The Widow’s Oil

1And there cried a woman amoge the wyues of the prophetes children vnto Eliseus, and sayde: Thy seruaunt my husbade is deed, and thou knowest that thy seruaunt feared the LORDE. Now commeth the man that he was detter vnto, and wyll take awaye both my children to be bonde seruauntes. 2Eliseus sayde vnto her: What shal I do for the? Tell me, what hast thou in the house? She sayde: Thy handmayden hath nothinge in the house but a pitcher wt oyle. 3He sayde: Go yi waye, borowe without of all thy neghboures emptye vessels, & that not a fewe, 4and go in, and shut ye dore behynde the with thy sonnes, and poure of it in to all ye vessels: & whan thou hast fylled them, delyuer them forth. 5She wente, and shut the dore vnto her with hir sonnes, which broughte her the vessels, and so she poured in. 6And whan the vessels were full, she sayde vnto hir sonne: Brynge me yet one vessell. He sayde vnto her: There is not one vessell more here. Then stode ye oyle styll. 7And she sent, and tolde the man of God. He sayde: Go thy waye, sell the oyle, and paye the creditour: but lyue thou and yi sonnes of the resydue.

The Shunammite Woman
(Matthew 10:40–42)

8And it fortuned at ye same tyme, that Eliseus wente vnto Sunem. And there was a riche woman, which helde him to eate with her: & as he passed oft thorow yt waye, he wete in vnto her: & ate wt her. 9And she sayde vnto hir husbande: Beholde, I perceaue that this is an holy man of God, which goeth euer thorow this waye, 10let vs make hi a litle chamber of boordes, & set a bed, a table, a stole & a candelsticke therin, that whan he commeth vnto vs, he maye resorte thither.

11And it fortuned vpon a tyme, that he came in, & layed him downe in the chamber, & slepte therin. 12And he saide vnto Gehasi his childe: Call this woma of Sunem. And wha he had called her, she stode before him. 13He sayde vnto him: Speake thou vnto her, beholde, thou hast mynistred vnto vs in all these thinges, what shal I do for the? Hast thou eny matter to be spoken for to the kynge, or to the chefe captayne of the hoost? She sayde: I dwell amonge my people. 14He sayde: What hast thou then to do? Gehasi sayde: Alas, she hath no sonne, and hir husbade is olde. 15He sayde: Call her. And wha he had called her, she stode at the dore. 16And he sayde: Aboute this tyme yf ye frute can lyue, thou shalt enbrace a sonne. She sayde: Alas, no my lorde, thou man of God, lye not vnto thy handmayden.

17And the woman conceaued, and bare a sonne aboute the same tyme, wha the frute coulde lyue, acordynge as Eliseus had sayde vnto her.

Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son
(Acts 20:7–12)

18But whan ye childe was growne, it fortuned, yt he wente forth to his father vnto the reapers, 19& sayde vnto his father: Oh my heade, my heade. He saide vnto his seruaut: Bringe him to his mother. 20And he toke him, and broughte him to his mother: and she set him vpon hir lappe vntyll ye noone daye, & the he dyed. 21And she wente vp, and layed him vpo the bed of the man of God, & shut the dore, and wete forth, 22& called hir husbande, & sayde vnto him: Sende me one of the seruautes, and an Asse, I wyl go quyckly vnto the man of God, and come agayne. 23He sayde: Why wilt thou go vnto him? To daye is it nether new moone ner Sabbath. She sayde: Well. 24And she sadled the asse, & sayde to the yongman: dryue forth, and kepe me not bak with rydinge, and do as I byd the. 25So she wente, and came to the man of God vnto mount Carmell. Wha the man of God sawe her ouer agaynst him, he sayde vnto his childe Gehasi: Beholde, the Sunamitisse is there, 26runne now & mete her, and axe her yf it go well with her, and hir husbande & hir sonne. She sayde: Well. 27But whan she came to the man of God vpon ye mount, she helde him by his fete. And Gehasi stepte to her, to put her awaye. But ye man of God sayde: Let her alone, for hir soule is in heuynes, and the LORDE hath hyd it fro me, and not shewed it me. 28She sayde: Whan desyred I a sonne of my lorde? Sayde I not, yt thou shuldest not mocke me?

29He sayde vnto Gehasi: Girde vp thy loynes, and take my staffe in thy hande, and go thy waye. Yf eny man mete the, salute him not: and yf eny man salute the, thanke him not, and laye thou my staffe vpon ye childes face. 30But the childes mother sayde: As truly as the LORDE lyueth, and as truly as yi soule lyueth, I wyll not leaue the. Then gat he vp, and wente after her. 31As for Gehasi, he wente before them, and layed the staffe vpon the childes face, but there was nether voyce ner felynge. And he wente agayne to mete him, and shewed him, and sayde: The childe is not rysen vp.

32And whan Eliseus came into the house, beholde, ye childe laye deed vpo his bed. 33And he wete in, & shut the dore on the both, & made his prayer vnto the LORDE, 34& wente vp, & layed him selfe vpon the childe, & layed his mouth vpon the childes mouth, and his eyes vpon his eyes, and his handes vpon his handes, & so stretched him selfe forth vpon him, so yt the childes body was warme. 35And he rose vp, & wente in to the house once hither and thither, & wente vp, & layed him selfe a longe vpon him. Then nesed the childe seue tymes, and afterwarde the childe opened his eyes. 36And he cried vpon Gehasi, and sayde: Call the Sunamitisse. And whan he had called her, she came in vnto him. He sayde: Take there thy sonne. 37Then came she, and fell at his fete, and worshipped vnto the grounde, and toke hir sonne, and wente forth.

Elisha Purifies the Poisonous Stew

38But wha Eliseus came againe vnto Gilgal, there was a derth in the londe, & the prophetes children dwelt before him, & he sayde vnto his seruaunt: Set on a greate pot, and make potage for the children of the prophetes. 39Then wente there one into the felde, to gather herbes, and founde a Cucumbers stalke, & gathered wylde Cucumbers therof his cotefull. And whan he came, he chopped it small for potage to the pott, for they knewe it not. 40And wha they poured it forth for the me to eate, & they ate of ye potage, they cried and sayde: O thou man of God, death is in the pot: for they mighte not eate it. 41Neuertheles he sayde: Brynge meel hither. And he put it in the pot, & sayde: Poure it out for the people, that they maye eate. And then was it not bytter in the pot.

Feeding a Hundred Men
(Matthew 15:29–39; Mark 8:1–10)

42There came a man from Baal Salisa, & broughte the man of God bred of the first frutes, namely twentye barlye loaues, & new corne in his garment. But he sayde: Geue it vnto ye people, that they maye eate. 43His mynister sayde: How shall I geue an hudreth men of this? He sayde: Geue it vnto the people, that they maye eate. For thus sayeth the LORDE: They shal eate, and there shall be lefte ouer 44And he set it before them, so that they ate, and there lefte ouer, acordinge to ye worde of the LORDE.