Luke 12:40-56

⁴⁰And be ye redi, for in what our ye gessen not, mannus sone schal come.

⁴¹And Petre seide to hym, Lord, seist thou this parable to vs, or to alle?

⁴²And the Lord seide, Who, gessist thou, is a trewe dispendere, and a prudent, whom the lord hath ordeyned on his meyne, to yyue hem in tyme mesure of whete?

⁴³Blessid is that seruaunt, that the lord whanne he cometh, schal fynde so doynge.

⁴⁴Verili Y seie to you, that on alle thingis that he weldith, he schal ordeyne hym.

⁴⁵That if that seruaunt seie in his herte, My lord tarieth to come; and bigynne to smyte children, and handmaydenes, and ete, and drynke, and be fulfillid ouer mesure,

⁴⁶the lord of that seruaunt schal come, in the dai that he hopith not, and the our that he woot not; and schal departe hym, and putte his part with vnfeithful men.

⁴⁷But thilke seruaunt that knew the wille of his lord, and made not hym redi, and dide not aftir his wille, schal be betun with many betyngis.

⁴⁸But he that knew not, and dide worthi thingis of strokis, schal be betun with fewe. For to eche man to whom myche is youun, myche schal be axid of hym; and thei schulen axe more of hym, to whom thei bitoken myche.

⁴⁹Y cam to sende fier `in to the erthe, and what wole Y, but that it be kyndlid?

⁵⁰And Y haue to be baptisid with a baptysm, and hou am Y constreyned, til that it be perfitli don?

⁵¹Wene ye, that Y cam to yyue pees in to erthe? Nay, Y say to you, but departyng.

⁵²For fro this tyme ther schulen be fyue departid in oon hous; thre schulen be departid ayens tweyne, and tweyne schulen be departid ayens thre;

⁵³the fadir ayens the sone, and the sone ayens the fadir; the modir ayens the douytir, and the douytir ayens the modir; the hosebondis modir ayens the sones wijf, and and the sones wijf ayens hir hosebondis modir.

⁵⁴And he seide also to the puple, Whanne ye seen a cloude risynge fro the sunne goynge doun, anoon ye seien, Reyn cometh; and so it is don.

⁵⁵And whanne ye seen the south blowynge, ye seien, That heete schal be; and it is don.

⁵⁶Ypocritis, ye kunnen preue the face of heuene and of erthe, but hou preuen ye not this tyme.