Matthew(i)
9 And I sayde vnto you the same season: I am not able to beare you my selfe alon
10 For the Lorde youre God hath multiplyed you: so that ye are this day as the starres of heauen in nombr
11 (the Lorde God of youre fathers make you a thousande tymes so many moo as ye are, & blesse you as he hath promysed you)
12 how (sayde I) can I my selfe alone, beare the combraunce, charge & stryfe that is amonge you:
13 brynge therfore men of wisedome & of vnderstandynge & expert: knowen amonge youre trybes, that I maye make them ruelars ouer you,
14 And ye answerd me and sayde: that which thou hast spoken is good to be done.
15 And then I toke the heades of youre tribes, men of wysdome & that were expert. and made them ruelars ouer you: captaines ouer thousandes, & ouer hundreds, ouer fyfty & ouer ten, officers a monge youre trybes.
16 And I charged your Iudges the same time sayinge: heare youre brethren & iudge ryghteously betwene euery man and his brother and the straunger that is wyth hym.
17 Se that ye know no man in Iudgement: but heare the small as well as the greate & be afrayed of no man, for the iudgment is Gods. And the cause that is to harde for you, bryng vnto me and I will heare it.