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¹ And so it was, that as he was praying in a certaine place, when he ceassed, one of his disciples sayde vnto hym: Lord teache vs to pray, as Iohn also taught his disciples.² And he said vnto them, When ye pray, say: O our father which art in heauen, halowed be thy name, thy kyngdome come, thy wyll be fulfylled, euen in earth also, as it is in heauen.³ Our dayly breade geue vs this day.⁴ And forgeue vs our synnes: For euen we forgeue euery man that trespasseth vs. And leade vs not into temptation, but delyuer vs from euyll.⁵ And he sayde vnto them: Whiche of you shall haue a friende, and shall go vnto hym at mydnyght, and saye vnto hym, friende lende me three loaues,⁶ For a friende of mine is come out of the way to me, and I haue nothyng to set before hym:⁷ And he within aunswere, & say, trouble me not, the doore is nowe shut, and my children are with me in bedde, I can not ryse and geue thee.⁸ I saye vnto you, though he wyll not ryse and geue hym, because he is his friende: yet because of his importunitie he wyll ryse, and geue hym as many as he needeth.⁹ And I say vnto you, aske, and it shalbe geuen you, seke, and ye shall fynde, knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.¹⁰ For euery one that asketh, receaueth, and he that seketh, fyndeth, and vnto hym that knocketh, shall it be opened.¹¹ If the sonne shall aske breade, of any of you that is a father, wyll he geue him a stone? Or yf he aske fisshe, wyll he for fisshe geue hym a serpent?¹² Or yf he aske an egge, wyll he offer hym a scorpion?¹³ If ye then, being euyll, can geue good gyftes vnto your chyldren, howe muche more shall your father of heauen geue the holy spirite, to them that desire [it] of hym.

¹⁴ And he was castyng out a deuyll, and the same was dumbe. And it came to passe, when the deuyll was gone out, the dumbe spake, & the people wondred.¹⁵ But some of the sayde, he casteth out deuils through Beelzebub, the chiefe of the deuils.¹⁶ And other tempted him, and required of hym a signe from heauen.¹⁷ But he knowyng their thoughtes, sayde vnto them: Euery kyngdome deuided agaynst it selfe, is desolate: and a housed [deuided] agaynst a house, falleth.¹⁸ If Satan also be deuided against him selfe, howe shall his kyngdome endure? Because ye saye that I cast out deuils through Beelzebub.¹⁹ If I by the helpe of Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whose helpe do your chyldren cast them out? Therfore shall they be your iudges.²⁰ But yf I with the fynger of God cast out deuyls, no doubt the kyngdome of God is come vpon you.²¹ When a strong man armed, kepeth his palace, ye thynges that he possesseth are in peace.²² But whe a stronger then he commeth vpon hym, and ouercommeth hym, he taketh from him all his harnesse, wherin he trusted, and deuideth his goodes.²³ He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth [abrode.]²⁴ When the vncleane spirite is gone out of a man, he walketh through drye places, sekyng rest: and when he fyndeth none, he sayth, I wyll returne vnto my house, whence I came out.²⁵ And when he commeth, he fyndeth it swept and garnisshed.²⁶ Then goeth he, and taketh to hym seuen other spirites, worse then him selfe, and they enter in, and dwell there: and the ende of that man, is worse then the begynnyng.

²⁷ And it came to passe, that as he spake these thynges, a certayne woman of the company lyft vp her voyce, & saide vnto hym: Happy is the wombe that bare thee, and the pappes whiche gaue thee sucke.²⁸ But he sayde: Yea rather happy are they that heare the worde of God, and kepe it.

²⁹ When the people were gathered thicke together, he began to saye: This is an euyll natio, they seke a signe, and there shall no signe be geuen them, but the signe of Ionas the prophete.³⁰ For as Ionas was a signe to the Niniuites, so shall also the sonne of man be to this nation.³¹ The Queene of the south shall ryse in iudgement with the men of this nation, and condempne them: for she came from the vtmost partes of the earth, to heare the wisedome of Solomon: And beholde, a greater then Solomon is here.³² The men of Niuiue shall rise in iudgement with this nation, and shall condempne them, for they repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.³³ No man lyghteth a candle, & putteth it in a priuie place, neither vnder a busshell: but on a candlesticke, that they which come in may see the lyght,³⁴ The lyght of the body, is the eye: Therefore when thyne eye is single, all thy body also shalbe full of lyght. But if thyne eye be euyll, thy body also shalbe full of darknesse.³⁵ Take heede therefore, that the lyght which is in thee, be not darknes.³⁶ If all thy body therfore be cleare, hauyng no part darke, then shall it all be full of lyght, euen as when a candle doth lyght thee with bryghtnes.

³⁷ And as he spake, a certaine pharisee besought hym to dyne with hym: and Iesus went in, & sate downe to meate.³⁸ When the pharisee sawe it, he marueyled that he had not first wasshed before dynner.³⁹ And the Lorde said vnto him: Now do ye pharisees make cleane the outsyde of the cuppe, and the platter, but the inward part is full of your rauenyng and wickednesse.⁴⁰ Ye fooles, dyd not he that made that whiche is without, make that which is within also?⁴¹ But rather geue almes of those thynges which are within, and beholde all thynges are cleane vnto you.⁴² But wo vnto you pharisees: for ye tithe mint & rue, and al maner hearbes, and passe ouer iudgement, and the loue of God: These ought ye to haue done, and yet not to leaue the other vndone.⁴³ Wo vnto you pharisees: for ye loue the vppermost seates in ye synagogues, and greetynges in the markettes.⁴⁴ Wo vnto you scribes and pharisees, ye hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, are not ware of them.⁴⁵ Then aunswered one of the lawyers, and sayde vnto him: Maister, thus saying, thou puttest vs to rebuke also.⁴⁶ And he sayde, Wo vnto you also ye lawyers: for ye lade me with burthens greeuous to be borne, and ye your selues touche not ye burthens with one of your fyngers.⁴⁷ Wo vnto you, ye buylde the sepulchres of the prophetes, and your fathers kylled them.⁴⁸ Truely, ye beare witnesse that ye alowe the deedes of your fathers: for they kylled them, and ye buylde their sepulchres.⁴⁹ Therfore saide the wisedome of God, I wyl sende them prophetes and apostles, and some of them they shall slaye and persecute:⁵⁰ That the blood of all the prophetes, which is shedde, from the foundation of the worlde, may be required of this generation,⁵¹ From the blood of Abel, vnto ye blood of Zacharie, whiche perished betwene the aulter & the temple: Ueryly I saye vnto you, it shalbe required of this nation.⁵² Wo vnto you lawyers: for ye haue taken away the keye of knowledge, ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbad.⁵³ When he thus spake vnto them, the lawyers & the pharisees began to vrge hym vehemently, and to prouoke hym to speake many thynges.⁵⁴ Laying wayte for hym, and sekyng to catche somethyng out of his mouth, wherby they myght accuse hym.