1    ^noteAnd he began speake to them in parables, ^note A man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it, and digged a trough, and built a tovvre, and let it out to husbandmen: and vvent forth into a strange countrie.

2   And he sent to the husbandmen in season a seruant, to receiue

of the husbandmen, of the fruite of the vineyard.

3   Vvho apprehending him, bette him: and sent him avvay emptie.

4   And againe he sent to them an other seruant: and him they vvounded in the head, and vsed him reprochefully.

5   And againe he sent an other, and him they killed: and many other, beating certaine, and killing others.

6   Therfore hauing yet one ^note sonne most deere: him also he sent vnto them last saying, That they vvill reuerence my sonne.

7   But the husbandmen said one to an other, This is the heier: come, let vs kill him: and the inheritance shal be ours.

8   And apprehending him, they killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.

9   What therfore vvil the lord of the vineyard doe? ^noteHe vvil come and destroy the husbandmen: and vvil giue the vineyard to others.

10   Neither haue you read this scripture, The ^note stone vvhich the builders reiected, the same is made the head of the corner:

11   By our Lord was this done, and it is maruelous in our eies? ^note

12   And they sought to lay hands on him, and they feared the multitude. for they knevv that he spake this parable to them. And leauing him they vvent their vvay.

13    ^noteAnd they send to him certaine of the Pharisees and of the Herodians: that they should entrappe him in his vvord.

14   Vvho comming, say to him, Maister, vve knovv that thou art a true speaker, and carest not for any man: for thou doest not looke vpon the person of men, but teachest the vvay of God in truth, is it lavvful to giue tribute to Cæsar: or shal vve not giue it?

15   Vvho knovving their subteltie, said to them, Vvhy tempt you me? bring me a penie that I may see it.

16   But they brought it him. And he saith to them, Vvhose is this image, and inscription? They say to him, Cæsars.

17   And Iesvs ansvvering, said to them, Render therfore the things that are Cæsars, to Cæsar: and that are Gods,09Q0641 to God. And they marueled at him.

18   And ^note there came to him the Saducees that say there is no resurrection: and they asked him saying, Maister,

19    ^noteMoyses vvrote vnto vs, that if any mans brother die, and leaue his vvife, and leaue no children,09Q0642 his brother shal take his vvife and raise vp seede to his brother.

20   There vvere therfore seuen brethren: and the first tooke a vvife, and died leauing no issue.

21   And the second tooke her, and died: and neither this left issue. And the third in like maner.

22   And the seuen tooke her in like sort: and did not leaue issue. Last of al the vvoman also

died.

23   In the resurrection therfore vvhen they shal rise againe, vvhose vvife shal she be of these? for the seuen had her to vvife.

24   And Iesvs ansvvering, said to them, Do ye not therfore erre09Q0643, not knovving the scriptures, nor09Q0644 the povver of God?

25   For vvhen they shal rise againe from the dead, they shal neither marrie, nor be married, but are as the Angels in heauen.

26   And as concerning the dead, that they do rise againe, haue you not read in the booke of Moyses, hovv in the bush God spake to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? ^note

27   He is not the God of the dead, but of the liuing. You therfore are much deceiued.

28   And ^note there came one of the Scribes that had heard them questioning, and seeing that he had wel answered them, asked him vvhich vvas the first c&obar;maundement of al.

29   And Iesvs ansvvered him, That the first commaundement of al is, Heare Israel: the Lord thy God, is one God.

30   And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God from thy vvhole hart, and vvith thy vvhole soul, and vvith thy vvhole minde, and vvith thy vvhole povver. ^note This is the first commaundement.

31   And the second is like to it, Thou shalt loue they neighbour as thy self. ^note An other commaundement greater then these there is not.

32   And the Scribe said to him, Vvel Maister, thou hast said in truth, that there is one God, and there is none other besides him.

33   And that he be loued from the vvhole hart, and vvith the vvhole vnderstanding, and vvith the vvhole soule, and vvith the vvhole strength: and ^note to loue his neighbour as him self is a greater thing then al holocaustes and sacrifices.

34   And Iesvs seeing that he had ansvvered vvisely, said to him, Thou art not farre from the kingdom of God. And no man novv durst aske him.

35   And ^note Iesvs ansvvering, said, teaching in the temple, Hovv do the Scribes say, that Christ is the sonne of Dauid?

36   For Dauid him self saith in the holy Ghost: Our Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, vntil I put thine enemies the foote-stoole of thy feete.

37   Dauid therfore him self calleth him Lord, and vvhence is he his sonne? And a great multitude heard him gladly.

38   And he said to them in his doctrine, ^note Take heede of the Scribes that vvil vvalke in long robes, and be saluted in the market-place,

39   and sit in the first chaires in the Synagogs, and loue the highest places at suppers:

40   vvhich deuoure vvidovves houses vnder the pretence of long prayer: these

shal receiue larger iudgement.

41    ^noteAnd Iesvs sitting ouer against the treasurie, beheld hovv the multitude did cast money into the treasurie, and many rich men did cast in much.

42   And vvhen there came a certaine poore vvidovv, she cast in tvvo mites, vvhich is a farthing.

43   And calling his Disciples together, he saith to them, Amen I say to you, that this poore vvidovv hath cast in ^note more then al that haue cast into the treasurie.

44   For al they of their aboundance haue cast in: but she, of her penurie hath cast in al that she had, her vvhole liuing.

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