1   And there vvere certaine present at that very time telling him of the Galilæans, vvhose bloud Pilate mingled vvith their sacrifices.

2   And he ansvvering said to them, Thinke you that09Q0731 these Galil&ecedil;ans vvere sinners more then al the Galilæans that they suffred such things?

3   No, I say to you: but vnles you ^{note note} haue penance, you shal al likevvise perish.

4   As those eightene vp&obar; vvhom the toure fel in Silóe, and slevv them: thinke you that they also vvere detters aboue al the men that dvvel in Hierusalem?

5   No, I say to you: but if you haue not penance, you shal al likevvise perish.

6    ^noteAnd he said this similitude, A certaine man had ^note a figtree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking for fruite on it, and found not.

7   And he said to the dresser of the vineyard, Loe it is three yeres since I come seeking for fruite vpon this figtree: and I finde not. Cut it dovvne therfore: vvhereto doth it also occupie the ground?

8   But he ansvvering saith to him, Lord, let it alone this yere also, vntil I digge about it, and dung it.

9   and if happily it yeld fruite: but if not, hereafter thou shalt cut it dovvne.

10   And he vvas teaching in their synagogue on the Sabboths.

11   And behold a vvoman that had a spirit of infirmitie eightene yeres: and she vvas crooked neither could she looke vpvvard at al.

12   Whom vvhen Iesvs savv, he called her vnto him, and said to her, woman, thou art deliuered from thy infirmitie.

13   And he imposed hands vpon her, and forthvvith she vvas made straight and glorified God.

14   And the Archsynagogue ansvvering (because he had indignation that Iesvs had cured on the Sabboth) said to the multitude, Sixe daies there are vvherein you ought to vvorke. in them therfore come, and be cured: and not in the Sabboth day.

15   And our Lord ansvvering to him, said, Hypocrite, doth not euery one of you vpon the Sabboth loose his oxe or his asse from the manger, and leadeth them to vvater?

16   But09Q0732 this daughter of Abraham vvhom Satan hath bound, loe, these eightene yeres, ought not she to be loosed from this bond on the Sabboth day?

17   And vvhen he said these things, al his aduersaries vvere ashamed: and al the people reioyced in al things that vvere gloriously done of him. &cross4;

18   He said therfore, ^note Vvherevnto is the kingdom of God like, and vvherevnto shal I esteeme it like?

19   It is like to a ^note mustard seede, vvhich a man tooke and cast into his garden, and it grevv: and became a great tree, and the foules of the aire rested in the boughes thereof.

20   And againe he said, ^note Like to vvhat shal I esteeme the kingdom of God?

21   It is like to leauen, vvhich a vvoman tooke and hid in three measures of meale, til the vvhole vvas leauened.

22   And he vvent by cities and tovvnes teaching, and making his iourney vnto Hierusalem.

23   And a certaine man said to him, Lord, be they fevv that are saued? ^noteBut he said to them,

24    ^noteStriue to enter09Q0733 by the narrovv gate: because many, I say to you,09Q0734 shal seeke to enter,

and shal not be able.

25   But vvhen the good man of the house shal enter in, and shut the doore, and you shal begin to stand vvithout, and knocke at the doore, saying, Lord op&ebar;n to vs: and he ansvvering shal say to you, I knovv you not vvhence you are:

26   then you shal begin to say, Vve did09Q0735 eate before thee and drinke, and in our streates didst thou teach.

27   And he shal say to you, I knovv you not vvhence you are, depart from me al ye vvorkers of iniquitie.

28   There shal be vveeping and gnashing of teeth: vvhen you shal see Abraham and Isaac and Iacob, and al the Prophets in the kingdom of God, and you to be thrust out.

29   And there shal come from the East and the Vvest and the North and the South: and shal sit dovvne in the kingdom of God.

30   And behold, they are ^note last that shal be first, and they be first that shal be last.

31   The same day there came certaine of the Pharisees, saying to him, Depart and get the hence, because Herod vvil kil thee.

32   And he said to them, Goe, and tel that foxe, Behold I cast out deuils, and perfite cures this day and to morovv, and the third day I am consummate.

33   But yet I must vvalke this day and to morovv and the day folovving, because it ^note cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Hierusalem.

34    ^noteHierusalem, Hierusalem vvhich killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, hovv often vvould I gather thy childr&ebar; as the bird doth her brood vnder her vvings, and ^note thou vvouldest not?

35   Behold your house shal be left desert to you. And I say to you, that you shal not see me til it come vvhen you shal say, Blessed is he that commeth in the name of our Lord.

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