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1:1 Note: Nu we willeð her eow areccan lucas boc þas halgen godspelleres. for þan þe witodlice manega þohte þare þinge race ge-ende-berden þe on us ge-fylde synde;\n1:2 swa us be-tahten þa þe hyt of fremðe ge-sægen. & þare spræce þëenæs wæren.\n1:3 Me ge-þuhte geornlice eallen oð ænde-byrdnysse writen þe þu seleste theophilus.\n1:4 þt þu oncnawe þare worde sodfæstnysse of þam þe þu ge-læred ært.\n1:5 On herode dagen iudea cyninges wæs sum sacerd on namen zacharias of abian tune. & his wif wæs of äärones dohtren. & hire name wæs elisabeth.\n1:6 Soðlice hyo wæren ba twa rihtwise be-foren gode. & gangenden on eallen hys beboden & rihtwisnesse. ba twa wrohte.\n1:7 & hyo nafden nan bearn. for-ðan elisabeth wæs un-berende & hyo on heore dagen baðe forð-eoden.\n1:8 Soðlice wæs ge-worðen þa zacharias hys sacerd-hades brea. on his ge-wrixles endebyrdnysse be-fore gode.\n1:9 æfter ge-wunan. þara sacerdes hades hlotes he eode þæt he his offringe sette. Ða he on godes tempel eode\n1:10 eall wered þas folkes wæs ute biddende on þare offrenge timen.\n1:11 Ða atewede hym drihtenes ængel standende on þas weofedes swiðren healfe.\n1:12 Þa warð zacharias ge-drefed þæt ge-seonde & him eige on-reas.\n1:13 Ða cwæð se ængel hym to. ne on-dred þu þe zacharias. for þan þin bene is ge-herd. & þin wif elisabeth þe sune kenð. & þu nemnest hys name Iohannes\n1:14 & he byð þe to blisse. & manega on his akynnednysse ge-fageneð.\n1:15 Soðlice he byð mære be-foren drihtene. & he ne drincð win ne beor. & he beoð ge-felleð mid halgen gaste; Þanne gyt of hys moder innoðe.\n1:16 & manege israele bearne he ge-chyrd to drihtene heore gode\n1:17 & he gæð to-foren him on gaste. & on helias ge-mihte. & he fæderan heortan to heora bearnan ge-cyrre. & ungeleafulle. to rihtwise gleaw-scipe. drihtne fulfremed folc ge-gærewian.\n1:18 Ða cwæð zacharias to þam engle. hwanan wat ich þis. Ic eom nu eald & min wif on heora dagen forð-eode.\n1:19 Þa andswerede him se ængel. Ich eom gabriel se engel. ic þe stande be-foren gode. & ich eom asend wið þe sprecen. & þe þis bodien.\n1:20 End nu abydst swigende. & þu spræken ne miht oð þanne dayg þe þas þing gewurðad. for þan þu mine worden ne lyfdest þa byð on heora timan ge-fylde.\n1:21 And þæt folc wæs zachariam ge-abydende. & wundredon. þæt he on þæt temple ge-læt wæs.\n1:22 Ða he ut-eode ne mihte he heom to spræcen. & hyo on-cneowen þæt he on þam temple sume ge-sihte ge-seah. & he wæs beacniende heom & dumb þurh-wunede.\n1:23 Þa wæs ge-worðen þa his þenunga dages ge-fylde wæren. he ferde to his huse.\n1:24 Soðlice æfter dagen elisabeth his wif ge-eacnode. & hy be-dyglede hyo fif monðas & cwæð.\n1:25 Soðlice me drihten ge-dyde þus on þam dagen þe he ge-seah mine hosp be-twux mannen afyrran.\n1:26 Note: Missus est angelus gabriel á deo in ciuitatem galiléé. Soðlice on þam syxten monðe wæs a-send gabriel se engel fram drihtene on galilëë cestre þare name wæs nazareth.\n1:27 to be-weddedre femnen anen were þas name wæs ioseph of dauiðes huse. & þare femne name wæs mariam.\n1:28 Ða cwæð se ængel ingangende. Hal wæsse þu mid gyfe ge-fylled. drihten mid þe. Þu ert ge-bletsed on wifen.\n1:29 þa warð hyo on his spræce ge-drefed. & þohte hwæt syo gretunge wære.\n1:30 Ða cwæð se ængel. ne on-dræd þu þe Maria. Soðlice þu gyfe mid gode ge-mettest\n1:31 soðlice nu þu on innoðe ge-eacnest. & sune censt ænd hys name hælend ge-nemnest\n1:32 & se byoð mære. & þas heagestes sune ge-nemned. & hym sylð drihten god his fæder dauides setll.\n1:33 & he rixad on echnesse on Iacobes huse. & his riche ænde ne beoð.\n1:34 Þa cwæð maria to þam ængle hu ge-wurð þis for þan ich were ne on-cnawe.\n1:35 Ða andswerede hyre se ængel. Se halge gast on þe be-kymd & þas heagestan mihte þe ofer-scædeð. & for þan þt halig þe of þe akenned byð; byð godes sune ge-nemned.\n1:36 Ænd nu elisabeth þin mage sune on hire elde ge-echnede. & þes moneð is hire syxto sye is unberende ge-nemned.\n1:37 for-þy nis ælch word mid gode unmihte-lic.\n1:38 Ða cwæð Maria. Her is drihtenes þinen. ge-wurðe me æfter þinen worde. & se ængel hire fram ge-wat.\n1:39 Note: Exurgens Maria abiit in montana cum festinatione. Soðlice on þam dagen aras Maria & ferde on muntlande mid efste. on iudeisse ceastre.\n1:40 & eode in-to zacharias huse. & grette elisabeth.\n1:41 Ða wæs ge-worðen. þa helisabeth ge-herde maRie gretinge. þa ge-fagene þæt chyld on hire innoðe. ænd þa warð elisabeth halgen gaste ge-fylled.\n1:42 ænd hyo cleopede hludere stefne. & cwæð. Ðu ært be-twux wifen ge-bledsed. & ge-bletsed ys þines innoðes wæstme.\n1:43 & hwanen is me þis þæt mines drihtenes moder scolde to me cume.\n1:44 Sone swa þinre gretinge stefne on minan earen ge-worðan wæs. þa fagenede min chyld on minen innoðe.\n1:45 Ænd eadig þu ert þu þe ge-lyfdest þæt fulfremede sinde þa þing. þe þe fram drihtene ge-saigde synde.\n1:46 Ða cwæð maria min saule mersed drihten.\n1:47 and min gast ge-blissode on gode minen hælende.\n1:48 For þam þe he ge-seah his þinene eadmodnysse. Soðlice henen-forð me eadige seggeð ealle cneornesse.\n1:49 for þam þe me mychele þing dyde se þe mihtyg ys. & his name is halig\n1:50 & hys mildheortnysse of cneornisse. on cneornesse hine on-drædende.\n1:51 He worhte mægne on hys earme. he to-dælde þa ofermode. on moda heora heortan.\n1:52 He warp þa rice of setlle. & þa eadmode he up an-hof.\n1:53 Hyngriende he mid gode ge-felde. & þa ofor-mode ydele for-let.\n1:54 He afeng israel his cniht & ge-mynde hys mildheortnysse.\n1:55 Swa he spræc to ure fæderen abrahame. & his sæde on a weorlde.\n1:56 Soðlice Marie wunede mid hire swylce þreo monðes; & ge-wende þa to hire huse.\n1:57 Ða wæs afelled elisabethe kenning-tyd. & hyo sune kende.\n1:58 ænd hire nehcheburas & hyre cuðan þæt ge-herden þæt drihten hys mildheortnysse mid hire mærsede. & hyo mid hire blisseden.\n1:59 Þa on þam ehtode daige hyo comon þæt chyld to embscniðen. & nemden hine his fæder name zachariam.\n1:60 Þa andswerede his moder nese soðes. ac he beoð Iohan ge-nemned.\n1:61 Ða cwæðen hyo to hire. nis nan on þinre mægðe þisse name ge-nemned.\n1:62 Ða cwæðen hyo to his fæder. hwæt he wolde hine ge-nemned beon.\n1:63 þa wrat he ge-beðenen wexbrede Iohannes ys hys name. Ða wundredon hyo ealle.\n1:64 Ða warð sona hys muð & hys tunge ge-opened & he spræc drihten bletsiende.\n1:65 Ða warð eige ge-worden ofer ealle heora nehchegeburas & ofer ealle iudea munt-land wæren þas worð wið-mærsede.\n1:66 & ealle þa þe hyt ge-hyrdon on heore heorten setten & cwæðen. Wenst þu hwæt beoð þes cnapa; witoðlice drihtnes hand wæs mid hym.\n1:67 Ænd zacharias hys fæder wæs mid halgen gaste ge-fylled. & he wito-gode. & cwæð.\n1:68 Ge-bletseð syo drihten israele god; for þan þe he ge-neosede. & hys folces alysendnysse dyde.\n1:69 Ænd he us hæle horn arærde on dauides huse. hys cnihtes.\n1:70 Swa he spræc þurh hys halgene witegene muð. Ða þe of weorldes fremðe spræken.\n1:71 & he alesde us of uren feonden. & of ealre þare handen þe us hateden.\n1:72 Mildheortnysse to werchen mid ure fæderen. & ge-munen hys halgen kyðnesse.\n1:73 hyne us to sellene þanne að þe he uren fader abrahame swor.\n1:74 þæt we buton eyge of ure feondon handen alesde hym þeowian.\n1:75 on halignesse be-foran hym eallen ure dagen.\n1:76 & þu cnapa gæst & beost þas heageste witega ge-nemned. Ðu gæst be-foran drihtnes ansiene hys wegas gearewian.\n1:77 To syllene hys folce his halge ge-wit on hira synna for-gefenyssa.\n1:78 Ðurh innoðes ures godes mildheortnyssa. on þam he us neosede. of east-dæle up-springende.\n1:79 on-lihtan þam þe on þeostrum & on deaðes scade sitteð. ure fet to ge-reccenne on sibbe weig.\n1:80 Soðlice se cnape weox. & wæs on gaste ge-stræncþed. & wæs on westene oð þanne dayg his atewednysse on israel.