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¹ And Iesus answered, and spake vnto the agayne by parables, & sayde:² The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a kynge, which maried his sonne.³ And sent forth his seruauntes, to call the gestes vnto the mariage, & they wolde not come.⁴ Agayne, he sent forth other seruauntes, and sayde: Tell the gestes: Beholde, I haue prepared my dynner, myne oxen and my fed catell are kylled, and all thinges are readye, come to the mariage.⁵ But they made light of it, and wente their wayes: one to his hussbandrye, another to his marchaundise.⁶ As for the remnaut, they toke his seruauntes, and intreated the shamefully, and slew the.⁷ When the kynge herde that, he was wroth, and sent forth his warryers, and destroyed those murtherers, and set fyre vpon their cite.⁸ Then sayde he vnto his seruauntes: The mariage in dede is prepared, but the gestes were not worthy.⁹ Go youre waye out therfore in to ye hye wayes, and as many as ye fynde, byd them to the mariage.¹⁰ And the seruauntes wete out in to the hye wayes, and gathered together as many as they coulde fynde, both good and bad, & the tables were all full.¹¹ Then the kynge wete in, to se the gestes, and spyed there a man that had not on a weddynge garment,¹² and sayde vnto him: Frende, how camest thou in hither, & hast not on a weddyinge garment? And he was euen spechlesse.¹³ Then sayde the kynge vnto his seruauntes: Take and bynde him hande and fote, & cast him into ye vtter darcknes: there shal be waylinge and gnasshinge of teth.¹⁴ For many be called, but few are chose.

¹⁵ Then wente the Pharises, and toke councell, how they might tangle him in his wordes,¹⁶ and sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes officers, and sayde: Master, we knowe that thou art true, and teachest the waye of God truly, and carest for no ma: for thou regardest not the outwarde appearaunce of me.¹⁷ Tell us therfore, how thinkest thou? Is it laufulll to geue tribute vnto the Emperoure, or not?¹⁸ Now wha Iesus perceaued their wickednes, he sayde: O ye ypocrites, why tepte ye me?¹⁹ Shewe me ye tribute money. And they toke hi a peny.²⁰ And he saide vnto the: Whose is this ymage and superscription?²¹ They sayde vnto him: The Emperours. Then sayde he vnto them: Geue therfore vnto the Emperour, that which is the Emperours: and geue vnto God, that which is Gods.²² When they herde that, they marueyled, and left him, & wete their waye.

²³ The same daye there came vnto him the Saduces (which holde that there is no resurreccion) and axed him,²⁴ and sayde: Master, Moses sayde: Yf a man dye, hauynge no children, his brother shal mary his wife, & rayse vp sede vnto his brother.²⁵ Now were there with us seue brethren. The first maried a wife, and dyed: & for somoch as he had no sede, he left his wife vnto his brother.²⁶ Like wyse the secode, and thirde vnto the seueth.²⁷ Last of all the woman dyed also.²⁸ Now in the resurreccion, whose wife shal she be of the seuen? For they all had her.²⁹ Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them: Ye erre, and vnderstode not the scriptures, ner the power of God.³⁰ In the resurreccion they shal nether mary, ner be maried, but are as the angels of God in heauen.³¹ As touchinge the resurreccio of the deed, haue ye notred, what is spoken vnto you of God, which sayeth:³² I am the God of Abraham, and ye God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? Yet is not God a God of the deed, but of the lyuynge.³³ And whan the people herde that, they were astonnyed at his doctryne.

³⁴ When the Pharises herde, that he had stopped the mouth of the Saduces, they gathered them selues together.³⁵ And one of them (a Scrybe) tepted him, and sayde:³⁶ Master, which is the chefest commaundemet in the lawe?³⁷ Iesus saide vnto him: Thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God with all thy hert, with all thy soule, and with all thy mynde:³⁸ this is the pryncipall and greatest comaundement.³⁹ As for the seconde, it is like vnto it: Thou shalt loue thy neghboure as thy self.⁴⁰ In these two commaundementes hange all the lawe and the prophetes.

⁴¹ Now whyle the Pharises were gathered together, Iesus axed them,⁴² and sayde: What thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: Dauids.⁴³ He sayde vnto them: How then doth Dauid in sprete, call him LORDE, sayenge:⁴⁴ The LORDE sayde vnto my LORDE: Syt thou on my right honde, tyll I make thine enemies thy fote stole.⁴⁵ Yf Dauid now call him LORDE, how is he then his sonne?⁴⁶ And no man coude answere him one worde, nether durst eny man axe him eny mo questios, fro that daye forth.