The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .v. Chapter. ✚* 1.1

IT came to passe as the people preased [ A] vpon him / to heare the worde of God / that he stoode by the lake of Geneza∣reth: & sawe two shippes stonde by the lake syde / but the fisshermen were gone out of thē / & were wasshynge their nettes. And he entred in to one of the shippes / which perteyned to Simon / and prayed him / that he wolde thrust out a litell from the londe. And he sate doune and taught the people out of the ship.

When he had leeft speakynge / he sayde vnto Simon: Launche out in to the depe / and let slippe youre nettes to make a draught / And Simon answered and sayde to him: [ B] Master / we have labored all nyght / and have

taken nothinge. Neverthelater at thy worde I will loose forthe the net. And when they had so done / they inclosed a greate multitude of fisshes. And their net brake: but they made signes to their felowes which were in the o∣ther ship / that they shuld come and helpe thē And they came: and filled bothe the shippes that they soncke agayne.

When Simon Peter sawe that / he fell dou¦ne at Iesus knees sayinge: Lorde goo frō me / for I am a synfull man. For he was vtterly astonyed & all that were w^t him / at y^e draught of fisshe which they toke: & so was also Ia∣mes & Iohn y^e sonnes of zebede which were parteners w^t Simon. And Iesus sayde vnto Simon: feare not / frō hence forthe thou shalt catche men. And they brought the shippes to londe / and forsoke all / and folowed him.

And it fortuned as he was in a certayne ci∣te: [ C] * 1.2 beholde / ther was a man full of leprosy: & when he had spied Iesus / he fell on his face / & besought him sayinge: Lorde / yf thou wilt / * 1.3 thou canst make me cleane. And he strethed forth y^• hond / & touched him sayinge: I will / be thou cleane. And immediatly the leprosy departed from him. And he warned him / that he shuld tell no man: but that he shuld god &* 1.4 shewe him selfe to the Preste / & offer for his clensynge / accordinge as Moses commaun∣dement was / for a witnes vnto them.

But so moche the moare went ther a fame abroade of him / & moche people cam to geder to heare / & to be healed of him / of their infirmi¦ties.

And he kepte him silfe aparte in y^e wil∣dernesses / and gave him silfe to prayer.

✚ And it happened on a certayne daye / that [ D] * 1.5 he taught: and ther sate the pharises: and doc¦turs of lawe / which were come out of all y^• tounes of Galile / Iurie / & Hierusalem. And the power of the Lorde was to heale thē. And beholde / mē brought a man lyinge in his beed which was taken with a palsie: & sought mea¦nes* 1.6 to brynge him in / and to laye him before him. And whē they coulde not finde by what waye they might bringe him in / be cause of y^e prease / they wēt vp on the toppe of y^e housse / and let him doune thorowe the tylinge / beed & all in the middes before Iesus. When he sawe their fayth / he sayde vnto him: man / thy synnes are forgeven the. And the Scribes & the Parises begane to thinke sayinge: What felow is this which speaketh blasphemy? Who can forgeve synnes but God only?

When Iesus perceaved their thoughtes / [ E] he answered & sayde vnto them: What thin∣ke ye in youre hertes? Whether is easyar to saye / thy synnes are forgevē the / or to saye: ri∣se & walke? But that ye maye knowe that the sonne of mā hath power to forgeve synnes on* 1.7 erth / he sayde vnto y^e sicke of the palsie: I saye to the / aryse / take vp thy beed and go home to thy housse. And immediatly he rose vp befo∣re them / & toke vp his beed where on he laye / and departed to his awne housse praysinge God. And they were all amased & they lauded God / & were filled with feare sayinge: We ha¦ue

sene straunge thynges to daye. ⊢

And after that he went forthe and sawe a [ F] * 1.8 Publican named Levi / sittinge at the receyte of custome / and sayde vnto him: folow me. And he leeft all / roose vp / and folowed him. And that same Levi made him a greate feaste* 1.9 at home in his awne housse. And ther was a greate cōpany of publicans and of other that sate at meate with him. And the Scribes and Pharises murmured agaynst his disciples* 1.10 sayinge: Why eate ye and drinke ye with pu∣blicās and synners? Iesus answered and say¦de vnto thē: They y^t are whole / nede not of y^e phisicion: but they y^t are sicke. I came not to call. y^e rightewes / but synners to repentaūce.

Then they sayde vnto him: Why do the di¦sciples [ G] * 1.11 of Iohn fast often & praye / & the disci¦ples of y^e Pharises also: & thine eate & drinke? And he sayde vnto them: Can ye make y^e chyl¦dren of the weddinge fast / as longe as y^e bryd¦grome is present with thē? The dayes will come / whē the brydgrome shalbe takē awaye from them: then shall they fast in those dayes

Then he spake vnto them in a similitude:* 1.12 No mā putteth a pece of a newe garment / in to an olde vesture: for yf he do: then breaketh he the newe / and the pece that was taken out of the newe / agreeth not w^t the olde. Also / no mā poureth newe wyne into olde vessels. For yf he do / the newe wyne breaketh the vessels / & runneth out it silfe / & the vessels perisshe: But newe wyne must be poured into newe vessels / & bothe are preserved. Also / no man y^•

drinketh olde wine / strayght waye can awaye with newe / for he sayeth y^• olde is plesaūter. [ D]

Notes

• * 1.1

  Mathew .iiij. c. Mark .j. b
• * 1.2

  Mathew viij. a Mar. j. d.
• * 1.3

  Leper
• * 1.4

  Le. xiij. a
• * 1.5

  Mat. ix. a Mar. ij. a
• * 1.6

  Palsye.
• * 1.7

  Signe.
• * 1.8

  Mat. ix. •• Mar. ij. b.
• * 1.9

  Levi.
• * 1.10

  Publi∣cās and synners.
• * 1.11

  Mat. ix. b Dar. ij. c. The di∣sciples fast not
• * 1.12

  New & ol¦de agree not.