Matthew — The Tyndale New Testament (1534)

The Gospel of Matthew opens Tyndale's revised New Testament of 1534, the edition he "dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke" after his first printing of 1526. It is printed here from the copy in the British Library as keyed by the Text Creation Partnership, in the spelling of 1534; the margin notes are given as footnotes, and the crosses ✚ and ⊢ mark where the lessons read in church begin and end.

Chapter 1

¶ The first Chapter.

1 [A] THis is the boke of the generacion of Iesus Christ the sonne of Dauid / the sonne also of Abraham.¹

2 Abraham begat Isaac: Isaac begat Iacob: Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren:

3 Iudas begat Phares and² zaram of Thamar: Phares begat Hesrom: Hesrom begat Aram:³

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 her⁴ that was the wyfe of Dry:

7 Salomon begat Roboam: Roboam begat Abia: [B] 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 & his brethren aboute⁵ 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 Iosph the husbande of Mary / of which was boren that Iesus / that is called Christ. ⊢

17 All the generacions from Abraham to David [C] are fowretene generaciōs. And frō David vnto the captivite of Babylon / are fowretene generacions. And from the captivite of Babylon vnto Christ / are also fowrtene generaciōs.

18 ✚ The byrthe of Iesus Christ was on thys wyse. When hys mother Mary was betrouthed to Ioseph / before they came to dwell togedder / she was foūde with chylde by yᵉ holy goost.

19 Thē Ioseph her husbande beinge a perfect mā & loth to make an ensample of hir / was⁶ 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 cōceaved in her is of the holy goost.

21 She shall brynge forthe a sonne / & thou shalt call his name Iesus. For he shall save his peple from their synnes. ⊢

22 [D] 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 / & shall brynge forthe a sonne / and they shall call his name Emanuel / which is by interpretacion /⁷ God with vs. ⊢

24 And Ioseph assone as he awoke out of slepe / did as the angell of the Lorde bade hym / & toke hys wyfe vnto hym /

25 and knewe her not⁸ tyll she had brought forth hir fyrst sonne / & called hys name Iesus.

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2

¶ The .ii. Chapter. ✚

1 [A] VVhen Iesus was borne at Bethleem in Iury / in the tyme of Herode the kynge. Beholde / there came wyse mē from the eest to Ierusalem saynge:

2 Where is he yᵗ is borne kynge of yᵉ Iues? We have sene his starre in yᵉ eest / & 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 Bethleē in Iury. For thus it is written by the Prophet.

6 ⁹ And thou Bethleem in the londe of Iury / art not the leest concernynge the Princes of Iuda.¹⁰ For out of the shall come the captayne / that shall govern my people Israhel.

7 Then Herod prevely called the wyse men / [B] and dyligētly enquyred of them / yᵉ tyme of the starre that appered /

8 and sent thē to Bethleem saynge: Goo and searche dyligētly for yᵉ chylde. And when ye have founde hym / bringe me worde / yᵗ I maye come & 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 / & opened their treasures / and offred vnto hym gyftes / gold / frāckynsence 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 [C] of the Lorde appered to Ioseph in dreame sayinge: aryse / and take the chylde and his mother / and flye into Egypte / & abyde there tyll I brynge the worde. For Herod wyll seke the chylde to destroye hym.

14 Thē 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 /¹¹ 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 diligētly searched oute of the wyse men.

17 Then was fulfilled yᵗ which was spoken by the Prophet Ieremy sayinge:¹²

18 On the hilles was a voyce herde / mornynge / wepynge / and [D] greate lamentacion: Rachel wepynge for her chyldren / and wolde not be conforted / because they were not.¹³ ⊢

19 ✚ When Herode was deed: beholde / an angell of yᵉ Lorde appered in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypte

20 sayinge: arise & take yᵉ chylde & his mother / & go into yᵉ londe of Israel. For they are deed which sought yᵉ chyldes life.

21 Thē he arose vp / & toke yᵉ chylde & his mother / & cam into the londe of Israhel.

22 But whē 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 & wēt & dwelt in a cite called Nazareth / to fulfill yᵗ which was spoken by yᵉ Prophetes:¹⁴ he shalbe called a Nazarite ⊢

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3

¶ The .iii. Chapter. ✚

1 [A] IN those dayes Ihon the Baptyst came¹⁵ and preached in the wildernes of Iury /

2 saynge: Repēt / the kyngdome of heuē 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 Ihō had hys garmēt of camels heer and a gerdell of a skynne aboute his loynes.¹⁶ Hys meate was locustes & wylde hony.

5 Thē [B] went oute to hym. Ierusalem / and all Iury / & all yᵉ regiō roūde aboute Iordā /

6 & were baptised of him in Iordā / cōfessynge their synnes ⊢

7 ✚ When he sawe many of yᵉ Pharises & of yᵉ Saduces come to hys baptim / he sayde vnto thē: O generaciō of vipers / who hath taught¹⁷ you to fle frō the vengeaūce to come?

8 Brynge forth therfore the frutes belongynge to repentaūce.

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 Abrahā.

10 Euē nowe is yᵉ axe put vnto yᵉ rote of yᵉ trees: [C] soo that every tree which bringeth not forthe goode frute / is hewē doune & cast into yᵉ fyre.

11 I baptise you in water in tokē of repentaūce:¹⁸ but he yᵗ cometh after me / is myghtier then I / whose shues I am not worthy to beare. He shall baptise you with yᵉ holy gost & with fyre:

12 which hath also his fan in his hōd / & will pourge his floure / & gadre yᵉ wheet into his garner /¹⁹ & will burne yᵉ chaffe with vnquēcheable fyre ⊢

13 ✚ Then cam Iesus from Galile to Iordan / [D] vnto Ihon / to be baptised of hym.

14 But Ihon²⁰ forbade hym / saynge: I ought to be baptysed of the: and cōmest thou to me?

15 Iesus answered & sayd to hym: Let it be so now. For thus it becommeth vs to fulfyll all rightwesnes.²¹ Then he suffred hym.

16 And Iesus assone as he was baptised / came strayght out of yᵉ water. And lo heuē was opē over hym: & 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. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4

¶ The .iiii. Chapter. ✚

1 THen was Iesus ledd awaye of yᵉ spirite [A] into wildernes / to be tempted of yᵉ devyll.

2 And when he had fasted fourtye²² 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.²³

5 Then the devyll tooke hym vp into yᵉ holy [B] cite / and set hym on a pynacle of the tēple /

6 and sayd vnto hym: yf thou be the sonne of God / cast thy sylfe doune. For it is wryttē / he shall²⁴ geve his angels charge over the / and with their handes they shall holde yᵉ vp / that thou dashe not thy fote agaynst a stone.

7 And Iesus sayde to hym / it ys wrytten also: Thou²⁵ 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 / & all yᵉ glorie of them /

9 & sayde to hym: all these will I geue yᵉ / if thou wilt faull doune & worship me.²⁶

10 Then sayde Iesus vnto hym. Avoyd Satan. For it is writtē / thou shalt worshyp yᵉ Lorde thy God / & 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 was²⁷ taken / he departed into Galile

13 and left Nazareth / & went & 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 [C] zabulon & 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 begāne to preache / & to saye: repēt / for yᵉ kīgdome of hevē is at hōde ⊢

18 ✚ As Iesus walked by the see of Galile / he²⁸ sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter / and Andrew his brother / castynge a²⁹ 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 [D] other twoo brethren / Iames the sonne of zebede / and³⁰ Ihon his brother / in the shippe with zebede their father / mendynge their nettes / & called them.

22 And they with out taryinge lefte the shyp & 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 / & all maner dyseases amōge 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 & gripinge / & them yᵗ were possessed with devils / & those which were lunatyke / and those that had the palsie: & he healed thē.

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.

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5

¶ The .v. Chapter. ✚

1 VVhen 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 theirs³¹ 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 for³² 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 Blessed³³ are they which suffre persecuciō 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 & 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:³⁴ but and yf yᵉ salt [B] 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 troadē vnder fote of men.

14 ye are yᵉ light of the worlde.³⁵ A cite yᵗ is set on an hill / cannot be hid /

15 nether do men lyght a cādell 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 [C] 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 /³⁶ 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 shalbe³⁷ called the leest in the kyngdome of hevē. But whosoever obserueth & teacheth / yᵉ same shalbe 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 cānot entre into yᵉ kyngdome of heven. ⊢

21 ye have herde howe it was sayd vnto thē of³⁸ yᵉ olde tyme: Thou shalt not kyll. For whosoever kylleth / shall be in daunger of iudgemēt.

22 But I say vnto you / whosoever is angre with hys brother / shalbe in daunger of iudgement. Whosoeuer sayeth vnto his brother Racha /³⁹ shalbe in daūger of a coūsell. But whosoeuer [D] sayeth thou fole / shalbe in daūger of hell fyre.⁴⁰

23 Therfore whē thou offrest thy gifte at the⁴¹ 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 / whyles⁴² thou arte in yᵉ waye with hym / lest that adversary deliver yᵉ to yᵉ iudge / & yᵉ iudge delivre yᵉ to yᵉ minister / & thē thou be cast into preson.

26 I say vnto yᵉ verely: thou shalt not come out thēce till thou have payed yᵉ vtmost farthīge.

27 ⁴³ ye haue hearde howe it was sayde to thē of⁴⁴ olde tyme: Thou shalt not cōmitt advoutrie.

28 But I say vnto you / that whosoeuer looketh on a wyfe / lustynge after her / hathe cōmitted [E] advoutrie with hir alredy in his hert.⁴⁵

29 ⁴⁶ 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 Also⁴⁷ 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 ⁴⁸ It ys sayd / whosoever put awaye his wyfe / let hym geve her a testymonyall also of the devorcement.⁴⁹

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 [F]⁵⁰ thē of olde tyme / thou shalt not forswere thy selfe / but shalt performe thyne othe to God.

34 But I saye vnto you / swere not at all: nether by heuē / for it ys Goddes seate:

35 nor yet by the erth / for it is his fote stole: nether by Ierusalem / for⁵¹ it ys yᵉ cyte of yᵉ greate kynge:

36 nether shalt thou sweare by thy heed / because thou canst not make one white heer / or blacke:

37 But your cōmunicacion shalbe / ye / ye: nay / nay. For what soeuer is more then yᵗ / cōmeth of yvell.

38 ye have hearde how it ys sayd / an eye for⁵² an eye: a tothe for a tothe.

39 But I saye to you / that ye resist not wrōge. But whosoever geve the a blowe on thy right cheke / tourne to him the other.⁵³

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 cōpell the to goo a myle / goo wyth him twayne.

42 Geve to him that axeth / and frō him that wolde borowe tourne not awaye.

43 [G] ✚ 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.⁵⁴ Blesse thē 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 y[ᵉ] 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 love⁵⁵ you: what rewarde shall ye have? Doo not the Publicans euen so?⁵⁶

47 And yf ye be frendly to youre brethren onlye: what singuler thynge doo ye?

48 Do not the Publicans lyke wyse? ye shall therfore be perfecte / evē as youre father which is in heauen / is perfecte.

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6

¶ The .vi. Chapter.

1 [A]⁵⁷ 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 hevē.

2 ⁵⁸ Whē soever therfore thou gevest thine almes / thou shalt not make a trōpet to be blowē 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 whē thou doest thine almes / let not thy lyfte hād knowe / what thy righte hād doth /

4 yᵗ thine almes may be secret: & thy father [E] which seith in secret / shall rewarde yᵉ opēly ⊢

5 ⁵⁹ And when thou prayest / thou shalt not be as yᵉ ypocrytꝭ are. For they love to stond and praye in the synagogꝭ / and in the corners of yᵉ stretꝭ / 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: & thy father which seith in secret / shall rewarde the openly.

7 ⁶⁰ And whē ye praye / bable not moche / as the [B] hethē do: for they thincke that they shalbe herde / for their moche bablyngꝭ 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.⁶¹⁶² O oure father which arte in hevē / 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 / evē as we forgeve oure trespacers.

13 And leade vs not into tēptacion:⁶³ but delyver vs frō evell. For thyne is yᵉ⁶⁴ kyngedome and yᵉ power / & 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 [C] forgeve youre treaspases.

16 ✚ Moreoure when ye faste / be not sad as yᵉ ypocrytꝭ are. For they disfigure their faces / that they myght besene of mē how they faste. Verely I say vnto you / they have their rewarde.

17 But thou / whē thou fastest / annoynte thyne⁶⁵ heed / and washe thy face /

18 that it appere not vnto men howe that thou fastest: but vnto thy father which is in secrete: & thy father which seeth in secret / shall rewarde the openly.⁶⁶

19 Se that ye gaddre you not treasure vpon yᵉ⁶⁷ erth / where rust & mothes corrupte / & where theves breake through and steale.

20 But gaddre ye treasure to geder in hevē / where nether rust⁶⁸ nor mothes corrupte / & 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. Wherfore⁶⁹ if thyne eye be syngle / all thy body shalbe full of light.

23 ⁷⁰ 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 ✚⁷¹ No mā can serve two masters. For ether he shall hate the one & love the other: or els he shall lene to yᵉ one & despise yᵉ other: ye can not serve God & mammon.

25 Therfore I saye vnto [D]⁷² 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 meat▪ / & the body more of value then rayment?

26 Beholde the foules of yᵉ⁷³ ayer: for they sowe not / nether reepe / nor yet cary in to yᵉ barnes: & yet youre hevēly father fedeth thē. Are ye not moche better thē they?

27 Which of you (though he toke thought therfore) coulde put one cubit vnto his stature?

28 And why care ye then for raymēt?⁷⁴ 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 euē 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 / & 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 wher wᵗ shall we be clothed?

32 After all these thyngꝭ seke the gētyls. For youre hevēly father knoweth that ye have neade of all these thyngꝭ.

33 ⁷⁵ But rather seke yefyrst the kyngdome of heuen & 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.

Notes to Chapter 6

Chapter 7

¶ The .vii. Chapter.

1 ⁷⁶ IUdge not / that ye be not iudged.

2 For as ye iudge so shall ye be iudged. And wᵗ [A] what mesure ye mete / wᵗ the same shall it be mesured to you agayne.

3 Why seist thou a moote in thy brothers eye / & 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 / & 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 ⁷⁷ Geve not that which is holy / to doggꝭ / 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 & it shalbe geven you. Seke & ye shall [B]⁷⁸ fynd. knocke and it shalbe opened vnto you.

8 For who soever axeth receaveth & he yᵗ seketh fyndeth / and to hym that knocketh / it shalbe opened.

9 Ys there eny man amōge you which if his sonne axed hym bread / wolde offer him a stone?

10 Or if he axed fysshe / wolde he proffer hym a serpēt?

11 yf ye then which are evyll / cane geve to youre chyldren good gyftes: how moche moore shall youre father which is in hevē / geve good thynges to them yᵗ axe hym?

12 ⁷⁹ Therfore whatsoever ye wolde that men shulde do to you / even so do ye to them. This ys the lawe and the Prophettes.

13 ⁸⁰ 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 / & narowe ys the waye which leadeth vnto lyfe: and feawe there be that fynde it.

15 ✚⁸¹ Beware of false Prophetes / which come [C] 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 cānot brynge forthe bad frute: nor yet a bad tree can bringe forthe good frute.

19 Every tree that bryngethe not forthe good frute / shalbe hewē doune / & cast into the fyre.

20 Wherfore by their frutes ye shall knowe thē.

21 Not all they that saye vnto me /⁸² 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. Departe⁸³ from me / ye workers of iniquite.

24 Who soever heareth of me these sayinges⁸⁴ and doethe the same / I wyll lyken hym vnto a wyse man which bylt hys housse on a rocke:

25 & aboundance of rayne descended / & the fluddes came / & 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 & doth thē not / shalbe lykened vnto a folysh man which bilt⁸⁵ hys housse apō the sonde:

27 & abundaūce of rayne descended / & 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 had⁸⁶ ended these saynges / the people were astonnyed at hys doctryne.

29 For he taught them as one havynge power / and not as the Scribes.

Notes to Chapter 7

Chapter 8

¶ The .viii. Chapter. ✚

1 VVhen he was come downe from the [A]⁸⁷ moūtayne / moch people folowed him.

2 ⁸⁸ 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 / & 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 / & offer the gyfte that Moses cōmaunded / in witnes to them.⁸⁹

5 ✚ When Iesus was entred into Capernaū⁹⁰⁹¹ ther came vnto him a certayne Centurion / & besought hym sayinge:

6 Master my seruaunt lyeth sicke at home of yᵉ palsye / & ys greuously payned.

7 And Iesus sayd vnto hym: I will come & heale him.

8 The Centuriō answered & sayde: Syr I am not worthy yᵗ thou shuldest come vnder my rofe / but speake yᵉ worde only & my servaūt shalbe healed.

9 For I also my selfe am a man vndre power / & have sowdiers vndre me / & I saye to one / go / & he goeth / & to anothre come / & he cometh: & to my seruaūt / do this / & he doeth it.

10 When Iesus hearde yᵗ / he [B] marveled & sayd to them yᵗ folowed hym. Verely I say vnto you / I have not foūde so great fayth: no / not in Israel.

11 I say therfore vnto you that many shall come frō the eest & weest / and shall rest wᵗ Abraham / Isaac & Iacob in the kingdome of hevē:

12 ⁹² & the chyldren of yᵉ kyngdome shalbe cast out in to vtter darcknes: there shalbe wepinge & gnasshing of tethe.

13 Thē 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 ⁹³ 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 euē was come / they brought vnto him many yᵗ were possessed with devyllis.⁹⁴ And he cast out yᵉ spirites with a worde / and healed all yᵗ were sicke /

17 to fulfill yᵗ which was spokē by Esayas yᵉ Prophet sayinge. He toke on him oure infirmities / & bare oure sickneses

18 Whē Iesus sawe moche people about him / [C]⁹⁵ he cōmaunded to go over yᵉ water.

19 And ther came a scribe & sayd vnto hym: master / I wyll folowe yᵉ whyther so ever thou goest.

20 And Iesus sayd vnto him:⁹⁶ the foxes have holes / and the bryddꝭ of the ayer have nestes / but yᵉ sonne of the man hath not wherō to rest his heede.

21 A nothre yᵗ was one of hys disciples sayd vnto hym: master /⁹⁷ suffre me fyrst / to go & 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 / & his disciples⁹⁸ folowed him.

24 And beholde there arose a a greate tēpest in yᵉ see / in so moche yᵗ the shippe was covered wᵗ waves / & he was a slepe.⁹⁹

25 And his disciples came vn to him / & 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 & rebuked yᵉ wyndes & the see / & ther folowed a greate calme.

27 And the men marveyled & sayd: what man is this / that bothe wyndes and see obey hym? ⊢

28 And when he was come to yᵉ other syde / in [D]¹⁰⁰ to yᵉ coūtre of yᵉ Gergesites¹⁰¹ / ther met him two possessed of devylles / which came out of the graves / & were out of measure fearce / so yᵗ no mā 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 tormēt vs before the tyme be come?

30 And ther was a good waye of frō them a greate heerd of swyne fedinge.

31 Then yᵉ devylꝭ 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 thē: go youre wayes. Then wēt they out / & departed into yᵉ heerd of swyne And beholde yᵉ whoale heerd of swyne was caryed wᵗ violence hedlinge in to the see / & perisshed in yᵉ water.

33 Then yᵉ heerdmē fleed & wēt their ways in to yᵉ cyte / & tolde every thinge / & what had fortuned vnto the possessed of the devyls.

34 And beholde all the cyte came out & met Iesus. And when they sawe hym / they besought hym to departe oute of their coste.

Notes to Chapter 8

Chapter 9

¶ The .ix. Chapter. ✚

1 THen he entred in to a shippe and passed [A]¹⁰² over & came in to his awne cite.

2 And lo / they brought to him a mā sicke of yᵉ palsie / lyinge in his bed. And when Iesus sawe yᵉ faith of thē / he sayd to the sicke of yᵉ palsie: sonne be of good chere / thy sinnes be forgevē the.

3 And beholde certeyne of yᵉ scribes sayd in thēselves / this mā blasphemeth.

4 And whē Iesus sawe their thoughtes / he sayd: wherfore thinke ye evill in youre herte?

5 Whether ys esyer to saye / thy synnes be forgeven yᵉ / or to saye: arise & walke?

6 ¹⁰³ That ye maye knowe that yᵉ sonne of mā hath power to forgeve sinnes in erth / then sayd he vnto yᵉ sicke of yᵉ palsye: arise / take vp thy beed / & go home to thine housse.

7 And he arose & departed to his awne housse.

8 And when yᵉ people sawe it / they marveyled & glorified god which had gevē suche power to mē. ⊢

9 ✚ And as Iesus passed forth frō thence / he [B]¹⁰⁴ sawe a mā syt a receyuinge of custome / named Mathew / and sayd to him: folowe me. And he¹⁰⁵ arose & folowed him.

10 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:¹⁰⁶ 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:¹⁰⁷ 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 hym¹⁰⁸ sayinge: why do we & 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 whē the bridegrome shalbe takē frō them / & then shall they faste.

16 ¹⁰⁹ Noo man peceth and olde garment with a pece of newe cloothe. For then taketh he awaye yᵉ pece agayne from the garmēt / & the rent ys made greater.

17 Nether do men put newe wyne into olde vessels / for then the vessels breake / & the wyne runneth oute / and the vessels perysshe. But they powre newe wyne into newe vessels / and so are both saved togeder. ⊢

18 ✚¹¹⁰ Whyls he thus spake vnto thē / beholde [C] ther came a certayne ruler / & worshipped him sayinge: my doghter is euen now deceased / but come & lay thy honde on her / & she shall live.

19 And Iesus arose and folowed hym with hys disciples.

20 ¹¹¹ And beholde / a woman which was diseased wᵗ an yssue of bloude .xii. yeres / came behynde hym & 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 / & 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 / & 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 [D] men folowed hym crying and saying: O thou sonne of David / have mercy on vs.

28 ¹¹² 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 thē 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 mā possessed af a devyll.

33 And as¹¹³ sone as the devyll was cast oute /¹¹⁴ 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.¹¹⁵

35 And Iesus went about all cities & tounes / teachynge in their synagogꝭ & preachyng the glad tidinges of yᵉ kyngdome / & healinge all maner sicknes & desease amōge yᵉ people.

36 But when he sawe the people / he had cōpassion on thē / because they were pyned awaye / & scattered abroade / evē as shepe havīge no shepherd.

37 Then sayde he to hys disciples:¹¹⁶ the hervest is greate / but the laborers are feawe.

38 Wherfore praye the Lorde of the harvest / to sende forthe laborers into hys harvest.

Notes to Chapter 9

Chapter 10

¶ The .x. Chapter.

1 ANd he called his .xii. disciples vnto [A]¹¹⁷ hym / & gave them power over vnclene sprites / to cast them oute / & to heale all maner of sicknesses / & 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 & 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.

5 ¹¹⁸ These. xii. sent Iesus / & cōmaunded them¹¹⁹ sayinge: Go not in to yᵉ wayes yᵗ leade to the gentyls / & 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 & preach sayinge: yᵉ the kyngdome of hevē 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 workmā is worthy to have his meate.

11 In to whatsoever cite or toune¹²⁰ ye shall come / enquyre who ys worthy yn it / and there abyde till ye goo thence.

12 And whē ye come in to an housse salute yᵉ [B] 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:¹²¹ 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 & Gomorra in the daye of iudgement / then for that cite.

16 ¹²² Beholde I sende you forthe as shepe amōge wolves. Be ye therfore wyse as serpētes / & innocent as doves.

17 Beware of men / for they shall deliver you vp to yᵉ cousels / & 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 sspeake / for yt shalbe gevē you / evē in that same houre / what ye shall saye.

20 ¹²³ For it is not ye that speke / but yᵉ sprite of your father which speaketh in you.

21 The brother shall betraye the brother to¹²⁴ deeth / & the father the sonne. And the chyldrē shall aryse agaynste their fathers & mothers / & shall put them to deethe:

22 & ye shall be hated of all mē for my name. But he that endureth to the ende / shalbe saved.

23 [C] 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.

24 ¹²⁵ The disciple ys not above hys master: nor yet yᵉ servaūt above his lorde.

25 It is ynough for the disciple to be as hys master ys / & 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 thē not therfore. There is no thinge so close / that shall not¹²⁶ 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.

28 ¹²⁷ 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.

29 ¹²⁸ 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.

32 ¹²⁹ Who soever therfore shall knowledge me before men / hym will I knowledge also before my father which is in heuen.

33 ¹³⁰ 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 [D] into the erth.¹³¹ 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.¹³²

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 & foloweth me / ys not mete for me.

39 He that [A] fyndeth hys lyfe / shall lose it: and he that losith hys lyfe for my sake / shall fynde it.¹³³

40 ¹³⁴ 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.¹³⁵ 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.

Notes to Chapter 10

Chapter 11

The .xi. Chapter.

1 ANd it came to passe when Iesus had made an ende of cōmaundinge his .xii. disciples / that he departed thence / to teache and to preache in their cities.

2 ✚¹³⁶ 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 & 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 wēt ye out in to the wyldernes? wēt ye out to se a rede shakē with yᵉ wynde?

8 other what wēt ye out for to se? A man clothed in soofte raymēt? Beholde they yᵗ weare soofte clothīg / are [B] in kynges howses.

9 But what wēt ye oute for to se? A prophete? Ye I saye to you / & more thē a prophete.

10 For this is he of whō it is wryttē.¹³⁷ 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.¹³⁸

12 From the tyme of Ihon Baptist hytherto / yᵉ kyngdome of hevē suffreth violence / & they that go to it with violence pluck it vn to them.

13 For all the prophetꝭ & the lawe prophesyed vnto to the tyme of Ihon.

14 Also yf ye wyll receave it / this is Helyas which shuld come.¹³⁹

15 He yᵗ hathe eares to heare let him heare. ⊢

16 But wher vnto shall I lyken this generacion?¹⁴⁰ It ys lyke vnto chyldrē which syt in the market & call vnto their felowes /

17 & saye: we have pyped vnto you / & ye have not daunsed? We have morned vnto you / & ye have not sorowed.

18 [C] For Ihon came nether eatinge nor drinkinge / and they saye / he hath the devyll.

19 The sonne of man came eatinge and drinkinge / & they saye / beholde a glutton & drynker of wyne / & a frend vnto publicās & synners.¹⁴¹ Neverthelater wysdome ys iustified of hir children.

20 ✚ Then begā he to vpbrayd the cities / in which most of his miracles were done / because they mēded not.

21 ¹⁴² Wo be to yᵉ Chorasin. Wo be to yᵉ Betzaida: for if the miracles which were shewd in you / had bene done in Tyre & Sidon / they had repented longe agone in sackcloth & asshes.

22 Neverthelesse I say to you: it shall be esier for Tyre & Sidon at the day of iudgemēt / then for you.

23 And thou Capernaū which art lift vp vnto hevē / 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 zodō in the daye of iudgemēt / thē for yᵉ. ⊢

25 [D] ✚¹⁴³ At yᵗ tyme Iesus answered & sayd: I prayse yᵉ o father lorde of hevē & erth / because thou hast hid these thingꝭ frō the wyse & prudēt / & hast opened thē vnto babes:¹⁴⁴

26 evē so father / for so it pleased yᵉ.

27 All thingꝭ are gevē vnto me of my father. And nomā knoweth yᵉ sonne but yᵉ father: nether knoweth eny mā yᵉ father / save yᵉ sonne / & he to whome yᵉ sonne will opē him.¹⁴⁵

28 Come vnto me all ye that laboure & are laden / & I wyll ease you.

29 Take my yoke on you & lerne of me / for I am meke & lowly in herte: and ye shall fynd rest vnto youre soules.

30 For my yoke is easy / and my burden is light. ⊢¹⁴⁶

Notes to Chapter 11

Chapter 12

¶ The .xii. Chapter. ✚

1 ¹⁴⁷ IN that tyme went Iesus on the Sabot dayes thorow the corne & his disciples [A] were an hōgred / & 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 thē:¹⁴⁸ Haue ye not reed what David did / whē he was anhon̄gered / & they also which were with him?

4 How he entred into the housse of God / & ate yᵉ halowed loves¹⁴⁹ / which were not lawfull / for him to eate / nether for thē 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 / & yet are blamlesse?

6 But I saye vnto you: that here is one greater then yᵉ tēple.

7 Wherfore yf ye had wist what this sayinge meneth:¹⁵⁰ I require mercy & not sacrifice: ye wold never have condēned innocētes.

8 For yᵉ sonne of man is lord even of yᵉ saboth daye.

9 ¹⁵¹ And he departed thence / & went into their synagoge:¹⁵²

10 & beholde ther was a man / whiche [B] 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 thē:¹⁵³ whiche of you wolde it be / yf he had a shepe fallen into a pitte on yᵉ saboth daye / that wolde not take him & lyft him out?

12 And how moche is a man better thē a shepe? Wherfore it is lefull to do a good dede on the saboth dayes.

13 Then sayde he to yᵉ mā: stretch forth thy hād. And he stretched it forthe. And it was made whole agayne lyke vnto yᵉ other.

14 ✚ Then yᵉ Pharyses wēt out / & helde a coūsell [B] agaynst hym / how they myght destroye hym.

15 When Iesus knewe yᵗ / he departed thēce / & moche people folowed him / and he healed thē all /

16 & charged thē / that they shuld not make him knowē:

17 to fulfyll that which was spoden by Esay yᵉ Prophet / which sayeth.

18 ¹⁵⁴ Beholde my chylde / whō I have chosen / my beloved / in whō my soule deliteth. I wyll put my sprete on hym / & he shall shewe iudgemēt 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 / & flaxe that begynneth to burne / he shall not quēche / tyll he sende forth iudgement vnto victory /

21 & in hys name shall the gentyls truste. ⊢

22 [C]¹⁵⁵ Then was brought to hym / one possessed with a devyll which was both blynde & domme: & he healed hym / insomoch that he which was blynd and domme / both spake and sawe.

23 And all the people were amased / & 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 by¹⁵⁶ the helpe of Belzebub yᵉ chefe of the devyls.

25 But Iesus knewe their thoughtes / & sayde to thē. Every kingdome devided wᵗ in it sylfe / shalbe brought to naught. Nether shall eny cite or housholde devyded agēst it sylfe / cōtynue.

26 So if satā cast out satā / thē 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 mā enter into a strōge mānes housse / and violently take awaye his goodes: excepte he fyrst binde yᵉ strōge man / & thē spoyle his housse?

30 ✚ He that is not wᵗ me / is agaynst me. And he yᵗ gaddereth not wᵗ me / scattereth abrode.¹⁵⁷

31 Wherfore I say vnto you / all maner of synne & 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.

33 ¹⁵⁸ Ether make yᵉ tree good / & his frute good also: or els make yᵉ tree evyll / & his frute evyll also.¹⁵⁹ For yᵉ tree is knowē by his frute.

34 O generaciō of viperes / how can ye saye well whē ye youre selves are evyll? For of yᵉ aboundāce of the hert / yᵉ mouthe speaketh.

35 A good mā 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.

36 ¹⁶⁰ 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: & by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned. ⊢

38 ✚ Then answered certeyne of the scribes &¹⁶¹ of the Pharises sayinge:¹⁶² Master / we wolde fayne se a sygne of yᵉ.

39 He answered & sayde to thē: The evyll & advoutrous generaciō seketh a signe / but ther shall no signe be gevē to thē /¹⁶³ saue the signe of the Prophete Ionas.

40 For as Ionas was thre dayes & thre nyghtes in the whales belly: soo shall yᵉ sonne of man be thre dayes & thre nyghtes in yᵉ hert of yᵉ erth.

41 ¹⁶⁴ The [D] men of Ninivie shall rise at the daye of iugdement with this nacion / & condemne them: for they amended at yᵉ preachinge of Ionas. And beholde / a greater then Ionas is here.

42 ¹⁶⁵ The quene of yᵉ south shall ryse at yᵉ daye of iudgement with this generacion / & shall condemne thē: for she came frō the vtmost parties of the worlde to heare the wysdome of Salomon. And beholde a greater then Salomō is here.

43 ¹⁶⁶ When the vnclene sprite is gone out of a man / he walketh throughout dry places / seking reest & fyndeth none.

44 Then he sayeth: I will retourne ageyne into my housse / frō whēce I came oute. And when he is come / he fyndeth the housse empty & swepte & garnisshed.

45 Then he goeth his waye / & taketh vnto him seven other spretes worsse then him silfe / & 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.

46 ¹⁶⁷ 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 brethrē stonde without / desiringe to speke wᵗ the.

48 He answered & 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 hevē / the same is my brother / suster & mother. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 12

Chapter 13

¶ The .xiii. Chapter.

1 [A]¹⁶⁸ THe same daye wēt Iesus out of yᵉ house / & sat by the see syde /

2 & moch people resorted vnto him / so gretly yᵗ he wēt & sat in a shippe / & all the people stode on yᵉ shoore.

3 And he spake many thynges to thē in similitudes / sayinge:¹⁶⁹ Beholde / yᵉ sower wēt forth to sowe.

4 And as he sowed / some fell by yᵉ wayes syde / & the fowlle came & devoured it vp.

5 Some fell apō stony groūde where it had not moche erth / & a nōne it sprōge vp / because it had no depth of erth:

6 & when yᵉ sunne was vp / it cauht heet / & for lake of rotynge wyddred awaye.

7 Some fell amōge thornes / & the thornes sprōge vp & chooked it.

8 Parte fell in good groūd / & brought forth good frute: some an hūdred 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: [B] Why speakest thou to thē in parables?

11 He answered & sayde vnto them: it is gevē vnto you to knowe yᵉ secretꝭ of the kyngdome of hevē / but to thē it is not gevē¹⁷⁰

12 For whosoever hath to him shall be geven: and he shall have aboundance. But whosoever hath not: frō hym shal be takyn a waye even that he hath.

13 Therfore speake I to them in similitudes: for though they se / they se not: & hearinge they heare not: nether vnderstonde.

14 And in thē 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.

15 ¹⁷¹ For this peoples hertes are wexed grosse / & their eares were dull of herynge / & their eyes have they closed / lest they shuld se with their eyes / & heare with their eares / & shuld vnderstonde with their hertꝭ / & shuld tourne / that I myght heale them.

16 [C]¹⁷² But blessed are youre eyes / for they se: & youre eares / for they heare.

17 Verely I say vnto you / that many Prophetꝭ & perfaicte mē have desired to se tho thingꝭ which ye se / & have not sene thē: & to heare tho thingꝭ which ye heare / & have not herde thē.

18 ¹⁷³ Heare ye therfore yᵉ similitude of the sower.

19 Whosoever heareth the worde of yᵉ kingdome / & vnderstondeth it not / ther cometh the evyll mā & catcheth awaye yᵗ which was sowne in his hert. And this is he which was sowne by the waye syde.

20 But he yᵗ was sowne in yᵉ stony groūde / is he which heareth the worde of God / & anōne wᵗ ioye receaveth it /

21 yet hath he no rotte in him selfe / & therfore dureth but a season: for assone as tribulacion or persecucion aryseth because of the worde / by & by he falleth.

22 He yᵗ was sowne amōge thornes / is he yᵗ heareth yᵉ worde of God: but the care of this worlde / & the dissaytfulnes of ryches choke yᵉ worde / & so is he made vnfrutfull.

23 He which is sowne in yᵉ good grounde / is he yᵗ heareth yᵉ worde & vnderstōdeth it / which also bereth frute & bringeth forth / some an .C. folde / some sixtie folde / & some .xxx. folde.

24 Another similitude put he forth vnto thē [D] sayinge: ✚¹⁷⁴ The kyngdome of hevē is lyke vnto a man which sowed good seed in his felde.

25 But whyll men slepte / ther came his foo & sowed tares amōge yᵉ wheate / & wēt his waye.

26 When yᵉ blade was sprōge vp & had brought forth frute / thē appered yᵉ tares also.

27 The servaunte came to the housholder / & sayde vnto him: Syr sowedest not thou good seed in thy closse / frō whēce thē hath it tares?

28 He sayde to thē / the envious mā hath done this. Then yᵉ servaunte sayde vnto him: wilt thou then yᵗ we go & 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 rotte:

30 let bothe growe to gether tyll harvest come / & in tyme of harvest / I wyll saye to the repers / gather ye fyrst yᵉ tares / & bind thē in sheves to be brēt: but gather the wheete into my barne. ⊢

31 ✚ [E]¹⁷⁵ Another parable he put forthe vnto thē sayinge. The kyngdome of hevē is lyke vnto a grayne of mustard seed / which a mā taketh & soweth in his felde /

32 which is yᵉ leest of all seedes. But when it is groune / it is the greatest amōge yerbes / & it is a tree: so yᵗ the bryddes of the ayer come & bylde in the braūches of it.

33 ¹⁷⁶ Another similitude sayde he to them. The kyngdome of heven is lyke vnto levē which a woman taketh and hydeth in .iii. peckes of meele / tyll all be levended.

34 ¹⁷⁷ All these thyngꝭ spake Iesus vnto the people by similitudes / & with oute similitudes spake he nothinge to them /

35 to fulfyll that which was spokē by the Prophet sayinge:¹⁷⁸ I wyll opē my mouth in similitudꝭ / and wyll speake forth thinges which have bene kepte secrete from the begynninge of the worlde. ⊢

36 ✚ Then sent Iesus yᵉ people awaye / & came to housse. And his disciples came vnto him / sayinge: declare vnto vs the similitude of the tares of the felde.

37 ¹⁷⁹ Then answered he & sayde to them. He that soweth the good seed / is the sonne of man.

38 And yᵉ felde is the worlde. And the chyldrē of the kingdome / they are yᵉ good seed. And the tares are the chyldren of yᵉ wicked.

39 And the enemye that soweth thē / is yᵉ devell.¹⁸⁰ The harvest is yᵉ end of the worlde. And the repers be yᵉ angels.

40 For evē as the tares are gaddred & brēt in yᵉ fyre: so shall it be in yᵉ ende of this worlde.

41 The sonne of man shall [F] send forth his angels / & they shall gather out of his kyngdome all thingꝭ 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.¹⁸¹ Whosoever hath eares to heare / let him heare. ⊢

44 ✚¹⁸² Agayne yᵉ kyngdome of hevē is lyke vnto treasure hidde in the felde / yᵉ which a man fyndeth & hideth: and for ioy therof goeth & selleth all that he hath / & byeth that felde.

45 ¹⁸³ Agayne yᵉ kyngdome of hevē is lyke vnto a marchaunt that seketh good pearles /

46 which when he had founde one precious pearle / wēt and solde all that he had / and bought it.

47 ¹⁸⁴ Agayne the kyngdome of hevē is lyke vnto a neet cast into yᵉ see / yᵗ gadereth of all kynde of fysshes:

48 which whē it is full / men drawe to londe / & sitte & gadre the good in to vessels / & cast the bad awaye.

49 So shall it be at the ende of the worlde. The angels shall come oute / & sever the bad from the good /

50 & shall cast them in to a furnes of fyre: there shalbe waylinge and gnasshynge of teth.

51 Iesus sayde vnto them: vnderstonde ye all [G] these thyngꝭ? They sayde / ye Lorde.

52 ¹⁸⁵ Thē sayde he vnto them: Therfore every scribe which is taught vnto the kyngdome of hevē / is lyke an housholder / which bryngeth forth / out of hys treasure / thyngꝭ bothe new and olde. ⊢

53 ¹⁸⁶ And it came to passe when Iesus had finisshed these similitudꝭ / yᵗ he departed thēce /

54 & came in to his awne coūtre / & taught them in their synagogꝭ / in so moche yᵗ they were astonyed¹⁸⁷ & sayde: whēce cometh all this wysdome & power vnto him?

55 Is not this the carpēters sonne? Is not his mother called Mary? & his brethrē be called Iames & Ioses & Simō & Iudas?

56 And are not his susters all here wᵗ vs? Whēce hath he all these thyngꝭ.

57 And they were offended by him.¹⁸⁸ Thē Iesus sayd to thē a Prophet is not wᵗ out honoure / save in hys awne countre / & amōge his awne kynne.

58 And he dyd not many miracles there / for there vnbelefes sake.

Notes to Chapter 13

Chapter 14

¶¶ The .xiiii. Chapter.

1 [A]¹⁸⁹ AT that tyme Herod the tetrarcha hearde of the fame of Iesu /

2 and sayde vnto his servaūtes: This is Ihon yᵉ baptist. He is risen agayne from deeth / & therfore are soche myracles wrought by him.

3 ¹⁹⁰ 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 Herodꝭ birth daye was come / the doughter of Herodias daunsed before them / & pleased Herod.

7 Wherfore he promised wᵗ an oth / that he wolde geve hir what soever she wolde axe.

8 And she beinge informed of her mother before / sayde: geve me here Ihon baptistꝭ 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 cōmaunded yt to be geven hir:

10 ¹⁹¹ and sent & beheeded Ihon in the preson /

11 and his heed was brought in a platter & geven to the damsell / & she brought it to her mother.

12 And his disciples came & toke vp his body / & 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. [B]¹⁹² And when the people had hearde ther of / they folowed him a fote out of their cities.

14 And Iesus went forth & sawe moche people / & 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 / & the daye is spent: let the people departe / yᵗ they maye go in to yᵉ tounes / & bye them vytayllis.

16 But Iesus sayde vnto them. They have no neade to go awaye. Geve ye thē to eate.

17 ¹⁹³ Then sayde they vnto him: we have here but .v. loves & two fysshes.

18 And he sayde: bringe thē hyther to me.

19 And he cōmaunded yᵉ people to syt downe on yᵉ grasse: & toke yᵉ .v. loves / & the .ii. fysshes & loked vp to heven & blessed / & brake and gave the loves to his disciples / & the disciples gave them to yᵉ people.

20 And they dyd all eate / and were suffised. And they gadered vp of yᵉ gobbetꝭ that remayned xii. basketꝭ full.

21 And they yᵗ ate / were in nōbre about .v. M. men / besyde wemen & chyldren.

22 [C]¹⁹⁴ 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 moūtayne alone to praye. And when nyght was come / he was there him silf alone.

24 And the shippe was now in the middes of the see / and was toost with waves / for it was a cōtrary wynde.

25 ¹⁹⁵ 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 / & cryed out for feare.

27 And streyght waye Iesus spake vnto them sayinge: be of god cheare / it is I / be not a frayed.

28 ¹⁹⁶ Peter answered him / & 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 hōde / & caught him / & 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.

34 ¹⁹⁷ 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 / & brought vnto him all that were sicke /

36 & besought him / that they myght touche the hemme of his vesture only.¹⁹⁸ And as many as touched it were made safe.

Notes to Chapter 14

Chapter 15

¶ The .xv. Chapter. ✚

[A]¹⁹⁹

1 THen came to Iesus scribes & pharises from Ierusalem / sayinge:

2 ²⁰⁰ why do thy disciples transgresse the tradiciōs of yᵉ elders? for they wesshe not their hondꝭ / when they eate breed.

3 He answered / and sayde vnto them: why do ye also transgresse yᵉ cōmaundment of God / thorowe youre tradicions?

4 For God cōmaunded / sayinge: honoure thy father & mother / & he that cursseth father or mother / shall suffer deeth.

5 But ye saye / every mā shall saye to his father or mother: That which thou desyrest of me to helpe yᵉ with: is geven God:

6 & so shall he not honoure his father or his mother. And thus haue ye made / yᵗ the cōmaundment of God is with out effecte / through youre tradiciōs.

7 Ypocritꝭ well prophesyed of you²⁰¹ 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 but²⁰² mens precepts.

10 And he called the people vnto him / & sayde [B] to them: heare and vnderstande.

11 ²⁰³ That which goeth in to 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 / & sayde:²⁰⁴ all plantes which my hevēly 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 in to the dyche.²⁰⁵

15 Then answered Peter & sayd to him: declare vnto vs this parable.

16 Then sayde Iesus: are ye yet with oute vnderstondinge?

17 perceaye ye not / that what soever goeth in at the mouth / descendeth doune in to the bely / & is cast out in to the draught?

18 ²⁰⁶ 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 / whordō / 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 ✚ [C]²⁰⁷ And Iesus went thence / & departed in to the costis of Tyre and Sidon.

22 And beholde a woman which was a Cananite came out of yᵉ same ceostis / & 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 / & 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 & worshipped him / sayinge: master helpe me.

26 He answered & sayde: it is not good / to take the chyldrens breed / & to cast it to whelpes.

27 She answered and sayde: truthe Lorde: neverthelesse the whelpes eate of the crōmes / 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. ⊢

29 ²⁰⁸ Then Iesus went awaye from thence & 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 thē / 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 dōme 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 / & sayde: I have compassion on yᵉ people / because²⁰⁹ they have cōtynued with me now. iii. dayes / & have nought to eate: & I wyll not let them departe fastinge / leste they perisshe in yᵉ waye.

33 And his disciples sayd vnto him: whēce shuld we get so moche breed in yᵉ wildernes / as shuld suffise so greate a mustitude?

34 And Iesus sayde vnto them: how many loves have ye? And they sayde: seven / and a feawe litle fysshes.

35 And he cōmaunded yᵉ people to syt doune on yᵉ grounde:

36 & toke the seven loves / & the fysshes / & gave thankes / and brake them / and gave to his disciples / & the disciples gave them to the people.

37 And they dyd all eate & were suffised. And they toke vp of the brokē meate that was lefte .vii. baskete full.

38 And yet they that ate were .iiii. M. men / besyde wemen & chyldren.

39 And he sent awaye the people / and toke shippe and came into the parties of Magdala.

Notes to Chapter 15

Chapter 16

¶ The .xvi. Chapter.

1 [A]²¹⁰ THen came the pharises & saduces / & did tempte him / desyringe him to shewe them some signe from hevē.

2 He answered & sayde vnto thē. At even ye saye / we shall have fayre wedder / & yᵗ because yᵉ skye is reed:

3 & in the morninge ye saye / to daye shalbe foule wedder / and that because the skye is cloudy & reed. O ye ypocrites / ye can discerne yᵉ fassion of the skye: & can ye not discerne yᵉ signes of the tymes?

4 The frowarde nacion & advoutrous seketh a signe /²¹¹ and there shall non other signe be geven vnto them / but the signe of the prophet Ionas. So lefte he them & departed.

5 And when his disciples were come to the [B] other side of the water / they had forgottē to take breed with thē.

6 ²¹² Then Iesus sayd vnto them: Take hede and beware of the levē of yᵉ Pharises & 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 thē. O ye of lytell faith / why are youre mindes cumbred because ye have brought no breed?

9 Do ye not yet perceave / nether remēber those .v. loves when there were .v. M. men / & how many baskettꝭ toke ye vp?

10 Nether the .vii. lones / when there were .iiiii. M. & how many baskettes toke ye vp?

11 Why pereeave ye not then / yᵗ I spake not vnto you of breed / whē I sayde / beware of the leven of the Pharises & of the Saduces?

12 Thē 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 ✚ [C]²¹³ When Iesus cam in to the coste of the cite which is called Cesarea Philippi / he axed his disciples sayinge: whom do men saye yᵗ I the sonne of mā am?

14 They saide / some saye yᵗ thou arte Ihon Baptist / some Helias / some Ieremias / or one of yᵉ prophetꝭ.

15 He sayde vnto thē: but whō saye ye yᵗ I am?

16 Simō Peter answered & sayde: Thou arte Christ yᵉ sonne of the lyvinge God.

17 ²¹⁴ And Iesus answered & sayde to him: happy arte thou Simon the sonne of Ionas / for fleshe & bloud hath not opened vnto the yᵗ / but my father which is in hevē.

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 what soever thou byndest vpon erth / shall be bounde in heven: and what soever 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 [D] yᵗ tyme forth / Iesus began to shewe vnto his disciples / how yᵗ he must go vnto Ierusalem / & suffer²¹⁵ many thingꝭ of yᵉ Elders / & of yᵉ hye prestes / & of the scribes / & must be killed / & ryse agayne yᵉ thirde daye.

22 But Peter toke him a syde / & began to rebuke him sayinge: master faver thy sylfe this shall not come vnto the.

23 Then tourned he aboute / & sayde vnto Peter: come after me Satan²¹⁶ / thou offendest me / because thou sauourest not godly thingꝭ / but wordly thingꝭ

24 Iesus then sayde to his disciples. If eny man wyll folowe me / leet him forsake him sylfe²¹⁷ / 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 sake²¹⁸ / 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?

27 ²¹⁹ For the sonne of man shall come in the glory of his father / wᵗ his angels: & then shall he rewarde every man accordinge to his dedes.²²⁰

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.

Notes to Chapter 16

Chapter 17

¶ The .xvii. Chapter. ✚

1 [A]²²¹ ANd after .vi. dayes Iesus toke Peter & Iames & Ihon his brother / & 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 / & his clothes were as whyte as the light.

3 And beholde ther appered vnto thē / Moses & Helyas / talkinge with him.

4 Then answered Peter / & sayde to Iesus: master here is good beinge for vs. If thou wylt / leet vs make here .iii. tabernacles / one for the / & 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:²²² 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.

9 ²²³ And as they came doune from the mountayne / Iesus charged them sayinge: se yᵗ ye shewe the vision to no man / vn tyll 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:

11 ²²⁴ Iesus answered / & sayd vnto them: Helyas shall fyrst come / and restore all thingꝭ.

12 And I saye vnto you yᵗ Helyas is come alredy / and they knewe him not: but have done vnto him what soever they lusted. In lyke wyse shall also the sonne of man suffre of thē.

13 Then yᵉ disciples perceuved that he spake vnto them of Ihon baptist.

14 ²²⁵ And when they were come to yᵉ people / ther cam to him a certayne man / & kneled doune to him / & sayde:

15 Master have mercy on my sonne [C] for he is franticke: & is sore vexed. And oft tymes he falleth into the fyre / & oft into yᵉ water▪

16 And I brought him to thy disciples / & they coulde not heale him.

17 Iesus answered & sayde: O generacion faythles & 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 cā out of him. And yᵉ child was healed even yᵗ same houre ⊢

19 ²²⁶ Then came the disciples to Iesus secretly & sayde: Why could not we cast him out?

20 Iesus sayd vnto thē:²²⁷ 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 moūtayne / remove hence to yonder place / & he shuld remove: nether shuld eny thinge be vnpossible for you to do.

21 ²²⁸ How be it this kynde goeth not oute / but by prayer and fastinge.

22 As they passed the tyme in Galile / Iesus [D] sayde vnto them:²²⁹ 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 Capernaū / they yᵗ were wont to gadre poll money / came to Peter & 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?²³⁰ of whome do yᵉ kyngꝭ 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 thē: goo to yᵉ see & cast in thyne angle / & take the fysshe yᵗ fyrst cometh vp: & when thou hast opened his mouthe / thou shalt fynde a pece of twentie pence: yᵗ take & paye for me and the. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 17

Chapter 18

¶ The .xviii. Chapter. ✚

1 [A]²³¹ THe same tyme the disciples came vnto Iesus saying: who is yᵉ greatest in the kyngdome of hevē?

2 Iesus called a chylde vnto him / & set him in the middes of them:

3 & sayd. Verely I say vnto you: except ye tourne / & 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 hevē.

5 And who soever receaveth suche a chylde in my name / receaveth me.

6 ²³² But whosoever offende one of these lytel ons / 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 whō the offence cōmeth.

8 ²³³ Wherfore yf thy honde or thy fote offende the / cut him of and cast him from the. It ys [B] 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 litel ons. 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.

12 ²³⁴ 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 moūtains / 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 & nyne which went not astray.

14 Even so it is not the wyll of youre father in heven / that one of these lytel ons shulde perishe.

15 ✚ [C] Moreover yf thy brother treaspace agenst the. Go and tell him his faute betwene him & the alone.²³⁵ 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 / & 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.

19 ²³⁶ 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.

21 ²³⁷ 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 acountis of his servauntis.

24 And when he had begone to recken / one was broughte vnto him / whiche ought him ten thousande talentis:

25 whome because he had nought to paye his master commaunded him to be solde / and his wyfe / & his chyldren / and all that he had / and payment to be made.

26 The servaunt fell doune & 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 servaūt wēt oute & founde one [D]²³⁸ 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 & cast him into preson / tyll he shulde paye the det.

31 When his other felowes sawe what was done / they were very sory / & came and tolde vnto their lorde all yᵗ had happened.

32 Then his lorde called him / & sayde vnto him. O evyll servaūt I forgave the all that det / because thou prayedst me:

33 was it not mete also yᵗ thou shuldest have had cōpassion on thy felow / even as I had pitie on yᵉ?

34 And his lorde was wrooth / & delyuered him to the iaylers / tyll he shuld paye all that was due to him.

35 So lykewyse shall my hevenly father do vnto you / except ye forgeve with youre herte / eache one to his brother their treaspases. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 18

Chapter 19

¶ The .xix. Cha

1 [A]²³⁹ 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:²⁴⁰ Ys it lawfull for a man to put a waye his wyfe for all maner of causes?

4 He answered and sayd vnto them: have ye not redde /²⁴¹ how that he which made man at the beginninge / made them man and woman

5 and sayde: for this thinge / shall a mā leve father and mother and cleve vnto his wyfe / & they▪ twayne shalbe one flesshe.²⁴²

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 Thē sayde they to him: why did Moses cōmaunde to geve a testimoniall of divorsemēt & 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 therfore²⁴³ vnto you / whosoever putteth awaye his wyfe (except it be for fornicacion) & 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 [B] not good to mary.

11 He sayde vnto them: all mē can not awaye with that sayinge save they to whom it is gevē.

12 ²⁴⁴ 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 hevēs sake. He that can take it / let him take it.

13 ²⁴⁵ Then were brought to him yonge chyldrē / that he shuld put his honde on them & praye And the disciples rebuked them.

14 But Iesus sayde: suffre the chyldren and forbid them not to come to me:²⁴⁶ 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 & sayde vnto him: good master / what good thinge shall I do / that I [C] maye have eternall lyfe?

17 He sayde vnto him: why callest thou me good? there is none good but one / & that is God.²⁴⁷ 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 & 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 & sell that thou hast / & geve it to the povre / & thou shalt have treasure in heven / & come & folowe me.

22 When yᵉ younge mā hearde yᵗ sayinge / he wēt 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 mā to enter into yᵉ kyngdome of heaven.

24 ²⁴⁸ 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 thē / & sayde vnto them: with men this is vnpossible / but with God all thinges are possible.

27 ✚ Then answered Peter / and sayde to him: [D] Beholde / we have forsaken all & 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 folowe²⁴⁹ me in yᵉ seconde generacion shall syt also vpon .xii. seatꝭ / & iudge yᵉ .xii. tribꝭ 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 /²⁵⁰ yᵉ same shall receave an hundred folde / & shall inheret everlastynge lyfe. ⊢

30 Many that are fyrste shalbe laste / & the laste shalbe fyrste.

Notes to Chapter 19

Chapter 20

¶ The .xx. Chapter.

1 [A]²⁵¹ 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 / & sent them into his vyneyarde.

3 And he went out about the thyrde houre / & sawe other stonding ydell in the market place /

4 and sayd vnto them / go ye also into my vyneyarde: & whatsoever is right / I will geve you. And they went there waye.

5 Agayne he wēt out about the²⁵² sixte & nynthe houre / and dyd lyke wyse.

6 And he went out aboute the eleventhe houre and founde other stondynge ydell / & sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydell?

7 They sayde vnto hym: because noman hath hyred vs. He sayde to them: goo ye alsoo into my vyneyarde / and what so ever is right / that shall ye receave.

8 [B] 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 & receaved every man a peny.

10 Then came yᵉ fyrst / supposyng yᵗ they shuld receave moare: & they like wyse 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 / & thou hast made them equall vnto vs which have born yᵉ burthē & heet of the daye.

13 [C] He answered to one of thē sayinge: frende I do the no wronge: dyddest thou not agre wᵗ me for a pēny?

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.²⁵³ For many are called and feawe be chosen. ⊢

17 ✚ [C]²⁵⁴ And Iesus ascended to Ierusalem / & toke the .xii. disciples a parte in the waye / & sayde to thē.

18 Beholde we goo vp to Ierusalem / & the sonne of mā shalbe betrayed vnto yᵉ chefe prestes / & vnto the scribes / & they shall condēne him to deeth /

19 and shall delyvre him to the gētils / to be mocked / to be scourged / and to be crucified: & yᵉ thyrd daye he shall ryse agayne.

20 ✚²⁵⁵ 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 / & the other on yᵉ lifte hond in thy kyngdome.

22 Iesus answered & sayd: Ye wot not what ye axe. Are ye able to drynke of the cuppe yᵗ I shall drynke of / & to be baptised wᵗ the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with? They answered to him / that we are.

23 And he sayd vnto thē: Ye shall drinke of my cvp / and shalbe baptised with the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with. But to syt on my ryght hond & on my lyft hond / is not myne to geve: but to them for whom it is prepared of my father. ⊢

24 [D] And when the ten hearde this / they disdayned at yᵉ two brethrē:

25 ²⁵⁶ But Iesus called them vnto him & sayde: Ye knowe yᵗ the lordes of the gentyls have dominaciō over them. And they that are great / exercise power over thē.

26 It shall not be so amōge you. But whosoever wyll be greate amōge you / let him be youre minister:

27 & whosoever wilbe chefe / let him be youre servaūt /

28 evē as the sonne of man came / not to be ministred vnto / but to minister / & to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many. ⊢

29 ²⁵⁷ And as they departed frō Hierico / moche people folowed him.

30 And beholde two blinde men sittinge by yᵉ way syde / whē 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 / & called thē / & 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 cōpassion on thē / & touched their eyes. And immediatly their eyes receaved syght. And they folowed him.

Notes to Chapter 20

Chapter 21

¶ The .xxi. Chapter. ✚

1 [A]²⁵⁸ VVhen they drewe neye vnto Ierusalem / & were come to Betphage / vnto mounte olivete: then sent Iesus two of his disciples /

2 saiynge to thē. Go in to the toune that lyeth over agaynste you /²⁵⁹ & anōne ye shall fynde an asse bounde / & her colte with her: lose them & 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 /²⁶⁰ sayinge:

5 Tell ye the doughter of Sion: beholde thy kynge cometh vnto the meke / & sittinge vpon an asse & a colte / the fole of an asse vsed to the yooke.

6 The disciples went & dyd as Iesus cōmaunded them /

7 & brought yᵉ asse and the colte / and put on them their clothes / and set him theron.

8 And many of the people spreed their garmente in yᵉ waye. Other cut doune braunches frō the trees / and strawed them in the waye.

9 Moreover the people that went before / & they also that came after / cryed sayinge:²⁶¹ Hosanna to yᵉ sonne of David. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lorde / Hosanna in the hyest. ⊢

10 ²⁶² And when he was come in to Ierusalem / all the cyte was moved sayinge: who is this?

11 [B] And the people sayde: this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile.

12 ²⁶³ And Iesus went in to the temple of God / and cast out all them that soulde and bought in the temple / & overthrew the tables of the mony chaūgers / & the seates of them that solde doves /

13 & sayde to them:²⁶⁴ It is wrytten / my housse shalbe called the housse of prayer. But ye have made it a denne of theves.

14 And the blinde & the halt came to him in yᵉ tēple / & he healed thē.

15 When the chefe preste & scribes sawe the marveylles that he dyd / & the chyldren cryinge in the tēple & 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 redde²⁶⁵ / of the mouth of babes & suckelingꝭ thou haste ordeyned prayse?

17 And he lefte thē / & wēt out of yᵉ cite vnto Bethanie / & had his abydīge there. ⊢

18 ²⁶⁶ In the mornynge as he returned in to the cyte ageyne / he hungred /

19 & spyed a fygge trre in the waye / & came to it / and founde nothinge ther on / but leves only / & sayd to it / never frute growe on the hence forwarde. And anō 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 thē: Verely I saye vnto you / yf ye shall have faith [C] 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 moūtayne / 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 ✚²⁶⁷ And when he was come in to the tēple / the chefe prestes and the elders of the people came vnto him as he was teachinge / & sayde: by what auctorite doest thou these thingꝭ? & 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 thingꝭ.

25 ²⁶⁸ The baptime of Iohn: whence was it? frō hevē or of men? Then they reasoned amōge them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye frō 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? ✚²⁶⁹ A certayne man had two sonnes / & came to yᵉ elder & sayde: sonne go & worke to daye in my vineyarde.

29 He answered & sayde / I will not: but afterwarde repented & went.

30 Then came he to the second / & sayde lyke wyse. And he answered and sayde: I will syr: yet wēt not.

31 Whether of thē twayne dyd the will of the father? And they sayde vnto hym: the fyrst. Iesus sayde vnto thē: verely I saye vnto you /²⁷⁰ that the publicans & 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 ✚ [D]²⁷¹ Herken another similitude. Ther was a certayne housholder / which planted a vineyarde / & hedged it roūde about / & made a wynpresse in it / & bilt a tower / & let it out to husbandmen / & wēt in to a straunge coūtre.

34 And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare / he sent his servauntꝭ to the husbandmē / to receave the frutꝭ of it.

35 And yᵉ husbandmē caught his servauntꝭ & bet one / kylled another / and stoned another.

36 Agayne he sent other servantꝭ / moo then the fyrst: & they served them lyke wyse.

37 But last of all / he sent vnto thē his awne sonne sayinge: they will feare my sonne.

38 But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne / they sayde amōge thē selves: This is the heyre: come / let vs kyll him / & let vs take his inheritaunce to oure selves.

39 And they caught him & thrust him out of the vineyarde / & slewe him.

40 When the lorde of the vyneyarde commeth / what will he do wᵗ those husbandmē?

41 They sayde vnto him: he will cruellye destroye those evyll persons / & wyll let out his vyneyarde vnto other husbandmen / which shall delyver him the frute at tymes convenient.

42 ²⁷² Iesus sayde vnto thē: dyd ye never redde in the scripture? The stone which yᵉ bylders refused / yᵉ same is set in yᵉ principall parte of yᵉ corner: this was the lordes doinge / & yt is mervelous in oure eyes.

43 Therfore saye I vnto you / the kyngdome of God shalbe takē from you / & shalbe gevē to the gētyls / which shall brynge forth the frutes of it.

44 ²⁷³ 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 prestꝭ & Pharises hearde these similitudes / they perceaved yᵗ he spake of thē.

46 And they wēt about to laye hondꝭ on him / but they feared yᵉ people / because they tooke him as a Prophet. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 21

Chapter 22

¶ The .xxii. Chapter. ⊢

1 [A]²⁷⁴ ANd Iesus answered and spake vnto them agayne / in similitudes sayinge.

2 ✚ The kingdome of hevē is lyke vnto a certayne kynge /²⁷⁵ which maryed his sonne /

3 & sent forth his servantꝭ / to call them that were byd to the weddinge / & they wolde not come.

4 Ageyne he sent forth other servauntꝭ / sayinge: Cell 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 & 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 [B] Then sayde he to his servauntes: the weddinge was prepared. But they which were bydden / were not worthy.

9 Go ye therfore out in to yᵉ hye wayes / & as many as ye finde / byd them to the mariage.

10 The seruauntꝭ wēt out in to the hie wayes / & gaddered to gedder as many as they coulde fynde / both good & bad / and yᵉ weddinge was furnysshed with gestꝭ.²⁷⁶

11 Then the kynge came in / to viset the gestꝭ / & spyed there a mā which had not on a weddinge garment /

12 and sayde vnto him: frende / how fortuned it that thou camest in hither & hast not on a weddyng garment? And he was evē 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 & gnasshinge of teth.

14 ²⁷⁷ For many are called and feawe be chosen. ⊢

15 ✚²⁷⁸ Then wēt the Pharises & toke counsell how they might tāgle him in his wordꝭ.

16 And they sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes servauntes sayinge: Master / we knowe yᵗ thou are true / & teachest the waye of god trulie / nether carest for eny man / for thou consydrest not mēnes estate.

17 ²⁷⁹ 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 hym²⁸⁰ 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: & geve vnto god / that which is goddes. ⊢

22 When they hearde that / they marveled / and lefte hym & went there waye.

23 [C]²⁸¹ The same daye the Saduces came to him (which saye that there is no resurreccion) & axed him

24 sayinge: Master / Moses bade / yf a man dye havinge no chyldrē / that the brother mary his wyfe / & reyse vp seed vnto his brother.

25 Ther were wᵗ vs seven brethrē / & the fyrste maried & deceased wᵗ oute yssue / & lefte his wyfe vnto his brother.

26 Lyke wise the seconde and yᵉ thryd / vnto the sevēthe.

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 thē: ye are deceaved / & 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.

31 ²⁸² As touchynge the resurreccion of the deed: have ye not redde what is sayde vnto you of God / which sayeth:²⁸³

32 I am Abrahams God / & Ysaacks God / & 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 ✚ [D]²⁸⁴ When the Pharises had hearde / how yᵗ he had put the Saduces to silence. / they drewe to gedder /

35 & one of them which was a doctoure of lawe / axed a question tēptinge him & sayinge:

36 Master which is yᵉ chefe cōmaundment in the lawe?

37 Iesus sayde vnto him:²⁸⁵ love the Lorde thy God wᵗ all thine herte / with all thy soule / & with all thy mynde.

38 This is the fyrst & the chefe cōmaundement.

39 And ther is another lyke vnto this. Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.

40 In these two commaundemētes hange all the lawe and the Prophetes.

41 ²⁸⁶ Whyll the Pharises were gaddered togeder / Iesus axed thē sayinge:

42 what thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: the sonne of David.²⁸⁷

43 He sayde vnto thē: 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 durste eny from that daye forth / axe him eny moo questions. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 22

Chapter 23

¶ The .xxiii. Chapter. ✚

1 [A] THen spake Iesus to the people / & to his disciples

2 sayinge. The Scribes & the Pharises sit in²⁸⁸ Moses seate.

3 All therfore what soever they byd you observe / that observe and do: but after their workes do not: For they saye / & do not.

4 Ye & they bynde hevy burthēs & grevous to be borne / & ley thē on mēnes shulders: but they them sylfes will not heave at them with one of their fyngers.

5 All their workes they do / for to be sene of mē. They set abroade their philateries / and make large borders on there garmētes /

6 & 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 [B] But ye shall not suffre youre selves to be called Rabi. For one is youre master / that is to wyt Christ / & all ye are brethrē.

9 And call no man youre father vpon the erth / for there is but one youre father / & he is in heven.

10 Be not called masters / for there is but one youre master / and he is Christ.

11 ²⁸⁹ He that is greatest amōge you / shalbe youre seruaunte.

12 ²⁹⁰ But whosoever exalteth him silfe / shalbe brought lowe. And he yᵗ hūbleth him silfe / shalbe exalted. ⊢

13 ²⁹¹ Wo be vnto you Scribes & Pharises / ypocrites / for ye shutte vp the kyngdome of hevē before men: ye youre selves goo not in / nether suffre ye them that come / to enter in.

14 ²⁹² Wo be vnto you Scribes & Pharises ypocrites: ye devoure widdowes houses / & that vnder a coloure of praying longe prayers: wherfore ye shall receave greater damnacion.

15 Wo be vnto you Scribes & Pharises ypocrites / which compasse see & londe / to bringe one in to youre belefe: & when he ys brought / ye make him two folde more the chylde of hell / then ye youre selves are.

16 ²⁹³ Wo be vnto you blynd gides / which saye whosoever sweare by the tēple / it is no thinge: but whosoever sweare by the golde of the temple / he offendeth.

17 Ye foles & blinde ⹎ whether is greater / the golde / or the tēple that sanctifieth yᵉ golde.

18 ²⁹⁴ And whosoever sweareth by the aulter it is nothinge: but whosoever sweareth by yᵉ offeringe yᵗ lyeth on yᵉ aultre / offendeth.

19 Ye foles & blinde: whether is greater yᵉ offeringe / or yᵉ aultre which sanctifieth yᵉ offeringe?

20 Whosoever therfore sweareth by y[ᵉ] aultre / sweareth by it / & by all yᵗ there on is.

21 And whosoever sweareth by the tēple / sweareth by it / & by hym yᵗ dwelleth therin.

22 And he that sweareth by hevē / swereth by the seate of God & by hym that sytteth ther on.

23 [C]²⁹⁵ Wo be to you Scribes & Pharises ypocrites / which tythe mynt annyse & cōmen / & leave the waygthtyer mattres of yᵉ lawe vndone: iudgemēt / mercy / & fayth. These ought ye to have done / & not to have left the othre vndone.

24 ²⁹⁶ Ye blinde gydes which strayne out a gnat and swalowe a cammyll.

25 ²⁹⁷ Wo be to you scribes & pharises ypocrites / which make clene yᵉ vtter syde of the cuppe / & of the platter: but within they are full of brybery & excesse.

26 Thou blinde Pharise / clense fyrst / the out syde of the cup and platter / that the ynneside of them maye be clene also.

27 ²⁹⁸ Wo be to you Scribꝭ & Pharises ypocritꝭ / for ye are lyke vnto paynted tombes which appere beautyfull outwarde: but are wᵗ in full of deed bones & of all fylthynes.

28 So are ye / for outwarde ye appere righteous vnto mē / when within / ye are full of ypocrisie and iniquite.

29 [D]²⁹⁹ Wo be vnto you Scribes & Pharises ypocrites: ye bylde the tombes of the Prophetes / & garnisshe the sepulchres of the righteous /

30 & 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 dāpnaciō of hell?

34 ✚ Wherfore / beholde I sende vnto you / prophetꝭ / wyse men & scribes / & of thē ye shall kyll & crucifie: & of thē ye shall scourge in youre synagoges / & persecute from cyte to cyte /

35 that vpon you maye come all the righteous bloude that was sheed vpon the erth / frō the bloud of righteous Abell / vnto yᵉ bloud of zacharias³⁰⁰ the sonne of Barachias / whō ye slewe betwene the tēple & yᵉ altre.³⁰¹

36 Verely I say vnto you / all these thinges shall light vpon this generacion.

37 Hierusalem / Hierusalem which kyllest prophetes / & stonest thē which are sent to the: how often wolde I have gadered³⁰² thy chyldren to gether / as the henne gadreth her chickēs vnder her winge / but ye wolde not:

38 Beholde youre habitaciō shalbe lefte vnto you desolate.

39 For I saye to you / ye shall not se me hēce forthe / tyll that ye saye: blessed is he that cōmeth in the name of yᵉ Lorde. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 23

Chapter 24

¶ The .xxiiii. Chapter.

1 [A]³⁰³ ANd Iesus went out & departed frō the tēple: & his disciples came to hym / for to shewe him the byldinge of the tēple.

2 Iesus sayde vnto thē: 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.

3 ³⁰⁴ And as he sat vpon the moūt Olivete / his disciples came vnto hym secretely sayinge. Tell vs when these thinges shalbe? & what signe shalbe of thy cōmynge / & of the ende of the worlde?

4 And Iesus answered / and sayde vnto them:³⁰⁵ take hede that no mā deceave you.

5 For many shall come in my name sayinge: I am Christ / and shall deceave many.

6 Ye shall heare of warres / & of the fame of warrꝭ: but se yᵗ ye be not troubled. For all these thinges must come to passe / but the ende is not yet.

7 For naciō shall ryse ageynste naciō / & realme ageynste realme: & ther shalbe pestilence / honger and erth quakes in all quarters.

8 All these are the beginninge of sorowes.

9 ³⁰⁶ Then shall they put you to trouble / & shall kyll you: & 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.

11 ³⁰⁷ 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 glad tidingees of the kyngdome shalbe preached in all the worlde / for a witnes vnto all nacions: and then shall the ende come.

15 [B] When ye therfore shall se yᵉ abhominaciō that betokeneth desolacion / spoken of by Daniell³⁰⁸ 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 moūtaynes.

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 thē that are wᵗ chylde / & to thē yᵗ geve sucke.

20 ³⁰⁹ But praye yᵗ youre flight be not in yᵉ winter / nether on yᵉ saboth daye.

21 For then shalbe greate tribulaciō / suche as was not frō the beginninge of the worlde to this tyme / ner shalbe.

22 Ye & except those dayes shuld be shortened / there shuld no fleshe be saved: but for yᵉ chosens sake / those dayes shalbe shortened.³¹⁰

23 ³¹¹ Then yf eny mā shall saye vnto you: lo / here is Christ / or there is Christ: beleve it not.

24 For there shall arise false christes / & false prophetꝭ / & shall do great myracles & 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 & shyneth vnto the weest: so shall the cōmynge of the sonne of mā be.

28 For wheresoever a deed karkas is / evē thyther will the egles resorte.

29 [C]³¹² Immediatly after the tribulaciōs of those dayes / shall the sunne be derkened: & yᵉ mone shall not geve hir light / & the starrꝭ shall fall from hevē / & the powers of hevē 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 / & they shall se the sonne of man come in the cloudes of heven with power & greate glorie.

31 And he shall sende his angeles with the greate voyce of a trōpe / and they shall gader to gether his chosen / from the fower wyndes / and from the one ende of the worlde to the other.

32 ³¹³ Learne a similitude of the fygge tree: when his braunches are yet tender & his leves sprōge / 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 & erth shall perisshe: but my wordes shall abyde.

36 But of that daye and houre knowith no man / no not yᵉ angels of hevē / but my father only.

37 ³¹⁴ As the tyme of Noe was / so lyke wyse shall the cōminge of yᵉ sonne of man be.

38 For as in yᵉ dayes before yᵉ floud: they dyd eate & drynke / mary & were maried / evē vnto yᵉ daye that Noe entred in to the shyppe /

39 & knewe of nothynge / tyll the floude came & toke them all awaye. So shall also the commynge of the sonne of man be.

40 ³¹⁵ Then two shalbe in the feldes / the one shalbe receaved / & the other shalbe refused /

41 two shalbe gryndinge at yᵉ myll: yᵉ one shalbe receaved / & yᵉ other shalbe refused.

42 [D]³¹⁶ 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 brokē vppe.

44 Therfore be ye also redy / for in yᵉ houre ye thinke he wolde not: wyll the sonne of mā come.

45 ³¹⁷ If there be any faithfull servaūt and wyse / whome his master hath made ruler over his housholde to geve thē meate in season cōvenient:

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.

48 ³¹⁸ But & yf that evill servaūt shall saye in his herte / my master wyll defer his cōmynge /

49 & beginne to smyte his felowes / ye and to eate and to drinke with the dronkē:

50 that servauntꝭ master wyll come in a daye when he loketh not for him / & in an houre yᵗ he is not ware of /

51 & wyll devyde him / and geve him his rewarde with ypocrites. There shalbe wepinge & gnasshinge of tethe.

Notes to Chapter 24

Chapter 25

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

1 ³¹⁹ THen yᵉ kyngdome of heven shalbe lykened vnto .x. virgins / which toke their [A] lampes / & wēt to mete the brydgrome:

2 fyve of them were folysshe / & fyve were wyse.

3 The folysshe toke their lampes / but toke none oyle wᵗ thē.

4 But yᵉ wyse tooke oyle wᵗ thē in their vesselles wᵗ their lampes also.

5 Whill the brydgrome taryed / all slombred & 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 / & prepared their lampes.

8 And yᵉ folysshe sayde to yᵉ wyse: geve vs of youre oyle / for oure lampes goo out?

9 but yᵉ wyse answered sayinge. Not so / lest ther be not ynough for vs & you: but goo rather to them yᵗ sell / & by for youre selves.

10 And whill they went to bye / yᵉ brydgrome came: & they yᵗ were redy / went in with him to yᵉ weddinge / & the gate was shett vp:

11 Afterwarde came also yᵉ other virgins sayinge: master master / open to vs.

12 But he answered & sayde: verely I saye vnto you: I knowe not you.

13 ³²⁰ Watche there fore: for ye knowe nether³²¹ the daye nor yet the houre▪ when the sonne of man shall come.

14 ✚ Lykwyse as a certeyne mā redy to take his [B] iorney to a straunge coūtre / called his servaūtes & delivered to them his gooddꝭ.

15 ³²² And vnto one he gave .v. talentꝭ / 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 talentꝭ.

17 Lykwyse he that receaved .ii. gayned other .ii.

18 But he yᵗ receaved yᵉ one / went & digged a pit in the erth & hyd his masters money.

19 After a longe season yᵉ lorde of those servauntꝭ came & rekened with thē.

20 Then came he yᵗ had receaved fyve talentꝭ / & brought other fyve talentes sayinge: master / thou deliveredst vnto me fyve talentꝭ: beholde I have gayned wᵗ thē fyve talentꝭ moo.

21 Thē his master sayde vnto him: well good servaūt & 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. talentꝭ / came & 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 & 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 / [C] came / & sayd: master / I considered yᵗ thou wast an harde man / which repest where thou sowedst not / & gadderest where thou strawedst not /

25 & was therfore afrayde / & went & hyd thy talent in yᵉ erth: Beholde / thou hast thyn awne.

26 His master answered and sayde vnto him: thou evyll servaūt & slewthfull / thou knewest yᵗ I repe where I sowed not / & gaddre where I strawed not:

27 thou oughtest therfore to have had my money to yᵉ chaūgers / & then at my cōmynge shulde I have receaved myne awne with vauntage.

28 Take therfore the talent from him / & geve it vnto him which hath .x. talentꝭ³²³

29 ³²⁴ 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 ✚³²⁵ When the sonne of mā cometh in his glorie / & all the holy angels wᵗ him / then shall he syt vpon the seate of his glorie /

32 & before him shalbe Gaddred all nacions. And he shall seperate thē one from a nother / as a shepherde deuideth the shepe from the gootes.

33 And he shall set the shepe on his right honde / & 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 kyngdō prepared for you from the beginninge of the worlde.³²⁶

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 & ye clothed me. I was sicke & ye visited me. I was in preson and ye came vnto me.

37 Then shall yᵉ righteous answere him sayinge³²⁷ master / whē sawe we yᵉ anhongred / & feed the? or athurst / & gave yᵉ drinke?

38 when sawe we yᵉ herbourlesse / & lodged the? or naked & clothed the?

39 or when sawe we the sicke or in preson / & came vnto the?

40 And yᵉ kynge shall answere & saye vnto them: verely I saye vnto you: in as moche as ye have done it vnto one of yᵉ leest³²⁸ of these my brethren / ye have done it to me.

41 [D]³²⁹ 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 athurst / or herbourlesse / or naked / or sicke / or in preson / and did not ministre vnto the?

45 Then shall he answere thē and saye: Verely I saye³³⁰ 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:³³¹ And the righteous into lyfe eternall. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 25

Chapter 26

¶ The .xxvi. Chapter.

1 [A]³³² 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 / & 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 /³³³

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.

6 ³³⁴ 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 oyntmēt myght have bene well solde / & geven to the povre. When Iesus vnderstod that / he sayde vnto thē:

10 why trouble ye the woman? She hath wrought a good worke apon me.

11 For ye shall have poore 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 [B]³³⁵ 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.

17 ³³⁶ 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 desciples.

19 And the disciples did as Iesus had apoynted them / and made redy the ester lambe.

20 ³³⁷ 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 / & beganne every one of thē to saye vnto him: is it I master?

23 He answered & sayde: he yᵗ deppeth his honde wᵗ me in yᵉ disshe / the same shall betraye me.

24 The sonne of mā goeth as it is written of him:³³⁸ but wo be to yᵗ mā / by whom yᵉ sonne of man shalbe betrayed. It had bene good for that man / yf he had never bene borne.

25 [C]³³⁹ 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 & gave thankes / brake it / & gave it to the disciples / & 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.

30 ³⁴⁰ And when they had sayde grace / they went out into mounte olyvete.

31 Then sayd Iesus vnto them: all ye shallbe offended by me this night. For it is wrytten. I will smyte yᵉ shepeherde / & 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 / & sayde vnto him: though all men shulde be offended by yᵉ / yet wolde I never be offended.

34 Iesus sayde vnto him.³⁴¹ 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 [D]³⁴² Then went Iesus with them into a place which is called Gethsemane / and sayde vnto the disciples / syt ye here / whyll I go & praye yonder.

37 And he toke with him Peter and the two sonnes of zebede / & 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 & 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 he³⁴³ came vnto the disciples / and founde them aslepe / and sayde to Peter: what / coulde ye not watche with me one houre:

41 watche & praye / that ye fall not into temptacion. The spirite is willynge / but the flesshe is weake.

42 He went awaye once moare / & 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 / & founde thē aslepe agayne. For their eyes were hevy.

44 And he lefte them & went agayne and prayed yᵉ thrid tyme sayinge yᵉ same wordes.

45 Then came he to his disciples & sayd vnto them: Slepe hence forth & take youre reest. Take hede the houre is at honde / & 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.

47 ³⁴⁴ Whyll he yet spake: lo / Iudas one of yᵉ xii. came & wᵗ him a greate multitude wᵗ sweardes & staves / sent from the chefe prestes & elders [E] of the people.

48 And he that betrayed him / had geven thē a token / sayinge: whosoever I kysse / yᵗ same is he / ley hondꝭ on him.

49 And forth wᵗ all he came to Iesus / & sayde: hayle master / and kyssed him.³⁴⁵

50 And Iesus sayde vnto him: frende / wherfore arte thou come? Then came they and layed hondes on Iesus & 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.³⁴⁶ 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 / & he shall geve me moo then .xii. legions of angelles?³⁴⁷

54 But how then shuld the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be.

55 [F] The same tyme sayd Iesus to the multitude:ye be come out as it were vnto a thefe / with sweardes & staves for to take me. I sate daylie teachinge in the temple amōge you and ye toke me not.

56 ³⁴⁸ All this was done that the scriptures of the Prophetes myght be fulfilled.³⁴⁹ Then all the disciples forsoke him and fleed.

57 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.

59 ³⁵⁰ 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 and sayd:

61 ³⁵¹ This felowe sayde: I can distroye the temple of God / and bylde it agayne in .iii. dayes.

62 And the chefe preste arose / & 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 mā syttinge on the right honde of power / and come in the clowddes of the skye.

65 [G] 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 on ye face /

68 sayinge: tell vs thou Christ / who is he that smote the?

69 ³⁵² 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 thē all sayinge: I woot not what thou sayst.

71 When he was goone out into the poorche / another wenche sawe him / & 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 thē / for thy speache bewreyeth yᵉ.

74 Then beganne he to course & 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.

Notes to Chapter 26

Chapter 27

¶ The .xxvii. Chapter.

1 [A]³⁵³ VVhen the mornynge was come / all yᵉ chefe prestes & the elders of yᵉ people helde a counsayle agenst Iesu / to put him to deeth /

2 & brought him bounde & delivered him vnto Poncius Pilate the debite.

3 ³⁵⁴ 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 & 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.

6 ³⁵⁵ 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 blond.

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 Prophet³⁵⁶ sayinge: & they toke .xxx. sylver plattꝭ / 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.

11 ³⁵⁷ 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 & elders he answered nothinge.³⁵⁸

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 somoche that the debite marveylled greatlie.

15 ³⁵⁹ 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 thē: 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 iudgemēt / 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 [B]³⁶⁰ But the chefe preestes and the elders had parswaded the people / that they shulde axe Barrabas / & 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 / Barrabae.

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 this³⁶¹ iuste person / & 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 [D]³⁶² 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 / & a rede in his ryght honde: and bowed their knees before him / and mocked him / saying: hayle kinge of the Iewes:

30 & spitted vpon him / & toke the rede and smoote him on the heed.

31 ³⁶³ And when they had mocked him / they toke the robe of him ageyne / and put his awne reymēt on him / & 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 whē 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 [E]³⁶⁴ When they had crucified him / they parted his garmentes / and did cast lottes: to fulfyll that was spoken by the prophet. They deuyded my garmēte amonge them: & 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.

39 ³⁶⁵ 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 and elders sayde:

42 He saved other / himsylfe 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 [F] 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.³⁶⁶ 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 & 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.

50 ³⁶⁷ Iesus cryed agayne with a lowde voyce & yelded vp the goost.

51 ³⁶⁸ And beholde the vayle of the temple dyd rent in twayne from yᵉ toppe to the bottome / & the erth dyd quake / and the stones dyd rent /

52 and graves dyd open: & 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 frō Galile / ministringe vnto him.

56 Amonge which was Mary Magdalen / & Mary the mother of Iames & Ioses / & yᵉ mother of zebedes chyldren.

57 [G]³⁶⁹ 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 & the other Mary sittynge over ageynste the sepulcre.

62 ³⁷⁰ The nexte daye that foloweth good frydaye / the hye prestes & 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 / & saye vnto the people / he is rysen from deeth / & 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. ⊢

Notes to Chapter 27

Chapter 28

¶ The .xxviii. Chapter. ✚

1 [A]³⁷¹ 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: & came and rowlled backe the stone from the dore / and sate apon it.

3 His countenaunce was lyke lyghtnynge / and his raymēt whyte as snowe.

4 And for feare of him the kepers were astunnyed / and be came 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 & 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: & 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 & worshipped him.

10 Thē sayde Iesus vnto them: be not afrayde. Go & tell my brethren / that they goo in to Galile / & there shall they se me.

11 When they were gone: beholde / some of the [C] kepers came in to 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 / & gave large money vnto the soudiers

13 sayinge: Saye that his disciples came by nyght / & stole him awaye whill ye slept.

14 And if this come to the rulers eares / we wyll pease him / & save you harmeles.

15 And they toke the money & dyd as they were taught. And this sayinge is noysed amōge the Iewes vnto this daye. ⊢

16 ✚ Then the .xi. disciples went awaye into [D] 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:³⁷² All power ys gevē vnto me in hevē / & in erth.

19 Go therfore and teache all nacions / baptysinge them in the name of the father / & the sonne / & 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. ⊢

¶ Here endeth the Gospell of S. Mathew.

Notes to Chapter 28

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