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218 me, and shal not find; And where I am, you can not come.

And in the last, the * great day of the festivitie stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drinke. He that beleeveth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shal flow rivers of living water. (And this he said * of the Spirit that they should receive which beleeved in him.✠ For as yet the Spirit was not given: because was not yet glorified.)

Of that multitude therfore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the Prophet indeed. Others said: This is Christ. But certaine said: Why, doth come from Galilee? Doth not the * scripture say: That of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the towne where David was, doth come? Therfore there arose dissension in the multitude for him. And certaine of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him. The Ministers therfore came to the cheefe Priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? The ministers answered: Never did there man so speake, as this man. The Pharisees therfore answered them: Why, are you also seduced? Hath any of the Princes beleeved in him, or of the Pharisees? but this multitude that knoweth not the law, are accursed. Nicodemus said to them, he * that came to him by night, who was one of them: Doth our Law judge a man, unles it first heare him, and know what he doth? They answered and said to him: Why, art thou also a Galilæan? ‘Search’, and see that from Galilee a Prophet riseth not. And every man returned to his house.

VIII.

ND went into the Mount-olivet: and early in the morning againe he came into the Temple, and the people came to him, and sitting he taught them.

And the Scribes and Pharisees bring a woman taken in advoutrie: and they did set her in the middes, and said to him: Maister, this woman was even now taken in advoutrie. And * in the law Moyses commanded us to stone such. What sayest thou therfore? And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But bowing himself downe, with his finger Rh