on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better then a CHAPTER sheepe? Wherefore it is lawfull to doe well on the Sabbath dayes. XII Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand: and hee and by a stretched it forth, and it was restored whole, like as the other. miracle.

Then the Pharises went out, and held a counsell against him, how they might destroy him. But when Iesus knew it, hee withdrew himselfe from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all, and charged them that they should not make him knowen: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying,

Behold, my servant whom I have chosen,

My beloved in whom my soule is well pleased:

I will put my spirit upon him,

And he shall shew iudgement to the Gentiles.

He shall not strive, nor cry,

Neither shall any man heare his voice in the streets.

A bruised reed shal he not breake,

And smoking flaxe shall he not quench,

Till he send forth iudgment unto victory.
And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devill, blinde, He healeth the and dumbe: and hee healed him, insomuch that the blinde and man possessed that was blind, dumbe both spake and saw. And all the people were amazed, and dumbe. and said, Is this the sonne of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doeth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Iesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdome divided against it selfe, is brought to desolation: and every citie or house divided against it selfe, shall not stand. And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himselfe; how shall then his kingdome stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom doe your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your Iudges. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdome of God is come unto you. Or else, how can one enter into a strong mans house, and spoile his goods, except hee first binde the strong man, and then he will spoile his house. He that is not with me, is against me and hee that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad.

holy Ghost

Wherefore I say unto you, All maner of sinne and blasphemie Blasphemie shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemie against the holy against the Ghost, shall not bee forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh shall never a word against the sonne of man, it shall be forgiven him: but be forgiven. whosoever speaketh against the holy Ghost, it shall not be for

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given him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good: Or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: For the tree is knowen by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speake good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth foorth good things: and an evill man out of the evill Account shalbe treasure, bringeth foorth evill things. But I say unto you, That made of idle every idle word that men shall speake, they shall give accompt thereof in the day of Iudgement. For by thy wordes thou shalt bee iustified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

words.

He rebuketh

who seeke after a signe:

Then certaine of the Scribes, and of the Pharisees, answered, the unfaithfull, saying, Master, we would see a signe from thee. But hee answered, and said to them, An evill and adulterous generation seeketh after a signe, and there shall no signe be given to it, but the signe of the Prophet Ionas. For as Ionas was three dayes and three nights in the whales belly: so shal the sonne of man be three daies and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineve shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it, because they repented at the preaching of Ionas, and behold, a greater then Ionas is here. The Queene of the South shall rise up in the iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to heare the wisedome of Solomon, and behold, a greater then Solomon is here. When the uncleane spirit is gone out of a man, hee walketh thorow dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will returne into my house from whence I came out; And when he is come, he findeth it emptie, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himselfe seven other spirits more wicked then himselfe, and they enter in and dwell there: And the last state of that man is worse then the first. Even so shal it be also unto this wicked generation.

and sheweth who is his

brother, sister, and mother.

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speake with him. Then one saide unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speake with thee. But he answered, and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? And who are my brethren? And hee stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold, my mother and my brethren. For whosoever shall doe the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

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the seed:

HE same day went Iesus out of the house, and sate by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that hee went into a ship, and sate, and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And hee spake The parable of many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went the Sower, and foorth to sow. And when he sowed, some seedes fell by the wayes side, and the foules came, and devoured them up. Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and foorthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepenesse of earth. And when the Sunne was up, they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns: and the thornes sprung up, and choked them. But other fell into good ground, and brought foorth fruit, some an hundred folde, some sixtie folde, some thirty folde. Who hath eares to heare, let him heare. And the disciples came, and sayd unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? answered, and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdome of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away, even that hee hath. Therefore speake I to them in parables: because they seeing, see not: and hearing, they heare not, neither doe they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which saith,

By hearing ye shall heare, and shall not understand:
And seeing yee shall see, and shall not perceive.
For this peoples heart is waxed grosse,

And their eares are dull of hearing,

And their eyes they have closed,

Lest at any time they should see with their eyes,

And heare with their eares,

And should understand with their heart,

And should be converted,

And I should heale them.

He

But blessed are your eyes, for they see and your eares, for they heare. For verely I say unto you, that many Prophets, and righteous men have desired to see those things which yee see, and have not seene them and to heare those things which ye heare, and have not heard them.

Heare ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one the exposition heareth the word of the kingdome, and understandeth it not, then of it.

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The parable of the tares,

of the mustard seed,

of the leven,

commeth the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sowen in his heart: this is hee which received seede by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with ioy receiveth it: yet hath hee not root in himselfe, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world, and the deceitfulnesse of riches choke the word, and he becommeth unfruitfull. But he that received seed into the good ground, is hee that heareth the word, and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth foorth, some an hundred fold, some sixtie, some thirty.

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying; The kingdome of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the housholder came, and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seede in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we goe and gather them up? But he said, Nay: lest while yee gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and binde them in bundels to burne them: but gather the wheat into my barne.

Another parable put he foorth unto them, saying, The kingdome of heaven is like to a graine of mustard seed, which a man tooke, and sowed in his field. Which indeed is the least of al seeds: but when it is growen, it is the greatest among herbes, and becommeth a tree: so that the birds of the aire come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Another parable spake he unto them, The kingdome of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman tooke, and hid in three measures of meale, till the whole was leavened. All these things spake Iesus unto the multitude in parables, and without a parable spake hee not unto them: that it might bee fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying,

I will open my mouth in parables,

I wil utter things which have bin kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Then Iesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the

parable of the tares of the field. He answered, and said unto them, Hee that soweth the good seed, is the sonne of man. The field is the world. The good seed, are the children of the kingdome: but the tares are the children of the wicked one. The enemie that sowed them, is the devill. The harvest, is the ende of the world. And the reapers are the Angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire: so shall it be in the end of this world. The Sonne of man shall send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdome all things that offend, and them which doe iniquitie: and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wayling and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine foorth as the Sunne, in the kingdome of their father. Who hath eares to heare, let him heare.

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Againe, the kingdome of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a of the hidden field: the which when a man hath found, hee hideth, and for ioy treasure, thereof goeth and selleth all that hee hath, and buyeth that field.

Againe, the kingdome of heaven is like unto a marchant man, of the pearle, seeking goodly pearles: who when hee had found one pearle of great price, he went and solde all that he had, and bought it.

Againe, the kingdome of heaven is like unto a net that was cast of the drawnet into the sea, and gathered of every kind, which, when it was full, cast into the Sea, they drew to shore, and sate downe, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the ende of the world: the Angels shal come forth, and sever the wicked from among the iust, and shal cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Iesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. Then said he unto them, Therefore every Scribe which is instructed unto the kingdome of heaven, is like unto a man that is an housholder, which bringeth foorth out of his treasure things new and old.

of his own

And it came to passe, that when Iesus had finished these and how Christ parables, hee departed thence. And when hee was come into is contemned his owne countrey, he taught them in their Synagogue, insomuch countrymen. that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisedome, and these mighty works? Is not this the Carpenters sonne? Is not his mother called Marie? and his brethren, Iames, and Ioses, and Simon, and Iudas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? whence then hath this man all these things? And they were offended in him. But Iesus said unto them, A Prophet is not without honour, save in his owne countrey, and in his owne house. And hee did not many mighty workes there, because of their unbeliefe.

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