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| 12:1 | At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; |
| 12:2 | and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known; |
| 12:3 | because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops. |
| 12:4 | `And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do; |
| 12:5 | but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him. |
| 12:6 | `Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God, |
| 12:7 | but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value. |
| 12:8 | `And I say to you, Every one -- whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God, |
| 12:9 | and he who hath denied me before men, shall be denied before the messengers of God, |
| 12:10 | and every one whoever shall say a word to the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven to him, but to him who to the Holy Spirit did speak evil, it shall not be forgiven. |
| 12:11 | `And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say, |
| 12:12 | for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that hour what it behoveth `you' to say.' |
| 12:13 | And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.' |
| 12:14 | And he said to him, `Man, who set me a judge or a divider over you?' |
| 12:15 | And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.' |
| 12:16 | And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well; |
| 12:17 | and he was reasoning within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where I shall gather together my fruits? |
| 12:18 | and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things, |
| 12:19 | and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. |
| 12:20 | `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be? |
| 12:21 | so `is' he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.' |
| 12:22 | And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on; |
| 12:23 | the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing. |
| 12:24 | `Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls? |
| 12:25 | and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit? |
| 12:26 | If, then, ye are not able for the least -- why for the rest are ye anxious? |
| 12:27 | `Consider the lilies, how do they grow? they labour not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these; |
| 12:28 | and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith? |
| 12:29 | `And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense, |
| 12:30 | for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things; |
| 12:31 | but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you. |
| 12:32 | `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign; |
| 12:33 | sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy; |
| 12:34 | for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be. |
| 12:35 | `Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning, |
| 12:36 | and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him. |
| 12:37 | `Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them; |
| 12:38 | and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find `it' so, happy are those servants. |
| 12:39 | `And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through; |
| 12:40 | and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.' |
| 12:41 | And Peter said to him, `Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?' |
| 12:42 | And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure? |
| 12:43 | Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so; |
| 12:44 | truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him. |
| 12:45 | `And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken; |
| 12:46 | the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for `him', and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint. |
| 12:47 | `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes, |
| 12:48 | and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him. |
| 12:49 | `Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled? |
| 12:50 | but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed! |
| 12:51 | `Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division; |
| 12:52 | for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided -- three against two, and two against three; |
| 12:53 | a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.' |
| 12:54 | And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so; |
| 12:55 | and when -- a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is; |
| 12:56 | hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of `it'? |
| 12:57 | `And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous? |
| 12:58 | for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison; |
| 12:59 | I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till even the last mite thou mayest give back.' |
| 12:1 | As ther gadered together an innumerable multitude of people (in so moche that they trood one another) he began to saye vnto his disciples: Fyrst of all beware of the leve of the Pharises which is ypocrisy. |
| 12:2 | For ther is no thinge covered that shall not be vncovered: nether hyd that shall not be knowen. |
| 12:3 | For whatsoever ye have spoken in in darknes: that same shalbe hearde in light. And that which ye have spoken in the the eare eve in secret places shalbe preached even on the toppe of the housses. |
| 12:4 | I saye vnto you my fredes: Be not afrayde of them that kyll the body and after that have no moare that they can do. |
| 12:5 | But I will shewe you whom ye shall feare. Feare him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell. Ye I saye vnto you him feare. |
| 12:6 | Are not five sparowes bought for two farthinges? And yet not one of them is forgotten of God. |
| 12:7 | Also even the very heres of youre heedes are nombred. Feare not therfore: ye are moare of value then many sparowes. |
| 12:8 | I saye vnto you: Whosoever confesseth me before men eve him shall ye sonne of man confesse also before ye angels of God. |
| 12:9 | And he that denyeth me before men: shalbe denyed before ye angels of God. |
| 12:10 | And whosoever speaketh a worde agaynst ye sonne of ma it shalbe forgeven him. But vnto him yt blasphemeth the holy goost it shall not be forgeven. |
| 12:11 | When they bringe you vnto the synagoges and vnto the rulers and officers take no thought how or what thinge ye shall answer or what ye shall speake. |
| 12:12 | For the holy goost shall teache you in the same houre what ye ought to saye. |
| 12:13 | One of the company sayde vnto hym: Master byd my brother devide the enheritauce with me. |
| 12:14 | And he sayde vnto him: Man who made me a iudge or a devider over you? |
| 12:15 | Wherfore he sayde vnto them: take hede and beware of covetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondeth in the aboundaunce of the thinges which he possesseth. |
| 12:16 | And he put forth a similitude vnto them sayinge: The groude of a certayne riche ma brought forth frutes plenteously |
| 12:17 | and he thought in himsilfe sayinge: what shall I do? because I have noo roume where to bestowe my frutes? |
| 12:18 | And he sayde: This will I do. I will destroye my barnes and bilde greater and therin will I gadder all my frutes and my goodes: |
| 12:19 | and I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares take thyne ease: eate drinke and be mery. |
| 12:20 | But God sayde vnto him: Thou fole this night will they fetche awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall thoose thinges be which thou hast provyded? |
| 12:21 | So is it with him that gadereth ryches and is not ryche in God. |
| 12:22 | And he spake vnto his disciples: Therfore I saye vnto you: take no thought for youre lyfe what ye shall eate nether for youre body what ye shall put on. |
| 12:23 | The lyfe is moare then meate and the bodye is moare then rayment. |
| 12:24 | Considre the ravens for they nether sowe nor repe which nether have stoorehousse ner barne and yet God fedeth them. How moche are ye better then the foules. |
| 12:25 | Which of you with takynge thought can adde to his stature one cubit? |
| 12:26 | Yf ye then be not able to do that thinge which is least: why take ye thought for the remmaunt? |
| 12:27 | Considre the lylies how they growe: They laboure not: they spyn not: and yet I saye vnto you that Salomon in all this royalte was not clothed lyke to one of these. |
| 12:28 | Yf the grasse which is todaye in the felde and tomorowe shalbe cast into the fornace God so clothe: how moche moore will he clothe you o ye endued wt litell faith? |
| 12:29 | And axe not what ye shall eate or what ye shall drinke nether clyme ye vp an hye |
| 12:30 | for all suche thinges the hethen people of the worlde seke for. Youre father knoweth that ye have nede of suche thinges. |
| 12:31 | Wherfore seke ye after the kyngedome of God and all these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you. |
| 12:32 | Feare not litell floocke for it is youre fathers pleasure to geve you a kingdome. |
| 12:33 | Sell that ye have and geve almes. And make you bagges which wexe not olde and treasure that fayleth not in heaven where noo these commeth nether moth corrupteth. |
| 12:34 | For where youre treasure is there will youre hertes be also. |
| 12:35 | Let youre loynes be gerdde about and youre lightes brennynge |
| 12:36 | and ye youre selves lyke vnto men that wayte for their master when he will returne fro a weddinge: that assone as he cometh and knocketh they maye ope vnto him. |
| 12:37 | Happy are those servauntes which the Lorde when he cometh shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you he will gerdde him selfe about and make them sit doune to meate and walke by and minister vnto them. |
| 12:38 | And yf he come in the seconde watche ye if he come in the thyrde watche and shall fynde them soo happy are those servauntes. |
| 12:39 | This vnderstonde that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre ye these wolde come he wolde suerly watche: and not suffer his housse to be broken vp. |
| 12:40 | Be ye prepared therfore: for the sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not. |
| 12:41 | Then Peter sayde vnto him: Master tellest thou this similitude vnto vs or to all men? |
| 12:42 | And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season: |
| 12:43 | happy is that servaunt whom his master when he cometh shall finde soo doinge. |
| 12:44 | Of a trueth I saye vnto you: that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. |
| 12:45 | But and yf the evyll servaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cominge and shall beginne to smyte the servauntes and maydens and to eate and drinke and to be dronken: |
| 12:46 | the Lorde of that servaunt will come in a daye when he thinketh not and at an houre when he is not ware and will devyde him and will geve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers. |
| 12:47 | The servaut that knewe his masters will and prepared not him selfe nether dyd accordinge to his will shalbe bete with many strypes. |
| 12:48 | But he that knewe not and yet dyd committe thinges worthy of strypes shalbe beaten with feawe strypes. For vnto whom moche is geven of him shalbe moche requyred. And to whom men moche commyt the moare of him will they axe. |
| 12:49 | I am come to sende fyre on erth: and what is my dysyre but that it were all redy kyndled? |
| 12:50 | Not with stondinge I must de baptised with a baptyme: and how am I payned till it be ended? |
| 12:51 | Suppose ye that I am come to sende peace on erth? I tell you naye: but rather debate. |
| 12:52 | For fro hence forthe ther shalbe five in one housse devided thre agaynst two and two agaynst thre. |
| 12:53 | The father shalbe devided agaynst the sonne and the sonne agaynst the father. The mother agaynst the doughter and the doughter agaynst the mother. The motereleawe agaynst hir doughterelawe and the doughterelawe agaynst hir motherelawe. |
| 12:54 | Then sayde he to the people: when ye se a cloude ryse out of the west strayght waye ye saye: we shall have a shower and soo it is. |
| 12:55 | And when ye se the south wynde blow ye saye: we shall have heet and it cometh to passe. |
| 12:56 | Ypocrites ye can skyll of the fassion of the erth and of the skye: but what is ye cause that ye canot skyll of this time? |
| 12:57 | Ye and why iudge ye not of youre selves what is righte? |
| 12:58 | Whill thou goest with thyne adversary to the ruler: as thou arte in the waye geve diligence that thou mayst be delivered fro him least he bringe the to the iudge and the iudge delyver the to the iaylar and the iaylar cast the in to preson. |
| 12:59 | I tell ye thou departest not thence tyll thou have made good ye vtmost myte. |
| 12:1 | There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, in so moch that they trode one another: Then beganne he, and sayde first vnto his disciples: Bewarre of the leuen of the Pharises, which is ypocrisye. |
| 12:2 | But there is nothinge hyd, that shal not be discouered: nether secrete, that shal not be knowne. |
| 12:3 | Therfore whatsoeuer ye haue spoke in darknesse, that same shal be herde in light: and that ye haue spoken in to the eare in the chabers, shalbe preached vpon the house toppes. |
| 12:4 | But I saye vnto you my frendes: Be not afrayed of them that kyll the body, and after that haue nomore that they can do. |
| 12:5 | But I wil shewe you, whom ye shal feare. Feare him, which after he hath kylled, hath power also to cast in to hell: Yee I saye vnto you: Feare him. |
| 12:6 | Are not fyue sparowes bought for two farthinges? Yet is not one of them forgotten before God. |
| 12:7 | The very hayres of youre heade also are nombred euery one. Feare not therfore, for ye are better then many sparowes. |
| 12:8 | I saye vnto you: Who so euer knowlegeth me before men, him shal the sonne of ma also knowlege before the angels of God: |
| 12:9 | But he that denyeth me before men, shalbe denyed before the angels of God. |
| 12:10 | And who so euer speaketh a worde agaynst the sonne of man, it shalbe forgeuen him: But who so blasphemeth the holy goost, it shal not be forgeuen him. |
| 12:11 | Whan they brynge you in to their synagoges, and to the rulers & officers, take ye no thought, how or what ye shal answere, or what ye shal speake: |
| 12:12 | for the holy goost shal teach you in the same houre, what ye ought to saye. |
| 12:13 | But one of the people sayde vnto him: Master, byd my brother deuyde the enheritaunce with me. |
| 12:14 | Neuertheles he sayde vnto him: Man, who hath set me to be a iudge or heretage parter ouer you? |
| 12:15 | And he sayde vnto them: Take hede, and bewarre of couetousnesse, for no man lyueth therof, that he hath abundaunce of goodes. |
| 12:16 | And he tolde them a symilitude, and sayde: There was a riche man, whose felde had brought forth frutes plenteously, |
| 12:17 | and he thought in himself, and sayde: What shal I do? I haue nothinge wher in to gather my frutes. |
| 12:18 | And he sayde: This wil I do, I wil breake downe my barnes, & buylde greater, and therin wil I gather all myne increace, & my goodes, |
| 12:19 | & wil saye vnto my soule: Soule, thou hast moch goodes layed vp in stoare for many yeares, take now thine ease, eate, drinke, and be mery. |
| 12:20 | But God sayde vnto him: Thou foole, this night shal they requyre thy soule from the, and whose shal it be that thou hast prepared? |
| 12:21 | Thus goeth it with him yt gathereth treasure for himself, and is not riche in God. |
| 12:22 | But he sayde vnto his disciples: Therfore I saye vnto you: Take ye no thought for youre life, what ye shal eate: nether for youre body, what ye shal put on. |
| 12:23 | The life is more then meate, and the body more then raymet. |
| 12:24 | Consydre the rauens, they nether sowe ner reape, they haue also nether stoare house ner barne, and yet God fedeth them. But how moch better are ye then the foules? |
| 12:25 | Which of you (though he toke thought therfore) coulde put one cubyte vnto his stature? |
| 12:26 | Seinge then ye be not able to do that which is least, why take ye thought for the other? |
| 12:27 | Considre the lilies vpo the felde, how they growe: they laboure not, they spynne not. But I saye vnto you: that euen Salomen in all his royalte was not clothed like one of these. |
| 12:28 | Wherfore yf God so cloth the grasse, yt is to daye in ye felde, and tomorow shalbe cast in to the fornace, how moch more shal he clothe you, o ye of litle faith? |
| 12:29 | Axe not ye therfore what ye shal eate, or what ye shal drynke, and clymme not vp an hye: |
| 12:30 | The Heithen in the worlde seke after all soch thinges. |
| 12:31 | But seke ye the kyngdome of God, and all these shal be mynistred vnto you. |
| 12:32 | Feare not thou litle flocke, for it is youre fathers pleasure to geue you the kyngdome. |
| 12:33 | Sell that ye haue, and geue almesse. Make you bagges, which waxe not olde: euen a treasure that neuer fayleth in heauen, where no thefe commeth, and no moth corruppeth: |
| 12:34 | for where youre treasure is, there wil youre hert be also. |
| 12:35 | Let youre loynes be gerded aboute, and youre lightes burnynge, |
| 12:36 | and be ye like vnto men that wayte for their lorde, agaynst he returne from the mariage, that whan he cometh & knocketh, they maye straight waye open vnto him. |
| 12:37 | Blessed are those seruauntes, whom the LORDE (whan he cometh) shal fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you: He shal gyrde vp him self, and make them syt downe at the table, and shal go by them, and mynister vnto them. |
| 12:38 | And yf he come in the seconde watch, and in the thirde watch, and fynde them so, blessed are those seruauntes. |
| 12:39 | But be sure of this, that yf the good man of the house knewe, what houre the thefe wolde come, he wolde surely watch, and not suffre his house to be broken vp. |
| 12:40 | Therfore be ye ready also, for at an houre whan ye thynke not, shal the sonne of man come. |
| 12:41 | But Peter sayde vnto him: LORDE, tellest thou this symilitude vnto vs, or to all men also? |
| 12:42 | The LORDE sayde: How greate a thinge is a faithfull and wyse stewarde, whom his lorde setteth ouer his houssholde, to geue the their dewtye in due season? |
| 12:43 | Blessed is that seruaunt, whom his lorde (whan he cometh) shal fynde so doynge. |
| 12:44 | Verely I saye vnto you: he shal set him ouer all his goodes. |
| 12:45 | But yf the same seruaut shal saye in his hert: Tush, it wil be longe or my lorde come, and shal begynne to smyte ye seruauntes and maydens, yee & to eate and drynke,& to be dronke: |
| 12:46 | the same seruauntes lorde shal come in a daye whan he loketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not aware of, & shal hew him in peces, and geue him his rewarde with the vnbeleuers. |
| 12:47 | The seruaunt that knewe his lordes wil and prepared not himself, nether dyd acordinge to his will, shal be beaten with many strypes: |
| 12:48 | But he that knewe it not, and yet dyd thinges worthy of strypes, shal be beaten with few strypes. For loke vnto whom moch is geuen, of him shal moch be sought: and loke to whom moch is commytted, of him shal moch be requyred. |
| 12:49 | I am come to kyndle fyre vpo earth, and what wolde I rather, the that it were kyndled allready. |
| 12:50 | Notwithstodinge I must first be baptised with a baptyme, and how am I payned tyll it be ended? |
| 12:51 | Thynke ye, that I am come to brynge peace vpon earth? I tell you nay, but rather debate. |
| 12:52 | For from hence forth there shal be at varyauce in one house: thre agaynst two, and two agaynst thre. |
| 12:53 | The father shal be deuyded agaynst ye sonne, and the sonne agaynst the father: the mother agaynst the doughter, & the doughter agaynst the mother: the mother in lawe agaynst hir doughter in lawe, and ye doughter in lawe agaynst hir mother in lawe. |
| 12:54 | And he sayde vnto the people: Whan ye se a cloude ryse out of ye west, straight waye ye saye: there cometh a shower, and so it is: |
| 12:55 | and whan ye se the southwynde blowe, ye saye: It wil be hote, and it commeth so to passe. |
| 12:56 | O ye ypocrytes, ye can discerne the fashion of the skye and of the earth: Why can ye not discerne this tyme also? |
| 12:57 | Yee and why iugde ye not of youre selues, what is right? |
| 12:58 | Whyle thou goest with thine aduersary vnto the Prynce, geue diligece by the waye, that thou mayest be quyte of him, lest he brynge the before the iudge, and the iudge delyuer the to the iaylar, and the iaylar cast the in to preson. |
| 12:59 | I tell the, thou shalt uot come out thence, tyll thou paye the vttemost myte. |
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