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¹ And it came to passe, that when Iesus had made an ende of commaundyng his twelue disciples, he departed thence to teache and to preache in their cities.² When Iohn being in prison heard the workes of Christe, he sent two of his disciples, and sayde vnto him:³ Art thou he that shoulde come? or do we loke for another?⁴ Iesus aunswered and sayd vnto them: Go and shewe Iohn agayne what ye haue hearde and seene.⁵ The blinde receaue their sight, the halt do walke, the lepers are cleansed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receaue the Gospell.⁶ And happy is he that is not offended in me.

⁷ And as they departed, Iesus began to say vnto the multitude cocerning Iohn: What went ye out into the wildernesse to see? A reede shaken with the winde?⁸ Or what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft rayment? Beholde, they that weare soft [clothyng] are in kinges houses.⁹ But what went ye out for to see? A prophete? yea I say vnto you, and more then a prophete.¹⁰ For this is he of whom it is written: Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. ¹¹ Ueryly I say vnto you, among them that are borne of women, arose not a greater then Iohn the Baptist: Notwithstandyng, he that is lesse in the kingdome of heauen, is greater then he.¹² From the dayes of Iohn the Baptist vntyll nowe, the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence, & the violent plucke it [vnto them.]¹³ For all the prophetes and the lawe it selfe prophecied vnto Iohn.¹⁴ And if ye wyll receaue it, this is Elias which was for to come.¹⁵ He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

¹⁶ But whervnto shall I liken this generation? It is like vnto litle children, which sit in the markettes, and call vnto their felowes,¹⁷ And say: We haue pyped vnto you, and ye haue not daunsed: we haue mourned vnto you, and ye haue not sorowed.¹⁸ For Iohn came neither eatyng nor drinking, and they say, he hath the deuil.¹⁹ The sonne of man came eatyng and drinking, and they say, behold a glutton and an [vnmeasurable] drinker of wine, and a friende vnto publicans & sinners: And wisdome is iustified of her children.²⁰ Then began he to vpbrayd the cities which most of his mightie workes were done in, because they repented not.²¹ Wo vnto thee Chorazin, wo vnto thee Bethsaida: for if the mightie workes which were shewed in you had ben done in Tyre or Sidon, they had repented long ago in sackcloth and asshes.²² Neuerthelesse I say vnto you, it shalbe easier for Tyre and Sidon at the day of iudgement, then for you.²³ And thou Capernaum, which art lift vp vnto heauen, shalt be brought downe to hell: For if the mightie workes which haue ben done in thee had ben done among them of Sodome, they had remayned vntyll this day.²⁴ Neuerthelesse, I say vnto you, that it shalbe easier for the lande of Sodome in the day of iudgement, then for thee.

²⁵ At that tyme Iesus aunswered and sayde: I thanke thee O father, Lorde of heauen and earth, because thou hast hid these thinges from the wise and prudent, and hast shewed them vnto babes.²⁶ Euen so [it is] O father, for so was it thy good pleasure.²⁷ All thinges are geuen vnto me of my father: And no man knoweth the sonne but the father, neither knoweth any man the father saue the sonne, and he to whomsoeuer the sonne wyll open him.²⁸ Come vnto me all ye that labour sore, and are laden, and I wyll ease you.²⁹ Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me, for I am meeke & lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.³⁰ For my yoke is easie, and my burthen is lyght.