Matthew 14:18-36 ▼

18 He sayde: bryng them hyther to me.

19 And he commaunded the people to sit downe on the grasse, and he toke the fyue loaues, and the two fisshes, and lift vp his eyes towarde heauen, & blessed: And when he had broken them , he gaue the loaues to his disciples, and his disciples to the people.

20 And they dyd all eate, and were suffised. And they gathered vp (of the fragmentes that remayned) twelue baskets full.

21 And they that had eaten, were about fyue thousande men, besyde women and chyldren.

22 And strayghtway Iesus constrayned his disciples to get vp into a shippe, and to go before hym vnto the other syde, whyle he sent the people away.

23 And when the people were sent away, he went vp into a mountayne alone to pray: And when nyght was come, he was there hym selfe alone.

24 But the shippe was nowe in the middes of the sea, & was tost with waues: for it was a contrary wynde.

25 And in the fourth watch of the nyght, Iesus went vnto them, walkyng on the sea.

26 And when the disciples sawe hym walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, it is a spirite: and they cryed out for feare.

27 But strayght way, Iesus spake vnto them, saying: be of good cheare, it is I, be not afrayde.

28 Peter aunswered hym, and sayde: Lorde, yf it be thou, byd me come vnto thee, on the water.

29 And he sayde: come. And when Peter was come downe out of the shippe, he walked on the water, to go to Iesus.

30 But when he sawe a myghty wynde, he was afrayde: And when he began to sincke, he cryed, saying, Lorde saue me.

31 And immediatly Iesus stretched foorth his hande, and caught hym, and sayde vnto hym: O thou of litle fayth, wherefore diddest thou doubt?

32 And when they were come into the shippe, the wynde ceassed

33 Then they that were in the shippe, came and worshypped hym, saying: of a trueth thou art the sonne of God.

34 And when they were gone ouer, they came into the lande of Gennezaret.

35 And when the men of that place, had knowledge of hym, they sent out into all that countrey rounde about: and brought vnto hym all that were sicke.

36 And besought hym, that they myght touche the hemme of his garment only: And as many as touched it were made whole.