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

¶ The .xii. Chapter.

ANd he beganne to speake vnto them in [ A] * 1.1 similitudes. A certayne man planted a vineyarde / & cōpased it with an hedge / & ordeyned a wyne presse / and bylt a toure in yt. And let yt out to hyre vnto husbandmē / and went into a straunge countre. And when* 1.2 the tyme was come / he sent to the tennaun∣tes a servaunt / that he myght receave of the

tenauntes of the frute of the vyneyarde. And they caught him & bet him & sent him agay∣ne emptye. And moreover he sent vnto them another servaunt / & at him they cast stones & brake his heed / and sent him agayne all to re∣vyled. And agayne he sent another / and him they kylled: and many other / beetynge some / and kyllinge some.

Yet had he one sonne whom he loved ten∣derly / him also he sent at the last vnto them sayinge: they wyll feare my sonne. But the te¦nauntes sayde amongest them selves: this is the heyre: come let vs kyll hym / & y^e inheritaū¦ce shalbe oures. And they toke him and kyll'id him / & cast him out of the vyneyarde. What shall then the lorde of the vyneyarde do? He will come & destroye y^e tenaunte / & let out the vyneyarde to other. Have ye not redde this scripture? The stoone which y^e bylders dyd re¦fuse / is* 1.3 made y^e chefe stoone in y^e corner: this was done of y^e Lorde / & is mervelous in oure eyes. And they went about to take him / but they feared the people. For they perceaved that he spake that similitude agaynst them. And they left him and went their waye.

And they sent vnto him certayne of y^• Pha¦rises [ B] * 1.4 with Herodes servante / to take him in his wordes. And allone as they were come / they sayd vnto him: master we knowe y^t thou arte true / & carest for no man: for thou consy∣derest not the degre of men / but teachest the waye of God truly: Ys it laufull to paye tri∣bute* 1.5 to Cesar / or not? Dught we to geve / or

ought we not to geve? He vnderstode their si∣mulacion / and sayde vnto them: Why tēpte ye me? Brynge me apeny / that I maye se yt. And they brought. And he sayde vnto them: Whose ys thys ymage and superscripcion? And they sayde vnto him / Cesars. And Iesus answered & saide vnto thē: Then geve to Ce∣sar* 1.6 that which belongeth to Cesar: & to God / that which perteyneth to God. And they mer¦velled at him.

Then came the Saduces vnto him / which* 1.7 saye / ther is no resurreccion. And they axed hym sayinge: Master / Moses wroote vnto vs yf eny mans brother dye / & leve his wyfe be¦hinde him / & leve no chyldren: that then hys brother shuld take his wyfe / & reyse vp seed vnto his brother. Ther were seven brethren: and the fyrst toke a wyfe / and when he dyed leeft no seed behynde him. And the seconde to¦ke hir / & dyed: nether leeft eny seed. And the thyrde lyke wyse. And sevē had her / and leeft no seed behynde them. Last of all the wyfe dyed also. In the resurrecciō then / when they shall ryse agayne: whose wyfe shall she be of them? For seven had her to wyfe. Iesus an∣swered and sayde vnto them: Are ye not ther∣fore deceaved and vnderstonde not the scryp¦tures / nether the power of God? For when they shall ryse agayne frō deeth / they nether mary / nor are maryed: but are as the angels which are in heven. As touchynge the deed / * 1.8 that they shall ryse agayne: have ye not red∣de in the boke of Moses / howe in the busshe

God spake vnto him sayinge: I am the God* 1.9 of Abraham / and God of Ysaac / and the God* 1.10 of Iacob? He is not the God of the deed / but the God of the livynge. Ye are therfore great¦ly deceaved.

And ther came one of the scribes that had [ C] hearde them disputynge to gedder / and per∣ceaved that he had answered them well / and* 1.11 axed him: Which is the fyrste of all the com∣maundemētes? Iesus answered him: the fyr∣ste of all the cōmaundementes is. Heare Is∣rael: The Lorde God / is one Lorde. And thou shalt love the Lorde thy God with all thy hert / and with all thy soule / and with all thy* 1.12 mynde / and with all thy strength. This is the fyrste commaundement. And the seconde is lyke vnto this: Thou shalt love thy negh∣bour as thy silfe. Ther is none other com∣maundement greater then these.

And the Scribe sayde vnto him: well ma∣ster / thou hast sayd y^• truthe / that ther ys one God / and that ther is none but he. And to lo∣ve him with all the herte / & with all the myn∣de / & with all the soule / & with all the strēgth: and to love a mans neghbour as him silfe / ys a greater thinge then all burnt offerings & sa∣crifices. And when Iesus sawe that he an∣swered discretly / he sayde vnto him: Thou ar¦te not farre from the kyngdome of God. And no man after that / durst axe him eny questiō. [ D] * 1.13

And Iesus answered and sayde / teachynge in the temple: how saye the Scribes y^t Christ is the sonne of David? For David him selfe

inspyred with the holy goost / sayde: The Lor¦de sayde to my Lorde / syt on my right honde / tyll I make thyne enemyes thy fote stole. Then David hym silfe calleth him Lorde: & by what meanes is he then his sonne? And moche people hearde him gladly.* 1.14

And he sayde vnto them in his doctrine: be¦ware of the Scribes which love to goo in lon¦ge clothinge: and love salutacions in y^e mar∣ket places / and the chefe seates in the syna∣goges / and to syt in the vppermost roumes at feastes / and devoure widowes houses / & that vnder coloure of longe prayinge. These shall receave greater dampnacion.

✚ And Iesus sat over agaynst the treasu∣ry / and behelde how the people put money in¦to the treasury. And many that were ryche / cast in moch. And ther cam a certayne povre widowe / and she threwe in two mytes / which make a farthynge. And he called vnto him his disciples and sayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you / that this pover widowe hath cast moare in / then all they which have caste into the treasury. For they all dyd cast in of their superfluyte: but she of her poverte / dyd cast in all that she had / evē all her livynge. ⊢

Notes

• * 1.1

  Mathew xxj. d. Vyneyas de.
• * 1.2

  Lu. xx. b Esai. l. a. Hie. ij. d.
• * 1.3

  Psalm. cxvij. d. Esaie. xxviij. Act. iiij. b Roman. ix. g. i. Pe¦tri. ij. a.
• * 1.4

  Mathe. xxiij. b. Lu. xx. d
• * 1.5

  Tribute to Cesar.
• * 1.6

  Roman. xiij. c
• * 1.7

  Mathew xxij. c Lu. xx. d Deutero. xxv. b Saduces
• * 1.8

  Resurrec¦cion.
• * 1.9

  Ex. iij. b
• * 1.10

  Mathew. xvij. b. Luke. x. c
• * 1.11

  Fyrst cō∣maunde∣ment. Deutero. vj. a.
• * 1.12

  Leui. xix d. Math. xxij. d. Roman. xiij. c Gala. v. c
• * 1.13

  Mat. xxij d. lu. xx g Davids sonne. Psalm .cjx. a.
• * 1.14

  Mathew .xxiij. a. Luk. xj. f Longe clothes. Saluta∣cions. Chefe seates. wydowe houses. Luke. xxj. a. Povre wydowe.