Matthew 3 Great Bible 1539

From Textus Receptus

---

Revision as of 23:11, 9 April 2016

• 1 In those dayes came Iohn the Baptist, preachyng in the wyldernesse of Iewry,

• 2 and sayeng: Repent of the life that is past, for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.

• 3 For this is he, of whom the Prophete Esaye spake, which sayeth: The voyce of a cryer in the wyldernes, prepare ye the waye of the Lorde: & make hys pathes streyght.

• 4 Thys Iohn had hys rayment of camels heer. And a gyrdell of a skynne about hys loynes. His meat was locustes and wylde hony.

• 5 Then went out to hym Ierusalem and all Iewrye, and all the regyon rounde about Iordan,

• 6 and were baptysed of hym in Iordan, confessyng their synnes.

• 7 But when he sawe many of the Pharises and Saduces come to hys baptyme, he sayd vnto them: O generacion of vypers, who hath taught you to fle from the vengeaunce to come?

• 8 Bring forth therfore the frutes that belong to repentaunce.

• 9 And be not of soch mynde that ye wolde saye wtin your selues: we haue Abraham to oure father. For I saye vnto you: that God is able to bryng to passe, that of these stones ther shall ryse vp children vnto Abraham.

• 10 Euen now is the axe also put vnto the rote of the trees: so that euery tree which bringeth not forth good frute, is hewen downe, and cast into the fyre.

• 11 I baptyse you in water vnto repentaunce: but he that shall come after me is myghtyer then I, whose shoes I am not worthy to beare. He shall baptise you with the holy ghost and with fyre:

• 12 whose fan is in hys hand, & he wyll purge hys floore, & gather his wheat into the barne, but wyll burne the chaffe wt vnquencheable fyre.

• 13 Then commeth Iesus from Galile to Iordan vnto Iohn to be baptysed of hym.

• 14 But Iohn forbade hym, sayinge: I haue nede to be baptised of the: and commest thou to me?

• 15 Iesus answered & said vnto him: Let it be so now. For thus it becometh vs to fulfyll all ryghteousnesse. Then he suffred hym.

• 16 And Iesus when he was baptised, came straight waye out of the water. And lo heuen was open vnto him: and he sawe the sprete of God descendynge lyke a doue, and lyghtyng vpon hym.

• 17 And loo, there came a voyce from heauen saienge. Thys is my beloued sonne, in whom I am well pleased.