Luke 11:16-41

¹⁶And othir temptinge axiden of hym a tokene fro heuene.

¹⁷And as he saiy the thouytis of hem, he seide to hem, Euery rewme departid ayens it silf, schal be desolat, and an hous schal falle on an hous.

¹⁸And if Sathanas be departid ayens hym silf, hou schal his rewme stonde? For ye seien, that Y caste out feendis in Belsabub.

¹⁹And if Y in Belsabub caste out fendis, in whom casten out youre sones? Therfor thei schulen be youre domesmen.

²⁰But if Y caste out fendis in the fyngir of God, thanne the rewme of God is comun among you.

²¹Whanne a strong armed man kepith his hous, alle thingis that he weldith ben in pees.

²²But if a stronger than he come vpon hym, and ouercome hym, he schal take awei al his armere, in which he tristide, and schal dele abrood his robries.

²³He that is not with me, is ayens me; and he that gederith not togidir with me, scaterith abrood.

²⁴Whanne an vnclene spirit goith out of a man, he wandrith bi drie placis, and sekith reste; and he fyndynge not, seith, Y schal turne ayen in to myn hous, fro whannes Y cam out.

²⁵And whanne he cometh, he fyndith it clansid with besyms, and fayre arayed.

²⁶Thanne he goith, and takith with hym seuene othere spirits worse than hym silf, and thei entren, and dwellen there. And the laste thingis of that man ben maad worse than the formere.

²⁷And it was don, whanne he hadde seid these thingis, a womman of the cumpanye reride hir vois, and seide to hym, Blessid be the wombe that bare thee, and blessid be the tetis that thou hast soken.

²⁸And he seide, But yhe blessid be thei, that heren the word of God, and kepen it.

²⁹And whanne the puple runnen togidere, he bigan to seie, This generacioun is a weiward generacioun; it sekith a token, and a tokene schal not be youun to it, but the tokene of Jonas, the profete.

³⁰For as Jonas was a tokene to men of Nynyue, so mannus sone schal be to this generacioun.

³¹The queen of the south schal rise in doom with men of this generacioun, and schal condempne hem; for sche cam fro the endis of the erthe, for to here the wisdom of Salomon, and lo! here is a gretter than Salomon.

³²Men of Nynyue schulen rise in doom with this generacioun, and schulen condempne it; for thei diden penaunce in the prechyng of Jonas, and lo! here is a gretter than Jonas.

³³No man tendith a lanterne, and puttith in hidils, nether vndur a buyschel, but on a candilstike, that thei that goen in, se liyt.

³⁴The lanterne of thi bodi is thin iye; if thin iye be symple, al thi bodi schal be liyti; but if it be weyward, al thi bodi schal be derkful.

³⁵Therfor se thou, lest the liyt that is in thee, be derknessis.

³⁶Therfor if al thi bodi be briyt, and haue no part of derknessis, it schal be al briyt, and as a lanterne of briytnesse it schal yyue liyt to thee.

³⁷And whanne he spak, a Farisee preiede him, that he schulde ete with hym. And he entride, and sat to the meete.

³⁸And the Farisee bigan to seie, gessynge with ynne hym silf, whi he was not waschen bifor mete.

³⁹And the Lord seide to hym, Now ye Farisees clensen that that is with outenforth of the cuppe and the plater; but that thing that is with ynne of you, is ful of raueyn and wickidnesse.

⁴⁰Foolis, whether he that made that that is withoutenforth, made not also that that is with ynne?

⁴¹Netheles that that is ouer plus, yyue ye almes, and lo! alle thingis ben cleene to you.