William Tyndale (Pentateuch, Jonah &NT)

The Gospell of S. Luke.
The Fyrst Chapter

[Untitled Possibly Huge Image] For as moche as many have tak in hand to compyle a treates of thoo thinges / which are surely knowen amonge vs / even as they declared them vnto vs / which from the beginnynge sawe them their selves / and were ministers at the doyng: I determined also / assone as I had searched out diligently all thinges from the beginnynge / that then I wolde wryte vnto the / good Theophilus: that thou myghtest knowe the certente of thoo thing[es] / wher of thou arte informed.

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There was in the dayes of Herode kynge of Iurie / 1.A a certayne prest named zacharias / of þe course of Abia. And his wyfe was of þe doughters of Aaron: 2.A And her name was Elizabeth. Booth were perfect before God / and walked in all the lawes and ordinces of the Lorde / that no man coulde fynde fawte with them. And they had no chylde / because that Elizabeth was barr and booth were well stricken in age.

And it cam to passe / as he executed the prestes office before god / as his course came (accordinge to the custome of the prestes office) 3.A his lot was to bourne incce. And wt into þe tple of þe Lorde & the whoale multitude of þe people were with out in prayer whill the incense


was aburnynge. And ther appered vnto him an angell of the lorde stondinge on the ryght syde of the altare of incense. And when Zacharias sawe him / he was abasshed / and feare came on him.

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And the angell sayde vnto him: feare not Zachary / for thy prayer is hearde: And thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare þe a sonne / & thou shalt call his name Iohn / 4.B and thou shalt have ioye and gladnes / and many shall reioyce at his birth. For he shalbe greate in the sight of the lorde / and shall nether drinke wyne ner stronge drinke. And he shalbe filled with the holy goost / even in his mothers wombe: & many of the chyldren of Israel shall he tourne to their Lorde God. And he shall goo before him in the sprete & power of Helyas / to tourne the 5.B hertes of the fathers to the chyldren / 6.B & the vnbelevers to the wysdom of the iuste men: to make the people redy for the Lorde.

And zacharias sayde vnto þe angell: Wher by shall I knowe this? seinge that I am olde and my wyfe well stricken in yeares. And the angell answered and sayde vnto him: 7.B I am Gabriell that stonde in the presens of God / and am sent to speake vnto the: and to shewe the these glad tydinges. And beholde thou shalt be domme / and not able to speake vntyll the tyme that these thinges be performed / because thou belevedst not my wordes which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

And the people wayted for zacharias / & mervelled that he taryed in the temple. And wh


he cam oute / he could not speake vnto them. Wherby they perceaved that he had sene some vision in the temple. And he beckened vnto them / and remayned speachlesse.

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cross.gif And it fortuned / assone as þe tyme of his office was oute / he departed home into his awne housse. And after thoose dayes / his wyfe Elizabeth cobar.gifceaved / & hyd her sylfe .v. monethes sayinge: This wyse hath God dealte [wt] me in þe dayes when he loked on me / to take from me the rebuke þt I suffred amonge men.

And in þe .vi. moneth þe angell Gabriel was sent frobar.gif god vnto a cite of Galile / named Nazareth / to a virgin spoused to a man whose name was Ioseph / of þe housse of David / & þe virgins name was Mary. 8.CAnd þe angell went in vnto her / & sayde: Hayle full of grace / þe Lorde is with þe: blessed arte thou amonge wemen.

When she sawe him / she was abasshed at his sayinge: & cast in her mynde what maner of salutacion þt shuld be. And þe angell sayde vnto her: feare not Mary: for thou hast founde grace [wt] god. 9.CLoo: thou shalt cobar.gifceave in thy wombe / & shalt beare a sonne / & shalt call his name Iesus. He shalbe greate / & shalbe called the sonne of the hyest. And þe lorde God shall geve vnto him the seate of his father David / & he shall raygne over þe housse of Iacob forever / & of his kyngdome shalbe none ende.

Then sayd Mary vnto þe angell: How shall this be / seinge I knowe not a man?

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And þe angell answered & sayd vnto her: The holy goost shall come apon the / & þe power of þe hyest shall
over shaddowe þe. Therfore also þt holy thinge which shalbe borne / shalbe called þe sonne of god.
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And beholde / thy cosen Elizabeth she hath also conceaved a sonne in her age. And this is hyr sixte moneth / though she be called barren: for [wt] god can nothinge be vnpossible. And Mary sayd: beholde þe honde mayden of þe lorde / be it vnto me even as thou hast sayde. cross.gif And the angell departed from her.

10.Bcross.gif And Mary arose in thoose dayes / & went into þe mountayns [wt] hast / into a cite of Iurie & entred into the housse of zachary / & saluted Elizabeth. And it fortuned / as Elizabeth hearde þe salutacion of Mary / the babe spronge in her belly. And Elizabeth was filled with the holy goost / and cryed with a loude voyce / & sayde: Blessed arte thou amonge wemen / and blessed is the frute of thy wombe. And whence hapeneth this to me / that the mother of my Lorde shuld come to me? For loo / assone as the voyce of thy salutacion sownded in myne eares / the babe sprange in my belly for ioye.

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And blessed arte thou that belevedst: for thoose thinges shalbe performed wich were tolde þe from the lorde. And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieth the Lorde.

11.CAnd my sprete reioyseth in god my savioure cross.gif For he hath loked on the povre degre of his honde mayd. Beholde now from hence forth shall all generacions call me blessed.

For he that is myghty hath done to me greate thinges / and holye is his name.

And his mercy is on them that feare him thorow


oute all generacions.

He sheweth strength with his arme / he scattereth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hertes.

He putteth doune the myghty from their seates / and exalteth them of lowe degre.

He filleth the hongry with good thinges: and sendeth awaye the ryche emptye.

He remenbreth mercy: and helpeth his servaunt Israel.

12.CEven as he promised to oure fathers / Abraham and to his seede for ever.

13.CAnd mary aboode with hyr aboute a .iii. monethes / & retourned agayne to hyr awne housse.

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cross.gif Elizabethes tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered and she brought forth a sonne. And her neghboures & her cosins hearde tell how the lorde had shewed great mercy vpon her / and they reioysed with her.

And it fortuned þe eyght daye: they cam to circumcise the chylde: and called his name zacharias / after the name of his father. 14.FHow be it his mother answered / & sayd: not so / but he shalbe called Ihon. And they sayd vnto hyr: Ther is none of thy kynne / that is named [wt] this name. And they made signes to his father / how he wolde have him called. And he axed for wrytynge tables and wroote saying: his name is Iohn. And they marvelled all. And his mouthe was opened immediatly / & his tonge also / & he spake lawdynge God. And feare came on all th that dwelt nye vnto them. And all these sayinges were noysed


abroade throughout all þe hyll cotre of Iurie & all they þt herde th layde them vp in their hertes saying: What maner chylde shall this be? And the honde of þe lorde was with him.

And his father zacharias was filled with the holy goost / and prophisyed sayinge:

Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel / for he hath visited and redemed his people. cross.gif 15.F

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And hath reysed vp an horne of salvacion vnto vs / in the housse of his servaunt David.

Even as he promised by þe mouth of his holy prophet[es] which were sens þe worlde began

That we shuld be saved from oure enemies and from the hondis of all that hate vs:

To fulfill the mercy promised to oure fathers / and to remember his holy covenaunt.

And to performe the oothe which he sware to oure father Adraham / for to geve vs.

That we delyvered oute of þe hondes of oure enemyes / myght serve him with oute feare / all the dayes of oure lyfe / in suche holynes & ryghtewesnes that are accept before him.

And thou chylde / shalt be called the Prophet of the hyest: for thou shalt goo before the face of the lorde / to prepare his wayes:

And to geve knowlege of salvacion vnto his people / for the remission of synnes:

Through the tender mercy of oure God / wherby the 16.G daye springe from an hye hath visited vs.

To geve light to th that sate in darcknes and in shadowe of deth / and to gyde oure fete into the waye of peace.


And the chylde grew and wexed stronge in sprete / & was in wyldernes / tyll the daye cam when he shuld shewe him sylfe vnto the Israhelites.

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And it chaunced in thoose dayes: þt ther went oute a cobar.gifmaundment from Auguste the Emperour /

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that all the woorlde shuld be taxed. And this taxynge was þe fyrst and executed when Syrenius was leftenat in Syria. And every man went vnto his awne citie to be taxed. And Ioseph also ascended from Galile / oute of a cite called Nazareth / into Iurie: vnto þe cite of David which is called Bethleem / because he was of the housse and linage of David / to be taxed with Mary his spoused wyfe which was with chylde.

And it fortuned whyll they were there / her tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered. 17.AAnd she brought forth her fyrst begotten sonne / and wrapped him in swadlynge cloothes / & layed him in a manger / because ther was no roume for them within in the ynne.

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18.BAnd ther were in the same region shepherdes abydinge in the felde and watching their flocke by nyght. And loo: the angell of þe lorde stode harde by th / & the brightnes of þe lorde shone rounde aboute them / & they were soare afrayed. But the angell sayd vnto them: Be not afrayed. For beholde / I bringe you tydinges of greate ioye þt shal come to all þe people: for vnto you is borne this daye in the cite of David / a saveoure which is Christ þe lorde. 19.BAnd take this for a signe: ye hall fynde þe chylde
swadled & layed in a mger. And streight waye ther was with the angell a multitude of hevenly sowdiers / laudynge God & sayinge: Glory to God an hye / & peace on the erth: and vnto men reioysynge. cross.gif

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And it fortuned / assone as the angels were gone awaye frobar.gif them in to heven / cross.gif the shepherdes sayd one to another: let vs goo ev vnto Bethleem / & se this thynge that is hapened which the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs. And they cam with haste / & founde Mary and Ioseph & the babe layde in a mger. And when they had sene it / they publisshed a brode the sayinge which was tolde them of that chylde. And all that hearde it / wondred at those thinges which were tolde th of the shepherdes. But Mary kept all thoose sayinges / and pondered them in hyr hert. And the shepherdes retourned / praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene / evyn as it was told vnto them. cross.gif

20.Ccross.gif And when þe eyght daye was come þt the chylde shuld be circcised / his name was called Iesus / which was named of the angell before he was conceaved in the wombe. cross.gif

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cross.gif And when the tyme of their purificaciobar.gif (after the lawe of Moyses) was come / they brought him to Hierusalem / to present hym to þe Lorde (as yt is written in the lawe of the Lorde: every man that fyrst openeth the matrix / shalbe called holy to the Lorde) & to offer (as it ys sayde in the lawe of the Lorde) a payre of turtle doves or two yonge pigions.


21.DAnd beholde ther was a m in Hierusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same m was iuste and feared God / and longed for the consolacion of Israel / and the holy goost was in him. And an answer was geven him of the holy goost / that he shulde not se deethe / before he had sene the lordes Christ. And he came by inspiracion into the temple.

And when the father and mother brought in the chylde Iesus / to do for him after the custome of the lawe / then toke he him vp in his armes and sayde.

22.DLorde / Now lettest thou thy seruat departe in peace / accordinge to thy promes.

For myne eyes have sene þe saveour sent frobar.gif þe Wich thou hast prepared before the face of all people.

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A light to lighten the gentyls / and the glory of thy people Israel. cross.gif

cross.gif And his father and mother mervelled at those thinges which were spok of him. And Simeon blessed them / and sayde vnto Mary his mother: beholde / this chyld shalbe the fall and resurrecciobar.gif of many in Israel / and a signe which shalbe spok agaynste. 23.EAnd morover the swearde shall pearce thy soule / þt the thoughtes of many hertes maye be opened.

And ther was a Prophetesse / one Anna / the doughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser: 24.E which was of a greate age / & had lyved with an husbande. vii. yeres from her virginite. And she had bene a wedowe aboute .iiii. scoore and .iiii. yere / which went never oute of the


temple / but served God with fastinge & prayer nyght and daye. And the same came forth that same houre / and praysed the Lorde / and spake of him to all that loked for redempcion in Hierusalem.

And assone as they had performed all thinges accordinge to the lawe of the Lorde / they returned into Galile to their awne cite Nazareth. And the chylde grewe and wexed stronde in sprete / and was filled with wysdome / & the grace of God was with hym. cross.gif

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And his father and mother went to Hierusalem every yeare at the feeste of ester. cross.gif And when he was .xii. yere olde / they went vp to Hierusalem after the custome of the feeste. And when they had fulfilled the dayes / as they returned home / the chylde Iesus boode styll in Hierusalem / vnknowynge to his father and mother. For they supposed he had bene in the cobar.gifpany / and therfore came a days iorney / & sought him amobar.gifge their kynsfolke & acquayntaunce. And when they founde hym not / they went backe agayne to Hierusalem / & sought him. 25.EAnd it fortuned after .iii. dayes / that they founde him in the tple / sittinge in the middes of the doctours / both hearynge them and posinge them. And all that hearde him / mervelled at his wit and answers.

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And when they sawe him / they were astonyed. And his mother sayde vnto him: sonne / why hast thou thus dealte with vs? Beholde thy father & I / have sought the / sorowenge. And he sayde vnto th: how is it þt ye sought
me? Wist ye not that I must goo aboute my fathers busines? And they vnderstode not þe sayinge that he spake to them. And he went with them / & came to Nazareth / & was obedient to th. But his mother kept all these thinges in her hert. And Iesus increased in wisdom & age / & in favoure with god and man. cross.gif

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In the fiftenthe yeare of the raygne of Tiberius the Emperoure / Pontius Pylate beinge leftenat of Iurie / & Herode beinge Tetrach of Galile / 26.A and his brother Philip Tetrach in Iturea & in the region of Traconites / & Lysanias the Tetrach of Abyline / when Anna & Cayphas were the hye prestes: 27.A the worde of God came vnto Iohn þe sonne of zacharias in the wildernes. And he came in to all the coostes aboute Iordan / preachynge the baptyme of repentaunce for the remission of synnes / at it is written in the boke of the sayinges of Esaias þe Prophet which sayeth: 28.A The voyce of a cryar in wyldernes / prepare the waye of the Lorde / make hys pathes strayght. Every valley shalbe fylled / and every motayne & hyll shalbe brought lowe. And crocked thinges shalbe made streight: & the rough wayes shalbe made smoth: and all flesshe shall se the saveour sent of God. cross.gif

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29.BThen sayde he to the people that were come to be baptysed of him: O generacion of vipers / who hath taught you to flye from the wrath to come? Bringe forth due frutes of repentaunce / and begynne not to saye in youre
selves / we have Abraham to oure father. For I saye vnto you: God is able of these stones to reyse vp chyldren vnto Abraham. Now also ys the axe leyd vnto the rote of the trees: 30.B so þt every tree which bringeth not forth good frute / shalbe hew doune / & caste in to þe fyre.

And the people axed him sayinge: What shall we do then? He answered & sayde vnto them: He that hath two coottes / let him parte with him that hath none: and he that hath meate / let him do lyke wyse.

31.BThen came ther Publicans to be baptised / & sayde vnto him: Master / what shall we do? And he sayde vnto th: requyre no more then that which ys appoynted vnto you.

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32.CThe soudyoures lyke wyse demaunded of hym sayinge: and what shall we do? And he sayde to them: Do violence to noo m: nether trouble eny man wrongfully: but be content with youre wages.

33.CAs the people were in a doute / and all men disputed in their hertes of Iohn / whether he were very Christ: Ihon answered & sayde to them all: I baptyse you [wt] water / but a stronger then I cometh after me / whose shue latchet I am not worthy to vnlouse: he will baptise you with the holy goost / and with fyre: which hath his fanne in his hond / 34.C and will pourge his floore / and will gader the corne into his barne: 35.C but the chaffe wyll he bourne with fyre that never shalbe quenched. And many other thinges in his exhortacion preached he vnto the people.


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36.DThen Herode the Tetrach (when he was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philippes wyfe / and for all the evyls which Herod had done) added this above all / and leyd Iohn in preson.

37.DAnd yt fortuned as all the people receaved baptyme (and when Iesus was baptised and dyd praye) that heav was opened & the holy goost came doune in a bodely shape lyke a dove vpobar.gif him / & a voyce came frobar.gif hev sayinge: Thou arte my dere sonne / in the do I delyte.

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And Iesus him silfe was about thirty yere of age when he begne / 38.E beinge as men supposed the sonne of Ioseph.

  • which Ioseph was the sonne of Heli
  • which was the sonne of Mathat
  • which was the sonne of Levi:
  • which was the sonne of Melchi:
  • which was the sonne of Ianna:
  • which was the sonne of Ioseph:
  • which was the sonne of Matatthias:
  • which was the sonne of Amos:
  • which was the sonne of Nahum:
  • which was the sonne of Esli:
  • which was the sonne of Nagge:
  • which was the sonne of Maath:
  • which was the sonne of Matathias:
  • which was the sonne of Semei:
  • which was the sonne of Ioseph:
  • which was the sonne of Iuda:
  • which was the sonne of Iohanna:
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  • which was the sonne of Rhesya:
  • which was the sonne of zorobabel:

  • which was the sonne of Salathiel:
  • which was the sonne of Neri:
  • which was the sonne of Melchi:
  • which was the sonne of Addi:
  • which was the sonne of Cosam:
  • which was the sonne of Helmadam:
  • which was the sonne of Her:
  • which was the sonne of Ieso:
  • which was the sonne of Helieser:
  • which was the sonne of Ioram:
  • which was the sonne of Mattha:
  • which was the sonne of Levi:
  • which was the sonne of Simeon:
  • which was the sonne of Iuda:
  • which was the sonne of Ioseph:
  • which was the sonne of Ionam:
  • which was the sonne of Heliachim:
  • which was the sonne of Melea:
  • which was the sonne of Menam:
  • which was the sonne of Mathathan:
  • which was the sonne of Nathan:
  • which was the sonne of David:
  • which was the sonne of Iesse:
  • which was the sonne of Obed:
  • which was the sonne of Boos:
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  • which was the sonne of Salmon:
  • which was the sonne of Naason:
  • which was the sonne of Aminadab:
  • which was the sonne of Aram:
  • which was the sonne of Esrom:
  • which was the sonne of Phares:
  • which was the sonne of Iuda:
  • which was the sonne of Iacob:

  • which was the sonne of Ysaac:
  • which was the sonne of Abraham:
  • which was the sonne of Tharra:
  • which was the sonne of Nachor:
  • which was the sonne of Saruch:
  • which was the sonne of Ragau:
  • which was the sonne of Phalec:
  • which was the sonne of Heber:
  • which was the sonne of Sala:
  • which was the sonne of Cainan:
  • which was the sonne of Arphaxat:
  • which was the sonne of Sem:
  • which was the sonne of Noe:
  • which was the sonne of Lameth:
  • which was the sonne of Mathusala:
  • which was the sonne of Enoch:
  • which was the sonne of Iareth:
  • which was the sonne of Malalehel.
  • which was the sonne of Cainan:
  • which was the sonne of Enos:
  • which was the sonne of Seth:
  • which was the sonne of Adam:
  • which was the sonne of God.
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Iesus then full of the holy goost / returnyd frobar.gif Iordan / 39.A & was caryed of þe sprete into wildernes / & was .xl. dayes tempted of the devyll. And in thoose dayes ate he no thinge. And when they were ended / he afterward hongred. 40.AAnd the devyll sayde vnto him: yf thou be the sonne of God / cobar.gifmaunde this stone þt it be breed. And Iesus answered hym sayinge: It is writt: man shall not live
by breed only / but by every worde of God. 41.A

And þe devyll toke him vp into an hye motayne / & shewed him all the kyngdoms of the worlde / ev in þe twincklinge of an eye. And þe devyll sayde vnto him: all this power will I geve þe every whit & the glory of th: for þt is delyvered to me / and to whosoever I will / I geve it. Yf thou therfore wilt worshippe me / they shalbe all thyne. 42.AIesus answered him & sayde: hence from me Sathan. For it is written: Thou shalt honour the Lorde thy God / and him only serve.

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And he caryed him to Ierusalem / & set him on a pynacle of the temple / & sayd vnto him: Yf thou be the sonne of God / cast thy silfe doune from hens. For it is written / he shall geve his angels charge over the / to kepe the / and with there hondis they shall stey the vp 43.B that thou dasshe not thy fote agaynst a stone. 44.BIesus answered and sayde to him / it is sayd: thou shalt not tempte the Lorde thy God. Assone as the devyll had ended all his temptacions / he departed from him / for a season.

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cross.gif And Iesus retourned by the power of þe sprete in to Galile / 45.C and there went a fame of him thorowe oute all the regiobar.gif rode aboute. And he taught in their synagoges / and was commended of all men.

46.CAnd he came to Nazareth where he was noursed / and as hys custome was / went in to the synagoge on the Saboth dayes / and stode vp for to rede. And ther was delyvered vnto him þe boke of þe Prophete Esaias. And when


he had opened the boke / he founde the place / where it was written. 47.CThe sprete of the lorde vpon me / because he hath annoynted me: to preache þe gospell to þe poore he hath sent me: and to heale the broken harted: to preache delyverace to the captive and sight to the blinde / and frely to set at lyberte them that are brused / & to preache the acceptable yeare of the Lorde.

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And he cloosed the booke / & gave it agayne to the minister / and sate doune. And the eyes of all that were in the synagoge / were fastened on him. And he began to saye vnto them. This daye is this scripture fulfilled in youre eares. And all bare him witnes / and wondred at the gracious wordes which proceded oute of his mouth / cross.gif and sayde: Is not this Iosephs sonne? 48.D

And he sayde vnto them: Ye maye very well saye vnto me this proverbe: Phisicion / heale thy silfe. cross.gif Whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum / do the same here lyke wyse in thyne awne countre. 49.DAnd he sayde / 50.D verely I saye vnto you: No Prophet is accepted in his awne countre.

But I tell you of a truth / many wyddowes were in Israell in the dayes of Helias / when hevyn was shet thre yeres & syxe monethes / when greate fammisshemt was throughoute all the londe / 51.D & vnto none of them was Helias sent / save in to Sarephta besydes Sidon vnto a wom that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the tyme of Heliseus


the Prophete: 52.D and yet none of them was healed / savinge Naaman of Siria.

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And as many as were in þe sinagoge when they herde that / were filled with wrath: and roose vp / and thrust him oute of the cite / and ledde him ev vnto the edge of the hill / wher on their cite was bilte / to cast him doune hedlynge. 53.EBut he went his waye ev thorow the myddes of them: cross.gif cross.gif and came in to Capernaum a cyte of Galile / & there taught th on the Saboth dayes. And they were astonyed at his doctrine: for his preachge was [wt] power.

54.EAnd in the synagoge ther was a m which had a sprete of an vncleane devell / and cryed with aloude voyce sayinge:

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let me alone / what hast thou to do with vs / 55.F thou Iesus of Nazareth? Arte thou come to destroye vs? I knowe the what thou arte / ev the holy of God. And Iesus rebuked him sayinge: holde thy peace / and come oute of him. And the devyll threwe him in the myddes of them and came oute of him / and hurt him not. And feare came on them all / and they spake amonge them selves sayinge: what mner a thinge is this? For with auctorite and power he commaundeth the foule spret[es] / and they come out? And þe fame of him spreed abroode thorowoute all places of the countre round aboute. cross.gif

56.Fcross.gif And he roose vp & came oute of þe sinagoge / & entred in to Simons housse. And Simobar.gifs motherelawe was tak with a greate fever / & they made intercession to him for her. And he stode over her / & rebuked the fever:


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57.GWhen the sonne was doune / all they that had sicke tak with divers deseases / brought them vnto him: & he layde his hondes on every one of them / & healed them. And devils also cam out of many of them / crying & saying: thou arte Christ the sonne of God. And he rebuked them / and suffered them not to speake: for they knewe that he was Christ.

58.GAssone as it was daye / he departed & went awaye into a desert place / & þe people sought him & came to him / & kept him that he shuld not departe from th. And he sayde vnto th: I muste to other cities also preache the kyngdome of God: cross.gif for therfore am I sent. And he preached in the synagoges of Galile.

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59.AIt came to passe as the people preased vpon him / to heare the worde of God / that he stoode by the lake of Genezareth: & sawe two shippes stonde by the lake syde / but the fisshermen were gone out of th / & were wasshynge their nettes. And he entred in to one of the shippes / which perteyned to Simon / and prayed him / that he wolde thrust out a litell from the londe. And he sate doune and taught the people out of the ship.

When he had leeft speakynge / he sayde vnto Simon: Launche out in to the depe / and let slippe youre nettes to make a draught / And Simon answered and sayde to him:

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taken nothinge. Neverthelater at thy worde I will loose forthe the net. And when they had so done / they inclosed a greate multitude of fisshes. And their net brake: but they made signes to their felowes which were in the other ship / that they shuld come and helpe th And they came: and filled bothe the shippes that they soncke agayne.

When Simon Peter sawe that / he fell doune at Iesus knees sayinge: Lorde goo frobar.gif me / for I am a synfull man. For he was vtterly astonyed & all that were [wt] him / at þe draught of fisshe which they toke: & so was also Iames & Iohn þe sonnes of zebede which were parteners [wt] Simon. And Iesus sayde vnto Simon: feare not / frobar.gif hence forthe thou shalt catche men. And they brought the shippes to londe / and forsoke all / and folowed him.

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60.CAnd it fortuned as he was in a certayne cite: beholde / ther was a man full of leprosy: & when he had spied Iesus / he fell on his face / & besought him sayinge: Lorde / yf thou wilt / thou canst make me cleane. 61.CAnd he strethed forth þe hond / & touched him sayinge: I will / be thou cleane. And immediatly the leprosy departed from him. And he warned him / that he shuld tell no man: 62.C but that he shuld goo & shewe him selfe to the Preste / & offer for his clensynge / accordinge as Moses commaundement was / for a witnes vnto them.

But so moche the moare went ther a fame abroade of him / & moche people cam to geder to heare / & to be healed of him / of their infirmities.


And he kepte him silfe aparte in þe wildernesses / and gave him silfe to prayer.

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63.Dcross.gif And it happened on a certayne daye / that he taught: and ther sate the pharises: and docturs of lawe / which were come out of all þe tounes of Galile / Iurie / & Hierusalem. And the power of the Lorde was to heale th. And beholde / m brought a man lyinge in his beed which was taken with a palsie: 64.D & sought meanes to brynge him in / and to laye him before him. And wh they coulde not finde by what waye they might bringe him in / be cause of þe prease / they wt vp on the toppe of þe housse / and let him doune thorowe the tylinge / beed & all in the middes before Iesus. When he sawe their fayth / he sayde vnto him: man / thy synnes are forgeven the. And the Scribes & the Parises begane to thinke sayinge: What felow is this which speaketh blasphemy? Who can forgeve synnes but God only?

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When Iesus perceaved their thoughtes / he answered & sayde vnto them: What thinke ye in youre hertes? Whether is easyar to saye / thy synnes are forgev the / or to saye: rise & walke? But that ye maye knowe that the sonne of m hath power to forgeve synnes on 65.E erth / he sayde vnto þe sicke of the palsie: I saye to the / aryse / take vp thy beed and go home to thy housse. And immediatly he rose vp before them / & toke vp his beed where on he laye / and departed to his awne housse praysinge God. And they were all amased & they lauded God / & were filled with feare sayinge: We have
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66.FAnd after that he went forthe and sawe a Publican named Levi / sittinge at the receyte of custome / and sayde vnto him: folow me. And he leeft all / roose vp / and folowed him. 67.FAnd that same Levi made him a greate feaste at home in his awne housse. And ther was a greate cobar.gifpany of publicans and of other that sate at meate with him. And the Scribes and Pharises murmured agaynst his disciples sayinge: 68.F Why eate ye and drinke ye with publics and synners? Iesus answered and sayde vnto th: They þt are whole / nede not of þe phisicion: but they þt are sicke. I came not to call þe rightewes / but synners to repentace.

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69.GThen they sayde vnto him: Why do the disciples of Iohn fast often & praye / & the disciples of þe Pharises also: & thine eate & drinke? And he sayde vnto them: Can ye make þe chyldren of the weddinge fast / as longe as þe brydgrome is present with th? The dayes will come / wh the brydgrome shalbe tak awaye from them: then shall they fast in those dayes

Then he spake vnto them in a similitude: No m putteth a pece of a newe garment / 70.G in to an olde vesture: for yf he do: then breaketh he the newe / and the pece that was taken out of the newe / agreeth not [wt] the olde. Also / no m poureth newe wyne into olde vessels. For yf he do / the newe wyne breaketh the vessels / & runneth out it silfe / & the vessels perisshe: But newe wyne must be poured into newe vessels / & bothe are preserved. Also / no man þt


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71.It happened on an after saboth / that he went thorow the corne felde / & that his disciples plucked the eares of corne / & ate / and rubbed them in their hondes. And certayne of the Pharises sayde vnto them: Why do ye that which is not laufull to do on the saboth dayes? 72.And Iesus answered them and sayde: Have ye not redde what David dyd / when he him sylfe was anhungred and they which were with him: 73. how he went into the housse of God / and toke & ate the loves of halowed breed / and gave also to them which were with him: which was not laufull to eate / but for the prestes only. And he sayde vnto them: The sonne of man is Lorde of the saboth daye.

74.cross.gif And it fortuned in a nother saboth also / that he entred in to þe sinagoge & taught. And ther was a m whose right honde was dryed vp. And þe Scribes & Pharises watched him / to se whether he wolde heale on the Saboth 75. daye / that they myght fynde an accusacion agaynst him. But he knewe their thoughtes / & sayde to the man which had þe wyddred honde: Ryse vp / & stonde forthe in the myddes. And he arose and stepped forthe. Then sayde Iesus vnto them: I will axe you a question: Whether is it laufull on the saboth dayes to do good or to do evill? to save lyfe or for to destroye it? And he behelde them all in cobar.gifpasse /


& sayd vnto þe man: Stretche forth thy honde. 76. And he dyd so & his honde was restored / & made as whoole as the other. And they were filled full of madnes / and comuned one with another / what they myght do to Iesu. cross.gif

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And it fortuned in thoose dayes / that he went out into a mountayne for to praye / 77.C and cobar.giftinued all nyght in prayer to god. And assone as it was daye / he called his disciples / and of th he chose twelve / which also he called apostles. Simon whobar.gif he named Peter: & Andrew his brother. 78.CIames & Ihobar.gif / Philip and Bartlemew / Mathew and Thomas / Iames the sonne of Alpheus & Simon called zelotes and Iudas Iames sonne / and Iudas Iscarioth / which same was the traytour.

cross.gif And he came doune with them and stode in the playne felde with the company of his disciples / & agreate multitude of people out of all parties of Iurie and Ierusalem / & from the see cooste of Tire and Sidon / which came to heare hym / and to be healed of their diseases:

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& they also that were vexed with foule spretes / & they were healed. And all the people preased to touche him: for there went vertue out of him / and healed them all.

And he lifted vp his eyes apon the disciples / and sayde: Blessed be ye poore: 79.D for yours is the kyngdome of God. Blessed are ye that honger now: for ye shalbe satisfied. 80.DBlessed are ye þt wepe now: for ye shall laugh. Blessed are ye when men hate you / & thrust you oute of their companye / and rayle / & abhorre youre


name as an evyll thinge / for the sonne of mnes sake. Reioyse ye then / and be gladde: for beholde / youre rewarde is greate in heven. cross.gif 81.DAfter this manner their fathers entreated the Prophetes.

But wo be to you that are ryche: for ye have therin youre consolacion. Wo be to you þt are full: for ye shall honger. 82.DWo be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wayle and wepe. Wo be to you when all men prayse you: for so dyd their fathers to the false prophetes. 83.D

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But I saye vnto you which heare: Love youre enemyes. Do good to th which hate you. Blesse th that course you. 84.EAnd praye for th which wrongfully trouble you. And vnto him that smyteth the on the one cheke / 85.E offer also þe other. And him that taketh awaye thy goune / forbid not to take thy coote also. 86.EGeve to every man that axeth of the. And of him that taketh awaye thy goodes / axe them not agayne. And as ye wolde that men shuld doo to you: so do ye to them lyke wyse. 87.E

If ye love th which love you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners love their lovers. And yf ye do for them which do for you: what thanke are ye worthy of? 88.EFor the very synners do even the same. If ye lende to them of whome ye hoope to receave: what thanke shall ye have: for the very synners lende to synners / to receave as moch agayne. Wherfore / love ye youre enemys / do good and lende / lokynge for nothinge agayne and youre rewarde shalbe greate / 89.E and ye shalbe


the chyldren of the hyest: 90.E for he is kynde vnto the vnkynde and to the evyll.

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cross.gif Be ye therfore mercifull / as youre father is mercifull. Iudge not & ye shall not be Iudged. Condemne not: and ye shall not be condemned. Forgeve / and ye shalbe forgeven. Geve / & yt shalbe geven vnto you: good measure / pressed doune / shaken to geder and runnynge over / shall men geve into youre bosomes. For with what measure ye mete / with þe same shall men mete to you agayne.

91.FAnd he put forthe a similitude vnto th: Can the blynde leade þe blynde? Do they not both then fall into þe dyche? The disciple is not above his master. Every m shalbe perfecte / even as his master is. Why seyst thou a moote in thy brothers eye / 92.F & considerest not þe beame þt is in thyne awne eye? Ether how cnest thou saye to thy brother: Brother / let me pull out þe moote that is in thyne eye: when thou perceavest not the beame that is in thyne awne eye? Ypocrite / cast out þe beame out of thyne awne eye fyrst / and then shalt thou se perfectly / to pull out the moote out of thy brothers eye. cross.gif

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93.G It is not a good tree that bringeth forthe evyll frute: nether is that an evyll tree / that bringeth forthe good frute. For every tree is knowen by his frute. Nether of thornes gader men fygges / nor of busshes gader they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his hert / bringeth forthe that which is good. And an evyll man out of the evyll treasure of his hert / bringeth forthe that
which ys evyll. For of the aboundaunce of þe her / 94.G his mouthe speakethe.

Why call ye me Master / Master: and do not as I bid you? whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayinges / & dothe the same / I will shewe you to whome he ys lyke. He is like a man which bilt an housse: and digged depe / and layde the foundaciobar.gif on a rocke. 95.GWh the waters arose / the fludde bet apobar.gif that housse / and coulde not move yt. For it was grounded apon a rocke. 96.GBut he that heareth & doth not / is lyke a man that with out foundacion bylt an housse apon the erth / agaynst which the fludde did bet: and it fell by and by. And þe fall of þt housse was greate.

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97.A he entred into Caperna. And a certayne Centurions seruaunte was sicke and redy to dye whom he made moche of. 98.AAnd when he hearde of Iesu / he sent vnto him the elders of the Iewes / besechinge him þt he wolde come & heale his servaunt. And they came to Iesus and besought him instantly sayinge: He is worthi that thou shuldest do this for him. For he loveth oure nacion / and hath bilt vs a sinagoge And Iesus went with them.

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And when he was not farre frobar.gif the housse / the Centuriobar.gif sent frendes to him sayinge vnto him: Lorde trouble not thy silfe: for I am not worthy þt thou shuldest enter vnder my roffe. Wherfore I thought not my silfe worthy to come vnto the: but saye the worde / and
my servaunt shalbe whoole. For I lyke wyse am a man vnder power / and have vnder me soudiers / & I saye vnto won / goo: and he goeth. And to another / come: and he cometh. And to my servaunt / do this: & he doeth it. When Iesus herde this / he merveyled at him / & turned him about & sayd to the people that folowed him: I saye vnto you / I have not founde so greate faith / noo / not in Israel. And they þt were sent / turned backe home agayne / & founde the servaunt that was sicke / whoole.

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cross.gif And it fortuned after that / that he went into a cite called Naim / & many of his disciples went [wt] him / & moche people. When he came nye to the gate of the cite: beholde / ther was a deed man caried out which was þe only sonne of his mother / and she was a widowe / 99.C and moche people of the cite was with her. And when þe lorde sawe her / he had compassion on her / & sayde vnto her: wepe not. And he went & touched the coffyn / & they þt bare him / stode still. And he sayde: Yonge man / I saye vnto the / aryse. And þe deed sate vp & beganne to speake. And he delyvered him to his mother. And ther c a feare on th all. And they glorified god sayinge: a greate prophet is rysen amobar.gifge vs / 100.C & god hath visited his people cross.gif

cross.gif And this rumor of him wt forthe throughout all Iurie / 101.C and thorowout all the regions which lye rounde about.

And þe disciples of Iohn shewed him of all these thinges. And Iohn called vnto him .ii. of his disciples / & sent th to Iesus sayinge:


Arte thou he that shall come: or shall we loke for another? When the men were come vnto him / they sayde: Iohn baptiste sent vs vnto þe sayinge: Arte thou he that shall come: or shall we wayte for another? And at þt same tyme he cured many of their infirmites & plages / 102.C & of evyll spretes / & vnto many that were blynde / he gave sight. And Iesus answered and sayd vnto them: Goo youre wayes & shewe Iohn / what thinges ye have sene and harde: how þt the blynde se / the halt goo / the lepers are clensed / the deafe heare / the deed aryse / to the poore is the glad tydinges preached / and happy is he / that is not offended by me.

When þe messengers of Iohn were departed / he began to speake vnto þe people of Iohn

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What wt ye oute into þe wildernes for to se? went ye to se arede shaken [wt] þe wynde? But what went ye out for tose? A m clothed in soofte rayment? Beholde they which are gorgeously apparelled / & lyve delicatly / are in kynges courtes. But what went ye forth to se? A prophete? Ye I saye to you / & moare then a prophete. This is he of whobar.gif it is wrytt: Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face / 103.D to prepare thy waye before the. For I saye vnto you: a greater prophete then Iohn / amobar.gifge wems chyldr is ther none. Neverthelesse one þt is lesse in þe kyngdobar.gif of god / is greater th he cross.gif

And all the people that hearde / and the publicans / iustified God / and were baptised with the baptim of Iohn. But the pharises & scribes despised þe counsell of god agaynst


them selves / and were not baptised of him.

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104.EAnd þe lorde sayd: Wher vnto shall I lyk the men of this generacion / & what thinge are they lyke? They are lyke vnto chyldr sittynge in þe market place / & cryinge one to another / & sayinge: We have pyped vnto you / & ye hahave not daunsed: we have mourned to you / and ye have not wept. For Iohn baptist cam / nether eatynge breed ner drinkynge wyne / & ye saye: he hath the devyll. The sonne of man is come and eateth and drinketh / & ye saye: beholde a man which is a glotton / 105.E & a drinker of wyne / a frende of publicans and synners. Yet is wysdome iustified of all her chyldren.

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When the pharise which bade him / sawe that / he spake with in him sylfe / sayinge:

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If this man were a prophete / he wolde surely have knowen who & what maner woman this is which toucheth him / for she is a synner. And Iesus answered & sayde vnto him: Simon I have some what to saye vnto þe. And he sayd master saye on. There was a certayne lender
which had two detters / þe one ought five hondred pence / & the other fyfty. When they had nothinge to paye / he forgave th boothe. Which of them tell me / will love him moost? Simon answered and sayde: I suppose / that he to whom he forgave moost. And he sayde vnto him: Thou hast truly iudged.

And he turned to the woman / & sayde vnto Simon: Seist thou this woman? I entred into thy housse / & thou gavest me noo water to my fete but she hath wesshed my fete with teares / & wiped th with the heeres of her heed. Thou gavest me no kysse: but she / sence þe tyme I came in / hath not ceased to kysse my fete Myne heed [wt] oyle thou dydest not anoynte: but she hath annoynted my fete [wt] oyntmt. Wherefore I saye vnto the: many synnes are forgev her / for she 107.F loved moche. To whom lesse is forgeven / the same doeth lesse love.

And he sayde vnto her / thy synnes are forgeven þe. And they þt sate at meate with him / beganne to saye within them selves: Who is this which forgeveth synnes also? And he sayde to þe woman: Thy faith hath saved the / Goo in peace. cross.gif

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And it fortuned after that / that he him sylfe went throughout cities & tounes / preachynge / and shewinge þe kyngdom of God / & the twelve with him. And also certayne wemen / which wer healed of evell spretes / and infirmities: Mary called Magdalen / out of whom went seven devyls / & Ioanna þe wyfe of Chusa Herode[es] stewarde / & Susanna
and many other: which ministred vnto th of their substaunce. cross.gif When moch people were gadred to gether / 108.A & were come to him out of all cities / he spake by a similitude. A sower went out to sowe his seede: & as he sowed / some fell by the waye syde / 109.A and it was troden vnder fete / and the foules of the ayre devoured it vp. And some fell on ston / & assone as it was spronge vp / it widdred awaye / because it lacked moystnes. And some fell amonge thornes / and þe thornes spronge vp with it / & choked it. And some fell on good grounde / & sprobar.gifge vp & bare frute / an hondred foolde. And as he sayde these thinges / he cryed: He that hath eares to heare / let him heare.

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And his disciples axed him sayinge: what maner similitude is this? 110.BAnd he sayde: vnto you is it geven to knowe the secretes of the kyngdom of God: but to other in similitud[es] / that when they se / they shuld not se: & when they heare they shuld not vnderstonde.

The similitude is this. The seede is þe worde of God. 111.BThoose þt are besyde the waye / are they that heare / & afterwarde cometh þe devyll & taketh awaye the worde out of their hertes / lest they shuld beleve and be saved. They on the stonnes / are they which when they heare / receave the worde with ioye. But these have noo rootes / which for a whyle beleve / & in tyme of temtaciobar.gif goo awaye. And þt which fell amonge thornes / are they which heare / & goo forth / & are choked [wt] cares & [wt] riches / & volupteous lyvinge / and bringe forth noo frute.


That in þe good grounde / are they which with a good & pure hert / 112.B heare the worde & kepe it / and bringe forth frute with pacience. cross.gif

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No man lyghteth a candell / & covereth it vnder a vessell / nether putteth it vnder þe table: but setteth it on a candelsticke / that they that enter in / maye se þe lyght. No thinge is in secret / þt shall not come abroode: Nether eny thinge hyd / 113.C that shall not be knowen / & come to lyght. Take hede therfore how ye heare. For whosoever hath / to him shalbe gev: And whosoever hath not / frobar.gif him shalbe tak / even that same which he supposeth that he hath.

Then came to him his mother and his brethren / and coulde not come at him for prease. 114.CAnd they tolde him sayinge: Thy mother and thy brethren stonde with out / and wolde se the. He answered and sayd vnto them: my mother and my brethren are these which heare the worde of God and do it.

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what felowe is this? for he cobar.gifmaundeth 116.D bothe the wyndes and water / and they obey him? cross.gif And they sayled vnto the region of þe Gaderenites / which is over agaynst Galile.

And as he went out to londe / ther met him a certayne man out of þe cite / which had a devyll longe tyme / and ware noo clothes / nether aboode in eny housse: but amonge graves. When he sawe Iesus / he cryed / and fell doune before him / and with a loude voyce sayde: What have I to do with the Iesus the sonne of the God moost hyest? I beseche the torment me not. Then he cobar.gifmaunded þe foule sprete to come out of the man. For ofte tymes he caught him / & he was bounde with chaynes & kept with fetters: and he brake the bondes / and was caryed of the fende / into wyldernes.

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And Iesus axed him sayinge: what is thy name? And he sayde: Legion / because many devyls were entred into him. 117.EAnd they besought him / þt he wolde not cobar.gifmaunde th to goo out into þe depe. And ther was there by an heerde of many swyne / fedynge on an hyll: & they besought him / 118.E þt he wolde soffre th to enter into th. And he soffred th. Then went the devyls out of the man / & entred into the swyne: And the heerd toke their course & ran heedlynge into the lake / and were choked. When the herdmen sawe what had chaunsed / they fleed and tolde it in the cite and in the villages.

And they came out to se what was done: & came to Iesus / & founde þe man / out of whobar.gif the devyls were departed / sittynge at the fete


of Iesus / clothed & in his right mynde / & they were afrayde. They also wich sawe it / tolde th by what meanes he þt was possessed of þe devyll / was healed. And all the whole multitude of þe cobar.giftrye of the Gaderenites / besought him þt he wolde departe from th: for they were taken [wt] greate feare. And he gate him into the shippe & returned backe agayne. Then the man out of whom the devyls were departed / besought him þt he myght be [wt] him: But Iesus sent him awaye sayinge: Goo home agayne into thyne awne housse / & shewe what great thinges God hath done to þe. And he went his waye / & preached thorow out all the cite what great thing[es] Iesus had done vnto him.

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119.FAnd it fortuned when Iesus was come agayne that þe people receaved him. For they all wayted for him. And beholde ther came a man named Iairus (and he was a ruler of þe 120.F synagoge) & he fell doune at Iesus fete / & besought him þt he wolde come into his housse / for he had but a doughter only / apon a twelve yere of age / and she laye a dyinge. And as he went the people thronged him.

121.F And a woman havynge an issue of bloud twelve yeres (which had spent all her substance amonge phisiciobar.gifs / nether coulde be holpen of eny) came behinde him / & touched the hem of his garmt / & immediatly her issue of bloud staunched. And Iesus sayde: Who is it that touched me? when every man denyed / Peter & they þt were with him / sayde: Master / the people thrust the and vexe the: & sayest thou /


who touched me? And Iesus sayd: Some body touched me. For I perceave that vertue is gone out of me. When the woman sawe / that she was not hid / she came trimblynge / & fell at is fete / and tolde him before all the people for what cause she had touched him / and how she was healed immediatly. And he sayde vnto hyr: Doughter be of good comforte / Thy faith hath made the hoale / goo in peace.

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Whyll he yet spake / there came one from þe rulers of the synagogis housse which sayde to him: thy doughter is deed / disease not the master. When Iesus hearde that / He answered the father / sayinge: Feare not / beleve only / & she shalbe made whole. And when he came to þe housse / he suffred no man to goo in with him / save Peter / Iames & Iohn / & the father and the mother of the mayden. Every body weept & sorowed for her. And he sayde: Wepe not: for she is not deed / but slepeth. And they lewgh him to scorne. For they knew that she was deed. And he thrust th all out / & caught her by the honde / and cryed sayinge: Mayde aryse. And hyr sprete came agayne / & she roose strayght waye. And he commaunded to geve her meate. 122.GAnd the father and the mother of hyr were astonyed. But he warned th that they shuld tell noo man / what was done.

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123.AThen called he the .xii. to gether / & gave them power / and auctorite over all devyls / and that they myght heale diseases. And he sent them to preache the kyngdome
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126.AAnd Herod the tetrarch herde of all that was done of him / and douted / because that it was sayde of some / that Iohn was rysen agayne from deeth: and of some / that Helyas had apered: and of other / that one of the olde prophetes was rysen agayne. And Herod sayde: Iohn have I behedded: who then is this of whom I heare suche thinges? And he desyred to se him.

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And the Apostles retourned / and tolde him what great thinges they had done. 127.BAnd he toke them and went a syde into a solitary place / nye to a citie called Bethsaida. And þe people knewe of it / and folowed him. 128.BAnd he receaved them / and spake vnto them of the kyngdome of God / and healed them that had nede to be healed. And when þe daye beganne to weare awaye / then came the twelve and sayde vnto him: sende þe people awaye / that they maye goo into the tounes & villages roundabout / and lodge / and get meate / for we are here in a place of wyldernes. But he sayde vnto them:
Geve ye th to eate. And they sayde. We have no moo but fyve loves and two fisshes / except we shuld goo and bye meate for all this 129.B people. And they were about a fyve thousand men. And he sayde to his disciples: Cause them to syt doune by fyfties in a company. And they dyd soo / & made them all syt doune. And he toke the fyve loves / & the two fisshes / & loked vp to heven / & blessed them / & brake / & gave to the disciples / to set before þe people. And they ate / and were all satisfied. And ther was taken vp of that remayned to th / twelve baskettes full of broken meate.

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130.CAnd it fortuned as he was alone prayinge / his disciples were [wt] him / & he axed th sayinge: Who saye þe people þt I am? They answered & sayd: Iohn Baptist. Some saye Helyas. And some saye / one of the olde prophet[es] is rysen agayne. He sayde vnto th: Who saye ye that I am? Peter answered and sayde: thou arte the Christ of god. 131.CAnd he warned & commaunded them / that they shuld tell no man þt thinge sayinge: 132.C that the sonne of man must suffre many thinges / and be reproved of the elders / and of the hye prestes and scribes / 133.C & be slayne / and the thirde daye ryse agayne.

And he sayde to them all / yf eny man will come after me / let him denye him sylfe / 134.C & take vp his crosse dayly and folowe me. Whosoever will save his lyfe / shall lose it. And who soever shall lose his lyfe for my sake / the same shall save it. For what avauntageth it a man / to wynne the whole worlde / yf he loose


him sylfe or runne in domage of him sylfe? 135.CFor whosoever is ashamed of me / and of my sayinges: of him shall the sonne of man be ashamed / 136.C when he cometh in his awne glorie / & in the glorie of his father / and of the holy angels. 137.CAnd I tell you of a surety: There be some of th þt stonde here / which shall not tast of deeth / tyll they se þe kyngdome of god.

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And it folowed about an .viii. dayes after thoose sayinges / 138.D that he toke Peter / Iames / & Iohn / & went vp into a motayne to praye. And as he prayed / þe facion of his countenaunce was changed / 139.D and his garment was whyte and shoone. And beholde / two men talked [wt] him / and they were Moses & Helyas / which appered gloriously / and spake of his departinge / which he shuld ende at Ierusalem. Peter and they that were with him / were hevy with slepe. And when they woke / they sawe his glorie / and two men stondinge with him.

And it chaunsed as they departed frobar.gif him / Peter sayde vnto Iesus: Master / it is good beinge here for vs. Let vs make thre tabernacles / one for the / and one for Moses / & one for Helyas: and wist not what he sayde. Whyll he thus spake / ther came a cloude and shadowed them: & they feared when they were come vnder the cloude. And ther came a voyce out of the cloude sayinge: This is my deare sonne / heare him. 140.DAnd assone as þe voyce was past / Iesus was founde alone. And they kept it cloose / and tolde noo man in thoose dayes eny of those thinges which they had sene.


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moche people met him. And beholde a man of the cobar.gifpany cryed out sayinge: Master / I beseche þe beholde my sonne / for he is all that I have: & se / 142.E a sprete taketh him / & sodenly he cryeth / & he teareth him that he fometh agayne / and with moche payne departeth frobar.gif him / when he hath rent him / and I besought thy disciples to cast him out / & they coulde not. Iesus answered & sayde: O generacion with oute fayth / & croked: how longe shall I be with you? & shall suffre you? Bringe thy sonne hidder. As he yet was a cobar.gifminge / the fende rt him & tare him. And Iesus rebuked þe vnclene sprete / & healed the childe / & delivered him to his father. And they were all amased at þe mighty power of God.

Whyll they wondred every one at all thinges which he dyd / he sayd vnto his disciples: Let these sayinges synke doune into youre eares. 143.EThe tyme will come / when the sonne of man shalbe delivered into the hondes of men. But they wist not what þt worde meant / & yt was hyd frobar.gif th / that they vnderstode yt not. And they feared to axe him of that sayinge.

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144.FThen ther arose a disputacion amobar.gifge th: who shuld be the greatest. When Iesus perceaved þe thoughtes of their hertes / he toke a chylde / & set him hard by him / & sayd vnto th: Whosoever receaveth this chylde in my name / receaveth me. 145.FAnd whosoever receaveth me / receaveth him þt sent me. For he þt is least amonge you all / the same shalbe greate.


146.FAnd Iohn answered & sayde: Master we sawe one castinge out devyls in thy name / & we forbade him / because he foloweth not with vs. And Iesus sayde vnto him: forbyd ye him not. For he that is not agaynst vs / is [wt] vs.

And it folowed when the tyme was come þt he shulde be receaved vp / then he set his face to goo to Hierusalem / & sent messengers before him. And they went & entred into a citie of the Samaritans to make redy for him. But they wolde not receave him / be cause his face was as though he wolde goo to Ierusalem. When his disciples Iames & Iohn sawe þt / they sayde: Lorde / wilt thou that we cobar.gifmaunde / that fyre come doune from heven & consume them / even as Helias dyd? 147.FIesus turned about / and rebuked them sayinge: ye wote not what maner sprete ye are of. The sonne of m ys not come to destroye mennes lives / but to save them. And they went to another toune.

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150.GAnd he sayde vnto another: folowe me. And the same sayde: Lorde suffre me fyrst to goo & bury my father. Iesus sayd vnto him: Let the deed / bury their deed: but goo thou and preache the kyngdome of God.

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152.AAfter these thinges / the Lorde apoynted other seventie also / & sent them / two & two before him into every citie and place / whither he him silfe wolde come. And he sayde vnto them / the harvest is greate: but the laborers are feawe. Praye therfore the Lorde of þe harvest / to send forth laborers into his hervest. Goo youre wayes: beholde / I sende you forthe as lambes amonge wolves. 153.ABeare noo wallet / nether scryppe / nor shues / and salute noo man by the waye. Into whatsoever housse ye enter / fyrst saye: Peace be to this housse. 154.A And yf þe sonne of peace be theare / youre peace shall rest vpon him: yf not / yt shall returne to you agayne. And in þe same housse tary still eatinge & drinkinge soche as they have. For the laborer is worthy of his rewarde. cross.gif

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155.BGo not frobar.gif housse to housse: & in to whatso ever citye ye enter / yf they receave you / eate soche thinges as are set before you / & heale the sicke þt are theare / & saye vnto them: the kyngdome of God is come nye vpon you. But into whatsoever citie ye shall enter / yf they receave you not / goo youre wayes out into the stretes of þe same / and saye: even the very dust / 156.B which cleaveth on vs of your citie / we wipe of agaynst you: Not withstondinge / marke this that þe kyngdome of God was come nie vpon
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Wo be to the Chorazin: wo be to þe Bethsaida. 157.CFor yf þe miracles had bene done in Tyre & Sidobar.gif / which have bene done in you / they had a greate whyle agone repted / sitting in heere & asshes. Neverthelesse it shalbe easier for Tyre & Sidon / at the iudgement / then for you. And thou Caperna which art exalted to heav / shalt be thrust doune to hell. He þt heareth you / heareth me: 158.C & he that dispiseth you / despiseth me: and he that dispiseth me / despiseth him that sent me.

And the sevtie returned agayne with ioye sayinge: Lorde even the very devyls are subdued to vs thorowe thy name. And he sayde vnto them: I sawe satan / as it had bene lightenyng / faule doune frobar.gif heav. Beholde I geve vnto you power to treade on serptes and scorpions / & over all maner power of the enimye / & no thinge shall hurte you. Neverthelesse / in this reioyse not / that þe spretes are vnder youre power: 159.C but reioyse / be cause youre names are wrytten in heaven.

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160.DThat same tyme reioysed Iesus in þe sprete / & sayde: I confesse vnto þe father / Lorde of heaven & erth / þt thou hast hyd these thynges from the wyse & prudent / 161.D & hast opened them to the babes. Even so father / for soo pleased it the. All thinges are geven me of my father. And no man knoweth who the sonne is / but the father: nether who the father is / save the sonne / & he to whobar.gif the sonne wyll shewe him.


And he turned to his disciples / & sayde secretly: cross.gif Happy are þe eyes / which se þt ye se. 162.D For I tell you that many prophetes & kyng[es] have desired to se those thinges which ye se / & have not sene them: & to heare those thinges which ye heare / and have not hearde them.

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163.EAnd beholde / a certayne Lawere stode vp / & tempted him sayinge: Master what shall I do / to inheret eternall life? He sayd vnto him: What is written in the lawe? How redest thou? And he answered & sayde: Loue thy Lorde God / with all thy hert / & with all thy soule / & with all thy strgthe / & with all thy mynde: & thy neghbour as thy sylfe. And he sayde vnto him: Thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live. He willinge to iustifie him silfe / sayde vnto Iesus: Who is then my neghbour?

164.EIesus answered & sayde: A certayne m descended frobar.gif Hierusalem into Hierico / & fell in to the hondes of theves / which robbed him of his raymt & wounded him / & departed levynge him halfe deed. And by chaunce ther came a certayne preste that same waye / & when he sawe him / he passed by. And lykewyse a Levite / when he was come nye to the place / wt & loked on him / and passed by.

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Then a certayne Samaritane / as he iornyed / came nye vnto him / & when he sawe him / had compassion on him / & went to and bounde vp his woundes / and poured in oyle and wyne / and put him on his awne beaste / & brought him to a cobar.gifmen ynne / and made provision for him. And on the
morowe when he departed / he toke out two pce & gave them to the host / & sayde vnto him. Take cure of him / & whatsoever thou spdest moare / when I come agayne / I will recompence the. 165.FWhich now of these thre / thynkest thou / was neighbour vnto him þt fell into þe theves hondes? And he sayde: he that shewed mercy on him. Then sayde Iesus vnto him. Goo and do thou lyke wyse. cross.gif

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cross.gif It fortuned as they wt / that he entred in to a certayne toune. And a certayne woman named Martha / receaved him into her housse. 166.GAnd this woman had a sister called Mary / which sate at Iesus fete / and hearde his preachinge. And Martha was combred about moche servinge / & stode and sayde: Master / doest thou not care / that my sister hath leeft me to minister alone? Byd her therfore / that she helpe me. And Iesus answered / and sayde vnto her: Martha / Martha / thou carest / & arte troubled about many thinges: verely one is nedfull. Mary hath chosen her that good parte / which shall not be taken awaye from her. cross.gif

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And it fortuned as he was prayinge in a certayne place: when he ceased / one of his disciples sayde vnto him: 167.A Master / teache vs to praye / as Iohn taught his disciples. And he sayd vnto th: When ye praye / saye: O oure father which arte in heav / halowed be thy name. 168.AThy kyngdome come. Thy will be fulfilled / even in erth as it is in heaven. Oure dayly breed geve vs evermore.
And forgeve vs oure synnes: For ev we forgeve every man þt treaspaseth vs. And ledde vs not into tptaciobar.gif. But deliver vs frobar.gif evill.

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And I saye vnto you: axe / and it shalbe geven you. 170.BSeke / and ye shall fynde. knocke / & it shalbe opened vnto you. For every one that axeth / receaveth: and he that seketh / fyndeth: and to him that knocketh / shall it be openned. 171.B Yf the sonne shall axe breed of eny of you that is a father: wyll he geve him a stone? Or yf he axe fisshe / wyll he for a fysshe geve him a serpent? Or yf he axe an egge: wyll he offer him a scorpion? Yf ye then which are evyll / canne geve good giftes vnto youre chyldren / how moche more shall the father of heaven geve an holy sprete to them / that desyre it of him? cross.gif

172.Bcross.gif And he was a castynge out a devyll / which was dobar.gifme. And it folowed when the devyll was gone out / the domme spake / & the people wondred. But some of th sayde: he casteth


out devyls by the power of Belzebub / 173.B the chefe of the devyls. And other tempted him sekinge of him a signe frobar.gif heav. But he knewe their thoughtes & sayde vnto them: Every kingdome devided with in it silfe / shalbe desolate: & one housse shall fall vpon another. So if Satan be devided with in him silfe: how shall his kyngdome endure? Because ye saye that I cast out devyls by the power of Belzebub. Yf I / by the power of Belzebub caste oute devyls: by whome do youre chyldren cast them out? Therfore shall they be youre iudges. But if I / with þe finger of God cast out devyls / noo doute the kyngdome of God is come vpon you.

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When a stronge man armed watcheth his housse: þt he possesseth is in peace. But when a stronger then he cometh vpobar.gif him & overcobar.gifmeth him: he taketh from him his harnes wherin he trusted / & devideth his gooddes. He that is not with me / is agaynst me. And he that gadereth not with me / scattereth.

When the vnclene sprete is gone out of a man / he walketh through waterlesse places / sekinge reest. And when he fyndeth none / he sayeth: I will returne agayne vnto my housse whence I came out. And when he cobar.gifmeth / he fyndeth it swept and garnissed. Then goeth he & taketh to him sev other spretes worsse 174.D then himsilfe: and they enter in / & dwell there. And the ende of that man / is worsse then the begynninge.

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a certayne woman of the cobar.gifpany lyfte vp her voyce / & sayde vnto him: Happy is the wombe that bare the / and the pappes which gave the sucke. 175.DBut he sayde: Ye / happy are they that heare the worde of God / and kepe it. cross.gif

176.DWhen the people were gadered thicke to geder: he began to saye. This is an evyll nacion: they seke a signe / 177.D & ther shall no signe be geven them / but the signe of Ionas the Prophet. For as Ionas was a signe to the Ninivites / so shall þe sonne of m be to this naciobar.gif. The quene of the southe shall ryse at iudgement / with the men of this generaciobar.gif / 178.D & condempne them: for she came frobar.gif the ende of the worlde / to heare the wysdome of Salomon. And beholde a greater then Salomon is here. The men of Ninive shall ryse at the iudgement [wt] this generaciobar.gif / & shall condpne th: 179.D for they repented at the preachinge of Ionas. And beholde / a greater then Ionas is here.

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cross.gif Noo man lighteth a candell / & putteth it in a previe place / nether vnder a busshell: But on a candelsticke / 180.E that they that come in maye se þe light. The light of thy body is the eye. Therfore when thine eye is single: then is all thy body full of light. But if thine eye be evyll: then shall thy body also be full of darknes. Take hede therfore that the light which is in the / be not darknes. For if all thy body shalbe light / havynge noo parte darke: then shall all be full of light / even as when a candell doeth light the with his brightnes. cross.gif

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he marveylled þt he had not fyrst wesshed before dyner. And þe Lorde sayde to him: Now do ye Pharises / 181.F make clene the out side of the cup / & of the platter: but youre inwarde parties are full of raveninge and wickednes. Ye foles / dyd not he that made that which is without: make that which is within also? Neverthelesse geve almose of that ye have / 182.F and beholde all is clene to you.

But wo be to you Pharises / for ye tithe the mynt and rewe / 183.F and all manner erbes / & passe over iudgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done / & yet not to have left the other vndone.

Wo be to you Pharises: for ye love the vppermost seates in the synagoges / and gretinges in the markets. 184.F

Wo be to you scribes & pharises ypocrit[es] / for ye are as graves which appere not / & the men þt walke over th / are not ware of th.

185.FThen answered one of the lawears / & sayd vnto him: Master / thus sayinge / thou puttest vs to rebuke also. Then he sayde: Wo be to you also ye lawears: for ye lade men with burthens greveous to be borne / & ye youre selves touche not þe packes [wt] one of youre fyngers.

Wo be to you: ye bylde the sepulchres of the Prophetes / and youre fathers killed th: truly ye beare witnes / that ye alowe the dedes of youre fathers for they kylled them / and ye bylde their sepulchres.


Therfore sayde þe wisdome of God: I will send them Prophetes & Apostles / & of them they shall slee & persecute: that the bloude of all Prophet[es] / 186.F which was sheed frobar.gif the beginninge of the worlde / maye be requyred of this generacion / from the bloud of Abell vnto the bloud of zachary / which perisshed bitwene the aulter and the temple. 187.FVerely I saye vnto you: it shalbe requyred of this nacion.

188.FWo be to you lawears: for ye have taken awaye þe keye of knowledge / ye entred not in youre selves / & them that came in ye forbade.

When he thus spake vnto them / the lawears & the Pharises began to wexe busye about him / and to stop his mouth with many questions / layinge wayte for him / and sekinge to catche somethinge of his mought / wherby they might accuse him.

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189.AAs ther gadered together an innumerable multitude of people (in so moche that they trood one another) he began to saye vnto his disciples: Fyrst of all beware of the lev of the Pharises / which is ypocrisy. For ther is no thinge covered / that shall not be vncovered: nether hyd / 190.A that shall not be knowen. For whatsoever ye have spoken in in darknes: that same shalbe hearde in light. And that which ye have spoken in the the eare / ev in secret places / shalbe preached even on the toppe of the housses.

I saye vnto you my frdes: Be not afrayde of them that kyll the body / and after that


have no moare that they can do. But I will shewe you / whom ye shall feare. 191.AFeare him which after he hath killed / hath power to cast into hell. Ye I saye vnto you / him feare. Are not five sparowes bought for two farthinges? And yet not one of them is forgotten of God. Also even the very heres of youre heedes are nombred. Feare not therfore: ye are moare of value / then many sparowes.

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I saye vnto you: Whosoever confesseth me before men / 192.B ev him shall þe sonne of man confesse also before þe angels of God. And he that denyeth me before men: shalbe denyed before þe angels of God. 193.BAnd whosoever speaketh a worde agaynst þe sonne of m / it shalbe forgeven him. But vnto him þt blasphemeth the holy goost / it shall not be forgeven.

194.BWhen they bringe you vnto the synagoges / and vnto the rulers / and officers / take no thought how or what thinge ye shall answer or what ye shall speake. For the holy goost shall teache you in the same houre / what ye ought to saye.

cross.gif One of the company sayde vnto hym: Master byd my brother devide the enheritace with me. 195.BAnd he sayde vnto him: Man / who made me a iudge or a devider over you? Wherfore he sayde vnto them: take hede / and beware of covetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondeth in the aboundaunce of the thinges which he possesseth. And he put forth a similitude vnto them sayinge:

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forth frutes plenteously / 196.B & he thought in himsilfe sayinge: what shall I do? because I have noo roume where to bestowe my frutes? And he sayde: This will I do. I will destroye my barnes / and bilde greater / & therin will I gadder all my frutes / & my goodes: & I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares / take thyne ease: eate / drinke / & be mery. But God sayde vnto him: Thou fole / this night will they fetche awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall thoose thinges be which thou hast provyded? So is it with him that gadereth ryches / and is not ryche in God.

And he spake vnto his disciples: Therfore I saye vnto you: 197.B take no thought for youre lyfe / what ye shall eate / nether for youre body / what ye shall put on. The lyfe is moare then meate / and the bodye is moare then rayment. Considre the ravens / for they nether sowe nor repe / which nether have stoorehousse ner barne / & yet God fedeth them. 198.BHow moche are ye better then the foules.

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Which of you with takynge thought can adde to his stature one cubit? Yf ye then be not able to do that thinge which is least: 199.D why take ye thought for the remmaunt? Considre the lylies how they growe: They laboure not: they spyn not: and yet I saye vnto you / that Salomon in all this royalte / was not clothed lyke to one of these.

Yf the grasse which is todaye in the felde / and tomorowe shalbe cast into the fornace /


God so clothe: how moche moore will he clothe you / o ye endued [wt] litell faith? And axe not what ye shall eate / or what ye shall drinke / nether clyme ye vp an hye / for all suche thinges the hethen people of the worlde seke for. Youre father knoweth that ye have nede of suche thinges. Wherfore seke ye after the kyngedome of God / and all these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.

200.D Feare not litell floocke / for it is youre fathers pleasure / to geve you a kingdome. Sell that ye have / and geve almes. And make you bagges / which wexe not olde / & treasure that fayleth not in heaven / where noo these commeth / nether moth corrupteth. 201.DFor where youre treasure is / there will youre hertes be also.

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Let youre loynes be gerdde about / & youre lightes brennynge / 202.E & ye youre selves lyke vnto men / that wayte for their master / when he will returne frobar.gif a weddinge: that assone as he cobar.gifmeth & knocketh / they maye op vnto him. Happy are those servaunt[es] / which the Lorde when he cobar.gifmeth / shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you / he will gerdde him selfe about / & make them sit doune to meate / & walke by / and minister vnto them.

203.E And yf he come in the seconde watche / ye if he come in the thyrde watche / & shall fynde them soo / happy are those servauntes.

This vnderstonde / that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre þe these wolde come / he wolde suerly watche: and not suffer his housse to be broken vp. Be ye prepared


therfore: for the sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

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Then Peter sayde vnto him: Master / tellest thou this similitude vnto vs / or to all men? And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servat and wise / whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde / 204.F to geve them their duetie of meate at due season: happy is that servaunt / 205.F whom his master when he cobar.gifmeth / shall finde soo doinge. Of a trueth I saye vnto you: that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. But & yf the evyll servaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cobar.gifminge / & shall beginne to smyte the servauntes / & maydens / and to eate and drinke / & to be dronken: the Lorde of that servaunt will come in a daye / when he thinketh not / and at an houre when he is not ware / and will devyde him / & will geve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers.

The servat that knewe his masters will / and prepared not him selfe / nether dyd accordinge to his will / shalbe bet with many strypes. But he that knewe not / and yet dyd committe thinges worthy of strypes / shalbe beaten with feawe strypes. 206.FFor vnto whom moche is geven / of him shalbe moche requyred. And to whom men moche commyt / the moare of him will they axe.

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207.GI am come to sende fyre on erth: & what is my dysyre but that it were all redy kyndled? 208.GNot with stondinge I must de baptised with a baptyme: and how am I payned till it be
ended? 209.GSuppose ye that I am come to sende peace on erth? I tell you naye: but rather debate. For frobar.gif hence forthe ther shalbe five in one housse devided / 210.G thre agaynst two / and two agaynst thre. The father shalbe devided agaynst the sonne / 211.G and the sonne agaynst the father. The mother agaynst the doughter / & the doughter agaynst the mother. The motereleawe agaynst hir doughterelawe / & the doughterelawe agaynst hir motherelawe. 212.G

Then sayde he to the people: when ye se a cloude ryse out of the west / strayght waye ye saye: we shall have a shower / & soo it is. And when ye se the south wynde blow / ye saye: we shall have heet / & it cobar.gifmeth to passe. Ypocrit[es] ye can skyll of the fassion of the erth / & of the skye: but what is þe cause / that ye cnot skyll of this time? Ye & why iudge ye not of youre selves what is righte?

Whill thou goest with thyne adversary to the ruler: 213.G as thou arte in the waye / geve diligence that thou mayst be delivered frobar.gif him / least he bringe the to the iudge / and the iudge delyver the to the iaylar / 214.G & the iaylar cast the in to preson. I tell þe / thou departest not thence / tyll thou have made good þe vtmost myte.

The .xiii. Chapter.

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Ther were present at the same season / that shewed him of þe Galiles / 215.A whose bloude Pylate mengled with their awne sacrifice. And Iesus answered / & sayde vnto them: Suppose ye that these Galileans were greater synners then all the other Galiles
/ because they suffred suche punisshmt? I tell you naye: but except ye repent / ye shall all in lyke wyse perysshe. Or those .xviii. apon which þe toure in Syloe fell / & slewe th / 216.A thinke ye that they were synners above all men þt dwell in Ierusalem? I tell you naye: But excepte ye repent / ye all shall lykewyse perisshe.

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cross.gif He put forthe this similiiude / A certayne man had a fygge tree planted in his veneyarde / & he came & sought frute theron / 217.B & founde none. Then sayde he to þe dresser of his vyneyarde: Beholde / this thre yeare have I come & sought frute in this fygge tree / & fynde none: cut it doune: why combreth it the grounde? And he answered & sayde vnto him: lorde let it alone this yeare also / till I digge rounde aboute it / & dobar.gifge it to se whether it will beare frute: & if it beare not then / after þt / cut it doune

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And he taught in one of their sinagog[es] on þe saboth dayes. And beholde ther was a wom which had a sprete of infirmite .xviii. yeares: 218.C and was bowed to gether / & coulde not lifte vp hersilfe at all. When Iesus sawe her he called her to him / and sayde to her: woman / thou arte delyvered from thy disease. And he layde his hondes on her / and immediatly she was made strayght / and glorified God. And the ruler of the sinagoge answered with indignacion (be cause that Iesus had healed on the saboth daye) and sayde vnto the people. 219.C Ther are sixe dayes in which men ought to worke: in them come and be healed / & not on the saboth daye.


220.CThen answered him the Lorde and sayd: Ypocrite / doth not eache one of you on the saboth daye / lowse his oxe or his asse from the stall / & leade him to the water? And ought not this doughter of Abraham / whom Sathan hath bounde loo .xviii. yeares / be lowsed from this bonde on the saboth daye? And when he thus sayde / all his adversaries were ashamed / and all the people reioysed on all the excellent dedes / that were done by him. cross.gif

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Then sayde he: What is the kyngdome of God lyke? or wherto shall I compare it? It is lyke a grayne of mustard seede / 221.D which a man toke and sowed in his garden: and it grewe and wexed a greate tree / and the foules of the ayer made nestes in the braunches of it.

And agayne he sayde: wher vnto shall I lyken þe kyngdome of god? it is lyke lev / 222.D which a woman toke / and hidde in thre busshels of floure / tyll all was thorow levended. And he went thorow all maner of cities & tounes teachinge / and iorneyinge towardes Ierusalem.

Then sayde one vnto him: Lorde / are ther feawe that shalbe saved?

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223.EAnd he sayde vnto them: stryve with youre selves to enter in at þe strayte gate: For many I saye vnto you / will seke to enter in / & shall not be able. 224.EWhen the good man of þe housse is rysen vp / & hath shett to the dore / ye shall beginne to stonde with out / and to knocke at the dore sayinge: Lorde / lorde / open vnto vs: & he shall answer and saye vnto you: I knowe you not whence ye are. Then shall ye begin to saye. We have
eaten / in thy presence and dronke / and thou hast taught in oure stretes. And he shall saye: I tell you / I knowe you not whence ye are: departe from me all ye workers of iniquite.
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There shalbe wepinge & gnasshinge of teth when ye shall se Abraham & Isaac & Iacob / & all the prophetes in the kyngdom of God / & youre selves thrust oute at dores. And they shall come from the eest and from the weest / and from the northe and from the southe / and shall syt doune in the kyngdome of God. And beholde / ther are last / which shalbe fyrst: And ther are fyrst which shalbe last.

225.FThe same daye there came certayne of the pharises & sayd vnto him: Get the out of the waye / & departe hence: for Herode will kyll þe.

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And he sayd vnto them. Goo ye and tell that foxe / 226.G beholde I cast oute devyls & heale the people to daye & to morowe / & the third daye I make an ende. Neverthelesse / I must walke todaye and tomorowe / & the daye folowinge: 227.G For it cannot be / that a Prophet perishe eny other where / save at Ierusalem.

O Ierusalem / Ierusalem / which kyllest prophet[es] / and stonest them that are sent to þe: how often wolde I have gadered thy childr 228.G to gedder / as the hen gathereth her nest vnder her wynges / but ye wolde not. Beholde youre habitacion shalbe left vnto you desolate. 229.GFor I tell you / ye shall not se me vntill the tyme come that ye shall saye / blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lorde.

The .xiiii. Chapter.

And it chaunsed that he went into the housse of one of þe chefe pharises to eate breed / on a saboth daye: & they watched him. And beholde ther was a man before him which had the dropsye. 230.And Iesus answered & spake vnto the lawears & pharises sayinge: is it laufull to heale on the saboth daye? And they helde their peace. And he toke him & healed him / & let him goo: and answered th sayinge / whiche of you shall have an asse or an oxe / fallen into a pitt / and will not strayght waye pull him out on the Saboth daye? And they coulde not answer him agayne to that.

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He put forthe a similitude to þe gestes / wh he marked how they preased to the hyest roumes / & sayd vnto th: When thou arte bidd to a weddynge of eny man / syt not doune in þe hyest roume / lest a more honorable man then thou be bidden of him / and he that bade bothe him and the / come and saye to the: geve this man roume / and thou then beginne with shame to take the lowest roume. But rather when thou arte bidden / goo & syt in the lowest roume / 231.B that when he that bade the cometh / he maye saye vnto the: frende syt vp hyer. Then shalt thou have worshippe in the presence of 232.B them that syt at meate with the. For whosoever exalteth him sylfe / shalbe brought lowe. And he þt hbleth him sylfe / shalbe exalted cross.gif

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233.CThen sayde he also to him that had desyred him to diner: cross.gif When thou makest a diner or a supper: call not thy frendes / nor thy brethr nether thy kinsmen nor yet ryche neghbours:
lest they bidde the agayne / 234.C and a recompence be made the. But when thou makest afeast / call the poore / the maymed / the lame and the blynde / and thou shalt be happy / for they cannot recompence the. But thou shalt be recompensed at the resurreccion of the iuste men.

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When one of them that sate at meate also hearde that / he sayde vnto him: happy is he that eateth breed in the kyngdome of God. cross.gif Then sayd he to him. cross.gif 235.DA certayne man ordened a greate supper / and bade many / and sent his servaunt at supper tyme / 236.D to saye to them that wer bidden / come: for all thinges are now redy. And they all atonce begne to make excuse. The fyrst sayd vnto him: I have bought a ferme / & I must nedes goo and se it / I praye the have me excused. And another sayd: I hove bought fyve yooke of oxen / & I goo to prove them / I praye the have me excused. The thyrde sayd: I have maried a wyfe / and therfore I cannot come. And the servaunt went / and brought his master worde therof.

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Then was the good man of the housse displeased / & sayd to his servat: Goo out quickly into þe stretes & quarters of the cite / & bringe in hidder the poore & the maymed and the halt & the blynde. And the servat sayd: lorde it is done as thou cobar.gifmaundedst / and yet ther is roume. And the lorde sayd to the servaunt: Go out into þe hye wayes & hedges / & compell th to come in / that my housse maye be filled. For I saye vnto you / that none of those men which were bidd / shall tast of my supper. cross.gif


237.ETher went agreate cobar.gifpany with him / & he turned and sayde vnto them: cross.gif If a man come to me /

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& hate not his father and mother / & wyfe / and chyldren / & brethren / and sisters / more over and his awne lyfe / he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever beare not his crosse and come after me / cannot be my disciple.

Which of you disposed to bilde a toure / sytteth not doune before & counteth þe cost / 238.D whether he have sufficient to performe it? lest after he hath layde þe foundacion / & is not able to performe it / all þt beholde it /

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beginne to mocke him sayinge: this man beganne to bilde / & was not able to make an ende. Or what kynge goeth to make batayle agaynst another kinge / & sitteth not doune fyrst / & casteth in his mynde / whether he be able [wt] ten thousande / to mete him that cometh agaynst him [wt] .xx thousand. Or els whyll þe other is yet a greate waye of / he will sende embasseatours / & desyre peace. 239.ESo lykewyse none of you þt forsaketh not all þt he hath / can be my disciple. cross.gif

Salt is good / but yf salt have loste hyr saltnes / 240.E what shall be seasoned ther with? It is nether good for þe londe nor yet for þe donge hill / but men cast it out at þe dores.

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He þt hath eares to heare / let him heare.

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Then resorted vnto him all þe publics and synners / for to heare him. And the pharises & scribes murmured sayinge: He receaved to his cobar.gifpany synners / 241. & eateth with them. Then put he forthe this similitude to th sayinge: What man of you havynge


an hundred shepe / yf he loose one of the / 242. doth not leve nynty & nyne in the wyldernes / & goo after þt which is loost / vntyll he fynde him? And wh he hath founde him / he putteth him on his shulders with ioye: And assone as he cometh home / he calleth to gedder his lovers & neghbours sayinge vnto them: reioyse with me /
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for I have founde my shepe which was loost. I say vnto you / þt lyke wyse ioye shalbe in heven over one synner þt repenteth / moore then over nynety & nyne iuste persons / whiche nede noo repentace. Ether what woman havynge .x. grotes / yf she loose one / doth not lyght a candell / & swepe þe housse / 243.B & seke diligently / tyll she fynde it? And when she hath founde it she calleth her lovers & her neghbours sayinge: Reioyce [wt] me / for I have founde the groate which I had loost. Lykwyse I saye vnto you / ioye is made in þe presence of þe angels of god over one synner þt repenteth. cross.gif

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cross.gif And he sayde: a certayne man had two sonnes / & the yonger of them sayde to his father: 244.C father geve me my parte of the goodes þt to me belongeth. And he devided vnto them his substaunce. And not longe after / þe yonger sonne gaddered all that he had to gedder / & toke his iorney into a farre countre / & theare he wasted his goodes with royetous lyvinge. And when he had spent all that he had / ther rose a greate derth thorow out all þt same londe / & he began to lacke. And he went and clave to a citesyn of þt same countre / which sent him to his felde / to kepe his swyne. And he
wold fayne have filled his bely with the coddes that þe swyne ate: & noo man gave him.

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Then he came to him selfe and sayde: how many hyred servauntes at my fathers / have breed ynough / & I dye for honger. I will aryse / & goo to my father & will saye vnto him: father / I have synned agaynst heven & before þe / & am no moare worthy to be called thy sonne / make me as one of thy hyred servauntes. And he arose & went to his father. And when he was yet a greate waye of / his father sawe him & had compassion / and ran & fell on his necke / & kyssed him.
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And the sonne sayd vnto him: father / I have synned agaynst heven / & in thy sight / & am no moare worthy to be called thy sonne. But his father sayde to his servates: bringe forth that best garment and put it on him / and put a rynge on his honde / & showes on his fete. And bringe hidder that fatted caulfe / and kyll him / and let vs eate & be mery: for this my sonne was deed / and is alyve agayne / he was loste / and is now founde. And they began to be merye.

The elder brother was in the felde / & when he cam & drewe nye to þe housse / he herde minstrelcy and daunsynge /

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& called one of his servauntes / & axed what thoose thinges mete. And he sayd vnto him: thy brother is come / & thy father had kylled þe fatted caulfe / because he hath receaved him safe & sounde. And he was angry / and wolde not goo in. Then came his father out / & entreated him. He answered & sayde to his father: Loo these many yeares
have I done the service / nether brake at eny tyme thy commaundment / & yet gavest thou me never soo moche as a kyd to make mery [wt] my lovers: but assone as this thy sonne was come / which hath devoured thy goodes with harlootes / thou haste for his pleasure kylled þe fatted caulfe. And he sayd vnto him: Sonne / thou wast ever with me / and all that I have / is thyne: it was mete that we shuld make mery and be glad: for this thy brother was deed / and is a lyve agayne: and was loste / and is founde. cross.gif

The .xvi. Chapter.

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And he sayd also vnto his disciples. cross.gif Ther was a certayne rych man / which had a stewarde / 245.A that was acused vnto him / that he had wasted his goodes. And he called him / & sayd vnto him: How is it / that I heare this of the? Geve a comptes of thy steward shippe: For thou mayste be no longer stewarde. The stewarde sayd [wt] in him selfe: what shall I do? for my master will take awaye frobar.gif me þe stewarde shippe. I cnot digge / & to begge / I am ashamed. I woote what to do / þt when I am put out of þe stewardshippe / they maye receave me into their houses.

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Then called he all his masters detters / and sayd vnto þe fyrst: how moche owest thou vnto my master? And he sayd: an hondred tonnes of oyle. And he sayd to him: take thy bill / & syt doune quickly / & wryte fiftie. Then sayd he to another: what owest thou? And he sayde: an hondred quarters of wheate. He sayd to him: Take thy bill / & write foure scoore. And
the lorde cobar.gifmended the vniust stewarde / because he had done wysly. For þe chyldren of this worlde are in their kynde / wyser then þe chyldren of lyght. And I saye also vnto you: make you frendes of the wicked mammon / that when ye shall departe / they may receave you into everlastinge habitacions. cross.gif

cross.gif He that is faithfull in that which is leste þe same is faithfull in moche. 246.BAnd he þt is vnfaithfull in þe least: is vnfaithfull also in moche. So then yf ye have not ben faithfull in þe wicked mmon? who will beleve you in that 247.B which is true? And yf ye have not bene faithfull in another mnes busines: who shall geve you youre awne? No servaunt can serve .ii. masters / 248.B for other he shall hate þe one & love þe other / or els he shall lene to the one & despyse the other. Ye can not serve God & mammon.

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All these thinges herde the pharises also which were coveteous / and they mocked him. And he sayd vnto th: Ye are they which iustifie youre selves before m: but God knoweth youre hertes. For þe which is highlie estemed amobar.gifge m / is abhominable in þt sight of god cross.gif 249.D

The lawe and the Prophetes raygned vntyll the tyme of Iohn: and sence that tyme / the kyngdom of God is preached / and every man stryveth to goo in.

Soner shall heven and erth perisshe / then one tytle of the lawe shall perisshe. 250.DWhosoever forsaketh his wyfe and marieth another / 251.D breaketh matrimony. And every man which marieth her that is devorsed from her husbande


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cross.gif Ther was a certayne ryche man / which was clothed in purple & fyne bysse / 253.E and fared deliciously every daye. And ther was a certayne begger / named Lazarus / whiche laye at his gate full of soores / desyringe to be refresshed with the cromes whiche fell from the ryche mnes borde. Neverthelesse / the dogges came & licked his soores. And yt fortuned that the begger dyed / and was caried by the angelles into Abrahs bosome. The riche man also died / and was buried.

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And beinge in hell in tormtes / he lyfte vp his eyes & sawe Abraham a farre of / & Lazarus in his bosome / & he cryed and sayd: father Abraham / have mercy on me / & sende Lazarus that he maye dippe the tippe of his fynger in water / and cole my tonge: for I am tourmented in this flame. But Abrah sayd vnto him Sonne / remembre that thou in thy lyfe tyme / receavedst thy pleasure / & contrary wyse Lazarus payne. Now therfore is he comforted / and thou art punysshed. Beyonde all this / bitwene you & vs ther is a greate space set / so that they which wolde goo from thence to you cannot: nether maye come from thence to vs.

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Then he sayd: I praye the therfore father / send him to my fathers housse. For I have fyve brethren: for to warne th / left they also come into this place of tourmt. Abrah sayd vnto him: they have Moses 254.G & the Prophetes / let them heare them. And he sayd: naye father Abraham / but yf one came vnto th /
from the ded / they wolde repent. He sayd vnto him: If they heare not Moses & þe prophetes / nether will they beleve / though one roose from deeth agayne.

The .xvii. Chap.

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Then sayde he to þe disciples / it can not be avoyded / 255.A but that offences will come. Neverthelesse wo be to him thorow whom they come. It were better for him that a mylstone were hanged aboute his necke 256.A / & that he were cast into þe see / then that he shuld offende one of this lytleons. Take hede to youre selves. If thy brother trespas agaynst the / rebuke him: & yf he repent / forgeve him. And though he sinne agst þe .vii. tymes in a daye / & sev tymes in a daye tourne agayne to þe sayinge: it repenteth me / forgeve him

And the apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: increase oure faith. And the Lorde sayde: yf ye had faith lyke a grayne of mustard sede / and shuld saye vnto this sycamine tree / 257.A plucke thy selfe vp by the rootes / and plant thy selfe in the see: he should obey you.

Who is it of you yf he had a servate plowinge or fedinge catell / that wolde saye vnto him when he were come from the felde / Goo quickly and syt doune to meate: & wolde not rather saye to him / dresse wherwith I maye sup / & gyrde vp thy selfe and serve me / tyll I have eaten and dronken: and afterwarde / eate thou / and drinke thou? Doeth he thanke that servaunt because he dyd that which was commaunded vnto him? I trowe not. Soo lyke wyse ye / when ye have done all thoose thinges


which are commaunded you: saye / we are vnprofitable 258.A servates. We have done: þe which was oure duetye to do.

cross.gif And it chaunsed as he went to Ierusalem / that he passed thorow Samaria and Galile. And as he entred into a certayne toune / ther met him ten men þt were lepers. 259.AWhich stode a farre of / & put forth their voyces & sayde: Iesu master / have mercy on vs. When he sawe th / he sayde vnto them: Goo and shewe youre selves to the prestes. And it chaunsed as they went / they were clensed. And one of them / when he sawe that he was clensed / turned backe agayne / & with a loude voyce praysed God / and fell doune on his face at his fete / and gave him thankes. And the same was a Samaritane. And Iesus answered & sayde: are ther not ten clensed? But where are those nyne? Ther are not founde that returned agane / to geve God prayse / save only this straunger. And he sayde vnto him: aryse / & goo thy waye / thy faith hath made the whoale. cross.gif

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cross.gif When he was demaunded of þe pharises / when the kyngdome of God shuld come: he answered them and sayde: The kyngdome of God cometh not with waytinge for. Nether shall men saye: Loo here / loo there. For beholde / the 260.E kyngdome of God is with in you.

And he sayde vnto the disciples: The dayes will come / when ye shall desyre to se one daye of the sonne of man / & ye shall not se it. And they shall saye to you: Se here / Se there. Goo not after them / nor folowe them / for as the


lyghtenynge that apereth out of the one parte of the heven / and shyneth vnto the other parte of heven: 261.E Soo shall the sonne of man be in his dayes. But fyrst must he suffre many thinges / and be refused of this nacion.

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As it happened in þe tyme of Noe: So shall it be in the tyme of the sonne of man. 262.FThey ate / they dranke / they maryed wyves & were maryed / even vnto þt same daye þt Noe went into þe arke: & þe floud cam & destroyed th all. Lykewyse also / as it chaunsed in the dayes of Lot. They ate / they dranke / they bought / they solde / they planted / they bilte. 263.FAnd even the same daye that Lot went out of Zodom / it rayned fyre & brymstone from heven / & destroyed them all. After these ensamples / shall it be in the daye when the sonne of man shall appere.

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At that daye he that is on the housse toppe / and his stuffe in the housse: let him not come doune to take it out. And lykewyse let not him that is in the feldes / turne backe agayne to that he lefte behynde. Remember Lottes wyfe. 264.GWhosoever will goo about to save his lyfe / shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his lyfe / shall save it.

I tell you: In that nyght / ther shalbe two in one beed / the one shalbe receaved / and the other shalbe forsaken. Two shalbe also a grindynge to gedder: the one shalbe receaved / and the other forsaken. And they answered / & sayde to him: wheare Lorde? And he sayd vnto th: whersoever þe body shalbe / thyther will the egles resoorte. 265.G

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And he put forth a similitude vnto th / signifyinge that men ought alwayes to praye / & not to be wery sayinge: 266.A Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite / which feared not god nether regarded man. And ther was a certayne wedowe in the same cite / which came vnto him sayinge: avenge me of myne adversary. And he wolde not for a whyle. But afterwarde he sayd vnto him selfe: though I feare not God / nor care for man / yet because this wedowe troubleth me / I will avenge her lest at the laste she come and hagge on me.

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And the lorde sayd: heare what the vnrightewes Iudge sayeth. And shall not god avenge his electe / which crye daye and nyght vnto him / ye though he differre them? I tell you he will avenge them / and that quickly. cross.gif Neverthelesse / when the sonne of man cometh / suppose ye / that he shall fynde faithe on the erthe.

cross.gif And he put forthe this similitude / vnto certayne which trusted in th selves þt they were perfecte / & despysed other. Two men went vp into þe tple to praye: þe one a pharise / & the other a publican. The pharise stode & prayed thus [wt] him selfe. God I thanke the þt I am not as other men are / extorsioners / vniuste / advoutrers / or as this publican. I fast twyse in þe weke. I geve tythe of all that I possesse. And the publican stode afarre of / & wolde not lyfte vp his eyes to heven / but smote his brest sayinge: God be mercyfull to me a synner. I tell you: this m departed hobar.gife to his housse


iustified moore then the other. For every man that exalteth him selfe / 267.B shalbe brought low: And he þt hbleth him selfe / shalbe exalted cross.gif 268.B

They brought vnto him also babes / þt he shuld touche th. When his disciples sawe that / they rebuked th. But Iesus called th vnto him / & sayde: Suffre chyldren to come vnto me / & forbidde th not. 269.BFor of soche is þe kyngdome of God. Verely I saye vnto you: whosoever receaveth not the kyngdome of God / as a chylde: he shall not enter therin.

And a certayne ruler axed him sayinge: Good Master: what ought I to do / to obtayne eternall lyfe? Iesus sayd vnto him: Why callest thou me good? No man is good / save God only. Thou knowest þe cobar.gifmaundment[es]: Thou shalt not commit advoutry: thou shalt not kyll: 270.B thou shalt not steale: thou shalt not beare false witnes: Honoure thy father & thy mother. And he sayde: all these have I kept from my youthe. When Iesus hearde that / he sayde vnto him: Yet lackest thou one thinge. Sell all that thou hast / & distribute it vnto the poore / and thou shalt have treasure in heven / and come / & folowe me. When he heard that / he was hevy: for he was very ryche.

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When Iesus sawe him morne / he sayde: with what difficulte shall they that have ryches / enter into the kyngdome of God: it is easyer for a camell to goo thorow a nedles 271.E eye / then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God. Then sayde they that hearde that: And who shall then be saved?
And he sayde: Thinges which are vnpossible with men are possible with God.

Then Peter sayde: Loo we have lefte all / & have folowed the. And he sayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you / ther is noo man that leaveth housse / other father & mother / 272.E other brethren or wyfe or chyldren for the kyngdome of Goddes sake / which same shall not receave moche moore in this worlde: 273.E and in the worlde to come / lyfe everlastinge.

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cross.gif He toke vnto him twelve / & sayde vnto them. Beholde we go vp to Ierusalem / & all shalbe fulfilled that are written by þe Prophetes 274.F of the sonne of man. He shalbe delivered vnto the gentils / & shalbe mocked / and shalbe despytfully entreated / and shalbe spetted on: and when they have scourged him / they will put him to deeth / and the thyrde daye he shall aryse agayne. But they vnderstode none of these thinges. And this sayinge was hid frobar.gif them. And they perceaved not the thinges which were spoken.

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And it came to passe / as he was come nye vnto Hierico / 275.G a certayne blynde man sate by the waye syde begginge. And when he hearde the people passe by / he axed what it meant. And they sayde vnto him / þt Iesus of Nazareth passed by. And he cryed sayinge: Iesus þe sonne of David / have thou mercy on me. And they which went before rebuked him / that he shuld holde his peace. But he cryed so moche the moare / thou sonne of David have mercy on me. And Iesus stode styll / & commaunded
him to be brought vnto him. And when he was come neare / he axed him / sayinge: What wilt thou that I do vnto the? And he sayde: Lorde / þt I maye receave my sight. Iesus sayde vnto him: receave thy sight: thy faith hath saved the. And immediatly he sawe / and folowed him / praysinge God. And all the people / when they sawe it / gave laude to God. cross.gif

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And he entred in / & went thorow Hierico. 276.AAnd beholde / ther was a m named Zacheus / which was a ruler amobar.gifge the Publicans / and was riche also. And he made meanes to se Iesus / what he shuld be: & coulde not for the preace / because he was of a lowe stature. Wherfore he ran before / and ascded vp / into a wilde fygge tree / to se him: for he shulde come that same waye. And when Iesus cam to the place / he loked vp / & sawe him / & sayd vnto him: zache / attonce come doune / for to daye I must abyde at thy housse. And he came doune hastelye & receaved him ioyfully. And when they sawe that / they all groudged sayinge: He is gone in to tary with a man that is a synner.

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And zache stode forth & sayd vnto þe Lorde: beholde Lorde / þe haulfe of my gooddes I geve to the povre / & if I have done eny m wrobar.gifge / I will restore him fower folde. And Iesus sayd to him: this daye is healthe come vnto this housse / for as moche as it also is become the chylde of Abrah. For the sonne of m is come to seke & to save that which was looste.


277.BAs they hearde these thing[es] / he added ther to a similitude / be cause he was nye to Hierusalem / and because also they thought that the kyngdome of God shuld shortely appere. He sayde therfore: cross.gif a certayne noble man / wt into a farre countre / to receave him a kyngdome / and then to come agayne. And he called his ten servauntes / and delyvered them ten pounde sayinge vnto them: 278.B by and sell till I come. But his citesens hated him / and sent messengers after him sayinge: We will not have this man to raygne over vs.

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And it came to passe / when he was come agayne & had receaved his kyngdome / he cobar.gifmaunded these servates / to be called to him (to whom he gave his money) to witt what every man had done. Then came þe fyrst sayinge: Lorde / thy pounde hath encreased ten pode. And he sayde vnto him: Well good servate / because thou wast faithfull in a very lytell thynge / take thou auctorite over ten cities. And the other came sayinge: Lorde thy pode hath encreased fyve pounde. And to þe same he sayde: & be thou also ruler ouer fyve cities.

And the thyrde came & sayde: Lorde / beholde here thy pounde / which I have kepte in a napkyn / for I feared the / because thou arte a strayte man: thou takest vp that thou laydest not doune / and repest that thou dyddest not sowe.

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And he sayde vnto him: Of thine awne mouth / iudge I the / thou evyll servaunt. knewest thou that I am a strayte man / takinge vp that I layde not doune / & repinge that
I dyd not sowe? Wherfore then gavest not thou my money into the banke / that at my cobar.gifminge I might have required myne awne with vauntage?

And he sayde to them that stode by: take frobar.gif him that pounde / & geve it him that hath ten pode. And they sayd vnto him: Lorde he hath ten pounde. 279.DI saye vnto you / that vnto all th that have / it shalbe gev: & from him þt hath not / ev that he hath shalbe taken from him. Moreover those myne enemys / which wolde not that I shuld raigne over them / bringe hidder / & slee them before me. And when he had thus spoken / he proceded forthe before a / ssendinge vp to Ierusalem. cross.gif

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And it fortuned / when he was come nye to Bethphage & Bethany / 280.E besydes mote olivete / he sent two of his disciples sayinge: Goo ye in to the toune which is over agaynste you. In the which assone as ye are come / ye shall finde a colte tyed / wheron yet never man sate. Lowse him and bringe him hider. And if eny man axe you / why that ye loowse him: thus saye vnto him / þe lorde hath nede of him.

They that were sent / went their waye / and founde / ev as he had sayde vnto th. And as they were aloosinge þe coolte / the owners sayde vnto th: why lowse ye þe coolte? And they sayde: for þe Lorde hath nede of him. 281.EAnd they brought him to Iesus. And they cast their raymt on þe colte / & set Iesus therobar.gif. And as he wt / they spredde their clothes in þe waye.

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And when he was now come / wheare he
shuld goo doune frobar.gif the mote olivete / þe whole multitude of þe disciples began to reioyce / & to lawde God with a loude voyce / for all þe miracles þt they had sene sayinge: Blessed be the kynge that cobar.gifmeth in the name of the Lorde: peace in heav / & glory in the hyest. And some of þe Pharises of the cobar.gifpany sayde vnto him: Master rebuke thy disciples. He answered / & sayde vnto th: I tell you / yf these shuld holde their peace / the stones wold crye.

cross.gif And when he was come neare / he behelde the citie / & wept on it sayinge: Yf thou haddest dest knowen those thinges which belonge vn thy peace / ev at this thy tyme. But now are they hydde from thyne eyes. 282.FFor the dayes shall come vpobar.gif the / that thy enemys shall cast a banke aboute the / and cobar.gifpasse the rounde / & kepe the in on every syde / and make the even with the grounde / with thy chyldren which are in the. And they shall not leve in the one stone vpobar.gif another / because thou knewest not the tyme of thy visitacion.

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And he went in to the temple / & begne to cast out them that solde therin / 283.G & them that bought / sayinge vnto them / yt is written: my housse is the housse of prayer: but ye have made it a den of theves. And he taught dayly in the temple. cross.gif The hye Prestes and the Scribes and the chefe of the people went about to destroye him: but coulde not finde what to do. For all the people stacke by him / and gave him audience.

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And yt fortuned in one of those dayes / as he taught the people in the temple and preached the gospell:

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the hye prestes and the scribes came with the elders / 284.A and spake vnto him sayinge. Tell vs by what auctorite thou doest these thing[es]? Ether who is he þt gave þe this auctorite? He answered and saide vnto th: I also will axe you a questiobar.gif / and answer me. The baptyme of Iohn: was it from heaven or of men? 285.AAnd they thought with in them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye from heav: he will saye: why then beleved ye him not? But & yf we shall saye of men / all þe people will stone vs. For they be persuaded that Ihon is a Prophet. And they answered that they coulde not tell whence it was. And Iesus sayde vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.

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Then begne he to put forthe to the people / this similitude. 286.BA certayne man planted a vyneyarde / & let it forthe to fermers / & went him selfe into a straunge countre for a greate season. And when the tyme was come / he sent a servat to his tennauntes that they shuld geve him of the frutes of the vyneyarde. And the tennaunt[es] dyd bet him / & sent him awaye empty. And agayne he sent yet another servaunt. And they dyd bet him / & foule entreated him also / & sent him awaye emptye. Moreover / he sent the thyrde to / and him they woded / and cast out. Then sayde the lorde of the vyneyarde: what shall I do? I will sende my deare sonne / him peradventure they will reverence
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But when the fermers sawe him / they thought in them selves sayinge: this is the heyre / come let vs kyll him / that the inheritaunce maye be oures. And they cast him out of the vyneyarde / and kylled him. Now what shall the Lorde of the vyneyarde do vnto them? He will come and destroye those fermers / and will let out his vyneyarde to other. When they hearde that / they sayde: God forbyd.

And he behelde them and sayde: what meaneth this then þt is wrytten: The stone that the bylders refused / 287.C the same is made þe heed corner stone? whosoever stomble at that stone / shalbe broken: but on whosoever it faul vpon / it wyll grynde him to powder. And the hye Prestes and the Scribes the same howre went about to laye hondes on him / but they feared the people. For they perceaved that he had spoken this similitude agaynst them.

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And they watched him / and sent forth spies / 288.D which shuld fayne them selves perfecte / to take him in his wordes / and to delyvre him vnto the power and auctorite of the debite. And they axed him sayinge: Master / we knowe that thou sayest & teachest ryght / nother cobar.gifsiderest thou eny mnes degre / but teachest the waye of God truly. 289.DYs it laufull for vs to geve Cesar tribute or no? He perceaved their craftynes / & sayde vnto them: why tpt ye me? Shewe me a peny. 290.DWhose ymage and superscripciobar.gif hath it? They answered
and sayde: Cesars. And he sayde vnto them: Geve then vnto Cesar / that which belongeth vnto Cesar: & to God / that which pertayneth to God. 291.DAnd they coulde not reprove his sayinge before the people.
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But they marvayled at his answer / and helde their peace. 292.E

Then came to him certayne of the Saduces which denye that ther is eny resurrecciobar.gif. And they axed him sayinge: Master / Moses wrote vnto vs / if eny mannes brother dye havinge a wyfe / & the same dye with out yssue: that then his brother shuld take his wyfe / & reyse vp seede vnto his brother. Ther were seven brethren / and the fyrste toke a wyfe / and dyed with out children. And the seconde toke the wyfe / & he dyed chyldlesse. And the thyrde toke her / & in lyke wyse the resydue of the seven / & leeft no chyldren be hynde them / and dyed. Last of all the wom dyed also. Now at the resurrecciobar.gif whose wyfe of them shall she be? For seven had her to wyfe.

Iesus answered & sayde vnto them. The chyldr of this worlde mary wyves / & are maryed /

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but they which shalbe made worthy to enioye that worlde and the resurreccion from deeth / nether mary wyves / nether are maryed / nor yet can dye eny moare. For they are equall vnto the angels: & are the sonnes of God / in as moche as they are the chyldr of the resurreccion. 293.FAnd that the deed shall ryse agayne / even Moses signified besydes the busshe / when he sayde: the Lorde God of Adraham / & the God of Isaac / & the God of Iacob. For
he is not the God of the deed / but of them which live. For all live in him. Then certayne of the Pharises answered and sayde: Master thou hast well sayde. And after that durst they not axe him eny question at all.

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Then sayde he vnto them: how saye they that Christ is Davids sonne? 294.GAnd David him selfe sayth in the boke of the Psalmes: The Lorde sayde vnto my Lorde / syt on my right honde / 295.G tyll I make thine enemys thy fothe stole. Seinge David calleth him Lorde: How is he then his sonne.

Then in the audience of all the people / he sayde vnto his disciples / 296.G beware of the Scribes / which desyre to goo in longe clothinge: & love gretynges in the markets / and the hyest seates in the synagoges / and chefe roumes at feastes / which devoure widdowes houses / & that vnder a coloure of longe prayinge: the same shall receave greater damnacion.

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As he behelde / he sawe the ryche men / how they cast in their offeringes into 297.A the treasury. And he sawe also a certayne povre widdowe / which cast in thyther two mites. And he sayde: of a trueth I saye vnto you / this poore wyddowe hath put in moare then they all. For they all have of their superfluyte added vnto the offerynge 298.A of God: but she / of her penury / hath cast in all the substaunce that she had.

As some spake of the tple / how it was garnesshed with goodly stones & iewels / he sayde.


The dayes will come / wh of these thynges which ye se / shall not be lefte stone apon stone / that shall not be throwen doune.
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299.BAnd they axed him sayinge: Master wh shall these thing[es] be / and what signe will therbe / wh suche thinges shall come to passe.

And he sayd: take hede / that ye be not deceaved. For many will come in my name saying: I am he: and the tyme draweth neare. Folowe ye not them therfore. But when ye heare of warre and of dissencion: be not afrayd. For these thinges must fyrst come: but the ende foloweth not by & by. Then sayd he vnto th: Nacion shall ryse agaynst nacion / and kingdom agaynst kyngdome /

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and greate erthquakes shall be in all quarters / and honger / and pestilence: and fearfull thinges. And greate signes shall therbe from heven.

But before all these / they shall laye their hondes on you / and persecute you / delyueringe you vp to the sinagoges and into preson / and bringe you before kynges and rulers for my names sake. And this shall chaunce you for a testimoniall. Let it sticke therfore faste in youre hertes / not once to stody before / what ye shall answere: for I will geve you a mouth & wisdome / 300.C where agaynste / all youre adversarys shall not be able to speake nor resist. Ye & ye shalbe betrayed of youre fathers and mothers / and of youre brethren / and kynsmen / and lovers / aud some of you shall they put to deeth. And hated shall ye be of all men for my names sake. Yet ther shall not one heer of youre


heedes perisshe. With youre pacience 301.C possesse youre soules.

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And when ye se Ierusalem beseged with an hoste / then vnderstonde that the desolaciobar.gif of the same is nye. Then let them which are in Iewrye flye to the mountaynes. And let them which are in the middes of it / departe oute. And let not them that are in other countreis / enter ther in. 302.DFor these be the dayes of vengeance / to fulfill all that are writt. But wo be to them that be with chylde / & to them that geve sucke in those dayes: for ther shalbe greate trouble in the londe / and wrath over all this people. And they shall fall on the edge of the swearde / and shalbe leed captive / into all nacions. And Ierusalem shalbe trooden vnder fote of the gentyls / vntyll the tyme of the gentyls be fulfilled.

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cross.gif And ther shalbe signes in the sunne / d in the mone / and in the starres: 303.E and in þe erth the people shalbe in soche perplexite / þt they shall not tell which waye to turne them selves. The see and the waters shall roore / & mnes hertes shall fayle them for feare / and for lokinge after thoose thinges which shall come on the erth. For the powers of hev shall move. And then shall they se the sonne of m come in a clowde with power and greate glory. When these thinges begyn to come to passe: then loke vp / and lifte vp youre heddes for youre redemcion draweth neye.

And he shewed th a similitude: beholde þe fygge tree / & all other trees / when they shute


forth their buddes / ye se and knowe of youre awne selves that sommer is then nye at hobar.gifd. So lyke wyse ye (when ye se these thinges come to passe) vnderstonde / that the kyngdome of God is neye. Verely I saye vnto you: this generacion shall not passe / tyll all be fulfilled. Heaven & erth shall passe: but my wordes shall not passe. cross.gif

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cross.gif Take hede to youre selves / lest youre hertes be overcome with surfettinge and dronkennes and cares of this worlde: and that / that daye come on you vnwares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that sit on the face of the erthe. Watche therfore continually and praye / 304.G that ye maye obtayne grace to flye all this that shall come / & that ye maye stonde before the sonne of man. cross.gif

In the daye tyme / he taught in the temple / and at night / he went out / and had abydinge in the mount olivete. And all the people came in the morninge to him in the temple / for to heare him.

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The feaste of swete breed drue nye whiche is called ester / 305.A and the hye prestes and Scribes sought how to kyll him / but they feared the people. Then entred Satan into Iudas / whose syr name was Iscariot (which was of the nombre of the twelve) & he went his waye & cobar.gifmuned with the 306.A hye Prestes and officers / how he might betraye him to them. And they were glad: & promysed to geve him money. And he consented
and sought oportunite to betraye him vnto them / when the people were awaye.

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Then came þe daye of swete breed / when of necessite the esterlambe must be offered. 307.FAnd he sent Peter & Iohn sayinge: Goo & prepare vs the ester lambe / that we maye eate. They sayde to him. Where wilt thou / þt we prepare? And he sayd vnto them. Beholde when ye be entred into the cite / ther shall a man mete you bearinge a pitcher of water / him folowe into the same housse þt he entreth in / & saye vnto þe good m of þe housse. The master sayeth vnto þe: where is þe gest chamber / where I shall eate myne ester lambe [wt] my disciples? And he shall shew you a greate parloure paved. Ther make redy. And they wt & fode as he had sayd vnto th: & made redy þe ester lambe.

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308.BAnd when the houre was come / he sate doune and the twelve Apostles with him. And he sayde vnto them: I have inwardly desyred / to eate this ester lambe with you before þt I suffre. For I saye vnto you: hence forthe / I will not eate of it eny moore / vntill it be fulfilled in the kingdome of God. And he toke the cup / & gave thankes / & sayde. Take this / and devyde it amonge you. For I saye vnto you: I will not drinke of the frute of the vyne / vntill the kingdome of God be come.

And he toke breed / gave thankes / and gave to them / sayinge: 309.B This is my body which is geven for you. This do in the remembraunce of me. Lykewyse also / when they had supped / he toke the cup sayinge: This cup is the newe


testament / in my bloud / which shall for you be shedde.

Yet beholde / the honde of him that betrayeth me / is with me on the table. 310.BAnd þe sonne of man goeth as it is appoynted: But wo be to þt man by whom he is betrayed. And they began to enquyre amobar.gifge them selves / which of them it shuld be / that shuld do that.

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cross.gif And ther was a stryfe amobar.gifge th / which of them shuld be taken for the greatest. 311.CAnd he sayde vnto them: the kynges of the gtyls raygne over them / and they that beare rule over them / are called gracious lordes. But ye shall not be so. But he that is greatest amonge you / shalbe as the yongest: and he that is chefe / shalbe as the minister. For whether is greater / he that sitteth at meate: or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meate? And I am amobar.gifge you / as he that ministreth. Ye are they which have bidden with me in my temptacions. And I apoynt vnto you a kyngdome / as my father hath appoynted to me: that ye maye eate and drynke at my table in my kyngdome / and sit on seates / and iudge the twelve tribes of Israell. cross.gif

And the Lorde sayde: Simon / Simon beholde Satan hath desired you / 312.C to sifte you / as it were wheate: bnt I have prayed for the / that thy faith fayle not. And when thou arte converted / strengthe thy brethr. 313.CAnd he sayd vnto him. Lorde I am redy to go with the in to preson / & to deth. And he sayde: I tell the Peter / the cocke shall not crowe this daye / tyll


thou have thryse denyed þt thou knewest me.

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And he sayde vnto them: when I sent you with out wallet and scripe & shoes? lacked ye eny thinge? And they sayd / no. And he sayde to them: but nowe he that hath a wallet let him take it vp and lykewyse his scrippe. 314.DAnd he that hath no swearde / let him sell his coote and bye one. For I saye vnto you / that yet / that which is written / must be performed in me: even with the wycked was he nombred. For those thinges which are written of me / have an ende. And they sayde: Lorde / beholde here are two sweardes. 315.DAnd he sayde vnto them: it is ynough.

316.DAnd he came out / and went as he was wobar.gifte / to mounte olivete. And the disciples folowed him. And when he came to the place / he sayde to th: praye / lest ye fall into temptaciobar.gif.

And he gate him selfe from them / about a stones cast / & kneled doune / & prayed / sayinge: Father yf thou wilt /

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withdrawe this cup frobar.gif me. Neverthelesse / not my will / but thyne be be fulfilled. And ther appered an angell vnto him from heaven / confortinge him. And he was in an agonye / & prayed somwhat longer. And hys sweate was lyke droppes of bloud / tricklynge doune to the grounde. 317.EAnd he rose vp from prayer & came to his disciples / & fode them slepinge for sorowe / and sayde vnto them: Why slepe ye? Ryse and praye / lest ye fall into temptacion.

Whill he yet spake: beholde / ther came a company / and he that was called Iudas / one


of the twelve / wt before them / & preased nye vnto Iesus to kysse him. And Iesus sayd vnto him: Iudas / betrayest thou þe sonne of man with a kysse? When they which were about him sawe what wolde folow / they sayde vnto him. Lorde / shall we smite with swearde. And one of them smote a servat of þe hiest preste 318.E of all / & smote of his right eare. And Iesus answered & sayd: Soffre ye thus farre forthe. And he touched his eare / and healed him.

Then Iesus sayde vnto the hye prestes and rulers of the temple & the elders which were come to him.

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Be ye come out / as vnto a thefe with sweardes and staves? 319.FWhen I was dayly with you in the tple / ye stretched not forth hondes agaynst me. But this is even youre very houre / and the power of darcknes. Then toke they him / and ledde him / and brought him to the hye prestes housse. And peter folowed a farre of.

When they had kyndled a fyre in the middes of the palys / 320.F and were set doune to geder Peter also sate doune amonge them. And wone of the wenches / behelde him as he sate by the fyer / and set good eyesight on him & sayde: this same was also with him. Then he denyed hym sayinge: woman I knowe him not 321.FAnd after a lytell whyle / another sawe him & sayde: thou arte also of them. And Peter sayd man I am not. And aboute the space of an houre after / another affirmed sayinge:

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verely even this felowe was with hym / for he is of Galile / & Peter sayde: m I woote not
what thou sayest. And immediatly whyll he yet spake / the cocke crewe. And the Lorde tourned backe and loked apon Peter. And Peter remembred the wordes of the Lorde / how he sayde vnto him / before þe cocke crowe / thou shalt denye me thryse. And Peter went out / and wepte bitterly.

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And the men that stode about Iesus / mocked him / & smoote him / and blyndfolded him / & smoote his face. And axed him sayinge: arede / who it is that smoote þe? 322.GAnd many other thinges despytfullye sayd they agaynst him.

And assone as it was daye / the elders of the people & the hye prestes & scribes / came to gedder & ledde him into their counsell sayinge: 323.G arte thou very Christ? tell vs. And he sayde vnto th: yf I shall tell you / ye will not beleve And yf also I axe you / ye will not answere me / or let me goo. Herafter shall the sonne of man sit on the ryght honde of the power of God. Then sayde they all: Arte thou then the sonne of God? He sayd to them: ye saye þt I am. Then sayde they: what nede we eny further witnes? We oure selves have herde of his awne mouthe.

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And the whole multitude of them arose / & ledde him vnto Pylate. 324.AAnd they beganne to accuse him sayinge: We have founde this felowe pervertynge the people / and forbiddynge to paye tribute to Cesar: sayinge / that he is Christ a kynge. And Pylate apposed him sayinge: arte thou the kynge of the iewes? He answered him and sayde:
thou sayest it. Then sayde Pylate to the hye prestes / and to the people: I fynde noo faute in this man. And they were the moore fearce sayinge. He moveth the people / teachynge thorowout all Iewry / and beganne at Galile / even to this place.

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When Pilate hearde mencion of Galile / he axed whether the m were of Galile. 325.BAnd assone as he knewe that he was of Herodes iurisdiccion / he sent him to Herode / which was also at Ierusalem in those dayes. And when Herode sawe Iesus / he was excedinglie gladde. For he was desyrous to se him of a longe season / because he had hearde many thinges of him / & trusted to have sene some myracle done by him. Then questeoned he with him of many thinges. But he answered him not one worde. 326.BThe hye prestes and scribes / stode forthe & accused him straytly. And Herod [wt] his men of warre / despysed him / and mocked him / and arayed him in whyte / and sent him agayne to Pylate. 327.BAnd the same daye Pylate and Herod were made frendes togeder. For before they were at variaunce.

And Pylate called to geder the hye prestes and the rulers / and the people / & sayde vnto them: Ye have brought this man vnto me / as one that perverted the people. 328.BAnd beholde I have examined him before you / & have founde no faute in this man /

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of those thinges where of ye accuse him. No nor yet Herode. For I sent you to him: and lo no thinge worthy of deeth is done to him. I will therfore chasten
him & let him lowsse. For of necessite / he must have let one lowse vnto them at that feast.

And all the people cryed at once sayinge: awaye with him / & delyvre to vs Barrabas: 329.C which for insurrccion made in the cite / & morther / was cast into preson. Pylate spake agayne to them willynge to let Iesus lowse. And they cryed sayinge: Crucify him / Crucify him He sayde vnto them the thyrde tyme. What evyll hath he done? I fynde no cause of deeth in him. I will therfore chasten him / and let him lowse. And they cryed with loude voyce / and required that he myght be crucifyed. And the voyce of them and of the hye Prestes prevayled.

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And Pylate gave sentence that it shuld be as they required and let lowse vnto them / him that for insurreccion and morther / was cast into preson / whom they desyred: & delyvered Iesus to do with him what they wolde. And as they ledde him awaye / they caught one Symon of Syrene / 330.D commynge out of the felde: and on him layde they the crosse / to beare it after Iesus.

331.DAnd ther folowed him a greate company of people and of wemen / which wem bewayled and lamented him. But Iesus turned backe vnto them / and sayde: Doughters of Ierusalem / wepe not for me: but wepe for youre selves and for youre chyldren. 332.DFor beholde / the dayes will come / when men shall saye: happy are the baren and the wombes that never bare / and the pappes which never gave sucke.


333.DThen shall they beginne to saye to the mountaynes / fall on vs: and to the hilles / cover vs. For yf they do this to a grene tree / what shalbe done to the drye?

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And ther were two evyll doers ledde with him to be slayne. And when they were come to the place / 334.E which is called Calvary / there they crucified him / and the evyll doers / one on ryght honde / and the other on the lefte. Then sayde Iesus: father forgeve them / for they woot not what they do. And they parted his rayment / and cast loottes. And the people stode and behelde.

335.EAnd the rulers mocked him with the saying: he holpe other men / let him helpe him selfe / yf he be Christ the chosen of god. The soudiers also mocked him / & came and gave him veneger and sayde: yf thou be that kynge of þe Iewes / save thy silfe. And his superscripciobar.gif was writt over him / in greke / in latine and Ebreu: This is the kynge of the Iewes.

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And one of the evyll doers which hanged / rayled on him sayinge: If thou be Christ save thy selfe and vs. The other answered and rebuked him sayinge. Net herfearest thou god / because thou arte in the same damnacion? We are ryghteously punesshed / for we receave accordynge to oure dedes: But this man hath done nothinge amysse. And he sayde vnto Iesus: Lorde remember me when thou comest into thy kyngdome. And Iesus sayde vnto him: Verely I saye vnto the / to daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse. 336.F


And it was about the sixt houre. And ther came a darcknes over all the londe / vntyll þe nynth houre / and the sonne was darckened. 337.F And the vayle of the temple dyd rent even thorow the myddes. And Iesus cryed with a greate voyce and sayd: Father / 338.F into thy hondes I cobar.gifmende my sprete. And when he thus had sayd / he gave vp the goost. When þe Centurion sawe what had happened / he glorified God sayinge: Of a surtie this man was perfecte. 339.FAnd all the people that came to geder to that sight / beholdynge the thinges which were done: smoote their bestes / and returned home. And all his acquayntaunce / and the wemen / that folowed him from Galile / stode a farre of beholdynge these thinges.

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And beholde ther was a man named Ioseph / a councelloure / 340.G and was a good man & a iuste / & dyd not consent to the counsell and dede of them / which was of Aramathia / a cite of the Iewes: which same also wayted for þe kyngdome of God: he went vnto Pilate / & begged the boddy of Iesus / and toke it doune / & wrapped it in a lynnen clooth / and layed it in an hewen toumbe / wherin was never man before layed. cross.gif And that daye was þe Saboth even / & the Saboth drue on. The wemen that folowed after / which came with him from Galile / behelde the sepulcre and how his body was layed. And they returned & prepared odoures and oyntmtes: but rested the Saboth daye / accordynge to the commaundement.

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341.AOn the morowe after the saboth / erly in the morninge / they came vnto the toumbe & brought the odoures which they had prepared & other wemen with them And they founde the stone rouled awaye frobar.gif the sepulcre / and went in: but founde not the body of the Lorde Iesu. And it happened / as they were amased therat: Beholde two men stode by them in shynynge vestures. And as they were a frayde / and bowed doune their faces to the erth: they sayd to them: why seke ye the lyvinge amonge the deed? He is not here: but is rysen. Remember how he spake vnto you / 342.A when he was yet with you in Galile / sayinge: that the sonne of man must be delyvered into the hondes of synfull men /
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and be crucified / and the thyrde daye ryse agayne.

And they remembred his wordes / & returned from the sepulcre / and tolde all these thinges vnto the eleven / & to all the remanaunt. It was Mary Magdalen and Ioanna / & Mary Iacobi / & other that were with th / which tolde these thinges vnto the Apostles / & their wordes semed vnto them fayned thinges / nether beleved they them. 343.BThen aroose Peter and ran vnto the sepulcre / and stouped in and sawe the lynnen cloothes layde by them selfe / and departed wondrynge in him selfe at that which had happened. cross.gif

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cross.gif And beholde / two of them went that same daye to a toune which was frobar.gif Ierusalem about thre scoore for longes / called Emaus: and they talked togeder of all these thinges 344.C
that had happened. And it chaunsed / as they cobar.gifmened togeder & reasoned / that Iesus him selfe drue neare / & went with them. But their eyes were holden / that they coulde not knowe him. And he sayde vnto them: What maner of cobar.gifmunicacions are these that ye have one to another as ye walke / & are sadde. And the one of them named Cleophas / answered and sayd vnto him: arte thou only a straunger in Ierusalem / & haste not knowen the thinges which have chaunsed therin in these dayes? To whom he sayd: what thinges?

And they sayd vnto him: of Iesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet / myghtie in dede / & worde / before god / & all the people. And how the hye prestes / & oure rulers delyvered him to be condempned to deeth: and have crucified him. But we trusted that it shuld have bene he that shuld have delyvered Israel. And as touchynge all these thinges / to daye is even the thyrd daye / that they were done.

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Ye and certayne wemen also of oure company made vs astonyed / which came erly vnto the sepulcre / and founde not his boddy: and came sayinge / that they had sene a vision of angels / which sayde that he was alyve. And certayne of them which were with vs / went their waye to the sepulcre / and founde it even so as the wemen had sayde: but him they sawe not.

And he sayde vnto th: O foles and slowe of herte to beleve all þt the prophet[es] have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffred these


thinges / & to enter into his glory? And he began at Moses / & at all the prophetes / & interpreted vnto them in all scriptures which were wrytten of him.
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And they drue neye vnto the toune wich they went to. And he made as though he wolde have gone further. But they constrayned him sayinge: abyde with vs / for it draweth towardes nyght / & the daye is farre passed. And he went in to tary with th.

And it came to passe as he sate at meate [wt] them / he toke breed / blessed it / brake and gave to them. And their eyes were openned / & they knewe him:

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and he vnnisshed out of their syght. And they sayde betwene them selves: dyd not oure hertes burne with in vs / whyll he talked with vs by the waye / and as he opened to vs the scriptures? And they roose vp the same houre / and returned agayne to Ierusalem / and founde the eleven gadered to geder and them that were with them / which sayde: the Lorde is rysen in dede / and hath apered to Simon. And they tolde what thinges was done in the waye / and how they knewe him in breakynge of breed. cross.gif

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345.FAs they thus spake cross.gif Iesus him selfe stode in þe myddes of them / & sayde vnto them: peace be with you. And they were abasshed & afrayde / supposinge þt they had sene a sprete And he sayde vnto th: Why are ye troubled / & why do thoughtes aryse in youre hertes? Beholde my hondes & my fete / that it is even my selfe. Handle me & se: for spretes have not flesshe & bones / as ye se me have. And when
he had thus spoken / he shewed them his hondes and his fete. And whyll they yet beleved not for ioye / and wondred / he sayde vnto th: Have ye here eny meate? And they gave him a pece of a broyled fisshe / and of an hony combe. And he toke it / and ate it before them.

And he sayde vnto th. These are the wordes / which I spake vnto you / whyll I was yet with you:

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346.G that all must be fulfilled which were written of me in the lawe of Moses / & in the Prophetes / & in the Psalmes. Then openned he their wyttes / that they myght vnderstond the scriptures / and sayde vnto them. Thus is it written / & thus it behoved Christ to suffre / 347.G and to ryse agayne from deeth the thyrde daye / and that repentaunce and remission of synnes shuld be preached in his name amonge all nacions / cross.gif and must beginne at Ierusalem. And ye are witnesses of these thinges. And beholde / I will sende the promes of my father apon you. 348.GBut tary ye in þe cite of Ierusalem / vntyll ye be endewed with power from an hye.

And he ledde th out into Bethany / & lyfte vp his hondes / & blest them. 349.GAnd it cam to passe / as he blessed th / he departed from th / & was caryed vp in to heven. And they worshipped him / & returned to Ierusalem with greate ioye / and were continually in the temple / praysinge and laudinge God. Amen.

Here endeth the Gospell of Sayncte Luke.

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