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¹And Iesus answered and spake vnto them agayne in similitudes sayinge.

²The kingdome of heven is lyke vnto a certayne kynge which maryed his sonne

³and sent forth his servantes to call them that were byd to the weddinge and they wolde not come.

⁴Ageyne he sent forth other servauntes sayinge: Tell them which are bydden: beholde I have prepared my dynner myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled and all thinges are redy come vnto the mariage.

⁵But they made light of it and went their wayes: one to his ferme place another about his marchaundise

⁶the remnaunt toke his seruantes and intreated them vngodly and slewe them.

⁷When the kinge hearde that he was wroth and send forth his warryers and distroyed those murtherers and brent vp their cyte.

⁸Then sayde he to his servauutes: the weddinge was prepared. But they which were bydden were not worthy.

⁹Go ye therfore out into the hyewayes and as many as ye finde byd them to the mariage.

¹⁰The seruauntes wet out into the hiewayes and gaddered to gedder as many as they coulde fynde both good and bad and the weddinge was furnysshed with gestes.

¹¹Then the kynge came in to viset the gestes and spyed there a man which had not on a weddinge garment

¹²and sayde vnto him: frende how fortuned it that thou camest in hither and hast not on a weddyng garment? And he was even spechlesse.

¹³Then sayde the kynge to his ministers: take and bynde hym hand and fote and caste hym into vtter darcknes there shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of teth.

¹⁴For many are called and feawe be chosen.

¹⁵Then went the Pharises and toke counsell how they might tagle him in his wordes.

¹⁶And they sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes servauntes sayinge: Master we knowe that thou are true and teachest the waye of god trulie nether carest for eny man for thou consydrest not menes estate.

¹⁷Tell vs therfore: how thynkest thou? Is it lawfull to geve tribute vnto Cesar or not?

¹⁸Iesus perceaved their wikednes and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrites?

¹⁹Let me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.

²⁰And he sayde vnto them: whose is this ymage and superscripcion?

²¹They sayde vnto him: Cesars. Then sayde he vnto them. Geve therfore to Cesar that which is Cesars: and geve vnto god that which is goddes.

²²When they hearde that they marveled and lefte hym and went there waye.

²³The same daye the Saduces came to him (which saye that there is no resurreccion) and axed him

²⁴sayinge: Master Moses bade yf a man dye havinge no chyldre that the brother mary his wyfe and reyse vp seed vnto his brother.

²⁵Ther were with vs seven brethren and the fyrste maried and deceased with oute yssue and lefte his wyfe vnto his brother.

²⁶Lyke wise the seconde and the thryd vnto the sevethe.

²⁷Laste of all the woman dyed also.

²⁸Now in the resurreccion whose wyfe shall she be of the seven? For all had her.

²⁹Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: ye are deceaved and vnderstonde not the scriptures nor yet the power of God.

³⁰For in the resurreccion they nether mary nor are maryed: but are as the angels of God in heven.

³¹As touchynge the resurreccion of the deed: have ye not redde what is sayde vnto you of God which sayeth:

³²I am Abrahams God and Ysaacks God and the God of Iacob? God is not the God of the deed: but of the lyvinge.

³³And when the people hearde that they were astonyed at his doctrine.

³⁴When the Pharises had hearde how that he had put the Saduces to silence they drewe to gedder

³⁵and one of them which was a doctoure of lawe axed a question temptinge him and sayinge:

³⁶Master which is the chefe commaundment in the lawe?

³⁷Iesus sayde vnto him: love the Lorde thy God with all thine herte with all thy soule and with all thy mynde.

³⁸This is the fyrst and the chefe comaundement.

³⁹And ther is another lyke vnto this. Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.

⁴⁰In these two commaundemetes hange all the lawe and the Prophetes.

⁴¹Whyll the Pharises were gaddered togeder Iesus axed the sayinge:

⁴²what thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: the sonne of David.

⁴³He sayde vnto them: how then doeth David in spirite call him Lorde sayinge?

⁴⁴The Lorde sayde to my Lorde syt on my right honde: tyll I make thyne enemyes thy fote stole.

⁴⁵Yf David call him Lorde: how is he then his sonne?

⁴⁶And none coulde answere him ageyne one worde: nether dueste eny from that daye forth axe him eny moo questions.