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Matthew

¹ The booke of the generation of Jesus Christ the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.

² Abraham begate Isaac. And Isaac begate Iacob. And Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren.

³ And Iudas begate Phares, and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begate Esrom. And Esrom begate Aram.

⁴ And Aram begate Aminadab. And Aminadab begate Naasson. And Naasson begat Salmon.

⁵ And Salmon begate Booz of Rachab. And Booz begat Obed of Ruth. and Obed begat Iesse.

⁶ And Iesse begate Dauid the King. And Dauid the King begate Salomon of her that was the wife of Vrias.

⁷ And Salomon begate Roboam. And Roboam begate Abia. And Abia begate Asa.

⁸ And Asa begate Iosaphat. And Iosaphat begate Ioram. And Ioram begate Hozias.

⁹ And Hozias begat Ioatham. And Ioatham begate Achaz. And Achaz begate Ezekias.

¹⁰ And Ezekias begate Manasses. And Manasses begate Amon. And Amon begate Iosias.

¹¹ And Iosias begate Iakim. And Iakim begate Iechonias and his brethren about the time they were caried away to Babylon.

¹² And after they were caried away into Babylon, Iechonias begate Salathiel. And Salathiel begate Zorobabel.

¹³ And Zorobabel begate Abiud. And Abiud begate Eliacim. And Eliacim begate Azor.

¹⁴ And Azor begate Sadoc. And Sadoc begate Achim. And Achim begate Eliud.

¹⁵ And Eliud begate Eleazar. And Eleazar begate Matthan. And Matthan begate Iacob.

¹⁶ And Iacob begat Ioseph ye husband of Mary, of whom was borne Jesus, that is called Christ.

¹⁷ So all the generations from Abraham to Dauid, are fourtene generations. And from Dauid vntil they were caried away into Babylon, fourtene generations: and after they were caried away into Babylon vntill Christ, fourteene generations.

¹⁹ Then Ioseph her husband being a iust man, and not willing to make her a publike example, was minded to put her away secretly.

²⁰ But whiles he thought these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him in a dreame, saying, Ioseph, the sonne of Dauid, feare not to take Mary thy wife: for that which is conceiued in her, is of the holy Ghost.

²¹ And she shall bring foorth a sonne, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for hee shall saue his people from their sinnes.

²² And al this was done that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by ye Prophet, saying,

²³ Behold, a virgine shalbe with childe, and shall beare a sonne, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, God with vs.

²⁵ But he knew her not, til she had broght forth her first borne sonne, and he called his name JESUS.

¹ When Jesus then was borne at Bethleem in Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the King, beholde, there came Wisemen from the East to Hierusalem,

² Saying, Where is that King of the Iewes that is borne? for wee haue seene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him.

³ When King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and all Hierusalem with him.

⁴ And gathering together all the chiefe Priestes and Scribes of the people, hee asked of them, where Christ should be borne.

⁵ And they saide vnto him, At Beth-leem in Iudea: for so it is written by the Prophet,

⁶ And thou Beth-leem in the lande of Iuda, art not the least among the Princes of Iuda: For out of thee shall come the gouernour that shall feede that my people Israel.

⁷ Then Herod priuily called the Wisemen, and diligently inquired of them the time of the starre that appeared,

⁸ And sent them to Beth-leem, saying, Goe, and searche diligently for the babe: and when ye haue founde him, bring mee worde againe, that I may come also, and worship him.

¹⁰ And when they sawe the starre, they reioyced with an exceeding great ioy,

¹¹ And went into the house, and founde the babe with Mary his mother, and fell downe, and worshipped him, and opened their treasures, and presented vnto him giftes, euen golde, and frankincense, and myrrhe.

¹² And after they were warned of God in a dreame, that they should not go againe to Herod, they returned into their countrey another way.

¹⁴ So he arose and tooke the babe and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,

¹⁵ And was there vnto the death of Herod, that that might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, Out of Egypt haue I called my sonne.

¹⁷ Then was that fulfilled which is spoken by the Prophet Ieremias, saying,

¹⁸ In Rhama was a voyce heard, mourning, and weeping, and great howling: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not.

¹⁹ And whe Herod was dead, behold, an Angel of the Lord appeareth in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypt,

²⁰ Saying, Arise, and take the babe and his mother, and goe into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the babes life.

²¹ Then he arose vp and tooke the babe and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

²² But whe he heard that Archelaus did reigne in Iudea in stead of his father Herod, he was afraide to go thither: yet after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned aside into the parts of Galile,

²³ And went and dwelt in a citie called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophets, which was, That hee should be called a Nazarite.

¹ And in those dayes, Iohn the Baptist came and preached in the wildernes of Iudea,

² And said, Repent: for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.

³ For this is he of whome it is spoken by the Prophet Esaias, saying, The voyce of him that crieth in the wildernes, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his pathes straight.

⁴ And this Iohn had his garment of camels heare, and a girdle of a skinne about his loynes: his meate was also locusts and wilde hony.

⁵ Then went out to him Ierusalem and all Iudea, and all the region rounde about Iordan.

⁶ And they were baptized of him in Iordan, confessing their sinnes.

⁷ Now when he sawe many of the Pharises, and of the Sadduces come to his baptisme, he said vnto them, O generations of vipers, who hath forewarned you to flee from the anger to come?

⁸ Bring foorth therefore fruite worthy amendment of life.

⁹ And thinke not to say with your selues, We haue Abraham to our father: for I say vnto you, that God is able euen of these stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham.

¹⁰ And now also is the axe put to the roote of the trees: therfore euery tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewen downe, and cast into ye fire.

¹¹ In deede I baptize you with water to amendment of life, but he that commeth after me, is mightier then I, whose shoes I am not worthie to beare: hee will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

¹² Which hath his fanne in his hand, and wil make cleane his floore, and gather his wheate into his garner, but will burne vp the chaffe with vnquenchable fire.

¹⁴ But Iohn earnestly put him backe, saying, I haue neede to be baptized of thee, and commest thou to me?

¹⁵ Then Iesus answering, saide to him, Let be nowe: for thus it becommeth vs to fulfill all righteousnes. So he suffered him.

¹⁶ And Iesus when hee was baptized, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heaues were opened vnto him, and Iohn saw the Spirit of God descending like a doue, and lighting vpon him.

¹⁷ And loe, a voyce came from heauen, saying, This is my beloued Sonne, in whome I am well pleased.

¹ Then was Iesus led aside of the Spirit into the wildernes, to be tempted of the deuil.

² And when he had fasted fourtie dayes, and fourtie nights, he was afterward hungrie.

³ Then came to him the tempter, and said, If thou be the Sonne of God, commande that these stones be made bread.

⁴ But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not liue by bread onely, but by euery worde that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

⁵ Then the deuil tooke him vp into the holy Citie, and set him on a pinacle of the temple,

⁶ And said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe: for it is written, that he wil giue his Angels charge ouer thee, and with their hands they shall lift thee vp, lest at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.

⁷ Iesus saide vnto him, It is written againe, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

⁸ Againe the deuil tooke him vp into an exceeding hie mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, and the glory of them,

⁹ And sayd to him, All these will I giue thee, if thou wilt fall downe, and worship me.

¹⁰ Then sayd Iesus vnto him, Auoyde Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him onely shalt thou serue.

¹¹ Then the deuill left him: and beholde, the Angels came, and ministred vnto him.

¹³ And leauing Nazareth, went and dwelt in Capernaum, which is neere the sea in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim,

¹⁴ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Propet, saying,

¹⁵ The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim by the way of the sea, beyond Iordan, Galile of the Gentiles:

¹⁶ The people which sate in darkenes, sawe great light: and to them which sate in the region, and shadowe of death, light is risen vp.

¹⁷ From that time Iesus began to preach, and to say, Amende your liues: for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.

¹⁹ And he sayd vnto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

²⁰ And they straightway leauing the nets, folowed him.

²¹ And when he was gone forth from thence, he saw other two brethren, Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, and Iohn his brother in a ship with Zebedeus their father, mending their nets, and he called them.

²² And they without tarying, leauing the ship, and their father, folowed him.

²³ So Iesus went about all Galile, teaching in their Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdome, and healing euery sicknesse and euery disease among the people.

²⁴ And his fame spread abroad through all Syria: and they brought vnto him all sicke people, that were taken with diuers diseases and torments, and them that were possessed with deuils, and those which were lunatike, and those that had the palsey: and he healed them.

²⁵ And there folowed him great multitudes out of Galile, and Decapolis, and Hierusalem, and Iudea, and from beyond Iordan.

¹ And when he sawe the multitude, he went vp into a mountaine: and when he was set, his disciples came to him.

² And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

³ Blessed are the poore in spirit, for theirs is the kingdome of heauen.

⁴ Blessed are they that mourne: for they shall be comforted.

⁵ Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherite the earth.

⁶ Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousnes: for they shalbe filled.

⁷ Blessed are the mercifull: for they shall obteine mercie.

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

⁹ Blessed are the peace makers: for they shall be called the children of God.

¹⁰ Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake: for theirs is the kingdome of heauen.

¹¹ Blessed shall ye be when men reuile you, and persecute you, and say all maner of euill against you for my sake, falsely.

¹² Reioyce and be glad, for great is your reward in heauen: for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.

¹³ Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be troden vnder foote of men.

¹⁴ Ye are the light of the world. A citie that is set on an hill, cannot be hid.

¹⁵ Neither doe men light a candel, and put it vnder a bushel, but on a candlesticke, and it giueth light vnto all that are in the house.

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good workes, and glorifie your Father which is in heauen.

¹⁷ Think not that I am come to destroy the Lawe, or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy them, but to fulfill them.

¹⁸ For truely I say vnto you, Till heauen, and earth perish, one iote or one title of the Law shall not scape, till all things be fulfilled.

¹⁹ Whosoeuer therefore shall breake one of these least commandements, and teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdome of heauen: but whosoeuer shall obserue and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdome of heauen.

²⁰ For I say vnto you, except your righteousnes exceede the righteousnes of the Scribes and Pharises, ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen.

²¹ Ye haue heard that it was sayd vnto them of the olde time, Thou shalt not kill: for whosoeuer killeth shalbe culpable of iudgement.

²² But I say vnto you, whosoeuer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly, shalbe culpable of iudgment. And whosoeuer sayth vnto his brother, Raca, shalbe worthy to be punished by the Councill. And whosoeuer shall say, Foole, shalbe worthy to be punished with hell fire.

²³ If then thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee,

²⁴ Leaue there thine offring before the altar, and goe thy way: first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

²⁵ Agree with thine aduersarie quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him, lest thine aduersarie deliuer thee to the Iudge, and the Iudge deliuer thee to ye sergeant, and thou be cast into prison.

²⁶ Verely I say vnto thee, thou shalt not come out thence, till thou hast payed the vtmost farthing.

²⁸ But I say vnto you, that whosoeuer looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adulterie with her already in his heart.

²⁹ Wherefore if thy right eye cause thee to offend, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee, that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

³⁰ Also if thy right hand make thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

³¹ It hath bene sayd also, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, let him giue her a bill of diuorcement.

³² But I say vnto you, whosoeuer shall put away his wife (except it be for fornication) causeth her to commit adulterie: and whosoeuer shall marrie her that is diuorced, committeth adulterie.

³³ Againe, ye haue heard that it was sayd to them of old time, Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe, but shalt performe thine othes to the Lord.

³⁴ But I say vnto you, Sweare not at all, neither by heauen, for it is the throne of God:

³⁵ Nor yet by the earth: for it is his footestoole: neither by Hierusalem: for it is the citie of the great King.

³⁶ Neither shalt thou sweare by thine head, because thou canst not make one heare white or blacke.

³⁷ But let your communication be Yea, yea: Nay, nay. For whatsoeuer is more then these, commeth of euill.

³⁹ But I say vnto you, Resist not euill: but whosoeuer shall smite thee on thy right cheeke, turne to him the other also.

⁴⁰ And if any man wil sue thee at the law, and take away thy coate, let him haue thy cloke also.

⁴¹ And whosoeuer will compell thee to goe a mile, goe with him twaine.

⁴² Giue to him that asketh, and from him that would borowe of thee, turne not away.

⁴³ Ye haue heard that it hath bin said, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour, and hate your enemie.

⁴⁴ But I say vnto you, Loue your enemies: blesse them that curse you: doe good to them that hate you, and pray for them which hurt you, and persecute you,

⁴⁵ That ye may be the children of your father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to arise on the euill, and the good, and sendeth raine on the iust, and vniust.

⁴⁶ For if ye loue them, which loue you, what rewarde shall you haue? Doe not the Publicanes euen the same?

⁴⁷ And if ye be friendly to your brethren onely, what singular thing doe ye? doe not euen the Publicanes likewise?

⁴⁸ Ye shall therefore be perfit, as your Father which is in heauen, is perfite.

¹ Take heede that ye giue not your almes before men, to be seene of them, or els ye shall haue no reward of your Father which is in heaue.

² Therefore when thou giuest thine almes, thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blowen before thee, as the hypocrites doe in the Synagogues and in the streetes, to be praysed of men. Verely I say vnto you, they haue their rewarde.

³ But when thou doest thine almes, let not thy left hand knowe what thy right hand doeth,

⁴ That thine almes may be in secret, and thy Father that seeth in secret, hee will rewarde thee openly.

⁵ And when thou prayest, be not as the hypocrites: for they loue to stand, and pray in the Synagogues, and in the corners of the streetes, because they would be seene of men. Verely I say vnto you, they haue their rewarde.

⁶ But when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber and when thou hast shut thy doore, pray vnto thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall rewarde thee openly.

⁷ Also when ye pray, vse no vaine repetitions as the Heathen: for they thinke to be heard for their much babbling.

⁸ Be ye not like them therefore: for your Father knoweth whereof ye haue neede, before ye aske of him.

⁹ After this maner therefore pray ye, Our father which art in heauen, halowed be thy name.

¹⁰ Thy Kingdome come. Thy will be done euen in earth, as it is in heauen.

¹¹ Giue vs this day our dayly bread.

¹² And forgiue vs our dettes, as we also forgiue our detters.

¹³ And leade vs not into tentation, but deliuer vs from euill: for thine is the kingdome, and the power, and the glorie for euer. Amen.

¹⁴ For if ye doe forgiue men their trespasses, your heauenly Father will also forgiue you.

¹⁵ But if ye do not forgiue men their trespasses,, no more will your father forgiue you your trespaces.

¹⁶ Moreouer, when ye fast, looke not sowre as the hypocrites: for they disfigure their faces, that they might seeme vnto men to fast. Verely I say vnto you, that they haue their rewarde.

¹⁷ But when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face,

¹⁸ That thou seeme not vnto men to fast, but vnto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret, will rewarde thee openly.

²⁰ But lay vp treasures for your selues in heauen, where neither the mothe nor canker corrupteth, and where theeues neither digge through, nor steale.

²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

²³ But if thine eye be wicked, then all thy body shalbe darke. Wherefore if the light that is in thee, be darkenes, howe great is that darkenesse?

²⁴ No man can serue two masters: for eyther he shall hate the one, and loue the other, or els he shall leane to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serue God and riches.

²⁵ Therefore I say vnto you, be not carefull for your life, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth then meate? and the bodie then raiment?

²⁶ Behold the foules of the heauen: for they sowe not, neither reape, nor carie into the barnes: yet your heauenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better then they?

²⁷ Which of you by taking care is able to adde one cubite vnto his stature?

²⁸ And why care ye for raiment? Learne howe the lilies of the fielde doe growe: they are not wearied, neither spinne:

²⁹ Yet I say vnto you, that euen Salomon in all his glorie was not arayed like one of these.

³⁰ Wherefore if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde which is to day, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, shall he not doe much more vnto you, O ye of litle faith?

³¹ Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eate? or what shall we drinke? or where with shall we be clothed?

³² (For after all these things seeke the Gentiles) for your heauenly Father knoweth, that ye haue neede of all these things.

³³ But seeke ye first the kingdome of God, and his righteousnesse, and all these things shall be ministred vnto you.

³⁴ Care not then for the morowe: for the morowe shall care for it selfe: the day hath ynough with his owne griefe.

¹ Judge not, that ye be not iudged.

² Eor with what iudgement ye iudge, ye shall be iudged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you againe.

³ And why seest thou the mote, that is in thy brothers eye, and perceiuest not the beame that is in thine owne eye?

⁴ Or howe sayest thou to thy brother, Suffer me to cast out the mote out of thine eye, and beholde, a beame is in thine owne eye?

⁵ Hypocrite, first cast out that beame out of thine owne eye, and then shalt thou see clearely to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye.

⁸ For whosoeuer asketh, receiueth: and he, that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

⁹ For what man is there among you, which if his sonne aske him bread, woulde giue him a stone?

¹⁰ Or if he aske fish, wil he giue him a serpent?

¹¹ If ye then, which are euill, can giue to your children good giftes, howe much more shall your Father which is in heauen, giue good thinges to them that aske him?

¹² Therefore whatsoeuer ye woulde that men should doe to you, euen so doe ye to them: for this is the Lawe and the Prophets.

¹⁴ Because the gate is streight, and the way narowe that leadeth vnto life, and fewe there be that finde it.

¹⁶ Ye shall know them by their fruites. Doe men gather grapes of thornes? or figges of thistles?

¹⁷ So euery good tree bringeth foorth good fruite, and a corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruite.

¹⁸ A good tree can not bring forth euil fruite: neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruite.

¹⁹ Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

²⁰ Therefore by their fruites ye shall knowe them.

²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, haue we not by thy Name prophecied? and by thy name cast out deuils? and by thy name done many great workes?

²³ And then will I professe to them, I neuer knewe you: depart from me, ye that worke iniquitie.

²⁴ Whosoeuer then heareth of mee these words, and doeth the same, I will liken him to a wise man, which hath builded his house on a rock:

²⁵ And the raine fell, and the floods came, and the windes blewe, and beat vpon that house, and it fell not: for it was grounded on a rocke.

²⁶ But whosoeuer heareth these my wordes, and doeth them not, shall be likened vnto a foolish man, which hath builded his house vpon the sand:

²⁷ And the raine fell, and the floods came, and the windes blewe, and beat vpon that house, and it fell, and the fall thereof was great.

²⁹ For he taught them as one hauing authoritie, and not as the Scribes.

¹ Nowe when he was come downe from the mountaine, great multitudes followed him.

² And loe, there came a Leper and worshipped him, saying, Master, if thou wilt, thou canst make me cleane.

³ And Iesus putting foorth his hand, touched him, saying, I will, be thou cleane: and immediatly his leprosie was clensed.

⁴ Then Iesus saide vnto him, See thou tell no man, but goe, and shewe thy selfe vnto the Priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a witnesse to them.

⁶ And saide, Master, my seruant lieth sicke at home of the palsie, and is grieuously pained.

⁷ And Iesus saide vnto him, I will come and heale him.

⁸ But the Centurion answered, saying, Master, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come vnder my roofe: but speake the worde onely, and my seruant shall be healed.

⁹ For I am a man also vnder the authoritie of an other, and haue souldiers vnder me: and I say to one, Goe, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and he commeth: and to my seruant, Doe this, and he doeth it.

¹⁰ When Iesus heard that, he marueiled, and said to them that folowed him, Verely, I say vnto you, I haue not found so great faith, euen in Israel.

¹¹ But I say vnto you, that many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit downe with Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, in the kingdome of heauen.

¹² And the children of the kingdome shall be cast out into vtter darkenes: there shalbe weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹³ Then Iesus saide vnto the Centurion, Goe thy way, and as thou hast beleeued, so be it vnto thee, And his seruant was healed the same houre.

¹⁵ And he touched her hande, and the feuer left her: so she arose, and ministred vnto them.

¹⁶ When the Euen was come, they brought vnto him many that were possessed with deuils: and he cast out the spirits with his worde, and healed all that were sicke,

¹⁷ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying, He tooke our infirmities, and bare our sickenesses.

¹⁹ Then came there a certaine Scribe, and said vnto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoeuer thou goest.

²⁰ But Iesus saide vnto him, The foxes haue holes, and the birdes of the heauen haue nestes, but the Sonne of man hath not whereon to rest his head.

²² But Iesus said vnto him, Followe me, and let the dead burie their dead.

²⁴ And beholde, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the ship was couered with waues: but he was a sleepe.

²⁵ Then his disciples came, and awoke him, saying, Master, saue vs: we perish.

²⁶ And he said vnto them, Why are ye fearefull, O ye of litle faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea: and so there was a great calme.

²⁷ And the men marueiled, saying, What man is this, that both the windes and the sea obey him!

²⁹ And beholde, they cryed out, saying, Iesus the sonne of God, what haue we to do with thee? Art thou come hither to tormet vs before ye time?

³⁰ Nowe there was, afarre off from them, a great heard of swine feeding.

³¹ And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.

³² And he said vnto them, Go. So they went out and departed into the heard of swine: and beholde, the whole heard of swine ranne headlong into the sea, and died in the water.

³³ Then the heardmen fled: and when they were come into the citie, they tolde all things, and what was become of them that were possessed with the deuils.

³⁴ And beholde, all ye citie came out to meete Iesus: and when they sawe him, they besought him to depart out of their coastes.

¹ Then hee entred into a shippe, and passed ouer, and came into his owne citie.

² And loe, they brought to him a man sicke of the palsie, laid on a bed. And Iesus seeing their faith, saide to the sicke of the palsie, Sonne, be of good comfort: thy sinnes are forgiuen thee.

³ And beholde, certaine of the Scribes saide with themselues, This man blasphemeth.

⁴ But when Iesus saw their thoughts, he said, Wherefore thinke yee euil things in your hearts?

⁵ For whether is it easier to say, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee, or to say, Arise, and walke?

⁶ And that ye may knowe that the Sonne of man hath authoritie in earth to forgiue sinnes, (then saide he vnto the sicke of the palsie,) Arise, take vp thy bed, and goe to thine house.

⁷ And hee arose, and departed to his owne house.

⁸ So when the multitude sawe it, they marueiled, and glorified God, which had giuen such authoritie to men.

¹⁰ And it came to passe, as Iesus sate at meate in his house, beholde, many Publicanes and sinners, that came thither, sate downe at the table with Iesus and his disciples.

¹¹ And when the Pharises sawe that, they saide to his disciples, Why eateth your master with Publicanes and sinners?

¹² Nowe when Iesus heard it, hee sayde vnto them, The whole neede not a Physition, but they that are sicke.

¹³ But goe yee and learne what this is, I will haue mercie, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.

¹⁵ And Iesus saide vnto them, Can the children of the marriage chamber mourne as long as the bridegrome is with them? But the daies will come, when the bridegrome shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

¹⁶ Moreouer no man pieceth an olde garment with a piece of newe cloth: for that that should fill it vp, taketh away from the garment, and the breach is worse.

¹⁷ Neither doe they put newe wine into olde vessels: for then the vessels would breake, and the wine woulde be spilt, and the vessels shoulde perish: but they put new wine into newe vessels, and so are both preserued.

¹⁹ And Iesus arose and followed him with his disciples.

²⁰ (And beholde, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeres, came behinde him, and touched the hemme of his garment.

²¹ For shee saide in her selfe, If I may touche but his garment onely, I shalbe whole.

²² Then Iesus turned him about, and seeing her, did say, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole at that same moment.)

²³ Nowe when Iesus came into the Rulers house, and saw the minstrels and the multitude making noise,

²⁴ He said vnto them, Get you hence: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorne.

²⁵ And when the multitude were put foorth, hee went in and tooke her by the hande, and the maide arose.

²⁶ And this bruite went throughout all that lande.

²⁷ And as Iesus departed thence, two blinde men followed him, crying, and saying, O sonne of Dauid, haue mercie vpon vs.

²⁸ And when hee was come into the house, the blinde came to him, and Iesus saide vnto them, Beleeue yee that I am able to doe this? And they sayd vnto him, Yea, Lord.

²⁹ Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it vnto you.

³⁰ And their eyes were opened, and Iesus gaue them great charge, saying, See that no man knowe it.

³¹ But when they were departed, they spread abroad his fame throughout all that land.

³³ And when the deuill was cast out, the domme spake: then the multitude marueiled, saying, The like was neuer seene in Israel.

³⁴ But the Pharises saide, He casteth out deuils, through the prince of deuils.

³⁶ But when he saw the multitude, he had compassion vpon them, because they were dispersed, and scattered abroade, as sheepe hauing no shepheard.

³⁷ Then saide he to his disciples, Surely the haruest is great, but the labourers are fewe.

³⁸ Wherefore pray the Lord of the haruest, that he woulde sende foorth labourers into his haruest.

¹ And hee called his twelue disciples vnto him, and gaue them power against vncleane spirits, to cast them out, and to heale euery sickenesse, and euery disease.

² Nowe the names of the twelue Apostles are these. The first is Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother: Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, and Iohn his brother.

³ Philippe and Bartlemewe: Thomas, and Matthewe that Publicane: Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Lebbeus whose surname was Thaddeus:

⁴ Simon the Cananite, and Iudas Iscariot, who also betraied him.

⁵ These twelue did Iesus send forth, and commanded them, saying, Goe not into the way of of the Gentiles, and into the cities of the Samaritans enter yee not:

⁶ But goe rather to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel.

⁷ And as ye goe, preach, saying, The kingdome of heauen is at hand.

⁸ Heale the sicke: cleanse the lepers: raise vp the dead: cast out the deuils. Freely ye haue receiued, freely giue.

⁹ Possesse not golde, nor siluer, nor money in your girdels,

¹⁰ Nor a scrippe for the iourney, neither two coates, neither shoes, nor a staffe: for the workeman is worthie of his meate.

¹¹ And into whatsoeuer citie or towne ye shall come, enquire who is worthy in it, and there abide till yee goe thence.

¹² And when yee come into an house, salute the same.

¹³ And if the house be worthy, let your peace come vpon it: but if it be not worthie, let your peace returne to you.

¹⁴ And whosoeuer shall not receiue you, nor heare your woordes, when yee depart out of that house, or that citie, shake off the dust of your feete.

¹⁵ Truely I say vnto you, it shall be easier for them of the lande of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of iudgement, then for that citie.

¹⁷ But beware of men, for they will deliuer you vp to the Councils, and will scourge you in their Synagogues.

¹⁸ And ye shall be brought to the gouernours and Kings for my sake, in witnes to them, and to the Gentiles.

¹⁹ But when they deliuer you vp, take no thought howe or what ye shall speake: for it shall be giuen you in that houre, what ye shall say.

²⁰ For it is not yee that speake, but the spirite of your father which speaketh in you.

²¹ And the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the sonne, and the children shall rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die.

²² And yee shall be hated of all men for my Name: but he that endureth to the end, he shall be saued.

²³ And when they persecute you in this citie, flee into another: for verely I say vnto you, yee shall not goe ouer all the cities of Israel, till the Sonne of man be come.

²⁴ The disciple is not aboue his master, nor the seruant aboue his Lord.

²⁵ It is ynough for the disciple to bee as his master is, and the seruaunt as his Lord. If they haue called the master of the house Beel-zebub, howe much more them of his housholde?

²⁶ Feare them not therefore: for there is nothing couered, that shall not be disclosed, nor hid, that shall not be knowen.

²⁷ What I tell you in darkenesse, that speake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that preach yee on the houses.

²⁸ And feare yee not them which kill the bodie, but are nor able to kill the soule: but rather feare him, which is able to destroy both soule and bodie in hell.

²⁹ Are not two sparrowes sold for a farthing, and one of them shall not fal on the ground without your Father?

³⁰ Yea, and all the heares of your head are nombred.

³¹ Feare ye not therefore, yee are of more value then many sparowes.

³² Whosoeuer therefore shall confesse me before men, him will I confesse also before my Father which is in heauen.

³³ But whosoeuer shall denie me before me, him will I also denie before my Father which is in heauen.

³⁴ Thinke not that I am come to sende peace into the earth: I came not to send peace, but the sworde.

³⁵ For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in lawe.

³⁶ And a mans enemies shall be they of his owne housholde.

³⁷ He that loueth father or mother more then me, is not worthie of me. And he that loueth sonne, or daughter more then mee, is not worthie of me.

³⁸ And hee that taketh not his crosse, and followeth after me, is not worthie of me.

³⁹ He that will finde his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall finde it.

⁴⁰ He that receiueth you, receiueth me: and hee that receiueth mee, receiueth him that hath sent me.

⁴¹ Hee that receiueth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet, shall receiue a Prophetes rewarde: and hee that receiueth a righteous man, in the name of a righteous man, shall receiue the rewarde of a righteous man.

⁴² And whosoeuer shall giue vnto one of these litle ones to drinke a cuppe of colde water onely, in the name of a disciple, verely I say vnto you, he shall not lose his rewarde.

¹ And it came to passe that when Iesus had made an ende of commaunding his twelue disciples, hee departed thence to teache and to preach in their cities.

³ Art thou he that shoulde come, or shall we looke for another?

⁴ And Iesus answering, said vnto them, Goe, and shewe Iohn, what things ye heare, and see.

⁵ The blinde receiue sight, and the halt doe walke: the lepers are clensed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receiue the Gospel.

⁶ And blessed is he that shall not be offeded in me.

⁷ And as they departed, Iesus beganne to speake vnto the multitude, of Iohn, What went ye out into the wildernes to see? A reede shaken with the winde?

⁸ But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that weare soft clothing, are in Kings houses.

⁹ But what went ye out to see? A Prophet? Yea, I say vnto you, and more then a Prophet.

¹⁰ For this is he of whom it is written, Beholde, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

¹¹ Verely I say vnto you, among them which are begotten of women, arose there not a greater then Iohn Baptist: notwithstanding, he that is the least in the kingdome of heauen, is greater then he.

¹² And from the time of Iohn Baptist hitherto, the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

¹³ For all the Prophetes and the Lawe prophecied vnto Iohn.

¹⁴ And if ye will receiue it, this is that Elias, which was to come.

¹⁶ But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like vnto litle children which sit in the markets, and call vnto their fellowes,

¹⁷ And say, We haue piped vnto you, and ye haue not daunced, we haue mourned vnto you, and ye haue not lamented.

¹⁸ For Iohn came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a deuill.

¹⁹ The sonne of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Beholde a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend vnto Publicanes and sinners: but wisedome is iustified of her children.

²¹ Woe be to thee, Chorazin: Woe be to thee, Bethsaida: for if ye great workes, which were done in you, had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, they had repented long agone in sackecloth and ashes.

²² But I say to you, It shalbe easier for Tyrus and Sidon at the day of iudgement, then for you.

²³ And thou, Capernaum, which art lifted vp vnto heauen, shalt be brought downe to hell: for if the great workes, which haue bin done in thee, had bene done among them of Sodom, they had remained to this day.

²⁴ But I say vnto you, that it shall be easier for them of the land of Sodom in the day of iudgement, then for thee.

²⁵ At that time Iesus answered, and saide, I giue thee thankes, O Father, Lord of heauen and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of vnderstanding, and hast opened them vnto babes.

²⁶ It is so, O Father, because thy good pleasure was such.

²⁷ All things are giuen vnto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Sonne, but ye Father: neither knoweth any man ye Father, but the Sonne, and he to whom ye Sonne will reueile him.

²⁸ Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you.

²⁹ Take my yoke on you, and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.

³⁰ For my yoke is easie, and my burden light.

¹ At that time Iesus went on a Sabbath day through ye corne, and his disciples were an hungred, and bega to plucke ye eares of corne and to eate.

² And when the Pharises sawe it, they saide vnto him, Beholde, thy disciples doe that which is not lawfull to doe vpon the Sabbath.

³ But he said vnto them, Haue ye not read what Dauid did when he was an hungred, and they that were with him?

⁴ Howe he entred into ye house of God, and did eate the shewe bread, which was not lawfull for him to eate, neither for them which were with him, but onely for the Priestes?

⁵ Or haue ye not read in the Lawe, how that on the Sabbath dayes the Priestes in the Temple breake the Sabbath, and are blameles?

⁶ But I say vnto you, that here is one greater then the Temple.

⁷ Wherefore if ye knewe what this is, I will haue mercie, and not sacrifice, ye would not haue condemned the innocents.

⁸ For the sonne of man is Lord, euen of the Sabbath.

⁹ And he departed thence, and went into their Synagogue:

¹⁰ And beholde, there was a man which had his hand dried vp. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawfull to heale vpon a Sabbath day? that they might accuse him.

¹¹ And he said vnto the, What man shall there be among you, that hath a sheepe, and if it fal on a Sabbath day into a pit, doth not take it and lift it out?

¹² How much more then is a man better then a sheepe? therefore, it is lawfull to doe well on a Sabbath day.

¹³ Then said he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it foorth, and it was made whole as the other.

¹⁴ Then the Pharises went out, and consulted against him, howe they might destroy him.

¹⁵ But whe Iesus knew it, he departed thece, and great multitudes folowed him, and he healed the al,

¹⁶ And charged them in threatning wise, that they should not make him knowen,

¹⁷ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying,

¹⁸ Behold my seruant whom I haue chosen, my beloued in whom my soule deliteth: I wil put my Spirit on him, and he shall shewe iudgement to the Gentiles.

¹⁹ He shall not striue, nor crie, neither shall any man heare his voyce in the streetes.

²⁰ A bruised reede shall he not breake, and smoking flaxe shall he not quenche, till he bring forth iudgement vnto victorie.

²¹ And in his Name shall the Gentiles trust.

²³ And all the people were amased, and saide, Is not this that sonne of Dauid?

²⁴ But when the Pharises heard it, they saide, This man casteth the deuils no otherwise out, but through Beelzebub the prince of deuils.

²⁵ But Iesus knew their thoughtes, and said to them, Euery kingdome deuided against it selfe, is brought to nought: and euery citie or house, deuided against it selfe, shall not stand.

²⁶ So if Satan cast out Satan, he is deuided against himself: how shall then his kingdom endure?

²⁷ Also if I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whom doe your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your iudges.

²⁸ But if I cast out deuils by ye Spirit of God, then is the kingdome of God come vnto you.

²⁹ Els howe can a man enter into a strong mans house and spoyle his goods, except he first bind the strong man, and then spoile his house.

³⁰ He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

³¹ Wherefore I say vnto you, euery sinne and blasphemie shalbe forgiuen vnto men: but the blasphemie against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiuen vnto men.

³² And whosoeuer shall speake a word against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but whosoeuer shall speake against the holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen him, neither in this worlde, nor in the worlde to come.

³³ Either make the tree good, and his fruite good: or els make the tree euill, and his fruite euil: for the tree is knowen by the fruite.

³⁴ O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: and an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things.

³⁶ But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement.

³⁷ For by thy wordes thou shalt be iustified, and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned.

³⁹ But he answered and said to them, An euill and adulterous generation seeketh a signe, but no signe shall be giuen vnto it, saue that signe of the Prophet Ionas.

⁴⁰ For as Ionas was three daies and three nights in the whales belly: so shall the Sonne of man be three daies and three nights in ye heart of the earth.

⁴¹ The men of Nineue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and behold, a greater then Ionas is here.

⁴² The Queene of the South shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for she came from the vtmost partes of the earth to heare the wisdome of Salomon: and beholde, a greater then Salomon is here.

⁴⁴ Then he saith, I wil returne into mine house from whence I came: and when he is come, he findeth it emptie, swept and garnished.

⁴⁷ Then one said vnto him, Beholde, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speake with thee.

⁴⁸ But he answered, and said to him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

⁴⁹ And he stretched foorth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Beholde my mother and my brethren.

⁵⁰ For whosoeuer shall doe my Fathers will which is in heauen, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

¹ The same day went Iesus out of the house, and sate by the sea side.

² And great multitudes resorted vnto him, so that he went into a ship, and sate downe: and the whole multitude stoode on the shore.

³ Then he spake many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sowe.

⁴ And as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the foules came and deuoured them vp.

⁵ And some fell vpon stony grounde, where they had not much earth, and anon they sprong vp, because they had no depth of earth.

⁶ And when the sunne was vp, they were parched, and for lacke of rooting, withered away.

⁷ And some fell among thornes, and the thornes sprong vp, and choked them.

⁸ Some againe fel in good ground, and brought forth fruite, one corne an hundreth folde, some sixtie folde, and another thirtie folde.

⁹ He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

¹¹ And he answered, and said vnto them, Because it is giuen vnto you, to know the secretes of the kingdome of heauen, but to the it is not giue.

¹² For whosoeuer hath, to him shalbe giuen, and he shall haue abundance: but whosoeuer hath not, from him shalbe taken away, euen that he hath.

¹³ Therefore speake I to them in parables, because they seeing, doe not see: and hearing, they heare not, neither vnderstand.

¹⁴ So in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which prophecie saieth, By hearing, ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand, and seeing, ye shall see, and shall not perceiue.

¹⁵ For this peoples heart is waxed fat, and their eares are dull of hearing, and with their eyes they haue winked, lest they should see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and should vnderstand with their hearts, and should returne, that I might heale them.

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your eares, for they heare.

¹⁷ For verely I say vnto you, that many Prophets, and righteous men haue desired to see those things which ye see, and haue not seene them, and to heare those things which ye heare, and haue not heard them.

¹⁹ Whensoeuer any man heareth the woorde of that kingdome, and vnderstandeth it not, that euil one commeth, and catcheth away that which was sowen in his heart: and this is he which hath receiued the seede by the way side.

²⁰ And hee that receiued seede in the stonie grounde, is he which heareth the woorde, and incontinently with ioy receiueth it,

²¹ Yet hath he no roote in himselfe, and dureth but a season: for assoone as tribulation or persecution commeth because of the woorde, by and by he is offended.

²² And hee that receiued the seede among thornes, is hee that heareth the woorde: but the care of this worlde, and the deceitfulnesse of riches choke the word, and he is made vnfruitfull.

²³ But he that receiued the seede in the good ground, is he that heareth the worde, and vnderstandeth it, which also beareth fruite, and bringeth foorth, some an hundreth folde, some sixtie folde, and some thirtie folde.

²⁵ But while men slept, there came his enemie, and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his waie.

²⁶ And when the blade was sprong vp, and brought forth fruite, then appeared the tares also.

²⁷ Then came the seruaunts of the housholder, and sayd vnto him, Master, sowedst not thou good seede in thy fielde? from whence then hath it tares?

²⁸ And hee said to them, Some enuious man hath done this. Then the seruants saide vnto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them vp?

²⁹ But he saide, Nay, lest while yee goe about to gather the tares, yee plucke vp also with them the wheat.

³⁰ Let both growe together vntill the haruest, and in time of haruest I will say to the reapers, Gather yee first the tares, and binde them in sheaues to burne them: but gather the wheate into my barne.

³² Which in deede is the least of all seedes: but when it is growen, it is the greatest among herbes, and it is a tree, so that the birdes of heauen come and builde in the branches thereof.

³⁵ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, and will vtter the thinges which haue beene kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.

³⁶ Then sent Iesus the multitude away, and went into the house. And his disciples came vnto him, saying, Declare vnto vs the parable of the tares of that fielde.

³⁷ Then answered he, and saide to them, He that soweth the good seede, is the Sonne of man.

³⁸ And the field is the worlde, and the good seede are the children of the kingdome, and the tares are the children of that wicked one.

³⁹ And the enemie that soweth them, is the deuill, and the haruest is the end of the worlde, and the reapers be the Angels.

⁴⁰ As then the tares are gathered and burned in ye fire, so shall it be in the end of this world.

⁴¹ The Sonne of man shall send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which doe iniquitie,

⁴² And shall cast them into a fornace of fire. There shalbe wailing and gnashing of teeth.

⁴³ Then shall the iust men shine as ye sunne in the kingdome of their Father. Hee that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

⁴⁶ Who hauing found a pearle of great price, went and solde all that he had, and bought it.

⁴⁸ Which, when it is full, men draw to lande, and sit and gather the good into vessels, and cast the bad away.

⁴⁹ So shall it be at the end of the world. The Angels shall goe foorth, and seuer the bad from among the iust,

⁵⁰ And shall cast them into a fornace of fire: there shalbe wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

⁵² Then sayd hee vnto them, Therefore euery Scribe which is taught vnto the kingdome of heauen, is like vnto an householder, which bringeth foorth out of his treasure things both newe and olde.

⁵⁴ And came into his owne countrey, and taught them in their Synagogue, so that they were astonied, and saide, Whence commeth this wisdome and great woorkes vnto this man?

⁵⁵ Is not this the carpenters sonne? Is not his mother called Marie, and his brethren Iames and Ioses, and Simon and Iudas?

⁵⁶ And are not his sisters all with vs? Whence then hath he all these things?

⁵⁷ And they were offended with him. Then Iesus said to them, A Prophet is not without honour, saue in his owne countrey, and in his owne house.

⁵⁸ And he did not many great woorkes there, for their vnbeliefes sake.

¹ At that time Herod the Tetrarche heard of the fame of Iesus,

² And sayde vnto his seruaunts, This is that Iohn Baptist, hee is risen againe from the deade, and therefore great woorkes are wrought by him.

³ For Herod had taken Iohn, and bounde him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife.

⁴ For Iohn saide vnto him, It is not lawfull for thee to haue her.

⁵ And when hee woulde haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.

⁶ But when Herods birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunced before them, and pleased Herod.

⁷ Wherefore he promised with an othe, that he would giue her whatsoeuer she would aske.

⁸ And shee being before instructed of her mother, sayde, Giue mee here Iohn Baptists head in a platter.

⁹ And the King was sorie: neuerthelesse because of the othe, and them that sate with him at the table, he commanded it to be giuen her,

¹⁰ And sent, and beheaded Iohn in the prison.

¹¹ And his head was brought in a platter, and giuen to the maide, and shee brought it vnto her mother.

¹² And his disciples came, and tooke vp the bodie, and buried it, and went, and tolde Iesus.

¹³ And when Iesus heard it, hee departed thence by shippe into a desert place apart. And when the multitude had heard it, they followed him on foote out of the cities.

¹⁴ And Iesus went foorth and sawe a great multitude, and was mooued with compassion toward them, and he healed their sicke.

¹⁶ But Iesus saide to them, They haue no neede to goe away: giue yee them to eate.

¹⁷ Then saide they vnto him, Wee haue here but fiue loaues, and two fishes.

¹⁸ And he saide, Bring them hither to me.

¹⁹ And hee commanded the multitude to sit downe on the grasse, and tooke the fiue loaues and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen and blessed, and brake, and gaue the loaues to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

²⁰ And they did all eate, and were sufficed, and they tooke vp of the fragments that remained, twelue baskets full.

²¹ And they that had eaten, were about fiue thousande men, beside women and litle children.

²³ And assoone as hee had sent the multitude away, he went vp into a moutaine alone to pray: and when the euening was come, hee was there alone.

²⁴ And the shippe was nowe in the middes of the sea, and was tossed with waues: for it was a contrarie winde.

²⁵ And in the fourth watch of the night, Iesus went vnto them, walking on the sea.

²⁶ And when his disciples sawe him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit, and cried out for feare.

²⁷ But straight way Iesus spake vnto them, saying, Be of good comfort, It is I: be not afraide.

²⁸ Then Peter answered him, and saide, Master, if it be thou, bid me come vnto thee on the water.

²⁹ And he saide, Come. And when Peter was come downe out of the shippe, he walked on the water, to goe to Iesus.

³⁰ But when he sawe a mightie winde, he was afraide: and as he began to sinke, he cried, saying, Master, saue me.

³¹ So immediatly Iesus stretched foorth his hande, and caught him, and saide to him, O thou of litle faith, wherefore diddest thou doubt?

³² And assoone as they were come into the ship, the winde ceased.

³³ Then they that were in the ship, came and worshipped him, saying, Of a trueth thou art the Sonne of God.

³⁵ And when the men of that place knewe him, they sent out into all that countrey rounde about, and brought vnto him all that were sicke,

³⁶ And besought him, that they might touch the hemme of his garment onely: and as many as touched it, were made whole.

¹ Then came to Iesus the Scribes and Pharises, which were of Hierusalem, saying,

² Why do thy disciples transgresse the tradition of the Elders? for they wash not their hands when they eate bread.

³ But he answered and said vnto them, Why doe yee also transgresse the commandement of God by your tradition?

⁴ For God hath commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

⁵ But ye say, Whosoeuer shall say to father or mother, By the gift that is offered by me, thou maiest haue profite,

⁶ Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commandement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.

⁷ O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saying,

⁸ This people draweth neere vnto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is farre off from me.

⁹ But in vaine they worship me, teaching for doctrines, mens precepts.

¹⁰ Then hee called the multitude vnto him, and said to them, Heare and vnderstand.

¹¹ That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.

¹³ But hee answered and saide, Euery plant which mine heauenly Father hath not planted, shalbe rooted vp.

¹⁴ Let them alone, they be the blinde leaders of the blinde: and if the blinde leade ye blinde, both shall fall into the ditche.

¹⁶ Then said Iesus, Are ye yet without vnderstanding?

¹⁷ Perceiue ye not yet, that whatsoeuer entreth into the mouth, goeth into the bellie, and is cast out into the draught?

¹⁸ But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.

²⁰ These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.

²¹ And Iesus went thence, and departed into the coastes of Tyrus and Sidon.

²² And beholde, a woman a Cananite came out of the same coasts, and cried, saying vnto him, Haue mercie on me, O Lord, the sonne of Dauid: my daughter is miserably vexed with a deuil.

²³ But hee answered her not a worde. Then came to him his disciples, and besought him, saying, Sende her away, for she crieth after vs.

²⁴ But he answered, and said, I am not sent, but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel.

²⁵ Yet she came, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, helpe me.

²⁶ And he answered, and said, It is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to whelps.

²⁷ But she said, Trueth, Lord: yet in deede the whelpes eate of the crommes, which fall from their masters table.

²⁸ Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee, as thou desirest. And her daughter was made whole at that houre.

³⁰ And great multitudes came vnto him, hauing with them, halt, blinde, dumme, maymed, and many other, and cast them downe at Iesus feete, and he healed them.

³¹ In so much that the multitude wondered, to see the dumme speake, the maimed whole, the halt to goe, and the blinde to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

³² Then Iesus called his disciples vnto him, and said, I haue compassion on this multitude, because they haue continued with mee already three dayes, and haue nothing to eate: and I wil not let them depart fasting, least they faint in the way.

³³ And his disciples saide vnto him, Whence should we get so much bread in the wildernes, as should suffice so great a multitude!

³⁴ And Iesus said vnto them, How many loaues haue ye? And they said, Seuen, and a few litle fishes.

³⁵ Then he commanded the multitude to sit downe on the ground,

³⁶ And tooke the seuen loaues, and the fishes, and gaue thankes, and brake them, and gaue to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

³⁷ And they did all eate, and were sufficed: and they tooke vp of the fragments that remained, seuen baskets full.

³⁸ And they that had eaten, were foure thousand men, beside women, and litle children.

³⁹ Then Iesus sent away the multitude, and tooke ship, and came into the partes of Magdala.

¹ Then came the Pharises and Sadduces, and did tempt him, desiring him to shew them a signe from heauen.

² But he answered, and said vnto them, When it is euening, ye say, Faire wether: for ye skie is red.

³ And in the morning ye say, To day shall be a tempest: for the skie is red and lowring. O hypocrites, ye can discerne the face of the skie, and can ye not discerne the signes of the times?

⁴ The wicked generation, and adulterous seeketh a signe, but there shall no signe be giuen it, but that signe of the Prophet Ionas: so hee left them, and departed.

⁶ Then Iesus said vnto them, Take heede and beware of the leauen of the Pharises and Sadduces.

⁷ And they reasoned among themselues, saying, It is because we haue brought no bread.

⁸ But Iesus knowing it, saide vnto them, O ye of litle faith, why reason you thus among your selues, because ye haue brought no bread?

⁹ Doe ye not yet perceiue, neither remember the fiue loaues, when there were fiue thousand men, and how many baskets tooke ye vp?

¹⁰ Neither the seuen loaues when there were foure thousande men, and howe many baskets tooke ye vp?

¹¹ Why perceiue ye not that I said not vnto you concerning bread, that ye shoulde beware of the leauen of the Pharises and Sadduces?

¹² Then vnderstood they that he had not said that they should beware of the leauen of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharises, and Sadduces.

¹⁴ And they said, Some say, Iohn Baptist: and some, Elias: and others, Ieremias, or one of the Prophets.

¹⁵ He said vnto them, But whome say ye that I am?

¹⁶ Then Simon Peter answered, and said, Thou art that Christ, the Sonne of the liuing God.

¹⁷ And Iesus answered, and saide to him, Blessed art thou, Simon, the sonne of Ionas: for flesh and blood hath not reueiled it vnto thee, but my Father which is in heauen.

¹⁸ And I say also vnto thee, that thou art Peter, and vpon this rocke I will builde my Church: and ye gates of hell shall not ouercome it.

¹⁹ And I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen, and whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth, shalbe bound in heauen: and whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heauen.

²⁰ Then hee charged his disciples, that they should tell no man that he was Iesus that Christ.

²² Then Peter tooke him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, Master, pitie thy selfe: this shall not be vnto thee.

²³ Then he turned backe, and said vnto Peter, Get thee behinde me, Satan: thou art an offence vnto me, because thou vnderstandest not the thinges that are of God, but the thinges that are of men.

²⁴ Iesus then saide to his disciples, If any man will follow me, let him forsake himselfe: and take vp his crosse, and follow me.

²⁵ For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: and whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake, shall finde it.

²⁶ For what shall it profite a man though he should winne the whole worlde, if hee lose his owne soule? or what shall a man giue for recompence of his soule?

²⁷ For the Sonne of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels, and then shall he giue to euery man according to his deedes.

²⁸ Verely I say vnto you, there bee some of them that stande here, which shall not taste of death, till they haue seene the Sonne of man come in his kingdome.

¹ And after sixe dayes, Iesus tooke Peter, and Iames and Iohn his brother, and brought them vp into an hie mountaine apart,

² And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the Sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light.

³ And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses, and Elias, talking with him.

⁴ Then answered Peter, and saide to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: if thou wilt, let vs make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

⁵ While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloude shadowed them: and beholde, there came a voyce out of the cloude, saying, This is that my beloued Sonne, in whom I am well pleased: heare him.

⁶ And when the disciples heard that, they fell on their faces, and were sore afraide.

⁷ Then Iesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraide.

⁸ And when they lifted vp their eyes, they sawe no man, saue Iesus onely.

¹⁰ And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the Scribes that Elias must first come?

¹¹ And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Certeinely Elias must first come, and restore all thinges.

¹² But I say vnto you that Elias is come alreadie, and they knewe him not, but haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they would: likewise shall also the Sonne of man suffer of them.

¹³ Then the disciples perceiued that he spake vnto them of Iohn Baptist.

¹⁵ And saide, Master, haue pitie on my sonne: for he is lunatike, and is sore vexed: for oft times he falleth into the fire, and oft times into the water.

¹⁶ And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not heale him.

¹⁷ Then Iesus answered, and said, O generation faithlesse, and crooked, how long now shall I be with you! howe long nowe shall I suffer you! bring him hither to me.

¹⁸ And Iesus rebuked the deuill, and he went out of him: and the childe was healed at that houre.

¹⁹ Then came the disciples to Iesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

²⁰ And Iesus said vnto them, Because of your vnbeliefe: for verely I say vnto you, if ye haue faith as much as is a graine of mustarde seede, ye shall say vnto this mountaine, Remooue hence to yonder place, and it shall remoue: and nothing shalbe vnpossible vnto you.

²¹ Howbeit this kinde goeth not out, but by prayer and fasting.

²³ And they shall kill him, but the thirde day shall he rise againe: and they were very sorie.

²⁵ He sayd, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Iesus preuented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? Of whome doe the Kings of the earth take tribute, or polle money? of their children, or of strangers?

²⁶ Peter sayd vnto him, Of strangers. Then said Iesus vnto him, Then are the children free.

²⁷ Neuerthelesse, lest we should offend them: goe to the sea, and cast in an angle, and take the first fish that commeth vp, and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt finde a piece of twentie pence: that take, and giue it vnto them for me and thee.

¹ The same time the disciples came vnto Iesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen?

² And Iesus called a litle childe vnto him, and set him in the mids of them,

³ And sayd, Verely I say vnto you, except ye be conuerted, and become as litle children, ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen.

⁴ Whosoeuer therefore shall humble himselfe as this litle childe, the same is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen.

⁵ And whosoeuer shall receiue one such litle childe in my name, receiueth me.

⁶ But whosoeuer shall offend one of these litle ones which beleeue in me, it were better for him, that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

⁷ Wo be vnto the world because of offences: for it must needes be that offences shall come, but wo be to that man by whome the offence commeth.

⁸ Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foote cause thee to offend, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life, halt, or maimed, then hauing two hands, or two feete, to be cast into euerlasting fire.

⁹ And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, then hauing two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

¹⁰ See that ye despise not one of these litle ones: for I say vnto you, that in heauen their Angels alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in heauen.

¹¹ For the Sonne of man is come to saue that which was lost.

¹² How thinke ye? If a man haue an hundreth sheepe, and one of them be gone astray, doeth he not leaue ninetie and nine, and go into the mountaines, and seeke that which is gone astray?

¹³ And if so be that he finde it, verely I say vnto you, he reioyceth more of that sheepe, then of the ninetie and nine which went not astray:

¹⁴ So is it not ye wil of your Father which is in heauen, that one of these litle ones should perish.

¹⁶ But if he heare thee not, take yet with thee one or two, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses euery worde may be confirmed.

¹⁷ And if he refuse to heare them, tell it vnto the Church: and if he refuse to heare the Church also, let him be vnto thee as an heathen man, and a Publicane.

¹⁸ Verely I say vnto you, Whatsoeuer ye bind on earth, shall be bound in heauen: and whatsoeuer ye loose on earth, shalbe loosed in heauen.

¹⁹ Againe, verely I say vnto you, that if two of you shall agree in earth vpon any thing, whatsoeuer they shall desire, it shall be giuen them of my Father which is in heauen.

²⁰ For where two or three are gathered together in my Name, there am I in the mids of them.

²¹ Then came Peter to him, and said, Master, howe oft shall my brother sinne against me, and I shall forgiue him? vnto seuen times?

²² Iesus said vnto him, I say not to thee, Vnto seuen times, but, Vnto seuentie times seuen times.

²³ Therefore is the kingdome of heauen likened vnto a certaine King, which would take an account of his seruants.

²⁴ And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought vnto him, which ought him ten thousand talents.

²⁵ And because he had nothing to pay, his Lord commanded him to be solde, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and the dette to be payed.

²⁶ The seruant therefore fell downe, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, refraine thine anger toward me, and I will pay thee all.

²⁷ Then that seruants Lord had compassion, and loosed him, and forgaue him the dette.

²⁸ But when the seruant was departed, hee found one of his felow seruants, which ought him an hundred pence, and he layde hands on him, and thratled him, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

²⁹ Then his fellow seruant fell downe at his feete, and besought him, saying, Refraine thine anger towards me, and I will pay thee all.

³⁰ Yet he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the dette.

³¹ And when his other felowe seruants sawe what was done, they were very sory, and came, and declared vnto their Lord all that was done.

³² Then his Lord called him vnto him, and sayd to him, O euil seruant, I forgaue thee all that dette, because thou prayedst me.

³³ Oughtest not thou also to haue had pitie on thy fellowe seruant, euen as I had pitie on thee?

³⁴ So his Lord was wroth, and deliuered him to the tormentours, till he should pay all that was due to him.

³⁵ So likewise shall mine heauenly Father doe vnto you, except ye forgiue from your hearts, eche one to his brother their trespasses.

¹ And it came to passe, that when Iesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galile, and came into ye coasts of Iudea beyond Iordan.

² And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

⁴ And he answered and sayd vnto them, Haue ye not read, that hee which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,

⁵ And sayd, For this cause, shall a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

⁶ Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.

⁷ They said to him, Why did then Moses commaund to giue a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away?

⁸ He sayd vnto them, Moses, because of the hardnesse of your heart, suffered you to put away your wiues: but from the beginning it was not so.

⁹ I say therefore vnto you, that whosoeuer shall put away his wife, except it be for whoredome, and marry another, committeth adulterie: and whosoeuer marieth her which is diuorced, doeth commit adulterie.

¹⁰ Then sayd his disciples to him, If the matter be so betweene man and wife, it is not good to marry.

¹¹ But he sayd vnto them, All men cannot receiue this thing, saue they to whom it is giuen.

¹² For there are some eunuches, which were so borne of their mothers belly: and there be some eunuches, which be gelded by men: and there be some eunuches, which haue gelded them selues for the kingdome of heauen. He that is able to receiue this, let him receiue it.

¹⁴ But Iesus sayd, Suffer the litle children, and forbid them not to come to me: for of such is the kingdome of heauen.

¹⁵ And when he had put his hands on them, he departed thence.

¹⁷ And he said vnto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, eue God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keepe ye commandemets.

¹⁸ He sayd to him, Which? And Iesus sayde, These, Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not commit adulterie: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnesse.

¹⁹ Honour thy father and mother: and thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.

²⁰ The yong man sayd vnto him, I haue obserued all these things from my youth: what lacke I yet?

²¹ Iesus sayd vnto him, If thou wilt be perfite, go, sell that thou hast, and giue it to the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, and follow me.

²² And when the yong man heard that saying, he went away sorowfull: for he had great possessions.

²³ Then Iesus sayd vnto his disciples, Verely I say vnto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdome of heauen.

²⁴ And againe I say vnto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, then for a rich man to enter into ye kingdome of God.

²⁵ And whe his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amased, saying, Who then can be saued?

²⁶ And Iesus behelde them, and sayde vnto them, With men this is vnpossible, but with God all things are possible.

²⁸ And Iesus said vnto them, Verely I say to you, that when the Sonne of man shall sit in the throne of his maiestie, ye which folowed me in the regeneration, shall sit also vpon twelue thrones and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel.

²⁹ And whosoeuer shall forsake houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Names sake, he shall receiue an hundreth folde more, and shall inherite euerlasting life.

³⁰ But many that are first, shalbe last, and the last shalbe first.

¹ For the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a certaine, housholder, which went out at the dawning of the day to hire labourers into his vineyarde.

² And he agreed with the labourers for a peny a day, and sent them into his vineyard.

³ And he went out about the third houre, and sawe other standing idle in the market place,

⁴ And sayd vnto them, Goe ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoeuer is right, I will giue you: and they went their way.

⁵ Againe he went out about the sixt and ninth houre, and did likewise.

⁶ And he went about the eleuenth houre, and found other standing idle, and sayd vnto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

⁷ They sayd vnto him, Because no man hath hired vs. He sayd to them, Goe ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoeuer is right, that shall ye receiue.

⁹ And they which were hired about ye eleuenth houre, came and receiued euery man a penie.

¹⁰ Nowe when the first came, they supposed that they should receiue more, but they likewise receiued euery man a penie.

¹¹ And when they had receiued it, they murmured against the master of the house,

¹² Saying, These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made them equall vnto vs, which haue borne the burden and heate of the day.

¹³ And hee answered one of them, saying, Friend, I doe thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penie?

¹⁴ Take that which is thine owne, and go thy way: I will giue vnto this last, as much as to thee.

¹⁵ Is it not lawfull for me to do as I will with mine owne? Is thine eye euil, because I am good?

¹⁶ So the last shalbe first, and the first last: for many are called, but fewe chosen.

¹⁷ And Iesus went vp to Hierusalem, and tooke the twelue disciples apart in the way, and said vnto them,

¹⁸ Beholde, wee goe vp to Hierusalem, and the Sonne of man shall bee deliuered vnto the chiefe priestes, and vnto the Scribes, and they shall condemne him to death,

¹⁹ And shall deliuer him to the Gentiles, to mocke, and to scourge, and to crucifie him, but the third day he shall rise againe.

²⁰ Then came to him the mother of Zebedeus children with her sonnes, worshipping him, and desiring a certaine thing of him.

²¹ And he said vnto her, What wouldest thou? She said to him, Graunt that these my two sonnes may sit, the one at thy right hand, and the other at thy left hand in thy kingdome.

²² And Iesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye aske. Are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and to be baptized with the baptisme that I shalbe baptized with? They said to him, We are able.

²³ And he said vnto them, Ye shall drinke in deede of my cup, and shall be baptized with the baptisme, that I am baptized with, but to sit at my right hande, and at my left hand, is not mine to giue: but it shalbe giuen to them for whome it is prepared of my Father.

²⁴ And when the other ten heard this, they disdained at the two brethren.

²⁵ Therefore Iesus called them vnto him, and saide, We knowe that the lordes of the Gentiles haue domination ouer them, and they that are great, exercise authoritie ouer them.

²⁶ But it shall not be so among you: but whosoeuer will be great among you, let him be your seruant.

²⁷ And whosoeuer will be chiefe among you, let him be your seruant.

²⁸ Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.

³⁰ And beholde, two blinde men, sitting by the way side, when they heard that Iesus passed by, cryed, saying, O Lord, the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on vs.

³¹ And the multitude rebuked them, because they should holde their peace: but they cried the more, saying, O Lord, the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on vs.

³² Then Iesus stoode still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I should do to you?

³³ They saide to him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

³⁴ And Iesus mooued with compassion, touched their eyes, and immediatly their eyes receiued sight, and they followed him.

¹ And when they drewe neere to Hierusalem, and were come to Bethphage, vnto the mount of the Oliues, then sent Iesus two disciples,

² Saying to them, Goe into the towne that is ouer against you, and anon yee shall finde an asse bounde, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them vnto me.

³ And if any man say ought vnto you, say ye, that the Lord hath neede of them, and straightway he will let them goe.

⁴ All this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying,

⁶ So the disciples went, and did as Iesus had commanded them,

⁷ And brought the asse and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and set him thereon.

⁸ And a great multitude spred their garments in the way: and other cut downe branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.

⁹ Moreouer, the people that went before, and they also that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid, Blessed be hee that commeth in the Name of the Lord, Hosanna thou which art in the highest heauens.

¹⁰ And when he was come into Hierusalem, all the citie was mooued, saying, Who is this?

¹¹ And the people said, This is Iesus that Prophet of Nazareth in Galile.

¹³ And said to them, it is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer: but ye haue made it a denne of theeues.

¹⁴ Then the blinde, and the halt came to him in the Temple, and he healed them.

¹⁵ But when the chiefe priestes and Scribes sawe the marueiles that hee did, and the children crying in the Temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid, they disdained,

¹⁶ And said vnto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Iesus said vnto them, Yea: read ye neuer, By the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast made perfite the praise?

¹⁸ And in the morning, as he returned into the citie, he was hungrie,

¹⁹ And seeing a figge tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaues onely, and said to it, Neuer fruite grow on thee henceforwards. And anon the figge tree withered.

²⁰ And when his disciples saw it, they marueiled, saying, How soone is the figge tree withered!

²¹ And Iesus answered and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, if ye haue faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only doe that, which I haue done to the figge tree, but also if ye say vnto this mountaine, Take thy selfe away, and cast thy selfe into the sea, it shalbe done.

²² And whatsoeuer ye shall aske in prayer, if ye beleeue, ye shall receiue it.

²⁴ Then Iesus answered and said vnto them, I also will aske of you a certaine thing, which if ye tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authoritie I doe these things.

²⁵ The baptisme of Iohn, whence was it? from heauen, or of men? Then they reasoned among themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say vnto vs, Why did ye not then beleeue him?

²⁶ And if we say, Of men, we feare the multitude, for all holde Iohn as a Prophet.

²⁷ Then they answered Iesus, and said, We can not tell. And he said vnto them, Neither tell I you by what authoritie I doe these things.

²⁹ But he answered, and said, I will not: yet afterward he repented himselfe, and went.

³⁰ Then came he to the second, and said likewise. And he answered, and said, I will, Syr: yet he went not.

³¹ Whether of them twaine did the will of the father? They saide vnto him, The first. Iesus saide vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that the Publicanes and the harlots goe before you into the kingdome of God.

³² For Iohn came vnto you in the way of righteousnes, and yee beleeued him not: but the Publicanes, and the harlots beleeued him, and ye, though ye sawe it, were not mooued with repentance afterward, that ye might beleeue him.

³⁴ And when the time of the fruite drewe neere, hee sent his seruants to the husbandmen to receiue the fruites thereof.

³⁵ And ye husbandmen tooke his seruants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

³⁶ Againe hee sent other seruants, moe then the first: and they did the like vnto them.

³⁷ But last of all he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

³⁸ But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they saide among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and let vs take his inheritance.

³⁹ So they tooke him, and cast him out of the vineyarde, and slewe him.

⁴⁰ When therefore the Lord of the vineyarde shall come, what will hee doe to those husbandmen?

⁴¹ They saide vnto him, Hee will cruelly destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard vnto other husbandmen, which shall deliuer him the fruites in their seasons.

⁴² Iesus saide vnto them, Read ye neuer in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders refused, the same is made the head of the corner? This was the Lordes doing, and it is marueilous in our eyes.

⁴³ Therefore say I vnto you, The kingdome of God shalbe taken from you, and shalbe giuen to a nation, which shall bring foorth the fruites thereof.

⁴⁴ And whosoeuer shall fall on this stone, he shalbe broken: but on whomsoeuer it shall fall, it will dash him a pieces.

⁴⁵ And when the chiefe Priestes and Pharises had heard his parables, they perceiued that hee spake of them.

⁴⁶ And they seeking to laye handes on him, feared the people, because they tooke him as a Prophet.

¹ Then Iesus answered, and spake vnto them againe in parables, saying,

² The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a certaine King which maried his sonne,

³ And sent foorth his seruants, to call them that were bidde to the wedding, but they woulde not come.

⁴ Againe hee sent foorth other seruants, saying. Tell them which are bidden, Beholde, I haue prepared my dinner: mine oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all thinges are readie: come vnto the mariage.

⁵ But they made light of it, and went their wayes, one to his farme, and another about his marchandise.

⁶ And the remnant tooke his seruants, and intreated them sharpely, and slewe them.

⁷ But when the King heard it, he was wroth, and sent foorth his warriers, and destroyed those murtherers, and burnt vp their citie.

⁸ Then saide hee to his seruants, Truely the wedding is prepared: but they which were bidden, were not worthy.

⁹ Go ye therefore out into the high wayes, and as many as ye finde, bid them to the mariage.

¹⁰ So those seruantes went out into the hie wayes, and gathered together all that euer they found, both good and bad: so the wedding was furnished with ghestes.

¹¹ Then the King came in, to see the ghestes, and sawe there a man which had not on a wedding garment.

¹² And he sayd vnto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, and hast not on a wedding garment? And he was speachlesse.

¹³ Then sayd the King to the seruants, Binde him hand and foote: take him away, and cast him into vtter darkenes: there shalbe weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁴ For many are called, but fewe chosen.

¹⁶ And they sent vnto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we knowe that thou art true, and teachest the way of God truely, neither carest for any man: for thou considerest not the person of men.

¹⁷ Tell vs therefore, how thinkest thou? Is it lawfull to giue tribute vnto Cesar, or not?

¹⁸ But Iesus perceiued their wickednes, and sayd, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

¹⁹ Shewe me the tribute money. And they brought him a peny.

²⁰ And he sayde vnto them, Whose is this image and superscription?

²¹ They sayd vnto him, Cesars. Then sayd he vnto them, Giue therefore to Cesar, the things which are Cesars, and giue vnto God, those things which are Gods.

²² And when they heard it, they marueiled, and left him, and went their way.

²⁴ Saying, Master, Moses sayd, If a man die, hauing no children, his brother shall marie his wife by the right of alliance, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.

²⁵ Nowe there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first maried a wife, and deceased: and hauing none yssue, left his wife vnto his brother.

²⁶ Likewise also the second, and the third, vnto the seuenth.

²⁷ And last of all the woman died also.

²⁸ Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seuen? for all had her.

²⁹ Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, Ye are deceiued, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marie wiues, nor wiues are bestowed in mariage, but are as the Angels of God in heauen.

³¹ And concerning the resurrection of the dead, haue ye not read what is spoken vuto you of God, saying,

³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the liuing.

³³ And when the multitude heard it, they were astonied at his doctrine.

³⁵ And one of them, which was an expounder of the Lawe, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

³⁶ Master, which is ye great commandement in the Lawe?

³⁷ Iesus sayd to him, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soule, and with all thy minde.

³⁸ This is the first and the great commandement.

³⁹ And the second is like vnto this, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.

⁴⁰ On these two commandements hangeth the whole Lawe, and the Prophets.

⁴² Saying, What thinke ye of Christ? whose sonne is he? They sayd vnto him, Dauids.

⁴³ He sayd vnto them, How then doeth Dauid in spirit call him Lord, saying,

⁴⁴ The Lord sayd to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footestoole?

⁴⁵ If then Dauid call him Lord, howe is he his sonne?

⁴⁶ And none could answere him a worde, neither durst any from that day foorth aske him any moe questions.

¹ Then spake Iesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

² Saying, The Scribes and the Pharises sit in Moses seate.

³ All therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and doe: but after their workes doe not: for they say, and doe not.

⁴ For they binde heauie burdens, and grieuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers.

⁵ All their workes they doe for to be seene of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and make long the frindges of their garments,

⁶ And loue the chiefe place at feastes, and to haue the chiefe seates in the assemblies,

⁷ And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁸ But be not ye called, Rabbi: for one is your doctour, to wit, Christ, and all ye are brethren.

⁹ And call no man your father vpon the earth: for there is but one, your father which is in heauen.

¹⁰ Be not called doctours: for one is your doctour, euen Christ.

¹¹ But he that is greatest among you, let him be your seruant.

¹² For whosoeuer will exalt himselfe, shall be brought lowe: and whosoeuer will humble himselfe, shalbe exalted.

¹⁴ Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers: wherefore ye shall receiue the greater damnation.

¹⁵ Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye compasse sea and land to make one of your profession: and when he is made, ye make him two folde more the childe of hell, then you your selues.

¹⁶ Wo be vnto you blinde guides, which say, Whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the Temple, he offendeth.

¹⁷ Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the golde, or the Temple that sanctifieth the golde?

¹⁸ And whosoeuer sweareth by the altar, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the offering that is vpon it, offendeth.

¹⁹ Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the offering, or the altar which sanctifieth the offering?

²⁰ Whosoeuer therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

²¹ And whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

²² And he that sweareth by heauen, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

²⁴ Ye blinde guides, which straine out a gnat, and swallowe a camell.

²⁶ Thou blinde Pharise, cleanse first the inside of the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be cleane also.

²⁷ Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are like vnto whited tombes, which appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and all filthines.

²⁸ So are ye also: for outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.

³⁰ And say, If we had bene in the dayes of our fathers, we would not haue bene partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.

³¹ So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets.

³² Fulfill ye also ye measure of your fathers.

³³ O serpents, the generation of vipers, howe should ye escape the damnation of hell!

³⁴ Wherefore beholde, I send vnto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and of them ye shall kill and crucifie: and of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from citie to citie,

³⁵ That vpon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed vpon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, vnto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias, whome ye slewe betweene the Temple and the altar.

³⁶ Verely I say vnto you, all these things shall come vpon this generation.

³⁷ Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee, how often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her chickins vnder her wings, and ye would not!

³⁸ Beholde, your habitation shalbe left vnto you desolate,

³⁹ For I say vnto you, ye shall not see mee henceforth till that ye say, Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord.

¹ And Iesus went out, and departed from the Temple, and his disciples came to him, to shewe him the building of the Temple.

² And Iesus sayd vnto them, See ye not all these things? Verely I say vnto you, there shall not be here left a stone vpon a stone, that shall not be cast downe.

³ And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues, his disciples came vnto him apart, saying, Tell vs when these things shall be, and what signe shalbe of thy comming, and of the ende of the world.

⁴ And Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, Take heede that no man deceiue you.

⁵ For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceiue many.

⁶ And ye shall heare of warres, and rumours of warres: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to passe, but the end is not yet.

⁷ For nation shall rise against nation, and realme against realme, and there shalbe famine, and pestilence, and earthquakes in diuers places.

⁸ All these are but ye beginning of sorowes.

⁹ Then shall they deliuer you vp to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my Names sake.

¹⁰ And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

¹¹ And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceiue many.

¹² And because iniquitie shalbe increased, the loue of many shalbe colde.

¹³ But he that endureth to the ende, he shalbe saued.

¹⁴ And this Gospel of the kingdome shalbe preached through the whole world for a witnes vnto all nations, and then shall the end come.

¹⁶ Then let them which be in Iudea, flee into the mountaines.

¹⁷ Let him which is on the house top, not come downe to fetch any thing out of his house.

¹⁸ And he that is in the fielde, let not him returne backe to fetch his clothes.

¹⁹ And woe shalbe to them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

²⁰ But pray that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day.

²¹ For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the worlde to this time, nor shalbe.

²² And except those dayes should be shortened, there should no flesh be saued: but for the elects sake those dayes shalbe shortened.

²³ Then if any shall say vnto you, Loe, here is Christ, or there, beleeue it not.

²⁴ For there shall arise false Christes, and false prophets, and shall shewe great signes and wonders, so that if it were possible, they should deceiue the very elect.

²⁵ Beholde, I haue tolde you before.

²⁶ Wherefore if they shall say vnto you, Beholde, he is in the desert, goe not forth: Beholde, he is in the secret places, beleeue it not.

²⁷ For as the lightning commeth out of the East, and is seene into the West, so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.

²⁸ For wheresoeuer a dead carkeis is, thither will the Egles be gathered together.

²⁹ And immediatly after ye tribulations of those dayes, shall the sunne be darkened, and the moone shall not giue her light, and the starres shall fal from heauen, and ye powers of heaue shalbe shake.

³⁰ And then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of man in heauen: and then shall all the kinreds of the earth mourne, and they shall see the Sonne of man come in the cloudes of heauen with power and great glorie.

³¹ And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect, from the foure windes, and from the one ende of the heauens vnto the other.

³² Now learne the parable of the figge tree: when her bough is yet tender, and it putteth foorth leaues, ye knowe that sommer is neere.

³³ So likewise ye, when ye see all these things, know that the kingdom of God is neere, eue at ye doores.

³⁴ Verely I say vnto you, this generation shall not passe, till all these things be done.

³⁵ Heauen and earth shall passe away: but my wordes shall not passe away.

³⁶ But of that day and houre knoweth no man, no not the Angels of heauen, but my father only.

³⁷ But as the dayes of Noe were, so likewise shall the comming of the Sonne of man be.

³⁸ For as in the dayes before the flood, they did eate and drinke, marrie, and giue in mariage, vnto the day that Noe entred into the Arke,

³⁹ And knewe nothing, till the flood came, and tooke them all away, so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.

⁴⁰ Then two shall be in the fieldes, the one shalbe receiued, and the other shalbe refused.

⁴¹ Two women shalbe grinding at ye mill: the one shalbe receiued, and the other shalbe refused.

⁴² Watch therefore: for ye knowe not what houre your master will come.

⁴³ Of this be sure, that if the good man of the house knewe at what watch the thiefe would come, he woulde surely watch, and not suffer his house to be digged through.

⁴⁴ Therefore be ye also ready: for in the houre that ye thinke not, will the Sonne of man come.

⁴⁵ Who then is a faithfull seruaunt and wise, whom his master hath made ruler ouer his household, to giue them meate in season?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

⁴⁷ Verely I say vnto you, he shall make him ruler ouer all his goods.

⁴⁸ But if that euil seruant shall say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,

⁴⁹ And begin to smite his fellowes, and to eate, and to drinke with the drunken,

⁵⁰ That seruaunts master will come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of,

⁵¹ And will cut him off, and giue him his portion with hypocrites: there shalbe weeping, and gnashing of teeth.

¹ Then the kingdome of heauen shalbe likened vnto tenne virgins, which tooke their lampes, and went foorth to meete the bridegrome.

² And fiue of them were wise, and fiue foolish.

³ The foolish tooke their lampes, but tooke none oyle with them.

⁴ But the wise tooke oyle in their vessels with their lampes.

⁵ Nowe while the bridegrome taried long, all slumbred and slept.

⁶ And at midnight there was a crie made, Behold, the bridegrome commeth: goe out to meete him.

⁷ Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lampes.

⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Giue vs of your oyle, for our lampes are out.

⁹ But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there will not be ynough for vs and you: but goe ye rather to them that sell, and bye for your selues.

¹⁰ And while they went to bye, the bridegrome came: and they that were readie, went in with him to the wedding, and the gate was shut.

¹¹ Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to vs.

¹² But he answered, and said, Verely I say vnto you, I knowe you not.

¹³ Watch therfore: for ye know neither the day, nor the houre, when the sonne of man will come.

¹⁴ For the kingdome of heauen is as a man that going into a strange countrey, called his seruants, and deliuered to them his goods.

¹⁵ And vnto one he gaue fiue talents, and to an other two, and to another one, to euery man after his own ability, and straightway went from home.

¹⁶ Then he that had receiued the fiue talents, went and occupied with them, and gained other fiue talents.

¹⁷ Likewise also, he that receiued two, he also gained other two.

¹⁸ But he that receiued that one, went and digged it in the earth, and hid his masters money.

¹⁹ But after a long season, the master of those seruants came, and reckoned with them.

²⁰ Then came he that had receiued fiue talents, and brought other fiue talents, saying, Master, thou deliueredst vnto me fiue talents: behold, I haue gained with them other fiue talents.

²¹ Then his master saide vnto him, It is well done good seruant and faithfull, Thou hast bene faithfull in litle, I will make thee ruler ouer much: enter into thy masters ioy.

²² Also he that had receiued two talents, came, and said, Master, thou deliueredst vnto me two talents: behold, I haue gained two other talets more.

²³ His master saide vnto him, It is well done good seruant, and faithfull, Thou hast bene faithfull in litle, I will make thee ruler ouer much: enter into thy masters ioy.

²⁴ Then he which had receiued the one talent, came, and said, Master, I knewe that thou wast an hard man, which reapest where thou sowedst not, and gatherest where thou strawedst not:

²⁵ I was therefore afraide, and went, and hid thy talent in the earth: behold, thou hast thine owne.

²⁶ And his master answered, and said vnto him, Thou euill seruant, and slouthfull, thou knewest that I reape where I sowed not, and gather where I strawed not.

²⁷ Thou oughtest therefore to haue put my money to ye exchangers, and then at my comming should I haue receiued mine owne with vantage.

²⁸ Take therefore the talent from him, and giue it vnto him which hath tenne talents.

²⁹ For vnto euery man that hath, it shall be giuen, and he shall haue abundance, and from him that hath not, euen that he hath, shalbe taken away.

³⁰ Cast therefore that vnprofitable seruant into vtter darkenes: there shalbe weeping and gnasshing of teeth.

³² And before him shalbe gathered all nations, and he shall seperate them one from another, as a shepheard separateth the sheepe from ye goates.

³³ And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand, and the goates on the left.

³⁴ Then shall ye king say to them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my father: take the inheritance of the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

³⁵ For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.

³⁶ I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sicke, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came vnto me.

³⁷ Then shall the righteous answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or a thirst, and gaue thee drinke?

³⁸ And when sawe we thee a stranger, and tooke thee in vnto vs? or naked, and clothed thee?

³⁹ Or when sawe we thee sicke, or in prison, and came vnto thee?

⁴⁰ And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.

⁴¹ Then shall he say vnto them on ye left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuill and his angels.

⁴² For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke:

⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

⁴⁴ Then shall they also answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sicke, or in prison, and did not minister vnto thee?

⁴⁵ Then shall he answere them, and say, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

⁴⁶ And these shall goe into euerlasting paine, and the righteous into life eternall.

¹ And it came to passe, when Iesus had finished all these sayings, he saide vnto his disciples,

² Ye know that after two dayes is ye Passeouer, and the Sonne of man shalbe deliuered to be crucified.

³ Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of ye people into the hall of the high Priest called Caiaphas:

⁴ And consulted together that they might take Iesus by subtiltie, and kill him.

⁵ But they sayd, Not on the feast day, least any vprore be among the people.

⁷ There came vnto him a woman, which had a boxe of very costly oyntment, and powred it on his head, as he sate at the table.

⁸ And when his disciples sawe it, they had indignation, saying, What needed this waste?

⁹ For this oyntment might haue bene solde for much, and bene giuen to the poore.

¹⁰ And Iesus knowing it, sayde vnto them, Why trouble yee the woman? for shee hath wrought a good woorke vpon me.

¹¹ For yee haue the poore alwayes with you, but me shall yee not haue alwaies.

¹² For in that shee powred this oyntment on my bodie, shee did it to burie me.

¹³ Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall bee preached throughout all the worlde, there shall also this that shee hath done, be spoken of for a memoriall of her.

¹⁵ And said, What will ye giue me, and I will deliuer him vnto you? and they appoynted vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer.

¹⁶ And from that time, he sought opportunitie to betraie him.

¹⁸ And he said, Goe yee into the citie to such a man, and say to him, The master saieth, My time is at hande: I will keepe the Passeouer at thine house with my disciples.

¹⁹ And the disciples did as Iesus had giuen them charge, and made readie the Passeouer.

²⁰ So when the Euen was come, hee sate downe with the twelue.

²¹ And as they did eate, he sayde, Verely I say vnto you, that one of you shall betraie me.

²² And they were exceeding sorowfull, and began euery one of them to say vnto him, Is it I, Master?

²³ And hee answered and sayde, Hee that dippeth his hande with me in the dish, hee shall betraie me.

²⁴ Surely the Sonne of man goeth his way, as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the Sonne of man is betrayed: it had bene good for that man, if hee had neuer bene borne.

²⁵ Then Iudas which betraied him, answered and sayde, Is it I, Master? He sayde vnto him, Thou hast sayd it.

²⁷ Also he tooke the cuppe, and when he had giuen thankes, he gaue it them, saying, Drinke ye all of it.

²⁸ For this is my blood of the Newe Testament, that is shedde for many, for the remission of sinnes.

²⁹ I say vnto you, that I will not drinke henceforth of this fruit of the vine vntil that day, when I shall drinke it new with you in my Fathers kingdome.

³⁰ And when they had sung a Psalme, they went out into the mount of Oliues.

³² But after I am risen againe, I will go before you into Galile.

³³ But Peter aunswered, and sayde vnto him, Though that al men should be offended by thee, yet will I neuer be offended.

³⁴ Iesus sayde vnto him, Verely I say vnto thee, that this night, before the cocke crow, thou shalt denie me thrise.

³⁵ Peter saide vnto him, Though I should die with thee, I will in no case denie thee. Likewise also sayd all the disciples.

³⁷ And hee tooke vnto him Peter, and the two sonnes of Zebedeus, and began to waxe sorowfull, and grieuously troubled.

³⁸ Then sayde Iesus vnto them, My soule is very heauie, euen vnto the death: tarie yee here, and watch with me.

³⁹ So hee went a litle further, and fell on his face, and praied, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup passe from me: neuerthelesse, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

⁴⁰ After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? coulde yee not watch with me one houre?

⁴¹ Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake.

⁴² Againe he went away the second time, and praied, saying, O my Father, if this cuppe can not passe away from mee, but that I must drinke it, thy will be done.

⁴³ And he came, and founde them a sleepe againe, for their eyes were heauie.

⁴⁴ So he left them and went away againe, and praied the third time, saying the same woordes.

⁴⁵ Then came he to his disciples, and said vnto them, Sleepe henceforth, and take your rest: behold, the houre is at hand, and the Sonne of man is giuen into the hands of sinners.

⁴⁶ Rise, let vs goe: beholde, hee is at hande that betraieth me.

⁴⁷ And while hee yet spake, loe Iudas, one of the twelue, came, and with him a great multitude with swordes and staues, from the high Priests and Elders of the people.

⁴⁸ Now he that betraied him, had giuen them a token, saying, Whomesoeuer I shall kisse, that is he, laie holde on him.

⁴⁹ And forthwith he came to Iesus, and sayd, God saue thee, Master, and kissed him.

⁵⁰ Then Iesus sayde vnto him, Friende, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laide hands on Iesus, and tooke him.

⁵¹ And behold, one of them which were with Iesus, stretched out his hand, and drewe his sworde, and strooke a seruaunt of the high Priest, and smote off his eare.

⁵² Then sayde Iesus vnto him, Put vp thy sworde into his place: for all that take the sworde, shall perish with the sworde.

⁵³ Either thinkest thou, that I can not now pray to my Father, and he will giue me moe then twelue legions of Angels?

⁵⁴ Howe then shoulde the Scriptures bee fulfilled, which say, that it must be so?

⁵⁵ The same houre sayde Iesus to the multitude, Ye be come out as it were against a thiefe, with swordes and staues to take mee: I sate daily teaching in the Temple among you, and yee tooke me not.

⁵⁶ But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsooke him, and fled.

⁵⁸ And Peter followed him a farre off vnto the hie Priestes hall, and went in, and sate with the seruants to see the ende.

⁵⁹ Nowe the chiefe Priestes and the Elders, and all the whole councill sought false witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death.

⁶⁰ But they founde none, and though many false witnesses came, yet founde they none: but at the last came two false witnesses,

⁶¹ And saide, This man saide, I can destroie the Temple of God, and build it in three daies.

⁶² Then the chiefe Priest arose, and sayde to him, Answerest thou nothing? What is the matter that these men witnesse against thee?

⁶³ But Iesus helde his peace. Then the chiefe Priest answered, and saide to him, I charge thee sweare vnto vs by the liuing God, to tell vs, If thou be that Christ the Sonne of God, or no.

⁶⁴ Iesus saide to him, Thou hast saide it: neuerthelesse I say vnto you, hereafter shall ye see the Sonne of man, sitting at the right hande of the power of God, and come in the cloudes of the heauen.

⁶⁵ Then the hie Priest rent his clothes, saying, Hee hath blasphemed, what haue wee any more neede of witnesses? beholde: nowe yee haue heard his blasphemie.

⁶⁶ What thinke yee? They answered, and said, He is guiltie of death.

⁶⁷ Then spet they in his face, and buffeted him, and other smote him with roddes,

⁶⁸ Saying, Prophecie to vs, O Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

⁷⁰ But hee denied before them all, saying, I wote not what thou saiest.

⁷¹ And when hee went out into the porche, another maide sawe him, and sayde vnto them that were there, This man was also with Iesus of Nazareth.

⁷² And againe he denied with an othe, saying, I knowe not the man.

⁷³ So after a while, came vnto him they that stoode by, and sayde vnto Peter, Surely thou art also one of them: for euen thy speache bewraieth thee.

⁷⁴ Then began hee to curse himselfe, and to sweare, saying, I knowe not the man. And immediately the cocke crewe.

⁷⁵ Then Peter remembred the wordes of Iesus, which had sayde vnto him, Before the cocke crowe thou shalt denie me thrise. So he went out, and wept bitterly.

¹ When the morning was come, all the chiefe Priests, and the elders of the people tooke counsell against Iesus, to put him to death,

² And led him away bounde, and deliuered him vnto Pontius Pilate the gouernour.

⁴ Saying, I haue sinned, betraying the innocent bloud. But they sayde, What is that to vs? see thou to it.

⁵ And when hee had cast downe the siluer pieces in the Temple, hee departed, and went, and hanged himselfe.

⁶ And the chiefe Priestes tooke the siluer pieces, and sayde, It is not lawfull for vs to put them into the treasure, because it is the price of bloud.

⁷ And they tooke counsell, and bought with them a potters fielde, for the buriall of strangers.

⁸ Wherefore that field is called, The field of bloud, vntill this day.

⁹ (Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Ieremias the Prophet, saying, And they tooke thirtie siluer pieces, ye price of him that was valued, whom they of ye children of Israel valued.

¹⁰ And they gaue them for the potters fielde, as the Lord appointed me.)

¹² And when he was accused of the chiefe Priestes, and Elders, he answered nothing.

¹³ Then saide Pilate vnto him, Hearest thou not howe many things they lay against thee?

¹⁴ But he answered him not to one worde, in so much that the gouernour marueiled greatly.

¹⁵ Nowe at the feast, the gouernour was wont to deliuer vnto the people a prisoner whom they would.

¹⁶ And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

¹⁷ When they were then gathered together, Pilate said vnto the, Whether will ye that I let loose vnto you Barabbas, or Iesus which is called Christ?

¹⁸ (For he knewe well, that for enuie they had deliuered him.

¹⁹ Also when he was set downe vpon the iudgement seate, his wife sent to him, saying, Haue thou nothing to do with that iust man: for I haue suffered many things this day in a dreame by reason of him.)

²⁰ But the chiefe Priestes and the Elders had persuaded the people that they shoulde aske Barabbas, and should destroy Iesus.

²¹ Then the gouernour answered, and said vnto them, Whether of the twaine will ye that I let loose vnto you? And they said, Barabbas.

²² Pilate said vnto them, What shall I do then with Iesus, which is called Christ? They all said to him, Let him be crucified.

²³ Then saide the gouernour, But what euill hath he done? Then they cryed the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

²⁴ When Pilate saw that he auailed nothing, but that more tumult was made, he tooke water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this iust man: looke you to it.

²⁵ Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on our children.

²⁶ Thus let he Barabbas loose vnto them, and scourged Iesus, and deliuered him to be crucified.

²⁸ And they stripped him, and put about him a skarlet robe,

²⁹ And platted a crowne of thornes, and put it vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, saying, God saue thee King of the Iewes,

³⁰ And spitted vpon him, and tooke a reede, and smote him on the head.

³¹ Thus when they had mocked him, they tooke the robe from him, and put his owne rayment on him, and led him away to crucifie him.

³² And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they compelled to beare his crosse.

³³ And when they came vnto the place called Golgotha, (that is to say, the place of dead mens skulles)

³⁴ They gaue him vineger to drinke, mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drinke.

³⁶ And they sate, and watched him there.

³⁹ And they that passed by, reuiled him, wagging their heades,

⁴⁰ And saying, Thou that destroyest ye Temple, and buildest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe: if thou be ye Sonne of God, come downe from ye crosse.

⁴¹ Likewise also the hie Priests mocking him, with the Scribes, and Elders, and Pharises, said,

⁴² He saued others, but he cannot saue him selfe: if he be ye King of Israel, let him now come downe from ye crosse, and we will beleeue in him.

⁴³ He trusted in God, let him deliuer him nowe, if he will haue him: for he saide, I am the Sonne of God.

⁴⁴ The selfe same thing also ye theeues which were crucified with him, cast in his teeth.

⁴⁵ Now from ye sixt houre was there darkenesse ouer all the land, vnto the ninth houre.

⁴⁶ And about ye ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

⁴⁷ And some of them that stoode there, when they heard it, said, This man calleth Elias.

⁴⁸ And straightway one of them ran, and tooke a spondge, and filled it with vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke.

⁴⁹ Other said, Let be: let vs see, if Elias wil come and saue him.

⁵⁰ Then Iesus cryed againe with a loude voyce, and yeelded vp the ghost.

⁵¹ And behold, the vayle of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the top to the bottome, and the earth did quake, and the stones were cloue.

⁵² And the graues did open themselues, and many bodies of the Saintes, which slept, arose,

⁵³ And came out of the graues after his resurrection, and went into the holy citie, and appeared vnto many.

⁵⁴ When the Centurion, and they that were with him watching Iesus, saw the earthquake, and the thinges that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truely this was the Sonne of God.

⁵⁶ Among whom was Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, and Ioses, and the mother of Zebedeus sonnes.

⁵⁸ He went to Pilate, and asked ye body of Iesus. Then Pilate commanded ye body to be deliuered.

⁵⁹ So Ioseph tooke the body, and wrapped it in a cleane linnen cloth,

⁶⁰ And put it in his new tombe, which he had hewen out in a rocke, and rolled a great stone to the doore of the sepulchre, and departed.

⁶¹ And there was Marie Magdalene, and the other Marie sitting ouer against the sepulchre.

⁶³ And said, Syr, we remember that that deceiuer saide, while he was yet aliue, Within three dayes I will rise.

⁶⁴ Command therefore, that the sepulchre be made sure vntill the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steale him away, and say vnto the people, He is risen from the dead: so shall the last errour be worse then the first.

⁶⁵ Then Pilate saide vnto them, Ye haue a watch: goe, and make it sure as ye knowe.

⁶⁶ And they went, and made the sepulchre sure with the watch, and sealed the stone.

¹ Now in the end of the Sabbath, when the first day of ye weeke began to dawne, Marie Magdalene, and the other Marie came to see the sepulchre,

² And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the Angel of the Lord descended from heauen, and came and rolled backe the stone from the doore, and sate vpon it.

³ And his countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snowe.

⁴ And for feare of him, the keepers were astonied, and became as dead men.

⁵ But the Angel answered, and said to the women, Feare ye not: for I know that ye seeke Iesus which was crucified:

⁶ He is not here, for he is risen; as he saide: come, see the place where the Lord was laid,

⁷ And go quickly, and tel his disciples that he is risen from ye dead: and behold, he goeth before you into Galile: there ye shall see him: loe, I haue told you.

⁸ So they departed quickly from the sepulchre, with feare and great ioye, and did runne to bring his disciples worde.

⁹ And as they wet to tel his disciples, behold, Iesus also met the, saying, God saue you. And they came, and tooke him by the feete, and worshipped him.

¹⁰ Then said Iesus vnto them, Be not afraide. Goe, and tell my brethren, that they goe into Galile, and there shall they see me.

¹² And they gathered them together with the Elders, and tooke counsell, and gaue large money vnto the souldiers,

¹³ Saying, Say, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

¹⁴ And if this matter come before the gouernour to be heard, we will perswade him, and so vse the matter that you shall not neede to care.

¹⁵ So they tooke the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is noysed among the Iewes vnto this day.

¹⁷ And when they sawe him, they worshipped him: but some douted.

¹⁸ And Iesus came, and spake vnto them, saying, All power is giuen vnto me, in heauen, and in earth.

¹⁹ Go therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and the Sonne, and the holy Ghost,

²⁰ Teaching them to obserue all things, whatsoeuer I haue commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, vntill the ende of the worlde, Amen.

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¹ The beginning of the Gospel of Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God:

² As it is written in the Prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

³ The voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse is, Prepare the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.

⁴ Iohn did baptize in the wildernesse, and preach the baptisme of amendment of life, for remission of sinnes.

⁵ And al ye countrey of Iudea, and they of Hierusalem went out vnto him, and were all baptized of him in the riuer Iordan, confessing their sinnes.

⁶ Nowe Iohn was clothed with camels heare, and with a girdle of a skinne about his loynes: and he did eate Locusts and wilde hony,

⁷ And preached, saying, A stronger then I commeth after me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to stoupe downe, and vnloose.

⁸ Trueth it is, I haue baptized you with water: but he will baptize you with the holy Ghost.

¹⁰ And assoone as he was come out of the water, Iohn saw the heauens clouen in twaine, and the holy Ghost descending vpon him like a doue.

¹¹ Then there was a voyce from heauen, saying, Thou art my beloued Sonne, in whome I am well pleased.

¹² And immediatly the Spirite driueth him into the wildernesse.

¹³ And he was there in the wildernesse fourtie daies, and was tempted of Satan: hee was also with the wilde beastes, and the Angels ministred vnto him.

¹⁵ And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdome of God is at hand: repent and beleeue the Gospel.

¹⁷ Then Iesus said vnto them, Folow me, and I will make you to be fishers of men.

¹⁸ And straightway they forsooke their nets, and folowed him.

¹⁹ And when hee had gone a litle further thence, he sawe Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, and Iohn his brother, as they were in the ship, mending their nets.

²⁰ And anon hee called them: and they left their father Zebedeus in the shippe with his hired seruants, and went their way after him.

²² And they were astonied at his doctrine, for he taught them as one that had authoritie, and not as the Scribes.

²⁴ Saying, Ah, what haue we to do with thee, O Iesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy vs? I knowe thee what thou art, euen that holy one of God.

²⁵ And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him.

²⁶ And the vncleane spirit tare him, and cried with a loude voyce, and came out of him.

²⁷ And they were all amased, so that they demaunded one of another, saying, What thing is this? what newe doctrine is this? for he commandeth euen the foule spirites with authoritie, and they obey him.

²⁸ And immediatly his fame spred abroade throughout all the region bordering on Galile.

³⁰ And Symons wiues mother lay sicke of a feuer, and anon they told him of her.

³¹ And he came and tooke her by the hand, and lifted her vp, and the feuer forsooke her by and by, and shee ministred vnto them.

³² And whe euen was come, at what time the sunne setteth, they brought to him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with deuils.

³³ And the whole citie was gathered together at the doore.

³⁴ And he healed many that were sicke of diuers diseases: and he cast out many deuils, and suffred not the deuils to say that they knewe him.

³⁵ And in the morning very early before day, Iesus arose and went out into a solitarie place, and there praied.

³⁶ And Simon, and they that were with him, followed carefully after him.

³⁷ And when they had found him, they sayde vnto him, All men seeke for thee.

³⁸ Then he said vnto them, Let vs go into the next townes, that I may preach there also: for I came out for that purpose.

³⁹ And hee preached in their Synagogues, throughout all Galile, and cast the deuils out.

⁴¹ And Iesus had compassion, and put foorth his hand, and touched him, and said to him, I wil: be thou cleane.

⁴² And assone as he had spoken, immediatly ye leprosie departed from him, and he was made cleane.

⁴³ And after he had giue him a streight commandement, he sent him away forthwith,

⁴⁴ And sayde vnto him, See thou say nothing to any man, but get thee hence, and shewe thy selfe to the Priest, and offer for thy clensing those things, which Moses commanded, for a testimoniall vnto them.

⁴⁵ But when he was departed, hee began to tel many things, and to publish the matter: so that Iesus could no more openly enter into the citie, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from euery quarter.

¹ After a fewe dayes, hee entred into Capernaum againe, and it was noysed that he was in the house.

² And anon, many gathered together, in so much that the places about the doore coulde not receiue any more and he preached the word vnto them.

³ And there came vnto him, that brought one sicke of the palsie, borne of foure men.

⁴ And because they could not come neere vnto him for the multitude, they vncouered ye roofe of the house where hee was: and when they had broken it open, they let downe the bed, wherein the sicke of the palsie lay.

⁵ Nowe when Iesus sawe their faith, he saide to the sicke of the palsie, Sonne, thy sinnes are forgiuen thee.

⁶ And there were certaine of the Scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ Why doeth this man speake such blasphemies? who can forgiue sinnes, but God onely?

⁸ And immediatly when Iesus perceiued in his spirite, that thus they reasoned with themselues, he sayde vnto them, Why reason yee these things in your hearts?

⁹ Whether is it easier to say to the sicke of the palsie, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee? or to say, Arise, and take vp thy bed, and walke?

¹⁰ But that ye may knowe, that the Sonne of man hath authoritie in earth to forgiue sinnes, (he sayde vnto the sicke of the palsie.)

¹¹ I say vnto thee, Arise and take vp thy bed, and get thee hence into thine owne house.

¹² And by and by he arose, and tooke vp his bed, and went foorth before them all, in so much that they were all amased, and glorified God, saying, We neuer sawe such a thing.

¹⁴ And as Iesus passed by, hee sawe Leui the sonne of Alpheus sit at the receit of custome, and said vnto him, Folowe me. And he arose and followed him.

¹⁶ And when the Scribes and Pharises sawe him eate with the Publicanes and sinners, they sayd vnto his disciples, Howe is it, that hee eateth and drinketh with Publicanes and sinners?

¹⁷ Now when Iesus heard it, hee sayde vnto them, The whole haue no neede of the Physicion, but the sicke. I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.

¹⁸ And the disciples of Iohn, and the Pharises did fast, and came and saide vnto him, Why doe the disciples of Iohn, and of the Pharises fast, and thy disciples fast not?

¹⁹ And Iesus saide vnto them, Can the children of the marriage chamber fast, whiles the bridegrome is with them? as long as they haue the bridegrome with them, they cannot fast.

²⁰ But the daies will come, when the bridegrome shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast in those daies.

²¹ Also no man soweth a piece of newe cloth in an olde garment: for els the newe piece that filled it vp, taketh away somewhat from the olde, and the breach is worse.

²² Likewise, no man putteth newe wine into old vessels: for els the new wine breaketh the vessels, and the wine runneth out, and the vessels are lost: but newe wine must be put into new vessels.

²⁴ And the Pharises saide vnto him, Beholde, why doe they on the Sabbath day, that which is not lawfull?

²⁵ And he saide to them, Haue yee neuer read what Dauid did when he had neede, and was an hungred, both he, and they that were with him?

²⁶ Howe he went into the house of God, in the daies of Abiathar the hie Priest, and did eat the shewe bread, which were not lawfull to eate, but for the Priests, and gaue also to them which were with him?

²⁷ And hee sayde to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

²⁸ Wherefore the Sonne of man is Lord, euen of the Sabbath.

¹ And he entred againe into ye Synagogue, and there was a man which had a withered had.

² And they watched him, whether he would heale him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

³ Then he saide vnto the man which had the withered hand, Arise: stand forth in the middes.

⁴ And he saide to them, Is it lawfull to doe a good deede on the Sabbath day, or to doe euil? to saue the life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

⁵ Then hee looked rounde about on them angerly, mourning also for the hardnesse of their hearts, and saide to the man, Stretch foorth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hande was restored, as whole as the other.

⁷ But Iesus auoided with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude followed him from Galile, and from Iudea,

⁸ And from Ierusalem, and from Idumea, and beyonde Iordan: and they that dwelled about Tyrus and Sidon, when they had heard what great things he did, came vnto him in great number.

⁹ And he commanded his disciples, that a litle shippe should waite for him, because of the multitude, lest they shoulde throng him.

¹⁰ For hee had healed many, in so much that they preassed vpon him to touch him, as many as had plagues.

¹¹ And when the vncleane spirits sawe him, they fel downe before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Sonne of God.

¹² And he sharply rebuked them, to the ende they should not vtter him.

¹⁴ And hee appoynted twelue that they should be with him, and that he might send them to preache,

¹⁵ And that they might haue power to heale sicknesses, and to cast out deuils.

¹⁶ And the first was Simon, and hee named Simon, Peter,

¹⁷ Then Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, and Iohn Iames brother (and surnamed them Boanerges, which is, the sonnes of thunder,)

¹⁸ And Andrew, and Philippe, and Bartlemew, and Matthewe, and Thomas, and Iames, the sonne of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananite,

¹⁹ And Iudas Iscariot, who also betraied him, and they came home.

²⁰ And the multitude assembled againe, so that they could not so much as eate bread.

²¹ And when his kinsfolkes heard of it, they went out to laie hold on him: for they sayde that he was beside himselfe.

²³ But he called them vnto him, and said vnto them in parables, How can Satan driue out Satan?

²⁴ For if a kingdome bee deuided against it selfe, that kingdome can not stand.

²⁵ Or if a house bee deuided against it selfe, that house can not continue.

²⁶ So if Satan make insurrection against himselfe, and be deuided, hee can not endure but is at an ende.

²⁷ No man can enter into a strong mans house, and take away his goods, except hee first binde that strong man, and then spoyle his house.

²⁹ But hee that blasphemeth against the holy Ghost, shall neuer haue forgiuenesse, but is culpable of eternall damnation.

³⁰ Because they saide, Hee had an vncleane spirit.

³² And the people sate about him, and they said vnto him, Beholde, thy mother, and thy brethren seeke for thee without.

³³ But hee answered them, saying, Who is my mother and my brethren?

³⁴ And hee looked rounde about on them, which sate in compasse about him, and saide, Beholde my mother and my brethren.

³⁵ For whosoeuer doeth the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

¹ And hee began againe to teache by the sea side, and there gathered vnto him a great multitude, so that hee entred into a shippe, and sate in the sea, and all the people was by the sea side on the land.

² And he taught them many things in parables, and said vnto them in his doctrine,

³ Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe.

⁴ And it came to passe as he sowed, that some fell by the way side, and the foules of the heauen came, and deuoured it vp.

⁵ And some fell on stonie grounde, where it had not much earth, and by and by sprang vp, because it had not depth of earth.

⁶ But assoone as ye Sunne was vp, it was burnt vp, and because it had not roote, it withered away.

⁷ And some fell among the thornes, and the thornes grewe vp, and choked it, so that it gaue no fruite.

⁸ Some againe fell in good grounde, and did yeelde fruite that sprong vp, and grewe, and it brought foorth, some thirtie folde, some sixtie folde, and some an hundreth folde.

⁹ Then he said vnto them, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

¹⁰ And whe he was alone, they that were about him with the twelue, asked him of ye parable.

¹¹ And he saide vnto them, To you it is giuen to knowe the mysterie of the kingdome of God: but vnto them that are without, all thinges bee done in parables,

¹² That they seeing, may see, and not discerne: and they hearing, may heare, and not vnderstand, least at any time they should turne, and their sinnes should be forgiuen them.

¹³ Againe he said vnto them, Perceiue ye not this parable? howe then should ye vnderstand all other parables?

¹⁴ The sower soweth the worde.

¹⁵ And these are they that receiue the seede by the wayes side, in whome the worde is sowen: but when they haue heard it, Satan commeth immediatly, and taketh away the worde that was sowen in their heartes.

¹⁶ And likewise they that receiue the seede in stony ground, are they, which whe they haue heard the word, straightwayes receiue it with gladnesse.

¹⁷ Yet haue they no roote in themselues, and endure but a time: for when trouble and persecution ariseth for the worde, immediatly they be offended.

¹⁸ Also they that receiue the seede among the thornes, are such as heare the word:

¹⁹ But the cares of this world, and the deceitfulnes of riches, and the lustes of other things enter in, and choke the word, and it is vnfruitfull.

²⁰ But they that haue receiued seede in good ground, are they that heare the worde, and receiue it, and bring foorth fruite: one corne thirtie, another sixtie, and some an hundreth.

²² For there is nothing hid, that shall not be opened: neither is there a secret, but that it shall come to light.

²³ If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.

²⁴ And he said vnto them, Take heede what ye heare. With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured vnto you: and vnto you that heare, shall more be giuen.

²⁵ For vnto him that hath, shall it be giuen, and from him that hath not, shall be taken away, euen that he hath.

²⁷ And shoulde sleepe, and rise vp night and day, and the seede should spring and growe vp, he not knowing howe.

²⁸ For the earth bringeth foorth fruite of it selfe, first the blade, then the eares, after that full corne in the eares.

²⁹ And assoone as the fruite sheweth it selfe, anon hee putteth in the sickle, because the haruest is come.

³¹ It is like a graine of mustarde seede, which when it is sowen in the earth, is the least of all seedes that be in the earth:

³² But after that it is sowen, it groweth vp, and is greatest of all herbes, and beareth great branches, so that the foules of heauen may builde vnder the shadow of it.

³³ And with many such parables he preached the word vnto them, as they were able to heare it.

³⁴ And without parables spake hee nothing vnto them: but he expounded all thinges to his disciples apart.

³⁶ And they left the multitude, and tooke him as he was in the shippe, and there were also with him other little shippes.

³⁷ And there arose a great storme of winde, and the waues dashed into the shippe, so that it was now full.

³⁸ And he was in the sterne asleepe on a pillow: and they awoke him, and saide to him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

³⁹ And hee rose vp, and rebuked the winde, and saide vnto the sea, Peace, and be still. So the winde ceased, and it was a great calme.

⁴⁰ Then he saide vnto them, Why are ye so fearefull? how is it that ye haue no faith?

⁴¹ And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, Who is this, that both the winde and sea obey him?

¹ And they came ouer to the other side of the sea into the countrey of the Gadarens.

² And when he was come out of the shippe, there met him incontinently out of the graues, a man which had an vncleane spirit:

³ Who had his abiding among the graues, and no man could binde him, no not with chaines:

⁴ Because that when hee was often bounde with fetters and chaines, he plucked the chaines asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces, neither could any man tame him.

⁵ And alwayes both night and day he cryed in the mountaines, and in the graues, and strooke himselfe with stones.

⁶ And when he saw Iesus afarre off, he ranne, and worshipped him,

⁷ And cryed with a loude voyce, and saide, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of the most high God? I will that thou sweare to me by God, that thou torment me not.

⁸ (For hee saide vnto him, Come out of the man, thou vncleane spirit.)

⁹ And he asked him, What is thy name? and hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

¹⁰ And hee prayed him instantly, that hee would not send them away out of the countrey.

¹¹ Now there was there in the mountaines a great heard of swine, feeding.

¹² And all ye deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.

¹³ And incontinently Iesus gaue them leaue. Then the vncleane spirites went out, and entred into the swine, and the heard ranne headlong from the high banke into the sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked vp in the sea.

¹⁴ And the swineheards fled, and told it in the citie, and in the countrey, and they came out to see what it was that was done.

¹⁵ And they came to Iesus, and sawe him that had bene possessed with the deuil, and had the legion, sit both clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afraide.

¹⁶ And they that saw it, tolde them, what was done to him that was possessed with the deuil, and concerning the swine.

¹⁷ Then they began to pray him, that hee would depart from their coastes.

¹⁸ And when he was come into the shippe, he that had bene possessed with the deuil, prayed him that he might be with him.

¹⁹ Howbeit, Iesus would not suffer him, but said vnto him, Goe thy way home to thy friendes, and shewe them what great thinges the Lord hath done vnto thee, and howe hee hath had compassion on thee.

²⁰ So he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis, what great things Iesus had done vnto him: and all men did marueile.

²² And beholde, there came one of the rulers of the Synagogue, whose name was Iairus: and when he sawe him, he fell downe at his feete,

²³ And besought him instantly, saying, My litle daughter lyeth at point of death: I pray thee that thou wouldest come and lay thine hands on her, that she may be healed, and liue.

²⁴ Then hee went with him, and a great multitude folowed him, and thronged him.

²⁵ (And there was a certaine woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeeres,

²⁶ And had suffred many things of many physicions, and had spent all that she had, and it auailed her nothing, but she became much worse.

²⁷ When she had heard of Iesus, shee came in the preasse behinde, and touched his garment.

²⁸ For she said, If I may but touch his clothes, I shalbe whole.

²⁹ And straightway the course of her blood was dried vp, and she felt in her body, that she was healed of that plague.

³⁰ And immediatly when Iesus did knowe in himselfe the vertue that went out of him, he turned him round about in the preasse, and said, Who hath touched my clothes?

³¹ And his disciples said vnto him, Thou seest the multitude throng thee, and sayest thou, Who did touche me?

³² And he looked round about, to see her that had done that.

³³ And the woman feared and trembled: for she knewe what was done in her, and shee came and fell downe before him, and tolde him the whole trueth.

³⁴ And hee saide to her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.)

³⁵ While hee yet spake, there came from the same ruler of the Synagogues house certaine which said, Thy daughter is dead: why diseasest thou the Master any further?

³⁶ Assoone as Iesus heard that word spoken, he said vnto the ruler of the Synagogue, Be not afraide: onely beleeue.

³⁷ And he suffered no man to follow him saue Peter and Iames, and Iohn the brother of Iames.

³⁸ So hee came vnto the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, and sawe the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.

³⁹ And he went in, and said vnto them, Why make ye this trouble, and weepe? the childe is not dead, but sleepeth.

⁴⁰ And they laught him to scorne: but hee put them all out, and tooke the father, and the mother of the childe, and them that were with him, and entred in where the childe lay,

⁴¹ And tooke the childe by the hand, and saide vnto her, Talitha cumi, which is by interpretation, Mayden, I say vnto thee, arise.

⁴² And straightway the mayden arose, and walked: for shee was of the age of twelue yeeres, and they were astonied out of measure.

⁴³ And he charged them straitly that no man should knowe of it, and commanded to giue her meate.

¹ And he departed thence, and came into his owne countrey, and his disciples followed him.

² And when the Sabbath was come, he began to teach in the Synagogue, and many that heard him, were astonied, and sayd, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdome is this that is giuen vnto him, that euen such great workes are done by his hands?

³ Is not this that carpenter Maries sonne, the brother of Iames and Ioses, and of Iuda and Simon? and are not his sisters here with vs? And they were offended in him.

⁴ Then Iesus sayd vnto them, A Prophet is not without honour, but in his owne countrey, and among his owne kindred, and in his own house.

⁵ And he could there doe no great workes, saue that hee layd his hands vpon a fewe sicke folke, and healed them,

⁶ And he marueiled at their vnbeliefe, and went about by ye townes on euery side, teaching.

⁸ And commanded them that they should take nothing for their iourney, saue a staffe onely: neither scrip, neither bread, neither money in their girdles:

⁹ But that they should be shod with sandals, and that they should not put on two coates.

¹⁰ And he sayd vnto them, Wheresoeuer ye shall enter into an house, there abide till ye depart thence.

¹¹ And whosoeuer shall not receiue you, nor heare you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust that is vnder your feete, for a witnes vnto them. Verely I say vnto you, It shalbe easier for Sodom, or Gomorrha at the day of iudgement, then for that citie.

¹³ And they cast out many deuils: and they anointed many that were sicke, with oyle, and healed them.

¹⁵ Other sayd, It is Elias, and some sayd, It is a Prophet, or as one of those Prophets.

¹⁶ So when Herod heard it, he said, It is Iohn whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.

¹⁷ For Herod him selfe had sent forth, and had taken Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias sake, which was his brother Philippes wife, because he had maried her.

¹⁸ For Iohn sayd vnto Herod, It is not lawfull for thee to haue thy brothers wife.

¹⁹ Therefore Herodias layd waite against him, and would haue killed him, but she could not:

²⁰ For Herod feared Iohn, knowing that hee was a iust man, and an holy, and reuerenced him, and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

²¹ But the time being conuenient, when Herod on his birth day made a banket to his princes and captaines, and chiefe estates of Galile:

²² And the daughter of the same Herodias came in, and daunced, and pleased Herod, and them that sate at table together, the King sayd vnto the mayde, Aske of me what thou wilt, and I will giue it thee.

²³ And he sware vnto her, Whatsoeuer thou shalt aske of me, I will giue it thee, euen vnto the halfe of my kingdome.

²⁴ So she went forth, and said to her mother, What shall I aske? And she said, Iohn Baptists head.

²⁵ Then she came in straightway with haste vnto the King, and asked, saying, I would that thou shouldest giue me euen now in a charger the head of Iohn Baptist.

²⁶ Then the King was very sory: yet for his othes sake, and for their sakes which sate at table with him, he would not refuse her.

²⁷ And immediatly the King sent the hangman, and gaue charge that his head shoulde be brought in. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,

²⁸ And brought his head in a charger, and gaue it to the maide, and the maide gaue it to her mother.

²⁹ And when his disciples heard it, they came and tooke vp his body, and put it in a tombe.

³¹ And he sayd vnto them, Come ye apart into the wildernes, and rest a while: for there were many commers and goers, that they had not leasure to eate.

³² So they went by ship out of the way into a desart place.

³³ But the people sawe them when they departed, and many knewe him, and ran a foote thither out of all cities, and came thither before them, and assembled vnto him.

³⁴ Then Iesus went out, and sawe a great multitude, and had compassion on them, because they were like sheepe which had no shepheard: and he began to teach them many things.

³⁵ And when the day was nowe farre spent, his disciples came vnto him, saying, This is a desart place, and nowe the day is farre passed.

³⁶ Let them depart, that they may goe into the countrey and townes about, and buy them bread: for they haue nothing to eate.

³⁷ But he answered, and said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they said vnto him, Shall we goe, and buy two hundreth peny worth of bread, and giue them to eate?

³⁸ Then he sayde vnto them, Howe many loaues haue ye? goe and looke. And when they knewe it, they sayd, Fiue, and two fishes.

³⁹ So he commanded them to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.

⁴⁰ Then they sate downe by rowes, by hundreds, and by fifties.

⁴¹ And he tooke the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen, and gaue thanks, and brake the loaues, and gaue them to his disciples to set before them, and the two fishes he deuided among them all.

⁴² So they did all eate, and were satisfied.

⁴³ And they tooke vp twelue baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

⁴⁴ And they that had eaten, were about fiue thousand men.

⁴⁶ Then assoone as he had sent them away, he departed into a mountaine to pray.

⁴⁷ And when euen was come, the ship was in the mids of the sea, and he alone on the land.

⁴⁸ And he saw them troubled in rowing, (for the winde was contrary vnto them) and about the fourth watch of the night, hee came vnto them, walking vpon the sea, and would haue passed by them.

⁴⁹ And when they saw him walking vpon the sea, they supposed it had bene a spirit, and cried out.

⁵⁰ For they all saw him, and were sore afrayd: but anon he talked with them, and said vnto them, Be ye of good comfort: it is I, be not afrayd.

⁵¹ Then he went vp vnto them into the ship, and the winde ceased, and they were much more amased in them selues, and marueiled.

⁵² For they had not considered the matter of the loaues, because their hearts were hardened.

⁵⁴ So when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knewe him,

⁵⁵ And ran about throughout all that region round about, and began to cary hither and thither in couches all that were sicke, where they heard that he was.

⁵⁶ And whithersoeuer he entred into townes, or cities, or villages, they laide their sicke in the streetes, and prayed him that they might touch at the least the edge of his garment. And as many as touched him, were made whole.

¹ Then gathered vnto him the Pharises, and certaine of the Scribes which came from Hierusalem.

² And when they sawe some of his disciples eate meate with common hands, (that is to say, vnwashen) they complained.

³ (For the Pharises, and all the Iewes, except they wash their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the Elders.

⁴ And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eate not: and many other things there be, which they haue taken vpon them to obserue, as the washing of cups, and pots, and of brasen vessels, and of beds.)

⁵ Then asked him the Pharises and Scribes, Why walke not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eate meate with vnwashen hands?

⁶ Then hee answered and sayd vnto them, Surely Esay hath prophecied well of you, hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth mee with lippes, but their heart is farre away from me.

⁷ But they worship me in vaine, teaching for doctrines the commandements of men.

⁸ For ye lay the commandement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and of cups, and many other such like things ye doe.

⁹ And he sayd vnto them, Well, ye reiect the commandement of God, that ye may obserue your owne tradition.

¹⁰ For Moses sayd, Honour thy father and thy mother: and Whosoeuer shall speake euill of father or mother, let him die the death.

¹¹ But yee say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, that is, By the gift that is offered by mee, thou mayest haue profite, hee shall be free.

¹² So ye suffer him no more to doe any thing for his father, or his mother,

¹³ Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.

¹⁴ Then he called the whole multitude vnto him, and sayd vnto them, Hearken you all vnto me, and vnderstand.

¹⁵ There is nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entreth into him: but the things which proceede out of him, are they which defile the man.

¹⁶ If any haue eares to heare, let him heare.

¹⁷ And when hee came into an house, away from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

¹⁸ And he sayde vnto them, What? are ye without vnderstanding also? Doe ye not knowe that whatsoeuer thing from without entreth into a man, cannot defile him,

¹⁹ Because it entreth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught which is the purging of all meates?

²⁰ Then he sayd, That which commeth out of man, that defileth man.

²¹ For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceede euill thoughtes, adulteries, fornications, murthers,

²² Theftes, couetousnes, wickednes, deceite, vncleannes, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishnesse.

²³ All these euill things come from within, and defile a man.

²⁵ For a certaine woman, whose litle daughter had an vncleane spirit, heard of him, and came, and fell at his feete,

²⁶ (And the woman was a Greeke, a Syrophenissian by nation) and she besought him that he would cast out the deuill out of her daughter.

²⁷ But Iesus saide vnto her, Let the children first be fedde: for it is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it vnto whelpes.

²⁸ Then shee answered, and saide vnto him, Trueth, Lord: yet in deede the whelpes eate vnder the table of the childrens crommes.

²⁹ Then he said vnto her, For this saying goe thy way: the deuil is gone out of thy daughter.

³⁰ And when shee was come home to her house, shee founde the deuill departed, and her daughter lying on the bed.

³² And they brought vnto him one that was deafe and stambered in his speache, and prayed him to put his hand vpon him.

³³ Then hee tooke him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers in his eares, and did spit, and touched his tongue.

³⁴ And looking vp to heauen, hee sighed, and said vnto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

³⁵ And straightway his eares were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and hee spake plaine.

³⁶ And he commanded them, that they should tell no man: but howe much soeuer hee forbad them, the more a great deale they published it,

³⁷ And were beyonde measure astonied, saying, Hee hath done all thinges well: he maketh both the deafe to heare, and the domme to speake.

¹ In those dayes, when there was a very great multitude, and had nothing to eate, Iesus called his disciples to him, and said vnto them,

² I haue compassion on the multitude, because they haue nowe continued with mee three dayes, and haue nothing to eate.

³ And if I sende them away fasting to their owne houses, they woulde faint by the way: for some of them came from farre.

⁴ Then his disciples answered him, Whence can a man satisfie these with bread here in the wildernes?

⁵ And hee asked them, Howe many loaues haue ye? And they said, Seuen.

⁶ Then he commanded the multitude to sit downe on the grounde: and hee tooke the seuen loaues, and gaue thankes, brake them, and gaue to his disciples to set before them, and they did set them before the people.

⁷ They had also a few small fishes: and when he had giuen thankes, he commanded them also to be set before them.

⁸ So they did eate, and were sufficed, and they tooke vp of the broken meate that was left, seuen baskets full.

⁹ (And they that had eaten, were about foure thousand) so he sent them away.

¹¹ And the Pharises came foorth, and began to dispute with him, seeking of him a signe from heauen, and tempting him.

¹² Then hee sighed deepely in his spirit, and saide, Why doeth this generation seeke a signe? Verely I say vnto you, a signe shall not be giuen vnto this generation.

¹⁵ And he charged them, saying, Take heede, and beware of the leauen of the Pharises, and of the leauen of Herod.

¹⁶ And they reasoned among themselues, saying, It is, because we haue no bread.

¹⁷ And when Iesus knew it, he said vnto them, Why reason you thus, because ye haue no bread? perceiue ye not yet, neither vnderstande? haue ye your hearts yet hardened?

¹⁸ Haue yee eyes, and see not? and haue yee eares, and heare not? and doe ye not remember?

¹⁹ When I brake the fiue loaues among fiue thousand, how many baskets full of broken meate tooke ye vp? They said vnto him, Twelue.

²⁰ And when I brake seuen among foure thousande, howe many baskets of the leauings of broken meate tooke ye vp? And they said, Seuen.

²¹ Then he saide vnto them, Howe is it that ye vnderstand not?

²² And hee came to Bethsaida, and they brought a blinde man vnto him, and desired him to touch him.

²³ Then he tooke the blinde by the hand, and ledde him out of the towne, and spat in his eyes, and put his handes vpon him, and asked him, if he sawe ought.

²⁴ And he looked vp, and said, I see men: for I see them walking like trees.

²⁵ After that, he put his hands againe vpon his eyes, and made him looke againe. And hee was restored to his sight, and sawe euery man a farre off clearely.

²⁶ And hee sent him home to his house, saying, Neither goe into the towne, nor tell it to any in the towne.

²⁸ And they answered, Some say, Iohn Baptist: and some, Elias: and some, one of the Prophets.

²⁹ And he said vnto them, But whome say ye that I am? Then Peter answered, and saide vnto him, Thou art that Christ.

³⁰ And he sharpely charged them, that concerning him they should tell no man.

³¹ Then hee began to teache them that the Sonne of man must suffer many things, and should be reproued of the Elders, and of the hie Priestes, and of the Scribes, and be slaine, and within three dayes rise againe.

³² And he spake that thing boldly. Then Peter tooke him aside, and began to rebuke him.

³³ Then he turned backe, and looked on his disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behinde me, Satan: for thou vnderstandest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.

³⁵ For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: but whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels, he shall saue it.

³⁶ For what shall it profite a man, though he should winne the whole world, if he lose his soule?

³⁷ Or what exchange shall a man giue for his soule?

³⁸ For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of mee, and of my wordes among this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed also, when he commeth in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.

¹ And he saide vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that there be some of them that stande here, which shall not taste of death till they haue seene the kingdome of God come with power.

² And sixe dayes after, Iesus taketh vnto him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and carieth them vp into an hie mountaine out of the way alone, and his shape was changed before them.

³ And his rayment did shine, and was very white, as snowe, so white as no fuller can make vpon the earth.

⁴ And there appeared vnto them Elias with Moses, and they were talking with Iesus.

⁵ Then Peter answered, and said to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: let vs make also three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

⁶ Yet hee knewe not what he saide: for they were afraide.

⁷ And there was a cloude that shadowed them, and a voyce came out of the cloude, saying, This is my beloued Sonne: heare him.

⁸ And suddenly they looked roud about, and sawe no more any man saue Iesus only with them.

⁹ And as they came downe from the mountaine, he charged them, that they should tell no man what they had seene, saue when the Sonne of man were risen from the dead againe.

¹⁰ So they kept that matter to themselues, and demaunded one of another, what the rising from the dead againe should meane?

¹¹ Also they asked him, saying, Why say the Scribes, that Elias must first come?

¹² And he answered, and said vnto them, Elias verely shall first come, and restore all things: and as it is written of the Sonne of man, hee must suffer many things, and be set at nought.

¹³ But I say vnto you, that Elias is come, (and they haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they would) as it is written of him.

¹⁵ And straightway all the people, when they behelde him, were amased, and ranne to him, and saluted him.

¹⁶ Then hee asked the Scribes, What dispute you among your selues?

¹⁷ And one of the companie answered, and said, Master, I haue brought my sonne vnto thee, which hath a dumme spirit:

¹⁸ And wheresoeuer he taketh him, he teareth him, and he fometh, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples, that they should cast him out, and they could not.

¹⁹ Then he answered him, and said, O faithlesse generation, how long now shall I be with you! how long now shall I suffer you! Bring him vnto me.

²⁰ So they brought him vnto him: and assoone as the spirit sawe him, hee tare him, and hee fell downe on the ground walowing and foming.

²¹ Then he asked his father, How long time is it since he hath bin thus? And he said, Of a childe.

²² And oft times he casteth him into the fire, and into the water to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, helpe vs, and haue compassion vpon vs.

²³ And Iesus said vnto him, If thou canst beleeue it, al things are possible to him that beleeueth.

²⁴ And straightway the father of the childe crying with teares, saide, Lord, I beleeue: helpe my vnbeliefe.

²⁵ When Iesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the vncleane spirit, saying vnto him, Thou domme and deafe spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

²⁶ Then the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out, and he was as one dead, in so much that many said, He is dead.

²⁷ But Iesus tooke his hande, and lift him vp, and he arose.

²⁸ And when hee was come into the house, his disciples asked him secretly, Why could not we cast him out?

²⁹ And he saide vnto them, This kinde can by no other meanes come foorth, but by prayer and fasting.

³¹ For he taught his disciples, and saide vnto them, The Sonne of man shalbe deliuered into the handes of men, and they shall kill him, but after that he is killed, he shall rise againe the third day.

³² But they vnderstoode not that saying, and were afraide to aske him.

³³ After, he came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house, he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among you by the way?

³⁴ And they helde their peace: for by the way they reasoned among themselues, who should bee the chiefest.

³⁵ And he sate downe, and called the twelue, and said to them, If any man desire to be first, the same shalbe last of all, and seruant vnto all.

³⁶ And he tooke a litle childe, and set him in the middes of them, and tooke him in his armes, and sayd vnto them,

³⁷ Whosoeuer shall receiue one of such litle children in my Name, receiueth me: and whosoeuer receiueth mee, receiueth not me, but him that sent me.

³⁹ But Iesus sayd, Forbid him not: for there is no man that can doe a miracle by my Name, that can lightly speake euill of me.

⁴⁰ For whosoeuer is not against vs, is on our part.

⁴¹ And whosoeuer shall giue you a cup of water to drinke for my Names sake, because ye belong to Christ, verely I say vnto you, he shall not lose his rewarde.

⁴² And whosoeuer shall offend one of these litle ones, that beleeue in me, it were better for him rather, that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were cast into the sea.

⁴³ Wherefore, if thine hand cause thee to offend, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, then hauing two hands, to goe into hell, into the fire that neuer shalbe quenched,

⁴⁴ Where their worme dyeth not, and the fire neuer goeth out.

⁴⁵ Likewise, if thy foote cause thee to offend, cut it off: it is better for thee to go halt into life, then hauing two feete, to be cast into hell, into the fire that neuer shalbe quenched,

⁴⁶ Where their worme dyeth not, and the fire neuer goeth out.

⁴⁷ And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out: it is better for thee to goe into the kingdome of God with one eye, then hauing two eyes, to be cast into hell fire,

⁴⁸ Where their worme dyeth not, and the fire neuer goeth out.

⁴⁹ For euery man shalbe salted with fire: and euery sacrifice shalbe salted with salt.

⁵⁰ Salt is good: but if the salt be vnsauerie, wherewith shall it be seasoned? haue salt in your selues, and haue peace one with another.

¹ And he arose from thence, and went into the coastes of Iudea by the farre side of Iordan, and the people resorted vnto him againe, and as he was wont, he taught them againe.

² Then the Pharises came and asked him, if it were lawfull for a man to put away his wife, and tempted him.

³ And he answered, and sayde vnto them, What did Moses commaund you?

⁴ And they sayd, Moses suffered to write a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away.

⁵ Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, For the hardnesse of your heart he wrote this precept vnto you.

⁶ But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:

⁷ For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

⁸ And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so that they are no more twaine, but one flesh.

⁹ Therefore, what God hath coupled together, let not man separate.

¹⁰ And in the house his disciples asked him againe of that matter.

¹¹ And he sayd vnto them, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife and marrie another, committeth adulterie against her.

¹² And if a woman put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adulterie.

¹⁴ But when Iesus sawe it, he was displeased, and said to them, Suffer the litle children to come vnto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.

¹⁵ Verely I say vnto you, Whosoeuer shall not receiue the kingdome of God as a litle childe, he shall not enter therein.

¹⁶ And he tooke them vp in his armes, and put his hands vpon them, and blessed them.

¹⁸ Iesus sayde to him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, euen God.

¹⁹ Thou knowest the comandements, Thou shalt not commit adulterie. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steale. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse. Thou shalt hurt no man. Honour thy father and mother.

²⁰ Then he answered, and said to him, Master, all these things I haue obserued from my youth.

²¹ And Iesus looked vpon him, and loued him, and sayde vnto him, One thing is lacking vnto thee. Go and sell all that thou hast, and giue to the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, follow me, and take vp the crosse.

²² But hee was sad at that saying, and went away sorowfull: for he had great possessions.

²³ And Iesus looked round about, and sayd vnto his disciples, Howe hardly doe they that haue riches, enter into the kingdome of God!

²⁴ And his disciples were afraide at his words. But Iesus answered againe, and sayd vnto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdome of God!

²⁵ It is easier for a camel to goe through the eye of a needle, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.

²⁶ And they were much more astonied, saying with themselues, Who then can be saued?

²⁷ But Iesus looked vpon them, and sayd, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

²⁹ Iesus answered, and sayd, Verely I say vnto you, there is no man that hath forsaken house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake and the Gospels,

³⁰ But he shall receiue an hundred folde, now at this present, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternall life.

³¹ But many that are first, shall be last, and the last, first.

³³ Saying, Beholde, we goe vp to Hierusalem, and the Sonne of man shall be deliuered vnto the hie Priests, and to the Scribes, and they shall condemne him to death, and shall deliuer him to the Gentiles.

³⁴ And they shall mocke him, and scourge him, and spit vpon him, and kill him: but the third day he shall rise againe.

³⁶ And he sayd vnto them, What would ye I should doe for you?

³⁷ And they said to him, Graunt vnto vs, that we may sit, one at thy right hand, and the other at thy left hand in thy glory.

³⁸ But Iesus sayd vnto them, Ye knowe not what ye aske. Can ye drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and be baptized with the baptisme that I shall be baptized with?

³⁹ And they said vnto him, We can. But Iesus sayd vnto them, Ye shall drinke in deede of the cup that I shall drinke of, and be baptized with the baptisme wherewith I shalbe baptized:

⁴⁰ But to sit at my right hand, and at my left, is not mine to giue, but it shalbe giuen to them for whome it is prepared.

⁴¹ And when the ten heard that, they began to disdaine at Iames and Iohn.

⁴² But Iesus called them vnto him, and sayd to them, Ye know that they which are princes among the Gentiles, haue domination ouer them, and they that be great among them, exercise authoritie ouer them.

⁴³ But it shall not be so among you: but whosoeuer will be great among you, shall be your seruant.

⁴⁴ And whosoeuer will be chiefe of you, shall be the seruant of all.

⁴⁵ For euen the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the raunsome of many.

⁴⁷ And when hee heard that it was Iesus of Nazareth, he began to crye, and to say, Iesus the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on me.

⁴⁸ And many rebuked him, because he should holde his peace: but hee cryed much more, O Sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on me.

⁴⁹ Then Iesus stood still, and commanded him to be called: and they called the blind, saying vnto him, Be of good comfort: arise, he calleth thee.

⁵⁰ So he threwe away his cloke, and rose, and came to Iesus.

⁵¹ And Iesus answered, and said vnto him, What wilt thou that I doe vnto thee? And the blinde sayd vnto him, Lord, that I may receiue sight.

⁵² Then Iesus sayde vnto him, Goe thy way: thy fayth hath saued thee. And by and by, he receiued his sight, and folowed Iesus in the way.

¹ And when they came neere to Hierusalem, to Bethphage and Bethania vnto the mount of Oliues, he sent forth two of his disciples,

² And sayd vnto them, Goe your wayes into that towne that is ouer against you, and assoone as ye shall enter into it, ye shall finde a colte tied, whereon neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him.

³ And if any man say vnto you, Why doe ye this? Say that the Lord hath neede of him, and straightway he will send him hither.

⁴ And they went their way, and found a colt tyed by the doore without, in a place where two wayes met, and they loosed him.

⁵ Then certaine of them, that stoode there, sayd vnto them, What doe ye loosing the colt?

⁶ And they sayde vnto them, as Iesus had commanded them: So they let them goe.

⁸ And many spred their garments in the way: other cut downe branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.

⁹ And they that went before, and they that folowed, cryed, saying, Hosanna: blessed be hee that commeth in the Name of the Lord.

¹⁰ Blessed be the kingdome that commeth in the Name of the Lord of our father Dauid: Hosanna, O thou which art in the highest heauens.

¹¹ So Iesus entred into Hierusalem, and into the Temple: and when he had looked about on all things, and now it was euening, he went forth vnto Bethania with the twelue.

¹² And on the morowe when they were come out from Bethania, he was hungry.

¹³ And seeing a fig tree afarre off, that had leaues, he went to see if he might finde any thing thereon: but when he came vnto it, hee found nothing but leaues: for the time of figges was not yet.

¹⁴ Then Iesus answered, and sayd to it, Neuer man eate fruite of thee hereafter while the world standeth: and his disciples heard it.

¹⁶ Neither would hee suffer that any man should cary a vessell through the Temple.

¹⁷ And he taught, saying vnto them, Is it not written, Mine house shalbe called the house of prayer vnto all nations? but you haue made it a denne of theeues.

¹⁸ And the Scribes and hie Priestes heard it, and sought howe to destroy him: for they feared him, because the whole multitude was astonied at his doctrine.

¹⁹ But when euen was come, Iesus went out of the citie.

²¹ Then Peter remembred, and said vnto him, Master, beholde, the figge tree which thou cursedst, is withered.

²² And Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Haue the faith of God.

²³ For verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer shall say vnto this mountaine, Be thou taken away, and cast into the sea, and shall not wauer in his heart, but shall beleeue that those things which he saieth, shall come to passe, whatsoeuer he saieth, shall be done to him.

²⁴ Therefore I say vnto you, Whatsoeuer ye desire when ye pray, beleeue that ye shall haue it, and it shalbe done vnto you.

²⁵ But when ye shall stand, and pray, forgiue, if ye haue any thing against any man, that your Father also which is in heauen, may forgiue you your trespasses.

²⁶ For if you will not forgiue, your Father which is in heauen, will not pardon you your trespasses.

²⁸ And said vnto him, By what authoritie doest thou these things? and who gaue thee this authoritie, that thou shouldest doe these things?

²⁹ Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, I will also aske of you a certaine thing, and answere ye me, and I will tell you by what authoritie I do these things.

³⁰ The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men? answere me.

³¹ And they thought with themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then did ye not beleeue him?

³² But if we say, Of men, we feare the people: for all men counted Iohn, that he was a Prophet in deede.

³³ Then they answered, and saide vnto Iesus, We cannot tell. And Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Neither will I tell you by what authoritie I doe these things.

¹ And he began to speake vnto them in parables, A certaine man planted a vineyard, and copassed it with an hedge, and digged a pit for the winepresse, and built a tower in it, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange countrey.

² And at the time, he sent to the husbandmen a seruant, that he might receiue of the husbandmen of the fruite of the vineyard.

³ But they tooke him, and beat him, and sent him away emptie.

⁴ And againe he sent vnto them another seruant, and at him they cast stones, and brake his head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

⁵ And againe he sent another, and him they slew, and many other, beating some, and killing some.

⁶ Yet had he one sonne, his deare beloued: him also he sent the last vnto them, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

⁷ But ye husbandmen said among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and the inheritance shalbe ours.

⁸ So they tooke him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

⁹ What shall then the Lord of the vineyard doe? He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and giue the vineyard to others.

¹⁰ Haue ye not read so much as this Scripture? The stone which the builders did refuse, is made the head of the corner.

¹¹ This was done of the Lord, and it is marueilous in our eyes.

¹² Then they went about to take him, but they feared the people: for they perceiued that he spake that parable against them: therefore they left him, and went their way.

¹⁴ And when they came, they saide vnto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou considerest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God truely, Is it lawfull to giue tribute to Cesar, or not?

¹⁵ Should we giue it, or should we not giue it? but he knew their hypocrisie, and said vnto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a peny, that I may see it.

¹⁶ So they brought it, and he said vnto them, Whose is this image and superscription? and they said vnto him, Cesars.

¹⁷ Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Giue to Cesar the things that are Cesars, and to God, those that are Gods: and they marueiled at him.

¹⁹ Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die, and leaue his wife, and leaue no children, that his brother should take his wife, and rayse vp seede vnto his brother.

²⁰ There were seuen brethren, and the first tooke a wife, and when he died, left no issue.

²¹ Then the seconde tooke her, and he died, neither did he yet leaue issue, and the third likewise:

²² So those seuen had her, and left no yssue: last of all the wife died also.

²³ In the resurrection then, when they shall rise againe, whose wife shall she be of them? for seuen had her to wife.

²⁴ Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Are ye not therefore deceiued, because ye knowe not the Scriptures, neither the power of God?

²⁵ For when they shall rise againe from the dead, neither men marry, nor wiues are married, but are as the Angels which are in heauen.

²⁶ And as touching the dead, that they shall rise againe, haue ye not read in the booke of Moses, howe in the bush God spake vnto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob?

²⁷ God is not ye God of the dead, but the God of the liuing. Ye are therefore greatly deceiued.

²⁹ Iesus answered him, The first of all the commandements is, Heare, Israel, The Lord our God is the onely Lord.

³⁰ Thou shalt therefore loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandement.

³¹ And the second is like, that is, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. There is none other commandement greater then these.

³² Then that Scribe said vnto him, Well, Master, thou hast saide the trueth, that there is one God, and that there is none but he,

³³ And to loue him with all the heart, and with all the vnderstanding, and with all the soule, and with all the strength, and to loue his neighbour as himselfe, is more then all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

³⁴ Then when Iesus saw that he answered discreetely, he saide vnto him, Thou art not farre from the kingdome of God. And no man after that durst aske him any question.

³⁶ For Dauid himselfe said by ye holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footestoole.

³⁷ Then Dauid himselfe calleth him Lord: by what meanes is he then his sonne? and much people heard him gladly.

³⁸ Moreouer he saide vnto them in his doctrine, Beware of the Scribes which loue to goe in long robes, and loue salutations in the markets,

³⁹ And the chiefe seates in the Synagogues, and the first roumes at feastes,

⁴⁰ Which deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers. These shall receiue the greater damnation.

⁴¹ And as Iesus sate ouer against the treasurie, he beheld how the people cast money into the treasurie, and many rich men cast in much.

⁴² And there came a certaine poore widowe, and she threw in two mites, which make a quadrin.

⁴³ Then he called vnto him his disciples, and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.

⁴⁴ For they all did cast in of their superfluitie: but she of her pouertie did cast in all that she had, euen all her liuing.

¹ And as he went out of the Temple, one of his disciples said vnto him, Master, see what maner stones, and what maner buildings are here.

² Then Iesus answered and saide vnto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone vpon a stone, that shall not be throwen downe.

³ And as he sate on the mount of Oliues, ouer against the Temple, Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrew asked him secretly,

⁴ Tell vs, when shall these things be? and what shalbe the signe when all these things shalbe fulfilled?

⁵ And Iesus answered them, and began to say, Take heede lest any man deceiue you.

⁶ For many shall come in my Name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceiue many.

⁷ Furthermore when ye shall heare, of warres, and rumours of warres, be ye not troubled: for such things must needes be: but the end shall not be yet.

⁸ For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdome against kingdome, and there shalbe earthquakes in diuers quarters, and there shalbe famine and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorowes.

⁹ But take ye heede to your selues: for they shall deliuer you vp to the Councils, and to the Synagogues: ye shalbe beaten, and brought before rulers and Kings for my sake, for a testimoniall vnto them.

¹⁰ And the Gospel must first be published among all nations.

¹¹ But when they leade you, and deliuer you vp, be not carefull before hand, neither studie what ye shall say: but what is giuen you at the same time, that speake: for it is not ye that speake, but the holy Ghost.

¹² Yea, and the brother shall deliuer the brother to death, and the father the sonne, and the children shall rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die.

¹³ And ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake: but whosoeuer shall endure vnto the end, he shalbe saued.

¹⁴ Moreouer, when ye shall see the abomination of desolation (spoken of by Daniel the Prophet) set where it ought not, (let him that readeth, consider it) then let them that be in Iudea, flee into the mountaines,

¹⁵ And let him that is vpon the house, not come downe into the house, neither enter therein, to fetch any thing out of his house.

¹⁶ And let him that is in the fielde, not turne backe againe to take his garment.

¹⁷ Then wo shalbe to the that are with child, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

¹⁸ Pray therefore that your flight be not in the winter.

¹⁹ For those dayes shalbe such tribulation, as was not from the beginning of ye creation which God created vnto this time, neither shalbe.

²⁰ And except that the Lord had shortened those dayes, no flesh shoulde be saued: but for the elects sake, which he hath chosen, he hath shortened those dayes.

²¹ Then if any man say to you, Loe, here is Christ, or, lo, he is there, beleeue it not.

²² For false Christes shall rise, and false prophets, and shall shewe signes and wonders, to deceiue if it were possible the very elect.

²³ But take ye heede: beholde, I haue shewed you all things before.

²⁵ And the starres of heauen shall fall: and the powers which are in heauen, shall shake.

²⁶ And then shall they see the Sonne of man comming in ye cloudes, with great power and glory.

²⁷ And he shall then send his Angels, and shall gather together his elect from the foure windes, and from the vtmost part of the earth to the vtmost part of heauen.

²⁸ Nowe learne a parable of the figge tree. When her bough is yet tender, and it bringeth foorth leaues, ye knowe that sommer is neere.

²⁹ So in like maner, when ye see these things come to passe, knowe that the kingdom of God is neere, euen at the doores.

³⁰ Verely I say vnto you, that this generation shall not passe, till all these things be done.

³¹ Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my woordes shall not passe away.

³² But of that day and houre knoweth no man, no, not the Angels which are in heauen, neither the Sonne himselfe, but the Father.

³³ Take heede: watch, and praie: for yee knowe not when the time is.

³⁴ For the Sonne of man is as a man going into a strange countrey, and leaueth his house, and giueth authoritie to his seruaunts, and to euery man his woorke, and commandeth the porter to watch.

³⁵ Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)

³⁶ Least if he come suddenly, he should finde you sleeping.

³⁷ And those things that I say vnto you, I say vnto all men, Watch.

¹ And two daies after followed the feast of the Passeouer, and of vnleauened bread: and the hie Priests, and Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

² But they sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.

³ And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

⁴ Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?

⁵ For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.

⁶ But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? shee hath wrought a good worke on me.

⁷ For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.

⁸ She hath done that she coulde: she came afore hand to anoynt my body to the burying.

⁹ Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shalbe spoken of in remembrance of her.

¹¹ And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised that they woulde giue him monie: therefore he sought howe he might conueniently betraie him.

¹³ Then hee sent foorth two of his disciples, and sayde vnto them, Goe yee into the citie, and there shall a man meete you bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.

¹⁴ And whithersoeuer he goeth in, say yee to the good man of the house, The Master sayeth, Where is the lodging where I shall eate the Passeouer with my disciples?

¹⁵ And he wil shewe you an vpper chamber which is large, trimmed and prepared: there make it readie for vs.

¹⁶ So his disciples went foorth, and came to the citie, and found as he had said vnto them, and made readie the Passeouer.

¹⁸ And as they sate at table and did eate, Iesus said, Verely I say vnto you, that one of you shall betray me, which eateth with me.

¹⁹ Then they began to be sorowful and to say to him one by one, Is it I? And another, Is it I?

²⁰ And he answered and sayde vnto them, It is one of the twelue that dippeth with mee in the platter.

²¹ Truely the Sonne of man goeth his way, as it is written of him: but woe bee to that man, by whome the Sonne of man is betrayed: it had beene good for that man, if hee had neuer beene borne.

²² And as they did eate, Iesus tooke the bread, and when hee had giuen thankes, he brake it and gaue it to them, and sayde, Take, eate, this is my bodie.

²³ Also he tooke the cuppe, and when he had giuen thankes, gaue it to them: and they all dranke of it.

²⁴ And he saide vnto them, This is my blood of that newe Testament, which is shed for many.

²⁵ Verely I say vnto you, I wil drinke no more of the fruit of ye vine vntill that day, that I drinke it newe in the kingdome of God.

²⁶ And when they had sung a Psalme, they went out to the mount of Oliues.

²⁸ But after that I am risen, I will goe into Galile before you.

²⁹ And Peter saide vnto him, Although all men should be offended at thee, yet would not I.

³⁰ Then Iesus saide vnto him, Verely I say vnto thee, this day, euen in this night, before the cocke crowe twise, thou shalt denie me thrise.

³¹ But he saide more earnestly. If I shoulde die with thee, I will not denie thee: likewise also saide they all.

³³ And hee tooke with him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and hee began to be troubled, and in great heauinesse,

³⁴ And saide vnto them, My soule is very heauie, euen vnto the death: tarie here, and watch.

³⁵ So he went forward a litle, and fell downe on the ground, and praied, that if it were possible, that houre might passe from him.

³⁶ And he saide, Abba, Father, all things are possible vnto thee: take away this cup from me: neuertheles not that I will, but that thou wilt, be done.

³⁷ Then hee came, and founde them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watche one houre?

³⁹ And againe hee went away, and praied, and spake the same wordes.

⁴⁰ And he returned, and founde them a sleepe againe: for their eyes were heauie: neither knewe they what they should answere him.

⁴¹ And he came the third time, and said vnto them, Sleepe henceforth, and take your rest: it is ynough: the houre is come: beholde, the Sonne of man is deliuered into the hands of sinners.

⁴² Rise vp: let vs go: loe, he that betraieth me, is at hand.

⁴³ And immediatly while hee yet spake, came Iudas that was one of the twelue, and with him a great multitude with swordes and staues from the hie Priests, and Scribes, and Elders.

⁴⁴ And he that betraied him, had giuen them a token, saying, Whomsoeuer I shall kisse, he it is: take him and leade him away safely.

⁴⁵ And assoone as hee was come, hee went straightway to him, and saide, Haile Master, and kissed him.

⁴⁶ Then they laide their handes on him, and tooke him.

⁴⁷ And one of them that stoode by, drewe out a sword, and smote a seruant of the hie Priest, and cut off his eare.

⁴⁸ And Iesus answered and saide to them, Ye be come out as against a thiefe with swordes, and with staues, to take me.

⁴⁹ I was daily with you teaching in the Temple, and yee tooke me not: but this is done that the Scriptures should be fulfilled.

⁵⁰ Then they all forsooke him, and fled.

⁵¹ And there followed him a certaine yong man, clothed in linnen vpon his bare bodie, and the yong men caught him.

⁵² But he left his linnen cloth, and fled from them naked.

⁵³ So they led Iesus away to the hie Priest, and to him came together all the hie Priestes, and the Elders, and the Scribes.

⁵⁴ And Peter folowed him afarre off, euen into the hall of the hie Priest, and sate with the seruants, and warmed himselfe at the fire.

⁵⁵ And the hie Priests, and all the Councill sought for witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death, but found none.

⁵⁶ For many bare false witnesse against him, but their witnesse agreed not together.

⁵⁷ Then there arose certaine, and bare false witnesse against him, saying,

⁵⁸ We hearde him say, I will destroy this Temple made with hands, and within three daies I will builde another, made without hands.

⁵⁹ But their witnesse yet agreed not together.

⁶⁰ Then the hie Priest stoode vp amongst them, and asked Iesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is the matter that these beare witnesse against thee?

⁶¹ But hee helde his peace, and answered nothing. Againe the hie Priest asked him, and sayde vnto him, Art thou that Christ the Sonne of the Blessed?

⁶² And Iesus said, I am he, and yee shall see the Sonne of man sitte at the right hande of the power of God, and come in the clouds of heauen.

⁶³ Then the hie Priest rent his clothes, and sayd, What haue we any more neede of witnesses?

⁶⁴ Ye haue heard the blasphemie: what thinke yee? And they all condemned him to be worthie of death.

⁶⁵ And some began to spit at him, and to couer his face, and to beate him with fists, and to say vnto him, Prophesie. And the sergeants smote him with their roddes.

⁶⁶ And as Peter was beneath in the hal, there came one of the maides of the hie Priest.

⁶⁷ And when shee sawe Peter warming him selfe, shee looked on him, and sayde, Thou wast also with Iesus of Nazareth.

⁶⁸ But he denied it, saying, I knowe him not, neither wot I what thou saiest. Then he went out into the porche, and the cocke crewe.

⁶⁹ Then a maid sawe him againe, and bega to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.

⁷⁰ But hee denied it againe: and anon after, they that stoode by, sayde againe to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art of Galile, and thy speach is like.

⁷¹ And he began to curse, and sweare, saying, I knowe not this man of whom ye speake.

⁷² Then the seconde time the cocke crewe, and Peter remembred the woorde that Iesus had saide vnto him, Before the cocke crowe twise, thou shalt denie me thrise, and waying that with himselfe, he wept.

¹ And anon in the dawning, the hie Priestes helde a Councill with the Elders, and the Scribes, and the whole Council, and bound Iesus, and led him away, and deliuered him to Pilate.

² Then Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered, and sayde vnto him, Thou sayest it.

³ And the hie Priestes accused him of many things.

⁴ Wherefore Pilate asked him againe, saying, Answerest thou nothing? beholde howe many things they witnesse against thee.

⁵ But Iesus answered no more at all, so that Pilate marueiled.

⁶ Nowe at the feast, Pilate did deliuer a prisoner vnto them, whomesoeuer they woulde desire.

⁷ Then there was one named Barabbas, which was bounde with his fellowes, that had made insurrection, who in the insurrection had committed murder.

⁸ And the people cried aloude, and began to desire that he woulde doe as he had euer done vnto them.

⁹ Then Pilate answered them, and said, Will ye that I let loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes?

¹⁰ For he knewe that the hie Priestes had deliuered him of enuie.

¹¹ But the high Priestes had moued the people to desire that he would rather deliuer Barabbas vnto them.

¹² And Pilate answered, and said againe vnto them, What will ye then that I doe with him, whom ye call the King of the Iewes?

¹³ And they cried againe, Crucifie him.

¹⁴ Then Pilate said vnto them, But what euill hath he done? And they cryed the more feruently, Crucifie him.

¹⁵ So Pilate willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas, and deliuered Iesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified.

¹⁶ Then the souldiers led him away into the hall, which is the common hall, and called together the whole band,

¹⁷ And clad him with purple, and platted a crowne of thornes, and put it about his head,

¹⁸ And began to salute him, saying, Haile, King of the Iewes.

¹⁹ And they smote him on the head with a reede, and spat vpon him, and bowed the knees, and did him reuerence.

²⁰ And whe they had mocked him, they tooke the purple off him, and put his owne clothes on him, and led him out to crucifie him.

²¹ And they compelled one that passed by, called Simon of Cyrene (which came out of the countrey, and was father of Alexander and Rufus) to beare his crosse.

²² And they brought him to a place named Golgotha, which is by interpretation, the place of dead mens skulles.

²³ And they gaue him to drinke wine mingled with myrrhe: but he receiued it not.

²⁴ And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots for them, what euery man should haue.

²⁵ And it was the third houre, when they crucified him.

²⁶ And ye title of his cause was written aboue, THAT KING OF THE JEWES.

²⁷ They crucified also with him two theeues, the one on ye right hand, and the other on his left.

²⁸ Thus the Scripture was fulfilled, which sayth, And he was counted among the wicked.

²⁹ And they that went by, railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Hey, thou that destroyest the Temple, and buildest it in three dayes,

³⁰ Saue thy selfe, and come downe from the crosse.

³¹ Likewise also euen the hie Priests mocking, said among themselues with the Scribes, He saued other men, himselfe he cannot saue.

³² Let Christ the King of Israel nowe come downe from the crosse, that we may see, and beleeue. They also that were crucified with him, reuiled him.

³⁴ And at the ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lamma-sabachthani? which is by interpretation, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

³⁵ And some of them that stoode by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

³⁶ And one ranne, and filled a spondge full of vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke, saying, Let him alone: let vs see if Elias will come, and take him downe.

³⁷ And Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, and gaue vp the ghost.

³⁸ And the vaile of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the toppe to the bottome.

³⁹ Nowe when the Centurion, which stoode ouer against him, sawe that he thus crying gaue vp the ghost, he saide, Truely this man was the Sonne of God.

⁴¹ Which also when he was in Galile, folowed him, and ministred vnto him, and many other women which came vp with him vnto Hierusalem.

⁴² And nowe when the night was come (because it was the day of the preparation that is before the Sabbath)

⁴³ Ioseph of Arimathea, an honorable counsellour, which also looked for the kingdome of God, came, and went in boldly vnto Pilate, and asked the body of Iesus.

⁴⁴ And Pilate marueiled, if he were already dead, and called vnto him the Centurion, and asked of him whether he had bene any while dead.

⁴⁵ And when he knewe the trueth of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Ioseph:

⁴⁶ Who bought a linnen cloth, and tooke him downe, and wrapped him in the linnen cloth, and laide him in a tombe that was hewen out of a rocke, and rolled a stone vnto the doore of the sepulchre:

⁴⁷ And Marie Magdalene, and Marie Ioses mother, behelde where he should be layed.

¹ And when the Sabbath day was past, Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, and Salome, bought sweete oyntments, that they might come, and anoynt him.

² Therefore early in the morning, the first day of the weeke, they came vnto the sepulchre, when the Sunne was nowe risen.

³ And they saide one to another, Who shall rolle vs away the stone from the doore of the sepulchre?

⁴ And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away (for it was a very great one)

⁵ So they went into the sepulchre, and saw a yong man sitting at the right side, clothed in a long white robe: and they were sore troubled.

⁶ But he said vnto them, Be not so troubled: ye seeke Iesus of Nazareth, which hath bene crucified: he is risen, he is not here: behold the place where they put him.

⁷ But goe your way, and tell his disciples, and Peter, that he will goe before you into Galile: there shall ye see him, as he said vnto you.

⁸ And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre: for they trembled, and were amased: neither said they any thing to any man: for they were afraide.

¹⁰ And shee went and tolde them that had bene with him, which mourned and wept.

¹¹ And when they heard that he was aliue, and had appeared to her, they beleeued it not.

¹³ And they went, and told it to the remnant, neither beleeued they them.

¹⁵ And he saide vnto them, Goe ye into all the worlde, and preach the Gospel to euery creature.

¹⁶ He that shall beleeue and be baptized, shalbe saued: but he that will not beleeue, shalbe damned.

¹⁷ And these tokens shall folowe them that beleeue, In my Name they shall cast out deuils, and shall speake with newe tongues,

¹⁸ And shall take away serpents, and if they shall drinke any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their handes on the sicke, and they shall recouer.

¹⁹ So after ye Lord had spoken vnto them, he was receiued into heauen, and sate at the right hand of God.

²⁰ And they went foorth, and preached euery where. And the Lord wrought with them, and confirmed the worde with signes that folowed. Amen.

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¹ Forasmuch as many haue taken in hand to set foorth the storie of those things, whereof we are fully persuaded,

² As they haue deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning saw them their selues, and were ministers of ye word,

³ It seemed good also to me (most noble Theophilus) assoone as I had searched out perfectly all things from the beginning, to write vnto thee thereof from point to point,

⁴ That thou mightest acknowledge the certaintie of those things, whereof thou hast bene instructed.

⁵ In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.

⁶ Both were iust before God, and walked in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord, without reproofe.

⁷ And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.

⁸ And it came to passe, as he executed the Priestes office before God, as his course came in order,

⁹ According to the custome of the Priests office, his lot was to burne incense, when he went into the Temple of the Lord.

¹⁰ And the whole multitude of the people were without in prayer, while the incense was burning.

¹¹ Then appeared vnto him an Angel of the Lord standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

¹² And when Zacharias sawe him, he was troubled, and feare fell vpon him.

¹³ But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.

¹⁴ And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnes, and many shall reioyce at his birth.

¹⁵ For he shalbe great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drinke wine, nor strong drinke: and he shalbe filled with the holy Ghost, euen from his mothers wombe.

¹⁶ And many of the children of Israel shall he turne to their Lord God.

¹⁷ For he shall goe before him in the spirite and power of Elias, to turne the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisedome of the iust men, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

¹⁸ Then Zacharias said vnto ye Angel, Whereby shall I knowe this? for I am an olde man, and my wife is of a great age.

¹⁹ And the Angell answered, and sayde vnto him, I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God, and am sent to speake vnto thee, and to shew thee these good tidings.

²⁰ And beholde, thou shalt be domme, and not be able to speake, vntill the day that these things be done, because thou beleeuedst not my words, which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

²¹ Now the people waited for Zacharias, and marueiled that he taried so long in the Temple.

²² And when hee came out, hee coulde not speake vnto them: then they perceiued that hee had seene a vision in the Temple: For he made signes vnto them, and remained domme.

²³ And it came to passe, when the daies of his office were fulfilled, that he departed to his owne house.

²⁴ And after those daies, his wife Elisabet conceiued, and hid her selfe fiue moneths, saying,

²⁵ Thus hath the Lord dealt with me, in the daies wherein he looked on me, to take from me my rebuke among men.

²⁷ To a virgin affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph, of the house of Dauid, and the virgins name was Marie.

²⁸ And the Angel went in vnto her, and said, Haile thou that art freely beloued: the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

²⁹ And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and thought what maner of salutation that should be.

³⁰ Then the Angel saide vnto her, Feare not, Marie: for thou hast found fauour with God.

³¹ For loe, thou shalt conceiue in thy wobe, and beare a sonne, and shalt call his name Iesus.

³² He shall be great, and shall be called the Sonne of the most High, and the Lord God shall giue vnto him the throne of his father Dauid.

³³ And hee shall reigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer, and of his kingdome shall bee none ende.

³⁴ Then sayde Marie vnto the Angel, How shall this be, seeing I knowe not man?

³⁵ And the Angel answered, and said vnto her, The holy Ghost shall come vpon thee, and the power of the most High shall ouershadowe thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall bee borne of thee, shall be called the Sonne of God.

³⁶ And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.

³⁷ For with God shall nothing be vnpossible.

³⁸ Then Marie said, Behold the seruant of the Lord: be it vnto me according to thy woorde. So the Angel departed from her.

⁴⁰ And entred into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabet.

⁴¹ And it came to passe, as Elisabet heard the salutation of Marie, the babe sprang in her bellie, and Elisabet was filled with the holy Ghost.

⁴² And she cried with a loud voice, and saide, Blessed art thou among women, because the fruit of thy wombe is blessed.

⁴³ And whence commeth this to mee, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

⁴⁴ For loe, assoone as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my bellie for ioye,

⁴⁵ And blessed is shee that beleeued: for those things shall be perfourmed, which were tolde her from the Lord.

⁴⁶ Then Marie sayde, My soule magnifieth the Lord,

⁴⁷ And my spirite reioyceth in God my Sauiour.

⁴⁸ For hee hath looked on the poore degree of his seruaunt: for beholde, from henceforth shall all ages call me blessed,

⁴⁹ Because hee that is mightie, hath done for me great things, and holy is his Name.

⁵⁰ And his mercie is from generation to generation on them that feare him.

⁵¹ Hee hath shewed strength with his arme: hee hath scattered the proude in the imagination of their hearts.

⁵² Hee hath put downe the mighty from their seates, and exalted them of lowe degree.

⁵³ Hee hath filled the hungrie with good things, and sent away the rich emptie.

⁵⁴ Hee hath vpholden Israel his seruaunt to be mindefull of his mercie

⁵⁵ (As hee hath spoken to our fathers, to wit, to Abraham, and his seede) for euer.

⁵⁸ And her neighbours, and cousins heard tell howe the Lord had shewed his great mercie vpon her, and they reioyced with her.

⁵⁹ And it was so that on the eight day they came to circumcise the babe, and called him Zacharias after the name of his father.

⁶⁰ But his mother answered, and saide, Not so, but he shalbe called Iohn.

⁶¹ And they saide vnto her, There is none of thy kindred, that is named with this name.

⁶² Then they made signes to his father, howe he would haue him called.

⁶³ So hee asked for writing tables, and wrote, saying, His name is Iohn, and they marueiled all.

⁶⁴ And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue, and he spake and praised God.

⁶⁵ Then feare came on all them that dwelt neere vnto them, and all these woordes were noised abroade throughout all the hill countrey of Iudea.

⁶⁶ And al they that heard them, laid them vp in their hearts, saying, What maner childe shall this be! and the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁶⁷ Then his father Zacharias was filled with the holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,

⁶⁸ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he hath visited and redeemed his people,

⁶⁹ And hath raised vp the horne of saluation vnto vs, in the house of his seruant Dauid,

⁷⁰ As he spake by ye mouth of his holy Prophets, which were since the world began, saying,

⁷¹ That he would sende vs deliuerance from our enemies, and from the hands of all that hate vs,

⁷² That he might shewe mercie towards our fathers, and remember his holy couenant,

⁷³ And the othe which he sware to our father Abraham.

⁷⁴ Which was, that he would graunt vnto vs, that we being deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, should serue him without feare,

⁷⁵ All the daies of our life, in holinesse and righteousnesse before him.

⁷⁶ And thou, babe, shalt be called the Prophet of the most High: for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord, to prepare his waies,

⁷⁷ And to giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes,

⁷⁸ Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spring from an hie hath visited vs,

⁷⁹ To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, and to guide our feete into the way of peace.

⁸⁰ And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the wildernesse, til the day came that he should shewe him selfe vnto Israel.

¹ And it came to passe in those dayes, that there came a decree from Augustus Cesar, that all the world should be taxed.

² (This first taxing was made when Cyrenius was gouernour of Syria.)

³ Therefore went all to be taxed, euery man to his owne Citie.

⁴ And Ioseph also went vp from Galile out of a citie called Nazareth, into Iudea, vnto the citie of Dauid, which is called Beth-leem (because he was of the house and linage of Dauid,)

⁵ To bee taxed with Marie that was giuen him to wife, which was with childe.

⁷ And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laide him in a cratch, because there was no roome for them in the ynne.

⁹ And loe, the Angel of the Lord came vpon them, and the glorie of the Lord shone about them, and they were sore afraide.

¹⁰ Then the Angel saide vnto them, Be not afraid: for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great ioy, that shalbe to all the people,

¹¹ That is, that vnto you is borne this day in the citie of Dauid, a Sauiour, which is Christ the Lord.

¹² And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch.

¹³ And straightway there was with the Angel a multitude of heauenly souldiers, praising God, and saying,

¹⁴ Glory be to God in the high heauens, and peace in earth, and towards men good will.

¹⁵ And it came to passe whe the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, that the shepheards sayde one to another, Let vs goe then vnto Beth-leem, and see this thing that is come to passe which the Lord hath shewed vnto vs.

¹⁶ So they came with haste, and founde both Marie and Ioseph, and the babe laid in the cratch.

¹⁷ And when they had seene it, they published abroade the thing, that was tolde them of that childe.

¹⁸ And all that heard it, wondred at ye things which were tolde them of the shepheards.

¹⁹ But Mary kept all those sayings, and pondred them in her heart.

²⁰ And the shepheardes returned glorifiyng and praising God, for all that they had heard and seene as it was spoken vnto them.

²² And when the daies of her purification after the Lawe of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Hierusalem, to present him to the Lord,

²³ (As it is written in the Lawe of the Lord, Euery man childe that first openeth ye wombe, shalbe called holy to the Lord)

²⁴ And to giue an oblation, as it is commanded in the Lawe of the Lord, a paire of turtle doues, or two yong pigeons.

²⁵ And behold, there was a man in Hierusalem, whose name was Simeon: this man was iust, and feared God, and waited for the consolation of Israel, and the holy Ghost was vpon him.

²⁶ And it was declared to him from God by the holy Ghost, that he shoulde not see death, before he had seene that Anointed of the Lord.

²⁷ And he came by the motion of the spirit into the Temple, and when the parents brought in the babe Iesus, to do for him after the custome of the Lawe,

²⁸ Then hee tooke him in his armes, and praised God, and sayd,

²⁹ Lord, nowe lettest thou thy seruaunt depart in peace, according to thy woorde,

³⁰ For mine eyes haue seene thy saluation,

³¹ Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people,

³² A light to be reueiled to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

³³ And Ioseph and his mother marueiled at those things, which were spoken touching him.

³⁴ And Simeon blessed them, and saide vnto Mary his mother, Beholde, this childe is appointed for the fall and rising againe of many in Israel, and for a signe which shalbe spoken against,

³⁵ (Yea and a sworde shall pearce through thy soule) that the thoughts of many heartes may be opened.

³⁶ And there was a Prophetesse, one Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser, which was of a great age, after she had liued with an husband seuen yeeres from her virginitie:

³⁷ And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings and prayers, night and day.

³⁸ She then coming at the same instant vpon them, confessed likewise the Lord, and spake of him to all that looked for redemption in Hierusalem.

³⁹ And when they had performed all thinges according to the lawe of the Lord, they returned into Galile to their owne citie Nazareth.

⁴⁰ And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in Spirit, and was filled with wisedome, and the grace of God was with him.

⁴² And when hee was twelue yeere olde, and they were come vp to Hierusalem, after the custome of the feast,

⁴³ And had finished the dayes thereof, as they returned, the childe Iesus remained in Hierusalem, and Ioseph knew not, nor his mother,

⁴⁴ But they supposing, that he had bene in the company, went a dayes iourney, and sought him among their kinsfolke, and acquaintance.

⁴⁵ And when they found him not, they turned backe to Hierusalem, and sought him.

⁴⁶ And it came to passe three dayes after, that they found him in the Temple, sitting in the mids of the doctours, both hearing them, and asking them questions:

⁴⁷ And all that heard him, were astonied at his vnderstanding and answeres.

⁴⁸ So when they sawe him, they were amased, and his mother said vnto him, Sonne, why hast thou thus dealt with vs? beholde, thy father and I haue sought thee with very heauie hearts.

⁴⁹ Then said he vnto them, Howe is it that ye sought me? knewe ye not that I must goe about my Fathers busines?

⁵⁰ But they vnderstoode not the word that he spake to them.

⁵¹ Then hee went downe with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subiect to them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

⁵² And Iesus increased in wisedome, and stature, and in fauour with God and men.

¹ Nowe in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being gouernour of Iudea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galile, and his brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, and of the countrey of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the Tetrarch of Abilene,

² (When Annas and Caiaphas were the hie Priestes) the worde of God came vnto Iohn, the sonne of Zacharias in the wildernes.

³ And hee came into all the coastes about Iordan, preaching the baptisme of repentance for the remission of sinnes,

⁴ As it is written in the booke of the sayings of Esaias the Prophet, which saith, The voyce of him that crieth in the wildernes is, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.

⁵ Euery valley shalbe filled, and euery mountaine and hill shall be brought lowe, and crooked things shalbe made straight, and the rough wayes shalbe made smoothe.

⁶ And all flesh shall see the saluation of God.

⁷ Then said he to the people that were come out to be baptized of him, O generations of vipers, who hath forewarned you to flee from the wrath to come?

⁸ Bring foorth therefore fruites worthy amendment of life, and beginne not to say with your selues, We haue Abraham to our father: for I say vnto you, that God is able of these stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham.

⁹ Nowe also is the axe layed vnto the roote of the trees: therefore euery tree which bringeth not foorth good fruite, shalbe hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

¹¹ And he answered, and said vnto them, He that hath two coates, let him part with him that hath none: and hee that hath meate, let him doe likewise.

¹² Then came there Publicanes also to bee baptized, and saide vnto him, Master, what shall we doe?

¹³ And hee saide vnto them, Require no more then that which is appointed vnto you.

¹⁴ The souldiers likewise demaunded of him, saying, And what shall we doe? And he saide vnto them, Doe violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.

¹⁵ As the people waited, and all men mused in their heartes of Iohn, if he were not that Christ,

¹⁶ Iohn answered, and saide to them all, In deede I baptize you with water, but one stronger then I, commeth, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose: hee will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.

¹⁷ Whose fanne is in his hande, and hee will make cleane his floore, and will gather the wheate into his garner, but the chaffe will hee burne vp with fire that neuer shalbe quenched.

¹⁸ Thus then exhorting with many other things, he preached vnto the people.

¹⁹ But when Herod the Tetrarch was rebuked of him, for Herodias his brother Philips wife, and for all the euils which Herod had done,

²⁰ He added yet this aboue all, that he shut vp Iohn in prison.

²¹ Nowe it came to passe, as all the people were baptized, and that Iesus was baptized and did pray, that the heauen was opened:

²² And the holy Ghost came downe in a bodily shape like a doue, vpon him, and there was a voyce from heauen, saying, Thou art my beloued Sonne: in thee I am well pleased.

²⁴ The sonne of Matthat, the sonne of Leui, the sonne of Melchi, the sonne of Ianna, the sonne of Ioseph,

²⁵ The sonne of Mattathias, the sonne of Amos, the sonne of Naum, the sonne of Esli, the sonne of Nagge,

²⁶ The sonne of Maath, the sonne of Mattathias, the sonne of Semei, the sonne of Ioseph, the sonne of Iuda,

²⁷ The sonne of Ioanna, the sonne of Rhesa, the sonne of Zorobabel, the sonne of Salathiel, the sonne of Neri,

²⁸ The sonne of Melchi, the sonne of Addi, the sonne of Cosam, the sonne of Elmodam, the sonne of Er,

³⁰ The sonne of Simeon, the sonne of Iuda, the sonne of Ioseph, the sonne of Ionan, the sonne of Eliacim,

³¹ The sonne of Melea, the sonne of Mainan, the sonne of Mattatha, the sonne of Nathan, the sonne of Dauid,

³² The sonne of Iesse, the sonne of Obed, the sonne of Booz, the sonne of Salmon, the sonne of Naasson,

³³ The sonne of Aminadab, the sonne of Aram, the sonne of Esrom, the sonne of Phares, the sonne of Iuda,

³⁴ The sonne of Iacob, the sonne of Isaac, the sonne of Abraham, the sonne of Thara, the sonne of Nachor,

³⁵ The sonne of Saruch, the sonne of Ragau, the sonne of Phalec, the sonne of Eber, the sonne of Sala,

³⁶ The sonne of Cainan, the sonne of Arphaxad, the sonne of Sem, the sonne of Noe, the sonne of Lamech,

³⁷ The sonne of Mathusala, the sonne of Enoch, the sonne of Iared, the sonne of Maleleel, the sonne of Cainan,

³⁸ The sonne of Enos, the sonne of Seth, the sonne of Adam, the sonne of God.

¹ And Iesus full of the holy Ghost returned from Iordan, and was led by that Spirit into the wildernes,

² And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, and in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry.

³ Then the deuil saide vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, commaund this stone that it be made bread.

⁴ But Iesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not liue by bread only, but by euery word of God.

⁵ Then the deuill tooke him vp into an high mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, in the twinkeling of an eye.

⁶ And the deuill saide vnto him, All this power will I giue thee, and the glory of those kingdomes: for that is deliuered to mee: and to whomsoeuer I will, I giue it.

⁷ If thou therefore wilt worship mee, they shalbe all thine.

⁸ But Iesus answered him, and saide, Hence from mee, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him alone thou shalt serue.

⁹ Then hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence,

¹⁰ For it is written, That hee will giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee:

¹¹ And with their handes they shall lift thee vp, least at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.

¹² And Iesus answered, and said vnto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

¹³ And when the deuil had ended all the tentation, he departed from him for a litle season.

¹⁵ For he taught in their Synagogues, and was honoured of all men.

¹⁶ And hee came to Nazareth where hee had bene brought vp, and (as his custome was) went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stoode vp to reade.

¹⁷ And there was deliuered vnto him the booke of the Prophet Esaias: and when hee had opened the booke, hee founde the place, where it was written,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is vpon mee, because he hath anoynted me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poore: he hath sent mee, that I should heale the broken hearted, that I should preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, that I should set at libertie them that are bruised:

¹⁹ And that I should preache the acceptable yeere of the Lord.

²⁰ And hee closed the booke, and gaue it againe to the minister, and sate downe: and the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him.

²¹ Then he began to say vnto them, This day is the Scripture fulfilled in your eares.

²² And all bare him witnes, and wondered at the gracious wordes, which proceeded out of his mouth, and said, Is not this Iosephs sonne?

²³ Then he said vnto them, Ye will surely say vnto mee this prouerbe, Physician, heale thy selfe: whatsoeuer we haue heard done in Capernaum, doe it here likewise in thine owne countrey.

²⁴ And he saide, Verely I say vnto you, No Prophet is accepted in his owne countrey.

²⁵ But I tell you of a trueth, many widowes were in Israel in the dayes of Elias, when heauen was shut three yeres and sixe moneths, when great famine was throughout all the land:

²⁶ But vnto none of them was Elias sent, saue into Sarepta, a citie of Sidon, vnto a certaine widowe.

²⁷ Also many lepers were in Israel, in the time of Eliseus the Prophet: yet none of them was made cleane, sauing Naaman the Syrian.

²⁸ Then all that were in the Synagogue, when they heard it, were filled with wrath,

²⁹ And rose vp, and thrust him out of the citie, and led him vnto the edge of the hil, whereon their citie was built, to cast him downe headlong.

³⁰ But he passed through the middes of them, and went his way,

³² And they were astonied at his doctrine: for his worde was with authoritie.

³³ And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an vncleane deuill, which cryed with a loude voyce,

³⁴ Saying, Oh, what haue we to doe with thee, thou Iesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy vs? I know who thou art, euen the holy one of God.

³⁵ And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him. Then the deuill throwing him in the middes of them, came out of him, and hurt him nothing at all.

³⁶ So feare came on them all, and they spake among themselues, saying, What thing is this: for with authoritie and power he commaundeth the foule spirits, and they come out?

³⁷ And ye fame of him spred abroad throughout all the places of the countrey round about.

³⁹ Then he stoode ouer her, and rebuked the feuer, and it left her, and immediatly she arose, and ministred vnto them.

⁴⁰ Now at the sunne setting, all they that had sicke folkes of diuers diseases, brought them vnto him, and he layd his hands on euery one of them, and healed them.

⁴¹ And deuils also came out of many, crying, and saying, Thou art that Christ that Sonne of God: but he rebuked them, and suffered them not to say that they knewe him to be that Christ.

⁴² And when it was day, he departed, and went foorth into a desart place, and the people sought him, and came to him, and kept him that he should not depart from them.

⁴³ But he sayd vnto them, Surely I must also preach the kingdome of God to other cities: for therefore am I sent.

⁴⁴ And hee preached in the Synagogues of Galile.

¹ Then it came to passe, as the people preassed vpon him to heare the word of God, that he stoode by the lake of Gennesaret,

² And sawe two shippes stand by the lakes side, but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nettes.

³ And he entred into one of the ships, which was Simons, and required him that he would thrust off a litle from the land: and he sate downe, and taught the people out of the ship.

⁵ Then Simon answered, and sayd vnto him, Master, we haue trauailed sore all night, and haue taken nothing: neuerthelesse at thy worde I will let downe the net.

⁶ And when they had so done, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, so that their net brake.

⁷ And they beckened to their parteners, which were in the other ship, that they shoulde come and helpe them, who came then, and filled both the ships, that they did sinke.

⁸ Now when Simon Peter saw it, he fel down at Iesus knees, saying, Lord, go from me: for I am a sinfull man.

⁹ For he was vtterly astonied, and all that were with him, for the draught of fishes which they tooke.

¹⁰ And so was also Iames and Iohn the sonnes of Zebedeus, which were companions with Simon. Then Iesus sayde vnto Simon, Feare not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

¹¹ And when they had brought the ships to land, they forsooke all, and followed him.

¹³ So he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will, be thou cleane. And immediately the leprosie departed from him.

¹⁴ And he commanded him that hee should tell it no man: but Go, sayth he, and shew thy selfe to the Priest, and offer for thy clensing, as Moses hath commanded, for a witnes vnto them.

¹⁵ But so much more went there a fame abroad of him, and great multitudes came together to heare, and to be healed of him of their infirmities.

¹⁶ But he kept himselfe apart in the wildernes, and prayed.

¹⁸ Then beholde, men brought a man lying in a bed, which was taken with a palsie, and they sought meanes to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

¹⁹ And when they could not finde by what way they might bring him in, because of the preasse, they went vp on the house, and let him downe through the tyling, bed and all, in the middes before Iesus.

²⁰ And when he sawe their faith, he sayd vnto him, Man, thy sinnes are forgiuen thee.

²¹ Then the Scribes and the Pharises began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? who can forgiue sinnes, but God onely?

²² But when Iesus perceiued their reasoning, he answered, and sayd vnto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

²³ Whether is easier to say, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee, or to say, Rise and walke?

²⁴ But that ye may know that that Sonne of man hath authoritie to forgiue sinnes in earth, (he sayd vnto the sicke of the palsie) I say to thee, Arise: take vp thy bed, and goe to thine house.

²⁵ And immediatly he rose vp before them, and tooke vp his bed whereon he lay, and departed to his owne house, praysing God.

²⁶ And they were all amased, and praysed God, and were filled with feare, saying, Doutlesse we haue seene strange things to day.

²⁸ And he left all, rose vp, and folowed him.

²⁹ Then Leui made him a great feast in his owne house, where there was a great company of Publicanes, and of other that sate at table with them.

³⁰ But they that were Scribes and Pharises among them, murmured against his disciples, saying, Why eate ye and drinke ye with Publicanes and sinners?

³¹ Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, They that are whole, neede not the Physician, but they that are sicke.

³² I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

³⁴ And he said vnto them, Can ye make the children of the wedding chamber to fast, as long as the bridegrome is with them?

³⁵ But the dayes will come, euen when the bridegrome shalbe taken away from them: then shall they fast in those dayes.

³⁶ Againe he spake also vnto them a parable, No man putteth a piece of a newe garment into an olde vesture: for then the newe renteth it, and the piece taken out of the newe, agreeth not with the olde.

³⁷ Also no man powreth newe wine into olde vessels: for then ye new wine wil breake the vessels, and it will runne out, and the vessels will perish:

³⁸ But newe wine must be powred into newe vessels: so both are preserued.

³⁹ Also no man that drinketh olde wine, straightway desireth newe: for he sayth, The olde is more profitable.

¹ And it came to passe on a second solemne Sabbath, that hee went through the corne fieldes, and his disciples plucked the eares of corne, and did eate, and rub them in their hands.

² And certaine of the Pharises sayde vnto them, Why doe ye that which is not lawfull to doe on the Sabbath dayes?

³ Then Iesus answered them, and said, Haue ye not read this, that Dauid did when he himselfe was an hungred, and they which were with him,

⁴ Howe he went into the house of God, and tooke, and ate the shewbread, and gaue also to them which were with him, which was not lawful to eate, but for the Priests onely?

⁵ And he sayd vnto them, The Sonne of man is Lord also of the Sabbath day.

⁷ And the Scribes and Pharises watched him, whether he would heale on the Sabbath day, that they might finde an accusation against him.

⁸ But he knew their thoughts, and sayd to the man which had the withered hand, Arise, and stand vp in the middes. And hee arose, and stoode vp.

⁹ Then sayd Iesus vnto them, I will aske you a question, Whether is it lawfull on the Sabbath dayes to doe good, or to doe euill? to saue life, or to destroy?

¹⁰ And he behelde them all in compasse, and sayd vnto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he did so, and his hand was restored againe, as whole as the other.

¹¹ Then they were filled full of madnes, and communed one with another, what they might doe to Iesus.

¹³ And when it was day, he called his disciples, and of them he chose twelue which also he called Apostles.

¹⁴ (Simon whome he named also Peter, and Andrew his brother, Iames and Iohn, Philippe and Bartlemewe:

¹⁵ Matthewe and Thomas: Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelous,

¹⁶ Iudas Iames brother, and Iudas Iscariot, which also was the traitour.)

¹⁷ Then he came downe with them, and stood in a plaine place, with the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Iudea, and Hierusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyrus and Sidon, which came to heare him, and to be healed of their diseases:

¹⁸ And they that were vexed with foule spirits, and they were healed.

¹⁹ And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went vertue out of him, and healed them all.

²¹ Blessed are ye that hunger nowe: for ye shalbe satisfied: blessed are ye that weepe now: for ye shall laugh.

²² Blessed are ye when men hate you, and when they separate you, and reuile you, and put out your name as euill, for the Sonne of mans sake.

²³ Reioyce ye in that day, and be glad: for beholde, your reward is great in heauen: for after this maner their fathers did to the Prophets.

²⁴ But wo be to you that are rich: for ye haue receiued your consolation.

²⁵ Wo be to you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Wo be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wayle and weepe.

²⁶ Wo be to you when all men speake well of you: for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

²⁸ Blesse them that curse you, and pray for them which hurt you.

²⁹ And vnto him that smiteth thee on ye one cheeke, offer also the other: and him that taketh away thy cloke, forbid not to take thy coate also.

³⁰ Giue to euery man that asketh of thee: and of him that taketh away the things that be thine, aske them not againe.

³¹ And as ye would that men should doe to you, so doe ye to them likewise.

³² For if yee loue them which loue you, what thanke shall ye haue? for euen the sinners loue those that loue them.

³³ And if ye do good for them which do good for you, what thanke shall ye haue? for euen the sinners doe the same.

³⁴ And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receiue, what thanke shall yee haue? for euen the sinners lend to sinners, to receiue the like.

³⁵ Wherefore loue ye your enemies, and doe good, and lend, looking for nothing againe, and your rewarde shalbe great, and ye shalbe the children of the most High: for he is kinde vnto the vnkinde, and to the euill.

³⁶ Be ye therefore mercifull, as your Father also is mercifull.

³⁸ Giue, and it shalbe giuen vnto you: a good measure, pressed downe, shaken together and running ouer shall men giue into your bosome: for with what measure ye mete, with the same shall men mete to you againe.

³⁹ And he spake a parable vnto them, Can the blinde leade the blinde? shall they not both fall into the ditche?

⁴⁰ The disciple is not aboue his master: but whosoeuer will be a perfect disciple, shall bee as his master.

⁴² Either howe canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou seest not the beame that is in thine owne eye? Hypocrite, cast out the beame out of thine owne eye first, and then shalt thou see, perfectly to pull out the mote that is in thy brothers eye.

⁴⁴ For euery tree is knowen by his owne fruite: for neither of thornes gather men figges, nor of bushes gather they grapes.

⁴⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

⁴⁷ Whosoeuer commeth to mee, and heareth my wordes, and doeth the same, I will shewe you to whome he is like:

⁴⁸ He is like a man which built an house, and digged deepe, and layde the fundation on a rocke: and when the waters arose, the flood beat vpon that house, and coulde not shake it: for it was grounded vpon a rocke.

⁴⁹ But hee that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that built an house vpon the earth without foundation, against which the flood did beate, and it fell by and by: and the fall of that house was great.

¹ When hee had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.

² And a certaine Ceturions seruant was sicke and readie to die, which was deare vnto him.

³ And when he heard of Iesus, hee sent vnto him the Elders of the Iewes, beseeching him that he would come, and heale his seruant.

⁴ So they came to Iesus, and besought him instantly, saying that hee was worthy that hee should doe this for him:

⁵ For he loueth, said they, our nation, and he hath built vs a Synagogue.

⁶ Then Iesus went with them: but when he was now not farre from the house, the Centurion sent friendes to him, saying vnto him, Lord, trouble not thy selfe: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe:

⁷ Wherefore I thought not my selfe worthy to come vnto thee: but say the word, and my seruant shalbe whole:

⁸ For I likewise am a man set vnder authoritie, and haue vnder mee souldiers, and I say vnto one, Goe, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and hee commeth: and to my seruant, Doe this, and he doeth it.

⁹ When Iesus heard these things, he marueiled at him, and turned him, and said to the people, that followed him, I say vnto you, I haue not found so great faith, no not in Israel.

¹⁰ And when they that were sent, turned backe to the house, they founde the seruant that was sicke, whole.

¹¹ And it came to passe the day after, that he went into a citie called Nain, and many of his disciples went with him, and a great multitude.

¹² Nowe when hee came neere to the gate of the citie, behold, there was a dead man caried out, who was the onely begotten sonne of his mother, which was a widowe, and much people of the citie was with her.

¹³ And when the Lord sawe her, he had compassion on her, and said vnto her, Weepe not.

¹⁴ And he went and touched the coffin (and they that bare him, stoode still) and he said, Yong man, I say vnto thee, Arise.

¹⁵ And he that was dead, sate vp, and began to speake, and he deliuered him to his mother.

¹⁶ Then there came a feare on them all, and they glorified God, saying, A great Prophet is risen among vs, and God hath visited his people.

¹⁷ And this rumour of him went foorth throughout all Iudea, and throughout all the region round about.

¹⁸ And the disciples of Iohn shewed him of all these things.

¹⁹ So Iohn called vnto him two certaine men of his disciples, and sent them to Iesus, saying, Art thou hee that should come, or shall we waite for another?

²⁰ And when the men were come vnto him, they said, Iohn Baptist hath sent vs vnto thee, saying, Art thou hee that should come, or shall we waite for another?

²¹ And at that time, he cured many of their sickenesses, and plagues, and of euill spirites, and vnto many blinde men he gaue sight freely.

²² And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Goe your wayes and shewe Iohn, what things ye haue seene and heard: that the blinde see, the halt goe, the lepers are cleansed, the deafe heare, the dead are raised, and the poore receiue the Gospel.

²³ And blessed is hee, that shall not be offended in me.

²⁴ And when the messengers of Iohn were departed, hee began to speake vnto the people, of Iohn, What went ye out into the wildernes to see? A reede shaken with the winde?

²⁵ But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft rayment? beholde, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and liue delicately, are in Kings courtes.

²⁶ But what went ye foorth to see? A Prophet? yea, I say to you, and greater then a Prophet.

²⁷ This is he of whom it is written, Beholde, I sende my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

²⁸ For I say vnto you, there is no greater Prophet then Iohn, among them that are begotten of women: neuerthelesse, hee that is the least in the kingdome of God, is greater then he.

²⁹ Then all the people that heard, and the Publicanes iustified God, being baptized with the baptisme of Iohn.

³⁰ But the Pharises and the expounders of the Law despised the counsell of God against themselues, and were not baptized of him.

³¹ And the Lord saide, Whereunto shall I liken the men of this generation? and what thing are they like vnto?

³² They are like vnto litle children sitting in the market place, and crying one to another, and saying, We haue piped vnto you, and ye haue not daunced: we haue mourned to you, and ye haue not wept.

³³ For Iohn Baptist came, neither eating bread, nor drinking wine: and ye say, He hath the deuil.

³⁴ The Sonne of man is come, and eateth and drinketh: and ye say, Beholde, a man which is a glutton, and a drinker of wine, a friend of Publicanes and sinners:

³⁵ But wisdome is iustified of all her children.

³⁷ And beholde, a woman in the citie, which was a sinner, when she knewe that Iesus sate at table in the Pharises house, shee brought a boxe of oyntment.

³⁸ And shee stoode at his feete behinde him weeping, and began to wash his feete with teares, and did wipe them with the heares of her head, and kissed his feete, and anoynted them with the oyntment.

³⁹ Nowe when the Pharise which bade him, saw it, he spake within himselfe, saying, If this man were a Prophet, hee woulde surely haue knowen who, and what maner of woman this is which toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

⁴⁰ And Iesus answered, and saide vnto him, Simon, I haue somewhat to say vnto thee. And he said, Master, say on.

⁴¹ There was a certaine lender which had two detters: the one ought fiue hundreth pence, and the other fiftie:

⁴² When they had nothing to pay, he forgaue them both: Which of them therefore, tell mee, will loue him most?

⁴³ Simon answered, and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgaue most. And he said vnto him, Thou hast truely iudged.

⁴⁴ Then he turned to the woman, and said vnto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entred into thine house, and thou gauest mee no water to my feete: but she hath washed my feete with teares, and wiped them with the heares of her head.

⁴⁵ Thou gauest me no kisse: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kisse my feete.

⁴⁶ Mine head with oyle thou didest not anoint: but she hath anoynted my feete with oyntment.

⁴⁷ Wherefore I say vnto thee, many sinnes are forgiuen her: for she loued much. To whom a litle is forgiuen, he doeth loue a litle.

⁴⁸ And he saide vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee.

⁴⁹ And they that sate at table with him, began to say within themselues, Who is this that euen forgiueth sinnes?

⁵⁰ And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saued thee: goe in peace.

¹ And it came to passe afterwarde, that hee himselfe went through euery citie and towne, preaching and publishing the kingdome of God, and the twelue were with him,

² And certaine women, which were healed of euill spirites, and infirmities, as Mary which was called Magdalene, out of whom went seuen deuils,

³ And Ioanna the wife of Chuza Herods steward, and Susanna, and many other which ministred vnto him of their substance.

⁴ Nowe when much people were gathered together, and were come vnto him out of all cities, he spake by a parable.

⁵ A sower went out to sowe his seede, and as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side, and it was troden vnder feete, and the foules of heauen deuoured it vp.

⁶ And some fell on the stones, and when it was sprong vp, it withered away, because it lacked moystnesse.

⁷ And some fell among thornes, and the thornes sprang vp with it, and choked it.

⁸ And some fell on good ground, and sprang vp, and bare fruite, an hundreth folde. And as hee sayd these things, he cryed, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

⁹ Then his disciples asked him, demaunding what parable that was.

¹⁰ And he sayd, Vnto you it is giuen to know the secrets of ye kingdome of God, but to other in parables, that when they see, they shoulde not see, and when they heare, they should not vnderstand.

¹¹ The parable is this, The seede is the worde of God.

¹² And they that are beside the way, are they that heare: afterward commeth the deuill, and taketh away the worde out of their hearts, least they should beleeue, and be saued.

¹³ But they that are on the stones, are they which when they haue heard, receiue ye word with ioy: but they haue no rootes: which for a while beleeue, but in the time of tentation goe away.

¹⁴ And that which fell among thornes, are they which haue heard, and after their departure are choked with cares and with riches, and voluptuous liuing, and bring forth no fruite.

¹⁵ But that which fell in good ground, are they which with an honest and good heart heare the worde, and keepe it, and bring forth fruite with patience.

¹⁷ For nothing is secret, that shall not be euident: neither any thing hid, that shall not be knowen, and come to light.

¹⁸ Take heede therefore how ye heare: for whosoeuer hath, to him shall be giuen: and whosoeuer hath not, from him shalbe taken euen that which it seemeth that he hath.

²⁰ And it was tolde him by certaine which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee.

²¹ But he answered, and sayd vnto them, My mother and my brethren are these which heare the worde of God, and doe it.

²³ And as they sayled, he fell a sleepe, and there came downe a storme of winde on the lake, and they were filled with water, and were in ieopardie.

²⁴ Then they went to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we perish. And he arose, and rebuked the winde, and the waues of water: and they ceased, and it was calme.

²⁵ Then he sayde vnto them, Where is your fayth? and they feared, and wondered among them selues, saying, Who is this that commandeth both the windes and water, and they obey him!

²⁷ And as he went out to land, there met him a certaine man out of the citie, which had deuils long time, and he ware no garment, neither abode in house, but in the graues.

²⁸ And when he sawe Iesus, he cryed out and fell downe before him, and with a loude voyce sayd, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of God the most High? I beseech thee torment me not.

²⁹ For he commanded ye foule spirit to come out of the man: (for oft times he had caught him: therefore he was bound with chaines, and kept in fetters: but he brake the bands, and was caried of the deuill into wildernesses.)

³⁰ Then Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? and he sayd, Legion, because many deuils were entred into him.

³¹ And they besought him, that he would not commaund them to goe out into the deepe.

³² And there was there by, an hearde of many swine, feeding on an hill: and the deuils besought him, that he would suffer them to enter into them. So he suffered them.

³³ Then went the deuils out of the man, and entred into the swine: and the hearde was caried with violence from a steepe downe place into the lake, and was choked.

³⁴ When the heardmen sawe what was done, they fled: and when they were departed, they tolde it in the citie and in the countrey.

³⁵ Then they came out to see what was done, and came to Iesus, and found the man, out of whom the deuils were departed, sitting at the feete of Iesus, clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afrayd.

³⁶ They also which saw it, tolde them by what meanes he that was possessed with the deuill, was healed.

³⁷ Then the whole multitude of the countrey about the Gadarenes, besought him that he would depart from them: for they were taken with a great feare: and he went into the ship, and returned.

³⁸ Then the man, out of whome the deuils were departed, besought him that hee might be with him: but Iesus sent him away, saying,

³⁹ Returne into thine owne house, and shewe what great things God hath done to thee. So hee went his way, and preached throughout all the citie, what great things Iesus had done vnto him.

⁴² For he had but a daughter onely, about twelue yeeres of age, and she lay a dying (and as he went, the people thronged him.

⁴³ And a woman hauing an yssue of blood, twelue yeeres long, which had spent all her substance vpon physicians, and could not be healed of any:

⁴⁴ When she came behind him, she touched the hemme of his garment, and immediatly her yssue of blood stanched.

⁴⁵ Then Iesus sayd, Who is it that hath touched me? When euery man denied, Peter sayd and they that were with him, Master, the multitude thrust thee, and tread on thee, and sayest thou, Who hath touched me?

⁴⁶ And Iesus sayde, Some one hath touched me: for I perceiue that vertue is gone out of me.

⁴⁷ When the woman sawe that she was not hid, she came trembling, and fell downe before him, and tolde him before all the people, for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediatly.

⁴⁸ And he said vnto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath saued thee: go in peace.)

⁴⁹ While he yet spake, there came one from the ruler of the Synagogues house, which sayde to him, Thy daughter is dead: disease not the Master.

⁵⁰ When Iesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Feare not: beleeue onely, and she shall be saued.

⁵¹ And when he went into the house, he suffered no man to goe in with him, saue Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and the father and mother of the maide.

⁵² And all wept, and sorowed for her: but he sayd, Weepe not: for she is not dead, but sleepeth.

⁵³ And they laught him to scorne, knowing that she was dead.

⁵⁴ So he thrust them all out, and tooke her by the hand, and cryed, saying, Maide, arise.

⁵⁵ And her spirite came againe, and she rose straightway: and he comanded to giue her meate.

⁵⁶ Then her parents were astonied: but hee commanded them that they should tell no man what was done.

¹ Then called hee his twelue disciples together, and gaue them power and authoritie ouer all deuils, and to heale diseases.

² And hee sent them foorth to preach the kingdome of God, and to cure the sicke.

³ And he sayd to them, Take nothing to your iourney, neither staues, nor scrip, neither bread, nor siluer, neither haue two coates apiece.

⁴ And whatsoeuer house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.

⁵ And howe many so euer will not receiue you, when ye goe out of that citie, shake off the very dust from your feete for a testimonie against them.

⁶ And they went out, and went through euery towne preaching the Gospel, and healing euery where.

⁸ And of some, that Elias had appeared: and of some, that one of the olde Prophets was risen againe.

⁹ Then Herod sayd, Iohn haue I beheaded: who then is this of whome I heare such things? and he desired to see him.

¹¹ But when the people knewe it, they followed him: and he receiued them, and spake vnto them of the kingdome of God, and healed them that had neede to be healed.

¹² And when the day began to weare away, the twelue came, and sayd vnto him, Sende the people away, that they may goe into the townes and villages round about, and lodge, and get meate: for we are here in a desart place.

¹³ But he sayd vnto them, Giue ye them to eate. And they sayd, We haue no more but fiue loaues and two fishes, except we should go and buy meate for all this people.

¹⁴ For they were about fiue thousand men. Then he sayde to his disciples, Cause them to sit downe by fifties in a company.

¹⁵ And they did so, and caused all to sit downe.

¹⁶ Then he tooke the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen, and blessed them, and brake, and gaue to the disciples, to set before the people.

¹⁷ So they did all eate, and were satisfied: and there was taken vp of that remained to them, twelue baskets full of broken meate.

¹⁹ They answered, and sayd, Iohn Baptist: and others say, Elias: and some say, that one of the olde Prophets is risen againe.

²⁰ And he sayd vnto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answered, and sayd, That Christ of God.

²¹ And he warned and commanded them, that they should tell that to no man,

²² Saying, The Sonne of man must suffer many things and be reproued of the Elders, and of the hie Priests and Scribes, and be slaine, and the third day rise againe.

²⁴ For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: and whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall saue it.

²⁵ For what auantageth it a man, if he win the whole worlde, and destroy himselfe, or lose himselfe?

²⁶ For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of me, and of my wordes, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed, when hee shall come in his glorie, and in the glorie of the Father, and of the holy Angels.

²⁷ And I tell you of a suretie, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they haue seene the kingdome of God.

²⁸ And it came to passe about an eyght dayes after those wordes, that he tooke Peter and Iohn, and Iames, and went vp into a mountaine to pray.

²⁹ And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was changed, and his garment was white and glistered.

³⁰ And beholde, two men talked with him, which were Moses and Elias:

³¹ Which appeared in glory, and tolde of his departing, which he shoulde accomplish at Hierusalem.

³² But Peter and they that were with him, were heauie with sleepe, and when they awoke, they saw his glorie, and the two men standing with him.

³³ And it came to passe, as they departed from him, Peter said vnto Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: let vs therefore make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias, and wist not what he said.

³⁴ Whiles he thus spake, there came a cloude and ouershadowed them, and they feared when they were entring into the cloude.

³⁵ And there came a voyce out of the cloud, saying, This is that my beloued Sonne, heare him.

³⁶ And when the voyce was past, Iesus was found alone: and they kept it close, and tolde no man in those dayes any of those things which they had seene.

³⁸ And beholde, a man of the companie cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, beholde my sonne: for he is all that I haue.

³⁹ And loe, a spirit taketh him, and suddenly he crieth, and he teareth him, that he fometh, and hardly departeth from him, when he hath bruised him.

⁴⁰ Nowe I haue besought thy disciples to cast him out, but they could not.

⁴¹ Then Iesus answered, and said, O generation faithlesse, and crooked, howe long now shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring thy sonne hither.

⁴² And whiles he was yet comming, the deuill rent him, and tare him: and Iesus rebuked the vncleane spirite, and healed the childe, and deliuered him to his father.

⁴⁴ Marke these wordes diligently: for it shall come to passe, that the Sonne of man shalbe deliuered into the handes of men.

⁴⁵ But they vnderstood not that word: for it was hid from them, so that they could not perceiue it: and they feared to aske him of that worde.

⁴⁷ When Iesus sawe the thoughtes of their heartes, he tooke a litle childe, and set him by him,

⁴⁸ And said vnto them, Whosoeuer receiueth this litle childe in my Name, receiueth me: and whosoeuer shall receiue me, receiueth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, he shall be great.

⁵⁰ Then Iesus saide vnto him, Forbid ye him not: for he that is not against vs, is with vs.

⁵² And sent messengers before him: and they went and entred into a towne of the Samaritans, to prepare him lodging.

⁵³ But they woulde not receiue him, because his behauiour was, as though he would go to Hierusalem.

⁵⁴ And when his disciples, Iames and Iohn sawe it, they saide, Lord, wilt thou that we commaund, that fire come downe from heauen, and consume them, euen as Elias did?

⁵⁵ But Iesus turned about, and rebuked them, and said, Ye knowe not of what spirit ye are.

⁵⁶ For the Sonne of man is not come to destroy mens liues, but to saue them. Then they went to another towne.

⁵⁸ And Iesus saide vnto him, The foxes haue holes, and the birdes of the heauen nestes, but the Sonne of man hath not whereon to lay his head.

⁵⁹ But he said vnto another, Followe me. And the same said, Lord, suffer me first to goe and burie my father.

⁶⁰ And Iesus said vnto him, Let the dead burie their dead: but go thou, and preache the kingdome of God.

⁶¹ Then another saide, I will follow thee, Lord: but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at mine house.

⁶² And Iesus saide vnto him, No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh backe, is apt to the kingdome of God.

¹ After these thinges, the Lord appointed other seuentie also, and sent them, two and two before him into euery citie and place, whither he himselfe should come.

² And he said vnto them, The haruest is great, but the labourers are fewe: pray therefore the Lord of the haruest to sende foorth labourers into his haruest.

³ Goe your wayes: beholde, I send you foorth as lambes among wolues.

⁴ Beare no bagge, neither scrippe, nor shoes, and salute no man by the way.

⁵ And into whatsoeuer house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

⁶ And if the sonne of peace be there, your peace shall rest vpon him: if not, it shall turne to you againe.

⁷ And in that house tary still, eating and drinking such things as by them shall be set before you: for the labourer is worthy of his wages. Goe not from house to house.

⁸ But into whatsoeuer citie ye shall enter, if they receiue you, eate such things as are set before you,

⁹ And heale the sicke that are there, and say vnto them, The kingdome of God is come neere vnto you.

¹⁰ But into whatsoeuer citie ye shall enter, if they will not receiue you, goe your wayes out into the streetes of the same, and say,

¹¹ Euen the very dust, which cleaueth on vs of your citie, we wipe off against you: notwithstanding knowe this, that the kingdome of God was come neere vnto you.

¹² For I say to you, that it shall be easier in that day for them of Sodom, then for that citie.

¹³ Woe be to thee, Chorazin: woe be to thee, Beth-saida: for if the miracles had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, which haue bene done in you, they had a great while agone repented, sitting in sackecloth and ashes.

¹⁴ Therefore it shall be easier for Tyrus, and Sidon, at the iudgement, then for you.

¹⁵ And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heauen, shalt be thrust downe to hell.

¹⁸ And he said vnto them, I sawe Satan, like lightening, fall downe from heauen.

¹⁹ Beholde, I giue vnto you power to treade on Serpents, and Scorpions, and ouer all the power of the enemie, and nothing shall hurt you.

²⁰ Neuerthelesse, in this reioyce not, that the spirits are subdued vnto you: but rather reioyce, because your names are written in heauen.

²² All things are giuen me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Sonne is, but the Father: neither who the Father is, saue the Sonne, and he to whom the Sonne will reueile him.

²⁴ For I tell you that many Prophets and Kings haue desired to see those things, which ye see, and haue not seene them: and to heare those things which ye heare, and haue not heard them.

²⁶ And he saide vnto him, What is written in the Lawe? howe readest thou?

²⁷ And he answered, and saide, Thou shalt loue thy Lord God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy strength, and with all thy thought, and thy neighbour as thy selfe.

²⁸ Then he said vnto him, Thou hast answered right: this doe, and thou shalt liue.

²⁹ But he willing to iustifie himselfe, said vnto Iesus, Who is then my neighbour?

³⁰ And Iesus answered, and saide, A certaine man went downe from Hierusalem to Iericho, and fell among theeues, and they robbed him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leauing him halfe dead.

³¹ Nowe so it fell out, that there came downe a certaine Priest that same way, and when he sawe him, he passed by on the other side.

³² And likewise also a Leuite, when he was come neere to the place, went and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

³³ Then a certaine Samaritane, as he iourneyed, came neere vnto him, and when he sawe him, he had compassion on him,

³⁴ And went to him, and bound vp his wounds, and powred in oyle and wine, and put him on his owne beast, and brought him to an Inne, and made prouision for him.

³⁵ And on the morowe when he departed, he tooke out two pence, and gaue them to the hoste, and said vnto him, Take care of him, and whatsoeuer thou spendest more, when I come againe, I will recompense thee.

³⁶ Which nowe of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour vnto him that fell among the theeues?

³⁷ And he saide, He that shewed mercie on him. Then said Iesus vnto him, Goe, and do thou likewise.

³⁹ And she had a sister called Marie, which also sate at Iesus feete, and heard his preaching.

⁴⁰ But Martha was combred about much seruing, and came to him, and saide, Master, doest thou not care that my sister hath left me to serue alone? bid her therefore, that she helpe me.

⁴¹ And Iesus answered, and said vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou carest, and art troubled about many things:

⁴² But one thing is needefull, Marie hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

¹ And so it was, that as he was praying in a certaine place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said vnto him, Lord, teache vs to pray, as Iohn also taught his disciples.

² And he said vnto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father, which art in heauen, halowed be thy Name: Thy kingdome come: Let thy will be done, euen in earth, as it is in heauen:

³ Our dayly bread giue vs for the day:

⁴ And forgiue vs our sinnes: for euen we forgiue euery man that is indetted to vs: And leade vs not into temptation: but deliuer vs from euill.

⁶ For a friende of mine is come out of the way to me, and I haue nothing to set before him:

⁷ And hee within shoulde answere, and say, Trouble mee not: the doore is nowe shut, and my children are with mee in bed: I can not rise and giue them to thee.

⁸ I say vnto you, Though he would not arise and giue him, because he is his friende, yet doubtlesse because of his importunitie, hee woulde rise, and giue him as many as he needed.

⁹ And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and yee shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.

¹⁰ For euery one that asketh, receiueth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shalbe opened.

¹¹ If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will he giue him a stone? or if hee aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent?

¹² Or if hee aske an egge, will hee giue him a scorpion?

¹³ If yee then which are euill, can giue good giftes vnto your children, howe much more shall your heauenly Father giue the holy Ghost to them, that desire him?

¹⁵ But some of them said, He casteth out deuils through Beelzebub the chiefe of ye deuils.

¹⁶ And others tempted him, seeking of him a signe from heauen.

¹⁷ But he knew their thoughts, and said vnto them, Euery kingdom deuided against it self, shall be desolate, and an house deuided against an house, falleth.

¹⁸ So if Satan also bee deuided against himselfe, howe shall his kingdome stande, because yee say that I cast out deuils through Beelzebub?

¹⁹ If I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whome doe your children cast them out? Therefore shall they be your iudges.

²⁰ But if I by ye finger of God cast out deuils, doutles the kingdome of God is come vnto you.

²¹ When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, the thinges that hee possesseth, are in peace.

²² But when a stronger then hee, commeth vpon him, and ouercommeth him: hee taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and deuideth his spoiles.

²³ He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.

²⁴ When the vncleane spirite is gone out of a man, he walketh through drie places, seeking rest: and when he findeth none he saieth, I wil returne vnto mine house whence I came out.

²⁵ And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.

²⁶ Then goeth hee, and taketh to him seuen other spirites worse then himselfe: and they enter in, and dwel there: so the last state of that man is worse then the first.

²⁸ But hee saide, Yea, rather blessed are they that heare the woorde of God, and keepe it.

³⁰ For as Ionas was a signe to the Niniuites: so shall also the Sonne of man bee to this generation.

³¹ The Queene of the South shall rise in iudgement, with the men of this generation, and shall condemne them: for shee came from the vtmost partes of the earth to heare the wisedome of Salomon, and beholde, a greater then Salomon is here.

³² The men of Niniue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.

³⁴ The light of the bodie is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, then is thy whole bodie light: but if thine eye be euill, then thy bodie is darke.

³⁵ Take heede therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darkenesse.

³⁶ If therefore thy whole body shall be light, hauing no part darke, then shall all be light, euen as when a candle doth light thee with the brightnesse.

³⁸ And when the Pharise saw it, he marueiled that he had not first washed before dinner.

³⁹ And the Lord saide to him, In deede yee Pharises make cleane the outside of the cuppe, and of the platter: but the inwarde part is full of rauening and wickednesse.

⁴⁰ Ye fooles, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also?

⁴¹ Therefore, giue almes of those thinges which you haue, and beholde, all thinges shall be cleane to you.

⁴² But wo be to you, Pharises: for ye tithe the mynt and the rewe, and all maner herbs, and passe ouer iudgement and the loue of God: these ought yee to haue done, and not to haue left the other vndone.

⁴³ Wo be to you, Pharises: for ye loue the vppermost seats in the Synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

⁴⁴ Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, perceiue not.

⁴⁶ And he sayde, Wo be to you also, yee Lawyers: for yee lade men with burdens grieuous to be borne, and yee your selues touche not the burdens with one of your fingers.

⁴⁷ Wo be to you: for ye builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes, and your fathers killed them.

⁴⁸ Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.

⁴⁹ Therefore said the wisedome of God, I wil sende them Prophets and Apostles, and of them they shall slaie, and persecute away,

⁵⁰ That the blood of all the Prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

⁵¹ From the blood of Abel vnto the blood of Zacharias, which was slaine betweene the altar and the Temple: verely I say vnto you, it shall be required of this generation.

⁵² Wo be to you, Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbade.

⁵³ And as he sayde these things vnto them, the Scribes and Pharises began to vrge him sore, and to prouoke him to speake of many things,

⁵⁴ Laying wait for him, and seeking to catche some thing of his mouth, whereby they might accuse him.

¹ In the meane time, there gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so that they trode one another: and he began to say vnto his disciples first, Take heede to your selues of the leauen of the Pharises, which is hypocrisie.

² For there is nothing couered, that shall not bee reueiled: neither hidde, that shall not be knowen.

³ Wherefore whatsoeuer yee haue spoken in darkenesse, it shall be heard in the light: and that which ye haue spoken in the eare, in secret places, shall be preached on the houses.

⁴ And I say vnto you, my friendes, be not afraide of them that kill the bodie, and after that are not able to doe any more.

⁵ But I wil forewarne you, who ye shall feare: feare him which after hee hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say vnto you, him feare.

⁶ Are not fiue sparowes bought for two farthings, and yet not one of them is forgotten before God?

⁷ Yea, and all the heares of your head are nombred: feare not therefore: yee are more of value then many sparowes.

⁸ Also I say vnto you, Whosoeuer shall confesse mee before men, him shall the Sonne of man confesse also before the Angels of God.

⁹ But hee that shall denie mee before men, shall be denied before the Angels of God.

¹⁰ And whosoeuer shall speake a woorde against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but vnto him, that shall blaspheme ye holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen.

¹¹ And when they shall bring you vnto the Synagogues, and vnto the rulers and Princes, take no thought howe, or what thing ye shall answere, or what yee shall speake.

¹² For the holy Ghost shall teache you in the same houre, what yee ought to say.

¹³ And one of the companie said vnto him, Master, bidde my brother deuide the inheritance with me.

¹⁴ And he said vnto him, Man, who made me a iudge, or a deuider ouer you?

¹⁵ Wherefore he said vnto them, Take heede, and beware of couetousnesse: for though a man haue abundance, yet his life standeth not in his riches.

¹⁶ And he put foorth a parable vnto them, saying, The grounde of a certaine riche man brought foorth fruites plenteously.

¹⁷ Therefore he thought with himselfe, saying, What shall I doe, because I haue no roume, where I may lay vp my fruites?

¹⁸ And he said, This wil I do, I wil pul downe my barnes, and builde greater, and therein will I gather all my fruites, and my goods.

¹⁹ And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime.

²⁰ But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule from thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?

²¹ So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.

²² And he spake vnto his disciples, Therefore I say vnto you, Take no thought for your life, what yee shall eate: neither for your body, what yee shall put on.

²³ The life is more then meate: and the body more then the raiment.

²⁴ Consider the rauens: for they neither sowe nor reape: which neither haue storehouse nor barne, and yet God feedeth them: how much more are yee better then foules?

²⁵ And which of you with taking thought, can adde to his stature one cubite?

²⁶ If yee then bee not able to doe the least thing, why take yee thought for the remnant?

²⁷ Consider the lilies howe they growe: they labour not, neither spin they: yet I say vnto you, that Salomon himselfe in all his royaltie was not clothed like one of these.

²⁸ If then God so clothe the grasse which is to day in the field, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, howe much more will he clothe you, O yee of litle faith?

²⁹ Therefore aske not what yee shall eate, or what ye shall drinke, neither hag you in suspense.

³⁰ For all such things the people of the world seeke for: and your Father knoweth that ye haue neede of these things.

³¹ But rather seeke ye after the kingdome of God, and all these things shalbe cast vpon you.

³² Feare not, litle flocke: for it is your Fathers pleasure, to giue you the kingdome.

³⁴ For where your treasure is, there will your hearts be also.

³⁶ And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.

³⁷ Blessed are those seruants, whom the Lord when he commeth shall finde waking: verely I say vnto you, he will girde himselfe about, and make them to sit downe at table, and will come forth, and serue them.

³⁸ And if he come in the seconde watch, or come in the third watch, and shall finde them so, blessed are those seruants.

³⁹ Nowe vnderstand this, that if the good man of the house had knowen at what houre the theefe would haue come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be digged through.

⁴⁰ Be ye also prepared therefore: for the Sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

⁴¹ Then Peter saide vnto him, Master, tellest thou this parable vnto vs, or euen to all?

⁴² And the Lord saide, Who is a faithfull steward and wise, whom the master shall make ruler ouer his householde, to giue them their portion of meate in season?

⁴³ Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

⁴⁴ Of a trueth I say vnto you, that he wil make him ruler ouer all that he hath.

⁴⁵ But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,

⁴⁶ The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.

⁴⁸ But he that knewe it not, and yet did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with fewe stripes: for vnto whomsoeuer much is giuen, of him shalbe much required, and to whom men much commit, the more of him will they aske.

⁵⁰ Notwithstanding I must be baptized with a baptisme, and how am I grieued, till it be ended?

⁵¹ Thinke ye that I am come to giue peace on earth? I tell you, nay, but rather debate.

⁵² For from hencefoorth there shall be fiue in one house deuided, three against two, and two against three.

⁵³ The father shalbe deuided against ye sonne, and the sonne against the father: the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother: the mother in lawe against her daughter in lawe, and the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe.

⁵⁵ And when ye see the South winde blowe, ye say, that it wilbe hoate: and it commeth to passe.

⁵⁶ Hypocrites, ye can discerne the face of the earth, and of the skie: but why discerne ye not this time?

⁵⁷ Yea, and why iudge ye not of your selues what is right?

⁵⁹ I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast payed the vtmost mite.

¹ There were certaine men present at the same season, that shewed him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

² And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Suppose ye, that these Galileans were greater sinners then al the other Galileans, because they haue suffered such things?

³ I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your liues, ye shall all likewise perish.

⁴ Or thinke you that those eighteene, vpon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slewe them, were sinners aboue all men that dwel in Hierusalem?

⁵ I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your liues, ye shall all likewise perish.

⁷ Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, this three yeeres haue I come and sought fruite of this figge tree, and finde none: cut it downe: why keepeth it also the ground barren?

⁸ And he answered, and said vnto him, Lord, let it alone this yeere also, till I digge round about it, and doung it.

⁹ And if it beare fruite, well: if not, then after thou shalt cut it downe.

¹¹ And behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmitie eighteene yeeres, and was bowed together, and coulde not lift vp her selfe in any wise.

¹² When Iesus sawe her, he called her to him, and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thy disease.

¹³ And he laide his handes on her, and immediately she was made straight againe, and glorified God.

¹⁴ And the ruler of the Synagogue answered with indignation, because that Iesus healed on the Sabbath day, and said vnto the people, There are sixe dayes in which men ought to worke: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.

¹⁵ Then answered him the Lord, and said, Hypocrite, doth not eche one of you on the Sabbath day loose his oxe or his asse from the stall, and leade him away to the water?

¹⁶ And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, loe, eighteene yeeres, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?

¹⁷ And when he said these things, all his aduersaries were ashamed: but all the people reioyced at all the excellent things, that were done by him.

¹⁹ It is like a graine of mustard seede, which a man tooke and sowed in his garden, and it grewe, and waxed a great tree, and the foules of the heauen made nestes in the branches thereof.

²¹ It is like leauen, which a woman tooke, and hid in three peckes of floure, till all was leauened.

²³ Then saide one vnto him, Lord, are there fewe that shalbe saued? And he said vnto them,

²⁴ Striue to enter in at the straite gate: for many, I say vnto you, will seeke to enter in, and shall not be able.

²⁵ When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begin to stand without, and to knocke at the doore, saying, Lord, Lord, open to vs, and he shall answere and say vnto you, I know you not whence ye are,

²⁶ Then shall ye begin to say, We haue eaten and drunke in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streetes.

²⁷ But he shall say, I tell you, I knowe you not whence ye are: depart from me, all ye workers of iniquitie.

²⁸ There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac, and Iacob, and all the Prophets in the kingdome of God, and your selues thrust out at doores.

²⁹ Then shall come many from the East, and from the West, and from the North, and from the South, and shall sit at Table in the kingdome of God.

³⁰ And beholde, there are last, which shalbe first, and there are first, which shalbe last.

³¹ The same day there came certaine Pharises, and said vnto him, Depart, and goe hence: for Herod will kill thee.

³² Then said he vnto them, Goe ye and tell that foxe, Beholde, I cast out deuils, and will heale still to day, and to morowe, and the third day I shalbe perfected.

³³ Neuerthelesse I must walke to day, and to morowe, and the day following: for it cannot be that a Prophet should perish out of Hierusalem.

³⁴ O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, howe often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her brood vnder her wings, and ye would not!

³⁵ Beholde, your house is left vnto you desolate: and verely I tell you, ye shall not see me vntill the time come that ye shall say, Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord.

¹ And it came to passe that when he was entred into the house of one of the chiefe Pharises on the Sabbath day, to eate bread, they watched him.

² And beholde, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.

³ Then Iesus answering, spake vnto the Lawyers and Pharises, saying, Is it lawfull to heale on the Sabbath day?

⁴ And they held their peace. Then he tooke him, and healed him, and let him goe,

⁵ And answered them, saying, Which of you shall haue an asse, or an oxe fallen into a pit, and wil not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?

⁶ And they could not answere him againe to those things.

⁸ When thou shalt be bidden of any man to a wedding, set not thy selfe downe in the chiefest place, lest a more honourable man then thou, be bidden of him,

⁹ And he that bade both him and thee, come, and say to thee, Giue this man roome, and thou then begin with shame to take the lowest roome.

¹⁰ But when thou art bidden, goe and sit downe in the lowest roome, that when he that bade thee, cometh, he may say vnto thee, Friende, sit vp hier: then shalt thou haue worship in the presence of them that sit at table with thee.

¹¹ For whosoeuer exalteth himselfe, shall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth himselfe, shall be exalted.

¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call ye poore, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,

¹⁴ And thou shalt be blessed, because they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the iust.

¹⁶ Then saide he to him, A certaine man made a great supper, and bade many,

¹⁷ And sent his seruant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come: for all things are nowe readie.

¹⁸ But they all with one mind beganne to make excuse: The first saide vnto him, I haue bought a farme, and I must needes goe out and see it: I pray thee, haue me excused.

¹⁹ And another said, I haue bought fiue yoke of oxen, and I goe to proue them: I pray thee, haue me excused.

²⁰ And another said, I haue maried a wife, and therefore I can not come.

²¹ So that seruaunt returned, and shewed his master these thinges. Then was the good man of the house angrie, and said to his seruant, Goe out quickely into the streetes and lanes of the citie, and bring in hither the poore, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blinde.

²² And the seruaunt saide, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is roome.

²³ Then the master sayd to the seruaunt, Goe out into the hie wayes, and hedges, and compell them to come in, that mine house may bee filled.

²⁴ For I say vnto you, that none of those men which were bidden, shall taste of my supper.

²⁵ Nowe there went great multitudes with him, and he turned and sayd vnto them,

²⁶ If any man come to mee, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters: yea, and his owne life also, he can not be my disciple.

²⁷ And whosoeuer beareth not his crosse, and commeth after mee, can not bee my disciple.

²⁸ For which of you minding to builde a towre, sitteth not downe before, and counteth the cost, whether hee haue sufficient to performe it,

²⁹ Lest that after he hath laide the foundation, and is not able to performe it, all that behold it, begin to mocke him,

³⁰ Saying, This man began to builde, and was not able to make an end?

³¹ Or what King going to make warre against another King, sitteth not downe first, and taketh counsell, whether he be able with ten thousande, to meete him that commeth against him with twentie thousand?

³² Or els while hee is yet a great way off, hee sendeth an ambassage, and desireth peace.

³³ So likewise, whosoeuer hee be of you, that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

³⁴ Salt is good: but if salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it be salted?

³⁵ It is neither meete for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out. He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

¹ Then resorted vnto him all the Publicanes and sinners, to heare him.

² Therefore the Pharises and Scribes murmured, saying, Hee receiueth sinners, and eateth with them.

³ Then spake hee this parable to them, saying,

⁴ What man of you hauing an hundreth sheepe, if hee lose one of them, doeth not leaue ninetie and nine in the wildernesse, and goe after that which is lost, vntill he finde it?

⁵ And when he hath found it, he laieth it on his shoulders with ioye.

⁶ And when he commeth home, he calleth together his friendes and neighbours, saying vnto them, Reioyce with mee: for I haue founde my sheepe which was lost.

⁷ I say vnto you, that likewise ioy shall be in heauen for one sinner that conuerteth, more then for ninetie and nine iust men, which neede none amendment of life.

⁸ Either what woman hauing ten groates, if she lose one groate, doth not light a candle, and sweepe the house, and seeke diligently till shee finde it?

⁹ And when shee hath found it, shee calleth her friendes, and neighbours, saying, Reioyce with me: for I haue found the groate which I had lost.

¹⁰ Likewise I say vnto you, there is ioy in the presence of the Angels of God, for one sinner that conuerteth.

¹² And the yonger of them sayde to his father, Father, giue mee the portion of the goods that falleth to mee. So he deuided vnto them his substance.

¹³ So not many daies after, when the yonger sonne had gathered all together, hee tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there hee wasted his goods with riotous liuing.

¹⁴ Nowe when hee had spent all, there arose a great dearth throughout that land, and he began to be in necessitie.

¹⁵ Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.

¹⁶ And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.

¹⁷ Then he came to him selfe, and said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger?

¹⁸ I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee,

¹⁹ And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

²⁰ So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.

²¹ And the sonne sayde vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heauen, and before thee, and am no more worthie to be called thy sonne.

²² Then the father said to his seruaunts, Bring foorth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feete,

²³ And bring the fat calfe, and kill him, and let vs eate, and be merie:

²⁴ For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found. And they began to be merie.

²⁵ Nowe the elder brother was in the fielde, and when he came and drewe neere to the house, he heard melodie, and dauncing,

²⁶ And called one of his seruaunts, and asked what those things meant.

²⁷ And hee sayde vnto him, Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatte calfe, because he hath receiued him safe and sound.

²⁸ Then he was angry, and would not goe in: therefore came his father out and entreated him.

²⁹ But he answered and said to his father, Loe, these many yeeres haue I done thee seruice, neither brake I at any time thy commadement, and yet thou neuer gauest mee a kidde that I might make merie with my friends.

³⁰ But when this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy good with harlots, thou hast for his sake killed the fat calfe.

³¹ And he said vnto him, Sonne, thou art euer with me, and al that I haue, is thine. It was meete that we shoulde make merie, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and hee was lost, but he is found.

¹ And he sayde also vnto his disciples, There was a certaine riche man, which had a stewarde, and he was accused vnto him, that he wasted his goods.

² And hee called him, and saide vnto him, Howe is it that I heare this of thee? Giue an accounts of thy stewardship: for thou maiest be no longer steward.

³ Then the stewarde saide within himselfe, What shall I doe? for my master taketh away from me the stewardship. I cannot digge, and to begge I am ashamed.

⁴ I knowe what I will doe, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receiue mee into their houses.

⁵ Then called he vnto him euery one of his masters detters, and said vnto the first, Howe much owest thou vnto my master?

⁶ And he said, An hudreth measures of oyle. And he saide to him, Take thy writing, and sitte downe quickely, and write fiftie.

⁷ Then said he to another, How much owest thou? And hee sayde, An hundreth measures of wheate. Then he saide to him, Take thy writing, and write foure score.

⁸ And the Lord commended the vniust stewarde, because he had done wisely. Wherefore the children of this worlde are in their generation wiser then the children of light.

⁹ And I say vnto you, Make you friends with the riches of iniquitie, that when ye shall want, they may receiue you into euerlasting habitations.

¹⁰ He that is faithfull in the least, hee is also faithful in much: and he that is vniust in the least, is vniust also in much.

¹¹ If then ye haue not ben faithful in the wicked riches, who wil trust you in the true treasure?

¹² And if ye haue not bene faithfull in another mans goods, who shall giue you that which is yours?

¹³ No seruaunt can serue two masters: for either he shall hate the one, and loue the other: or els he shall leane to the one, and despise the other. Yee can not serue God and riches.

¹⁴ All these thinges heard the Pharises also which were couetous, and they scoffed at him.

¹⁵ Then he sayde vnto them, Yee are they, which iustifie your selues before men: but God knoweth your heartes: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

¹⁶ The Lawe and the Prophets endured vntill Iohn: and since that time the kingdome of God is preached, and euery man preasseth into it.

¹⁷ Nowe it is more easie that heauen and earth shoulde passe away, then that one title of the Lawe should fall.

²⁰ Also there was a certaine begger named Lazarus, which was laide at his gate full of sores,

²¹ And desired to bee refreshed with the crommes that fell from the riche mans table: yea, and the dogges came and licked his sores.

²² And it was so that the begger died, and was caried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome. The rich man also died, and was buried.

²³ And being in hell in torments, he lift vp his eyes, and sawe Abraham a farre off, and Lazarus in his bosome.

²⁴ Then he cried, and saide, Father Abraham, haue mercie on mee, and sende Lazarus that hee may dippe the tip of his finger in water, and coole my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.

²⁵ But Abraham saide, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures, and likewise Lazarus paines: now therefore is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

²⁶ Besides all this, betweene you and vs there is a great gulfe set, so that they which would goe from hence to you, can not: neither can they come from thence to vs.

²⁷ Then he said, I pray thee therfore, father, that thou wouldest sende him to my fathers house,

²⁸ (For I haue fiue brethren) that he may testifie vnto them, least they also come into this place of torment.

²⁹ Abraham said vnto him, They haue Moses and the Prophets: let them heare them.

³⁰ And he sayde, Nay, father Abraham: but if one came vnto them from the dead, they will amend their liues.

³¹ Then he saide vnto him, If they heare not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rise from the dead againe.

¹ Then said he to his disciples, It can not be auoided, but that offences will come, but wo be to him by whome they come.

² It is better for him that a great milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were cast into ye sea, then that he should offende one of these litle ones.

⁴ And though he sinne against thee seuen times in a day, and seuen times in a day turne againe to thee, saying, It repenteth mee, thou shalt forgiue him.

⁶ And the Lord said, If ye had faith, as much as is a graine of mustard seede, and should say vnto this mulberie tree, Plucke thy selfe vp by the rootes, and plant thy selfe in the sea, it should euen obey you.

⁸ And woulde not rather say to him, Dresse wherewith I may suppe, and girde thy selfe, and serue mee, till I haue eaten and drunken, and afterward eate thou, and drinke thou?

⁹ Doeth he thanke that seruant, because hee did that which was commanded vnto him? I trowe not.

¹⁰ So likewise yee, when yee haue done all those things, which are commanded you, say, We are vnprofitable seruants: wee haue done that which was our duetie to doe.

¹² And as hee entred into a certaine towne, there met him tenne men that were lepers, which stoode a farre off.

¹³ And they lift vp their voyces and saide, Iesus, Master, haue mercie on vs.

¹⁴ And when he saw them, he said vnto them, Goe, shewe your selues vnto the Priestes. And it came to passe, that as they went, they were clensed.

¹⁵ Then one of them, when hee sawe that hee, was healed, turned backe, and with a loude voyce praised God,

¹⁶ And fell downe on his face at his feete, and gaue him thankes: and he was a Samaritan.

¹⁷ And Iesus answered, and said, Are there not tenne clensed? but where are the nine?

¹⁸ There is none founde that returned to giue God praise, saue this stranger.

¹⁹ And he saide vnto him, Arise, goe thy way, thy faith hath saued thee.

²¹ Neither shall men say, Loe here, or lo there: for behold, the kingdome of God is within you.

²² And he saide vnto the disciples, The dayes will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Sonne of man, and ye shall not see it.

²³ Then they shall say to you, Behold here, or beholde there: but goe not thither, neither follow them.

²⁴ For as the lightening that lighteneth out of the one part vnder heauen, shineth vnto the other part vnder heauen, so shall the Sonne of man be in his day.

²⁵ But first must he suffer many things, and be reprooued of this generation.

²⁶ And as it was in the dayes of Noe, so shall it be in the dayes of the Sonne of man.

²⁷ They ate, they dranke, they married wiues, and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

²⁸ Likewise also, as it was in the dayes of Lot: they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they built.

²⁹ But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all.

³⁰ After these ensamples shall it be in the day when the Sonne of man is reueiled.

³¹ At that day hee that is vpon the house, and his stuffe in ye house, let him not come downe to take it out: and he that is in the fielde likewise, let him not turne backe to that he left behinde.

³² Remember Lots wife.

³³ Whosoeuer will seeke to saue his soule, shall loose it: and whosoeuer shall loose it, shall get it life.

³⁴ I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed: the one shalbe receiued, and the other shalbe left.

³⁵ Two women shalbe grinding together: the one shalbe taken, and the other shalbe left.

³⁶ Two shalbe in the fielde: one shalbe receiued, and another shalbe left.

³⁷ And they answered, and saide to him, Where, Lord? And he said vnto them, Wheresoeuer the body is, thither shall also the eagles bee gathered together.

¹ And he spake also a parable vnto them, to this ende, that they ought alwayes to pray, and not to waxe faint,

² Saying, There was a iudge in a certaine citie, which feared not God, neither reuereced man.

³ And there was a widowe in that citie, which came vnto him, saying, Doe mee iustice against mine aduersarie.

⁴ And hee would not of a long time: but afterward he said with himselfe, Though I feare not God, nor reuerence man,

⁵ Yet because this widowe troubleth mee, I will doe her right, lest at the last shee come and make me wearie.

⁶ And the Lord said, Heare what the vnrighteous iudge saith.

⁷ Now shall not God auenge his elect, which cry day and night vnto him, yea, though he suffer long for them?

⁸ I tell you he will auenge them quickly: but when the Sonne of man commeth, shall he finde faith on the earth?

¹⁰ Two men went vp into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharise, and the other a Publican.

¹¹ The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.

¹² I fast twise in the weeke: I giue tithe of all that euer I possesse.

¹³ But the Publican standing a farre off, woulde not lift vp so much as his eyes to heauen, but smote his brest, saying, O God, be mercifull to me a sinner.

¹⁴ I tell you, this man departed to his house iustified, rather then the other: for euery man that exalteth himselfe, shall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth himselfe, shalbe exalted.

¹⁶ But Iesus called them vnto him, and said, Suffer the babes to come vnto mee, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.

¹⁷ Verely I say vnto you, whosoeuer receiueth not the kingdome of God as a babe, he shall not enter therein.

¹⁸ Then a certaine ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what ought I to doe, to inherite eternall life?

¹⁹ And Iesus said vnto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, saue one, euen God.

²⁰ Thou knowest the comandements, Thou shalt not commit adulterie: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnes: Honour thy father and thy mother.

²¹ And hee saide, All these haue I kept from my youth.

²² Nowe when Iesus heard that, he saide vnto him, Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that euer thou hast, and distribute vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come follow mee.

²³ But when he heard those things, he was very heauie: for he was marueilous riche.

²⁴ And when Iesus sawe him very sorowfull, he said, With what difficultie shall they that haue riches, enter into the kingdome of God!

²⁵ Surely it is easier for a camel to go through a needles eye, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.

²⁶ Then said they that heard it, And who then can be saued?

²⁷ And he said, The things which are vnpossible with men, are possible with God.

²⁹ And he said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children for the kingdome of Gods sake,

³⁰ Which shall not receiue much more in this world, and in the world to come life euerlasting.

³² For he shall be deliuered vnto the Gentiles, and shalbe mocked, and shalbe spitefully entreated, and shalbe spitted on.

³³ And when they haue scourged him, they will put him to death: but the thirde day hee shall rise againe.

³⁴ But they vnderstood none of these things, and this saying was hidde from them, neither perceiued they the things, which were spoken.

³⁶ And when he heard the people passe by, he asked what it meant.

³⁷ And they saide vnto him, that Iesus of Nazareth passed by.

³⁸ Then hee cried, saying, Iesus the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on me.

³⁹ And they which went before, rebuked him that he shoulde holde his peace, but he cried much more, O Sone of Dauid, haue mercie on me.

⁴⁰ And Iesus stoode stil, and commanded him to be brought vnto him. And when he was come neere, he asked him,

⁴¹ Saying, What wilt thou that I doe vnto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receiue my sight.

⁴² And Iesus said vnto him, Receiue thy sight: thy faith hath saued thee.

⁴³ Then immediatly he receiued his sight, and followed him, praysing God: and all the people, when they sawe this, gaue praise to God.

¹ Now when Iesus entred and passed through Iericho,

² Beholde, there was a man named Zaccheus, which was the chiefe receiuer of the tribute, and he was riche.

³ And he sought to see Iesus, who hee should be, and coulde not for the preasse, because he was of a lowe stature.

⁴ Wherefore he ranne before, and climed vp into a wilde figge tree, that he might see him: for he should come that way.

⁵ And when Iesus came to the place, he looked vp, and saw him, and said vnto him, Zaccheus, come downe at once: for to day I must abide at thine house.

⁶ Then he came downe hastily, and receiued him ioyfully.

⁷ And when all they sawe it, they murmured, saying, that hee was gone in to lodge with a sinfull man.

⁸ And Zaccheus stood forth, and said vnto the Lord, Beholde, Lord, the halfe of my goods I giue to the poore: and if I haue taken from any man by forged cauillation, I restore him foure folde.

⁹ Then Iesus said to him, This day is saluation come vnto this house, forasmuch as hee is also become the sonne of Abraham.

¹⁰ For the Sonne of man is come to seeke, and to saue that which was lost.

¹¹ And whiles they heard these thinges, hee continued and spake a parable, because hee was neere to Hierusalem, and because also they thought that the kingdom of God should shortly appeare.

¹² He saide therefore, A certaine noble man went into a farre countrey, to receiue for himselfe a kingdome, and so to come againe.

¹³ And he called his ten seruants, and deliuered them ten pieces of money, and sayd vnto them, Occupie till I come.

¹⁴ Nowe his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not haue this man to reigne ouer vs.

¹⁵ And it came to passe, when hee was come againe, and had receiued his kingdome, that he commanded the seruants to be called to him, to whome he gaue his money, that he might knowe what euery man had gained.

¹⁶ Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy piece hath encreased ten pieces.

¹⁷ And he sayd vnto him, Well, good seruant: because thou hast bene faithfull in a very litle thing, take thou authoritie ouer ten cities.

¹⁸ And the second came, saying, Lord, thy piece hath encreased fiue pieces.

¹⁹ And to the same he sayd, Be thou also ruler ouer fiue cities.

²⁰ So the other came, and sayd, Lord, beholde thy piece, which I haue laide vp in a napkin:

²¹ For I feared thee, because thou art a straight man: thou takest vp, that thou layedst not downe, and reapest that thou diddest not sowe.

²² Then he sayde vnto him, Of thine owne mouth will I iudge thee, O euill seruant. Thou knewest that I am a straight man, taking vp that I layd not downe, and reaping that I did not sowe.

²³ Wherefore then gauest not thou my money into the banke, that at my coming I might haue required it with vantage?

²⁴ And he sayd to them that stoode by, Take from him that piece, and giue it him that hath ten pieces.

²⁵ (And they sayd vnto him, Lord, hee hath ten pieces.)

²⁶ For I say vnto you, that vnto all them that haue, it shalbe giuen: and from him that hath not, euen that he hath, shalbe taken from him.

²⁷ Moreouer, those mine enemies, which would not that I should reigne ouer them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

²⁹ And it came to passe, when hee was come neere to Bethphage, and Bethania, besides the mount which is called the mount of Oliues, he sent two of his disciples,

³⁰ Saying, Goe ye to the towne which is before you, wherein, assoone as ye are come, ye shall finde a colte tied, whereon neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him hither.

³¹ And if any man aske you, why ye loose him, thus shall ye say vnto him, Because the Lord hath neede of him.

³² So they that were sent, went their way, and found it as he had sayd vnto them.

³³ And as they were loosing the colte, the owners thereof sayd vnto them, Why loose ye the colte?

³⁴ And they sayd, The Lord hath neede of him.

³⁶ And as he went, they spred their clothes in the way.

³⁷ And when he was nowe come neere to the going downe of the mount of Oliues, the whole multitude of the disciples began to reioyce, and to prayse God with a loude voyce, for all the great workes that they had seene,

³⁸ Saying, Blessed be the King that commeth in the Name of the Lord: peace in heauen, and glory in the highest places.

³⁹ Then some of the Pharises of the companie sayd vnto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.

⁴⁰ But he answered, and sayd vnto them, I tell you, that if these should holde their peace, the stones would crie.

⁴² Saying, O if thou haddest euen knowen at the least in this thy day those things, which belong vnto thy peace! but nowe are they hid from thine eyes.

⁴³ For the dayes shall come vpon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compasse thee round, and keepe thee in on euery side,

⁴⁴ And shall make thee euen with ye ground, and thy children which are in thee, and they shall not leaue in thee a stone vpon a stone, because thou knewest not that season of thy visitation.

⁴⁶ Saying vnto them, It is written, Mine house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a denne of theeues.

⁴⁷ And he taught dayly in the Temple. And the hie Priests and the Scribes, and the chiefe of the people sought to destroy him.

⁴⁸ But they could not finde what they might doe to him: for all the people hanged vpon him when they heard him.

¹ And it came to passe, that on one of those dayes, as he taught the people in the Temple, and preached the Gospel, the hie Priests and the Scribes came vpon him with the Elders,

² And spake vnto him, saying, Tell vs by what authoritie thou doest these things, or who is hee that hath giuen thee this authoritie?

³ And he answered, and sayde vnto them, I also will aske you one thing: tell me therefore:

⁴ The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men?

⁵ And they reasoned within themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then beleeued ye him not?

⁶ But if we shall say, Of men, all the people will stone vs: for they be perswaded that Iohn was a Prophet.

⁷ Therefore they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.

⁸ Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Neither tell I you, by what authoritie I doe these things.

¹⁰ And at the time conuenient he sent a seruant to the husbandmen, that they should giue him of the fruite of the vineyard: but the husbandmen did beate him, and sent him away emptie.

¹¹ Againe he sent yet another seruant: and they did beate him, and foule entreated him, and sent him away emptie.

¹² Moreouer he sent the third, and him they wounded, and cast out.

¹³ Then sayd the Lord of the vineyard, What shall I doe? I will send my beloued sonne: it may be that they will doe reuerence, when they see him.

¹⁴ But when the husbandmen sawe him, they reasoned with themselues, saying, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

¹⁵ So they cast him out of the vineyarde, and killed him. What shall the Lord of the vineyarde therefore doe vnto them?

¹⁶ He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and wil giue out his vineyard to others. But when they heard it, they sayd, God forbid.

¹⁸ Whosoeuer shall fall vpon that stone, shall be broken: and on whomsoeuer it shall fall, it will grinde him to pouder.

¹⁹ Then the hie Priests, and the Scribes the same houre went about to lay hands on him: (but they feared the people) for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against them.

²⁰ And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should faine themselues iust men, to take him in his talke, and to deliuer him vnto the power and authoritie of the gouernour.

²¹ And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest, and teachest right, neither doest thou accept mans person, but teachest the way of God truely.

²² Is it lawfull for vs to giue Cesar tribute or no?

²³ But he perceiued their craftines, and sayd vnto them, Why tempt ye me?

²⁴ Shew me a penie. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered, and sayd, Cesars.

²⁵ Then he sayd vnto them, Giue then vnto Cesar the things which are Cesars, and to God those which are Gods.

²⁶ And they could not reproue his saying before the people: but they marueiled at his answere, and helde their peace.

²⁷ Then came to him certaine of the Sadduces (which denie that there is any resurrection) and they asked him,

²⁸ Saying, Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die hauing a wife, and hee die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.

²⁹ Now there were seuen brethren, and the first tooke a wife, and he dyed without children.

³⁰ And the second tooke the wife, and he dyed childelesse.

³¹ Then the third tooke her: and so likewise the seuen dyed, and left no children.

³² And last of all the woman dyed also.

³³ Therefore at the resurrection, whose wife of them shall she be? for seuen had her to wife.

³⁴ Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, The children of this world marry wiues, and are married.

³⁵ But they which shalbe counted worthy to enioy that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry wiues, neither are married.

³⁶ For they can die no more, forasmuch as they are equall vnto the Angels, and are the sonnes of God, since they are the children of the resurrection.

³⁷ And that the dead shall rise againe, euen Moses shewed it besides the bush, when he said, The Lord is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob.

³⁸ For he is not the God of the dead, but of them which liue: for all liue vnto him.

³⁹ Then certaine of the Scribes answered, and sayd, Master, thou hast well sayd.

⁴⁰ And after that, durst they not aske him any thing at all.

⁴² And Dauid himselfe sayth in the booke of the Psalmes, The Lord sayd vnto my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

⁴³ Till I shall make thine enemies thy footestoole.

⁴⁴ Seeing Dauid called him Lord, howe is he then his sonne?

⁴⁶ Beware of the Scribes, which willingly go in long robes, and loue salutations in the markets, and the highest seates in the assemblies, and the chiefe roomes at feastes:

⁴⁷ Which deuoure widowes houses, and in shewe make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation.

¹ And as he behelde, he sawe the rich men, which cast their giftes into the treasurie.

² And he sawe also a certaine poore widowe which cast in thither two mites:

³ And he sayd, Of a trueth I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast in more then they all.

⁴ For they all haue of their superfluitie cast into the offerings of God: but she of her penurie hath cast in all the liuing that she had.

⁵ Nowe as some spake of the Temple, how it was garnished with goodly stones, and with consecrate things, he sayd,

⁶ Are these ye things that ye looke vpon? the dayes will come wherein a stone shall not be left vpon a stone, that shall not be throwen downe.

⁷ Then they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what signe shall there be when these things shall come to passe?

⁸ And he sayd, Take heede, that ye be not deceiued: for many will come in my Name, saying, I am Christ, and the time draweth neere: follow ye not them therefore.

⁹ And when ye heare of warres and seditions, be not afraid: for these things must first come, but the ende foloweth not by and by.

¹⁰ Then said hee vnto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdome against kingdome,

¹¹ And great earthquakes shall be in diuers places, and hunger, and pestilence, and fearefull things, and great signes shall there be from heauen.

¹² But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.

¹³ And this shall turne to you, for a testimoniall.

¹⁴ Lay it vp therefore in your heartes, that ye cast not before hand, what ye shall answere.

¹⁵ For I will giue you a mouth and wisdome, where against all your aduersaries shall not be able to speake, nor resist.

¹⁶ Yea, ye shalbe betrayed also of your parents, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and friendes, and some of you shall they put to death.

¹⁷ And ye shall bee hated of all men for my Names sake.

¹⁸ Yet there shall not one heare of your heads perish.

¹⁹ By your patience possesse your soules.

²¹ Then let them which are in Iudea, flee to the mountaines: and let them which are in the middes thereof, depart out: and let not them that are in the countrey, enter therein.

²² For these be the dayes of vengeance, to fulfill all things that are written.

²³ But woe be to them that be with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes: for there shalbe great distresse in this land, and wrath ouer this people.

²⁴ And they shall fall on the edge of the sword, and shalbe led captiue into all nations, and Hierusalem shalbe troden vnder foote of the Gentiles, vntill the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

²⁵ Then there shalbe signes in the sunne, and in the moone, and in the starres, and vpon the earth trouble among the nations with perplexitie: the sea and the waters shall roare.

²⁶ And mens hearts shall faile them for feare, and for looking after those thinges which shall come on the worlde: for the powers of heauen shall be shaken.

²⁷ And then shall they see the Sonne of man come in a cloude, with power and great glory.

²⁸ And when these things beginne to come to passe, then looke vp, and lift vp your heades: for your redemption draweth neere.

²⁹ And he spake to them a parable, Behold, the figge tree, and all trees,

³⁰ When they nowe shoote foorth, ye seeing them, knowe of your owne selues, that sommer is then neere.

³¹ So likewise yee, when yee see these thinges come to passe, knowe ye that the kingdome of God is neere.

³² Verely I say vnto you, This age shall not passe, till all these things be done:

³³ Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my wordes shall not passe away.

³⁴ Take heede to your selues, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeting and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and least that day come on you at vnwares.

³⁵ For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

³⁶ Watche therefore, and pray continually, that ye may be counted worthy to escape all these thinges that shall come to passe, and that ye may stand before the Sonne of man.

³⁸ And all the people came in the morning to him, to heare him in the Temple.

¹ Now the feast of vnleauened bread drewe neere, which is called the Passeouer.

² And the hie Priests and Scribes sought how they might kill him: for they feared the people.

³ Then entred Satan into Iudas, who was called Iscariot, and was of the nomber of the twelue.

⁴ And he went his way, and communed with the hie Priestes and captaines, how he might betray him to them.

⁵ So they were glad, and agreed to giue him money.

⁶ And he consented, and sought opportunitie to betraye him vnto them, when the people were away.

⁸ And he sent Peter and Iohn, saying, Go and prepare vs the Passeouer, that we may eate it.

⁹ And they saide to him, Where wilt thou, that we prepare it?

¹⁰ Then he said vnto them, Beholde, when ye be entred into the citie, there shall a man meete you, bearing a pitcher of water: folowe him into the house that he entreth in,

¹¹ And say vnto the good man of the house, The Master saith vnto thee, Where is the lodging where I shall eate my Passeouer with my disciples?

¹² Then he shall shewe you a great hie chamber trimmed: there make it ready.

¹³ So they went, and found as he had said vnto them, and made readie the Passeouer.

¹⁴ And when the houre was come, hee sate downe, and the twelue Apostles with him.

¹⁵ Then he saide vnto them, I haue earnestly desired to eate this Passeouer with you, before I suffer.

¹⁶ For I say vnto you, Hencefoorth I will not eate of it any more, vntill it bee fulfilled in the kingdome of God.

¹⁷ And hee tooke the cup, and gaue thankes, and said, Take this, and deuide it among you,

¹⁸ For I say vnto you, I will not drinke of the fruite of the vine, vntill the kingdome of God be come.

¹⁹ And he tooke bread, and when he had giuen thankes, he brake it, and gaue to them, saying, This is my body, which is giuen for you: doe this in the remembrance of me.

²⁰ Likewise also after supper he tooke the cup, saying, This cup is that newe Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

²¹ Yet beholde, the hand of him that betrayeth me, is with me at the table.

²² And truely the Sonne of man goeth as it is appointed: but woe be to that man, by whom he is betrayed.

²³ Then they began to enquire among themselues which of them it should be, that should do that.

²⁵ But hee saide vnto them, The Kings of the Gentiles reigne ouer them, and they that beare rule ouer them, are called bountifull.

²⁶ But yee shall not be so: but let the greatest among you be as the least: and the chiefest as he that serueth.

²⁷ For who is greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that serueth? Is not he that sitteth at table? And I am among you as he that serueth.

²⁸ And yee are they which haue continued with me in my tentations.

²⁹ Therefore I appoint vnto you a kingdome, as my Father hath appointed vnto me,

³⁰ That ye may eate, and drinke at my table in my kingdome, and sit on seates, and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel.

³² But I haue prayed for thee, that thy faith faile not: therefore when thou art conuerted, strengthen thy brethren.

³³ And he said vnto him, Lord, I am ready to goe with thee into prison, and to death.

³⁴ But he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cocke shall not crowe this day, before thou hast thrise denied that thou knewest me.

³⁶ Then he said to them, But nowe he that hath a bagge, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and hee that hath none, let him sell his coate, and buy a sworde.

³⁷ For I say vnto you, That yet the same which is written, must be perfourmed in me, Euen with the wicked was he nombred: for doubtlesse those things which are written of me, haue an ende.

³⁸ And they said, Lord, beholde, here are two swordes. And he said vnto them, It is ynough.

⁴⁰ And when hee came to the place, hee said to them, Pray, lest ye enter into tentation.

⁴¹ And he was drawen aside from them about a stones cast, and kneeled downe, and prayed,

⁴² Saying, Father, if thou wilt, take away this cuppe from mee: neuerthelesse, not my will, but thine be done.

⁴³ And there appeared an Angell vnto him from heauen, comforting him.

⁴⁴ But being in an agonie, hee prayed more earnestly: and his sweate was like drops of blood, trickling downe to the ground.

⁴⁵ And he rose vp from prayer, and came to his disciples, and found them sleeping for heauinesse.

⁴⁶ And he said vnto them, Why sleepe ye? rise and pray, least ye enter into tentation.

⁴⁸ And Iesus saide vnto him, Iudas, betrayest thou the Sonne of man with a kisse?

⁴⁹ Now when they which were about him, saw what would follow, they said vnto him, Lord, shall we smite with sworde?

⁵⁰ And one of them smote a seruant of the hie Priest, and strooke off his right eare.

⁵¹ Then Iesus answered, and said, Suffer them thus farre: and he touched his eare, and healed him.

⁵² Then Iesus said vnto the hie Priests, and captaines of the Temple, and the Elders which were come to him, Bee ye come out as vnto a theefe with swordes and staues?

⁵³ When I was dayly with you in the Temple, yee stretched not foorth the handes against mee: but this is your very houre, and the power of darkenesse.

⁵⁵ And when they had kindled a fire in the middes of the hall, and were set downe together, Peter also sate downe among them.

⁵⁶ And a certaine mayde behelde him as hee sate by the fire, and hauing well looked on him, said, This man was also with him.

⁵⁷ But he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.

⁵⁸ And after a little while, another man sawe him, and saide, Thou art also of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.

⁵⁹ And about the space of an houre after, a certaine other affirmed, saying. Verely euen this man was with him: for he is also a Galilean.

⁶⁰ And Peter saide, Man, I knowe not what thou sayest. And immediatly while hee yet spake, the cocke crewe.

⁶¹ Then the Lord turned backe, and looked vpon Peter: and Peter remembred the worde of the Lord, how he had said vnto him, Before the cocke crowe, thou shalt denie me thrise.

⁶² And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

⁶⁴ And when they had blindfolded him, they smote him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophecie who it is that smote thee.

⁶⁵ And many other thinges blasphemously spake they against him.

⁶⁶ And assoone as it was day, the Elders of the people, and the hie Priests and the Scribes came together, and led him into their councill,

⁶⁷ Saying, Art thou that Christ? tell vs. And he said vnto them, If I tell you, ye wil not beleeue it.

⁶⁸ And if also I aske you, you will not answere me, nor let me goe.

⁶⁹ Hereafter shall the Sonne of man sit at the right hand of the power of God.

⁷⁰ Then sayd they all, Art thou then ye Sonne of God? And he sayd to them, Ye say, that I am.

⁷¹ Then sayd they, What neede we any further witnes? for we our selues haue heard it of his owne mouth.

¹ Then the whole multitude of them arose, and led him vnto Pilate.

² And they began to accuse him, saying, We haue found this man peruerting the nation, and forbidding to pay tribute to Cesar, saying, That he is Christ a King.

³ And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered him, and sayd, Thou sayest it.

⁴ Then sayd Pilate to the hie Priests, and to the people, I finde no fault in this man.

⁵ But they were the more fierce, saying, He moueth the people, teaching throughout all Iudea, beginning at Galile, euen to this place.

⁶ Nowe when Pilate heard of Galile, he asked whether the man were a Galilean.

⁷ And when he knewe that he was of Herods iurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, which was also at Hierusalem in those dayes.

⁸ And when Herod sawe Iesus, hee was exceedingly glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him, and trusted to haue seene some signe done by him.

⁹ Then questioned hee with him of many things: but he answered him nothing.

¹⁰ The hie Priests also and Scribes stood forth, and accused him vehemently.

¹¹ And Herod with his men of warre, despised him, and mocked him, and arayed him in white, and sent him againe to Pilate.

¹² And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were enemies one to another.

¹⁴ And sayd vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerted the people: and beholde, I haue examined him before you, and haue found no fault in this man, of those things whereof ye accuse him:

¹⁵ No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him: and loe, nothing worthy of death is done of him.

¹⁶ I will therefore chastise him, and let him loose.

¹⁷ (For of necessitie hee must haue let one loose vnto them at the feast.)

¹⁸ Then all ye multitude cried at once, saying, Away with him, and deliuer vnto vs Barabbas:

¹⁹ Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and murder, was cast in prison.

²⁰ Then Pilate spake againe to them, willing to let Iesus loose.

²¹ But they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him.

²² And he sayd vnto them the third time, But what euill hath he done? I finde no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him loose.

²³ But they were instant with loude voyces, and required that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them and of the hie Priests preuailed.

²⁴ So Pilate gaue sentence, that it should be as they required.

²⁵ And he let loose vnto them him that for insurrection and murder was cast into prison, whome they desired, and deliuered Iesus to doe with him what they would.

²⁷ And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, which women bewailed and lamented him.

²⁸ But Iesus turned backe vnto them, and said, Daughters of Hierusalem, weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues, and for your children.

²⁹ For behold, the dayes wil come, when men shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombes that neuer bare, and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke.

³⁰ Then shall they begin to say to the mountaines, Fall on vs: and to the hilles, Couer vs.

³¹ For if they doe these things to a greene tree, what shalbe done to the drie?

³² And there were two others, which were euill doers, led with him to be slaine.

³³ And when they were come to the place, which is called Caluarie, there they crucified him, and the euill doers: one at the right hand, and the other at the left.

³⁴ Then sayd Iesus, Father, forgiue them: for they know not what they doe. And they parted his raiment, and cast lottes.

³⁵ And the people stoode, and behelde: and the rulers mocked him with them, saying, He saued others: let him saue himselfe, if hee be that Christ, the Chosen of God.

³⁶ The souldiers also mocked him, and came and offered him vineger,

³⁷ And said, If thou be the King of the Iewes, saue thy selfe.

³⁸ And a superscription was also written ouer him, in Greeke letters, and in Latin, and in Hebrewe, THIS IS THAT KING OF THE JEWES.

⁴⁰ But the other answered, and rebuked him, saying, Fearest thou not God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

⁴¹ We are in deede righteously here: for we receiue things worthy of that we haue done: but this man hath done nothing amisse.

⁴² And he sayd vnto Iesus, Lord, remember me, when thou commest into thy kingdome.

⁴³ Then Iesus said vnto him, Verely I say vnto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

⁴⁵ And the Sunne was darkened, and the vaile of the Temple rent through the middes.

⁴⁶ And Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, and sayd, Father, into thine hands I commend my spirit. And when hee thus had sayd, hee gaue vp the ghost.

⁴⁸ And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things, which were done, smote their brestes, and returned.

⁴⁹ And all his acquaintance stood a farre off, and the women that followed him from Galile, beholding these things.

⁵¹ Hee did not consent to the counsell and deede of them, which was of Arimathea, a citie of the Iewes: who also himselfe waited for the kingdome of God.

⁵² He went vnto Pilate, and asked the body of Iesus,

⁵³ And tooke it downe, and wrapped it in a linnen cloth, and laide it in a tombe hewen out of a rocke, wherein was neuer man yet laide.

⁵⁴ And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drewe on.

⁵⁵ And the women also that followed after, which came with him from Galile, behelde the sepulchre, and how his body was layd.

⁵⁶ And they returned and prepared odours, and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandement.

¹ Nowe the first day of the weeke early in the morning, they came vnto the sepulchre, and brought the odours, which they had prepared, and certaine women with them.

² And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre,

³ And went in, but found not the body of the Lord Iesus.

⁴ And it came to passe, that as they were amased thereat, beholde, two men suddenly stood by them in shining vestures.

⁵ And as they were afraide, and bowed downe their faces to the earth, they sayd to them, Why seeke ye him that liueth, among the dead?

⁶ He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake vnto you, when he was yet in Galile,

⁷ Saying, that the sonne of man must be deliuered into the hands of sinfull men, and be crucified, and the third day rise againe.

⁸ And they remembred his wordes,

⁹ And returned from the sepulchre, and tolde all these things vnto the eleuen, and to all the remnant.

¹⁰ Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Ioanna, and Mary the mother of Iames, and other women with them, which tolde these things vnto the Apostles.

¹¹ But their wordes seemed vnto them, as a fained thing, neither beleeued they them.

¹² Then arose Peter, and ran vnto the sepulchre, and looked in, and saw the linnen clothes laide by themselues, and departed wondering in himselfe at that which was come to passe.

¹⁴ And they talked together of al these things that were done.

¹⁵ And it came to passe, as they communed together, and reasoned, that Iesus himselfe drewe neere, and went with them.

¹⁶ But their eyes were holden, that they could not know him.

¹⁷ And he sayd vnto them, What maner of communications are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sad?

¹⁸ And the one (named Cleopas) answered, and sayd vnto him, Art thou onely a stranger in Hierusalem, and hast not knowen the things which are come to passe therein in these dayes?

¹⁹ And he said vnto them, What things? And they sayd vnto him, Of Iesus of Nazareth, which was a Prophet, mightie in deede and in word before God, and all people,

²⁰ And howe the hie Priests, and our rulers deliuered him to be condemned to death, and haue crucified him.

²¹ But we trusted that it had bene he that should haue deliuered Israel, and as touching all these things, to day is ye third day, that they were done.

²² Yea, and certaine women among vs made vs astonied, which came early vnto the sepulchre.

²³ And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seene a vision of Angels, which sayd, that he was aliue.

²⁴ Therefore certaine of them which were with vs, went to the sepulchre, and found it euen so as the women had sayd, but him they saw not.

²⁵ Then he sayd vnto them, O fooles and slowe of heart to beleeue all that the Prophets haue spoken!

²⁶ Ought not Christ to haue suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

²⁷ And he began at Moses, and at all the Prophets, and interpreted vnto them in all the Scriptures the things which were written of him.

²⁸ And they drew neere vnto ye towne, which they went to, but he made as though hee would haue gone further.

²⁹ But they constrained him, saying, Abide with vs: for it is towards night, and the day is farre spent. So he went in to tarie with them.

³⁰ And it came to passe, as hee sate at table with them, he tooke the bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gaue it to them.

³¹ Then their eyes were opened, and they knewe him: and he was no more seene of them.

³² And they saide betweene themselues, Did not our heartes burne within vs, while he talked with vs by the way, and when he opened to vs the Scriptures?

³³ And they rose vp the same houre, and returned to Hierusalem, and found the Eleuen gathered together, and them that were with them,

³⁴ Which said, The Lord is risen in deede, and hath appeared to Simon.

³⁵ Then they tolde what things were done in the way, and howe he was knowen of them in breaking of bread.

³⁷ But they were abashed and afraide, supposing that they had seene a spirit.

³⁸ Then he saide vnto them, Why are ye troubled? and wherefore doe doutes arise in your hearts?

³⁹ Beholde mine handes and my feete: for it is I my selfe: handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me haue.

⁴⁰ And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and feete.

⁴¹ And while they yet beleeued not for ioy, and wondred, he saide vnto them, Haue ye here any meate?

⁴² And they gaue him a piece of a broyled fish, and of an honie combe,

⁴³ And hee tooke it, and did eate before them.

⁴⁴ And he saide vnto them, These are the wordes, which I spake vnto you while I was yet with you, that all must be fulfilled which are written of me in the Lawe of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalmes.

⁴⁵ Then opened he their vnderstanding, that they might vnderstand the Scriptures,

⁴⁶ And said vnto them, Thus is it written, and thus it behoued Christ to suffer, and to rise againe from the dead the third day,

⁴⁷ And that repentance, and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all nations, beginning at Hierusalem.

⁴⁸ Nowe ye are witnesses of these things.

⁴⁹ And beholde, I doe sende the promise of my Father vpon you: but tary ye in the citie of Hierusalem, vntill ye be endued with power from an hie.

⁵⁰ Afterward he lead them out into Bethania, and lift vp his hands, and blessed them.

⁵¹ And it came to passe, that as he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp into heauen.

⁵² And they worshipped him, and returned to Hierusalem with great ioy,

⁵³ And were continually in the Temple, praysing, and lauding God, Amen.

John

¹ In the beginning was that Word, and that Word was with God, and that Word was God.

² This same was in the beginning with God.

³ All things were made by it, and without it was made nothing that was made.

⁴ In it was life, and that life was the light of men.

⁵ And that light shineth in the darkenesse, and the darkenesse comprehended it not.

⁷ This same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of that light, that all men through him might beleeue.

⁸ He was not that light, but was sent to beare witnesse of that light.

⁹ This was that true light, which lighteth euery man that commeth into the world.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the worlde was made by him: and the worlde knewe him not.

¹¹ He came vnto his owne, and his owne receiued him not.

¹² But as many as receiued him, to them he gaue prerogatiue to be the sonnes of God, euen to them that beleeue in his Name.

¹³ Which are borne not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of ye wil of man, but of God.

¹⁴ And that Word was made flesh, and dwelt among vs, (and we sawe the glorie thereof, as the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father) full of grace and trueth.

¹⁶ And of his fulnesse haue all we receiued, and grace for grace.

¹⁷ For the Lawe was giuen by Moses, but grace, and trueth came by Iesus Christ.

¹⁸ No man hath seene God at any time: that onely begotten Sonne, which is in the bosome of the Father, he hath declared him.

²⁰ And he confessed and denied not, and said plainely, I am not that Christ.

²¹ And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said, I am not. Art thou that Prophet? And he answered, No.

²² Then said they vnto him, Who art thou, that we may giue an answere to them that sent vs? What sayest thou of thy selfe?

²³ He said, I am the voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.

²⁴ Nowe they which were sent, were of the Pharises.

²⁵ And they asked him, and saide vnto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, neither Elias, nor that Prophet?

²⁶ Iohn answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there is one among you, whom ye knowe not.

²⁷ He it is that commeth after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthie to vnloose.

²⁸ These things were done in Bethabara beyond Iordan, where Iohn did baptize.

³⁰ This is he of whom I saide, After me commeth a man, which was before me: for he was better then I.

³¹ And I knewe him not: but because he should be declared to Israel, therefore am I come, baptizing with water.

³² So Iohn bare recorde, saying, I behelde that Spirit come downe from heauen, like a doue, and it abode vpon him,

³³ And I knewe him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, he saide vnto me, Vpon whom thou shalt see that Spirit come downe, and tary still on him, that is he which baptizeth with the holy Ghost.

³⁴ And I sawe, and bare record that this is that Sonne of God.

³⁶ And he behelde Iesus walking by, and said, Beholde that Lambe of God.

³⁷ And the two disciples heard him speake, and followed Iesus.

³⁸ Then Iesus turned about, and saw them follow, and saide vnto them, What seeke ye? And they saide vnto him, Rabbi (which is to say by interpretation, Master) where dwellest thou?

³⁹ He saide vnto them, Come, and see. They came and sawe where hee dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth houre.

⁴⁰ Andrew, Simon Peters brother, was one of the two which had heard it of Iohn, and that followed him.

⁴¹ The same founde his brother Simon first, and said vnto him, We haue founde that Messias, which is by interpretation, that Christ.

⁴² And he brought him to Iesus. And Iesus behelde him, and saide, Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone.

⁴⁴ Nowe Philip was of Bethsaida, the citie of Andrew and Peter.

⁴⁵ Philippe founde Nathanael, and saide vnto him, Wee haue founde him of whom Moses did write in the Lawe, and the Prophetes, Iesus that sonne of Ioseph, that was of Nazareth.

⁴⁶ Then Nathanael sayde vnto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saide to him, Come, and see.

⁴⁷ Iesus sawe Nathanael comming to him, and saide of him, Beholde in deede an Israelite, in whom is no guile.

⁴⁸ Nathanael sayde vnto him, Whence knewest thou mee? Iesus answered, and sayd vnto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast vnder the figge tree, I sawe thee.

⁴⁹ Nathanael answered, and saide vnto him, Rabbi, thou art that Sonne of God: thou art that King of Israel.

⁵⁰ Iesus answered, and sayde vnto him, Because I sayde vnto thee, I sawe thee vnder the figtree, beleeuest thou? thou shalt see greater things then these.

⁵¹ And he saide vnto him, Verely, verely I say vnto you, hereafter shall yee see heauen open, and the Angels of God ascending, and descending vpon that Sonne of man.

¹ And the thirde day, was there a mariage in Cana a towne of Galile, and the mother of Iesus was there.

² And Iesus was called also, and his disciples vnto the mariage.

³ Nowe when the wine failed, the mother of Iesus saide vnto him, They haue no wine.

⁴ Iesus saide vnto her, Woman, what haue I to doe with thee? mine houre is not yet come.

⁵ His mother saide vnto the seruants, Whatsoeuer he sayeth vnto you, doe it.

⁶ And there were set there, sixe waterpots of stone, after the maner of the purifying of the Iewes, conteining two or three firkins a piece.

⁷ And Iesus sayde vnto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Then they filled them vp to the brim.

⁸ Then he sayde vnto them, Draw out nowe and beare vnto the gouernour of the feast. So they bare it.

⁹ Nowe when the gouernour of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, (for he knewe not whence it was: but the seruants, which drewe the water, knewe) the gouernour of ye feast called the bridegrome,

¹⁰ And saide vnto him, All men at the beginning set foorth good wine, and when men haue well drunke, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept backe the good wine vntill nowe.

¹¹ This beginning of miracles did Iesus in Cana a towne of Galile, and shewed forth his glorie: and his disciples beleeued on him.

¹² After that, he went downe into Capernaum, he and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: but they continued not many daies there.

¹³ For the Iewes Passeouer was at hande. Therefore Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

¹⁴ And he found in the Temple those that sold oxen, and sheepe, and doues, and changers of money, sitting there.

¹⁵ Then hee made a scourge of small cordes, and draue them all out of the Temple with the sheepe and oxen, and powred out the changers money, and ouerthrewe the tables,

¹⁶ And said vnto them that solde doues, Take these things hence: make not my fathers house, an house of marchandise.

¹⁷ And his disciples remembred, that it was written, The zeale of thine house hath eaten me vp.

¹⁸ Then answered the Iewes, and saide vnto him, What signe shewest thou vnto vs, that thou doest these things?

¹⁹ Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this Temple, and in three daies I will raise it vp againe.

²⁰ Then said the Iewes, Fourtie and sixe yeeres was this Temple a building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three daies?

²¹ But he spake of the temple of his bodie.

²² Assoone therefore as he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembred that hee thus sayde vnto them: and they beleeued the Scripture, and the worde which Iesus had saide.

²³ Nowe when hee was at Hierusalem at the Passeouer in the feast, many beleeued in his Name, when they sawe his miracles which he did.

²⁴ But Iesus did not commit him selfe vnto them, because he knewe them all,

²⁵ And had no neede that any should testifie of man: for he knewe what was in man.

¹ There was nowe a man of the Pharises, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Iewes.

² This man came to Iesus by night, and sayd vnto him, Rabbi, we knowe ye thou art a teacher come from God: for no man could do these miracles that thou doest, except God were with him.

³ Iesus answered, and said vnto him, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except a man be borne againe, he can not see the kingdome of God.

⁴ Nicodemus sayde vnto him, Howe can a man be borne which is olde? can he enter into his mothers wombe againe, and be borne?

⁵ Iesus answered, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except that a man be borne of water and of the Spirite, hee can not enter into the kingdome of God.

⁶ That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.

⁷ Marueile not that I said to thee, Yee must be borne againe.

⁸ The winde bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it commeth, and whither it goeth: so is euery man that is borne of the Spirit.

⁹ Nicodemus answered, and said vnto him, Howe can these things be?

¹⁰ Iesus answered, and saide vnto him, Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?

¹¹ Verely, verely I say vnto thee, wee speake that we know, and testifie that we haue seene: but yee receiue not our witnesse.

¹² If when I tel you earthly things, ye beleeue not, howe should yee beleeue, if I shall tel you of heauenly things?

¹³ For no man ascendeth vp to heauen, but he that hath descended from heauen, that Sonne of man which is in heauen.

¹⁴ And as Moses lift vp the serpent in the wildernesse, so must that Sonne of man be lift vp,

¹⁵ That whosoeuer beleeueth in him, shoulde not perish, but haue eternall life.

¹⁶ For God so loued the worlde, that hee hath giuen his onely begotten Sonne, that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.

¹⁷ For God sent not his Sonne into the world, that he should condemne the world, but that the world through him might be saued.

¹⁸ Hee that beleeueth in him, is not condemned: but hee that beleeueth not, is condemned already, because he hath not beleeued in the Name of that onely begotten Sonne of God.

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that that light came into the worlde, and men loued darknesse rather then that light, because their deedes were euill.

²⁰ For euery man that euill doeth, hateth the light, neither commeth to light, least his deedes should be reprooued.

²¹ But he that doeth trueth, commeth to the light, that his deedes might bee made manifest, that they are wrought according to God.

²³ And Iohn also baptized in Enon besides Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

²⁴ For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵ Then there arose a question betweene Iohns disciples and the Iewes, about purifying.

²⁶ And they came vnto Iohn, and saide vnto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Iorden, to whom thou barest witnesse, behold, he baptizeth, and all men come to him.

²⁷ Iohn answered, and saide, A man can receiue nothing, except it be giuen him from heauen.

²⁸ Yee your selues are my witnesses, that I sayde, I am not that Christ, but that I am sent before him.

²⁹ He that hath the bride, is the bridegrome: but the friend of the bridegrome which standeth and heareth him, reioyceth greatly, because of the bridegromes voyce. This my ioy therefore is fulfilled.

³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹ Hee that is come from an hie, is aboue all: he that is of the earth, is of the earth, and speaketh of the earth: hee that is come from heauen, is aboue all.

³² And what hee hath seene and heard, that he testifieth: but no man receiueth his testimonie.

³³ He that hath receiued his testimonie, hath sealed that God is true.

³⁴ For hee whome God hath sent, speaketh the woordes of God: for God giueth him not the Spirit by measure.

³⁵ The Father loueth the Sonne, and hath giuen all things into his hande.

³⁶ Hee that beleeueth in the Sonne, hath euerlasting life, and hee that obeyeth not the Sonne, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

¹ Nowe when the Lord knew, how the Pharises had heard, that Iesus made and baptized moe disciples then Iohn,

² (Though Iesus himselfe baptized not: but his disciples)

³ Hee left Iudea, and departed againe into Galile.

⁴ And he must needes goe through Samaria.

⁵ Then came hee to a citie of Samaria called Sychar, neere vnto the possession that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph.

⁶ And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then wearied in the iourney, sate thus on the well: it was about the sixt houre.

⁷ There came a woman of Samaria to drawe water. Iesus sayd vnto her, Giue me drinke.

⁸ For his disciples were gone away into the citie, to buy meate.

⁹ Then sayde the woman of Samaria vnto him, Howe is it, that thou being a Iewe, askest drinke of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Iewes meddle not with the Samaritans.

¹⁰ Iesus answered and saide vnto her, If thou knewest that gift of God, and who it is that saieth to thee, Giue mee drinke, thou wouldest haue asked of him, and hee woulde haue giuen thee, water of life.

¹¹ The woman saide vnto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of life?

¹² Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the well, and hee himselfe dranke thereof, and his sonnes, and his cattell?

¹³ Iesus answered, and said vnto her, Whosoeuer drinketh of this water, shall thirst againe:

¹⁴ But whosoeuer drinketh of the water that I shall giue him, shall neuer be more a thirst: but the water that I shall giue him, shalbe in him a well of water, springing vp into euerlasting life.

¹⁵ The woman said vnto him, Syr, giue me of that water, that I may not thirst, neither come hither to drawe.

¹⁶ Iesus said vnto her, Go, call thine husband, and come hither.

¹⁷ The woman answered, and saide, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband.

¹⁸ For thou hast had fiue husbands, and he whom thou nowe hast, is not thine husband: that saidest thou truely.

¹⁹ The woman saide vnto him, Sir, I see that thou art a Prophet.

²⁰ Our fathers worshipped in this mountaine, and ye say, that in Ierusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹ Iesus saide vnto her, Woman, beleeue me, the houre commeth, when ye shall neither in this mountaine, nor at Hierusalem worship ye Father.

²² Ye worship that which ye knowe not: we worship that which we knowe: for saluation is of the Iewes.

²³ But the houre commeth, and nowe is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit, and trueth: for the Father requireth euen such to worship him.

²⁴ God is a Spirite, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and trueth.

²⁵ The woman said vnto him, I knowe well that Messias shall come which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell vs all things.

²⁶ Iesus said vnto her, I am he, that speake vnto thee.

²⁸ The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the citie, and said to the men,

²⁹ Come, see a man which hath tolde me all things that euer I did: is not he that Christ?

³⁰ Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto him.

³² But he said vnto them, I haue meate to eate that ye know not of.

³³ Then said ye disciples betweene themselues, Hath any man brought him meate?

³⁴ Iesus saide vnto them, My meate is that I may doe the will of him that sent me, and finish his worke.

³⁵ Say not ye, There are yet foure moneths, and then commeth haruest? Beholde, I say vnto you, Lift vp your eyes, and looke on the regions: for they are white alreadie vnto haruest.

³⁶ And he that reapeth, receiueth rewarde, and gathereth fruite vnto life eternall, that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, might reioyce together.

³⁷ For herein is the saying true, that one soweth, and an other reapeth.

³⁸ I sent you to reape that, whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entred into their labours.

³⁹ Nowe many of the Samaritans of that citie beleeued in him, for the saying of the woman which testified, He hath tolde me all things that euer I did.

⁴⁰ Then when the Samaritans were come vnto him, they besought him, that he woulde tarie with them: and he abode there two dayes.

⁴¹ And many moe beleeued because of his owne word.

⁴² And they said vnto the woman, Nowe we beleeue, not because of thy saying: for we haue heard him our selues, and knowe that this is in deede that Christ the Sauiour of the world.

⁴⁴ For Iesus himselfe had testified, that a Prophet hath none honour in his owne countrey.

⁴⁵ Then when he was come into Galile, the Galileans receiued him, which had seene all the things that he did at Hierusalem at the feast: for they went also vnto the feast.

⁴⁶ And Iesus came againe into Cana a towne of Galile, where he had made of water, wine. And there was a certaine ruler, whose sonne was sicke at Capernaum.

⁴⁷ When he heard that Iesus was come out of Iudea into Galile, he went vnto him, and besought him that he would goe downe, and heale his sonne: for he was euen ready to die.

⁴⁸ Then saide Iesus vnto him, Except ye see signes and wonders, ye will not beleeue.

⁴⁹ The ruler said vnto him, Syr, goe downe before my sonne dye.

⁵⁰ Iesus said vnto him, Go thy way, thy sonne liueth: and the man beleeued the worde that Iesus had spoken vnto him, and went his way.

⁵¹ And as he was nowe going downe, his seruants met him, saying, Thy sonne liueth.

⁵² Then enquired he of them the houre when he began to amend. And they said vnto him, Yesterday the seuenth houre the feuer left him.

⁵³ Then the father knew, that it was the same houre in the which Iesus had said vnto him, Thy sonne liueth. And he beleeued, and all his houshold.

⁵⁴ This second miracle did Iesus againe, after he was come out of Iudea into Galile.

¹ After that, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

² And there is at Hierusalem by the place of the sheepe, a poole called in Ebrew Bethesda, hauing fiue porches:

³ In the which lay a great multitude of sicke folke, of blinde, halte, and withered, wayting for the mouing of the water.

⁴ For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: whosoeuer then first, after the stirring of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he had.

⁵ And a certaine man was there, which had bene diseased eight and thirtie yeeres.

⁶ When Iesus sawe him lie, and knew that he nowe long time had bene diseased, he saide vnto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

⁷ The sicke man answered him, Sir, I haue no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the poole: but while I am comming, another steppeth downe before me.

⁸ Iesus said vnto him, Rise: take vp thy bed, and walke.

⁹ And immediatly the man was made whole, and tooke vp his bed, and walked: and the same day was the Sabbath.

¹⁰ The Iewes therefore said to him that was made whole, It is the Sabbath day: it is not lawfull for thee to cary thy bed.

¹¹ He answered them, He that made me whole, he said vnto me, Take vp thy bed, and walke.

¹² Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed and walke?

¹³ And he that was healed, knewe not who it was: for Iesus had conueied himselfe away from the multitude that was in that place.

¹⁴ And after that, Iesus founde him in the Temple, and said vnto him, Beholde, thou art made whole: sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto thee.

¹⁶ And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

¹⁷ But Iesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I worke.

¹⁸ Therefore the Iewes sought the more to kill him: not onely because he had broken the Sabbath: but said also that God was his Father, and made himselfe equall with God.

¹⁹ Then answered Iesus, and said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, The Sonne can doe nothing of himselfe, saue that he seeth the Father doe: for whatsoeuer things he doth, the same things doeth the Sonne in like maner.

²⁰ For the Father loueth the Sonne, and sheweth him all things, whatsoeuer he himselfe doeth, and he will shewe him greater workes then these, that ye should marueile.

²¹ For likewise as the Father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them, so the Sonne quickeneth whom he will.

²² For the Father iudgeth no man, but hath committed all iudgement vnto the Sonne,

²³ Because that all men shoulde honour the Sonne, as they honour the Father: he that honoureth not the Sonne, the same honoureth not the Father, which hath sent him.

²⁴ Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that heareth my worde, and beleeueth him that sent me, hath euerlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but hath passed from death vnto life.

²⁵ Verely, verely I say vnto you, the houre shall come, and now is, when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God: and they that heare it, shall liue.

²⁶ For as the Father hath life in himselfe, so likewise hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in himselfe,

²⁷ And hath giuen him power also to execute iudgement, in that he is the Sonne of man.

²⁸ Marueile not at this: for the houre shall come, in the which all that are in the graues, shall heare his voyce.

²⁹ And they shall come foorth, that haue done good, vnto ye resurrection of life: but they that haue done euil, vnto the resurrection of condemnation.

³⁰ I can doe nothing of mine owne selfe: as I heare, I iudge: and my iudgement is iust, because I seeke not mine owne will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.

³¹ If I should beare witnesse of my selfe, my witnesse were not true.

³² There is another that beareth witnesse of me, and I know that the witnesse, which he beareth of me, is true.

³³ Ye sent vnto Iohn, and he bare witnesse vnto the trueth.

³⁴ But I receiue not the record of man: neuerthelesse these things I say, that ye might be saued.

³⁵ He was a burning, and a shining candle: and ye would for a season haue reioyced in his light.

³⁶ But I haue greater witnesse then the witnesse of Iohn: for the workes which the Father hath giuen me to finish, the same workes that I doe, beare witnesse of me, that the Father sent me.

³⁷ And the Father himselfe, which hath sent me, beareth witnesse of me. Ye haue not heard his voyce at any time, neither haue ye seene his shape.

³⁸ And his worde haue you not abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye beleeued not.

³⁹ Searche the Scriptures: for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life, and they are they which testifie of me.

⁴⁰ But ye will not come to me, that ye might haue life.

⁴¹ I receiue not the prayse of men.

⁴² But I know you, that ye haue not the loue of God in you.

⁴³ I am come in my Fathers Name, and ye receiue me not: if another shall come in his owne name, him will ye receiue.

⁴⁴ How can ye beleeue, which receiue honour one of another, and seeke not the honour that commeth of God alone?

⁴⁵ Doe not thinke that I will accuse you to my Father: there is one that accuseth you, euen Moses, in whom ye trust.

⁴⁶ For had ye beleeued Moses, ye would haue beleeued me: for he wrote of me.

⁴⁷ But if ye beleeue not his writings, how shall ye beleeue my wordes?

¹ After these thinges, Iesus went his way ouer the sea of Galile, which is Tiberias.

² And a great multitude followed him, because they sawe his miracles, which hee did on them that were diseased.

³ Then Iesus went vp into a mountaine, and there he sate with his disciples.

⁴ Now the Passeouer, a feast of the Iewes, was neere.

⁵ Then Iesus lift vp his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude came vnto him, hee sayde vnto Philippe, Whence shall we buy breade, that these might eate?

⁶ (And this he sayde to prooue him: for hee himselfe knewe what he would doe.)

⁷ Philippe answered him, Two hundreth penie worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that euery one of them may take a litle.

⁸ Then saide vnto him one of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peters brother,

⁹ There is a little boy heere, which hath fiue barlie loaues, and two fishes: but what are they among so many?

¹⁰ And Iesus saide, Make ye people sit downe. (Nowe there was much grasse in that place.) Then the men sate downe in nomber, about fiue thousande.

¹¹ And Iesus tooke the bread, and gaue thanks, and gaue to the disciples, and the disciples, to them that were set downe: and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

¹² And when they were satisfied, he said vnto his disciples, Gather vp the broken meat which remaineth, that nothing be lost.

¹³ Then they gathered it together, and filled twelue baskets with the broken meat of the fiue barly loaues, which remained vnto them that had eaten.

¹⁴ Then the men, when they had seene the miracle that Iesus did, saide, This is of a trueth that Prophet that should come into the world.

¹⁵ When Iesus therfore perceiued that they would come, and take him to make him a King, hee departed againe into a mountaine himselfe alone.

¹⁷ And entred into a shippe, and went ouer the sea, towardes Capernaum: and nowe it was darke, and Iesus was not come to them.

¹⁸ And the Sea arose with a great winde that blewe.

¹⁹ And when they had rowed about fiue and twentie, or thirtie furlongs, they sawe Iesus walking on the sea, and drawing neere vnto the ship: so they were afraide.

²⁰ But he said vnto them, It is I: be not afraid.

²¹ Then willingly they receiued him into the ship, and the ship was by and by at the lande, whither they went.

²³ And that there came other ships from Tiberias neere vnto the place where they ate the bread, after the Lord had giuen thankes.

²⁴ Nowe when the people sawe that Iesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also tooke shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Iesus.

²⁵ And when they had founde him on the other side of the sea, they sayde vnto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

²⁶ Iesus answered them; and sayde, Verely, verely I say vnto you, ye seeke me not because ye sawe the miracles, but because yee ate of ye loaues, and were filled.

²⁷ Labour not for ye meate which perisheth, but for the meate that endureth vnto euerlasting life, which the Sonne of man shall giue vnto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

²⁸ Then sayde they vnto him, What shall we doe, that we might worke the workes of God?

²⁹ Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them, This is the woorke of God, that yee beleeue in him, whome he hath sent.

³⁰ They sayde therefore vnto him, What signe shewest thou then, that we may see it, and beleeue thee? what doest thou woorke?

³¹ Our fathers did eate Manna in the desart, as it is written, Hee gaue them bread from heauen to eate.

³² Then Iesus said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, Moses gaue you not that bread from heauen, but my Father giueth you that true bread from heauen.

³³ For the breade of God is hee which commeth downe from heauen, and giueth life vnto the world.

³⁴ Then they said vnto him, Lord, euermore giue vs this bread.

³⁵ And Iesus saide vnto them, I am that bread of life: he that commeth to me, shall not hunger, and he that beleeueth in me, shall neuer thirst.

³⁶ But I said vnto you, that ye also haue seene me, and beleeue not.

³⁷ All that the Father giueth me, shall come to mee: and him that commeth to me, I cast not away.

³⁸ For I came downe from heauen, not to do mine owne wil, but his wil which hath sent me.

³⁹ And this is the Fathers will which hath sent mee, that of all which hee hath giuen mee, I should lose nothing, but shoulde raise it vp againe at the last day.

⁴⁰ And this is the will of him that sent mee, that euery man which seeth the Sonne, and beleeueth in him, should haue euerlasting life: and I will raise him vp at the last day.

⁴¹ The Iewes then murmured at him because hee sayde, I am that bread, which is come downe from heauen.

⁴² And they said, Is not this Iesus that sonne of Ioseph, whose father and mother wee knowe? howe then sayth he, I came downe from heauen?

⁴³ Iesus then answered, and saide vnto them, Murmure not among your selues.

⁴⁴ No man can come to mee, except the Father, which hath sent mee, drawe him: and I will raise him vp at the last day.

⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophetes, And they shalbe al taught of God. Euery man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, commeth vnto me:

⁴⁶ Not that any man hath seene the Father, saue hee which is of God, hee hath seene the Father.

⁴⁷ Verely, verely I say vnto you, hee that beleeueth in me, hath euerlasting life.

⁴⁸ I am that bread of life.

⁴⁹ Your fathers did eate Manna in the wildernesse, and are dead.

⁵⁰ This is that breade, which commeth downe from heauen, that hee which eateth of it, shoulde not die.

⁵¹ I am that liuing breade, which came downe from heauen: if any man eate of this breade, hee shall liue for euer: and the bread that I will giue, is my flesh, which I will giue for the life of the world.

⁵² Then the Iewes stroue among themselues, saying, Howe can this man giue vs his flesh to eate?

⁵³ Then Iesus saide vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, Except yee eate the flesh of the Sonne of man, and drinke his blood, yee haue no life in you.

⁵⁴ Whosoeuer eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternall life, and I will raise him vp at the last day.

⁵⁵ For my flesh is meat in deede, and my blood is drinke in deede.

⁵⁶ Hee that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

⁵⁷ As that liuing Father hath sent me, so liue I by the Father, and he that eateth me, euen he shall liue by me.

⁵⁸ This is that bread which came downe from heauen: not as your fathers haue eaten Manna, and are deade. Hee that eateth of this bread, shall liue for euer.

⁵⁹ These things spake he in the Synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

⁶⁰ Many therefore of his disciples (when they heard this) sayde, This is an hard saying: who can heare it?

⁶¹ But Iesus knowing in himselfe, that his disciples murmured at this, saide vnto them, Doeth this offend you?

⁶² What then if yee should see that Sonne of man ascend vp where he was before?

⁶³ It is the spirite that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the woordes that I speake vnto you, are spirite and life.

⁶⁴ But there are some of you that beleeue not: for Iesus knewe from the beginning, which they were that beleeued not, and who shoulde betray him.

⁶⁵ And hee saide, Therefore saide I vnto you, that no man can come vnto mee, except it be giuen vnto him of my Father.

⁶⁶ From that time, many of his disciples went backe, and walked no more with him.

⁶⁷ Then sayde Iesus to the twelue, Will yee also goe away?

⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whome shall we goe? thou hast the wordes of eternall life:

⁶⁹ And we beleeue and knowe that thou art that Christ that Sonne of the liuing God.

⁷⁰ Iesus answered them, Haue not I chosen you twelue, and one of you is a deuill?

⁷¹ Now he spake it of Iudas Iscariot the sonne of Simon: for hee it was that shoulde betraie him, though he was one of the twelue.

¹ After these things, Iesus walked in Galile, and woulde not walke in Iudea: for the Iewes sought to kill him.

² Nowe the Iewes feast of the Tabernacles was at hande.

³ His brethren therefore sayde vnto him, Depart hence, and goe into Iudea, that thy disciples may see thy woorkes that thou doest.

⁴ For there is no man that doeth any thing secretely, and hee himselfe seeketh to be famous. If thou doest these things, shewe thy selfe to the worlde.

⁵ For as yet his brethren beleeued not in him.

⁶ Then Iesus saide vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway readie.

⁷ The world can not hate you: but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes thereof are euill.

⁸ Go ye vp vnto this feast: I wil not go vp yet vnto this feast: for my time is not yet fulfilled.

¹⁰ But assoone as his brethren were gone vp, then went hee also vp vnto the feast, not openly, but as it were priuilie.

¹¹ Then the Iewes sought him at the feast, and saide, Where is hee?

¹² And much murmuring was there of him among the people. Some said, He is a good man: other sayd, Nay: but he deceiueth the people.

¹³ Howbeit no man spake openly of him for feare of the Iewes.

¹⁴ Nowe when halfe the feast was done, Iesus went vp into the Temple and taught.

¹⁵ And the Iewes marueiled, saving, Howe knoweth this man the Scriptures, seeing that hee neuer learned!

¹⁶ Iesus answered them, and saide, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

¹⁷ If any man will doe his will, he shall knowe of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe.

¹⁸ Hee that speaketh of himselfe, seeketh his owne glorie: but hee that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no vnrighteousnes is in him.

¹⁹ Did not Moses giue you a Law, and yet none of you keepeth the lawe? Why goe ye about to kill me?

²⁰ The people answered, and said, Thou hast a deuil: who goeth about to kill thee?

²¹ Iesus answered, and saide to them, I haue done one worke, and ye all maruaile.

²² Moses therefore gaue vnto you circumcision, (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man.

²³ If a man on the Sabbath receiue circumcision, that the Lawe of Moses should not be broken, be ye angrie with me, because I haue made a man euery whit whole on the Sabbath day?

²⁴ Iudge not according to the appearance, but iudge righteous iudgement.

²⁶ And beholde, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him: doe the rulers know in deede that this is in deede that Christ?

²⁷ Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when that Christ commeth, no man shall knowe whence he is.

²⁹ But I knowe him: for I am of him, and he hath sent me.

³⁰ Then they sought to take him, but no man layde handes on him, because his houre was not yet come.

³¹ Now many of the people beleeued in him, and said, When that Christ commeth, will he doe moe miracles then this man hath done?

³² The Pharises heard that the people murmured these thinges of him, and the Pharises, and high Priestes sent officers to take him.

³³ Then saide Iesus vnto them, Yet am I a little while with you, and then goe I vnto him that sent mee.

³⁴ Ye shall seeke me, and shall not finde me, and where I am, can ye not come.

³⁵ Then saide the Iewes amongs themselues, Whither will he goe, that we shall not finde him? Will he goe vnto them that are dispersed among the Grecians, and teache the Grecians?

³⁶ What saying is this that hee saide, Ye shall seeke mee, and shall not finde mee? and where I am, cannot ye come?

³⁷ Nowe in the last and great day of the feast, Iesus stoode and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come vnto me, and drinke.

³⁸ Hee that beleeueth in mee, as saith the Scripture, out of his bellie shall flowe riuers of water of life.

³⁹ (This spake hee of the Spirite which they that beleeued in him, should receiue: for the holy Ghost was not yet giuen, because that Iesus was not yet glorified.)

⁴⁰ So many of the people, when they heard this saying, said, Of a trueth this is that Prophet.

⁴¹ Other saide, This is that Christ: and some said, But shall that Christ come out of Galile?

⁴² Saith not the Scripture that that Christ shall come of the seede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Beth-leem, where Dauid was?

⁴³ So was there dissension among the people for him.

⁴⁴ And some of them would haue taken him, but no man layde handes on him.

⁴⁵ Then came the officers to the hie Priests and Pharises, and they said vnto them, Why haue ye not brought him?

⁴⁶ The officers answered, Neuer man spake like this man.

⁴⁷ Then answered them the Pharises, Are yee also deceiued?

⁴⁸ Doeth any of the rulers, or of the Pharises beleeue in him?

⁴⁹ But this people, which know not the Law, are cursed.

⁵⁰ Nicodemus said vnto them, (he that came to Iesus by night, and was one of them.)

⁵¹ Doth our Law iudge a man before it heare him, and knowe what he hath done?

⁵² They answered, and said vnto him, Art thou also of Galile? Searche and looke: for out of Galile ariseth no Prophet.

⁵³ And euery man wet vnto his owne house.

¹ And Iesus went vnto the mount of Oliues,

² And early in the morning came againe into the Temple, and all the people came vnto him, and he sate downe, and taught them.

³ Then the Scribes, and the Pharises brought vnto him a woman, taken in adulterie, and set her in the middes,

⁴ And said vnto him, Master, we foud this woman committing adulterie, euen in the very acte.

⁵ Now Moses in our Law commanded, that such should be stoned: what sayest thou therefore?

⁶ And this they saide to tempt him, that they might haue, whereof to accuse him. But Iesus stouped downe, and with his finger wrote on the groud.

⁷ And while they continued asking him, hee lift himselfe vp, and sayde vnto them, Let him that is among you without sinne, cast the first stone at her.

⁸ And againe hee stouped downe, and wrote on the ground.

⁹ And when they heard it, being accused by their owne conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at ye eldest euen to the last: so Iesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the mids.

¹⁰ When Iesus had lift vp himselfe againe, and sawe no man, but the woman, hee saide vnto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

¹¹ She said, No man, Lord. And Iesus said, Neither do I condemne thee: go and sinne no more.

¹² Then spake Iesus againe vnto them, saying, I am that light of the worlde: hee that followeth mee, shall not walke in darkenes, but shall haue that light of life.

¹³ The Pharises therefore saide vnto him, Thou bearest recorde of thy selfe: thy recorde is not true.

¹⁴ Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them, Though I beare recorde of my selfe, yet my recorde is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go: but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I goe.

¹⁵ Ye iudge after the flesh: I iudge no man.

¹⁶ And if I also iudge, my iudgement is true: for I am not alone, but I, and the Father, that sent mee.

¹⁷ And it is also written in your Lawe, that the testimonie of two men is true.

¹⁸ I am one that beare witnes of my selfe, and the Father that sent me, beareth witnes of me.

¹⁹ Then saide they vnto him, Where is that Father of thine? Iesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor that Father of mine. If ye had knowen me, ye should haue knowen that Father of mine also.

²⁰ These wordes spake Iesus in the treasurie, as hee taught in the Temple, and no man layde handes on him: for his houre was not yet come.

²¹ Then saide Iesus againe vnto them, I goe my way, and ye shall seeke me, and shall die in your sinnes, Whither I goe, can ye not come.

²² Then said the Iewes, Will he kill himselfe, because he saith, Whither I goe, can ye not come?

²³ And hee saide vnto them, Ye are from beneath, I am from aboue: ye are of this world, I am not of this worlde.

²⁴ I said therefore vnto you, That ye shall die in your sinnes: for except ye beleeue, that I am he, ye shall die in your sinnes.

²⁵ Then saide they vnto him, Who art thou? And Iesus saide vnto them, Euen the same thing that I said vnto you from the beginning.

²⁶ I haue many things to say, and to iudge of you: but he that sent me, is true, and the things that I haue heard of him, those speake I to the world.

²⁷ They vnderstoode not that hee spake to them of the Father.

²⁸ Then said Iesus vnto them, When ye haue lift vp the Sonne of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I doe nothing of my selfe, but as my Father hath taught me, so I speake these things.

²⁹ For he that sent me, is with me: the Father hath not left me alone, because I do alwayes those things that please him.

³¹ Then saide Iesus to the Iewes which beleeued in him, If ye continue in my worde, ye are verely my disciples,

³² And shall know the trueth, and the trueth shall make you free.

³³ They answered him, Wee be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: why sayest thou then, Ye shalbe made free?

³⁴ Iesus answered them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer committeth sinne, is the seruant of sinne.

³⁵ And the seruant abideth not in the house for euer: but the Sonne abideth for euer.

³⁶ If that Sonne therefore shall make you free, ye shalbe free in deede.

³⁷ I know that ye are Abrahams seede, but yee seeke to kill mee, because my worde hath no place in you.

³⁸ I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye doe that which ye haue seene with your father.

³⁹ They answered, and saide vnto him, Abraham is our father. Iesus said vnto them, If ye were Abrahams children, ye woulde doe the workes of Abraham.

⁴⁰ But nowe ye goe about to kill mee, a man that haue told you the trueth, which I haue heard of God: this did not Abraham.

⁴¹ Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

⁴² Therefore Iesus sayde vnto them, If God were your Father, then woulde ye loue mee: for I proceeded foorth, and came from God, neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.

⁴³ Why doe ye not vnderstande my talke? because ye cannot heare my worde.

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the deuill, and the lustes of your father ye will doe: hee hath bene a murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the trueth, because there is no trueth in him. When hee speaketh a lie, then speaketh hee of his owne: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

⁴⁵ And because I tell you the trueth, yee beleeue me not.

⁴⁶ Which of you can rebuke me of sinne? and if I say the trueth, why do ye not beleeue me?

⁴⁷ He that is of God, heareth Gods wordes: yee therefore heare them not, because ye are not of God.

⁴⁸ Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a deuil?

⁴⁹ Iesus answered, I haue not a deuil, but I honour my Father, and ye haue dishonoured me.

⁵⁰ And I seeke not mine owne praise: but there is one that seeketh it, and iudgeth.

⁵¹ Verely, verely I say vnto you, If a man keepe my word, he shall neuer see death.

⁵² Then said the Iewes to him, Now know we that thou hast a deuill. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keepe my worde, he shall neuer taste of death.

⁵³ Art thou greater then our father Abraham, which is dead? and the Prophets are dead: whome makest thou thy selfe?

⁵⁴ Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.

⁵⁵ Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham reioyced to see my day, and he sawe it, and was glad.

⁵⁷ Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, and hast thou seene Abraham?

⁵⁸ Iesus sayd vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, before Abraham was, I am.

⁵⁹ Then tooke they vp stones, to cast at him, but Iesus hid himselfe, and went out of the Temple: And hee passed through the middes of them, and so went his way.

¹ And as Iesus passed by, he sawe a man which was blinde from his birth.

² And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sinne, this man, or his parents, that he was borne blinde?

³ Iesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the workes of God should be shewed on him.

⁴ I must worke the workes of him that sent me, while it is day: the night commeth when no man can worke.

⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

⁶ Assoone as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spettle, and anointed the eyes of the blinde with the clay,

⁷ And sayd vnto him, Go wash in the poole of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came againe seeing.

⁸ Nowe the neighbours and they that had seene him before, when he was blinde, sayd, Is not this he that sate and begged?

⁹ Some said, This is he: and other sayd, He is like him: but he himselfe sayd, I am he.

¹⁰ Therefore they sayd vnto him, Howe were thine eyes opened?

¹¹ He answered, and sayd, The man that is called Iesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and sayde vnto me, Goe to the poole of Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and receiued sight.

¹² Then they sayd vnto him, Where is he? He sayd, I can not tell.

¹⁴ And it was the Sabbath day, when Iesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

¹⁵ Then againe the Pharises also asked him, how he had receiued sight. And hee sayd vnto them, He layd clay vpon mine eyes, and I washed, and doe see.

¹⁶ Then said some of the Pharises, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others sayd, Howe can a man that is a sinner, doe such miracles? and there was a dissension among them.

¹⁷ Then spake they vnto the blinde againe, What sayest thou of him, because he hath opened thine eyes? And he sayd, He is a Prophet.

¹⁸ Then the Iewes did not beleeue him (that he had bene blinde, and receiued his sight) vntill they had called the parents of him that had receiued sight.

¹⁹ And they asked them, saying, Is this your sonne, whom ye say was borne blinde? How doeth he nowe see then?

²⁰ His parents answered them, and sayd, We know that this is our sonne, and that he was borne blinde:

²¹ But by what meanes hee nowe seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, can we not tell: he is olde ynough: aske him: hee shall answere for himselfe.

²² These wordes spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had ordeined already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be excommunicate out of the Synagogue.

²³ Therefore sayde his parents, Hee is olde ynough: aske him.

²⁴ Then againe called they the man that had bene blinde, and sayd vnto him, Giue glory vnto God: we know that this man is a sinner.

²⁵ Then he answered, and sayd, Whether hee be a sinner or no, I can not tell: one thing I know, that I was blinde, and nowe I see.

²⁶ Then sayd they to him againe, What did he to thee? howe opened he thine eyes?

²⁷ Hee answered them, I haue tolde you already, and yee haue not heard it: wherefore would yee heare it againe? will yee also be his disciples?

²⁸ Then reuiled they him, and sayd, Be thou his disciple: we be Moses disciples.

²⁹ We know that God spake with Moses: but this man we know not from whence he is.

³⁰ The man answered, and sayde vnto them, Doutlesse, this is a marueilous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.

³¹ Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him heareth he.

³² Since the world began, was it not heard, that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blinde.

³³ If this man were not of God, hee could haue done nothing.

³⁴ They answered, and sayd vnto him, Thou art altogether borne in sinnes, and doest thou teach vs? so they cast him out.

³⁵ Iesus heard that they had cast him out: and when he had found him, he sayd vnto him, Doest thou beleeue in the Sonne of God?

³⁶ He answered, and sayd, Who is he, Lord, that I might beleeue in him?

³⁷ And Iesus sayd vnto him, Both thou hast seene him, and he it is that talketh with thee.

³⁸ Then he sayd, Lord, I beleeue, and worshipped him.

³⁹ And Iesus sayd, I am come vnto iudgement into this world, that they which see not, might see: and that they which see, might be made blinde.

⁴⁰ And some of the Pharises which were with him, heard these things, and sayd vnto him, Are we blinde also?

⁴¹ Iesus sayd vnto them, If ye were blinde, ye should not haue sinne: but nowe ye say, We see: therefore your sinne remaineth.

¹ Verely, verely I say vnto you, Hee that entreth not in by the doore into the sheepefolde, but climeth vp another way, he is a theefe and a robber.

² But he that goeth in by the doore, is the shepheard of the sheepe.

³ To him the porter openeth, and the sheepe heare his voyce, and he calleth his owne sheepe by name, and leadeth them out.

⁴ And when hee hath sent foorth his owne sheepe, he goeth before them, and the sheepe follow him: for they know his voyce.

⁵ And they will not follow a stranger, but they flee from him: for they know not the voyce of strangers.

⁶ This parable spake Iesus vnto them: but they vnderstoode not what things they were which he spake vnto them.

⁷ Then sayd Iesus vnto them againe, Verely, verely I say vnto you, I am that doore of the sheepe.

⁸ All, that euer came before me, are theeues and robbers: but the sheepe did not heare them.

⁹ I am that doore: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued, and shall go in, and go out, and finde pasture.

¹⁰ The theefe commeth not, but for to steale, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might haue life, and haue it in abundance.

¹¹ I am that good shepheard: that good shepheard giueth his life for his sheepe.

¹² But an hireling, and hee which is not the shepheard, neither the sheepe are his owne, seeth the wolfe comming, and hee leaueth the sheepe, and fleeth, and the wolfe catcheth them, and scattreth the sheepe.

¹³ So the hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheepe.

¹⁴ I am that good shepheard, and knowe mine, and am knowen of mine.

¹⁵ As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay downe my life for my sheepe.

¹⁶ Other sheepe I haue also, which are not of this folde: them also must I bring, and they shall heare my voyce: and there shalbe one sheepefolde, and one shepheard.

¹⁷ Therefore doeth my Father loue me, because I lay downe my life, that I might take it againe.

¹⁸ No man taketh it from me, but I lay it downe of my selfe: I haue power to lay it downe, and haue power to take it againe: this commandement haue I receiued of my Father.

²⁰ And many of them sayd, He hath a deuill, and is mad: why heare ye him?

²¹ Other sayd, These are not the wordes of him that hath a deuill: can the deuill open the eyes of the blinde?

²² And it was at Hierusalem the feast of the Dedication, and it was winter.

²³ And Iesus walked in the Temple, in Salomons porche.

²⁴ Then came the Iewes round about him, and sayd vnto him, Howe long doest thou make vs dout? If thou be that Christ, tell vs plainely.

²⁵ Iesus answered them, I tolde you, and ye beleeue not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers Name, they beare witnes of me.

²⁶ But ye beleeue not: for ye are not of my sheepe, as I sayd vnto you.

²⁷ My sheepe heare my voyce, and I knowe them, and they follow me,

²⁸ And I giue vnto them eternall life, and they shall neuer perish, neither shall any plucke them out of mine hand.

²⁹ My Father which gaue them me, is greater then all, and none is able to take them out of my Fathers hand.

³⁰ I and my Father are one.

³¹ Then ye Iewes againe tooke vp stones, to stone him.

³² Iesus answered them, Many good workes haue I shewed you from my Father: for which of these workes doe ye stone me?

³³ The Iewes answered him, saying, For the good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemie, and that thou being a man, makest thy selfe God.

³⁴ Iesus answered them, Is it not written in your Lawe, I sayd, Ye are gods?

³⁵ If hee called them gods, vnto whome the worde of God was giuen, and the Scripture cannot be broken,

³⁶ Say ye of him, whome the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the worlde, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Sonne of God?

³⁷ If I doe not the workes of my Father, beleeue me not.

³⁸ But if I doe, then though ye beleeue not mee, yet beleeue the workes, that ye may knowe and beleeue, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

³⁹ Againe they went about to take him: but he escaped out of their handes,

⁴⁰ And went againe beyonde Iordan, into the place where Iohn first baptized, and there abode.

⁴¹ And many resorted vnto him, and saide, Iohn did no miracle: but all thinges that Iohn spake of this man, were true.

⁴² And many beleeued in him there.

¹ And a certaine man was sicke, named Lazarus of Bethania, the towne of Marie, and her sister Martha.

² (And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her heare, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)

³ Therefore his sisters sent vnto him, saying, Lord, beholde, he whome thou louest, is sicke.

⁴ When Iesus heard it, he saide, This sickenes is not vnto death, but for the glorie of God, that the Sonne of God might be glorified thereby.

⁶ And after he had heard that he was sicke, yet abode hee two dayes still in the same place where he was.

⁷ Then after that, said he to his disciples, Let vs goe into Iudea againe.

⁸ The disciples saide vnto him, Master, the Iewes lately sought to stone thee, and doest thou goe thither againe?

⁹ Iesus answered, Are there not twelue houres in the day? If a man walke in the day, hee stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

¹⁰ But if a man walke in the night, hee stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

¹¹ These things spake he, and after, he said vnto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth: but I goe to wake him vp.

¹² Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleepe, he shalbe safe.

¹³ Howbeit, Iesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of the naturall sleepe.

¹⁴ Then saide Iesus vnto them plainely, Lazarus is dead.

¹⁵ And I am glad for your sakes, that I was not there, that ye may beleeue: but let vs go vnto him.

¹⁶ Then saide Thomas (which is called Didymus) vnto his felow disciples, Let vs also goe, that we may die with him.

¹⁸ (Nowe Bethania was neere vnto Hierusalem, about fifteene furlongs off.)

¹⁹ And many of ye Iewes were come to Martha and Marie to comfort them for their brother.

²⁰ Then Martha, when shee heard that Iesus was comming, went to meete him: but Mary sate still in the house.

²¹ Then said Martha vnto Iesus, Lord, if thou hadst bene here, my brother had not bene dead.

²² But now I know also, that whatsoeuer thou askest of God, God will giue it thee.

²³ Iesus said vnto her, Thy brother shall rise againe.

²⁴ Martha said vnto him, I know that he shall rise againe in the resurrection at the last day.

²⁵ Iesus saide vnto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that beleeueth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he liue.

²⁶ And whosoeuer liueth, and beleeueth in me, shall neuer die: Beleeuest thou this?

²⁷ She said vnto him, Yea, Lord, I beleeue that thou art that Christ that Sonne of God, which should come into the world.

²⁹ And when she heard it, shee arose quickly, and came vnto him.

³⁰ For Iesus was not yet come into the towne, but was in the place where Martha met him.

³¹ The Iewes then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they sawe Marie, that she rose vp hastily, and went out, folowed her, saying, She goeth vnto the graue, to weepe there.

³² Then when Mary was come where Iesus was, and sawe him, she fell downe at his feete, saying vnto him, Lord, if thou haddest bene here, my brother had not bene dead.

³³ When Iesus therefore saw her weepe, and the Iewes also weepe which came with her, hee groned in the spirit, and was troubled in himselfe,

³⁴ And saide, Where haue ye layde him? They said vnto him, Lord, come and see.

³⁵ And Iesus wept.

³⁶ Then saide the Iewes, Beholde, how he loued him.

³⁷ And some of them saide, Coulde not he, which opened the eyes of the blinde, haue made also, that this man should not haue died?

³⁸ Iesus therefore againe groned in himselfe, and came to the graue. And it was a caue, and a stone was layde vpon it.

³⁹ Iesus saide, Take ye away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead, said vnto him, Lord, he stinketh alreadie: for he hath bene dead foure dayes.

⁴⁰ Iesus saide vnto her, Saide I not vnto thee, that if thou diddest beleeue, thou shouldest see the glorie of God?

⁴¹ Then they tooke away the stone from the place where the dead was layde. And Iesus lift vp his eyes, and saide, Father, I thanke thee, because thou hast heard me.

⁴² I knowe that thou hearest me alwayes, but because of the people that stand by, I said it, that they may beleeue, that thou hast sent me.

⁴³ As hee had spoken these things, hee cried with a loude voyce, Lazarus, come foorth.

⁴⁴ Then he that was dead, came forth, bound hande and foote with bandes, and his face was bound with a napkin. Iesus said vnto them, Loose him, and let him goe.

⁴⁶ But some of them went their way to the Pharises, and told them what things Iesus had done.

⁴⁷ Then gathered the hie Priests, and the Pharises a councill, and said, What shall we doe? For this man doeth many miracles.

⁴⁸ If we let him thus alone, all men will beleeue in him, and the Romanes will come and take away both our place, and the nation.

⁴⁹ Then one of them named Caiaphas, which was the hie Priest that same yere, said vnto them, Ye perceiue nothing at all,

⁵⁰ Nor yet doe you consider that it is expedient for vs, that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

⁵¹ This spake hee not of himselfe: but being hie Priest that same yere, he prophecied that Iesus should die for that nation:

⁵² And not for that nation onely, but that he shoulde gather together in one the children of God, which were scattered.

⁵³ Then from that day foorth they consulted together, to put him to death.

⁵⁴ Iesus therefore walked no more openly among the Iewes, but went thence vnto a countrey neere to the wildernes, into a citie called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

⁵⁶ Then sought they for Iesus, and spake among themselues, as they stoode in the Temple, What thinke ye, that he cometh not to the feast?

⁵⁷ Now both the high Priestes and the Pharises had giuen a commandement, that if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

¹ Then Iesus, sixe dayes before the Passeouer, came to Bethania, where Lazarus was, who died, whom he had raised from the dead.

² There they made him a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him.

³ Then tooke Mary a pound of oyntment of Spikenarde very costly, and anoynted Iesus feete, and wiped his feete with her heare, and the house was filled with the sauour of the oyntment.

⁴ Then said one of his disciples, euen Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, which should betray him:

⁵ Why was not this oyntment sold for three hundreth pence, and giuen to the poore?

⁶ Nowe he said this, not that he cared for the poore, but because hee was a theefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was giuen.

⁷ Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.

⁸ For the poore alwayes yee haue with you, but me ye shall not haue alwayes.

⁹ Then much people of the Iewes knewe that hee was there: and they came, not for Iesus sake onely, but that they might see Lazarus also, whome he had raysed from the dead.

¹⁰ The hie Priestes therefore consulted, that they might put Lazarus to death also,

¹¹ Because that for his sake many of the Iewes went away, and beleeued in Iesus.

¹³ Tooke branches of palme trees, and went foorth to meete him, and cried, Hosanna, Blessed is the King of Israel that commeth in the Name of the Lord.

¹⁴ And Iesus found a yong asse, and sate thereon, as it is written,

¹⁵ Feare not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King commeth sitting on an asses colte.

¹⁶ But his disciples vnderstoode not these thinges at the first: but when Iesus was glorified, then remembred they, that these thinges were written of him, and that they had done these things vnto him.

¹⁷ The people therefore that was with him, bare witnesse that hee called Lazarus out of the graue, and raised him from the dead.

¹⁸ Therefore mette him the people also, because they heard that he had done this miracle.

¹⁹ And the Pharises said among themselues, Perceiue ye howe ye preuaile nothing? Beholde, the worlde goeth after him.

²¹ And they came to Philippe, which was of Bethsaida in Galile, and desired him, saying, Syr, we would see that Iesus.

²² Philippe came and tolde Andrew: and againe Andrew and Philippe tolde Iesus.

²³ And Iesus answered them, saying, The houre is come, that the Sonne of man must bee glorified.

²⁴ Verely, verely I say vnto you, Except the wheate corne fall into the grounde and die, it bideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth foorth much fruite.

²⁵ He that loueth his life, shall lose it, and he that hateth his life in this world, shall keepe it vnto life eternall.

²⁶ If any man serue me, let him follow me: for where I am, there shall also my seruant be: and if any man serue me, him will my Father honour.

²⁷ Now is my soule troubled: and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre: but therefore came I vnto this houre.

²⁸ Father, glorifie thy Name. Then came there a voyce from heauen, saying, I haue both glorified it, and will glorifie it againe.

²⁹ Then saide the people that stoode by, and heard, that it was a thunder: other said, An Angel spake to him.

³⁰ Iesus answered, and said, This voyce came not because of me, but for your sakes.

³¹ Now is the iudgement of this world: nowe shall the prince of this world be cast out.

³² And I, if I were lift vp from the earth, will drawe all men vnto me.

³³ Nowe this sayd he, signifying what death he should die.

³⁴ The people answered him, We haue heard out of the Law, that that Christ bideth for euer: and howe sayest thou, that that Sonne of man must be lift vp? Who is that Sonne of man?

³⁵ Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Yet a litle while is the light with you: walke while ye haue that light, lest the darkenes come vpon you: for hee that walketh in the darke, knoweth not whither he goeth.

³⁶ While ye haue that light, beleeue in that light, that ye may be the children of the light. These things spake Iesus, and departed, and hid himselfe from them.

³⁸ That the saying of Esaias the Prophete might be fulfilled, that he sayd, Lord, who beleeued our report? and to whome is the arme of the Lord reueiled?

³⁹ Therefore could they not beleeue, because that Esaias saith againe,

⁴⁰ He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they shoulde not see with their eyes, nor vnderstand with their heart, and should be conuerted, and I should heale them.

⁴¹ These things sayd Esaias when he sawe his glory, and spake of him.

⁴² Neuertheles, euen among the chiefe rulers, many beleeued in him: but because of the Pharises they did not confesse him, least they should be cast out of the Synagogue.

⁴³ For they loued the prayse of men, more then the prayse of God.

⁴⁴ And Iesus cryed, and sayd, He that beleeueth in me, beleeueth not in me, but in him that sent me.

⁴⁵ And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.

⁴⁶ I am come a light into the world, that whosoeuer beleeueth in me, should not abide in darkenes.

⁴⁷ And if any man heare my wordes, and beleeue not, I iudge him not: for I came not to iudge the world, but to saue the world.

⁴⁸ He that refuseth me, and receiueth not my wordes, hath one that iudgeth him: the worde that I haue spoken, it shall iudge him in the last day.

⁴⁹ For I haue not spoken of my selfe: but the Father which sent me, hee gaue me a commandement what I should say, and what I should speake.

⁵⁰ And I knowe that his commandement is life euerlasting: the thinges therefore that I speake, I speake them so as the Father sayde vnto me.

¹ Nowe before the feast of the Passeouer, when Iesus knewe that his houre was come, that he should depart out of this world vnto the Father, forasmuch as he loued his owne which were in the world, vnto the end he loued them.

² And when supper was done (and that the deuill had now put in the heart of Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne, to betray him)

³ Iesus knowing that the Father had giuen all things into his hands, and that he was come forth from God, and went to God,

⁴ He riseth from supper, and layeth aside his vpper garments, and tooke a towel, and girded himselfe.

⁵ After that, hee powred water into a basen, and began to wash the disciples feete, and to wipe them with the towell, wherewith he was girded.

⁶ Then came he to Simon Peter, who sayd to him, Lord, doest thou wash my feete?

⁷ Iesus answered and sayd vnto him, What I doe, thou knowest not nowe: but thou shalt knowe it hereafter.

⁸ Peter said vnto him, Thou shalt neuer wash my feete. Iesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou shalt haue no part with me.

⁹ Simon Peter sayd vnto him, Lord, not my feete onely, but also the hands and the head.

¹⁰ Iesus sayd to him, He that is washed, needeth not, saue to wash his feete, but is cleane euery whit: and ye are cleane, but not all.

¹¹ For hee knewe who should betray him: therefore sayd he, Ye are not all cleane.

¹³ Ye call me Master, and Lord, and ye say well: for so am I.

¹⁴ If I then your Lord, and Master, haue washed your feete, ye also ought to wash one an others feete.

¹⁵ For I haue giuen you an example, that ye should doe, euen as I haue done to you.

¹⁶ Verely, verely I say vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master, neither the ambassadour greater then he that sent him.

¹⁷ If ye know these things, blessed are ye, if ye doe them.

¹⁹ From henceforth tell I you before it come, that when it is come to passe, ye might beleeue that I am he.

²⁰ Verely, verely I say vnto you, If I send any, he that receiueth him, receiueth me, and hee that receiueth me, receiueth him that sent me.

²¹ When Iesus had sayd these things, he was troubled in the Spirit, and testified, and said, Verely, verely I say vnto you, that one of you shall betray me.

²² Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.

²³ Nowe there was one of his disciples, which leaned on Iesus bosome, whom Iesus loued.

²⁴ To him beckened therefore Simon Peter, that he should aske who it was of whom he spake.

²⁵ He then, as he leaned on Iesus breast, saide vnto him, Lord, who is it?

²⁶ Iesus answered, He it is, to whome I shall giue a soppe, when I haue dipt it: and hee wet a soppe, and gaue it to Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne.

²⁷ And after the soppe, Satan entred into him. Then sayd Iesus vnto him, That thou doest, doe quickly.

²⁸ But none of them that were at table, knew, for what cause he spake it vnto him.

²⁹ For some of them thought because Iudas had the bag, that Iesus had sayd vnto him, Buy those things that we haue neede of against ye feast: or that he should giue some thing to the poore.

³⁰ Assoone then as he had receiued the soppe, he went immediately out, and it was night.

³² If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorifie him in himselfe, and shall straightway glorifie him.

³³ Litle children, yet a litle while am I with you: ye shall seeke me, but as I sayde vnto the Iewes, Whither I goe, can ye not come: also to you say I nowe,

³⁴ A newe commandement giue I vnto you, that ye loue one another: as I haue loued you, that ye also loue one another.

³⁵ By this shall all men knowe that ye are my disciples, if ye haue loue one to another.

³⁶ Simon Peter said vnto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Iesus answered him, Whither I goe, thou canst not follow me nowe: but thou shalt follow me afterward.

³⁷ Peter sayd vnto him, Lord, why can I not follow thee now? I will lay downe my life for thy sake.

³⁸ Iesus answered him, Wilt thou lay downe thy life for my sake? Verely, verely I say vnto thee, The cocke shall not crowe, till thou haue denied me thrise.

¹ Let not your heart be troubled: ye beleeue in God, beleeue also in me.

² In my Fathers house are many dwelling places: if it were not so, I would haue tolde you: I go to prepare a place for you.

³ And if I go to prepare a place for you, I wil come againe, and receiue you vnto my selfe, that where I am, there may ye be also.

⁴ And whither I go, ye know, and the way ye knowe.

⁵ Thomas sayd vnto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest: how can we then know ye way?

⁶ Iesus sayd vnto him, I am that Way, and that Trueth, and that Life. No man commeth vnto the Father, but by me.

⁷ If ye had knowen mee, ye should haue knowen my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and haue seene him.

⁸ Philippe sayd vnto him, Lord, shewe vs thy Father, and it sufficeth vs.

⁹ Iesus sayd vnto him, I haue bene so long time with you, and hast thou not knowen mee, Philippe? he that hath seene me, hath seene my Father: how then sayest thou, Shewe vs thy Father?

¹⁰ Beleeuest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you, I speake not of my selfe: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the workes.

¹¹ Beleeue me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: at the least, beleeue me for the very workes sake.

¹² Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that beleeueth in me, the workes that I doe, hee shall doe also, and greater then these shall he doe: for I goe vnto my Father.

¹³ And whatsoeuer ye aske in my Name, that will I doe, that the Father may be glorified in the Sonne.

¹⁴ If ye shall aske any thing in my Name, I will doe it.

¹⁵ If ye loue me, keepe my comandements,

¹⁶ And I wil pray the Father, and he shall giue you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for euer,

¹⁷ Euen the Spirit of trueth, whome the world can not receiue, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye knowe him: for he dwelleth with you, and shalbe in you.

¹⁸ I will not leaue you fatherles: but I will come to you.

¹⁹ Yet a litle while, and the world shall see me no more, but ye shall see me: because I liue, ye shall liue also.

²⁰ At that day shall ye knowe that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

²¹ He that hath my commandements, and keepeth them, is he that loueth me: and he that loueth me, shall be loued of my Father: and I will loue him, and wil shewe mine owne selfe to him.

²² Iudas sayd vnto him (not Iscariot) Lord, what is the cause that thou wilt shewe thy selfe vnto vs, and not vnto the world?

²³ Iesus answered, and sayd vnto him, If any man loue me, he will keepe my worde, and my Father will loue him, and we wil come vnto him, and wil dwell with him.

²⁴ He that loueth me not, keepeth not my wordes, and the worde which ye heare, is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me.

²⁵ These things haue I spoken vnto you, being present with you.

²⁶ But the Comforter, which is the holy Ghost, whom the Father wil send in my Name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, which I haue tolde you.

²⁷ Peace I leaue with you: my peace I giue vnto you: not as the worlde giueth, giue I vnto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor feare.

²⁸ Ye haue heard howe I saide vnto you, I goe away, and will come vnto you. If ye loued me, ye would verely reioyce, because I said, I goe vnto the Father: for the Father is greater then I.

²⁹ And nowe haue I spoken vnto you, before it come, that when it is come to passe, ye might beleeue.

³⁰ Hereafter will I not speake many things vnto you: for the prince of this world commeth, and hath nought in me.

³¹ But it is that the world may knowe that I loue my Father: and as the Father hath commanded me, so I doe. Arise, let vs goe hence.

¹ I Am that true vine, and my Father is that husband man.

² Euery branch that beareth not fruite in me, he taketh away: and euery one that beareth fruite, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruite.

³ Nowe are ye cleane through the worde, which I haue spoken vnto you.

⁴ Abide in me, and I in you: as the branche cannot beare fruite of it selfe, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

⁵ I am that vine: ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruite: for without me can ye doe nothing.

⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branche, and withereth: and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they burne.

⁷ If ye abide in me, and my wordes abide in you, aske what ye wil, and it shalbe done to you.

⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye beare much fruite, and be made my disciples.

⁹ As the father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue in that my loue.

¹⁰ If ye shall keepe my commandements, ye shall abide in my loue, as I haue kept my Fathers commandements, and abide in his loue.

¹¹ These things haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remaine in you, and that your ioy might be full.

¹² This is my commandement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.

¹³ Greater loue then this hath no man, when any man bestoweth his life for his friendes.

¹⁴ Ye are my friendes, if ye doe whatsoeuer I commaund you.

¹⁵ Henceforth call I you not seruants: for the seruant knoweth not what his master doeth: but I haue called you friends: for all things that I haue heard of my Father, haue I made knowen to you.

¹⁶ Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeined you, that ye goe and bring foorth fruite, and that your fruite remaine, that whatsoeuer ye shall aske of the Father in my Name, he may giue it you.

¹⁷ These things commaund I you, that ye loue one another.

¹⁸ If the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before you.

¹⁹ If ye were of the worlde, the world woulde loue his owne: but because ye are not of ye world, but I haue chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe yours.

²¹ But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they haue not knowen him that sent me.

²² If I had not come and spoken vnto them, they shoulde not haue had sinne: but nowe haue they no cloke for their sinne.

²³ He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

²⁴ If I had not done workes among them which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but nowe haue they both seene, and haue hated both me, and my Father.

²⁵ But it is that the worde might be fulfilled, that is written in their Lawe, They hated me without a cause.

²⁶ But when that Comforter shall come, whom I will send vnto you from the Father, euen the Spirit of trueth, which proceedeth of the Father, he shall testifie of me.

²⁷ And ye shall witnesse also, because ye haue bene with me from the beginning.

¹ These thinges haue I saide vnto you, that ye should not be offended.

² They shall excommunicate you: yea, the time shall come, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that he doeth God seruice.

³ And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen ye Father, nor me.

⁴ But these things haue I tolde you, that when the houre shall come, ye might remember, that I tolde you them. And these things said I not vnto you from ye beginning, because I was with you.

⁵ But now I go my way to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

⁶ But because I haue saide these thinges vnto you, your hearts are full of sorowe.

⁷ Yet I tell you the trueth, It is expedient for you that I goe away: for if I goe not away, that Comforter will not come vnto you: but if I depart, I will send him vnto you.

⁸ And when he is come, he will reproue the worlde of sinne, and of righteousnesse, and of iudgement.

⁹ Of sinne, because they beleeued not in me:

¹⁰ Of righteousnesse, because I goe to my Father, and ye shall see me no more:

¹¹ Of iudgement, because the prince of this world is iudged.

¹² I haue yet many things to say vnto you, but ye cannot beare them nowe.

¹³ Howbeit, when he is come which is the Spirit of trueth, he will leade you into all trueth: for he shall not speake of himselfe, but whatsoeuer he shall heare, shall he speake, and he will shew you the things to come.

¹⁴ He shall glorifie me: for he shall receiue of mine, and shall shewe it vnto you.

¹⁵ All thinges that the Father hath, are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shewe it vnto you.

¹⁶ A litle while, and ye shall not see me: and againe a litle while, and ye shall see me: for I goe to the Father.

¹⁷ Then said some of his disciples among them selues, What is this that he saieth vnto vs, A litle while, and ye shall not see me, and againe, a litle while, and ye shall see me, and, For I goe to the Father.

¹⁸ They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A litle while? we know not what he sayeth.

¹⁹ Now Iesus knew that they would aske him, and said vnto them, Doe ye enquire among your selues, of that I said, A litle while, and ye shall not see me: and againe, a litle while, and yee shall see me?

²⁰ Verely, verely I say vnto you, that ye shall weepe and lament, and the worlde shall reioyce: and ye shall sorowe, but your sorowe shalbe turned to ioye.

²¹ A woman when she traueileth, hath sorowe, because her houre is come: but assoone as she is deliuered of the childe, she remembreth no more the anguish, for ioy that a man is borne into the world.

²² And ye nowe therefore are in sorowe: but I will see you againe, and your hearts shall reioyce, and your ioy shall no man take from you.

²³ And in that day shall ye aske me nothing. Verely, verely I say vnto you, whatsoeuer ye shall aske the Father in my Name, he will giue it you.

²⁴ Hitherto haue ye asked nothing in my Name: aske, and ye shall receiue, that your ioye may be full.

²⁵ These things haue I spoken vnto you in parables: but the time will come, when I shall no more speake to you in parables: but I shall shew you plainely of the Father.

²⁶ At that day shall ye aske in my Name, and I say not vnto you, that I will pray vnto the Father for you:

²⁷ For the Father himselfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me, and haue beleeued that I came out from God.

²⁸ I am come out from the Father, and came into the worlde: againe I leaue the worlde, and goe to the Father.

²⁹ His disciples saide vnto him, Loe, nowe speakest thou plainely, and thou speakest no parable.

³⁰ Nowe knowe wee that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should aske thee. By this we beleeue, that thou art come out from God.

³¹ Iesus answered them, Doe you beleeue nowe?

³² Beholde, the houre commeth, and is already come, that ye shalbe scattered euery man into his owne, and shall leaue me alone: but I am not alone: for the Father is with me.

³³ These thinges haue I spoken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace: in the world ye shall haue affliction, but be of good comfort: I haue ouercome the world.

¹ These things spake Iesus, and lift vp his eyes to heauen, and saide, Father, that houre is come: glorifie thy Sonne, that thy Sonne also may glorifie thee,

² As thou hast giuen him power ouer all flesh, that he shoulde giue eternall life to all them that thou hast giuen him.

³ And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.

⁴ I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished the worke which thou gauest me to doe.

⁵ And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.

⁶ I haue declared thy Name vnto the men which thou gauest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gauest them me, and they haue kept thy worde.

⁷ Nowe they knowe that all things whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me, are of thee.

⁸ For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, and haue beleeued that thou hast sent me.

⁹ I pray for them: I pray not for the worlde, but for them which thou hast giuen me: for they are thine.

¹⁰ And al mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.

¹¹ And nowe am I no more in the world, but these are in the worlde, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keepe them in thy Name, euen them whome thou hast giuen mee, that they may bee one, as we are.

¹² While I was with them in the worlde, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gauest me, haue I kept, and none of them is lost, but the childe of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³ And now come I to thee, and these things speake I in the worlde, that they might haue my ioy fulfilled in themselues.

¹⁴ I haue giuen them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

¹⁵ I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou keepe them from euill.

¹⁶ They are not of the worlde, as I am not of the world.

¹⁷ Sanctifie them with thy trueth: thy word is trueth.

¹⁸ As thou diddest send me into the world, so haue I sent them into the world.

¹⁹ And for their sakes sanctifie I my selfe, that they also may bee sanctified through the trueth.

²⁰ I praie not for these alone, but for them also which shall beleeue in mee, through their woorde,

²¹ That they all may bee one, as thou, O Father, art in me, and I in thee: euen that they may be also one in vs, that the worlde may beleeue that thou hast sent me.

²² And the glory that thou gauest me, I haue giuen them, that they may be one, as we are one,

²³ I in them, and thou in mee, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.

²⁴ Father, I will that they which thou hast giuen me, be with me euen where I am, that they may beholde that my glorie, which thou hast giuen mee: for thou louedst me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵ O righteous Father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen, that thou hast sent me.

²⁶ And I haue declared vnto the thy Name, and will declare it, that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me, may be in them, and I in them.

¹ When Iesus had spoken these things, hee went foorth with his disciples ouer the brooke Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entred, and his disciples.

² And Iudas which betraied him, knewe also the place: for Iesus oft times resorted thither with his disciples.

³ Iudas then, after hee had receiued a band of men and officers of the high Priests, and of the Pharises, came thither with lanternes and torches, and weapons.

⁴ Then Iesus, knowing all things that shoulde come vnto him, went foorth and said vnto them, Whom seeke yee?

⁵ They answered him, Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus sayde vnto them, I am hee. Nowe Iudas also which betraied him, stoode with them.

⁶ Assoone then as hee had saide vnto them, I am hee, they went away backewardes, and fell to the grounde.

⁷ Then he asked them againe, Whome seeke yee? And they sayd, Iesus of Nazareth.

⁸ Iesus answered, I said vnto you, that I am he: therefore if ye seeke me, let these go their way.

⁹ This was that the worde might be fulfilled which hee spake, Of them which thou gauest me, haue I lost none.

¹⁰ Then Simon Peter hauing a sword, drewe it, and smote the hie Priests seruant, and cut off his right eare. Nowe the seruants name was Malchus.

¹¹ Then sayde Iesus vnto Peter, Put vp thy sworde into the sheath: shall I not drinke of the cuppe which my Father hath giuen me?

¹² Then the bande and the captaine, and the officers of the Iewes tooke Iesus, and bound him,

¹³ And led him away to Annas first (for he was father in lawe to Caiaphas, which was the hie Priest that same yeere)

¹⁴ And Caiaphas was he, that gaue counsel to the Iewes, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

¹⁶ But Peter stood at the doore without. Then went out the other disciple which was knowen vnto the hie Priest, and spake to her that kept the doore, and brought in Peter.

¹⁷ Then saide the maide that kept the doore, vnto Peter, Art not thou also one of this mans disciples? He sayd, I am not.

¹⁸ And the seruants and officers stoode there, which had made a fire of coles: for it was colde, and they warmed themselues. And Peter also stood among them, and warmed himselfe.

²⁰ Iesus answered him, I spake openly to the world: I euer taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple, whither the Iewes resort continually, and in secret haue I sayde nothing.

²¹ Why askest thou mee? aske them which heard mee what I sayde vnto them: beholde, they knowe what I sayd.

²² When he had spoken these thinges, one of the officers which stoode by, smote Iesus with his rod, saying, Answerest thou the hie Priest so?

²³ Iesus answered him, If I haue euill spoken, beare witnes of the euil: but if I haue well spoken, why smitest thou me?

²⁵ And Simon Peter stoode and warmed himselfe, and they said vnto him, Art not thou also of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.

²⁶ One of the seruaunts of the hie Priest, his cousin whose eare Peter smote off, saide, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?

²⁷ Peter then denied againe, and immediatly the cocke crewe.

²⁹ Pilate then went out vnto them, and said, What accusation bring yee against this man?

³⁰ They answered, and saide vnto him, If hee were not an euill doer, we woulde not haue deliuered him vnto thee.

³¹ Then sayde Pilate vnto them, Take yee him, and iudge him after your owne Lawe. Then the Iewes sayde vnto him, It is not lawfull for vs to put any man to death.

³² It was that the worde of Iesus might be fulfilled which he spake, signifying what death he should die.

³³ So Pilate entred into the common hall againe, and called Iesus, and sayde vnto him, Art thou the king of the Iewes?

³⁴ Iesus answered him, Saiest thou that of thy selfe, or did other tell it thee of me?

³⁵ Pilate answered, Am I a Iewe? Thine owne nation, and the hie Priestes haue deliuered thee vnto me. What hast thou done?

³⁶ Iesus answered, My kingdome is not of this worlde: if my kingdome were of this worlde, my seruants would surely fight, that I should not be deliuered to the Iewes: but nowe is my kingdome not from hence.

³⁷ Pilate then said vnto him, Art thou a King then? Iesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a King: for this cause am I borne, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should beare witnes vnto the trueth: euery one that is of the trueth, heareth my voyce.

³⁸ Pilate said vnto him, What is trueth? And when he had saide that, hee went out againe vnto the Iewes, and said vnto them, I finde in him no cause at all.

³⁹ But you haue a custome, that I shoulde deliuer you one loose at the Passeouer: will yee then that I loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes?

⁴⁰ Then cried they all againe, saying, Not him, but Barabbas: nowe this Barabbas was a murtherer.

¹ Then Pilate tooke Iesus and scourged him.

² And the souldiers platted a crowne of thornes, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple garment,

³ And saide, Haile, King of the Iewes. And they smote him with their roddes.

⁴ Then Pilate went foorth againe, and said vnto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may knowe, that I finde no fault in him at all.

⁵ Then came Iesus foorth wearing a crowne of thornes, and a purple garment. And Pilate said vnto them, Beholde the man.

⁶ Then when the hie Priests and officers sawe him, they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him. Pilate said vnto them, Take yee him and crucifie him: for I finde no fault in him.

⁷ The Iewes answered him, We haue a lawe, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himselfe the Sonne of God.

⁹ And went againe into the common hall, and saide vnto Iesus, Whence art thou? But Iesus gaue him none answere.

¹⁰ Then saide Pilate vnto him, Speakest thou not vnto me? Knowest thou not that I haue power to crucifie thee, and haue power to loose thee?

¹¹ Iesus answered, Thou couldest haue no power at all against me, except it were giuen thee from aboue: therefore he that deliuered me vnto thee, hath the greater sinne.

¹² From thence foorth Pilate sought to loose him, but the Iewes cried, saying, If thou deliuer him, thou art not Cesars friende: for whosoeuer maketh himselfe a King, speaketh against Cesar.

¹⁴ And it was the Preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and hee sayde vnto the Iewes, Beholde your King.

¹⁵ But they cried, Away with him, away with him, crucifie him. Pilate sayde vnto them, Shall I crucifie your King? The high Priestes answered, We haue no King but Cesar.

¹⁶ Then deliuered he him vnto them, to be crucified. And they tooke Iesus, and led him away.

¹⁷ And he bare his owne crosse, and came into a place named of dead mens Skulles, which is called in Hebrewe, Golgotha:

¹⁸ Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Iesus in the middes.

²⁰ This title then read many of the Iewes: for the place where Iesus was crucified, was neere to the citie: and it was written in Hebrewe, Greeke and Latine.

²¹ Then saide the hie Priests of the Iewes to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Iewes, but that he sayd, I am King of the Iewes.

²² Pilate answered, What I haue written, I haue written.

²⁴ Therefore they sayde one to another, Let vs not deuide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. This was that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which sayth, They parted my garments among them, and on my coate did cast lots. So the souldiers did these things in deede.

²⁶ And when Iesus sawe his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loued, he said vnto his mother, Woman, beholde thy sonne.

²⁷ Then saide he to the disciple, Beholde thy mother: and from that houre, the disciple tooke her home vnto him.

²⁹ And there was set a vessell full of vineger: and they filled a spondge with vineger: and put it about an Hyssope stalke, and put it to his mouth.

³⁰ Nowe when Iesus had receiued of the vineger, he saide, It is finished, and bowed his head, and gaue vp the ghost.

³¹ The Iewes then (because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remaine vpon the crosse on the Sabbath day: for that Sabbath was an hie day) besought Pilate that their legges might be broken, and that they might be taken downe.

³² Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the first, and of the other, which was crucified with Iesus.

³³ But when they came to Iesus, and saw that he was dead alreadie, they brake not his legges.

³⁴ But one of the souldiers with a speare pearced his side, and foorthwith came there out blood and water.

³⁵ And he that sawe it, bare recorde, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might beleeue it.

³⁶ For these things were done, that the Scripture shoulde be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shalbe broken.

³⁷ And againe an other Scripture saith, They shall see him whom they haue thrust through.

³⁸ And after these things, Ioseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of the Iewes) besought Pilate that he might take downe the bodie of Iesus. And Pilate gaue him licence. He came then and tooke Iesus body.

³⁹ And there came also Nicodemus (which first came to Iesus by night) and brought of myrrhe and aloes mingled together about an hundreth pound.

⁴⁰ Then tooke they the body of Iesus, and wrapped it in linnen clothes with the odours, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie.

⁴¹ And in that place where Iesus was crucified, was a garden, and in the garden a newe sepulchre, wherein was neuer man yet laid.

⁴² There then laide they Iesus, because of the Iewes Preparation day, for the sepulchre was neere.

¹ Nowe the first day of the weeke came Marie Magdalene, early when it was yet darke, vnto the sepulchre, and sawe the stone taken away from the tombe.

² Then she ranne, and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Iesus loued, and saide vnto them, They haue taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we knowe not where they haue laid him.

³ Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they came vnto the sepulchre.

⁴ So they ranne both together, but the other disciple did outrunne Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

⁵ And he stouped downe, and sawe the linnen clothes lying: yet went he not in.

⁶ Then came Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and sawe the linnen clothes lye,

⁷ And the kerchiefe that was vpon his head, not lying with the linnen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by it selfe.

⁸ Then went in also the other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he sawe it, and beleeued.

⁹ For as yet they knewe not the Scripture, That he must rise againe from the dead.

¹⁰ And the disciples went away againe vnto their owne home.

¹² And sawe two Angels in white, sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feete, where the body of Iesus had laien.

¹³ And they said vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She said vnto them, They haue taken away my Lord, and I know not where they haue laide him.

¹⁴ When she had thus said, she turned her selfe backe, and sawe Iesus standing, and knewe not that it was Iesus.

¹⁵ Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She supposing that he had bene the gardener, said vnto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

¹⁶ Iesus saith vnto her, Marie. She turned her selfe, and said vnto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.

¹⁷ Iesus saith vnto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but goe to my brethren, and say vnto them, I ascend vnto my Father, and to your Father, and to my God, and your God.

¹⁸ Marie Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seene the Lord, and that he had spoken these things vnto her.

²⁰ And when he had so saide, he shewed vnto them his handes, and his side. Then were the disciples glad when they had seene the Lord.

²¹ Then saide Iesus to them againe, Peace be vnto you: as my Father sent me, so sende I you.

²² And when he had saide that, he breathed on them, and saide vnto them, Receiue the holy Ghost.

²³ Whosoeuers sinnes ye remit, they are remitted vnto them: and whosoeuers sinnes ye reteine, they are reteined.

²⁵ The other disciples therefore saide vnto him, We haue seene the Lord: but he said vnto them, Except I see in his handes the print of the nailes, and put my finger into the print of the nailes, and put mine hand into his side, I will not beleeue it.

²⁷ After saide he to Thomas, Put thy finger here, and see mine hands, and put forth thine hand, and put it into my side, and be not faithlesse, but faithfull.

²⁸ Then Thomas answered, and said vnto him, Thou art my Lord, and my God.

²⁹ Iesus said vnto him, Thomas, because thou hast seene me, thou beleeuest: blessed are they that haue not seene, and haue beleeued.

³¹ But these things are written, that ye might beleeue, that Iesus is that Christ that Sonne of God, and that in beleeuing ye might haue life through his Name.

¹ After these things, Iesus shewed himselfe againe to his disciples at the sea of Tiberias: and thus shewed he himselfe:

² There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas, which is called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galile, and the sonnes of Zebedeus, and two other of his disciples.

³ Simon Peter said vnto them, I go a fishing. They said vnto him, We also will goe with thee. They went their way and entred into a ship straightway, and that night caught they nothing.

⁴ But when the morning was nowe come, Iesus stoode on the shore: neuerthelesse the disciples knewe not that it was Iesus.

⁵ Iesus then said vnto them, Syrs, haue ye any meate? They answered him, No.

⁶ Then he said vnto them, Cast out the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall finde. So they cast out, and they were not able at all to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.

⁷ Therefore said the disciple whom Iesus loued, vnto Peter, It is the Lord. When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded his coate to him (for he was naked) and cast himselfe into the sea.

⁸ But the other disciples came by shippe (for they were not farre from land, but about two hundreth cubites) and they drewe the net with fishes.

⁹ Assoone then as they were come to land, they sawe hoate coales, and fish laide thereon, and bread.

¹⁰ Iesus saide vnto them, Bring of the fishes, which ye haue nowe caught.

¹¹ Simon Peter stepped foorth and drewe the net to land, full of great fishes, an hundreth, fiftie and three: and albeit there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

¹² Iesus saide vnto them, Come, and dine. And none of the disciples durst aske him, Who art thou? seeing they knewe that he was the Lord.

¹³ Iesus then came and tooke bread, and gaue them, and fish likewise.

¹⁴ This is now the third time that Iesus shewed himselfe to his disciples, after that he was risen againe from the dead.

¹⁶ He said to him againe the second time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? He said vnto him, Yea Lord, thou knowest that I loue thee. He said vnto him, Feede my sheepe.

¹⁷ He said vnto him the third time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? Peter was sorie because he said to him the third time, Louest thou me? and said vnto him, Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus saide vnto him, Feede my sheepe.

¹⁸ Verely, verely I say vnto thee, When thou wast yong, thou girdedst thy selfe, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be olde, thou shalt stretch foorth thine hands, and another shall gird thee, and lead thee whither thou wouldest not.

¹⁹ And this spake he signifying by what death he shoulde glorifie God. And when he had said this, he said to him, Folowe me.

²⁰ Then Peter turned about, and sawe the disciple whom JESUS loued, folowing, which had also leaned on his breast at supper, and had saide, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?

²¹ When Peter therefore sawe him, he saide to Iesus, Lord, what shall this man doe?

²² Iesus said vnto him, If I will that he tarie till I come, what is it to thee? follow thou me.

²³ Then went this worde abroade among the brethren, that this disciple shoulde not die. Yet Iesus saide not to him, He shall not die: but if I will that he tarie till I come, what is it to thee?

²⁴ This is that disciple, which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things, and we know that his testimonie is true.

²⁵ Nowe there are also many other things which Iesus did, the which if they should be written euery one, I suppose the world coulde not conteine the bookes that shoulde be written, Amen.

Acts

¹ I have made the former treatise, O Theophilus, of al that Jesus began to doe and teach,

² Vntill the day that hee was taken vp, after that hee through the holy Ghost, had giuen commandements vnto the Apostles, whome hee had chosen:

³ To whome also he presented himselfe aliue after that he had suffered, by many infallible tokens, being seene of them by the space of fourtie daies, and speaking of those thinges which appertaine to the kingdome of God.

⁴ And when he had gathered them together, he commanded them, that they should not depart from Hierusalem, but to waite for the promise of the Father, which sayde hee, yee haue heard of me.

⁵ For Iohn in deede baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost within these fewe daies.

⁶ When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome to Israel?

⁷ And hee saide vnto them, It is not for you to know the times, or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his owne power,

⁸ But yee shall receiue power of the holy Ghost, when he shall come on you: and ye shalbe witnesses vnto me both in Hierusalem and in all Iudea, and in Samaria, and vnto the vttermost part of the earth.

⁹ And when he had spoken these things, while they behelde, he was taken vp: for a cloude tooke him vp out of their sight.

¹⁰ And while they looked stedfastly towarde heauen, as hee went, beholde, two men stoode by them in white apparell,

¹¹ Which also sayde, Yee men of Galile, why stande yee gasing into heauen? This Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen, shall so come, as yee haue seene him goe into heauen.

¹³ And when they were come in, they went vp into an vpper chamber, where abode both Peter and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartlemew, and Matthewe, Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Iudas Iames brother.

¹⁴ These all continued with one accorde in prayer and supplication with the women, and Marie the mother of Iesus, and with his brethren.

¹⁶ Yee men and brethren, this scripture must needes haue beene fulfilled, which the holy Ghost by the mouth of Dauid spake before of Iudas, which was guide to them that tooke Iesus.

¹⁷ For hee was nombred with vs, and had obteined fellowship in this ministration.

¹⁸ He therefore hath purchased a field with the reward of iniquitie: and when he had throwen downe himselfe headlong, hee brast asunder in the middes, and all his bowels gushed out.

¹⁹ And it is knowen vnto all the inhabitants of Hierusalem, in so much, that that field is called in their owne language, Aceldama, That is, the field of blood.

²⁰ For it is written in the booke of Psalmes, Let his habitation be void, and let no man dwel therein: also, Let another take his charge.

²¹ Wherefore of these men which haue companied with vs, all the time that the Lord Iesus was conuersant among vs,

²² Beginning from the baptisme of Iohn vnto the day that hee was taken vp from vs, must one of them bee made a witnesse with vs of his resurrection.

²³ And they presented two, Ioseph called Barsabas, whose surname was Iustus, and Matthias.

²⁴ And they praied, saying, Thou Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen,

²⁵ That he may take the roume of this ministration and Apostleship, from which Iudas hath gone astray, to goe to his owne place.

²⁶ Then they gaue foorth their lottes: and the lotte fell on Matthias, and hee was by a common consent counted with the eleuen Apostles.

¹ And when the day of Pentecost was come, they were al with one accord in one place.

² And suddenly there came a sounde from heauen, as of a russhing and mightie winde, and it filled all the house where they sate.

³ And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues, like fire, and it sate vpon eche of them.

⁴ And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the Spirit gaue them vtterance.

⁵ And there were dwelling at Hierusalem Iewes, men that feared God, of euery nation vnder heauen.

⁶ Nowe when this was noised, the multitude came together and were astonied, because that euery man heard them speake his owne language.

⁷ And they wondered al, and marueiled, saying among themselues, Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galile?

⁸ How then heare we euery man our owne language, wherein we were borne?

⁹ Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, and of Iudea, and of Cappadocia, of Pontus, and Asia,

¹⁰ And of Phrygia, and Pamphylia, of Egypt, and of the partes of Libya, which is beside Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, and Iewes, and Proselytes,

¹¹ Creetes, and Arabians: wee hearde them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God.

¹² They were all then amased, and douted, saying one to another, What may this be?

¹³ And others mocked, and saide, They are full of newe wine.

¹⁵ For these are not drunken, as yee suppose, since it is but the third houre of the day.

¹⁶ But this is that, which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,

¹⁷ And it shalbe in the last daies, saith God, I wil powre out of my Spirite vpon al flesh, and your sonnes, and your daughters shall prophecie, and your yong men shall see visions, and your old men shall dreame dreames.

¹⁸ And on my seruauntes, and on mine handmaides I will powre out of my Spirite in those daies, and they shall prophecie.

¹⁹ And I wil shew wonders in heauen aboue, and tokens in the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and the vapour of smoke.

²⁰ The Sunne shalbe turned into darkenesse, and the moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

²¹ And it shalbe, that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.

²² Yee men of Israel, heare these woordes, JESUS of Nazareth, a man approued of God among you with great workes, and wonders, and signes, which God did by him in the middes of you, as yee your selues also knowe:

²³ Him, I say, being deliuered by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked handes you haue crucified and slaine.

²⁴ Whome God hath raised vp, and loosed the sorrowes of death, because it was vnpossible that he should be holden of it.

²⁵ For Dauid sayeth concerning him, I beheld the Lord alwaies before me: for hee is at my right hand, that I should not be shaken.

²⁶ Therefore did mine heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad, and moreouer also my flesh shall rest in hope,

²⁷ Because thou wilt not leaue my soule in graue, neither wilt suffer thine Holy one to see corruption.

²⁸ Thou hast shewed me the waies of life, and shalt make me full of ioy with thy countenance.

²⁹ Men and brethren, I may boldly speake vnto you of the Patriarke Dauid, that hee is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre remaineth with vs vnto this day.

³⁰ Therefore, seeing hee was a Prophet, and knewe that God had sworne with an othe to him, that of the fruite of his loynes hee woulde raise vp Christ concerning the flesh, to set him vpon his throne,

³¹ Hee knowing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soule shoulde not bee left in graue, neither his flesh shoulde see corruption.

³² This Iesus hath God raised vp, whereof we all are witnesses.

³³ Since then that he by the right hande of God hath bene exalted, and hath receiued of his Father the promise of the holy Ghost, hee hath shed foorth this which yee nowe see and heare.

³⁴ For Dauid is not ascended into heauen, but he sayth, The Lord sayd to my Lord, Sit at my right hande,

³⁵ Vntill I make thine enemies thy footestoole.

³⁶ Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for a suretie, that God hath made him both Lord, and Christ, this Iesus, I say, whome yee haue crucified.

³⁷ Now when they heard it, they were pricked in their heartes, and said vnto Peter and the other Apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we doe?

³⁸ Then Peter said vnto them, Amend your liues, and bee baptized euery one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes: and ye shall receiue the gift of the holy Ghost.

³⁹ For the promise is made vnto you, and to your children, and to all that are a farre off, euen as many as the Lord our God shall call.

⁴⁰ And with many other words he besought and exhorted them, saying, Saue your selues from this froward generation.

⁴¹ Then they that gladly receiued his word, were baptized: and the same day there were added to the Church about three thousand soules.

⁴² And they continued in the Apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and breaking of bread, and prayers.

⁴⁴ And all that beleeued, were in one place, and had all things common.

⁴⁵ And they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all me, as euery one had need.

⁴⁶ And they continued dayly with one accord in the Temple, and breaking bread at home, did eate their meate together with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart,

⁴⁷ Praysing God, and had fauour with all the people: and the Lord added to the Church from day to day, such as should be saued.

¹ Nowe Peter and Iohn went vp together into the Temple, at the ninth houre of prayer.

² And a certaine man which was a creeple from his mothers wombe, was caried, whom they layde dayly at the gate of the Temple called Beautifull, to aske almes of them that entred into ye Temple.

³ Who seeing Peter and Iohn, that they would enter into the Temple, desired to receiue an almes.

⁴ And Peter earnestly beholding him with Iohn, said, Looke on vs.

⁵ And hee gaue heede vnto them, trusting to receiue some thing of them.

⁶ Then said Peter, Siluer and gold haue I none, but such as I haue, that giue I thee: In the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth, rise vp and walke.

⁷ And hee tooke him by the right hand, and lift him vp, and immediately his feete and ankle bones receiued strength.

⁸ And he leaped vp, stoode, and walked, and entred with them into the Temple, walking and leaping, and praysing God.

⁹ And all the people sawe him walke, and praysing God.

¹⁰ And they knewe him, that it was he which sate for the almes at the Beautifull gate of the Temple: and they were amased, and sore astonied at that, which was come vnto him.

¹² So when Peter saw it, he answered vnto the people, Ye me of Israel, why marueile ye at this? or why looke ye so stedfastly on vs, as though by our owne power or godlines, we had made this man go?

¹³ The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his Sonne Iesus, whom ye betrayed, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had iudged him to be deliuered.

¹⁴ But ye denied the Holy one and the Iust, and desired a murtherer to be giuen you,

¹⁵ And killed the Lord of life, whome God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

¹⁶ And his Name hath made this man sound, whom ye see, and know, through faith in his Name: and the faith which is by him, hath giuen to him this perfite health of his whole body in the presence of you all.

¹⁷ And now brethren, I know that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your gouernours.

¹⁸ But those thinges which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.

¹⁹ Amend your liues therefore, and turne, that your sinnes may be put away, whe the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

²⁰ And he shall sende Iesus Christ, which before was preached vnto you,

²¹ Whome the heauen must containe vntill the time that all thinges be restored, which God had spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began.

²² For Moses said vnto the Fathers, The Lord your God shall raise vp vnto you a Prophet, euen of your brethren, like vnto me: ye shall heare him in all things, whatsoeuer he shall say vnto you.

²³ For it shalbe that euery person which shall not heare that Prophet, shall be destroyed out of the people.

²⁴ Also all the Prophets from Samuel, and thencefoorth as many as haue spoken, haue likewise foretolde of these dayes.

²⁵ Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant, which God hath made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham, Euen in thy seede shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

²⁶ First vnto you hath God raysed vp his Sonne Iesus, and him hee hath sent to blesse you, in turning euery one of you from your iniquities.

¹ And as they spake vnto the people, the Priestes and the Captaine of the Temple, and the Sadduces came vpon them,

² Taking it grieuously that they taught the people, and preached in Iesus Name the resurrection from the dead.

³ And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntill the next day: for it was now euentide.

⁴ Howbeit, many of them which heard the word, beleeued, and the number of the men was about fiue thousand.

⁶ And Annas the chiefe Priest, and Caiaphas, and Iohn, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the hie Priestes.

⁷ And whe they had set them before them, they asked, By what power, or in what Name haue ye done this?

⁸ Then Peter ful of the holy Ghost, said vnto them, Ye rulers of the people, and Elders of Israel,

⁹ For as much as we this day are examined of the good deede done to the impotent man, to wit, by what meanes he is made whole,

¹⁰ Be it knowen vnto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye haue crucified, whome God raised againe from the dead, euen by him doth this man stand here before you, whole.

¹¹ This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is become the head of the corner.

¹² Neither is there saluation in any other: for among men there is giuen none other Name vnder heauen, whereby we must be saued.

¹³ Now when they sawe the boldnes of Peter and Iohn, and vnderstoode that they were vnlearned men and without knowledge, they marueiled, and knew them, that they had bin with Iesus:

¹⁴ And beholding also the man which was healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.

¹⁵ Then they commanded them to goe aside out of the Council, and conferred among themselues,

¹⁶ Saying, What shall we doe to these men? for surely a manifest signe is done by them, and it is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Hierusalem: and we cannot denie it.

¹⁷ But that it be noysed no farther among the people, let vs threaten and charge them, that they speake hencefoorth to no man in this Name.

¹⁸ So they called them, and commanded them, that in no wise they should speake or teach in the Name of Iesus.

¹⁹ But Peter and Iohn answered vnto them, and said, Whether it be right in the sight of God, to obey you rather then God, iudge ye.

²⁰ For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.

²¹ So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.

²² For the man was aboue fourtie yeeres olde, on whome this miracle of healing was shewed.

²³ Then assoone as they were let goe, they came to their fellowes, and shewed all that the hie Priestes and Elders had said vnto them.

²⁴ And when they heard it, they lift vp their voyces to God with one accord, and said, O Lord, thou art the God which hast made the heaue, and the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,

²⁵ Which by the mouth of thy seruant Dauid hast saide, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the people imagine vaine things?

²⁶ The Kings of the earth assembled, and the rulers came together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

²⁷ For doutlesse, against thine holy Sonne Iesus, whome thou haddest anoynted, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel gathered themselues together,

²⁸ To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done.

²⁹ And nowe, O Lord, beholde their threatnings, and graunt vnto thy seruants with all boldnesse to speake thy word,

³⁰ So that thou stretch forth thine hand, that healing, and signes, and wonders may be done by the Name of thine holy Sonne Iesus.

³¹ And when as they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God boldely.

³² And the multitude of them that beleeued, were of one heart, and of one soule: neither any of them said, that any thing of that which he possessed, was his owne, but they had all thinges common.

³³ And with great power gaue the Apostles witnes of the resurrection of the Lord Iesus: and great grace was vpon them all.

³⁴ Neither was there any among them, that lacked: for as many as were possessours of landes or houses, solde them, and brought the price of the things that were solde,

³⁵ And layde it downe at the Apostles feete, and it was distributed vnto euery man, according as he had neede.

³⁶ Also Ioses which was called of the Apostles, Barnabas (that is by interpretation the sonne of consolation) being a Leuite, and of the countrey of Cyprus,

³⁷ Where as he had land, solde it, and brought the money, and laid it downe at the Apostles feete.

¹ But a certaine man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, solde a possession,

² And kept away part of the price, his wife also being of counsell, and brought a certaine part, and layde it downe at the Apostles feete.

³ Then saide Peter, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart, that thou shouldest lye vnto the holy Ghost, and keepe away part of the price of this possession?

⁴ Whiles it remained, appertained it not vnto thee? and after it was solde, was it not in thine owne power? howe is it that thou hast conceiued this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lyed vnto men, but vnto God.

⁵ Now when Ananias heard these wordes, he fell downe, and gaue vp the ghost. Then great feare came on all them that heard these things.

⁶ And the yong men rose vp, and tooke him vp, and caried him out, and buried him.

⁷ And it came to passe about the space of three houres after, that his wife came in, ignorant of that which was done.

⁸ And Peter sayd vnto her, Tell me, solde ye the land for so much? And she sayd, Yea, for so much.

⁹ Then Peter sayde vnto her, Why haue ye agreed together, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? beholde, the feete of them which haue buried thine husband, are at the doore, and shall carie thee out.

¹⁰ Then she fell downe straightway at his feete, and yeelded vp the ghost: and the yong men came in, and found her dead, and caried her out, and buried her by her husband.

¹¹ And great feare came on all the Church, and on as many as heard these things.

¹² Thus by the hands of the Apostles were many signes and wonders shewed among the people (and they were all with one accorde in Salomons porche.

¹³ And of the other durst no man ioyne him selfe to them: neuerthelesse the people magnified them.

¹⁴ Also the number of them that beleeued in the Lord, both of men and women, grewe more and more)

¹⁵ In so much that they brought the sicke into the streetes, and layd them on beds and couches, that at the least way the shadowe of Peter, when he came by, might shadow some of them.

¹⁶ There came also a multitude out of the cities round about vnto Hierusalem, bringing sicke folkes, and them which were vexed with vncleane spirits, who were all healed.

¹⁸ And laide hands on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.

¹⁹ But the Angel of the Lord, by night opened the prison doores, and brought them forth, and sayd,

²⁰ Go your way, and stand in the Temple, and speake to the people, all the wordes of this life.

²¹ So when they heard it, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, and taught. And the chiefe Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Councill together, and all the Elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison, to cause them to be brought.

²² But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and tolde it,

²³ Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

²⁴ Then when the chiefe Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the hie Priestes heard these things, they doubted of them, whereunto this would growe.

²⁵ Then came one and shewed them, saying, Beholde, the men that ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teach the people.

²⁶ Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence (for they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned)

²⁷ And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, and the chiefe Priest asked them,

²⁸ Saying, Did not we straightly commaund you, that ye should not teach in this Name? and behold, ye haue filled Hierusale with your doctrine, and ye would bring this mans blood vpon vs.

²⁹ Then Peter and the Apostles answered, and sayd, We ought rather to obey God then men.

³⁰ The God of our fathers hath raised vp Iesus, whom ye slewe, and hanged on a tree.

³¹ Him hath God lift vp with his right hand, to be a Prince and a Sauiour, to giue repentance to Israel, and forgiuenes of sinnes.

³² And we are his witnesses concerning these things which we say: yea, and the holy Ghost, whome God hath giuen to them that obey him.

³³ Now when they heard it, they brast for anger, and consulted to slay them.

³⁴ Then stoode there vp in the Councill a certaine Pharise named Gamaliel, a doctour of the Lawe, honoured of all the people, and commanded to put the Apostles forth a litle space,

³⁵ And sayd vnto them, Men of Israel, take heede to your selues, what ye intende to doe touching these men.

³⁶ For before these times, rose vp Theudas boasting himselfe, to whom resorted a number of men, about a foure hundreth, who was slaine: and they all which obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.

³⁷ After this man, arose vp Iudas of Galile, in the dayes of the tribute, and drewe away much people after him: hee also perished, and all that obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

³⁸ And nowe I say vnto you, Refraine your selues from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsell, or this worke be of men, it will come to nought:

³⁹ But if it be of God, ye can not destroy it, lest ye be found euen fighters against God.

⁴⁰ And to him they agreed, and called the Apostle