P073 Specimens of the Different Versions.

P073 Specimens of the Different Versions.

2. But they sayde: not in the feast day, lest any busines arise among the people.

3. And when he was at Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper, even as he sate at meate, there came a woman havyng an alabaster boxe of very precious oyntment, [called] Narde pistike, and she brake the boxe and powred it on his head.

22. Rhemish, 1582. And the Pasche was and the Azymes after two daies: and the cheefe Priests and the Scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hands on him and kil him. For they said, Not on the festival day, lest there might be a tumult of the people. And when he was at Bethania in the house of Simon the Leper, and sate at meate, there came a woman having an alabaster-boxe of ointment, of pretious spike-narde: and breaking the alabaster-boxe she powred it out upon his head.

23. Tyndale, 1525.

1 Cor. xv, 29.

Other els what do they which are baptised over the deed, if the deed ryse not at all? why are they baptised over the deed? And why stōde we ī ieoperdy every houre? by oure reioysynge which I have in Christ Jesu oure lorde, I deye dayly. That I have fought with beastes att Ephesus after the maner of mē, what avantageth it me, yf the deed ryse not agayne? Lett us eate ād drynke, to morowe we shall deye.

24. Coverdale, 1535. Or els what do they which are baptised over yᵉ deed, yf the deed aryse not at all? Why are they then baptysed over the deed? And why stonde we in ioperdy every houre? By oure reioysinge which I have in Christ Jesu ō Lorde, I dye dailye. That I have foughte with beestes at Ephesus after yᵉ maner of men, what helpeth it me yf the deed ryse not agayne:

Let us eate and drynke, for tomorow we shal dye.