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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.