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 .xv. Chap.* 1.1

ANd anone in y^• dawnynge the hye pre∣stes helde counsell w^t y^e elders & y^• scri∣bes / & [ A] y^e whoole cōgregacion / & bounde Iesus & ledde him awaye / & delivered him to Pilate. And Pilate axed him: arte thou the* 1.2 kynge of the Iewes? And he answered & say∣de vnto him: thou sayest it. And the hye pre∣stes accused him of many thinges. Wherfore Pilate axed him agayne sayinge: Answerest* 1.3 thou nothinge? Beholde how many thinges they lay vnto thy charge. Iesus yet answe∣red

never aworde / so that Pilate merveled.* 1.4

At that feast Pilate was wont to delivre at their pleasure a presoner: whomsoever they wolde desyre. And ther was one named Bar∣rabas / which laye bounde with thē that made* 1.5 insurreccion / & in the insurreccion cōmitted murther. And y^• people called vnto him / & be∣gan to desyre accordinge as he had ever done vnto them. Pylate answered them and sayd: Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes? For he knewe that the hye Pre∣stes had delyvered him of envy. But the hye prestes had moved the people / that he shuld* 1.6 rather delyvre Barrabas vnto them.

And Pylate answered agayne / and sayd vn∣to thē: What will ye then that I do w^t him [ B] whom ye call y^• kynge of y^e Iewes? And they cryed agayne: crucifie him. Pylate sayde vnto them: What evell hath he done? And they cryed y^• moore fervently: crucifie him. And so Pylate willinge to content the people / lowsed them Barrabas / and delyvered Iesus when he had scourged him / for to be crucified.

And the souddeers ledde him awaye into y^e commen hall / and called togedder the whoole* 1.7 multitude / & they clothed him with purple / and they platted a croune of thornes & crou∣ned* 1.8 him with all / and beganne to salute him. Hayle kynge of the Iewes. And they smoote* 1.9 him on the heed w^t a rede / and spat apon him / and kneled doune and worsheped him.

And when they had moocked him / they toke the purple of him / & put his awne cloothes

on him / and ledde him oute / to crucifie him. And they compelled one that passed by / cal∣led Symon of Cyrene (which cam oute of the felde / and was father of Alexander and Ru∣fus) to beare his crosse. And they brought him to a place named Golgotha (which is by* 1.10 interpretacion / the place of deed mens scoul∣les) and they gave him to drinke / wyne myn∣gled with myrte / but he receaved it not. [ C]

And when they had crucified him / they par¦ted his garmentes / castinge loottes for them / what every man shulde have. And it was ab∣oute y^• thyrde houte / and they crucified him. And the tytle of his cause was wrytten: The kynge of the Iewes. And they crucified with him two theves: the one on the ryght honde / and the other on his lyfte. And the scripture was fulfilled which sayeth: he was counted amonge the wicked.

And they that went by / rayled on him: wag¦gynge* 1.11 their heedes and sayinge: Awretche / that destroyest the temple and byldest it in* 1.12 thre dayes: fave thy fylfe / and come doune from the crosse. Lyke wyse also mocked him y^• hye preestes amonge them selves with the scribes and sayde: He saved other men / him sylfe he cannot save. Let Christ the kynge of Israel now descende from the crosse / that we maye se and beleve. And they that were cruci∣fied with him / checked him also.

And when the sixte houre was come / dar∣knes [ D] aroose over all the erth / vntyll y^• nynthe houre. And at the nynthe houre Iesus cryed

with a loude voyce sayinge: Eloi / Eloi / lama∣asbathani / which* 1.13 is yf it be interpreted: my God / my God / why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stode by / when they hearde y^t / sayde: beholde he calleth for Helyas* 1.14 And one ran & filled a sponge full of veneger / and put it on a rede / and gave him to drinke / sayinge: let him alone / let vs se whether He∣lyas will come and take him doune.

But Iesus cryed with aloude voyce / & ga∣ve* 1.15 vp the gooste. And the vayle of the temple dyd rent in two peces / from the toppe to the boottome. And when the Centurion which* 1.16 stode before him / sawe that he so cryed & ga∣ve vp the gooste / he sayd: truly this man was the sonne of God. Ther were also wemen a good waye of beholdinge him: amonge whom was Mary Magdalen / & Mary the mother of Iames the lytle and of Ioses / and Mary Salome: which also when he was in Galile / folowed him and ministred vnto him / and ma¦ny other wemen which came vp with him to Hierusalem.

And now when nyght was come (because* 1.17 it was y^• even that goeth before y^• saboth) Io∣seph of Arimathia a noble councelour which [ E] also loked for y^• kyngdome of God / came and went in booldly vnto Pylate / & begged y^e bod¦dy of Iesu. And Pylate merveled that he was alredy deed / & called vnto him y^• Centurion / * 1.18 & axed of him / whether he had bene eny why∣le deed. And when he knewe the trueth of the Centurion / he gave y^• body to Ioseph. And he

bought a lynnen cloothe / and toke him doune & wrapped him in y^• lynnen cloothe / & layde him in a tombe y^t was hewen oute of y^• rocke / & / rolled a stone vnto the dore of the sepulcre. And Mary Magdalen & Mary Ioses beheld where he was layde.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Mathew xxvij. Lu. xxiii Iohan .xxviij.
• * 1.2

  He is de∣lyvered to Pylate
• * 1.3

  Mathew xxvii. lu. xxiija
• * 1.4

  He hol∣deth his peace.
• * 1.5

  Barra∣bas.
• * 1.6

  Mathew xxvii. d Lu. xxiij Iohan xviij. g. & xix. c. He is sco¦urged & then dely¦vered to deathe.
• * 1.7

  Math. xxvij.
• * 1.8

  He is crouned.
• * 1.9

  He is bof¦feted. Math. xxvij. lu. xxiij.
• * 1.10

  Golgo∣tha. Math. xxvij. Luke. xxiij. d. His gar∣mentes are devy∣ded. Io. xix. d He is cru¦cified. Gsa. liij d
• * 1.11

  He is ray fed on.
• * 1.12

  Io. ij. d.
• * 1.13

  Psal. xx••
• * 1.14

  Vyneger is offred him to drinke.
• * 1.15

  He ge∣veth vp his spirit.
• * 1.16

  The vay lerenteth
• * 1.17

  Mathew xxvij. Luke .xxiij. g. Io. xix. g
• * 1.18

  He is bu∣ryed.