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

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

3 For 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.

4 And 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.

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

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