The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

But they wist not what that worde meant and that was hyd from the that they vnderstode that not. And they feared to axe him of that sayinge.

Then ther arose a disputacion amonge the: who shuld be the greatest.

When Iesus perceaved the thoughtes of their hertes he toke a chylde and set him hard by him

and sayd vnto the: Whosoever receaveth this chylde in my name receaveth me. And whosoever receaveth me receaveth him that sent me. For he that is least amonge you all the same shalbe greate.

And Iohn answered and sayde: Master we sawe one castinge out devyls in thy name and we forbade him because he foloweth not with vs.

And Iesus sayde vnto him: forbyd ye him not. For he that is not agaynst vs is with vs.

And it folowed when the tyme was come that he shulde be receaved vp then he set his face to goo to Hierusalem

and sent messengers before him. And they went and entred into a citie of the Samaritans to make redy for him.

But they wolde not receave him be cause his face was as though he wolde goo to Ierusalem.

When his disciples Iames and Iohn sawe that they sayde: Lorde wilt thou that we commaunde that fyre come doune from heven and consume them even as Helias dyd?

Iesus turned about and rebuked them sayinge: ye wote not what maner sprete ye are of.

The sonne of man ys not come to destroye mennes lives but to save them. And they went to another toune.

And it chaunsed as he went in the waye a certayne man sayd vnto him: I will folowe the whither soever thou goo.

Iesus sayd vnto him: foxes have holes and bryddes of the ayer have nestes: but the sonne of man hath not where on to laye his heed.

And he sayde vnto another: folowe me. And the same sayde: Lorde suffre me fyrst to goo and bury my father.

Iesus sayd vnto him: Let the deed bury their deed: but goo thou and preache the kyngdome of God.

And another sayde: I wyll folowe the Lorde: but let me fyrst goo byd them fare well which are at home at my housse.

Iesus sayde vnto him: No man that putteth his honde to the plowe and loketh backe is apte to the kyngdome of God.

After these thinges the Lorde apoynted other seventie also and sent them two and two before him into every citie and place whither he him silfe wolde come.

And he sayde vnto them the harvest is greate: but the laborers are feawe. Praye therfore the Lorde of the harvest to send forth laborers into his hervest.

Goo youre wayes: beholde I sende you forthe as lambes amonge wolves.

Beare noo wallet nether scryppe nor shues and salute noo man by the waye.

Into whatsoever housse ye enter fyrst saye: Peace be to this housse.

And yf the sonne of peace be theare youre peace shall rest vpon him: yf not that shall returne to you agayne.

And in the same housse tary still eatinge and drinkinge soche as they have. For the laborer is worthy of his rewarde. Go not from housse to housse:

and in to whatso ever citye ye enter yf they receave you eate soche thinges as are set before you

and heale the sicke that are theare and saye vnto them: the kyngdome of God is come nye vpon you.

But into whatsoever citie ye shall enter yf they receave you not goo youre wayes out into the stretes of the same and saye:

even the very dust which cleaveth on vs of your citie we wipe of agaynst you: Not withstondinge marke this that the kyngdome of God was come nie vpon you.

Ye and I saye vnto you: that it shalbe easier in that daye for Sodom then for that cytie.

Wo be to the Chorazin: wo be to the Bethsaida. For yf the miracles had bene done in Tyre and Sidon which have bene done in you they had a greate whyle agone repeted sitting in heere and asshes.

Neverthelesse it shalbe easier for Tyre and Sidon at the iudgement then for you.

And thou Capernau which art exalted to heaven shalt be thrust doune to hell.

He that heareth you heareth me: and he that dispiseth you despiseth me: and he that dispiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

And the sevetie returned agayne with ioye sayinge: Lorde even the very devyls are subdued to vs thorowe thy name.

And he sayde vnto them: I sawe satan as it had bene lightenyng faule doune from heaven.

Beholde I geve vnto you power to treade on serpetes and scorpions and over all maner power of the enimye and no thinge shall hurte you.

Neverthelesse in this reioyse not that the spretes are vnder youre power: but reioyse be cause youre names are wrytten in heaven.

That same tyme reioysed Iesus in the sprete and sayde: I confesse vnto the father Lorde of heaven and erth that thou hast hyd these thynges from the wyse and prudent and hast opened them to the babes. Even so father for soo pleased it the.

All thinges are geven me of my father. And no man knoweth who the sonne is but the father: nether who the father is save the sonne and he to who the sonne wyll shewe him.

And he turned to his disciples and sayde secretly: Happy are the eyes which se that ye se.

For I tell you that many prophetes and kynges have desired to se those thinges which ye se and have not sene them: and to heare those thinges which ye heare and have not hearde them.

And beholde a certayne Lawere stode vp and tempted him sayinge: Master what shall I do to inheret eternall life?

He sayd vnto him: What is written in the lawe? How redest thou?

And he answered and sayde: Loue thy Lorde God with all thy hert and with all thy soule and with all thy stregthe and with all thy mynde: and thy neghbour as thy sylfe.

And he sayde vnto him: Thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live.

He willinge to iustifie him silfe sayde vnto Iesus: Who is then my neghbour?

Iesus answered and sayde: A certayne man descended from Hierusalem into Hierico and fell in to the hondes of theves which robbed him of his raymet and wounded him and departed levynge him halfe deed.

And by chaunce ther came a certayne preste that same waye and when he sawe him he passed by.

And lykewyse a Levite when he was come nye to the place wet and loked on him and passed by.

Then a certayne Samaritane as he iornyed came nye vnto him and when he sawe him had compassion on him

and went to and bounde vp his woundes and poured in oyle and wyne and put him on his awne beaste and brought him to a comen ynne and made provision for him.

And on the morowe when he departed he toke out two pece and gave them to the host and sayde vnto him. Take cure of him and whatsoever thou spedest moare when I come agayne I will recompence the.

Which now of these thre thynkest thou was neighbour vnto him that fell into the theves hondes?

And he sayde: he that shewed mercy on him. Then sayde Iesus vnto him. Goo and do thou lyke wyse.

It fortuned as they wet that he entred in to a certayne toune. And a certayne woman named Martha receaved him into her housse.

And this woman had a sister called Mary which sate at Iesus fete and hearde his preachinge.

And Martha was combred about moche servinge and stode and sayde: Master doest thou not care that my sister hath leeft me to minister alone? Byd her therfore that she helpe me.

And Iesus answered and sayde vnto her: Martha Martha thou carest and arte troubled about many thinges:

verely one is nedfull. Mary hath chosen her that good parte which shall not be taken awaye from her.

And it fortuned as he was prayinge in a certayne place: when he ceased one of his disciples sayde vnto him: Master teache vs to praye as Iohn taught his disciples.

And he sayd vnto the: When ye praye saye: O oure father which arte in heaven, halowed be thy name. Thy kyngdome come. Thy will be fulfilled, even in erth as it is in heaven.

Oure dayly breed geve vs evermore.

And forgeve vs oure synnes: For even we forgeve every man that treaspaseth vs. And ledde vs not into temptacion. But deliver vs from evill.

And he sayde vnto them: if any of you shuld have a frede and shuld goo to him at mid nyght and saye vnto him: frende lende me thre loves

for a frende of myne is come out of the waye to me and I have nothinge to set before him:

and he within shuld answere and saye trouble me not the dore is now sheet and my servautes are with me in the chamber I cannot ryse and geve them to the.

I saye vnto you though he wold not aryse and geve him because he is his frede: yet because of his importunite he wold rise and geve him as many as he neded.

And I saye vnto you: axe and it shalbe geven you. Seke and ye shall fynde. knocke and it shalbe opened vnto you.

For every one that axeth receaveth: and he that seketh fyndeth: and to him that knocketh shall it be openned.

Yf the sonne shall axe breed of eny of you that is a father: wyll he geve him a stone? Or yf he axe fisshe wyll he for a fysshe geve him a serpent?

Or yf he axe an egge: wyll he offer him a scorpion?

Yf ye then which are evyll canne geve good giftes vnto youre chyldren how moche more shall the father of heaven geve an holy sprete to them that desyre it of him?

And he was a castynge out a devyll which was dome. And it folowed when the devyll was gone out the domme spake and the people wondred.

But some of the sayde: he casteth out devyls by the power of Belzebub the chefe of the devyls.

And other tempted him sekinge of him a signe from heaven.

But he knewe their thoughtes and sayde vnto them: Every kingdome devided with in it silfe shalbe desolate: and one housse shall fall vpon another.

So if Satan be devided with in him silfe: how shall his kyngdome endure? Because ye saye that I cast out devyls by the power of Belzebub.

Yf I by the power of Belzebub caste oute devyls: by whome do youre chyldren cast them out? Therfore shall they be youre iudges.

But if I with the finger of God cast out devyls noo doute the kyngdome of God is come vpon you.

When a stronge man armed watcheth his housse: that he possesseth is in peace.

But when a stronger then he cometh vpo him and overcometh him: he taketh from him his harnes wherin he trusted and devideth his gooddes.

He that is not with me is agaynst me. And he that gadereth not with me scattereth.

When the vnclene sprete is gone out of a man he walketh through waterlesse places sekinge reest. And when he fyndeth none he sayeth: I will returne agayne vnto my housse whence I came out.

And when he cometh he fyndeth it swept and garnissed.

Then goeth he and taketh to him seve other spretes worsse then himsilfe: and they enter in and dwell there. And the ende of that man is worsse then the begynninge.

And it fortuned as he spake those thinges a certayne woman of the company lyfte vp her voyce and sayde vnto him: Happy is the wombe that bare the and the pappes which gave the sucke.

But he sayde: Ye happy are they that heare the worde of God and kepe it.

When the people were gadered thicke to geder: he began to saye. This is an evyll nacion: they seke a signe and ther shall no signe be geven them but the signe of Ionas the Prophet.

For as Ionas was a signe to the Ninivites so shall the sonne of man be to this nacion.

The quene of the southe shall ryse at iudgement with the men of this generacion and condempne them: for she came from the ende of the worlde to heare the wysdome of Salomon. And beholde a greater then Salomon is here.

The men of Ninive shall ryse at the iudgement with this generacion and shall condempne them: for they repented at the preachinge of Ionas. And beholde a greater then Ionas is here.

Noo man lighteth a candell, and putteth it in a previe place nether vnder a busshell: But on a candelsticke that they that come in maye se the light.

The light of thy body is the eye. Therfore when thine eye is single: then is all thy body full of light. But if thine eye be evyll: then shall thy body also be full of darknes.

Take hede therfore that the light which is in the be not darknes.

For if all thy body shalbe light havynge noo parte darke: then shall all be full of light even as when a candell doeth light the with his brightnes.

And as he spake a certayne Pharise besought him to dyne with him: and he went in and sate doune to meate.

When the Pharise sawe that he marveylled that he had not fyrst wesshed before dyner.

And the Lorde sayde to him: Now do the Pharises make clene the out side of the cup and of the platter: but youre inwarde parties are full of raveninge and wickednes.

Ye foles dyd not he that made that which is without: make that which is within also?