The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Neverthelesse geve almose of that ye have and beholde all is clene to you.

But wo be to you Pharises for ye tithe the mynt and rewe and all manner erbes and passe over iudgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done and yet not to have left the other vndone.

Wo be to you Pharises: for ye love the vppermost seates in the synagoges and gretinges in the markets.

Wo be to you scribes and pharises ypocrites for ye are as graves which appere not, and the men that walke over them, are not ware of them.

Then answered one of the lawears and sayd vnto him: Master thus sayinge thou puttest vs to rebuke also.

Then he sayde: Wo be to you also ye lawears: for ye lade men with burthens greveous to be borne and ye youre selves touche not the packes with one of youre fyngers.

Wo be to you: ye bylde the sepulchres of the Prophetes and youre fathers killed them:

truly ye beare witnes that ye alowe the dedes of youre fathers for they kylled them and ye bylde their sepulchres.

Therfore sayde the wisdome of God: I will send them Prophetes and Apostles and of them they shall slee and persecute:

that the bloude of all Prophetes which was sheed from the beginninge of the worlde maye be requyred of this generacion

from the bloud of Abell vnto the bloud of zachary which perisshed bitwene the aulter and the temple. Verely I saye vnto you: it shalbe requyred of this nacion.

Wo be to you lawears: for ye have taken awaye the keye of knowledge ye entred not in youre selves and them that came in ye forbade.

When he thus spake vnto them the lawears and the Pharises began to wexe busye about him and to stop his mouth with many questions

layinge wayte for him and sekinge to catche somethinge of his mought wherby they might accuse him.

As ther gadered together an innumerable multitude of people (in so moche that they trood one another) he began to saye vnto his disciples: Fyrst of all beware of the leve of the Pharises which is ypocrisy.

For ther is no thinge covered that shall not be vncovered: nether hyd that shall not be knowen.

For whatsoever ye have spoken in in darknes: that same shalbe hearde in light. And that which ye have spoken in the the eare even in secret places shalbe preached even on the toppe of the housses.

I saye vnto you my fredes: Be not afrayde of them that kyll the body and after that have no moare that they can do.

But I will shewe you whom ye shall feare. Feare him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell. Ye I saye vnto you him feare.

Are not five sparowes bought for two farthinges? And yet not one of them is forgotten of God.

Also even the very heres of youre heedes are nombred. Feare not therfore: ye are moare of value then many sparowes.

I saye vnto you: Whosoever confesseth me before men even him shall the sonne of man confesse also before the angels of God.

And he that denyeth me before men: shalbe denyed before the angels of God.

And whosoever speaketh a worde agaynst the sonne of man it shalbe forgeven him. But vnto him that blasphemeth the holy goost it shall not be forgeven.

When they bringe you vnto the synagoges and vnto the rulers and officers take no thought how or what thinge ye shall answer or what ye shall speake.

For the holy goost shall teache you in the same houre what ye ought to saye.

One of the company sayde vnto hym: Master byd my brother devide the enheritauce with me.

And he sayde vnto him: Man who made me a iudge or a devider over you?

Wherfore he sayde vnto them: take hede and beware of covetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondeth in the aboundaunce of the thinges which he possesseth.

And he put forth a similitude vnto them sayinge: The groude of a certayne riche man brought forth frutes plenteously

and he thought in himsilfe sayinge: what shall I do? because I have noo roume where to bestowe my frutes?

And he sayde: This will I do. I will destroye my barnes and bilde greater and therin will I gadder all my frutes and my goodes:

and I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares take thyne ease: eate drinke and be mery.

But God sayde vnto him: Thou fole this night will they fetche awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall thoose thinges be which thou hast provyded?

So is it with him that gadereth ryches and is not ryche in God.

And he spake vnto his disciples: Therfore I saye vnto you: take no thought for youre lyfe what ye shall eate nether for youre body what ye shall put on.

The lyfe is moare then meate and the bodye is moare then rayment.

Considre the ravens for they nether sowe nor repe which nether have stoorehousse ner barne and yet God fedeth them. How moche are ye better then the foules.

Which of you with takynge thought can adde to his stature one cubit?

Yf ye then be not able to do that thinge which is least: why take ye thought for the remmaunt?

Considre the lylies how they growe: They laboure not: they spyn not: and yet I saye vnto you that Salomon in all this royalte was not clothed lyke to one of these.

Yf the grasse which is todaye in the felde and tomorowe shalbe cast into the fornace God so clothe: how moche moore will he clothe you o ye endued with litell faith?

And axe not what ye shall eate or what ye shall drinke nether clyme ye vp an hye

for all suche thinges the hethen people of the worlde seke for. Youre father knoweth that ye have nede of suche thinges.

Wherfore seke ye after the kyngedome of God and all these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.

Feare not litell floocke for it is youre fathers pleasure to geve you a kingdome.

Sell that ye have and geve almes. And make you bagges which wexe not olde and treasure that fayleth not in heaven where noo these commeth nether moth corrupteth.

For where youre treasure is there will youre hertes be also.

Let youre loynes be gerdde about and youre lightes brennynge

and ye youre selves lyke vnto men that wayte for their master when he will returne from a weddinge: that assone as he cometh and knocketh they maye open vnto him.

Happy are those servauntes which the Lorde when he cometh shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you he will gerdde him selfe about and make them sit doune to meate and walke by and minister vnto them.

And yf he come in the seconde watche ye if he come in the thyrde watche and shall fynde them soo happy are those servauntes.

This vnderstonde that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre ye these wolde come he wolde suerly watche: and not suffer his housse to be broken vp.

Be ye prepared therfore: for the sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

Then Peter sayde vnto him: Master tellest thou this similitude vnto vs or to all men?

And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season:

happy is that servaunt whom his master when he cometh shall finde soo doinge.

Of a trueth I saye vnto you: that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

But and yf the evyll servaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cominge and shall beginne to smyte the servauntes and maydens and to eate and drinke and to be dronken:

the Lorde of that servaunt will come in a daye when he thinketh not and at an houre when he is not ware and will devyde him and will geve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers.

The servaut that knewe his masters will and prepared not him selfe nether dyd accordinge to his will shalbe bete with many strypes.

But he that knewe not and yet dyd committe thinges worthy of strypes shalbe beaten with feawe strypes. For vnto whom moche is geven of him shalbe moche requyred. And to whom men moche commyt the moare of him will they axe.

I am come to sende fyre on erth: and what is my dysyre but that it were all redy kyndled?

Not with stondinge I must be baptised with a baptyme: and how am I payned till it be ended?

Suppose ye that I am come to sende peace on erth? I tell you naye: but rather debate.

For from hence forthe ther shalbe five in one housse devided thre agaynst two and two agaynst thre.

The father shalbe devided agaynst the sonne and the sonne agaynst the father. The mother agaynst the doughter and the doughter agaynst the mother. The moter eleawe agaynst hir doughterelawe and the doughterelawe agaynst hir motherelawe.

Then sayde he to the people: when ye se a cloude ryse out of the west strayght waye ye saye: we shall have a shower and soo it is.

And when ye se the south wynde blow ye saye: we shall have heet and it cometh to passe.

Ypocrites ye can skyll of the fassion of the erth and of the skye: but what is the cause that ye cannot skyll of this time?

Ye and why iudge ye not of youre selves what is righte?

Whill thou goest with thyne adversary to the ruler: as thou arte in the waye geve diligence that thou mayst be delivered from him least he bringe the to the iudge and the iudge delyver the to the iaylar and the iaylar cast the in to preson.

I tell the thou departest not thence tyll thou have made good the vtmost myte.

Ther were present at the same season that shewed him of the Galileas whose bloude Pylate mengled with their awne sacrifice.

And Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: Suppose ye that these Galileans were greater synners then all the other Galileas because they suffred suche punisshment?

I tell you naye: but except ye repent ye shall all in lyke wyse perysshe.

Or those .xviii. apon which the toure in Syloe fell and slewe the thinke ye that they were synners above all men that dwell in Ierusalem?

I tell you naye: But excepte ye repent ye all shall lykewyse perisshe.

He put forthe this similiiude A certayne man had a fygge tree planted in his veneyarde and he came and sought frute theron and founde none.

Then sayde he to the dresser of his vyneyarde: Beholde this thre yeare have I come and sought frute in this fygge tree and fynde none: cut it doune: why combreth it the grounde?

And he answered and sayde vnto him: lorde let it alone this yeare also till I digge rounde aboute it and doge it to se whether it will beare frute:

and if it beare not then after that cut it doune.

And he taught in one of their sinagoges on the saboth dayes.

And beholde ther was a woman which had a sprete of infirmite .xviii. yeares: and was bowed to gether and coulde not lifte vp hersilfe at all.

When Iesus sawe her he called her to him and sayde to her: woman thou arte delyvered from thy disease.

And he layde his hondes on her and immediatly she was made strayght and glorified God.

And the ruler of the sinagoge answered with indignacion (be cause that Iesus had healed on the saboth daye) and sayde vnto the people. Ther are sixe dayes in which men ought to worke: in them come and be healed and not on the saboth daye.

Then answered him the Lorde and sayd: Ypocrite doth not eache one of you on the saboth daye lowse his oxe or his asse from the stall and leade him to the water?

And ought not this doughter of Abraham whom Sathan hath bounde loo .xviii. yeares be lowsed from this bonde on the saboth daye?

And when he thus sayde all his adversaries were ashamed and all the people reioysed on all the excellent dedes that were done by him.

Then sayde he: What is the kyngdome of God lyke? or wherto shall I compare it?

It is lyke a grayne of mustard seede which a man toke and sowed in his garden: and it grewe and wexed a greate tree and the foules of the ayer made nestes in the braunches of it.

And agayne he sayde: wher vnto shall I lyken the kyngdome of god?

it is lyke leven which a woman toke and hidde in thre busshels of floure tyll all was thorow levended.

And he went thorow all maner of cities and tounes teachinge and iorneyinge towardes Ierusalem.

Then sayde one vnto him: Lorde are ther feawe that shalbe saved? And he sayde vnto them:

stryve with youre selves to enter in at the strayte gate: For many I saye vnto you will seke to enter in and shall not be able.

When the good man of the housse is rysen vp and hath shett to the dore ye shall beginne to stonde with out and to knocke at the dore sayinge: Lorde lorde open vnto vs: and he shall answer and saye vnto you: I knowe you not whence ye are.

Then shall ye begin to saye. We have eaten in thy presence and dronke and thou hast taught in oure stretes.

And he shall saye: I tell you I knowe you not whence ye are: departe from me all the workers of iniquite.