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Secundum Iohannem
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Ðys godspel sceal on mōnandæg on þǣre ōðre lenctenwucan.

Ic fare, and gē mē sēceað, and gē sweltaþ; on ēowre synne; ne mage gē cuman þyder ic fare.[1]

22. Ðā cwǣdon þā Iudeas, Cweðe gē ofslyhþ hē hine sylfne, for þām hē segð, Gē ne magon cuman þyder ic fare?

23. Ðā cwæþ hē tō him, Gē synt nyþane; and ic eom ufane: ge synt of þison middanearde; ic ne eom of þissan middanearde.[2][3]

24. Ic ēow sǣde þæt gē sweltað on ēowrum synnum; gif gē ne gelȳfað þæt ic hit sȳ, gē sweltað on ēowre synne.[4][5]

25. Ðā cwǣdon hī tō him, Hwæt eart þū? Sē Hǣlend cwæð tō him, Ic eom fruma þe tō ēow sprece.

26. Ic haebbe fela be ēow tō sprecenne and tō dēmenne; ac sē þe mē sende is soðfæst; and ic sprece on middanearde þā þing þe ic æt him gehȳrde.[6]

27. And hig ne undergēaton þæt hē tealde him God tō Fæder.[7]

28. Sē Hǣlend cwæð tō him, Þonne gē mannes

  1. A, secað.
  2. A, synd (twice); A, ufene; A, þysum (twice), B, C, þyson (twice).
  3. Corp., Ic ne eom... þæt ic hit sy written in a more compressed hand and in part on an erasure.
  4. Corp., Ic ne eom... þæt ic hit sy written in a more compressed hand and in part on an erasure.
  5. A, eorum.
  6. A, fæla; A, sprecanne; A, demanne.
  7. A, hyne (for ne); Corp., B, C, undergeton, A, -geaton; Corp., tæalde, A, B, C, tealde.