Luke 19:4-12

⁴Wherfore he ran before and asceded vp into a wilde fygge tree to se him: for he shulde come that same waye.

⁵And when Iesus cam to the place he loked vp and sawe him and sayd vnto him: zache attonce come doune for to daye I must abyde at thy housse.

⁶And he came doune hastelye and receaved him ioyfully.

⁷And when they sawe that they all groudged sayinge: He is gone in to tary with a man that is a synner.

⁸And zache stode forth and sayd vnto the Lorde: beholde Lorde the haulfe of my gooddes I geve to the povre and if I have done eny man wronge I will restore him fower folde.

⁹And Iesus sayd to him: this daye is healthe come vnto this housse for as moche as it also is become the chylde of Abraham.

¹⁰For the sonne of man is come to seke and to save that which was looste.

¹¹As they hearde these thinges he added ther to a similitude be cause he was nye to Hierusalem and because also they thought that the kyngdome of God shuld shortely appere.

¹²He sayde therfore: a certayne noble man wet into a farre countre to receave him a kyngdome and then to come agayne.