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Wycliffe's English Translation (1388)
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The First Book of Clement
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John
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[1]And there was a man of the Farisees, Nychodeme bi name, a prince of the Jewis. [No book]
[2]And he cam to Jhesu bi niyt, and seide to hym, Rabi, we witen, that thou art comun fro God maister; for no man may do these signes, that thou doist, but God be with hym. [No book]
[3]Jhesus answerde, and seide to hym, Treuli, treuli, Y seie to thee, but a man be borun ayen, he may not se the kyngdom of God. [No book]
[4]Nychodeme seide to hym, Hou may a man be borun, whanne he is eeld? whether he may entre ayen in to his modris wombe, and be borun ayen? [No book]
[5]Jhesus answeride, Treuli, treuli, Y seie to thee, but a man be borun ayen of watir, and of the Hooli Goost, he may not entre in to the kyngdom of God. [No book]
[6]`That that is borun of the fleisch, is fleisch; and `that that is borun of spirit, is spirit. [No book]
[7]Wondre thou not, for Y seide to thee, It bihoueth you to be borun ayen. [No book]
[8]The spirit brethith where he wole, and thou herist his vois, but thou wost not, fro whennus he cometh, ne whidir he goith; so is ech man that is borun of the spirit. [No book]
[9]Nychodeme answeride, and seide to hym, Hou moun these thingis be don? [No book]
[10]Jhesus answeride, and seide to hym, Thou art a maister in Israel, and knowist not these thingis? [No book]
[11]Treuli, treuli, Y seie to thee, for we speken that that we witen, and we witnessen that that we han seyn, and ye taken not oure witnessyng. [No book]
[12]If Y haue seid to you ertheli thingis, and ye bileuen not, hou if Y seie to you heueneli thingis, schulen ye bileue? [No book]
[13]And no man stieth in to heuene, but he that cam doun fro heuene, mannys sone that is in heuene. [No book]
[14]And as Moises areride a serpent in desert, so it bihoueth mannys sone to be reisid, [No book]
[15]that ech man that bileueth in hym, perische not, but haue euerlastynge lijf. [No book]
[16]For God louede so the world, that he yaf his `oon bigetun sone, that ech man that bileueth in him perische not, but haue euerlastynge lijf. [No book]
[17]For God sente not his sone in to the world, that he iuge the world, but that the world be saued bi him. [No book]
[18]He that bileueth in hym, is not demed; but he that bileueth not, is now demed, for he bileueth not in the name of the `oon bigetun sone of God. [No book]
[19]And this is the dom, for liyt cam in to the world, and men loueden more derknessis than liyt; for her werkes weren yuele. [No book]
[20]For ech man that doith yuele, hatith the liyt; and he cometh not to the liyt, that hise werkis be not repreued. [No book]
[21]But he that doith treuthe, cometh to the liyt, that hise werkis be schewid, that thei ben don in God. [No book]
[22]Aftir these thingis Jhesus cam, and hise disciplis, in to the loond of Judee, and there he dwellide with hem, and baptiside. [No book]
[23]And Joon was baptisinge in Ennon, bisidis Salym, for many watris weren there; and thei camen, and weren baptisid. [No book]
[24]And Joon was not yit sent in to prisoun. [No book]
[25]Therfor a questioun was maad of Jonys disciplis with the Jewis, of the purificacioun. [No book]
[26]And thei camen to Joon, and seiden `to hym, Maister, he that was with thee biyonde Jordan, to whom thou hast borun witnessyng, lo! he baptisith, and alle men comen to hym. [No book]
[27]Joon answerde, and seide, A man may not take ony thing, but it be youun to hym fro heuene. [No book]
[28]Ye you silf beren witnessyng to me, that Y seide, Y am not Crist, but that Y am sent bifore hym. [No book]
[29]He that hath a wijf, is the hosebonde; but the freend of the spouse that stondith, and herith hym, ioieth with ioye, for the vois of the spouse. Therfor in this thing my ioye is fulfillid. [No book]
[30]It bihoueth hym to wexe, but me to be maad lesse. [No book]
[31]He that cam from aboue, is aboue alle; he that is of the erthe, spekith of the erthe; he that cometh from heuene, is aboue alle. [No book]
[32]And he witnessith that thing that he hath seie, and herde, and no man takith his witnessing. [No book]
[33]But he that takith his witnessyng, hath confermyd that God is sothefast. [No book]
[34]But he whom God hath sent, spekith the wordis of God; for not to mesure God yyueth the spirit. [No book]
[35]The fadir loueth the sone, and he hath youun alle thingis in his hoond. [No book]
[36]He that bileueth in the sone, hath euerlastynge lijf; but he that is vnbileueful to the sone, schal not se euerlastynge lijf, but the wraththe of God dwellith on hym. [No book]
Author: John Wycliffe (1328 – 1384)
 Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1885)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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