The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Verely I say vnto you what soever ye bynde on erth shalbe bounde in heven. And what soever ye lowse on erth shalbe lowsed in heven.

Agayn I say vnto you that yf two of you shall agre in erth apon eny maner thynge what soever they shall desyre: it shalbe geven them of my father which is in heven.

For where two or thre are gathered togedder in my name there am I in the myddes of them.

Then came Peter to him and sayde: master howe ofte shall I forgeve my brother yf he synne agaynst me seven tymes?

Iesus sayd vnto him: I saye not vnto the seven tymes: but seventy tymes seventymes.

Therfore is the kingdome of heven lykened vnto a certayne kynge which wolde take a countis of his servauntis.

And when he had begone to recken one was broughte vnto him whiche ought him ten thousande talentis:

whome be cause he had nought to paye his master commaunded him to be solde and his wyfe and his chyldren and all that he had and payment to be made.

The servaunt fell doune and besought him sayinge: Sir geve me respyte and I wyll paye it every whit.

Then had the Lorde pytie on that servaunt and lowsed him and forgave him the det.

And the sayde servaut wet oute and founde one of his felowes which ought him an hundred pence and leyed hondes on him and toke him by the throote sayinge: paye me that thou owest.

And his felowe fell doune and besought him sayinge: have pacience with me and I wyll paye the all.

And he wolde not but went and cast him into preson tyll he shulde paye the det.

When his other felowes sawe what was done they were very sory and came and tolde vnto their lorde all that had happened.

Then his lorde called him and sayde vnto him. O evyll servaut I forgave the all that det because thou prayedst me:

was it not mete also that thou shuldest have had compassion on thy felow even as I had pitie on the?

And his lorde was wrooth and delyuered him to the iaylers tyll he should paye all that was due to him.

So lyke wyse shall my hevenly father do vnto you except ye forgeve with youre hertes eache one to his brother their treaspases.

And it came to passe when Iesus had fynisshed those sayinges he gat him from Galile and came into the coostes of Iewry beyonde Iordan

and moche people folowed him and he healed them theare.

Then came vnto him the pharises temptinge him and sayinge to him: Ys it lawfull for a man to put awaye his wyfe for all maner of causes?

He answered and sayd vnto them: Have ye not redde how that he which made man at the beginninge made them man and woman

and sayde: for this thinge shall a man leve father and mother and cleve vnto his wyfe and they twayne shalbe one flesshe.

Wherfore now are they not twayne but one flesshe. Let not man therfore put a sunder that which God hath cuppled to gedder.

The sayde they to him: why did Moses commaunde to geve a testimoniall of divorsement and to put hyr awaye?

He sayde vnto them: Moses because of the hardnes of youre hertes suffred you to put awaye youre wyfes: But from the beginnynge it was not so.

I saye therfore vnto you whosoever putteth awaye his wyfe (except it be for fornicacion) and maryeth another breaketh wedlocke. And whosoever maryeth her which is divorsed doeth commyt advoutry.

Then sayde his disciples to him: yf the mater be so betwene man and wyfe then is it not good to mary?

He sayde vnto them: all me can not awaye with that sayinge save they to whom it is geven.

Ther are chaste which were so borne out of their mothers belly. And ther are chaste which be made of men. And ther be chaste which have made them selves chaste for the kyngdome of heves sake. He that can take it let him take it.

Then were brought to him yonge chyldre that he shuld put his hondes on them and praye And the disciples rebuked them.

But Iesus sayde: suffre the chyldren and forbid them not to come to me: for of suche is the kyngdome of heven.

And when he had put his hondes on them he departed thence.

And beholde one came and sayde vnto him: good master what good thinge shall I do that I maye have eternall lyfe?

He sayde vnto him: why callest thou me good? there is none good but one and that is God. But yf thou wylt entre in to lyfe kepe the commaundementes.

The other sayde to him Which? And Iesus sayde: breake no wedloke kill not steale not: beare not falce witnes:

honoure father and mother: and love thyne neighbour as thy sylfe.

And the younge man sayde vnto him: I have observed all these thingis from my youth what lacke I yet?

And Iesus sayde vnto him yf thou wylt be perfecte goo and sell that thou hast and geve it to the povre and thou shalt have treasure in heven and come and folowe me.

When the younge man hearde that sayinge he wet awaye mourninge. For he had greate possessions.

Then Iesus sayde vnto his disciples: Verely I saye vnto you: that is harde for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of heaven.

And moreover I saye vnto you: it is easier for a camell to go through the eye of a nedle then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God.

When his disciples hearde that they were excedingly amased sayinge: who then can be saved?

Iesus behelde the and sayde vnto them: with men this is vnpossible but with God all thinges are possible.

Then answered Peter and sayde to him: Beholde we have forsaken all and folowed the what shall we have?

Iesus sayde vnto them: verely I saye to you: when the sonne of man shall syt in the seate of his maieste ye which folowe me in the seconde generacion shall syt also vpon .xii. seates and iudge the .xii. tribes of Israel.

And whosoever forsaketh housses or brethren or systers other father or mother or wyfe or chyldren or landes for my names sake the same shall receave an hundred folde and shall inheret everlastynge lyfe.

Many that are fyrste shalbe laste and the laste shalbe fyrste.

For the kyngdome of heven ys lyke vnto an houssholder which went out erly in the morninge to hyre labourers into hys vyneyarde.

And he agreed with the labourers for a peny a daye and sent them into his vyneyarde.

And he went out about the thyrde houre and sawe other stonding ydell in the market place

and sayd vnto them go ye also into my vyneyarde: and whatsoever is right I will geve you. And they went there waye.

Agayne he wet out about the sixte and nynthe houre and dyd lyke wyse.

And he went out aboute the eleventhe houre and founde other stondynge ydell and sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydell?

They sayde vnto hym: because no man hath hyred vs. He sayde to them: goo ye alsoo into my vyneyarde and whatsoever is right that shall ye receave.

When even was come the lorde of the vyneyarde sayde vnto hys steward: call the labourers and geve them their hyre beginnyng at the laste tyll thou come to the fyrste.

And they whiche were hyred aboute the eleventhe houre came and receaved every man a peny.

Then came the fyrst supposyng that they shuld receave moare: and they likewyse receaved every man a peny.

And when they had receaved it they murmured agaynst the good man of the housse

saying: These laste have wrought but one houre and thou hast made them equall vnto vs which have born the burthe and heet of the daye.

He answered to one of the sayinge: frende I do the no wronge: dyddest thou not agre with me for a peny?

Take that which is thy duty and go thy waye. I will geve vnto this last as moche as to the.

Ys it not lawfull for me to do as me listeth with myne awne? Ys thyne eye evyll because I am good?

Soo the laste shalbe fyrste and the fyrste shalbe laste. For many are called and feawe be chosen.

And Iesus ascended to Ierusalem and toke the .xii. disciples a parte in the waye and sayde to the.

Beholde we goo vp to Ierusalem and the sonne of man shalbe betrayed vnto the chefe prestes and vnto the scribes and they shall condemne him to deeth

and shall delyvre him to the getils to be mocked to be scourged and to be crucified: and the thyrd daye he shall ryse agayne.

Then came to hym the mother of zebedes chyldren with her sonnes worshippynge him and desyringe a certayne thinge of him.

And he sayd vnto her: what wilt thou have? She sayde vnto him: Gravnte that these my two sonnes may sit the one on thy right hond and the other on the lifte hond in thy kyngdome.

Iesus answered and sayd: Ye wot not what ye axe. Are ye able to drynke of the cuppe that I shall drynke of and to be baptised with the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with? They answered to him that we are.

And he sayd vnto the: Ye shall drinke of my cvp and shalbe baptised with the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with. But to syt on my ryght hond and on my lyst hond is not myne to geve: but to them for whom it is prepared of my father.

And when the ten hearde this they disdayned at the two brethren:

But Iesus called them vnto him and sayde: Ye knowe that the lordes of the gentyls have dominacion over them. And they that are great exercise power over them.

It shall not be so amonge you. But whosoever wyll be greate amonge you let him be youre minister:

and whosoever wilbe chefe let him be youre servaut

even as the sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto but to minister and to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many.

And as they departed from Hierico moche people folowed him.

And beholde two blinde men sittinge by the waysyde when they hearde Iesus passe by cryed sayinge: Thou Lorde the sonne of David have mercy on vs.

And the people rebuked them be cause they shulde holde their peace. But they cryed the moare sayinge: have mercy on vs thou Lorde which arte the sonne of David.

Then Iesus stode styll and called the and sayde: what will ye that I shulde do to you:

They sayd to him: Lorde that oure eyes maye be opened.

Iesus had compassion on the and touched their eyes. And immediatly their eyes receaved syght. And they folowed him.

When they drewe neye vnto Ierusalem and were come to Betphage vnto mounte olivete: then sent Iesus two of his disciples

saiynge to the. Go in to the toune that lyeth over agaynste you and anone ye shall fynde an asse bounde and her colte with her: lose them and bringe them vnto me.

And if eny man saye ought vnto you saye ye that the lorde hath neade of them: and streyght waye he will let them go.

All this was done to fulfyll that which was spoken by the Prophet sayinge:

Tell ye the doughter of Sion: beholde thy kynge cometh vnto the meke and sittinge vpon an asse and a colte the fole of an asse vsed to the yooke.

The disciples went and dyd as Iesus commaunded them

and brought the asse and the colte and put on them their clothes and set him theron.

And many of the people spreed their garmentes in the waye. Other cut doune braunches from the trees and strawed them in the waye.

Moreover the people that went before and they also that came after cryed sayinge: Hosanna to the sonne of David. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lorde Hosanna in the hyest.

And when he was come in to Ierusalem all the cyte was moved sayinge: who is this?

And the people sayde: this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile.

And Iesus went in to the temple of God and cast out all them that soulde and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the mony chaugers and the seates of them that solde doves

and sayde to them: It is wrytten my housse shalbe called the housse of prayer. But ye have made it a denne of theves.

And the blinde and the halt came to him in the temple and he healed them.

When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe the marveylles that he dyd and the chyldren cryinge in the temple and sayinge Hosanna to the sonne of David they disdayned

and sayde vnto him: hearest thou what these saye? Iesus sayde vnto them yee: have ye never redde of the mouth of babes and suckelinges thou haste ordeyned prayse?

And he lefte the and wet out of the cite vnto Bethanie and had his abydige there.

In the mornynge as he returned in to the cyte ageyne he hungred