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  • 1. And it came to passe, that on one of those dayes, as he taught ye people in the temple, & preached the Gospell, the hie priestes and the scribes came vpo hym, with the elders.
  • 2. And spake vnto him, saying: Tell vs by what aucthoritie doest thou these thynges? Eyther who is he that gaue thee this aucthoritie?
  • 3. Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: I also wyll aske you one thyng, & aunswere me.
  • 4. The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men?
  • 5. And they reasoned within the selues, saying, Yf we say from heauen, he wyll say, why then beleued ye hym not?
  • 6. But and yf we say of men, all the people wyll stone vs: For they be perswaded that Iohn is a prophete.
  • 7. And they aunswered, that they coulde not tell whence it was.
  • 8. And Iesus saide vnto them: Neither tell I you by what aucthoritie I do these thynges.
  • 9. Then began he to put foorth to the people this parable. A certayne man planted a vineyarde, and let it foorth to husbande men, and went hym selfe into a straunge countrey for a great season.
  • 10. And when the time was come, he sent a seruaunt to the husbande men, that they shoulde geue hym of the fruite of the vineyarde. And they beat hym, and sent hym away emptie.
  • 11. And agayne, he sent yet another seruaunt: and hym they did beate, and entreated hym shamefully, and sent hym away emptie.
  • 12. Agayne, he sent the thirde also: and hym they wounded, and cast hym out.
  • 13. Then said the Lord of the vineyarde: What shal I do? I wyl send my deare sonne, it may be they wyll reuerence hym, when they see hym.
  • 14. But when the husbande men sawe him, they reasoned within them selues, saying: This is the heyre, come, let vs kyll hym, that the inheritaunce may be ours.
  • 15. And they cast him out of the vineyard, and kylled hym. What shall the Lorde of the vineyarde therfore do vnto them?
  • 16. He shall come and destroye these husbande men, & shall let out his vineyarde to other. When they hearde this, they sayde, God forbyd.
  • 17. And he behelde them, & sayde: What is this then that is written, The stone that the buylders refused, the same is become the head of the corner.
  • 18. Whosoeuer doth stumble vppon that stone, shalbe broken: but on whosoeuer it falleth, it wyll grinde hym to powder.
  • 19. And the hye priestes & the scribes, the same houre went about to laye handes on hym: and they feared the people. For they perceaued that he had spoken this similitude agaynst them.
  • 20. And they watched hym, & sent foorth spyes, which shoulde fayne them selues ryghteous men, to take hym in his wordes, and to delyuer hym vnto the power and aucthoritie of the deputie.
  • 21. And they asked him, saying: Maister, we knowe that thou sayest and teachest ryght, neither considerest thou the outwarde appearaunce of any man, but teachest the way of God truely:
  • 22. Is is lawfull for vs to geue tribute vnto Caesar, or no?
  • 23. He perceaued their craftynesse, & saide vnto them: why tempt ye me?
  • 24. Shewe me a penie, whose image and superscription hath it? They aunswered and sayde, Caesars.
  • 25. And he sayde vnto them: Geue then vnto Caesar, the thynges which belong vnto Caesar, and to God the thynges that perteyne vnto God.
  • 26. And they coulde not reproue his saying before the people: and they marueyled at his aunswere, & helde their peace.
  • 27. Then came to hym certayne of the saducees, which denie that there is any resurrection, and they asked hym,
  • 28. Saying: Maister, Moyses wrote vnto vs, yf any mans brother dye, hauyng a wyfe, and he dye without chyldren: that then his brother shoulde take his wyfe, & rayse vp seede vnto his brother.
  • 29. There were therfore seuen brethren, and the first toke a wyfe, & dyed without chyldren.
  • 30. And the seconde toke her, and he dyed chyldlesse.
  • 31. And the thirde toke her, & in lykewise the residue of the seuen, and left no chyldren behynde them, and dyed.
  • 32. Last of all, the woman dyed also.
  • 33. Nowe in the resurrection, whose wife of them shall she be? For seuen had her to wyfe.
  • 34. Iesus aunswered and saide vnto the: The chyldren of this worlde marrye wyues, and are marryed:
  • 35. But they which shalbe counted worthy to enioy that worlde, and the resurrection from the dead, do not marrye wyues, neither are marryed,
  • 36. Nor yet can dye any more: For they are equall vnto the angels, and are the sonnes of God, inasmuche as they are chyldren of the resurrection.
  • 37. And that the dead shall ryse agayne, Moyses also sheweth besides the bushe, when he calleth the Lorde the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, & the God of Iacob.
  • 38. For he is not a God of dead, but of lyuyng: For all lyue vnto hym.
  • 39. Then certayne of the pharisees aunswered, and sayde? Maister, thou hast well sayde.
  • 40. And after that, durst they not aske him any question at all.
  • 41. And he sayde vnto them: Howe saye they that Christe is Dauids sonne:
  • 42. And Dauid hym selfe sayeth in the booke of the psalmes: The Lord saide to my Lord, syt thou on my right hand,
  • 43. Tyll I make thine enemies thy footestoole?
  • 44. Dauid therfore calleth hym Lorde, & howe is he then his sonne?
  • 45. Then in the audience of all the people, he saide vnto his disciples.
  • 46. Beware of the scribes, whiche wyll go in long robes, and loue greetinges in the markets, and the hyest seates in the synagogues, and the chiefe rowmes at feastes:
  • 47. Which deuour widowes howses vnder colour of longe prayers: The same shall receaue greater dampnation.