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Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. XVI.

1   And Pharisees and Saduceis temptynge him `camen ni&yogh; to hym, and preiden hym for to shewe to hem a tokene fro heuene. 2   And he answerynge seith to hem, The eeuenynge maad, &yogh;e seien, It shal be cleer, for the heuene is `lijk to reed; 3   and `the morwe, To day tempest, for heuen shyneth `heuy, or sorwful. 4   Therfore &yogh;e `han knowe to deme wisely the face of heuen, but &yogh;e mowen not wite the tokenys of tymes. The yuel generacioun and avowtrer sekith a tokne; and a tokene shal nat be &yogh;ouen to it, no but the tokne of Jonas, the prophete. And, hem forsaken, he wente awey. 5   And whenne his disciplis camen ouer the see, thei for&yogh;aten for to take loouys. 6   The whiche seide to hem, Beholde &yogh;e, and beth war of the sourdow&yogh; of Pharisees and Saducees. 7   And thei thou&yogh;ten amonge hem, seiynge, For we han nat taken loouys. 8   Forsothe Jhesus witynge seide to hem, What thenken &yogh;e amonge &yogh;ou of litil feith, for &yogh;e han nat loouys? 9   &YOGH;it &yogh;e vndirstonden nat, nether han mynde of fyue loouys in to fyue thousand of men, and hou many cofyns &yogh;e token? 10   trewly nether of seuen loouys in to four thousand of men, and hou many lepis &yogh;ee token? 11   Whi vndirstonden &yogh;e nat, for I seide nat to &yogh;ou of breed, Be &yogh;e war of sourdow&yogh; of Pharisees and of Saducees? 12   Thanne thei vnderstoden, that he seide nat to be war of sourdow&yogh; of loouys, bote of the techynge of Pharisees and Saducees. 13   Sothely Jhesus came in to the parties `of Cesarie of Philip, and

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axide his disciplis, seyinge, Whom seyn men to ben mannes sone? 14   And thei seiden, Summe Joon Baptist; other forsothe Hely; `but other Jeremye, or oon of the prophetis. 15   Jhesus seith to hem, Sothely whom seien &yogh;e me to be? 16   Symon Petre answerynge seide, Thou art Crist, the sone of `God lyuynge. 17   Forsothe Jhesus answerynge seide to hym, Blessid art thou, Symon Bariona, that is, the sone of culuer; for flesh and blood shewide nat to thee, but my fadir that is in heuenes. 18   And Y seye to thee, for thou art Petre, and vpon this stoon I shal bilde my churche, and the &yogh;atis of helle shulen nat han mi&yogh;t, `or strengthe, a&yogh;eins it. 19   And to thee I shal &yogh;eue the keies of the kyngdam of heuenes; and what euer thou shalt bynde vpon erthe, shal be bounden and in heuenes; and what euer thou shalt vnbynde vpon erthe, shal be vnbounden and in heuenes. 20   Thanne he comaundide to his disciplis, that thei shulden seie to no man, that he was Crist. 21   Fro that tyme Jhesus bygan for to shewe to his disciplis, that it byhouith hym to go to Jerusalem, and suffre many thingus of the eldris, and scribis, and princis of prestis; and be sleyn, and the thridde day ryse vp a&yogh;ein. 22   And Petre, takynge hym to, began for to blame hym, seyinge, Fer be it fro thee, Lord; this thing shal not be to thee. 23   The whiche, turnyd, seide to Petre, Sathanas, go after me; thou art sclaundre to me; for thou `sauerist nat, or vndirstondist nat, tho thingis that ben of God, but tho thingis that ben of men. 24   Thanne Jhesus seide to his disciplis, &YOGH;if eny man wole cume after me, denye he hym self, and take his crosse, and sue me;

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for he that wole make `his soule saaf, 25    `that is, his lyf, shal lese it; forsothe he that shal lese his soule, `that is, his lyf, for me, shal fynde it. 26   Sothely what profitith it to a man, `&yogh;if he wynne al the world, trewly he suffre peyrynge of his soule? or what chaungynge shal a man &yogh;eue for his soule? 27   For mannes sone `is to come in glorie of his fadir, with his angelis, and thanne he shal &yogh;elde to euery man aftir his workis. 28   Treuly I seie to &yogh;ou, `there ben summe of men stondynge heer, `the whiche shul nat taaste deth, til thei seen mannys sone cummynge in his kyngdom.
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Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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