Here begynneth the pystles and gospels, of euery Sonday, and holy daye in the yere

¶ The Gospel on the Inuencyon of the Crosse the. iiij. Chapyter of Iohn̄. A

THere was a man of the Pharises na med Nicodem{us} a ruler amōg the Ie wes / he came to Ies{us} by nyghte & said vnto hym. Mayster we knowe that thou arte a teacher / whiche is cōe frō god / for no man coulde do suche my∣racles as thou doest / except god were with hym. Iesus answered and sayde vnto hym. Ue rely verely I say vnto the / except a man be borne a newe / he can nat / se the kyngedome of god. Nicode∣mus sayd vnto hym / howe can a man be borne when he is olde / can he entre in to his mothers bodye & be borne agayne? Iesus answered. Uerely verely I say vnto the / except that a man be borne of water / and of the spyryte / he can nat entre in to the kyngdome of god. That whiche is borne of the fleshe is fleshe / & that whiche is borne of the spiryte / is spiryte. Mer∣uayle nat that I sayd to the / ye must be borne a new The wynde bloweth where he lysteth / and thou hea∣rest his sounde / but thou canste nat tel whense he cō∣meth and whyther he goeth. So is euery man that is borne of the spiryte. Nicodemus answered and sayde vnto hym. How can these thynges he? Iesus

answered & sayde vnto hī. Arte thou a mayster in Is rael / and knowest nat these thynges? Uerely verely I say vnto the / we speake that we knowe / and testy∣fye that we haue sene / and ye receaue nat our wytte∣nes / if I haue tolde you erthly thynges / and ye haue nat beleued howe shulde ye beleue if I shall tel you of heuenly thynges? And no man hath ascēded vp to heuen / but he that came downe from heuen? that is to saye the sone of man / whiche is in heuen. And as Moyses lyfted vp the serpent in wyldernes / euen so must the sone of man be lyfted vp / that no man whi∣che beleueth in hym peryshe / but haue eternall lyfe.