þe ne sendden on þissere bocc awritan. |
| 20:31 | Witoðliche þas þing synden awritan þt ge ge-lyfen. þt se hælend is crist godes sunu. & þæt ge hæbbeð eche lyf; þanne ge lyfað on hys naman. |
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)