The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

and spyed a fygge tree in the waye and came to it and founde nothinge theron but leves only and sayd to it never frute growe on the hence forwardes. And anon the fygge tree wyddered awaye.

And when his disciples sawe that they marveled sayinge: Howe sone is the fygge tree wyddered awaye?

Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: Verely I saye vnto you yf ye shall have faith and shall not dout ye shall not only do that which I have done to the fygge tree: but also yf ye shall saye vnto this moutayne take thy silfe awaye and cast thy silfe into the see it shalbe done.

And whatsoever ye shall axe in prayer (if ye beleve) ye shall receave it.

And when he was come into the temple the chefe prestes and the elders of the people came vnto him as he was teachinge and sayde: by what auctorite doest thou these thinges? and who gave the this power?

Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: I also will axe of you a certayne question which if ye assoyle me I in lyke wyse wyll tell you by what auctorite I do these thinges.

The baptisme of Iohn: whence was it? from heven or of men? Then they reasoned amonge them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye from heven he will saye vnto vs: why dyd ye not then beleve hym?

But and if we shall saye of men then feare we the people. For all men helde Iohn as a Prophet.

And they answered Iesus and sayde: we cannot tell. And he lyke wyse sayd vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.

What saye ye to this? A certayne man had two sonnes and came to the elder and sayde: sonne go and worke to daye in my vineyarde.

He answered and sayde I will not: but afterwarde repented and went.

Then came he to the second and sayde lyke wyse. And he answered and sayde: I will syr: yet wet not.

Whether of the twayne dyd the will of the father? And they sayde vnto hym: the fyrst. Iesus sayde vnto the: verely I saye vnto you that the publicans and the harlotes shall come into the kyngdome of God before you.

For Iohn came vnto you in the waye of rightewesnes and ye beleved hym not. But the publicans and the harlotes beleved him. And yet ye (though ye sawe it) were not yet moved with repentaunce that ye myght afterwarde have beleved hym.

Herken another similitude. Ther was a certayne housholder which planted a vineyarde and hedged it roude about and made a wynpresse in it and bilt a tower and let it out to husbandmen and wet in to a straunge countre.

And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare he sent his servauntes to the husbandmen to receave the frutes of it.

And the husbandme caught his servauntes and bet one kylled another and stoned another.

Agayne he sent other servantes moo then the fyrst: and they served them lyke wyse.

But last of all he sent vnto the his awne sonne sayinge: they will feare my sonne.

But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne they sayde amonge the selves: This is the heyre: come let vs kyll him and let vs take his inheritaunce to oure selves.

And they caught him and thrust him out of the vineyarde and slewe him.

When the lorde of the vyneyarde commeth what will he do with those husbandmen?

They sayde vnto him: he will cruellye destroye those evyll persons and wyll let out his vyneyarde vnto other husbandmen which shall delyver him the frute at tymes convenient.

Iesus sayde vnto the: dyd ye never redde in the scriptures? The stone which the bylders refused the same is set in the principall parte of the corner: this was the lordes doinge and that is mervelous in oure eyes.

Therfore saye I vnto you the kyngdome of God shalbe take from you and shalbe geve to the getyls which shall brynge forth the frutes of it.

And whosoever shall fall on this stone he shalbe broken but on whosoever it shall fall vpon it will grynde him to powder.

And when the chefe prestes and Pharises hearde these similitudes they perceaved that he spake of the.

And they wet about to laye hondes on him but they feared the people because they tooke him as a Prophet.

And Iesus answered and spake vnto them agayne in similitudes sayinge.

The kingdome of heven is lyke vnto a certayne kynge which maryed his sonne

and sent forth his servantes to call them that were byd to the weddinge and they wolde not come.

Ageyne he sent forth other servauntes sayinge: Tell them which are bydden: beholde I have prepared my dynner myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled and all thinges are redy come vnto the mariage.

But they made light of it and went their wayes: one to his ferme place another about his marchaundise

the remnaunt toke his seruantes and intreated them vngodly and slewe them.

When the kinge hearde that he was wroth and send forth his warryers and distroyed those murtherers and brent vp their cyte.

Then sayde he to his servauutes: the weddinge was prepared. But they which were bydden were not worthy.

Go ye therfore out into the hyewayes and as many as ye finde byd them to the mariage.

The seruauntes wet out into the hiewayes and gaddered to gedder as many as they coulde fynde both good and bad and the weddinge was furnysshed with gestes.

Then the kynge came in to viset the gestes and spyed there a man which had not on a weddinge garment

and sayde vnto him: frende how fortuned it that thou camest in hither and hast not on a weddyng garment? And he was even spechlesse.

Then sayde the kynge to his ministers: take and bynde hym hand and fote and caste hym into vtter darcknes there shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of teth.

For many are called and feawe be chosen.

Then went the Pharises and toke counsell how they might tagle him in his wordes.

And they sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes servauntes sayinge: Master we knowe that thou are true and teachest the waye of god trulie nether carest for eny man for thou consydrest not menes estate.

Tell vs therfore: how thynkest thou? Is it lawfull to geve tribute vnto Cesar or not?

Iesus perceaved their wikednes and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrites?

Let me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.

And he sayde vnto them: whose is this ymage and superscripcion?

They sayde vnto him: Cesars. Then sayde he vnto them. Geve therfore to Cesar that which is Cesars: and geve vnto god that which is goddes.

When they hearde that they marveled and lefte hym and went there waye.

The same daye the Saduces came to him (which saye that there is no resurreccion) and axed him

sayinge: Master Moses bade yf a man dye havinge no chyldre that the brother mary his wyfe and reyse vp seed vnto his brother.

Ther were with vs seven brethren and the fyrste maried and deceased with oute yssue and lefte his wyfe vnto his brother.

Lyke wise the seconde and the thryd vnto the sevethe.

Laste of all the woman dyed also.

Now in the resurreccion whose wyfe shall she be of the seven? For all had her.

Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: ye are deceaved and vnderstonde not the scriptures nor yet the power of God.

For in the resurreccion they nether mary nor are maryed: but are as the angels of God in heven.

As touchynge the resurreccion of the deed: have ye not redde what is sayde vnto you of God which sayeth:

I am Abrahams God and Ysaacks God and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the deed: but of the lyvinge.

And when the people hearde that they were astonyed at his doctrine.

When the Pharises had hearde how that he had put the Saduces to silence they drewe to gedder

and one of them which was a doctoure of lawe axed a question temptinge him and sayinge:

Master which is the chefe commaundment in the lawe?

Iesus sayde vnto him: love the Lorde thy God with all thine herte with all thy soule and with all thy mynde.

This is the fyrst and the chefe comaundement.

And ther is another lyke vnto this. Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.

In these two commaundemetes hange all the lawe and the Prophetes.

Whyll the Pharises were gaddered togeder Iesus axed the sayinge:

what thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: the sonne of David.

He sayde vnto them: how then doeth David in spirite call him Lorde sayinge?

The Lorde sayde to my Lorde syt on my right honde: tyll I make thyne enemyes thy fote stole.

Yf David call him Lorde: how is he then his sonne?

And none coulde answere him ageyne one worde: nether dueste eny from that daye forth axe him eny moo questions.

Then spake Iesus to the people and to his disciples

sayinge. The Scribes and the Pharises sit in Moses seate.

All therfore whatsoever they byd you observe that observe and do: but after their workes do not: For they saye and do not.

Ye and they bynde hevy burthes and grevous to be borne and ley the on menes shulders: but they themsylfes will not heave at them with one of their fyngers.

All their workes they do for to be sene of me. They set abroade their philateries and make large borders on there garmetes

and love to sit vppermooste at feastes and to have the chefe seates in the synagoges

and gretinges in the marketes and to be called of men Rabi.

But ye shall not suffre youre selves to be called Rabi. For one is youre master that is to wyt Christ and all ye are brethren.

And call no man youre father vpon the erth for there is but one youre father and he is in heven.

Be not called masters for there is but one youre master and he is Christ.

He that is greatest amonge you shalbe youre seruaunte.

But whosoever exalteth himsilfe shalbe brought lowe. And he that hubleth himsilfe shalbe exalted.

Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites for ye shutte vp the kyngdome of heven before men: ye youre selves goo not in nether suffre ye them that come to enter in.

Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites: ye devoure widdowes houses and that vnder a coloure of praying longe prayers: wherfore ye shall receave greater damnacion.

Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites which compasse see and londe to bringe one in to youre belefe: and when he ys brought ye make him two folde more the chylde of hell then ye youre selves are.

Wo be vnto you blynd gides which saye whosoever sweare by the temple it is no thinge: but whosoever sweare by the golde of the temple he offendeth.

Ye foles and blinde? whether is greater the golde or the temple that sanctifieth the golde.

And whosoever sweareth by the aulter it is nothinge: but whosoever sweareth by the offeringe that lyeth on the aultre offendeth.

Ye foles and blinde: whether is greater the offeringe or the aultre which sanctifieth the offeringe?

Whosoever therfore sweareth by the aultre sweareth by it and by all that there on is.

And whosoever sweareth by the temple sweareth by it and by hym that dwelleth therin.

And he that sweareth by heven swereth by the seate of God and by hym that sytteth theron.

Wo be to you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites which tythe mynt annyse and comen and leave the waygthtyer mattres of the lawe vndone: iudgement mercy and fayth. These ought ye to have done and not to have left the othre vndone.

Ye blinde gydes which strayne out a gnat and swalowe a cammyll.

Wo be to you scribes and pharises ypocrites which make clene the vtter syde of the cuppe and of the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.

Thou blinde Pharise clense fyrst the outsyde of the cup and platter that the ynneside of them maye be clene also.