Mark the Evangelist

Biographical details

Portrait of Mark the Evangelist Mark the Evangelist The Gospel of Saint Mark in West-Saxon (1905)

Þæt greate bod 28 Ða genealæhte him an of ðam bocerum, ðe gehyrde hi smeagende, and geseah ðæt he him wel andswarode, and ahsode hine, hwæt wære ealra beboda mæst. 29 Ða andswarode he him, Ðæt is ðæt mæste behod ealra, Israhel, gehyr, urne Drihten god he is an god; 30 And lufa ðinne Drihten god of ealre ðinre heortan, and of ealre ðinre sawle, eallum ðinum mode, and of eallum ðinum mægene. Ðæt is ðæt fyrmeste bebod. 31 Soþlice is oðer ðissum gelic, Lufa ðinne nehstan swa ðe sylfne. Nys oðer mare bebod.
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Portrait of Mark the Evangelist Mark the Evangelist The Gospel of Saint Mark in West-Saxon (1905)

Ða cwæþ he, Min nama is legio; forðam we manega synd. 10 And he hine swyðe bæd, ðæt he hine of ðam rice ne nydde. 11 Ðar wæs embe ðone munt mycel swyna heord læswigende. 12 And ða unclænan gastas hyne bædon, and cwædon, Send us on ðas swyn, ðæt we on hi gegan. 13 And ða lyfde se Hælend sona. And ða eodon ða unclænan gastas on ða swyn, and on myclum hryre seo heord wearþ on sæ bescofen, twa þusendo, and wurdon adruncene on ðære sæ.
14 Soþlice ða ðe hi heoldon, flugon, and cyðdon on ðære ceastre, and on lande; and hi uteodon, ðæt hi gesawon hwæt ðar gedon wære.
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Portrait of Mark the Evangelist Mark the Evangelist The Gospel of Saint Mark in West-Saxon (1905)

Se deaþ Iohannes þæs Fullwihteres 14 And ða gehyrde Herodes se cyng, ðæt soþlice his nama wæs swutol geworden, and he [d] cwæþ, witodlice Iohannes se Fulluhtere of deaþe aras, and on him synd forðam mægenu geworht. 15 Sume cwædon, He is Elias; sume cwædon, He is witega, swylce an of ðam witegum. 16 Ða Herodes ðæt gehyrde, he cwæþ, Se Iohannes, ðe ic beheafdode, se aras of deaþe. 17 Soþlice Herodes sende, and het Iohannem, gebindan on cwerterne, for ðære Herodiadiscan, his broðor lafe, Philippus; forðam ðe he nam hi. 18 Ða sæde Iohannes Herode, Nys ðe alyfed, to hæbbenne ðines broðer wif.
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