CAP. X.
1 And Jhesus risynge vp fro thennis, cam
in to the endis of Jude ouer Jordan;
and eftsoones the cumpanyes `of peple
camen `to gidere to him, and as he
was wont, eftsoone he tau&yogh;te hem.
2 And
Pharisees `comynge ny&yogh;, axiden him, If
it be leefful to a man for to leeue, `or
forsake, his wyf? `temptinge him.
3 And
he answeringe seith to hem, What comaundide
Moyses to &yogh;ou?
4 The whiche
seiden, Moyses suffride to write a libel of
forsakinge, and to forsake.
5 To whom
Jhesus answeringe seith, To the hardnesse
of &yogh;oure herte Moyses wroot to &yogh;ou
this precept.
6 Forsothe fro the bigynnyng
of creature God made hem male
and female;
7 and he seide, For this thing
a man schal leeue fadir and modir, and
schal clefe to his wif,
8 and thei schulen be
tweyne in o fleisch. And so now thei
ben not tweyne, but o fleisch.
9 Therfore
that thing that God ioynede to gidere,
`no man departe.
10 And eftsoone in the
hows his disciplis axiden him of the same
thing.
11 And he seith to hem, Who euere
`schal leeue his wyf, and wedde another,
he doth auoutrie vpon hir.
12 And if the
wyf `schal leeue hir hosebonde, and be
weddid to another, she doth auoutrie.
13 And
thei offriden to him litle children, that he
schulde touche hem; sotheli disciplis thretenyden
to men offringe.
14 Whom whanne
Jhesus hadde seyn, he baar `heuye, or vnworthili,
and seith to hem, Suffre &yogh;e
-- --
litle children for to come to me, and forbede
&yogh;e hem not, forsoth of suche `is the
kyngdom of God.
15 Treuli I seie to &yogh;ou,
who euere `schal not receyue the kyngdom
of God as this litle child, he schal
not entre in to it.
16 And he biclippinge
hem, and puttinge hondis vpon hem,
blesside hem.
17 And whanne Jhesus was
gon out in the weye, o man rennynge
bifore, the kne bowid, preiede him, seiynge,
Goode maistir, what schal I do, that
I receyue euerlastinge lyf?
18 Forsothe
Jhesus seide to him, What seist thou me
good? `No man good, no but `God
aloone.
19 `Thou hast knowen the comaundementis,
do thou non auoutrie, sle
not, stele not, seie not fals witnessinge,
do no fraude, worschipe thi fadir and modir.
20 And he answeringe seith to him,
Maistir, I haue kept alle these thingis fro
my &yogh;outhe.
21 Sothli Jhesus `biheld him,
and louyde hym; and he seide to him,
O thing failith to thee; go thou, selle
thou what euere thingis thou hast, and
&yogh;yue to pore men, and thou schalt haue
tresour in heuene; and come, sue thou
me.
22 The which maad sorwful in the
word, wente awey mornynge, forsoth
he was hauynge many possesciouns.
23 And
Jhesus biholdinge aboute, seith to his
disciplis, How hard thei that han money
schulen entre in to the kyngdom of God.
24 Forsothe the disciplis weren stoneyed in
his wordis. And Jhesus eftsoone answeringe
seith to hem, &YOGH;e litle sones,
how hard thing `it is, men tristynge in
richessis for to entre in to the kyngdom
of God.
25 It is li&yogh;ter, `or esyer, a camel
for to passe thorw `a nedlis y&yogh;e, than a
riche man for to entre in to the kyngdom
-- --
of God.
26 Whiche wondriden more, seyinge
at hem selue, And who may be
maad saf?
27 And Jhesus biholdinge hem,
seith `to hem, Anentis men it is impossible,
but not anemptis God; for alle
thingis ben possible anemptis God.
28 And
aftirward Petre bigan for to seye to
him, Loo! we han left alle thingis, and
han sued thee.
29 Jhesus answeringe seith,
Treuli I seie to &yogh;ou, `ther is no man that
schal leeue hous, or bretheren, or sistris,
or fadir, or modir, or sones, or feeldis for me
and for the gospel,
30 the which schal not
taken an hundridfold so moche now in this
tyme, housis, and bretheren, and sistris,
and modris, and sones, and feldis, with persecuciouns,
and in the world to comynge
euerlasting lyf.
31 Forsoth many schulen
be, the firste the laste, and the laste the
firste.
32 Forsothe thei weren in the weye
sti&yogh;ynge to Jerusalem; and Jhesus wente
bifore hem, and thei wondriden, and
folowinge dredden. And eftsoone Jhesus
takinge to twelue, bygan to seye to
hem, what thingis weren to come to him.
33 For lo! we sti&yogh;en to Jerusalem, and
mannus sone schal be bitrayed to the
princes of prestis, and to scribis, and to
eldere men; and thei schulen dampne
him by deeth, and thei schulen bytake
him to hethene men.
34 And thei schulen
scorne him, and byspeete him, and beete
him; and thei schulen sle him, and in the
thridde day he schal ryse a&yogh;en.
35 And
James and Jon, `Zebedees sones, `camen
ny&yogh; to him, seyinge, Maistir, we wolen,
that what euere we schulen axe, thou do
to vs.
36 And he seide to hem, What wolen
&yogh;e that I do to &yogh;ou?
37 And thei seiden,
&YOGH;yue to vs, that we sitten `that oon at thi
ri&yogh;thalf, and `the tothir at `the left, in thi
-- --
glorie.
38 Forsothe Jhesus `seith to hem,
&YOGH;e witen not what &yogh;e schulen axe; mown
&yogh;e drynke the cuppe, the which I `am to
drynke, or be waischun with the baptym,
in which I am baptisid?
39 And thei
seiden to him, We mown. Sothli Jhesus
seith to hem, Treuli &yogh;e schulen drynke
the cuppe that I drynke, and &yogh;e schulen
be waischun with the baptym, in which
I am baptisid;
40 sothli for to sitte at my
ri&yogh;thalf or lefthalf is not myn to &yogh;yue to
&yogh;ou, but to which it is ordeyned.
41 And
the ten heeringe hadden endignacioun of
James and John.
42 Sothli Jhesus clepinge
hem, seith to hem, &YOGH;e witen, that thei
that semen, `or ben seyn, to haue princehed
on folkis, lordschipen, `or ben lordis,
of hem, and the princes of hem han power
of hem.
43 Forsoth it is not so in &yogh;ou, but
who euere schal wolle be maad more,
schal be &yogh;oure mynystre,
44 and who euere
schal wolle be the firste in &yogh;ou, schal be
seruaunt of alle.
45 Forwhi and mannis
sone cam not, that `it schulde be mynystrid
to him, but that he schulde mynystre,
and &yogh;yue his soule, `or lyf, `redempcioun,
or a&yogh;en biyng, for manye.
46 And thei camen to Jerico; and him goynge
forth fro Jerico, and his disciplis,
and a ful moche cumpany `of peple, the
sone of Tymey, Barthymeus, blynd, saat
bisydis the weye beggynge.
47 `The which
whanne he hadde herd, for it is Jhesus of
Nazareth, bigan to crie, and seye, Jhesu,
the sone of Dauith, haue mercy on me.
48 And manye thretnyden hym, that he
schulde be stille; and he criede moche
more, Jhesu, the sone of Dauith, haue
mercy on me.
49 And Jhesu stondinge
comaundide hym for to be clepid; and
-- --
thei clepiden the blynde man, seiynge to
him, Be thou `of betere herte, ryse vp,
he clepith thee.
50 `The which, his cloth
cast away, `sturtinge cam to him.
51 And
Jhesus answeringe seide to him, What
wolt thou I schal do to thee? The
blynde man seide to him, Maistir, that I
se.
52 Sothli Jhesus seide to him, Go thou,
thi feith hath maad thee saaf. And anon
he sy&yogh;, and suede him in the weye.
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].
