1   And when great multitudes stoode about him, so that they trode one an other, he began to say to his Disciples, Take good heede of the leauen of the Pharisees, vvhich is hypocrisie.

2    ^noteFor nothing is hid, that shal not be reuealed: nor secrete, that shal not be knovven.

3   For the things that you haue said in darknesse, shal be said in the light: and that vvhich you haue spoken into the eare in the chambers, shal be preached in the house-toppes.

4   And I say to you my frendes, Be not afraid of them that kil the body, and after this haue no more to doe.

5   But I vvil shevv you vvhom ye shal feare: ^note feare him vvho after he hath killed, hath povver to cast into hel. yea I say to you, feare him.

6   Are not fiue sparovves sold for tvvo farthings: and one of them is not forgotten before God?

7   Yea the heares also of your head are

al numbered. Feare not therfore: you are more vvorth then many sparovves.

8    ^noteAnd I say to you,09Q0726 Euery one that confesseth me before men, the Sonne of man also vvil confesse him before the Angels of God.

9   But he that denieth me before men, shal be denied before the Angels of God.

10    ^noteAnd ^note euery one that speaketh a vvord against the sonne of man, it shal be forgiuen him: but he that shal blaspheme against the holy Ghost, to him it shal not be forgiuen.

11    ^noteAnd vvhen they shal bring you in to the synagogs and to magistrates and potestates,09Q0727 be not careful in vvhat maner, and vvhat you shal ansvver, or vvhat you shal say.

12   For the holy Ghost shal teach you in the very houre vvhat you must say.

13   And one of the multitude said to him, Maister, speake to my brother that he deuide the inheritaunce vvith me.

14   But he said to him, Man,09Q0728 vvho hath appointed me iudge or deuider ouer you?

15   And he said to them, See and bevvare of al auarice: for not in any mans aboundance doth his life consist, of those things vvhich he possesseth.

16   And he spake a similitude to them, saying, A certaine riche m&abar;s field yelded plentie of fruites.

17   and he thought vvithin him self, saying, ^note Vvhat shal I doe, because I haue not vvhither to gather my fruites?

18   And he said, This vvil I doe, I vvil destroy my barnes, and vvil make greater: and thither vvil I gather al things that are grovven to me, and my goods,

19   and I vvil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laid vp for many yeres, take thy rest, eate, drinke, make good cheere.

20   But God said to him, ^note Thou foole, this night they require thy soule of thee: and the things that thou hast prouided, vvhose shal they be?

21   So is he that laieth vp treasure to him self, and is not09Q0729 riche to God vvard.

22   And he said to his Disciples, ^note Therfore I say to you, ^note Be not careful for your life, vvhat you shal eate: nor for your body, vvhat you shal doe on.

23   The life is more then the meate, and the body is more then the raiment.

24   Consider the rauens, for they sovv not, neither doe they reape, vvhich neither haue storehouse nor barne, and God feedeth them. Hovv much more are you of greater price then they?

25   And vvhich of you by caring can adde to his stature one cubite?

26   If then you be not able to doe so much as the least thing, for the rest vvhy are you careful?

27   Consider the lilies hovv

they grovv: they labour not, neither doe they spinne. But I say to you, Neither Salomon in al his glorie vvas araied as one of these.

28   And if the grasse that to day is in the field, and to morovv is cast into the ouen, God so clotheth: hovv much more you. O ye of litle faith!

29   And you, doe not seeke vvhat you shal eate, or vvhat you shal drinke: and ^note be not lifted vp on high.

30   For al these things the nations of the vvorld doe seeke. but your father knovveth that you haue neede of these things.

31   But seeke first the kingdom of God, and al these things shal be giuen you besides.

32    ^noteFeare not ^note litle flocke, for it hath pleased your father to giue you a kingdom.

33   Sel the things that you possesse, and giue almes. ^noteMake to you purses that vveare not, treasure that vvasteth not, in heauen: vvhither the theefe approcheth not, neither doth the mothe corrupt.

34   For09Q0730 vvhere your treasure is, there vvil your hart be also. &cross4;

35    ^noteLet your ^note loynes be girded, and candles burning in your handes,

36   and you like to men expecting their lord, when he shal returne from the mariage: that vvhen he doth come and knocke, forthvvith they may open vnto him.

37   Blessed are those seruants, vvhom vvhen the Lord commeth, he shal finde vvatching. Amen I say to you, that he vvil gird him self, and make them sit dovvne, and passing vvil minister vnto them.

38   And if he come in the second vvatch, and if in the third vvatch he come, and so finde, blessed are those seruants.

39    ^noteAnd this knovv ye, that if the housholder did knovv vvhat houre the theefe vvould come, he vvould vvatch verely, and vvould not suffer his house to be broken vp.

40   Be you also ready: for at vvhat houre you thinke not, the Sonne of man vvil come. &cross4;

41   And Peter said to him, Lord, doest thou speake this parable to vs, or likevvise to al?

42   And our Lord said, Vvho (thinkest thou) is a faithful stevvard and vvise, vvhom the lord appointeth ouer his familie, to giue them in season their measure of vvheate?

43   Blessed is that seruant, vvhom vvhen the lord commeth, he shal finde so doing.

44   Verely I say to you, that ouer al things vvhich he possesseth, he shal appoint him.

45   But if that seruant say in his hart, My lord is long a comming: and shal begin to strike the seruants and handmaides, and eate and drinke, and be drunke:

46   the lord of that seruant shal come in a day that he hopeth not, and at an houre that he knovveth not, and shal deuide him, and

shal appoint his portion vvith the infidels.

47   And that seruant that knevv the vvil of his lord, and prepared not him self, and did not according to his vvil: shal be beaten vvith many stripes.

48   But he that knevv not, and did things vvorthie of stripes: shal be beaten vvith fevv. And euery one to vvhom much vvas giuen, much shal be required of him: and to vvhom they committed much, more vvil they demaund of him.

49   I came to cast fire on the earth: and vvhat vvil I, but that it be kindled?

50   But I haue to be baptized with a baptisme: and hovv am I straitened vntil it be dispatched?

51    ^noteThinke you that I came to giue ^note peace on the earth? No, I tel you, but separation.

52   For there shal be from this time, fiue in one house deuided: three against tvvo, and tvvo against three.

53   There shal be deuided, the father against the sonne, and the sonne against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in lavv against her daughter in lavv, and the daughter in lavv against her mother in lavv.

54    ^noteAnd he said also to the multitudes, when you see a cloude rising from the vvest, by and by you say, A shoure commeth, and so it commeth to passe:

55   and vvhen the south vvinde blovving, you say, That there vvil be heate: and it commeth to passe.

56   Hypocrites, the face of the heauen and of the earth you haue skil to discerne: but this time hovv doe you not discerne?

57   And vvhy of your selues also iudge you not that vvhich is iust?

58    ^noteAnd ^note vvhen thou goest vvith thy aduersarie to the Prince, in the vvay endeuour to be deliuered from him: lest perhaps he dravv thee to the iudge, and the iudge deliuer thee to the exactour, and the exactour cast thee into prison.

59   I say to thee, thou shalt not goe out thence, vntil thou pay the very last mite.

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