Ende wat sollen wij oec doen? Ende hi seyde hem: En bedrucket niement noch en doet gheen onrecht ende weset vernoeghet mit uwen soude.
Doe alle dat volc waende ende si allen dochten in horen herten van Johanne, dat hi licht Cristus ware, doe antworde hem Johannes ende seyde: Ic doepe u inden water, want nae mi coemt een sterker dan ic, wies ic niet werdich en bin, die rieme van sinen ghescoete te ontbijnden. Hi sal u doepen inden Heylighen Gheest ende inden vuere, wees wayer in sijn hant wesen sal ende sal suver maken sijn floer ende sal den weyt in sijn scuer vergaderen ende sal dat caf verbernen in een vuer, dat nummermeer gheleesschet en sal werden.
Veel ander dinghen was hi lerende ende radende den volc. Doe Herodes die prince wart berispet van hem als van Herodiade sijns brueders wijf ende van alle den anderen, dat Herodes dede, dit dede hij noch boven al, dat hi Johannem inden kerkenaer sloet.
Het ghesciede, doe allet dat volc ghedoept wart ende Ihesus ghedopet was ende sijn ghebede dede, dat die hemel wart open ghedaen ende die Heylighe Gheest daelde neder in hem in een lichamlike ghedaente als een duve, ende een stemme was vanden hemel ghehoert: Du biste mijn vercoren sone, mi hevet in di behaghet.
Ende Ihesus was beghinnende als van dertich jaren dat men waende, dat hi Josephs sone ware, hi was Hely, hi was Mathat, hi was Levi, hi was Melchi, hi was Janne, hi was Joseph, hi was Mathathie, hi was Amos, hi was Naum, hi was Elli, hi was Nagge, hi was Naat, hi was Mathathie, hi was Semei, hi was Joseph, hi was Juda, hi was Johanna, hi was Resa, hi was Sorobabel, hi was Salathiel, hi was Neri, hi was Melchi, hi was Addi, hi was Cosan, hi was Elmodam, hi was Her, hi was Jesu, hi was Elieser, hi was Jorim, hi was Mathat, hi was Levi, hi was Symeon, hi was Juda, hi was Joseph, hi was Jona, hi was Eliachim, hi was Melchi, hi was Menan, hi was Mathatha, hi was Natan, hi was David, hi was Jesse, hi was Obeth, hi was Boos, hi was Salmon, hi was Naason, hi was Aminadap, hi was Aram, hi was Esrom, hi was Phares, hi was Jude, hi was Jacob, hi was Ysaac, hi was Abraham, hi was Thare, hi was Nathor, hi was Seruch, hi was Raghan, hi was Phales, hi was Eber, hi was Sale, hi was Cainan, hi was Arphaxat, hi was Sem, hi was Noe, hi was Lamech, hi was Matusalem, hi was Enoch, hi was Jareth, hi was Malaleel, hi was Cainam, hi was Enoch, hi was Seth, hi was Adam, hi was Gods. Deser gheslechte sijn lxxv.