Luke 18:5-16

⁵netheles for this widewe is heuy to me, Y schal venge hir; lest at the laste sche comynge condempne me.

⁶And the Lord seide, Here ye, what the domesman of wickidnesse seith;

⁷and whether God schal not do veniaunce of hise chosun, criynge to hym dai and nyyt, and schal haue pacience in hem?

⁸Sotheli Y seie to you, for soone he schal do veniaunce of hem. Netheles gessist thou, that mannus sone comynge schal fynde feith in erthe?

⁹And he seide also to sum men, that tristiden in hem silf, as thei weren riytful, and dispiseden othere, this parable,

¹⁰seiynge, Twei men wenten vp in to the temple to preye; the toon a Farisee, and the tother a pupplican.

¹¹And the Farisee stood, and preiede bi hym silf these thingis, and seide, God, Y do thankyngis to thee, for Y am not as other men, raueinouris, vniust, auoutreris, as also this pupplican;

¹²Y faste twies in the woke, Y yyue tithis of alle thingis that Y haue in possessioun.

¹³And the pupplican stood afer, and wolde nether reise hise iyen to heuene, but smoot his brest, and seide, God be merciful to me, synnere.

¹⁴Treuli Y seie to you, this yede doun in to his hous, and was iustified fro the other. For ech that enhaunsith hym, schal be maad low, and he that mekith hym, schal be enhaunsid.

¹⁵And thei brouyten to hym yonge children, that he schulde touche hem; and whanne the disciplis saien this thing, thei blameden hem.

¹⁶But Jhesus clepide togider hem, and seide, Suffre ye children to come to me, and nyle ye forbede hem, for of siche is the kyngdom of heuenes.