23 ⁊se hælend wæs on ylde swilce þrittige wintre. þæt men wenden þæt he wære Iosepes sune. Se wæs heliges sune.
Her onginð matheus boc þas halga god spelleres. Soðliche wel is to understanden þæt æfter matheus gerechednysse her is on cneornysse boc. hælendes cristes dauiðes suna. abrahames suna.
Iacob gestreonede Ioseph marie wer. of þare wæs akenned se hælend þe is genemned crist.
Iesse gestreonede þanne kyng dauid. Dauid kyng gestreonede salomon of þam wife þe wæs urias wif.
Witodlice þes is smiðes sune ⁊hu ne hatte his moder MARie ⁊hys broðra iacob ⁊ioseph ⁊symon ⁊iudas.
Seoððan ongan se hælend bodian ⁊cweðen. doð deadbote soðlice heofene rice geneahlæcheð.
hu nis þis smið maria sune. jacobes broðer ⁊iosepes ⁊iude ⁊symones. hu ne synde his swustre her mid us ⁊þa wurðen hyo gedrefede.
Ða cwæð his moder to him. Sune hwi dydest þu unc þus. þin fæder ⁊ïc sarigende þe sohten.
⁊hyo ealle wæren þis gecnawe ⁊wundredon be þam worden þe of hys muðe eode ⁊þus cwæðen. Nis þes Iosepes sune.
Phylippus gemette nathanael ⁊cwæð. to hym. we gemetten þanne hælend Iosepes sunu of nazareth. þonne wrat moyses ⁊þa witegan on þare ea.
⁊hyo cwæðen. Hu nys þis se hælend iosepes sune. we cunnon hys fæder ⁊hys moder. hu mete segð þes. ic com of heofenum;