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¹ The kyngdome of heauen is like vnto an housholder, which wete out early in the mornynge, to hyre labourers in to his vyniarde.² And wha he had agreed with the labourers for a peny a daye, he sent the in to his vynyarde.³ And aboute ye thirde houre he wente out, and sawe other stondinge ydle in the market place,⁴ and sayde vnto them: Go ye also in to my vynyarde, & what so euer is right, I wil geue it you. And they wete their waye.⁵ Agayne, he wete out aboute the sixte and nyenth houre, and dyd likewyse,⁶ And aboute the eleuenth houre he wete out, and founde other stodynge ydle, and sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydle?⁷ They sayde vnto him: because no man hath hyred us. He saide vnto the: Go ye also in to my vinyarde, and loke what is right, ye shal haue it.⁸ Now whan euen was come, the lorde of the vynyarde sayde vnto his stewarde: Call the labourers, and geue them their hyre, begynnynge from the last vnto ye first.⁹ Then they that were hyred aboute the eleuenth houre, came and receaued euery man a peny.¹⁰ But whan the first came, they supposed that they shulde receaue more: and they also receaued euery man a peny.¹¹ And whan they had receaued it, they murmured agaynst the housholder,¹² and sayde: These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made the equall vnto us, which haue borne the burthen and heate of the daye.¹³ He answered and sayde vnto one of them: frende, I do ye no wronge: diddest not thou agree with me for a peny?¹⁴ Take that thine is, and go thy waye. I wil geue vnto this last also, like as vnto the.¹⁵ Or haue I not power, to do as me listeth with myne owne? Is thine eye euell, because I am good?¹⁶ So the last shalbe the first, & the first the last. For many are called, but few are chosen.

¹⁷ And Iesus wente vp to Ierusalem, and toke the twolue disciples asyde in the waye, and sayde vnto them:¹⁸ Beholde, we go vp to Ierusalem, and the sonne of man shalbe delyuered vnto the hye prestes and scribes: & they shal condemne him to death,¹⁹ and shal delyuer him vnto ye Heithen, to be mocked to be scourged, and to be crucified. And the thirde daye he shal ryse agayne.

²⁰ Then came vnto him the mother of Zebedes childre with hir sonnes, fell downe before him, and desyred a certayne thinge of hi.²¹ And he saide vnto her: What wilt thou? She sayde vnto him: Let these two sonnes of myne syt in thy kyngdome: the one vpon thy right honde, & the other vpon thy left honde.²² But Iesus answered, and sayde: Ye wote not what ye axe. Maye ye drynke the cuppe, that I shal drynke? & to be baptised with the baptyme, that I shalbe baptysed withall?²³ They sayde vnto him: Yee that we maye. And he sayde vnto them: My cuppe truly shal ye drynke, & with the baptyme yt I shal be baptysed withall, shal ye be baptysed: Neuertheles to syt vpon my right honde & on my left, is not myne to geue, but vnto the for who it is prepared of my father.²⁴ Whan the ten herde that, they disdayned at the two brethren.²⁵ But Iesus called them vnto him, and sayde: Ye knowe that ye prynces of the worlde haue domynacion of the people, and the greatest exercise power amonge the.²⁶ It shal not be so amonge you. But whoso euer wyl be greate amonge you, let him be youre mynister:²⁷ & who soeuer wyl be chefe, let him be youre seruaunt:²⁸ Euen as the sonne of man came, not to be serued, but to do seruyce, and to geue his life to a redepcion for many.

²⁹ And when they departed from Iericho, moch people folowed him:³⁰ and beholde, two blyndemen sat by the waye syde: And when they herde that Iesus passed by, they cried & sayde. O LORDE, thou sonne Dauid,haue mercy vpon vs.³¹ But ye people rebuked the, that they shulde holde their peace. Neuertheles they cried the more, & sayde: O LORDE, thou sonne of Dauid, haue mercy vpon vs.³² And Iesus stode styll, and called them, and sayde: What wil ye, yt I shal do vnto you?³³ They sayde vnto him: LORDE, that oure eyes maye be opened.³⁴ And Iesus had compassion vpon them, and touched their eyes: & immediatly their eies receaued sight. And they folowed him.