Luke 10:25-41

²⁵And beholde a certayne Lawere stode vp and tempted him sayinge: Master what shall I do to inheret eternall life?

²⁶He sayd vnto him: What is written in the lawe? How redest thou?

²⁷And he answered and sayde: Loue thy Lorde God with all thy hert and with all thy soule and with all thy stregthe and with all thy mynde: and thy neghbour as thy sylfe.

²⁸And he sayde vnto him: Thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live.

²⁹He willinge to iustifie him silfe sayde vnto Iesus: Who is then my neghbour?

³⁰Iesus answered and sayde: A certayne man descended from Hierusalem into Hierico and fell in to the hondes of theves which robbed him of his raymet and wounded him and departed levynge him halfe deed.

³¹And by chaunce ther came a certayne preste that same waye and when he sawe him he passed by.

³²And lykewyse a Levite when he was come nye to the place wet and loked on him and passed by.

³³Then a certayne Samaritane as he iornyed came nye vnto him and when he sawe him had compassion on him

³⁴and went to and bounde vp his woundes and poured in oyle and wyne and put him on his awne beaste and brought him to a comen ynne and made provision for him.

³⁵And on the morowe when he departed he toke out two pece and gave them to the host and sayde vnto him. Take cure of him and whatsoever thou spedest moare when I come agayne I will recompence the.

³⁶Which now of these thre thynkest thou was neighbour vnto him that fell into the theves hondes?

³⁷And he sayde: he that shewed mercy on him. Then sayde Iesus vnto him. Goo and do thou lyke wyse.

³⁸It fortuned as they wet that he entred in to a certayne toune. And a certayne woman named Martha receaved him into her housse.

³⁹And this woman had a sister called Mary which sate at Iesus fete and hearde his preachinge.

⁴⁰And Martha was combred about moche servinge and stode and sayde: Master doest thou not care that my sister hath leeft me to minister alone? Byd her therfore that she helpe me.

⁴¹And Iesus answered and sayde vnto her: Martha Martha thou carest and arte troubled about many thinges: