atonement

The Translator

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William Tyndale
(October 1484 - October 6, 1536)

Screenplay

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The screenplay for "Atonement" is currently under development and rewrites. This project is under submission to a production company for review and consideration. All inquiries should be directed to the screen writer on this blog.

A Movie About Another Time

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Historical Character Biography
WILLIAM TYNDALE

“The Translator”
FATHER OF OUR ENGLISH BIBLE

Historical facts and background for the Screenplay
“Atonement”
By Mark W. Roy

∑ William Tyndale – “The Translator”, (October 1484 - October 6, 1536)

William Tyndale was born in October 1484, probably in the village of North Nibley,near Slimbridge about the borders of Wales. Details of his early years, hiseducation, his family background and the other influences on him remain unknown,and probably unknowable. Indeed, we have to wait eighteen years before reliable facts become available in the registers of Magdalen College Oxford. YoungWilliam began studying at the University, at Magdalen College in Oxford Englandat the age of 12. Master Tyndale took his BA on July 4, 1512. After fourmore years William took his MA. Tyndale departed from Oxford in 1516 forCambridge. He went there for what he terms ‘scriptural reasons’, say ‘doctrinal reasons’, for Cambridge was associated with Lutheranism in a way that Oxfordwas not.

Indeed, we cannot travel to the England of some five hundred years ago without noticing many marked differences from the England we know nowadays. It is a land in which there is gross ignorance; illiteracy is the rule and not the exception. It is a land dominated by a Church which owned at least one quarter of the nation's wealth. It was a nation in which theratio of clergy to laity was something like 1 to 125. Theology was stillthe queen of sciences and academics were in the main clergy. There was a questioning spirit in the air. New learning and new questions were beingexplored by both humanists and reformers. The clergy were criticised by many,whether fairly or not, both for their lifestyles and for their lack of education.

Aboveall the discovery of the printing press just a few years earlier was bringing about a revolution which would mould the modern era. The printing press was first on the scene just 22 years before Tyndale’s birth, the city of Mentz was invaded and the knowledge of printing could no longer be kept a secretby its founders. Gutenberg had died only 16 years before Tyndale was born.Only eight years before Tyndale’s birth, a printing press had been set upin England by William Caxton. By Tyndale’s birth, printing presses had beenset up in more than 120 cities of Europe. By the time Tyndale was 32 yearsold, the Greek New Testament had been printed.

Tyndale believed that one key to true reformation lay in the wider accessibility of the scriptures. At Oxford Tyndale first began to explore the ideas which were to lead initially to his life's work and eventually to his death. To use his own picturesque language. Tyndale's oft-quoted words to a learned cleric: ‘If God spare mylife ere many years, I will cause a boy that drives the plough shall know more of the scriptures than thou dost.’

Scripture ‘maketh a man's heart glad
and maketh him sing, dance and leap for joy.’

He left the intellectual life of the university town for the sleepy village of Little Sodbury Manor where he became tutor to the two boys of Sir John Walsh a ‘Knight of Gloucestershire’ and Lady Walsh. Walsh was a famous warrior who had been knighted as the king’s champion at the coronation of Henry VIII.Tyndale remained with this household for about two years. His great workwas formed within him as the quietness and space of the manor house gave him room to study and translate the text of the New Testament. However, he was not entirely a recluse. Tyndale, who was about 36 years old when he cameto Sodbury Manor, preached in open-air meetings as well as in homes in the villages nearby, and he debated with the local Catholic priests. Every weekhe travelled thirteen miles to Bristol to preach in the open air to the crowds who gathered on College Green, close to the present Cathedral.

Tyndale’s Attempt to Translate the Scriptures in England
Afew years in Little Sodbury was enough to prepare him for the next step -to set about getting the Bible to the common people of the land. England had been very slow to have a Bible freely available compared with the rest of Europe. Tyndale traveled to Europe in January 1524 to complete his masterpiecefor the English-speaking world. The need for a translation of the Bible wasapparent to many but little had been done about it officially. He was, ofcourse, ideally equipped to take on the challenge. His outstanding commandof languages was admired by his contemporaries. Buschius, one of the scholars who contributed to the ‘Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum’ referred to him as‘an Englishman who is so skilful in seven tongues, Hebrew, Greek, Latin,Italian, Spanish, English, French that whichever he speaks you think it ishis native tongue.’ It is odd that he did not add German as well.

But,skill in linguistics alone is not enough to make a skilled translator. Whatmade Tyndale so remarkable was the quality of his translation. He benefited,of course, from the pioneering work done both by Erasmus on the Greek textand Luther in his German translation but, although Tyndale made considerable use of them, his translation remains distinctively his own. What he produced,at prodigious speed, was not only a translation that was a work of scholarshipbut also a marvellous piece of written English. It was therefore incumbent to make the Bible intelligent for people. Tyndale's passion was for scripture to speak to the soul. His knowledge of ordinary people and his ear for the cadences of language enabled him, like Shakespeare some several decades later,to produce a prose that was beautiful, poetic and vigorous.
It was partof his genius too, to invent new words when there was no adequate English equivalent available. Take for instance the concept of ‘reconciliation’.It was Tyndale who, having dismissed the other options available, coined the word ‘Atonement’ to do justice to the great act of God in making us ‘atone’ with him.

Rome was directly connected, then, with the persecutions against this noble translator from beginning to end. Tyndale’s views on the sole authority of Scripture and his bold exposure of Rome’s errors soon drew the ire of the Catholic authorities. In 1522, the 38-year-old Tyndale was brought before the Chancellor Thomas Parker, to answer for his "heretical"opinions. The Cardinal who had appointed this Chancellor was none other than Thomas Wolsey, who had been appointed Cardinal by Pope Leo X, and who wouldcontinue to persecute God’s people throughout his life.

Even after his confrontation with the authorities, Tyndale attempted to make his translationin England. Tyndale himself required a patron not only wealthy enough tosustain the enterprise but also with the authority to give permission forthe task. In 1525 he journeyed to London and presented his plan before Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London. Tunstall was a learned, cultured and gentle manwho had already assisted Erasmus with the second edition of his Greek New Testament ten years earlier. It seemed a reasonable thing to approach suchan enlightened man. For whatever reason, he refused his help.

Tyndale quickly found that it would be impossible to complete his project in Englandbecause of the oppression against the Word of God during the reign of HenryVIII. He left determined to complete his translation outside of England.He could not have known, though he might have suspected, that he would never return to his beloved native land. He would be exiled for 12 years and then put to death for his great work. He was pursued by unscrupulous enemies,drawn into an unhelpful debate with one of the greatest men of the age, Sir Thomas More, and eventually betrayed by a friend. His gruesome death wasas heroic as his life.

A Catholic spy named John Dobneck, better knownas Cochlaeus, a man who was a bitter enemy of Martin Luther and the Protestant movement, learned about Tyndale’s efforts to contract a first printing ofhis New Testament in Cologne. Cochlaeus "was perhaps the most virulent enemyto the Word of God being translated into any vernacular tongue, who ever breathed. He not only strove to prevent the diffusion of the Scriptures,and longed to strangle every attempt at their translation in the very birth,but even gloried in his enmity to all such proceedings."

Tyndale Completes the New Testament

Tyndale had his translation of the New Testament ready for the printer in Cologneby 1525. Cochlaeus learned exactly where the 3,000 copies of Tyndale’s first printing were being completed and made ready for clandestine transport toEngland. Hastening to make use of this information, Cochlaeus reported thisto the authorities, which forbade the printers to proceed with the work.Tyndale and the man who was helping him at that time, William Roy, being forced to flee were able to get away with most of the completed sheets; and,they escaped by boat up the Rhine river to the city of Worms, where the printing was completed. The first copies of the Tyndale New Testament arrived in England in the dead of winter, in January 1526.

Being foiled of his plan, Cochlaeus then sent a description of Tyndale’s translation to religious leaders in England that they might guard against its importation. He carefully described the format of the copies he had seen at the printers before Tyndale madehis escape, and urged the authorities to be on the lookout for these. Wisely,though, Tyndale set about to print yet another edition, which was issued before the first printing was completed. That second printing, which wasprobably sent to England before the first, was made in a format significantly smaller than the first, to more easily avoid detection. Almost immediately copies began to be smuggled into England from the Continent, hidden in bales of merchandise.

After that, Master Tyndale took in hand to translate theOld Testament, finishing the five books of Moses, with sundry most learnedand godly prologues most worthy to be read and read again by all good Christians.These books being sent over into England, it cannot be spoken what a doorof light they opened to the eyes of the whole English nation, which beforewere shut up in darkness.

At his first departing out of the realm hetook his journey into Germany, where he had conference with Luther and other learned men; after he had continued there a certain season he came down intothe Netherlands, and had his most abiding in the town of Antwerp.

Persecutions Begin in England and the Destroying Tyndale’s New Testament
Catholic authorities in England forbade Tyndale’s translation; those who attempted to distribute copies were hounded and persecuted; and stacks of the printed copies were burned. Cardinal Wolsey was actively employed in hunting downand burning the "heretical" books that were pouring into England. At Cambridge,too, and in London, secret search was made for books and Scriptures, andthose found were instantly apprehended, together with their owners. Spies were appointed to locate Bible lovers. On February 11, 1526, the first pileof Scriptures and theological books was burned in London, under the approving eye of that aspiring pope, Cardinal Wolsey. That same year William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Cuthbert Tunstall Bishop of London, also denounced Tyndale’s New Testament and condemned copies to the flames. During 1526 and1527, the authorities arrested and tormented many Bible readers. "Public Registers are filled with these cruel depositions.

"The fierceness and destructiveness of the opponents of Tyndale’s translation systematically followed up and destroyed the thousands of copies that had been widely sold through England and Scotland" (Price, The Ancestry of Our English Bible,pp. 247,48). This hatred of Tyndale’s Bible was so aggressive and thorough that though thousands of copies were printed (Simms says no less than 18,000 between 1525 and 1528), only ONE complete copy. [The recent acquisition by the British Library of the only extant complete copy of Tyndale's 1526 Worms Bible was accquired for a mere one million pounds] and ONE partial copy,and ONE fragment of the first edition are known to be in existence today.

Not being satisfied with the destruction of Tyndale’s New Testaments in England itself, Wolsey and others resolved to search for books in Europe. In February 1526, Henry VIII and Wolsey addressed letters to various authorities in Antwerp,asking them to pursue and destroy all copies of Tyndale’s New Testament.Princess Margaret of Antwerp "pointedly commanded her officers to searchthe country for these books, intending to proceed in all rigors against those whom they found culpable". In 1528 the Catholic authorities in England made alliance with their fellow persecutors on the Continent to arrest the menwho were printing and selling the English New Testaments.

Attempts to Arrest Tyndale

In December 1529, a committee of bishops was appointed to deal with "heretics"and their books. A proclamation was issued throughout the land. About then,attempts began to be made by English authorities to arrest Tyndale and other men connected with the printing or importation of Scriptures. These attempts were increased in 1531, at which time King Henry VIII was fiercely desirousof capturing Tyndale. Various individuals were commissioned to seize the Translator, or to attempt to entice him back to England.

In 1530 one of the bitterest foes of the English Scriptures died. This was Cardinal Wolsey. He was put to death for treason, a charge probably well deserved from a political viewpoint, but unquestionably deserved from a spiritual viewpoint, as hehad certainly committed treason against the Word of God. With his dying lipshe continued to spew forth hatred toward those who loved the Bible, requesting the king to be vigilant against the "heretics" which had begun in the daysof John Wycliffe and John Oldcastle and were overrunning the country in hisday. Persecutions continued in England in 1530-32. Great numbers of men and women were arrested for possessing Tyndale’s New Testament and other Scripturesand Gospel books.

On March 26, 1534, the English Parliament renounced all dependence upon the "Court of Rome." The long expected break with the pope was finally made, though King Henry VIII never turned from Catholic doctrine. After this, the persecutions continued and even increased, butthey changed character somewhat. Before the watchword was heresy. Now it was treason.

The persecutions also continued in Scotland in these days.On August 27, 1534, David Stratoun and Norman Gourlay were burned in Fife,Scotland, for their faith in the Word of God. In June 1535, THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT DECLARED THAT ALL PERSONS POSSESSING NEW TESTAMENTS OR "HERETICAL"BOOKS" MUST "DELIVER THEM UP TO THEIR ORDINARY WITHIN FORTY DAYS, under thepenalty of confiscation and imprisonment". .). In May 1536, "THE READINGOF THE SACRED VOLUME IN THE ENGLISH TONGUE WAS PUBLICLY PROHIBITED."

Tyndale Is Betrayed and Arrested

Asearly as 1527 Tyndale stated that he knew his enemies would be satisfied with nothing less than his life, if God allowed it. As it turned out, it was God’s will for the faithful translator to give his life as a testimony for Christ and for His Word. William Tyndale was betrayed to his enemiesin May 1535, in Antwerp, by Henry [also called Harry] Phillips, a man pretending to be his friend, and by Gabriel Donne, a Catholic monk who was posing asPhillips’ servant.

For sixteen months the godly Bible translator remained in the cold, lonely prison. This encompassed one long winter. He was imprisoned at Vilvorde, near Brussels, for all of the sixteen months. Though Tyndale was bound, the Word of God was not. Even during his imprisonment, three editions of his New Testament were printed, as well as editions of some of his books.

The imprisoned Tyndale was convicted of heresy by the Romanist authorities under the laws of the Inquisition and condemned to die. We do know that Tyndale was condemned and burned on the authority of the Roman Catholic clergy. At last, after much reasoning, when no reason would serve, although he deserved no death, he was condemned by virtue of the emperor's decree, made in the assembly at Augsburg.

On the morning of October 6, 1536, he was brought forth or led to the place of execution. He was tied to a stake, strangled by the hangman, then consumed with fire [burned] at the town of Vilvorde. At his death crying at the stake with a fervent zeal, and a loud voice Tyndale prayed, "Lord, open the king of England’s eyes."

Hall’s Chronicle of 1548 contained the following information: "This year in the month of September William Tyndale otherwise called Hitchens was by the cruelty of the clergy of Louvain condemned and burned in a town beside Brussels in Braband called Vilvorde"(Westcott, History of the English Bible, p. 172).

The death of Tyndale did not stop the persecutions in England or the effortsof the authorities to destroy the Bible believers and their books. Two yearslater, Tyndale’s former associate, John Lambert, was executed at Smithfield in England for maintaining the same doctrinal positions as Tyndale.

The year 1546 was also that in which Anne Askew became "the first female martyr of rank or family, tormented and burnt to ashes, for no alleged crime, save steadfast adherence to the truth of Scripture" (Anderson, Annals of the EnglishBible, II, p. 190). In July she was carried to the Tower prison and torturedon the rack repeatedly in an effort to force her to identify other believers.She said, "Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladiesor gentlemen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time; andbecause I lay still and did not cry, my Lord Chancellor and Master Rich tookpains to rack me with their own hands till I was nigh dead" (Anderson, II,p. 196). Late in the night on July 16, the sentence was finally carried out.Anne could not walk to the execution because the torture she had enduredon the rack a few days prior had dislocated her joints; she had to be carriedin a chair.

There were at least a few more books burned after this, butno other men or women were put to death in Henry the VIII’s time. Anne andher two friends have the distinction of having been the last.

Every person who has been blessed through a sound English Bible through the past four centuries owes a large debt to the humble translator who was faithful unto death. The Tyndale Bible literally transformed the nation of England.

Tyndale’sinfluence on later editions of the English Bible was immense. His was the first printed English Bible and the first translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek. Much of the powerful, direct, energetic style of the old English Bible we still use today, almost five centuries later is Tyndale’s.

The King James Bible is merely a revision of the Tyndale Bible. Comparisons have been made, showing, for example, that nine-tenths of the Authorized Versionin First John and five-sixths of Ephesians is directly from Tyndale. "These proportions are maintained throughout the entire New Testament" (Price, The Ancestry of Our English Bible, p. 251). "In the Gospel of St. Mark and the Epistle to the Hebrews [in Tyndale] there are not more than eighty words… which are not found in our Authorized Version of the Bible; that is tosay, there are not more than four strangers in every thousand words, or ninein every hundred verses" (Moulton, The History of the English Bible, p. 70).

His joy that the Bible is readily available and still a best seller would be over-shadowed by the neglect of the word. He would be thrilled to learn,that eight million copies of the Bible in Chinese have been published from 1986 – 1994, and that demand is ever increasing. He would be modestly delighted too to know that the English version behind the Chinese one draws heavily on his own translation. His pleasure would, however, be muted by the alarming and increasing ignorance of scripture by today's ‘ploughboys’ and ‘ploughgirls’in the England he knew and loved and throughout the rest of the world.

The Gospel of St. Matthew, Tyndale Translation 1525 A.D.

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Chapter 1
1 This is the boke of the generacion of Iesus Christ the sonne of Dauid the sonne also of Abraham.
2 Abraham begat Isaac: Isaac begat Iacob: Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren:
3 Iudas begat Phares and zaram of Thamar: Phares begat Hesrom: Hesrom begat Aram:
4 Aram begat Aminadab: Aminadab begat Naasson: Naasson begat Salmon:
5 Salmon begat Boos of Rahab: Boos begat Obed of Ruth: Obed begat Iesse:
6 Iesse begat Dauid the kynge: Dauid the kynge begat Salomon of her that was the wyfe of Vry:
7 Salomon begat Roboam: Roboam begat Abia: Abia begat Asa:
8 Asa begat Iosaphat: Iosaphat begat Ioram: Ioram begat Osias:
9 Osias begat Ioatham: Ioatham begat Achas: Achas begat Ezechias:
10 Ezechias begat Manasses: Manasses begat Amon: Amon begat Iosias:
11 Iosias begat Iechonias and his brethren aboute ye tyme they were caryed awaye to Babylon.
12 And after they were brought to Babylon Iechonias begat Salathiel: Salathiel begat Zorobabel:
13 Zorobabel begat Abiud: Abiud begat Eliachim: Eliachim begat Azor:
14 Azor begat Sadoc: Sadoc begat Achin: Achin begat Eliud:
15 Eliud begat Eleasar: Eleasar begat Matthan: Matthan begat Iacob:
16 Iacob begat Ioseph the husbande of Mary of which was boren that Iesus that is called Christ.
17 All the generacions from Abraham to David are fowretene generacios. And fro David vnto the captivite of Babylon are fowretene generacions. And from the captivite of Babylon vnto Christ are also fowrtene generacios.
18 The byrthe of Iesus Christ was on thys wyse. When hys mother Mary was betrouthed to Ioseph before they came to dwell to gedder she was foude with chylde by ye holy goost.
19 The Ioseph her husbande beinge a perfect ma and loth to make an ensample of hir was mynded to put her awaye secretely.
20 Whill he thus thought behold ye angell of ye Lorde appered vnto him in a dreame saynge: Ioseph ye sonne of David feare not to take vnto ye Mary thy wyfe. For that which is coceaved in her is of the holy goost.
21 She shall brynge forthe a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iesus. For he shall save his peple from their synnes.
22 All this was done to fulfill yt which was spoken of the Lorde by the Prophet saynge:
23 Beholde a mayde shall be with chylde and shall brynge forthe a sonne and they shall call his name Emanuel which is by interpretacion God with vs.
24 And Ioseph assone as he awoke out of slepe did as the angell of the Lorde bade hym and toke hys wyfe vnto hym
25 and knewe her not tyll she had brought forth hir fyrst sonne and called hys name Iesus.

Chapter 2
1 When Iesus was borne at Bethleem in Iury in the tyme of Herode the kynge. Beholde there came wyse me from the eest to Ierusalem
2 saynge: Where is he yt is borne kynge of ye Iues? We have sene his starre in ye eest and are come to worship him.
3 When Herode ye kynge had herde thys he was troubled and all Ierusalem with hym
4 and he gathered all ye chefe Prestes and Scribes of the people and axed of them where Christ shulde be borne.
5 And they sayde vnto hym: at Bethlee in Iury. For thus it is written by the Prophet.
6 And thou Bethleem in the londe of Iury art not the leest concernynge the Princes of Iuda. For out of the shall come the captayne that shall govern my people Israhel.
7 Then Herod prevely called the wyse men and dyligetly enquyred of them ye tyme of the starre that appered
8 and sent the to Bethleem saynge: Goo and searche dyligetly for ye chylde. And when ye have founde hym bringe me worde yt I maye come and worshippe hym also.
9 When they had heard the kynge they departed: and lo the starre which they sawe in ye eeste went before them tyll it came and stode over the place where the chylde was.
10 When they sawe the starre they were marvelously glad:
11 and went into the house and found the chylde with Mary hys mother and kneled doune and worshipped hym and opened their treasures and offred vnto hym gyftes gold frackynsence and myrre.
12 And after they were warned of God in a dreame that they shuld not go ageyne to Herod they retourned into their awne countre another waye.
13 When they were departed: beholde the angell of the Lorde appered to Ioseph in dreame sayinge: aryse and take the chylde and his mother and flye into Egypte and abyde there tyll I brynge the worde. For Herod will seke the chylde to destroye hym.
14 The he arose and toke the chylde and his mother by night and departed into Egypte
15 and was there vnto ye deeth of Herod to fulfill that which was spoken of the Lorde by ye Prophet which sayeth out of Egypte haue I called my sonne.
16 Then Herod perceavynge yt he was moocked of the wyse men was excedynge wroth and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in Bethleem and in all the costes there of as many as were two yere olde and vnder accordynge to the tyme which he had diligetly searched oute of the wyse men.
17 Then was fulfilled yt which was spoken by the Prophet Ieremy sayinge:
18 On the hilles was a voyce herde mornynge wepynge and greate lamentacion: Rachel wepynge for her chyldren and wolde not be conforted because they were not.
19 When Herode was deed: beholde an angell of ye Lorde appered in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypte
20 sayinge: arise and take ye chylde and his mother and go into ye londe of Israel. For they are deed which sought ye chyldes life.
21 The he arose vp and toke ye chylde and his mother and cam into the londe of Israhel.
22 But whe he hearde yt Archelaus did raygne in Iury in ye roume of his father Herode he was afrayde to goo thither. Not withstondynge after he was warned of god in a dreame he turned a syde into ye parties of Galile
23 and wet and dwelt in a cite called Nazareth to fulfill yt which was spoken by ye Prophetes: he shalbe called a Nazarite

Chapter 3
1 In those dayes Ihon the Baptyst came and preached in the wildernes of Iury
2 saynge; Repet the kyngdome of heue is at honde.
3 This is he of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Esay which sayeth: The voyce of a cryer in wyldernes prepare the Lordes waye and make hys pathes strayght.
4 This Iho had hys garmet of camels heer and a gerdell of a skynne aboute his loynes. Hys meate was locustes and wylde hony.
5 The went oute to hym Ierusalem and all Iury and all ye regio roude aboute Iorda
6 and were baptised of him in Iorda cofessynge their synnes.
7 When he sawe many of ye Pharises and of ye Saduces come to hys baptim he sayde vnto the: O generacio of vipers who hath taught you to fle fro the vengeauce to come?
8 Brynge forth therfore the frutes belongynge to repentauce.
9 And se that ye ons thynke not to saye in your selues we haue Abraham to oure father. For I saye vnto you that God is able of these stones to rayse vp chyldern vnto Abraha.
10 Euenowe is ye axe put vnto ye rote of ye trees: soo that every tree which bringeth not forthe goode frute is hewe doune and cast into ye fyre.
11 I baptise you in water in toke of repentauce: but he ye cometh after me is myghtier then I whose shues I am not worthy to beare. He shall baptise you with ye holy gost and with fyre:
12 which hath also his fan in his hod and will pourge his floure and gadre ye wheet into his garner and will burne ye chaffe with vnquecheable fyre
13 Then cam Iesus from Galile to Iordan vnto Ihon to be baptised of hym.
14 But Ihon forbade hym saynge: I ought to be baptysed of the: and comest thou to me?
15 Iesus answered and sayd to hym: Let it be so now. For thus it becommeth vs to fulfyll all rightwesnes. Then he suffred hym.
16 And Iesus assone as he was baptised came strayght out of ye water. And lo heue was ope over hym: and Ihon sawe the spirite of God descende lyke a doue and lyght vpon hym.
17 And lo there came a voyce from heven sayng: Thys ys that my beloved sonne in whom is my delyte.

Chapter 4
1 Then was Iesus ledd awaye of ye spirite into wildernes to be tempted of ye devyll.
2 And when he had fasted fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes he was afterward an hungred.
3 Then came to hym the tempter and sayde: yf thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made breed.
4 He answered and sayde: yt is wrytten man shall not lyve by brede onlye but by every worde yt proceadeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devyll tooke hym vp into ye holy cite and set hym on a pynacle of the teple
6 and sayd vnto hym: yf thou be the sonne of God cast thy sylfe doune. For it is wrytte he shall geve his angels charge over the and with their handes they shall holde yt vp that thou dashe not thy fote agaynst a stone.
7 And Iesus sayde to hym it ys wrytten also: Thou shalt not tempte thy Lorde God.
8 The devyll toke hym vp agayne and ledde hym in to an excedynge hye mountayne and shewed hym all the kyngdomes of ye worlde and all ye glorie of them
9 and sayde to hym: all these will I geue ye if thou wilt faull doune and worship me.
10 Then sayde Iesus vnto hym. Avoyd Satan. For it is writte thou shalt worshyp ye Lorde thy God and hym only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the dyvell left hym and beholde the angels came and ministred vnto hym.
12 When Iesus had hearde yt Ihon was taken he departed into Galile
13 and left Nazareth and went and dwelte in Capernaum which is a cite apon the see in ye coostes of zabulon and Neptalim
14 to fulfill that whiche was spoken by Esay the Prophet sayinge:
15 The londe of zabulon and Neptalim the waye of the see beyonde Iordan Galile of the Gentyls
16 ye people which sat in darknes sawe greate lyght and to them which sate in the region and shadowe of deeth lyght is begone to shyne.
17 From yt tyme Iesus begane to preache and to saye: repet for ye kigdome of heve is at hode.
18 As Iesus walked by the see of Galile he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter and Andrew his brother castynge a neet into the see for they were fisshers
19 and he sayde vnto them folowe me and I will make you fisshers of men.
20 And they strayght waye lefte their nettes and folowed hym.
21 And he went forthe from thence and sawe other twoo brethren Iames the sonne of zebede and Ihon his brother in the shippe with zebede their father mendynge their nettes and called them.
22 And they with out taryinge lefte the shyp and their father and folowed hym.
23 And Iesus went aboute all Galile teachyng in their synagoges and preachynge ye gospell of the kyngdome and healed all maner of sicknes and all maner dyseases amoge ye people.
24 And his fame spreed abroode through oute all Siria. And they brought vnto hym all sicke people that were taken with divers diseases and gripinges and them yt were possessed with devils and those which were lunatyke and those that had the palsie: and he healed the.
25 And ther folowed hym a greate nombre of people from Galile and from the ten cyties and from Ierusalem and from Iury and from ye regions that lye beyonde Iordan.

Chapter 5
1 When he sawe the people he went vp into a mountayne and when he was set his disciples came to hym
2 and he opened hys mouthe and taught them sayinge:
3 Blessed are the povre in sprete: for theirs is the kyngdome of heven.
4 Blessed are they that morne: for they shalbe conforted.
5 Blessed are the meke: for they shall inheret the erth.
6 Blessed are they which honger and thurst for rightewesnes: for they shalbe filled.
7 Blessed are ye mercifull: for they shall obteyne mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in herte: for they shall se God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.
10 Blessed are they which suffre persecucio for rightwesnes sake: for theirs ys the kyngdome of heuen.
11 Blessed are ye when men reuyle you and persecute you and shall falsly say all manner of yvell saynges agaynst you for my sake.
12 Reioyce and be glad for greate is youre rewarde in heven. + For so persecuted they ye Prophetes which were before youre dayes.
13 ye are ye salt of the erthe: but and yf ye salt have lost hir saltnes what can be salted ther with? It is thence forthe good for nothynge but to be cast oute and to be troade vnder fote of men.
14 Ye are ye light of the worlde. A cite yt is set on an hill cannot be hid
15 nether do men lyght a cadell and put it vnder a busshell but on a candelstick and it lighteth all that are in the house.
16 Let youre light so shyne before men yt they maye se youre good workes and glorify youre father which is in heven.
17 Thinke not yt I am come to destroye the lawe or the Prophets: no I am nott come to destroye them but to fulfyll them.
18 For truely I saye vnto you till heven and erth perisshe one iott or one tytle of the lawe shall not scape tyll all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever breaketh one of these lest commaundmentes and teacheth men so he shalbe called the leest in the kyngdome of heve. But whosoever obserueth and teacheth ye same shal be called greate in the kyngdome of heven.
20 For I saye vnto you except youre rightewesnes excede the righetewesnes of ye Scribes and Pharises ye canot entre into ye kyngdome of heven.
21 Ye have herde howe it was sayd vnto the of ye olde tyme: Thou shalt not kyll. For whoso ever kylleth shall be in daunger of iudgemet.
22 But I say vnto you whosoever is angre with hys brother shalbe in daunger of iudgement. Whosoeuer sayeth vnto his brother Racha shalbe in dauger of a cousell. But whosoeuer sayeth thou fole shalbe in dauger of hell fyre.
23 Therfore whe thou offrest thy gifte at the altare and their remembrest that thy brother hath ought agaynst the:
24 leue there thyne offrynge before the altre and go thy waye first and be reconcyled to thy brother and then come and offre thy gyfte.
25 Agre with thyne adversary quicklye whyles thou arte in ye waye with hym lest that adversary deliver ye to ye iudge and ye iudge delivre ye to ye minister and the thou be cast into preson.
26 I say vnto ye verely: thou shalt not come out thece till thou have payed ye utmost farthige.
27 Ye haue hearde howe it was sayde to the of olde tyme: Thou shalt not comitt advoutrie.
28 But I say vnto you that whosoeuer looketh on a wyfe lustynge after her hathe comitted advoutrie with hir alredy in his hert.
29 Wherfore yf thy right eye offende ye plucke hym out and caste him from the. Better it is for the yt one of thy membres perisshe then that thy hole bodye shuld be cast into hell.
30 Also if thy right honde offend ye cut hym of and caste hym from the. Better yt ys that one of thy membres perisshe then that all thy body shulde be caste in to hell.
31 It ys sayd whosoever put awaye his wyfe let hym geve her a testymonyall also of the devorcement.
32 But I say vnto you: whosoever put awaye his wyfe (except it be for fornicacion) causeth her to breake matrymony. And whosoever maryeth her that is devorsed breaketh wedlocke.
33 Agayne ye haue hearde how it was sayd to the of olde tyme thou shalt not forsuere thy selfe but shalt performe thyne othe to God.
34 But I saye vnto you swere not at all nether by heue for it ys Goddes seate:
35 nor yet by the erth for it is his fote stole: nether by Ierusalem for it ys ye cyte of yt greate kynge:
36 nether shalt thou sweare by thy heed because thou canst not make one white heer or blacke:
37 But your comunicacion shalbe ye ye: nay nay. For whatsoeuer is more then yt cometh of yvell.
38 Ye have hearde how it ys sayd an eye for an eye: a tothe for a tothe.
39 But I saye to you that ye resist not wroge. But whosoever geve the a blowe on thy right cheke tourne to him the other.
40 And yf eny man will sue the at the lawe and take awaye thy coote let hym have thy cloocke also.
41 And whosoever wyll copell the to goo a myle goo wyth him twayne.
42 Geve to him that axeth and fro him that wolde borowe tourne not awaye.
43 Ye have hearde how it is sayde: thou shalt love thyne neghbour and hate thine enimy.
44 But I saye vnto you love youre enimies. Blesse the that coursse you. Do good to them that hate you. Praye for them which doo you wronge and persecute you
45 that ye maye be ye chyldern of youre father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to aryse on ye yvell and on the good and sendeth his reyn on the iuste and vniuste.
46 For yf ye love them which love you: what rewarde shall ye have? Doo not the Publicans euen so?
48 And yf ye be frendly to youre brethren onlye: what singuler thynge doo ye? Do not the Publicans lyke wyse? ye shall therfore be perfecte eve as youre father which is in heauen is perfecte.

Chapter 6
1 Take hede to youre almes. That ye geve it not in the syght of men to the intent that ye wolde be sene of them. Or els ye get no rewarde of youre father which is in heve.
2 Whe soever therfore thou gevest thine almes thou shalt not make a tropet to be blowe before the as ye ypocrites do in the synagogis and in the stretis for to be preysed of men. Verely I say vnto you they have their rewarde.
3 But whe thou doest thine almes let not thy lyfte had knowe what thy righte had doth
4 yt thine almes may be secret: and thy father which seith in secret shall rewarde ye opely.
5 And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as ye ypocrytes are. For they love to stond and praye in the synagoges and in the corners of ye stretes because they wolde be sene of men. Verely I saye vnto you they haue their rewarde.
6 But when thou prayest entre into thy chamber and shut thy dore to the and praye to thy father which ys in secrete: and thy father which seith in secret shall rewarde the openly.
7 And whe ye praye bable not moche as the hethe do: for they thincke that they shalbe herde for their moche bablynges sake.
8 Be ye not lyke them therfore. For youre father knoweth wherof ye haue neade before ye axe of him.
9 After thys maner therfore praye ye. O oure father which arte in heve halowed be thy name.
10 Let thy kyngdome come. Thy wyll be fulfilled as well in erth as it ys in heven.
11 Geve vs this daye oure dayly breede.
12 And forgeve vs oure treaspases eve as we forgeve oure trespacers.
13 And leade vs not into teptacion: but delyver vs fro evell. For thyne is ye kyngedome and ye power and ye glorye for ever. Amen.
14 For and yf ye shall forgeve other men their treaspases youre hevenly father shall also forgeve you.
15 But and ye wyll not forgeve men their trespases nomore shall youre father forgeve youre treaspases.
16 Moreoure when ye faste be not sad as ye ypocrytes are. For they disfigure their faces that they myght be sene of me how they faste. Verely I say vnto you they have their rewarde.
17 But thou whe thou fastest annoynte thyne heed and washe thy face
18 that it appere not vnto men howe that thou fastest: but vnto thy father which is in secrete: and thy father which seeth in secret shall rewarde the openly.
19 Se that ye gaddre you not treasure vpon ye erth where rust and mothes corrupte and where theves breake through and steale.
20 But gaddre ye treasure togeder in heve where nether rust nor mothes corrupte and where theves nether breake vp nor yet steale.
21 For where soever youre treasure ys there will youre hertes be also.
22 The light of the body is thyne eye. Wher fore if thyne eye besyngle all thy body shalbe full of light.
23 But and if thyne eye be wycked then all thy body shalbe full of derckenes. Wherfore yf the light that is in the be darckenes: how greate is that darckenes.
24 No ma can serve two masters. For ether he shall hate the one and love the other: or els he shall lene to ye one and despise ye other: ye can not serve God and mammon.
25 Therfore I saye vnto you be not carefull for your lyfe what ye shall eate or what ye shall drincke nor yet for youre body what ye shall put on. ys not ye lyfe more worth then meate and the body more of value then raymeut?
26 Beholde the foules of ye ayer: for they sowe not nether reepe nor yet cary into ye barnes: and yet youre hevely father fedeth the. Are ye not moche better the they?
27 Which of you (though he toke thought therfore) coulde put one cubit vnto his stature?
28 And why care ye then for raymet? Considre ye lylies of ye felde how they growe. They labour not nether spynne.
29 And yet for all yt I saye vnto you yt eue Salomon in all his royalte was not arayed lyke vnto one of these.
30 Wherfore yf God so clothe the grasse which ys to daye in the felde and to morowe shalbe caste in to the fournace: shall he not moche more do the same vnto you o ye of lytle fayth?
31 Therfore take no thought sayinge: what shall we eate or what shall we drincke or wherwt shall we be clothed?
32 After all these thynges seke the getyls. For youre hevely father knoweth that ye have neade of all these thynges.
33 But rather seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of heuen and the rightwisnes therof and all these thynges shalbe ministred vnto you.
34 Care not then for the morow but let ye morow care for it selfe: for the daye present hath ever ynough of his awne trouble.

Chapter 7
1 Iudge not that ye be not iudged.
2 For as ye iudge so shall ye be iudged. And wt what mesure ye mete wt the same shall it be mesured to you agayne.
3 Why seist thou a moote in thy brothers eye and perceavest not the beame yt ys yn thyne awne eye.
4 Or why sayest thou to thy brother: suffre me to plucke oute the moote oute of thyne eye and behold a beame is in thyne awne eye.
5 Ypocryte fyrst cast oute the beame oute of thyne awne eye and then shalte thou se clearly to plucke oute the moote out of thy brothers eye.
6 Geve not that which is holy to dogges nether cast ye youre pearles before swyne lest they treade them vnder their fete and ye other tourne agayne and all to rent you.
7 Axe and it shalbe geven you. Seke and ye shall fynd. knocke and it shalbe opened vnto you.
8 For whosoever axeth receaveth and he yt seketh fyndeth and to hym that knocketh it shalbe opened.
9 Ys there eny man amoge you which if his sonne axed hym bread wolde offer him astone?
10 Or if he axed fysshe wolde he proffer hym a serpet?
11 Yf ye then which are evyll cane geve to youre chyldren good gyftes: how moche moore shall youre father which is in heve geve good thynges to them yt axe hym?
12 Therfore whatsoever ye wolde that men shulde do to you even so do ye to them. This ys the lawe and the Prophettes.
13 Enter in at the strayte gate: for wyde is ye gate and broade is the waye that leadeth to destruccion: and many ther be which goo yn therat.
14 But strayte is the gate and narowe ys the waye which leadeth vnto lyfe: and feawe there be that fynde it.
15 Beware of false Prophetes which come to you in shepes clothinge but inwardly they are ravenynge wolves.
16 Ye shall knowe them by their frutes. Do men gaddre grapes of thornes? or figges of bryres?
17 Euen soo every good tree bryngeth forthe good frute. But a corrupte tree bryngethe forthe evyll frute.
18 A good tree canot brynge forthe bad frute: nor yet a bad tree can bringe forthe good frute.
19 Every tree that bryngethe not forthe good frute shalbe hewe doune and cast into the fyre.
20 Wherfore by their frutes ye shall knowe the.
21 Not all they that saye vnto me Master Master shall enter in to the kyngdome of heven: but he that dothe my fathers will which ys in heven.
22 Many will saye to me in that daye Master master have we not in thy name prophesied? And in thy name have caste oute devyls? And in thy name have done many miracles?
23 And then will I knowlege vnto them that I never knewe them. Departe from me ye workers of iniquite.
24 Whosoever heareth of me these sayinges and doethe the same I wyll lyken hym vnto a wyse man which bylt hys housse on a rocke:
25 and aboundance of rayne descended and the fluddes came and the wyndes blewe and bet vpon that same housse and it fell not because it was grounded on the rocke.
26 And whosoever heareth of me these sayinges and doth the not shalbe lykened vnto a folysh man which bilt hys housse apo the sondes:
27 and abundauce of rayne descended and the fluddes came and ye wyndes blewe and beet vpon that housse and it fell and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to passe that when Iesus had ended these saynges the people were astonnyed at hys doctryne.
29 For he taught them as one havynge power and not as the Scribes.

Chapter 8
1 When he was come downe from the moutayne moch people folowed him.
2 And lo ther came a lepre and worsheped him sayinge: Master if thou wylt thou canst make me clene.
3 And Iesus put forthe hys hond and touched hym sayinge: I wyll be thou clene and immediatly hys leprosie was clensed.
4 And Iesus sayde vnto him. Se thou tell no man but go and shewe thy selfe to the preste and offer the gyfte that Moses comaunded in witnes to them.
5 When Iesus was entred into Capernau ther came vnto him a certayne Centurion and besought hym
6 sayinge: Master my seruaunt lyeth sicke at home of ye palsye and ys greuously payned.
7 And Iesus sayd vnto hym: I will come and heale him.
8 The Centurio answered and sayde: Syr I am not worthy yt thou shuldest come vnder my rofe but speake ye worde only and my servaut shalbe healed.
9 For I also my selfe am a man vndre power and have sowdiers vndre me and I saye to one go and he goeth and to anothre come and he cometh: and to my seruaut do this and he doeth it.
10 When Iesus hearde yt he marveled and sayd to them yt folowed hym. Derely I say vnto you I have not foude so great fayth: no not in Israel.
11 I say therfore vnto you that many shall come fro the eest and weest and shall rest wt Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the kingdome of heve:
12 and the chyldren of ye kyngdome shalbe cast out in to vtter darcknes: there shalbe wepinge and gnasshing of tethe.
13 The Iesus sayd vnto ye Centurion go thy waye and as thou belevest so be it vnto the. And his servaunt was healed the selfe houre.
14 And then Iesus went to Peters housse and sawe hys wyves mother lyinge sicke of a fevre
15 and touched her hande and the fevre left hir: and she arose and ministred vnto them.
16 When the eue was come they brought vn to him many yt were possessed with devyllis. And he cast out ye spirites with a worde and healed all yt were sicke
17 to fulfill yt which was spoke by Esayas ye Prophet sayinge. He toke on him oure infirmities and bare oure sickneses.
18 Whe Iesus sawe moche people about him he comaunded to go over ye water.
19 And ther came a scribe and sayd vnto hym: master I wyll folowe ye whyther so ever thou goest.
20 And Iesus sayd vnto him: the foxes have holes and the bryddes of the ayer have nestes but ye sonne of the man hath not whero to rest his heede.
21 A nothre yt was one of hys disciples sayd vnto hym: master suffre me fyrst to go and burye my father.
22 But Iesus sayd vnto him: folowe me and let the deed burie their deed.
23 And he entred in to a shyppe and his disciples folowed him.
24 And beholde there arose a a greate tepest in ye see in so moche yt the shippe was covered wt waves and he was a slepe.
25 And his disciples came vn to him and awoke hym sayinge: master save vs we perishe.
26 And he sayd vnto them: why are ye fearfull o ye of lytell faithe? Then he arose and rebuked ye wyndes and the see and ther folowed a greate calme.
27 And the men marveyled and sayd: what man is this that bothe wyndes and see obey hym?
28 And when he was come to ye other syde in to ye coutre of ye Gergesites ther met him two possessed of devylles which came out of the graves and were out of measure fearce so yt no ma myght go by that waye.
29 And behold they cryed out sayinge: O Iesu the sonne of God what have we to do with the? Art thou come hyther to tormet vs before the tyme be come?
30 And ther was a good waye of fro them a greate heerd of swyne fedinge.
31 Then ye devyles besought him sayinge: if thou cast vs out suffre vs to go oure waye in to the heerd of swyne.
32 And he sayd vnto the: go youre wayes. Then wet they out and departed into ye heerd of swyne And beholde ye whoale heerd of swyne was caryed wt violence hedlinge in to the see and perisshed in ye water.
33 Then ye heerdme fleed and wet their ways in to ye cyte and tolde every thinge and what had fortuned vnto the possessed of the devyls.
34 And beholde all the cyte came out and met Iesus. And when they sawe hym they besought hym to departe oute of their costes.

Chapter 9
1 Then he entred in to a shippe and passed over and came in to his awne cite.
2 And lo they brought to him a ma sicke of ye palsie lyinge in his bed. And when Iesus sawe ye faith of the he sayd to the sicke of ye palsie: sonne be of good chere thy sinnes be forgeve the.
3 And beholde certeyne of ye scribes sayd in the selves this ma blasphemeth.
4 And whe Iesus sawe their thoughtes he sayd: wherfore thinke ye evill in youre hertes?
5 Whether ys esyer to saye thy synnes be forgeven ye or to saye: arise and walke?
6 That ye maye knowe that ye sonne of ma hath power to forgeve sinnes in erth then sayd he vnto ye sicke of ye palsye: arise take vp thy beed and go home to thine housse.
7 And he arose and departed to his awne housse.
8 And when ye people sawe it they marveyled and glorified god which had geve suche power to me.
9 And as Iesus passed forth fro thence he sawe a ma syt a receyuinge of custome named Mathew and sayd to him: folowe me.
10 And he arose and folowed him. And it came to passe as he sat at meate in the housse: beholde many publicans and synners came and sate downe also with Iesus and hys disciples.
11 When the Pharises sawe that they sayd to hys disciples: why eateth youre master wt publicans and synners?
12 When Iesus herde that he sayde vnto them: The whole neade not the phisicion but they that are sicke.
13 Goo and learne what that meaneth: I have pleasure in mercy and not in offerynge. For I am not come to call the rightewes but the synners to repentaunce.
14 Then came ye disciples of Ihon to hym sayinge: why do we and the Pharises fast ofte: but thy disciples fast not?
15 And Iesus sayde vnto them: Can ye weddynge chyldren morne as longe as ye bridegrome is wt them? The tyme will come whe the bridegrome shalbe take fro them and then shall they faste.
16 Noo man peceth and olde garment with a pece of newe cloothe. For then taketh he awaye ye pece agayne from the garmet and the rent ys made greater.
17 Nether do men put newe wyne into olde vessels for then the vessels breake and the wyne runneth oute and the vessels perysshe. But they powre newe wyne into newe vessels and so are both saved togeder.
18 Whyls he thus spake vnto the beholde ther came a certayne ruler and worshipped him sayinge: my doghter is euen now deceased but come and lay thy honde on her and she shall live.
19 And Iesus arose and folowed hym with hys disciples.
20 And beholde a woman which was diseased wt an yssue of bloude .xii. yeres came behynde hym and toched ye hem of hys vesture.
21 For she sayd in her silfe: yf I maye toche but even his vesture only I shalbe safe.
22 Then Iesus tourned him about and behelde her sayinge: Doughter be of good conforte thy faith hath made the safe. And she was made whole even that same houre.
23 And when Iesus came into ye rulers housse and sawe the minstrels and the people raginge
24 he sayde vnto them: Get you hence for ye mayde is not deed but slepeth. And they laughed hym to scorne.
25 Assone as ye people were put forthe he went in and toke her by ye hond and the mayde arose.
26 And this was noysed through out all that lande.
27 And as Iesus departed thence two blynde men folowed hym crying and saying: O thou sonne of David have mercy on vs.
28 And when he was come to housse the blynd came to hym And Iesus sayde vnto them: Beleve ye that I am able to do thys? And they sayde vnto hym: ye Lorde.
29 Then touched he their eyes saying: acordynge to youre faythe be it vnto you.
30 And their eyes were opened. And Iesus charged the saying: Se yt no man knowe of it.
31 But they assone as they were departed spreed abroade his name through oute all the londe.
32 As they went out beholde they brought to hym a dome ma possessed af a devyll.
33 And as sone as the devyll was cast oute the domme spake: And the people merveled sayinge: it was never so sene in Israel.
34 But the Pharises sayde: he casteth oute devyls by the power of the chefe devyll.
35 And Iesus went about all cities and tounes teachynge in their synagoges and preachyng the glad tidinges of ye kyngdome and healinge all maner sicknes and desease amoge ye people.
36 But when he sawe the people he had copassion on the because they were pyned awaye and scattered abroade eve as shepe havige no shepherd.
37 Then sayde he to hys disciples: the hervest is greate but the laborers are feawe.
38 Wherfore praye the Lorde of the harvest to sende forthe laborers into hys harvest.

Chapter 10
1 And he called his .xii. disciples vnto hym and gave them power over vnclene sprites to cast them oute and to heale all maner of sicknesses and all maner of deseases.
2 The names of the .xii. Apostles are these. The fyrst Simon called also Peter: and Andrew his brother. Iames the sonne of zebede aud Ihon his brother.
3 Philip and Bartlemew. Thomas and Mathew the Publican. Iames the sonne of Alphe and Lebbeus otherwyse called Taddeus.
4 Simon of Cane and Iudas Iscarioth which also betrayed hym.
5 These .xii. sent Iesus and comaunded them sayinge: Go not in to ye wayes yt leade to the gentyls and in to ye cities of ye Samaritans enter ye not.
6 But go rather to ye lost shepe of the housse of Israel.
7 Go and preach sayinge: yt the kyngdome of heve is at hande.
8 Heale the sicke clense the lepers rayse the deed caste oute the devils. Frely ye have receved frely geve agayne.
9 Posses not golde nor silver nor brassse yn youre gerdels
10 nor yet scrip towardes your iorney: nether two cotes nether shues nor yet a staffe. For the workma is worthy to have his meate.
11 In to whatsoever cite or toune ye shall come enquyre who ys worthy yn it and there abyde till ye goo thence.
12 And whe ye come in to an housse salute ye same.
13 And yf the housse be worthy youre peace shall come apon it. But yf it be not worthy youre peace shall retourne to you agayne.
14 And whosoever shall not receave you nor will heare youre preachynge: when ye departe oute of yt housse or that cite shake of the duste of youre fete.
15 Truly I say vnto you: it shalbe easier for the londe of zodoma and Gomorra in the daye of iudgement then for that cite.
16 Beholde I sende you forthe as shepe amoge wolves. Be ye therfore wyse as serpetes and innocent as doves.
17 Beware of men for they shall deliver you vp to ye cousels and shall scourge you in their synagoges.
18 And ye shall be brought to the heed rulers and kynges for my sake in witnes to them and to the gentyls.
19 But when they delyver you vp take no thought how or what ye shall speake for yt shalbe geve you eve in that same houre what ye shall saye.
20 For it is not ye that speke but ye sprite of your father which speaketh in you.
21 The brother shall betraye the brother to deeth and the father the sonne. And the chyldre shall aryse agaynste their fathers and mothers and shall put them to deethe:
22 and ye shall be hated of all me for my name. But he that endureth to the ende shalbe saved.
23 When they persecute you in one cite flye in to another. I tell you for a treuth ye shall not fynysshe all yt cities of Israel tyll ye sonne of man be come.
24 The disciple ys not above hys master: nor yet ye servaut above his lorde.
25 It is ynough for the disciple to be as hys master ys and that the servaunt be as his lorde ys. yf they have called the lorde of the housse beelzebub: how moche more shall they call them of his housholde so?
26 Feare the not therfore. There is no thinge so close that shall not be openned and no thinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.
27 What I tell you in dercknes that speake ye in lyght. And what ye heare in the eare that preache ye on the housse toppes.
28 And feare ye not them which kyll the body and be not able to kyll the soule. But rather feare hym which is able to destroye bothe soule and body into hell.
29 Are not two sparowes solde for a farthinge? And none of them dothe lyght on the grounde with out youre father.
30 And now are all the heeris of youre heedis numbred.
31 Feare ye not therfore: ye are of more value then many sparowes.
32 Who soever therfore shall knowledge me before men hym will I knowledge also before my father which is in heuen.
33 But whoso ever shall denye me before men hym will I also denye before my father which is in heven.
34 Thynke not that I am come to sende peace into the erth. I came not to send peace but a swearde.
35 For I am come to set a man at varyaunce ageynst hys father and the doughter ageynst hyr mother and the doughterlawe ageynst her motherlawe:
36 And a mannes fooes shalbe they of hys owne housholde.
37 He that lovith hys father or mother more then me is not mete for me. And he that loveth his sonne or doughter more then me is not mete for me.
38 And he yt taketh not his crosse and foloweth me ys not mete for me.
39 He that fyndeth hys lyfe shall lose it: and he that losith hys lyfe for my sake shall fynde it.
40 He that receavith you receavith me: and he that receavith me receavith him that sent me.
41 He that receavith a prophet in ye name of a prophet shall receave a prophetes rewarde. And he that receavith a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receave the rewarde of a righteous man.
42 And whosoever shall geve vnto one of these lytle ones to drincke a cuppe of colde water only in the name of a disciple: I tel you of a trueth he shall not lose his rewarde.

Chapter 11
1 And it came to passe when Iesus had made an ende of comaundinge his .xii. disciples that he departed thence to teache and to preache in their cities.
2 When Ihon beinge in preson hearde ye workes of Christ he sent two of his disciples
3 and sayde vnto him. Arte thou he that shall come: or shall we loke for another.
4 Iesus answered and sayde vnto them. Go and shewe Ihon what ye have hearde and sene.
5 The blynd se the halt goo the lepers are clensed: the deef heare the ded ryse ageyne and the glad tidinges is preached to the povre.
6 And happy is he that is not offended by me.
7 And as they departed Iesus begane to speake vnto the people of Ihon. What for to se wet ye out in to the wyldernes? wet ye out to se a rede shake with ye wynde?
8 other what wet ye out for to se? A man clothed in soofte raymet:? Beholde they yt weare soofte clothig are in kynges howses.
9 But what wet ye oute for to se? A prophete? Ye I saye to you and more the a prophete.
10 For this is he of who it is wrytte. Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy waye before ye.
11 Verely I saye vnto you amonge ye chyldren of wemen arose there not a gretter then Ihon the baptist. Notwithstondinge he that ys lesse in the kyngdome of heven ys gretter then he.
12 From the tyme of Ihon Baptist hytherto ye kyngdome of heve suffreth violence and they that go to it with violence pluck it vnto them.
13 For all the prophetes and the lawe prophesyed vnto to the tyme of Ihon.
14 Also yf ye wyll receave it this is Helyas which shuld come.
15 He yt hathe eares to heare let him heare.
16 But wher vnto shall I lyken this generacion? It ys lyke vnto chyldre which syt in the market and call vnto their felowes
17 and saye: we have pyped vnto you and ye have not daunsed? We have morned vnto you and ye have not sorowed.
18 For Ihon came nether eatinge nor drinkinge and they saye he hath the devyll.
19 The sonne of man came eatinge and drinkinge and they saye beholde a glutton and drynker of wyne and a frend vnto publicas and synners. Never the later wysdome ys iustified of hir children.
20 Then bega he to vpbrayd the cities in which most of his miracles were done because they meded not.
21 Wo be to ye Chorasin. Wo be to ye Betzaida: for if the miracles which were shewd in you had bene done in Tyre and Sidon they had repented longe agone in sackcloth and asshes.
22 Neverthelesse I say to you: it shall be esier for Tyre and Sidon at the day of iudgemet then for you.
23 And thou Capernau which art lift vp vnto heve shalt be brought doune to hell. For if the miracles which have bene done in the had bene shewed in zodom: they had remayned to this daye.
24 Neverthelesse I saye vnto you: it shalbe easiar for ye londe of zodo in the daye of iudgemet the for ye.
25 At yt tyme Iesus answered and sayd: I prayse ye o father lorde of heve and erth because thou hast hid these thinges fro the wyse and prudet and hast opened the vnto babes:
26 eve so father for so it pleased ye.
27 All thinges are geve vnto me of my father. And noma knoweth ye sonne but ye father: nether knoweth eny ma ye father save ye sonne and he to whome ye sonne will ope him.
28 Come vnto me all ye that laboure and are laden and I wyll ease you.
29 Take my yoke on you and lerne of me for I am meke and lowly in herte: and ye shall fynd rest vnto youre soules.
30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Chapter 12
1 In that tyme went Iesus on the Sabot dayes thorow the corne and his disciples were anhogred and begane to plucke the eares of coorne and to eate.
2 When ye pharises sawe that they sayde vnto him: Beholde thy disciples do that which is not lawfull to do apon ye saboth daye.
3 He sayde vnto the: Haue ye not reed what David did whe he was anhougered and they also which were with him?
4 How he entred into the housse of God and ate ye halowed loves which were not lawfull for him to eate nether for the which were wt him but only for ye prestes.
5 Or have ye not reed in ye lawe how that ye prestes in ye temple breake the saboth daye and yet are blamlesse?
6 But I saye vnto you: that here is one greater then ye teple.
7 Wherfore yf ye had wist what this sayinge meneth: I require mercy and not sacrifice: ye wold never have condened innocetes.
8 For ye sonne of man is lord even of ye saboth daye.
9 And he departed thence and went into their synagoge:
10 and beholde ther was a man whiche had his hande dryed vp. And they axed him sayinge: ys it lawfull to heale apon ye saboth dayes? because they myght acuse him.
11 And he sayde vnto the: whiche of you wolde it be yf he had a shepe fallen into a pitte on ye saboth daye that wolde not take him and lyft him out?
12 And how moche is a man better the a shepe? Wherfore it is lefull to do a good dede on the saboth dayes.
13 Then sayde he to ye ma: stretch forth thy had. And he stretched it forthe. And it was made whole agayne lyke vnto ye other.
14 Then ye Pharyses wet out and helde a cousell agaynst hym how they myght destroye hym.
15 When Iesus knewe yt he departed thece and moche people folowed him and he healed the all
16 and charged the that they shuld not make him knowe:
17 to fulfyll that which was spoden by Esay ye Prophet which sayeth.
18 Beholde my chylde who I have chosen my beloved in who my soule deliteth. I wyll put my sprete on hym and he shall shewe iudgemet to ye gentyls.
19 He shall not stryve he shall not crye nether shall eny man heare his voyce in ye streetes
20 a brosed rede shall he not breacke and flaxe that begynneth to burne he shall not queche tyll he sende forth iudgement vnto victory
21 and in hys name shall the gentyls truste.
22 Then was brought to hym one possessed with a devyll which was both blynde and domme: and he healed hym insomoch that he which was blynd and domme both spake and sawe.
23 And all the people were amased and sayde: Ys not this that sonne of David?
24 But when the Pharises hearde that they sayde: This felow dryveth ye devyls no nother wyse oute but by the helpe of Belzebub ye chefe of the devyls.
25 But Iesus knewe their thoughtes and sayde to the. Every kingdome devided wt in it sylfe shalbe brought to naught. Nether shall eny cite or housholde devyded agest it sylfe cotynue.
26 So if sata cast out sata the is he devyded agenst him sylfe. How shall then his kyngdome endure?
27 Also if I by ye helpe of Belzebub cast oute devyls: by whose helpe do youre chyldren cast them out? Therfore they shalbe youre iudges.
28 But if I cast out the devyls by the sprite of God: then is the kyngdome of god come on you?
29 Ether how can a ma enter into a stroge manes housse and violently take awaye his goodes: excepte he fyrst binde ye stroge man and the spoyle his housse?
30 He that is not wt me is agaynst me. And he yt gaddereth not wt me scattereth abrode.
31 Wherfore I say vnto you all maner of synne and blasphemy shalbe forgeven vnto men: but the blasphemy of ye sprite shall not be forgeven vnto men.
32 And whoso ever speaketh a worde agaynst the sonne of man it shalbe forgeven him. But whosoever speaketh agaynst the holy goost it shall not be forgeven hym: no nether in this worlde nether in the worlde to come.
33 Ether make ye tree good and his frute good also: or els make ye tree evyll and his frute evyll also. For ye tree is knowe by his frute.
34 O generacio of viperes how can ye saye well whe ye youre selves are evyll? For of ye aboundace of the hert ye mouthe speaketh.
35 A good ma oute of ye good treasure of his hert bringeth forth good thynges. And an evyll man out of his evyll treasure bringeth forth evyll thinges.
36 But I say vnto you that of every ydell worde that men shall have spoken: they shall geve acountes at the daye of iudgement.
37 For by thy wordes thou shalt be iustifyed: and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned.
38 Then answered certeyne of the scribes and of the Pharises sayinge: Master we wolde fayne se a sygne of ye.
39 He answered and sayde to the: The evyll and advoutrous generacio seketh a signe but ther shall no signe be geve to the saue the signe of the Prophete Ionas.
40 For as Ionas was thre dayes and thre nyghtes in the whales belly: soo shall ye sonne of man be thre dayes and thre nyghtes in ye hert of ye erth.
41 The men of Ninivie shall rise at the daye of iugdement with this nacion and condemne them: for they amended at ye preachinge of Ionas. And beholde a greater then Ionas is here.
42 The quene of ye south shall ryse at ye daye of iudgement with this generacion and shall condemne the: for she came fro the vtmost parties of the worlde to heare the wysdome of Salomon. And beholde a greater then Salomo is here.
43 When the vnclene sprite is gone out of a man he walketh throughout dry places seking reest and fyndeth none.
44 Then he sayeth: I will retourne ageyne into my housse fro whece I came oute. And when he is come he fyndeth the housse empty and swepte and garnisshed.
45 Then he goeth his waye and taketh vnto him seven other spretes worsse then himsilfe and so entre they in and dwell there. And the ende of that man is worsse then the beginning. Even so shall it be with this evell nacion.
46 Whill he yet talked to the people: beholde his mother and his brethren stode without desyringe to speake with him.
47 Then one sayde vnto hym: beholde thy mother and thy brethre stonde without desiringe to speke wt the.
48 He answered and sayd to him that tolde hym: Who is my mother? or who are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hond over his disciples and sayd: behold my mother and my brethren.
50 For whosoever dothe my fathers will which is in heve the same is my brother suster and mother.

Chapter 13
1 The same daye wet Iesus out of ye house and sat by the seesyde
2 and moch people resorted vnto him so gretly yt he wet and sat in a shippe and all the people stode on ye shoore.
3 And he spake many thynges to the in similitudes sayinge: Beholde ye sower wet forth to sowe.
4 And as he sowed some fell by ye wayessyde and the fowlles came and devoured it vp.
5 Some fell apo stony groude where it had not moche erth and a none it sproge vp because it had no depth of erth:
6 and when ye sunne was vp it cauht heet and for lake of rotynge wyddred awaye.
7 Some fell amoge thornes and the thornes sproge vp and chooked it.
8 Parte fell in good groud and brought forth good frute: some an hudred fold some sixtie fold some thyrty folde.
9 Whosoever hath eares to heare let him heare.
10 And the disciples came and sayde to him: Why speakest thou to the in parables?
11 He answered and sayde vnto them: it is geve vnto you to knowe ye secretes of the kyngdome of heve but to the it is not geve.
12 For whosoever hath to him shall be geven: and he shall have aboundance. But whosoever hath not: fro hym shalbe takyn awaye even that he hath.
13 Therfore speake I to them in similitudes: for though they se they se not: and hearinge they heare not: nether vnderstonde.
14 And in the is fulfilled ye Prophesie of Esayas which prophesie sayth: with the eares ye shall heare and shall not vnderstonde and with the eyes ye shall se and shall not perceave.
15 For this peoples hertes are wexed grosse and their eares were dull of herynge and their eyes have they closed lest they shulde se with their eyes and heare with their eares and shuld vnderstonde with their hertes and shuld tourne that I myght heale them.
16 But blessed are youre eyes for they se: and youre eares for they heare.
17 Verely I say vnto you that many Prophetes and perfaicte me have desired to se tho thinges which ye se and have not sene the: and to heare tho thinges which ye heare and have not herde the.
18 Heare ye therfore ye similitude of the sower.
19 Whosoever heareth the worde of ye kingdome and vnderstondeth it not ther cometh the evyll ma and catcheth awaye yt which was sowne in his hert. And this is he which was sowne by the wayesyde.
20 But he yt was sowne in ye stony groude is he which heareth the worde of God and anone wt ioye receaveth it
21 yet hath he no rottes in him selfe and therfore dureth but a season: for assone as tribulacion or persecucion aryseth because of the worde by and by he falleth.
22 He yt was sowne amoge thornes is he yt heareth ye worde of God: but the care of this worlde and the dissaytfulnes of ryches choke ye worde and so is he made vnfrutfull.
23 He which is sowne in ye good grounde is he yt heareth ye worde and vnderstodeth it which also bereth frute and bringeth forth some an.C. folde some sixtie folde and some .xxx. folde.
24 Another similitude put he forth vnto the sayinge: The kyngdome of heve is lyke vnto a man which sowed good seed in his felde.
25 But whyll men slepte ther came his foo and sowed tares amoge ye wheate and wet his waye.
26 When ye blade was sproge vp and had brought forth frute the appered ye tares also.
27 The servauntes came to the housholder and sayde vnto him: Syr sowedest not thou good seed in thy closse fro whece the hath it tares?
28 He sayde to the the envious ma hath done this. Then ye servauntes sayde vnto him: wilt thou then yt we go and gader them?
29 But he sayde nay lest whill ye go aboute to wede out ye tares ye plucke vppe also wt them ye wheate by ye rottes:
30 let bothe growe to gether tyll harvest come and in tyme of harvest I wyll saye to the repers gather ye fyrst ye tares and bind the in sheves to be bret: but gather the wheete into my barne.
31 Another parable he put forthe vnto the sayinge. The kyngdome of heve is lyke vnto a grayne of mustard seed which a ma taketh and soweth in his felde
32 which is ye leest of all seedes. But when it is groune it is the greatest amoge yerbes and it is a tree: so yt the bryddes of the ayer come and bylde in the brauches of it.
33 Another similitude sayde he to them. The kyngdome of heven is lyke vnto leve which a woman taketh and hydeth in .iii. peckes of meele tyll all be levended.
34 All these thynge spake Iesus vnto the people by similitudes and with oute similitudes spake he nothinge to them
35 to fulfyll that which was spoke by the Prophet sayinge: I wyll ope my mouth in similitudes and wyll speake forth thinges which have bene kepte secrete from the begynninge of the worlde.
36 Then sent Iesus ye people awaye and came to housse. And his disciples came vnto him sayinge: declare vnto vs the similitude of the tares of the felde.
37 Then answered he and sayde to them. He that soweth the good seed is the sonne of man.
38 And ye felde is the worlde. And the chyldre of the kingdome they are ye good seed. And the tares are the chyldren of ye wicked.
39 And the enemye that soweth the is ye devell. The harvest is ye end of the worlde. And the repers be ye angels.
40 For eve as the tares are gaddred and bret in ye fyre: so shall it be in ye ende of this worlde.
41 The sonne of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kyngdome all thinges that offende and them which do iniquite
42 and shall cast them into a furnes of fyre. There shalbe waylynge and gnasshing of teth.
43 Then shall the iuste men shyne as bryght as the sunne in ye kyngdome of their father. Whosoever hath eares to heare let him heare.
44 Agayne ye kyngdome of heve is lyke vnto treasure hidde in the felde ye which a man fyndeth and hideth: and for ioy therof goeth and selleth all that he hath and byeth that felde.
45 Agayne ye kyngdome of heve is lyke vnto a marchaunt that seketh good pearles
46 which when he had founde one precious pearle wet and solde all that he had and bought it.
47 Agayne the kyngdome of heve is lyke vnto a neet cast into ye see yt gadereth of all kyndes of fysshes:
48 which whe it is full men drawe to londe and sitte and gadre the good into vessels and cast the bad awaye.
49 So shall it be at the ende of the worlde. The angels shall come oute and sever the bad from the good
50 and shall cast them into a furnes of fyre: there shalbe waylinge and gnasshynge of teth.
51 Iesus sayde vnto them: vnderstonde ye all these thynges? They sayde ye Lorde.
52 The sayde he vnto them: Therfore every scribe which is taught vnto the kyngdome of heve is lyke an housholder which bryngeth forth out of hys treasure thynges bothe new and olde.
53 And it came to passe when Iesus had finisshed these similitudes yt he departed thece
54 and came in to his awne coutre and taught them in their synagoges in so moche yt they were astonyed and sayde: whece cometh all this wysdome and power vnto him?
55 Is not this the carpeters sonne? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethre be called Iames and Ioses and Simo and Iudas?
56 And are not his susters all here wt vs? Whece hath he all these thynge.
57 And they were offended by him. The Iesus sayd to the a Prophet is not wt out honoure save in hys awne countre and amoge his awne kynne.
58 And he dyd not many miracles there for there vnbelefes sake.

Chapter 14
1 At that tyme Herod the tetrarcha hearde of the fame of Iesu
2 and sayde vnto his servautes: This is Ihon ye baptist. He is risen agayne from deeth and therfore are soche myracles wrought by him.
3 For Herod had taken Ihon and bounde him and put him in preson for Herodias sake his brother Philips wyfe.
4 For Ihon sayde vnto him: Yt is not lawfull for the to have her.
5 And when he wold have put him to deeth he feared the people because they counted him as a prophet.
6 But when Herodes birth daye was come the doughter of Herodias daunsed before them and pleased Herod.
7 Wherfore he promised wt an oth that he wolde geve hir whatsoever she wolde axe.
8 And she beinge informed of her mother before sayde: geve me here Ihon baptistes heed in a platter.
9 And ye kynge sorowed. Neverthelesse for his othes sake and for their sakis which sate also at ye table he comaunded yt to be geven hir:
10 and sent and beheeded Ihon in the preson
11 and his heed was brought in a platter and geven to the damsell and she brought it to her mother.
12 And his disciples came and toke vp his body and buryed it: and went and tolde Iesus.
13 When Iesus hearde that he departed thence by shippe in to a desert place out of ye waye. And when the people had hearde therof they folowed him afote out of their cities.
14 And Iesus went forth and sawe moche people and his herte did melte vpon them and he healed of them those that were sicke.
15 When even was come his disciples came to him sayinge. This is a deserte place and the daye is spent: let the people departe yt they maye go into ye tounes and bye them vytayllis.
16 But Iesus sayde vnto them. They have no neade to go awaye. Geve ye the to eate.
17 Then sayde they vnto him: we have here but .v. loves and two fysshes.
18 And he sayde: bringe the hyther to me.
19 And he comaunded ye people to syt downe on ye grasse: and toke ye .v. loves and the .ii. fysshes and loked vp to heven and blessed and brake and gave the loves to his disciples and the disciples gave them to ye people.
20 And they dyd all eate and were suffised. And they gadered vp of ye gobbetes that remayned vii. basketes full.
21 And they yt ate werein nobre about .v.M. men besyde wemen and chyldren.
22 And strayght waye Iesus made his disciples enter into a shippe and to goo over before him whill he sent ye people awaye.
23 And assone as he had sent the people awaye he went vp into a moutayne alone to praye. And when nyght was come he was there himsilf alone.
24 And the shippe was now in the middes of the see and was toost with waves for it was a cotrary wynde.
25 In the fourthe watche of ye night Iesus came vnto them walkynge on the see.
26 And when his disciples sawe him walkynge on the see they were troubled sayinge: it is some spirite and cryed out for feare.
27 And streyght waye Iesus spake vnto them sayinge: be of god cheare it is I be not afrayed.
28 Peter answered him and sayde: master if thou be he bid me come vnto the on the water.
29 And he sayde come. And when Peter was come doune out of ye shippe he walked on ye water to go to Iesus.
30 But when he sawe a myghty wynde he was afrayed. And as he beganne to synke he cryed sayinge: master save me.
31 And immediatly Iesus stretched forth his hode and caught him and sayde to him: O thou of lytell faith wherfore diddest thou dout?
32 And assone as they were come in to ye shippe ye wynde ceassed.
33 Then they that were in the shippe came and worshipped him sayinge: of a truth thou arte ye sonne of God.
34 And when they were come over they went in to ye londe of Genazareth.
35 And when ye men of yt place had knowledge of him they sent out in to all yt countre rounde about and brought vnto him all that were sicke
36 and besought him that they myght touche the hemme of his vesture only. And as many as touched it were made safe.

Chapter 15
1 Then came to Iesus scribes and pharises from Ierusalem sayinge:
2 why do thy disciples transgresse the tradicios of ye elders? for they wesshe not their hondes when they eate breed.
3 He answered and sayde vnto them: why do ye also transgresse ye comaundment of God thorowe youre tradicions?
4 For God comaunded sayinge: honoure thy father and mother and he that cursseth father or mother shall suffer deeth.
5 But ye saye every ma shall saye to his father or mother: That which thou desyrest of me to helpe ye with: is geven God:
6 and so shall he not honoure his father or his mother. And thus haue ye made yt the comaundment of God is with out effecte through youre tradicios.
7 Ypocrites well prophesyed of you Esay sayinge:
8 This people draweth nye vnto me with their mouthes and honoureth me with their lippes howbe it their hertes are farre from me:
9 but in vayne they worshippe me teachinge doctrines whiche are nothing but mens precepts.
10 And he called the people vnto him and sayde to them: heare and vnderstande.
11 That which goeth into the mouth defyleth not ye man: but that which commeth out of the mouth defyleth the man.
12 Then came his disciples and sayde vnto him. Perceavest thou not how that the pharises are offended in hearinge thys sayinge?
13 He answered and sayde: all plantes which my hevely father hath not planted shalbe plucked vp by the rotes.
14 Let them alone they be the blynde leaders of the blynde. If the blynde leede the blynde boothe shall fall into the dyche.
15 Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare vnto vs this parable.
16 Then sayde Iesus: are ye yet with oute vnderstondinge?
17 perceave ye not that what soever goeth in at the mouth descendeth doune in to the bely and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those thingis which procede out of the mouth come from the herte and they defyle the man.
19 For out of the herte come evyll thoughtis murder breakyng of wedlocke whordo theefte falce witnes berynge blasphemye.
20 These are the thingis which defyle a man. But to eate with vnwesshen hondes defyleth not a man.
21 And Iesus went thence and departed in to the costis of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And beholde a woman which was a Cananite came out of ye same coostis and cryed vnto him sayinge: have mercy on me Lorde the sonne of David my doughter is pytiously vexed with a devyll.
23 And he gave her never a worde to answer. Then came to him his disciples and besought him sayinge: sende her awaye for she foloweth vs cryinge.
24 He answered and sayde: I am not sent but vnto ye loost shepe of ye housse of Israel.
25 Then she came and worshipped him sayinge: master helpe me.
26 He answered and sayde: it is not good to take the chyldrens breed and to cast it to whelpes.
27 She answered and sayde: truthe Lorde: neverthelesse the whelpes eate of the cromes which fall from their masters table.
28 Then Iesus answered and sayde vnto her. O woman greate is thy faith be it to the even as thou desyrest. And her doughter was made whole even at that same houre.
29 Then Iesus went awaye from thence and came nye vnto the see of Galile and went vp in to a mountayne and sat doune there.
30 And moche people came vnto him havinge with the halt blynde domme maymed and other many: and cast them doune at Iesus fete. And he healed them
31 in so moche that the people wondred to se the dome speake the maymed whole the halt to go and ye blynde to se. And they glorified the God of Israel.
32 Then Iesus called his disciples to him and sayde: I have compassion on ye people becau se they have cotynued with me now .iii. dayes and have nought to eate: and I wyll not let them departe fastinge leste they perisshe in ye waye.
33 And his disciples sayd vnto him: whece shuld we get so moche breed in ye wildernes as shuld suffise so greate a multitude?
34 And Iesus sayde vnto them: how many loves have ye? And they sayde: seven and a feawe litle fysshes.
35 And he comaunded ye people to syt doune on ye grounde:
36 and toke the seven loves and the fysshes and gave thankes and brake them and gave to his disciples and the disciples gave them to the people.
37 And they dyd all eate and were suffised. And they toke vp of the broke meate that was lefte .vii. basketes full.
38 And yet they that ate were .iiii.M. men besyde wemen and chyldren.
39 And he sent awaye the people and toke shippe and came into the parties of Magdala.

Chapter 16
1 Then came the pharises and saduces and did tempte him desyringe him to shewe them some signe from heve.
2 He answered and sayde vnto the. At even ye saye we shall have fayre wedder and yt because ye skye is reed:
3 and in the morninge ye saye to daye shalbe foule wedder and that because the skye is cloudy and reed. O ye ypocrites ye can discerne ye fassion of the skye: and can ye not discerne ye signes of the tymes?
4 The frowarde nacion and advoutrous seketh a signe and there shall non other signe be geven vnto them but the signe of the prophet Ionas. So lefte he them and departed.
5 And when his disciples were come to the other side of the water they had forgotte to take breed with the.
6 Then Iesus sayd vnto them: Take hede and beware of the leve of ye Pharises and of ye Saduces.
7 And they thought in them selves sayinge: because we have brought no breed with vs.
8 When Iesus vnderstode that he sayd vnto the. O ye of lytell faith why are youre mindes cumbred because ye have brought no breed?
9 Do ye not yet perceave nether remeber those .v. loves when there were .v.M. men and how many baskettes toke ye vp?
10 Nether the .vii. loves when there were .iiiii.M. and how many baskettes toke ye vp?
11 Why perceave ye not then yt I spake not vnto you of breed whe I sayde beware of the leven of the Pharises and of the Saduces?
12 The vnderstode they how that he bad not them beware of the leven of breed: but of the doctrine of the Pharises and of the Saduces.
13 When Iesus cam in to the costes of the cite which is called Cesarea Philippi he axed his disciples sayinge: whom do men saye yt I the sonne of ma am?
14 They saide some saye yt thou arte Ihon Baptist some Helias some Ieremias or one of ye prophetes.
15 He sayde vnto the: but who saye ye yt I am?
16 Simo Peter answered and sayde: Thou arte Christ ye sonne of the lyvinge God.
17 And Iesus answered and sayde to him: happy arte thou Simon the sonne of Ionas for fleshe and bloud hath not opened vnto the yt but my father which is in heve.
18 And I saye also vnto the yt thou arte Peter: and apon this rocke I wyll bylde my congregacion. And the gates of hell shall not prevayle ageynst it.
19 And I wyll geve vnto the the keyes of the kyngdom of heven: and whatsoever thou byndest vpon erth shall be bounde in heven: and whatsoever thou lowsest on erthe shalbe lowsed in heven.
20 Then he charged his disciples yt they shulde tell no man yt he was Iesus Christ.
21 From yt tyme forth Iesus began to shewe vnto his disciples how yt he must go vnto Ierusalem and suffer many thinges of ye Elders and of ye hye prestes and of the scribes and must be killed and ryse agayne ye thirde daye.
22 But Peter toke him asyde and began to rebuke him sayinge: master faver thy sylfe this shall not come vnto the.
23 Then tourned he aboute and sayde vnto Peter: come after me Satan thou offendest me because thou sauourest not godly thinges but wordly thinges
24 Iesus then sayde to his disciples. If eny man wyll folowe me leet him forsake him sylfe and take vp his crosse and folowe me.
25 For who soever wyll save his lyfe shall loose it. And whosoever shall loose his lyfe for my sake shall fynde it.
26 What shall it proffet a man though he shulde wynne all the whoole worlde: yf he loose his owne soule? Or els what shall a man geve to redeme his soule agayne with all?
27 For the sonne of man shall come in the glory of his father wt his angels: and then shall he rewarde every man accordinge to his dedes.
28 Verely I saye vnto you some ther be amonge them that here stonde which shall not taste of deeth tyll they shall have sene the sonne of man come in his kyngdomen.

Chapter 17
1 And after. vi. dayes Iesus toke Peter and Iames and Ihon his brother and brought them vp into an hye mountayne out of the waye
2 and was transfygured before them: and his face did shyne as the sunne and his clothes were as whyte as the light.
3 And beholde ther appered vnto the Moses and Helyas talkinge with him.
4 Then answered Peter and sayde to Iesus: master here is good beinge for vs. If thou wylt leet vs make here .iii. tabernacles one for the and one for Moses and one for Helyas.
5 Whyll he yet spake beholde a bright cloude shadowed them. And beholde there came a voyce out of ye cloude sayinge: this is my deare sonne in whom I delite heare him.
6 And when the disciples hearde that they fell on their faces and were soore afrayed.
7 And Iesus came and touched them and sayde: aryse and be not afrayed.
8 And when they looked vp they saw no man saue Iesus onely.
9 And as they came doune from the mountayne Iesus charged them sayinge: se yt ye shewe the vision to no man vntyll the sonne of man be rysen ageyne from deeth.
10 And his disciples axed of him sayinge: Why then saye the scribes yt Helyas muste fyrst come?
11 Iesus answered and sayd vnto them: Helyas shall fyrst come and restore all thinges.
12 And I saye vnto you yt Helyas is come alredy and they knewe him not: but have done vnto him whatsoever they lusted. In lyke wyse shall also the sonne of man suffre of the.
13 Then ye disciples perceaved that he spake vnto them of Ihon baptist.
14 And when they were come to ye people ther cam to him a certayne man and kneled doune to him and sayde:
15 Master have mercy on my sonne for he is franticke: and is sore vexed. And oft tymes he falleth into the fyre and oft into ye water
16 And I brought him to thy disciples and they coulde not heale him.
17 Iesus answered and sayde: O generacion faythles and croked: how longe shall I be with you? how longe shall I suffre you? bring him hidder to me.
18 And Iesus rebuked the devyll and he ca out of him. And ye child was healed even yt same houre.
19 Then came the disciples to Iesus secretly and sayde: Why could not we cast him out?
20 Iesus sayd vnto the: Because of youre vnbelefe For I saye veryly vnto you: yf ye had faythe as a grayne of musterd seed ye shuld saye vnto this moutayne remove hence to yonder place and he shuld remove: nether shuld eny thinge be vnpossible for you to do.
21 How be it this kynde goeth not oute but by prayer and fastinge.
22 As they passed the tyme in Galile Iesus sayde vnto them: the sonne of man shalbe betrayed into the hondes of men
23 and they shall kill him and the thyrd daye he shall ryse agayne. And they sorowed greatly.
24 And when they were come to Capernau they yt were wont to gadre poll money came to Peter and sayde: Doth youre master paye tribute?
25 He sayd: ye. And when he was come into the house Iesus spake fyrst to him saying What thinkest thou Simon? of whome do ye kynges of the erth take tribute or poll money? of their chyldren or of straungers?
26 Peter sayde vnto him: of straungers. Then sayd Iesus vnto him agayne: Then are the chyldren fre.
27 Neverthelesse lest we shuld offende the: goo to ye see and cast in thyne angle and take the fysshe yt fyrst cometh vp: and when thou hast opened his mouthe thou shalt fynde a pece of twentie pence: yt take and paye for me and the.

Chapter 18
1 The same tyme the disciples came vnto Iesus saying: who is ye greatest in the kyngdome of heve?
2 Iesus called a chylde vnto him and set him in the middes of them:
3 and sayd. Verely I say vnto you: except ye tourne and become as chyldren ye cannot enter into the kyngdom of heven.
4 Whosoever therfore humble him sylfe as this chylde the same is the greatest in ye kyngdome of heve.
5 And who soever receaveth suche a chylde in my name receaveth me.
6 But whosoever offende one of these lytelons which beleve in me: it were better for him that a milstone were hanged aboute his necke and that he were drouned in the depth of the see.
7 Wo be vnto the world because of offences. How be it it cannot be avoided but yt offences shalbe geven. Neverthelesse woo be to ye man by who the offence cometh.
8 Wherfore yf thy honde or thy fote offende the cut him of and cast him from the. It ys better for the to enter into lyfe halt or maymed rather then thou shuldest havinge two hondes or two fete be cast into everlasting fyre.
9 And yf also thyne eye offende the plucke him oute and caste him from the. It is better for the to enter into lyfe with one eye then havyng two eyes to be cast into hell fyre.
10 Se that ye despise not one of these litelons. For I saye vnto you yt in heven their angels alwayes behold the face of my father which is in heven.
11 Ye and the sonne of man is come to saue that which is lost.
12 How thinke ye? Yf a man have an hondred shepe and one of them be gone astray dothe he not leve nynty and nyne in ye moutains and go and seke that one which is gone astray?
13 If it happen that he fynd him veryly I say vnto you: he reioyseth more of that shepe then of the nynty and nyne which went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the wyll of youre father in heven that one of these lytelons shulde perishe.
15 Moreover yf thy brother treaspace agenst the. Go and tell him his faute betwene him and the alone. Yf he heare the thou hast wone thy brother:
16 But yf he heare the not then take yet with the one or two that in the mouth of two or thre witnesses all thinges maye be stablisshed.
17 If he heare not them tell it vnto the congregacion. If he heare not ye congregacion take him as an hethen man and as a publican.
18 Verely I say vnto you what soever ye bynde on erth shalbe bounde in heven. And what soever ye lowse on erth shalbe lowsed in heven.
19 Agayn I say vnto you that yf two of you shall agre in erth apon eny maner thynge what soever they shall desyre: it shalbe geven them of my father which is in heven.
20 For where two or thre are gathered togedder in my name there am I in the myddes of them.
21 Then came Peter to him and sayde: master howe ofte shall I forgeve my brother yf he synne agaynst me seven tymes?
22 Iesus sayd vnto him: I saye not vnto the seven tymes: but seventy tymes seven tymes.
23 Therfore is ye kingdome of heven lykened vnto a certayne kynge which wolde take a countis of his servauntis.
24 And when he had begone to recken one was broughte vnto him whiche ought him ten thousande talentis:
25 whome be cause he had nought to paye his master commaunded him to be solde and his wyfe and his chyldren and all that he had and payment to be made.
26 The servaunt fell doune and besought him sayinge: Sir geve me respyte and I wyll paye it every whit.
27 Then had the Lorde pytie on that servaunt and lowsed him and forgave him the det.
28 And ye sayde servaut wet oute and founde one of his felowes which ought him an hundred pence and leyed hondes on him and toke him by the throote sayinge: paye me yt thou owest.
29 And his felowe fell doune and besought him sayinge: have pacience with me and I wyll paye the all.
30 And he wolde not but went and cast him into preson tyll he shulde paye the det.
31 When his other felowes sawe what was done they were very sory and came and tolde vnto their lorde all yt had happened.
32 Then his lorde called him and sayde vnto him. O evyll servaut I forgave the all that det because thou prayedst me: was it not mete also yt thou
33 shuldest have had copassion on thy felow even as I had pitie on ye?
34 And his lorde was wrooth and delyuered him to the iaylers tyll he shnld paye all that was due to him.
35 So lyke wyse shall my hevenly father do vnto you except ye forgeve with youre hertes eache one to his brother their treaspases.

Chapter 19
1 And it came to passe when Iesus had fynisshed those sayinges he gat him from Galile and came into the coostes of Iewry beyonde Iordan
2 and moche people folowed him and he healed them theare.
3 Then came vnto him the pharises temtinge him and sayinge to him: Ys it lawfull for a man to put awaye his wyfe for all maner of causes?
4 He answered and sayd vnto them: Have ye not redde how that he which made man at the beginninge made them man and woman
5 and sayde: for this thinge shall a ma leve father and mother and cleve vnto his wyfe and they twayne shalbe one flesshe.
6 Wherfore now are they not twayne but one flesshe. Let not man therfore put a sunder that which God hath cuppled to gedder.
7 The sayde they to him: why did Moses comaunde to geve a testimoniall of divorsemet and to put hyr awaye?
8 He sayde vnto them: Moses because of the hardnes of youre hertes suffred you to put awaye youre wyfes: But from ye beginnynge it was not so.
9 I saye therfore vnto you whosoever putteth awaye his wyfe (except it be for fornicacion) and maryeth another breaketh wedlocke. And whosoever maryeth her which is divorsed doeth commyt advoutry.
10 Then sayde his disciples to him: yf the mater be so betwene man and wyfe then is it not good to mary.
11 He sayde vnto them: all me can not awaye with that sayinge save they to whom it is geve.
12 Ther are chaste which were so borne out of their mothers belly. And ther are chaste which be made of men. And ther be chaste which have made them selves chaste for the kyngdome of heves sake. He that can take it let him take it.
13 Then were brought to him yonge chyldre that he shuld put his hondes on them and praye And the disciples rebuked them.
14 But Iesus sayde: suffre the chyldren and forbid them not to come to me: for of suche is the kyngdome of heven.
15 And when he had put his hondes on them he departed thence.
16 And beholde one came and sayde vnto him: good master what good thinge shall I do that I maye have eternall lyfe?
17 He sayde vnto him: why callest thou me good? there is none good but one and that is God. But yf thou wylt entre in to lyfe kepe the commaundementes.
18 The other sayde to him Which? And Iesus sayde: breake no wedloke kill not steale not: beare not falce witnes:
19 honoure father and mother: and love thyne neighbour as thy sylfe.
20 And the younge man sayde vnto him: I have observed all these thingis from my youth what lacke I yet?
21 And Iesus sayde vnto him yf thou wylt be perfecte goo and sell that thou hast and geve it to the povre and thou shalt have treasure in heven and come and folowe me.
22 When ye younge ma hearde yt sayinge he wet awaye mourninge. For he had greate possessions.
23 Then Iesus sayde vnto his disciples: Verely I saye vnto you: yt is harde for a ryche ma to enter into ye kyngdome of heaven.
24 And moreover I saye vnto you: it is easier for a camell to go through the eye of a nedle then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God.
25 When his disciples hearde that they were excedingly amased sayinge: who then can be saved?
26 Iesus behelde the and sayde vnto them: with men this is vnpossible but with God all thinges are possible.
27 Then answered Peter and sayde to him: Beholde we have forsaken all and folowed the what shall we have?
28 Iesus sayde vnto them: verely I saye to you: when the sonne of man shall syt in ye seate of his maieste ye which folowe me in ye seconde generacion shall syt also vpon .xii. seates and iudge ye .xii. tribes of Israel.
29 And whosoever forsaketh housses or brethren or systers other father or mother or wyfe or chyldren or landes for my names sake ye same shall receave an hundred folde and shall inheret everlastynge lyfe.
30 Many that are fyrste shalbe laste and the laste shalbe fyrste.

Chapter 20
1 For the kyngdome of heven ys lyke vnto an houssholder which went out erly in the morninge to hyre labourers into hys vyneyarde.
2 And he agreed wt the labourers for a peny a daye and sent them into his vyneyarde.
3 And he went out about the thyrde houre and sawe other stonding ydell in the marketplace
4 and sayd vnto them go ye also into my vyneyarde: and whatsoever is right I will geve you. And they went there waye.
5 Agayne he wet out about the sixte and nynthe houre and dyd lyke wyse.
6 And he went out aboute the eleventhe houre and founde other stondynge ydell and sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydell?
7 They sayde vnto hym: because no man hath hyred vs. He sayde to them: goo ye alsoo into my vyneyarde and whatsoever is right that shall ye receave.
8 When even was come the lorde of the vyneyarde sayde vnto hys steward: call the labourers and geve them their hyre beginnyng at ye laste tyll thou come to ye fyrste.
9 And they whiche were hyred aboute the eleventhe houre came and receaved every man a peny.
10 Then came ye fyrst supposyng yt they shuld receave moare: and they likewyse receaved every man a peny.
11 And when they had receaved it they murmured agaynst the good man of the housse
12 saying: These laste have wrought but one houre and thou hast made them equall vnto vs which have born ye burthe and heet of the daye.
13 He answered to one of the sayinge: frende I do the no wronge: dyddest thou not agre wt me for a peny?
14 Take that which is thy duty and go thy waye. I will geve vnto this last as moche as to the.
15 Ys it not lawfull for me to do as me listeth with myne awne? Ys thyne eye evyll because I am good?
16 Soo the laste shalbe fyrste and the fyrste shalbe laste. For many are called and feawe be chosen.
17 And Iesus ascended to Ierusalem and toke the .xii. disciples a parte in the waye and sayde to the.
18 Beholde we goo vp to Ierusalem and the sonne of ma shalbe betrayed vnto ye chefe prestes and vnto the scribes and they shall condene him to deeth
19 and shall delyvre him to the getils to be mocked to be scourged and to be crucified: and ye thyrd daye he shall ryse agayne.
20 Then came to hym the mother of zebedes chyldren with her sonnes worshippynge him and desyringe a certayne thinge of him.
21 And he sayd vnto her: what wilt thou have? She sayde vnto him: Gravnte that these my two sonnes may sit ye one on thy right hond and the other on ye lifte hond in thy kyngdome.
22 Iesus answered and sayd: Ye wot not what ye axe. Are ye able to drynke of the cuppe yt I shall drynke of and to be baptised wt the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with? They answered to him that we are.
23 And he sayd vnto the: Ye shall drinke of my cvp and shalbe baptised with the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with. But to syt on my ryght hond and on my lyst hond is not myne to geve: but to them for whom it is prepared of my father.
24 And when the ten hearde this they disdayned at ye two brethre:
25 But Iesus called them vnto him and sayde: Ye knowe yt the lordes of the gentyls have dominacio over them. And they that are great exercise power over the.
26 It shall not be so amoge you. But whosoever wyll be greate amoge you let him be youre minister:
27 and whosoever wil be chefe let him be youre servaut
28 eve as the sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto but to minister and to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many.
29 And as they departed fro Hierico moche people folowed him.
30 And beholde two blinde men sittinge by ye waysyde whe they hearde Iesus passe by cryed sayinge: Thou Lorde ye sonne of David have mercy on vs.
31 And ye people rebuked them be cause they shulde holde their peace. But they cryed ye moare sayinge: have mercy on vs thou Lorde which arte ye sonne of David.
32 Then Iesus stode styll and called the and sayde: what will ye that I shulde do to you:
33 They sayd to him: Lorde that oure eyes maye be opened.
34 Iesus had copassion on the and touched their eyes. And immediatly their eyes receaved syght. And they folowed him.

Chapter 21
1 When they drewe neye vnto Ierusalem and were come to Betphage vnto mounte olivete: then sent Iesus two of his disciples
2 saiynge to the. Go in to the toune that lyeth over agaynste you and anone ye shall fynde an asse bounde and her colte with her: lose them and bringe them vnto me.
3 And if eny man saye ought vnto you saye ye yt the lorde hath neade of them: and streyght waye he will let them go.
4 All this was done to fulfyll that which was spoken by the Prophet sayinge:
5 Tell ye the doughter of Sion: beholde thy kynge cometh vnto the meke and sittinge vpon an asse and a colte the fole of an asse vsed to the yooke.
6 The disciples went and dyd as Iesus comaunded them
7 and brought ye asse and the colte and put on them their clothes and set him theron.
8 And many of the people spreed their garmentes in ye waye. Other cut doune braunches fro the trees and strawed them in the waye.
9 Moreover the people that went before and they also that came after cryed sayinge: Hosanna to ye sonne of David. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lorde Hosanna in the hyest.
10 And when he was come in to Ierusalem all the cyte was moved sayinge: who is this?
11 And the people sayde: this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile.
12 And Iesus went in to the temple of God and cast out all them that soulde and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the mony chaugers and the seates of them that solde doves
13 and sayde to them: It is wrytten my housse shalbe called the housse of prayer. But ye have made it a denne of theves.
14 And the blinde and the halt came to him in ye teple and he healed the.
15 When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe the marveylles that he dyd and the chyldren cryinge in the teple and sayinge Hosanna to the sonne of David they disdayned
16 and sayde vnto him: hearest thou what these saye? Iesus sayde vnto them yee: have ye never redde of the mouth of babes and suckelinges thou haste ordeyned prayse?
17 And he lefte the and wet out of ye cite vnto Bethanie and had his abydige there.
18 In the mornynge as he returned in to the cyte ageyne he hungred
19 and spyed a fygge trre in the waye and came to it and founde nothinge theron but leves only and sayd to it never frute growe on the hence forwardes. And ano the fygge tree wyddered awaye.
20 And when his disciples sawe that they marveled sayinge: Howe sone is the fygge tree wyddered awaye?
21 Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: Verely I saye vnto you yf ye shall have faith and shall not dout ye shall not only do that which I have done to the fygge tree: but also yf ye shall saye vnto this moutayne take thy silfe awaye and cast thy silfe into the see it shalbe done.
22 And whatsoever ye shall axe in prayer (if ye beleve) ye shall receave it.
23 And when he was come into the teple the chefe prestes and the elders of the people came vnto him as he was teachinge and sayde: by what auctorite doest thou these thinges? and who gave the this power?
24 Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: I also will axe of you a certayne question which if ye assoyle me I in lyke wyse wyll tell you by what auctorite I do these thinges.
25 The baptime of Iohn: whence was it? fro heve or of men? Then they reasoned amoge them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye fro heven he will saye vnto vs: why dyd ye not then beleve hym?
26 But and if we shall saye of men then feare we the people. For all men helde Iohn as a Prophet.
27 And they answered Iesus and sayde: we cannot tell. And he lyke wyse sayd vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.
28 What saye ye to this? A certayne man had two sonnes and came to ye elder and sayde: sonne go and worke to daye in my vineyarde.
29 He answered and sayde I will not: but afterwarde repented and went.
30 Then came he to the second and sayde lyke wyse. And he answered and sayde: I will syr: yet wet not.
31 Whether of the twayne dyd the will of the father? And they sayde vnto hym: the fyrst. Iesus sayde vnto the: verely I saye vnto you that the publicans and the harlotes shall come into ye kyngdome of God before you.
32 For Iohn came vnto you in the waye of rightewesnes and ye beleved hym not. But the publicans and the harlotes beleved him. And yet ye (though ye sawe it) were not yet moved with repentaunce that ye myght afterwarde have beleved hym.
33 Herken another similitude. Ther was a certayne housholder which planted a vineyarde and hedged it roude about and made a wynpresse in it and bilt a tower and let it out to husbandmen and wet in to a straunge coutre.
34 And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare he sent his servauntes to the husbandmen to receave the frutes of it.
35 And ye husbandme caught his servauntes and bet one kylled another and stoned another.
36 Agayne he sent other servantes moo then the fyrst: and they served them lyke wyse.
37 But last of all he sent vnto the his awne sonne sayinge: they will feare my sonne.
38 But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne they sayde amoge the selves: This is the heyre: come let vs kyll him and let vs take his inheritaunce to oure selves.
39 And they caught him and thrust him out of the vineyarde and slewe him.
40 When the lorde of the vyneyarde commeth what will he do wt those husbandme?
41 They sayde vnto him: he will cruellye destroye those evyll persons and wyll let out his vyneyarde vnto other husbandmen which shall delyver him the frute at tymes convenient
42 Iesus sayde vnto the: dyd ye never redde in the scriptures? The stone which ye bylders refused ye same is set in ye principall parte of ye corner: this was the lordes doinge and yt is mervelous in oure eyes.
43 Therfore saye I vnto you the kyngdome of God shalbe take from you and shalbe geve to the getyls which shall brynge forth the frutes of it.
44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone he shalbe broken but on whosoever it shall fall vpon it will grynde him to powder.
45 And when the chefe prestes and Pharises hearde these similitudes they perceaved yt he spake of the.
46 And they wet about to laye hondes on him but they feared ye people because they tooke him as a Prophet.

Chapter 22
1 And Iesus answered and spake vnto them agayne in similitudes sayinge.
2 The kingdome of heve is lyke vnto a certayne kynge which maryed his sonne
3 and sent forth his servantes to call them that were byd to the weddinge and they wolde not come.
4 Ageyne he sent forth other servauntes sayinge: Tell them which are bydden: beholde I have prepared my dynner myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled and all thinges are redy come vnto the mariage.
5 But they made light of it and went their wayes: one to his ferme place another about his marchaundise
6 the remnaunt toke his seruantes and intreated them vngodly and slewe them.
7 When the kinge hearde that he was wroth and send forth his warryers and distroyed those murtherers and brent vp their cyte.
8 Then sayde he to his servauutes: the weddinge was prepared. But they which were bydden were not worthy.
9 Go ye therfore out into ye hyewayes and as many as ye finde byd them to the mariage.
10 The seruauntes wet out into the hiewayes and gaddered to gedder as many as they coulde fynde both good and bad and ye weddinge was furnysshed with gestes.
11 Then the kynge came in to viset the gestes and spyed there a ma which had not on a weddinge garment
12 and sayde vnto him: frende how fortuned it that thou camest in hither and hast not on a weddyng garment? And he was eve spechlesse.
13 Then sayde the kynge to his ministers: take and bynde hym hand and fote and caste hym into vtter darcknes there shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of teth.
14 For many are called and feawe be chosen.
15 Then wet the Pharises and toke counsell how they might tagle him in his wordes.
16 And they sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes servauntes sayinge: Master we knowe yt thou are true and teachest the waye of god trulie nether carest for eny man for thou consydrest not menes estate.
17 Tell vs therfore: how thynkest thou? Is it lawfull to geve tribute vnto Cesar or not?
18 Iesus perceaved their wikednes and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrites?
19 Let me se ye tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.
20 And he sayde vnto them: whose is this ymage and superscripcion?
21 They sayde vnto him: Cesars. Then sayde he vnto them. Geve therfore to Cesar that which is Cesars: and geve vnto god that which is goddes.
22 When they hearde that they marveled and lefte hym and went there waye.
23 The same daye the Saduces came to him (which saye that there is no resurrcecion) and axed him
24 sayinge: Master Moses bade yf a man dye havinge no chyldre that the brother mary his wyfe and reyse vp seed vnto his brother.
25 Ther were wt vs seven brethre and the fyrste maried and deceased wt oute yssue and lefte his wyfe vnto his brother.
26 Lykewise the seconde and ye thryd vnto the sevethe.
27 Laste of all the woman dyed also.
28 Now in the resurreccion whose wyfe shall she be of the seven? For all had her.
29 Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: ye are deceaved and vnderstonde not the scriptures nor yet the power of God.
30 For in the resurreccion they nether mary nor are maryed: but are as the angels of God in heven.
31 As touchynge the resurreccion of the deed: have ye not redde what is sayde vnto you of God which sayeth:
32 I am Abrahams God and Ysaacks God and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the deed: but of the lyvinge.
33 And when the people hearde that they were astonyed at his doctrine.
34 When the Pharises had hearde how yt he had put the Saduces to silence they drewe to gedder
35 and one of them which was a doctoure of lawe axed a question teptinge h m and sayinge:
36 Master which is ye chefe comaundment in the lawe?
37 Iesus sayde vnto him: love the Lorde thy God wt all thine herte with all thy soule and with all thy mynde.
38 This is the fyrst and the chefe comaundement.
39 And ther is another lyke vnto this. Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.
40 In these two commaundemetes hange all the lawe and the Prophetes.
41 Whyll the Pharises were gaddered togeder Iesus axed
42 the sayinge: what thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: the sonne of David.
43 He sayde vnto the: how then doeth David in spirite call him Lorde sayinge?
44 The Lorde sayde to my Lorde syt on my right honde: tyll I make thyne enemyes thy fote stole.
45 Yf David call him Lorde: how is he then his sonne?
46 And none coulde answere him ageyne one worde: nether dueste eny from that daye forth axe him eny moo questions.

Chapter 23
1 Then spake Iesus to the people and to his disciples
2 sayinge. The Scribes and the Pharises sit in Moses seate.
3 All therfore whatsoever they byd you observe that observe and do: but after their workes do not:
4 For they saye and do not. Ye and they bynde hevy burthes and grevous to be borne and ley the on menes shulders: but they themsylfes will not heave at them with one of their fyngers.
5 All their workes they do for to be sene of me. They set abroade their philateries and make large borders on there garmetes
6 and love to sit vppermooste at feastes and to have the chefe seates in the synagoges
7 and gretinges in the marketes and to be called of men Rabi.
8 But ye shall not suffre youre selves to be called Rabi. For one is youre master that is to wyt Christ and all ye are brethre.
9 And call no man youre father vpon the erth for there is but one youre father and he is in heven.
10 Be not called masters for there is but one youre master and he is Christ.
11 He that is greatest amoge you shalbe youre seruaunte.
12 But whosoever exalteth himsilfe shalbe brought lowe. And he yt hubleth himsilfe shalbe exalted.
13 Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites for ye shutte vp the kyngdome of heve before men: ye youre selves goo not in nether suffre ye them that come to enter in.
14 Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites: ye devoure widdowes houses and that vnder a coloure of praying longe prayers: wherfore ye shall receave greater damnacion.
15 Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites which compasse see and londe to bringe one in to youre belefe: and when he ys brought ye make him two folde more the chylde of hell then ye youre selves are.
16 Wo be vnto you blynd gides which saye whosoever sweare by the teple it is no thinge: but whosoever sweare by the golde of the temple he offendeth.
17 Ye foles and blinde? whether is greater the golde or the teple that sanctifieth ye golde.
18 And whosoever sweareth by the aulter it is nothinge: but whosoever sweareth by ye offeringe yt lyeth on ye aultre offendeth.
19 Ye foles and blinde: whether is greater ye offeringe or ye aultre which sanctifieth ye offeringe?
20 Whosoever therfore sweareth by ye aultre sweareth by it and by all yt there on is.
21 And whosoever sweareth by the teple sweareth by it and by hym yt dwelleth therin.
22 And he that sweareth by heve swereth by the seate of God and by hym that sytteth theron.
23 Wo be to you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites which tythe mynt annyse and comen and leave the waygthtyer mattres of ye lawe vndone: iudgemet mercy and fayth. These ought ye to have done and not to have left the othre vndone.
24 Ye blinde gydes which strayne out a gnat and swalowe a cammyll.
25 Wo be to you scribes and pharises ypocrites which make clene ye vtter syde of the cuppe and of the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.
26 Thou blinde Pharise clense fyrst the outsyde of the cup and platter that the ynneside of them maye be clene also.
27 Wo be to you Scribe and Pharises ypocrite for ye are lyke vnto paynted tombes which appere beautyfull outwarde: but are wt in full of deed bones and of all fylthynes.
28 So are ye for outwarde ye appere righteous vnto me when within ye are full of ypocrisie and iniquite.
29 Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites: ye bylde the tombes of the Prophetes and garnisshe the sepulchres of the righteous
30 and saye: Yf we had bene in the dayes of oure fathers we wolde not have bene parteners with them in the bloud of the Prophetes.
31 So then ye be witnesses vnto youre selfes that ye are the chyldren of them which killed the prophetes.
32 Fulfill ye lyke wyse the measure of youre fathers.
33 Yee serpentes and generacion of vipers how shuld ye scape ye dapnacio of hell?
34 Wherfore beholde I sende vnto you prophetes wyse men and scribes and of the ye shall kyll and crucifie: and of the ye shall scourge in youre synagoges and persecute from cyte to cyte
35 that vpon you maye come all the righteous bloude that was sheed vpon the erth fro the bloud of righteous Abell vnto ye bloud of zacharias the sonne of Barachias who ye slewe betwene the teple and ye altre.
36 Verely I say vnto you all these thinges shall light vpon this generacion.
37 Hierusalem hierusalem which kyllest prophetes and stonest the which are sent to the: how often wolde I have gadered thy chyldren to gether as the henne gadreth her chickes vnder her winges but ye wolde not:
38 Beholde youre habitacio shalbe lefte vnto you desolate.
39 For I saye to you ye shall not se me heceforthe tyll that ye saye: blessed is he that cometh in the name of ye Lorde.

Chapter 24
1 And Iesus went out and departed fro the teple: and his disciples came to hym for to shewe him the byldinge of the teple.
2 Iesus sayde vnto the: se ye not all these thinges? Verely I saye vnto you: ther shall not be here lefte one stone vpon another that shall not be cast doune.
3 And as he sat vpon the mout Olivete his disciples came vnto hym secretely sayinge. Tell vs when these thinges shalbe? And what signe shalbe of thy comynge and of the ende of the worlde?
4 And Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: take hede that no ma deceave you.
5 For many shall come in my name sayinge: I am Christ and shall deceave many.
6 Ye shall heare of warres and of the fame of warres: but se yt ye be not troubled. For all these thinges must come to passe but the ende is not yet.
7 For nacio shall ryse ageynste nacio and realme ageynste realme: and ther shalbe pestilence honger and erthquakes in all quarters.
8 All these are the beginninge of sorowes.
9 Then shall they put you to trouble and shall kyll you: and ye shalbe hated of all nacions for my names sake.
10 And then shall many be offended and shall betraye one another and shall hate one the other.
11 And many falce Prophetes shall aryse and shall deceave many.
12 And because iniquite shall have the vpper hande the love of many shall abate.
13 But he that endureth to the ende the same shalbe safe.
14 And this gladtidingees of the kyngdome shalbe preached in all the worlde for a witnes vnto all nacions: and then shall the ende come.
15 When ye therfore shall se ye abhominacio that betokeneth desolacion spoken of by Daniell the Prophet stonde in ye holy place: let him that redeth it vnderstonde it.
16 Then let them which be in Iury flye into the moutaynes.
17 And let him which is on ye housse toppe not come downe to fet eny thinge out of his housse.
18 Nether let him which is in ye felde returne backe to fetche his clothes.
19 Wo be in those dayes to the that are wt chylde and to the yt geve sucke.
20 But praye yt youre flight be not in ye winter nether on ye saboth daye.
21 For then shalbe greate tribulacio suche as was not fro the beginninge of the worlde to this tyme ner shalbe.
22 Ye and except those dayes shuld be shortened there shuld no fleshe be saved: but for ye chosens sake those dayes shalbe shortened.
23 Then yf eny ma shall saye vnto you: lo here is Christ or there is Christ: beleve it not.
24 For there shall arise false christes and false prophete and shall do great myracles and wondres. In so moche yt if it were possible ye verie electe shuld be deceaved.
25 Take hede I have tolde you before.
26 Wherfore if they shall saye vnto you: beholde he is in ye desert go not forth: beholde he is in ye secret places beleve not.
27 For as ye lightninge cometh out of ye eest and shyneth vnto the weest: so shall the comynge of the sonne of ma be.
28 For wheresoever a deed karkas is eve thyther will the egles resorte.
29 Immediatly after the tribulacios of those dayes shall the sunne be derkened: and ye mone shall not geve hir light and the starre shall fall from heve and the powers of heve shall move.
30 And then shall appere the sygne of the sonne of man in heven. And then shall all the kynreddes of the erth morne and they shall se the sonne of man come in the cloudes of heven with power and greate glorie.
31 And he shall sende his angeles with the greate voyce of a trope and they shall gader to gether his chosen from the fower wyndes and from the one ende of the worlde to the other.
32 Learne, a similitude of the fygge tree: when his braunches are yet tender and his leves sproge ye knowe that sommer is nye.
33 So lyke wyse ye when ye see all these thynges be ye sure that it is neare even at the dores.
34 Verely I saye vnto you that this generacion shall not passe tyll all these be fulfilled.
35 Heven and erth shall perisshe: but my wordes shall abyde.
36 But of that daye and houre knowith no man no not ye angels of heve but my father only.
37 As the tyme of Noe was so lyke wyse shall the cominge of ye sonne of man be.
38 For as in ye dayes before ye floud: they dyd eate and drynke mary and were maried eve vnto ye daye that Noe entred into the shyppe
39 and knewe of nothynge tyll the floude came and toke them all awaye. So shall also the commynge of the sonne of man be.
40 Then two shalbe in the feldes the one shalbe receaved and the other shalbe refused
41 two shalbe gryndinge at ye myll: ye oue shalbe receaved and ye other shalbe refused.
42 Wake therfore because ye knowe not what houre youre master wyll come.
43 Of this be sure that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre the thefe wolde come: he wolde suerly watche and not suffre his housse to be broke vppe.
44 Therfore be ye also redy for in ye houre ye thinke he wolde not: wyll the sonne of ma come.
45 If there be any faithfull servaut and wyse whome his master hath made ruler over his housholde to geve the meate in season covenient:
46 happy is that servaunt whom his master (when he cometh) shall finde so doinge.
47 Verely I saye vnto you he shall make him ruler over all his goodes.
48 But and yf that evill servaut shall saye in his herte my master wyll defer his comynge
49 and beginne to smyte his felowes ye and to eate and to drinke with the dronke:
50 that servauntes master wyll come in adaye when he loketh not for him and in an houre yt he is not ware of
51 and wyll devyde him and geve him his rewarde with ypocrites. There shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of tethe.

Chapter 25
1 Then ye kyngdome of heven shalbe lykened vnto .x. virgins which toke their lampes and wet to mete the brydgrome:
2 fyve of them were folysshe and fyve were wyse.
3 The folysshe toke their lampes but toke none oyle wt the.
4 But ye wyse tooke oyle wt the in their vesselles wt their lampes also.
5 Whill the brydgrome taryed all slombred and slepte.
6 And even at mydnyght there was a crye made: beholde the brydgrome cometh goo out against him.
7 Then all those virgins arose and prepared their lampes.
8 And ye folysshe sayde to ye wyse: geve vs of youre oyle for our lampes goo out?
9 but ye wyse answered sayinge. Not so lest ther be not ynough for vs and you: but goo rather to them yt sell and by for youre selves.
10 And whill they went to bye ye brydgrome came: and they yt were redy went in with him to ye weddinge and the gate was shett vp:
11 Afterwardes came also ye other virgins sayinge: master master open to vs.
12 But he answered and sayde: verely I saye vnto you: I knowe not you.
13 Watche therefore: for ye knowe nether the daye nor yet the houre when the sonne of man shall come.
14 Lykwyse as a certeyne ma redy to take his iorney to a straunge coutre called his servautes and delivered to them his gooddes.
15 And vnto one he gave .v. talentes to another .ii. and to another one: to every man after his abilite and streyght waye departed.
16 Then he that had receaved the fyve talentes went and bestowed them and wanne other fyve talentes.
17 Lykwyse he that receaved .ii. gayned other .ii.
18 But he yt receaved ye one went and digged a pit in the erth and hyd his masters money.
19 After a longe season ye lorde of those servauntes came and rekened with the.
20 Then came he yt had receaved fyve talentes and brought other fyve talentes sayinge: master thou deliveredst vnto one fyve talentes: beholde I have gayned wt the fyve talentes moo.
21 The his master sayde vnto him: well good servaut and faithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytell I will make the ruler over moche: entre in into thy masters ioye.
22 Also he that receaved .ii. talentes came and sayde: master thou deliveredest vnto me .ii. talentes: beholde I have wone .ii. other talentes with them.
23 And his master sayde vnto him well good servaunt and faithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytell I wyll make the ruler over moche: go in into thy masters ioye.
24 Then he which had receaved ye one talent came and sayd: master I considered yt thou wast an harde man which repest where thou sowedst not and gadderest where thou strawedst not
25 and was therfore afrayde and went and hyd thy talent in ye erth: Beholde thou hast thyn awne.
26 His master answered and sayde vnto him: thou evyll servaut and slewthfull thou knewest yt I repe where I sowed not and gaddre where I strawed not:
27 thou oughtest therfore to have had my money to ye chaugers and then at my comynge shulde I have receaved myne awne with vauntage.
28 Take therfore the talent from him and geve it vnto him which hath .x. talentes.
29 For vnto every man that hath shalbe geven and he shall have aboundance: and from him that hath not shalbe taken awaye even that he hath.
30 And cast yt vnprofitable servaunt into vtter dercknes: there shalbe wepynge and gnasshinge of teeth.
31 When the sonne of ma cometh in his glorie and all the holy angels wt him then shall he syt vpon the seate of his glorie
32 and before him shalbe Gaddred all nacions. And he shall seperate the one from a nother as a shepherde deuideth the shepe from the gootes.
33 And he shall set the shepe on his right honde and the gotes on the lyfte.
34 Then shall the kynge saye to them on his right honde: Come ye blessed chyldren of my father inheret ye the kyngdo prepared for you from the beginninge of the worlde.
35 For I was anhongred and ye gave me meate. I thursted and ye gave me drinke. I was herbourlesse and ye lodged me.
36 I was naked and ye clothed me. I was sicke and ye visited me. I was in preson and ye came vnto me.
37 Then shall ye righteous answere him sayinge master whe sawe we ye anhongred and feed the? or a thurst and gave ye drinke?
38 when sawe we ye herbourlesse and lodged the? or naked and clothed the?
39 or when sawe we the sicke or in preson and came vnto the?
40 And ye kynge shall answere and saye vnto them: verely I saye vnto you: in as moche as ye have done it vnto one of ye leest of these my brethren ye have done it to me.
41 Then shall the kynge saye vnto them that shalbe on the lyfte hande: departe from me ye coursed into everlastinge fire which is prepared for the devyll and his angels.
42 For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meate. I thursted and ye gave me no drinke.
43 I was herbourlesse and ye lodged me not. I was naked and ye clothed me not. I was sicke and in preson and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answere him sayinge: master when sawe we the an hungred or a thurst or herbourlesse or naked or sicke or in preson and did not ministre vnto the?
45 Then shall he answere the and saye: Verely I saye vnto you in as moche as ye did it not to one of ye leest of these ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go into everlastinge payne: And the righteous into lyfe eternall.

Chapter 26
1 And it came to passe when Iesus had fynisshed all these sayinges he sayd vnto his disciples:
2 Ye knowe that after ii. dayes shalbe ester and the sonne of man shalbe delyvered to be crucified.
3 Then assembled togedder the chefe prestes and the scribes and the elders of the people to the palice of the hye preste called Cayphas
4 and heelde a counsell how they mygt take Iesus by suttelte and kyll him.
5 But they sayd not on the holy daye lest eny vproure aryse amonge the people.
6 When Iesus was in Bethany in the house of Symon the leper
7 ther came vnto him a woman which had an alablaster boxe of precious oyntment and powred it on his heed as he sate at the bourde.
8 When his disciples sawe that they had indignacion sayinge: what neded this wast?
9 This oyntmet myght have bene well solde and geven to the povre.
10 When Iesus vnderstod that he sayde vnto the: why trouble ye the woman? She hath wrought a good worke apon me.
11 For ye shall have povre folcke alwayes with you: but me shall ye not have all wayes.
12 And in yt she casted this oyntment on my bodye she dyd it to burye me wt all.
13 Verely I saye vnto you wheresoever this gospell shalbe preached throughoute all the worlde there shall also this that she hath done be tolde for a memoriall of her.
14 Then one of the twelve called Iudas Iscarioth went vnto the chefe prestes
15 and sayd: what will ye geve me and I will deliver him vnto you? And they apoynted vnto him thirty peces of sylver.
16 And from that tyme he sought oportunite to betraye him.
17 The fyrst daye of swete breed ye disciples cam to Iesus sayinge vnto him: where wylt thou that we prepare for ye to eate ye paschall lambe?
18 And he sayd: Go into the cite vnto soche a man and saye to him: the master sayeth my tyme is at hande I will kepe myne ester at thy housse with my disciples.
19 And the disciples did as Iesus had apoynted them and made redy the esterlambe.
20 When the even was come he sate doune wt the .xii.
21 And as they dyd eate he sayde: Verely I saye vnto you that one of you shall betraye me.
22 And they were excedinge sorowfull and beganne every one of the to saye vnto him: is it I master?
23 He answered and sayde: he yt deppeth his honde wt me in ye disshe the same shall betraye me.
24 The sonne of ma goeth as it is written of him: but wo be to yt ma by whom ye sonne of man shalbe betrayed. It had bene good for that man yf he had never bene borne.
25 Then Iudas wich betrayed him answered and sayde: is it I master? He sayde vnto him: thou hast sayde.
26 As they dyd eate Iesus toke breed and gave thankes brake it and gave it to the disciples and sayde: Take eate this is my body.
27 And he toke the cup and thanked and gave it them sayinge: drinke of it every one.
28 For this is my bloude of the new testament that shalbe shedde for many for the remission of synnes.
29 I saye vnto you: I will not drinke hence forth of this frute of the vyne tree vntyll that daye when I shall drinke it new with you in my fathers kyngdome.
30 And when they had sayde grace they went out into mounte olyvete.
31 Then sayd Iesus vnto them: all ye shall be offended by me this night. For it is wrytten. I will smyte ye shepe herde and the shepe of ye flocke shalbe scattered abroode.
32 But after I am rysen ageyne I will goo before you into Galile.
33 Peter answered and sayde vnto him: though all men shulde be offended by ye yet wolde I never be offended.
34 Iesus sayde vnto him. Verely I saye vnto ye that this same night before the cocke crowe thou shalt denye me thryse.
35 Peter sayde vnto him: Yf I shulde dye with ye yet wolde I not denye ye Lyke wyse also sayde all ye disciples.
36 Then went Iesus with them into a place which is called Gethsemane and sayde vnto the disciples syt ye here whyll I go and praye yonder.
37 And he toke with him Peter and the two sonnes of zebede and began to wexe sorowfull and to be in an agonye.
38 Then sayd Iesus vnto them: my soule is hevy even vnto the deeth. Tary ye here and watche wt me.
39 And he went a lytell aparte and fell flat on his face and prayed sayinge: O my father yf it be possible let this cuppe passe from me: neverthelesse not as I wyll but as thou wylt.
40 And he came vnto the disciples and founde them a slepe and sayde to Peter: what coulde ye not watche with me one houre:
41 watche and praye that ye fall not into temptacion. The spirite is willynge but the flesshe is weake.
42 He went awaye once moare and prayed sayinge: O my father yf this cuppe can not passe away from me but yt I drinke of it thy wyll be fulfylled.
43 And he came and founde the a slepe agayne. For their eyes were hevy.
44 And he lefte them and went agayne and prayed ye thrid tyme sayinge ye same wordes.
45 Then came he to his disciples and sayd vnto them: Slepe hence forth and take youre reest. Take hede the houre is at honde and ye sonne of man shalbe betrayed into ye hondes of synners.
46 Ryse let vs be goinge: beholde he is at honde yt shall betraye me.
47 Whyll he yet spake: lo Iudas one of ye xii. came and wt him a greate multitude wt sweardes and staves sent from the chefe prestes and elders of the people.
48 And he that betrayed him had geven the a token sayinge: whosoever I kysse yt same is he ley hondes on him.
49 And forth wt all he came to Iesus and sayde: hayle master and kyssed him.
50 And Iesus sayde vnto him: frende wherfore arte thou come? Then came they and layed hondes on Iesus and toke him.
51 And beholde one of them which were with Iesus stretched oute his honde and drue his swearde and stroke a servaunt of the hye preste and smote of his eare.
52 Then sayde Iesus vnto him: put vp thy swearde into his sheathe. For all that ley hond on ye swearde shall perisshe with ye swearde.
53 Ether thinkest thou that I cannot now praye to my father and he shall geve me moo then .xii. legions of angelles?
54 But how then shuld the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be.
55 The same tyme sayd Iesus to the multitude: ye be come out as it were vnto a thefe with sweardes and staves for to take me. I sate daylie teachinge in the temple amoge you and ye toke me not.
56 All this was done that the scriptures of the Prophetes myght be fulfilled.
57 Then all the disciples forsoke him and fleed. And they toke Iesus and leed him to Cayphas the hye preeste where the Scribes and the Elders where assembled.
58 And Peter folowed him a farre of vnto the hye prestes place: and went in and sate with the servauntes to se the ende.
59 The chefe prestes and the elders and all the counsell sought false witnes agenste Iesus for to put him to deeth
60 but founde none: in somoche that when many false witnesses cam yet founde they none. At the last came two false witnesses
61 and sayd: This felowe sayde: I can distroye the temple of God and bylde it agayne in .iii. dayes.
62 And the chefe preste arose and sayde to him: answerest thou nothinge? How is it yt these beare witnes ageynst the?
63 But Iesus helde his peace: And the chefe Preeste answered and sayd to him: I charge the in the name of the lyvinge God that thou tell vs whether thou be Christ the sonne of God.
64 Iesus sayd to him: thou haste sayd. Neverthelesse I saye vnto you hereafter shall ye se the sonne of ma syttinge on the right honde of power and come in the clowddes of the skye.
65 Then the hye preste rent his clothes sayinge: He hath blasphemed: what nede we of eny moo witnesses? Behold now ye have hearde his blasphemy:
66 what thinke ye? They answered and sayd: he his worthy to dye.
67 Then spat they in his face and boffeted him with fistes. And other smote him with the palme af their hondes
68 on ye face sayinge: tell vs thou Christ who is he that smote the?
69 Peter sate with out in the palice. And a damsell came to him sayinge: Thou also waste wt Iesus of Galilee:
70 but he denyed before the all sayinge: I woot not what thou sayst.
71 When he was goone out into the poorche another wenche sawe him and sayde vnto them that were there: This felowe was also with Iesus of Nazareth.
72 And agayne he denyed with an oothe that he knew the man.
73 And after a whyle came vnto him they yt stode bye and sayde vnto Peter: suerly thou arte even one of the for thy speache bewreyeth ye.
74 Then beganne he to course and to sweare that he knewe not the man. And immedyatly the cocke krewe.
75 And Peter remembred the wordes of Iesu which sayde vnto him: before the cocke crowe thou shalt deny me thryse: and went out at the dores and wepte bitterly.

Chapter 27
1 When the mornynge was come all ye chefe prestes and the elders of ye people helde a counsayle agenst Iesu to put him to deeth
2 and brought him bounde and delivered him vnto Poncius Pilate the debite.
3 Then when Iudas which betrayed him sawe that he was condempned he repented him sylfe and brought ageyne the .xxx. plattes of sylver to ye chefe prestes and elders
4 sayinge: I have synned betrayinge the innocent bloud. And they sayde: what is that to vs? Se thou to that.
5 And he cast doune the sylver plattes in the temple and departed and went and hounge him sylfe.
6 And the chefe prestes toke the sylver plattes and sayd: it is not lawfull for to put them in to the treasury because it is the pryce of bloud.
7 And they toke counsell and bought with them a potters felde to bury strangers in.
8 Wherfore that felde is called the felde of bloud vntyll this daye.
9 Then was fulfylled that which was spoken by Ieremy the Prophet sayinge: and they toke .xxx. sylver plattes the prise of him that was valued whom they bought of the chyldren of Israel
10 and they gave them for the potters felde as the Lorde appoynted me.
11 Iesus stode before the debite: and the debite axed him sayinge: Arte thou the kynge of ye Iues? Iesus sayd vnto him: Thou sayest
12 and when he was accused of ye chefe prestes and elders he answered nothinge.
13 Then sayd Pilate vnto him: hearest thou not how many thinges they laye ageynste ye?
14 And he answered him to never a worde: in so moche that the debite marveylled greatlie.
15 At that feest the debite was wonte to deliver vnto ye people a presoner whom they wolde desyer.
16 He had then a notable presoner called Barrabas.
17 And when they were gadered together Pilate sayde vnto the: whether wyll ye that I geve losse vnto you Barrabas or Iesus which is called Christ?
18 For he knewe well that for envie they had delivred him.
19 When he was set doune to geve iudgemet his wyfe sent to him sayinge: have thou nothinge to do with that iuste man. For I have suffered many thinges this daye in a dreame about him.
20 But the chefe preestes and the elders had parswaded the people that they shulde axe Barrabas and shulde destroye Iesus.
21 Then the debite answered and sayde vnto them: whether of the twayne wyll ye that I let loosse vnto you? And they sayde Barrabas.
22 Pilate sayde vnto them: what shall I do then with Iesus which is called Christ? They all sayde to him: let him be crucified.
23 Then sayde the debite: what evyll hath he done? And they cryed the more sayinge: let him be crucified.
24 When Pilate sawe that he prevayled nothinge but that moare busines was made he toke water and wasshed his hondes before ye people sayinge: I am innocent of the bloud of this iuste person and that ye shall se.
25 Then answered all the people and sayde: his bloud be on vs and on oure chyldren.
26 Then let he Barrabas loose vnto them and scourged Iesus and delivered him to be crucified.
27 Then the soudeours of the debite toke Iesus vnto the comen hall and gaddered vnto him all the company.
28 And they stripped him and put on him a purpyll roobe
29 and platted a croune of thornes and put vpon his heed and a rede in his ryght honde: and bowed their knees before him and mocked him saying: hayle kinge of the Iewes:
30 and spitted vpon him and toke the rede and smoote him on the heed.
31 And when they had mocked him they toke the robe of him ageyne and put his awne reymet on him and leed him awaye to crucify him.
32 And as they came out they fonnde a man of Cyren named Simon: him they compelled to beare his crosse.
33 And whe they cam vnto ye place called Golgotha (that is to saye a place of deed mens sculles)
34 they gave him veneger to drinke mengled with gall. And when he had tasted therof he wolde not drinke.
35 When they had crucified him they parted his garmentes and did cast lottes: to fulfyll that was spoken by the prophet. They deuyded my garmetes amonge them: and apon my vesture did cast loottes.
36 And they sate and watched him there.
37 And they set vp over his heed the cause of his deeth written. This is Iesus the kynge of the Iewes.
38 And ther were two theves crucified with him one on ye right honde and another on the lyfte.
39 They that passed by revyled him waggynge ther heeddes
40 and sayinge: Thou that destroyest the temple of God and byldest it in thre dayes save thy sylfe. If thou be ye sonne of God come doune from the crosse.
41 Lykwyse also the hye prestes mockinge him with the scribes aud elders sayde:
42 He saved other him sylfe he can not save. If he be ye kynge of Israel: let him now come doune from the crosse and we will beleve him.
43 He trusted in God let him deliver him now yf he will have him: for he sayde I am the sonne of God.
44 That same also the theves which were crucified with him cast in his tethe.
45 From the sixte houre was there dercknes over all the londe vnto the nynth houre.
46 And about ye nynth houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce sayinge: Eli Eli lama asbathani. That is to saye my God my God why hast thou forsaken me?
47 Some of them that stode there when they herde that sayde: This man calleth for Helyas.
48 And streyght waye one of them ranne and toke a sponge and filled it full of veneger and put it on a rede and gave him to drinke.
49 Other sayde let be: let vs se whyther Helyas will come and deliver him.
50 Iesus cryed agayne with a lowde voyce and yelded vp the goost.
51 And beholde the vayle of the temple dyd rent in twayne from ye toppe to the bottome and the erth dyd quake and the stones dyd rent
52 and graves dyd open: and the bodies of many sainctes which slept arose
53 and came out of ye graves after his resurreccion and came into the holy cite and appered vnto many.
54 When the Centurion and they that were with him watchinge Iesus sawe ye erth quake and those thinges which hapened they feared greatly sayinge. Of a surete this was the sonne of God.
55 And many wemen were there beholdinge him a farre of which folowed Iesus fro Galile ministringe vnto him.
56 Amonge which was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of Iames and Ioses and ye mother of zebedes chyldren.
57 When the even was come there came a ryche man of Aramathia named Ioseph which same also was Iesus disciple.
58 He went to Pilate and begged the body of Iesus. Then Pilate commaunded the body to be delivered.
59 And Ioseph toke the body and wrapped it in a clene lynnyn clooth
60 and put it in his newe tombe which he had hewen out even in the roke and rolled a greate stone to the dore of ye sepulcre and departed.
61 And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sittynge over ageynste the sepulcre.
62 The nexte daye that foloweth good frydaye the hye prestes and pharises got them selves to Pilate
63 and sayde: Syr we remember yt this deceaver sayde whyll he was yet alyve After thre dayes I will aryse agayne.
64 Commaunde therfore that the sepulcre be made sure vntyll ye thyrd daye lest paraventure his disciples come and steale him awaye and saye vnto the people he is rysen from deeth and the laste erroure be worsse then the fyrst.
65 Pilate sayde vnto them. Take watche men: Go and make it as sure as ye can.
66 And they went and made the sepulcre sure with watche men and sealed the stone.

Chapter 28
1 The Sabboth daye at even which dauneth the morowe after the Sabboth Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to se the sepulcre.
2 And beholde ther was a greate erth quake. For the angell of ye lorde descended from heven: and came and rowlled backe the stone from the dore and sate apon it.
3 His countenaunce was lyke lyghtnynge and his raymet whyte as snowe.
4 And for feare of him the kepers were astunnyed and became as deed men.
5 The angell answered and sayde to the wemen feare ye not. I knowe yt ye seke Iesus which was crucified:
6 he is not here: he is rysen as he sayde. Come and se the place where the lorde was put:
7 and goo quickly and tell his disciples yt he is rysen from deeth. And beholde he will go before you into Galile there ye shall se him. Lo I have tolde you.
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulcre with feare and greate Ioye: and did runne to bringe his disciples worde.
9 And as they went to tell his disciples: beholde Iesus met them sayinge: All hayle. And they came and held him by the fete and worshipped him.
10 The sayde Iesus vnto them: be not afrayde. Go and tell my brethren that they goo in to Galile and there shall they se me.
11 When they were gone: beholde some of the kepers came into the cyte and shewed vnto the hie prestes all the thinges that were hapened.
12 And they gaddered them to gedder with the elders and toke counsell and gave large money vnto the soudiers
13 sayinge: Saye that his disciples came by nyght and stole him awaye whill ye slept.
14 And if this come to the rulers cares we wyll pease him and save you harmeles.
15 And they toke the money and dyd as they were taught. And this sayinge is noysed amoge the Iewes vnto this daye.
16 Then the .xi. disciples went awaye into Galile in to a mountayne where Iesus had appoynted them.
17 And when they sawe hym they worshipped him. But some of them douted.
18 And Iesus came and spake vnto them sayinge: All power ys geve vnto me in heve and in erth.
19 Go therfore and teache all nacions baptysinge them in the name of the father and the sonne and the holy goost:
20 Teachinge them to observe all thynges what soever I comcommaunded you. And lo I am with you all waye even vntyll the ende of the worlde.

The Gospel of St. Mark, Tyndale Translation 1525 A.D.

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The Gospel of St. Luke, Tyndale Translation 1525 A. D.

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Chapter 1
1 For as moche as many have take in hand to compyle a treates of thoo thinges which are surely knowen amonge vs
2 even as they declared them vnto vs which from the beginnynge sawe them their selves and were ministers at the doyng:
3 I determined also assone as I had searched out diligently all thinges from the beginnynge that then I wolde wryte vnto the good Theophilus:
4 that thou myghtest knowe the certente of thoo thinges wher of thou arte informed.
5 There was in the dayes of Herode kynge of Iurie a certayne prest named Zacharias of ye course of Abia. And his wyfe was of ye doughters of Aaron: And her name was Elizabeth.
6 Booth were perfect before God and walked in all the lawes and ordinaces of the Lorde that no man coulde fynde fawte with them.
7 And they had no chylde because that Elizabeth was barre and booth were well stricken in age.
8 And it cam to passe as he executed the prestes office before god as his course came
9 (accordinge to the custome of the prestes office) his lot was to bourne incece.
10 And wet into ye teple of ye Lorde and the whoale multitude of ye people were with out in prayer whill the incense was aburnynge.
11 And ther appered vnto him an angell of the lorde stondinge on the ryght syde of the altare of incense.
12 And when Zacharias sawe him he was abasshed and feare came on him.
13 And the angell sayde vnto him: feare not Zachary for thy prayer is hearde: And thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare ye a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iohn
14 and thou shalt have ioye and gladnes and many shall reioyce at his birth.
15 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:
16 and many of the chyldren of Israel shall he tourne to their Lorde God.
17 And he shall goo before him in the sprete and power of Helyas to tourne the hertes of the fathers to the chyldren and the vnbelevers to the wysdom of the iuste men: to make the people redy for the Lorde.
18 And Zacharias sayde vnto ye angell: Wher by shall I knowe this? seinge that I am olde and my wyfe well stricken in yeares.
19 And the 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.
20 And beholde thou shalt be domme and not able to speake vntyll the tyme that these thinges be performed because thou belevedst not my wordes which shalbe fulfilled in their season.
21 And the people wayted for Zacharias and mervelled that he taryed in the temple.
22 And whe he cam oute he could not speake vnto them. Wherby they perceaved that he had sene some vision in the temple. And he beckened vnto them and remayned speachlesse.
23 And it fortuned assone as ye tyme of his office was oute he departed home into his awne housse.
24 And after thoose dayes his wyfe Elizabeth coceaved and hyd her sylfe .v. monethes sayinge:
25 This wyse hath God dealte wt me in ye dayes when he loked on me to take from me the rebuke yt I suffred amonge men.
26 And in ye .vi. moneth ye angell Gabriel was sent fro god vnto a cite of Galile named Nazareth
27 to a virgin spoused to a man whose name was Ioseph of ye housse of David and ye virgins name was Mary.
28 And ye angell went in vnto her and sayde: Hayle full of grace ye Lorde is with ye: blessed arte thou amonge wemen.
29 When she sawe him she was abasshed at his sayinge: and cast in her mynde what maner of salutacion yt shuld be.
30 And ye angell sayde vnto her: feare not Mary: for thou hast founde grace wt god.
31 Loo: thou shalt coceave in thy wombe and shalt beare a sonne and shalt call his name Iesus.
32 He shalbe greate and shalbe called the sonne of the hyest. And ye lorde God shall geve vnto him the seate of his father David
33 and he shall raygne over ye housse of Iacob forever and of his kyngdome shalbe none ende.
34 Then sayd Mary vnto ye angell: How shall this be seinge I knowe not a man?
35 And ye angell answered and sayd vnto her: The holy goost shall come apon the and ye power of ye hyest shall over shaddowe ye. Therfore also yt holy thinge which shalbe borne shalbe called ye sonne of god.
36 And beholde thy cosen Elizabeth she hath also conceaved a sonne in her age. And this is hyr sixte moneth though she be called barren:
37 for wt god can nothinge be vnpossible.
38 And Mary sayd: beholde ye honde mayden of ye lorde be it vnto me even as thou hast sayde. And the angell departed from her.
39 And Mary arose in thoose dayes and went into ye mountayns wt hast into a cite of Iurie
40 and entred into the housse of zachary and saluted Elizabeth.
41 And it fortuned as Elizabeth hearde ye salutacion of Mary the babe spronge in her belly. And Elizabeth was filled with the holy goost
42 and cryed with a loude voyce and sayde: Blessed arte thou amonge wemen and blessed is the frute of thy wombe.
43 And whence hapeneth this to me that the mother of my Lorde shuld come to me?
44 For loo assone as the voyce of thy salutacion sownded in myne eares the babe sprange in my belly for ioye.
45 And blessed arte thou that belevedst: for thoose thinges shalbe performed wich were tolde ye from the lorde.
46 And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieth the Lorde.
47 And my sprete reioyseth in god my savioure
48 For he hath loked on the povre degre of his honde mayde. Beholde now from hence forth shall all generacions call me blessed.
49 For he that is myghty hath done to me greate thinges and holye is his name.
50 And his mercy is on them that feare him thorow oute all generacions.
51 He sheweth strength with his arme he scattereth them that are proude in the ymaginacion of their hertes.
52 He putteth doune the myghty from their seates and exalteth them of lowe degre.
53 He filleth the hongry with good thinges: and sendeth awaye the ryche emptye.
54 He remenbreth mercy: and helpeth his servaunt Israel.
55 Even as he promised to oure fathers Abraham and to his seede for ever.
56 And mary aboode with hyr aboute a .iii. monethes and retourned agayne to hyr awne housse.
57 Elizabethes tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered and she brought forth a sonne.
58 And her neghboures and her cosins hearde tell how the lorde had shewed great mercy vpon her and they reioysed with her.
59 And it fortuned ye eyght daye: they cam to circumcise the chylde: and called his name zacharias after the name of his father.
60 How be it his mother answered and sayd: not so but he shalbe called Ihon.
61 And they sayd vnto hyr: Ther is none of thy kynne that is named wt this name.
62 And they made signes to his father how he wolde have him called.
63 And he axed for wrytynge tables and wroote saying: his name is Iohn. And they marvelled all.
64 And his mouthe was opened immediatly and his tonge also and he spake lawdynge God.
65 And feare came on all the that dwelt nye vnto them. And all these sayinges were noysed abroade throughout all ye hyll coutre of Iurie
66 and all they yt herde the layde them vp in their hertes saying: What maner chylde shall this be? And the honde of ye lorde was with him.
67 And his father zacharias was filled with the holy goost and prophisyed sayinge:
68 Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel for he hath visited and redemed his people.
69 And hath reysed vp an horne of salvacion vnto vs in the housse of his servaunt David.
70 Even as he promised by ye mouth of his holy prophetes which were sens ye worlde began
71 That we shuld be saved from oure enemies and from the hondis of all that hate vs:
72 To fulfill the mercy promised to oure fathers and to remember his holy covenaunt.
73 And to performe the oothe which he sware to oure father Adraham
74 for to geve vs. That we delyvered oute of ye hondes of oure enemyes myght serve him with oute feare
75 all the dayes of oure lyfe in suche holynes and ryghtewesnes that are accept before him.
76 And thou chylde shalt be called the Prophet of the hyest: for thou shalt goo before the face of the lorde to prepare his wayes:
77 And to geve knowlege of salvacion vnto his people for the remission of synnes:
78 Through the tender mercy of oure God wherby the daye springe from an hye hath visited vs.
79 To geve light to the that sate in darcknes and in shadowe of deth and to gyde oure fete into the waye of peace.
80 And the chylde grew and wexed stronge in sprete and was in wyldernes tyll the daye cam when he shuld shewe him sylfe vnto the Israhelites.

Chapter 2
1 And it chaunced in thoose dayes: yt ther went oute a comaundment from Auguste the Emperour that all the woorlde shuld be taxed.
2 And this taxynge was ye fyrst and executed when Syrenius was leftenaut in Syria.
3 And every man went vnto his awne citie to be taxed.
4 And Ioseph also ascended from Galile oute of a cite called Nazareth into Iurie: vnto ye cite of David which is called Bethleem because he was of the housse and linage of David
5 to be taxed with Mary his spoused wyfe which was with chylde.
6 And it fortuned whyll they were there her tyme was come that she shuld be delyvered.
7 And she brought forth her fyrst begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadlynge cloothes and layed him in a manger because ther was no roume for them within in the ynne.
8 And ther were in the same region shepherdes abydinge in the felde and watching their flocke by nyght.
9 And loo: the angell of ye lorde stode harde by the and the brightnes of ye lorde shone rounde aboute them and they were soare afrayed.
10 But the angell sayd vnto them: Be not afrayed. For beholde I bringe you tydinges of greate ioye yt shal come to all ye people:
11 for vnto you is borne this daye in the cite of David a saveoure which is Christ ye lorde.
12 And take this for a signe: ye hall fynde ye chylde swadled and layed in a mager.
13 And streight waye ther was with the angell a multitude of hevenly sowdiers laudynge God and sayinge:
14 Glory to God an hye and peace on the erth: and vnto men reioysynge.
15 And it fortuned assone as the angels were gone awaye fro them in to heven the shepherdes sayd one to another: let vs goo eve vnto Bethleem and se this thynge that is hapened which the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs.
16 And they cam with haste and founde Mary and Ioseph and the babe layde in a mager.
17 And when they had sene it they publisshed a brode the sayinge which was tolde them of that chylde.
18 And all that hearde it wondred at those thinges which were tolde the of the shepherdes.
19 But Mary kept all thoose sayinges and pondered them in hyr hert.
20 And the shepherdes retourned praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene evyn as it was told vnto them.
21 And when ye eyght daye was come yt the chylde shuld be circucised his name was called Iesus which was named of the angell before he was conceaved in the wombe.
22 And when the tyme of their purificacio (after the lawe of Moyses) was come they brought him to Hierusalem to present hym to ye Lorde
23 (as yt is written in the lawe of the Lorde: every man that fyrst openeth the matrix shalbe called holy to the Lorde)
24 and to offer (as it ys sayde in the lawe of the Lorde) a payre of turtle doves or two yonge pigions.
25 And beholde ther was a ma in Hierusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same ma was iuste and feared God and longed for the consolacion of Israel and the holy goost was in him.
26 And an answer was geven him of the holy goost that he shulde not se deethe before he had sene the lordes Christ.
27 And he came by inspiracion into the temple. And when the father and mother brought in the chylde Iesus to do for him after the custome of the lawe
28 then toke he him vp in his armes and sayde.
29 Lorde Now lettest thou thy seruaut departe in peace accordinge to thy promes.
30 For myne eyes have sene ye saveour sent fro ye
31 Wich thou hast prepared before the face of all people.
32 A light to lighten the gentyls and the glory of thy people Israel.
33 And his father and mother mervelled at those thinges which were spoke of him.
34 And Simeon blessed them and sayde vnto Mary his mother: beholde this chyld shalbe the fall and resurreccio of many in Israel and a signe which shalbe spoke agaynste.
35 And morover the swearde shall pearce thy soule yt the thoughtes of many hertes maye be opened.
36 And ther was a Prophetesse one Anna the doughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser: which was of a greate age and had lyved with an husbande. vii. yeres from her virginite.
37 And she had bene a wedowe aboute .iiii. scoore and .iiii. yere which went never oute of the temple but served God with fastinge and prayer nyght and daye.
38 And the same came forth that same houre and praysed the Lorde and spake of him to all that loked for redempcion in Hierusalem.
39 And assone as they had performed all thinges accordinge to the lawe of the Lorde they returned into Galile to their awne cite Nazareth.
40 And the chylde grewe and wexed stronde in sprete and was filled with wysdome and the grace of God was with hym.
41 And his father and mother went to Hierusalem every yeare at the feeste of ester.
42 And when he was .xii. yere olde they went vp to Hierusalem after the custome of the feeste.
43 And when they had fulfilled the dayes as they returned home the chylde Iesus boode styll in Hierusalem vnknowynge to his father and mother.
44 For they supposed he had bene in the copany and therfore came a days iorney and sought him amoge their kynsfolke and acquayntaunce.
45 And when they founde hym not they went backe agayne to Hierusalem and sought him.
46 And it fortuned after .iii. dayes that they founde him in the teple sittinge in the middes of the doctours both hearynge them and posinge them.
47 And all that hearde him mervelled at his wit and answers.
48 And when they sawe him they were astonyed. And his mother sayde vnto him: sonne why hast thou thus dealte with vs? Beholde thy father and I have sought the sorowenge.
49 And he sayde vnto the: how is it yt ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must goo aboute my fathers busines?
50 And they vnderstode not ye sayinge that he spake to them.
51 And he went with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to the. But his mother kept all these thinges in her hert.
52 And Iesus increased in wisdom and age and in favoure with god and man.

Chapter 3
1 In the fiftenthe yeare of the raygne of Tiberius the Emperoure Pontius Pylate beinge leftenaut of Iurie and Herode beinge Tetrach of Galile and his brother Philip Tetrach in Iturea and in the region of Traconites and Lysanias the Tetrach of Abyline
2 when Anna and Cayphas were the hye prestes: the worde of God came vnto Iohn ye sonne of zacharias in the wildernes.
3 And he came in to all the coostes aboute Iordan preachynge the baptyme of repentaunce for the remission of synnes
4 at it is written in the boke of the sayinges of Esaias ye Prophet which sayeth: The voyce of a cryar in wyldernes prepare the waye of the Lorde make hys pathes strayght.
5 Every valley shalbe fylled and every moutayne and hyll shalbe brought lowe. And crocked thinges shalbe made streight: and the rough wayes shalbe made smoth:
6 and all flesshe shall se the saveour sent of God.
7 Then sayde he to the people that were come to be baptysed of him: O generacion of vipers who hath taught you to flye from the wrath to come?
8 Bringe forth due frutes of repentaunce and begynne not to saye in youre selves we have Abraham to oure father. For I saye vnto you: God is able of these stones to reyse vp chyldren vnto Abraham.
9 Now also ys the axe leyd vnto the rote of the trees: so yt every tree which bringeth not forth good frute shalbe hewe doune and caste in to ye fyre.
10 And the people axed him sayinge: What shall we do then?
11 He answered and 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.
12 Then came ther Publicans to be baptised and sayde vnto him: Master what shall we do?
13 And he sayde vnto the: requyre no more then that which ys appoynted vnto you.
14 The soudyoures lyke wyse demaunded of hym sayinge: and what shall we do? And he sayde to them: Do violence to noo ma: nether trouble eny man wrongfully: but be content with youre wages.
15 As the people were in a doute and all men disputed in their hertes of Iohn whether he were very Christ:
16 Ihon answered and sayde to them all: I baptyse you wt water but a stronger then I cometh after me whose shue latchet I am not worthy to vnlouse: he will baptise you with the holy goost and with fyre:
17 which hath his fanne in his hond and will pourge his floore and will gader the corne into his barne: but the chaffe wyll he bourne with fyre that never shalbe quenched.
18 And many other thinges in his exhortacion preached he vnto the people.
19 Then Herode the Tetrach (when he was rebuked of him for Herodias his brother Philippes wyfe and for all the evyls which Herod had done)
20 added this above all and leyd Iohn in preson.
21 And yt fortuned as all the people receaved baptyme (and when Iesus was baptised and dyd praye) that heave was opened
22 and the holy goost came doune in a bodely shape lyke a dove vpo him and a voyce came fro heve sayinge: Thou arte my dere sonne in the do I delyte.
23 And Iesus him silfe was about thirty yere of age when he begane beinge as men supposed the sonne of Ioseph. which Ioseph was the sonne of Heli
24 which was the sonne of Mathat which was the sonne of Levi: which was the sonne of Melchi: which was the sonne of Ianna: which was the sonne of Ioseph:
25 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:
26 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:
27 which was the sonne of Iohanna: which was the sonne of Rhesya: which was the sonne of zorobabel: which was the sonne of Salathiel: which was the sonne of Neri:
28 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:
29 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:
30 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:
31 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:
32 which was the sonne of Iesse: which was the sonne of Obed: which was the sonne of Boos: which was the sonne of Salmon: which was the sonne of Naason:
33 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:
34 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:
35 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:
36 which was the sonne of Cainan: which was the sonne of Arphaxat: which was the sonne of Sem: which was the sonne of Noe: which was the sonne of Lameth:
37 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:
38 which was the sonne of Enos: which was the sonne of Seth: which was the sonne of Adam: which was the sonne of God.

Chapter 4
1 Iesus then full of the holy goost returnyd fro Iordan and was caryed of ye sprete into wildernes
2 and was .xl. dayes tempted of the devyll. And in thoose dayes ate he no thinge. And when they were ended he afterward hongred.
3 And the devyll sayde vnto him: yf thou be the sonne of God comaunde this stone yt it be breed.
4 And Iesus answered hym sayinge: It is writte: man shall not live by breed only but by every worde of God.
5 And ye devyll toke him vp into an hye moutayne and shewed him all the kyngdoms of the worlde eve in ye twincklinge of an eye.
6 And ye devyll sayde vnto him: all this power will I geve ye every whit and the glory of the: for yt is delyvered to me and to whosoever I will I geve it.
7 Yf thou therfore wilt worshippe me they shalbe all thyne.
8 Iesus answered him and sayde: hence from me Sathan. For it is written: Thou shalt honour the Lorde thy God and him only serve.
9 And he caryed him to Ierusalem and set him on a pynacle of the temple and sayd vnto him: Yf thou be the sonne of God cast thy silfe doune from hens.
10 For it is written he shall geve his angels charge over the to kepe the
11 and with there hondis they shall stey the vp that thou dasshe not thy fote agaynst a stone.
12 Iesus answered and sayde to him it is sayd: thou shalt not tempte the Lorde thy God.
13 Assone as the devyll had ended all his temptacions he departed from him for a season.
14 And Iesus retourned by the power of ye sprete in to Galile and there went a fame of him thorowe oute all the regio roude aboute.
15 And he taught in their synagoges and was commended of all men.
16 And he came to Nazareth where he was noursed and as hys custome was went in to the synagoge on the Saboth dayes and stode vp for to rede.
17 And ther was delyvered vnto him ye boke of ye Prophete Esaias. And when he had opened the boke he founde the place where it was written.
18 The sprete of the lorde vpon me because he hath annoynted me: to preache ye gospell to ye poore he hath sent me: and to heale the broken harted: to preache delyverauce to the captive and sight to the blinde and frely to set at lyberte them that are brused
19 and to preache the acceptable yeare of the Lorde.
20 And he cloosed the booke and gave it agayne to the minister and sate doune. And the eyes of all that were in the synagoge were fastened on him.
21 And he began to saye vnto them. This daye is this scripture fulfilled in youre eares.
22 And all bare him witnes and wondred at the gracious wordes which proceded oute of his mouth and sayde: Is not this Iosephs sonne?
23 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 lyke wyse in thyne awne countre.
24 And he sayde verely I saye vnto you: No Prophet is accepted in his awne countre.
25 But I tell you of a truth many wyddowes were in Israell in the dayes of Helias when hevyn was shet thre yeres and syxe monethes when greate fammisshemet was throughoute all the londe
26 and vnto none of them was Helias sent save in to Sarephta besydes Sidon vnto a woma that was a widow.
27 And many lepers were in Israel in the tyme of Heliseus the Prophete: and yet none of them was healed savinge Naaman of Siria.
28 And as many as were in ye sinagoge when they herde that were filled with wrath:
29 and roose vp and thrust him oute of the cite and ledde him eve vnto the edge of the hill wher on their cite was bilte to cast him doune hedlynge.
30 But he went his waye eve thorow the myddes of them:
31 and came in to Capernaum a cyte of Galile and there taught the on the Saboth dayes.
32 And they were astonyed at his doctrine: for his preachige was wt power.
33 And in the synagoge ther was a ma which had a sprete of an vncleane devell and cryed with aloude voyce
34 sayinge: let me alone what hast thou to do with vs thou Iesus of Nazareth? Arte thou come to destroye vs? I knowe the what thou arte eve the holy of God.
35 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.
36 And feare came on them all and they spake amonge them selves sayinge: what maner a thinge is this? For with auctorite and power he commaundeth the foule spretes and they come out?
37 And ye fame of him spreed abroode thorowoute all places of the countre round aboute.
38 And he roose vp and came oute of ye sinagoge and entred in to Simons housse. And Simos motherelawe was take with a greate fever and they made intercession to him for her.
39 And he stode over her and rebuked the fever: and it leeft her. And immediatly she arose and ministred vnto them.
40 When the sonne was doune all they that had sicke take with divers deseases brought them vnto him: and he layde his hondes on every one of them and healed them.
41 And devils also cam out of many of them crying and saying: thou arte Christ the sonne of God. And he rebuked them and suffered them not to speake: for they knewe that he was Christ.
42 Assone as it was daye he departed and went awaye into a desert place and ye people sought him and came to him and kept him that he shuld not departe from the.
43 And he sayde vnto the: I muste to other cities also preache the kyngdome of God: for therfore am I sent.
44 And he preached in the synagoges of Galile.

Chapter 5
1 It came to passe as the people preased vpon him to heare the worde of God that he stoode by the lake of Genezareth:
2 and sawe two shippes stonde by the lake syde but the fisshermen were gone out of the and were wasshynge their nettes.
3 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.
4 When he had leeft speakynge he sayde vnto Simon: Launche out in to the depe and let slippe youre nettes to make a draught
5 And Simon answered and sayde to him: Master we have labored all nyght and have taken nothinge. Neverthelater at thy worde I will loose forthe the net.
6 And when they had so done they inclosed a greate multitude of fisshes. And their net brake:
7 but they made signes to their felowes which were in the other ship that they shuld come and helpe the And they came: and filled bothe the shippes that they soncke agayne.
8 When Simon Peter sawe that he fell doune at Iesus knees sayinge: Lorde goo
9 fro me for I am a synfull man. For he was vtterly astonyed and all that were wt him at ye draught of fisshe which they toke:
10 and so was also Iames and Iohn ye sonnes of zebede which were parteners wt Simon. And Iesus sayde vnto Simon: feare not fro hence forthe thou shalt catche men.
11 And they brought the shippes to londe and forsoke all and folowed him.
12 And it fortuned as he was in a certayne cite: beholde ther was a man full of leprosy: and when he had spied Iesus he fell on his face and besought him sayinge: Lorde yf thou wilt thou canst make me cleane.
13 And he strethed forth ye hond and touched him sayinge: I will be thou cleane. And immediatly the leprosy departed from him.
14 And he warned him that he shuld tell no man: but that he shuld goo and shewe him selfe to the Preste and offer for his clensynge accordinge as Moses commaundement was for a witnes vnto them.
15 But so moche the moare went ther a fame abroade of him and moche people cam to geder to heare and to be healed of him of their infirmities.
16 And he kepte him silfe aparte in ye wildernesses and gave him silfe to prayer.
17 And it happened on a certayne daye that he taught: and ther sate the pharises: and docturs of lawe which were come out of all ye tounes of Galile Iurie and Hierusalem. And the power of the Lorde was to heale the.
18 And beholde me brought a man lyinge in his beed which was taken with a palsie: and sought meanes to brynge him in and to laye him before him.
19 And whe they coulde not finde by what waye they might bringe him in be cause of ye prease they wet vp on the toppe of ye housse and let him doune thorowe the tylinge beed and all in the middes before Iesus.
20 When he sawe their fayth he sayde vnto him: man thy synnes are forgeven the.
21 And the Scribes and the Parises begane to thinke sayinge: What felow is this which speaketh blasphemy? Who can forgeve synnes but God only?
22 When Iesus perceaved their thoughtes he answered and sayde vnto them: What thinke ye in youre hertes?
23 Whether is easyar to saye thy synnes are forgeve the or to saye: rise and walke?
24 But that ye maye knowe that the sonne of ma hath power to forgeve synnes on erth he sayde vnto ye sicke of the palsie: I saye to the aryse take vp thy beed and go home to thy housse.
25 And immediatly he rose vp before them and toke vp his beed where on he laye and departed to his awne housse praysinge God.
26 And they were all amased and they lauded God and were filled with feare sayinge: We have sene straunge thynges to daye.
27 And after that he went forthe and sawe a Publican named Levi sittinge at the receyte of custome and sayde vnto him: folow me.
28 And he leeft all roose vp and folowed him.
29 And that same Levi made him a greate feaste at home in his awne housse. And ther was a greate copany of publicans and of other that sate at meate with him.
30 And the Scribes and Pharises murmured agaynst his disciples sayinge: Why eate ye and drinke ye with publicas and synners?
31 Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: They yt are whole nede not of ye phisicion: but they yt are sicke.
32 I came not to call ye rightewes but synners to repentauce.
33 Then they sayde vnto him: Why do the disciples of Iohn fast often and praye and the disciples of ye Pharises also: and thine eate and drinke?
34 And he sayde vnto them: Can ye make ye chyldren of the weddinge fast as longe as ye brydgrome is present with the?
35 The dayes will come whe the brydgrome shalbe take awaye from them: then shall they fast in those dayes
36 Then he spake vnto them in a similitude: No ma 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 wt the olde.
37 Also no ma poureth newe wyne into olde vessels. For yf he do the newe wyne breaketh the vessels and runneth out it silfe and the vessels perisshe:
38 But newe wyne must be poured into newe vessels and bothe are preserved.
39 Also no man yt drinketh olde wine strayght waye can awaye with newe for he sayeth ye olde is plesauter.

Chapter 6
1 It happened on an after saboth that he went thorow the corne felde and that his disciples plucked the eares of corne and ate and rubbed them in their hondes.
2 And certayne of the Pharises sayde vnto them: Why do ye that which is not laufull to do on the saboth dayes?
3 And Iesus answered them and sayde: Have ye not redde what David dyd when he him sylfe was anhungred and they which were with him:
4 how he went into the housse of God and toke and 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.
5 And he sayde vnto them: The sonne of man is Lorde of the saboth daye.
6 And it fortuned in a nother saboth also that he entred in to ye sinagoge and taught. And ther was a ma whose right honde was dryed vp.
7 And ye Scribes and Pharises watched him to se whether he wolde heale on the Saboth daye that they myght fynde an accusacion agaynst him.
8 But he knewe their thoughtes and sayde to the man which had ye wyddred honde: Ryse vp and stonde forthe in the myddes. And he arose and stepped forthe.
9 Then sayde Iesus vnto them: I will axe you a question: Whether is it laufull on the saboth dayes to do good or to do evill? to save lyfe or for to destroye it?
10 And he behelde them all in copasse and sayd vnto ye man: Stretche forth thy honde. And he dyd so and his honde was restored and made as whoole as the other.
11 And they were filled full of madnes and comuned one with another what they myght do to Iesu.
12 And it fortuned in thoose dayes that he went out into a mountayne for to praye and cotinued all nyght in prayer to god.
13 And assone as it was daye he called his disciples and of the he chose twelve which also he called apostles.
14 Simon who he named Peter: and Andrew his brother. Iames and Iho Philip and Bartlemew
15 Mathew and Thomas Iames the sonne of Alpheus and Simon called zelotes
16 and Iudas Iames sonne and Iudas Iscarioth which same was the traytour.
17 And he came doune with them and stode in the playne felde with the company of his disciples and agreate multitude of people out of all parties of Iurie and Ierusalem and from the see cooste of Tire and Sidon which came to heare hym and to be healed of their diseases:
18 and they also that were vexed with foule spretes and they were healed.
19 And all the people preased to touche him: for there went vertue out of him and healed them all.
20 And he lifted vp his eyes apon the disciples and sayde: Blessed be ye poore: for yours is the kyngdome of God.
21 Blessed are ye that honger now: for ye shalbe satisfied. Blessed are ye yt wepe now: for ye shall laugh.
22 Blessed are ye when men hate you and thrust you oute of their companye and rayle and abhorre youre name as an evyll thinge for the sonne of manes sake.
23 Reioyse ye then and be gladde: for beholde youre rewarde is greate in heven. After this manner their fathers entreated the Prophetes.
24 But wo be to you that are ryche: for ye have therin youre consolacion.
25 Wo be to you yt are full: for ye shall honger. Wo be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wayle and wepe.
26 Wo be to you when all men prayse you: for so dyd their fathers to the false prophetes.
27 But I saye vnto you which heare: Love youre enemyes. Do good to the which hate you.
28 Blesse the that course you. And praye for the which wrongfully trouble you.
29 And vnto him that smyteth the on the one cheke offer also ye other. And him that taketh awaye thy goune forbid not to take thy coote also.
30 Geve to every man that axeth of the. And of him that taketh awaye thy goodes axe them not agayne.
31 And as ye wolde that men shuld doo to you: so do ye to them lyke wyse.
32 If ye love the which love you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners love their lovers.
33 And yf ye do for them which do for you: what thanke are ye worthy of? For the very synners do even the same.
34 If ye lende to them of whome ye hoope to receave: what thanke shall ye have: for the very synners lende to synners to receave as moch agayne.
35 Wherfore love ye youre enemys do good and lende lokynge for nothinge agayne and youre rewarde shalbe greate and ye shalbe the chyldren of the hyest: for he is kynde vnto the vnkynde and to the evyll.
36 Be ye therfore mercifull as youre father is mercifull.
37 Iudge not and ye shall not be Iudged. Condemne not: and ye shall not be condemned. Forgeve and ye shalbe forgeven.
38 Geve and yt shalbe geven vnto you: good measure pressed doune shaken to geder and runnynge over shall men geve into youre bosomes. For with what measure ye mete with ye same shall men mete to you agayne.
39 And he put forthe a similitude vnto the: Can the blynde leade ye blynde? Do they not both then fall into ye dyche?
40 The disciple is not above his master. Every ma shalbe perfecte even as his master is.
41 Why seyst thou a moote in thy brothers eye considerest not ye beame yt is in thyne awne eye?
42 Ether how canest thou saye to thy brother: Brother let me pull out ye moote that is in thyne eye: when thou perceavest not the beame that is in thyne awne eye? Ypocrite cast out ye beame out of thyne awne eye fyrst and then shalt thou se perfectly to pull out the moote out of thy brothers eye.
43 It is not a good tree that bringeth forthe evyll frute: nether is that an evyll tree that bringeth forthe good frute
44 For every tree is knowen by his frute. Nether of thornes gader men fygges nor of busshes gader they grapes.
45 A good man out of the good treasure of his hert bringeth forthe that which is good. And an evyll man out of the evyll treasure of his hert bringeth forthe that which ys evyll. For of the aboundaunce of ye her his mouthe speakethe.
46 Why call ye me Master Master: and do not as I bid you?
47 whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayinges and dothe the same I will shewe you to whome he ys lyke.
48 He is like a man which bilt an housse: and digged depe and layde the foundacio on a rocke. Whe the waters arose the fludde bet apo that housse and coulde not move yt. For it was grounded apon a rocke.
49 But he that heareth and 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 ye fall of yt housse was greate.

Chapter 7
1 When he had ended all his sainges in the audience of the people he entred into Capernau
2. And a certayne Centurions seruaunte was sicke and redy to dye whom he made moche of.
3 And when he hearde of Iesu he sent vnto him the elders of the Iewes besechinge him yt he wolde come and heale his servaunt.
4 And they came to Iesus and besought him instantly sayinge: He is worthi that thou shuldest do this for him.
5 For he loveth oure nacion and hath bilt vs a sinagoge
6 And Iesus went with them. And when he was not farre fro the housse the Centurio sent frendes to him sayinge vnto him: Lorde trouble not thy silfe: for I am not worthy yt thou shuldest enter vnder my roffe.
7 Wherfore I thought not my silfe worthy to come vnto the: but saye the worde and my servaunt shalbe whoole.
8 For I lyke wyse am a man vnder power and have vnder me soudiers and I saye vnto won goo: and he goeth. And to another come: and he cometh. And to my servaunt do this: and he doeth it.
9 When Iesus herde this he merveyled at him and turned him about and sayd to the people that folowed him: I saye vnto you I have not founde so greate faith noo not in Israel.
10 And they yt were sent turned backe home agayne and founde the servaunt that was sicke whoole.
11 And it fortuned after that that he went into a cite called Naim and many of his disciples went wt him and moche people.
12 When he came nye to the gate of the cite: beholde ther was a deed man caried out which was ye only sonne of his mother and she was a widowe and moche people of the cite was with her.
13 And when ye lorde sawe her he had compassion on her and sayde vnto her: wepe not.
14 And he went and touched the coffyn and they yt bare him stode still. And he sayde: Yonge man I saye vnto the aryse.
15 And ye deed sate vp and beganne to speake. And he delyvered him to his mother.
16 And ther ca a feare on the all. And they glorified god sayinge: a greate prophet is rysen amoge vs and god hath visited his people
17 And this rumor of him wet forthe throughout all Iurie and thorowout all the regions which lye rounde about.
18 And ye disciples of Iohn shewed him of all these thinges.
19 And Iohn called vnto him .ii. of his disciples and sent the to Iesus sayinge: Arte thou he that shall come: or shall we loke for another?
20 When the men were come vnto him they sayde: Iohn baptiste sent vs vnto ye sayinge: Arte thou he that shall come: or shall we wayte for another?
21 And at yt same tyme he cured many of their infirmites and plages and of evyll spretes and vnto many that were blynde he gave sight
22 And Iesus answered and sayd vnto them: Goo youre wayes and shewe Iohn what thinges ye have sene and harde: how yt the blynde se the halt goo the lepers are clensed the deafe heare the deed aryse to the poore is the glad tydinges preached
23 and happy is he that is not offended by me.
24 When ye messengers of Iohn were departed he began to speake vnto ye people of Iohn What wet ye oute into ye wildernes for to se? went ye to se arede shaken wt ye wynde?
25 But what went ye out for tose? A ma clothed in soofte rayment? Beholde they which are gorgeously apparelled and lyve delicatly are in kynges courtes.
26 But what went ye forth to se? A prophete? Ye I saye to you and moare then a prophete
27 This is he of who it is wrytte: Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face to prepare thy waye before the.
28 For I saye vnto you: a greater prophete then Iohn amoge wemes chyldre is ther none. Neverthelesse one yt is lesse in ye kyngdo of god is greater the he
29 And all the people that hearde and the publicans iustified God and were baptised with the baptim of Iohn.
30 But the pharises and scribes despised ye counsell of god agaynst them selves and were not baptised of him.
31 And ye lorde sayd: Wher vnto shall I lyke the men of this generacion and what thinge are they lyke?
32 They are lyke vnto chyldre sittynge in ye market place and cryinge one to another and sayinge: We have pyped vnto you and ye hahave not daunsed: we have mourned to you and ye have not wept.
33 For Iohn baptist cam nether eatynge breed ner drinkynge wyne and ye saye: he hath the devyll.
34 The sonne of man is come and eateth and drinketh and ye saye: beholde a man which is a glotton and a drinker of wyne a frende of publicans and synners.
35 Yet is wysdome iustified of all her chyldren.
36 And one of the pharises desyred him that he wolde eate with him. And he went into ye pharises housse and sate doune to meate.
37 And beholde a woman in that cite which was a synner assone as she knewe that. Iesus sate at meate in the pharises housse she brought an alablaster boxe of oyntmet
38 and she stode at his fete behynde him wepynge and beganne to wesshe his fete with teares and dyd wipe the with the heares of her heed and kyssed his fete and anoynted them with oyntment.
39 When the pharise which bade him sawe that he spake with in him sylfe sayinge: If this man were a prophete he wolde surely have knowen who and what maner woman this is which toucheth him for she is a synner.
40 And Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: Simon I have some what to saye vnto ye. And he sayd master saye on.
41 There was a certayne lender which had two detters ye one ought five hondred pence and the other fyfty.
42 When they had nothinge to paye he forgave the boothe. Which of them tell me will love him moost?
43 Simon answered and sayde: I suppose that he to whom he forgave moost. And he sayde vnto him: Thou hast truly iudged.
44 And he turned to the woman and sayde vnto Simon: Seist thou this woman? I entred into thy housse and thou gavest me noo water to my fete but she hath wesshed my fete with teares and wiped the with the heeres of her heed.
45 Thou gavest me no kysse: but she sence ye tyme I came in hath not ceased to kysse my fete
46 Myne heed wt oyle thou dydest not anoynte: but she hath annoynted my fete wt oyntmet.
47 Wherefore I saye vnto the: many synnes are forgeve her for she loved moche. To whom lesse is forgeven the same doeth lesse love.
48 And he sayde vnto her thy synnes are forgeven ye
49 And they yt sate at meate with him beganne to saye within them selves: Who is this which forgeveth synnes also?
50 And he sayde to ye woman: Thy faith hath saved the Goo in peace.

Chapter 8
1 And it fortuned after that that he him sylfe went throughout cities and tounes preachynge and shewinge ye kyngdom of God and the twelve with him.
2 And also certayne wemen which wer healed of evell spretes and infirmities: Mary called Magdalen out of whom went seven devyls
3 and Ioanna ye wyfe of Chusa Herodees stewarde and Susanna and many other: which ministred vnto the of their substaunce.
4 When moch people were gadred to gether and were come to him out of all cities he spake by a similitude.
5 A sower went out to sowe his seede: and as he sowed some fell by the waye syde and it was troden vnder fete and the foules of the ayre devoured it vp.
6 And some fell on ston and assone as it was spronge vp it widdred awaye because it lacked moystnes.
7 And some fell amonge thornes and ye thornes spronge vp with it and choked it.
8 And some fell on good grounde and sproge vp and bare frute an hondred foolde. And as he sayde these thinges he cryed: He that hath eares to heare let him heare.
9 And his disciples axed him sayinge: what maner similitude is this?
10 And he sayde: vnto you is it geven to knowe the secretes of the kyngdom of God: but to other in similitudes that when they se they shuld not se: and when they heare they shuld not vnderstonde.
11 The similitude is this. The seede is ye worde of God.
12 Thoose yt are besyde the waye are they that heare and afterwarde cometh ye devyll and taketh awaye the worde out of their hertes lest they shuld beleve and be saved.
13 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 and in tyme of temtacio goo awaye.
14 And yt which fell amonge thornes are they which heare and goo forth and are choked wt cares and wt riches and volupteous lyvinge and bringe forth noo frute.
15 That in ye good grounde are they which with a good and pure hert heare the worde and kepe it and bringe forth frute with pacience.
16 No man lyghteth a candell and covereth it vnder a vessell nether putteth it vnder ye table: but setteth it on a candelsticke that they that enter in maye se ye lyght.
17 No thinge is in secret yt shall not come abroode: Nether eny thinge hyd that shall not be knowen and come to lyght.
18 Take hede therfore how ye heare. For whosoever hath to him shalbe geve: And whosoever hath not fro him shalbe take even that same which he supposeth that he hath.
19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren and coulde not come at him for prease.
20 And they tolde him sayinge: Thy mother and thy brethren stonde with out and wolde se the.
21 He answered and sayd vnto them: my mother and my brethren are these which heare the worde of God and do it.
22 And it chaunsed on a certayne daye that 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.
23 And as they sayled he fell a slepe and there arose a storme of wynde in ye lake and they were fylled with water and were in ieopardy.
24 And they went to him and awoke him sayinge: Master Master we are loost. Then he arose and rebuked the wynde and the tempest of water and they ceased and it wexed calme.
25 And he sayd vnto the: where is youre faith? They feared and wondred sayinge one to another: what felowe is this? for he comaundeth bothe the wyndes and water and they obey him?
26 And they sayled vnto the region of ye Gaderenites which is over agaynst Galile.
27 And as he went out to londe ther met him a certayne man out of ye cite which had a devyll longe tyme and ware noo clothes nether aboode in eny housse: but amonge graves.
28 When he sawe Iesus he cryed and fell doune before him and with a loude voyce sayde: What have I to do with the Iesus the sonne of the God moost hyest? I beseche the torment me not.
29 Then he comaunded ye foule sprete to come out of the man. For ofte tymes he caught him and he was bounde with chaynes and kept with fetters: and he brake the bondes and was caryed of the fende into wyldernes.
30 And Iesus axed him sayinge: what is thy name? And he sayde: Legion because many devyls were entred into him.
31 And they besought him yt he wolde not comaunde the to goo out into ye depe.
32 And ther was there by an heerde of many swyne fedynge on an hyll: and they besought him yt he wolde soffre the to enter into the. And he soffred the.
33 Then went the devyls out of the man and entred into the swyne: And the heerd toke their course and ran heedlynge into the lake and were choked.
34 When the herdmen sawe what had chaunsed they fleed and tolde it in the cite and in the villages.
35 And they came out to se what was done: and came to Iesus and founde ye man out of who the devyls were departed sittynge at the fete of Iesus clothed and in his right mynde and they were afrayde.
36 They also wich sawe it tolde the by what meanes he yt was possessed of ye devyll was healed.
37 And all the whole multitude of ye cotrye of the Gaderenites besought him yt he wolde departe from the: for they were taken wt greate feare. And he gate him into the shippe and returned backe agayne.
38 Then the man out of whom the devyls were departed besought him yt he myght be wt him: But Iesus sent him awaye sayinge:
39 Goo home agayne into thyne awne housse and shewe what great thinges God hath done to ye. And he went his waye and preached thorow out all the cite what great thinges Iesus had done vnto him.
40 And it fortuned when Iesus was come agayne that ye people receaved him. For they all wayted for him.
41 And beholde ther came a man named Iairus (and he was a ruler of ye synagoge) and he fell doune at Iesus fete and besought him yt he wolde come into his housse
42 for he had but a doughter only apon a twelve yere of age and she laye a dyinge. And as he went the people thronged him.
43 And a woman havynge an issue of bloud twelve yeres (which had spent all her substance amonge phisicios nether coulde be holpen of eny)
44 came behinde him and touched the hem of his garmet and immediatly her issue of bloud staunched.
45 And Iesus sayde: Who is it that touched me? when every man denyed Peter and they yt were with him sayde: Master the people thrust the and vexe the: and sayest thou who touched me?
46 And Iesus sayd: Some body touched me. For I perceave that vertue is gone out of me.
47 When the woman sawe that she was not hid she came trimblynge and fell at is fete and tolde him before all the people for what cause she had touched him and how she was healed immediatly.
48 And he sayde vnto hyr: Doughter be of good comforte Thy faith hath made the hoale goo in peace.
49 Whyll he yet spake there came one from ye rulers of the synagogis housse which sayde to him: thy doughter is deed disease not the master.
50 When Iesus hearde that He answered the father sayinge: Feare not beleve only and she shalbe made whole.
51 And when he came to ye housse he suffred no man to goo in with him save Peter Iames and Iohn and the father and the mother of the mayden.
52 Every body weept and sorowed for her. And he sayde: Wepe not: for she is not deed but slepeth.
53 And they lewgh him to scorne. For they knew that she was deed.
54 And he thrust the all out and caught her by the honde and cryed sayinge: Mayde aryse.
55 And hyr sprete came agayne and she roose strayght waye. And he commaunded to geve her meate.
56 And the father and the mother of hyr were astonyed. But he warned the that they shuld tell noo man what was done.

Chapter 9
1 Then called he the .xii. to gether and gave them power and auctorite over all devyls and that they myght heale diseases.
2 And he sent them to preache the kyngdome of God and to cure the sick.
3 And he sayd to them: Take nothinge to sucker you by ye waye: nether staffe nor scripe nether breed nether money nether have twoo cootes.
4 And whatsoever housse ye enter into there abyde and thence departe.
5 And whosoever will not receave you when ye go out of that cite shake of the very dust from youre fete for a testimony agaynst them.
6 And they went out and went thorow the tounes preachinge the gospell and healynge every wheare.
7 And Herod the tetrarch herde of all that was done of him and douted because that it was sayde of some that Iohn was rysen agayne from deeth:
8 and of some that Helyas had apered: and of other that one of the olde prophetes was rysen agayne.
9 And Herod sayde: Iohn have I behedded: who then is this of whom I heare suche thinges? And he desyred to se him.
10 And the Apostles retourned and tolde him what great thinges they had done. And he toke them and went a syde into a solitary place nye to a citie called Bethsaida.
11 And ye people knewe of it and folowed him. And he receaved them and spake vnto them of the kyngdome of God and healed them that had nede to be healed.
12 And when ye daye beganne to weare awaye then came the twelve and sayde vnto him: sende ye people awaye that they maye goo into the tounes and villages roundabout and lodge and get meate for we are here in a place of wyldernes.
13 But he sayde vnto them: Geve ye the to eate. And they sayde. We have no moo but fyve loves and two fisshes except we shuld goo and bye meate for all this people.
14 And they were about a fyve thousand men. And he sayde to his disciples: Cause them to syt doune by fyfties in a company.
15 And they dyd soo and made them all syt doune.
16 And he toke the fyve loves and the two fisshes and loked vp to heven and blessed them and brake and gave to the disciples to set before ye people.
17 And they ate and were all satisfied. And ther was taken vp of that remayned to the twelve baskettes full of broken meate.
18 And it fortuned as he was alone prayinge his disciples were wt him and he axed the sayinge: Who saye ye people yt I am?
19 They answered and sayd: Iohn Baptist. Some saye Helyas. And some saye one of the olde prophetes is rysen agayne.
20 He sayde vnto the: Who saye ye that I am? Peter answered and sayde: thou arte the Christ of god.
21 And he warned and commaunded them that they shuld tell no man yt thinge
22 sayinge: that the sonne of man must suffre many thinges and be reproved of the elders and of the hye prestes and scribes and be slayne and the thirde daye ryse agayne.
23 And he sayde to them all yf eny man will come after me let him denye him sylfe and take vp his crosse dayly and folowe me.
24 Whosoever will save his lyfe shall lose it. And who soever shall lose his lyfe for my sake the same shall save it.
25 For what avauntageth it a man to wynne the whole worlde yf he loose him sylfe or runne in domage of him sylfe?
26 For whosoever is ashamed of me and of my sayinges: of him shall the sonne of man be ashamed when he cometh in his awne glorie and in the glorie of his father and of the holy angels.
27 And I tell you of a surety: There be some of the yt stonde here which shall not tast of deeth tyll they se ye kyngdome of god.
28 And it folowed about an .viii. dayes after thoose sayinges that he toke Peter Iames and Iohn and went vp into a moutayne to praye.
29 And as he prayed ye facion of his countenaunce was changed and his garment was whyte and shoone.
30 And beholde two men talked wt him and they were Moses and Helyas
31 which appered gloriously and spake of his departinge which he shuld ende at Ierusalem.
32 Peter and they that were with him were hevy with slepe. And when they woke they sawe his glorie and two men stondinge with him.
33 And it chaunsed as they departed fro him Peter sayde vnto Iesus: Master it is good beinge here for vs. Let vs make thre tabernacles one for the and one for Moses and one for Helyas: and wist not what he sayde.
34 Whyll he thus spake ther came a cloude and shadowed them: and they feared when they were come vnder the cloude.
35 And ther came a voyce out of the cloude sayinge: This is my deare sonne heare him.
36 And assone as ye 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.
37 And it chaunsed on the nexte daye as they came doune from the hyll moche people met him.
38 And beholde a man of the copany cryed out sayinge: Master I beseche ye beholde my sonne for he is all that I have:
39 and se a sprete taketh him and sodenly he cryeth and he teareth him that he fometh agayne and with moche payne departeth fro him when he hath rent him and
40 I besought thy disciples to cast him out and they coulde not.
41 Iesus answered and sayde: O generacion with oute fayth and croked: how longe shall I be with you? and shall suffre you? Bringe thy sonne hidder.
42 As he yet was a cominge the fende ret him and tare him. And Iesus rebuked ye vnclene sprete and healed the childe and delivered him to his father.
43 And they were all amased at ye mighty power of God.Whyll they wondred every one at all thinges which he dyd he sayd vnto his disciples:
44 Let these sayinges synke doune into youre eares. The tyme will come when the sonne of man shalbe delivered into the hondes of men.
45 But they wist not what yt worde meant and yt was hyd fro the that they vnderstode yt not. And they feared to axe him of that sayinge.
46 Then ther arose a disputacion amoge the: who shuld be the greatest.
47 When Iesus perceaved ye thoughtes of their hertes he toke a chylde and set him hard by him
48 and sayd vnto the: Whosoever receaveth this chylde in my name receaveth me. And whosoever receaveth me receaveth him yt sent me. For he yt is least amonge you all the same shalbe greate.
49 And Iohn answered and sayde: Master we sawe one castinge out devyls in thy name and we forbade him because he foloweth not with vs.
50 And Iesus sayde vnto him: forbyd ye him not. For he that is not agaynst vs is wt vs.
51 And it folowed when the tyme was come yt he shulde be receaved vp then he set his face to goo to Hierusalem
52 and sent messengers before him. And they went and entred into a citie of the Samaritans to make redy for him.
53 But they wolde not receave him be cause his face was as though he wolde goo to Ierusalem.
54 When his disciples Iames and Iohn sawe yt they sayde: Lorde wilt thou that we comaunde that fyre come doune from heven and consume them even as Helias dyd?
55 Iesus turned about and rebuked them sayinge: ye wote not what maner sprete ye are of.
56 The sonne of ma ys not come to destroye mennes lives but to save them. And they went to another toune.
57 And it chaunsed as he went in the waye a certayne man sayd vnto him: I will folowe the whither soever thou goo.
58 Iesus sayd vnto him: foxes have holes and bryddes of ye ayer have nestes: but the sonne of man hath not where on to laye his heed.
59 And he sayde vnto another: folowe me. And the same sayde: Lorde suffre me fyrst to goo and bury my father.
60 Iesus sayd vnto him: Let the deed bury their deed: but goo thou and preache the kyngdome of God.
61 And another sayde: I wyll folowe the Lorde: but let me fyrst goo byd them fare well which are at home at my housse.
62 Iesus sayde vnto him: No man that putteth his honde to the plowe and loketh backe is apte to the kyngdome of God.

Chapter 10
1 After these thinges the Lorde apoynted other seventie also and sent them two and two before him into every citie and place whither he him silfe wolde come.
2 And he sayde vnto them the harvest is greate: but the laborers are feawe. Praye therfore the Lorde of ye harvest to send forth laborers into his hervest.
3 Goo youre wayes: beholde I sende you forthe as lambes amonge wolves.
4 Beare noo wallet nether scryppe nor shues and salute noo man by the waye.
5 Into whatsoever housse ye enter fyrst saye: Peace be to this housse.
6 And yf ye sonne of peace be theare youre peace shall rest vpon him: yf not yt shall returne to you agayne.
7 And in ye same housse tary still eatinge and drinkinge soche as they have. For the laborer is worthy of his ewarde. Go not fro housse to housse:
8 and in to whatso ever citye ye enter yf they receave you eate soche thinges as are set before you
9 and heale the sicke yt are theare and saye vnto them: the kyngdome of God is come nye vpon you.
10 But into whatsoever citie ye shall enter yf they receave you not goo youre wayes out into the stretes of ye same and saye:
11 even the very dust which cleaveth on vs of your citie we wipe of agaynst you: Not withstondinge marke this that ye kyngdome of God was come nie vpon you.
12 Ye and I saye vnto you: that it shalbe easier in that daye for Sodom then for yt cytie.
13 Wo be to the Chorazin: wo be to ye Bethsaida. For yf ye miracles had bene done in Tyre and Sido which have bene done in you they had a greate whyle agone repeted sitting in heere and asshes.
14 Neverthelesse it shalbe easier for Tyre and Sidon at the iudgement then for you.
15 And thou Capernau which art exalted to heave shalt be thrust doune to hell.
16 He yt heareth you heareth me: and he that dispiseth you despiseth me: and he that dispiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
17 And the sevetie returned agayne with ioye sayinge: Lorde even the very devyls are subdued to vs thorowe thy name.
18 And he sayde vnto them: I sawe satan as it had bene lightenyng faule doune fro heave.
19 Beholde I geve vnto you power to treade on serpetes and scorpions and over all maner power of the enimye and no thinge shall hurte you.
20 Neverthelesse in this reioyse not that ye spretes are vnder youre power: but reioyse be cause youre names are wrytten in heaven.
21 That same tyme reioysed Iesus in ye sprete and sayde: I confesse vnto ye father Lorde of heaven and erth yt thou hast hyd these thynges from the wyse and prudent and hast opened them to the babes. Even so father for soo pleased it the.
22 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 and he to who the sonne wyll shewe him.
23 And he turned to his disciples and sayde secretly: Happy are ye eyes which se yt ye se.
24 For I tell you that many prophetes and kynges have desired to se those thinges which ye se and have not sene them: and to heare those thinges which ye heare and have not hearde them.
25 And beholde a certayne Lawere stode vp and tempted him sayinge: Master what shall I do to inheret eternall life?
26 He sayd vnto him: What is written in the lawe? How redest thou?
27 And he answered and sayde: Loue thy Lorde God with all thy hert and with all thy soule and with all thy stregthe and with all thy mynde: and thy neghbour as thy sylfe.
28 And he sayde vnto him: Thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live.
29 He willinge to iustifie him silfe sayde vnto Iesus: Who is then my neghbour?
30 Iesus answered and sayde: A certayne ma descended fro Hierusalem into Hierico and fell in to the hondes of theves which robbed him of his raymet and wounded him and departed levynge him halfe deed.
31 And by chaunce ther came a certayne preste that same waye and when he sawe him he passed by.
32 And lykewyse a Levite when he was come nye to the place wet and loked on him and passed by.
33 Then a certayne Samaritane as he iornyed came nye vnto him and when he sawe him had compassion on him
34 and went to and bounde vp his woundes and poured in oyle and wyne and put him on his awne beaste and brought him to a comen ynne and made provision for him.
35 And on the morowe when he departed he toke out two pece and gave them to the host and sayde vnto him. Take cure of him and whatsoever thou spedest moare when I come agayne I will recompence the.
36 Which now of these thre thynkest thou was neighbour vnto him yt fell into ye theves hondes?
37 And he sayde: he that shewed mercy on him. Then sayde Iesus vnto him. Goo and do thou lyke wyse.
38 It fortuned as they wet that he entred in to a certayne toune. And a certayne woman named Martha receaved him into her housse.
39 And this woman had a sister called Mary which sate at Iesus fete and hearde his preachinge.
40 And Martha was combred about moche servinge and stode and sayde: Master doest thou not care that my sister hath leeft me to minister alone? Byd her therfore that she helpe me.
41 And Iesus answered and sayde vnto her: Martha Martha thou carest and arte troubled about many thinges:
42 verely one is nedfull. Mary hath chosen her that good parte which shall not be taken awaye from her.

Chapter 11
1 And it fortuned as he was prayinge in a certayne place: when he ceased one of his disciples sayde vnto him: Master teache vs to praye as Iohn taught his disciples.
2 And he sayd vnto the: When ye praye saye: O oure father which arte in heave halowed be thy name. Thy kyngdome come. Thy will be fulfilled even in erth as it is in heaven.
3 Oure dayly breed geve vs evermore.
4 And forgeve vs oure synnes: For eve we forgeve every man yt treaspaseth vs. And ledde vs not into teptacio. But deliver vs fro evill.
5 And he sayde vnto them: if any of you shuld have a frede and shuld goo to him at mid nyght and saye vnto him: frende lende me thre loves
6 for a frende of myne is come out of the waye to me and I have nothinge to set before him:
7 and he within shuld answere and saye trouble me not the dore is now sheet and my servautes are with me in the chamber I canot ryse and geve them to the.
8 I saye vnto you though he wold not aryse and geve him because he is his frede: yet because of his importunite he wold rise and geve him as many as he neded.
9 And I saye vnto you: axe and it shalbe geven you. Seke and ye shall fynde. knocke and it shalbe opened vnto you.
10 For every one that axeth receaveth: and he that seketh fyndeth: and to him that knocketh shall it be openned.
11 Yf the sonne shall axe breed of eny of you that is a father: wyll he geve him a stone? Or yf he axe fisshe wyll he for a fysshe geve him a serpent?
12 Or yf he axe an egge: wyll he offer him a scorpion?
13 Yf ye then which are evyll canne geve good giftes vnto youre chyldren how moche more shall the father of heaven geve an holy sprete to them that desyre it of him?
14 And he was a castynge out a devyll which was dome. And it folowed when the devyll was gone out the domme spake and the people wondred.
15 But some of the sayde: he casteth out devyls by the power of Belzebub the chefe of the devyls.
16 And other tempted him sekinge of him a signe fro heave.
17 But he knewe their thoughtes and sayde vnto them: Every kingdome devided with in it silfe shalbe desolate: and one housse shall fall vpon another.
18 So if Satan be devided with in him silfe: how shall his kyngdome endure? Because ye saye that I cast out devyls by the power of Belzebub.
19 Yf I by the power of Belzebub caste oute devyls: by whome do youre chyldren cast them out? Therfore shall they be youre iudges.
20 But if I with ye finger of God cast out devyls noo doute the kyngdome of God is come vpon you.
21 When a stronge man armed watcheth his housse: yt he possesseth is in peace.
22 But when a stronger then he cometh vpo him and overcometh him: he taketh from him his harnes wherin he trusted and devideth his gooddes.
23 He that is not with me is agaynst me. And he that gadereth not with me scattereth.
24 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.
25 And when he cometh he fyndeth it swept and garnissed.
26 Then goeth he and taketh to him seve other spretes worsse then himsilfe: and they enter in and dwell there. And the ende of that man is worsse then the begynninge.
27 And it fortuned as he spake those thinges a certayne woman of the copany lyfte vp her voyce and sayde vnto him: Happy is the wombe that bare the and the pappes which gave the sucke.
28 But he sayde: Ye happy are they that heare the worde of God and kepe it.
29 When the people were gadered thicke to geder: he began to saye. This is an evyll nacion: they seke a signe and ther shall no signe be geven them but the signe of Ionas the Prophet.
30 For as Ionas was a signe to the Ninivites so shall ye sonne of ma be to this nacio.
31 The quene of the southe shall ryse at iudgement with the men of this generacio and condempne them: for she came fro the ende of the worlde to heare the wysdome of Salomon. And beholde a greater then Salomon is here.
32 The men of Ninive shall ryse at the iudgement wt this generacio and shall condepne the: for they repented at the preachinge of Ionas. And beholde a greater then Ionas is here.
33 Noo man lighteth a candell and putteth it in a previe place nether vnder a busshell: But on a candelsticke that they that come in maye se ye light.
34 The light of thy body is the eye. Therfore when thine eye is single: then is all thy body full of light. But if thine eye be evyll: then shall thy body also be full of darknes.
35 Take hede therfore that the light which is in the be not darknes.
36 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.
37 And as he spake a certayne Pharise besought him to dyne with him: and he went in and sate doune to meate.
38 When the Pharise sawe that he marveylled yt he had not fyrst wesshed before dyner.
39 And ye Lorde sayde to him: Now do ye Pharises make clene the out side of the cup and of the platter: but youre inwarde parties are full of raveninge and wickednes.
40 Ye foles dyd not he that made that which is without: make that which is within also?
41 Neverthelesse geve almose of that ye have and beholde all is clene to you.
42 But wo be to you Pharises for ye tithe the mynt and rewe and all manner erbes and passe over iudgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done and yet not to have left the other vndone.
43 Wo be to you Pharises: for ye love the vppermost seates in the synagoges and gretinges in the markets.
44 Wo be to you scribes and pharises ypocrites for ye are as graves which appere not and the men yt walke over the are not ware of the.
45 Then answered one of the lawears and sayd vnto him: Master thus sayinge thou puttest vs to rebuke also.
46 Then he sayde: Wo be to you also ye lawears: for ye lade men with burthens greveous to be borne and ye youre selves touche not ye packes wt one of youre fyngers.
47 Wo be to you: ye bylde the sepulchres of the Prophetes and youre fathers killed the:
48 truly ye beare witnes that ye alowe the dedes of youre fathers for they kylled them and ye bylde their sepulchres.
49 Therfore sayde ye wisdome of God: I will send them Prophetes and Apostles and of them they shall slee and persecute:
50 that the bloude of all Prophetes which was sheed fro the beginninge of the worlde maye be requyred of this generacion
51 from the bloud of Abell vnto the bloud of zachary which perisshed bitwene the aulter and the temple. Verely I saye vnto you: it shalbe requyred of this nacion.
52 Wo be to you lawears: for ye have taken awaye ye keye of knowledge ye entred not in youre selves and them that came in ye forbade.
53 When he thus spake vnto them the lawears and the Pharises began to wexe busye about him and to stop his mouth with many questions
54 layinge wayte for him and sekinge to catche somethinge of his mought wherby they might accuse him.

Chapter 12
1 As ther gadered together an innumerable multitude of people (in so moche that they trood one another) he began to saye vnto his disciples: Fyrst of all beware of the leve of the Pharises which is ypocrisy.
2 For ther is no thinge covered that shall not be vncovered: nether hyd that shall not be knowen.
3 For whatsoever ye have spoken in in darknes: that same shalbe hearde in light. And that which ye have spoken in the the eare eve in secret places shalbe preached even on the toppe of the housses.
4 I saye vnto you my fredes: Be not afrayde of them that kyll the body and after that have no moare that they can do.
5 But I will shewe you whom ye shall feare. Feare him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell. Ye I saye vnto you him feare.
6 Are not five sparowes bought for two farthinges? And yet not one of them is forgotten of God.
7 Also even the very heres of youre heedes are nombred. Feare not therfore: ye are moare of value then many sparowes.
8 I saye vnto you: Whosoever confesseth me before men eve him shall ye sonne of man confesse also before ye angels of God.
9 And he that denyeth me before men: shalbe denyed before ye angels of God.
10 And whosoever speaketh a worde agaynst ye sonne of ma it shalbe forgeven him. But vnto him yt blasphemeth the holy goost it shall not be forgeven.
11 When they bringe you vnto the synagoges and vnto the rulers and officers take no thought how or what thinge ye shall answer or what ye shall speake.
12 For the holy goost shall teache you in the same houre what ye ought to saye.
13 One of the company sayde vnto hym: Master byd my brother devide the enheritauce with me.
14 And he sayde vnto him: Man who made me a iudge or a devider over you?
15 Wherfore he sayde vnto them: take hede and beware of covetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondeth in the aboundaunce of the thinges which he possesseth.
16 And he put forth a similitude vnto them sayinge: The groude of a certayne riche ma brought forth frutes plenteously
17 and he thought in himsilfe sayinge: what shall I do? because I have noo roume where to bestowe my frutes?
18 And he sayde: This will I do. I will destroye my barnes and bilde greater and therin will I gadder all my frutes and my goodes:
19 and I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares take thyne ease: eate drinke and be mery.
20 But God sayde vnto him: Thou fole this night will they fetche awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall thoose thinges be which thou hast provyded?
21 So is it with him that gadereth ryches and is not ryche in God.
22 And he spake vnto his disciples: Therfore I saye vnto you: take no thought for youre lyfe what ye shall eate nether for youre body what ye shall put on.
23 The lyfe is moare then meate and the bodye is moare then rayment.
24 Considre the ravens for they nether sowe nor repe which nether have stoorehousse ner barne and yet God fedeth them. How moche are ye better then the foules.
25 Which of you with takynge thought can adde to his stature one cubit?
26 Yf ye then be not able to do that thinge which is least: why take ye thought for the remmaunt?
27 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.
28 Yf the grasse which is todaye in the felde and tomorowe shalbe cast into the fornace God so clothe: how moche moore will he clothe you o ye endued wt litell faith?
29 And axe not what ye shall eate or what ye shall drinke nether clyme ye vp an hye
30 for all suche thinges the hethen people of the worlde seke for. Youre father knoweth that ye have nede of suche thinges.
31 Wherfore seke ye after the kyngedome of God and all these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.
32 Feare not litell floocke for it is youre fathers pleasure to geve you a kingdome.
33 Sell that ye have and geve almes. And make you bagges which wexe not olde and treasure that fayleth not in heaven where noo these commeth nether moth corrupteth.
34 For where youre treasure is there will youre hertes be also.
35 Let youre loynes be gerdde about and youre lightes brennynge
36 and ye youre selves lyke vnto men that wayte for their master when he will returne fro a weddinge: that assone as he cometh and knocketh they maye ope vnto him.
37 Happy are those servauntes which the Lorde when he cometh shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you he will gerdde him selfe about and make them sit doune to meate and walke by and minister vnto them.
38 And yf he come in the seconde watche ye if he come in the thyrde watche and shall fynde them soo happy are those servauntes.
39 This vnderstonde that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre ye these wolde come he wolde suerly watche: and not suffer his housse to be broken vp.
40 Be ye prepared therfore: for the sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.
41 Then Peter sayde vnto him: Master tellest thou this similitude vnto vs or to all men?
42 And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season:
43 happy is that servaunt whom his master when he cometh shall finde soo doinge.
44 Of a trueth I saye vnto you: that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
45 But and yf the evyll servaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cominge and shall beginne to smyte the servauntes and maydens and to eate and drinke and to be dronken:
46 the Lorde of that servaunt will come in a daye when he thinketh not and at an houre when he is not ware and will devyde him and will geve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers.
47 The servaut that knewe his masters will and prepared not him selfe nether dyd accordinge to his will shalbe bete with many strypes.
48 But he that knewe not and yet dyd committe thinges worthy of strypes shalbe beaten with feawe strypes. For vnto whom moche is geven of him shalbe moche requyred. And to whom men moche commyt the moare of him will they axe.
49 I am come to sende fyre on erth: and what is my dysyre but that it were all redy kyndled?
50 Not with stondinge I must de baptised with a baptyme: and how am I payned till it be ended?
51 Suppose ye that I am come to sende peace on erth? I tell you naye: but rather debate.
52 For fro hence forthe ther shalbe five in one housse devided thre agaynst two and two agaynst thre.
53 The father shalbe devided agaynst the sonne and the sonne agaynst the father. The mother agaynst the doughter and the doughter agaynst the mother. The motereleawe agaynst hir doughterelawe and the doughterelawe agaynst hir motherelawe.
54 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 and soo it is.
55 And when ye se the south wynde blow ye saye: we shall have heet and it cometh to passe.
56 Ypocrites ye can skyll of the fassion of the erth and of the skye: but what is ye cause that ye canot skyll of this time?
57 Ye and why iudge ye not of youre selves what is righte?
58 Whill thou goest with thyne adversary to the ruler: as thou arte in the waye geve diligence that thou mayst be delivered fro him least he bringe the to the iudge and the iudge delyver the to the iaylar and the iaylar cast the in to preson.
59 I tell ye thou departest not thence tyll thou have made good ye vtmost myte.

Chapter 13
1 Ther were present at the same season that shewed him of ye Galileas whose bloude Pylate mengled with their awne sacrifice.
2 And Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: Suppose ye that these Galileans were greater synners then all the other Galileas because they suffred suche punisshmet?
3 I tell you naye: but except ye repent ye shall all in lyke wyse perysshe.
4 Or those .xviii. apon which ye toure in Syloe fell and slewe the thinke ye that they were synners above all men yt dwell in Ierusalem?
5 I tell you naye: But excepte ye repent ye all shall lykewyse perisshe.
6 He put forthe this similiiude A certayne man had a fygge tree planted in his veneyarde and he came and sought frute theron and founde none.
7 Then sayde he to ye dresser of his vyneyarde: Beholde this thre yeare have I come and sought frute in this fygge tree and fynde none: cut it doune: why combreth it the grounde?
8 And he answered and sayde vnto him: lorde let it alone this yeare also till I digge rounde aboute it and doge it to se
9 whether it will beare frute: and if it beare not then after yt cut it doune
10 And he taught in one of their sinagoges on ye saboth dayes.
11 And beholde ther was a woma which had a sprete of infirmite .xviii. yeares: and was bowed to gether and coulde not lifte vp hersilfe at all.
12 When Iesus sawe her he called her to him and sayde to her: woman thou arte delyvered from thy disease.
13 And he layde his hondes on her and immediatly she was made strayght and glorified God.
14 And the ruler of the sinagoge answered with indignacion (be cause that Iesus had healed on the saboth daye) and sayde vnto the people. Ther are sixe dayes in which men ought to worke: in them come and be healed and not on the saboth daye.
15 Then answered him the Lorde and sayd: Ypocrite doth not eache one of you on the saboth daye lowse his oxe or his asse from the stall and leade him to the water?
16 And ought not this doughter of Abraham whom Sathan hath bounde loo .xviii. yeares be lowsed from this bonde on the saboth daye?
17 And when he thus sayde all his adversaries were ashamed and all the people reioysed on all the excellent dedes that were done by him.
18 Then sayde he: What is the kyngdome of God lyke? or wherto shall I compare it?
19 It is lyke a grayne of mustard seede which a man toke and sowed in his garden: and it grewe and wexed a greate tree and the foules of the ayer made nestes in the braunches of it.
20 And agayne he sayde: wher vnto shall I lyken ye kyngdome of god?
21 it is lyke leve which a woman toke and hidde in thre busshels of floure tyll all was thorow levended.
22 And he went thorow all maner of cities and tounes teachinge and iorneyinge towardes Ierusalem.
23 Then sayde one vnto him: Lorde are ther feawe that shalbe saved? And he sayde vnto them:
24 stryve with youre selves to enter in at ye strayte gate: For many I saye vnto you will seke to enter in and shall not be able.
25 When the good man of ye housse is rysen vp and hath shett to the dore ye shall beginne to stonde with out and to knocke at the dore sayinge: Lorde lorde open vnto vs: and he shall answer and saye vnto you: I knowe you not whence ye are.
26 Then shall ye begin to saye. We have eaten in thy presence and dronke and thou hast taught in oure stretes.
27 And he shall saye: I tell you I knowe you not whence ye are: departe from me all ye workers of iniquite.
28 There shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of teth when ye shall se Abraham and Isaac and Iacob and all the prophetes in the kyngdom of God and youre selves thrust oute at dores.
29 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.
30 And beholde ther are last which shalbe fyrst: And ther are fyrst which shalbe last.
31 The same daye there came certayne of the pharises and sayd vnto him: Get the out of the waye and departe hence: for Herode will kyll ye.
32 And he sayd vnto them. Goo ye and tell that foxe beholde I cast oute devyls and heale the people to daye and to morowe and the third daye I make an ende.
33 Neverthelesse I must walke todaye and tomorowe and the daye folowinge: For it cannot be that a Prophet perishe eny other where save at Ierusalem.
34 O Ierusalem Ierusalem which kyllest prophetes and stonest them that are sent to ye: how often wolde I have gadered thy childre to gedder as the hen gathereth her nest vnder her wynges but ye wolde not.
35 Beholde youre habitacion shalbe left vnto you desolate. 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.

Chapter 14
1 And it chaunsed that he went into the housse of one of ye chefe pharises to eate breed on a saboth daye: and they watched him.
2 And beholde ther was a man before him which had the dropsye.
3 And Iesus answered and spake vnto the lawears and pharises sayinge: is it laufull to heale on the saboth daye?
4 And they helde their peace. And he toke him and healed him and let him goo:
5 and answered the sayinge whiche of you shall have an asse or an oxe fallen into a pitt and will not strayght waye pull him out on the Saboth daye?
6 And they coulde not answer him agayne to that.
7 He put forthe a similitude to ye gestes whe he marked how they preased to the hyest roumes and sayd vnto the:
8 When thou arte bidde to a weddynge of eny man syt not doune in ye hyest roume lest a more honorable man then thou be bidden of him
9 and he that bade bothe him and the come and saye to the: geve this man roume and thou then beginne with shame to take the lowest roume.
10 But rather when thou arte bidden goo and syt in the lowest roume that when he that bade the cometh he maye saye vnto the: frende syt vp hyer. Then shalt thou have worshippe in the presence of them that syt at meate with the.
11 For whosoever exalteth him sylfe shalbe brought lowe. And he yt hubleth him sylfe shalbe exalted
12 Then sayde he also to him that had desyred him to diner: When thou makest a diner or a supper: call not thy frendes nor thy brethre nether thy kinsmen nor yet ryche neghbours: lest they bidde the agayne and a recompence be made the.
13 But when thou makest afeast call the poore the maymed the lame and the blynde
14 and thou shalt be happy for they cannot recompence the. But thou shalt be recompensed at the resurreccion of the iuste men.
15 When one of them that sate at meate also hearde that he sayde vnto him: happy is he that eateth breed in the kyngdome of God.
16 Then sayd he to him. A certayne man ordened a greate supper and bade many
17 and sent his servaunt at supper tyme to saye to them that wer bidden come: for all thinges are now redy.
18 And they all atonce begane to make excuse. The fyrst sayd vnto him: I have bought a ferme and I must nedes goo and se it I praye the have me excused.
19 And another sayd: I hove bought fyve yooke of oxen and I goo to prove them I praye the have me excused.
20 The thyrde sayd: I have maried a wyfe and therfore I cannot come.
21 And the servaunt went and brought his master worde therof. Then was the good man of the housse displeased and sayd to his servaut: Goo out quickly into ye stretes and quarters of the cite and bringe in hidder the poore and the maymed and the halt and the blynde.
22 And the servaut sayd: lorde it is done as thou comaundedst and yet ther is roume.
23 And the lorde sayd to the servaunt: Go out into ye hye wayes and hedges and compell the to come in that my housse maye be filled.
24 For I saye vnto you that none of those men which were bidde shall tast of my supper.
25 Ther went agreate copany with him and he turned and sayde vnto them:
26 If a man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wyfe and chyldren and brethren and sisters more over and his awne lyfe he cannot be my disciple.
27 And whosoever beare not his crosse and come after me cannot be my disciple.
28 Which of you disposed to bilde a toure sytteth not doune before and counteth ye cost whether he have sufficient to performe it?
29 lest after he hath layde ye foundacion and is not able to performe it all yt beholde it beginne to mocke him
30 sayinge: this man beganne to bilde and was not able to make an ende.
31 Or what kynge goeth to make batayle agaynst another kinge and sitteth not doune fyrst and casteth in his mynde whether he be able wt ten thousande to mete him that cometh agaynst him wt .xx thousand.
32 Or els whyll ye other is yet a greate waye of he will sende embasseatours and desyre peace.
33 So lykewyse none of you yt forsaketh not all yt he hath can be my disciple.
34 Salt is good but yf salt have loste hyr saltnes what shall be seasoned ther with?
35 It is nether good for ye londe nor yet for ye donge hill but men cast it out at ye dores. He yt hath eares to heare let him heare.

Chapter 15
1 Then resorted vnto him all ye publicas and synners for to heare him.
2 And the pharises and scribes murmured sayinge: He receaved to his copany synners and eateth with them.
3 Then put he forthe this similitude to the sayinge:
4 What man of you havynge an hundred shepe yf he loose one of thee doth not leve nynty and nyne in the wyldernes and goo after yt which is loost vntyll he fynde him?
5 And whe he hath founde him he putteth him on his shulders with ioye:
6 And assone as he cometh home he calleth to gedder his lovers and neghbours sayinge vnto them: reioyse with me for I have founde my shepe which was loost.
7 I say vnto you yt lyke wyse ioye shalbe in heven over one synner yt repenteth moore then over nynety and nyne iuste persons whiche nede noo repentauce.
8 Ether what woman havynge .x. grotes yf she loose one doth not lyght a candell and swepe ye housse and seke diligently tyll she fynde it?
9 And when she hath founde it she calleth her lovers and her neghbours sayinge: Reioyce wt me for I have founde the groate which I had loost.
10 Lykwyse I saye vnto you ioye is made in ye presence of ye angels of god over one synner yt repenteth.
11 And he sayde: a certayne man had two sonnes
12 and the yonger of them sayde to his father: father geve me my parte of the goodes yt to me belongeth. And he devided vnto them his substaunce.
13 And not longe after ye yonger sonne gaddered all that he had to gedder and toke his iorney into a farre countre and theare he wasted his goodes with royetous lyvinge.
14 And when he had spent all that he had ther rose a greate derth thorow out all yt same londe and he began to lacke.
15 And he went and clave to a citesyn of yt same countre which sent him to his felde to kepe his swyne.
16 And he wold fayne have filled his bely with the coddes that ye swyne ate: and noo man gave him.
17 Then he came to him selfe and sayde: how many hyred servauntes at my fathers have breed ynough and I dye for honger.
18 I will aryse and goo to my father and will saye vnto him: father I have synned agaynst heven and before ye
19 and am no moare worthy to be called thy sonne make me as one of thy hyred servauntes.
20 And he arose and went to his father. And when he was yet a greate waye of his father sawe him and had compassion and ran and fell on his necke and kyssed him.
21 And the sonne sayd vnto him: father I have synned agaynst heven and in thy sight and am no moare worthy to be called thy sonne.
22 But his father sayde to his servautes: bringe forth that best garment and put it on him and put a rynge on his honde and showes on his fete.
23 And bringe hidder that fatted caulfe and kyll him and let vs eate and be mery:
24 for this my sonne was deed and is alyve agayne he was loste and is now founde. And they began to be merye.
25 The elder brother was in the felde and when he cam and drewe nye to ye housse he herde minstrelcy and daunsynge
26 and called one of his servauntes and axed what thoose thinges meate.
27 And he sayd vnto him: thy brother is come and thy father had kylled ye fatted caulfe because he hath receaved him safe and sounde.
28 And he was angry and wolde not goo in. Then came his father out and entreated him.
29 He answered and sayde to his father: Loo these many yeares have I done the service nether brake at eny tyme thy commaundment and yet gavest thou me never soo moche as a kyd to make mery wt my lovers:
30 but assone as this thy sonne was come which hath devoured thy goodes with harlootes thou haste for his pleasure kylled ye fatted caulfe.
31 And he sayd vnto him: Sonne thou wast ever with me and all that I have is thyne:
32 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.

Chapter 16
1 And he sayd also vnto his disciples. Ther was a certayne rych man which had a stewarde that was acused vnto him that he had wasted his goodes.
2 And he called him and 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.
3 The stewarde sayd wt in him selfe: what shall I do? for my master will take awaye fro me ye stewarde shippe. I canot digge and to begge I am ashamed.
4 I woote what to do yt when I am put out of ye stewardshippe they maye receave me into their houses.
5 Then called he all his masters detters and sayd vnto ye fyrst: how moche owest thou vnto my master?
6 And he sayd: an hondred tonnes of oyle. And he sayd to him: take thy bill and syt doune quickly and wryte fiftie.
7 Then sayd he to another: what owest thou? And he sayde: an hondred quarters of wheate. He sayd to him: Take thy bill and write foure scoore.
8 And the lorde comended the vniust stewarde because he had done wysly. For ye chyldren of this worlde are in their kynde wyser then ye chyldren of lyght.
9 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.
10 He that is faithfull in that which is leste ye same is faithfull in moche. And he yt is vnfaithfull in ye least: is vnfaithfull also in moche.
11 So then yf ye have not ben faithfull in ye wicked mamon? who will beleve you in that which is true?
12 And yf ye have not bene faithfull in another manes busines: who shall geve you youre awne?
13 No servaunt can serve .ii. masters for other he shall hate ye one and love ye other or els he shall lene to the one and despyse the other. Ye can not serve God and mammon.
14 All these thinges herde the pharises also which were coveteous and they mocked him.
15 And he sayd vnto the: Ye are they which iustifie youre selves before me: but God knoweth youre hertes. For ye which is highlie estemed amoge me is abhominable in yt sight of god
16 The lawe and the Prophetes raygned vntyll the tyme of Iohn: and sence that tyme the kyngdom of God is preached and every man stryveth to goo in.
17 Soner shall heven and erth perisshe then one tytle of the lawe shall perisshe.
18 Whosoever forsaketh his wyfe and marieth another breaketh matrimony. And every man which marieth her that is devorsed from her husbande committeth advoutry also.
19 Ther was a certayne ryche man which was clothed in purple and fyne bysse and fared deliciously every daye.
20 And ther was a certayne begger named Lazarus whiche laye at his gate full of soores
21 desyringe to be refresshed with the cromes whiche fell from the ryche manes borde. Neverthelesse the dogges came and licked his soores.
22 And yt fortuned that the begger dyed and was caried by the angelles into Abrahas bosome. The riche man also died and was buried.
23 And beinge in hell in tormetes he lyfte vp his eyes and sawe Abraham a farre of and Lazarus in his bosome
24 and he cryed and sayd: father Abraham have mercy on me and sende Lazarus that he maye dippe the tippe of his fynger in water and cole my tonge: for I am tourmented in this flame.
25 But Abraha sayd vnto him Sonne remembre that thou in thy lyfe tyme receavedst thy pleasure and contrary wyse Lazarus payne. Now therfore is he comforted and thou art punysshed.
26 Beyonde all this bitwene you and vs ther is a greate space set so that they which wolde goo from thence to you cannot: nether maye come from thence to vs.
27 Then he sayd: I praye the therfore father send him to my fathers housse.
28 For I have fyve brethren: for to warne the left they also come into this place of tourmet.
29 Abraha sayd vnto him: they have Moses and the Prophetes let them heare them.
30 And he sayd: naye father Abraham but yf one came vnto the from the ded they wolde repent.
31 He sayd vnto him: If they heare not Moses and ye prophetes nether will they beleve though one roose from deeth agayne.

Chapter 17
1 Then sayde he to ye disciples it can not be avoyded but that offences will come. Neverthelesse wo be to him thorow whom they come.
2 It were better for him that a mylstone were hanged aboute his necke and that he were cast into ye see then that he shuld offende one of this lytleons.
3 Take hede to youre selves. If thy brother trespas agaynst the rebuke him:
4 and yf he repent forgeve him. And though he sinne agest ye .vii. tymes in a daye and seve tymes in a daye tourne agayne to ye sayinge: it repenteth me forgeve him
5 And the apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: increase oure faith.
6 And the Lorde sayde: yf ye had faith lyke a grayne of mustard sede and shuld saye vnto this sycamine tree plucke thy selfe vp by the rootes and plant thy selfe in the see: he should obey you.
7 Who is it of you yf he had a servaute plowinge or fedinge catell that wolde saye vnto him when he were come from the felde Goo quickly and syt doune to meate:
8 and wolde not rather saye to him dresse wherwith I maye sup and gyrde vp thy selfe and serve me tyll I have eaten and dronken: and afterwarde eate thou and drinke thou?
9 Doeth he thanke that servaunt because he dyd that which was commaunded vnto him? I trowe not.
10 Soo lyke wyse ye when ye have done all thoose thinges which are commaunded you: saye we are vnprofitable servautes. We have done: ye which was oure duetye to do.
11 And it chaunsed as he went to Ierusalem that he passed thorow Samaria and Galile.
12 And as he entred into a certayne toune ther met him ten men yt were lepers. Which stode a farre of
13 and put forth their voyces and sayde: Iesu master have mercy on vs.
14 When he sawe the he sayde vnto them: Goo and shewe youre selves to the prestes. And it chaunsed as they went they were clensed.
15 And one of them when he sawe that he was clensed turned backe agayne and with a loude voyce praysed God
16 and fell doune on his face at his fete and gave him thankes. And the same was a Samaritane.
17 And Iesus answered and sayde: are ther not ten clensed? But where are those nyne?
18 Ther are not founde that returned agane to geve God prayse save only this straunger.
19 And he sayde vnto him: aryse and goo thy waye thy faith hath made the whoale.
20 When he was demaunded of ye pharises when the kyngdome of God shuld come: he answered them and sayde: The kyngdome of God cometh not with waytinge for.
21 Nether shall men saye: Loo here loo there. For beholde the kyngdome of God is with in you.
22 And he sayde vnto the disciples: The dayes will come when ye shall desyre to se one daye of the sonne of man and ye shall not se it.
23 And they shall saye to you: Se here Se there. Goo not after them nor folowe them
24 for as the lyghtenynge that apereth out of the one parte of the heven and shyneth vnto the other parte of heven: Soo shall the sonne of man be in his dayes.
25 But fyrst must he suffre many thinges and be refused of this nacion.
26 As it happened in ye tyme of Noe: So shall it be in the tyme of the sonne of man.
27 They ate they dranke they maryed wyves and were maryed even vnto yt same daye yt Noe went into ye arke: and ye floud cam and destroyed the all.
28 Lykewyse also as it chaunsed in the dayes of Lot. They ate they dranke they bought they solde they planted they bilte.
29 And even the same daye that Lot went out of Zodom it rayned fyre and brymstone from heven and destroyed them all.
30 After these ensamples shall it be in the daye when the sonne of man shall appere.
31 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.
32 Remember Lottes wyfe.
33 Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his lyfe shall save it.
34 I tell you: In that nyght ther shalbe two in one beed the one shalbe receaved and the other shalbe forsaken.
35 Two shalbe also a grindynge to gedder: the one shalbe receaved and the other forsaken.
36 And they answered and sayde to him: wheare Lorde? And he sayd vnto the: whersoever ye body shalbe thyther will the egles resoorte.

Chapter 18
1 And he put forth a similitude vnto the signifyinge that men ought alwayes to praye and not to be wery
2 sayinge: Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.
3 And ther was a certayne wedowe in the same cite which came vnto him sayinge: avenge me of myne adversary.
4 And he wolde not for a whyle. But afterwarde he sayd vnto him selfe: though I feare not God nor care for man
5 yet because this wedowe troubleth me I will avenge her lest at the laste she come and hagge on me.
6 And the lorde sayd: heare what the vnrightewes Iudge sayeth.
7 And shall not god avenge his electe which crye daye and nyght vnto him ye though he differre them?
8 I tell you he will avenge them and that quickly. Neverthelesse when the sonne of man cometh suppose ye that he shall fynde faithe on the erthe.
9 And he put forthe this similitude vnto certayne which trusted in the selves yt they were perfecte and despysed other.
10 Two men went vp into ye teple to praye: ye one a pharise and the other a publican.
11 The pharise stode and prayed thus wt him selfe. God I thanke the yt I am not as other men are extorsioners vniuste advoutrers or as this publican.
12 I fast twyse in ye weke. I geve tythe of all that I possesse.
13 And the publican stode afarre of and wolde not lyfte vp his eyes to heven but smote his brest sayinge: God be mercyfull to me a synner.
14 I tell you: this ma departed hoe to his housse iustified moore then the other. For every man that exalteth him selfe shalbe brought low: And he yt hubleth him selfe shalbe exalted
15 They brought vnto him also babes yt he shuld touche the. When his disciples sawe that they rebuked the.
16 But Iesus called the vnto him and sayde: Suffre chyldren to come vnto me and forbidde the not. For of soche is ye kyngdome of God.
17 Verely I saye vnto you: whosoever receaveth not the kyngdome of God as a chylde: he shall not enter therin.
18 And a certayne ruler axed him sayinge: Good Master: what ought I to do to obtayne eternall lyfe?
19 Iesus sayd vnto him: Why callest thou me good? No man is good save God only.
20 Thou knowest ye comaundmentes: Thou shalt not commit advoutry: thou shalt not kyll: thou shalt not steale: thou shalt not beare false witnes: Honoure thy father and thy mother.
21 And he sayde: all these have I kept from my youthe.
22 When Iesus hearde that he sayde vnto him: Yet lackest thou one thinge. Sell all that thou hast and distribute it vnto the poore and thou shalt have treasure in heven and come and folowe me.
23 When he heard that he was hevy: for he was very ryche.
24 When Iesus sawe him morne he sayde: with what difficulte shall they that have ryches enter into the kyngdome of God:
25 it is easyer for a camell to goo thorow a nedles eye then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God.
26 Then sayde they that hearde that: And who shall then be saved?
27 And he sayde: Thinges which are vnpossible with men are possible with God.
28 Then Peter sayde: Loo we have lefte all and have folowed the.
29 And he sayde vnto them: Verely I saye vnto you ther is noo man that leaveth housse other father and mother other brethren or wyfe or chyldren for the kyngdome of Goddes sake
30 which same shall not receave moche moore in this worlde: and in the worlde to come lyfe everlastinge.
31 He toke vnto him twelve and sayde vnto them. Beholde we go vp to Ierusalem and all shalbe fulfilled that are written by ye Prophetes of the sonne of man.
32 He shalbe delivered vnto the gentils and shalbe mocked and shalbe despytfully entreated and shalbe spetted on:
33 and when they have scourged him they will put him to deeth and the thyrde daye he shall aryse agayne.
34 But they vnderstode none of these thinges. And this sayinge was hid fro them. And they perceaved not the thinges which were spoken.
35 And it came to passe as he was come nye vnto Hierico a certayne blynde man sate by the waye syde begginge.
36 And when he hearde the people passe by he axed what it meant.
37 And they sayde vnto him yt Iesus of Nazareth passed by.
38 And he cryed sayinge: Iesus ye sonne of David have thou mercy on me.
39 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.
40 And Iesus stode styll and commaunded him to be brought vnto him. And when he was come neare he axed him
41 sayinge: What wilt thou that I do vnto the? And he sayde: Lorde yt I maye receave my sight.
42 Iesus sayde vnto him: receave thy sight: thy faith hath saved the.
43 And immediatly he sawe and folowed him praysinge God. And all the people when they sawe it gave laude to God.

Chapter 19
1 And he entred in and went thorow Hierico.
2 And beholde ther was a ma named Zacheus which was a ruler amoge the Publicans and was riche also.
3 And he made meanes to se Iesus what he shuld be: and coulde not for the preace because he was of a lowe stature.
4 Wherfore he ran before and asceded vp into a wilde fygge tree to se him: for he shulde come that same waye.
5 And when Iesus cam to the place he loked vp and sawe him and sayd vnto him: zache attonce come doune for to daye I must abyde at thy housse.
6 And he came doune hastelye and receaved him ioyfully.
7 And when they sawe that they all groudged sayinge: He is gone in to tary with a man that is a synner.
8 And zache stode forth and sayd vnto ye Lorde: beholde Lorde ye haulfe of my gooddes I geve to the povre and if I have done eny ma wroge I will restore him fower folde.
9 And Iesus sayd to him: this daye is healthe come vnto this housse for as moche as it also is become the chylde of Abraha.
10 For the sonne of ma is come to seke and to save that which was looste.
11 As they hearde these thinges he added ther to a similitude be cause he was nye to Hierusalem and because also they thought that the kyngdome of God shuld shortely appere.
12 He sayde therfore: a certayne noble man wet into a farre countre to receave him a kyngdome and then to come agayne.
13 And he called his ten servauntes and delyvered them ten pounde sayinge vnto them: by and sell till I come.
14 But his citesens hated him and sent messengers after him sayinge: We will not have this man to raygne over vs.
15 And it came to passe when he was come agayne and had receaved his kyngdome he comaunded these servautes to be called to him (to whom he gave his money) to witt what every man had done.
16 Then came ye fyrst sayinge: Lorde thy pounde hath encreased ten poude.
17 And he sayde vnto him: Well good servaute because thou wast faithfull in a very lytell thynge take thou auctorite over ten cities.
18 And the other came sayinge: Lorde thy poude hath encreased fyve pounde.
19 And to ye same he sayde: and be thou also ruler ouer fyve cities.
20 And the thyrde came and sayde: Lorde beholde here thy pounde which I have kepte in a napkyn
21 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.
22 And he sayde vnto him: Of thine awne mouth iudge I the thou evyll servaunt. knewest thou that I am a strayte man takinge vp that I layde not doune and repinge that I dyd not sowe?
23 Wherfore then gavest not thou my money into the banke that at my cominge I might have required myne awne with vauntage?
24 And he sayde to them that stode by: take fro him that pounde and geve it him that hath ten poude.
25 And they sayd vnto him: Lorde he hath ten pounde.
26 I saye vnto you that vnto all the that have it shalbe geve: and from him yt hath not eve that he hath shalbe taken from him.
27 Moreover those myne enemys which wolde not that I shuld raigne over them bringe hidder and slee them before me.
28 And when he had thus spoken he proceded forthe before a ssendinge vp to Ierusalem.
29 And it fortuned when he was come nye to Bethphage and Bethany besydes moute olivete he sent two of his disciples
30 sayinge: Goo ye in to the toune which is over agaynste you. In the which assone as ye are come ye shall finde a colte tyed wheron yet never man sate. Lowse him and bringe him hider.
31 And if eny man axe you why that ye loowse him: thus saye vnto him ye lorde hath nede of him.
32 They that were sent went their waye and founde eve as he had sayde vnto the.
33 And as they were aloosinge ye coolte the owners sayde vnto the: why lowse ye ye coolte?
34 And they sayde: for ye Lorde hath nede of him.
35 And they brought him to Iesus. And they cast their raymet on ye colte and set Iesus thero.
36 And as he wet they spredde their clothes in ye waye.
37 And when he was now come wheare he shuld goo doune fro the moute olivete ye whole multitude of ye disciples began to reioyce and to lawde God with a loude voyce for all ye miracles yt they had sene
38 sayinge: Blessed be the kynge that cometh in the name of the Lorde: peace in heave and glory in the hyest.
39 And some of ye Pharises of the copany sayde vnto him: Master rebuke thy disciples.
40 He answered and sayde vnto the: I tell you yf these shuld holde their peace the stones wold crye.
41 And when he was come neare he behelde the citie and wept on it
42 sayinge: Yf thou haddest dest knowen those thinges which belonge vn thy peace eve at this thy tyme. But now are they hydde from thyne eyes.
43 For the dayes shall come vpo the that thy enemys shall cast a banke aboute the and copasse the rounde and kepe the in on every syde
44 and make the even with the grounde with thy chyldren which are in the. And they shall not leve in the one stone vpo another because thou knewest not the tyme of thy visitacion.
45 And he went in to the temple and begane to cast out them that solde therin and them that bought
46 sayinge vnto them yt is written: my housse is the housse of prayer: but ye have made it a den of theves.
47 And he taught dayly in the temple. The hye Prestes and the Scribes and the chefe of the people went about to destroye him:
48 but coulde not finde what to do. For all the people stacke by him and gave him audience.

Chapter 20
1 And yt fortuned in one of those dayes as he taught the people in the temple and preached the gospell: the hye prestes and the scribes came with the elders
2 and spake vnto him sayinge. Tell vs by what auctorite thou doest these thinges? Ether who is he yt gave ye this auctorite?
3 He answered and saide vnto the: I also will axe you a questio and answer me.
4 The baptyme of Iohn: was it from heaven or of men?
5 And they thought with in them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye from heave: he will saye: why then beleved ye him not?
6 But and yf we shall saye of men all ye people will stone vs. For they be persuaded that Ihon is a Prophet.
7 And they answered that they coulde not tell whence it was.
8 And Iesus sayde vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.
9 Then begane he to put forthe to the people this similitude. A certayne man planted a vyneyarde and let it forthe to fermers and went him selfe into a straunge countre for a greate season.
10 And when the tyme was come he sent a servaut to his tennauntes that they shuld geve him of the frutes of the vyneyarde. And the tennauntes dyd bet him and sent him awaye empty.
11 And agayne he sent yet another servaunt. And they dyd bet him and foule entreated him also and sent him awaye emptye.
12 Moreover he sent the thyrde to and him they wouded and cast out.
13 Then sayde the lorde of the vyneyarde: what shall I do? I will sende my deare sonne him peradventure they will reverence when they se him.
14 But when the fermers sawe him they thought in them selves sayinge: this is the heyre come let vs kyll him that the inheritaunce maye be oures.
15 And they cast him out of the vyneyarde and kylled him. Now what shall the Lorde of the vyneyarde do vnto them?
16 He will come and destroye those fermers and will let out his vyneyarde to other. When they hearde that they sayde: God forbyd.
17 And he behelde them and sayde: what meaneth this then yt is wrytten: The stone that the bylders refused the same is made ye heed corner stone?
18 whosoever stomble at that stone shalbe broken: but on whosoever it faul vpon it wyll grynde him to powder.
19 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.
20 And they watched him and sent forth spies which shuld fayne them selves perfecte to take him in his wordes and to delyvre him vnto the power and auctorite of the debite.
21 And they axed him sayinge: Master we knowe that thou sayest and teachest ryght nother cosiderest thou eny manes degre but teachest the waye of God truly.
22 Ys it laufull for vs to geve Cesar tribute or no?
23 He perceaved their craftynes and sayde vnto them: why tept ye me?
24 Shewe me a peny. Whose ymage and superscripcio hath it? They answered and sayde: Cesars.
25 And he sayde vnto them: Geve then vnto Cesar that which belongeth vnto Cesar: and to God that which pertayneth to God.
26 And they coulde not reprove his sayinge before the people. But they marvayled at his answer and helde their peace.
27 Then came to him certayne of the Saduces which denye that ther is eny resurreccio. And they axed him
28 sayinge: Master Moses wrote vnto vs if eny mannes brother dye havinge a wyfe and the same dye with out yssue: that then his brother shuld take his wyfe and reyse vp seede vnto his brother.
29 Ther were seven brethren and the fyrste toke a wyfe and dyed with out children.
30 And the seconde toke the wyfe and he dyed chyldlesse.
31 And the thyrde toke her and in lyke wyse the resydue of the seven and leeft no chyldren be hynde them and dyed.
32 Last of all the woma dyed also.
33 Now at the resurreccio whose wyfe of them shall she be? For seven had her to wyfe.
34 Iesus answered and sayde vnto them. The chyldre of this worlde mary wyves and are maryed
35 but they which shalbe made worthy to enioye that worlde and the resurreccion from deeth nether mary wyves nether are maryed
36 nor yet can dye eny moare. For they are equall vnto the angels: and are the sonnes of God in as moche as they are the chyldre of the resurreccion.
37 And that the deed shall ryse agayne even Moses signified besydes the busshe when he sayde: the Lorde God of Adraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob.
38 For he is not the God of the deed but of them which live. For all live in him.
39 Then certayne of the Pharises answered and sayde: Master thou hast well sayde.
40 And after that durst they not axe him eny question at all.
41 Then sayde he vnto them: how saye they that Christ is Davids sonne?
42 And David him selfe sayth in the boke of the Psalmes: The Lorde sayde vnto my Lorde syt on my right honde
43 tyll I make thine enemys thy fothe stole.
44 Seinge David calleth him Lorde: How is he then his sonne.
45 Then in the audience of all the people he sayde vnto his disciples
46 beware of the Scribes which desyre to goo in longe clothinge: and love gretynges in the markets and the hyest seates in the synagoges and chefe roumes at feastes
47 which devoure widdowes houses and that vnder a coloure of longe prayinge: the same shall receave greater damnacion.

Chapter 21
1 As he behelde he sawe the ryche men how they cast in their offeringes into the treasury.
2 And he sawe also a certayne povre widdowe which cast in thyther two mites.
3 And he sayde: of a trueth I saye vnto you this poore wyddowe hath put in moare then they all.
4 For they all have of their superfluyte added vnto the offerynge of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the substaunce that she had.
5 As some spake of the teple how it was garnesshed with goodly stones and iewels he sayde.
6 The dayes will come whe of these thynges which ye se shall not be lefte stone apon stone that shall not be throwen doune.
7 And they axed him sayinge: Master whe shall these thinges be and what signe will therbe whe suche thinges shall come to passe.
8 And he sayd: take hede that ye be not deceaved. For many will come in my name saying: I am he: and the tyme draweth neare. Folowe ye not them therfore.
9 But when ye heare of warre and of dissencion: be not afrayd. For these thinges must fyrst come: but the ende foloweth not by and by.
10 Then sayd he vnto the: Nacion shall ryse agaynst nacion and kingdom agaynst kyngdome
11 and greate erthquakes shall be in all quarters and honger and pestilence: and fearfull thinges. And greate signes shall therbe from heven.
12 But before all these they shall laye their hondes on you and persecute you delyueringe you vp to the sinagoges and into preson and bringe you before kynges and rulers for my names sake.
13 And this shall chaunce you for a testimoniall.
14 Let it sticke therfore faste in youre hertes not once to stody before what ye shall answere:
15 for I will geve you a mouth and wisdome where agaynste all youre adversarys shall not be able to speake nor resist.
16 Ye and ye shalbe betrayed of youre fathers and mothers and of youre brethren and kynsmen and lovers aud some of you shall they put to deeth.
17 And hated shall ye be of all men for my names sake.
18 Yet ther shall not one heer of youre heedes perisshe.
19 With youre pacience possesse youre soules.
20 And when ye se Ierusalem beseged with an hoste then vnderstonde that the desolacio of the same is nye.
21 Then let them which are in Iewrye flye to the mountaynes. And let them which are in the middes of it departe oute. And let not them that are in other countreis enter ther in.
22 For these be the dayes of vengeance to fulfill all that are writte.
23 But wo be to them that be with chylde and to them that geve sucke in those dayes: for ther shalbe greate trouble in the londe and wrath over all this people.
24 And they shall fall on the edge of the swearde and shalbe leed captive into all nacions. And Ierusalem shalbe trooden vnder fote of the gentyls vntyll the tyme of the gentyls be fulfilled.
25 And ther shalbe signes in the sunne ad in the mone and in the starres: and in ye erth the people shalbe in soche perplexite yt they shall not tell which waye to turne them selves. The see and the waters shall roore
26 and menes hertes shall fayle them for feare and for lokinge after thoose thinges which shall come on the erth. For the powers of heve shall move.
27 And then shall they se the sonne of ma come in a clowde with power and greate glory.
28 When these thinges begyn to come to passe: then loke vp and lifte vp youre heddes for youre redemcion draweth neye.
29 And he shewed the a similitude: beholde ye fygge tree and all other trees
30 when they shute forth their buddes ye se and knowe of youre awne selves that sommer is then nye at hod.
31 So lyke wyse ye (when ye se these thinges come to passe) vnderstonde that the kyngdome of God is neye.
32 Verely I saye vnto you: this generacion shall not passe tyll all be fulfilled.
33 Heaven and erth shall passe: but my wordes shall not passe.
34 Take hede to youre selves lest youre hertes be overcome with surfettinge and dronkennes and cares of this worlde: and that that daye come on you vnwares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that sit on the face of the erthe.
36 Watche therfore continually and praye that ye maye obtayne grace to flye all this that shall come and that ye maye stonde before the sonne of man.
37 In the daye tyme he taught in the temple and at night he went out and had abydinge in the mount olivete.
38 And all the people came in the morninge to him in the temple for to heare him.

Chapter 22
1 The feaste of swete breed drue nye whiche is called ester
2 and the hye prestes and Scribes sought how to kyll him but they feared the people.
3 Then entred Satan into Iudas whose syr name was Iscariot (which was of the nombre of the twelve)
4 and he went his waye and comuned with the hye Prestes and officers how he might betraye him to them.
5 And they were glad: and promysed to geve him money.
6 And he consented and sought oportunite to betraye him vnto them when the people were awaye.
7 Then came ye daye of swete breed when of necessite the esterlambe must be offered.
8 And he sent Peter and Iohn sayinge: Goo and prepare vs the ester lambe that we maye eate.
9 They sayde to him. Where wilt thou yt we prepare?
10 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 yt he entreth in
11 and saye vnto ye good ma of ye housse. The master sayeth vnto ye: where is ye gest chamber where I shall eate myne ester lambe wt my disciples?
12 And he shall shew you a greate parloure paved. Ther make redy.
13 And they wet and foude as he had sayd vnto the: and made redy ye ester lambe.
14 And when the houre was come he sate doune and the twelve Apostles with him.
15 And he sayde vnto them: I have inwardly desyred to eate this ester lambe with you before yt I suffre.
16 For I saye vnto you: hence forthe I will not eate of it eny moore vntill it be fulfilled in the kingdome of God.
17 And he toke the cup and gave thankes and sayde. Take this and devyde it amonge you.
18 For I saye vnto you: I will not drinke of the frute of the vyne vntill the kingdome of God be come.
19 And he toke breed gave thankes and gave to them sayinge: This is my body which is geven for you. This do in the remembraunce of me.
20 Lykewyse also when they had supped he toke the cup sayinge: This cup is the newe testament in my bloud which shall for you be shedde.
21 Yet beholde the honde of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
22 And ye sonne of man goeth as it is appoynted: But wo be to yt man by whom he is betrayed.
23 And they began to enquyre amoge them selves which of them it shuld be that shuld do that.
24 And ther was a stryfe amoge the which of them shuld be taken for the greatest.
25 And he sayde vnto them: the kynges of the getyls raygne over them and they that beare rule over them are called gracious lordes.
26 But ye shall not be so. But he that is greatest amonge you shalbe as the yongest: and he that is chefe shalbe as the minister.
27 For whether is greater he that sitteth at meate: or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meate? And I am amoge you as he that ministreth.
28 Ye are they which have bidden with me in my temptacions.
29 And I apoynt vnto you a kyngdome as my father hath appoynted to me:
30 that ye maye eate and drynke at my table in my kyngdome and sit on seates and iudge the twelve tribes of Israell.
31 And the Lorde sayde: Simon Simon beholde Satan hath desired you to sifte you as it were wheate:
32 bnt I have prayed for the that thy faith fayle not. And when thou arte converted strengthe thy brethre.
33 And he sayd vnto him. Lorde I am redy to go with the in to preson and to deth.
34 And he sayde: I tell the Peter the cocke shall not crowe this daye tyll thou have thryse denyed yt thou knewest me.
35 And he sayde vnto them: when I sent you with out wallet and scripe and shoes? lacked ye eny thinge? And they sayd no.
36 And he sayde to them: but nowe he that hath a wallet let him take it vp and lykewyse his scrippe. And he that hath no swearde let him sell his coote and bye one.
37 For I saye vnto you that yet that which is written must be performed in me: even with the wycked was he nombred. For those thinges which are written of me have an ende.
38 And they sayde: Lorde beholde here are two sweardes. And he sayde vnto them: it is ynough.
39 And he came out and went as he was wote to mounte olivete. And the disciples folowed him.
40 And when he came to the place he sayde to the: praye lest ye fall into temptacio.
41 And he gate him selfe from them about a stones cast and kneled doune and prayed
42 sayinge: Father yf thou wilt withdrawe this cup fro me. Neverthelesse not my will but thyne be be fulfilled.
43 And ther appered an angell vnto him from heaven confortinge him.
44 And he was in an agonye and prayed somwhat longer. And hys sweate was lyke droppes of bloud tricklynge doune to the grounde.
45 And he rose vp from prayer and came to his disciples and foude them slepinge for sorowe
46 and sayde vnto them: Why slepe ye? Ryse and praye lest ye fall into temptacion.
47 Whill he yet spake: beholde ther came a company and he that was called Iudas one of the twelve wet before them and preased nye vnto Iesus to kysse him.
48 And Iesus sayd vnto him: Iudas betrayest thou ye sonne of man with a kysse?
49 When they which were about him sawe what wolde folow they sayde vnto him. Lorde shall we smite with swearde.
50 And one of them smote a servaut of ye hiest preste of all and smote of his right eare.
51 And Iesus answered and sayd: Soffre ye thus farre forthe. And he touched his eare and healed him.
52 Then Iesus sayde vnto the hye prestes and rulers of the temple and the elders which were come to him. Be ye come out as vnto a thefe with sweardes and staves?
53 When I was dayly with you in the teple ye stretched not forth hondes agaynst me. But this is even youre very houre and the power of darcknes.
54 Then toke they him and ledde him and brought him to the hye prestes housse. And peter folowed a farre of.
55When they had kyndled a fyre in the middes of the palys and were set doune to geder Peter also sate doune amonge them.
56 And wone of the wenches behelde him as he sate by the fyer and set good eyesight on him and sayde: this same was also with him.
57 Then he denyed hym sayinge: woman I knowe him not
58 And after a lytell whyle another sawe him and sayde: thou arte also of them. And Peter sayd man I am not.
59 And aboute the space of an houre after another affirmed sayinge: verely even this felowe was with hym for he is of Galile
60 and Peter sayde: ma I woote not what thou sayest. And immediatly whyll he yet spake the cocke crewe.
61 And the Lorde tourned backe and loked apon Peter. And Peter remembred the wordes of the Lorde how he sayde vnto him before ye cocke crowe thou shalt denye me thryse.
62 And Peter went out and wepte bitterly.
63 And the men that stode about Iesus mocked him and smoote him
64 and blyndfolded him and smoote his face. And axed him sayinge: arede who it is that smoote ye?
65 And many other thinges despytfullye sayd they agaynst him.
66 And assone as it was daye the elders of the people and the hye prestes and scribes came to gedder and ledde him into their counsell sayinge:
67 arte thou very Christ? tell vs. And he sayde vnto the: yf I shall tell you ye will not beleve
68 And yf also I axe you ye will not answere me or let me goo.
69 Herafter shall the sonne of man sit on the ryght honde of the power of God.
70 Then sayde they all: Arte thou then the sonne of God? He sayd to them: ye saye yt I am.
71 Then sayde they: what nede we eny further witnes? We oure selves have herde of his awne mouthe.

Chapter 23
1 And the whole multitude of them arose and ledde him vnto Pylate.
2 And they beganne to accuse him sayinge: We have founde this felowe pervertynge the people and forbiddynge to paye tribute to Cesar: sayinge that he is Christ a kynge.
3 And Pylate apposed him sayinge: arte thou the kynge of the iewes? He answered him and sayde: thou sayest it.
4 Then sayde Pylate to the hye prestes and to the people: I fynde noo faute in this man.
5 And they were the moore fearce sayinge. He moveth the people teachynge thorowout all Iewry and beganne at Galile even to this place.
6 When Pilate hearde mencion of Galile he axed whether the ma were of Galile.
7 And assone as he knewe that he was of Herodes iurisdiccion he sent him to Herode which was also at Ierusalem in those dayes.
8 And when Herode sawe Iesus he was excedinglie gladde. For he was desyrous to se him of a longe season because he had hearde many thinges of him and trusted to have sene some myracle done by him.
9 Then questeoned he with him of many thinges. But he answered him not one worde.
10 The hye prestes and scribes stode forthe and accused him straytly.
11 And Herod wt his men of warre despysed him and mocked him and arayed him in whyte and sent him agayne to Pylate.
12 And the same daye Pylate and Herod were made frendes togeder. For before they were at variaunce.
13 And Pylate called to geder the hye prestes and the rulers and the people
14 and sayde vnto them: Ye have brought this man vnto me as one that perverted the people. And beholde I have examined him before you and have founde no faute in this man of those thinges where of ye accuse him.
15 No nor yet Herode. For I sent you to him: and lo no thinge worthy of deeth is done to him.
16 I will therfore chasten him and let him lowsse.
17 For of necessite he must have let one lowse vnto them at that feast.
18 And all the people cryed at once sayinge: awaye with him and delyvre to vs Barrabas:
19 which for insurrccion made in the cite and morther was cast into preson.
20 Pylate spake agayne to them willynge to let Iesus lowse.
21 And they cryed sayinge: Crucify him Crucify him
22 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.
23 And they cryed with loude voyce and required that he myght be crucifyed. And the voyce of them and of the hye Prestes prevayled.
24 And Pylate gave sentence that it shuld be as they required
25 and let lowse vnto them him that for insurreccion and morther was cast into preson whom they desyred: and delyvered Iesus to do with him what they wolde.
26 And as they ledde him awaye they caught one Symon of Syrene commynge out of the felde: and on him layde they the crosse to beare it after Iesus.
27 And ther folowed him a greate company of people and of wemen which weme bewayled and lamented him.
28 But Iesus turned backe vnto them and sayde: Doughters of Ierusalem wepe not for me: but wepe for youre selves and for youre chyldren.
29 For beholde the dayes will come when men shall saye: happy are the baren and the wombes that never bare and the pappes which never gave sucke.
30 Then shall they beginne to saye to the mountaynes fall on vs: and to the hilles cover vs.
31 For yf they do this to a grene tree what shalbe done to the drye?
32 And ther were two evyll doers ledde with him to be slayne.
33 And when they were come 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.
34 Then sayde Iesus: father forgeve them for they woot not what they do. And they parted his rayment and cast loottes.
35 And the people stode and behelde. And the rulers mocked him with thee saying: he holpe other men let him helpe him selfe yf he be Christ the chosen of god.
36 The soudiers also mocked him and came and gave him veneger
37 and sayde: yf thou be that kynge of ye Iewes save thy silfe.
38 And his superscripcio was writte over him in greke in latine and Ebreu: This is the kynge of the Iewes.
39 And one of the evyll doers which hanged rayled on him sayinge: If thou be Christ save thy selfe and vs.
40 The other answered and rebuked him sayinge. Net herfearest thou god because thou arte in the same damnacion?
41 We are ryghteously punesshed for we receave accordynge to oure dedes: But this man hath done nothinge amysse.
42 And he sayde vnto Iesus: Lorde remember me when thou comest into thy kyngdome.
43 And Iesus sayde vnto him: Verely I saye vnto the to daye shalt thou be with me in Paradyse.
44 And it was about the sixt houre. And ther came a darcknes over all the londe vntyll ye nynth houre
45 and the sonne was darckened. And the vayle of the temple dyd rent even thorow the myddes.
46 And Iesus cryed with a greate voyce and sayd: Father into thy hondes I comende my sprete. And when he thus had sayd he gave vp the goost.
47 When ye Centurion sawe what had happened he glorified God sayinge: Of a surtie this man was perfecte.
48 And all the people that came to geder to that sight beholdynge the thinges which were done: smoote their bestes and returned home.
49 And all his acquayntaunce and the wemen that folowed him from Galile stode a farre of beholdynge these thinges.
50 And beholde ther was a man named Ioseph a councelloure and was a good man and a iuste
51 and dyd not consent to the counsell and dede of them which was of Aramathia a cite of the Iewes: which same also wayted for ye kyngdome of God:
52 he went vnto Pilate and begged the boddy of Iesus
53 and toke it doune and wrapped it in a lynnen clooth and layed it in an hewen toumbe wherin was never man before layed.
54 And that daye was ye Saboth even and the Saboth drue on.
55 The wemen that folowed after which came with him from Galile behelde the sepulcre and how his body was layed.
56 And they returned and prepared odoures and oyntmetes: but rested the Saboth daye accordynge to the commaundement.

∂Chapter 24
1 On the morowe after the saboth erly in the morninge they came vnto the toumbe and brought the odoures which they had prepared and other wemen with them
2 And they founde the stone rouled awaye fro the sepulcre
3 and went in: but founde not the body of the Lorde Iesu.
4 And it happened as they were amased therat: Beholde two men stode by them in shynynge vestures.
5 And as they were a frayde and bowed doune their faces to the erth: they sayd to them: why seke ye the lyvinge amonge the deed?
6 He is not here: but is rysen. Remember how he spake vnto you when he was yet with you in Galile
7 sayinge: that the sonne of man must be delyvered into the hondes of synfull men and be crucified and the thyrde daye ryse agayne.
8 And they remembred his wordes
9 and returned from the sepulcre and tolde all these thinges vnto the eleven and to all the remanaunt.
10 It was Mary Magdalen and Ioanna and Mary Iacobi and other that were with the which tolde these thinges vnto the Apostles
11 and their wordes semed vnto them fayned thinges nether beleved they them.
12 Then aroose Peter and ran vnto the sepulcre and stouped in and sawe the lynnen cloothes layde by them selfe and departed wondrynge in him selfe at that which had happened.
13 And beholde two of them went that same daye to a toune which was fro Ierusalem about thre scoore for longes called Emaus:
14 and they talked togeder of all these thinges that had happened.
15 And it chaunsed as they comened togeder and reasoned that Iesus him selfe drue neare and went with them.
16 But their eyes were holden that they coulde not knowe him.
17 And he sayde vnto them: What maner of comunicacions are these that ye have one to another as ye walke and are sadde.
18 And the one of them named Cleophas answered and sayd vnto him: arte thou only a straunger in Ierusalem and haste not knowen the thinges which have chaunsed therin in these dayes?
19 To whom he sayd: what thinges? And they sayd vnto him: of Iesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet myghtie in dede and worde before god and all the people.
20 And how the hye prestes and oure rulers delyvered him to be condempned to deeth: and have crucified him.
21 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.
22 Ye and certayne wemen also of oure company made vs astonyed which came erly vnto the sepulcre
23 and founde not his boddy: and came sayinge that they had sene a vision of angels which sayde that he was alyve.
24 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.
25 And he sayde vnto the: O foles and slowe of herte to beleve all yt the prophetes have spoken.
26 Ought not Christ to have suffred these thinges and to enter into his glory?
27 And he began at Moses and at all the prophetes and interpreted vnto them in all scriptures which were wrytten of him.
28 And they drue neye vnto the toune wich they went to. And he made as though he wolde have gone further.
29 But they constrayned him sayinge: abyde with vs for it draweth towardes nyght and the daye is farre passed. And he went in to tary with the.
30 And it came to passe as he sate at meate wt them he toke breed blessed it brake and gave to them.
31 And their eyes were openned and they knewe him: and he vnnisshed out of their syght.
32 And they sayde betwene them selves: dyd not oure hertes burne with in vs whyll he talked with vs by the waye and as he opened to vs the scriptures?
33 And they roose vp the same houre and returned agayne to Ierusalem and founde the eleven gadered to geder and them that were with them which
34 sayde: the Lorde is rysen in dede and hath apered to Simon.
35 And they tolde what thinges was done in the waye and how they knewe him in breakynge of breed.
36 As they thus spake Iesus him selfe stode in ye myddes of them and sayde vnto them: peace be with you.
37 And they were abasshed and afrayde supposinge yt they had sene a sprete
38 And he sayde vnto the: Why are ye troubled and why do thoughtes aryse in youre hertes?
39 Beholde my hondes and my fete that it is even my selfe. Handle me and se: for spretes have not flesshe and bones as ye se me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken he shewed them his hondes and his fete.
41 And whyll they yet beleved not for ioye and wondred he sayde vnto the: Have ye here eny meate?
42 And they gave him a pece of a broyled fisshe and of an hony combe.
43 And he toke it and ate it before them.
44 And he sayde vnto the. These are the wordes which I spake vnto you whyll I was yet with you: that all must be fulfilled which were written of me in the lawe of Moses and in the Prophetes and in the Psalmes.
45 Then openned he their wyttes that they myght vnderstond the scriptures
46 and sayde vnto them. Thus is it written and thus it behoved Christ to suffre and to ryse agayne from deeth the thyrde daye
47 and that repentaunce and remission of synnes shuld be preached in his name amonge all nacions and must beginne at Ierusalem.
48 And ye are witnesses of these thinges.
49 And beholde I will sende the promes of my father apon you. But tary ye in ye cite of Ierusalem vntyll ye be endewed with power from an hye.
50 And he ledde the out into Bethany and lyfte vp his hondes and blest them.
51 And it cam to passe as he blessed the he departed from the and was caryed vp in to heven.
52 And they worshipped him and returned to Ierusalem with greate ioye
53 and were continually in the temple praysinge and laudinge God. Amen.