1In tho daies Joon Baptist cam, and prechide in the desert of Judee,

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Psalms 86:1, Psalms 86:17, Psalms 90:1, Psalms 90:17, Psalms 7:1

2and seide, Do ye penaunce, for the kyngdom of heuenes shal neiye.

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Psalms 85:6, Psalms 85:6, Psalms 90:13, Psalms 90:17, Psalms 90:13

3For this is he, of whom it is seid bi Ysaie, the prophete, seyinge, A vois of a crier in desert, Make ye redi the weies of the Lord; make ye riyt the pathis of hym.

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Deuteronomy 33:2, Deuteronomy 33:2, Amos 1:12, Obadiah 1:9, Psalms 4:4

4And this Joon hadde clothing of camels heeris, and a girdil of skynne aboute hise leendis; and his mete was honysoukis, and hony of the wode.

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Isaiah 60:19, Isaiah 60:20, Matthew 17:2, Isaiah 60:19, Isaiah 60:20

5Thanne Jerusalem wente out to hym, and al Judee, and al the cuntre aboute Jordan;

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Exodus 12:29, Exodus 12:30, Exodus 12:29, Exodus 12:30, Numbers 16:46

6and thei weren waischun of hym in Jordan, `and knowlechiden her synnes.

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Genesis 49:26, Genesis 49:26, Nahum 1:5, Deuteronomy 33:15, Nahum 1:5

7But he siy manye of the Farysees and of Saduceis comynge to his baptym, and seide to hem, Generaciouns of eddris, who shewide to you to fle fro the wraththe that is to come?

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Exodus 15:14, Exodus 15:16, Exodus 15:14, Exodus 15:16, Numbers 31:2

8Therfor do ye worthi fruyte of penaunce,

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Psalms 68:17, Psalms 68:17, Deuteronomy 33:26, Deuteronomy 33:27, Deuteronomy 33:26

9and nyle ye seie with ynne you, We han Abraham to fadir; for Y seie to you, that God is myyti to reise vp of these stoones the sones of Abraham.

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Psalms 7:12, Psalms 7:13, Psalms 7:12, Psalms 7:13, Psalms 78:15

10And now the ax is put to the roote of the tree; therfore euery tree that makith not good fruyt, shal be kit doun, and shal be cast in to the fier.

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Psalms 93:3, Hebrews 11:29, Psalms 93:3, Hebrews 11:29, Jeremiah 4:24

11Y waische you in water, in to penaunce; but he that shal come after me is strongere than Y, whos schoon Y am not worthi to bere; he shal baptise you in the Hooli Goost and fier.

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Psalms 144:5, Psalms 144:6, Psalms 144:5, Psalms 144:6, Psalms 18:12

12Whos wynewing cloth is in his hoond, and he shal fulli clense his corn flore, and shal gadere his whete in to his berne; but the chaffe he shal brenne with fier that mai not be quenchid.

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Jeremiah 51:33, Jeremiah 51:33, Micah 4:12, Micah 4:13, Micah 4:12

13Thanne Jhesus cam fro Galilee in to Jordan to Joon, to be baptised of hym.

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Psalms 110:6, Psalms 110:6, Psalms 105:15, Psalms 105:15, Exodus 12:29

14And Joon forbede him, and seide, Y owe to be baptisid of thee, and thou comest to me?

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Zechariah 9:14, Zechariah 9:14, Psalms 10:8, Daniel 11:40, Psalms 10:8

15But Jhesus answeride, and seide to hym, Suffre nowe, for thus it fallith to vs to fulfille al riytfulnesse.

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Psalms 77:19, Psalms 77:19, Habakkuk 3:8, Habakkuk 3:8, Exodus 15:8

16Thanne Joon suffride hym. And whanne Jhesus was baptisid, anoon he wente up fro the watir; and lo! heuenes weren openyd to hym, and he saie the Spirit of God comynge doun as a dowue, and comynge on hym; and loo!

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Jeremiah 23:9, Jeremiah 23:9, Daniel 10:8, Habakkuk 3:2, Daniel 10:8

17a vois fro heuenes, seiynge, This is my louyd sone, in which Y haue plesid to me.

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Jeremiah 5:17, Jeremiah 5:17, Joel 1:16, Joel 1:18, Joel 1:16