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 Gospell of S. Luke. (Book Luke)

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FOr as moche as ma∣ny have takē 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 be¦ginnynge 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{is} / wher of thou arte informed.

¶ The Fyrst Chapter

THere was in the dayes of He∣rode [ A] kynge of Iurie / a certayne prest* 1.1 named zacharias / of y^e course of Abia. And his wyfe was of y^e doughters of Aaron: And her name was Elizabeth. Booth were* 1.2 perfect before God / and walked in all the la∣wes and ordināces of the Lorde / that no man coulde fynde fawte with them. And they had no chylde / because that Elizabeth was barrē and booth were well stricken in age.

And it cam to passe / as he executed the pre∣stes office before god / as his course came (ac∣cordinge to the custome of the prestes office)* 1.3 his lot was to bourne incēce. And wēt into y^• tēple of y^e Lorde & the whoale multitude of y^• people were with out in prayer whill the in∣cense

was aburnynge. And ther appered vn∣to 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 fea¦re came on him.

And the angell sayde vnto him: feare not [ B] Zachary / for thy prayer is hearde: And thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare y^• a sonne / & thou shalt call his name Iohn / and thou shalt ha∣ve* 1.4 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: & ma¦ny 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 tour∣ne the * 1.5 hertes of the fathers to the chyldren / * 1.6 & the vnbelevers to the wysdom of the iuste¦men: to make the people redy for the Lorde.

And Zacharias sayde vnto y^• angell. Wher¦dy shall I knowe this? seinge that I am olde and my wyfe well stricken in yeares. And the* 1.7 angell answered and sayde vnto him: 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 / be∣cause thou belevedst not my wordes which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

And the people wayted for zacharias / & mer yelled that he taryed in the temple. And whē

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

✚ And it fortuned / assone as y^• tyme of his [ C] office was oute / he departed home into his awne housse. And after thoose dayes / his wy∣fe Elizabeth cōceaved / & hyd her selfe .v. mo∣nethes sayinge: This wyse hath God dealte w^t me in y^• dayes when he loked on me / to take from me the rebuke y^t I suffred a monge men.

And in y^•. vi. moneth y^• angell Gabriel was sent frō god vnto a cite of Galile / named Na∣zareth / to a virgin spoused to a man whose na¦me was Ioseph / of y^• housse of David / & y^• vir¦gins name was Mary. And y^• angell went in* 1.8 vnto her / & sayde: Hayle full of grace / y^• Lorde is with y^•: blessed arte thou amonge wemen.

When she sawe him / she was abasshed at his sayinge: & cast in her mynde what maner of salutacion y^t shuld be. And y^• angell sayde vnto her: feare not Mary: for thou hast foun∣de grace w^t god. Loo: thou shalt cōceave in thy* 1.9 wombe / & shalt beare a sonne / & shalt call his name Iesus. He shalbe greate / & shalbe called the sonne of the hyest. And y^e lorde God shall geve vnto him the seate of his father David / & he shall ravgne over y^• housse of Iacob for ever / & of his kyngdome shalbe none ende.

Then sayd Mary vnto y^• angell: How shall this be / seinge I knowe not a man? And y^• an∣gell [ D] answered & sayd vnto her: The holygoost shall come apon the / & y^• power of y^• hyest shall

over shaddowe y^e. Therfore also y^• holy thin¦ge which shalbe borne / shalbe called y^e sonne [ B] of god. And beholde / thy cosen Elizabeth she hath also conceaved a sonne in her age. And this is hyr sixte moneth / though she be cal∣led barren: for w^t god can nothinge be vnpos∣sible. And Mary sayd: beholde y^• honde may∣den of y^• lorde / be it vnto me even as thou hast sayde. ✚ And the angell departed from her.

✚ And Mary arose in thoose dayes / & went* 1.10 into y^• mountayns w^t hast / into a cite of Iurie & entred into the housse of zachary / & saluted Elizabeth. And it fortuned / as Elizabeth he∣arde y^• 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 / asso∣ne as the voyce of thy salutacion sownded in myne cares / the babe sprange in my belly for ioye. And blessed arte thou that belevedst: for [ C] thoose thinges shalbe performed wich were tolde y^• from the lorde. And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieth the Lorde.

And my sprete reioyseth in god mysavioure ✚* 1.11 For he hath loked on the povre degre of his honde maydē. Beholde now from hence forth shall all generacions call me blessed.

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

And his mercy is on them that feare him tho¦row

oute all generacions.

He sheweth strength with his arme / he scat∣tereth them that are proude in the ymagina∣cion of their hertes.

He putteth doune the myghty from their sea∣tes 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 ser∣vaunt Israel.

Even as he promised to oure fathers / Abra∣ham* 1.12 and to his seede for ever.

And mary aboode with hyr aboute a .iii. mone¦thes / &* 1.13 ••etourned agayne to hyr awne housse. [ F] ✚ 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 y^e eyght daye: they cam to circumcise the chylde: and called his name za¦charias / after* 1.14 the name of his father. How 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 w^t this name. And they made signes to his fa∣ther / how he wolde have him called. And he axed for wrytynge tables and wroote saying: his name is Iohn. And▪ hey marvelled all. And his mouthe was opened immediately / & his tonge also / & he spake lawdynge God. And feare came on all thē that dwelt nye vn∣to them. And all these sayinges were ••••oysed

abroade throughout all y^• hyll coūtre of Iurie & all they y^t herde thē layde them vp in their hertes saying: What maner chylde shall this ••er And the honde of y^• 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. ✚* 1.15

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

Even as he promised by y^e mouth of his ho¦ly prophete which were sens y^e worlde began

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

To fulfill the mercy promised to oure fa∣thers / 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 y^• hondes of ou∣re 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 Pro∣phet 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 * 1.16 daye springe from an hye hath visited vs.

To geve light to thē 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 Is∣rahelites.

¶ The .ii. Chap. ✚

ANd it chaunced in thoose dayes: y^• ther went oute a cōmaundment from Augu¦ste [ A] the Emperour / that all the woorlde shuld be taxed. And this taxynge was y^e fyrst and executed when Syrenius was leftenaūt 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 y^• cite of David which is cal∣led 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.* 1.17 And she brought forth her fyrst begotten son¦ne / and wrapped him in swadlynge cloothes / & layed him in a manger / because ther was no roume for them within in the ynne.

And ther were in the same region shepher∣des* 1.18 abydinge in the felde and watching their [ B] flocke by nyght. And loo: the angell of y^e lor∣de stode harde by thē / & the brightnes of y^• lor¦de shone rounde aboute them / & they were so••¦re afrayed. But the angell sayd vnto them: Be not afrayed. For beholde / I bringe you ty¦dinges of greate ioye y^t shal come to all y^• peo¦ple: for vnto you is borne this daye in the cite of David / a saveoure which is Christ y^• lorde. And take this for a signe: ye shall fynde y^e chyl¦de* 1.19

swadled & layed in a māger. And streight waye ther was with the angell a multitude of hevenly sowdiers / laudynge God & sayin∣ge: Glory to God an hye / & peace on the erth: and vnto men reioysynge. ⊢

And it fortuned / assone as the angels were [ C] gone awaye frō them in to heven / ✚ the shep∣herdes sayd one to another: let vs goo evē vn to Bethleem / & se this thynge that is hapened which the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs. And they cam with haste / & founde Mary and Io∣seph & the babe layde in a māger. And when they had sene it / they publisshed a brode the sayinge which was tolde them of that chyl∣de. And all that hearde it / wondred at those thinges which were tolde thē of the shepher¦des. But Mary kept all thoose sayinges / and pondered them in hyr hert. And the shepher∣des retourned / praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene / evyn as it was told vnto them. ⊢

✚ And when y^e eyght daye was come y^• the* 1.20 chylde shuld be circūcised / his name was cal∣led Iesus / which was named of the angell before he was conceaved in the wombe. ⊢

✚ And when the tyme of their purificaciō [ D] (after the lawe of Moyses) was come / they* 1.21 brought him to Hierusalem / to present hym to y^• Lorde (as yt is written in the lawe of the* 1.22 Lorde: every man that fyrst openeth the ma∣tri•• / shalbe called holy to the Lorde) & to offer (as it ys sayde in the lawe of the Lorde) a pay* 1.23 ••e of turtle doves or two yonge pigions.

And beholde ther was a mā in Hierusalem* 1.24 whose name was Simeon. And the same mā 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 / befo∣re he had sene the lordes Christ. And he came by inspiracion in to the temple.

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

Lorde / Now lettest thou thy seruaūt departe* 1.25 in peace / accordinge to thy promes.

For myne eyes have sene y^e saveour sent frō y^• Wich thou hast prepared before the face of all people.

A light to lighten the gentyls / and the glory [ B] of thy people Israel. ⊢

✚ And his father and mother mervelled at those thinges which were spokē of him. And Simeon blessed them / and sayde vnto Mary his mother: beholde / this chyld shalbe the fall and resurrecciō of many in Israel / and a* 1.26 signe which shalbe spokē agaynste. And mor••••¦ver the swearde shall pearce thy soule / y^t the thoughtes of many hertes maye be opened.

And ther was a Prophetesse / one Anna / the doughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser:* 1.27 which was of a greate age / & had lyved with an husbande .vii. yeres from her virginite. And she had bene a wedowe aboute .iiii. scoo∣re and .iiii. yere / which went never oute of the

temple / but served God with fastinge & pray∣er 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 asso••e as they had performed all thin¦ges accordinge to the lawe of the Lorde / they returned into Galile to their awne cite Naza¦reth. And the chylde grewe and wexed stron¦de in sprete / and was filled with wysdome / & the grace of God was with hym. ⊢

And his father and mother went to Hieru¦salem [ E] every yeare at the fees••e of ester. ✚ 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 fa∣ther and mother. For they supposed he had bene in the cōpany / and therfore came a day•• iorney / & sought him amōge their kynsfolke & acquayntaunce. And when they founde hym not / they went backe agayne to Hierusalem / &* 1.28 sought him. And it for••uned after .iii. dayes / that they founde him in the tēple / sittinge in the middes of the doctours / both hearynge them and posinge them. And all that hearde him / mervelled at his wit and answers.

And when they sawe him / they were asto∣nyed. [ G] 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 thē: how is it y^• ye sought

me? Wist ye not that I must goo aboute my fathers busines? And they vnderstode not y^• sayinge that he spake to them. And he went with them / & came to Nazareth / & was obedi∣ent to thē. But his mother kept all these thin¦ges in her hert. And Iesus increased in wis∣dom & age / & in favoure with god and man. ⊢

¶ The .iii. Chapter. ✚

IN the fiftenthe yeare of the raygne of [ A] Tiberius the Emperoure / Pontius Py¦late beinge leftenaūt of Iurie / & Hero∣de beinge Tetrach of Galile / and his brother* 1.29 Philip Tetrach in Iturea & in the region of Traconites / & ••ysanias the Tetrach of Aby line / when Anna & Cayphas were the hye pre¦stes: the worde of God came vnto Iohn y^• son¦ne* 1.30 of zacharias in the wildernes. And he ca∣me in to all the coostes aboute Iordan / prea∣chynge the baptyme of repentaunce for the re¦mission of synnes / at it is written in the boke of the sayinges of Esaias y^e Prophet which sayeth: The voyee of a cryar in wyldernes / * 1.31 prepare the waye of the Lorde / make hys pa∣thes strayght. Every valley shalbe fylled / and every moūtayne & 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. ⊢

Then sayde he to the people that were co∣me [ B] * 1.32 to be baptysed of him: O generacion of vi¦pers / who hath taught you to flye from the wrath to come? Bringe forth due frutes of re¦pentaunce / 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 al¦so ys the axe leyd vnto the rote of the trees:* 1.33 so y^t every tree which bringeth not forth good frute / shalbe hewē doune / & caste in to y^e 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.

Then came ther Publicans to be baptised / * 1.34 & sayde vnto him: Master / what shall we do? And he sayde vnto thē: requyre nomore then that which ys appoynted vnto you.

The soudyoures lyke wyse demaunded of [ C] * 1.35 hym sayinge: and what shall we do? And he sayde to them: Do violence to noo mā: nether trouble eny man wrongfully: but be content with youre wages.

As the people were in a doute / and all men* 1.36 disputed in their hertes of Iohn / whether he were very Christ: Ihon answered & sayde to them all: I baptyse you w^t water / but a stron¦ger then I cometh after me / whose shue lat∣chet I am not worthy to vnlouse: he will ba∣ptise you with the holy goost / and with fyre: which hath his fanne in his hond / and will* 1.37 pourge his floore / and will gader the corne in to his barne: but the chaffe wyll he bourne* 1.38 with fyre that never shalbe quenched. And many other thinges in his exhortacion prea∣ched he vnto the people.

Then Herode the Tetrach (when he was [ D] * 1.39 rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Phi¦lippes wyfe / and for all the evyls which He∣rod had done) added this above all / and leyd Iohn in preson.

And yt fortuned as all the people receaved* 1.40 baptyme (and when Iesus was baptised and dyd praye) that heavē was opened & the holy goost came doune in a bodely shape lyke a do∣••e vpō him / & a voyce came frō hevē sayinge▪ Thou arte my dere sonne / in the do I delyte.

And Iesus him silfe was about thirty ye∣re [ E] of age when he begāne / beinge as men sup¦posed* 1.41 the sonne of Ioseph.

which Ioseph was the sonne of Heli.

which was the sonne of Matha••••

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:

which was the sonne of Rhesya:

which was the sonne of ••orobabel: [ F]

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:

which was the sonne of Salmon: [ G]

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 Arpha••a••:

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.

¶ The .iiii. Chapter.

IEsus then full of the holy goost / retur¦nyd [ A] * 1.42 frō Iordan / & was caryed of y^e spre¦te into wildernes / & was .xl. dayes tem∣pted of the devyll. And in thoose dayes ate he no thinge. And when they were ended / he af∣terward* 1.43 hongred. And the devyll sayde vnto him: yf thou be the sonne of God / cōmaunde this stone y^t it be breed. And Iesus answered hym sayinge: It is writtē: man shall not live

by breed only / but by every worde of God.* 1.44

And y^e devyll toke him vp into an hye moū¦tayne / & shewed him all the kyngdoms of the worlde / evē in y^e twincklinge of an eye. And y^e devyll sayde vnto him: all this power will I geve y^e every whit & the glory of thē: for y^t is delyvered to me / and to whosoever I will / I geve it. Yf thou therfore wilt worshippe me / they shalbe all thyne. Iesus answered him &* 1.45 sayde: hence from me Sathan. For it is writ∣ten: Thou shalt honour the Lorde thy God / and him only serve.

And he caryed him to Ierusalem / & set him [ B] 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 / * 1.46 and with there hondis they shall stey the vp that thou dasshe not thy fote agaynst a stone.* 1.47 Iesus answered and sayde to him / it is sayd: thou shalt not tempte the Lorde thy God. As∣sone as the devyll had ended all his tempta∣cions / he departed from him / for a season.

✚ And Iesus retourned by the power of y^e [ C] * 1.48 sprete in to Galile / and there went a fame of him thorowe oute all the regiō roūde aboute. And he taught in their synagoges / and was commended of all men.

And he came to Nazareth where he was* 1.49 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 y^e boke of y^e Prophete Esaias. And when

he had opened the boke / he founde the place / * 1.50 where it was written. The sprete of the lorde vpon me / because he hath annoynted me: to preache y^e gospell to y^• poore he hath sent me: and to heale the broken harted: to preache de∣lyveraūce to the captive / and sight to the blin¦de / and frely to set at lyberte them that are brused / & to preache the acceptable yeare of the Lorde. [ D]

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 faste∣ned 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 / ✚ and sayde: Is not this Io∣sephs sonne?* 1.51

And he sayde vnto them: Ye maye very well saye vnto me this proverbe: Phisicion / heale thy silfe. ✚ Whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum / do the same here* 1.52 lyke wyse in thyne awne countre. And he say∣de / verely I saye vnto you: No Prophet is ac¦cepted* 1.53 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 fammisshemēt was throughou∣te* 1.54 all the londe / & vnto none of them was He∣lias sent / save in to Sarephta besydes Sidon vnto a womā that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel▪ in the tyme of Heliseu••

the Prophete: and yet none of them was hea∣led / savinge* 1.55 Naaman of Siria.

And as many as were in y^e sinagoge when [ E] they herde that / were filled with wrath: and roose vp / and thrust him oute of the cite / and ledde him evē vnto the edge of the hill / wher¦on their cite was bilte / to cast him doune hed∣lynge. But he went his waye evē thorow the* 1.56 myddes of them: ✚ ✚ and came in to Caper¦naum a cyte of Galile / & there taught thē on the Saboth dayes. And they were astonyed at his doctrine: for his preachīge was w^t power.

And in the synagoge ther was a mā which* 1.57 had a sprete of an vncleane devell / and cryed with aloude voyce sayinge: let me alone / what* 1.58 hast thou to do with vs / thou Iesus of Na∣zareth? [ F] Arte thou come to destroye vs? I kno∣we the what thou arte / evē 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 ca∣me on them all / and they spake amonge them selves sayinge: what māner a thinge is this? For with auctorite and power he commaun∣deth the foule sprete / and they come out? And y^e fame of him spreed abroode thorowoute all places of the countre round aboute. ✚* 1.59

✚ And he roose vp & came oute of y^• sina∣goge / & entred in to Simons housse. And Si∣mōs motherelawe was takē with a greate fe¦ver / & they made intercession to him for her. And he stode over her / & rebuked the fever:

and it leeft her. And immediatly she arose & ministred vnto them.* 1.60

When the sonne was doune / all they that [ G] had sicke takē with divers deseases / brought them vnto him: & he layde his hondes on eve∣ry one of them / & healed them. And devils al∣so cam out of many of them / crying & saying: thou arte Christ the sonne of God. And he re¦buked them / and suffered them not to speake: for they knewe that he was Christ.

Assone as it was daye / he departed & went* 1.61 awaye into a desert place / & y^• people sought him & came to him / & kept him that he shuld not departe from thē. And he sayde vnto thē: I muste to other cities also preache the kyng∣dome of God: ✚ for therfore am I sent. And he preached in the synagoges of Galile.

¶ The .v. Chapter. ✚* 1.62

IT came to passe as the people preased [ A] vpon him / to heare the worde of God / that he stoode by the lake of Geneza∣reth: & sawe two shippes stonde by the lake syde / but the fisshermen were gone out of thē / & 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: [ B] Master / we have labored all nyght / and have

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 o∣ther ship / that they shuld come and helpe thē And they came: and filled bothe the shippes that they soncke agayne.

When Simon Peter sawe that / he fell dou¦ne at Iesus knees sayinge: Lorde goo frō me / for I am a synfull man. For he was vtterly astonyed & all that were w^t him / at y^e draught of fisshe which they toke: & so was also Ia∣mes & Iohn y^e sonnes of zebede which were parteners w^t Simon. And Iesus sayde vnto Simon: feare not / frō hence forthe thou shalt catche men. And they brought the shippes to londe / and forsoke all / and folowed him.

And it fortuned as he was in a certayne ci∣te: [ C] * 1.63 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 / * 1.64 thou canst make me cleane. And he strethed forth y^• 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: but that he shuld god &* 1.65 shewe him selfe to the Preste / & offer for his clensynge / accordinge as Moses commaun∣dement 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 infirmi¦ties.

And he kepte him silfe aparte in y^e wil∣dernesses / and gave him silfe to prayer.

✚ And it happened on a certayne daye / that [ D] * 1.66 he taught: and ther sate the pharises: and doc¦turs of lawe / which were come out of all y^• tounes of Galile / Iurie / & Hierusalem. And the power of the Lorde was to heale thē. And beholde / mē brought a man lyinge in his beed which was taken with a palsie: & sought mea¦nes* 1.67 to brynge him in / and to laye him before him. And whē they coulde not finde by what waye they might bringe him in / be cause of y^e prease / they wēt vp on the toppe of y^e 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?

When Iesus perceaved their thoughtes / [ E] he answered & sayde vnto them: What thin∣ke ye in youre hertes? Whether is easyar to saye / thy synnes are forgevē the / or to saye: ri∣se & walke? But that ye maye knowe that the sonne of mā hath power to forgeve synnes on* 1.68 erth / he sayde vnto y^e sicke of the palsie: I saye to the / aryse / take vp thy beed and go home to thy housse. And immediatly he rose vp befo∣re 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 ha¦ue

sene straunge thynges to daye. ⊢

And after that he went forthe and sawe a [ F] * 1.69 Publican named Levi / sittinge at the receyte of custome / and sayde vnto him: folow me. And he leeft all / roose vp / and folowed him. And that same Levi made him a greate feaste* 1.70 at home in his awne housse. And ther was a greate cōpany of publicans and of other that sate at meate with him. And the Scribes and Pharises murmured agaynst his disciples* 1.71 sayinge: Why eate ye and drinke ye with pu∣blicās and synners? Iesus answered and say¦de vnto thē: They y^t are whole / nede not of y^e phisicion: but they y^t are sicke. I came not to call. y^e rightewes / but synners to repentaūce.

Then they sayde vnto him: Why do the di¦sciples [ G] * 1.72 of Iohn fast often & praye / & the disci¦ples of y^e Pharises also: & thine eate & drinke? And he sayde vnto them: Can ye make y^e chyl¦dren of the weddinge fast / as longe as y^e bryd¦grome is present with thē? The dayes will come / whē the brydgrome shalbe takē awaye from them: then shall they fast in those dayes

Then he spake vnto them in a similitude:* 1.73 No mā putteth a pece of a newe garment / 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 w^t the olde. Also / no mā 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 y^•

drinketh olde wine / strayght waye can awaye with newe / for he sayeth y^• olde is plesaūter. [ D]

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

IT happened on an after saboth / that he* 1.74 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* 1.75 on the saboth dayes? And Iesus answered them and sayde: Have ye not redde what Da∣vid dyd / when he him sylfe was anhun∣gred and they which were with him: how he* 1.76 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 Lor¦de of the saboth daye.

✚ And it fortuned in a nother saboth also / * 1.77 that he entred in to y^• sinagoge & taught. And ther was a mā whose right honde was dryed vp. And y^e Scribes & Pharises watched him / to se whether he wolde heale on the Saboth* 1.78 daye / that they myght fynde an accusacion agaynst him. But he knewe their thoughtes / & sayde to the man which had y^e wyddred hon¦de: 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 de¦stroye it? And he behelde them all in cōpasse /

& sayd vnto y^e man: Stretche forth thy honde.* 1.79 And he dyd so & his honde was restored / & ma¦de as whoole as the other. And they were fil∣led full of madnes / and comuned one with another / what they myght do to Iesu. ⊢

And it fortuned in thoose dayes / that he [ C] * 1.80 went out into a mountayne for to praye / and cōtinued all nyght in prayer to god. And asso¦ne as it was daye / he called his disciples / and of thē he chose twelve / which also he called apostles. Simon whō he named Peter: & An∣drew* 1.81 his brother. Iames & Ihō / Philip and Bartlemew / Mathew and Thomas / Iames the sonne of Alpheus & Simon called zelotes and Iudas Iames sonne / and Iudas Iscari∣oth / which same was the traytour.

✚ 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 disea∣ses: [ D] & they also that were vexed with foule spretes / & they were healed. And all the peo∣ple preased to touche him: for there went ver∣tue out of him / and healed them all.

And he lifted vp his eyes apon the disci∣ples / and* 1.82 sayde: Blessed be ye poore: for yours is the kyngdome of God. Blessed are ye that* 1.83 honger now: for ye shalbe satisfied. Blessed a¦re ye y^t 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 mā∣nes sake. Reioyse ye then / and be gladde: for beholde / youre rewarde is greate in heven. ✚ After this manner their fathers entreated* 1.84 the Prophetes.

But wo be to you that are ryche: for ye ha∣ve therin youre consolacion. Wo be to you y^t* 1.85 are full: for ye shall honger. Wo 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.* 1.86

But I saye vnto you which heare: Love you¦re enemyes. Do good to thē which hate you. [ E] Blesse thē that course you. And praye for thē* 1.87 which wrongfully trouble you. And vnto him that smyteth the on the one cheke / offer* 1.88 also y^• other. And him that taketh awaye thy goune / forbid not to take thy coote also. Geve* 1.89 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.* 1.90

If ye love thē which love you: what than∣ke are ye worthy of▪ For the very synners lo∣ve their lovers. And yf ye do for them which do for you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners do even the same. If ye* 1.91 lende to them of whome ye hoope to receave: what thanke shall ye have: for the very syn∣ners 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 / and ye shal∣be* 1.92

••e the chyldren of the hyest: for he is kynde* 1.93 vnto the vnkynde and to the evyll.

✚ Be ye therfore mercifull / as youre father is mercifull. Iudge not & ye shall not be Iud∣ged. [ F] Condemne not: and ye shall not be con∣demned. Forgeve / and ye shalbe forgeven. Geve / & yt shalbe geven vnto you: good mea∣sure / pressed* 1.94 doune / shaken to geder and run∣nynge over / shall men geve into youre boso∣mes.* 1.95 For with what measure ye mete / with y^• same shall men mete to you agayne.

And he put forthe a similitude vnto thē: Can* 1.96 the blynde leade y^• blynde? Do they not both then fall into y^• dyche? The disciple is not abo¦ve his master. Enery mā shalbe perfecte / even as his master is. Why seyst thou a moote in* 1.97 thy brothers eye / & considerest not y^• beame y^• is in thyne awne eye? Ether how cānest thou saye to thy brother: Brother / let me pull out y^• moote that is in thyne eye: when thou percea∣vest not the beame that is in thyne awne eye? ••pocrite / cast out y^• beame out of thyne awne eye fyrst / and then shalt thou se perfectly / to* 1.98 pull out the moote out of thy brothers eye. ⊢

It is not a good tree that bringeth forthe evyll frute: nether is that an evyll tree / that [ G] bringeth forthe good frute. For every tree is knowen by his frute. Nether of thornes ga¦der men fygges / nor of busshes gader they grapes. A good man out of the good treasu∣re 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 ye evyll. For of the aboundaunce of y^•* 1.99 her / 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 li¦ke a man which bilt an housse: and digged de∣pe / and layde the foundaciō on a rocke. Whē the waters arose / the fludde bet apō that hous¦se / and coulde not move yt. For it was groun∣ded apon a rocke. But 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 y^• fall of y^t housse was greate.

¶ The .vii. Cha.

U••hen he had ended all his sainges in* 1.100 the audience of the people / he entred [ A] into Capernaū. And a certayne Cen¦turions seruaunte was sicke and redy to dye whom he made moche of. And when he hear∣de* 1.101 of Iesu / he sent vnto him the elders of the Iewes / besechinge him y^• he wolde come & hea¦le his servaunt. And they came to Iesus and besought him in stantly sayinge: He is worthi that thou shuldest do this for him. For he lo∣veth oure nacion / and hath bilt vs a sinagoge And Iesus went with them.

And when he was not farre frō the housse / [ B] the Centuriō sent frendes to him sayinge vn¦to him: Lorde trouble not thy silfe: for I am not worthy y^t thou shuldest enter vnder my roffe. Wherfore I thought not my silfe wor∣thy to come vnto the: but saye the worde / and

servaunt shalbe whoole. For I lyke wyse am a man vnder power / and have vnder me sou∣diers / & 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 Ie¦sus 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 y^t were sent / turned backe home agayne / & foun∣de the servaunt that was sicke / whoole.

✚ And it fortuned after that / that he went [ C] into a cite called Naim / & many of his disci∣ples went w^t him / & moche people. When he came nye to the gate of the cite: beholde / ther was a deed man caried out which was y^• only* 1.102 sonne of his mother / and she was a widowe / and moche people of the cite was with her. And when y^e lorde sawe her / he had compas∣sion on her / & sayde vnto her: wepe not. And he went & touched the coffyn / & they y^t bare him / stode still. And he sayde: Yonge man / I saye vnto the / aryse. And y^e deed sate vp & began∣ne to speake. And he delyvered him to his mo¦ther. And ther cā a feare on thē all. And they glorified god sayinge: a greate prophet is ry∣sen* 1.103 amōge vs / & god hath visited his people ✚ ✚ And this rumor of him wēt forthe throug∣hout* 1.104 all Iurie / and thorowout all the regions which lye rounde about.

And y^• disciples of Iohn shewed him of all these thinges. And Iohn called vnto him .ii. of his disciples / & sent thē 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 y^• sayinge: Arte thou he that shall come: or shall we wayte for another? And at y^t same tyme he cured many of their infirmites & plages / & of* 1.105 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 y^• the blynde se / the halt goo / the lepers are clen¦sed / the deafe heare / the deed aryse / to the po∣ore is the glad tydinges preached / and happy is he / that is not offended by me.

When y^e messengers of Iohn were depar∣ted / he began to speake vnto y^e people of Iohn [ D] What wēt ye oute into y^e w••ldernes for to se? went ye to se arede shaken w^t y^e wynde? But what went ye out for to se? A mā clothed in so ofte rayment? Beholde they which are gorge∣ously apparelled / & lyve delicatly / are in kyn∣ges courtes. But what went ye forth to se? A prophete? Ye I saye to you / & mo••••e then a prophete. This is he of whō it is wryttē: Be∣holde▪ I sende my messenger before thy face / to* 1.106 prepare thy waye before the. For I saye vnto* 1.107 you: a greater prophete then Iohn / amōge we∣mēs chyldrē is ther none. Neverthelesse one y^• is lesse in y^e kyngdō of god / is greater thē he ⊢

And all the people that hearde / and the pu¦blicans* 1.108 / iustified God / and were baptised with the baptim of Iohn. But the pharises & scribes despised y^e counsell of god agaynst

them selves / and were not baptised of him.

And y^• lorde sayd: Wher vnto shall I lykē [ E] * 1.109 the men of this generacion / & what thinge are they lyke? They are lyke vnto chyldrē sittyn∣ge in y^• market place / & cryinge one to another / & sayinge: We have pyped vnto you / & ye ha∣have 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 / & a drinker* 1.110 of wyne / a frende of publicans and synners. Yet is wysdome iustified of all her chyldren.

✚ And one of the pharises desyred him that he wolde eate with him. And he went into y^• pharises housse / & sate doune to meate. And be* 1.111 holde a woman in that cite / which was a syn¦ner / assone as she knewe that Iesus sate at meate in the pharises housse / she brought an alablaster boye of oyntmēt / & she stode at his fete behynde him wepynge / and beganne to wesshe his fete with teares / and dyd wipe thē with the heares of her heed / and kyssed his fe∣te / and anoynted them with oyntment.

When the pharise which bade him / sawe that / he spake with in him sylfe / sayinge: If [ F] this man were a prophete / he wolde surely ha¦ve knowen who & what maner woman this is which toucheth him / for she is a synner. And Iesus answered & sayde vnto him: Si∣mon I have some what to saye vnto y^•. And he sayd master saye on. There was a certayne len¦der

which had two detters / y^e one ought five hondred pence / & the other fyfty. When they had nothinge to paye / he forgave thē 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 in∣to thy housse / & thou gavest me noo water to my fete but she hath wesshed my fete with tea¦res / & wiped thē with the heeres of her heed. Thou gavest me no kysse: but she / sence y^e ty∣me I came in / hath not ceased to kysse my fete Myne heed w^t oyle thou dydest not anoynte: but she hath annoynted my fete w^t oyntmēt. Wherefore I saye vnto the: many synnes are forgevē her / for she * 1.112 loved moche. To whom lesse is forgeven / the same doeth lesse love.

And he sayde vnto her / thy synnes are for∣geven y^e. And they y^t sate at meate with him / beganne to saye within them selves: Who is this which forgeveth synnes•• also? And he sayde to y^e woman: Thy faith hath saved the / Goo in peace. ⊢

¶. The .viii. Chap.

ANd it fortuned after that / that he him [ A] sylfe went throughout cities & tounes / preachynge / and shewinge y^e kyngdom of God / & the twelve with him. And also cer∣tayne wemen / which wer healed of evell spre∣tes / and infirmities: Mary called Magdalen / out of whom went seven devyls / & Ioanna y^• wyfe of Lhusa Herode stewarde / & Susanna

and many other: which ministred vnto thē of their substaunce. ✚ When moch people were gadred to gether / & were come to him out of* 1.113 all cities / he spake by a similitude. A sower went out to sowe his seede: & as he sowed / so∣me* 1.114 fell by the waye syde / and it was troden vnder fete / and the foules of the ayre devou∣red it vp. And some fell on ston / & assone as it was spronge vp / it widdred awaye / because it lacked moystnes. And some fell amonge thor∣nes / and y^e thornes spronge vp with it / & cho∣ked it. And some fell on good grounde / & sprō∣ge vp & bare frute / an hondred foolde. And as he sayde these thinges / he cryed: He that hath eares to heare / let him heare.

And his disciples a••ed him sayinge: what [ B] * 1.115 maner similitude is this? And he sayde: vnto you is it geven to knowe the secretes of the kyngdom of God: but to other in similitude / that when they se / they shuld not se: & when they heare they shuld not vnderstonde.

The similitude is this. The seede is y^e wor∣de* 1.116 of God. Thoose y^t are besyde the waye / are they that heare / & afterwarde cometh y^e 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 ty∣me of temtaciō goo awaye. And y^t which fell amonge thornes / are they which heare / & goo forth / & are choked w^t cares & w^t riches / & vo∣lupteous lyvinge / and bringe forth noo frute.

That in y^• good grounde / are they which with* 1.117 a good & pure hert / heare the worde & kepe it / * 1.118 and bringe forth frute with pacience. ⊢

No man lyghteth a candell / & covereth it [ C] vnder a vessell / nether putteth it vnder y^e ta∣ble: but setteth it on a candelsticke / that they that enter in / maye se y^e lyght. No thinge is in secret / y^t shall not come abroode: Nether eny thinge hyd / that shall not be knowen / & come* 1.119 to lyght. Take hede therfore how ye heare. For whosoever hath / to him shalbe gevē: And whosoever hath not / frō him shalbe takē / even that same which he supposeth that he hath.

Then came to him his mother and his bre∣thren / and coulde not come at him for prease. And they tolde him sayinge: Thy mother* 1.120 and thy brethren stonde with out / and wolde se the. He answered and sayd vnto them: my mother and my brethren are these which hea∣re the worde of God and do it.

✚ And it chaunsed on a certayne daye that [ D] he went into a shippe / and his disciples also / and he sayde vnto them: Let vs goo over vnto the other syde of the lake. And they Lanched forthe. And as they sayled / he fell a slepe / and there arose a storme of wynde in y^e lake / & they* 1.121 were fylled with water / & were in ieopardy. And they went to him and awoke him sayin∣ge: Master Master / we are loost. Then he aro∣se and rebuked the wynde and the tempest of water / and they ceased / and it wexed calme. And he sayd vnto thē: where is youre faith? They feared and wondred sayinge one to ano¦ther:

what felowe is this? for he cōmaundeth* 1.122 bothe the wyndes and water / and they obey him? ✚ And they sayled vnto the region of y^e Gaderenites / which is over agaynst Galile.

And as he went out to londe / ther met him a certayne man out of y^e cite / which had a de∣vyll longe tyme / and ware noo clothes / nether aboode in any housse: but amonge graves. When he sawe Iesus / he cryed / and fell dou∣ne before him / and with a loude voyce sayde: What have I to do with the Iesus the son∣ne of the God moost hyest? I beseche the tor¦ment me not. Then he cōmaunded y^e foule spre¦te 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. [ E]

And Iesus ayed him sayinge: what is thy name? And he sayde: Legion / because many de∣vyls* 1.123 were entred into him. And they besought him / y^t he wolde not cōmaunde thē to goo out into y^• depe. And ther was there by an heerde of many swyne / fedynge on an hyll: & they be∣sought* 1.124 him / y^t he wolde soffre thē to enter in∣to thē. And he soffred thē. Then went the de∣vyls out of the man / & entred into the swyne: And the heerd toke their course & ran heedlyn¦ge 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 y^e man / out of whō the devyls were departed / sittynge at the fete

of Iesus / clothed & in his right mynde / & they were afrayde. They also wich sawe it / tolde thē by what meanes he y^t was possessed of y^e devyll / was healed. And all the whole multi∣tude of y^e cōtrye of the Gaderenites / besought him y^t he wolde departe from thē: for they we¦re taken w^t greate feare. And he gate him into the shippe & returned backe agayne. Then the man out of whom the devyls were departed / besought him y^t he myght be w^t him: But Ie¦sus sent him awaye sayinge: Goo home agay¦ne into thyne awne housse / & shewe what gre∣at thinges God hath done to y^e. And he went his waye / & preached thorow out all the cite what great thing{is} Iesus had done vnto him.

And it fortuned when Iesus was come [ F] * 1.125 agayne that y^e people receaved him. For they all wayted for him. And beholde ther came a* 1.126 man named Iairus (and he was a ruler of y^e synagoge) & he fell doune at Iesus fete / & be∣sought him y^t he wolde come into his housse / for he had but a doughter only / apon a twel∣ve yere of age / and she laye a dyinge. And as he went the / people thronged him.* 1.127

And a woman havynge an issue of bloud twelve yeres (which had spent all her sub∣stance amonge phisiciōs / nether coulde be hol pen of eny) came behinde him / & touched the hem of his garmēt / & immediatly her issue of bloud staunched. And Iesus sayde: Who is it that touched me? when every man denyed / Pe¦ter & they y^• were with him / sayde: Master / the people thrust the and veye the: & sayest thou /

who touched me? And Iesus sayd: Some bo∣dy 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 vn¦to hyr: Doughter be of good comforte / Thy faith hath made the hoale / goo in peace.

Whyll he yet spake / there came one from y^e [ G] rulers of the synagogis housse which sayde to him: thy doughter is deed / disease not the master. When Iesus hearde that / He answe∣red the father / sayinge: Feare not / beleve only / & she shalbe made whole. And when he came to y^e 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 thē all out / & caught her by the honde / and cryed sayinge: Mayde aryse. And hyr sprete came agayne / & she roo∣se strayght waye. And he commaunded to ge∣ve* 1.128 her meate. And the father and the mother of hyr were astonyed. But he warned thē that they shuld tell noo man / what was done.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

THen called he the .xii. to gether / & ga∣ve [ A] * 1.129 them power / and auctorite over all devyls / and that they myght heale di∣seases. And he sent them to preache the kyng¦dome

of God / & to cure the sick. And he sayd to them: Take nothinge to sucker you by y^• waye: nether staffe / nor scripe / nether breed / nether money / nether have twoo cootes. And whatsoever * 1.130 housse ye enter into / there abyde & thence departe. And whosoever will not re∣ceave you / when ye go out of that cite / shake of the very dust from youre fete / for a testimo∣ny agaynst them. And they went out / & went thorow the tounes / preachinge the gospell* 1.131 and healynge every wheare. ⊢

And Herod the tetrarch herde of all that* 1.132 was done of him / and douted / because that it was sayde of some / that Iohn was rysen agay¦ne from deeth: and of some / that Helyas had apered: and of other / that one of the olde pro∣phetes was rysen agayne. And Herod sayde: Iohn have I behedded: who then is this of whom I heare suche thinges? And he desy∣red to se him.

And the Apostles retourned / and tolde him [ B] * 1.133 what great thinges they had done. And he to∣ke them and went a syde into a solitary place / nye to a citie called Bethsaida. And y^e people* 1.134 knewe of it / and folowed him. And he recea∣ved them / and spake vnto them of the kyngdo¦me of God / and healed them that had nede to be healed. And when y^e daye beganne to wea∣re awaye / then came the twelve and sayde vn∣to him: sende y^• people ••waye / 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 thē to eate. And they sayde. We ha¦ve no moo but fyve loves and two fisshes / ex∣cept* 1.135 we shuld goo and bye meate for all this 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 y^• people. And they ate / and were all satisfied. And ther was taken vp of that remayned to thē / twelve baskettes full of broken meate.

And it fortuned as he was alone prayinge / [ C] * 1.136 his disciples were w^t him / & he axed thē say∣inge: Who saye y^e people y^t I am? They ans∣wered & sayd: Iohn Baptist. Some saye He∣lyas. And some saye / one of the olde prophete is rysen agayne. He sayde vnto thē: Who saye ye that I am? Peter answered and sayde: thou arte the Christ of god. And he warned & com¦maunded* 1.137 them / that they shuld tell no mun y^t* 1.138 thinge sayinge: that the sonne of man must suffre many thinges / and be reproved of the elders / and of the hye prestes and scribes / & be* 1.139 slayne / and the thirde daye ryse agayne.

And he sayde to them all / yf eny man will* 1.140 come after me / let him denye him sylfe / & take vp his crosse dayly and folowe me. Whosoe∣ver will save his lyfe / shall lose it. And who¦soever shall lose his lyfe for my sake / the sa∣me 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?* 1.141 For whosoever is ashamed of me / and of my sayinges: of him shall the sonne of man be as∣hamed / when* 1.142 he cometh in his awne glorie / & in the glorie of his father / and of the ho∣ly* 1.143 angels. And I tell you of a surety: There be some of thē y^t stonde here / which shall not tast of deeth / tyll they se y^e kyngdome of god.

And it folowed about an .viii. dayes after [ D] * 1.144 thoose sayinges / that he toke Peter / Iames / & Iohn / & went vp into a moūtayne to praye. And as he prayed / y^• facion of his countenaun¦ce* 1.145 was changed / and his garment was whyte and shoone. And beholde / two men talked w^t 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 glo¦rie / and two men stondinge with him.

And it chaunsed as they departed frō him / Peter sayde vnto Iesus: Master / it is good beinge here for vs. Let vs make thre taberna∣cles / 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 shado∣wed them: & they feared when they were co∣me vnder the cloude. And ther came a voyce out of the cloude sayinge: This is my deare* 1.146 sonne / heare him. And assone as y^e 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.

And it chaunsed on the nexte daye as they* 1.147 came doune from the hyll / moche people met [ E] him. And beholde a man of the cōpany cryed out sayinge: Master / I beseche y^e beholde my* 1.148 sonne / for he is all that I have: & se / a sprete taketh him / & sodenly he cryeth / & he teareth him that he someth agayne / and with moche payne departeth frō him / when he hath rent him / and I besought thy disciples to cast him out / & they coulde not. Iesus answered & say∣de: 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 cōminge / the fende rēt him & tare him. And Iesus rebuked y^e vnclene sprete / & healed the childe / & delivered him to his father. And they were all amased at y^e mighty power of God.

Whyll they wondred every one at all thin∣ges which he dyd / he sayd vnto his disciples: Let these sayinges synke doune into youre ea∣res. The tyme will come / when the sonne of* 1.149 man shalbe delivered into the hondes of men. But they wist not what y^t worde meant / & yt was hyd frō thē / that they vnderstode yt not. And they feared to axe him of that sayinge.

Then ther arose a disputacion amōge thē: [ F] * 1.150 who shuld be the greatest. When Iesus per∣ceaved y^e thoughtes of their hertes / he toke a chylde / & set him hard by him / & sayd vnto thē: Whosoever receaveth this chylde in my na∣me / receaveth* 1.151 me. And whosoever receaveth me / receaveth him y^t sent me. For he y^t is least amonge you all / the same shalbe greate.

And Iohn answered & sayde: Master we sa∣we* 1.152 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 w^t vs.

And it folowed when the tyme was come y^t he shulde be receaved vp / then he set his face to goo to Hierusalem / & sent messengers befo¦re him. And they went & entred into a citie of the Samaritans to make redy for him. But they wolde not receave him / because his face was as though he wolde goo to Ierusalem. When his disciples Iames & Iohn sawe y^t / they sayde: Lorde / wilt thou that we cōmaun∣de / that fyre come doune from heven & consu∣me them / even as Helias dyd? Iesus turned* 1.153 about / and rebuked them sayinge: ye wote not what maner sprete yeare of. The sonne of mā¦ys not come to destroye mennes lives / but to save them. And they went to another toune.

✚ And it chaunsed as he went in the wa∣ye / a [ G] * 1.154 certayne man sayd vnto him: I will folo¦we the whither soever thou goo. Iesus sayd vnto him: foxes have holes / and bryddes of y^e* 1.155 ayer have nestes: but the sonne of man hath not where on to laye his heed.

And he sayde vnto another: folowe me. And* 1.156 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 prea∣che the kyngdome of God.

And another sayde: I wyll folowe the Lor∣de: but let me fyrst goo byd them fare well /

which are at home at my housse. Iesus sayde* 1.157 vnto him: No man that putteth his honde to the plowe / & loketh backe / is apte to the kyng∣dome of God. ⊢

¶ The .x. Chapter. ✚

AFter these thinges / the Lorde apoynted [ A] * 1.158 other seventie also / & sent them / two & two before him into every citie and pla¦ce / 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 y^e harvest / to send forth laborers into his her¦vest. Goo youre wayes: beholde / I sende you forthe as lambes amonge wolves. Beare noo* 1.159 wallet / nether scryppe / nor shues / and salute noo man by the waye. Into whatsoever hous∣se ye enter / fyrst saye: Peace be to this housse.* 1.160 And yf y^e sonne of peace be theare / youre pea∣ce shall rest vpon him: yf not / yt shall returne to you agayne. And in y^e same housse tary still eatinge & drinkinge soche as they have. For the laborer is worthy of his rewarde. ⊢

Go not frō housse to housse: & in to whatso¦ever [ B] * 1.161 citye ye enter / yf they receave you / eate so∣che thinges as are set before you / & heale the sicke y^t are theare / & saye vnto them: the kyng¦dome of God is come nye vpon you. But into whatsoever citie ye shall enter / yf they recea¦ve you not / goo youre wayes out into the stre∣tes* 1.162 of y^e same / and saye: even the very dust / which cleaveth on vs of your citie / we wipe of agaynst you: Notwithstondinge / marke this that y^e kyngdome of God was come nie vpon

you. Ye & I saye vnto you: that it shalbe ea∣sier in that daye / for Sodom then for y^t cytie.

Wo be to the Chorazin: wo be to y^e Beth¦saida. [ C] For yf y^e miracles had bene done in Ty¦re* 1.163 & Sidō / which have bene done in you / they had a greate whyle agone repēted / sitting in heere & asshes. Neverthelesse it shalbe easier for Tyre & Sidon / at the iudgement / then for you. And thou Capernaū which art exalted to heavē / shalt be thrust doune to hell. He y^e* 1.164 heareth you / heareth me: & he that dispiseth you / despiseth me: and he that dispiseth me / despiseth him that sent me.

And the sevētie returned agayne with ioye sayinge: Lorde even the very devyls are sub∣dued to vs thorowe thy name. And he sayde vnto them: I sawe satan / as it had bene ligh∣tenyng / faule doune frō heavē. Beholde I ge¦ve vnto you power to treade on serpētes and scorpions / & over all maner power of the eni∣mye / & no thinge shall hurte you Neverthe∣lesse / in this reioyse not / that y^e spretes are vn¦der youre power: but reioyse / because youre* 1.165 names are wrytten in heaven.

That same tyme reioysed Iesus in y^e spre∣te / & [ D] * 1.166 sayde: I confesse vnto y^e father / Lorde of heaven & erth / y^t thou hast hyd these thynges from the wyse & prudent / & hast opened them* 1.167 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 whō the sonne wyll shewe him.

And he turned to his disciples / & sayde se∣cretly: ✚ Happy are y^e eyes / which se y^t ye se.* 1.168 For I tell you that many prophetes & kyngs 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.

And beholde / a certayne Lawere stode vp / & [ E] * 1.169 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 Lor¦de God / with all thy hert / & with all thy sou∣le / & with all thy strēgthe / & with all thy myn¦de: & thy neghbour as thy sylfe. And he sayde vnto him: Thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live. He willinge to iusti∣fie him silfe / sayde vnto Iesus: Who is then my neghbour?

Iesus answered & sayde: A certayne mā de∣scended* 1.170 frō Hierusalem in to Hierico / & fell in to the hondes of theves / which robbed him of his raymēt & wounded him / & departed levyn¦ge him halfe deed. And by chaunce ther came a certayne preste that same waye / & when he sawe him / he passed by. And lykewyse a Levi∣te / when he was come nye to the place / wēt & loked on him / and passed by. Then a certayne [ F] 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 cōmen yn¦ne / and made provision for him. And on the

morowe when he departed / he toke out two pē¦ce & gave them to the host / & sayde vnto him. Take cure of him / & whatsoever thou spēdest moare / when I come agayne / I will recom∣pence the. Which now of these thre / thynkest* 1.171 thou / was neighbour vnto him y^• fell into y^• theves hondes? And he sayde▪ he that shewed mercy on him. Then sayde Iesus vnto him. Goo and do thou lyke wyse. ⊢

✚ It fortuned as they wēt / that he entred [ G] in to a certayne toune. And a certayne woman named Martha / receaved him into her housse. And this woman had a sister called Mary / which* 1.172 sate at Iesus fete / and hearde his prea¦chinge. And Martha was combred about mo¦che servinge / & stode and sayde: Master / doest thou not care / that my sister hath leeft me to minister alone? Syd her therfore / that she hel¦pe me. And Iesus answered / and sayde vnto her: Martha / Martha / thou carest / & arte trou∣bled about many thinges: verely one is ned∣full. Mary hath chosen her that good parte / which shall not be taken awaye from her. ⊢

¶ The .xi. Chapter.

ANd it fortuned as he was prayinge in [ A] a certayne place: when he ceased / one of* 1.173 his disciples sayde vnto him: Master / teache vs to praye / as Iohn taught his disci∣ples. And he sayd vnto thē: When ye praye / ••aye: O oure father which arte in heavē / ha∣lowed* 1.174 be thy name. Thy 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 evē we for∣geve every man y^t treaspaseth vs. And ledde vs not into tēptaciō. But deliver vs frō evill.

And he sayde vnto them: ✚ if any of you shuld have a frēde / & shuld goo to him at mid¦nyght / &* 1.175 saye vnto him: frende lende me thre loves / for a frende of myne is come out of the waye to me / & I have nothinge to set before him: & he within shuld answere & saye / trou∣ble me not / the dore is now sheet / & my servaū¦tes are with me in the chamber / I cānot ryse & geve them to the. I saye vnto you / though he woldnot aryse & geve him / because he is his frēde: yet because of his importunite he wold rise / & geve him as many as he neded.

And I saye vnto you: axe / and it shalbe ge∣ven [ B] you. Seke / and ye shall fynde. knocke / &* 1.176 it shalbe opened vnto you. For every one that axeth / receaveth: and he that seketh / fyndeth:* 1.177 and to him that knocketh / shall it be open∣ned. Yf the sonne shall axe breed of eny of you that is a father: wyll he geve him a sto∣ne? Or yf he axe fisshe / wyll he for a fysshe ge¦ve 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 chyl¦dren / how moche more shall the father of hea¦ven geve an holy sprete to them / that desyre it of him? ⊢

✚ And he was a castynge out a devyll / which* 1.178 was dōme. And it folowed when the devyll was gone out / the domme spake / & the people wondred. But some of thē sayde: he ca¦steth

out devyls by the power of Belzebub•• the chefe of the devyls. And other tempted him sekinge of him a signe frō heavē. But he knewe their thoughtes & sayde vnto them: Every kingdome devided with in it silfe / shal be desolate: & one housse shall fall vpon ano∣ther. So if Satan be devided with in him sil¦fe: 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 chyl∣dren cast them out? Therfore shall they be youre iudges. But if I / with y^• finger of God cast out devyls / noo doute the kyngdome of God is come vpon you.

When a stronge man armed watcheth his [ D] housse: y^t he possesseth is in peace. But when a stronger then he cometh vpō him & overcō∣meth 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 cōmeth / he fyndeth it swept and garnissed. Then goeth he & taketh to him sevē other spretes worsse* 1.179 then him silfe: and they enter in / & dwell the∣re. And the ende of that man / is worsse then the begynninge.

And it fortuned as he spake those thinges••

•• certayne woman of the cōpany lyfte vp he•• voyce / & sayde vnto him: Happy is the wom∣be that bare the / and the pappes which gave the sucke. But he sayde: Ye / happy are they* 1.180 that heare the worde of God / and kepe it. ⊢

When the people were gadered thicke to* 1.181 geder: he began to saye. This is an evyll na∣cion:* 1.182 they seke a signe / & ther shall no signe be geven them / but the signe of Ionas the Pro∣phet. For as Ionas was a signe to the Nini∣vites / so shall y^• sonne of mā be to this naciō. The quene of the southe shall ryse at iudge∣ment / with* 1.183 the men of this generaciō / & con∣dempne them: for she came frō the ende of the worlde / to heare the wysdome of Salomon. And beholde a greater then Salomon is he∣re. The men of Ninive shall ryse at the iudge¦ment w^t this generaciō / & shall condēpne thē: for they repented at the preachinge of Ionas. And beholde / a greater then Ionas is here.

✚ Noo man lighteth a candell / & putteth [ E] it in a previe place / nether vnder a busshell: But on a candelsticke / that they that come in maye se y^• 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 •••• 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. ⊢

And as he spake / a certayne Pharise be∣sought

him to dyne with him: and he went in & sate doune to meate. When the Pharise sa∣we [ F] that / he marveylled y^t he had not fyrst wes¦shed before dyner. And y^• Lorde sayde to him: Now do ye Pharises / make clene the out side* 1.184 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 with out: make that which is within also? Ne¦verthelesse geve almose of that ye have / and* 1.185 beholde all is clene to you.

But wo be to you Pharises / for ye tithe the mynt and rewe / and all manner erbes / & passe* 1.186 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 vp¦permost seates in the synagoges / and gretin∣ges in the markets.* 1.187

Wo be to you scribes & pharises ypocrite for ye are as graves which appeare not / & the men y^• walke over thē / are not ware of thē.

Then answered one of the lawears / & sayd* 1.188 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 bur¦thens greveous to be borne / & ye youre selves touche not y^• packee w^t one of youre fyngers.

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

Therfore sayde y^• wisdome of God: I will send them Prophetes & Apostles / & of them they shall slee & persecute: that the bloude of all Prophete / which was sheed frō the begin∣ninge* 1.189 of the worlde / maye be requyred of this generacion / from the bloud of Abell vnto the bloud of zachary / which perisshed bitwene* 1.190 the aulter and the temple. Derely I saye vnto you: it shalbe requyred of this nacion.

Wo be to you lawears: for ye have taken* 1.191 awaye y^e keye of knowledge / ye entred not in youre selves / & them that came in ye forbade.

When he thus spake vnto them / the la∣wears & the Pharises began to wexe busye about h••m / and to stop his mouth with ma∣ny questions / layinge wayte for him / and se∣kinge to catche some thinge of his mought / wherby they might accuse him.

¶ The .xii. Chapter.

AS ther gadered to gether an innumera∣ble [ A] * 1.192 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* 1.193 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* 1.194 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* 1.195 confesse also before y^• angels of God. And he that denyeth me before men: shalbe denyed be¦fore* 1.196 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* 1.197 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 / * 1.198 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* 1.199 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* 1.200 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* 1.201 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.* 1.202

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* 1.203 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] * 1.204 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.* 1.205

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* 1.206 their duetie of meate at due season: happy is that servaunt / whom his master when he cō∣meth / shall* 1.207 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* 1.208 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] * 1.209 my dysyre but that it were all redy kyndsed? Not with stondinge I must de baptised with* 1.210 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* 1.211 two agaynst thre. The father shalbe devided agaynst the sonne / and the sonne agaynst the* 1.212 father. The mother agaynst the doughter / & the doughter agaynst the mother. The mo∣tereleawe agaynst hir doughterelawe / & the doughterelawe agaynst hir motherelawe.* 1.213

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* 1.214 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* 1.215 in to preson. I tell y^e / thou departest not then∣ce / tyll thou have made good y^• vtmost myte.

¶ The .xiii. Chapter. [ A]

THer were present at the same season / that shewed him of y^e Galileās / who∣se* 1.216 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 Gali∣leans /

because they suffred suche punisshmēt? I tell you naye: but except ye repent / ye shall all in lyke wyse perysshe. Or those .xviii. apon* 1.217 which y^• toure in Syloe fell / & slewe thē / thin¦ke ye that they were synners above all men y^t dwell in Ierusalem? I tell you naye: But ex∣cepte ye repent / ye all shall lyke wyse perisshe.

✚ He put forthe this similiiude / A certayne [ B] man had a fygge tree planted in his veneyar¦de / & he came & sought frute theron / & founde* 1.218 none. Then sayde he to y^• dresser of his vyney arde: 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 a∣boute it / & dōge it to se whether it will beare frute: & if it beare not then / after y^t / cut it doune

And he taught in one of their sinagoge on [ C] y^• saboth dayes. And beholde ther was a wo∣mā* 1.219 which had a sprete of infirmite .xviii. ye∣ares: and was bowed to gether / & coulde not lifte vp her silfe 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 in∣dignacion (be cause that Iesus had healed on the saboth daye) and sayde vnto the peo∣ple.* 1.220 Ther are sixe dayes in which men ought to worke: in them come and be healed / & not on the saboth daye.

Then answered him the Lorde and sayde Ypocrite / doth not eache one of you on the sa¦both 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 adversa••ies were ashamed / and all the people reioysed on all the excel∣lent dedes / that were done by him. ⊢

Then sayde he: What is the kyngdome of [ D] God lyke? or wherto shall I compare it? It is lyke a grayne of mustard seede / which a man* 1.221 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 ly¦ken y^• kyngdome of god? it is lyke levē / which* 1.222 a woman toke / and hidde in thre busshels of* 1.223 floure / tyll all was thorow levended. And he went thorow all maner of cities & tounes tea¦chinge / and iorneyinge towardes Ierusalem.

Then sayde one vnto him: Lorde / are ther* 1.224 feawe that shalbe saved? And he sayde vnto [ E] them: stryve with youre selves to enter in at y^e strayte gate: For many I saye vnto you / will* 1.225 seke to enter in / & shall not be able. * 1.226 When the good man of y^e 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. There shalbe wepinge & gnasshinge of teth [ F] 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.

The same daye there came certayne of the* 1.227 pharises & sayd vnto him: Get the out of the waye / & departe hence: for Herode will kyll y^e. [ G] And he sayd vnto them. Goo ye and tell that* 1.228 foxe / beholde I cast oute devyls & heale the people to daye & to morowe / & the third daye I make an ende. Neverthelesse / I must wal∣ke to daye and to morowe / & the daye folowin∣ge:* 1.229 For it can not be / that a Prophet perishe eny other where / save at Ierusalem.

O Ierusalem / Ierusalem / which kyllest prophete / and stonest them that are sent to y^e:* 1.230 how often wolde I have gadered thy childrē to gedder / as the hen gathereth her nest vn∣der her wynges / but ye wolde not. Beholde youre habitacion shalbe left vnto you desola¦te.* 1.231 For 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 y^t chefe pharises to eate breed / on a saboth daye: & they watched him. And beholde ther was a man before him which had the dropsye. And Iesus answered* 1.232 & spake vnto the lawears & pharises sayinge: is it laufull to heale on the saboth daye? And they helde their peace. And he toke him & hea∣led him / & let him goo: and answered thē sayin¦ge / 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 [ B] coulde not answer him agayne to that.

He put forthe a similitude to y^e gestes / whē he marked how they preased to the hyest rou∣mes / & sayd vnto thē: When thou arte biddē to a weddynge of eny man / syt not doune in y^• hyest roume / lest a more honorable man then thou be bidden of him / and he that bade bo∣the 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 / that when he that bade the cometh / he* 1.233 maye saye vnto the: frende syt vp hyer. Then shalt thou have worshippe in the presence of them that syt at meate with the. For whosoe¦ver e••alteth him sylfe / shalbe brought lowe. And he y^t hūbleth him sylfe / shalbe exalted ⊢

Then sayde he also to him that had desyred [ C] him to diner: ✚ When thou makest a diner or a supper: call not thy frendes / nor thy brethrē nether thy kinsmen nor yet ryche neghbours:

lest they bidde the agayne / and a recompence* 1.234 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 can∣not recompence the. But thou shalt be recom∣pensed at the resurreccion of the iuste men.

When one of them that sate at meate also [ D] hearde that / he sayde vnto him: happy is he that eateth breed in the kyngdome of God. ✚* 1.235 Then sayd he to him. ✚ A certayne man orde¦ned a greate supper / and bade many / and sent* 1.236 his servaunt at supper tyme / to saye to them that wer bidden / come: for all thinges are now redy. And they all atonce begāne to make ex∣cuse. The fyrst saydvnto him: I have bought a ferme / & I must nedes goo and se it / I praye the have me excused. And another sayd: I ha¦ve bought fyve yooke of oxen / & I goo to pro∣ve them / I praye the have me excused. The thyrde sayd: I have maried a wyfe / and ther∣fore I cannot come. And the servaunt went / and brought his master worde therof.

Then was the good man of the housse di∣spleased / & [ E] sayd to his servaūt: Goo out quick¦ly into y^• stretes & quarters of the cite / & brin∣ge in hidder the poore & the maymed and the halt & the blynde. And the servaūt sayd: lorde it is done as thou cōmaundedst / and yet ther is roume. And the lorde sayd to the servaunt: Go out into y^• hye wayes & hedges / & compell thē to come in / that my housse maye be filled. For I saye vnto you / that none of those men which were biddē / shall tast of my supper. ⊢

Ther went a greate cōpany with him / & he* 1.237 turned and sayde vnto them: ✚ If a man co∣me to me / & hate not his father and mother / [ D] & 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 / syt∣teth* 1.238 not doune before & counteth y^e cost / whe∣ther he have sufficient to performe it? lest af∣ter he hath layde y^e foundacion / & is not able to performe it / all y^t beholde it / beginne to moc¦ke [ E] him sayinge: this man beganne to bilde / & was not able to make an ende. Or what kyn∣ge goeth to make batayle agaynst another kin¦ge / & sitteth not doune fyrst / & casteth in his mynde / whether he be able w^t ten thousande / to mete him that cometh agaynst him w^t. xx thousand. Or els whyll y^e other is yet a grea∣te waye of / he will sende embasseatours / & de∣syre* 1.239 peace. So lyke wyse none of you y^• forsa∣keth not all y^t he hath / can be my disciple. ⊢

Salt is good / but yf salt have loste hyr* 1.240 saltnes / what shall be seasoned ther with? It is nether good for y^e londe nor yet for y^e donge [ F] hill / but men cast it out at y^e dores. He y^t hath eares to heare / let him heare.

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THen resorted vnto him all y^e publicās and synners / for to heare him. And the pharises & scribes murmured sayinge:* 1.241 He receaved to his cōpany synners / & eateth with them. Then put he forthe this similitu∣de to thē sayinge: What man of you havynge

an hundred shepe / yf he loose one of thē / doth* 1.242 not leve nynty & nyne in the wyldernes / & goo after y^t which is loost / vntyll he fynde him? And whē 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 [ B] me / for I have founde my shepe which was loost. I say vnto you / y^t lyke wyse ioye shalbe in heven over one synner y^t repenteth / moore then over nynety & nyne iuste persons / whi∣che nede noo repentaūce. Ether what woman havynge .x. grotes / yf she loose one / doth not* 1.243 lyght a candell / & swepe y^e housse / & seke dili∣gently / tyll she fynde it? And when she hath founde it she calleth her lovers & her negh∣bours sayinge: Reioyce w^t me / for I have foun¦de the groate which I had loost. Lykwyse I saye vnto you / ioye is made in y^• presence of y^• angels of god over one synner y^t repenteth. ⊢

✚ And he sayde: a certayne man had two [ C] * 1.244 sonnes / & the yonger of them sayde to his fa∣ther: father geve me my parte of the goodes y^t to me belongeth. And he devided vnto them his substaunce. And not longe after / y^• yonger sonne gaddered all that he had to gedder / & to∣ke 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 y^t same lon∣de / & he began to lacke. And he went and cla∣ye to a citesyn of y^t same countre / which sent him to his felde / to kepe his swyne. And he

wold sayne have filled his bely with the cod∣des that y^• swyne ate: & noo man gave him.

Then he came to him selfe and sayde: how [ D] many hyred servauntes at my fathers / have breed ynough / & I dye for honger. I will ary∣se / & goo to my father & will saye vnto him: fa∣ther / I have synned agaynst heven & before y^• / & am no moare worthy to be called thy son∣ne / make me as one of thy hyred servauntes. And he arose & went to his father. And when he was yet agreate waye of / his father sawe him & had compassion / and ran & fell on his [ E] necke / & kyssed him. 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 servaū¦tes: bringe forth that best garment and put it on him / and put a rynge on his honde / & sho∣wes on his fete. And bringe hidder that fat∣ted caulfe / and kyll him / and let vs eate & be mery: for this my sonne was deed / and is aly∣ve 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 y^• housse / he herde min¦streley [ F] and daunsynge / & called one of his ser∣vauntes / & axed what thoose thinges meāte. And he sayd vnto him: thy brother is come / & thy father had kylled y^• fatted caulfe / becau∣se 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 w^t my lovers: but assone as this thy sonne was come / which hath devoured thy goodes with harlootes / thou haste for his pleasure kylled y^e fatted caulfe. And he sayd vnto him: Son∣ne / thou wast ever with me / and all that I ha¦ve / 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. ⊢

¶ The .xvi. Chapter.

ANd he sayd also vnto his disciples. [ A] ✚ Ther was a certayne rych man / which had a stewarde / that was acu∣sed* 1.245 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 w^t in him selfe: what shall I do? for my master will take awaye frō me y^• stewarde shippe. I cānot dig¦ge / & to begge / I am a shamed. I woote what to do / y^t when I am put out of y^• steward ship∣pe / they maye receave me into their houses.

Then called he all his masters detters / and [ B] sayd vnto y^e fyrst: how moche owest thou vn∣to my master? And he sayd: an hondred ton∣nes 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 say∣de: an hondred quarters of wheate. He sayd to him: Take thy bill / & write foure scoore. And

the lorde cōmended the vniust stewarde / becau¦se he had done wysly. For y^• chyldren of this worlde are in their kynde / wyser then y^• chyl∣dren 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. ⊢

✚ He that is faithfull in that which is leste* 1.246 y^• same is faithfull in moche. And he y^t is vn∣faithfull in y^e least: is vnfaithfull also in mo∣che. So then yf ye have not ben faithfull in y^• wicked māmon? who will beleve you in that* 1.247 which is true? And yf ye have not bene faith∣full in another mānes busines: who shall ge∣ve you youre awne? No servaunt can serve .ii. masters / for other he shall hate y^• one & love y^•* 1.248 other / or els he shall lene to the one & despyse the other. Ye can not serve God & mammon. [ D]

All these thinges herde the pharises also which were coveteous / and they mocked him. And he sayd vnto thē: Ye are they which iusti¦fie youre selves before mē: but God knoweth youre hertes. For y^t which is highlie estemed* 1.249 amōge mē / is abhominable in y^• sight of god ⊢

The lawe and the Prophetes raygned vn∣tyll 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* 1.250 one tytle of the lawe shall perisshe. Whosoe∣ver forsaketh his wyfe and marieth another / * 1.251 breaketh matrimony. And every man which marieth her that is devorsed from her hus∣bande /

committeth advoutry also.* 1.252

✚ Ther was a certayne ryche man / which [ E] was clothed in purple & fyne bysse / and fared* 1.253 deliciously every daye. And ther was a certay¦ne begger / named Lazarus / whiche laye at his gate full of soores / desyringe to be refresshed with the cromes whiche fell from the ryche mānes borde. Neverthelesse / the dogges ca∣me & licked his soores. And yt fortuned that the begger dyed / and was caried by the an∣gelles into Abrahās bosome. The riche man also died / and was buried.

And beinge in hell in tormētes / he lyfte vp his eyes & sawe Abraham a farre of / & Laza∣rus [ F] 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 tourmen∣ted in this flame. But Abrahā sayd vnto him Sonne / remembre that thou in thy lyfe tyme / receavedst thy pleasure / & contrary wyse La∣zarus 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 hence to you cannot: nether maye come from th••••••ce to vs.

Then he sayd: I praye the therfore father / [ G] send him to my fathers housse. For I have fyve brethren: for to warne thē / lest they also come into this place of tourmēt. Abrahā sayd vnto him: they have Moses * 1.254 & the Prophe∣tes / let them heare them. And he sayd: na••e father Abraham / but yf one came vnto thē /

from the ded / they wolde repent. He sayd vn∣to him: If they heare not Moses & y^e prophe¦tes / nether will they beleve / though one roose from deeth agayne.

¶ The .xvii. Chap.

Then sayde he to y^e disciples / it can not [ A] * 1.255 be avoyded / but that offences will co∣me. Neverthelesse wo be to him tho∣row whom they come. It were better for him that a mylstone were hanged aboute his nec∣ke / & that he were cast into y^e see / then that he shuld offende one of this lytleons. Take hede to youre selves. If thy brother trespas aga∣ynst the / rebuke him: & yf he repent / forgeve him. And though he sinne agēst y^e .vii. tymes in a daye / & sevē tymes in a daye tourne agay¦ne to y^e sayinge: it repenteth me / forgeve him

And the apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: in∣crease oure faith. And the Lorde sayde: yf ye had faith lyke a grayne of mustard sede / and* 1.256 shuld saye vnto this sycamine tree / plucke thy selfe vp by the rootes / and plant thy sel∣fe in the see: he should obey you.

Who is it of you yf he had a servaūte plo∣winge 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* 1.257 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 com¦maunded vnto him? I trowe not. Soo lyke wyse ye / when ye have done all thoose thin¦ges

which are commaunded you: saye / we are vnprofitable * servaūtes. We have done y^e which was oure duetye to do.

✚ And it chaunsed as he went to Ierusa∣lem / that he passed thorow Samaria and Ga¦lile. And as he entred into a certayne toune / * 1.258 ther met him ten men y^t were lepers. Which stode a farre of / & put forth their voyces & say¦de: Iesu master / have mercy on vs. When he sawe thē / 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 / tur∣ned backe agayne / & with a loude voyce pray∣sed God / and felldoune on his face at his fe∣te / 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 aga¦ne / to geve God prayse / save only this straun¦ger. And he sayde vnto him: aryse / & goo thy waye / thy faith hath made the whoale. ⊢

✚ When he was demaunded of y^e pharises / [ E] 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 behol∣de / the * 1.259 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 pat∣te of the heven / and shyneth vnto the other* 1.260 parte of heven: Soo shall the sonne of man be in his dayes. But fyrst must he suffre many thinges / and be refused of this nacion.

As it happened in y^• tyme of Noe: So shall [ F] it be in the tyme of the sonne of man. They* 1.261 ate / they dranke / they maryed wyves & were maryed / even vnto y^t same daye y^t Noe went into y^• arke: & y^• floud cam & destroyed thē all. Lykewyse also / as it chaunsed in the dayes of Lot. They ate / they dranke / they bought / they* 1.262 solde / they planted / they bilte. And even the same daye that Lot went out of Zodom / it ray¦ned fyre & brymstone from heven / & destroyed them all. After these ensamples / shall it be in [ G] the daye when the sonne of man shall appere.

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. Whosoever will goo about to save his* 1.263 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 vn¦to thē: whersoever y^e body shalbe / thyther will* 1.264 the egles resoorte.

¶ The .xviii. Chap.

ANd he put forth a similitude vnto thē / signifyinge that men ought alwayes* 1.265 to praye / & not to be wery sayinge: 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 ca¦me vnto him sayinge: avenge me of myne ad∣versary. 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.

And the lorde sayd: heare what the vnrigh∣tewes [ B] Iudge sayeth. And shall not god aven¦ge his electe / which crye daye and nyght vn∣to him / ye though he differre them? I tell you he will avenge them / and that quickly. ✚ Neverthelesse / when the sonne of man co∣meth / suppose ye / that he shall fynde faithe on the erthe.

✚ And he put forthe this similitude / vnto cer¦tayne which trusted in thē selves y^t they we∣re perfecte / & despysed other. Two men went vp into y^t tēple to praye: y^e one a pharise / & the other a publican. The pharise stode & prayed thus w^t him selfe. God I thanke the y^• I am not as other men are / extorsioners / vniuste / advoutrers / or as. this publican. I fast twyse in y^• 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 mā departed hōe to his housse

iustified moore then the other. For every man* 1.266 that exalteth him selfe / shalbe brought low: And he y^t hūbleth him selfe / shalbe exalted ✚* 1.267

They brought vnto him also babes / y^t he shuld touche thē. When his disciples sawe that / they rebuked thē. But Iesus called thē vnto him / & sayde: Suffre chyldren to come* 1.268 vnto me / & forbidde thē not. For of soche is y^e 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 obtay∣ne eternall lyfe? Iesus sayd vnto him: Why callest thou me good? No man is good / save God only. Thou knowest y^e cōmaundmente: Thou shalt not commit advoutry: thou shalt* 1.269 not kyll: 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 thin¦ge. Sell all that thou hast / & distribute it vnto the poore / and thou shalt have treasure in he∣ven / and come / & folowe me. When he heard that / he was hevy: for he was very ryche. [ E]

When Iesus sawe him morne / he sayde: with what difficulte shall they that have ry∣ches / enter into the kyngdome of God: it is easyer for a camell to goo thorow a nedles* 1.270 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 vnpossi∣ble 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 / other* 1.271 brethren or wyfe or chyldren for the kyngdo∣me of Goddes sake / which same shall not re∣ceave moche moore in this worlde: and in the* 1.272 worlde to come / lyfe everlastinge. [ F]

✚ He toke vnto him twelve / & sayde vnto them. Beholde we go vp to Ierusalem / & all* 1.273 shalbe fulfilled that are written by y^e Prophe¦tes 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 frō them. And they perceaved not the thinges which were spoken.

And it came to passe / as he was come nye [ G] * 1.274 vnto Hierico / 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 / y^t Iesus of Naza∣reth passed by. And he cryed sayinge: Iesus y^e 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 / y^t I maye receave my sight: Iesus say∣de vnto him: receave thy sight: thy faith hath saved the. And immediatly he sawe / and fo∣lowed him / praysinge God. And all the peo∣ple / when they sawe it / gave laude to God. ⊢

¶ The .xix. Chapter. ✚

ANd he entred in / & went thorow Hieri∣co. [ A] And beholde / ther was a mā named* 1.275 zacheus / which was a ruler amōge the Publicans / and was riche also. And he made meanes to se Iesus / what he shuld be: & coul∣de not for the preace / because he was of a lo∣we stature. Wherfore he ran before / and ascē¦ded 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 dou¦ne / 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.

And zache stode forth & sayd vnto y^• Lorde: beholde Lorde / y^• haulfe of my gooddes I ge∣ue [ B] to the povre / & if I have done eny mā wrō¦ge / 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 Abrahā. For the sonne of mā is come to seke & to save that which was looste.

As they hearde these thing{is} / he added ther* 1.276 to a similitude / be cause he was nye to Hieru∣salem / and because also they thought that the kyngdome of God shuld shortely appere. He sayde therfore: ✚ a certayne noble man / wēt into a farre countre / to receave him a kyngdo¦me / and then to come agayne. And he called his ten servauntes / and delyvered them ten pounde sayinge vnto them: by and sell till I* 1.277 come. But his citesens hated him / and sent messengers after him sayinge: We will not have this man to raygne over vs.

And it came to passe / when he was come [ C] agayne & had receaved his kyngdome / he cō∣maunded these servaūtes / to be called to him (to whom he gave his money) to witt what every man had done. Then came y^e fyrst sayin¦ge: Lorde / thy pounde hath encreased ten poū¦de. And he fayde vnto him: Well good servaū¦te / because thou wast faithfull in a very lytell thynge / take thou auctorite over ten cities. And the other came sayinge: Lorde thy poūde hath encreased fyve pounde. And to y^e same he sayde: & be thou also ruler ouer fyve cities.

And the thyrde came & sayde: Lorde / behol¦de 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. And he sayde vnto him: Of thine awne [ D] mouth / iudge I the / thou evyll servaunt. knewest thou that I am a strayte man / takin¦ge 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 cō¦minge I might have required myne awne with vauntage?

And he sayde to them that stode by: take frō him that pounde / & geve it him that hath ten poūde. And they sayd vnto him: Lorde he hath ten pounde. I sayde vnto you / that vnto all thē* 1.278 that have / it shalbe gevē: & from him y^t hath not / evē that he hath shalbe taken from him. Moreover those myne enemys / which wolde not that I shuld raigne over them / bringe hid¦der / & slee them before me. And when he had thus spoken / he proceded forthe before a / ssen¦dinge vp to Ierusalem. ⊢

And it fortuned / when he was come nye to [ E] * 1.279 Bethphage & Bethany / besydes moūte olive∣te / 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 coltetyed / 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 / y^e lorde hath nede of him.

They that were sent / went their waye / and founde / evē as he had sayde vnto thē. And as they were aloosinge y^e coolte / the owners say∣de vnto thē: why lowse ye y^e coolte? And they* 1.280 sayde: for y^e Lorde hath nede of him. And they brought him to Iesus. And they cast their raymēt on y^e colte / & set Iesus therō. And as [ F] he wēt / they spredde their clothes in y^e waye.

And when he was now come / wheare he

shuld goo doune frō the moūte olivete / y^• who¦le multitude of y^e disciples began to reioyce / & to lawde God with a loude voyce / for all y^e mi¦racles y^t they had sene sayinge: Blessed be the kynge that cōmeth in the name of the Lorde: peace in heavē / & glory in the hyest. And some of y^e Pharises of the cōpany sayde vnto him: Master rebuke thy disciples. He answered / & sayde vnto thē: I tell you / yf these shuld hol∣de their peace / the stones wold crye.

✚ And when he was come neare / he behel∣de the citie / & wept on it sayinge: Yf thou had¦dest knowen those thinges which belonge vn thy peace / evē at this thy tyme. But now are they hydde from thyne eyes. For the dayes* 1.281 shall come vpō the / that thy enemys shall cast a banke aboute the / and cōpasse 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 vpō another / because thou knewest not the tyme of thy visitacion.

And he went in to the temple / & begāne to [ G] cast out them that solde therin / & them that* 1.282 bought / sayinge vnto them / yt is written: my housse is the housse of prayer: but ye have ma¦de it a den of theves. And he taught dayly in the temple. ✚ The hye Prestes and the Scri∣bes 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 ga∣ve him audience.

¶ The .xx. Chapter. ✚

ANd yt fortuned in one of those dayes / as he taught the people in the temple and preached the gospell: the hye pre∣stes [ A] and the scribes came with the elders / and* 1.283 spake vnto him sayinge. Tell vs by what auc¦torite thou doest these thing{is}? Ether who is he y^t gave y^e this auctorite? He answered and saide vnto thē: I also will axe you a questiō / and answer me. The baptyme of Iohn: was* 1.284 it from heaven or of men? And they thought with in them selves sayinge: yf we shall faye from heavē: he will saye: why then beleved ye him not? But & yf we shall saye of men / all y^e 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.

Then begāne he to put forthe to the peo∣ple / this [ B] similitude. A certayne man planted* 1.285 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 servaūt to his tennauntes that they shuld geve him of the frutes of the vyneyarde. And the tennaunte dyd bet him / & sent him awaye empty. And agayne he sent yet another ser∣vaunt. And they dyd bet him / & foule entrea∣ted him also / & sent him awaye emptye. More over / he sent the thyrde to / and him they woū¦ded / and cast out. Then sayde the lorde of the vyneyarde: what shall I do? I will sende my deare sonne / him peradventure they will reve¦rence

/ when they se him.

But when the fermers sawe him / they [ C] thought in them selves sayinge: this is the heyre / come let vs kyll him / that the inheri∣taunce 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 fer∣mers / and will let out his vyneyarde to o∣ther. When they hearde that / they sayde: God forbyd.

And he behelde them and sayde: what mea¦neth this then y^t is wrytten: The stone that* 1.286 the bylders refused / the same is made y^e heed corner stone? whosoever stomble at that sto∣ne / 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.

And they watched him / and sent forth [ D] * 1.287 spies / which shuld fayne them selves perfe∣cte / to take him in his wordes / and to delyvre him vnto the power and auctorite of the de bite. And they axed him sayinge: Master / we knowe that thou sayest & teachest ryght / nother cōsiderest thou eny mānes degre / but teachest the waye of God truly. Ys it laufull* 1.288 for vs to geve Cesar tribute or no? He percea∣ved their craftynes / & sayde vnto them: why* 1.289 tēpt ye me? Shewe me a peny. Whose yma∣ge and superscripciō 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. And they coulde not reprove his say∣inge* 1.290 before the people. But they marvayled [ E] at his answer / and helde their peace.* 1.291

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

Iesus answered & sayde vnto them. The chyldrē of this worlde mary wyves / & are ma¦ryed / but [ F] 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 chyldrē of the resur¦reccion. And that the deed shall ryse agayne / * 1.292 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 certay∣ne of the Pharises answered and sayde: Ma∣ster thou hast well sayde. And after that durst they not axe him eny question at all.

Then sayde he vnto them: how saye they [ G] * 1.293 that Christ is Davids sonne? And David him selfe sayth in the boke of the Psalmes: The Lorde sayde vnto my Lorde / syt on my right honde / tyll I make thine enemys thy fo* 1.294 the 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 / beware of the Scri∣bes / which* 1.295 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.

¶ The .xxi. Chapter.

AS he behelde / he sawe the ryche men / [ A] * 1.296 how they cast in their offeringes into the treasury. And he sawe also a cer∣tayne 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* 1.297 of God: but she / of her penury / hath cast in all the substaunce that she had.

As some spake of the tēple / how it was gar¦nesshed with goodly stones & iewels / he say∣de.

The dayes will come / whē of these thyn∣ges which ye se / shall not be lefte stone apon [ B] * 1.298 stone / that shall not be throwen doune. And they ayed him sayinge: Master whē shall the¦se thing{is} be / and what signe will therbe / whē suche thinges shall come to passe.

And he sayd: take hede that ye be not decea∣ved. For many will come in my name saying: I am he: and the tyme draweth neare. Folo∣we 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 thē: Nacion shall ryse agaynst nacion / and king∣dom [ C] agaynst kyngdome / and greate erthqua∣kes shallbe 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 / delyuerin¦ge you vpto 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 &* 1.299 wisdome / where agaynste / all youre adversa∣rys shall not be able to speake nor resist. Ye & ye shalbe betrayed of youre fathers and mo∣thers / and of youre brethren / and kynsmen / and lovers / and 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 you¦re

heedes perisshe. With youre pacience * pos∣sesse* 1.300 youre soules. [ D]

And when ye se Ierusalem beseged with an hoste / then vnderstonde that the desolaciō 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 coun¦treis / enter* 1.301 therin. For these be the dayes of vengeance / to fulfill all that are writtē. But wo be to them that be with chylde / & to them that geve sucke in those dayes: for ther shal∣be 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 troo¦den vnder fote of the gentyls / vntyll the tyme of the gentyls be fulfilled. [ E]

✚ And ther shalbe signes in the sunne / ād in the mone / and in the starres: and in y^e erth* 1.302 the people shalbe in soche perplexite / y^t they shall not tell which waye to turne them sel¦ves. The see and the waters shall roore / & mē¦nes hertes shall fayle them for feare / and for lokinge after thoose thinges which shall co∣me on the erth. For the powers of hevē shall move. And then shall they se the sonne of mā come in a clowde with power and greate glo∣ry. When these thinges begyn to come to pas¦se: then loke vp / and lifte vp youre heddes for youre redemcion draweth neye.

And he shewed thē a similitude: beholde y^e 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 hōd. So lyke wyse ye (when ye se these thinges come to passe) vnderstonde / that the kyngdo∣me of God is neye. Verely I saye vnto you: this generacion shall not passe / tyll all be ful¦filled. Heaven & erth shall passe: but my wor∣des shall not passe. ⊢

✚ Take hede to youre selves / lest youre her¦tes [ G] be overcome with surfettinge and dron∣kennes and cares of this worlde: and that / that daye come on you vnwares. For as a sna¦re shall it come on all them that sit on the fa∣ce of the erthe. Watche therfore continually* 1.303 and praye / that ye maye obtayne grace to flye all this that shall come / & that ye maye ston∣de before the sonne of man. ⊢

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 ca∣me in the morninge to him in the temple / for to heare him.

¶ The .xxii. Chapter. ✚ [ A]

THe feaste of swete breed drue nye whi∣che* 1.304 is called ester / and the hye prestes and Scribes sought how to kyll him / but they feared the people. Then entred Sa¦tan into Iudas / whose syr name was Isca∣riot (which was of the nombre of the twel∣ve) & he went his waye & cōmuned with the* 1.305 hye Prestes and officers / how he might be∣traye him to them. And they were glad: & pro¦mysed to geve him money. And he consented

and sought oportunite to betraye him vnto them / when the people were awaye. [ F]

Then came y^• daye of swete breed / when of necessite the esterlambe must be offered. And* 1.306 he sent Peter & Iohn. sayinge: Goo & prepare vs the ester lambe / that we maye eate. They sayde to him. Where wilt thou / y^t we prepa∣re? 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 y^t he entreth in / & saye vn¦to y^e good mā of y^e housse. The master sayeth vnto y^•: where is y^e gest chamber / where I shall eate myne ester lambe w^t my disciples? And he shall shew you a greate parloure paved. Ther make redy. And they wēt & foūde as he had sayd vnto thē: & made redy y^e ester lambe.

And when the houre was come / he sate dou¦ne [ B] * 1.307 and the twelve Apostles with him. And he sayde vnto them: I have inwardly desyred / to eate this ester lambe with you before y^t I suffre. For I saye vnto you: hence forthe / I will not eate of it eny moore / vntill it be ful∣filled 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 vy∣ne / vntill the kingdome of God be come.

And he toke breed / gave thankes / and gave to them / sayinge: This is my body which is* 1.308 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 ne∣we

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

Yet beholde / the honde of him that betray∣eth me / is with me on the table. And y^e sonne* 1.309 of man goeth as it is appoynted▪ But wo be to y^t man by whom he is betrayed. And they began to enquyre amōge them selves / which of them it shuld be / that shuld do that.

✚ And ther was a stryfe amōge thē / which [ C] of them shuld be taken for the greatest. And* 1.310 he sayde vnto them: the kynges of the gētyls* 1.311 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 amon¦ge 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 ser¦veth? Is not he that sitteth at meate? And I am amōge you / as he that ministreth. Ye are they which have bidden with me in my temp¦tacions. And I apoynt vnto you a kyngdo∣me / 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. ⊢

And the Lorde sayde: Simon / Simon behol¦de Satan hath desired you / to sifte you / as it* 1.312 were wheate: but I have prayed for the▪ that thy faith fayle not. And when thou arte con∣verted / strengthe thy brethrē. And he sayd vn¦to* 1.313 him. Lorde I am redy to go with the in to preson / & to deth. And he sayde: I tell the Pe∣ter / the cocke shall not crowe this daye / tyll

thou have thryse denyed y^t thou knewest me. [ D]

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 say¦de to them: but nowe he that hath a wallet let him take it vp and lykewyse his scrippe.* 1.314 And 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 per∣formed in me: even with the wycked was he nombred. For those thinges which are written of me / have an ende. And they sayde:* 1.315 Lorde / beholde here are two sweardes. And he sayde vnto them: it is ynough.

And he came out / and went as he was wō∣te / to* 1.316 mounte olivete. And the disciples folo∣wed him. And when he came to the place / he sayde to thē: praye / lest ye fall into temptaciō.

And he gate him selfe from them / about a stones cast / & kneled doune / & prayed / sayinge: [ E] Father yf thou wilt / withdrawe this cup frō 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. And he rose* 1.317 vp from prayer & came to his disciples / & foū¦de 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 / wēt before them / & preased nye vnto Iesus to kysse him. And Iesus sayd vn¦to him: Iudas / betrayest thou y^e 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* 1.318 one of them smote a servaūt of y^e hiest preste 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 [ F] were come to him. Be ye come out / as vnto a* 1.319 thefe with sweardes and staves? When I was dayly with you in the tēple / ye stretched not forth hondes agaynst me. But this is e∣ven youre very houre / and the power of darck¦nes. 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 mid¦des* 1.320 of the palys / and were set doune to geder Peter also sate doune amonge them. And wo¦ne of the wenches / behelde him as he sate by the fyer / and set good eyesight on him & say∣de: this same was also with him. Then he de¦nyed hym sayinge: woman I knowe him not And after a lytell whyle / another sawe him &* 1.321 sayde: thou arte also of them. And Peter sayd man I am not. And aboute the space of an [ G] houre after / another affirmed sayinge: ve¦rely even this felowe was with hym / for he is of Galile / & Peter sayde: mā 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 Pe¦ter remembred the wordes of the Lorde / how he sayde vnto him / before y^e cocke crowe / thou shalt denye me thryse. And Peter went out / and wepte bitterly.

And the men that stode about Iesus / moc∣ked [ G] him / & smoote him / and blyndfolded him / & smoote his face. And axed him sayinge: are∣de / who* 1.322 it is that smoote y^•? And many other thinges despytfull ye sayd they agaynst him.

And assone as it was daye / the elders of the people & the hye prestes & scribes / came to ged¦der & ledde him into their counsell sayinge:* 1.323 arte thou very Christ? tell vs. And he sayde vnto thē: 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 y^t I am. Then sayde they: what nede we eny further witnes? We oure selves have herde of his awne mouthe.

¶ The .xxiii. Chap.

ANd the whole multitude of them aro∣se / & [ A] * 1.324 ledde him vnto Pylate. And they beganne to accuse him sayinge: We ha¦ve founde this felowe pervertynge the peo∣ple / and forbiddynge to paye tribute to Cesar:* 1.325 sayinge / that he is Christ a kynge. And Pyla∣te 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.

When Pilate hearde mencion of Galile / he [ B] * 1.326 axed whether the m•• were of Galile. And as∣sone as he knewe that he was of Herodes iu∣risdiccion he sent him to Herode / which was also at Ierusalem in those dayes. And when Herode sawe Iesus / he was excedinglie glad¦de. 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* 1.327 one worde. The hye prestes and scribes / stode forthe & accused him straytly. And Herod w^t his men of warre / despysed him / and mocked him / and arayed him in whyte / and sent him* 1.328 agayne to Pylate. And the same daye Pyla∣te 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* 1.329 one that perverted the people. And beholde I have examined him before you / & have foun∣de no faute in this man / of those thinges whe¦re [ C] 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 atonce sayinge: awaye with him / & delyvre to vs Barrabas:* 1.330 which for insurrccion made in the cite / & mor∣ther / was cast into preson. Pylate spake agay∣ne 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 Pre∣stes prevayled.

And Pylate gave sentence that it shuld be [ D] as they required and let lowse vnto them / him that for insurreccion and morther / was cast into preson / whom they desyred: & dely∣vered Iesus to do with him what they wol∣de. And as they ledde him awaye / they caught one Symon of Syrene / commynge out of the* 1.331 felde: and on him layde they the crosse / to bea∣re it after Iesus.

And ther folowed him a greate company of* 1.332 people and of wemen / which wemē bewayled and lamented him. But Iesus turned backe vnto them / and sayde: Doughters of Ierusa∣lem / wepe not for me: but wepe for youre sel∣ves and for youre chyldren. For beholde / the* 1.333 dayes will come / when men shall saye: happy are the baren and the wombes that never ba∣re / and the pappes which never gave sucke.

Then shall they beginne to saye to the monn¦taynes / fall* 1.334 on vs: and to the hilles / cover vs. For yf they do this to a grene tree / what shal∣be done to the drye?

And therwere two e••yll daers ledde with [ E] him to be slayne. And when they were come* 1.335 to the place / 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 sto∣de and behelde.

And the rulers mocked him with thē say∣ing:* 1.336 he holpe other men / let him helpe him sel¦fe / yf he be Christ the chosen of god. The sou¦diers also mocked him / & came and gave him veneger and sayde: yf thou be that kynge of y^e Iewes / save thy silfe. And his superscripciō was writtē over him / in greke / in latine and Ebreu: This is the kynge of the Iewes.

And one of the evyll doers which hanged / rayled on him sayinge: If thou be Christ save [ F] thy selfe and vs. The other answered and re∣buked him sayinge. Net herfearest thou god / because thou arte in the same damnacion? We are righteously punesshed / for we recea∣ve accordynge to oure dedes: But this man hath done nothinge amysse. And he sayde vn¦to Iesus: Lorde remember me when thou co∣mest into thy kyngdome. And Iesus sayde vnto him: Verely I saye vnto the / to daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse.* 1.337

And it was about the sixt houre. And ther came a darcknes over all the londe / vntyll y^e nynth houre / and the sonne was darckened.* 1.338 And the vayle of the temple dyd rent even thorow the myddes. And Iesus cryed with a greate voyce and sayd: Father / into thy hon∣des* 1.339 I cōmende my sprete. And when he thus had sayd / he gave vp the goost. When y^e Cen¦turion sawe what had happened / he glorified God sayinge: Of a surtie this man was per∣fecte. And all the people that came to geder* 1.340 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.

And beholde ther was a man named Io∣seph / a [ G] councelloure / and was a good man & a* 1.341 iuste / & dyd not consent to the counsell and de∣de of them / which was of Aramathia / a cite of the Iewes: which same also wayted for y^e kyngdome of God: he went vnto Pilate / & beg¦ged 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. ✚ And that daye was y^e Saboth even'& the Saboth drue on. The wemen that folowed after / which came with him from Galile / behelde the sepulcre and how his bo∣dy was layed. And they returned & prepared odoures and oyntmētes: but rested the Sa∣both daye / accordynge to the commaunde∣ment.

¶ The .xxiiii. Chapter. ✚

ON the morowe after the saboth / erly [ A] * 1.342 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 frō 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 fa¦ces 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* 1.343 you / when he was yet with you in Galile / say∣inge: that the sonne of man must be delyvered into the hondes of synfull men / and be cruci∣fied / and [ B] the thyrde daye ryse agayne.

And they remembred his wordes / & retur∣ned from the sepulcre / and tolde all these thin¦ges vnto the eleven / & to all the remanaunt. It was Mary Magdalen and Ioanna / & Ma¦ry Iacobi / & other that were with thē / which tolde these thinges vnto the Apostles / & their wordes semed vnto them fayned thinges / nether beleved they them. Then aroose Pe∣ter* 1.344 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. ⊢

✚ And beholde / two of them went that sa∣me [ C] daye to a toune which was frō Ierusalem about thre scoore for longes / called Emaus: and they talked togeder of all these thinges* 1.345

that had happened. And it chaunsed / as they cōmened 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 cōmunicacions 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 Naza¦reth 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. [ D]

Ye and certayne wemen also of oure com∣pany made vs astonyed / which came erly vn∣to 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 thē: O foles and slow•• of herte to beleve all y^• the prophete have spo¦ken. Ought not Christ to have suffred the∣se

thinges / & to enter into his glory? And he began at Moses / & at all the prophetes / & in∣terpreted vnto them in all scriptures which [ D] were wrytten of him. And they drue neye vn∣to 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 thē.

And it came to passe as he sate at meate w^t them / he toke breed / blessed it / brake and gave to them. And their eyes were openned / & they [ E] knewe him: 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 ope∣ned to vs the scriptures? And they roose vp the same houre / and returned agayne to Ieru¦salem / 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 do¦ne in the waye / and how they knewe him in breakynge of breed. ✚* 1.346

As they thus spake ✚ Iesus him selfe sto∣de [ F] in y^e myddes of them / & sayde vnto them: peace be with you. And they were abasshed & afrayde / supposinge y^t they had sene a sprete And he sayde vnto thē: 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 hon¦des and his fete. And whyll they yet beleved not for ioye / and wondred / he sayde vnto thē: Have ye here eny meate? And they gave him a pece of a broyled fisshe / and of an hony com¦be. And he toke it / and ate it before them.

And he sayde vnto thē. These are the wor∣des / which I spake vnto you / whyll I was yet with you: that all must be fulfilled which [ G] * 1.347 were written of me in the lawe of Moses / & in the Prophetes / & in the Psalmes. Then open¦ned he their wyttes / that they myght vnder∣stond the scriptures / and sayde vnto them. Thus is it written / & thus it behoved Christ to suffre / and to ryse agayne from deeth the* 1.348 thyrde daye / and that repentaunce and remis∣sion of synnes shuld be preached in his name amonge all nacions / ✚ and must beginne at Ierusalem. And ye are witnesses of these thinges. And beholde / I will sende the pro∣mes* 1.349 of my father apon you. But tary ye in y^e cite of Ierusalem / vntyll ye be endewed with power from an hye.

And he ledde thē out into Bethany / & lyf∣te vp his hondes / & blest them. And it cam to* 1.350 passe / as he blessed thē / he departed from thē / & was caryed vp in to heven. And they wor∣shipped him / & returned to Ierusalem with greate ioye / and were continually in the tem∣ple / praysinge and laudinge God.

Amen.

¶ Here endeth the Gospell of Sayncte Luke.

Notes

• * 1.1

  zachari∣as
• * 1.2

  Eliza∣beth
• * 1.3

  ••eniti. ••j. d
• * 1.4

  Ihon.
• * 1.5

  To ma∣ke the chil¦dren have soche an harte to God as A∣brahā and the fath¦ers had.
• * 1.6

  Psal. cxxxi. Mala. iij. a. mal. iiij. b.
• * 1.7

  A Signe is axed.
• * 1.8

  Marie.
• * 1.9

  Esa. vij. d. Iesus. Daniel .vij. d. Mic. iiij. e
• * 1.10

  Marie greteth Eliza∣beth.
• * 1.11

  Magni∣ficat.
• * 1.12

  Esaie .xlj. b.
• * 1.13

  Esaie .xxx. d. & .liiij. b. Hiere. xxxj. a. Psalino. ••xxxi. Ge. xxij.
• * 1.14

  Ihon is borne.
• * 1.15

  Benedic∣tus. P••almo. lxxiij. & ▪cxxxj. d Hiere. xxiij. a and xxx. b. Hieremie xxxj. f. Gene. xxix. c▪
• * 1.16

  Christ is the daye springe that ge∣ueth light to thē that sit in dar¦kenes of the igno∣raunce of God.
• * 1.17

  Christ is borne.
• * 1.18

  Shepe∣herdes.
• * 1.19

  Signe.
• * 1.20

  Leuitic. xij. a Christ is circunci∣sed. Matt. j. c
• * 1.21

  Leuiti. xij. a.
• * 1.22

  Ex. xiij. a. Nume. viij. c
• * 1.23

  Leuiti. xij. ••
• * 1.24

  Simeon.
• * 1.25

  Nunc di∣mittis.
• * 1.26

  Esa. viij. c. Rom. x. g. i. petri ▪ij. b.
• * 1.27

  Anna.
• * 1.28

  Christ i•• foūde d••••s putinge in the tē∣ple.
• * 1.29

  Tetrar∣che.
• * 1.30

  Iohn ba¦ptist. Mat. iij. a Mark .j. a
• * 1.31

  Esa. x••. a Iohn .j. c.
• * 1.32

  Ma••. iij. ••
• * 1.33

  The axe
• * 1.34

  Publi∣cans.
• * 1.35

  Soudio••¦••es.
• * 1.36

  Mat. iij. •• Mat. iij. •• Ioh. j. d.
• * 1.37

  Fanne.
• * 1.38

  Chaffe.
• * 1.39

  Mat. iij. a Mar. j. b. Iohn is presoned
• * 1.40

  Christ is baptised.
• * 1.41

  Genea••o¦gie.
• * 1.42

  Mat. iij. a Mar. j. b.
• * 1.43

  Iesus fa¦steth four¦tye dayes
• * 1.44

  Deutero▪ viij. d.
• * 1.45

  Deutero▪ vj. c. and▪ x. d.
• * 1.46

  Psal. x••. ••
• * 1.47

  Deutero▪ vj. c.
• * 1.48

  Mathew▪ iiij. b. Mar. ••▪ b. Io. iiij. f.
• * 1.49

  Mathew .xiij. b. Mar. vj. •• Io. iiij. f
• * 1.50

  Esa. lxj.
• * 1.51

  Iosephs sonne.
• * 1.52

  Io. iiij. f.
• * 1.53

  Prophete iij. Reg. xvij. Iac. v. d.
• * 1.54

  The we∣dowe of Sarepta. iiij. Reg. v. d.
• * 1.55

  Naaman
• * 1.56

  mat. iiij. •• Mar. j. c
• * 1.57

  mat. vij. •• Mar. j. c.
• * 1.58

  The vn∣cleane spirite is cast oute.
• * 1.59

  Mathew .viij. b. Mar. ••j, c. Simons mothere▪ lawe.
• * 1.60

  Layde his hāde on them.
• * 1.61

  Mar. j. d
• * 1.62

  Mathew .iiij. c. Mark .j. b
• * 1.63

  Mathew viij. a Mar. j. d.
• * 1.64

  Leper
• * 1.65

  Le. xiij. a
• * 1.66

  Mat. ix. a Mar. ij. a
• * 1.67

  Palsye.
• * 1.68

  Signe.
• * 1.69

  Mat. ix. •• Mar. ij. b.
• * 1.70

  Levi.
• * 1.71

  Publi∣cās and synners.
• * 1.72

  Mat. ix. b Dar. ij. c. The di∣sciples fast not
• * 1.73

  New & ol¦de agree not.
• * 1.74

  Mathew .xxij. d Mar. ij. d Corne felde.
• * 1.75

  The Sa∣both daye is broken
• * 1.76

  j. Regum xxj. g.
• * 1.77

  Mat. xij a Mar. iij. a
• * 1.78

  Dryed honde.
• * 1.79

  Madnes
• * 1.80

  Mat. x. •• Mar. iij. b
• * 1.81

  The tw∣elve are chosen.
• * 1.82

  Mat. v. ••
• * 1.83

  Couena∣untes.
• * 1.84

  True pro phetes.
• * 1.85

  Am. vj. a Eccle. xxxj. a.
• * 1.86

  Couena∣untes.
• * 1.87

  Love.
• * 1.88

  Mat. v. g
• * 1.89

  Do good Blesse. Praye.
• * 1.90

  All the lawe.
• * 1.91

  Mathew vij. b ••o. iiij. c. Mat. v. g
• * 1.92

  Lende.
• * 1.93

  Covena∣untes. Mathew .vij. a. Iudge not.
• * 1.94

  Ma. ••i••. •• Ma. iiij. ••
• * 1.95

  Forgeve.
• * 1.96

  Mathew .xv. b. Measure
• * 1.97

  Mat. x. c. Mote. Io. xiij. •• Ma. vij. a Beame.
• * 1.98

  Ma. vij. •• mat. xij. c The tree is knowē bi his fru¦te.
• * 1.99

  The mo∣uthe spe∣aketh of y^• fullnes of the he∣art. To buil∣de on a rocke. To buil∣de on son¦de.
• * 1.100

  Mathew .viij. a.
• * 1.101

  Centuri∣o••.
• * 1.102

  The de¦ed is ray∣sed.
• * 1.103

  Mat. xj. a
• * 1.104

  Ihon ba∣ptist sen∣deth to Christ.
• * 1.105

  Esai. ••y.
• * 1.106

  Mal. iij. a
• * 1.107

  Publi∣cans iu∣stifie god
• * 1.108

  Pharises despise y^• councell of god.
• * 1.109

  Mat. xj. ••
• * 1.110

  Wisdom
• * 1.111

  Marie of Bethani••
• * 1.112

  Love is y^• signe y^t the syn∣nes are forgeven her.
• * 1.113

  mat. xij. a Ma. iiij. a
• * 1.114

  Sower.
• * 1.115

  Esa. vij. e Mathew .xiij. b. ma. iiij. b. Ioa. xij. f Ro. xj. b.
• * 1.116

  The so∣wer is ex¦pounded.
• * 1.117

  Candell.
• * 1.118

  Mat. x. b Ma. iiij. c. Mat. x. c Mar. iij. c
• * 1.119

  Mathew .xiij. b. & .xxv. c. ma. iiij. c. Mathew .xii. d. Mar. iij. d
• * 1.120

  Mother & brethrē Ma. viij. c mar. iiij. d
• * 1.121

  Iesus slepeth in y^e ship.
• * 1.122

  Mathew viij .c. Mar. v. a Gadere¦nites
• * 1.123

  Legion
• * 1.124

  Swyne.
• * 1.125

  mat. ix. c. Mar. v. b.
• * 1.126

  The Ru∣lers dou∣ghter is raised.
• * 1.127

  Issue of bloude.
• * 1.128

  Mat. x. ••. Mar. iij. ••
• * 1.129

  The twe∣lve are sent. Mat. x. a Mar. xj. •• Mat. x. ••. mar. vj. ••
• * 1.130

  Go not frō hous∣se to hous¦se as fre∣ers do. Act. xiij.
• * 1.131

  Dust
• * 1.132

  Mathew .xiiij. a. Ma. vj. b
• * 1.133

  Mathew .xiiij. b.
• * 1.134

  Ma. vj. d
• * 1.135

  Fyve lo∣ves & .ii. fysshes.
• * 1.136

  Maehew .xvj. b. Mar. vii••
• * 1.137

  Passion.
• * 1.138

  Mathew .xvij. d. Mar. viij
• * 1.139

  Christes disciple.
• * 1.140

  Mat. x. d and xvj. Marke .viij. b. Ioa. xij. ••
• * 1.141

  Mat. x. d mar. viij b
• * 1.142

  Cove∣naunt
• * 1.143

  Mat. xvj d. Marc. ix. a.
• * 1.144

  Mat. xvij a. Marc. ix. a.
• * 1.145

  Tranff∣guracion
• * 1.146

  Heare him.
• * 1.147

  Mathew .xvij. d. Mar. ix. c
• * 1.148

  The spi∣rite of the fallynge sycknes is cast ou¦te.
• * 1.149

  Passion.
• * 1.150

  Mathew .xvii. b. Mar. ix. c
• * 1.151

  Greatest
• * 1.152

  Forbyd
• * 1.153

  Fyer frō heaven
• * 1.154

  Mathew .viij. c.
• * 1.155

  Foxes.
• * 1.156

  Burie his fa¦ther.
• * 1.157

  Plowe.
• * 1.158

  Seventie are sent. mat. ix. a Hervest. Lambes amonge wolves.
• * 1.159

  Mat. x. a Ma. vj. a
• * 1.160

  Fayth shall mi∣nistre all
• * 1.161

  Mat. x. a. j. tim. v. c
• * 1.162

  Dust.
• * 1.163

  Corazim Betsaida Tyre Sidon Caperna∣um.
• * 1.164

  Mat. x. d. Io. xiij. c.
• * 1.165

  Reioyse.
• * 1.166

  Mat. xj. d Babes. Mat. xj. d
• * 1.167

  He onlye that is / taught of Christ / knoweth y^e father.
• * 1.168

  Mathew xiij. b.
• * 1.169

  Mathew .xxij. d Mar. xij d Eternall lyfe. Deutero. vj. b.
• * 1.170

  Samari∣tane.
• * 1.171

  A neybo∣ure who.
• * 1.172

  Martha Marie
• * 1.173

  Mat. vj. ••
• * 1.174

  The pa∣ter noster
• * 1.175

  Prayer what it dothe.
• * 1.176

  Covena∣unt.
• * 1.177

  Mathew .vij. a. and .xxj. •• Mar. x••. •• Io. xiii••. •• and. xvj •• Iaco. ••. a∣mar. vij. •• Mat. ••x •• and .xij. •• Mar. iij. ••
• * 1.178

  The dō∣me spiri∣te is cast oute. Belze∣bub.
• * 1.179

  Seven worsse then him selfe.
• * 1.180

  Happie who.
• * 1.181

  Mat. xij ••
• * 1.182

  Signe of Ionas.
• * 1.183

  Quene of y^• sou∣the .iij. Reg. x. g. ij. pa. ix▪ Ninivi∣tes. Ion. iii. •• Mat. v. •• Ma. iiij. •• Eye. mat. xj. ••
• * 1.184

  Mathew .xxiij.
• * 1.185

  Almose.
• * 1.186

  Tithe mynt. Mathew .xxiiij. Ma. xij. d
• * 1.187

  ••pper∣most sea∣tes.
• * 1.188

  Lawears Mathew .xxiij. Builde sepul∣chres.
• * 1.189

  Gen. iiij. ij. parali. xxiiij. b.
• * 1.190

  zacha∣rias.
• * 1.191

  keye.
• * 1.192

  Eeven. Mat. xvj. Mat. viij. mat. x. c. Ma. iiij. ••
• * 1.193

  Leven.
• * 1.194

  Who is to be fea∣red.
• * 1.195

  Mat. x. d. Mar. iij.
• * 1.196

  Covena∣untes.
• * 1.197

  Mathew. xij. e Mar. iij. A promi∣se that y^• spirite shall tea∣che vs.
• * 1.198

  The lyfe stondeth not in ri∣ches but in kepin∣ge godes commaū∣demētes. Richman Eccle. xj. c.
• * 1.199

  mat. vj. c j. xe. x. b. plas. liiij.
• * 1.200

  Ravens.
• * 1.201

  Lilies.
• * 1.202

  Mat. v. c. Litle floc¦ke.
• * 1.203

  Almose.
• * 1.204

  Loynes lightes.
• * 1.205

  Seconde. watche. Mathew .xxiiij.
• * 1.206

  Apo. xvj.
• * 1.207

  Evell ser¦vaunt.
• * 1.208

  Cove∣naunt
• * 1.209

  Fyer.
• * 1.210

  Bapty∣me. Baptise. Mat. x. d.
• * 1.211

  Peace.
• * 1.212

  Debate
• * 1.213

  Mathew. xvj Ma. viij.
• * 1.214

  Mat. v. d.
• * 1.215

  Adversa∣rie.
• * 1.216

  Galileās
• * 1.217

  Toure in Siloe.
• * 1.218

  Fygge tree.
• * 1.219

  The wo∣man y^t was bo∣wed toge¦ther.
• * 1.220

  The Sa∣both is broken. The sa∣both is broken.
• * 1.221

  Mustar∣de seede.
• * 1.222

  Mat. xiij.
• * 1.223

  Leven.
• * 1.224

  mat. vij b Strayte gate.
• * 1.225

  Mathew .xij. d.
• * 1.226

  When the coue∣naunt ma¦de in the bloude of Christ / i•• blynded? then men payne thē selues w∣ith, holie workes / trustinge therbie to enter: but all in vay ne.
• * 1.227

  psal. vj. c. mat. vij. c and xxv.
• * 1.228

  Mathew .xix. d. & .xx. b.
• * 1.229

  Herode is a foxe.
• * 1.230

  Ierusalē kylleth prophete
• * 1.231

  Mathew .xxiij.
• * 1.232

  Dropsie.
• * 1.233

  Prouer. xxv. a. Eyalte humble. Mathew .xxiij. tob. iiij. a pr••. iij. b.
• * 1.234

  Feast y^• poore.
• * 1.235

  Supper.
• * 1.236

  Mathew .xxij. a. Apo. xix.
• * 1.237

  Mat. x. d Christes disciple. Mat. x. d &. xvj. d. Mar. viij d.
• * 1.238

  Towre.
• * 1.239

  Christes disciples
• * 1.240

  Mat. v. b Mar. ix g
• * 1.241

  Pulicans Synners
• * 1.242

  hundred. shepe. mat. xvii
• * 1.243

  Ten gre¦tes.
• * 1.244

  The ryo∣touse son¦ne.
• * 1.245

  The vn∣rightwi∣se stewar¦de.
• * 1.246

  Mammō
• * 1.247

  Mat. vj. c
• * 1.248

  Two ma¦sters.
• * 1.249

  Mathew .xj. b.
• * 1.250

  Mat. v. c.
• * 1.251

  Mat. v. c. Mar. x. b
• * 1.252

  ••. Lo. vi••.
• * 1.253

  Bysse. The ry∣ch•• g••ot•• & lazarue
• * 1.254

  Moses & the Pro∣phetes is the olde testament
• * 1.255

  Ma••hew .xviij. Mar. jx. f Offence. Milsto¦ne. Mathew .xviij. Le. xix. d Sccl. xx. Mathew. xviij.
• * 1.256

  Sycami∣ne tree.
• * 1.257

  In wor∣kes maye no fayth be put for by them no man is iustified ••d before god / but by Chri∣stes blou¦de onlie
• * 1.258

  Ten le∣pers.
• * 1.259

  The ki∣ngedome of god is to loue god with all thyne heart / ād to put thi hole trust in him ac¦cordinge to the co∣uenaunt / made in Christ ād for Chri¦stes sake to loue thy neyb∣oure as Christ lo¦ued the. And all this is with in the.
• * 1.260

  He here: se there.
• * 1.261

  Mathew .xxiiij. ••e. viij.
• * 1.262

  Gen. xix
• * 1.263

  Lottes wyfe. ••c. nxix Mat. x. e. mar. viij. Io. xij. d. Mathew .xxiiij.
• * 1.264

  Egles.
• * 1.265

  Eccle. xxiiij. e. j. Les. v. Wicked. iudge.
• * 1.266

  Exalte.
• * 1.267

  Mathew .xxiij.
• * 1.268

  Mat. xix Mar. x. b
• * 1.269

  Ex. xx.
• * 1.270

  Camell.
• * 1.271

  Covena∣unt.
• * 1.272

  Mathew .xx. v. Mar. x. c.
• * 1.273

  Passion
• * 1.274

  Mathew .xx. d. Mar. x. g Blynde man.
• * 1.275

  zacheus.
• * 1.276

  Mathew .xviij. mat. xxv
• * 1.277

  Ten poū¦de.
• * 1.278

  To him y^t hath / it shalbe ge¦ven. Mathew .xiij. b. and .xxv. Mar. iiij c
• * 1.279

  Mathew .xxj. a. Mar. xj a Betpha∣ge. Betanie. Colt.
• * 1.280

  Ioa. xij. b
• * 1.281

  Mathew .xxiiij. Marke .xiij. a.
• * 1.282

  Sellers & byers. Mathew .xxj. b. Mar. xj. b Gsa. lvj. Hid. xij. c
• * 1.283

  Mathew .xxi. ••. Mar. xj. d
• * 1.284

  Baptime of Iohn.
• * 1.285

  Vineyar∣de. Mar. xij. Esa. v. a. Hier. ij. d
• * 1.286

  Psalmo▪ clxvij. Ac. iiij. b. Ro. ix. g. j. Pe. ij. a. Esaie. xxviij.
• * 1.287

  Mathew .xxij. b Marke .xij. b.
• * 1.288

  Tribute to Cesar.
• * 1.289

  Ro. xiij. b
• * 1.290

  Saduces
• * 1.291

  Mat. xxij Mar. xij. Deutero ▪xxv. b.
• * 1.292

  Ex. iij. b
• * 1.293

  mathew .xxij. d. mar. xij. d
• * 1.294

  psa. cix. a
• * 1.295

  mathew .xxiij. mar. xij d
• * 1.296

  mat. xii. d Porweds we.
• * 1.297

  mathew .xxiiij. mar. xiij.
• * 1.298

  Destruc∣cion of y^e temple.
• * 1.299

  A promi∣se.
• * 1.300

  Possesse wynne or save.
• * 1.301

  mathew .xxiiij. mar. xiij. dani. ix ••
• * 1.302

  mathew .xxiiij. Mar. xiij. esaie. xiij. b. e••e. xxxi•• Ioel. iij. c
• * 1.303

  Watche
• * 1.304

  Mathew .xxvj. Ma.. xiiij
• * 1.305

  Mathew .xxvj. Christ is betrayed. Mathew .xxvj. mar. xiiij
• * 1.306

  Ester lā∣be.
• * 1.307

  mathew .xxvj. mar. xiii•• j. cor. xj.
• * 1.308

  The sa∣crament is institu¦te.
• * 1.309

  mathew .xxvj. mar. xiiij ioa. xiij. •• psa. xl. c.
• * 1.310

  Greatest
• * 1.311

  mathew .xx. d mar. x. f.
• * 1.312

  Simons fayth fay¦leth not.
• * 1.313

  mathew .xxvj. mar. xiiij
• * 1.314

  By a swe¦rde. esai. liiij.
• * 1.315

  Two sw¦erdes.
• * 1.316

  mathew .xxvj. mar. xiiij ioa. xviij Christ ar¦meth him selfe aga∣ynst his passion. An angel cōforteth him.
• * 1.317

  He swe∣teth blou¦de.
• * 1.318

  E••are is ••myttē of
• * 1.319

  mathew. x•• vj. mar. xiiij Io. xviij.
• * 1.320

  mathew. ••xvj. mar. xiiij ••oa. xviij
• * 1.321

  Peter de∣nieth.
• * 1.322

  Christ is mocked.
• * 1.323

  Mathew .xxvij. mar. xv. ioa. xviij
• * 1.324

  He is de∣lyuered to Pilate
• * 1.325

  mat. xxi•• mar. xij. marke .xxvij. and .xv. •• ioa. xviij
• * 1.326

  He is se∣nt to He∣rode.
• * 1.327

  He hol∣deth his peace.
• * 1.328

  Pilate & Herode are beco∣me fren∣des.
• * 1.329

  mathew. xxvi••. mar. xv. ••o. xviij. and. xix c
• * 1.330

  Barra∣bas.
• * 1.331

  Simon of Sirene
• * 1.332

  mathew. xxvi••. mar. xv••
• * 1.333

  esa. ••iiij. •• gala. iiij.
• * 1.334

  esai. ii. a. o see. x. b apo. ix. b
• * 1.335

  mathew .xxvij. mar. xvb ioa. xix b mathew .xxvij. mar. xvb
• * 1.336

  He is mo¦cked.
• * 1.337

  Paradise
• * 1.338

  Vayle.
• * 1.339

  He geue∣th vp the ghost.
• * 1.340

  His fren∣des ston∣de a farre of.
• * 1.341

  mathew .xxvij. mar. xv. ••o. xix. •• Ioseph of Arima¦thia.
• * 1.342

  mar. xvj. Ioh. xx. a
• * 1.343

  mathew .xxvij. d. mar. ix. a
• * 1.344

  Peter rū∣neth to y^• grave.
• * 1.345

  Emaus.
• * 1.346

  mathew .xxviij. mar. xvj. ioa. xx. c
• * 1.347

  He geue∣th y^e key∣es.
• * 1.348

  Psalmo •• xviij.
• * 1.349

  acto. j. a. ioa. xvj.
• * 1.350

  Acto. j. a. mar. xvi. d.