The Gospell of S. Mathew.The .ii. Chapter.

A
UVhen Iesus was borne at Bethleem in Iury / in the tyme of Herode the kynge. Beholde / there came wyse m

from the eest to Ierusalem saynge: Where is he þ
t is borne kynge of þ
e Iues? We have sene his starre in þ
e eest / & are come to worship him.
When Herode þe kynge had herde thys / he was troubled / and all Ierusalem with hym / and he gathered all þe chefe Prestes and Scribes of the people / and axed of them where Christ shulde be borne. And they sayde vnto hym: at Bethle
in Iury. For thus it is written
by the Prophet.
10.AAnd thou Bethleem in the londe of Iury / art not the leest concernynge the Princes of Iuda.
11.AFor out of the shall come the captayne / that shall govern my people Israhel.
B
Then Herod prevely called the wyse men / and dylig

tly enquyred of them / þ
e tyme of the starre that appered / and sent th

to Bethleem saynge: Goo and searche dylig

tly for þ
e chylde. And when ye have founde hym / bringe me worde / þ
t I maye come & worshippe hym also.
When they had heard the kynge / they departed: and lo the starre which they sawe in þe eeste / went before them / tyll it came and stode over the place where the chylde was. When they sawe the starre / they were marvelously glad: 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 / fr
ckynsence and myrre. 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.
C
When they were departed: beholde the angell of the Lorde appered to Ioseph in dreame sayinge: aryse / and take the chylde and his mother / and flye into Egypte / & abyde there tyll I brynge the worde. For Herod will seke the chylde to destroye hym. Th

he arose / and toke the chylde and his mother by night / and departed into Egypte / and was there vnto þ
e deeth of Herod / to fulfill that which was spoken
of the Lorde / by þ
e Prophet which sayeth / out of Egypte haue I called my sonne.
12.C Then Herod perceavynge þt 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 dilig
tly searched oute of the wyse men.
13.CThen was fulfilled þt which was spoken by the Prophet Ieremy sayinge: On the hilles was a voyce herde / mornynge / wepynge / 14.C and greate lamentacion:
D
Rachel wepynge for her chyldren / and wolde not be conforted / because they were not.
When Herode was deed: beholde / an angell of þe Lorde appered in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypte sayinge: arise & take þe chylde & his mother / & go into þe londe of Israel. For they are deed which sought þe chyldes life. Th
he arose vp / & toke þe chylde & his mother / & cam into the londe of Israhel. But wh
he hearde þt Archelaus did raygne in Iury / in þe 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 þe parties of Galile / 15.D & w
t & dwelt in a cite called Nazareth / to fulfill þt which was spoken by þe Prophetes: he shalbe called a Nazarite
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A
16.AIn those dayes Ihon the Baptyst came and preached in the wildernes of Iury / saynge; Rep

t / the kyngdome of heu

is
at honde.
17.AThis 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.
This Ih
had hys garm
t of camels heer and a gerdell of a skynne aboute his loynes. 18.A Hys meate was locustes & wylde hony.
B
Th

went oute to hym Ierusalem / and all Iury / & all þ
e regi

ro

de aboute Iord

/ & were baptised of him in Iord

/ c

fessynge their synnes
When he sawe many of þe Pharises & of þe Saduces come to hys baptim / he sayde vnto th
: 19.B O generaci
of vipers / who hath taught you to fle fr
the vengea
ce to come? Brynge forth therfore the frutes belongynge to repenta
ce. 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 Abrah
.
C
Eu

nowe is þ
e axe put vnto þ
e rote of þ
e trees: soo that every tree which bringeth not forthe goode frute / is hew

doune & cast into þ
e fyre.
20.CI baptise you in water in tok
of repenta
ce: but he þe cometh after me / is myghtier then I / whose shues I am not worthy to beare. He shall baptise you with þe holy gost & with fyre: which hath also his fan in his h
d / & will pourge his floure / & gadre þe wheet into his garner / & will burne þe chaffe with vnqu
cheable fyre
21.C
D

Then cam Iesus from Galile to Iordan / vnto Ihon / to be baptised of hym.
22.DBut Ihon forbade hym / saynge: I ought to be baptysed of the: and c

mest thou to me? Iesus answered
& sayd to hym: Let it be so now.
23.DFor thus it becommeth vs to fulfyll all rightwesnes. Then he suffred hym. And Iesus assone as he was baptised / came strayght out of þ
e water. And lo heu

was op

over hym: & Ihon sawe the spirite of God descende lyke a doue / and lyght vpon hym. And lo there came a voyce from heven sayng: Thys ys that my beloved sonne in whom is my delyte.
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A
Then was Iesus ledd awaye of þ
e spirite into wildernes / to be tempted of þ
e devyll.
24.AAnd when he had fasted fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes / he was afterward an hungred. Then came to hym the tempter / and sayde: yf thou be the sonne of God / commaunde that these stones be made breed. He answered and sayde: yt is wrytten /
25.A man shall not lyve by brede onlye / but by every worde þ
t proceadeth out of the mouth of God.
B
Then the devyll tooke hym vp into þ
e holy cite / and set hym on a pynacle of the t

ple / and sayd vnto hym: yf thou be the sonne of God / cast thy sylfe doune.
26.BFor it is wrytt

/ he shall geve his angels charge over the / and with their handes they shall holde þ
t vp / that thou dashe not thy fote agaynst a stone. And Iesus sayde to hym / it ys wrytten also:
27.B Thou shalt not tempte thy Lorde God.
The devyll toke hym vp agayne and ledde hym in to an excedynge hye mountayne / and shewed hym all the kyngdomes of þe worlde / & all þe glorie of them / & sayde to hym: all these
will I geue þ
e / if thou wilt faull doune & worship me.
28.BThen sayde Iesus vnto hym. Avoyd Satan. For it is writt

/ thou shalt worshyp þ
e Lorde thy God / & hym only shalt thou serve.
Then the dyvell left hym / and beholde / the angels came and ministred vnto hym.
29.B
When Iesus had hearde þt Ihon was taken / he departed into Galile and left Nazareth / & went & dwelte in Capernaum / which is a cite apon the see / in þe coostes of zabulon and Neptalim / to fulfill that whiche was spoken by Esay the Prophet / sayinge:
C
The londe of zabulon & Neptalim / the waye of the see beyonde Iordan / Galile of the Gentyls / þ
e 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.
From þt tyme Iesus beg
ne to preache / & to saye: rep
t / for þe k
gdome of hev
is at h
de
30.C
As Iesus walked by the see of Galile / he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter / 31.C and Andrew his brother / castynge a neet into the see / for they were fisshers / and he sayde vnto them / folowe me / and I will make you fisshers of men. And they strayght waye lefte their nettes / and folowed hym.
D
And he went forthe from thence / and sawe other twoo brethren /
32.D Iames the sonne of zebede / and Ihon his brother / in the shippe with zebede their father / mendynge their nettes / & called them. And they with out taryinge lefte the shyp & their father and folowed hym.
And Iesus went aboute all Galile / teachyng
in their synagoges / and preachynge þ
e gospell of the kyngdome / and healed all maner of sicknes / & all maner dyseases am

ge þ
e people. And his fame spreed abroode through oute all Siria. And they brought vnto hym all sicke people that were taken with divers diseases & griping[es] / & them þ
t were possessed with devils / & those which were lunatyke / and those that had the palsie: & he healed th

. And ther folowed hym a greate nombre of people / from Galile /

and from the ten cyties / and from Ierusalem / and from Iury / and from þ
e regions that lye beyonde Iordan.
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UVhen he sawe the people / he went vp into a mountayne / and when he was set / his disciples came to hym / and he opened hys mouthe / and taught them sayinge: Blessed are the povre in sprete: for theirs
33.A is the kyngdome of heven. Blessed are they that morne: for they shalbe conforted. Blessed are the meke: for they shall inheret the erth.
34.ABlessed are they which honger and thurst for rightewesnes: for they shalbe filled. Blessed are þ
e mercifull: for they shall obteyne mercy. Blessed are the pure in herte: for they shall se God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God.
35.ABlessed are they which suffre persecuci

for rightwesnes sake: for theirs ys the kyngdome of heuen. Blessed are ye when men reuyle you / and persecute you / and shall falsly say all manner of yvell saynges agaynst you
for my sake. Reioyce & be glad / for greate is youre rewarde in heven.

For so persecuted they þ
e Prophetes which were before youre dayes.
B
36.B
ye are þ
e salt of the erthe: but and yf þ
e salt have lost hir saltnes / what can be salted ther with? It is thence forthe good for nothynge / but to be cast oute / and to be troad

vnder fote of men. ye are þ
e light of the worlde.
37.BA cite þ
t is set on an hill / cannot be hid / nether do men lyght a c

dell and put it vnder a busshell / but on a candelstick / and it lighteth all that are in the house. Let youre light so shyne before men / þ
t they maye se youre good workes / and glorify youre father which is in heven.
C

Thinke not þ
t I am come to destroye the lawe / or the Prophets: no I am nott come to destroye them / but to fulfyll them. For truely I saye vnto you / till heven and erth perisshe / one iott or one tytle of the lawe shall not scape
38.C / tyll all be fulfilled.
Whosoever breaketh one of these lest commaundmentes / 39.C and teacheth men so / he shalbe called the leest in the kyngdome of hev
. But whosoever obserueth & teacheth / þe same shal be called greate in the kyngdome of heven.
For I saye vnto you / except youre rightewesnes excede / the righetewesnes of þe Scribes and Pharises / ye c
not entre into þe kyngdome of heven.
40.Cye have herde howe it was sayd vnto th
of þe olde tyme: Thou shalt not kyll. For whoso ever kylleth / shall be in daunger of iudgem
t. But I say vnto you / whosoever is angre with
hys brother / shalbe in daunger of iudgement. Whosoeuer sayeth vnto his brother Racha /
41.C shalbe in da

ger of a co

sell.
D
But whosoeuer sayeth thou fole / shalbe in da

ger of hell fyre.
42.D Therfore wh
thou offrest thy gifte at the altare / 43.D and their remembrest that thy brother hath ought agaynst the: 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.
44.D
Agre with thyne adversary quicklye / whyles thou arte in þe waye with hym / lest that adversary deliver þe to þe iudge / & þe iudge delivre þe to þe minister / & th
thou be cast into preson. 45.DI say vnto þe verely: thou shalt not come out th
ce till thou have payed þe utmost farth
ge.
46.Dye haue hearde howe it was sayde to th
of olde tyme: Thou shalt not c
mitt advoutrie. But I say vnto you / that whosoeuer looketh on a wyfe / lustynge after her / hathe c
mitted advoutrie with hir alredy in his hert. 47.D
E
48.EWherfore yf thy right eye offende þ
e / plucke hym out / and caste him from the. Better it is for the þ
t one of thy membres perisshe / then that thy hole bodye shuld be cast into hell.
49.EAlso if thy right honde offend þ
e / 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.
50.EIt ys sayd / whosoever put awaye his wyfe / let hym geve her a testymonyall also of the devorcement. 51.EBut I say vnto you: whosoever put awaye his wyfe (except it be for fornicacion)
causeth her to breake matrymony.
52.E And whosoever maryeth her that is devorsed / breaketh wedlocke.
F
53.FAgayne ye haue hearde how it was sayd to th

of olde tyme / thou shalt not forsuere thy selfe / but shalt performe thyne othe to God. But I saye vnto you / swere not at all nether by heu

/ for it ys Goddes seate: nor yet by the erth / for it is his fote stole:
54.F nether by Ierusalem / for it ys þ
e cyte of þ
t greate kynge: nether shalt thou sweare by thy heed / because thou canst not make one white heer / or blacke: But your c

municacion shalbe / ye / ye: nay / nay. For whatsoeuer is more then þ
t / c

meth of yvell.
55.Fye have hearde how it ys sayd / an eye for an eye: a tothe for a tothe. But I saye to you / that ye resist not wr
ge. But whosoever geve the a blowe on thy right cheke / tourne to him the other. And yf eny man will sue the at the lawe / and take awaye thy coote / let hym have thy cloocke also. 56.FAnd whosoever wyll c
pell the to goo a myle / goo wyth him twayne. Geve to him that axeth / and fr
him that wolde borowe tourne not awaye.
G

ye have hearde how it is sayde: thou shalt love thyne neghbour / and hate thine enimy. But I saye vnto you / love youre enimies.
57.GBlesse th

that coursse you. Do good to them that hate you. Praye for them which doo you wronge and persecute you / that ye maye be þ
e chyldern of youre father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to aryse on þ
e yvell / and on the good / and sendeth his reyn on the iuste
and vniuste.
58.GFor yf ye love them / which love you: what rewarde shall ye have? Doo not the Publicans euen so?
59.GAnd yf ye be frendly to youre brethren onlye: what singuler thynge doo ye? Do not the Publicans lyke wyse? ye shall therfore be perfecte / ev

as youre father which is in heauen / is perfecte.
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A
60.ATake 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 hev

.
61.AWh

soever therfore thou gevest thine almes / thou shalt not make a tr

pet to be blow

before the / as þ
e ypocrites do in the synagogis and in the stretis / for to be preysed of men. Verely I say vnto you / they have their rewarde. But wh

thou doest thine almes / let not thy lyfte h

d knowe / what thy righte h

d doth / þ
t thine almes may be secret: & thy father which seith in secret / shall rewarde þ
e op

ly
E
62.EAnd when thou prayest / thou shalt not be as þ
e ypocryt[es] are. For they love to stond and praye in the synagog[es] / and in the corners of þ
e stret[es] / because they wolde be sene of men. Verely I saye vnto you / they haue their rewarde. 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.
B
63.BAnd wh

ye praye / bable not moche / as the heth

do: for they thincke that they shalbe herde / for their moche bablyng[es] sake. Be ye not
lyke them therfore. For youre father knoweth wherof ye haue neade / before ye axe of him.
64.BAfter thys maner therfore praye ye.
65.BO oure father which arte in hev
/ halowed be thy name. Let thy kyngdome come. Thy wyll be fulfilled / as well in erth / as it ys in heven. Geve vs this daye oure dayly breede. And forgeve vs oure treaspases / ev
as we forgeve oure trespacers. 66.BAnd leade vs not into t
ptacion: but delyver vs fr
evell. 67.BFor thyne is þe kyngedome and þe power / & þe glorye for ever. Amen. For and yf ye shall forgeve other men their treaspases / youre hevenly father shall also forgeve you. But and ye wyll not forgeve men their trespases /
C
nomore shall youre father forgeve youre treaspases.
Moreoure when ye faste / be not sad as þe ypocryt[es] are. For they disfigure their faces / that they myght be sene of m
how they faste. Verely I say vnto you / they have their rewarde. 68.CBut thou / wh
thou fastest / annoynte thyne heed / and washe thy face / 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. 69.C
70.CSe that ye gaddre you not treasure vpon þe erth / where rust & mothes corrupte / & where theves breake through and steale. But gaddre ye treasure togeder in hev
/ 71.C where nether rust nor mothes corrupte / & where theves nether breake vp nor yet steale. For where soever youre treasure ys / there will youre hertes be also
.
72.CThe light of the body is thyne eye. Wher fore
if thyne eye besyngle / all thy body shalbe full of light. But and if thyne eye be wycked then all thy body shalbe full of derckenes.
73.C Wherfore yf the light that is in the / be darckenes: how greate is that darckenes.
74.C
No m
can serve two masters. For ether he shall hate the one & love the other: or els he shall lene to þe one & despise þe other: ye can not serve God & mammon.
D
75.DTherfore I saye vnto you / be not carefull for your lyfe / what ye shall eate / or what ye shall drincke / nor yet for youre body / what ye shall put on. ys not þ
e lyfe more worth then meate / & the body more of value then raymeut?
76.DBeholde the foules of þ
e ayer: for they sowe not / nether reepe / nor yet cary into þ
e barnes: & yet youre hev

ly father fedeth th

. Are ye not moche better th

they?
Which of you (though he toke thought therfore) coulde put one cubit vnto his stature? And why care ye then for raym
t? 77.DConsidre þe lylies of þe felde / how they growe. They labour not nether spynne. And yet for all þt I saye vnto you / þt eu
Salomon in all his royalte was not arayed lyke vnto one of these. 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?
Therfore take no thought sayinge: what shall we eate / or what shall we drincke / or wher[wt] shall we be clothed? After all these thyng[es] seke the g
tyls. For youre hev
ly father knoweth that ye have neade of all these
thyng[es].
78.DBut rather seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of heuen & the rightwisnes therof / and all these thynges shalbe ministred vnto you.
Care not then for the morow / but let þe morow care for it selfe: for the daye present hath ever ynough of his awne trouble.
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79.Iudge not / that ye be not iudged. For as ye iudge so shall ye be iudged.
A
And [wt] what mesure ye mete / [wt] the same shall it be mesured to you agayne. Why seist thou a moote in thy brothers eye / & perceavest not the beame þ
t ys yn thyne awne eye. 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. 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.
Geve not that which is holy / to dogg[es] / nether cast ye youre pearles before swyne / 80.A lest they treade them vnder their fete / and þe other tourne agayne and all to rent you.
B
81.BAxe & it shalbe geven you. Seke & ye shall fynd. knocke and it shalbe opened vnto you. For whosoever axeth receaveth / & he þ
t seketh fyndeth / and to hym that knocketh / it shalbe opened. Ys there eny man am

ge you which if his sonne axed hym bread / wolde offer him astone? Or if he axed fysshe / wolde he proffer hym a serp

t? yf ye then which are evyll / cane geve to youre chyldren good gyftes: how moche moore shall youre father which is in
hev

/ geve good thynges to them þ
t axe hym?
82.BTherfore whatsoever ye wolde that men shulde do to you / even so do ye to them. This ys the lawe and the Prophettes.
Enter in at the strayte gate: for wyde is þe gate / and broade is the waye that leadeth to destruccion: 83.B and many ther be which goo yn therat. But strayte is the gate / & narowe ys the waye which leadeth vnto lyfe: and feawe there be that fynde it.
C
84.C
Beware of false Prophetes / which come to you in shepes clothinge / but inwardly they are ravenynge wolves. Ye shall knowe them by their frutes. Do men gaddre grapes of thornes? or figges of bryres? Euen soo every good tree bryngeth forthe good frute. But a corrupte tree / bryngethe forthe evyll frute. A good tree c

not brynge forthe bad frute: nor yet a bad tree can bringe forthe good frute. Every tree that bryngethe not forthe good frute / shalbe hew

doune / & cast into the fyre. Wherfore by their frutes ye shall knowe th

.
85.CNot all they that saye vnto me / Master / Master / shall enter in to the kyngdome of heven: but he that dothe my fathers will which ys in heven
. 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? And then will I knowlege vnto them / that I never knewe them. 86.CDeparte from me / ye workers of iniquite.
87.CWhosoever heareth of me these sayinges
and doethe the same / I wyll lyken hym vnto a wyse man which bylt hys housse on a rocke: & 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. And whosoever heareth of me these sayinges & doth th

not / shalbe lykened vnto a folysh man which bilt
88.C hys housse ap

the sondes;: & abunda

ce of rayne descended / & the fluddes came / and þ
e wyndes blewe and beet vpon that housse / and it fell and great was the fall of it.
89.CAnd it came to passe / that when Iesus had ended these saynges / the people were astonnyed at hys doctryne. For he taught them as one havynge power / and not as the Scribes.
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A
90.AUVhen he was come downe from the mo

tayne / moch people folowed him.
91.AAnd lo / ther came a lepre and worsheped him sayinge: Master / if thou wylt / thou canst make me clene. And Iesus put forthe hys hond and touched hym / sayinge: I wyll / be thou clene / & immediatly hys leprosie was clensed. And Iesus sayde vnto him. Se thou tell no man / but go and shewe thy selfe to the preste / & offer the gyfte that Moses c

maunded / in witnes to them.
92.A 93.A
When Iesus was entred into Caperna
ther came vnto him a certayne Centurion / & besought hym sayinge: 94.A Master my seruaunt lyeth sicke at home of þe palsye / & ys greuously payned. And Iesus sayd vnto hym: I will
come & heale him. The Centuri

answered & sayde: Syr I am not worthy þ
t thou shuldest come vnder my rofe / but speake þ
e worde only & my serva

t shalbe healed. 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 serua

t / do this / & he doeth it.
B
When Iesus hearde þ
t / he marveled & sayd to them þ
t folowed hym. Derely I say vnto you / I have not fo

de so great fayth: no / not in Israel. I say therfore vnto you that many shall come fr

the eest & weest / and shall rest [wt] Abraham / Isaac & Iacob in the kingdome of hev

: & the chyldren of þ
e kyngdome shalbe cast out in to vtter darcknes:
95.B there shalbe wepinge & gnasshing of tethe. Th

Iesus sayd vnto þ
e Centurion / go thy waye / and as thou belevest so be it vnto the. And his servaunt was healed the selfe houre.
96.BAnd then Iesus went to Peters housse / and sawe hys wyves mother lyinge sicke of a fevre / and touched her hande / and the fevre left hir: and she arose / and ministred vnto them.
When the eu
was come / they brought vn to him many þt were possessed with devyllis. 97.B And he cast out þe spirites with a worde / and healed all þt were sicke / to fulfill þt which was spok
by Esayas þe Prophet sayinge. He toke on him oure infirmities / & bare oure sickneses
C
98.CWh

Iesus sawe moche people about him / he c

maunded to go over þ
e water. And ther came a scribe & sayd vnto hym: master / I wyll folowe þ
e whyther so ever thou goest. And Iesus
sayd vnto him:
99.C the foxes have holes / and the brydd[es] of the ayer have nestes / but þ
e sonne of the man hath not wher

to rest his heede. A nothre þ
t was one of hys disciples sayd vnto hym: master / suffre me fyrst / to go & burye my father.
100.CBut Iesus sayd vnto him: folowe me / and let the deed burie their deed.
101.C
And he entred in to a shyppe / & his disciples folowed him. And beholde there arose a a greate t
pest in þe see / in so moche þt the shippe was covered [wt] waves / & he was a slepe. 102.CAnd his disciples came vn to him / & awoke hym sayinge: master save vs / we perishe. And he sayd vnto them: why are ye fearfull / o ye of lytell faithe? Then he arose / & rebuked þe wyndes & the see / & ther folowed a greate calme. And the men marveyled & sayd: what man is this / that bothe wyndes and see obey hym?
D
103.DAnd when he was come to þ
e other syde / in to þ
e co

tre of þ
e Gergesites / ther met him two possessed of devylles / which came out of the graves /
104.D & were out of measure fearce / so þ
t no m

myght go by that waye. And behold they cryed out sayinge: O Iesu the sonne of God / what have we to do with the? Art thou come hyther to torm

t vs before the tyme be come? And ther was a good waye of fr

them a greate heerd of swyne fedinge. Then þ
e devyl[es] besought him sayinge: if thou cast vs out / suffre vs to go oure waye in to the heerd of swyne. And he sayd vnto th

: go youre wayes. Then w

t they out / & departed into þ
e heerd of swyne And beholde þ
e whoale heerd of swyne was caryed
[wt] violence hedlinge in to the see / & perisshed in þ
e water. Then þ
e heerdm

fleed & w

t their ways in to þ
e cyte / & tolde every thinge / & what had fortuned vnto the possessed of the devyls. And beholde all the cyte came out & met Iesus. And when they sawe hym / they besought hym to departe oute of their cost[es].
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A
105.AThen he entred in to a shippe and passed over & came in to his awne cite. And lo / they brought to him a m

sicke of þ
e palsie / lyinge in his bed. And when Iesus sawe þ
e faith of th

/ he sayd to the sicke of þ
e palsie: sonne be of good chere / thy sinnes be forgev

the. And beholde certeyne of þ
e scribes sayd in th

selves / this m

blasphemeth. And wh

Iesus sawe their thoughtes / he sayd:
106.A wherfore thinke ye evill in youre hert[es]? Whether ys esyer to saye / thy synnes be forgeven þ
e / or to saye: arise & walke? That ye maye knowe that þ
e sonne of m

hath power to forgeve sinnes in erth / then sayd he vnto þ
e sicke of þ
e palsye: arise / take vp thy beed / & go home to thine housse. And he arose & departed to his awne housse. And when þ
e people sawe it / they marveyled & glorified god which had gev

suche power to m

.
B
107.B
And as Iesus passed forth fr

thence / he sawe a m

syt a receyuinge of custome / named Mathew / and sayd to him: folowe me.
108.BAnd he arose & folowed him. And it came to passe as he sat at meate in the housse: beholde many publicans and synners came and sate downe also with Iesus and hys disciples.
109.BWhen the Pharises sawe that / they sayd to hys disciples: why eateth youre master [wt] publicans and synners? When Iesus herde that / he sayde vnto them: The whole neade not the phisicion / but they that are sicke. 110.BGoo and learne / what that meaneth: I have pleasure in mercy / and not in offerynge. For I am not come to call the rightewes / but the synners to repentaunce.
111.B
Then came þe disciples of Ihon to hym sayinge: why do we & the Pharises fast ofte: but thy disciples fast not? And Iesus sayde vnto them: Can þe weddynge chyldren morne as longe as þe bridegrome is [wt] them? The tyme will come wh
the bridegrome shalbe tak
fr
them / & then shall they faste. 112.BNoo man peceth and olde garment with a pece of newe cloothe. For then taketh he awaye þe pece agayne from the garm
t / & the rent ys made greater. 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.
C
113.C
Whyls he thus spake vnto th

/ beholde ther came a certayne ruler / & worshipped him sayinge: my doghter is euen now deceased / but come & lay thy honde on her / & she shall live. And Iesus arose and folowed hym with hys disciples. And beholde / a woman which was diseased [wt] an yssue of bloude .xii. yeres / came behynde hym & toched þ
e hem of hys vesture. For she sayd in her silfe: yf I maye toche but
even his vesture only / I shalbe safe. 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.
And when Iesus came into þe rulers housse / & sawe the minstrels and the people raginge / he sayde vnto them: Get you hence / for þe mayde is not deed / but slepeth. And they laughed hym to scorne. Assone as þe people were put forthe / he went in and toke her by þe hond / and the mayde arose. And this was noysed through out all that lande.
D
And as Iesus departed thence / two blynde men folowed hym crying and saying: O thou sonne of David / have mercy on vs. And when he was come to housse /
114.D 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. Then touched he their eyes / saying: acordynge to youre faythe / be it vnto you. And their eyes were opened. And Iesus charged th

saying: Se þ
t no man knowe of it. But they assone as they were departed / spreed abroade his name through oute all the londe.
As they went out / beholde / they brought to hym a dome m
possessed af a devyll. 115.DAnd as sone as the devyll was cast oute / the domme spake: And the people merveled / sayinge: 116.D it was never so sene in Israel. But the Pharises sayde: he casteth oute devyls / by the power of the chefe devyll. 117.D
And Iesus went about all cities & tounes /
teachynge in their synagog[es] & preachyng the glad tidinges of þ
e kyngdome / & healinge all maner sicknes & desease am

ge þ
e people. But when he sawe the people / he had c

passion on th

/ because they were pyned awaye / & scattered abroade / ev

as shepe hav

ge no shepherd.
118.DThen sayde he to hys disciples: the hervest is greate / but the laborers are feawe. Wherfore praye the Lorde of the harvest / to sende forthe laborers into hys harvest.
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A
119.AAnd he called his .xii. disciples vnto hym / & gave them power over vnclene sprites / to cast them oute / & to heale all maner of sicknesses / & all maner of deseases.
120.A 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. Philip & Bartlemew. Thomas and Mathew the Publican. Iames the sonne of Alphe / and Lebbeus otherwyse called Taddeus. Simon of Cane / and Iudas Iscarioth / which also betrayed hym.
121.AThese .xii. sent Iesus / & c
maunded them sayinge: Go not in to þe wayes þt leade to the gentyls / & in to þe cities of þe Samaritans enter ye not. But go rather to þe lost shepe of the housse of Israel. Go & preach sayinge: þt the kyngdome of hev
is at hande. Heale the sicke / clense the lepers / rayse the deed / caste oute the devils. Frely ye have receved / frely geve agayne. Posses not golde / nor silver / nor brassse yn youre gerdels / nor yet scrip towardes
your iorney: nether two cotes / nether shues / nor yet a staffe. For the workm

is worthy to have his meate.
122.AIn to whatsoever cite or toune ye shall come / enquyre who ys worthy yn it / and there abyde till ye goo thence.
B
And wh

ye come in to an housse salute þ
e same. 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.
And whosoever shall not receave you / nor will heare youre preachynge: when ye departe oute of þt housse or that cite / shake of the duste of youre fete. 123.BTruly I say vnto you: it shalbe easier for the londe of zodoma & Gomorra in the daye of iudgement / then for that cite.
124.BBeholde I sende you forthe as shepe am
ge wolves. Be ye therfore wyse as serp
tes / & innocent as doves. Beware of men / for they shall deliver you vp to þe co
sels / & shall scourge you in their synagoges. And ye shall be brought to the heed rulers and kynges for my sake / in witnes to them and to the gentyls.
But when they delyver you vp / take no thought how or what ye shall speake / 125.B for yt shalbe gev
you / ev
in that same houre / what ye shall saye. For it is not ye that speke / but þe sprite of your father which speaketh in you.
The brother shall betraye the brother to deeth / & the father the sonne. 126.BAnd the chyldr
shall aryse agaynste their fathers & mothers / & shall put them to deethe: & ye shall be hated of all m
for my name. But he that endureth to the ende / shalbe saved.
C
When they persecute you in one cite / flye in to another. I tell you for a treuth / ye shall not fynysshe all þ
t cities of Israel / tyll þ
e sonne of man be come. The disciple ys not above hys master: nor yet þ
e serva

t above his lorde.
127.CIt 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? Feare th

not therfore.
128.CThere is no thinge so close / that shall not be openned / and no thinge so hyd / that shall not be knowen.
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.
129.CAnd 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. 130.CAre not two sparowes solde for a farthinge? And none of them dothe lyght on the grounde / with out youre father. And now are all the heeris of youre heedis numbred. Feare ye not therfore: ye are of more value then many sparowes.
131.C Who soever therfore shall knowledge me before men / hym will I knowledge also before my father which is in heuen. But whoso ever shall denye me before men / hym will I also denye before my father which is in heven. 132.C
133.CThynke not / that I am come to sende peace into the erth.
D
I came not to send peace / but a swearde. 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:
134.D And a mannes fooes shalbe they of hys owne housholde.
135.D 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. And he þt taketh not his crosse & foloweth me / ys not mete for me.
A
136.AHe that fyndeth hys lyfe / shall lose it: and he that losith hys lyfe for my sake / shall fynde it.
He that receavith you / receavith me: and he that receavith me / receavith him that sent me. He that receavith a prophet in þe name of a prophet / shall receave a prophetes rewarde. 137.AAnd he that receavith a righteous man in the name of a righteous man / 138.A shall receave the rewarde of a righteous man. 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.
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A
150.AIn that tyme went Iesus on the Sabot dayes thorow the corne & his disciples were anh

gred / & begane to plucke the eares of coorne / and to eate. When þ
e pharises sawe that / they sayde vnto him: Beholde / thy disciples do that which is not lawfull to do apon þ
e saboth daye. He sayde vnto th

: Haue ye not reed what David did /
151.A wh

he was anho

gered / & they also which were with him?
152.AHow he entred into the housse of God / & ate þ
e halowed loves / which were not lawfull / for him to eate / nether for th

which were [wt] him but only for þ
e prestes. Or have ye not reed in þ
e lawe / how that þ
e prestes in þ
e temple breake the saboth daye / & yet are blamlesse? But I saye vnto you: that here is one greater then þ
e t

ple.
153.AWherfore yf ye had wist what this sayinge meneth: I require mercy & not sacrifice: ye wold never have cond

ned innoc

tes. For þ
e sonne of man is lord even of þ
e saboth daye.
B
154.BAnd he departed thence / & went into their synagoge: & beholde ther was a man / whiche had his hande dryed vp. And they axed him sayinge: ys it lawfull to heale apon þ
e saboth
155.B dayes? because they myght acuse him. And he sayde vnto th

: whiche of you wolde it be / yf he had a shepe fallen into a pitte on þ
e saboth
156.B daye / that wolde not take him & lyft him out? And how moche is a man better th

a shepe? Wherfore it is lefull to do a good dede on the saboth dayes. Then sayde he to þ
e m

: stretch forth thy h

d. And he stretched it forthe. And it was made whole agayne lyke vnto þ
e other.
B

Then þ
e Pharyses w

t out / & helde a co

sell agaynst hym / how they myght destroye hym. When Iesus knewe þ
t / he departed th

ce / & moche people folowed him / and he healed th

all / & charged th

/ that they shuld not make him know

: to fulfyll that which was spoden by Esay þ
e Prophet / which sayeth.
157.BBeholde my chylde / wh

I have chosen / my beloved / in wh

my soule deliteth. I wyll put my sprete on hym / & he shall shewe iudgem

t to þ
e gentyls. He shall not stryve / he shall not crye / nether shall eny man heare his voyce in þ
e streetes / a brosed rede shall he not breacke / & flaxe that begynneth to burne / he shall not qu

che / tyll he sende forth iudgement vnto victory / & in hys name shall the gentyls truste.
C
158.CThen 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.
159.C And all the people were amased / & sayde: Ys not this that sonne of David? But when the Pharises hearde that / they sayde: This felow dryveth þ
e devyls no nother wyse oute but by
160.C the helpe of Belzebub þ
e chefe of the devyls.
But Iesus knewe their thoughtes / & sayde to th
. Every kingdome devided [wt] in it sylfe / shalbe brought to naught. Nether shall eny cite or housholde devyded ag
st it sylfe / c
tynue. So if sat
cast out sat
/ th
is he devyded agenst him sylfe. How shall then his kyngdome endure? Also if I by þe helpe of Belzebub cast oute devyls: by whose helpe do youre
chyldren cast them out? Therfore they shalbe youre iudges. But if I cast out the devyls by the sprite of God: then is the kyngdome of god come on you?
Ether how can a m
enter into a str
ge m
nes housse / and violently take awaye his goodes: excepte he fyrst binde þe str
ge man / & th
spoyle his housse?
He that is not [wt] me / is agaynst me. 161.CAnd he þt gaddereth not [wt] me / scattereth abrode. Wherfore I say vnto you / all maner of synne & blasphemy shalbe forgeven vnto men: but the blasphemy of þe sprite / shall not be forgeven vnto men. 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.
162.CEther make þe tree good / & his frute good also: or els make þe tree evyll / & his frute evyll also. 163.CFor þe tree is know
by his frute. O generaci
of viperes / how can ye saye well wh
ye youre selves are evyll? For of þe abound
ce of the hert / þe mouthe speaketh. A good m
oute of þe good treasure of his hert / bringeth forth good thynges. And an evyll man out of his evyll treasure / bringeth forth evyll thinges. 164.CBut I say vnto you / that of every ydell worde that men shall have spoken: they shall geve acountes at the daye of iudgement. For by thy wordes thou shalt be iustifyed: & by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned.
165.C
Then answered certeyne of the scribes &
of the Pharises sayinge:
166.C Master / we wolde fayne se a sygne of þ
e. He answered & sayde to th

: The evyll & advoutrous generaci

seketh a signe / but ther shall no signe be gev

to th

/ saue the signe of the Prophete Ionas.
167.CFor as Ionas was thre dayes & thre nyghtes in the whales belly: soo shall þ
e sonne of man be thre dayes & thre nyghtes in þ
e hert of þ
e erth.
D
The men of Ninivie shall rise at the daye of iugdement
168.D with this nacion / & condemne them: for they amended at þ
e preachinge of Ionas. And beholde / a greater then Ionas is here. The quene of þ
e south shall ryse at þ
e daye of iudgement with this generacion / & shall condemne th

: for she came fr

the vtmost parties of the worlde to heare the wysdome of Salomon. And beholde a greater then Salom

is here.
169.DWhen the vnclene sprite is gone out of a man / he walketh throughout dry places / seking reest & fyndeth none. Then he sayeth: I will retourne ageyne into my housse / fr
wh
ce I came oute. And when he is come / he fyndeth the housse empty & swepte & garnisshed. Then he goeth his waye / & taketh vnto him seven other spretes worsse then himsilfe / & 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.
170.DWhill he yet talked to the people: beholde his mother and his brethren stode without / desyringe to speake with him. Then one sayde vnto hym: beholde thy mother and thy brethr
stonde without / desiringe to speke [wt] the.
He answered & sayd to him that tolde hym: Who is my mother? or who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hond over his disciples and sayd: behold my mother and my brethren. For whosoever dothe my fathers will which is in hev
/ the same is my brother / suster & mother.
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A
171.AThe same daye w

t Iesus out of þ
e house / & sat by the seesyde / & moch people resorted vnto him / so gretly þ
t he w

t & sat in a shippe / & all the people stode on þ
e shoore. And he spake many thynges to th

in similitudes / sayinge: Beholde / þ
e sower w

t forth to sowe.
172.AAnd as he sowed / some fell by þ
e wayessyde / & the fowll[es] came & devoured it vp. Some fell ap

stony gro

de where it had not moche erth / & a n

ne it spr

ge vp / because it had no depth of erth: & when þ
e sunne was vp / it cauht heet / & for lake of rotynge wyddred awaye. Some fell am

ge thornes / & the thornes spr

ge vp & chooked it. Parte fell in good gro

d / & brought forth good frute: some an h

dred fold / some sixtie fold / some thyrty folde. Whosoever hath eares to heare let him heare.
B
And the disciples came and sayde to him: Why speakest thou to th

in parables? He answered & sayde vnto them: it is gev

vnto you to knowe þ
e secret[es] of the kyngdome of hev

/ but to th

it is not gev
173.B For whosoever hath to him shall be geven: and he shall have aboundance. But whosoever hath not: fr

hym shalbe takyn awaye even that he hath. Therfore
speake I to them in similitudes: for though they se / they se not: & hearinge they heare not: nether vnderstonde. And in th

is fulfilled þ
e 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. For this peoples hertes are wexed grosse / & their eares were dull of herynge / & their eyes have they closed / lest they shulde se with their eyes / & heare with their eares / & shuld vnderstonde with their hert[es] / & shuld tourne / that I myght heale them.
C
But blessed are youre eyes / for they se: & youre eares / for they heare.
174.CVerely I say vnto you / that many Prophet[es] & perfaicte m

have desired to se tho thing[es] which ye se / & have not sene th

: & to heare tho thing[es] which ye heare / & have not herde th

. Heare ye therfore þ
e similitude of the sower.
175.CWhosoever heareth the worde of þ
e kingdome / & vnderstondeth it not / ther cometh the evyll m

& catcheth awaye þ
t which was sowne in his hert. And this is he which was sowne by the wayesyde. But he þ
t was sowne in þ
e stony gro

de / is he which heareth the worde of God / & an

ne [wt] ioye receaveth it / yet hath he no rott[es] in him selfe / & therfore dureth but a season: for assone as tribulacion or persecucion aryseth because of the worde / by & by he falleth. He þ
t was sowne am

ge thornes / is he þ
t heareth þ
e worde of God: but the care of this worlde / & the dissaytfulnes of ryches choke þ
e worde / & so is he made vnfrutfull. He which is sowne in þ
e good grounde / is
he þ
t heareth þ
e worde & vnderst

deth it / which also bereth frute & bringeth forth / some an.C. folde / some sixtie folde / & some .xxx. folde.
D
Another similitude put he forth vnto th

sayinge:

The kyngdome of hev

is lyke vnto a man which sowed good seed in his felde.
176.DBut whyll men slepte / ther came his foo & sowed tares am

ge þ
e wheate / & w

t his waye. When þ
e blade was spr

ge vp & had brought forth frute / th

appered þ
e tares also. The servaunt[es] came to the housholder / & sayde vnto him: Syr sowedest not thou good seed in thy closse / fr

wh

ce th

hath it tares? He sayde to th

/ the envious m

hath done this. Then þ
e servaunt[es] sayde vnto him: wilt thou then þ
t we go & gader them? But he sayde / nay / lest whill ye go aboute to wede out þ
e tares / ye plucke vppe also [wt] them þ
e wheate by þ
e rott[es]: let bothe growe to gether tyll harvest come / & in tyme of harvest / I wyll saye to the repers / gather ye fyrst þ
e tares / & bind th

in sheves to be br

t: but gather the wheete into my barne.
E
177.E
Another parable he put forthe vnto th

sayinge. The kyngdome of hev

is lyke vnto a grayne of mustard seed / which a m

taketh & soweth in his felde / which is þ
e leest of all seedes. But when it is groune / it is the greatest am

ge yerbes / & it is a tree: so þ
t the bryddes of the ayer come & bylde in the bra

ches of it.
178.EAnother similitude sayde he to them. The kyngdome of heven is lyke vnto lev
which a woman taketh and hydeth in .iii. peckes of 179.E meele / tyll all be levended.
180.EAll these thynge spake Iesus vnto the people by similitudes / & with oute similitudes spake he nothinge to them / to fulfyll that which was spok
by the Prophet sayinge: I wyll op
my mouth in similitud[es] / 181.E and wyll speake forth thinges which have bene kepte secrete from the begynninge of the worlde.
Then sent Iesus þe people awaye / & came to housse. And his disciples came vnto him / sayinge: declare vnto vs the similitude of the tares of the felde. 182.EThen answered he & sayde to them. He that soweth the good seed / is the sonne of man. And þe felde is the worlde. And the chyldr
of the kingdome / they are þe good seed. And the tares are the chyldren of þe wicked. And the enemye that soweth th
/ is þe devell. 183.EThe harvest is þe end of the worlde. And the repers be þe angels. For ev
as the tares are gaddred & br
t in þe fyre: so shall it be in þe ende of this worlde.
F
The sonne of man shall send forth his angels / & they shall gather out of his kyngdome all thing[es] that offende / and them which do iniquite / and shall cast them into a furnes of fyre. There shalbe waylynge and gnasshing of teth. Then shall the iuste men shyne as bryght as the sunne in þ
e kyngdome of their father.
184.FWhosoever hath eares to heare / let him heare.
185.F
Agayne þe kyngdome of hev
is lyke vnto treasure hidde in the felde / þe which a man fyndeth & hideth: and for ioy therof goeth & selleth all that he hath / & byeth that felde.
Agayne þe kyngdome of hev
is lyke vnto
a marchaunt that seketh good pearles / which when he had founde one precious pearle /
186.F w

t and solde all that he had / and bought it.
Agayne the kyngdome of hev
is lyke vnto a neet cast into þe see / 187.F þt gadereth of all kynd[es] of fysshes: which wh
it is full / men drawe to londe / & sitte & gadre the good into vessels / & cast the bad awaye. So shall it be at the ende of the worlde. The angels shall come oute / & sever the bad from the good / & shall cast them into a furnes of fyre: there shalbe waylinge and gnasshynge of teth.
G
Iesus sayde vnto them: vnderstonde ye all these thyng[es]? They sayde / ye Lorde. Th

sayde he vnto them: Therfore every scribe which is taught vnto the kyngdome of hev

/ is lyke an housholder /
188.G which bryngeth forth / out of hys treasure / thyng[es] bothe new and olde.
189.GAnd it came to passe when Iesus had finisshed these similitud[es] / þt he departed th
ce / & came in to his awne co
tre / & taught them in their synagog[es] / in so moche þt they were astonyed & sayde: 190.G wh
ce cometh all this wysdome & power vnto him? Is not this the carp
ters sonne? Is not his mother called Mary? & his brethr
be called Iames & Ioses & Sim
& Iudas? And are not his susters all here [wt] vs? Wh
ce hath he all these thynge. And they were offended by him. Th
Iesus sayd to th
a Prophet is not [wt] out honoure / 191.G save in hys awne countre / & am
ge his awne kynne. And he dyd not many miracles there / for there vnbelefes sake.
¶The .xiiii. Chapter.
192.At that tyme Herod the tetrarcha hearde of the fame of Iesu / and sayde vnto his serva
tes:
A
This is Ihon þ
e baptist. He is risen agayne from deeth / & therfore are soche myracles wrought by him.
193.AFor Herod had taken Ihon and bounde him and put him in preson for Herodias sake / his brother Philips wyfe. For Ihon sayde vnto him: Yt is not lawfull for the to have her. And when he wold have put him to deeth / he feared the people / because they counted him as a prophet.
But when Herod[es] birth daye was come / the doughter of Herodias daunsed before them / & pleased Herod. Wherfore he promised [wt] an oth / that he wolde geve hir whatsoever she wolde axe. And she beinge informed of her mother before / sayde: geve me here Ihon baptist[es] heed in a platter. And þe kynge sorowed. Neverthelesse for his othes sake / and for their sakis which sate also at þe table / he c
maunded yt to be geven hir: 194.A and sent & beheeded Ihon in the preson / and his heed was brought in a platter & geven to the damsell / & she brought it to her mother. And his disciples came & toke vp his body / & buryed it: and went and tolde Iesus.
B
When Iesus hearde that / he departed thence by shippe in to a desert place out of þ
e waye.
195.B And when the people had hearde therof / they folowed him afote out of their cities. And Iesus went forth & sawe moche people / & his herte did melte vpon them / and he healed of them those that were sicke. When even was come / his disciples came to him sayinge. This is a
deserte place / & the daye is spent: let the people departe / þ
t they maye go into þ
e tounes / & bye them vytayllis. But Iesus sayde vnto them. They have no neade to go awaye. Geve ye th

to eate.
196.BThen sayde they vnto him: we have here but .v. loves & two fysshes. And he sayde: bringe th

hyther to me. And he c

maunded þ
e people to syt downe on þ
e grasse: & toke þ
e .v. loves / & the .ii. fysshes & loked vp to heven & blessed / & brake and gave the loves to his disciples / & the disciples gave them to þ
e people. And they dyd all eate / and were suffised. And they gadered vp of þ
e gobbet[es] that remayned vii. basket[es] full. And they þ
t ate / werein n

bre about .v.M. men / besyde wemen & chyldren.
C
197.CAnd strayght waye Iesus made his disciples enter into a shippe / and to goo over before him / whill he sent þ
e people awaye. And assone as he had sent the people awaye / he went vp into a mo

tayne alone to praye. And when nyght was come / he was there himsilf alone. And the shippe was now in the middes of the see / and was toost with waves / for it was a c

trary wynde.
198.CIn the fourthe watche of þ
e night Iesus came vnto them walkynge on the see. And when his disciples sawe him walkynge on the see / they were troubled / sayinge: it is some spirite / & cryed out for feare. And streyght waye Iesus spake vnto them sayinge: be of god cheare / it is I / be not afrayed.
199.C Peter answered him / & sayde: master / if thou be he / bid me come vnto the on the water. And he sayde / come. And when Peter was come
doune out of þ
e shippe / he walked on þ
e water / to go to Iesus. But when he sawe a myghty wynde / he was afrayed. And as he beganne to synke / he cryed sayinge: master save me. And immediatly Iesus stretched forth his h

de / & caught him / & sayde to him: O thou of lytell faith / wherfore diddest thou dout? And assone as they were come in to þ
e shippe / þ
e wynde ceassed. Then they that were in the shippe / came and worshipped him / sayinge: of a truth thou arte þ
e sonne of God.
200.CAnd when they were come over / they went in to þ
e londe of Genazareth. And when þ
e men of þ
t place had knowledge of him / they sent out in to all þ
t countre rounde about / & brought vnto him / all that were sicke / & besought him / that they myght touche the hemme of his vesture only.
201.CAnd as many as touched it were made safe.
The .xv. Chapter.

A
Then came to Iesus scribes & pharises from Ierusalem / sayinge:
202.A why do thy disciples transgresse the tradici

s of þ
e elders?
203.A for they wesshe not their hond[es] / when they eate breed. He answered / and sayde vnto them: why do ye also transgresse þ
e c

maundment of God / thorowe youre tradicions? For God c

maunded / sayinge: honoure thy father & mother / & he that cursseth father or mother / shall suffer deeth. But ye saye / every m

shall saye to his father or mother: That which thou desyrest of me to helpe þ
e with: is geven God: & so shall he not honoure his father or his mother. And thus haue ye made / þ
t the c

maundment
of God is with out effecte / through youre tradici

s. Ypocrit[es] well prophesyed of you Esay sayinge:
204.A This people draweth nye vnto me with their mouthes / and honoureth me with their lippes / howbe it their hertes are farre from me: but in vayne they worshippe me teachinge doctrines /
205.A whiche are nothing but mens precepts.
B
And he called the people vnto him / & sayde to them: heare and vnderstande. That which goeth into the mouth / defyleth not þ
e man: but that which commeth out of the mouth /
206.B defyleth the man.
Then came his disciples / and sayde vnto him. Perceavest thou not / how that the pharises are offended in hearinge thys sayinge? He answered / 207.B & sayde: all plantes which my hev
ly father hath not planted / shalbe plucked vp by the rotes. 208.BLet them alone / they be the blynde leaders of the blynde. If the blynde leede the blynde / boothe shall fall into the dyche. 209.B
Then answered Peter & sayd to him: declare vnto vs this parable. Then sayde Iesus: are ye yet with oute vnderstondinge? perceave ye not / that what soever goeth in at the mouth / descendeth doune in to the bely / & is cast out into the draught? 210.BBut those thingis which procede out of the mouth / come from the herte / and they defyle the man. For out of the herte come evyll thoughtis / murder / breakyng of wedlocke / whord
/ theefte / falce witnes berynge / blasphemye. These are the thingis which defyle a man. But to eate with vnwesshen
hondes / defyleth not a man.
C
211.C
And Iesus went thence / & departed in to the costis of Tyre and Sidon. And beholde a woman which was a Cananite came out of þ
e 212.C same coostis / & cryed vnto him / sayinge: have mercy on me Lorde the sonne of David / my doughter is pytiously vexed with a devyll. 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. He answered / and sayde: I am not sent / but vnto þ
e loost shepe of þ
e housse of Israel. Then she came & worshipped him / sayinge: master helpe me. He answered & sayde: it is not good / to take the chyldrens breed / & to cast it to whelpes. She answered and sayde: truthe Lorde: neverthelesse the whelpes eate of the cr

mes / which fall from their masters table. 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.
213.CThen Iesus went awaye from thence & came nye vnto the see of Galile / and went vp in to a mountayne and sat doune there. And moche people came vnto him / havinge with th
/ halt / blynde / domme / maymed / and other many: and cast them doune at Iesus fete. And he healed them / in so moche that the people wondred / to se the d
me speake / the maymed whole / the halt to go / and þe blynde to se. And they glorified the God of Israel.
Then Iesus called his disciples to him /
& sayde:
214.C I have compassion on þ
e people / becau se they have c

tynued with me now .iii. dayes / & have nought to eate: & I wyll not let them departe fastinge / leste they perisshe in þ
e waye. And his disciples sayd vnto him: wh

ce shuld we get so moche breed in þ
e wildernes / as shuld suffise so greate a multitude? And Iesus sayde vnto them: how many loves have ye? And they sayde: seven / and a feawe litle fysshes.
215.CAnd he c

maunded þ
e people to syt doune on þ
e grounde: & toke the seven loves / & the fysshes / & gave thankes / and brake them / and gave to his disciples / & the disciples gave them to the people. And they dyd all eate & were suffised. And they toke vp of the brok

meate that was lefte .vii. basket[es] full. And yet they that ate were .iiii.M. men / besyde wemen & chyldren. And he sent awaye the people / and toke shippe and came into the parties of Magdala.
The .xvi. Chapter.
A
216.AThen came the pharises & saduces / & did tempte him / desyringe him to shewe them some signe from hev

. He answered & sayde vnto th

. At even ye saye / we shall have fayre wedder / & þ
t because þ
e skye is reed: & in the morninge ye saye / to daye shalbe foule wedder / and that because the skye is cloudy & reed. O ye ypocrites / ye can discerne þ
e fassion of the skye: & can ye not discerne þ
e signes of the tymes? The frowarde nacion & advoutrous seketh a signe /
217.A and there shall non other signe be geven vnto them / but the signe of the prophet Ionas. So lefte he them & departed.
B
And when his disciples were come to the other side of the water / they had forgott

to take breed with th

.
218.BThen Iesus sayd vnto them: Take hede and beware of the lev

of þ
e Pharises & of þ
e Saduces. And they thought in them selves sayinge: because we have brought no breed with vs. When Iesus vnderstode that / he sayd vnto th

. O ye of lytell faith / why are youre mindes cumbred because ye have brought no breed? Do ye not yet perceave / nether rem

ber those .v. loves when there were .v.M. men / & how many baskett[es] toke ye vp? Nether the .vii. loves / when there were .iiiii.M. & how many baskettes toke ye vp? Why perceave ye not then / þ
t I spake not vnto you of breed / wh

I sayde / beware of the leven of the Pharises & of the Saduces? Th

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.
C
219.C
When Iesus cam in to the cost[es] of the cite which is called Cesarea Philippi / he axed his disciples sayinge: whom do men saye þ
t I the sonne of m

am? They saide / some saye þ
t thou arte Ihon Baptist / some Helias / some Ieremias / or one of þ
e prophet[es]. He sayde vnto th

: but wh

saye ye þ
t I am?
220.CSim

Peter answered & sayde: Thou arte Christ þ
e sonne of the lyvinge God. And Iesus answered & sayde to him:
221.C happy arte thou Simon the sonne of Ionas / for fleshe & bloud hath not opened vnto the þ
t / but my father which is in hev

. And I saye also vnto the / þ
t thou arte Peter:
and apon this rocke I wyll bylde my congregacion. And the gates of hell shall not prevayle ageynst it. And I wyll geve vnto the / the keyes of the kyngdom of heven: and whatsoever thou byndest vpon erth / shall be bounde in heven: and whatsoever thou lowsest on erthe / shalbe lowsed in heven.
Then he charged his disciples / þt they shulde tell no man / þt he was Iesus Christ.
D
From þ
t tyme forth / Iesus began to shewe vnto his disciples / how þ
t he must go vnto Ierusalem / & suffer
222.D many thing[es] of þ
e Elders / & of þ
e hye prestes / & of the scribes / & must be killed / & ryse agayne þ
e thirde daye. But Peter toke him asyde / & began to rebuke him sayinge: master faver thy sylfe this shall not come vnto the. Then tourned he aboute /
223.D & sayde vnto Peter: come after me Satan / thou offendest me / because thou sauourest not godly thing[es] / but wordly thing[es]
Iesus then sayde to his disciples. If eny man wyll folowe me / 224.D leet him forsake him sylfe / and take vp his crosse and folowe me. For who soever wyll save his lyfe / shall loose it. 225.DAnd whosoever shall loose his lyfe for my sake / shall fynde it. 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? For the sonne of man shall come in the glory of his father / 226.D [wt] his angels: & then shall he rewarde every man accordinge to his dedes. 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.
The .xvii. Chapter.

A
227.AAnd after. vi. dayes Iesus toke Peter & Iames & Ihon his brother / & brought them vp into an hye mountayne out of the waye / and was transfygured before them:
228.A and his face did shyne as the sunne / & his clothes were as whyte as the light. And beholde ther appered vnto th

/ Moses & Helyas / talkinge with him. 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. Whyll he yet spake / beholde a bright cloude shadowed them. And beholde there came a voyce out of þ
e cloude sayinge: this is my deare sonne / in whom I delite / heare him.
229.A And when the disciples hearde that / they fell on their faces / and were soore afrayed. And Iesus came and touched them / and sayde: aryse and be not afrayed. And when they looked vp / they saw no man / saue Iesus onely.
B
230.BAnd as they came doune from the mountayne / Iesus charged them sayinge: se þ
t ye shewe the vision to no man / vntyll the sonne of man be rysen ageyne from deeth.

And his disciples axed of him / sayinge: Why then saye the scribes / þ
t Helyas muste fyrst come? Iesus answered / & sayd vnto them: Helyas shall fyrst come / and restore all thing[es]. And I saye vnto you þ
t Helyas is come alredy / and they knewe him not: but have done vnto him whatsoever
they lusted.
231.BIn lyke wyse shall also the sonne of man suffre of th

. Then þ
e disciples perceaved that he spake vnto them of Ihon baptist.
And when they were come to þe people / ther cam to him a certayne man / & kneled doune to him / 232.B & sayde:
C
Master have mercy on my sonne for he is franticke: & is sore vexed. And oft tymes he falleth into the fyre / & oft into þ
e water And I brought him to thy disciples / & they coulde not heale him. 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. And Iesus rebuked the devyll / and he c

out of him. And þ
e child was healed even þ
t same houre
233.CThen came the disciples to Iesus secretly & sayde: Why could not we cast him out? Iesus sayd vnto th
: 234.C 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 mo
tayne / remove hence to yonder place / & he shuld remove: nether shuld eny thinge be vnpossible for you to do. How be it this kynde goeth not oute / 235.C but by prayer and fastinge.
D
As they passed the tyme in Galile / Iesus sayde vnto them:
236.D the sonne of man shalbe betrayed into the hondes of men / and they shall kill him / and the thyrd daye he shall ryse agayne.
237.DAnd they sorowed greatly.
And when they were come to Caperna
/ they þt were wont to gadre poll money / came to Peter & sayde: Doth youre master paye tribute? He sayd: ye. And when he was come into
the house / Iesus spake fyrst to him / saying What thinkest thou Simon? of whome do þ
e 238.D kyng[es] of the erth take tribute or poll money? of their chyldren / or of straungers? Peter sayde vnto him: of straungers. Then sayd Iesus vnto him agayne: Then are the chyldren fre. Neverthelesse / lest we shuld offende th

: goo to þ
e see & cast in thyne angle / & take the fysshe þ
t fyrst cometh vp: & when thou hast opened his mouthe / thou shalt fynde a pece of twentie pence: þ
t take & paye for me and the.
The .xviii. Chapter.

A
239.AThe same tyme the disciples came vnto Iesus saying: who is þ
e greatest in the kyngdome of hev

? Iesus called a chylde vnto him / & set him in the middes of them:
240.A & sayd. Verely I say vnto you: except ye tourne / & become as chyldren / ye cannot enter into the kyngdom of heven. Whosoever therfore humble him sylfe as this chylde / the same is the greatest in þ
e kyngdome of hev

. And who soever receaveth suche a chylde in my name / receaveth me.
241.ABut whosoever offende one of these lytelons / which beleve in me: it were better for him / that a milstone were hanged aboute his necke / and that he were drouned in the depth of the see. Wo be vnto the world because of offences. How be it / it cannot be avoided but þ
t offences shalbe geven. Neverthelesse woo be to þ
e man / by wh

the offence c

meth.
B
242.BWherfore yf thy honde or thy fote offende the / cut him of and cast him from the. It ys better for the to enter into lyfe halt or maymed
/ rather then thou shuldest havinge two hondes or two fete / be cast into everlasting fyre. 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.
Se that ye despise not one of these litelons. 243.BFor I saye vnto you / þt in heven their angels alwayes behold the face of my father / which is in heven.
Ye and the sonne of man is come to saue that which is lost. 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 þe mo
tains / and go and seke that one which is gone astray? 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. Even so it is not the wyll of youre father in heven / that one of these lytelons shulde perishe.
D

Moreover yf thy brother treaspace agenst the. Go and tell him his faute betwene him & the alone.
244.DYf he heare the / thou hast wone thy brother: 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. If he heare not them / tell it vnto the congregacion. If he heare not þ
e congregacion / take him as an hethen man / & as a publican. 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.
245.DAgayn 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. For where two or thre are gathered togedder in my name
246.D / there am I in the myddes of them.
247.DThen came Peter to him / and sayde: master howe ofte shall I forgeve my brother / yf he synne agaynst me / seven tymes? Iesus sayd vnto him: I saye not vnto the seven tymes: 248.D but seventy tymes seven tymes.
Therfore is þe kingdome of heven lykened vnto a certayne kynge / which wolde take a countis of his servauntis. And when he had begone to recken / one was broughte vnto him / whiche ought him ten thousande talentis: whome be cause 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. The servaunt fell doune & besought him sayinge: Sir / geve me respyte / and I wyll paye it every whit. Then had the Lorde pytie on that servaunt / and lowsed him / and forgave him the det.
D
249.DAnd þ
e sayde serva

t w

t oute & founde one of his felowes / which ought him an hundred pence / and leyed hondes on him / and toke him by the throote / sayinge: paye me þ
t thou owest. And his felowe fell doune and besought him sayinge: have pacience with me / and I wyll paye the all. And he wolde not / but went & cast him into preson / tyll he shulde paye the det. When his other felowes sawe what was done / they were very sory / & came and tolde vnto
their lorde all þ
t had happened. Then his lorde called him / & sayde vnto him. O evyll serva

t I forgave the all that det / because thou prayedst me: was it not mete also þ
t thou shuldest have had c

passion on thy felow / even as I had pitie on þ
e? And his lorde was wrooth / & delyuered him to the iaylers / tyll he shnld paye all that was due to him. So lyke wyse shall my hevenly father do vnto you / except ye forgeve with youre hert[es] / eache one to his brother their treaspases.
The .xix. Cha
A
And it came to passe / when Iesus had fynisshed those sayinges /
250.A he gat him from Galile / and came into the coostes of Iewry beyonde Iordan / and moche people folowed him / and he healed them theare.
Then came vnto him the pharises temtinge him / 251.A and sayinge to him: Ys it lawfull for a man to put awaye his wyfe for all maner of causes? He answered and sayd vnto them: Have ye not redde / 252.A how that he which made man at the beginninge / made them man and woman and sayde: 253.A for this thinge / shall a m
leve father and mother and cleve vnto his wyfe / & they twayne shalbe one flesshe. Wherfore now are they not twayne / but one flesshe. Let not man therfore put a sunder / that which God hath cuppled to gedder.
Th
sayde they to him: why did Moses c
maunde to geve a testimoniall of divorsem
t & to put hyr awaye? He sayde vnto them: Moses because of the hardnes of youre hertes suffred you to put awaye youre wyfes: But
from þ
e beginnynge it was not so. I saye therfore
254.A 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.
Then sayde his disciples to him: yf the mater be so betwene man and wyfe / then is it not good to mary.
B
He sayde vnto them: all m

can not awaye with that sayinge save they to whom it is gev

.
255.BTher 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 hev

s sake. He that can take it / let him take it.
256.BThen were brought to him yonge chyldr
/ that he shuld put his hond[es] on them & praye And the disciples rebuked them. But Iesus sayde: suffre the chyldren and forbid them not to come to me: for of suche is the kyngdome of heven. 257.BAnd when he had put his hondes on them he departed thence.
And beholde one came & sayde vnto him: good master / what good thinge shall I do / that I maye have eternall lyfe?
C
He sayde vnto him: why callest thou me good? there is none good
258.C but one / & that is God. But yf thou wylt entre in to lyfe / kepe the commaundementes. The other sayde to him / Which? And Iesus sayde: breake no wedloke / kill not / steale not: beare not falce witnes: honoure father & mother: and love thyne neighbour as thy sylfe.
And the younge man sayde vnto him: I have observed all these thingis from my youth / what lacke I yet? 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. When þ
e younge m

hearde þ
t sayinge / he w

t awaye mourninge. For he had greate possessions.
Then Iesus sayde vnto his disciples: Verely I saye vnto you: yt is harde for a ryche m
to enter into þe kyngdome of heaven. And moreover I saye vnto you: 259.C 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. When his disciples hearde that / they were excedingly amased / sayinge: who then can be saved? Iesus behelde th
/ & sayde vnto them: with men this is vnpossible / but with God all thinges are possible.
D

Then answered Peter / and sayde to him: Beholde / we have forsaken all & folowed the / what shall we have? Iesus sayde vnto them: verely I saye to you: when the sonne of man shall syt in þ
e seate of his maieste /
260.D ye which folowe me in þ
e seconde generacion shall syt also vpon .xii. seat[es] / & iudge þ
e .xii. trib[es] of Israel. And whosoever forsaketh housses / or brethren / or systers / other father / or mother / or wyfe /
261.D or chyldren / or landes / for my names sake / þ
e same shall receave an hundred folde / & shall inheret everlastynge lyfe.

Many that are fyrste shalbe laste / & the laste shalbe fyrste.
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262.AFor the kyngdome of heven ys lyke vnto an houssholder / which went out erly in the morninge to hyre labourers into hys vyneyarde. And he agreed [wt] the labourers for a peny a daye / & sent them into his vyneyarde. And he went out about the thyrde houre / & sawe other stonding ydell in the marketplace / and sayd vnto them / go ye also into my vyneyarde: & whatsoever is right / I will geve you. And they went there waye. Agayne he w

t out about the
263.A sixte & nynthe houre / and dyd lyke wyse. And he went out aboute the eleventhe houre and founde other stondynge ydell / & sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydell? They sayde vnto hym: because no man hath hyred vs. He sayde to them: goo ye alsoo into my vyneyarde / and whatsoever is right / that shall ye receave.
B
When even was come / the lorde of the vyneyarde sayde vnto hys steward: call the labourers / and geve them their hyre / beginnyng at þ
e laste / tyll thou come to þ
e fyrste. And they whiche were hyred aboute the eleventhe houre / came & receaved every man a peny. Then came þ
e fyrst / supposyng þ
t they shuld receave moare: & they likewyse receaved every man a peny. And when they had receaved it / they murmured agaynst the good man of the housse saying: These laste have wrought but one houre / & thou hast made them equall vnto vs which have born þ
e burth

& heet of the daye.
C
He answered to one of th

sayinge: frende I do the no wronge: dyddest thou not agre [wt]
me for a p

ny? Take that which is thy duty / and go thy waye. I will geve vnto this last / as moche as to the. Ys it not lawfull for me to do as me listeth with myne awne?
264.CYs thyne eye evyll because I am good? Soo the laste shalbe fyrste / and the fyrste shalbe laste. For many are called and feawe be chosen.
C
265.C
And Iesus ascended to Ierusalem / & toke the .xii. disciples a parte in the waye / & sayde to th

. Beholde we goo vp to Ierusalem / & the sonne of m

shalbe betrayed vnto þ
e chefe prestes / & vnto the scribes / & they shall cond

ne him to deeth /
266.C and shall delyvre him to the g

tils / to be mocked / to be scourged / and to be crucified: & þ
e thyrd daye he shall ryse agayne.
267.C
Then came to hym the mother of zebedes chyldren with her sonnes / worshippynge him / and desyringe a certayne thinge of him. And he sayd vnto her: what wilt thou have? She sayde vnto him: Gravnte that these my two sonnes may sit / þe one on thy right hond / & the other on þe lifte hond in thy kyngdome.
Iesus answered & sayd: Ye wot not what ye axe. Are ye able to drynke of the cuppe þt I shall drynke of / & to be baptised [wt] the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with? They answered to him / that we are. And he sayd vnto th
: 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 lyst hond / is not myne to geve: but to them for whom it is prepared of my father.
D
And when the ten hearde this / they disdayned
at þ
e two brethr

: But Iesus called them vnto him & sayde:
268.D Ye knowe þ
t the lordes of the gentyls have dominaci

over them. And they that are great / exercise power over th

.
269.DIt shall not be so am

ge you. But whosoever wyll be greate am

ge you / let him be youre minister: & whosoever wil be chefe / let him be youre serva

t / ev

as the sonne of man came / not to be ministred vnto / but to minister / & to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many.
270.DAnd as they departed fr
Hierico / moche people folowed him. And beholde two blinde men sittinge by þe waysyde / wh
they hearde Iesus passe by / cryed sayinge: Thou Lorde þe sonne of David have mercy on vs. And þe people rebuked them / be cause they shulde holde their peace. But they cryed þe moare / sayinge: have mercy on vs thou Lorde which arte þe sonne of David. Then Iesus stode styll / & called th
/ & sayde: what will ye that I shulde do to you: They sayd to him: Lorde that oure eyes maye be opened. Iesus had c
passion on th
/ & touched their eyes. And immediatly their eyes receaved syght. And they folowed him.
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271.AUVhen they drewe neye vnto Ierusalem / & were come to Betphage / vnto mounte olivete: then sent Iesus two of his disciples / saiynge to th

. Go in to the toune that lyeth over agaynste you / & an

ne ye shall fynde an asse bounde /
272.A & her colte with her: lose them & bringe them vnto me. And if eny man saye ought vnto you / saye ye þ
t the
lorde hath neade of them: and streyght waye he will let them go. All this was done / to fulfyll that which was spoken by the Prophet / sayinge:
273.A 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. The disciples went & dyd as Iesus c

maunded them / & brought þ
e asse and the colte / and put on them their clothes / and set him theron. And many of the people spreed their garment[es] in þ
e waye. Other cut doune braunches fr

the trees / and strawed them in the waye. Moreover the people that went before / & they also that came after / cryed sayinge:
274.A Hosanna to þ
e sonne of David. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lorde / Hosanna in the hyest.
B
275.BAnd when he was come in to Ierusalem / all the cyte was moved sayinge: who is this? And the people sayde: this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile. And Iesus went in to the temple of God /
276.B and cast out all them that soulde and bought in the temple / & overthrew the tables of the mony cha

gers / & the seates of them that solde doves / & sayde to them:
277.B It is wrytten / my housse shalbe called the housse of prayer. But ye have made it a denne of theves.
278.BAnd the blinde & the halt came to him in þ
e t

ple / & he healed th

.
When the chefe prest[es] & scribes sawe the marveylles that he dyd / & the chyldren cryinge in the t
ple & sayinge / Hosanna to the sonne of David / they disdayned / and sayde vnto
him: hearest thou what these saye? Iesus sayde vnto them yee: have ye never redde / of the mouth of babes & suckeling[es] thou haste ordeyned
279.B prayse? And he lefte th

/ & w

t out of þ
e cite vnto Bethanie / & had his abyd

ge there.
280.BIn the mornynge as he returned in to the cyte ageyne / he hungred / & spyed a fygge trre in the waye / & came to it / and founde nothinge theron / but leves only / & sayd to it / never frute growe on the hence forward[es]. 281.BAnd an
the fygge tree wyddered awaye. And when his disciples sawe that / they marveled sayinge: Howe sone is the fygge tree wyddered awaye? Iesus answered / and sayde vnto th
: Verely I saye vnto you /
C
yf ye shall have faith and shall not dout / ye shall not only do that which I have done to the fygge tree: but also yf ye shall saye vnto this mo

tayne / take thy silfe awaye / and cast thy silfe into the see / it shalbe done. And whatsoever ye shall axe in prayer (if ye beleve) ye shall receave it.
And when he was come into the t
ple / 282.C the chefe prestes and the elders of the people came vnto him as he was teachinge / & sayde: by what auctorite doest thou these thing[es]? & who gave the this power? 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 thing[es]. 283.CThe baptime of Iohn: whence was it? fr
hev
or of men? Then they reasoned am
ge them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye fr
heven / he will saye vnto vs: why dyd
ye not then beleve hym? But and if we shall saye of men / then feare we the people. For all men helde Iohn as a Prophet. 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.
284.CWhat saye ye to this?
A certayne man had two sonnes / & came to þe elder & sayde: sonne go & worke to daye in my vineyarde. He answered & sayde / I will not: but afterwarde repented & went. Then came he to the second / & sayde lyke wyse. And he answered and sayde: I will syr: yet w
t not. Whether of th
twayne dyd the will of the father? And they sayde vnto hym: the fyrst. Iesus sayde vnto th
: verely I saye vnto you / 285.C that the publicans & the harlotes shall come into þe kyngdome of God before you. For Iohn came vnto you in the waye of rightewesnes / and ye beleved hym not. 286.CBut 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.
D
287.D
Herken another similitude. Ther was a certayne housholder / which planted a vineyarde / & hedged it ro

de about / & made a wynpresse in it / & bilt a tower / & let it out to husbandmen / & w

t in to a straunge co

tre. And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare / he sent his servaunt[es] to the husbandmen / to receave the frut[es] of it. And þ
e husbandm

caught his servaunt[es] & bet one / kylled another / and stoned another. Agayne he sent other servant[es] / moo
then the fyrst: & they served them lyke wyse. But last of all / he sent vnto th

his awne sonne sayinge: they will feare my sonne. But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne / they sayde am

ge th

selves: This is the heyre: come / let vs kyll him / & let vs take his inheritaunce to oure selves. And they caught him & thrust him out of the vineyarde / & slewe him. When the lorde of the vyneyarde commeth / what will he do [wt] those husbandm

? 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.
288.DIesus sayde vnto th
: dyd ye never redde in the scriptur[es]? The stone which þe bylders refused / þe same is set in þe principall parte of þe corner: this was the lordes doinge / & yt is mervelous in oure eyes. Therfore saye I vnto you / the kyngdome of God shalbe tak
from you / & shalbe gev
to the g
tyls / which shall brynge forth the frutes of it. 289.DAnd whosoever shall fall on this stone / he shalbe broken / but on whosoever it shall fall vpon / it will grynde him to powder. And when the chefe prest[es] & Pharises hearde these similitudes / they perceaved þt he spake of th
. And they w
t about to laye hond[es] on him / but they feared þe people / because they tooke him as a Prophet.
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290.AAnd Iesus answered and spake vnto them agayne / in similitudes sayinge.

The kingdome of hev

is lyke vnto
a certayne kynge /
291.A which maryed his sonne / & sent forth his servant[es] / to call them that were byd to the weddinge / & they wolde not come. Ageyne he sent forth other servaunt[es] / sayinge: Tell them which are bydden: beholde I have prepared my dynner / myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled / and all thinges are redy / come vnto the mariage. But they made light of it / and went their wayes: one to his ferme place / another about his marchaundise / the remnaunt toke his seruantes and intreated them vngodly & slewe them. When the kinge hearde that / he was wroth / and send forth his warryers and distroyed those murtherers / and brent vp their cyte.
B
Then sayde he to his servauutes: the weddinge was prepared. But they which were bydden / were not worthy. Go ye therfore out into þ
e hyewayes / & as many as ye finde / byd them to the mariage. The seruaunt[es] w

t out into the hiewayes / & gaddered to gedder as many as they coulde fynde / both good & bad / and þ
e weddinge was furnysshed with gest[es].
292.BThen the kynge came in / to viset the gest[es] / & spyed there a m

which had not on a weddinge garment / and sayde vnto him: frende / how fortuned it that thou camest in hither & hast not on a weddyng garment? And he was ev

spechlesse. 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.
293.BFor many are called and feawe be chosen.
294.B
Then w
t the Pharises & toke counsell how they might t
gle him in his word[es]. And they sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes servauntes sayinge: Master / we knowe þt thou are true / & teachest the waye of god trulie / nether carest for eny man / for thou consydrest not m
nes estate. Tell vs therfore: how thynkest thou? Is it lawfull to geve tribute vnto Cesar or not? 295.BIesus perceaved their wikednes / and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrites? Let me se þe tribute money. And they toke hym 296.B a peny. And he sayde vnto them: whose is this ymage and superscripcion? 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.
When they hearde that / they marveled / and lefte hym & went there waye.
C
297.CThe same daye the Saduces came to him (which saye that there is no resurrcecion) & axed him sayinge: Master / Moses bade / yf a man dye havinge no chyldr

/ that the brother mary his wyfe / & reyse vp seed vnto his brother.
298.CTher were [wt] vs seven brethr

/ & the fyrste maried & deceased [wt] oute yssue / & lefte his wyfe vnto his brother. Lykewise the seconde and þ
e thryd / vnto the sev

the. Laste of all the woman dyed also. Now in the resurreccion / whose wyfe shall she be of the seven? For all had her. Iesus answered and sayde vnto th

: ye are deceaved / & vnderstonde not the scriptures / nor yet the power of God. For in the resurreccion they nether mary nor are maryed:
but are as the angels of God in heven.
299.CAs touchynge the resurreccion of the deed: have ye not redde what is sayde vnto you of God / which sayeth: I am Abrahams God / & Ysaacks God / 300.C & the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the deed: but of the lyvinge. And when the people hearde that / they were astonyed at his doctrine.
D
301.D
When the Pharises had hearde / how þ
t he had put the Saduces to silence / they drewe to gedder / & one of them which was a doctoure of lawe / axed a question t

ptinge h m & sayinge: Master which is þ
e chefe c

maundment in the lawe?
302.DIesus sayde vnto him: love the Lorde thy God [wt] all thine herte / with all thy soule / & with all thy mynde. This is the fyrst & the chefe c

maundement. And ther is another lyke vnto this. Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe. In these two commaundem

tes hange all the lawe and the Prophetes.
303.DWhyll the Pharises were gaddered togeder / Iesus axed th
sayinge: what thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: the sonne of David. He sayde vnto th
: how then doeth David in spirite / call him Lorde sayinge? The Lorde sayde to my Lorde / syt on my right honde: tyll I make thyne enemyes thy fote stole. Yf David call him Lorde: how is he then his sonne? And none coulde answere him ageyne one worde: nether dueste eny from that daye forth / axe him eny moo questions.
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Then spake Iesus to the people / & to his disciples sayinge. The Scribes & the Pharises sit in
304.A Moses seate. All therfore whatsoever they byd you observe / that observe and do: but after their workes do not: For they saye / & do not. Ye & they bynde hevy burth

s & grevous to be borne / & ley th

on m

nes shulders:
305.A but they themsylfes will not heave at them with one of their fyngers. All their workes they do / for to be sene of m

.
306.AThey set abroade their philateries / and make large borders on there garm

tes / & love to sit vppermooste at feastes / and to have the chefe seates in the synagoges / and gretinges in the marketes / and to be called of men Rabi.
B
But ye shall not suffre youre selves to be called Rabi.
307.BFor one is youre master / that is to wyt Christ / & all ye are brethr

. And call no man youre father vpon the erth / for there is but one youre father / & he is in heven. Be not called masters /
308.B for there is but one youre master / and he is Christ. He that is greatest am

ge you / shalbe youre seruaunte.
309.BBut whosoever exalteth himsilfe / shalbe brought lowe. And he þ
t h

bleth himsilfe / shalbe exalted.
Wo be vnto you Scribes & Pharises / ypocrites / 310.B for ye shutte vp the kyngdome of hev
before men: ye youre selves goo not in / nether suffre ye them that come / to enter in.
Wo be vnto you Scribes & Pharises ypocrites: ye devoure widdowes houses / 311.B & that vnder a coloure of praying longe prayers: wherfore ye shall receave greater damnacion.
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.
Wo be vnto you blynd gides / which saye whosoever sweare by the t
ple / it is no thinge: but whosoever sweare by the golde of the temple / 312.B he offendeth. Ye foles & blinde? whether is greater / the golde / or the t
ple that sanctifieth þe golde. And whosoever sweareth by the aulter it is nothinge: 313.B but whosoever sweareth by þe offeringe þt lyeth on þe aultre / offendeth. Ye foles & blinde: whether is greater þe offeringe / or þe aultre which sanctifieth þe offeringe? Whosoever therfore sweareth by þe aultre / sweareth by it / & by all þt there on is. And whosoever sweareth by the t
ple / sweareth by it / & by hym þt dwelleth therin. And he that sweareth by hev
/ swereth by the seate of God & by hym that sytteth theron.
C
314.CWo be to you Scribes & Pharises ypocrites / which tythe mynt annyse & c

men / & leave the waygthtyer mattres of þ
e lawe vndone: iudgem

t / mercy / & fayth.
315.CThese ought ye to have done / & not to have left the othre vndone. Ye blinde gydes which strayne out a gnat and swalowe a cammyll.
Wo be to you scribes & pharises ypocrites / which make clene þe vtter syde of the cuppe / & of the platter: 316.C but within they are full of brybery & excesse. Thou blinde Pharise / clense fyrst / the outsyde of the cup and platter / that
the ynneside of them maye be clene also.
Wo be to you Scribe & Pharises ypocrite / for ye are lyke vnto paynted tombes which appere 317.C beautyfull outwarde: but are [wt] in full of deed bones & of all fylthynes. So are ye / for outwarde ye appere righteous vnto m
/ when within / ye are full of ypocrisie and iniquite.
D
318.DWo be vnto you Scribes & Pharises ypocrites: ye bylde the tombes of the Prophetes / & garnisshe the sepulchres of the righteous / & 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. So then ye be witnesses vnto youre selfes / that ye are the chyldren of them which killed the prophetes. Fulfill ye lyke wyse the measure of youre fathers. Yee serpentes and generacion of vipers / how shuld ye scape þe d
pnaci
of hell?
Wherfore / beholde I sende vnto you / prophet[es] / wyse men & scribes / & of th
ye shall kyll & crucifie: & of th
ye shall scourge in youre synagoges / & persecute from cyte to cyte / that vpon you maye come all the righteous bloude that was sheed vpon the erth / fr
the bloud of righteous Abell / 319.D vnto þe bloud of zacharias the sonne of Barachias / wh
ye slewe betwene the t
ple & þe altre. 320.DVerely I say vnto you / all these thinges shall light vpon this generacion. Hierusalem / hierusalem which kyllest prophetes / & stonest th
which are sent to the: 321.D how often wolde I have gadered thy chyldren to gether / as the henne gadreth her chick
s vnder her wing[es] / but ye wolde
not: Beholde youre habitaci
shalbe lefte vnto you desolate. For I saye to you / ye shall not se me h
ceforthe / tyll that ye saye: blessed is he that c
meth in the name of þe Lorde.
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322.AAnd Iesus went out & departed fr

the t

ple: & his disciples came to hym / for to shewe him the byldinge of the t

ple. Iesus sayde vnto th

: 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.
323.AAnd as he sat vpon the mo
t Olivete / his disciples came vnto hym secretely sayinge. Tell vs when these thinges shalbe? & what signe shalbe of thy c
mynge / & of the ende of the worlde? 324.AAnd Iesus answered / and sayde vnto them: take hede that no m
deceave you. For many shall come in my name sayinge: I am Christ / and shall deceave many.
Ye shall heare of warres / & of the fame of warr[es]: but se þt ye be not troubled. For all these thinges must come to passe / but the ende is not yet. For naci
shall ryse ageynste naci
/ & realme ageynste realme: & ther shalbe pestilence / honger and erthquakes in all quarters. All these are the beginninge of sorowes.
325.AThen shall they put you to trouble / & shall kyll you: & ye shalbe hated of all nacions for my names sake. And then shall many be offended / and shall betraye one another / and shall hate one the other. 326.AAnd many falce Prophetes shall aryse / and shall deceave many. And
because iniquite shall have the vpper hande / the love of many shall abate. But he that endureth to the ende / the same shalbe safe. And this gladtidingees of the kyngdome shalbe preached in all the worlde / for a witnes vnto all nacions: and then shall the ende come.
B
When ye therfore shall se þ
e abhominaci

that betokeneth desolacion /
327.B spoken of by Daniell the Prophet / stonde in þ
e holy place: let him that redeth it / vnderstonde it. Then let them which be in Iury / flye into the moutaynes. And let him which is on þ
e housse toppe / not come downe to fet eny thinge out of his housse. Nether let him which is in þ
e felde / returne backe to fetche his clothes. Wo be in those dayes to th

that are [wt] chylde / & to th

þ
t geve sucke.
328.BBut praye þ
t youre flight be not in þ
e winter / nether on þ
e saboth daye. For then shalbe greate tribulaci

/ suche as was not fr

the beginninge of the worlde to this tyme / ner shalbe. Ye & except those dayes shuld be shortened / there shuld no fleshe be saved: but for þ
e chosens sake / those dayes shalbe shortened.
329.B Then yf eny m
shall saye vnto you: lo / here is Christ / or there is Christ: beleve it not. 330.B For there shall arise false christes / & false prophete / & shall do great myracles & wondres. In so moche þt if it were possible / þe verie electe shuld be deceaved. Take hede / I have tolde you before. Wherfore if they shall saye vnto you: beholde he is in þe desert / go not forth: beholde he is in þe secret places / beleve not. For as þe lightninge cometh out of þe eest &
shyneth vnto the weest: so shall the c

mynge of the sonne of m

be. For wheresoever a deed karkas is / ev

thyther will the egles resorte.
C
331.CImmediatly after the tribulaci

s of those dayes / shall the sunne be derkened: & þ
e mone shall not geve hir light / & the starre shall fall from hev

/ & the powers of hev

shall move. 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. And he shall sende his angeles with the greate voyce of a tr

pe / and they shall gader to gether his chosen / from the fower wyndes / and from the one ende of the worlde to the other.
332.CLearne, a similitude of the fygge tree: when his braunches are yet tender & his leves spr
ge / ye knowe that sommer is nye. 333.CSo lyke wyse ye / when ye see all these thynges / be ye sure that it is neare / even at the dores. Verely I saye vnto you / that this generacion shall not passe tyll all these be fulfilled. Heven & erth shall perisshe: but my wordes shall abyde. But of that daye and houre knowith no man / no not þe angels of hev
/ but my father only.
334.CAs the tyme of Noe was / so lyke wyse shall the c
minge of þe sonne of man be. For as in þe dayes before þe floud: they dyd eate & drynke / mary & were maried / ev
vnto þe daye that Noe entred into the shyppe / & knewe of nothynge / tyll the floude came & toke them all awaye. So shall also the commynge of the
sonne of man be. Then two shalbe in the feldes / the one shalbe receaved /
335.C & the other shalbe refused / two shalbe gryndinge at þ
e myll: þ
e oue shalbe receaved / & þ
e other shalbe refused.
A
336.AWake therfore / because ye knowe not what houre youre master wyll come. 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 brok

vppe. Therfore be ye also redy / for in þ
e houre ye thinke he wolde not: wyll the sonne of m

come. If there be any faithfull serva

t and wyse / whome his master hath made ruler over his housholde to geve th

meate in season c

venient:
337.A happy is that servaunt whom his master (when he cometh) shall finde so doinge. Verely I saye vnto you / he shall make him ruler over all his goodes.
338.ABut & yf that evill serva

t shall saye in his herte / my master wyll defer his c

mynge / & beginne to smyte his felowes / ye and to eate and to drinke with the dronk

: that servaunt[es] master wyll come in adaye when he loketh not for him / & in an houre þ
t he is not ware of / & wyll devyde him / and geve him his rewarde with ypocrites. There shalbe wepinge & gnasshinge of tethe.
The .xxv. Chapter.
A
339.AThen þ
e kyngdome of heven shalbe lykened vnto .x. virgins / which toke their lampes / & w

t to mete the brydgrome: fyve of them were folysshe / & fyve were wyse. The folysshe toke their lampes / but toke none oyle [wt] th

. But þ
e wyse tooke oyle [wt] th
in their vesselles [wt] their lampes also. Whill the brydgrome taryed / all slombred & slepte. And even at mydnyght / there was a crye made: beholde / the brydgrome cometh / goo out against him. Then all those virgins arose / & prepared their lampes. And þ
e folysshe sayde to þ
e wyse: geve vs of youre oyle / for our lampes goo out? but þ
e wyse answered sayinge. Not so / lest ther be not ynough for vs & you: but goo rather to them þ
t sell / & by for youre selves. And whill they went to bye / þ
e brydgrome came: & they þ
t were redy / went in with him to þ
e weddinge / & the gate was shett vp: Afterward[es] came also þ
e other virgins sayinge: master master / open to vs. But he answered & sayde:
340.A verely I saye vnto you: I knowe not you. Watche therefore: for ye knowe nether the daye nor yet the houre when the sonne
341.A of man shall come.
B

Lykwyse as a certeyne m

redy to take his iorney to a straunge co

tre / called his serva

tes & delivered to them his goodd[es]. And vnto one he gave .v. talent[es] / to another .ii. and to another one: to every man after his abilite / and streyght waye departed.
342.BThen he that had receaved the fyve talentes / went and bestowed them / and wanne other fyve talent[es]. Lykwyse he that receaved .ii. gayned other .ii. But he þ
t receaved þ
e one / went & digged a pit in the erth & hyd his masters money. After a longe season þ
e lorde of those servaunt[es] came & rekened with th

. Then came he þ
t had receaved fyve talent[es] / & brought other fyve talentes
sayinge: master / thou deliveredst vnto one fyve talent[es]: beholde I have gayned [wt] th

fyve talent[es] moo. Th

his master sayde vnto him: well good serva

t & faithfull. Thou hast bene faithfull in lytell / I will make the ruler over moche: entre in into thy masters ioye. Also he that receaved .ii. talent[es] / came & sayde: master / thou deliveredest vnto me .ii. talentes: beholde / I have wone .ii. other talentes with them. 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.
C
Then he which had receaved þ
e one talent / came / & sayd: master / I considered þ
t thou wast an harde man / which repest where thou sowedst not / & gadderest where thou strawedst not / & was therfore afrayde / & went & hyd thy talent in þ
e erth: Beholde / thou hast thyn awne. His master answered and sayde vnto him: thou evyll serva

t & slewthfull / thou knewest þ
t I repe where I sowed not / & gaddre where I strawed not: thou oughtest therfore to have had my money to þ
e cha

gers / & then at my c

mynge shulde I have receaved myne awne with vauntage. Take therfore the talent from him /
343.C & geve it vnto him which hath .x. talent[es] 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. And cast þ
t vnprofitable servaunt into vtter dercknes: there shalbe wepynge and gnasshinge of teeth.
When the sonne of m
cometh in his glorie / 344.C & all the holy angels [wt] him / then shall he syt vpon the seate of his glorie / & before him shalbe Gaddred all nacions. And he shall seperate th
one from a nother / as a shepherde deuideth the shepe from the gootes. 345.CAnd he shall set the shepe on his right honde / & the gotes on the lyfte. 346.CThen shall the kynge saye to them on his right honde: Come ye blessed chyldren of my father / inheret ye the kyngd
prepared for you from the beginninge of the worlde. For I was anhongred / and ye gave me meate. 347.CI thursted / and ye gave me drinke. I was herbourlesse / and ye lodged me. I was naked & ye clothed me. I was sicke & ye visited me. I was in preson and ye came vnto me. Then shall þe righteous answere him sayinge master / 348.C wh
sawe we þe anhongred / & feed the? or a thurst / & gave þe drinke? when sawe we þe herbourlesse / & lodged the? or naked & clothed the? or when sawe we the sicke or in preson / & came vnto the? And þe kynge shall answere & saye vnto them: verely I saye vnto you: in as moche as ye have done it vnto one of þe leest 349.C of these my brethren / ye have done it to me.
D
Then shall the kynge saye vnto them that shalbe on the lyfte hande:
350.D departe from me ye coursed / into everlastinge fire / which is prepared for the devyll and his angels. For I was an hungred / and ye gave me no meate. I thursted / and ye gave me no drinke. 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.
Then shall they also answere him sayinge: master when sawe we the an hungred / or a thurst / or herbourlesse / or naked / or sicke / or in preson / and did not ministre vnto the? Then shall he answere th
and saye: 351.D Verely I saye vnto you / in as moche as ye did it not to one of þe leest of these / ye did it not to me. And these shall go into everlastinge payne: 352.D And the righteous into lyfe eternall.
The .xxvi. Chapter.
A
353.AAnd it came to passe / when Iesus had fynisshed all these sayinges / he sayd vnto his disciples:

Ye knowe that after ii. dayes shalbe ester / & the sonne of man shalbe delyvered to be crucified.
Then assembled togedder the chefe prestes and the scribes and the elders of the people to the palice of the hye preste / called Cayphas / 354.A and heelde a counsell / how they mygt take Iesus by suttelte and kyll him. But they sayd / not on the holy daye / lest eny vproure aryse amonge the people.
When Iesus was in Bethany / in the house of Symon the leper / 355.A 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. 356.AWhen his disciples sawe that / they had indignacion sayinge: what neded this wast? This oyntm
t myght have bene well solde / & geven to the povre. When Iesus vnderstod that / he sayde vnto th
: why trouble ye the woman? She hath wrought a
good worke apon me. For ye shall have povre folcke alwayes with you: but me shall ye not have all wayes. And in þ
t she casted this oyntment on my bodye / she dyd it to burye me [wt] all. 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.
B
Then one of the twelve called Iudas Iscarioth /
357.B went vnto the chefe prestes / and sayd: what will ye geve me / and I will deliver him vnto you? And they apoynted vnto him thirty peces of sylver. And from that tyme he sought oportunite to betraye him.
The fyrst daye of swete breed þe disciples cam to Iesus sayinge vnto him: where wylt thou that we prepare for þe to eate þe paschall lambe? 358.BAnd he sayd: Go into the cite / vnto soche a man / and saye to him: the master sayeth / my tyme is at hande / I will kepe myne ester at thy housse with my disciples. And the disciples did as Iesus had apoynted them / and made redy the esterlambe.
When the even was come / he sate doune [wt] the .xii. And as they dyd eate / he sayde: Verely I saye vnto you / 359.B that one of you shall betraye me. And they were excedinge sorowfull / & beganne every one of th
to saye vnto him: is it I master? He answered & sayde: he þt deppeth his honde [wt] me in þe disshe / the same shall betraye me. The sonne of m
goeth as it is written of him: 360.B but wo be to þt m
/ by whom þe sonne of man shalbe betrayed. It had bene good
for that man / yf he had never bene borne.
C
361.CThen Iudas wich betrayed him / answered and sayde: is it I master? He sayde vnto him: thou hast sayde. As they dyd eate / Iesus toke breed & gave thankes / brake it / & gave it to the disciples / & sayde: Take / eate /
362.C this is my body. And he toke the cup / and thanked / and gave it them / sayinge: drinke of it every one. For this is my bloude of the new testament / that shalbe shedde for many / for the remission of synnes. 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.
363.CAnd when they had sayde grace / they went out into mounte olyvete. Then sayd Iesus vnto them: all ye shall be offended by me this night. For it is wrytten. I will smyte þe shepe herde / & the shepe of þe flocke shalbe scattered abroode. But after I am rysen ageyne / I will goo before you into Galile. Peter answered / & sayde vnto him: though all men shulde be offended by þe / yet wolde I never be offended. Iesus sayde vnto him. Verely I saye vnto þe / that this same night before the cocke crowe 364.C thou shalt denye me thryse. Peter sayde vnto him: Yf I shulde dye with þe / yet wolde I not denye þe Lyke wyse also sayde all þe disciples.
D
Then went Iesus with them into a place which is called Gethsemane / and sayde vnto the disciples / syt ye here /
365.D whyll I go & praye yonder. And he toke with him Peter and the two sonnes of zebede / & began to wexe sorowfull
and to be in an agonye. Then sayd Iesus vnto them: my soule is hevy even vnto the deeth. Tary ye here & watche [wt] me. 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.
366.DAnd he came vnto the disciples / and founde them a slepe / and sayde to Peter: what / coulde ye not watche with me one houre: watche & praye / that ye fall not into temptacion. The spirite is willynge / but the flesshe is weake.
He went awaye once moare / & prayed / sayinge: O my father / yf this cuppe can not passe away from me / but þt I drinke of it / thy wyll be fulfylled. And he came / & founde th
a slepe agayne. For their eyes were hevy. And he lefte them & went agayne and prayed þe thrid tyme sayinge þe same wordes. Then came he to his disciples & sayd vnto them: Slepe hence forth & take youre reest. Take hede the houre is at honde / & þe sonne of man shalbe betrayed into þe hondes of synners. Ryse / let vs be goinge: beholde / he is at honde þt shall betraye me. 367.DWhyll he yet spake: lo / Iudas one of þe xii. came & [wt] him a greate multitude [wt] sweardes & staves /
E
sent from the chefe prestes & elders of the people. And he that betrayed him / had geven th

a token / sayinge: whosoever I kysse / þ
t same is he / ley hond[es] on him. And forth [wt] all he came to Iesus / & sayde: hayle master / and kyssed him.
368.EAnd Iesus sayde vnto him: frende / wherfore arte thou come? Then came
they and layed hondes on Iesus & toke him.
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. Then sayde Iesus vnto him: put vp thy swearde into his sheathe. For all that ley hond on þe swearde / 369.E shall perisshe with þe swearde. Ether thinkest thou that I cannot now praye to my father / & he shall geve me moo then .xii. legions of angelles? 370.EBut how then shuld the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be.
F
The same tyme sayd Iesus to the multitude: ye be come out as it were vnto a thefe /
371.F with sweardes & staves for to take me. I sate daylie teachinge in the temple am

ge you and ye toke me not.
372.FAll this was done that the scriptures of the Prophetes myght be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsoke him and fleed. And they toke Iesus and leed him to Cayphas the hye preeste / where the Scribes and the Elders where assembled. And Peter folowed him a farre of / vnto the hye prestes place: and went in / and sate with the servauntes / to se the ende.
373.FThe chefe prestes and the elders / and all the counsell / sought false witnes agenste Iesus / for to put him to deeth / but founde none: in somoche that when many false witnesses cam / yet founde they none. At the last came two false witnesses and sayd: 374.F This felowe sayde: I can distroye the temple of God / and bylde it agayne in .iii. dayes.
And the chefe preste arose / & sayde to him: answerest thou nothinge? How is it þt these beare witnes ageynst the? 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. Iesus sayd to him: thou haste sayd. Neverthelesse I saye vnto you / hereafter shall ye se the sonne of m
syttinge on the right honde of power / and come in the clowddes of the skye.
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: what thinke ye? They answered and sayd: he his worthy to dye. Then spat they in his face / and boffeted him with fistes. And other smote him with the palme af their hondes on þ
e face / sayinge: tell vs thou Christ / who is he that smote the?
375.GPeter sate with out in the palice. And a damsell came to him sayinge: Thou also waste [wt] Iesus of Galilee: but he denyed before th
all sayinge: I woot not what thou sayst. 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. And agayne he denyed with an oothe that he knew the man. And after a whyle came vnto him they þt stode bye / and sayde vnto Peter: suerly thou arte even one of th
/ for thy speache bewreyeth þe. Then beganne he to course & to sweare / that he knewe
not the man. And immedyatly the cocke krewe. 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.
The .xxvii. Chapter.
A
376.AUVhen the mornynge was come / all þ
e chefe prestes & the elders of þ
e people helde a counsayle agenst Iesu / to put him to deeth / & brought him bounde & delivered him vnto Poncius Pilate the debite.
Then when Iudas which betrayed him / sawe that he was condempned / he repented him sylfe / and brought ageyne the .xxx. plattes of sylver to þe chefe prestes & elders sayinge: I have synned betrayinge the innocent bloud. 377.AAnd they sayde: what is that to vs? Se thou to that. And he cast doune the sylver plattes in the temple and departed / and went and hounge him sylfe.
And the chefe prestes toke the sylver plattes and sayd: 378.A it is not lawfull for to put them in to the treasury / because it is the pryce of bloud. And they toke counsell / and bought with them a potters felde to bury strangers in. Wherfore that felde is called the felde of bloud / vntyll this daye. Then was fulfylled / that which was spoken by Ieremy the Prophet 379.A sayinge: & they toke .xxx. sylver platt[es] / the prise of him that was valued / whom they bought of the chyldren of Israel / and they gave them for the potters felde / as the Lorde appoynted me.
380.AIesus stode before the debite: and the debite axed him sayinge: Arte thou the kynge of þe Iues? Iesus sayd vnto him: Thou sayest / and when he was accused of þe chefe prestes & elders he answered nothinge. 381.AThen sayd Pilate vnto him: hearest thou not how many thinges they laye ageynste þe? And he answered him to never a worde: in so moche that the debite marveylled greatlie.
At that feest / the debite was wonte to deliver vnto þe people a presoner / whom they wolde desyer. He had then a notable presoner / called Barrabas. And when they were gadered together / Pilate sayde vnto th
: whether wyll ye that I geve losse vnto you / Barrabas or Iesus which is called Christ? 382.AFor he knewe well / that for envie they had delivred him.
When he was set doune to geve iudgem
t / 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.
But the chefe preestes and the elders had parswaded the people / 383.A that they shulde axe Barrabas / & shulde destroye Iesus.
B
Then the debite answered and sayde vnto them: whether of the twayne wyll ye that I let loosse vnto you? And they sayde / Barrabas. Pilate sayde vnto them: what shall I do then with Iesus which is called Christ? They all sayde to him: let him be crucified. Then sayde the debite: what evyll hath he done? And they cryed the more sayinge: let him be crucified.
When Pilate sawe that he prevayled nothinge / but that moare busines was made / he toke water and wasshed his hondes before þe people sayinge: I am innocent of the bloud of this 384.B iuste person / & that ye shall se. Then answered all the people and sayde: his bloud be on vs / and on oure chyldren. Then let he Barrabas loose vnto them / and scourged Iesus and delivered him to be crucified. 385.B
Then the soudeours of the debite toke Iesus vnto the comen hall / and gaddered vnto him all the company.
D
And they stripped him and put on him a purpyll roobe /
386.D 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: & spitted vpon him / & toke the rede and smoote him on the heed.
And when they had mocked him / they toke the robe of him ageyne / and put his awne reym
t on him / & leed him awaye to crucify him. 387.D And as they came out / they fonnde a man of Cyren / named Simon: him they compelled to beare his crosse. And wh
they cam vnto þe place / called Golgotha (that is to saye / a place of deed mens sculles) they gave him veneger to drinke mengled with gall. And when he had tasted therof / he wolde not drinke.
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388.EWhen they had crucified him / they parted his garmentes / and did cast lottes: to fulfyll that was spoken by the prophet. They deuyded my garm

t[es] amonge them: & apon my vesture did cast loottes. And they sate and watched
him there. And they set vp over his heed the cause of his deeth written. This is Iesus the kynge of the Iewes. And ther were two theves crucified with him / one on þ
e right honde / and another on the lyfte.
389.EThey that passed by / revyled him waggynge ther heeddes and sayinge: Thou that destroyest the temple of God and byldest it in thre dayes / save thy sylfe. If thou be þe sonne of God / come doune from the crosse. Lykwyse also the hye prestes mockinge him with the scribes aud elders sayde: He saved other / him sylfe he can not save. If he be þe kynge of Israel: let him now come doune from the crosse / and we will beleve him. He trusted in God / let him deliver him now / yf he will have him: for he sayde / I am the sonne of God. That same also the theves which were crucified with him / cast in his tethe.
F
From the sixte houre was there dercknes over all the londe vnto the nynth houre. And about þ
e nynth houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce / sayinge:
390.F Eli Eli lama asbathani. That is to saye / my God / my God / why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stode there / when they herde that / sayde: This man calleth for Helyas. 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. Other sayde / let be: let vs se whyther Helyas will come and deliver him.
391.FIesus cryed agayne with a lowde voyce & yelded vp the goost.
And beholde the vayle of the temple dyd rent in twayne from þe toppe to the bottome / 392.F & the erth dyd quake / and the stones dyd rent / and graves dyd open: & the bodies of many sainctes which slept / 393.F arose and came out of þe graves after his resurreccion / and came into the holy cite / and appered vnto many.
When the Centurion and they that were with him watchinge Iesus / sawe þe erth quake and those thinges which hapened / they feared greatly sayinge. Of a surete this was the sonne of God.
And many wemen were there / beholdinge him a farre of / which folowed Iesus fr
Galile / ministringe vnto him. Amonge which was Mary Magdalen / & Mary the mother of Iames & Ioses / & þe mother of zebedes chyldren.
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394.GWhen the even was come / there came a ryche man of Aramathia named Ioseph / which same also was Iesus disciple. He went to Pilate and begged the body of Iesus. Then Pilate commaunded the body to be delivered. And Ioseph toke the body / and wrapped it in a clene lynnyn clooth /
395.G 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 þ
e sepulcre / and departed. And there was Mary Magdalene & the other Mary sittynge over ageynste the sepulcre.
The nexte daye that foloweth good frydaye / the hye prestes & pharises got them selves to Pilate and sayde: Syr / we remember / þt this deceaver sayde whyll he was yet alyve
After thre dayes I will aryse agayne. Commaunde therfore that the sepulcre be made sure vntyll þ
e thyrd daye / lest paraventure his disciples come /
396.G and steale him awaye / & saye vnto the people / he is rysen from deeth / & the laste erroure be worsse then the fyrst. Pilate sayde vnto them. Take watche men: Go / and make it as sure as ye can. And they went and made the sepulcre sure with watche men / and sealed the stone.
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397.AThe Sabboth daye at even which dauneth the morowe after the Sabboth / Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to se the sepulcre.
And beholde ther was a greate erth quake. For the angell of þe lorde descended from heven: & came and rowlled backe the stone from the dore / and sate apon it. His countenaunce was lyke lyghtnynge / and his raym
t whyte as snowe. And for feare of him the kepers were astunnyed / and became as deed men.
The angell answered / and sayde to the wemen / feare ye not. I knowe þt ye seke Iesus which was crucified: he is not here: he is rysen as he sayde. Come / and se the place where the lorde was put: & goo quickly and tell his disciples þt he is rysen from deeth. And beholde / he will go before you into Galile / there ye shall se him. Lo I have tolde you.
And they departed quickly from the sepulcre with feare and greate Ioye: & did runne to bringe his disciples worde. 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. Th

sayde Iesus vnto them: be not afrayde. Go & tell my brethren / that they goo in to Galile / & there shall they se me.
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When they were gone: beholde / some of the kepers came into the cyte / and shewed vnto the hie prestes / all the thinges that were hapened. And they gaddered them to gedder with the elders / and toke counsell / & gave large money vnto the soudiers sayinge: Saye that his disciples came by nyght / & stole him awaye whill ye slept. And if this come to the rulers cares / we wyll pease him / & save you harmeles. And they toke the money & dyd as they were taught. And this sayinge is noysed am

ge the Iewes vnto this daye.
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Then the .xi. disciples went awaye into Galile / in to a mountayne where Iesus had appoynted them. And when they sawe hym / they worshipped him. But some of them douted. And Iesus came and spake vnto them sayinge:
398.D All power ys gev

vnto me in hev

/ & in erth. Go therfore and teache all nacions / baptysinge them in the name of the father / & the sonne / & the holy goost: 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.