The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .xii. Chapter.

AS ther gadered to gether an innumera∣ble [ A] * 1.1 multitude of people (in so moche that they trood one another) he began to saye vnto his disciples: Fyrst of all beware of the levē of the Pharises / which is ypocri∣sy. For ther is no thinge covered / that shall* 1.2 not be vncovered: nether hyd / 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 ea∣re / evē in secret places / shalbe preached even on the toppe of the housses.

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

have no moare that they can do. But I will* 1.3 shewe you / whom ye shall feare. Feare him which after he hath killed / hath power to cast in to hell. Ye I saye vnto you / him feare. Are not five sparowes bought for two farthin∣ges? And yet not one of them is forgotten of God. Also even the very heres of youre hee∣des are nombred. Feare not therfore: ••e are moare of value / then many sparowes. [ B]

I saye vnto you: Whosoever confesseth me before men / evē him shall y^• sonne of man* 1.4 confesse also before y^• angels of God. And he that denyeth me before men: shalbe denyed be¦fore* 1.5 y^• angels of God. And whosoever spea∣keth a worde agaynst y^• sonne of mā / it shalbe forgeven him. But vnto him y^• blasphemeth the holy goost / it shall not be forgeven.

When they bringe you vnto the synago∣ges / and* 1.6 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.

✚ One of the company sayde vnto hym: Master byd my brother devide the enheritait¦ce with me. And he sayde vnto him: Man / * 1.7 who made me a iudge or a devider over you? Wherfore he fayde 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 simi∣litude vnto them sayinge:

The groūde of a certayne riche mā brought

forth frutes plenteously / & he thought in him silfe 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 gad der all my frutes / & my goodes: & I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes fayde vp in stoore for many yeares / take thyne case: eate / drinke / & be mery. But God sayde vnto him: Thou fole / this night will they fet¦che awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall thoose thinges be which thou hast provyded? So is it with him that gade∣reth ryches / and is not ryche in God.

And he spake vnto his disciples: Therfore I saye vnto you: Take no thought for youre* 1.8 lyfe / what ye shall cate / 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 bar* 1.9 ne / & yet God fedeth them. How moche are ye better then the foules.

Which of you with takynge thought can [ d] adde to his stature one cubit? Yf ye then be not able to do that thinge which is least: why* 1.10 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 grafse which is to daye in the felde / and to morowe shalbe cast into the fornace /

God so clothe: how moche moore will he clo∣the you / o ye endued w^t litell faith? And axe not what ye shall eate / or what ye shall drin∣ke / 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 shal¦be ministred vnto you.* 1.11

Feare not litell floocke / for it is youre fa∣thers pleasure / to geve you a kingdome. Sell that ye have / and geve almes. And make you bagges / which we ye not olde / & treasure that fayleth not in heaven / where noo these com∣meth / nether* 1.12 moth corrupteth. For where you¦re treasure is / there will youre hertes be also.

Let youre loynes be gerdde about / & youre lightes brennynge / & ye yours selves lyke vn∣to [ E] * 1.13 men / that wayte for their master / when he will returne frō a weddinge: that assone as he cōmeth & knocketh / they maye opē vnto him. Happy are those servaunte / which the Lorde when he cōmeth / shall fynde wakynge. Vere∣ly I saye vnto you / he will gerdde him selfe about / & make them sit doune to meate / & wal∣ke by / and minister vnto them.* 1.14

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 y^e thefe 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.

Then Peter sayde vnto him: Master / tellest [ F] thou this similitude vnto vs / or to all men? And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaūt and wise / whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde / to geve them* 1.15 their duetie of meate at due season: happy is that servaunt / whom his master when he cō∣meth / shall* 1.16 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 ser∣vaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cōminge / & shall beginne to smy∣te the servauntes / & maydens / and to eate and drinke / & to be dronken: the Lorde of that ser∣vaunt 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 rewar∣de with the vnbelevers.

The servaūt that knewe his masters will / and prepared not him selfe / nether dyd accor∣dinge to his will / shalbe betē with many stry¦pes. But he that knewe not / and yet dyd com∣mitte thinges worthy of strypes / shalbe bea∣ten with feawe strypes. For vnto whom mo∣che* 1.17 is geven / of him shalbe moche requyred. And to whom men moche commyt / the moare of him will they axe.

I am come to sende fyre on erth: & what is [ G] * 1.18 my dysyre but that it were all redy kyndsed? Not with stondinge I must de baptised with* 1.19 a baptyme: and how am I payned till it be

ended? Suppose ye that I am come to sende peace on erth? I tell you / naye: but rather de∣bate. For frō hence forthe ther shalbe five in one housse devided / thre agaynst two / and* 1.20 two agaynst thre. The father shalbe devided agaynst the sonne / and the sonne agaynst the* 1.21 father. The mother agaynst the doughter / & the doughter agaynst the mother. The mo∣tereleawe agaynst hir doughterelawe / & the doughterelawe agaynst hir motherelawe.* 1.22

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 cōmeth to passe. Y pocrite ye can skyll of the fassion of the erth / & of the skye: but what is y^e cause / that ye cānot skyll of this time? Ye & why iudge ye not of youre selves what is righte?

Whill thou goest with thyne adversary to* 1.23 the ruler: as thou arte in the waye / geve dili∣gence that thou mayst be delivered frō him / least he bringe the to the iudge / and the iudge delyver the to the iaylar / & the iaylar cast the* 1.24 in to preson. I tell y^e / thou departest not then∣ce / tyll thou have made good y^• vtmost myte.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Eeven. Mat. xvj. Mat. viij. mat. x. c. Ma. iiij. ••
• * 1.2

  Leven.
• * 1.3

  Who is to be fea∣red.
• * 1.4

  Mat. x. d. Mar. iij.
• * 1.5

  Covena∣untes.
• * 1.6

  Mathew. xij. e Mar. iij. A promi∣se that y^• spirite shall tea∣che vs.
• * 1.7

  The lyfe stondeth not in ri∣ches but in kepin∣ge godes commaū∣demētes. Richman Eccle. xj. c.
• * 1.8

  mat. vj. c j. xe. x. b. plas. liiij.
• * 1.9

  Ravens.
• * 1.10

  Lilies.
• * 1.11

  Mat. v. c. Litle floc¦ke.
• * 1.12

  Almose.
• * 1.13

  Loynes lightes.
• * 1.14

  Seconde. watche. Mathew .xxiiij.
• * 1.15

  Apo. xvj.
• * 1.16

  Evell ser¦vaunt.
• * 1.17

  Cove∣naunt
• * 1.18

  Fyer.
• * 1.19

  Bapty∣me. Baptise. Mat. x. d.
• * 1.20

  Peace.
• * 1.21

  Debate
• * 1.22

  Mathew. xvj Ma. viij.
• * 1.23

  Mat. v. d.
• * 1.24

  Adversa∣rie.