A    ^noteHe sayde vnto his disciples: It is vnpossible that offences shulde not come: but wo vnto him by whom they come: It were better for him, that a mylstone were hanged aboute his neck, and he cast in to the see, then that he shulde offende one of these litle ones. Take hede to youre selues. Yf thy brother trespace agaynst the, rebuke him: ^note and yf he amende, forgeue him. And though he synne agaynst the seuen tymes in a daye, and come seuen tymes in a daye to þe; agayne, and saye: It repenteth me, forgeue him.

^noteAnd the Apostles sayde vnto þe; LORDE: Increace oure faith. The LORDE sayde: Yf ye haue faith as a grayne of mustarde sede, and saye vnto this Molbery tre: Plucke thy self vp by the rotes, and pl&abar;te thy self in the see, it shalbe obedi&ebar;t vnto you. Which of you is it, that hath a seruaunt (which ploweth, or fedeth the catell) wh&abar; he commeth home from þe; felde, that he wil saye vnto him: Go quyckly, and syt the downe to meate? B   Is it not thus? that he sayeth vnto him: Make ready, that I maye suppe, gyrde vp thyself, and serue me, tyll I haue eaten and dronken, afterwarde shalt thou eate and drynke also. Thanketh he the same seruaunt also, because he dyd that was commaunded him? I trowe not. So likewyse ye, wh&abar; ye haue done all that is c&obar;maunded you, saye: We are vnprofitable seruauntes, we haue done that we were bounde to do.

And it fortuned, whan he toke his iourney towarde Ierusalem, he wente thorow the myddest of Samaria and Galile. And as he came in to a towne, there met him ten leporous men, which stode afarre of, and lift vp their voyce, and sayde: Iesu master, haue mercy vpon vs. And whan he sawe them, he sayde vnto th&ebar;: ^note Go, and shewe youre selues vnto þe; prestes. And it came to passe, as they wente, they were clensed. And one of them wh&abar; he sawe that he was clensed, he turned backe agayne, and praysed God with loude voyce, and fell downe on his face at his fete, and gaue him thankes. And the same was a Samaritane. Iesus answered and saide: Are there not ten clensed? But where are those nyne? There were els none founde, that turned agayne, and gaue God the prayse, saue onely this stra&ubar;ger. And he sayde vnto him: Aryse, go thy waye, thy faith hath made þe; whole.

C   But whan he was demaunded of þe; Pharises: Whan c&obar;meth the kyngdome of God? He answered them, and sayde: The kyngdome of God commeth not with outwarde appearaunce, nether shal it be sayde: lo, here or there is it. For beholde, þe; kyngdome of God is inwarde in you.

And he sayde to the disciples: The tyme shal come, wh&abar; ye shal desyre to se one daye of the sonne of man, and shal not se it. And they shal saye vnto you: Se here, Se there. ^note Go not ye, nether folowe, for as the lightenynge shyneth aboue from the heauen, and lighteth ouer all that is vnder the heau&ebar;, so shal the sonne of m&abar; be in his daye. But first must he suffre many thinges, and be refused of this generacion. ^note

^noteAnd as it came to passe in the tyme of Noe, so shal it come to passe also in þe; dayes of the sonne of man. They ate, they dranke, they maried, and were maried, euen vnto þe; daye that Noe wente in to the Arke, and þe; floude came, and destroyed them all.

D   Likewyse also as it came to passe in the tyme of Lot, they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they buylded. But euen the same daye that Lot wente out of Sodom, ^note it rayned fyre and brymstone from heau&ebar;, and destroyed them all. After this maner also shal it go, in the daye whan the sonne of man shal appeare.

^noteIn that daye, who so is vp&obar; the rofe, and his stuffe in þe; house, let him not come downe to fetch it: Likewyse he that is in the felde, let him not turne backe, for it that is behynde him. ^noteRem&ebar;bre Lottes wife. Who so euer goeth aboute to saue his life, shal lose it: and who so euer shal lose it, shal saue it. ^note

I saye vnto you: In þt; night shal two

lye vpon one bed, the one shalbe receaued, the other shalbe for saken. Two shalbe gryndinge together, ^note the one shalbe receaued, the other shalbe forsaken. And they answered, and sayde vnto him: Where LORDE? He sayde vnto th&ebar;: Where so euer þe; deed carcase is there wil þe; Aegles be gathered together.

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