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The sonne of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Beholde a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend vnto Publicanes and sinners: but wisedome is iustified of her children.


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Then began he to vpbraide the cities, wherein most of his great workes were done, because they repented not.


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Woe be to thee, Chorazin: Woe be to thee, Bethsaida: for if ye great workes, which were done in you, had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, they had repented long agone in sackecloth and ashes.


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And thou, Capernaum, which art lifted vp vnto heauen, shalt be brought downe to hell: for if the great workes, which haue bin done in thee, had bene done among them of Sodom, they had remained to this day.


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But I say vnto you, that it shall be easier for them of the land of Sodom in the day of iudgement, then for thee.


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At that time Iesus answered, and saide, I giue thee thankes, O Father, Lord of heauen and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of vnderstanding, and hast opened them vnto babes.


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All things are giuen vnto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Sonne, but ye Father: neither knoweth any man ye Father, but the Sonne, and he to whom ye Sonne will reueile him.


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Take my yoke on you, and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.


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At that time Iesus went on a Sabbath day through ye corne, and his disciples were an hungred, and bega to plucke ye eares of corne and to eate.


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And when the Pharises sawe it, they saide vnto him, Beholde, thy disciples doe that which is not lawfull to doe vpon the Sabbath.


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But he said vnto them, Haue ye not read what Dauid did when he was an hungred, and they that were with him?


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Howe he entred into ye house of God, and did eate the shewe bread, which was not lawfull for him to eate, neither for them which were with him, but onely for the Priestes?


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Or haue ye not read in the Lawe, how that on the Sabbath dayes the Priestes in the Temple breake the Sabbath, and are blameles?


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Wherefore if ye knewe what this is, I will haue mercie, and not sacrifice, ye would not haue condemned the innocents.


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And beholde, there was a man which had his hand dried vp. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawfull to heale vpon a Sabbath day? that they might accuse him.


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And he said vnto the, What man shall there be among you, that hath a sheepe, and if it fal on a Sabbath day into a pit, doth not take it and lift it out?


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How much more then is a man better then a sheepe? therefore, it is lawfull to doe well on a Sabbath day.


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Then said he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it foorth, and it was made whole as the other.


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Behold my seruant whom I haue chosen, my beloued in whom my soule deliteth: I wil put my Spirit on him, and he shall shewe iudgement to the Gentiles.


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A bruised reede shall he not breake, and smoking flaxe shall he not quenche, till he bring forth iudgement vnto victorie.


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Then was brought to him one, possessed with a deuill, both blind, and dumme, and he healed him, so that he which was blind and dumme, both spake and saw.


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But when the Pharises heard it, they saide, This man casteth the deuils no otherwise out, but through Beelzebub the prince of deuils.


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But Iesus knew their thoughtes, and said to them, Euery kingdome deuided against it selfe, is brought to nought: and euery citie or house, deuided against it selfe, shall not stand.


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Also if I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whom doe your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your iudges.


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Els howe can a man enter into a strong mans house and spoyle his goods, except he first bind the strong man, and then spoile his house.


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Wherefore I say vnto you, euery sinne and blasphemie shalbe forgiuen vnto men: but the blasphemie against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiuen vnto men.


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And whosoeuer shall speake a word against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but whosoeuer shall speake against the holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen him, neither in this worlde, nor in the worlde to come.


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Either make the tree good, and his fruite good: or els make the tree euill, and his fruite euil: for the tree is knowen by the fruite.


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O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.


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A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: and an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things.


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But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement.


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Then answered certaine of ye Scribes and of the Pharises, saying, Master, we would see a signe of thee.


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But he answered and said to them, An euill and adulterous generation seeketh a signe, but no signe shall be giuen vnto it, saue that signe of the Prophet Ionas.


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For as Ionas was three daies and three nights in the whales belly: so shall the Sonne of man be three daies and three nights in ye heart of the earth.


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The men of Nineue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and behold, a greater then Ionas is here.


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The Queene of the South shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for she came from the vtmost partes of the earth to heare the wisdome of Salomon: and beholde, a greater then Salomon is here.


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Nowe when the vncleane spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh throughout drie places, seeking rest, and findeth none.


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Then he saith, I wil returne into mine house from whence I came: and when he is come, he findeth it emptie, swept and garnished.


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Then he goeth, and taketh vnto him seuen other spirites worse then himselfe, and they enter in, and dwell there: and the ende of that man is worse then the beginning. Euen so shall it be with this wicked generation.


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While he yet spake to ye multitude, beholde, his mother, and his brethren stood without, desiring to speake with him.


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Then one said vnto him, Beholde, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speake with thee.


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For whosoeuer shall doe my Fathers will which is in heauen, the same is my brother and sister and mother.<pb/>


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And great multitudes resorted vnto him, so that he went into a ship, and sate downe: and the whole multitude stoode on the shore.


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And some fell vpon stony grounde, where they had not much earth, and anon they sprong vp, because they had no depth of earth.


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Some againe fel in good ground, and brought forth fruite, one corne an hundreth folde, some sixtie folde, and another thirtie folde.


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And he answered, and said vnto them, Because it is giuen vnto you, to know the secretes of the kingdome of heauen, but to the it is not giue.


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For whosoeuer hath, to him shalbe giuen, and he shall haue abundance: but whosoeuer hath not, from him shalbe taken away, euen that he hath.


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Therefore speake I to them in parables, because they seeing, doe not see: and hearing, they heare not, neither vnderstand.


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So in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which prophecie saieth, By hearing, ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand, and seeing, ye shall see, and shall not perceiue.


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For this peoples heart is waxed fat, and their eares are dull of hearing, and with their eyes they haue winked, lest they should see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and should vnderstand with their hearts, and should returne, that I might heale them.


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For verely I say vnto you, that many Prophets, and righteous men haue desired to see those things which ye see, and haue not seene them, and to heare those things which ye heare, and haue not heard them.


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Whensoeuer any man heareth the woorde of that kingdome, and vnderstandeth it not, that euil one commeth, and catcheth away that which was sowen in his heart: and this is he which hath receiued the seede by the way side.


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And hee that receiued seede in the stonie grounde, is he which heareth the woorde, and incontinently with ioy receiueth it,


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Yet hath he no roote in himselfe, and dureth but a season: for assoone as tribulation or persecution commeth because of the woorde, by and by he is offended.


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And hee that receiued the seede among thornes, is hee that heareth the woorde: but the care of this worlde, and the deceitfulnesse of riches choke the word, and he is made vnfruitfull.


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But he that receiued the seede in the good ground, is he that heareth the worde, and vnderstandeth it, which also beareth fruite, and bringeth foorth, some an hundreth folde, some sixtie folde, and some thirtie folde.


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Another parable put hee foorth vnto them, saying, The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a man which sowed good seede in his fielde.


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Then came the seruaunts of the housholder, and sayd vnto him, Master, sowedst not thou good seede in thy fielde? from whence then hath it tares?


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And hee said to them, Some enuious man hath done this. Then the seruants saide vnto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them vp?


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But he saide, Nay, lest while yee goe about to gather the tares, yee plucke vp also with them the wheat.


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Let both growe together vntill the haruest, and in time of haruest I will say to the reapers, Gather yee first the tares, and binde them in sheaues to burne them: but gather the wheate into my barne.


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Another parable he put foorth vnto them, saying, The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a graine of mustard seede, which a man taketh and soweth in his fielde:


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Which in deede is the least of all seedes: but when it is growen, it is the greatest among herbes, and it is a tree, so that the birdes of heauen come and builde in the branches thereof.


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Another parable spake hee to them, The kingdome of heauen is like vnto leauen, which a woman taketh and hideth in three pecks of meale, till all be leauened.


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All these thinges spake Iesus vnto the multitude in parables, and without parables spake he not to them,


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That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, and will vtter the thinges which haue beene kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.


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Then sent Iesus the multitude away, and went into the house. And his disciples came vnto him, saying, Declare vnto vs the parable of the tares of that fielde.


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And the field is the worlde, and the good seede are the children of the kingdome, and the tares are the children of that wicked one.


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And the enemie that soweth them, is the deuill, and the haruest is the end of the worlde, and the reapers be the Angels.


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The Sonne of man shall send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which doe iniquitie,


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Then shall the iust men shine as ye sunne in the kingdome of their Father. Hee that hath eares to heare, let him heare.


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Againe, the kingdom of heauen is like vnto a treasure hid in ye field, which when a man hath found, he hideth it, and for ioy thereof departeth and selleth all that he hath, and buieth that field.


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Againe, the kingdom of heauen is like vnto a drawe net cast into the sea, that gathereth of all kindes of things.


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Which, when it is full, men draw to lande, and sit and gather the good into vessels, and cast the bad away.


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So shall it be at the end of the world. The Angels shall goe foorth, and seuer the bad from among the iust,


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Then sayd hee vnto them, Therefore euery Scribe which is taught vnto the kingdome of heauen, is like vnto an householder, which bringeth foorth out of his treasure things both newe and olde.


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And came into his owne countrey, and taught them in their Synagogue, so that they were astonied, and saide, Whence commeth this wisdome and great woorkes vnto this man?


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Is not this the carpenters sonne? Is not his mother called Marie, and his brethren Iames and Ioses, and Simon and Iudas?


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And they were offended with him. Then Iesus said to them, A Prophet is not without honour, saue in his owne countrey, and in his owne house.


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And sayde vnto his seruaunts, This is that Iohn Baptist, hee is risen againe from the deade, and therefore great woorkes are wrought by him.


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For Herod had taken Iohn, and bounde him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife.


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And when hee woulde haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.


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But when Herods birth day was kept, the daughter of Herodias daunced before them, and pleased Herod.


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And shee being before instructed of her mother, sayde, Giue mee here Iohn Baptists head in a platter.


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And the King was sorie: neuerthelesse because of the othe, and them that sate with him at the table, he commanded it to be giuen her,


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And when Iesus heard it, hee departed thence by shippe into a desert place apart. And when the multitude had heard it, they followed him on foote out of the cities.


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And Iesus went foorth and sawe a great multitude, and was mooued with compassion toward them, and he healed their sicke.


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And when euen was come, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desart place, and the time is alreadie past: let the multitude depart, that they may goe into the townes, and bye them vitailes.


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And hee commanded the multitude to sit downe on the grasse, and tooke the fiue loaues and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen and blessed, and brake, and gaue the loaues to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.


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And they did all eate, and were sufficed, and they tooke vp of the fragments that remained, twelue baskets full.


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And straightway Iesus compelled his disciples to enter into a shippe, and to goe ouer before him, while he sent the multitude away.


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And assoone as hee had sent the multitude away, he went vp into a moutaine alone to pray: and when the euening was come, hee was there alone.


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And the shippe was nowe in the middes of the sea, and was tossed with waues: for it was a contrarie winde.


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And when his disciples sawe him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit, and cried out for feare.


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And he saide, Come. And when Peter was come downe out of the shippe, he walked on the water, to goe to Iesus.


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But when he sawe a mightie winde, he was afraide: and as he began to sinke, he cried, saying, Master, saue me.


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So immediatly Iesus stretched foorth his hande, and caught him, and saide to him, O thou of litle faith, wherefore diddest thou doubt?


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Then they that were in the ship, came and worshipped him, saying, Of a trueth thou art the Sonne of God.


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And when the men of that place knewe him, they sent out into all that countrey rounde about, and brought vnto him all that were sicke,


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And besought him, that they might touch the hemme of his garment onely: and as many as touched it, were made whole.<pb/>


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Why do thy disciples transgresse the tradition of the Elders? for they wash not their hands when they eate bread.


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But he answered and said vnto them, Why doe yee also transgresse the commandement of God by your tradition?


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For God hath commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.


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But ye say, Whosoeuer shall say to father or mother, By the gift that is offered by me, thou maiest haue profite,


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Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commandement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.


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This people draweth neere vnto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is farre off from me.


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That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.


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Then came his disciples, and saide vnto him, Perceiuest thou not, that the Pharises are offended in hearing this saying?


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But hee answered and saide, Euery plant which mine heauenly Father hath not planted, shalbe rooted vp.


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Let them alone, they be the blinde leaders of the blinde: and if the blinde leade ye blinde, both shall fall into the ditche.


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Perceiue ye not yet, that whatsoeuer entreth into the mouth, goeth into the bellie, and is cast out into the draught?


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For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.


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And beholde, a woman a Cananite came out of the same coasts, and cried, saying vnto him, Haue mercie on me, O Lord, the sonne of Dauid: my daughter is miserably vexed with a deuil.


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But hee answered her not a worde. Then came to him his disciples, and besought him, saying, Sende her away, for she crieth after vs.


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But she said, Trueth, Lord: yet in deede the whelpes eate of the crommes, which fall from their masters table.


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Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee, as thou desirest. And her daughter was made whole at that houre.


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So Iesus went away from thence, and came neere vnto the sea of Galile, and went vp into a mountaine and sate downe there.


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And great multitudes came vnto him, hauing with them, halt, blinde, dumme, maymed, and many other, and cast them downe at Iesus feete, and he healed them.


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In so much that the multitude wondered, to see the dumme speake, the maimed whole, the halt to goe, and the blinde to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.


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Then Iesus called his disciples vnto him, and said, I haue compassion on this multitude, because they haue continued with mee already three dayes, and haue nothing to eate: and I wil not let them depart fasting, least they faint in the way.


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And his disciples saide vnto him, Whence should we get so much bread in the wildernes, as should suffice so great a multitude!


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And tooke the seuen loaues, and the fishes, and gaue thankes, and brake them, and gaue to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.


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And they did all eate, and were sufficed: and they tooke vp of the fragments that remained, seuen baskets full.


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Then came the Pharises and Sadduces, and did tempt him, desiring him to shew them a signe from heauen.


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And in the morning ye say, To day shall be a tempest: for the skie is red and lowring. O hypocrites, ye can discerne the face of the skie, and can ye not discerne the signes of the times?


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The wicked generation, and adulterous seeketh a signe, but there shall no signe be giuen it, but that signe of the Prophet Ionas: so hee left them, and departed.


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But Iesus knowing it, saide vnto them, O ye of litle faith, why reason you thus among your selues, because ye haue brought no bread?


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Doe ye not yet perceiue, neither remember the fiue loaues, when there were fiue thousand men, and how many baskets tooke ye vp?


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Why perceiue ye not that I said not vnto you concerning bread, that ye shoulde beware of the leauen of the Pharises and Sadduces?


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Then vnderstood they that he had not said that they should beware of the leauen of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharises, and Sadduces.


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Nowe when Iesus came into the coastes of Cesarea Philippi, hee asked his disciples, saying, Whome doe men say that I, the sonne of man am?


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And they said, Some say, Iohn Baptist: and some, Elias: and others, Ieremias, or one of the Prophets.


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And Iesus answered, and saide to him, Blessed art thou, Simon, the sonne of Ionas: for flesh and blood hath not reueiled it vnto thee, but my Father which is in heauen.


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And I say also vnto thee, that thou art Peter, and vpon this rocke I will builde my Church: and ye gates of hell shall not ouercome it.


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And I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen, and whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth, shalbe bound in heauen: and whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth, shall be loosed in heauen.


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From that time foorth Iesus beganne to shewe vnto his disciples, that he must goe vnto Hierusalem, and suffer many thinges of the Elders, and of the hie Priestes, and Scribes, and be slaine, and be raised againe the thirde day.


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Then Peter tooke him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, Master, pitie thy selfe: this shall not be vnto thee.


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Then he turned backe, and said vnto Peter, Get thee behinde me, Satan: thou art an offence vnto me, because thou vnderstandest not the thinges that are of God, but the thinges that are of men.


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Iesus then saide to his disciples, If any man will follow me, let him forsake himselfe: and take vp his crosse, and follow me.


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For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: and whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake, shall finde it.


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For what shall it profite a man though he should winne the whole worlde, if hee lose his owne soule? or what shall a man giue for recompence of his soule?


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For the Sonne of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels, and then shall he giue to euery man according to his deedes.


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Verely I say vnto you, there bee some of them that stande here, which shall not taste of death, till they haue seene the Sonne of man come in his kingdome.<pb/>


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And after sixe dayes, Iesus tooke Peter, and Iames and Iohn his brother, and brought them vp into an hie mountaine apart,


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And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the Sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light.


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Then answered Peter, and saide to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: if thou wilt, let vs make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.


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While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloude shadowed them: and beholde, there came a voyce out of the cloude, saying, This is that my beloued Sonne, in whom I am well pleased: heare him.


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And as they came downe from the moutaine, Iesus charged them, saying, Shewe the vision to no man, vntil the Sonne of man rise againe from the dead.


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But I say vnto you that Elias is come alreadie, and they knewe him not, but haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they would: likewise shall also the Sonne of man suffer of them.


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And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certaine man, and fell downe at his feete,


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And saide, Master, haue pitie on my sonne: for he is lunatike, and is sore vexed: for oft times he falleth into the fire, and oft times into the water.


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Then Iesus answered, and said, O generation faithlesse, and crooked, how long now shall I be with you! howe long nowe shall I suffer you! bring him hither to me.


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And Iesus said vnto them, Because of your vnbeliefe: for verely I say vnto you, if ye haue faith as much as is a graine of mustarde seede, ye shall say vnto this mountaine, Remooue hence to yonder place, and it shall remoue: and nothing shalbe vnpossible vnto you.


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And they being in Galile, Iesus said vnto them, The Sonne of man shall be deliuered into the handes of men,


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And when they were come to Capernaum, they that receiued polle money, came to Peter, and sayd, Doeth not your Master pay polle money?


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He sayd, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Iesus preuented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? Of whome doe the Kings of the earth take tribute, or polle money? of their children, or of strangers?


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Neuerthelesse, lest we should offend them: goe to the sea, and cast in an angle, and take the first fish that commeth vp, and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt finde a piece of twentie pence: that take, and giue it vnto them for me and thee.<pb/>


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And sayd, Verely I say vnto you, except ye be conuerted, and become as litle children, ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen.


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Whosoeuer therefore shall humble himselfe as this litle childe, the same is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen.


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But whosoeuer shall offend one of these litle ones which beleeue in me, it were better for him, that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.


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Wo be vnto the world because of offences: for it must needes be that offences shall come, but wo be to that man by whome the offence commeth.


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Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foote cause thee to offend, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life, halt, or maimed, then hauing two hands, or two feete, to be cast into euerlasting fire.


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And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, then hauing two eyes to be cast into hell fire.


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See that ye despise not one of these litle ones: for I say vnto you, that in heauen their Angels alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in heauen.


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How thinke ye? If a man haue an hundreth sheepe, and one of them be gone astray, doeth he not leaue ninetie and nine, and go into the mountaines, and seeke that which is gone astray?


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And if so be that he finde it, verely I say vnto you, he reioyceth more of that sheepe, then of the ninetie and nine which went not astray:


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Moreouer, if thy brother trespasse against thee, goe and tell him his fault betweene thee and him alone: if he heare thee, thou hast wonne thy brother.


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But if he heare thee not, take yet with thee one or two, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses euery worde may be confirmed.


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And if he refuse to heare them, tell it vnto the Church: and if he refuse to heare the Church also, let him be vnto thee as an heathen man, and a Publicane.


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Verely I say vnto you, Whatsoeuer ye bind on earth, shall be bound in heauen: and whatsoeuer ye loose on earth, shalbe loosed in heauen.


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Againe, verely I say vnto you, that if two of you shall agree in earth vpon any thing, whatsoeuer they shall desire, it shall be giuen them of my Father which is in heauen.


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Then came Peter to him, and said, Master, howe oft shall my brother sinne against me, and I shall forgiue him? vnto seuen times?


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Therefore is the kingdome of heauen likened vnto a certaine King, which would take an account of his seruants.


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And because he had nothing to pay, his Lord commanded him to be solde, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and the dette to be payed.


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The seruant therefore fell downe, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, refraine thine anger toward me, and I will pay thee all.


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But when the seruant was departed, hee found one of his felow seruants, which ought him an hundred pence, and he layde hands on him, and thratled him, saying, Pay me that thou owest.


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Then his fellow seruant fell downe at his feete, and besought him, saying, Refraine thine anger towards me, and I will pay thee all.


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And when his other felowe seruants sawe what was done, they were very sory, and came, and declared vnto their Lord all that was done.


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Then his Lord called him vnto him, and sayd to him, O euil seruant, I forgaue thee all that dette, because thou prayedst me.


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So his Lord was wroth, and deliuered him to the tormentours, till he should pay all that was due to him.


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And it came to passe, that when Iesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galile, and came into ye coasts of Iudea beyond Iordan.


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Then came vnto him the Pharises tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wife vpon euery occasion?


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And he answered and sayd vnto them, Haue ye not read, that hee which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,


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And sayd, For this cause, shall a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.


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Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.


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He sayd vnto them, Moses, because of the hardnesse of your heart, suffered you to put away your wiues: but from the beginning it was not so.


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I say therefore vnto you, that whosoeuer shall put away his wife, except it be for whoredome, and marry another, committeth adulterie: and whosoeuer marieth her which is diuorced, doeth commit adulterie.


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For there are some eunuches, which were so borne of their mothers belly: and there be some eunuches, which be gelded by men: and there be some eunuches, which haue gelded them selues for the kingdome of heauen. He that is able to receiue this, let him receiue it.


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Then were brought to him litle children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.


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And beholde, one came and sayd vnto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I doe, that I may haue eternall life?


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And he said vnto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, eue God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keepe ye commandemets.


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He sayd to him, Which? And Iesus sayde, These, Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not commit adulterie: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnesse.


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Iesus sayd vnto him, If thou wilt be perfite, go, sell that thou hast, and giue it to the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, and follow me.


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Then Iesus sayd vnto his disciples, Verely I say vnto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdome of heauen.


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And againe I say vnto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, then for a rich man to enter into ye kingdome of God.


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And Iesus behelde them, and sayde vnto them, With men this is vnpossible, but with God all things are possible.


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Then answered Peter, and said to him, Beholde, we haue forsaken all, and followed thee: what therefore shall we haue?


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And Iesus said vnto them, Verely I say to you, that when the Sonne of man shall sit in the throne of his maiestie, ye which folowed me in the regeneration, shall sit also vpon twelue thrones and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel.


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And whosoeuer shall forsake houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Names sake, he shall receiue an hundreth folde more, and shall inherite euerlasting life.


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For the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a certaine, housholder, which went out at the dawning of the day to hire labourers into his vineyarde.


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And sayd vnto them, Goe ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoeuer is right, I will giue you: and they went their way.


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And he went about the eleuenth houre, and found other standing idle, and sayd vnto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?


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They sayd vnto him, Because no man hath hired vs. He sayd to them, Goe ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoeuer is right, that shall ye receiue.


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And when euen was come, the master of the vineyard sayd vnto his steward, Call the labourers, and giue them their hire, beginning at the last, till thou come to the first.


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Nowe when the first came, they supposed that they should receiue more, but they likewise receiued euery man a penie.


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Saying, These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made them equall vnto vs, which haue borne the burden and heate of the day.


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And hee answered one of them, saying, Friend, I doe thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penie?


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And Iesus went vp to Hierusalem, and tooke the twelue disciples apart in the way, and said vnto them,


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Beholde, wee goe vp to Hierusalem, and the Sonne of man shall bee deliuered vnto the chiefe priestes, and vnto the Scribes, and they shall condemne him to death,


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And shall deliuer him to the Gentiles, to mocke, and to scourge, and to crucifie him, but the third day he shall rise againe.


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Then came to him the mother of Zebedeus children with her sonnes, worshipping him, and desiring a certaine thing of him.


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And he said vnto her, What wouldest thou? She said to him, Graunt that these my two sonnes may sit, the one at thy right hand, and the other at thy left hand in thy kingdome.


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And Iesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye aske. Are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and to be baptized with the baptisme that I shalbe baptized with? They said to him, We are able.


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And he said vnto them, Ye shall drinke in deede of my cup, and shall be baptized with the baptisme, that I am baptized with, but to sit at my right hande, and at my left hand, is not mine to giue: but it shalbe giuen to them for whome it is prepared of my Father.


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Therefore Iesus called them vnto him, and saide, We knowe that the lordes of the Gentiles haue domination ouer them, and they that are great, exercise authoritie ouer them.


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Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.


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And beholde, two blinde men, sitting by the way side, when they heard that Iesus passed by, cryed, saying, O Lord, the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on vs.


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And the multitude rebuked them, because they should holde their peace: but they cried the more, saying, O Lord, the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on vs.


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Saying to them, Goe into the towne that is ouer against you, and anon yee shall finde an asse bounde, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them vnto me.


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And if any man say ought vnto you, say ye, that the Lord hath neede of them, and straightway he will let them goe.


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Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Beholde, thy King commeth vnto thee, meeke and sitting vpon an asse, and a colte, the foale of an asse vsed to the yoke.


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And a great multitude spred their garments in the way: and other cut downe branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.


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Moreouer, the people that went before, and they also that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid, Blessed be hee that commeth in the Name of the Lord, Hosanna thou which art in the highest heauens.


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And Iesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all them that solde and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrew the tables of the money chagers, and the seates of them that sold doues,


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And said to them, it is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer: but ye haue made it a denne of theeues.


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And said vnto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Iesus said vnto them, Yea: read ye neuer, By the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast made perfite the praise?


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And seeing a figge tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaues onely, and said to it, Neuer fruite grow on thee henceforwards. And anon the figge tree withered.


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And Iesus answered and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, if ye haue faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only doe that, which I haue done to the figge tree, but also if ye say vnto this mountaine, Take thy selfe away, and cast thy selfe into the sea, it shalbe done.


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And whe he was come into the Temple, the chiefe Priestes, and the Elders of the people came vnto him, as he was teaching, and saide, By what authoritie doest thou these things? and who gaue thee this authoritie?


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Then Iesus answered and said vnto them, I also will aske of you a certaine thing, which if ye tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authoritie I doe these things.


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The baptisme of Iohn, whence was it? from heauen, or of men? Then they reasoned among themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say vnto vs, Why did ye not then beleeue him?


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Then they answered Iesus, and said, We can not tell. And he said vnto them, Neither tell I you by what authoritie I doe these things.


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But what thinke ye? A certaine man had two sonnes, and came to the elder, and saide, Sonne, goe and worke to day in my vineyarde.


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Then came he to the second, and said likewise. And he answered, and said, I will, Syr: yet he went not.


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Whether of them twaine did the will of the father? They saide vnto him, The first. Iesus saide vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that the Publicanes and the harlots goe before you into the kingdome of God.


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For Iohn came vnto you in the way of righteousnes, and yee beleeued him not: but the Publicanes, and the harlots beleeued him, and ye, though ye sawe it, were not mooued with repentance afterward, that ye might beleeue him.


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And when the time of the fruite drewe neere, hee sent his seruants to the husbandmen to receiue the fruites thereof.


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But when the husbandmen saw the sonne, they saide among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and let vs take his inheritance.


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They saide vnto him, Hee will cruelly destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard vnto other husbandmen, which shall deliuer him the fruites in their seasons.


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Iesus saide vnto them, Read ye neuer in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders refused, the same is made the head of the corner? This was the Lordes doing, and it is marueilous in our eyes.


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Therefore say I vnto you, The kingdome of God shalbe taken from you, and shalbe giuen to a nation, which shall bring foorth the fruites thereof.


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And whosoeuer shall fall on this stone, he shalbe broken: but on whomsoeuer it shall fall, it will dash him a pieces.


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And when the chiefe Priestes and Pharises had heard his parables, they perceiued that hee spake of them.


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And they seeking to laye handes on him, feared the people, because they tooke him as a Prophet.<pb/>


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And sent foorth his seruants, to call them that were bidde to the wedding, but they woulde not come.


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Againe hee sent foorth other seruants, saying. Tell them which are bidden, Beholde, I haue prepared my dinner: mine oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all thinges are readie: come vnto the mariage.


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But they made light of it, and went their wayes, one to his farme, and another about his marchandise.


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But when the King heard it, he was wroth, and sent foorth his warriers, and destroyed those murtherers, and burnt vp their citie.


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Then saide hee to his seruants, Truely the wedding is prepared: but they which were bidden, were not worthy.


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So those seruantes went out into the hie wayes, and gathered together all that euer they found, both good and bad: so the wedding was furnished with ghestes.


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And he sayd vnto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, and hast not on a wedding garment? And he was speachlesse.


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Then sayd the King to the seruants, Binde him hand and foote: take him away, and cast him into vtter darkenes: there shalbe weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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And they sent vnto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we knowe that thou art true, and teachest the way of God truely, neither carest for any man: for thou considerest not the person of men.


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They sayd vnto him, Cesars. Then sayd he vnto them, Giue therefore to Cesar, the things which are Cesars, and giue vnto God, those things which are Gods.


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Saying, Master, Moses sayd, If a man die, hauing no children, his brother shall marie his wife by the right of alliance, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.


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Nowe there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first maried a wife, and deceased: and hauing none yssue, left his wife vnto his brother.


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For in the resurrection they neither marie wiues, nor wiues are bestowed in mariage, but are as the Angels of God in heauen.


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Iesus sayd to him, Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soule, and with all thy minde.


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For they binde heauie burdens, and grieuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers.


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All their workes they doe for to be seene of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and make long the frindges of their garments,


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Wo therefore be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites, because ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: for ye your selues go not in, neither suffer ye them that would enter, to come in.


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Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers: wherefore ye shall receiue the greater damnation.


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Wo be vnto you blinde guides, which say, Whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the Temple, he offendeth.


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And whosoeuer sweareth by the altar, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the offering that is vpon it, offendeth.


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Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the offering, or the altar which sanctifieth the offering?


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Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye tithe mynt, and annyse, and cummyn, and leaue the weightier matters of the law, as iudgement, and mercy and fidelitie. These ought ye to haue done, and not to haue left the other.


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Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye make cleane the vtter side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are ful of briberie and excesse.


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Thou blinde Pharise, cleanse first the inside of the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be cleane also.


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Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are like vnto whited tombes, which appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and all filthines.


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Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye build the tombes of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,


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And say, If we had bene in the dayes of our fathers, we would not haue bene partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.


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So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets.


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Wherefore beholde, I send vnto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and of them ye shall kill and crucifie: and of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from citie to citie,


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That vpon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed vpon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, vnto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias, whome ye slewe betweene the Temple and the altar.


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Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee, how often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her chickins vnder her wings, and ye would not!


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And Iesus went out, and departed from the Temple, and his disciples came to him, to shewe him the building of the Temple.


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And Iesus sayd vnto them, See ye not all these things? Verely I say vnto you, there shall not be here left a stone vpon a stone, that shall not be cast downe.


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And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues, his disciples came vnto him apart, saying, Tell vs when these things shall be, and what signe shalbe of thy comming, and of the ende of the world.


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And ye shall heare of warres, and rumours of warres: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to passe, but the end is not yet.


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For nation shall rise against nation, and realme against realme, and there shalbe famine, and pestilence, and earthquakes in diuers places.


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Then shall they deliuer you vp to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my Names sake.


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When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, set in the holy place (let him that readeth consider it.)


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For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the worlde to this time, nor shalbe.


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And except those dayes should be shortened, there should no flesh be saued: but for the elects sake those dayes shalbe shortened.


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For there shall arise false Christes, and false prophets, and shall shewe great signes and wonders, so that if it were possible, they should deceiue the very elect.


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For as the lightning commeth out of the East, and is seene into the West, so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.


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And immediatly after ye tribulations of those dayes, shall the sunne be darkened, and the moone shall not giue her light, and the starres shall fal from heauen, and ye powers of heaue shalbe shake.


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And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect, from the foure windes, and from the one ende of the heauens vnto the other.


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Now learne the parable of the figge tree: when her bough is yet tender, and it putteth foorth leaues, ye knowe that sommer is neere.


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And knewe nothing, till the flood came, and tooke them all away, so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.


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Who then is a faithfull seruaunt and wise, whom his master hath made ruler ouer his household, to giue them meate in season?


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Then the kingdome of heauen shalbe likened vnto tenne virgins, which tooke their lampes, and went foorth to meete the bridegrome.


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But the wise answered, saying, Not so, lest there will not be ynough for vs and you: but goe ye rather to them that sell, and bye for your selues.


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And while they went to bye, the bridegrome came: and they that were readie, went in with him to the wedding, and the gate was shut.


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Then came he that had receiued fiue talents, and brought other fiue talents, saying, Master, thou deliueredst vnto me fiue talents: behold, I haue gained with them other fiue talents.


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Then his master saide vnto him, It is well done good seruant and faithfull, Thou hast bene faithfull in litle, I will make thee ruler ouer much: enter into thy masters ioy.


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His master saide vnto him, It is well done good seruant, and faithfull, Thou hast bene faithfull in litle, I will make thee ruler ouer much: enter into thy masters ioy.


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And his master answered, and said vnto him, Thou euill seruant, and slouthfull, thou knewest that I reape where I sowed not, and gather where I strawed not.


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Thou oughtest therefore to haue put my money to ye exchangers, and then at my comming should I haue receiued mine owne with vantage.


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And before him shalbe gathered all nations, and he shall seperate them one from another, as a shepheard separateth the sheepe from ye goates.


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Then shall ye king say to them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of my father: take the inheritance of the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world.


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For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.


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I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sicke, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came vnto me.


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Then shall he say vnto them on ye left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuill and his angels.


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I was a stranger, and ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.


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Then shall he answere them, and say, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.


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Ye know that after two dayes is ye Passeouer, and the Sonne of man shalbe deliuered to be crucified.


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Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of ye people into the hall of the high Priest called Caiaphas:


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There came vnto him a woman, which had a boxe of very costly oyntment, and powred it on his head, as he sate at the table.


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And Iesus knowing it, sayde vnto them, Why trouble yee the woman? for shee hath wrought a good woorke vpon me.


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Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall bee preached throughout all the worlde, there shall also this that shee hath done, be spoken of for a memoriall of her.


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And said, What will ye giue me, and I will deliuer him vnto you? and they appoynted vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer.


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Nowe on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread the disciples came to Iesus, saying vnto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eate the Passeouer?


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And he said, Goe yee into the citie to such a man, and say to him, The master saieth, My time is at hande: I will keepe the Passeouer at thine house with my disciples.


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Surely the Sonne of man goeth his way, as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the Sonne of man is betrayed: it had bene good for that man, if hee had neuer bene borne.


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Then Iudas which betraied him, answered and sayde, Is it I, Master? He sayde vnto him, Thou hast sayd it.


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And as they did eate, Iesus tooke the bread, and when he had blessed, he brake it, and gaue it to the disciples, and sayd, Take, eate: this is my bodie.


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Also he tooke the cuppe, and when he had giuen thankes, he gaue it them, saying, Drinke ye all of it.


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I say vnto you, that I will not drinke henceforth of this fruit of the vine vntil that day, when I shall drinke it new with you in my Fathers kingdome.


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Then saide Iesus vnto them, All yee shall be offended by me this night: for it is written, I wil smite the shepheard, and the sheepe of the flocke shalbe scattered.


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But Peter aunswered, and sayde vnto him, Though that al men should be offended by thee, yet will I neuer be offended.


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Iesus sayde vnto him, Verely I say vnto thee, that this night, before the cocke crow, thou shalt denie me thrise.


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Peter saide vnto him, Though I should die with thee, I will in no case denie thee. Likewise also sayd all the disciples.


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Then went Iesus with them into a place which is called Gethsemane, and said vnto his disciples, Sit ye here, while I goe, and pray yonder.


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And hee tooke vnto him Peter, and the two sonnes of Zebedeus, and began to waxe sorowfull, and grieuously troubled.


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Then sayde Iesus vnto them, My soule is very heauie, euen vnto the death: tarie yee here, and watch with me.


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So hee went a litle further, and fell on his face, and praied, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup passe from me: neuerthelesse, not as I will, but as thou wilt.


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After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? coulde yee not watch with me one houre?


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Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake.


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Againe he went away the second time, and praied, saying, O my Father, if this cuppe can not passe away from mee, but that I must drinke it, thy will be done.


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Then came he to his disciples, and said vnto them, Sleepe henceforth, and take your rest: behold, the houre is at hand, and the Sonne of man is giuen into the hands of sinners.


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And while hee yet spake, loe Iudas, one of the twelue, came, and with him a great multitude with swordes and staues, from the high Priests and Elders of the people.


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Now he that betraied him, had giuen them a token, saying, Whomesoeuer I shall kisse, that is he, laie holde on him.


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Then Iesus sayde vnto him, Friende, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laide hands on Iesus, and tooke him.


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And behold, one of them which were with Iesus, stretched out his hand, and drewe his sworde, and strooke a seruaunt of the high Priest, and smote off his eare.


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Then sayde Iesus vnto him, Put vp thy sworde into his place: for all that take the sworde, shall perish with the sworde.


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Either thinkest thou, that I can not now pray to my Father, and he will giue me moe then twelue legions of Angels?


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The same houre sayde Iesus to the multitude, Ye be come out as it were against a thiefe, with swordes and staues to take mee: I sate daily teaching in the Temple among you, and yee tooke me not.


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But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsooke him, and fled.


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And they tooke Iesus, and led him to Caiaphas the hie Priest, where the Scribes and the Elders were assembled.


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And Peter followed him a farre off vnto the hie Priestes hall, and went in, and sate with the seruants to see the ende.


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Nowe the chiefe Priestes and the Elders, and all the whole councill sought false witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death.


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But they founde none, and though many false witnesses came, yet founde they none: but at the last came two false witnesses,


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Then the chiefe Priest arose, and sayde to him, Answerest thou nothing? What is the matter that these men witnesse against thee?


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But Iesus helde his peace. Then the chiefe Priest answered, and saide to him, I charge thee sweare vnto vs by the liuing God, to tell vs, If thou be that Christ the Sonne of God, or no.


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Iesus saide to him, Thou hast saide it: neuerthelesse I say vnto you, hereafter shall ye see the Sonne of man, sitting at the right hande of the power of God, and come in the cloudes of the heauen.


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Then the hie Priest rent his clothes, saying, Hee hath blasphemed, what haue wee any more neede of witnesses? beholde: nowe yee haue heard his blasphemie.


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Peter sate without in the hall, and a maide came to him, saying, Thou also wast with Iesus of Galile:


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And when hee went out into the porche, another maide sawe him, and sayde vnto them that were there, This man was also with Iesus of Nazareth.


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So after a while, came vnto him they that stoode by, and sayde vnto Peter, Surely thou art also one of them: for euen thy speache bewraieth thee.


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Then began hee to curse himselfe, and to sweare, saying, I knowe not the man. And immediately the cocke crewe.


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When the morning was come, all the chiefe Priests, and the elders of the people tooke counsell against Iesus, to put him to death,


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Then when Iudas which betraied him, sawe that hee was condemned, hee repented himselfe, and brought againe the thirtie pieces of siluer to the chiefe Priestes, and Elders,


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Saying, I haue sinned, betraying the innocent bloud. But they sayde, What is that to vs? see thou to it.


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And when hee had cast downe the siluer pieces in the Temple, hee departed, and went, and hanged himselfe.


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And the chiefe Priestes tooke the siluer pieces, and sayde, It is not lawfull for vs to put them into the treasure, because it is the price of bloud.


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(Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Ieremias the Prophet, saying, And they tooke thirtie siluer pieces, ye price of him that was valued, whom they of ye children of Israel valued.


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And Iesus stood before ye gouernour, and the gouernour asked him, saying, Art thou that King of the Iewes? Iesus said vnto him, Thou sayest it.


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When they were then gathered together, Pilate said vnto the, Whether will ye that I let loose vnto you Barabbas, or Iesus which is called Christ?


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Also when he was set downe vpon the iudgement seate, his wife sent to him, saying, Haue thou nothing to do with that iust man: for I haue suffered many things this day in a dreame by reason of him.)


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But the chiefe Priestes and the Elders had persuaded the people that they shoulde aske Barabbas, and should destroy Iesus.


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Then the gouernour answered, and said vnto them, Whether of the twaine will ye that I let loose vnto you? And they said, Barabbas.


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Pilate said vnto them, What shall I do then with Iesus, which is called Christ? They all said to him, Let him be crucified.


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Then saide the gouernour, But what euill hath he done? Then they cryed the more, saying, Let him be crucified.


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When Pilate saw that he auailed nothing, but that more tumult was made, he tooke water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this iust man: looke you to it.


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Then the souldiers of the gouernour tooke Iesus into the common hall, and gathered about him the whole band,


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And platted a crowne of thornes, and put it vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, saying, God saue thee King of the Iewes,


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Thus when they had mocked him, they tooke the robe from him, and put his owne rayment on him, and led him away to crucifie him.


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And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon: him they compelled to beare his crosse.


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They gaue him vineger to drinke, mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drinke.


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And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, and did cast lottes, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, They deuided my garments among them, and vpon my vesture did cast lottes.


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And saying, Thou that destroyest ye Temple, and buildest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe: if thou be ye Sonne of God, come downe from ye crosse.


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He saued others, but he cannot saue him selfe: if he be ye King of Israel, let him now come downe from ye crosse, and we will beleeue in him.


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He trusted in God, let him deliuer him nowe, if he will haue him: for he saide, I am the Sonne of God.


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And about ye ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And straightway one of them ran, and tooke a spondge, and filled it with vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke.


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And behold, the vayle of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the top to the bottome, and the earth did quake, and the stones were cloue.


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And came out of the graues after his resurrection, and went into the holy citie, and appeared vnto many.


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When the Centurion, and they that were with him watching Iesus, saw the earthquake, and the thinges that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truely this was the Sonne of God.


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And many women were there, beholding him a farre off, which had folowed Iesus from Galile, ministring vnto him.


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Among whom was Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, and Ioses, and the mother of Zebedeus sonnes.


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And when the euen was come, there came a riche man of Arimathea, named Ioseph, who had also himselfe bene Iesus disciple.


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And put it in his new tombe, which he had hewen out in a rocke, and rolled a great stone to the doore of the sepulchre, and departed.


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Nowe the next day that followed the Preparation of the Sabbath, the hie Priestes and Pharises assembled to Pilate,


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And said, Syr, we remember that that deceiuer saide, while he was yet aliue, Within three dayes I will rise.


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Now in the end of the Sabbath, when the first day of ye weeke began to dawne, Marie Magdalene, and the other Marie came to see the sepulchre,


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And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the Angel of the Lord descended from heauen, and came and rolled backe the stone from the doore, and sate vpon it.


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But the Angel answered, and said to the women, Feare ye not: for I know that ye seeke Iesus which was crucified:


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And go quickly, and tel his disciples that he is risen from ye dead: and behold, he goeth before you into Galile: there ye shall see him: loe, I haue told you.


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So they departed quickly from the sepulchre, with feare and great ioye, and did runne to bring his disciples worde.


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And as they wet to tel his disciples, behold, Iesus also met the, saying, God saue you. And they came, and tooke him by the feete, and worshipped him.


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Then said Iesus vnto them, Be not afraide. Goe, and tell my brethren, that they goe into Galile, and there shall they see me.


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Nowe when they were gone, beholde, some of the watch came into the citie, and shewed vnto the hie Priestes all ye things that were done.


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And they gathered them together with the Elders, and tooke counsell, and gaue large money vnto the souldiers,


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So they tooke the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is noysed among the Iewes vnto this day.


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Go therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and the Sonne, and the holy Ghost,


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Teaching them to obserue all things, whatsoeuer I haue commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, vntill the ende of the worlde, Amen.


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As it is written in the Prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.


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The voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse is, Prepare the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.


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Iohn did baptize in the wildernesse, and preach the baptisme of amendment of life, for remission of sinnes.


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And al ye countrey of Iudea, and they of Hierusalem went out vnto him, and were all baptized of him in the riuer Iordan, confessing their sinnes.


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Nowe Iohn was clothed with camels heare, and with a girdle of a skinne about his loynes: and he did eate Locusts and wilde hony,


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And preached, saying, A stronger then I commeth after me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to stoupe downe, and vnloose.


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And it came to passe in those dayes, that Iesus came from Nazareth, a citie of Galile, and was baptized of Iohn in Iordan.


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And assoone as he was come out of the water, Iohn saw the heauens clouen in twaine, and the holy Ghost descending vpon him like a doue.


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And he was there in the wildernesse fourtie daies, and was tempted of Satan: hee was also with the wilde beastes, and the Angels ministred vnto him.


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Now after that Iohn was committed to prison, Iesus came into Galile, preaching the Gospel of the kingdome of God,


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And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdome of God is at hand: repent and beleeue the Gospel.


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And as he walked by the sea of Galile, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, (for they were fishers.)


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And when hee had gone a litle further thence, he sawe Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, and Iohn his brother, as they were in the ship, mending their nets.


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And anon hee called them: and they left their father Zebedeus in the shippe with his hired seruants, and went their way after him.


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So they entred into Capernaum, and straightway on the Sabbath day hee entred into the Synagogue, and taught.


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And they were astonied at his doctrine, for he taught them as one that had authoritie, and not as the Scribes.


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Saying, Ah, what haue we to do with thee, O Iesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy vs? I knowe thee what thou art, euen that holy one of God.


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And they were all amased, so that they demaunded one of another, saying, What thing is this? what newe doctrine is this? for he commandeth euen the foule spirites with authoritie, and they obey him.


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And assoone as they were come out of the Synagogue, they entred into the house of Symon and Andrew, with Iames and Iohn.


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And he came and tooke her by the hand, and lifted her vp, and the feuer forsooke her by and by, and shee ministred vnto them.


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And whe euen was come, at what time the sunne setteth, they brought to him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with deuils.


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And he healed many that were sicke of diuers diseases: and he cast out many deuils, and suffred not the deuils to say that they knewe him.


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And in the morning very early before day, Iesus arose and went out into a solitarie place, and there praied.


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Then he said vnto them, Let vs go into the next townes, that I may preach there also: for I came out for that purpose.


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And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeled downe vnto him, and said to him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me cleane.


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And Iesus had compassion, and put foorth his hand, and touched him, and said to him, I wil: be thou cleane.


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And sayde vnto him, See thou say nothing to any man, but get thee hence, and shewe thy selfe to the Priest, and offer for thy clensing those things, which Moses commanded, for a testimoniall vnto them.


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And anon, many gathered together, in so much that the places about the doore coulde not receiue any more and he preached the word vnto them.


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And because they could not come neere vnto him for the multitude, they vncouered ye roofe of the house where hee was: and when they had broken it open, they let downe the bed, wherein the sicke of the palsie lay.


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And immediatly when Iesus perceiued in his spirite, that thus they reasoned with themselues, he sayde vnto them, Why reason yee these things in your hearts?


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Whether is it easier to say to the sicke of the palsie, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee? or to say, Arise, and take vp thy bed, and walke?


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But that ye may knowe, that the Sonne of man hath authoritie in earth to forgiue sinnes, (he sayde vnto the sicke of the palsie.)


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And by and by he arose, and tooke vp his bed, and went foorth before them all, in so much that they were all amased, and glorified God, saying, We neuer sawe such a thing.


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Then he went foorth againe towarde the sea, and all the people resorted vnto him, and he taught them.


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And as Iesus passed by, hee sawe Leui the sonne of Alpheus sit at the receit of custome, and said vnto him, Folowe me. And he arose and followed him.


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And it came to passe, as Iesus sate at table in his house, many Publicanes and sinners sate at table also with Iesus, and his disciples: for there were many that followed him.


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And when the Scribes and Pharises sawe him eate with the Publicanes and sinners, they sayd vnto his disciples, Howe is it, that hee eateth and drinketh with Publicanes and sinners?


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Now when Iesus heard it, hee sayde vnto them, The whole haue no neede of the Physicion, but the sicke. I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.


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And the disciples of Iohn, and the Pharises did fast, and came and saide vnto him, Why doe the disciples of Iohn, and of the Pharises fast, and thy disciples fast not?


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And Iesus saide vnto them, Can the children of the marriage chamber fast, whiles the bridegrome is with them? as long as they haue the bridegrome with them, they cannot fast.


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Also no man soweth a piece of newe cloth in an olde garment: for els the newe piece that filled it vp, taketh away somewhat from the olde, and the breach is worse.


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Likewise, no man putteth newe wine into old vessels: for els the new wine breaketh the vessels, and the wine runneth out, and the vessels are lost: but newe wine must be put into new vessels.


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And it came to passe as hee went through the corne on the Sabbath day, that his disciples, as they went on their way, began to plucke the eares of corne.


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And the Pharises saide vnto him, Beholde, why doe they on the Sabbath day, that which is not lawfull?


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And he saide to them, Haue yee neuer read what Dauid did when he had neede, and was an hungred, both he, and they that were with him?


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Howe he went into the house of God, in the daies of Abiathar the hie Priest, and did eat the shewe bread, which were not lawfull to eate, but for the Priests, and gaue also to them which were with him?


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And he saide to them, Is it lawfull to doe a good deede on the Sabbath day, or to doe euil? to saue the life, or to kill? But they held their peace.


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Then hee looked rounde about on them angerly, mourning also for the hardnesse of their hearts, and saide to the man, Stretch foorth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hande was restored, as whole as the other.


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And the Pharises departed, and straightway gathered a councill with the Herodians against him, that they might destroy him.


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And from Ierusalem, and from Idumea, and beyonde Iordan: and they that dwelled about Tyrus and Sidon, when they had heard what great things he did, came vnto him in great number.


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And he commanded his disciples, that a litle shippe should waite for him, because of the multitude, lest they shoulde throng him.


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And when the vncleane spirits sawe him, they fel downe before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Sonne of God.


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And Andrew, and Philippe, and Bartlemew, and Matthewe, and Thomas, and Iames, the sonne of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananite,


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And when his kinsfolkes heard of it, they went out to laie hold on him: for they sayde that he was beside himselfe.


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And the Scribes which came downe from Hierusalem, saide, He hath Beelzebub, and through the prince of the deuils he casteth out deuils.


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And the people sate about him, and they said vnto him, Beholde, thy mother, and thy brethren seeke for thee without.


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And hee looked rounde about on them, which sate in compasse about him, and saide, Beholde my mother and my brethren.


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And hee began againe to teache by the sea side, and there gathered vnto him a great multitude, so that hee entred into a shippe, and sate in the sea, and all the people was by the sea side on the land.


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And it came to passe as he sowed, that some fell by the way side, and the foules of the heauen came, and deuoured it vp.


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And some fell on stonie grounde, where it had not much earth, and by and by sprang vp, because it had not depth of earth.


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And some fell among the thornes, and the thornes grewe vp, and choked it, so that it gaue no fruite.


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That they seeing, may see, and not discerne: and they hearing, may heare, and not vnderstand, least at any time they should turne, and their sinnes should be forgiuen them.


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And these are they that receiue the seede by the wayes side, in whome the worde is sowen: but when they haue heard it, Satan commeth immediatly, and taketh away the worde that was sowen in their heartes.


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Yet haue they no roote in themselues, and endure but a time: for when trouble and persecution ariseth for the worde, immediatly they be offended.


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But the cares of this world, and the deceitfulnes of riches, and the lustes of other things enter in, and choke the word, and it is vnfruitfull.


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But they that haue receiued seede in good ground, are they that heare the worde, and receiue it, and bring foorth fruite: one corne thirtie, another sixtie, and some an hundreth.


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Also he saide vnto them, Commeth the candle in, to be put vnder a bushell, or vnder the bed, and not to be put on a candlesticke?


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For there is nothing hid, that shall not be opened: neither is there a secret, but that it shall come to light.


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And he said vnto them, Take heede what ye heare. With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured vnto you: and vnto you that heare, shall more be giuen.


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For vnto him that hath, shall it be giuen, and from him that hath not, shall be taken away, euen that he hath.


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And shoulde sleepe, and rise vp night and day, and the seede should spring and growe vp, he not knowing howe.


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For the earth bringeth foorth fruite of it selfe, first the blade, then the eares, after that full corne in the eares.


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And assoone as the fruite sheweth it selfe, anon hee putteth in the sickle, because the haruest is come.


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He saide moreouer, Whereunto shall wee liken the kingdome of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?


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It is like a graine of mustarde seede, which when it is sowen in the earth, is the least of all seedes that be in the earth:


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But after that it is sowen, it groweth vp, and is greatest of all herbes, and beareth great branches, so that the foules of heauen may builde vnder the shadow of it.


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And without parables spake hee nothing vnto them: but he expounded all thinges to his disciples apart.


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And they left the multitude, and tooke him as he was in the shippe, and there were also with him other little shippes.


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And there arose a great storme of winde, and the waues dashed into the shippe, so that it was now full.


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And he was in the sterne asleepe on a pillow: and they awoke him, and saide to him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?


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And hee rose vp, and rebuked the winde, and saide vnto the sea, Peace, and be still. So the winde ceased, and it was a great calme.


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And when he was come out of the shippe, there met him incontinently out of the graues, a man which had an vncleane spirit:


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Because that when hee was often bounde with fetters and chaines, he plucked the chaines asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces, neither could any man tame him.


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And alwayes both night and day he cryed in the mountaines, and in the graues, and strooke himselfe with stones.


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And cryed with a loude voyce, and saide, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of the most high God? I will that thou sweare to me by God, that thou torment me not.


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And incontinently Iesus gaue them leaue. Then the vncleane spirites went out, and entred into the swine, and the heard ranne headlong from the high banke into the sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked vp in the sea.


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And the swineheards fled, and told it in the citie, and in the countrey, and they came out to see what it was that was done.


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And they came to Iesus, and sawe him that had bene possessed with the deuil, and had the legion, sit both clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afraide.


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And they that saw it, tolde them, what was done to him that was possessed with the deuil, and concerning the swine.


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And when he was come into the shippe, he that had bene possessed with the deuil, prayed him that he might be with him.


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Howbeit, Iesus would not suffer him, but said vnto him, Goe thy way home to thy friendes, and shewe them what great thinges the Lord hath done vnto thee, and howe hee hath had compassion on thee.


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So he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis, what great things Iesus had done vnto him: and all men did marueile.


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And when Iesus was come ouer againe by ship vnto the other side, a great multitude gathered together to him, and he was neere vnto the sea.


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And beholde, there came one of the rulers of the Synagogue, whose name was Iairus: and when he sawe him, he fell downe at his feete,


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And besought him instantly, saying, My litle daughter lyeth at point of death: I pray thee that thou wouldest come and lay thine hands on her, that she may be healed, and liue.


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And had suffred many things of many physicions, and had spent all that she had, and it auailed her nothing, but she became much worse.


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And straightway the course of her blood was dried vp, and she felt in her body, that she was healed of that plague.


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And immediatly when Iesus did knowe in himselfe the vertue that went out of him, he turned him round about in the preasse, and said, Who hath touched my clothes?


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And his disciples said vnto him, Thou seest the multitude throng thee, and sayest thou, Who did touche me?


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And the woman feared and trembled: for she knewe what was done in her, and shee came and fell downe before him, and tolde him the whole trueth.


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And hee saide to her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.)


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While hee yet spake, there came from the same ruler of the Synagogues house certaine which said, Thy daughter is dead: why diseasest thou the Master any further?


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Assoone as Iesus heard that word spoken, he said vnto the ruler of the Synagogue, Be not afraide: onely beleeue.


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So hee came vnto the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, and sawe the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.


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And he went in, and said vnto them, Why make ye this trouble, and weepe? the childe is not dead, but sleepeth.


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And they laught him to scorne: but hee put them all out, and tooke the father, and the mother of the childe, and them that were with him, and entred in where the childe lay,


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And tooke the childe by the hand, and saide vnto her, Talitha cumi, which is by interpretation, Mayden, I say vnto thee, arise.


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And straightway the mayden arose, and walked: for shee was of the age of twelue yeeres, and they were astonied out of measure.


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And when the Sabbath was come, he began to teach in the Synagogue, and many that heard him, were astonied, and sayd, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdome is this that is giuen vnto him, that euen such great workes are done by his hands?


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Is not this that carpenter Maries sonne, the brother of Iames and Ioses, and of Iuda and Simon? and are not his sisters here with vs? And they were offended in him.


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Then Iesus sayd vnto them, A Prophet is not without honour, but in his owne countrey, and among his owne kindred, and in his own house.


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And he could there doe no great workes, saue that hee layd his hands vpon a fewe sicke folke, and healed them,


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And he called vnto him the twelue, and began to send them forth two and two, and gaue them power ouer vncleane spirits,


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And commanded them that they should take nothing for their iourney, saue a staffe onely: neither scrip, neither bread, neither money in their girdles:


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And whosoeuer shall not receiue you, nor heare you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust that is vnder your feete, for a witnes vnto them. Verely I say vnto you, It shalbe easier for Sodom, or Gomorrha at the day of iudgement, then for that citie.


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Then King Herod heard of him (for his name was made manifest) and sayd, Iohn Baptist is risen againe from the dead, and therefore great workes are wrought by him.


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For Herod him selfe had sent forth, and had taken Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias sake, which was his brother Philippes wife, because he had maried her.


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For Herod feared Iohn, knowing that hee was a iust man, and an holy, and reuerenced him, and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.


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But the time being conuenient, when Herod on his birth day made a banket to his princes and captaines, and chiefe estates of Galile:


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And the daughter of the same Herodias came in, and daunced, and pleased Herod, and them that sate at table together, the King sayd vnto the mayde, Aske of me what thou wilt, and I will giue it thee.


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And he sware vnto her, Whatsoeuer thou shalt aske of me, I will giue it thee, euen vnto the halfe of my kingdome.


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Then she came in straightway with haste vnto the King, and asked, saying, I would that thou shouldest giue me euen now in a charger the head of Iohn Baptist.


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Then the King was very sory: yet for his othes sake, and for their sakes which sate at table with him, he would not refuse her.


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And immediatly the King sent the hangman, and gaue charge that his head shoulde be brought in. So he went and beheaded him in the prison,


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And the Apostles gathered themselues together to Iesus, and tolde him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.


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And he sayd vnto them, Come ye apart into the wildernes, and rest a while: for there were many commers and goers, that they had not leasure to eate.


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But the people sawe them when they departed, and many knewe him, and ran a foote thither out of all cities, and came thither before them, and assembled vnto him.


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Then Iesus went out, and sawe a great multitude, and had compassion on them, because they were like sheepe which had no shepheard: and he began to teach them many things.


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And when the day was nowe farre spent, his disciples came vnto him, saying, This is a desart place, and nowe the day is farre passed.


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Let them depart, that they may goe into the countrey and townes about, and buy them bread: for they haue nothing to eate.


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But he answered, and said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they said vnto him, Shall we goe, and buy two hundreth peny worth of bread, and giue them to eate?


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Then he sayde vnto them, Howe many loaues haue ye? goe and looke. And when they knewe it, they sayd, Fiue, and two fishes.


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And he tooke the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen, and gaue thanks, and brake the loaues, and gaue them to his disciples to set before them, and the two fishes he deuided among them all.


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And straightway he caused his disciples to goe into the ship, and to goe before vnto the other side vnto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.


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And he saw them troubled in rowing, (for the winde was contrary vnto them) and about the fourth watch of the night, hee came vnto them, walking vpon the sea, and would haue passed by them.


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For they all saw him, and were sore afrayd: but anon he talked with them, and said vnto them, Be ye of good comfort: it is I, be not afrayd.


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Then he went vp vnto them into the ship, and the winde ceased, and they were much more amased in them selues, and marueiled.


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And ran about throughout all that region round about, and began to cary hither and thither in couches all that were sicke, where they heard that he was.


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And when they sawe some of his disciples eate meate with common hands, (that is to say, vnwashen) they complained.


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(For the Pharises, and all the Iewes, except they wash their hands oft, eate not, holding the tradition of the Elders.


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And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eate not: and many other things there be, which they haue taken vpon them to obserue, as the washing of cups, and pots, and of brasen vessels, and of beds.)


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Then asked him the Pharises and Scribes, Why walke not thy disciples according to the tradition of the Elders, but eate meate with vnwashen hands?


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Then hee answered and sayd vnto them, Surely Esay hath prophecied well of you, hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth mee with lippes, but their heart is farre away from me.


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For ye lay the commandement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and of cups, and many other such like things ye doe.


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And he sayd vnto them, Well, ye reiect the commandement of God, that ye may obserue your owne tradition.


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For Moses sayd, Honour thy father and thy mother: and Whosoeuer shall speake euill of father or mother, let him die the death.


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But yee say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, that is, By the gift that is offered by mee, thou mayest haue profite, hee shall be free.


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Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.


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Then he called the whole multitude vnto him, and sayd vnto them, Hearken you all vnto me, and vnderstand.


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There is nothing without a man, that can defile him, when it entreth into him: but the things which proceede out of him, are they which defile the man.


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And when hee came into an house, away from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.


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And he sayde vnto them, What? are ye without vnderstanding also? Doe ye not knowe that whatsoeuer thing from without entreth into a man, cannot defile him,


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Because it entreth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught which is the purging of all meates?


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For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceede euill thoughtes, adulteries, fornications, murthers,


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Theftes, couetousnes, wickednes, deceite, vncleannes, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishnesse.


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And from thence he rose, and went into the borders of Tyrus and Sidon, and entred into an house, and woulde that no man should haue knowen: but he could not be hid.


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(And the woman was a Greeke, a Syrophenissian by nation) and she besought him that he would cast out the deuill out of her daughter.


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But Iesus saide vnto her, Let the children first be fedde: for it is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it vnto whelpes.


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Then shee answered, and saide vnto him, Trueth, Lord: yet in deede the whelpes eate vnder the table of the childrens crommes.


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And when shee was come home to her house, shee founde the deuill departed, and her daughter lying on the bed.


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And hee departed againe from the coastes of Tyrus and Sidon, and came vnto the sea of Galile, through the middes of the coastes of Decapolis.


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And they brought vnto him one that was deafe and stambered in his speache, and prayed him to put his hand vpon him.


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Then hee tooke him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers in his eares, and did spit, and touched his tongue.


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And straightway his eares were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and hee spake plaine.


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And he commanded them, that they should tell no man: but howe much soeuer hee forbad them, the more a great deale they published it,


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I haue compassion on the multitude, because they haue nowe continued with mee three dayes, and haue nothing to eate.


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And if I sende them away fasting to their owne houses, they woulde faint by the way: for some of them came from farre.


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Then he commanded the multitude to sit downe on the grounde: and hee tooke the seuen loaues, and gaue thankes, brake them, and gaue to his disciples to set before them, and they did set them before the people.


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They had also a few small fishes: and when he had giuen thankes, he commanded them also to be set before them.


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So they did eate, and were sufficed, and they tooke vp of the broken meate that was left, seuen baskets full.


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And the Pharises came foorth, and began to dispute with him, seeking of him a signe from heauen, and tempting him.


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Then hee sighed deepely in his spirit, and saide, Why doeth this generation seeke a signe? Verely I say vnto you, a signe shall not be giuen vnto this generation.


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And he charged them, saying, Take heede, and beware of the leauen of the Pharises, and of the leauen of Herod.


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And when Iesus knew it, he said vnto them, Why reason you thus, because ye haue no bread? perceiue ye not yet, neither vnderstande? haue ye your hearts yet hardened?


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When I brake the fiue loaues among fiue thousand, how many baskets full of broken meate tooke ye vp? They said vnto him, Twelue.


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And when I brake seuen among foure thousande, howe many baskets of the leauings of broken meate tooke ye vp? And they said, Seuen.


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Then he tooke the blinde by the hand, and ledde him out of the towne, and spat in his eyes, and put his handes vpon him, and asked him, if he sawe ought.


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After that, he put his hands againe vpon his eyes, and made him looke againe. And hee was restored to his sight, and sawe euery man a farre off clearely.


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And hee sent him home to his house, saying, Neither goe into the towne, nor tell it to any in the towne.


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And Iesus went out, and his disciples into the townes of Cesarea Philippi. And by the way hee asked his disciples, saying vnto them, Whome doe men say that I am?


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And he said vnto them, But whome say ye that I am? Then Peter answered, and saide vnto him, Thou art that Christ.


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Then hee began to teache them that the Sonne of man must suffer many things, and should be reproued of the Elders, and of the hie Priestes, and of the Scribes, and be slaine, and within three dayes rise againe.


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Then he turned backe, and looked on his disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behinde me, Satan: for thou vnderstandest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men.


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And hee called the people vnto him with his disciples, and saide vnto them, Whosoeuer will follow me, let him forsake himselfe, and take vp his crosse, and follow me.


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And he saide vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that there be some of them that stande here, which shall not taste of death till they haue seene the kingdome of God come with power.


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And sixe dayes after, Iesus taketh vnto him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and carieth them vp into an hie mountaine out of the way alone, and his shape was changed before them.


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Then Peter answered, and said to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: let vs make also three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.


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And there was a cloude that shadowed them, and a voyce came out of the cloude, saying, This is my beloued Sonne: heare him.


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And as they came downe from the mountaine, he charged them, that they should tell no man what they had seene, saue when the Sonne of man were risen from the dead againe.


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So they kept that matter to themselues, and demaunded one of another, what the rising from the dead againe should meane?


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And he answered, and said vnto them, Elias verely shall first come, and restore all things: and as it is written of the Sonne of man, hee must suffer many things, and be set at nought.


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And one of the companie answered, and said, Master, I haue brought my sonne vnto thee, which hath a dumme spirit:


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Then he answered him, and said, O faithlesse generation, how long now shall I be with you! how long now shall I suffer you! Bring him vnto me.


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And they departed thence, and went together through Galile, and hee would not that any should haue knowen it.


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And he sate downe, and called the twelue, and said to them, If any man desire to be first, the same shalbe last of all, and seruant vnto all.


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Then Iohn answered him, saying, Master, we sawe one casting out deuils by thy Name, which followeth not vs, and we forbade him, because he followeth vs not.


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And whosoeuer shall offend one of these litle ones, that beleeue in me, it were better for him rather, that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were cast into the sea.


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Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, For the hardnesse of your heart he wrote this precept vnto you.


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And he sayd vnto them, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife and marrie another, committeth adulterie against her.


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And Iesus looked round about, and sayd vnto his disciples, Howe hardly doe they that haue riches, enter into the kingdome of God!


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And his disciples were afraide at his words. But Iesus answered againe, and sayd vnto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdome of God!


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It is easier for a camel to goe through the eye of a needle, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.


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But Iesus looked vpon them, and sayd, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.


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Iesus answered, and sayd, Verely I say vnto you, there is no man that hath forsaken house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake and the Gospels,


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Saying, Beholde, we goe vp to Hierusalem, and the Sonne of man shall be deliuered vnto the hie Priests, and to the Scribes, and they shall condemne him to death, and shall deliuer him to the Gentiles.


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And they shall mocke him, and scourge him, and spit vpon him, and kill him: but the third day he shall rise againe.


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Then Iames and Iohn the sonnes of Zebedeus came vnto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest doe for vs that we desire.


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And they said to him, Graunt vnto vs, that we may sit, one at thy right hand, and the other at thy left hand in thy glory.


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But Iesus sayd vnto them, Ye knowe not what ye aske. Can ye drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and be baptized with the baptisme that I shall be baptized with?


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And they said vnto him, We can. But Iesus sayd vnto them, Ye shall drinke in deede of the cup that I shall drinke of, and be baptized with the baptisme wherewith I shalbe baptized:


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But to sit at my right hand, and at my left, is not mine to giue, but it shalbe giuen to them for whome it is prepared.


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But Iesus called them vnto him, and sayd to them, Ye know that they which are princes among the Gentiles, haue domination ouer them, and they that be great among them, exercise authoritie ouer them.


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For euen the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the raunsome of many.


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Then they came to Iericho: and as he went out of Iericho with his disciples, and a great multitude, Bartimeus the sonne of Timeus, a blinde man, sate by the wayes side, begging.


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And when hee heard that it was Iesus of Nazareth, he began to crye, and to say, Iesus the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on me.


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And many rebuked him, because he should holde his peace: but hee cryed much more, O Sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on me.


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Then Iesus stood still, and commanded him to be called: and they called the blind, saying vnto him, Be of good comfort: arise, he calleth thee.


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And Iesus answered, and said vnto him, What wilt thou that I doe vnto thee? And the blinde sayd vnto him, Lord, that I may receiue sight.


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Then Iesus sayde vnto him, Goe thy way: thy fayth hath saued thee. And by and by, he receiued his sight, and folowed Iesus in the way.<pb/>


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And when they came neere to Hierusalem, to Bethphage and Bethania vnto the mount of Oliues, he sent forth two of his disciples,


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And sayd vnto them, Goe your wayes into that towne that is ouer against you, and assoone as ye shall enter into it, ye shall finde a colte tied, whereon neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him.


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And if any man say vnto you, Why doe ye this? Say that the Lord hath neede of him, and straightway he will send him hither.


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And they went their way, and found a colt tyed by the doore without, in a place where two wayes met, and they loosed him.


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And many spred their garments in the way: other cut downe branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.


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And they that went before, and they that folowed, cryed, saying, Hosanna: blessed be hee that commeth in the Name of the Lord.


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Blessed be the kingdome that commeth in the Name of the Lord of our father Dauid: Hosanna, O thou which art in the highest heauens.


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So Iesus entred into Hierusalem, and into the Temple: and when he had looked about on all things, and now it was euening, he went forth vnto Bethania with the twelue.


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And seeing a fig tree afarre off, that had leaues, he went to see if he might finde any thing thereon: but when he came vnto it, hee found nothing but leaues: for the time of figges was not yet.


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Then Iesus answered, and sayd to it, Neuer man eate fruite of thee hereafter while the world standeth: and his disciples heard it.


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And they came to Hierusalem, and Iesus went into the Temple, and began to cast out them that solde and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrewe the tables of the money changers, and the seates of them that solde doues.


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And he taught, saying vnto them, Is it not written, Mine house shalbe called the house of prayer vnto all nations? but you haue made it a denne of theeues.


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And the Scribes and hie Priestes heard it, and sought howe to destroy him: for they feared him, because the whole multitude was astonied at his doctrine.


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Then Peter remembred, and said vnto him, Master, beholde, the figge tree which thou cursedst, is withered.


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For verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer shall say vnto this mountaine, Be thou taken away, and cast into the sea, and shall not wauer in his heart, but shall beleeue that those things which he saieth, shall come to passe, whatsoeuer he saieth, shall be done to him.


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Therefore I say vnto you, Whatsoeuer ye desire when ye pray, beleeue that ye shall haue it, and it shalbe done vnto you.


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But when ye shall stand, and pray, forgiue, if ye haue any thing against any man, that your Father also which is in heauen, may forgiue you your trespasses.


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Then they came againe to Hierusalem: and as he walked in the Temple, there came to him ye hie Priestes, and the Scribes, and the Elders,


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And said vnto him, By what authoritie doest thou these things? and who gaue thee this authoritie, that thou shouldest doe these things?


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Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, I will also aske of you a certaine thing, and answere ye me, and I will tell you by what authoritie I do these things.


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And they thought with themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then did ye not beleeue him?


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But if we say, Of men, we feare the people: for all men counted Iohn, that he was a Prophet in deede.


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Then they answered, and saide vnto Iesus, We cannot tell. And Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Neither will I tell you by what authoritie I doe these things.<pb/>


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And he began to speake vnto them in parables, A certaine man planted a vineyard, and copassed it with an hedge, and digged a pit for the winepresse, and built a tower in it, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange countrey.


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And at the time, he sent to the husbandmen a seruant, that he might receiue of the husbandmen of the fruite of the vineyard.


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And againe he sent vnto them another seruant, and at him they cast stones, and brake his head, and sent him away shamefully handled.


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Yet had he one sonne, his deare beloued: him also he sent the last vnto them, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.


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But ye husbandmen said among themselues, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, and the inheritance shalbe ours.


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What shall then the Lord of the vineyard doe? He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and giue the vineyard to others.


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Haue ye not read so much as this Scripture? The stone which the builders did refuse, is made the head of the corner.


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Then they went about to take him, but they feared the people: for they perceiued that he spake that parable against them: therefore they left him, and went their way.


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And they sent vnto him certaine of the Pharises, and of ye Herodians that they might take him in his talke.


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And when they came, they saide vnto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou considerest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God truely, Is it lawfull to giue tribute to Cesar, or not?


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Should we giue it, or should we not giue it? but he knew their hypocrisie, and said vnto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a peny, that I may see it.


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So they brought it, and he said vnto them, Whose is this image and superscription? and they said vnto him, Cesars.


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Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Giue to Cesar the things that are Cesars, and to God, those that are Gods: and they marueiled at him.


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Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die, and leaue his wife, and leaue no children, that his brother should take his wife, and rayse vp seede vnto his brother.


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In the resurrection then, when they shall rise againe, whose wife shall she be of them? for seuen had her to wife.


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Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Are ye not therefore deceiued, because ye knowe not the Scriptures, neither the power of God?


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For when they shall rise againe from the dead, neither men marry, nor wiues are married, but are as the Angels which are in heauen.


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And as touching the dead, that they shall rise againe, haue ye not read in the booke of Moses, howe in the bush God spake vnto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob?


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Then came one of the Scribes that had heard them disputing together, and perceiuing that he had answered them well, he asked him, Which is the first commandement of all?


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Iesus answered him, The first of all the commandements is, Heare, Israel, The Lord our God is the onely Lord.


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Thou shalt therefore loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy minde, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandement.


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And the second is like, that is, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. There is none other commandement greater then these.


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Then that Scribe said vnto him, Well, Master, thou hast saide the trueth, that there is one God, and that there is none but he,


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And to loue him with all the heart, and with all the vnderstanding, and with all the soule, and with all the strength, and to loue his neighbour as himselfe, is more then all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.


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Then when Iesus saw that he answered discreetely, he saide vnto him, Thou art not farre from the kingdome of God. And no man after that durst aske him any question.


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And Iesus answered and said teaching in the Temple, Howe say the Scribes that Christ is the sonne of Dauid?


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For Dauid himselfe said by ye holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footestoole.


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Then Dauid himselfe calleth him Lord: by what meanes is he then his sonne? and much people heard him gladly.


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Moreouer he saide vnto them in his doctrine, Beware of the Scribes which loue to goe in long robes, and loue salutations in the markets,


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Which deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers. These shall receiue the greater damnation.


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And as Iesus sate ouer against the treasurie, he beheld how the people cast money into the treasurie, and many rich men cast in much.


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Then he called vnto him his disciples, and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.


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For they all did cast in of their superfluitie: but she of her pouertie did cast in all that she had, euen all her liuing.<pb/>


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And as he went out of the Temple, one of his disciples said vnto him, Master, see what maner stones, and what maner buildings are here.


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Then Iesus answered and saide vnto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone vpon a stone, that shall not be throwen downe.


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And as he sate on the mount of Oliues, ouer against the Temple, Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrew asked him secretly,


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Tell vs, when shall these things be? and what shalbe the signe when all these things shalbe fulfilled?


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Furthermore when ye shall heare, of warres, and rumours of warres, be ye not troubled: for such things must needes be: but the end shall not be yet.


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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdome against kingdome, and there shalbe earthquakes in diuers quarters, and there shalbe famine and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorowes.


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But take ye heede to your selues: for they shall deliuer you vp to the Councils, and to the Synagogues: ye shalbe beaten, and brought before rulers and Kings for my sake, for a testimoniall vnto them.


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But when they leade you, and deliuer you vp, be not carefull before hand, neither studie what ye shall say: but what is giuen you at the same time, that speake: for it is not ye that speake, but the holy Ghost.


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Yea, and the brother shall deliuer the brother to death, and the father the sonne, and the children shall rise against their parents, and shall cause them to die.


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And ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake: but whosoeuer shall endure vnto the end, he shalbe saued.


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Moreouer, when ye shall see the abomination of desolation (spoken of by Daniel the Prophet) set where it ought not, (let him that readeth, consider it) then let them that be in Iudea, flee into the mountaines,


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And let him that is vpon the house, not come downe into the house, neither enter therein, to fetch any thing out of his house.


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For those dayes shalbe such tribulation, as was not from the beginning of ye creation which God created vnto this time, neither shalbe.


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And except that the Lord had shortened those dayes, no flesh shoulde be saued: but for the elects sake, which he hath chosen, he hath shortened those dayes.


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For false Christes shall rise, and false prophets, and shall shewe signes and wonders, to deceiue if it were possible the very elect.


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Moreouer in those dayes, after that tribulation, the sunne shall waxe darke, and ye moone shall not giue her light,


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And he shall then send his Angels, and shall gather together his elect from the foure windes, and from the vtmost part of the earth to the vtmost part of heauen.


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Nowe learne a parable of the figge tree. When her bough is yet tender, and it bringeth foorth leaues, ye knowe that sommer is neere.


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So in like maner, when ye see these things come to passe, knowe that the kingdom of God is neere, euen at the doores.


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But of that day and houre knoweth no man, no, not the Angels which are in heauen, neither the Sonne himselfe, but the Father.


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For the Sonne of man is as a man going into a strange countrey, and leaueth his house, and giueth authoritie to his seruaunts, and to euery man his woorke, and commandeth the porter to watch.


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Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)


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And two daies after followed the feast of the Passeouer, and of vnleauened bread: and the hie Priests, and Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.


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And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.


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For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.


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For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.


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Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shalbe spoken of in remembrance of her.


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And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised that they woulde giue him monie: therefore he sought howe he might conueniently betraie him.


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Nowe the first day of vnleauened bread, when they sacrificed the Passeouer, his disciples sayde vnto him, Where wilt thou that we goe and prepare, that thou mayest eate the Passeouer?


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Then hee sent foorth two of his disciples, and sayde vnto them, Goe yee into the citie, and there shall a man meete you bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.


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And whithersoeuer he goeth in, say yee to the good man of the house, The Master sayeth, Where is the lodging where I shall eate the Passeouer with my disciples?


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And he wil shewe you an vpper chamber which is large, trimmed and prepared: there make it readie for vs.


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So his disciples went foorth, and came to the citie, and found as he had said vnto them, and made readie the Passeouer.


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And as they sate at table and did eate, Iesus said, Verely I say vnto you, that one of you shall betray me, which eateth with me.


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Truely the Sonne of man goeth his way, as it is written of him: but woe bee to that man, by whome the Sonne of man is betrayed: it had beene good for that man, if hee had neuer beene borne.


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And as they did eate, Iesus tooke the bread, and when hee had giuen thankes, he brake it and gaue it to them, and sayde, Take, eate, this is my bodie.


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Verely I say vnto you, I wil drinke no more of the fruit of ye vine vntill that day, that I drinke it newe in the kingdome of God.


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Then Iesus said vnto them, Al ye shall be offended by mee this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepheard, and the sheepe shall be scattered.


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Then Iesus saide vnto him, Verely I say vnto thee, this day, euen in this night, before the cocke crowe twise, thou shalt denie me thrise.


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But he saide more earnestly. If I shoulde die with thee, I will not denie thee: likewise also saide they all.


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After, they came into a place named Gethsemane: then hee saide to his disciples, Sit yee here, till I haue praied.


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And hee tooke with him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and hee began to be troubled, and in great heauinesse,


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So he went forward a litle, and fell downe on the ground, and praied, that if it were possible, that houre might passe from him.


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And he saide, Abba, Father, all things are possible vnto thee: take away this cup from me: neuertheles not that I will, but that thou wilt, be done.


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Then hee came, and founde them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watche one houre?


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And he returned, and founde them a sleepe againe: for their eyes were heauie: neither knewe they what they should answere him.


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And he came the third time, and said vnto them, Sleepe henceforth, and take your rest: it is ynough: the houre is come: beholde, the Sonne of man is deliuered into the hands of sinners.


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And immediatly while hee yet spake, came Iudas that was one of the twelue, and with him a great multitude with swordes and staues from the hie Priests, and Scribes, and Elders.


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And he that betraied him, had giuen them a token, saying, Whomsoeuer I shall kisse, he it is: take him and leade him away safely.


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And one of them that stoode by, drewe out a sword, and smote a seruant of the hie Priest, and cut off his eare.


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And Iesus answered and saide to them, Ye be come out as against a thiefe with swordes, and with staues, to take me.


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And there followed him a certaine yong man, clothed in linnen vpon his bare bodie, and the yong men caught him.


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So they led Iesus away to the hie Priest, and to him came together all the hie Priestes, and the Elders, and the Scribes.


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And Peter folowed him afarre off, euen into the hall of the hie Priest, and sate with the seruants, and warmed himselfe at the fire.


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And the hie Priests, and all the Councill sought for witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death, but found none.


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We hearde him say, I will destroy this Temple made with hands, and within three daies I will builde another, made without hands.


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Then the hie Priest stoode vp amongst them, and asked Iesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is the matter that these beare witnesse against thee?


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But hee helde his peace, and answered nothing. Againe the hie Priest asked him, and sayde vnto him, Art thou that Christ the Sonne of the Blessed?


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And Iesus said, I am he, and yee shall see the Sonne of man sitte at the right hande of the power of God, and come in the clouds of heauen.


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And some began to spit at him, and to couer his face, and to beate him with fists, and to say vnto him, Prophesie. And the sergeants smote him with their roddes.


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And when shee sawe Peter warming him selfe, shee looked on him, and sayde, Thou wast also with Iesus of Nazareth.


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But he denied it, saying, I knowe him not, neither wot I what thou saiest. Then he went out into the porche, and the cocke crewe.


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But hee denied it againe: and anon after, they that stoode by, sayde againe to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art of Galile, and thy speach is like.


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Then Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered, and sayde vnto him, Thou sayest it.


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Wherefore Pilate asked him againe, saying, Answerest thou nothing? beholde howe many things they witnesse against thee.


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Then there was one named Barabbas, which was bounde with his fellowes, that had made insurrection, who in the insurrection had committed murder.


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But the high Priestes had moued the people to desire that he would rather deliuer Barabbas vnto them.


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And Pilate answered, and said againe vnto them, What will ye then that I doe with him, whom ye call the King of the Iewes?


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Then Pilate said vnto them, But what euill hath he done? And they cryed the more feruently, Crucifie him.


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So Pilate willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas, and deliuered Iesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified.


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Then the souldiers led him away into the hall, which is the common hall, and called together the whole band,


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And they smote him on the head with a reede, and spat vpon him, and bowed the knees, and did him reuerence.


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And whe they had mocked him, they tooke the purple off him, and put his owne clothes on him, and led him out to crucifie him.


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And they compelled one that passed by, called Simon of Cyrene (which came out of the countrey, and was father of Alexander and Rufus) to beare his crosse.


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And they brought him to a place named Golgotha, which is by interpretation, the place of dead mens skulles.


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And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots for them, what euery man should haue.


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And they that went by, railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Hey, thou that destroyest the Temple, and buildest it in three dayes,


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And at the ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lamma-sabachthani? which is by interpretation, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And one ranne, and filled a spondge full of vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke, saying, Let him alone: let vs see if Elias will come, and take him downe.


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And Pilate marueiled, if he were already dead, and called vnto him the Centurion, and asked of him whether he had bene any while dead.


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Who bought a linnen cloth, and tooke him downe, and wrapped him in the linnen cloth, and laide him in a tombe that was hewen out of a rocke, and rolled a stone vnto the doore of the sepulchre:


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And when the Sabbath day was past, Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, and Salome, bought sweete oyntments, that they might come, and anoynt him.


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So they went into the sepulchre, and saw a yong man sitting at the right side, clothed in a long white robe: and they were sore troubled.


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But he said vnto them, Be not so troubled: ye seeke Iesus of Nazareth, which hath bene crucified: he is risen, he is not here: behold the place where they put him.


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And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre: for they trembled, and were amased: neither said they any thing to any man: for they were afraide.


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And when Iesus was risen againe, early the first day of the weeke, he appeared first to Marie Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seuen deuils:


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Finally, he appeared vnto the eleuen as they sate together, and reproched them for their vnbeliefe and hardnesse of heart, because they beleeued not them which had seene him, being risen vp againe.


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And these tokens shall folowe them that beleeue, In my Name they shall cast out deuils, and shall speake with newe tongues,


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And shall take away serpents, and if they shall drinke any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their handes on the sicke, and they shall recouer.


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And they went foorth, and preached euery where. And the Lord wrought with them, and confirmed the worde with signes that folowed. Amen.


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Forasmuch as many haue taken in hand to set foorth the storie of those things, whereof we are fully persuaded,


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As they haue deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning saw them their selues, and were ministers of ye word,


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It seemed good also to me (most noble Theophilus) assoone as I had searched out perfectly all things from the beginning, to write vnto thee thereof from point to point,


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In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.


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Both were iust before God, and walked in all the commandements and ordinances of the Lord, without reproofe.


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According to the custome of the Priests office, his lot was to burne incense, when he went into the Temple of the Lord.


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But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.


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For he shalbe great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drinke wine, nor strong drinke: and he shalbe filled with the holy Ghost, euen from his mothers wombe.


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For he shall goe before him in the spirite and power of Elias, to turne the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisedome of the iust men, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.


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Then Zacharias said vnto ye Angel, Whereby shall I knowe this? for I am an olde man, and my wife is of a great age.


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And the Angell answered, and sayde vnto him, I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God, and am sent to speake vnto thee, and to shew thee these good tidings.


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And beholde, thou shalt be domme, and not be able to speake, vntill the day that these things be done, because thou beleeuedst not my words, which shalbe fulfilled in their season.


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And when hee came out, hee coulde not speake vnto them: then they perceiued that hee had seene a vision in the Temple: For he made signes vnto them, and remained domme.


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And it came to passe, when the daies of his office were fulfilled, that he departed to his owne house.


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Thus hath the Lord dealt with me, in the daies wherein he looked on me, to take from me my rebuke among men.


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And in the sixth moneth, the Angell Gabriel was sent from God vnto a citie of Galile, named Nazareth,


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To a virgin affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph, of the house of Dauid, and the virgins name was Marie.


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And the Angel went in vnto her, and said, Haile thou that art freely beloued: the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.


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And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and thought what maner of salutation that should be.


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He shall be great, and shall be called the Sonne of the most High, and the Lord God shall giue vnto him the throne of his father Dauid.


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And the Angel answered, and said vnto her, The holy Ghost shall come vpon thee, and the power of the most High shall ouershadowe thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall bee borne of thee, shall be called the Sonne of God.


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And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.


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Then Marie said, Behold the seruant of the Lord: be it vnto me according to thy woorde. So the Angel departed from her.


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And it came to passe, as Elisabet heard the salutation of Marie, the babe sprang in her bellie, and Elisabet was filled with the holy Ghost.


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And she cried with a loud voice, and saide, Blessed art thou among women, because the fruit of thy wombe is blessed.


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For loe, assoone as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my bellie for ioye,


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And blessed is shee that beleeued: for those things shall be perfourmed, which were tolde her from the Lord.


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For hee hath looked on the poore degree of his seruaunt: for beholde, from henceforth shall all ages call me blessed,


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Hee hath shewed strength with his arme: hee hath scattered the proude in the imagination of their hearts.


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And her neighbours, and cousins heard tell howe the Lord had shewed his great mercie vpon her, and they reioyced with her.


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And it was so that on the eight day they came to circumcise the babe, and called him Zacharias after the name of his father.


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Then feare came on all them that dwelt neere vnto them, and all these woordes were noised abroade throughout all the hill countrey of Iudea.


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And al they that heard them, laid them vp in their hearts, saying, What maner childe shall this be! and the hand of the Lord was with him.


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Which was, that he would graunt vnto vs, that we being deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, should serue him without feare,


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And thou, babe, shalt be called the Prophet of the most High: for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord, to prepare his waies,


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To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, and to guide our feete into the way of peace.


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And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the wildernesse, til the day came that he should shewe him selfe vnto Israel.<pb/>


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And it came to passe in those dayes, that there came a decree from Augustus Cesar, that all the world should be taxed.


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And Ioseph also went vp from Galile out of a citie called Nazareth, into Iudea, vnto the citie of Dauid, which is called Beth-leem (because he was of the house and linage of Dauid,)


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And so it was, that while they were there, the daies were accomplished that shee shoulde be deliuered,


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And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laide him in a cratch, because there was no roome for them in the ynne.


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And there were in the same countrey shepheards, abiding in the fielde, and keeping watch by night ouer their flocke.


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And loe, the Angel of the Lord came vpon them, and the glorie of the Lord shone about them, and they were sore afraide.


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Then the Angel saide vnto them, Be not afraid: for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great ioy, that shalbe to all the people,


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That is, that vnto you is borne this day in the citie of Dauid, a Sauiour, which is Christ the Lord.


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And straightway there was with the Angel a multitude of heauenly souldiers, praising God, and saying,


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And it came to passe whe the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, that the shepheards sayde one to another, Let vs goe then vnto Beth-leem, and see this thing that is come to passe which the Lord hath shewed vnto vs.


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And the shepheardes returned glorifiyng and praising God, for all that they had heard and seene as it was spoken vnto them.


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And when the eight daies were accomplished, that they shoulde circumcise the childe, his name was then called Iesus, which was named of the Angell, before he was conceiued in the wombe.


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And when the daies of her purification after the Lawe of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Hierusalem, to present him to the Lord,


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(As it is written in the Lawe of the Lord, Euery man childe that first openeth ye wombe, shalbe called holy to the Lord)


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And to giue an oblation, as it is commanded in the Lawe of the Lord, a paire of turtle doues, or two yong pigeons.


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And behold, there was a man in Hierusalem, whose name was Simeon: this man was iust, and feared God, and waited for the consolation of Israel, and the holy Ghost was vpon him.


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And it was declared to him from God by the holy Ghost, that he shoulde not see death, before he had seene that Anointed of the Lord.


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And he came by the motion of the spirit into the Temple, and when the parents brought in the babe Iesus, to do for him after the custome of the Lawe,


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And Simeon blessed them, and saide vnto Mary his mother, Beholde, this childe is appointed for the fall and rising againe of many in Israel, and for a signe which shalbe spoken against,


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And there was a Prophetesse, one Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser, which was of a great age, after she had liued with an husband seuen yeeres from her virginitie:


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And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings and prayers, night and day.


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She then coming at the same instant vpon them, confessed likewise the Lord, and spake of him to all that looked for redemption in Hierusalem.


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And when they had performed all thinges according to the lawe of the Lord, they returned into Galile to their owne citie Nazareth.


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And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in Spirit, and was filled with wisedome, and the grace of God was with him.


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And when hee was twelue yeere olde, and they were come vp to Hierusalem, after the custome of the feast,


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And had finished the dayes thereof, as they returned, the childe Iesus remained in Hierusalem, and Ioseph knew not, nor his mother,


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But they supposing, that he had bene in the company, went a dayes iourney, and sought him among their kinsfolke, and acquaintance.


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And it came to passe three dayes after, that they found him in the Temple, sitting in the mids of the doctours, both hearing them, and asking them questions:


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So when they sawe him, they were amased, and his mother said vnto him, Sonne, why hast thou thus dealt with vs? beholde, thy father and I haue sought thee with very heauie hearts.


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Then said he vnto them, Howe is it that ye sought me? knewe ye not that I must goe about my Fathers busines?


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Then hee went downe with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subiect to them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.


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Nowe in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being gouernour of Iudea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galile, and his brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea, and of the countrey of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the Tetrarch of Abilene,


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(When Annas and Caiaphas were the hie Priestes) the worde of God came vnto Iohn, the sonne of Zacharias in the wildernes.


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And hee came into all the coastes about Iordan, preaching the baptisme of repentance for the remission of sinnes,


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As it is written in the booke of the sayings of Esaias the Prophet, which saith, The voyce of him that crieth in the wildernes is, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.


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Euery valley shalbe filled, and euery mountaine and hill shall be brought lowe, and crooked things shalbe made straight, and the rough wayes shalbe made smoothe.


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Then said he to the people that were come out to be baptized of him, O generations of vipers, who hath forewarned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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Bring foorth therefore fruites worthy amendment of life, and beginne not to say with your selues, We haue Abraham to our father: for I say vnto you, that God is able of these stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham.


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Nowe also is the axe layed vnto the roote of the trees: therefore euery tree which bringeth not foorth good fruite, shalbe hewen downe, and cast into the fire.


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And he answered, and said vnto them, He that hath two coates, let him part with him that hath none: and hee that hath meate, let him doe likewise.


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The souldiers likewise demaunded of him, saying, And what shall we doe? And he saide vnto them, Doe violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.


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Iohn answered, and saide to them all, In deede I baptize you with water, but one stronger then I, commeth, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to vnloose: hee will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.


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Whose fanne is in his hande, and hee will make cleane his floore, and will gather the wheate into his garner, but the chaffe will hee burne vp with fire that neuer shalbe quenched.


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But when Herod the Tetrarch was rebuked of him, for Herodias his brother Philips wife, and for all the euils which Herod had done,


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Nowe it came to passe, as all the people were baptized, and that Iesus was baptized and did pray, that the heauen was opened:


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And the holy Ghost came downe in a bodily shape like a doue, vpon him, and there was a voyce from heauen, saying, Thou art my beloued Sonne: in thee I am well pleased.


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And Iesus himselfe began to bee about thirtie yeere of age, being as men supposed the sonne of Ioseph, which was the sonne of Eli,


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The sonne of Matthat, the sonne of Leui, the sonne of Melchi, the sonne of Ianna, the sonne of Ioseph,


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The sonne of Mattathias, the sonne of Amos, the sonne of Naum, the sonne of Esli, the sonne of Nagge,


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The sonne of Maath, the sonne of Mattathias, the sonne of Semei, the sonne of Ioseph, the sonne of Iuda,


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The sonne of Ioanna, the sonne of Rhesa, the sonne of Zorobabel, the sonne of Salathiel, the sonne of Neri,


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The sonne of Simeon, the sonne of Iuda, the sonne of Ioseph, the sonne of Ionan, the sonne of Eliacim,


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The sonne of Melea, the sonne of Mainan, the sonne of Mattatha, the sonne of Nathan, the sonne of Dauid,


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The sonne of Iesse, the sonne of Obed, the sonne of Booz, the sonne of Salmon, the sonne of Naasson,


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The sonne of Aminadab, the sonne of Aram, the sonne of Esrom, the sonne of Phares, the sonne of Iuda,


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The sonne of Iacob, the sonne of Isaac, the sonne of Abraham, the sonne of Thara, the sonne of Nachor,


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The sonne of Cainan, the sonne of Arphaxad, the sonne of Sem, the sonne of Noe, the sonne of Lamech,


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The sonne of Mathusala, the sonne of Enoch, the sonne of Iared, the sonne of Maleleel, the sonne of Cainan,


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And Iesus full of the holy Ghost returned from Iordan, and was led by that Spirit into the wildernes,


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And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, and in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry.


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Then the deuil saide vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, commaund this stone that it be made bread.


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But Iesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not liue by bread only, but by euery word of God.


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Then the deuill tooke him vp into an high mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, in the twinkeling of an eye.


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And the deuill saide vnto him, All this power will I giue thee, and the glory of those kingdomes: for that is deliuered to mee: and to whomsoeuer I will, I giue it.


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But Iesus answered him, and saide, Hence from mee, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him alone thou shalt serue.


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Then hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence,


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And with their handes they shall lift thee vp, least at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.


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And Iesus returned by the power of the spirite into Galile: and there went a fame of him throughout all the region round about.


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And hee came to Nazareth where hee had bene brought vp, and (as his custome was) went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stoode vp to reade.


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And there was deliuered vnto him the booke of the Prophet Esaias: and when hee had opened the booke, hee founde the place, where it was written,


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The Spirit of the Lord is vpon mee, because he hath anoynted me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poore: he hath sent mee, that I should heale the broken hearted, that I should preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, that I should set at libertie them that are bruised:


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And hee closed the booke, and gaue it againe to the minister, and sate downe: and the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him.


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And all bare him witnes, and wondered at the gracious wordes, which proceeded out of his mouth, and said, Is not this Iosephs sonne?


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Then he said vnto them, Ye will surely say vnto mee this prouerbe, Physician, heale thy selfe: whatsoeuer we haue heard done in Capernaum, doe it here likewise in thine owne countrey.


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But I tell you of a trueth, many widowes were in Israel in the dayes of Elias, when heauen was shut three yeres and sixe moneths, when great famine was throughout all the land:


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Also many lepers were in Israel, in the time of Eliseus the Prophet: yet none of them was made cleane, sauing Naaman the Syrian.


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And rose vp, and thrust him out of the citie, and led him vnto the edge of the hil, whereon their citie was built, to cast him downe headlong.


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And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an vncleane deuill, which cryed with a loude voyce,


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Saying, Oh, what haue we to doe with thee, thou Iesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy vs? I know who thou art, euen the holy one of God.


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And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him. Then the deuill throwing him in the middes of them, came out of him, and hurt him nothing at all.


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So feare came on them all, and they spake among themselues, saying, What thing is this: for with authoritie and power he commaundeth the foule spirits, and they come out?


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And he rose vp, and came out of the Synagogue, and entred into Simons house. And Simons wiues mother was taken with a great feuer, and they required him for her.


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Then he stoode ouer her, and rebuked the feuer, and it left her, and immediatly she arose, and ministred vnto them.


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Now at the sunne setting, all they that had sicke folkes of diuers diseases, brought them vnto him, and he layd his hands on euery one of them, and healed them.


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And deuils also came out of many, crying, and saying, Thou art that Christ that Sonne of God: but he rebuked them, and suffered them not to say that they knewe him to be that Christ.


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And when it was day, he departed, and went foorth into a desart place, and the people sought him, and came to him, and kept him that he should not depart from them.


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But he sayd vnto them, Surely I must also preach the kingdome of God to other cities: for therefore am I sent.


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Then it came to passe, as the people preassed vpon him to heare the word of God, that he stoode by the lake of Gennesaret,


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And sawe two shippes stand by the lakes side, but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nettes.


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And he entred into one of the ships, which was Simons, and required him that he would thrust off a litle from the land: and he sate downe, and taught the people out of the ship.


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Now when he had left speaking, he sayd vnto Simon, Lanch out into the deepe, and let downe your nettes to make a draught.


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Then Simon answered, and sayd vnto him, Master, we haue trauailed sore all night, and haue taken nothing: neuerthelesse at thy worde I will let downe the net.


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And they beckened to their parteners, which were in the other ship, that they shoulde come and helpe them, who came then, and filled both the ships, that they did sinke.


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Now when Simon Peter saw it, he fel down at Iesus knees, saying, Lord, go from me: for I am a sinfull man.


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For he was vtterly astonied, and all that were with him, for the draught of fishes which they tooke.


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And so was also Iames and Iohn the sonnes of Zebedeus, which were companions with Simon. Then Iesus sayde vnto Simon, Feare not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.


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Nowe it came to passe, as he was in a certaine citie, beholde, there was a man full of leprosie, and when he sawe Iesus, he fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me cleane.


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So he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will, be thou cleane. And immediately the leprosie departed from him.


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And he commanded him that hee should tell it no man: but Go, sayth he, and shew thy selfe to the Priest, and offer for thy clensing, as Moses hath commanded, for a witnes vnto them.


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And it came to passe, on a certaine day, as he was teaching, that the Pharises and doctours of the Law sate by, which were come out of euery towne of Galile, and Iudea, and Hierusalem, and the power of the Lord was in him to heale them.


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Then beholde, men brought a man lying in a bed, which was taken with a palsie, and they sought meanes to bring him in, and to lay him before him.


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And when they could not finde by what way they might bring him in, because of the preasse, they went vp on the house, and let him downe through the tyling, bed and all, in the middes before Iesus.


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Then the Scribes and the Pharises began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? who can forgiue sinnes, but God onely?


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But when Iesus perceiued their reasoning, he answered, and sayd vnto them, What reason ye in your hearts?


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But that ye may know that that Sonne of man hath authoritie to forgiue sinnes in earth, (he sayd vnto the sicke of the palsie) I say to thee, Arise: take vp thy bed, and goe to thine house.


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And immediatly he rose vp before them, and tooke vp his bed whereon he lay, and departed to his owne house, praysing God.


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And they were all amased, and praysed God, and were filled with feare, saying, Doutlesse we haue seene strange things to day.


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And after that, he went foorth and sawe a Publicane named Leui, sitting at the receite of custome, and sayd vnto him, Follow me.


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Then Leui made him a great feast in his owne house, where there was a great company of Publicanes, and of other that sate at table with them.


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But they that were Scribes and Pharises among them, murmured against his disciples, saying, Why eate ye and drinke ye with Publicanes and sinners?


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Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, They that are whole, neede not the Physician, but they that are sicke.


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Then they said vnto him, Why do the disciples of Iohn fast often, and pray, and the disciples of the Pharises also, but thine eate and drinke?


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And he said vnto them, Can ye make the children of the wedding chamber to fast, as long as the bridegrome is with them?


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But the dayes will come, euen when the bridegrome shalbe taken away from them: then shall they fast in those dayes.


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Againe he spake also vnto them a parable, No man putteth a piece of a newe garment into an olde vesture: for then the newe renteth it, and the piece taken out of the newe, agreeth not with the olde.


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And it came to passe on a second solemne Sabbath, that hee went through the corne fieldes, and his disciples plucked the eares of corne, and did eate, and rub them in their hands.


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And certaine of the Pharises sayde vnto them, Why doe ye that which is not lawfull to doe on the Sabbath dayes?


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Then Iesus answered them, and said, Haue ye not read this, that Dauid did when he himselfe was an hungred, and they which were with him,


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Howe he went into the house of God, and tooke, and ate the shewbread, and gaue also to them which were with him, which was not lawful to eate, but for the Priests onely?


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It came to passe also on another Sabbath, that hee entred into the Synagogue, and taught, and there was a man, whose right hand was dryed vp.


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And the Scribes and Pharises watched him, whether he would heale on the Sabbath day, that they might finde an accusation against him.


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But he knew their thoughts, and sayd to the man which had the withered hand, Arise, and stand vp in the middes. And hee arose, and stoode vp.


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Then sayd Iesus vnto them, I will aske you a question, Whether is it lawfull on the Sabbath dayes to doe good, or to doe euill? to saue life, or to destroy?


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And he behelde them all in compasse, and sayd vnto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he did so, and his hand was restored againe, as whole as the other.


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And it came to passe in those dayes, that he went into a mountaine to praye, and spent the night in prayer to God.


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And when it was day, he called his disciples, and of them he chose twelue which also he called Apostles.


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Then he came downe with them, and stood in a plaine place, with the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Iudea, and Hierusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyrus and Sidon, which came to heare him, and to be healed of their diseases:


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And hee lifted vp his eyes vpon his disciples, and sayd, Blessed be ye poore: for yours is the kingdome of God.


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Blessed are ye that hunger nowe: for ye shalbe satisfied: blessed are ye that weepe now: for ye shall laugh.


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Blessed are ye when men hate you, and when they separate you, and reuile you, and put out your name as euill, for the Sonne of mans sake.


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Reioyce ye in that day, and be glad: for beholde, your reward is great in heauen: for after this maner their fathers did to the Prophets.


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Wo be to you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Wo be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wayle and weepe.


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And vnto him that smiteth thee on ye one cheeke, offer also the other: and him that taketh away thy cloke, forbid not to take thy coate also.


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Giue to euery man that asketh of thee: and of him that taketh away the things that be thine, aske them not againe.


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For if yee loue them which loue you, what thanke shall ye haue? for euen the sinners loue those that loue them.


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And if ye do good for them which do good for you, what thanke shall ye haue? for euen the sinners doe the same.


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And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receiue, what thanke shall yee haue? for euen the sinners lend to sinners, to receiue the like.


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Wherefore loue ye your enemies, and doe good, and lend, looking for nothing againe, and your rewarde shalbe great, and ye shalbe the children of the most High: for he is kinde vnto the vnkinde, and to the euill.


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Iudge not, and ye shall not be iudged: condemne not, and ye shall not bee condemned: forgiue, and ye shalbe forgiuen.


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Giue, and it shalbe giuen vnto you: a good measure, pressed downe, shaken together and running ouer shall men giue into your bosome: for with what measure ye mete, with the same shall men mete to you againe.


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And he spake a parable vnto them, Can the blinde leade the blinde? shall they not both fall into the ditche?


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The disciple is not aboue his master: but whosoeuer will be a perfect disciple, shall bee as his master.


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And why seest thou a mote in thy brothers eye, and considerest not the beame that is in thine owne eye?


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Either howe canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou seest not the beame that is in thine owne eye? Hypocrite, cast out the beame out of thine owne eye first, and then shalt thou see, perfectly to pull out the mote that is in thy brothers eye.


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For it is not a good tree that bringeth foorth euill fruite: neither an euill tree, that bringeth foorth good fruite.


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For euery tree is knowen by his owne fruite: for neither of thornes gather men figges, nor of bushes gather they grapes.


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A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.


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Whosoeuer commeth to mee, and heareth my wordes, and doeth the same, I will shewe you to whome he is like:


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He is like a man which built an house, and digged deepe, and layde the fundation on a rocke: and when the waters arose, the flood beat vpon that house, and coulde not shake it: for it was grounded vpon a rocke.


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And when he heard of Iesus, hee sent vnto him the Elders of the Iewes, beseeching him that he would come, and heale his seruant.


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So they came to Iesus, and besought him instantly, saying that hee was worthy that hee should doe this for him:


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Then Iesus went with them: but when he was now not farre from the house, the Centurion sent friendes to him, saying vnto him, Lord, trouble not thy selfe: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe:


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Wherefore I thought not my selfe worthy to come vnto thee: but say the word, and my seruant shalbe whole:


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For I likewise am a man set vnder authoritie, and haue vnder mee souldiers, and I say vnto one, Goe, and he goeth: and to another, Come, and hee commeth: and to my seruant, Doe this, and he doeth it.


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When Iesus heard these things, he marueiled at him, and turned him, and said to the people, that followed him, I say vnto you, I haue not found so great faith, no not in Israel.


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And when they that were sent, turned backe to the house, they founde the seruant that was sicke, whole.


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And it came to passe the day after, that he went into a citie called Nain, and many of his disciples went with him, and a great multitude.


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Nowe when hee came neere to the gate of the citie, behold, there was a dead man caried out, who was the onely begotten sonne of his mother, which was a widowe, and much people of the citie was with her.


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And he went and touched the coffin (and they that bare him, stoode still) and he said, Yong man, I say vnto thee, Arise.


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Then there came a feare on them all, and they glorified God, saying, A great Prophet is risen among vs, and God hath visited his people.


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So Iohn called vnto him two certaine men of his disciples, and sent them to Iesus, saying, Art thou hee that should come, or shall we waite for another?


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And when the men were come vnto him, they said, Iohn Baptist hath sent vs vnto thee, saying, Art thou hee that should come, or shall we waite for another?


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And at that time, he cured many of their sickenesses, and plagues, and of euill spirites, and vnto many blinde men he gaue sight freely.


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And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Goe your wayes and shewe Iohn, what things ye haue seene and heard: that the blinde see, the halt goe, the lepers are cleansed, the deafe heare, the dead are raised, and the poore receiue the Gospel.


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And when the messengers of Iohn were departed, hee began to speake vnto the people, of Iohn, What went ye out into the wildernes to see? A reede shaken with the winde?


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But what went ye out to see? A man clothed in soft rayment? beholde, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and liue delicately, are in Kings courtes.


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This is he of whom it is written, Beholde, I sende my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.


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For I say vnto you, there is no greater Prophet then Iohn, among them that are begotten of women: neuerthelesse, hee that is the least in the kingdome of God, is greater then he.


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Then all the people that heard, and the Publicanes iustified God, being baptized with the baptisme of Iohn.


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But the Pharises and the expounders of the Law despised the counsell of God against themselues, and were not baptized of him.


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And the Lord saide, Whereunto shall I liken the men of this generation? and what thing are they like vnto?


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They are like vnto litle children sitting in the market place, and crying one to another, and saying, We haue piped vnto you, and ye haue not daunced: we haue mourned to you, and ye haue not wept.


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The Sonne of man is come, and eateth and drinketh: and ye say, Beholde, a man which is a glutton, and a drinker of wine, a friend of Publicanes and sinners:


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And one of the Pharises desired him that hee would eate with him: and hee went into the Pharises house, and sate downe at table.


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And beholde, a woman in the citie, which was a sinner, when she knewe that Iesus sate at table in the Pharises house, shee brought a boxe of oyntment.


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And shee stoode at his feete behinde him weeping, and began to wash his feete with teares, and did wipe them with the heares of her head, and kissed his feete, and anoynted them with the oyntment.


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Nowe when the Pharise which bade him, saw it, he spake within himselfe, saying, If this man were a Prophet, hee woulde surely haue knowen who, and what maner of woman this is which toucheth him: for she is a sinner.


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And Iesus answered, and saide vnto him, Simon, I haue somewhat to say vnto thee. And he said, Master, say on.


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There was a certaine lender which had two detters: the one ought fiue hundreth pence, and the other fiftie:


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When they had nothing to pay, he forgaue them both: Which of them therefore, tell mee, will loue him most?


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Simon answered, and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgaue most. And he said vnto him, Thou hast truely iudged.


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Then he turned to the woman, and said vnto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entred into thine house, and thou gauest mee no water to my feete: but she hath washed my feete with teares, and wiped them with the heares of her head.


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Wherefore I say vnto thee, many sinnes are forgiuen her: for she loued much. To whom a litle is forgiuen, he doeth loue a litle.


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And they that sate at table with him, began to say within themselues, Who is this that euen forgiueth sinnes?


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And it came to passe afterwarde, that hee himselfe went through euery citie and towne, preaching and publishing the kingdome of God, and the twelue were with him,


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And certaine women, which were healed of euill spirites, and infirmities, as Mary which was called Magdalene, out of whom went seuen deuils,


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And Ioanna the wife of Chuza Herods steward, and Susanna, and many other which ministred vnto him of their substance.


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Nowe when much people were gathered together, and were come vnto him out of all cities, he spake by a parable.


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A sower went out to sowe his seede, and as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side, and it was troden vnder feete, and the foules of heauen deuoured it vp.


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And some fell on the stones, and when it was sprong vp, it withered away, because it lacked moystnesse.


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And some fell on good ground, and sprang vp, and bare fruite, an hundreth folde. And as hee sayd these things, he cryed, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.


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And he sayd, Vnto you it is giuen to know the secrets of ye kingdome of God, but to other in parables, that when they see, they shoulde not see, and when they heare, they should not vnderstand.


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And they that are beside the way, are they that heare: afterward commeth the deuill, and taketh away the worde out of their hearts, least they should beleeue, and be saued.


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But they that are on the stones, are they which when they haue heard, receiue ye word with ioy: but they haue no rootes: which for a while beleeue, but in the time of tentation goe away.


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And that which fell among thornes, are they which haue heard, and after their departure are choked with cares and with riches, and voluptuous liuing, and bring forth no fruite.


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But that which fell in good ground, are they which with an honest and good heart heare the worde, and keepe it, and bring forth fruite with patience.


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No man when he hath lighted a candle, couereth it vnder a vessell, neither putteth it vnder the bed, but setteth it on a candlesticke, that they that enter in, may see the light.


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For nothing is secret, that shall not be euident: neither any thing hid, that shall not be knowen, and come to light.


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Take heede therefore how ye heare: for whosoeuer hath, to him shall be giuen: and whosoeuer hath not, from him shalbe taken euen that which it seemeth that he hath.


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And it was tolde him by certaine which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee.


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But he answered, and sayd vnto them, My mother and my brethren are these which heare the worde of God, and doe it.


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And it came to passe on a certaine day, that he went into a ship with his disciples, and he sayd vnto them, Let vs goe ouer vnto the other side of the lake. And they lanched forth.


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And as they sayled, he fell a sleepe, and there came downe a storme of winde on the lake, and they were filled with water, and were in ieopardie.


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Then they went to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we perish. And he arose, and rebuked the winde, and the waues of water: and they ceased, and it was calme.


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Then he sayde vnto them, Where is your fayth? and they feared, and wondered among them selues, saying, Who is this that commandeth both the windes and water, and they obey him!


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And as he went out to land, there met him a certaine man out of the citie, which had deuils long time, and he ware no garment, neither abode in house, but in the graues.


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And when he sawe Iesus, he cryed out and fell downe before him, and with a loude voyce sayd, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of God the most High? I beseech thee torment me not.


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For he commanded ye foule spirit to come out of the man: (for oft times he had caught him: therefore he was bound with chaines, and kept in fetters: but he brake the bands, and was caried of the deuill into wildernesses.)


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Then Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? and he sayd, Legion, because many deuils were entred into him.


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And there was there by, an hearde of many swine, feeding on an hill: and the deuils besought him, that he would suffer them to enter into them. So he suffered them.


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Then went the deuils out of the man, and entred into the swine: and the hearde was caried with violence from a steepe downe place into the lake, and was choked.


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When the heardmen sawe what was done, they fled: and when they were departed, they tolde it in the citie and in the countrey.


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Then they came out to see what was done, and came to Iesus, and found the man, out of whom the deuils were departed, sitting at the feete of Iesus, clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afrayd.


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They also which saw it, tolde them by what meanes he that was possessed with the deuill, was healed.


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Then the whole multitude of the countrey about the Gadarenes, besought him that he would depart from them: for they were taken with a great feare: and he went into the ship, and returned.


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Then the man, out of whome the deuils were departed, besought him that hee might be with him: but Iesus sent him away, saying,


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Returne into thine owne house, and shewe what great things God hath done to thee. So hee went his way, and preached throughout all the citie, what great things Iesus had done vnto him.


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And it came to passe, when Iesus was come againe, that the people receiued him: for they all waited for him.


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And beholde, there came a man named Iairus, and he was the ruler of the Synagogue, who fell downe at Iesus feete, and besought him that he would come into his house.


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For he had but a daughter onely, about twelue yeeres of age, and she lay a dying (and as he went, the people thronged him.


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And a woman hauing an yssue of blood, twelue yeeres long, which had spent all her substance vpon physicians, and could not be healed of any:


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When she came behind him, she touched the hemme of his garment, and immediatly her yssue of blood stanched.


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Then Iesus sayd, Who is it that hath touched me? When euery man denied, Peter sayd and they that were with him, Master, the multitude thrust thee, and tread on thee, and sayest thou, Who hath touched me?


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When the woman sawe that she was not hid, she came trembling, and fell downe before him, and tolde him before all the people, for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediatly.


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While he yet spake, there came one from the ruler of the Synagogues house, which sayde to him, Thy daughter is dead: disease not the Master.


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And when he went into the house, he suffered no man to goe in with him, saue Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and the father and mother of the maide.


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Then called hee his twelue disciples together, and gaue them power and authoritie ouer all deuils, and to heale diseases.


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And he sayd to them, Take nothing to your iourney, neither staues, nor scrip, neither bread, nor siluer, neither haue two coates apiece.


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And howe many so euer will not receiue you, when ye goe out of that citie, shake off the very dust from your feete for a testimonie against them.


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Nowe Herod the Tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he douted, because that it was sayd of some, that Iohn was risen againe from the dead:


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Then Herod sayd, Iohn haue I beheaded: who then is this of whome I heare such things? and he desired to see him.


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And when the Apostles returned, they tolde him what great things they had done. Then he tooke them to him, and went aside into a solitarie place, neere to the citie called Bethsaida.


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But when the people knewe it, they followed him: and he receiued them, and spake vnto them of the kingdome of God, and healed them that had neede to be healed.


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And when the day began to weare away, the twelue came, and sayd vnto him, Sende the people away, that they may goe into the townes and villages round about, and lodge, and get meate: for we are here in a desart place.


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But he sayd vnto them, Giue ye them to eate. And they sayd, We haue no more but fiue loaues and two fishes, except we should go and buy meate for all this people.


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For they were about fiue thousand men. Then he sayde to his disciples, Cause them to sit downe by fifties in a company.


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Then he tooke the fiue loaues, and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen, and blessed them, and brake, and gaue to the disciples, to set before the people.


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So they did all eate, and were satisfied: and there was taken vp of that remained to them, twelue baskets full of broken meate.


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And it came to passe, as hee was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?


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They answered, and sayd, Iohn Baptist: and others say, Elias: and some say, that one of the olde Prophets is risen againe.


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Saying, The Sonne of man must suffer many things and be reproued of the Elders, and of the hie Priests and Scribes, and be slaine, and the third day rise againe.


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And he sayd to them all, If any man will come after me, let him denie himselfe, and take vp his crosse dayly, and follow me.


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For whosoeuer will saue his life, shall lose it: and whosoeuer shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall saue it.


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For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of me, and of my wordes, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed, when hee shall come in his glorie, and in the glorie of the Father, and of the holy Angels.


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And it came to passe about an eyght dayes after those wordes, that he tooke Peter and Iohn, and Iames, and went vp into a mountaine to pray.


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And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was changed, and his garment was white and glistered.


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But Peter and they that were with him, were heauie with sleepe, and when they awoke, they saw his glorie, and the two men standing with him.


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And it came to passe, as they departed from him, Peter said vnto Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: let vs therefore make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias, and wist not what he said.


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Whiles he thus spake, there came a cloude and ouershadowed them, and they feared when they were entring into the cloude.


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And when the voyce was past, Iesus was found alone: and they kept it close, and tolde no man in those dayes any of those things which they had seene.


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And beholde, a man of the companie cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, beholde my sonne: for he is all that I haue.


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And loe, a spirit taketh him, and suddenly he crieth, and he teareth him, that he fometh, and hardly departeth from him, when he hath bruised him.


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Then Iesus answered, and said, O generation faithlesse, and crooked, howe long now shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring thy sonne hither.


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And whiles he was yet comming, the deuill rent him, and tare him: and Iesus rebuked the vncleane spirite, and healed the childe, and deliuered him to his father.


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And they were all amased at the mightie power of God: and while they all wondered at al things, which Iesus did, he said vnto his disciples,


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But they vnderstood not that word: for it was hid from them, so that they could not perceiue it: and they feared to aske him of that worde.


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And said vnto them, Whosoeuer receiueth this litle childe in my Name, receiueth me: and whosoeuer shall receiue me, receiueth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, he shall be great.


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And Iohn answered and saide, Master, we sawe one casting out deuils in thy Name, and we forbad him, because he followeth thee not with vs.


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And it came to passe, when the dayes were accomplished, that he should be receiued vp, he setled himselfe fully to goe to Hierusalem,


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And sent messengers before him: and they went and entred into a towne of the Samaritans, to prepare him lodging.


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And when his disciples, Iames and Iohn sawe it, they saide, Lord, wilt thou that we commaund, that fire come downe from heauen, and consume them, euen as Elias did?


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For the Sonne of man is not come to destroy mens liues, but to saue them. Then they went to another towne.


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And it came to passe that as they went in the way, a certaine man said vnto him, I will follow thee, Lord, whithersoeuer thou goest.


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And Iesus saide vnto him, The foxes haue holes, and the birdes of the heauen nestes, but the Sonne of man hath not whereon to lay his head.


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But he said vnto another, Followe me. And the same said, Lord, suffer me first to goe and burie my father.


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And Iesus said vnto him, Let the dead burie their dead: but go thou, and preache the kingdome of God.


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Then another saide, I will follow thee, Lord: but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at mine house.


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After these thinges, the Lord appointed other seuentie also, and sent them, two and two before him into euery citie and place, whither he himselfe should come.


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And he said vnto them, The haruest is great, but the labourers are fewe: pray therefore the Lord of the haruest to sende foorth labourers into his haruest.


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And if the sonne of peace be there, your peace shall rest vpon him: if not, it shall turne to you againe.


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And in that house tary still, eating and drinking such things as by them shall be set before you: for the labourer is worthy of his wages. Goe not from house to house.


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But into whatsoeuer citie ye shall enter, if they receiue you, eate such things as are set before you,


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Euen the very dust, which cleaueth on vs of your citie, we wipe off against you: notwithstanding knowe this, that the kingdome of God was come neere vnto you.


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Woe be to thee, Chorazin: woe be to thee, Beth-saida: for if the miracles had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, which haue bene done in you, they had a great while agone repented, sitting in sackecloth and ashes.


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And the seuentie turned againe with ioy, saying, Lord, euen the deuils are subdued to vs through thy Name.


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Beholde, I giue vnto you power to treade on Serpents, and Scorpions, and ouer all the power of the enemie, and nothing shall hurt you.


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That same houre reioyced Iesus in the spirit, and said, I confesse vnto thee, Father, Lord of heauen and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and vnderstanding, and hast reueiled them to babes: euen so, Father, because it so pleased thee.


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And he answered, and saide, Thou shalt loue thy Lord God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy strength, and with all thy thought, and thy neighbour as thy selfe.


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And Iesus answered, and saide, A certaine man went downe from Hierusalem to Iericho, and fell among theeues, and they robbed him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leauing him halfe dead.


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Nowe so it fell out, that there came downe a certaine Priest that same way, and when he sawe him, he passed by on the other side.


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And went to him, and bound vp his wounds, and powred in oyle and wine, and put him on his owne beast, and brought him to an Inne, and made prouision for him.


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But Martha was combred about much seruing, and came to him, and saide, Master, doest thou not care that my sister hath left me to serue alone? bid her therefore, that she helpe me.


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And he said vnto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father, which art in heauen, halowed be thy Name: Thy kingdome come: Let thy will be done, euen in earth, as it is in heauen:


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And forgiue vs our sinnes: for euen we forgiue euery man that is indetted to vs: And leade vs not into temptation: but deliuer vs from euill.


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And hee within shoulde answere, and say, Trouble mee not: the doore is nowe shut, and my children are with mee in bed: I can not rise and giue them to thee.


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I say vnto you, Though he would not arise and giue him, because he is his friende, yet doubtlesse because of his importunitie, hee woulde rise, and giue him as many as he needed.


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And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and yee shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.


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For euery one that asketh, receiueth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shalbe opened.


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If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will he giue him a stone? or if hee aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent?


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If yee then which are euill, can giue good giftes vnto your children, howe much more shall your heauenly Father giue the holy Ghost to them, that desire him?


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Then hee cast out a deuill which was domme: and when the deuill was gone out, the domme spake, and the people wondered.


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But he knew their thoughts, and said vnto them, Euery kingdom deuided against it self, shall be desolate, and an house deuided against an house, falleth.


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So if Satan also bee deuided against himselfe, howe shall his kingdome stande, because yee say that I cast out deuils through Beelzebub?


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If I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whome doe your children cast them out? Therefore shall they be your iudges.


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But when a stronger then hee, commeth vpon him, and ouercommeth him: hee taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and deuideth his spoiles.


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When the vncleane spirite is gone out of a man, he walketh through drie places, seeking rest: and when he findeth none he saieth, I wil returne vnto mine house whence I came out.


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Then goeth hee, and taketh to him seuen other spirites worse then himselfe: and they enter in, and dwel there: so the last state of that man is worse then the first.


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And it came to passe as he sayde these thinges, a certaine woman of the companie lifted vp her voyce, and sayde vnto him, Blessed is the wombe that bare thee, and the pappes which thou hast sucked.


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And when the people were gathered thicke together, he began to say, This is a wicked generation: they seeke a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen them, but the signe of Ionas the Prophet.


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The Queene of the South shall rise in iudgement, with the men of this generation, and shall condemne them: for shee came from the vtmost partes of the earth to heare the wisedome of Salomon, and beholde, a greater then Salomon is here.


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The men of Niniue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.


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No man when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a priuie place, neither vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, that they which come in, may see the light.


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The light of the bodie is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, then is thy whole bodie light: but if thine eye be euill, then thy bodie is darke.


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If therefore thy whole body shall be light, hauing no part darke, then shall all be light, euen as when a candle doth light thee with the brightnesse.


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And as hee spake, a certaine Pharise besought him to dine with him: and hee went in, and sate downe at table.


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And the Lord saide to him, In deede yee Pharises make cleane the outside of the cuppe, and of the platter: but the inwarde part is full of rauening and wickednesse.


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Therefore, giue almes of those thinges which you haue, and beholde, all thinges shall be cleane to you.


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But wo be to you, Pharises: for ye tithe the mynt and the rewe, and all maner herbs, and passe ouer iudgement and the loue of God: these ought yee to haue done, and not to haue left the other vndone.


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Wo be to you, Pharises: for ye loue the vppermost seats in the Synagogues, and greetings in the markets.


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Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, perceiue not.


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Then answered one of the Lawyers, and saide vnto him, Master, thus saying thou puttest vs to rebuke also.


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And he sayde, Wo be to you also, yee Lawyers: for yee lade men with burdens grieuous to be borne, and yee your selues touche not the burdens with one of your fingers.


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Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.


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Therefore said the wisedome of God, I wil sende them Prophets and Apostles, and of them they shall slaie, and persecute away,


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That the blood of all the Prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,


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From the blood of Abel vnto the blood of Zacharias, which was slaine betweene the altar and the Temple: verely I say vnto you, it shall be required of this generation.


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Wo be to you, Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbade.


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And as he sayde these things vnto them, the Scribes and Pharises began to vrge him sore, and to prouoke him to speake of many things,


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Laying wait for him, and seeking to catche some thing of his mouth, whereby they might accuse him.<pb/>


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In the meane time, there gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so that they trode one another: and he began to say vnto his disciples first, Take heede to your selues of the leauen of the Pharises, which is hypocrisie.


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Wherefore whatsoeuer yee haue spoken in darkenesse, it shall be heard in the light: and that which ye haue spoken in the eare, in secret places, shall be preached on the houses.


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And I say vnto you, my friendes, be not afraide of them that kill the bodie, and after that are not able to doe any more.


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But I wil forewarne you, who ye shall feare: feare him which after hee hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say vnto you, him feare.


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Yea, and all the heares of your head are nombred: feare not therefore: yee are more of value then many sparowes.


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Also I say vnto you, Whosoeuer shall confesse mee before men, him shall the Sonne of man confesse also before the Angels of God.


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And whosoeuer shall speake a woorde against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but vnto him, that shall blaspheme ye holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen.


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And when they shall bring you vnto the Synagogues, and vnto the rulers and Princes, take no thought howe, or what thing ye shall answere, or what yee shall speake.


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Wherefore he said vnto them, Take heede, and beware of couetousnesse: for though a man haue abundance, yet his life standeth not in his riches.


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And he put foorth a parable vnto them, saying, The grounde of a certaine riche man brought foorth fruites plenteously.


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Therefore he thought with himselfe, saying, What shall I doe, because I haue no roume, where I may lay vp my fruites?


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And he said, This wil I do, I wil pul downe my barnes, and builde greater, and therein will I gather all my fruites, and my goods.


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And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime.


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But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule from thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?


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And he spake vnto his disciples, Therefore I say vnto you, Take no thought for your life, what yee shall eate: neither for your body, what yee shall put on.


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Consider the rauens: for they neither sowe nor reape: which neither haue storehouse nor barne, and yet God feedeth them: how much more are yee better then foules?


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Consider the lilies howe they growe: they labour not, neither spin they: yet I say vnto you, that Salomon himselfe in all his royaltie was not clothed like one of these.


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If then God so clothe the grasse which is to day in the field, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, howe much more will he clothe you, O yee of litle faith?


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For all such things the people of the world seeke for: and your Father knoweth that ye haue neede of these things.


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Sell that ye haue, and giue almes: make you bagges, which waxe not old, a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen, where no theefe commeth, neither mothe corrupteth.


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And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.


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Blessed are those seruants, whom the Lord when he commeth shall finde waking: verely I say vnto you, he will girde himselfe about, and make them to sit downe at table, and will come forth, and serue them.


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And if he come in the seconde watch, or come in the third watch, and shall finde them so, blessed are those seruants.


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Nowe vnderstand this, that if the good man of the house had knowen at what houre the theefe would haue come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be digged through.


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And the Lord saide, Who is a faithfull steward and wise, whom the master shall make ruler ouer his householde, to giue them their portion of meate in season?


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But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,


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The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.


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And that seruant that knewe his masters will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.


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But he that knewe it not, and yet did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with fewe stripes: for vnto whomsoeuer much is giuen, of him shalbe much required, and to whom men much commit, the more of him will they aske.


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For from hencefoorth there shall be fiue in one house deuided, three against two, and two against three.


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The father shalbe deuided against ye sonne, and the sonne against the father: the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother: the mother in lawe against her daughter in lawe, and the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe.


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Then said he to the people, When ye see a cloude rise out of the West, straightway ye say, A shower commeth: and so it is.


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Hypocrites, ye can discerne the face of the earth, and of the skie: but why discerne ye not this time?


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While thou goest with thine aduersarie to the ruler, as thou art in the way, giue diligence in the way, that thou mayest be deliuered from him, least he drawe thee to the iudge, and the iudge deliuer thee to the iayler, and the iayler cast thee into prison.


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There were certaine men present at the same season, that shewed him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.


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And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Suppose ye, that these Galileans were greater sinners then al the other Galileans, because they haue suffered such things?


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Or thinke you that those eighteene, vpon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slewe them, were sinners aboue all men that dwel in Hierusalem?


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He spake also this parable, A certaine man had a figge tree planted in his vineyard: and he came and sought fruite thereon, and found none.


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Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, this three yeeres haue I come and sought fruite of this figge tree, and finde none: cut it downe: why keepeth it also the ground barren?


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And he answered, and said vnto him, Lord, let it alone this yeere also, till I digge round about it, and doung it.


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And behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmitie eighteene yeeres, and was bowed together, and coulde not lift vp her selfe in any wise.


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When Iesus sawe her, he called her to him, and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thy disease.


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And the ruler of the Synagogue answered with indignation, because that Iesus healed on the Sabbath day, and said vnto the people, There are sixe dayes in which men ought to worke: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.


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Then answered him the Lord, and said, Hypocrite, doth not eche one of you on the Sabbath day loose his oxe or his asse from the stall, and leade him away to the water?


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And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, loe, eighteene yeeres, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?


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And when he said these things, all his aduersaries were ashamed: but all the people reioyced at all the excellent things, that were done by him.


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It is like a graine of mustard seede, which a man tooke and sowed in his garden, and it grewe, and waxed a great tree, and the foules of the heauen made nestes in the branches thereof.


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Striue to enter in at the straite gate: for many, I say vnto you, will seeke to enter in, and shall not be able.


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When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begin to stand without, and to knocke at the doore, saying, Lord, Lord, open to vs, and he shall answere and say vnto you, I know you not whence ye are,


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Then shall ye begin to say, We haue eaten and drunke in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streetes.


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But he shall say, I tell you, I knowe you not whence ye are: depart from me, all ye workers of iniquitie.


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There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac, and Iacob, and all the Prophets in the kingdome of God, and your selues thrust out at doores.


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Then shall come many from the East, and from the West, and from the North, and from the South, and shall sit at Table in the kingdome of God.


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The same day there came certaine Pharises, and said vnto him, Depart, and goe hence: for Herod will kill thee.


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Then said he vnto them, Goe ye and tell that foxe, Beholde, I cast out deuils, and will heale still to day, and to morowe, and the third day I shalbe perfected.


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Neuerthelesse I must walke to day, and to morowe, and the day following: for it cannot be that a Prophet should perish out of Hierusalem.


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O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, howe often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her brood vnder her wings, and ye would not!


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Beholde, your house is left vnto you desolate: and verely I tell you, ye shall not see me vntill the time come that ye shall say, Blessed is he that commeth in the Name of the Lord.<pb/>


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And it came to passe that when he was entred into the house of one of the chiefe Pharises on the Sabbath day, to eate bread, they watched him.


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Then Iesus answering, spake vnto the Lawyers and Pharises, saying, Is it lawfull to heale on the Sabbath day?


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And answered them, saying, Which of you shall haue an asse, or an oxe fallen into a pit, and wil not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?


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He spake also a parable to the ghestes, when he marked howe they chose out the chiefe roomes, and said vnto them,


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When thou shalt be bidden of any man to a wedding, set not thy selfe downe in the chiefest place, lest a more honourable man then thou, be bidden of him,


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And he that bade both him and thee, come, and say to thee, Giue this man roome, and thou then begin with shame to take the lowest roome.


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But when thou art bidden, goe and sit downe in the lowest roome, that when he that bade thee, cometh, he may say vnto thee, Friende, sit vp hier: then shalt thou haue worship in the presence of them that sit at table with thee.


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For whosoeuer exalteth himselfe, shall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth himselfe, shall be exalted.


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Then said he also to him that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friendes, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsemen, nor ye riche neighbours, lest they also bid thee againe, and a recompence be made thee.


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And thou shalt be blessed, because they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the iust.


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Nowe when one of them that sate at table, heard these things, he said vnto him, Blessed is he that eateth bread in the kingdome of God.


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And sent his seruant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come: for all things are nowe readie.


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But they all with one mind beganne to make excuse: The first saide vnto him, I haue bought a farme, and I must needes goe out and see it: I pray thee, haue me excused.


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And another said, I haue bought fiue yoke of oxen, and I goe to proue them: I pray thee, haue me excused.


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So that seruaunt returned, and shewed his master these thinges. Then was the good man of the house angrie, and said to his seruant, Goe out quickely into the streetes and lanes of the citie, and bring in hither the poore, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blinde.


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Then the master sayd to the seruaunt, Goe out into the hie wayes, and hedges, and compell them to come in, that mine house may bee filled.


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If any man come to mee, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters: yea, and his owne life also, he can not be my disciple.


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Lest that after he hath laide the foundation, and is not able to performe it, all that behold it, begin to mocke him,


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Or what King going to make warre against another King, sitteth not downe first, and taketh counsell, whether he be able with ten thousande, to meete him that commeth against him with twentie thousand?


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So likewise, whosoeuer hee be of you, that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.


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What man of you hauing an hundreth sheepe, if hee lose one of them, doeth not leaue ninetie and nine in the wildernesse, and goe after that which is lost, vntill he finde it?


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And when he commeth home, he calleth together his friendes and neighbours, saying vnto them, Reioyce with mee: for I haue founde my sheepe which was lost.


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I say vnto you, that likewise ioy shall be in heauen for one sinner that conuerteth, more then for ninetie and nine iust men, which neede none amendment of life.


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Either what woman hauing ten groates, if she lose one groate, doth not light a candle, and sweepe the house, and seeke diligently till shee finde it?


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And when shee hath found it, shee calleth her friendes, and neighbours, saying, Reioyce with me: for I haue found the groate which I had lost.


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Likewise I say vnto you, there is ioy in the presence of the Angels of God, for one sinner that conuerteth.


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And the yonger of them sayde to his father, Father, giue mee the portion of the goods that falleth to mee. So he deuided vnto them his substance.


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So not many daies after, when the yonger sonne had gathered all together, hee tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there hee wasted his goods with riotous liuing.


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Nowe when hee had spent all, there arose a great dearth throughout that land, and he began to be in necessitie.


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Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.


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And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.


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Then he came to him selfe, and said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger?


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I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee,


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So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.


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And the sonne sayde vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heauen, and before thee, and am no more worthie to be called thy sonne.


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Then the father said to his seruaunts, Bring foorth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feete,


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For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found. And they began to be merie.


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Nowe the elder brother was in the fielde, and when he came and drewe neere to the house, he heard melodie, and dauncing,


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And hee sayde vnto him, Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatte calfe, because he hath receiued him safe and sound.


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But when this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy good with harlots, thou hast for his sake killed the fat calfe.


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And he sayde also vnto his disciples, There was a certaine riche man, which had a stewarde, and he was accused vnto him, that he wasted his goods.


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And hee called him, and saide vnto him, Howe is it that I heare this of thee? Giue an accounts of thy stewardship: for thou maiest be no longer steward.


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Then the stewarde saide within himselfe, What shall I doe? for my master taketh away from me the stewardship. I cannot digge, and to begge I am ashamed.


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I knowe what I will doe, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receiue mee into their houses.


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Then called he vnto him euery one of his masters detters, and said vnto the first, Howe much owest thou vnto my master?


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And he said, An hudreth measures of oyle. And he saide to him, Take thy writing, and sitte downe quickely, and write fiftie.


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Then said he to another, How much owest thou? And hee sayde, An hundreth measures of wheate. Then he saide to him, Take thy writing, and write foure score.


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No seruaunt can serue two masters: for either he shall hate the one, and loue the other: or els he shall leane to the one, and despise the other. Yee can not serue God and riches.


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Then he sayde vnto them, Yee are they, which iustifie your selues before men: but God knoweth your heartes: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.


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Nowe it is more easie that heauen and earth shoulde passe away, then that one title of the Lawe should fall.


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There was a certaine riche man, which was clothed in purple and fine linnen, and fared well and delicately euery day.


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And desired to bee refreshed with the crommes that fell from the riche mans table: yea, and the dogges came and licked his sores.


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And it was so that the begger died, and was caried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome. The rich man also died, and was buried.


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And being in hell in torments, he lift vp his eyes, and sawe Abraham a farre off, and Lazarus in his bosome.


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Then he cried, and saide, Father Abraham, haue mercie on mee, and sende Lazarus that hee may dippe the tip of his finger in water, and coole my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.


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But Abraham saide, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures, and likewise Lazarus paines: now therefore is he comforted, and thou art tormented.


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(For I haue fiue brethren) that he may testifie vnto them, least they also come into this place of torment.


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And he sayde, Nay, father Abraham: but if one came vnto them from the dead, they will amend their liues.


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Then said he to his disciples, It can not be auoided, but that offences will come, but wo be to him by whome they come.


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It is better for him that a great milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were cast into ye sea, then that he should offende one of these litle ones.


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And though he sinne against thee seuen times in a day, and seuen times in a day turne againe to thee, saying, It repenteth mee, thou shalt forgiue him.


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And the Lord said, If ye had faith, as much as is a graine of mustard seede, and should say vnto this mulberie tree, Plucke thy selfe vp by the rootes, and plant thy selfe in the sea, it should euen obey you.


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Who is it also of you, that hauing a seruant plowing or feeding cattell, woulde say vnto him by and by, when hee were come from the fielde, Goe, and sit downe at table?


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And woulde not rather say to him, Dresse wherewith I may suppe, and girde thy selfe, and serue mee, till I haue eaten and drunken, and afterward eate thou, and drinke thou?


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And as hee entred into a certaine towne, there met him tenne men that were lepers, which stoode a farre off.


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And when he saw them, he said vnto them, Goe, shewe your selues vnto the Priestes. And it came to passe, that as they went, they were clensed.


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Then one of them, when hee sawe that hee, was healed, turned backe, and with a loude voyce praised God,


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And when hee was demaunded of the Pharises, when the kingdome of God shoulde come, he answered them, and said, The kingdome of God commeth not with obseruation.


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And he saide vnto the disciples, The dayes will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Sonne of man, and ye shall not see it.


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Then they shall say to you, Behold here, or beholde there: but goe not thither, neither follow them.


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For as the lightening that lighteneth out of the one part vnder heauen, shineth vnto the other part vnder heauen, so shall the Sonne of man be in his day.


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They ate, they dranke, they married wiues, and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.


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Likewise also, as it was in the dayes of Lot: they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they built.


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But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all.


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At that day hee that is vpon the house, and his stuffe in ye house, let him not come downe to take it out: and he that is in the fielde likewise, let him not turne backe to that he left behinde.


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Whosoeuer will seeke to saue his soule, shall loose it: and whosoeuer shall loose it, shall get it life.


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I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed: the one shalbe receiued, and the other shalbe left.


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And they answered, and saide to him, Where, Lord? And he said vnto them, Wheresoeuer the body is, thither shall also the eagles bee gathered together.<pb/>


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And he spake also a parable vnto them, to this ende, that they ought alwayes to pray, and not to waxe faint,


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And there was a widowe in that citie, which came vnto him, saying, Doe mee iustice against mine aduersarie.


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And hee would not of a long time: but afterward he said with himselfe, Though I feare not God, nor reuerence man,


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Yet because this widowe troubleth mee, I will doe her right, lest at the last shee come and make me wearie.


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Now shall not God auenge his elect, which cry day and night vnto him, yea, though he suffer long for them?


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I tell you he will auenge them quickly: but when the Sonne of man commeth, shall he finde faith on the earth?


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He spake also this parable vnto certaine which trusted in themselues that they were iust, and despised other.


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The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.


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But the Publican standing a farre off, woulde not lift vp so much as his eyes to heauen, but smote his brest, saying, O God, be mercifull to me a sinner.


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I tell you, this man departed to his house iustified, rather then the other: for euery man that exalteth himselfe, shall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth himselfe, shalbe exalted.


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They brought vnto him also babes that he should touche them. And when his disciples sawe it, they rebuked them.


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But Iesus called them vnto him, and said, Suffer the babes to come vnto mee, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.


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Verely I say vnto you, whosoeuer receiueth not the kingdome of God as a babe, he shall not enter therein.


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Then a certaine ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what ought I to doe, to inherite eternall life?


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Thou knowest the comandements, Thou shalt not commit adulterie: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnes: Honour thy father and thy mother.


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Nowe when Iesus heard that, he saide vnto him, Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that euer thou hast, and distribute vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come follow mee.


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And when Iesus sawe him very sorowfull, he said, With what difficultie shall they that haue riches, enter into the kingdome of God!


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Surely it is easier for a camel to go through a needles eye, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.


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And he said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children for the kingdome of Gods sake,


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Then Iesus tooke vnto him ye twelue, and said vnto them, Beholde, we goe vp to Hierusalem, and all things shalbe fulfilled to the Sonne of man, that are writttn by the Prophets.


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For he shall be deliuered vnto the Gentiles, and shalbe mocked, and shalbe spitefully entreated, and shalbe spitted on.


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And when they haue scourged him, they will put him to death: but the thirde day hee shall rise againe.


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But they vnderstood none of these things, and this saying was hidde from them, neither perceiued they the things, which were spoken.


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And it came to passe, that as he was come neere vnto Iericho, a certaine blinde man sate by the way side, begging.


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And they which went before, rebuked him that he shoulde holde his peace, but he cried much more, O Sone of Dauid, haue mercie on me.


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And Iesus stoode stil, and commanded him to be brought vnto him. And when he was come neere, he asked him,


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Then immediatly he receiued his sight, and followed him, praysing God: and all the people, when they sawe this, gaue praise to God.<pb/>


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Beholde, there was a man named Zaccheus, which was the chiefe receiuer of the tribute, and he was riche.


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And he sought to see Iesus, who hee should be, and coulde not for the preasse, because he was of a lowe stature.


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Wherefore he ranne before, and climed vp into a wilde figge tree, that he might see him: for he should come that way.


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And when Iesus came to the place, he looked vp, and saw him, and said vnto him, Zaccheus, come downe at once: for to day I must abide at thine house.


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And Zaccheus stood forth, and said vnto the Lord, Beholde, Lord, the halfe of my goods I giue to the poore: and if I haue taken from any man by forged cauillation, I restore him foure folde.


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Then Iesus said to him, This day is saluation come vnto this house, forasmuch as hee is also become the sonne of Abraham.


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And whiles they heard these thinges, hee continued and spake a parable, because hee was neere to Hierusalem, and because also they thought that the kingdom of God should shortly appeare.


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He saide therefore, A certaine noble man went into a farre countrey, to receiue for himselfe a kingdome, and so to come againe.


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And he called his ten seruants, and deliuered them ten pieces of money, and sayd vnto them, Occupie till I come.


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Nowe his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not haue this man to reigne ouer vs.


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And it came to passe, when hee was come againe, and had receiued his kingdome, that he commanded the seruants to be called to him, to whome he gaue his money, that he might knowe what euery man had gained.


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And he sayd vnto him, Well, good seruant: because thou hast bene faithfull in a very litle thing, take thou authoritie ouer ten cities.


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For I feared thee, because thou art a straight man: thou takest vp, that thou layedst not downe, and reapest that thou diddest not sowe.


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Then he sayde vnto him, Of thine owne mouth will I iudge thee, O euill seruant. Thou knewest that I am a straight man, taking vp that I layd not downe, and reaping that I did not sowe.


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Wherefore then gauest not thou my money into the banke, that at my coming I might haue required it with vantage?


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For I say vnto you, that vnto all them that haue, it shalbe giuen: and from him that hath not, euen that he hath, shalbe taken from him.


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Moreouer, those mine enemies, which would not that I should reigne ouer them, bring hither, and slay them before me.


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And it came to passe, when hee was come neere to Bethphage, and Bethania, besides the mount which is called the mount of Oliues, he sent two of his disciples,


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Saying, Goe ye to the towne which is before you, wherein, assoone as ye are come, ye shall finde a colte tied, whereon neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him hither.


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And if any man aske you, why ye loose him, thus shall ye say vnto him, Because the Lord hath neede of him.


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And when he was nowe come neere to the going downe of the mount of Oliues, the whole multitude of the disciples began to reioyce, and to prayse God with a loude voyce, for all the great workes that they had seene,


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Saying, Blessed be the King that commeth in the Name of the Lord: peace in heauen, and glory in the highest places.


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But he answered, and sayd vnto them, I tell you, that if these should holde their peace, the stones would crie.


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Saying, O if thou haddest euen knowen at the least in this thy day those things, which belong vnto thy peace! but nowe are they hid from thine eyes.


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For the dayes shall come vpon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compasse thee round, and keepe thee in on euery side,


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And shall make thee euen with ye ground, and thy children which are in thee, and they shall not leaue in thee a stone vpon a stone, because thou knewest not that season of thy visitation.


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Saying vnto them, It is written, Mine house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a denne of theeues.


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And he taught dayly in the Temple. And the hie Priests and the Scribes, and the chiefe of the people sought to destroy him.


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And it came to passe, that on one of those dayes, as he taught the people in the Temple, and preached the Gospel, the hie Priests and the Scribes came vpon him with the Elders,


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And spake vnto him, saying, Tell vs by what authoritie thou doest these things, or who is hee that hath giuen thee this authoritie?


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And they reasoned within themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then beleeued ye him not?


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But if we shall say, Of men, all the people will stone vs: for they be perswaded that Iohn was a Prophet.


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Then began he to speake to ye people this parable, A certaine man planted a vineyarde, and let it forth to husbandmen: and went into a strange countrey, for a great time.


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And at the time conuenient he sent a seruant to the husbandmen, that they should giue him of the fruite of the vineyard: but the husbandmen did beate him, and sent him away emptie.


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Againe he sent yet another seruant: and they did beate him, and foule entreated him, and sent him away emptie.


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Then sayd the Lord of the vineyard, What shall I doe? I will send my beloued sonne: it may be that they will doe reuerence, when they see him.


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But when the husbandmen sawe him, they reasoned with themselues, saying, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.


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So they cast him out of the vineyarde, and killed him. What shall the Lord of the vineyarde therefore doe vnto them?


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He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and wil giue out his vineyard to others. But when they heard it, they sayd, God forbid.


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And he beheld them, and said, What meaneth this then that is written, The stone that the builders refused, that is made the head of the corner?


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Whosoeuer shall fall vpon that stone, shall be broken: and on whomsoeuer it shall fall, it will grinde him to pouder.


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Then the hie Priests, and the Scribes the same houre went about to lay hands on him: (but they feared the people) for they perceiued that he had spoken this parable against them.


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And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should faine themselues iust men, to take him in his talke, and to deliuer him vnto the power and authoritie of the gouernour.


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And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest, and teachest right, neither doest thou accept mans person, but teachest the way of God truely.


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Then he sayd vnto them, Giue then vnto Cesar the things which are Cesars, and to God those which are Gods.


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And they could not reproue his saying before the people: but they marueiled at his answere, and helde their peace.


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Then came to him certaine of the Sadduces (which denie that there is any resurrection) and they asked him,


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Saying, Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die hauing a wife, and hee die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.


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But they which shalbe counted worthy to enioy that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry wiues, neither are married.


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For they can die no more, forasmuch as they are equall vnto the Angels, and are the sonnes of God, since they are the children of the resurrection.


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And that the dead shall rise againe, euen Moses shewed it besides the bush, when he said, The Lord is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob.


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And Dauid himselfe sayth in the booke of the Psalmes, The Lord sayd vnto my Lord, Sit at my right hand,


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Beware of the Scribes, which willingly go in long robes, and loue salutations in the markets, and the highest seates in the assemblies, and the chiefe roomes at feastes:


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Which deuoure widowes houses, and in shewe make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation.<pb/>


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For they all haue of their superfluitie cast into the offerings of God: but she of her penurie hath cast in all the liuing that she had.


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Nowe as some spake of the Temple, how it was garnished with goodly stones, and with consecrate things, he sayd,


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Are these ye things that ye looke vpon? the dayes will come wherein a stone shall not be left vpon a stone, that shall not be throwen downe.


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Then they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what signe shall there be when these things shall come to passe?


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And he sayd, Take heede, that ye be not deceiued: for many will come in my Name, saying, I am Christ, and the time draweth neere: follow ye not them therefore.


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And when ye heare of warres and seditions, be not afraid: for these things must first come, but the ende foloweth not by and by.


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And great earthquakes shall be in diuers places, and hunger, and pestilence, and fearefull things, and great signes shall there be from heauen.


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But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.


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For I will giue you a mouth and wisdome, where against all your aduersaries shall not be able to speake, nor resist.


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Yea, ye shalbe betrayed also of your parents, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and friendes, and some of you shall they put to death.


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And when ye see Hierusalem besieged with souldiers, then vnderstand that the desolation thereof is neere.


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Then let them which are in Iudea, flee to the mountaines: and let them which are in the middes thereof, depart out: and let not them that are in the countrey, enter therein.


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But woe be to them that be with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes: for there shalbe great distresse in this land, and wrath ouer this people.


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And they shall fall on the edge of the sword, and shalbe led captiue into all nations, and Hierusalem shalbe troden vnder foote of the Gentiles, vntill the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled.


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Then there shalbe signes in the sunne, and in the moone, and in the starres, and vpon the earth trouble among the nations with perplexitie: the sea and the waters shall roare.


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And mens hearts shall faile them for feare, and for looking after those thinges which shall come on the worlde: for the powers of heauen shall be shaken.


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And when these things beginne to come to passe, then looke vp, and lift vp your heades: for your redemption draweth neere.


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So likewise yee, when yee see these thinges come to passe, knowe ye that the kingdome of God is neere.


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Take heede to your selues, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeting and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and least that day come on you at vnwares.


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Watche therefore, and pray continually, that ye may be counted worthy to escape all these thinges that shall come to passe, and that ye may stand before the Sonne of man.


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Nowe in the day time hee taught in the Temple, and at night hee went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Oliues.


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And he went his way, and communed with the hie Priestes and captaines, how he might betray him to them.


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Then he said vnto them, Beholde, when ye be entred into the citie, there shall a man meete you, bearing a pitcher of water: folowe him into the house that he entreth in,


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And say vnto the good man of the house, The Master saith vnto thee, Where is the lodging where I shall eate my Passeouer with my disciples?


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For I say vnto you, Hencefoorth I will not eate of it any more, vntill it bee fulfilled in the kingdome of God.


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For I say vnto you, I will not drinke of the fruite of the vine, vntill the kingdome of God be come.


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And he tooke bread, and when he had giuen thankes, he brake it, and gaue to them, saying, This is my body, which is giuen for you: doe this in the remembrance of me.


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Likewise also after supper he tooke the cup, saying, This cup is that newe Testament in my blood, which is shed for you.


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And truely the Sonne of man goeth as it is appointed: but woe be to that man, by whom he is betrayed.


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But hee saide vnto them, The Kings of the Gentiles reigne ouer them, and they that beare rule ouer them, are called bountifull.


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But yee shall not be so: but let the greatest among you be as the least: and the chiefest as he that serueth.


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For who is greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that serueth? Is not he that sitteth at table? And I am among you as he that serueth.


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That ye may eate, and drinke at my table in my kingdome, and sit on seates, and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel.


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But I haue prayed for thee, that thy faith faile not: therefore when thou art conuerted, strengthen thy brethren.


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But he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cocke shall not crowe this day, before thou hast thrise denied that thou knewest me.


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And he saide vnto them, When I sent you without bagge, and scrip, and shooes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.


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Then he said to them, But nowe he that hath a bagge, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and hee that hath none, let him sell his coate, and buy a sworde.


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And he came out, and went (as he was wont) to the mount of Oliues: and his disciples also followed him.


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Saying, Father, if thou wilt, take away this cuppe from mee: neuerthelesse, not my will, but thine be done.


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But being in an agonie, hee prayed more earnestly: and his sweate was like drops of blood, trickling downe to the ground.


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And while he yet spake, beholde, a companie, and he that was called Iudas one of the twelue, went before them, and came neere vnto Iesus to kisse him.


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Now when they which were about him, saw what would follow, they said vnto him, Lord, shall we smite with sworde?


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Then Iesus said vnto the hie Priests, and captaines of the Temple, and the Elders which were come to him, Bee ye come out as vnto a theefe with swordes and staues?


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When I was dayly with you in the Temple, yee stretched not foorth the handes against mee: but this is your very houre, and the power of darkenesse.


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Then tooke they him, and led him, and brought him to the hie Priestes house. And Peter followed afarre off.


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And when they had kindled a fire in the middes of the hall, and were set downe together, Peter also sate downe among them.


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And a certaine mayde behelde him as hee sate by the fire, and hauing well looked on him, said, This man was also with him.


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And after a little while, another man sawe him, and saide, Thou art also of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.


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And about the space of an houre after, a certaine other affirmed, saying. Verely euen this man was with him: for he is also a Galilean.


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And Peter saide, Man, I knowe not what thou sayest. And immediatly while hee yet spake, the cocke crewe.


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Then the Lord turned backe, and looked vpon Peter: and Peter remembred the worde of the Lord, how he had said vnto him, Before the cocke crowe, thou shalt denie me thrise.


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And when they had blindfolded him, they smote him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophecie who it is that smote thee.


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And assoone as it was day, the Elders of the people, and the hie Priests and the Scribes came together, and led him into their councill,


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And they began to accuse him, saying, We haue found this man peruerting the nation, and forbidding to pay tribute to Cesar, saying, That he is Christ a King.


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And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered him, and sayd, Thou sayest it.


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But they were the more fierce, saying, He moueth the people, teaching throughout all Iudea, beginning at Galile, euen to this place.


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And when he knewe that he was of Herods iurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, which was also at Hierusalem in those dayes.


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And when Herod sawe Iesus, hee was exceedingly glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him, and trusted to haue seene some signe done by him.


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And Herod with his men of warre, despised him, and mocked him, and arayed him in white, and sent him againe to Pilate.


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And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were enemies one to another.


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And sayd vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerted the people: and beholde, I haue examined him before you, and haue found no fault in this man, of those things whereof ye accuse him:


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And he sayd vnto them the third time, But what euill hath he done? I finde no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him loose.


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But they were instant with loude voyces, and required that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them and of the hie Priests preuailed.


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And he let loose vnto them him that for insurrection and murder was cast into prison, whome they desired, and deliuered Iesus to doe with him what they would.


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And as they led him away, they caught one Simon of Cyrene, comming out of the fielde, and on him they layde the crosse, to beare it after Iesus.


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And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, which women bewailed and lamented him.


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But Iesus turned backe vnto them, and said, Daughters of Hierusalem, weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues, and for your children.


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For behold, the dayes wil come, when men shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombes that neuer bare, and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke.


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And when they were come to the place, which is called Caluarie, there they crucified him, and the euill doers: one at the right hand, and the other at the left.


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Then sayd Iesus, Father, forgiue them: for they know not what they doe. And they parted his raiment, and cast lottes.


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And the people stoode, and behelde: and the rulers mocked him with them, saying, He saued others: let him saue himselfe, if hee be that Christ, the Chosen of God.


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And one of the euill doers, which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thou be that Christ, saue thy selfe and vs.


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But the other answered, and rebuked him, saying, Fearest thou not God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?


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We are in deede righteously here: for we receiue things worthy of that we haue done: but this man hath done nothing amisse.


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And it was about the sixt houre: and there was a darkenes ouer all the land, vntill the ninth houre.


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And Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, and sayd, Father, into thine hands I commend my spirit. And when hee thus had sayd, hee gaue vp the ghost.


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Nowe when the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Of a suretie this man was iust.


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And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things, which were done, smote their brestes, and returned.


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And all his acquaintance stood a farre off, and the women that followed him from Galile, beholding these things.


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Hee did not consent to the counsell and deede of them, which was of Arimathea, a citie of the Iewes: who also himselfe waited for the kingdome of God.


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And tooke it downe, and wrapped it in a linnen cloth, and laide it in a tombe hewen out of a rocke, wherein was neuer man yet laide.


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And the women also that followed after, which came with him from Galile, behelde the sepulchre, and how his body was layd.


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Nowe the first day of the weeke early in the morning, they came vnto the sepulchre, and brought the odours, which they had prepared, and certaine women with them.


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And it came to passe, that as they were amased thereat, beholde, two men suddenly stood by them in shining vestures.


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And as they were afraide, and bowed downe their faces to the earth, they sayd to them, Why seeke ye him that liueth, among the dead?


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Saying, that the sonne of man must be deliuered into the hands of sinfull men, and be crucified, and the third day rise againe.


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And returned from the sepulchre, and tolde all these things vnto the eleuen, and to all the remnant.


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Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Ioanna, and Mary the mother of Iames, and other women with them, which tolde these things vnto the Apostles.


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Then arose Peter, and ran vnto the sepulchre, and looked in, and saw the linnen clothes laide by themselues, and departed wondering in himselfe at that which was come to passe.


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And beholde, two of them went that same day to a towne which was from Hierusalem about threescore furlongs, called Emmaus.


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And it came to passe, as they communed together, and reasoned, that Iesus himselfe drewe neere, and went with them.


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And he sayd vnto them, What maner of communications are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sad?


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And the one (named Cleopas) answered, and sayd vnto him, Art thou onely a stranger in Hierusalem, and hast not knowen the things which are come to passe therein in these dayes?


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And he said vnto them, What things? And they sayd vnto him, Of Iesus of Nazareth, which was a Prophet, mightie in deede and in word before God, and all people,


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And howe the hie Priests, and our rulers deliuered him to be condemned to death, and haue crucified him.


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But we trusted that it had bene he that should haue deliuered Israel, and as touching all these things, to day is ye third day, that they were done.


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And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seene a vision of Angels, which sayd, that he was aliue.


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Therefore certaine of them which were with vs, went to the sepulchre, and found it euen so as the women had sayd, but him they saw not.


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And he began at Moses, and at all the Prophets, and interpreted vnto them in all the Scriptures the things which were written of him.


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And they drew neere vnto ye towne, which they went to, but he made as though hee would haue gone further.


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But they constrained him, saying, Abide with vs: for it is towards night, and the day is farre spent. So he went in to tarie with them.


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And it came to passe, as hee sate at table with them, he tooke the bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gaue it to them.


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And they saide betweene themselues, Did not our heartes burne within vs, while he talked with vs by the way, and when he opened to vs the Scriptures?


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And they rose vp the same houre, and returned to Hierusalem, and found the Eleuen gathered together, and them that were with them,


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Then they tolde what things were done in the way, and howe he was knowen of them in breaking of bread.


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And as they spake these things, Iesus himselfe stoode in the middes of them, and saide vnto them, Peace be to you.


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Beholde mine handes and my feete: for it is I my selfe: handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me haue.


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And he saide vnto them, These are the wordes, which I spake vnto you while I was yet with you, that all must be fulfilled which are written of me in the Lawe of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalmes.


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And said vnto them, Thus is it written, and thus it behoued Christ to suffer, and to rise againe from the dead the third day,


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And that repentance, and remission of sinnes should be preached in his Name among all nations, beginning at Hierusalem.


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And beholde, I doe sende the promise of my Father vpon you: but tary ye in the citie of Hierusalem, vntill ye be endued with power from an hie.


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And it came to passe, that as he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp into heauen.


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This same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of that light, that all men through him might beleeue.


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But as many as receiued him, to them he gaue prerogatiue to be the sonnes of God, euen to them that beleeue in his Name.


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And that Word was made flesh, and dwelt among vs, (and we sawe the glorie thereof, as the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father) full of grace and trueth.


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Iohn bare witnesse of him, and cryed, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that commeth after me, was before me: for he was better then I.


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No man hath seene God at any time: that onely begotten Sonne, which is in the bosome of the Father, he hath declared him.


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Then this is the record of Iohn, when the Iewes sent Priestes and Leuites from Hierusalem, to aske him, Who art thou?


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And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said, I am not. Art thou that Prophet? And he answered, No.


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Then said they vnto him, Who art thou, that we may giue an answere to them that sent vs? What sayest thou of thy selfe?


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He said, I am the voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.


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And they asked him, and saide vnto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, neither Elias, nor that Prophet?


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He it is that commeth after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthie to vnloose.


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The next day Iohn, seeth Iesus comming vnto him, and saith, Beholde that Lambe of God, which taketh away the sinne of the world.


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And I knewe him not: but because he should be declared to Israel, therefore am I come, baptizing with water.


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So Iohn bare recorde, saying, I behelde that Spirit come downe from heauen, like a doue, and it abode vpon him,


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And I knewe him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, he saide vnto me, Vpon whom thou shalt see that Spirit come downe, and tary still on him, that is he which baptizeth with the holy Ghost.


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Then Iesus turned about, and saw them follow, and saide vnto them, What seeke ye? And they saide vnto him, Rabbi (which is to say by interpretation, Master) where dwellest thou?


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He saide vnto them, Come, and see. They came and sawe where hee dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth houre.


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The same founde his brother Simon first, and said vnto him, We haue founde that Messias, which is by interpretation, that Christ.


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And he brought him to Iesus. And Iesus behelde him, and saide, Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone.


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Philippe founde Nathanael, and saide vnto him, Wee haue founde him of whom Moses did write in the Lawe, and the Prophetes, Iesus that sonne of Ioseph, that was of Nazareth.


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Then Nathanael sayde vnto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saide to him, Come, and see.


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Iesus sawe Nathanael comming to him, and saide of him, Beholde in deede an Israelite, in whom is no guile.


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Nathanael sayde vnto him, Whence knewest thou mee? Iesus answered, and sayd vnto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast vnder the figge tree, I sawe thee.


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Nathanael answered, and saide vnto him, Rabbi, thou art that Sonne of God: thou art that King of Israel.


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Iesus answered, and sayde vnto him, Because I sayde vnto thee, I sawe thee vnder the figtree, beleeuest thou? thou shalt see greater things then these.


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And he saide vnto him, Verely, verely I say vnto you, hereafter shall yee see heauen open, and the Angels of God ascending, and descending vpon that Sonne of man.<pb/>


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And the thirde day, was there a mariage in Cana a towne of Galile, and the mother of Iesus was there.


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And there were set there, sixe waterpots of stone, after the maner of the purifying of the Iewes, conteining two or three firkins a piece.


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Nowe when the gouernour of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, (for he knewe not whence it was: but the seruants, which drewe the water, knewe) the gouernour of ye feast called the bridegrome,


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And saide vnto him, All men at the beginning set foorth good wine, and when men haue well drunke, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept backe the good wine vntill nowe.


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This beginning of miracles did Iesus in Cana a towne of Galile, and shewed forth his glorie: and his disciples beleeued on him.


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After that, he went downe into Capernaum, he and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: but they continued not many daies there.


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And he found in the Temple those that sold oxen, and sheepe, and doues, and changers of money, sitting there.


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Then hee made a scourge of small cordes, and draue them all out of the Temple with the sheepe and oxen, and powred out the changers money, and ouerthrewe the tables,


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And said vnto them that solde doues, Take these things hence: make not my fathers house, an house of marchandise.


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Then answered the Iewes, and saide vnto him, What signe shewest thou vnto vs, that thou doest these things?


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Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this Temple, and in three daies I will raise it vp againe.


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Then said the Iewes, Fourtie and sixe yeeres was this Temple a building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three daies?


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Assoone therefore as he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembred that hee thus sayde vnto them: and they beleeued the Scripture, and the worde which Iesus had saide.


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Nowe when hee was at Hierusalem at the Passeouer in the feast, many beleeued in his Name, when they sawe his miracles which he did.


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This man came to Iesus by night, and sayd vnto him, Rabbi, we knowe ye thou art a teacher come from God: for no man could do these miracles that thou doest, except God were with him.


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Iesus answered, and said vnto him, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except a man be borne againe, he can not see the kingdome of God.


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Nicodemus sayde vnto him, Howe can a man be borne which is olde? can he enter into his mothers wombe againe, and be borne?


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Iesus answered, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except that a man be borne of water and of the Spirite, hee can not enter into the kingdome of God.


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The winde bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it commeth, and whither it goeth: so is euery man that is borne of the Spirit.


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Verely, verely I say vnto thee, wee speake that we know, and testifie that we haue seene: but yee receiue not our witnesse.


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If when I tel you earthly things, ye beleeue not, howe should yee beleeue, if I shall tel you of heauenly things?


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For no man ascendeth vp to heauen, but he that hath descended from heauen, that Sonne of man which is in heauen.


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For God so loued the worlde, that hee hath giuen his onely begotten Sonne, that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.


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For God sent not his Sonne into the world, that he should condemne the world, but that the world through him might be saued.


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Hee that beleeueth in him, is not condemned: but hee that beleeueth not, is condemned already, because he hath not beleeued in the Name of that onely begotten Sonne of God.


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And this is the condemnation, that that light came into the worlde, and men loued darknesse rather then that light, because their deedes were euill.


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For euery man that euill doeth, hateth the light, neither commeth to light, least his deedes should be reprooued.


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But he that doeth trueth, commeth to the light, that his deedes might bee made manifest, that they are wrought according to God.


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After these things, came Iesus and his disciples into the lande of Iudea, and there taried with them, and baptized.


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And Iohn also baptized in Enon besides Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.


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And they came vnto Iohn, and saide vnto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Iorden, to whom thou barest witnesse, behold, he baptizeth, and all men come to him.


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Yee your selues are my witnesses, that I sayde, I am not that Christ, but that I am sent before him.


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He that hath the bride, is the bridegrome: but the friend of the bridegrome which standeth and heareth him, reioyceth greatly, because of the bridegromes voyce. This my ioy therefore is fulfilled.


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Hee that is come from an hie, is aboue all: he that is of the earth, is of the earth, and speaketh of the earth: hee that is come from heauen, is aboue all.


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For hee whome God hath sent, speaketh the woordes of God: for God giueth him not the Spirit by measure.


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Nowe when the Lord knew, how the Pharises had heard, that Iesus made and baptized moe disciples then Iohn,


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Then came hee to a citie of Samaria called Sychar, neere vnto the possession that Iacob gaue to his sonne Ioseph.


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And there was Iacobs well. Iesus then wearied in the iourney, sate thus on the well: it was about the sixt houre.


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Then sayde the woman of Samaria vnto him, Howe is it, that thou being a Iewe, askest drinke of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Iewes meddle not with the Samaritans.


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Iesus answered and saide vnto her, If thou knewest that gift of God, and who it is that saieth to thee, Giue mee drinke, thou wouldest haue asked of him, and hee woulde haue giuen thee, water of life.


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The woman saide vnto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of life?


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Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the well, and hee himselfe dranke thereof, and his sonnes, and his cattell?


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But whosoeuer drinketh of the water that I shall giue him, shall neuer be more a thirst: but the water that I shall giue him, shalbe in him a well of water, springing vp into euerlasting life.


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The woman said vnto him, Syr, giue me of that water, that I may not thirst, neither come hither to drawe.


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The woman answered, and saide, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband.


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For thou hast had fiue husbands, and he whom thou nowe hast, is not thine husband: that saidest thou truely.


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Our fathers worshipped in this mountaine, and ye say, that in Ierusalem is the place where men ought to worship.


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Iesus saide vnto her, Woman, beleeue me, the houre commeth, when ye shall neither in this mountaine, nor at Hierusalem worship ye Father.


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But the houre commeth, and nowe is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit, and trueth: for the Father requireth euen such to worship him.


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The woman said vnto him, I knowe well that Messias shall come which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell vs all things.


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And vpon that, came his disciples, and marueiled that he talked with a woman: yet no man said vnto him, What askest thou? or why talkest thou with her?


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Iesus saide vnto them, My meate is that I may doe the will of him that sent me, and finish his worke.


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Say not ye, There are yet foure moneths, and then commeth haruest? Beholde, I say vnto you, Lift vp your eyes, and looke on the regions: for they are white alreadie vnto haruest.


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And he that reapeth, receiueth rewarde, and gathereth fruite vnto life eternall, that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, might reioyce together.


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I sent you to reape that, whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entred into their labours.


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Nowe many of the Samaritans of that citie beleeued in him, for the saying of the woman which testified, He hath tolde me all things that euer I did.


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Then when the Samaritans were come vnto him, they besought him, that he woulde tarie with them: and he abode there two dayes.


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And they said vnto the woman, Nowe we beleeue, not because of thy saying: for we haue heard him our selues, and knowe that this is in deede that Christ the Sauiour of the world.


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Then when he was come into Galile, the Galileans receiued him, which had seene all the things that he did at Hierusalem at the feast: for they went also vnto the feast.


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And Iesus came againe into Cana a towne of Galile, where he had made of water, wine. And there was a certaine ruler, whose sonne was sicke at Capernaum.


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When he heard that Iesus was come out of Iudea into Galile, he went vnto him, and besought him that he would goe downe, and heale his sonne: for he was euen ready to die.


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Iesus said vnto him, Go thy way, thy sonne liueth: and the man beleeued the worde that Iesus had spoken vnto him, and went his way.


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Then enquired he of them the houre when he began to amend. And they said vnto him, Yesterday the seuenth houre the feuer left him.


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Then the father knew, that it was the same houre in the which Iesus had said vnto him, Thy sonne liueth. And he beleeued, and all his houshold.


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And there is at Hierusalem by the place of the sheepe, a poole called in Ebrew Bethesda, hauing fiue porches:


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In the which lay a great multitude of sicke folke, of blinde, halte, and withered, wayting for the mouing of the water.


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For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: whosoeuer then first, after the stirring of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he had.


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When Iesus sawe him lie, and knew that he nowe long time had bene diseased, he saide vnto him, Wilt thou be made whole?


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The sicke man answered him, Sir, I haue no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the poole: but while I am comming, another steppeth downe before me.


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And immediatly the man was made whole, and tooke vp his bed, and walked: and the same day was the Sabbath.


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The Iewes therefore said to him that was made whole, It is the Sabbath day: it is not lawfull for thee to cary thy bed.


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And he that was healed, knewe not who it was: for Iesus had conueied himselfe away from the multitude that was in that place.


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And after that, Iesus founde him in the Temple, and said vnto him, Beholde, thou art made whole: sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto thee.


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And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.


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Therefore the Iewes sought the more to kill him: not onely because he had broken the Sabbath: but said also that God was his Father, and made himselfe equall with God.


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Then answered Iesus, and said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, The Sonne can doe nothing of himselfe, saue that he seeth the Father doe: for whatsoeuer things he doth, the same things doeth the Sonne in like maner.


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For the Father loueth the Sonne, and sheweth him all things, whatsoeuer he himselfe doeth, and he will shewe him greater workes then these, that ye should marueile.


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For likewise as the Father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them, so the Sonne quickeneth whom he will.


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Because that all men shoulde honour the Sonne, as they honour the Father: he that honoureth not the Sonne, the same honoureth not the Father, which hath sent him.


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Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that heareth my worde, and beleeueth him that sent me, hath euerlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but hath passed from death vnto life.


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Verely, verely I say vnto you, the houre shall come, and now is, when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God: and they that heare it, shall liue.


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For as the Father hath life in himselfe, so likewise hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in himselfe,


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And they shall come foorth, that haue done good, vnto ye resurrection of life: but they that haue done euil, vnto the resurrection of condemnation.


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I can doe nothing of mine owne selfe: as I heare, I iudge: and my iudgement is iust, because I seeke not mine owne will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.


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There is another that beareth witnesse of me, and I know that the witnesse, which he beareth of me, is true.


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But I haue greater witnesse then the witnesse of Iohn: for the workes which the Father hath giuen me to finish, the same workes that I doe, beare witnesse of me, that the Father sent me.


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And the Father himselfe, which hath sent me, beareth witnesse of me. Ye haue not heard his voyce at any time, neither haue ye seene his shape.


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Searche the Scriptures: for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life, and they are they which testifie of me.


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I am come in my Fathers Name, and ye receiue me not: if another shall come in his owne name, him will ye receiue.


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How can ye beleeue, which receiue honour one of another, and seeke not the honour that commeth of God alone?


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Doe not thinke that I will accuse you to my Father: there is one that accuseth you, euen Moses, in whom ye trust.


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And a great multitude followed him, because they sawe his miracles, which hee did on them that were diseased.


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Then Iesus lift vp his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude came vnto him, hee sayde vnto Philippe, Whence shall we buy breade, that these might eate?


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Philippe answered him, Two hundreth penie worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that euery one of them may take a litle.


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And Iesus saide, Make ye people sit downe. (Nowe there was much grasse in that place.) Then the men sate downe in nomber, about fiue thousande.


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And Iesus tooke the bread, and gaue thanks, and gaue to the disciples, and the disciples, to them that were set downe: and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.


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And when they were satisfied, he said vnto his disciples, Gather vp the broken meat which remaineth, that nothing be lost.


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Then they gathered it together, and filled twelue baskets with the broken meat of the fiue barly loaues, which remained vnto them that had eaten.


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Then the men, when they had seene the miracle that Iesus did, saide, This is of a trueth that Prophet that should come into the world.


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When Iesus therfore perceiued that they would come, and take him to make him a King, hee departed againe into a mountaine himselfe alone.


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And entred into a shippe, and went ouer the sea, towardes Capernaum: and nowe it was darke, and Iesus was not come to them.


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And when they had rowed about fiue and twentie, or thirtie furlongs, they sawe Iesus walking on the sea, and drawing neere vnto the ship: so they were afraide.


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Then willingly they receiued him into the ship, and the ship was by and by at the lande, whither they went.


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The day following, the people which stoode on the other side of the sea, saw that there was none other ship there, saue that one, whereinto his disciples were entred, and that Iesus went not with his disciples in the ship, but that his disciples were gone alone,


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And that there came other ships from Tiberias neere vnto the place where they ate the bread, after the Lord had giuen thankes.


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Nowe when the people sawe that Iesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also tooke shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Iesus.


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And when they had founde him on the other side of the sea, they sayde vnto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?


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Iesus answered them; and sayde, Verely, verely I say vnto you, ye seeke me not because ye sawe the miracles, but because yee ate of ye loaues, and were filled.


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Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them, This is the woorke of God, that yee beleeue in him, whome he hath sent.


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They sayde therefore vnto him, What signe shewest thou then, that we may see it, and beleeue thee? what doest thou woorke?


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Our fathers did eate Manna in the desart, as it is written, Hee gaue them bread from heauen to eate.


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Then Iesus said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, Moses gaue you not that bread from heauen, but my Father giueth you that true bread from heauen.


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And Iesus saide vnto them, I am that bread of life: he that commeth to me, shall not hunger, and he that beleeueth in me, shall neuer thirst.


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And this is the Fathers will which hath sent mee, that of all which hee hath giuen mee, I should lose nothing, but shoulde raise it vp againe at the last day.


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And this is the will of him that sent mee, that euery man which seeth the Sonne, and beleeueth in him, should haue euerlasting life: and I will raise him vp at the last day.


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And they said, Is not this Iesus that sonne of Ioseph, whose father and mother wee knowe? howe then sayth he, I came downe from heauen?


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No man can come to mee, except the Father, which hath sent mee, drawe him: and I will raise him vp at the last day.


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It is written in the Prophetes, And they shalbe al taught of God. Euery man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, commeth vnto me:


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I am that liuing breade, which came downe from heauen: if any man eate of this breade, hee shall liue for euer: and the bread that I will giue, is my flesh, which I will giue for the life of the world.


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Then Iesus saide vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, Except yee eate the flesh of the Sonne of man, and drinke his blood, yee haue no life in you.


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As that liuing Father hath sent me, so liue I by the Father, and he that eateth me, euen he shall liue by me.


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This is that bread which came downe from heauen: not as your fathers haue eaten Manna, and are deade. Hee that eateth of this bread, shall liue for euer.


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Many therefore of his disciples (when they heard this) sayde, This is an hard saying: who can heare it?


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But Iesus knowing in himselfe, that his disciples murmured at this, saide vnto them, Doeth this offend you?


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It is the spirite that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the woordes that I speake vnto you, are spirite and life.


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But there are some of you that beleeue not: for Iesus knewe from the beginning, which they were that beleeued not, and who shoulde betray him.


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And hee saide, Therefore saide I vnto you, that no man can come vnto mee, except it be giuen vnto him of my Father.


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Then Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whome shall we goe? thou hast the wordes of eternall life:


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After these things, Iesus walked in Galile, and woulde not walke in Iudea: for the Iewes sought to kill him.


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His brethren therefore sayde vnto him, Depart hence, and goe into Iudea, that thy disciples may see thy woorkes that thou doest.


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For there is no man that doeth any thing secretely, and hee himselfe seeketh to be famous. If thou doest these things, shewe thy selfe to the worlde.


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The world can not hate you: but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes thereof are euill.


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But assoone as his brethren were gone vp, then went hee also vp vnto the feast, not openly, but as it were priuilie.


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And much murmuring was there of him among the people. Some said, He is a good man: other sayd, Nay: but he deceiueth the people.


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And the Iewes marueiled, saving, Howe knoweth this man the Scriptures, seeing that hee neuer learned!


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If any man will doe his will, he shall knowe of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speake of my selfe.


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Hee that speaketh of himselfe, seeketh his owne glorie: but hee that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no vnrighteousnes is in him.


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Moses therefore gaue vnto you circumcision, (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers) and ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man.


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If a man on the Sabbath receiue circumcision, that the Lawe of Moses should not be broken, be ye angrie with me, because I haue made a man euery whit whole on the Sabbath day?


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And beholde, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him: doe the rulers know in deede that this is in deede that Christ?


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Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when that Christ commeth, no man shall knowe whence he is.


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Then cried Iesus in the Temple as hee taught, saying, Ye both knowe mee, and knowe whence I am: yet am I not come of my selfe, but he that sent me, is true, whome ye knowe not.


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Now many of the people beleeued in him, and said, When that Christ commeth, will he doe moe miracles then this man hath done?


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The Pharises heard that the people murmured these thinges of him, and the Pharises, and high Priestes sent officers to take him.


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Then saide Iesus vnto them, Yet am I a little while with you, and then goe I vnto him that sent mee.


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Then saide the Iewes amongs themselues, Whither will he goe, that we shall not finde him? Will he goe vnto them that are dispersed among the Grecians, and teache the Grecians?


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What saying is this that hee saide, Ye shall seeke mee, and shall not finde mee? and where I am, cannot ye come?


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Nowe in the last and great day of the feast, Iesus stoode and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come vnto me, and drinke.


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Hee that beleeueth in mee, as saith the Scripture, out of his bellie shall flowe riuers of water of life.


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(This spake hee of the Spirite which they that beleeued in him, should receiue: for the holy Ghost was not yet giuen, because that Iesus was not yet glorified.)


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Saith not the Scripture that that Christ shall come of the seede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Beth-leem, where Dauid was?


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Then came the officers to the hie Priests and Pharises, and they said vnto them, Why haue ye not brought him?


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They answered, and said vnto him, Art thou also of Galile? Searche and looke: for out of Galile ariseth no Prophet.


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And early in the morning came againe into the Temple, and all the people came vnto him, and he sate downe, and taught them.


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Then the Scribes, and the Pharises brought vnto him a woman, taken in adulterie, and set her in the middes,


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And this they saide to tempt him, that they might haue, whereof to accuse him. But Iesus stouped downe, and with his finger wrote on the groud.


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And while they continued asking him, hee lift himselfe vp, and sayde vnto them, Let him that is among you without sinne, cast the first stone at her.


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And when they heard it, being accused by their owne conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at ye eldest euen to the last: so Iesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the mids.


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When Iesus had lift vp himselfe againe, and sawe no man, but the woman, hee saide vnto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?


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Then spake Iesus againe vnto them, saying, I am that light of the worlde: hee that followeth mee, shall not walke in darkenes, but shall haue that light of life.


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Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them, Though I beare recorde of my selfe, yet my recorde is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go: but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I goe.


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And if I also iudge, my iudgement is true: for I am not alone, but I, and the Father, that sent mee.


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Then saide they vnto him, Where is that Father of thine? Iesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor that Father of mine. If ye had knowen me, ye should haue knowen that Father of mine also.


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These wordes spake Iesus in the treasurie, as hee taught in the Temple, and no man layde handes on him: for his houre was not yet come.


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Then saide Iesus againe vnto them, I goe my way, and ye shall seeke me, and shall die in your sinnes, Whither I goe, can ye not come.


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And hee saide vnto them, Ye are from beneath, I am from aboue: ye are of this world, I am not of this worlde.


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I said therefore vnto you, That ye shall die in your sinnes: for except ye beleeue, that I am he, ye shall die in your sinnes.


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Then saide they vnto him, Who art thou? And Iesus saide vnto them, Euen the same thing that I said vnto you from the beginning.


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I haue many things to say, and to iudge of you: but he that sent me, is true, and the things that I haue heard of him, those speake I to the world.


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Then said Iesus vnto them, When ye haue lift vp the Sonne of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I doe nothing of my selfe, but as my Father hath taught me, so I speake these things.


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For he that sent me, is with me: the Father hath not left me alone, because I do alwayes those things that please him.


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Then saide Iesus to the Iewes which beleeued in him, If ye continue in my worde, ye are verely my disciples,


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They answered him, Wee be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: why sayest thou then, Ye shalbe made free?


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Iesus answered them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer committeth sinne, is the seruant of sinne.


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I know that ye are Abrahams seede, but yee seeke to kill mee, because my worde hath no place in you.


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I speake that which I haue seene with my Father: and ye doe that which ye haue seene with your father.


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They answered, and saide vnto him, Abraham is our father. Iesus said vnto them, If ye were Abrahams children, ye woulde doe the workes of Abraham.


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But nowe ye goe about to kill mee, a man that haue told you the trueth, which I haue heard of God: this did not Abraham.


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Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.


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Therefore Iesus sayde vnto them, If God were your Father, then woulde ye loue mee: for I proceeded foorth, and came from God, neither came I of my selfe, but he sent me.


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Ye are of your father the deuill, and the lustes of your father ye will doe: hee hath bene a murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the trueth, because there is no trueth in him. When hee speaketh a lie, then speaketh hee of his owne: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.


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Then answered the Iewes, and said vnto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritane, and hast a deuil?


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Then said the Iewes to him, Now know we that thou hast a deuill. Abraham is dead, and the Prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keepe my worde, he shall neuer taste of death.


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Art thou greater then our father Abraham, which is dead? and the Prophets are dead: whome makest thou thy selfe?


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Iesus answered, If I honour my selfe, mine honour is nothing worth: it is my Father that honoureth me, whome ye say, that hee is your God.


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Yet ye haue not knowen him: but I knowe him, and if I should say I know him not, I should be a liar like vnto you: but I knowe him, and keepe his worde.


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Then tooke they vp stones, to cast at him, but Iesus hid himselfe, and went out of the Temple: And hee passed through the middes of them, and so went his way.<pb/>


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And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sinne, this man, or his parents, that he was borne blinde?


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Iesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the workes of God should be shewed on him.


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I must worke the workes of him that sent me, while it is day: the night commeth when no man can worke.


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Assoone as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spettle, and anointed the eyes of the blinde with the clay,


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And sayd vnto him, Go wash in the poole of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came againe seeing.


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Nowe the neighbours and they that had seene him before, when he was blinde, sayd, Is not this he that sate and begged?


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He answered, and sayd, The man that is called Iesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and sayde vnto me, Goe to the poole of Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and receiued sight.


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Then againe the Pharises also asked him, how he had receiued sight. And hee sayd vnto them, He layd clay vpon mine eyes, and I washed, and doe see.


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Then said some of the Pharises, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others sayd, Howe can a man that is a sinner, doe such miracles? and there was a dissension among them.


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Then spake they vnto the blinde againe, What sayest thou of him, because he hath opened thine eyes? And he sayd, He is a Prophet.


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Then the Iewes did not beleeue him (that he had bene blinde, and receiued his sight) vntill they had called the parents of him that had receiued sight.


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And they asked them, saying, Is this your sonne, whom ye say was borne blinde? How doeth he nowe see then?


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But by what meanes hee nowe seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, can we not tell: he is olde ynough: aske him: hee shall answere for himselfe.


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These wordes spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had ordeined already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be excommunicate out of the Synagogue.


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Then againe called they the man that had bene blinde, and sayd vnto him, Giue glory vnto God: we know that this man is a sinner.


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Then he answered, and sayd, Whether hee be a sinner or no, I can not tell: one thing I know, that I was blinde, and nowe I see.


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Hee answered them, I haue tolde you already, and yee haue not heard it: wherefore would yee heare it againe? will yee also be his disciples?


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The man answered, and sayde vnto them, Doutlesse, this is a marueilous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.


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Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him heareth he.


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They answered, and sayd vnto him, Thou art altogether borne in sinnes, and doest thou teach vs? so they cast him out.


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Iesus heard that they had cast him out: and when he had found him, he sayd vnto him, Doest thou beleeue in the Sonne of God?


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And Iesus sayd, I am come vnto iudgement into this world, that they which see not, might see: and that they which see, might be made blinde.


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And some of the Pharises which were with him, heard these things, and sayd vnto him, Are we blinde also?


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Iesus sayd vnto them, If ye were blinde, ye should not haue sinne: but nowe ye say, We see: therefore your sinne remaineth.<pb/>


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Verely, verely I say vnto you, Hee that entreth not in by the doore into the sheepefolde, but climeth vp another way, he is a theefe and a robber.


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To him the porter openeth, and the sheepe heare his voyce, and he calleth his owne sheepe by name, and leadeth them out.


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And when hee hath sent foorth his owne sheepe, he goeth before them, and the sheepe follow him: for they know his voyce.


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And they will not follow a stranger, but they flee from him: for they know not the voyce of strangers.


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This parable spake Iesus vnto them: but they vnderstoode not what things they were which he spake vnto them.


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I am that doore: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued, and shall go in, and go out, and finde pasture.


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The theefe commeth not, but for to steale, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might haue life, and haue it in abundance.


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But an hireling, and hee which is not the shepheard, neither the sheepe are his owne, seeth the wolfe comming, and hee leaueth the sheepe, and fleeth, and the wolfe catcheth them, and scattreth the sheepe.


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Other sheepe I haue also, which are not of this folde: them also must I bring, and they shall heare my voyce: and there shalbe one sheepefolde, and one shepheard.


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No man taketh it from me, but I lay it downe of my selfe: I haue power to lay it downe, and haue power to take it againe: this commandement haue I receiued of my Father.


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Other sayd, These are not the wordes of him that hath a deuill: can the deuill open the eyes of the blinde?


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Then came the Iewes round about him, and sayd vnto him, Howe long doest thou make vs dout? If thou be that Christ, tell vs plainely.


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Iesus answered them, I tolde you, and ye beleeue not: the workes that I doe in my Fathers Name, they beare witnes of me.


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And I giue vnto them eternall life, and they shall neuer perish, neither shall any plucke them out of mine hand.


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My Father which gaue them me, is greater then all, and none is able to take them out of my Fathers hand.


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Iesus answered them, Many good workes haue I shewed you from my Father: for which of these workes doe ye stone me?


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The Iewes answered him, saying, For the good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemie, and that thou being a man, makest thy selfe God.


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Say ye of him, whome the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the worlde, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Sonne of God?


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But if I doe, then though ye beleeue not mee, yet beleeue the workes, that ye may knowe and beleeue, that the Father is in me, and I in him.


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And many resorted vnto him, and saide, Iohn did no miracle: but all thinges that Iohn spake of this man, were true.


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(And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her heare, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)


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When Iesus heard it, he saide, This sickenes is not vnto death, but for the glorie of God, that the Sonne of God might be glorified thereby.


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And after he had heard that he was sicke, yet abode hee two dayes still in the same place where he was.


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The disciples saide vnto him, Master, the Iewes lately sought to stone thee, and doest thou goe thither againe?


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Iesus answered, Are there not twelue houres in the day? If a man walke in the day, hee stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.


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These things spake he, and after, he said vnto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth: but I goe to wake him vp.


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Then saide Thomas (which is called Didymus) vnto his felow disciples, Let vs also goe, that we may die with him.


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Then Martha, when shee heard that Iesus was comming, went to meete him: but Mary sate still in the house.


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Iesus saide vnto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that beleeueth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he liue.


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She said vnto him, Yea, Lord, I beleeue that thou art that Christ that Sonne of God, which should come into the world.


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And when she had so saide, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.


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The Iewes then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they sawe Marie, that she rose vp hastily, and went out, folowed her, saying, She goeth vnto the graue, to weepe there.


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Then when Mary was come where Iesus was, and sawe him, she fell downe at his feete, saying vnto him, Lord, if thou haddest bene here, my brother had not bene dead.


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When Iesus therefore saw her weepe, and the Iewes also weepe which came with her, hee groned in the spirit, and was troubled in himselfe,


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And some of them saide, Coulde not he, which opened the eyes of the blinde, haue made also, that this man should not haue died?


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Iesus therefore againe groned in himselfe, and came to the graue. And it was a caue, and a stone was layde vpon it.


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Iesus saide, Take ye away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead, said vnto him, Lord, he stinketh alreadie: for he hath bene dead foure dayes.


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Iesus saide vnto her, Saide I not vnto thee, that if thou diddest beleeue, thou shouldest see the glorie of God?


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Then they tooke away the stone from the place where the dead was layde. And Iesus lift vp his eyes, and saide, Father, I thanke thee, because thou hast heard me.


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I knowe that thou hearest me alwayes, but because of the people that stand by, I said it, that they may beleeue, that thou hast sent me.


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Then he that was dead, came forth, bound hande and foote with bandes, and his face was bound with a napkin. Iesus said vnto them, Loose him, and let him goe.


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Then many of the Iewes, which came to Mary, and had seene the thinges, which Iesus did, beleeued in him.


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Then gathered the hie Priests, and the Pharises a councill, and said, What shall we doe? For this man doeth many miracles.


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If we let him thus alone, all men will beleeue in him, and the Romanes will come and take away both our place, and the nation.


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Then one of them named Caiaphas, which was the hie Priest that same yere, said vnto them, Ye perceiue nothing at all,


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Nor yet doe you consider that it is expedient for vs, that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.


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And not for that nation onely, but that he shoulde gather together in one the children of God, which were scattered.


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Iesus therefore walked no more openly among the Iewes, but went thence vnto a countrey neere to the wildernes, into a citie called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.


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And the Iewes Passeouer was at hande, and many went out of the countrey vp to Hierusalem before the Passeouer, to purifie themselues.


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Then sought they for Iesus, and spake among themselues, as they stoode in the Temple, What thinke ye, that he cometh not to the feast?


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Then Iesus, sixe dayes before the Passeouer, came to Bethania, where Lazarus was, who died, whom he had raised from the dead.


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There they made him a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him.


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Then tooke Mary a pound of oyntment of Spikenarde very costly, and anoynted Iesus feete, and wiped his feete with her heare, and the house was filled with the sauour of the oyntment.


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Nowe he said this, not that he cared for the poore, but because hee was a theefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was giuen.


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Then much people of the Iewes knewe that hee was there: and they came, not for Iesus sake onely, but that they might see Lazarus also, whome he had raysed from the dead.


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Tooke branches of palme trees, and went foorth to meete him, and cried, Hosanna, Blessed is the King of Israel that commeth in the Name of the Lord.


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But his disciples vnderstoode not these thinges at the first: but when Iesus was glorified, then remembred they, that these thinges were written of him, and that they had done these things vnto him.


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The people therefore that was with him, bare witnesse that hee called Lazarus out of the graue, and raised him from the dead.


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And the Pharises said among themselues, Perceiue ye howe ye preuaile nothing? Beholde, the worlde goeth after him.


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And they came to Philippe, which was of Bethsaida in Galile, and desired him, saying, Syr, we would see that Iesus.


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Verely, verely I say vnto you, Except the wheate corne fall into the grounde and die, it bideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth foorth much fruite.


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He that loueth his life, shall lose it, and he that hateth his life in this world, shall keepe it vnto life eternall.


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If any man serue me, let him follow me: for where I am, there shall also my seruant be: and if any man serue me, him will my Father honour.


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Now is my soule troubled: and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre: but therefore came I vnto this houre.


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Father, glorifie thy Name. Then came there a voyce from heauen, saying, I haue both glorified it, and will glorifie it againe.


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Then saide the people that stoode by, and heard, that it was a thunder: other said, An Angel spake to him.


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The people answered him, We haue heard out of the Law, that that Christ bideth for euer: and howe sayest thou, that that Sonne of man must be lift vp? Who is that Sonne of man?


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Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Yet a litle while is the light with you: walke while ye haue that light, lest the darkenes come vpon you: for hee that walketh in the darke, knoweth not whither he goeth.


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While ye haue that light, beleeue in that light, that ye may be the children of the light. These things spake Iesus, and departed, and hid himselfe from them.


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That the saying of Esaias the Prophete might be fulfilled, that he sayd, Lord, who beleeued our report? and to whome is the arme of the Lord reueiled?


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He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they shoulde not see with their eyes, nor vnderstand with their heart, and should be conuerted, and I should heale them.


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Neuertheles, euen among the chiefe rulers, many beleeued in him: but because of the Pharises they did not confesse him, least they should be cast out of the Synagogue.


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And if any man heare my wordes, and beleeue not, I iudge him not: for I came not to iudge the world, but to saue the world.


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He that refuseth me, and receiueth not my wordes, hath one that iudgeth him: the worde that I haue spoken, it shall iudge him in the last day.


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For I haue not spoken of my selfe: but the Father which sent me, hee gaue me a commandement what I should say, and what I should speake.


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Nowe before the feast of the Passeouer, when Iesus knewe that his houre was come, that he should depart out of this world vnto the Father, forasmuch as he loued his owne which were in the world, vnto the end he loued them.


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Iesus knowing that the Father had giuen all things into his hands, and that he was come forth from God, and went to God,


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After that, hee powred water into a basen, and began to wash the disciples feete, and to wipe them with the towell, wherewith he was girded.


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Iesus answered and sayd vnto him, What I doe, thou knowest not nowe: but thou shalt knowe it hereafter.


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Peter said vnto him, Thou shalt neuer wash my feete. Iesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou shalt haue no part with me.


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Iesus sayd to him, He that is washed, needeth not, saue to wash his feete, but is cleane euery whit: and ye are cleane, but not all.


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So after he had washed their feete, and had taken his garments, and was set downe againe, he sayd vnto them, Knowe ye what I haue done to you?


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Verely, verely I say vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master, neither the ambassadour greater then he that sent him.


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I speake not of you all: I know whom I haue chosen: but it is that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lift vp his heele against me.


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From henceforth tell I you before it come, that when it is come to passe, ye might beleeue that I am he.


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Verely, verely I say vnto you, If I send any, he that receiueth him, receiueth me, and hee that receiueth me, receiueth him that sent me.


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When Iesus had sayd these things, he was troubled in the Spirit, and testified, and said, Verely, verely I say vnto you, that one of you shall betray me.


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Iesus answered, He it is, to whome I shall giue a soppe, when I haue dipt it: and hee wet a soppe, and gaue it to Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne.


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For some of them thought because Iudas had the bag, that Iesus had sayd vnto him, Buy those things that we haue neede of against ye feast: or that he should giue some thing to the poore.


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If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorifie him in himselfe, and shall straightway glorifie him.


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Litle children, yet a litle while am I with you: ye shall seeke me, but as I sayde vnto the Iewes, Whither I goe, can ye not come: also to you say I nowe,


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A newe commandement giue I vnto you, that ye loue one another: as I haue loued you, that ye also loue one another.


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Simon Peter said vnto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Iesus answered him, Whither I goe, thou canst not follow me nowe: but thou shalt follow me afterward.


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Iesus answered him, Wilt thou lay downe thy life for my sake? Verely, verely I say vnto thee, The cocke shall not crowe, till thou haue denied me thrise.<pb/>


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In my Fathers house are many dwelling places: if it were not so, I would haue tolde you: I go to prepare a place for you.


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And if I go to prepare a place for you, I wil come againe, and receiue you vnto my selfe, that where I am, there may ye be also.


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Iesus sayd vnto him, I am that Way, and that Trueth, and that Life. No man commeth vnto the Father, but by me.


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If ye had knowen mee, ye should haue knowen my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and haue seene him.


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Iesus sayd vnto him, I haue bene so long time with you, and hast thou not knowen mee, Philippe? he that hath seene me, hath seene my Father: how then sayest thou, Shewe vs thy Father?


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Beleeuest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you, I speake not of my selfe: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the workes.


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Beleeue me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: at the least, beleeue me for the very workes sake.


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Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that beleeueth in me, the workes that I doe, hee shall doe also, and greater then these shall he doe: for I goe vnto my Father.


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And I wil pray the Father, and he shall giue you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for euer,


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Euen the Spirit of trueth, whome the world can not receiue, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye knowe him: for he dwelleth with you, and shalbe in you.


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Yet a litle while, and the world shall see me no more, but ye shall see me: because I liue, ye shall liue also.


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He that hath my commandements, and keepeth them, is he that loueth me: and he that loueth me, shall be loued of my Father: and I will loue him, and wil shewe mine owne selfe to him.


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Iudas sayd vnto him (not Iscariot) Lord, what is the cause that thou wilt shewe thy selfe vnto vs, and not vnto the world?


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Iesus answered, and sayd vnto him, If any man loue me, he will keepe my worde, and my Father will loue him, and we wil come vnto him, and wil dwell with him.


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He that loueth me not, keepeth not my wordes, and the worde which ye heare, is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me.


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But the Comforter, which is the holy Ghost, whom the Father wil send in my Name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, which I haue tolde you.


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Peace I leaue with you: my peace I giue vnto you: not as the worlde giueth, giue I vnto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor feare.


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Ye haue heard howe I saide vnto you, I goe away, and will come vnto you. If ye loued me, ye would verely reioyce, because I said, I goe vnto the Father: for the Father is greater then I.


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Hereafter will I not speake many things vnto you: for the prince of this world commeth, and hath nought in me.


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But it is that the world may knowe that I loue my Father: and as the Father hath commanded me, so I doe. Arise, let vs goe hence.<pb/>


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Euery branch that beareth not fruite in me, he taketh away: and euery one that beareth fruite, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruite.


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Abide in me, and I in you: as the branche cannot beare fruite of it selfe, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.


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I am that vine: ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruite: for without me can ye doe nothing.


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If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branche, and withereth: and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they burne.


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If ye shall keepe my commandements, ye shall abide in my loue, as I haue kept my Fathers commandements, and abide in his loue.


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These things haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remaine in you, and that your ioy might be full.


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Henceforth call I you not seruants: for the seruant knoweth not what his master doeth: but I haue called you friends: for all things that I haue heard of my Father, haue I made knowen to you.


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Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeined you, that ye goe and bring foorth fruite, and that your fruite remaine, that whatsoeuer ye shall aske of the Father in my Name, he may giue it you.


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If ye were of the worlde, the world woulde loue his owne: but because ye are not of ye world, but I haue chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.


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Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe yours.


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But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they haue not knowen him that sent me.


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If I had not come and spoken vnto them, they shoulde not haue had sinne: but nowe haue they no cloke for their sinne.


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If I had not done workes among them which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but nowe haue they both seene, and haue hated both me, and my Father.


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But it is that the worde might be fulfilled, that is written in their Lawe, They hated me without a cause.


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But when that Comforter shall come, whom I will send vnto you from the Father, euen the Spirit of trueth, which proceedeth of the Father, he shall testifie of me.


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They shall excommunicate you: yea, the time shall come, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that he doeth God seruice.


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But these things haue I tolde you, that when the houre shall come, ye might remember, that I tolde you them. And these things said I not vnto you from ye beginning, because I was with you.


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Yet I tell you the trueth, It is expedient for you that I goe away: for if I goe not away, that Comforter will not come vnto you: but if I depart, I will send him vnto you.


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Howbeit, when he is come which is the Spirit of trueth, he will leade you into all trueth: for he shall not speake of himselfe, but whatsoeuer he shall heare, shall he speake, and he will shew you the things to come.


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All thinges that the Father hath, are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shewe it vnto you.


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A litle while, and ye shall not see me: and againe a litle while, and ye shall see me: for I goe to the Father.


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Then said some of his disciples among them selues, What is this that he saieth vnto vs, A litle while, and ye shall not see me, and againe, a litle while, and ye shall see me, and, For I goe to the Father.


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Now Iesus knew that they would aske him, and said vnto them, Doe ye enquire among your selues, of that I said, A litle while, and ye shall not see me: and againe, a litle while, and yee shall see me?


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Verely, verely I say vnto you, that ye shall weepe and lament, and the worlde shall reioyce: and ye shall sorowe, but your sorowe shalbe turned to ioye.


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A woman when she traueileth, hath sorowe, because her houre is come: but assoone as she is deliuered of the childe, she remembreth no more the anguish, for ioy that a man is borne into the world.


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And ye nowe therefore are in sorowe: but I will see you againe, and your hearts shall reioyce, and your ioy shall no man take from you.


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And in that day shall ye aske me nothing. Verely, verely I say vnto you, whatsoeuer ye shall aske the Father in my Name, he will giue it you.


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These things haue I spoken vnto you in parables: but the time will come, when I shall no more speake to you in parables: but I shall shew you plainely of the Father.


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At that day shall ye aske in my Name, and I say not vnto you, that I will pray vnto the Father for you:


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For the Father himselfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me, and haue beleeued that I came out from God.


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I am come out from the Father, and came into the worlde: againe I leaue the worlde, and goe to the Father.


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Nowe knowe wee that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should aske thee. By this we beleeue, that thou art come out from God.


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Beholde, the houre commeth, and is already come, that ye shalbe scattered euery man into his owne, and shall leaue me alone: but I am not alone: for the Father is with me.


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These thinges haue I spoken vnto you, that in me ye might haue peace: in the world ye shall haue affliction, but be of good comfort: I haue ouercome the world.<pb/>


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These things spake Iesus, and lift vp his eyes to heauen, and saide, Father, that houre is come: glorifie thy Sonne, that thy Sonne also may glorifie thee,


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As thou hast giuen him power ouer all flesh, that he shoulde giue eternall life to all them that thou hast giuen him.


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And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.


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And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.


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I haue declared thy Name vnto the men which thou gauest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gauest them me, and they haue kept thy worde.


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For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, and haue beleeued that thou hast sent me.


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I pray for them: I pray not for the worlde, but for them which thou hast giuen me: for they are thine.


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And nowe am I no more in the world, but these are in the worlde, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keepe them in thy Name, euen them whome thou hast giuen mee, that they may bee one, as we are.


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While I was with them in the worlde, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gauest me, haue I kept, and none of them is lost, but the childe of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.


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And now come I to thee, and these things speake I in the worlde, that they might haue my ioy fulfilled in themselues.


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I haue giuen them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.


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That they all may bee one, as thou, O Father, art in me, and I in thee: euen that they may be also one in vs, that the worlde may beleeue that thou hast sent me.


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I in them, and thou in mee, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.


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Father, I will that they which thou hast giuen me, be with me euen where I am, that they may beholde that my glorie, which thou hast giuen mee: for thou louedst me before the foundation of the world.


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O righteous Father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen, that thou hast sent me.


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And I haue declared vnto the thy Name, and will declare it, that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me, may be in them, and I in them.<pb/>


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When Iesus had spoken these things, hee went foorth with his disciples ouer the brooke Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entred, and his disciples.


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And Iudas which betraied him, knewe also the place: for Iesus oft times resorted thither with his disciples.


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Iudas then, after hee had receiued a band of men and officers of the high Priests, and of the Pharises, came thither with lanternes and torches, and weapons.


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Then Iesus, knowing all things that shoulde come vnto him, went foorth and said vnto them, Whom seeke yee?


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They answered him, Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus sayde vnto them, I am hee. Nowe Iudas also which betraied him, stoode with them.


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Assoone then as hee had saide vnto them, I am hee, they went away backewardes, and fell to the grounde.


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This was that the worde might be fulfilled which hee spake, Of them which thou gauest me, haue I lost none.


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Then Simon Peter hauing a sword, drewe it, and smote the hie Priests seruant, and cut off his right eare. Nowe the seruants name was Malchus.


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Then sayde Iesus vnto Peter, Put vp thy sworde into the sheath: shall I not drinke of the cuppe which my Father hath giuen me?


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And led him away to Annas first (for he was father in lawe to Caiaphas, which was the hie Priest that same yeere)


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And Caiaphas was he, that gaue counsel to the Iewes, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.


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Nowe Simon Peter folowed Iesus, and another disciple, and that disciple was knowen of the hie Priest: therefore he went in with Iesus into the hall of the hie Priest:


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But Peter stood at the doore without. Then went out the other disciple which was knowen vnto the hie Priest, and spake to her that kept the doore, and brought in Peter.


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Then saide the maide that kept the doore, vnto Peter, Art not thou also one of this mans disciples? He sayd, I am not.


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And the seruants and officers stoode there, which had made a fire of coles: for it was colde, and they warmed themselues. And Peter also stood among them, and warmed himselfe.


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Iesus answered him, I spake openly to the world: I euer taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple, whither the Iewes resort continually, and in secret haue I sayde nothing.


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Why askest thou mee? aske them which heard mee what I sayde vnto them: beholde, they knowe what I sayd.


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When he had spoken these thinges, one of the officers which stoode by, smote Iesus with his rod, saying, Answerest thou the hie Priest so?


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Iesus answered him, If I haue euill spoken, beare witnes of the euil: but if I haue well spoken, why smitest thou me?


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And Simon Peter stoode and warmed himselfe, and they said vnto him, Art not thou also of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.


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One of the seruaunts of the hie Priest, his cousin whose eare Peter smote off, saide, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?


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Then led they Iesus from Caiaphas into the common hall. Nowe it was morning, and they themselues went not into the common hall, least they should be defiled, but that they might eate the Passeouer.


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They answered, and saide vnto him, If hee were not an euill doer, we woulde not haue deliuered him vnto thee.


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Then sayde Pilate vnto them, Take yee him, and iudge him after your owne Lawe. Then the Iewes sayde vnto him, It is not lawfull for vs to put any man to death.


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It was that the worde of Iesus might be fulfilled which he spake, signifying what death he should die.


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So Pilate entred into the common hall againe, and called Iesus, and sayde vnto him, Art thou the king of the Iewes?


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Pilate answered, Am I a Iewe? Thine owne nation, and the hie Priestes haue deliuered thee vnto me. What hast thou done?


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Iesus answered, My kingdome is not of this worlde: if my kingdome were of this worlde, my seruants would surely fight, that I should not be deliuered to the Iewes: but nowe is my kingdome not from hence.


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Pilate then said vnto him, Art thou a King then? Iesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a King: for this cause am I borne, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should beare witnes vnto the trueth: euery one that is of the trueth, heareth my voyce.


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Pilate said vnto him, What is trueth? And when he had saide that, hee went out againe vnto the Iewes, and said vnto them, I finde in him no cause at all.


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But you haue a custome, that I shoulde deliuer you one loose at the Passeouer: will yee then that I loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes?


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And the souldiers platted a crowne of thornes, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple garment,


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Then Pilate went foorth againe, and said vnto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may knowe, that I finde no fault in him at all.


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Then came Iesus foorth wearing a crowne of thornes, and a purple garment. And Pilate said vnto them, Beholde the man.


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Then when the hie Priests and officers sawe him, they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him. Pilate said vnto them, Take yee him and crucifie him: for I finde no fault in him.


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The Iewes answered him, We haue a lawe, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himselfe the Sonne of God.


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And went againe into the common hall, and saide vnto Iesus, Whence art thou? But Iesus gaue him none answere.


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Then saide Pilate vnto him, Speakest thou not vnto me? Knowest thou not that I haue power to crucifie thee, and haue power to loose thee?


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Iesus answered, Thou couldest haue no power at all against me, except it were giuen thee from aboue: therefore he that deliuered me vnto thee, hath the greater sinne.


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From thence foorth Pilate sought to loose him, but the Iewes cried, saying, If thou deliuer him, thou art not Cesars friende: for whosoeuer maketh himselfe a King, speaketh against Cesar.


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When Pilate heard this woorde, hee brought Iesus foorth, and sate downe in the iudgement seate in a place called the Pauement, and in Hebrewe, Gabbatha.


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And it was the Preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and hee sayde vnto the Iewes, Beholde your King.


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But they cried, Away with him, away with him, crucifie him. Pilate sayde vnto them, Shall I crucifie your King? The high Priestes answered, We haue no King but Cesar.


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And he bare his owne crosse, and came into a place named of dead mens Skulles, which is called in Hebrewe, Golgotha:


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And Pilate wrote also a title, and put it on the crosse, and it was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWES.


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This title then read many of the Iewes: for the place where Iesus was crucified, was neere to the citie: and it was written in Hebrewe, Greeke and Latine.


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Then saide the hie Priests of the Iewes to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Iewes, but that he sayd, I am King of the Iewes.


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Then the souldiers, when they had crucified Iesus, tooke his garments (and made foure partes, to euery souldier a part) and his coat: and the coat was without seame wouen from the toppe throughout.


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Therefore they sayde one to another, Let vs not deuide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. This was that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which sayth, They parted my garments among them, and on my coate did cast lots. So the souldiers did these things in deede.


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Then stoode by the crosse of Iesus his mother, and his mothers sister, Marie the wife of Cleopas, and Marie Magdalene.


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And when Iesus sawe his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loued, he said vnto his mother, Woman, beholde thy sonne.


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Then saide he to the disciple, Beholde thy mother: and from that houre, the disciple tooke her home vnto him.


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After, when Iesus knew that all things were performed, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, he said, I thirst.


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And there was set a vessell full of vineger: and they filled a spondge with vineger: and put it about an Hyssope stalke, and put it to his mouth.


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Nowe when Iesus had receiued of the vineger, he saide, It is finished, and bowed his head, and gaue vp the ghost.


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The Iewes then (because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remaine vpon the crosse on the Sabbath day: for that Sabbath was an hie day) besought Pilate that their legges might be broken, and that they might be taken downe.


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Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the first, and of the other, which was crucified with Iesus.


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But one of the souldiers with a speare pearced his side, and foorthwith came there out blood and water.


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And he that sawe it, bare recorde, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might beleeue it.


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For these things were done, that the Scripture shoulde be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shalbe broken.


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And after these things, Ioseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of the Iewes) besought Pilate that he might take downe the bodie of Iesus. And Pilate gaue him licence. He came then and tooke Iesus body.


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And there came also Nicodemus (which first came to Iesus by night) and brought of myrrhe and aloes mingled together about an hundreth pound.


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Then tooke they the body of Iesus, and wrapped it in linnen clothes with the odours, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie.


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And in that place where Iesus was crucified, was a garden, and in the garden a newe sepulchre, wherein was neuer man yet laid.


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There then laide they Iesus, because of the Iewes Preparation day, for the sepulchre was neere.<pb/>


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Nowe the first day of the weeke came Marie Magdalene, early when it was yet darke, vnto the sepulchre, and sawe the stone taken away from the tombe.


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Then she ranne, and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Iesus loued, and saide vnto them, They haue taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we knowe not where they haue laid him.


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So they ranne both together, but the other disciple did outrunne Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.


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And the kerchiefe that was vpon his head, not lying with the linnen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by it selfe.


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Then went in also the other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he sawe it, and beleeued.


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But Marie stoode without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she bowed her selfe into the sepulchre,


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And sawe two Angels in white, sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feete, where the body of Iesus had laien.


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And they said vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She said vnto them, They haue taken away my Lord, and I know not where they haue laide him.


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When she had thus said, she turned her selfe backe, and sawe Iesus standing, and knewe not that it was Iesus.


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Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She supposing that he had bene the gardener, said vnto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.


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Iesus saith vnto her, Marie. She turned her selfe, and said vnto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.


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Iesus saith vnto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but goe to my brethren, and say vnto them, I ascend vnto my Father, and to your Father, and to my God, and your God.


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Marie Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seene the Lord, and that he had spoken these things vnto her.


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The same day then at night, which was the first day of the weeke, and when the doores were shut where the disciples were assembled for feare of the Iewes, came Iesus and stoode in the middes, and saide to them, Peace be vnto you.


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And when he had so saide, he shewed vnto them his handes, and his side. Then were the disciples glad when they had seene the Lord.


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Whosoeuers sinnes ye remit, they are remitted vnto them: and whosoeuers sinnes ye reteine, they are reteined.


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The other disciples therefore saide vnto him, We haue seene the Lord: but he said vnto them, Except I see in his handes the print of the nailes, and put my finger into the print of the nailes, and put mine hand into his side, I will not beleeue it.


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And eight dayes after, againe his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Iesus, when the doores were shut, and stood in the middes, and said, Peace be vnto you.


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After saide he to Thomas, Put thy finger here, and see mine hands, and put forth thine hand, and put it into my side, and be not faithlesse, but faithfull.


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Iesus said vnto him, Thomas, because thou hast seene me, thou beleeuest: blessed are they that haue not seene, and haue beleeued.


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And many other signes also did Iesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this booke.


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But these things are written, that ye might beleeue, that Iesus is that Christ that Sonne of God, and that in beleeuing ye might haue life through his Name.<pb/>


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After these things, Iesus shewed himselfe againe to his disciples at the sea of Tiberias: and thus shewed he himselfe:


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There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas, which is called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galile, and the sonnes of Zebedeus, and two other of his disciples.


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Simon Peter said vnto them, I go a fishing. They said vnto him, We also will goe with thee. They went their way and entred into a ship straightway, and that night caught they nothing.


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But when the morning was nowe come, Iesus stoode on the shore: neuerthelesse the disciples knewe not that it was Iesus.


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Then he said vnto them, Cast out the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall finde. So they cast out, and they were not able at all to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.


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Therefore said the disciple whom Iesus loued, vnto Peter, It is the Lord. When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded his coate to him (for he was naked) and cast himselfe into the sea.


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But the other disciples came by shippe (for they were not farre from land, but about two hundreth cubites) and they drewe the net with fishes.


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Simon Peter stepped foorth and drewe the net to land, full of great fishes, an hundreth, fiftie and three: and albeit there were so many, yet was not the net broken.


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Iesus saide vnto them, Come, and dine. And none of the disciples durst aske him, Who art thou? seeing they knewe that he was the Lord.


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This is now the third time that Iesus shewed himselfe to his disciples, after that he was risen againe from the dead.


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So when they had dined, Iesus said to Simon Peter, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me more then these? He said vnto him, Yea Lord, thou knowest that I loue thee. He said vnto him, Feede my lambes.


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He said to him againe the second time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? He said vnto him, Yea Lord, thou knowest that I loue thee. He said vnto him, Feede my sheepe.


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He said vnto him the third time, Simon the sonne of Iona, louest thou me? Peter was sorie because he said to him the third time, Louest thou me? and said vnto him, Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I loue thee. Iesus saide vnto him, Feede my sheepe.


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Verely, verely I say vnto thee, When thou wast yong, thou girdedst thy selfe, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be olde, thou shalt stretch foorth thine hands, and another shall gird thee, and lead thee whither thou wouldest not.


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And this spake he signifying by what death he shoulde glorifie God. And when he had said this, he said to him, Folowe me.


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Then Peter turned about, and sawe the disciple whom JESUS loued, folowing, which had also leaned on his breast at supper, and had saide, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?


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Then went this worde abroade among the brethren, that this disciple shoulde not die. Yet Iesus saide not to him, He shall not die: but if I will that he tarie till I come, what is it to thee?


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This is that disciple, which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things, and we know that his testimonie is true.


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Nowe there are also many other things which Iesus did, the which if they should be written euery one, I suppose the world coulde not conteine the bookes that shoulde be written, Amen.


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Vntill the day that hee was taken vp, after that hee through the holy Ghost, had giuen commandements vnto the Apostles, whome hee had chosen:


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To whome also he presented himselfe aliue after that he had suffered, by many infallible tokens, being seene of them by the space of fourtie daies, and speaking of those thinges which appertaine to the kingdome of God.


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And when he had gathered them together, he commanded them, that they should not depart from Hierusalem, but to waite for the promise of the Father, which sayde hee, yee haue heard of me.


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For Iohn in deede baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost within these fewe daies.


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When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome to Israel?


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And hee saide vnto them, It is not for you to know the times, or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his owne power,


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But yee shall receiue power of the holy Ghost, when he shall come on you: and ye shalbe witnesses vnto me both in Hierusalem and in all Iudea, and in Samaria, and vnto the vttermost part of the earth.


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And when he had spoken these things, while they behelde, he was taken vp: for a cloude tooke him vp out of their sight.


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And while they looked stedfastly towarde heauen, as hee went, beholde, two men stoode by them in white apparell,


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Which also sayde, Yee men of Galile, why stande yee gasing into heauen? This Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen, shall so come, as yee haue seene him goe into heauen.


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Then returned they vnto Hierusalem from the mount that is called the mount of Oliues, which is neere to Hierusalem, being from it a Sabbath daies iourney.


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And when they were come in, they went vp into an vpper chamber, where abode both Peter and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartlemew, and Matthewe, Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Iudas Iames brother.


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These all continued with one accorde in prayer and supplication with the women, and Marie the mother of Iesus, and with his brethren.


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And in those dayes Peter stoode vp in the middes of the disciples, and sayde (nowe the nomber of names that were in one place were about an hundreth and twentie.)


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Yee men and brethren, this scripture must needes haue beene fulfilled, which the holy Ghost by the mouth of Dauid spake before of Iudas, which was guide to them that tooke Iesus.


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He therefore hath purchased a field with the reward of iniquitie: and when he had throwen downe himselfe headlong, hee brast asunder in the middes, and all his bowels gushed out.


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And it is knowen vnto all the inhabitants of Hierusalem, in so much, that that field is called in their owne language, Aceldama, That is, the field of blood.


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For it is written in the booke of Psalmes, Let his habitation be void, and let no man dwel therein: also, Let another take his charge.


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Wherefore of these men which haue companied with vs, all the time that the Lord Iesus was conuersant among vs,


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Beginning from the baptisme of Iohn vnto the day that hee was taken vp from vs, must one of them bee made a witnesse with vs of his resurrection.


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And they praied, saying, Thou Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shewe whether of these two thou hast chosen,


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That he may take the roume of this ministration and Apostleship, from which Iudas hath gone astray, to goe to his owne place.


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And suddenly there came a sounde from heauen, as of a russhing and mightie winde, and it filled all the house where they sate.


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And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the Spirit gaue them vtterance.


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Nowe when this was noised, the multitude came together and were astonied, because that euery man heard them speake his owne language.


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And they wondered al, and marueiled, saying among themselues, Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galile?


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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, and of Iudea, and of Cappadocia, of Pontus, and Asia,


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And of Phrygia, and Pamphylia, of Egypt, and of the partes of Libya, which is beside Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, and Iewes, and Proselytes,


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But Peter standing with ye Eleuen, lift vp his voice, and said vnto them, Ye men of Iudea, and ye all that inhabite Hierusalem, be this knowen vnto you, and hearken vnto my woordes.


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And it shalbe in the last daies, saith God, I wil powre out of my Spirite vpon al flesh, and your sonnes, and your daughters shall prophecie, and your yong men shall see visions, and your old men shall dreame dreames.


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And on my seruauntes, and on mine handmaides I will powre out of my Spirite in those daies, and they shall prophecie.


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And I wil shew wonders in heauen aboue, and tokens in the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and the vapour of smoke.


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The Sunne shalbe turned into darkenesse, and the moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.


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Yee men of Israel, heare these woordes, JESUS of Nazareth, a man approued of God among you with great workes, and wonders, and signes, which God did by him in the middes of you, as yee your selues also knowe:


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Him, I say, being deliuered by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked handes you haue crucified and slaine.


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Whome God hath raised vp, and loosed the sorrowes of death, because it was vnpossible that he should be holden of it.


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For Dauid sayeth concerning him, I beheld the Lord alwaies before me: for hee is at my right hand, that I should not be shaken.


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Therefore did mine heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad, and moreouer also my flesh shall rest in hope,


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Because thou wilt not leaue my soule in graue, neither wilt suffer thine Holy one to see corruption.


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Men and brethren, I may boldly speake vnto you of the Patriarke Dauid, that hee is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre remaineth with vs vnto this day.


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Therefore, seeing hee was a Prophet, and knewe that God had sworne with an othe to him, that of the fruite of his loynes hee woulde raise vp Christ concerning the flesh, to set him vpon his throne,


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Hee knowing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soule shoulde not bee left in graue, neither his flesh shoulde see corruption.


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Since then that he by the right hande of God hath bene exalted, and hath receiued of his Father the promise of the holy Ghost, hee hath shed foorth this which yee nowe see and heare.


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For Dauid is not ascended into heauen, but he sayth, The Lord sayd to my Lord, Sit at my right hande,


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Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for a suretie, that God hath made him both Lord, and Christ, this Iesus, I say, whome yee haue crucified.


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Now when they heard it, they were pricked in their heartes, and said vnto Peter and the other Apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we doe?


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Then Peter said vnto them, Amend your liues, and bee baptized euery one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes: and ye shall receiue the gift of the holy Ghost.


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For the promise is made vnto you, and to your children, and to all that are a farre off, euen as many as the Lord our God shall call.


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And with many other words he besought and exhorted them, saying, Saue your selues from this froward generation.


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Then they that gladly receiued his word, were baptized: and the same day there were added to the Church about three thousand soules.


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And they continued dayly with one accord in the Temple, and breaking bread at home, did eate their meate together with gladnesse and singlenesse of heart,


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Praysing God, and had fauour with all the people: and the Lord added to the Church from day to day, such as should be saued.<pb/>


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And a certaine man which was a creeple from his mothers wombe, was caried, whom they layde dayly at the gate of the Temple called Beautifull, to aske almes of them that entred into ye Temple.


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Then said Peter, Siluer and gold haue I none, but such as I haue, that giue I thee: In the Name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth, rise vp and walke.


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And hee tooke him by the right hand, and lift him vp, and immediately his feete and ankle bones receiued strength.


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And he leaped vp, stoode, and walked, and entred with them into the Temple, walking and leaping, and praysing God.


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And they knewe him, that it was he which sate for the almes at the Beautifull gate of the Temple: and they were amased, and sore astonied at that, which was come vnto him.


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And as the creeple which was healed, held Peter and Iohn, all the people ranne amased vnto them in the porch which is called Salomons.


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So when Peter saw it, he answered vnto the people, Ye me of Israel, why marueile ye at this? or why looke ye so stedfastly on vs, as though by our owne power or godlines, we had made this man go?


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The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, the God of our fathers hath glorified his Sonne Iesus, whom ye betrayed, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had iudged him to be deliuered.


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And his Name hath made this man sound, whom ye see, and know, through faith in his Name: and the faith which is by him, hath giuen to him this perfite health of his whole body in the presence of you all.


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But those thinges which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath thus fulfilled.


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Amend your liues therefore, and turne, that your sinnes may be put away, whe the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.


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Whome the heauen must containe vntill the time that all thinges be restored, which God had spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began.


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For Moses said vnto the Fathers, The Lord your God shall raise vp vnto you a Prophet, euen of your brethren, like vnto me: ye shall heare him in all things, whatsoeuer he shall say vnto you.


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For it shalbe that euery person which shall not heare that Prophet, shall be destroyed out of the people.


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Also all the Prophets from Samuel, and thencefoorth as many as haue spoken, haue likewise foretolde of these dayes.


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Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant, which God hath made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham, Euen in thy seede shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.


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First vnto you hath God raysed vp his Sonne Iesus, and him hee hath sent to blesse you, in turning euery one of you from your iniquities.<pb/>


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And as they spake vnto the people, the Priestes and the Captaine of the Temple, and the Sadduces came vpon them,


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Taking it grieuously that they taught the people, and preached in Iesus Name the resurrection from the dead.


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Howbeit, many of them which heard the word, beleeued, and the number of the men was about fiue thousand.


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And it came to passe on the morow, that their rulers, and Elders, and Scribes, were gathered together at Hierusalem,


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And Annas the chiefe Priest, and Caiaphas, and Iohn, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the hie Priestes.


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And whe they had set them before them, they asked, By what power, or in what Name haue ye done this?


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For as much as we this day are examined of the good deede done to the impotent man, to wit, by what meanes he is made whole,


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Be it knowen vnto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye haue crucified, whome God raised againe from the dead, euen by him doth this man stand here before you, whole.


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Neither is there saluation in any other: for among men there is giuen none other Name vnder heauen, whereby we must be saued.


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Now when they sawe the boldnes of Peter and Iohn, and vnderstoode that they were vnlearned men and without knowledge, they marueiled, and knew them, that they had bin with Iesus:


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Saying, What shall we doe to these men? for surely a manifest signe is done by them, and it is openly knowen to all them that dwell in Hierusalem: and we cannot denie it.


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But that it be noysed no farther among the people, let vs threaten and charge them, that they speake hencefoorth to no man in this Name.


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So they called them, and commanded them, that in no wise they should speake or teach in the Name of Iesus.


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But Peter and Iohn answered vnto them, and said, Whether it be right in the sight of God, to obey you rather then God, iudge ye.


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So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.


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Then assoone as they were let goe, they came to their fellowes, and shewed all that the hie Priestes and Elders had said vnto them.


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And when they heard it, they lift vp their voyces to God with one accord, and said, O Lord, thou art the God which hast made the heaue, and the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,


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Which by the mouth of thy seruant Dauid hast saide, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the people imagine vaine things?


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The Kings of the earth assembled, and the rulers came together against the Lord, and against his Christ.


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For doutlesse, against thine holy Sonne Iesus, whome thou haddest anoynted, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel gathered themselues together,


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And nowe, O Lord, beholde their threatnings, and graunt vnto thy seruants with all boldnesse to speake thy word,


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So that thou stretch forth thine hand, that healing, and signes, and wonders may be done by the Name of thine holy Sonne Iesus.


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And when as they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God boldely.


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And the multitude of them that beleeued, were of one heart, and of one soule: neither any of them said, that any thing of that which he possessed, was his owne, but they had all thinges common.


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And with great power gaue the Apostles witnes of the resurrection of the Lord Iesus: and great grace was vpon them all.


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Neither was there any among them, that lacked: for as many as were possessours of landes or houses, solde them, and brought the price of the things that were solde,


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And layde it downe at the Apostles feete, and it was distributed vnto euery man, according as he had neede.


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Also Ioses which was called of the Apostles, Barnabas (that is by interpretation the sonne of consolation) being a Leuite, and of the countrey of Cyprus,


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Where as he had land, solde it, and brought the money, and laid it downe at the Apostles feete.<pb/>


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And kept away part of the price, his wife also being of counsell, and brought a certaine part, and layde it downe at the Apostles feete.


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Then saide Peter, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart, that thou shouldest lye vnto the holy Ghost, and keepe away part of the price of this possession?


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Whiles it remained, appertained it not vnto thee? and after it was solde, was it not in thine owne power? howe is it that thou hast conceiued this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lyed vnto men, but vnto God.


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And it came to passe about the space of three houres after, that his wife came in, ignorant of that which was done.


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Then Peter sayde vnto her, Why haue ye agreed together, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? beholde, the feete of them which haue buried thine husband, are at the doore, and shall carie thee out.


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Then she fell downe straightway at his feete, and yeelded vp the ghost: and the yong men came in, and found her dead, and caried her out, and buried her by her husband.


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Thus by the hands of the Apostles were many signes and wonders shewed among the people (and they were all with one accorde in Salomons porche.


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In so much that they brought the sicke into the streetes, and layd them on beds and couches, that at the least way the shadowe of Peter, when he came by, might shadow some of them.


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There came also a multitude out of the cities round about vnto Hierusalem, bringing sicke folkes, and them which were vexed with vncleane spirits, who were all healed.


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Then the chiefe Priest rose vp, and all they that were with him (which was the sect of the Sadduces) and were full of indignation,


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So when they heard it, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, and taught. And the chiefe Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Councill together, and all the Elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison, to cause them to be brought.


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Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.


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Then when the chiefe Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the hie Priestes heard these things, they doubted of them, whereunto this would growe.


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Then came one and shewed them, saying, Beholde, the men that ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teach the people.


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Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence (for they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned)


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And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, and the chiefe Priest asked them,


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Saying, Did not we straightly commaund you, that ye should not teach in this Name? and behold, ye haue filled Hierusale with your doctrine, and ye would bring this mans blood vpon vs.


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Him hath God lift vp with his right hand, to be a Prince and a Sauiour, to giue repentance to Israel, and forgiuenes of sinnes.


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And we are his witnesses concerning these things which we say: yea, and the holy Ghost, whome God hath giuen to them that obey him.


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Then stoode there vp in the Councill a certaine Pharise named Gamaliel, a doctour of the Lawe, honoured of all the people, and commanded to put the Apostles forth a litle space,


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And sayd vnto them, Men of Israel, take heede to your selues, what ye intende to doe touching these men.


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For before these times, rose vp Theudas boasting himselfe, to whom resorted a number of men, about a foure hundreth, who was slaine: and they all which obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.


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After this man, arose vp Iudas of Galile, in the dayes of the tribute, and drewe away much people after him: hee also perished, and all that obeyed him, were scattered abroad.


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And nowe I say vnto you, Refraine your selues from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsell, or this worke be of men, it will come to nought:


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And to him they agreed, and called the Apostles: and when they had beaten them, they commanded that they should not speake in the Name of Iesus, and let them goe.


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So they departed from the Councill, reioycing, that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his Name.


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And in those dayes, as the nomber of ye disciples grewe, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians towards ye Hebrewes, because their widowes were neglected in the dayly ministring.


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Then the twelue called the multitude of the disciples together, and sayd, It is not meete that we should leaue the worde of God to serue the tables.


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Wherefore brethren, looke ye out among you seuen men of honest report, and full of the holy Ghost, and of wisedome, which we may appoint to this busines.


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And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Steuen a man full of fayth and of the holy Ghost, and Philippe, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a Proselyte of Antiochia,


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And the worde of God increased, and the nomber of the disciples was multipled in Hierusalem greatly, and a great company of the Priests were obedient to the faith.


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Then there arose certaine of the Synagogue, which are called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and of Alexandria, and of them of Cilicia, and of Asia, and disputed with Steuen.


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Then they suborned men, which saide, We haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes against Moses, and God.


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Thus they mooued the people and the Elders, and the Scribes: and running vpon him, caught him, and brought him to the Councill,


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And set forth false witnesses, which sayd, This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes against this holy place, and the Law.


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For we haue heard him say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the ordinances, which Moses gaue vs.


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And he sayd, Ye men, brethren and Fathers, hearken. That God of glory appeared vnto our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,


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And said vnto him, Come out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land, which I shall shewe thee.


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Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran. And after that his father was dead, God brought him from thence into this land, wherein ye now dwell,


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And hee gaue him none inheritance in it, no, not the bredth of a foote: yet he promised that he would giue it to him for a possession, and to his seede after him, when as yet hee had no childe.


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But God spake thus, that his seede should be a soiourner in a strange land: and that they should keepe it in bondage, and entreate it euill foure hundreth yeeres.


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But the nation to whome they shall be in bondage, will I iudge, sayth God: and after that, they shall come forth and serue me in this place.


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Hee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob the twelue Patriarkes.


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And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and gaue him fauour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao King of Egypt, who made him gouernour ouer Egypt, and ouer his whole house.


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Then came there a famine ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction, that our fathers found no sustenance.


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And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto Pharao.


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Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kindred, euen threescore and fifteene soules.


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And were remoued into Sychem, and were put in the sepulchre, that Abraham had bought for money of the sonnes of Emor, sonne of Sychem.


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But when the time of the promise drewe neere, which God had sworne to Abraham, the people grewe and multiplied in Egypt,


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The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and euill entreated our fathers, and made them to cast out their yong children, that they should not remaine aliue.


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The same time was Moses borne, and was acceptable vnto God, which was nourished vp in his fathers house three moneths.


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Nowe when he was full fourtie yeere olde, it came into his heart to visite his brethren, the children of Israel.


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And whe he saw one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and auenged his quarell that had the harme done to him, and smote the Egyptian.


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For hee supposed his brethren would haue vnderstand, that God by his hande should giue them deliuerance: but they vnderstoode it not.


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And the next day, he shewed himselfe vnto them as they stroue, and woulde haue set them at one againe, saying, Syrs, ye are brethren: why doe ye wrong one to another?


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But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a prince, and a iudge ouer vs?


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Then fled Moses at that saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begate two sonnes.


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And when fourtie yeres were expired, there appeared to him in the wildernes of mout Sina, an Angel of the Lord in a flame of fire, in a bush.


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And when Moses sawe it, hee wondred at the sight: and as he drew neere to consider it, the voyce of the Lord came vnto him, saying,


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I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold it.


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Then the Lord said to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feete: for the place where thou standest, is holy ground.


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I haue seene, I haue seene the affliction of my people, which is in Egypt, and I haue heard their groning, and am come downe to deliuer them: and nowe come, and I will sende thee into Egypt.


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This Moses whome they forsooke, saying, Who made thee a prince and a iudge? the same God sent for a prince, and a deliuerer by the hand of the Angel, which appeared to him in the bush.


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Hee brought them out, doing wonders, and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the red sea, and in the wildernes fourtie yeeres.


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This is that Moses, which saide vnto the children of Israel, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise vp vnto you, euen of your brethren, like vnto me: him shall ye heare.


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This is he that was in the Congregation, in the wildernes with the Angell, which spake to him in mount Sina, and with our fathers, who receiued the liuely oracles to giue vnto vs.


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To whom our fathers would not obey, but refused, and in their hearts turned backe againe into Egypt:


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Saying vnto Aaron, Make vs gods that may goe before vs: for we knowe not what is become of this Moses that brought vs out of the land of Egypt.


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And they made a calfe in those dayes, and offered sacrifice vnto the idole, and reioyced in the workes of their owne handes.


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Then God turned himselfe away, and gaue them vp to serue the host of heauen, as it is written in the booke of the Prophets, O house of Israel, haue ye offred to me slaine beasts and sacrifices by the space of fourtie yeres in the wildernes?


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And ye tooke vp the tabernacle of Moloch, and the starre of your god Remphan, figures, which ye made to worship them: therefore I will carie you away beyond Babylon.


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Our fathers had the tabernacle of witnes, in the wildernes, as hee had appointed, speaking vnto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seene.


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Which tabernacle also our fathers receiued, and brought in with Iesus into the possession of the Gentiles, which God draue out before our fathers, vnto the dayes of Dauid:


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Heauen is my throne, and earth is my footestoole: what house wil ye build for me, saith the Lord? or what place is it that I should rest in?


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Ye stiffenecked and of vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.


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Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted? and they haue slaine them, which shewed before of the comming of that Iust, of whome ye are now the betrayers and murtherers,


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But when they heard these thinges, their heartes brast for anger, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.


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But he being full of the holy Ghost, looked stedfastly into heauen, and sawe the glory of God, and Iesus standing at the right hand of God,


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Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voyce, and stopped their eares, and ranne vpon him violently all at once,


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And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, named Saul.


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And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loude voyce, Lord, laye not this sinne to their charge. And when he had thus spoken, he slept.<pb/>


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And Saul consented to his death, and at that time, there was a great persecution against the Church which was at Hierusalem, and they were all scattered abroad thorowe the regions of Iudea and of Samaria, except the Apostles.


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Then certaine men fearing God, caried Steuen amongs them, to be buried, and made great lamentation for him.


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But Saul made hauocke of the Church, and entred into euery house, and drewe out both men and women, and put them into prison.


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And the people gaue heed vnto those things which Philippe spake, with one accorde, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.


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For vncleane spirits crying with a loud voyce, came out of many that were possessed of them: and many taken with palsies, and that halted, were healed.


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And there was before in the citie a certaine man called Simon, which vsed witchcraft, and bewitched the people of Samaria, saying that he himselfe was some great man.


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To whome they gaue heede from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that great power of God.


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But assoone as they beleeued Philip, which preached the thinges that concerned the kingdome of God, and the Name of Iesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.


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Then Simon himselfe beleeued also and was baptized, and continued with Philippe, and wondred, when he sawe the signes and great miracles which were done.


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Nowe when the Apostles, which were at Hierusalem, heard say, that Samaria had receiued the worde of God, they sent vnto them Peter and Iohn.


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(For as yet, hee was fallen downe on none of them, but they were baptized onely in the Name of the Lord Iesus.)


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And when Simon sawe, that through laying on of the Apostles hands the holy Ghost was giuen, he offred them money,


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Saying, Giue mee also this power, that on whomsoeuer I lay the handes, he may receiue the holy Ghost.


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Then saide Peter vnto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou thinkest that the gift of God may be obteined with money.


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Thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this businesse: for thine heart is not right in the sight of God.


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Repent therefore of this thy wickednes, and pray God, that if it be possible, the thought of thine heart may be forgiuen thee.


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Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye haue spoken, come vpon me.


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So they, when they had testified and preached the worde of the Lord, returned to Hierusalem, and preached the Gospel in many townes of the Samaritans.


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Then the Angel of the Lord spake vnto Philip, saying, Arise, and goe towarde the South vnto the way that goeth downe from Hierusalem vnto Gaza, which is waste.


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And hee arose and went on: and beholde, a certaine Eunuche of Ethiopia, Candaces the Queene of the Ethiopians chiefe Gouernour, who had the rule of all her treasure, and came to Hierusalem to worship:


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And Philip ranne thither, and heard him reade the Prophet Esaias, and said, But vnderstandest thou what thou readest?


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And he saide, Howe can I, except I had a guide? And he desired Philip, that he would come vp and sit with him.


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Nowe the place of the Scripture which he read, was this, Hee was lead as a sheepe to the slaughter: and like a lambe domme before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth.


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In his humilitie his iudgement hath bene exalted: but who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.


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Then the Eunuche answered Philippe, and saide, I pray thee of whome speaketh the Prophet this? of himselfe, or of some other man?


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And as they went on their way, they came vnto a certaine water, and the Eunuche said, See, here is water: what doeth let me to be baptized?


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And Philippe said vnto him, If thou beleeuest with all thine heart, thou mayest. Then he answered, and saide, I beleeue that that Iesus Christ is that Sonne of God.


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Then he commanded the charet to stand stil: and they went downe both into the water, both Philip and the Eunuche, and he baptized him.


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And assoone as they were come vp out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the Eunuche sawe him no more: so he went on his way reioycing.


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But Philippe was found at Azotus, and he walked to and from preaching in all the cities, till he came to Cesarea.<pb/>


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And Saul yet breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of ye Lord, went vnto the hie Priest,


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And desired of him letters to Damascus to the Synagogues, that if he found any that were of that way (either men or women) hee might bring them bound vnto Hierusalem.


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Now as he iourneyed, it came to passe that as he was come neere to Damascus, suddenly there shined rounde about him a light from heauen.


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And he sayd, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord sayd, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kicke against pricks.


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He then both trembling and astonied, sayd, Lord, what wilt thou that I doe? And the Lord sayd vnto him, Arise and goe into the citie, and it shall be tolde thee what thou shalt doe.


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And Saul arose from the ground, and opened his eyes, but sawe no man. Then led they him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus,


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And there was a certaine disciple at Damascus named Ananias, and to him sayd the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he sayd, Beholde, I am here Lord.


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Then the Lord sayd vnto him, Arise, and goe into the streete which is called Straight, and seeke in the house of Iudas after one called Saul of Tarsus: for beholde, he prayeth.


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(And he sawe in a vision a man named Ananias comming in to him, and putting his hands on him, that he might receiue his sight.)


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Then Ananias answered, Lord, I haue heard by many of this man, howe much euill hee hath done to thy saints at Hierusalem.


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Then the Lord said vnto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel.


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Then Ananias went his way, and entred into that house, and put his hands on him, and sayd, Brother Saul, the Lord hath sent me (euen Iesus that appeared vnto thee in the way as thou camest) that thou mightest receiue thy sight, and be filled with the holy Ghost.


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And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had bene scales, and suddenly he receiued sight, and arose, and was baptized,


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And receiued meate, and was strengthened. So was Saul certaine dayes with the disciples which were at Damascus.


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So that all that heard him, were amased, and sayde, Is not this hee, that made hauocke of them which called on this Name in Hierusalem, and came hither for that intent, that hee should bring them bound vnto the hie Priests?


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But Saul encreased the more in strength, and confounded the Iewes which dwelt at Damascus, confirming, that this was that Christ.


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But their laying awayte was knowen of Saul: nowe they watched the gates day and night, that they might kill him.


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Then the disciples tooke him by night, and put him through the wall, and let him downe by a rope in a basket.


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And when Saul was come to Hierusalem, he assayed to ioyne himselfe with the disciples: but they were all afrayd of him, and beleeued not that he was a disciple.


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But Barnabas tooke him, and brought him to the Apostles, and declared to them, howe hee had seene the Lord in the way, and that hee had spoken vnto him, and how he had spoken boldly at Damascus in the Name of Iesus.


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And spake boldly in the Name of the Lord Iesus, and spake and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.


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Then had the Churches rest through all Iudea, and Galile, and Samaria, and were edified and walked in the feare of the Lord, and were multiplied by the comfort of the holy Ghost.


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And it came to passe, as Peter walked throughout all quarters, hee came also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.


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And there he found a certaine man named Aeneas, which had kept his couch eight yeeres, and was sicke of the palsie.


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Then said Peter vnto him, Aeneas, Iesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise and trusse thy couch together. And he arose immediately.


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There was also at Ioppa a certaine woman, a disciple named Tabitha (which by interpretation is called Dorcas) she was full of good workes and almes which she did.


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And it came to passe in those dayes, that she was sicke and dyed: and when they had washed her, they layd her in an vpper chamber.


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Now forasmuch as Lydda was neere to Ioppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent vnto him two men, desiring that he would not delay to come vnto them.


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Then Peter arose and came with them: and when hee was come, they brought him into the vpper chamber, where all the widowes stoode by him weeping, and shewing the coates and garments, which Dorcas made, while she was with them.


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But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled downe, and prayed, and turned him to the body, and sayd, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and when she sawe Peter, sate vp.


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Then he gaue her the hand and lift her vp, and called the Saints and widowes, and restored her aliue.


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A deuoute man, and one that feared God with all his housholde, which gaue much almes to the people, and prayed God continually.


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He sawe in a vision euidently (about the ninth houre of the day) an Angel of God comming in to him, and saying vnto him, Cornelius.


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But when hee looked on him, hee was afrayd, and sayd, What is it, Lord? and he sayd vnto him, Thy prayers and thine almes are come vp into remembrance before God.


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Hee lodgeth with one Simon a Tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to doe.


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And when the Angel which spake vnto Cornelius, was departed, he called two of his seruants, and a souldier that feared God, one of them that waited on him,


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On the morow as they went on their iourney, and drew neere vnto the citie, Peter went vp vpon the house to pray, about the sixt houre.


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Then waxed hee an hungred, and would haue eaten: but while they made some thing ready, he fell into a trance.


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And hee sawe heauen opened, and a certaine vessell come downe vnto him, as it had bene a great sheete, knit at the foure corners, and was let downe to the earth.


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Wherein were all maner of foure footed beastes of the earth, and wilde beastes and creeping things, and foules of the heauen.


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And the voyce spake vnto him againe the second time, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.


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Nowe while Peter douted in himselfe what this vision which he had seene, meant, beholde, the men which were sent from Cornelius, had inquired for Simons house, and stoode at the gate,


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Then Peter went downe to the men, which were sent vnto him from Cornelius, and sayd, Beholde, I am he whome ye seeke: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?


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And they sayd, Cornelius the captaine, a iust man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Iewes, was warned from heauen by an holy Angel, to send for thee into his house, and to heare thy wordes.


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Then called he them in, and lodged them, and the next day, Peter went foorth with them, and certaine brethren from Ioppa accompanied him.


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And the day after, they entred into Cesarea. Nowe Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsemen, and special friends.


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And it came to passe as Peter came in, that Cornelius met him, and fell downe at his feete, and worshipped him.


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And he sayd vnto them, Ye know that it is an vnlawfull thing for a man that is a Iewe, to company, or come vnto one of another nation: but God hath shewed me, that I should not call any man polluted, or vncleane.


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Then Cornelius sayd, Foure dayes agoe, about this houre, I fasted, and at the ninth houre I prayed in mine house, and beholde, a man stood before me in bright clothing,


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And sayd, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine almes are had in remembrance in the sight of God.


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Send therefore to Ioppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter (he is lodged in the house of Simon a Tanner by the sea side) who when he commeth, shall speake vnto thee.


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Then sent I for thee immediately, and thou hast well done to come. Nowe therefore are we all here present before God, to heare all things that are commanded thee of God.


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Ye know the worde which God hath sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Iesus Christ, which is Lord of all:


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Euen the worde which came through all Iudea, beginning in Galile, after the baptisme which Iohn preached.


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To wit, howe God anointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost, and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the deuill: for God was with him.


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And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Iewes, and in Hierusalem, whom they slewe, hanging him on a tree.


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Not to all the people, but vnto the witnesses chosen before of God, euen to vs which did eate and drinke with him, after he arose from the dead.


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And he commanded vs to preach vnto the people, and to testifie, that it is he that is ordained of God a iudge of quicke and dead.


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To him also giue all the Prophets witnesse, that through his Name all that beleeue in him, shall receiue remission of sinnes.


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So they of the circumcision which beleeued, were astonied, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was powred out the gift of the holy Ghost.


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Nowe the Apostles and the brethren that were in Iudea, heard, that the Gentiles had also receiued the worde of God.


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I was in the citie of Ioppa, praying, and in a trance I sawe this vision, A certaine vessell comming downe as it had bene a great sheete, let downe from heauen by the foure corners, and it came to me.


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Towarde the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and sawe foure footed beastes of the earth, and wilde beastes, and creeping things, and foules of the heauen.


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And I said, God forbid, Lord: for nothing polluted or vncleane hath at any time entred into my mouth.


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But the voyce answered me the seconde time from heauen, The things that God hath purified, pollute thou not.


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Then behold, immediatly there were three men already come vnto the house where I was, sent from Cesarea vnto me.


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And the Spirit saide vnto me, that I should go with them, without doubting: moreouer these sixe brethren came with me, and we entred into the mans house.


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And he shewed vs, howe he had seene an Angel in his house, which stoode and said to him, Send men to Ioppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter.


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Then I remembred the word of the Lord, howe he said, Iohn baptized with water, but ye shalbe baptized with the holy Ghost.


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For as much then as God gaue them a like gift, as he did vnto vs, when we beleeued in the Lord Iesus Christ, who was I, that I coulde let God?


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When they heard these things, they helde their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles graunted repentance vnto life.


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And they which were scattered abroade because of the affliction that arose about Steuen, went throughout till they came vnto Phenice and Cyprus, and Antiochia, preaching the worde to no man, but vnto the Iewes onely.


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Now some of them were men of Cyprus and of Cyrene, which when they were come into Antiochia, spake vnto the Grecians, and preached the Lord Iesus.


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Then tydings of those things came vnto the eares of the Church, which was in Hierusalem, and they sent foorth Barnabas, that he should goe vnto Antiochia.


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Who when he was come and had seene the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted all, that with purpose of heart they would continue in the Lord.


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For he was a good man, and full of the holy Ghost, and faith, and much people ioyned them selues vnto the Lord.


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And when he had founde him, he brought him vnto Antiochia: and it came to passe that a whole yere they were conuersant with ye Church, and taught much people, in so much that the disciples were first called Christians in Antiochia.


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And there stoode vp one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit, that there should be great famine throughout all the world, which also came to passe vnder Claudius Cesar.


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Then the disciples, euery man according to his ability, purposed to sende succour vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iudea.


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And when he sawe that it pleased the Iewes, he proceeded further, to take Peter also (then were the dayes of vnleauened bread.)


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And when he had caught him, he put him in prison, and deliuered him to foure quaternions of souldiers to be kept, intending after the Passeouer to bring him foorth to the people.


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And when Herod woulde haue brought him out vnto the people, the same night slept Peter betweene two souldiers, bound with two chaines, and the keepers before the doore, kept the prison.


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And behold the Angel of the Lord came vpon them, and a light shined in the house, and he smote Peter on the side, and raysed him vp, saying, Arise quickely. And his chaines fell off from his handes.


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And the Angel saide vnto him, Girde thy selfe, and binde on thy sandales. And so he did. Then he said vnto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.


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So Peter came out and followed him, and knewe not that it was true, which was done by the Angel, but thought he had seene a vision.


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Nowe when they were past the first and the second watch, they came vnto the yron gate, that leadeth vnto the citie, which opened to them by it owne accord, and they went out, and passed through one streete, and by and by the Angel departed from him.


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But when she knew Peters voyce, she opened not the entrie doore for gladnesse, but ranne in, and tolde howe Peter stood before the entrie.


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But they said vnto her, Thou art mad. Yet she affirmed it constantly, that it was so. Then said they, It is his Angel.


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And he beckened vnto them with the hand, to hold their peace, and told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he saide, Goe shewe these things vnto Iames and to the brethren: and he departed and went into an other place.


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And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded them to be led to be punished. And he went downe from Iudea to Cesarea, and there abode.


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Then Herod was angrie with them of Tyrus and Sidon, but they came all with one accord vnto him, and perswaded Blastus the Kings Chamberlaine, and they desired peace, because their countrey was nourished by the Kings land.


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And vpon a day appointed, Herod arayed himselfe in royall apparell, and sate on the iudgement seate, and made an oration vnto them.


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But immediatly the Angel of the Lord smote him, because he gaue not glorie vnto God, so that he was eaten of wormes, and gaue vp the ghost.


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There were also in the Church that was at Antiochia, certaine Prophets and teachers, as Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manahen (which had bin brought vp with Herod the Tetrarche) and Saul.


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Nowe as they ministred to the Lord, and fasted, the holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the worke whereunto I haue called them.


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And they, after they were sent foorth of the holy Ghost, came downe vnto Seleucia, and from thence they sayled to Cyprus.


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And when they were at Salamis, they preached the worde of God in the Synagogues of the Iewes: and they had also Iohn to their minister.


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So when they had gone throughout the yle vnto Paphus, they found a certaine sorcerer, a false prophet, being a Iewe, named Bariesus,


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Which was with the Deputie Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. He called vnto him Barnabas and Saul, and desired to heare the woorde of God.


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But Elymas, ye sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstoode them, and sought to turne away the Deputie from the faith.


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And sayde, O full of all subtiltie and all mischiefe, the childe of the deuill, and enemie of all righteousnesse, wilt thou not cease to peruert the straight waies of the Lord?


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Nowe therefore behold, the hand of the Lord is vpon thee, and thou shalt be blinde, and not see the sunne for a season. And immediately there fel on him a mist and a darknes; and he went about, seeking some to leade him by the hand.


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Then the Deputie when he sawe what was done, beleeued, and was astonied at the doctrine of the Lord.


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Nowe when Paul and they that were with him were departed by shippe from Paphus, they came to Perga a citie of Pamphylia: then Iohn departed from them, and returned to Hierusalem.


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But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antiochia a citie of Pisidia, and went into the Synagogue on ye Sabbath day, and sate downe.


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And after the lecture of the Law and Prophets, the rulers of ye Synagogue sent vnto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye haue any word of exhortation for the people, say on.


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Then Paul stoode vp and beckened with the hand, and sayde, Men of Israel, and yee that feare God, hearken.


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The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt in the land of Egypt, and with an high arme brought them out thereof.


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Then afterward he gaue vnto them Iudges about foure hundreth and fiftie yeeres, vnto the time of Samuel the Prophet.


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So after that, they desired a King, and God gaue vnto them Saul, the sonne of Cis, a man of ye tribe of Beniamin, by the space of fourty yeres.


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And after he had taken him away, he raised vp Dauid to be their King, of whom he witnessed, saying, I haue found Dauid the sonne of Iesse, a man after mine owne heart, which will doe all things that I will.


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When Iohn had first preached before his coming the baptisme of repentance to all the people of Israel.


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And when Iohn had fulfilled his course, he saide, Whom ye thinke that I am, I am not he: but beholde, there commeth one after me, whose shooe of his feete I am not worthy to loose.


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Yee men and brethren, children of the generation of Abraham, and whosoeuer among you feareth God, to you is the woorde of this saluation sent.


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For the inhabitants of Hierusalem, and their rulers, because they knewe him not, nor yet the woordes of the Prophets, which are read euery Sabbath day, they haue fulfilled them in condemning him.


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And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they tooke him downe from the tree, and put him in a sepulchre.


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And hee was seene many dayes of them, which came vp with him from Galile to Hierusalem, which are his witnesses vnto the people.


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God hath fulfilled it vnto vs their children, in that he raised vp Iesus, euen as it is written in the seconde Psalme, Thou art my Sonne: this day haue I begotten thee.


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Nowe as concerning that he raised him vp from the dead, no more to returne to corruption, he hath said thus, I wil giue you the holy things of Dauid, which are faithfull.


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Howbeit, Dauid after hee had serued his time by the counsell of God, hee slept, and was laid with his fathers, and sawe corruption.


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Be it knowen vnto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached vnto you the forgiuenesse of sinnes.


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And from al things, from which ye could not be iustified by the Law of Moses, by him euery one that beleeueth, is iustified.


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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and vanish away: for I woorke a woorke in your daies, a woorke which yee shall not beleeue, if a man would declare it you.


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And when they were come out of the Synagogue of the Iewes, the Gentiles besought, that they woulde preach these woordes to them the next Sabbath day.


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Nowe when the congregation was dissolued, many of the Iewes and Proselytes that feared God, followed Paul and Barnabas, which spake to them, and exhorted them to continue in the grace of God.


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But when the Iewes saw the people, they were full of enuie, and spake against those things, which were spoken of Paul, contrarying them, and railing on them.


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Then Paul and Barnabas spake boldly, and sayde, It was necessarie that the woorde of God shoulde first haue beene spoken vnto you: but seeing yee put it from you, and iudge your selues vnworthie of euerlasting life, loe, we turne to the Gentiles.


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For so hath the Lord commanded vs, saying, I haue made thee a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be the saluation vnto the end of the world.


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And when the Gentiles heard it, they were glad, and glorified the woorde of the Lord: and as many as were ordeined vnto eternall life, beleeued.


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But the Iewes stirred certaine deuoute and honourable women, and the chiefe men of the citie, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coastes.


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And it came to passe in Iconium, that they went both together into the Synagogue of the Iewes, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Iewes and of the Grecians beleeued.


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And the vnbeleeuing Iewes stirred vp, and corrupted the mindes of the Gentiles against the brethren.


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So therefore they abode there a long time, and spake boldly in the Lord, which gaue testimonie vnto the woord of his grace, and caused signes and woders to be done by their hands.


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But the multitude of the city was deuided: and some were with the Iewes, and some with the Apostles.


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And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and of the Iewes with their rulers, to doe them violence, and to stone them,


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They were ware of it, and fled vnto Lystra, and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and vnto the region round about,


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Nowe there sate a certaine man at Lystra, impotent in his feete, which was a creeple from his mothers wombe, who had neuer walked.


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Then when the people sawe what Paul had done, they lift vp their voyces, saying in ye speach of Lycaonia, Gods are come downe to vs in the likenesse of men.


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Then Iupiters priest, which was before their citie, brought bulles with garlands vnto the gates, and would haue sacrificed with the people.


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But when the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul heard it, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying,


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And saying, O men, why doe yee these things? We are euen men subiect to the like passions that yee be, and preache vnto you, that yee shoulde turne from these vaine things vnto the liuing God, which made heauen and earth, and the sea, and all things that in them are:


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Neuerthelesse, hee left not him selfe without witnes, in that hee did good and gaue vs raine from heauen, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with foode, and gladnesse.


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And speaking these things, scarce appeased they the multitude, that they had not sacrificed vnto them.


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Then there came certaine Iewes from Antiochia and Iconium, which when they had persuaded the people, stoned Paul, and drewe him out of the citie, supposing he had bene dead.


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Howbeit, as the disciples stoode rounde about him, hee arose vp, and came into the citie, and the next day hee departed with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And after they had preached the glad tidings of the Gospel to that citie, and had taught many, they returned to Lystra, and to Iconium, and to Antiochia,


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Confirming the disciples hearts, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, affirming that we must through many afflictions enter into the kingdome of God.


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And when they had ordeined them Elders by election in euery Church, and prayed, and fasted, they commended them to the Lord in whome they beleeued.


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And thence sailed to Antiochia, from whence they had bene comended vnto the grace of God, to the woorke, which they had fulfilled.


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And when they were come and had gathered the Church together, they rehearsed all the things that God had done by them, and howe he had opened the doore of faith vnto the Gentiles.


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Then came downe certaine from Iudea, and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the maner of Moses, ye cannot be saued.


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And when there was great dissension, and disputation by Paul and Barnabas against them, they ordeyned that Paul and Barnabas, and certaine other of them, should goe vp to Hierusalem vnto the Apostles and Elders about this question.


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Thus being brought forth by ye Church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conuersion of the Gentiles, and they brought great ioy vnto all the brethren.


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And when they were come to Hierusalem, they were receiued of the Church, and of the Apostles and Elders, and they declared what things God had done by them.


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But said they, certaine of the sect of the Pharises, which did beleeue, rose vp, saying, that it was needefull to circumcise them, and to commaund them to keepe the lawe of Moses.


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And when there had bene great disputation, Peter rose vp, and said vnto them, Ye men and brethren, ye know that a good while ago, among vs God chose out me, that the Gentiles by my mouth should heare the worde of the Gospel, and beleeue.


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And God which knoweth the heartes, bare them witnesse, in giuing vnto them ye holy Ghost euen as he did vnto vs.


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Nowe therefore, why tempt ye God, to lay a yoke on the disciples neckes, which neither our fathers, nor we were able to beare?


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Then all the multitude kept silence, and heard Barnabas and Paul, which told what signes and wonders God had done among the Gentiles by them.


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Simeon hath declared, howe God first did visite the Gentiles, to take of them a people vnto his Name.


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After this I will returne, and will builde againe the tabernacle of Dauid, which is fallen downe, and the ruines thereof will I build againe, and I will set it vp,


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That the residue of men might seeke after the Lord, and all the Gentiles vpon whom my Name is called, saith the Lord which doeth all these things.


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But that we send vnto them, that they abstaine themselues from filthinesse of idoles, and fornication, and that that is strangled, and from blood.


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For Moses of olde time hath in euery citie them that preache him, seeing he is read in the Synagogues euery Sabbath day.


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Then it seemed good to the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church, to sende chosen men of their owne companie to Antiochia with Paul and Barnabas: to wit, Iudas whose surname was Barsabas and Silas, which were chiefe men among the brethren,


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And wrote letters by them after this maner, THE APOSTLES, and the Elders, and the brethren, vnto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antiochia, and in Syria, and in Cilicia, send greeting.


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Forasmuch as we haue heard, that certaine which went out from vs, haue troubled you with wordes, and cumbred your mindes, saying, Ye must be circumcised and keepe the Lawe: to whom we gaue no such commandement,


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It seemed therefore good to vs, when we were come together with one accord, to send chosen men vnto you, with our beloued Barnabas and Paul,


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For it seemed good to the holy Ghost, and to vs, to lay no more burden vpon you, then these necessary things,


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That is, that ye abstaine from things offered to idoles, and blood, and that that is strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, ye shall doe well. Fare ye well.


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Nowe when they were departed, they came to Antiochia, and after that they had assembled the multitude, they deliuered the Epistle.


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And after they had taried there a space, they were let goe in peace of the brethren vnto the Apostles.


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Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antiochia, teaching and preaching with many other, the worde of the Lord.


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But after certaine dayes, Paul said vnto Barnabas, Let vs returne, and visite our brethren in euery citie, where we haue preached the worde of the Lord, and see how they doe.


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But Paul thought it not meete to take him vnto their companie, which departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the worke.


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Then were they so stirred, that they departed asunder one from the other, so that Barnabas tooke Marke, and sailed vnto Cyprus.


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Then came he to Derbe and to Lystra: and beholde, a certaine disciple was there named Timotheus, a womans sonne, which was a Iewesse and beleeued, but his father was a Grecian,


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Therefore Paul would that he should go forth with him, and tooke and circumcised him, because of ye Iewes, which were in those quarters: for they knewe all, that his father was a Grecian.


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And as they went through the cities, they deliuered them the decrees to keepe, ordeined of the Apostles and Elders, which were at Hierusalem.


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Nowe when they had gone throughout Phrygia, and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden of the holy Ghost to preache the worde in Asia.


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Where a vision appeared to Paul in the night. There stoode a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come into Macedonia, and helpe vs.


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And after he had seene the vision, immediatly we prepared to goe into Macedonia, being assured that the Lord had called vs to preache the Gospel vnto them.


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Then went we forth from Troas, and with a straight course came to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis,


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And from thence to Philippi, which is the chiefe citie in ye partes of Macedonia, and whose inhabitants came from Rome to dwell there, and we were in that citie abiding certaine dayes.


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And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the citie, besides a Riuer, where they were wont to pray: and we sate downe, and spake vnto the women, which were come together.


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And a certaine woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the citie of the Thyatirians, which worshipped God, heard vs: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended vnto the things, which Paul spake.


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And when she was baptized, and her houshold, she besought vs, saying, If ye haue iudged me to be faithfull to ye Lord, come into mine house, and abide there: and she constrained vs.


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And it came to passe that as we went to prayer, a certaine maide hauing a spirit of diuination, mette vs, which gate her masters much vantage with diuining.


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She followed Paul and vs, and cryed, saying, These men are the seruants of the most high God, which shewe vnto you the way of saluation.


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And this did she many dayes: but Paul being grieued, turned about, and said to the spirit, I commaund thee in the Name of Iesus Christ, that thou come out of her. And he came out the same houre.


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Nowe when her masters sawe that the hope of their gaine was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drewe them into the market place vnto the Magistrates,


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And preache ordinances, which are not lawfull for vs to receiue, neither to obserue, seeing we are Romanes.


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The people also rose vp together against them, and the gouernours rent their clothes, and commanded them to be beaten with roddes.


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And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into prison, commaunding the Iayler to keepe them surely.


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Who hauing receiued such commandement, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feete fast in the stockes.


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And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken: and by and by all the doores opened, and euery mans bands were loosed.


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Then the keeper of the prison waked out of his sleepe, and when he sawe the prison doores open, he drewe out his sword and would haue killed himselfe, supposing the prisoners had bin fled.


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Then he called for a light, and leaped in, and came trembling, and fell downe before Paul and Silas,


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Afterwarde he tooke them the same houre of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized with all that belonged vnto him, straigthway.


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And when he had brought them into his house, he set meate before them, and reioyced that he with all his houshold beleeued in God.


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Then the keeper of the prison tolde these woordes vnto Paul, saying, The gouerness haue sent to loose you: nowe therefore get you hence, and goe in peace.


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Then sayde Paul vnto them, After that they haue beaten vs openly vncodemned, which are Romanes, they haue cast vs into prison, and nowe would they put vs out priuily? nay verely: but let them come and bring vs out.


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And the sergeants tolde these woordes vnto the gouernours, who feared whe they heard that they were Romanes.


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And they went out of the prison, and entred into the house of Lydia: and when they had seene the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.<pb/>


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Nowe as they passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a Synagogue of the Iewes.


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And Paul, as his maner was, went in vnto them, and three Sabbath daies disputed with them by the Scriptures,


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Opening, and alleadging that Christ must haue suffered, and risen againe from the dead: and this is Iesus Christ, whom, said he, I preach to you.


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And some of them beleeued, and ioyned in companie with Paul and Silas: also of the Grecians that feared God a great multitude, and of the chiefe women not a fewe.


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But the Iewes which beleeued not, mooued with enuie, tooke vnto them certaine vagabonds and wicked fellowes, and whe they had assembled the multitude, they made a tumult in the citie, and made assault against the house of Iason, and sought to bring them out to the people.


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But when they found them not, they drew Iason and certaine brethren vnto the heads of the citie, crying, These are they which haue subuerted the state of the world, and here they are,


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Whom Iason hath receiued, and these all doe against the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another King, one Iesus.


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Notwithstanding when they had receiued sufficient assurance of Iason and of the other, they let them goe.


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And the brethren immediatly sent away Paul and Silas by night vnto Berea, which when they were come thither, entred into ye Synagogue of the Iewes.


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These were also more noble men then they which were at Thessalonica, which receiued the woorde with all readinesse, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.


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But when the Iewes of Thessalonica knewe, that the woord of God was also preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and mooued the people.


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But by and by the brethren sent away Paul to goe as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.


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And they that did conduct Paul, brought him vnto Athens: and when they had receiued a commandement vnto Silas and Timotheus that they shoulde come to him at once, they departed.


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Nowe while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirite was stirred in him, when hee sawe the citie subiect to idolatrie.


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Therefore he disputed in the Synagogue with the Iewes, and with them that were religious, and in the market daily with whomesoeuer he met.


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Then certaine Philosophers of the Epicures, and of the Stoickes, disputed with him, and some sayde, What will this babler say? Others sayde, He seemeth to be a setter forth of straunge gods (because hee preached vnto them Iesus, and the resurrection.)


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And they tooke him, and brought him into Mars streete, saying, May we not know, what this newe doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?


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For thou bringest certaine strange thinges vnto our eares: we woulde knowe therefore, what these things meane.


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For all the Athenians, and strangers which dwelt there, gaue them selues to nothing els, but either to tell, or to heare some newes.


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Then Paul stoode in the mids of Mars streete, and sayde, Yee men of Athens, I perceiue that in all things yee are too superstitious.


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For as I passed by, and behelde your deuotions, I founde an altar wherein was written, VNTO THE VNKNOWEN GOD. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him shewe I vnto you.


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God that made the world, and all things that are therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaue and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands,


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Neither is worshipped with mens handes, as though he needed any thing, seeing hee giueth to all life and breath and all things,


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And hath made of one blood all mankinde, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath assigned the seasons which were ordeined before, and the boundes of their habitation,


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That they shoulde seeke the Lord, if so be they might haue groped after him, and founde him though doubtlesse he be not farre from euery one of vs.


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For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.


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Forasmuch then, as we are the generation of God, we ought not to thinke that ye Godhead is like vnto gold, or siluer, or stone grauen by arte and the inuention of man.


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And the time of this ignorance God regarded not: but nowe hee admonisheth all men euery where to repent,


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Because hee hath appoynted a day in the which he wil iudge the world in righteousnes, by that man whome hee hath appoynted, whereof he hath giuen an assurance to all men, in that hee hath raised him from the dead.


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Now when they heard of the resurrection from the dead, some mocked, and other sayde, We will heare thee againe of this thing.


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Howbeit certaine men claue vnto Paul, and beleeued: among whome was also Denys Areopagita, and a woman named Damaris, and other with them.<pb/>


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And found a certaine Iewe named Aquila, borne in Pontus, lately come from Italie, and his wife Priscilla (because that Claudius had commanded all Iewes to depart from Rome) and he came vnto them.


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And because hee was of the same crafte, he abode with them and wrought (for their crafte was to make tentes.)


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Now when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul, forced in spirit, testified to the Iewes that Iesus was the Christ.


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And when they resisted and blasphemed, he shooke his raiment, and saide vnto them, Your blood be vpon your owne head: I am cleane: from henceforth will I goe vnto the Gentiles.


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So he departed thence, and entred into a certaine mans house, named Iustus, a worshipper of God, whose house ioyned hard to the Synagogue.


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And Crispus the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, beleeued in the Lord with all his housholde: and many of the Corinthians hearing it, beleeued and were baptized.


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Then saide the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Feare not, but speake, and holde not thy peace.


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For I am with thee, and no man shall lay handes on thee to hurt thee: for I haue much people in this citie.


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Now when Gallio was Deputie of Achaia, the Iewes arose with one accorde against Paul, and brought him to the iudgement seate,


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And as Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio saide vnto the Iewes, If it were a matter of wrong, or an euill deede, O ye Iewes, I would according to reason maintaine you.


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But if it bee a question of woordes, and names, and of your Lawe, looke yee to it your selues: for I will be no iudge of those things.


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Then tooke al the Grecians Sosthenes the chiefe ruler of the Synagogue, and beat him before the iudgement seat: but Gallio cared nothing for those things.


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But when Paul had taried there yet a good while, hee tooke leaue of the brethren, and sailed into Syria (and with him Priscilla and Aquila) after that he had shorne his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vowe.


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Then hee came to Ephesus, and left them there: but hee entred into the Synagogue and disputed with the Iewes.


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But bade the farewel, saying, I must needes keepe this feast that commeth, in Hierusalem: but I will returne againe vnto you, if God will. So he sailed from Ephesus.


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And when hee came downe to Cesarea, he went vp to Hierusalem: and when he had saluted the Church, he went downe vnto Antiochia.


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Nowe when he had taried there a while, he departed, and went thorowe the countrey of Galatia and Phrygia by order, strengthening all the disciples.


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And a certaine Iewe named Apollos, borne at Alexandria, came to Ephesus, an eloquent man, and mightie in the Scriptures.


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The same was instructed in the way of the Lord, and hee spake feruently in the Spirite, and taught diligently the things of the Lord, and knew but the baptisme of Iohn onely.


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And he began to speake boldely in the Synagogue. Whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they tooke him vnto them, and expounded vnto him the way of God more perfectly.


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And when hee was minded to goe into Achaia, the brethren exhorting him, wrote to the disciples to receiue him: and after hee was come thither, he holpe them much which had beleeued through grace.


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And it came to passe, while Apollos was at Corinthus, that Paul when he passed thorow the vpper coasts, came to Ephesus, and found certaine disciples,


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And saide vnto them, Haue ye receiued the holy Ghost since ye beleeued? And they saide vnto him, Wee haue not so much as heard whether there be an holy Ghost.


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Then saide Paul, Iohn verely baptized with the baptisme of repentance, saying vnto the people, that they shoulde beleeue in him, which should come after him, that is, in Christ Iesus.


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So Paul layde his handes vpon them, and the holy Ghost came on them, and they spake the tongues, and prophecied.


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Moreouer he went into the Synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three moneths, disputing and exhorting to the things that appertaine to the kingdome of God.


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But when certaine were hardened, and disobeyed, speaking euill of the way of God before the multitude, hee departed from them, and separated the disciples, and disputed dayly in the schoole of one Tyrannus.


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And this was done by the space of two yeeres, so that all they which dwelt in Asia, heard the word of ye Lord Iesus, both Iewes and Grecians.


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So that from his body were brought vnto the sicke, kerchefs or handkerchefs, and the diseases departed from them, and the euill spirits went out of them.


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Then certaine of the vagabond Iewes, exorcistes, tooke in hand to name ouer them which had euil spirits, the Name of the Lord Iesus, saying, We adiure you by Iesus, whom Paul preacheth.


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And the man in whome the euil spirit was, ranne on them, and ouercame them, and preuailed against them, so that they fledde out of that house, naked, and wounded.


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And this was knowen to all the Iewes and Grecians also, which dwelt at Ephesus, and feare came on them all, and the Name of the Lord Iesus was magnified,


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Many also of them which vsed curious artes, brought their bookes, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fiftie thousand pieces of siluer.


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Nowe when these things were accomplished, Paul purposed by the Spirite to passe through Macedonia and Achaia, and to goe to Hierusalem, saying, After I haue bene there, I must also see Rome.


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So sent hee into Macedonia two of them that ministred vnto him, Timotheus and Erastus, but he remained in Asia for a season.


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For a certaine man named Demetrius a siluersmith, which made siluer temples of Diana, brought great gaines vnto the craftesmen,


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Whom he called together, with the workemen of like things, and saide, Syrs, ye knowe that by this craft we haue our goods:


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So that not onely this thing is dangerous vnto vs, that this our portion shall be reproued, but also that the temple of the great goddesse Diana should be nothing esteemed, and that it would come to passe that her magnificence, which all Asia and the world worshippeth, should be destroyed.


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Now when they heard it, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.


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And the whole citie was full of confusion, and they rushed into the common place with one assent, and caught Gaius, and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, and Pauls companions of his iourney.


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Certaine also of the chiefe of Asia which were his friendes, sent vnto him, desiring him that hee woulde not present him selfe in the Common place.


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Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assemblie was out of order, and the more part knewe not wherefore they were come together.


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And some of the company drew foorth Alexander, the Iewes thrusting him forwards. Alexander then beckened with the hande, and woulde haue excused the matter to the people.


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But when they knew that he was a Iewe, there arose a shoute almost for the space of two houres, of all men crying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.


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Then the towne clearke when hee had stayed the people, saide, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is it that knoweth not howe that the citie of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddesse Diana, and of the image, which came downe from Iupiter?


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Seeing then that no man can speake against these things, ye ought to be appeased, and to doe nothing rashly.


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For yee haue brought hither these men, which haue neither committed sacrilege, neither doe blaspheme your goddesse.


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Wherefore, if Demetrius and the craftes men which are with him, haue a matter against any man, the lawe is open, and there are Deputies: let them accuse one another.


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For we are euen in ieopardie to be accused of this dayes sedition, for as much as there is no cause, whereby we may giue a reason of this concourse of people.


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Nowe after the tumult was appeased, Paul called the disciples vnto him, and embraced them, and departed to goe into Macedonia.


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And when hee had gone through those parts, and had exhorted them with many words, he came into Grecia.


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And hauing taried there three moneths, because the Iewes layde waite for him, as hee was about to saile into Syria, hee purposed to returne through Macedonia.


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And there accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of Berea, and of them of Thessalonica, Aristarchus, and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus, and of them of Asia, Tychicus, and Trophimus.


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And we sailed forth from Philippi, after the dayes of vnleauened bread, and came vnto them to Troas in fiue dayes, where we abode seuen dayes.


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And the first day of the weeke, the disciples being come together to breake bread, Paul preached vnto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued the preaching vnto midnight.


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And there sate in a windowe a certaine yong man, named Eutychus, fallen into a dead sleepe: and as Paul was long preaching, hee ouercome with sleepe, fell downe from the thirde loft, and was taken vp dead.


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But Paul went downe, and layde himselfe vpon him, and embraced him, saying, Trouble not your selues: for his life is in him.


