Matthew 17:1-21:46 And after. vi. dayes Iesus toke Peter and Iames and Ihon his brother and brought them vp into an hye mountayne out of the waye

Tyndale⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And after. vi. dayes Iesus toke Peter and Iames and Ihon his brother and brought them vp into an hye mountayne out of the waye ² and was transfygured before them: and his face did shyne as the sunne and his clothes were as whyte as the light. ³ And beholde ther appered vnto the Moses and Helyas talkinge with him. ⁴ Then answered Peter and sayde to Iesus: master here is good beinge for vs. If thou wylt leet vs make here .iii. tabernacles one for the and one for Moses and one for Helyas. ⁵ Whyll he yet spake beholde a bright cloude shadowed them. And beholde there came a voyce out of ye cloude sayinge: this is my deare sonne in whom I delite heare him. ⁶ And when the disciples hearde that they fell on their faces and were soore afrayed. ⁷ And Iesus came and touched them and sayde: aryse and be not afrayed. ⁸ And when they looked vp they saw no man saue Iesus onely. ⁹ And as they came doune from the mountayne Iesus charged them sayinge: se yt ye shewe the vision to no man vntyll the sonne of man be rysen ageyne from deeth. ¹⁰ And his disciples axed of him sayinge: Why then saye the scribes yt Helyas muste fyrst come? ¹¹ Iesus answered and sayd vnto them: Helyas shall fyrst come and restore all thinges. ¹² And I saye vnto you yt Helyas is come alredy and they knewe him not: but have done vnto him whatsoever they lusted. In lyke wyse shall also the sonne of man suffre of the. ¹³ Then ye disciples perceaved that he spake vnto them of Ihon baptist. ¹⁴ And when they were come to ye people ther cam to him a certayne man and kneled doune to him and sayde: ¹⁵ Master have mercy on my sonne for he is franticke: and is sore vexed. And oft tymes he falleth into the fyre and oft into ye water ¹⁶ And I brought him to thy disciples and they coulde not heale him. ¹⁷ Iesus answered and sayde: O generacion faythles and croked: how longe shall I be with you? how longe shall I suffre you? bring him hidder to me. ¹⁸ And Iesus rebuked the devyll and he ca out of him. And ye child was healed even yt same houre. ¹⁹ Then came the disciples to Iesus secretly and sayde: Why could not we cast him out? ²⁰ Iesus sayd vnto the: Because of youre vnbelefe For I saye veryly vnto you: yf ye had faythe as a grayne of musterd seed ye shuld saye vnto this moutayne remove hence to yonder place and he shuld remove: nether shuld eny thinge be vnpossible for you to do. ²¹ How be it this kynde goeth not oute but by prayer and fastinge. ²² As they passed the tyme in Galile Iesus sayde vnto them: the sonne of man shalbe betrayed into the hondes of men ²³ and they shall kill him and the thyrd daye he shall ryse agayne. And they sorowed greatly. ²⁴ And when they were come to Capernau they yt were wont to gadre poll money came to Peter and sayde: Doth youre master paye tribute? ²⁵ He sayd: ye. And when he was come into the house Iesus spake fyrst to him saying What thinkest thou Simon? of whome do ye kynges of the erth take tribute or poll money? of their chyldren or of straungers? ²⁶ Peter sayde vnto him: of straungers. Then sayd Iesus vnto him agayne: Then are the chyldren fre. ¹⁸ ¹ The same tyme the disciples came vnto Iesus saying: who is ye greatest in the kyngdome of heve? ² Iesus called a chylde vnto him and set him in the middes of them: ³ and sayd. Verely I say vnto you: except ye tourne and become as chyldren ye cannot enter into the kyngdom of heven. ⁴ Whosoever therfore humble him sylfe as this chylde the same is the greatest in ye kyngdome of heve. ⁵ And who soever receaveth suche a chylde in my name receaveth me. ⁶ But whosoever offende one of these lytelons which beleve in me: it were better for him that a milstone were hanged aboute his necke and that he were drouned in the depth of the see. ⁷ Wo be vnto the world because of offences. How be it it cannot be avoided but yt offences shalbe geven. Neverthelesse woo be to ye man by who the offence cometh. ⁸ Wherfore yf thy honde or thy fote offende the cut him of and cast him from the. It ys better for the to enter into lyfe halt or maymed rather then thou shuldest havinge two hondes or two fete be cast into everlasting fyre. ⁹ And yf also thyne eye offende the plucke him oute and caste him from the. It is better for the to enter into lyfe with one eye then havyng two eyes to be cast into hell fyre. ¹⁰ Se that ye despise not one of these litelons. For I saye vnto you yt in heven their angels alwayes behold the face of my father which is in heven. ¹¹ Ye and the sonne of man is come to saue that which is lost. ¹² How thinke ye? Yf a man have an hondred shepe and one of them be gone astray dothe he not leve nynty and nyne in ye moutains and go and seke that one which is gone astray? ¹³ If it happen that he fynd him veryly I say vnto you: he reioyseth more of that shepe then of the nynty and nyne which went not astray. ¹⁴ Even so it is not the wyll of youre father in heven that one of these lytelons shulde perishe. ¹⁵ Moreover yf thy brother treaspace agenst the. Go and tell him his faute betwene him and the alone. Yf he heare the thou hast wone thy brother: ¹⁶ But yf he heare the not then take yet with the one or two that in the mouth of two or thre witnesses all thinges maye be stablisshed. ¹⁷ If he heare not them tell it vnto the congregacion. If he heare not ye congregacion take him as an hethen man and as a publican. ¹⁸ Verely I say vnto you what soever ye bynde on erth shalbe bounde in heven. And what soever ye lowse on erth shalbe lowsed in heven. ¹⁹ Agayn I say vnto you that yf two of you shall agre in erth apon eny maner thynge what soever they shall desyre: it shalbe geven them of my father which is in heven. ²⁰ For where two or thre are gathered togedder in my name there am I in the myddes of them. ²¹ Then came Peter to him and sayde: master howe ofte shall I forgeve my brother yf he synne agaynst me seven tymes? ²² Iesus sayd vnto him: I saye not vnto the seven tymes: but seventy tymes seven tymes. ²³ Therfore is ye kingdome of heven lykened vnto a certayne kynge which wolde take a countis of his servauntis. ²⁴ And when he had begone to recken one was broughte vnto him whiche ought him ten thousande talentis: ²⁵ whome be cause he had nought to paye his master commaunded him to be solde and his wyfe and his chyldren and all that he had and payment to be made. ²⁶ The servaunt fell doune and besought him sayinge: Sir geve me respyte and I wyll paye it every whit. ²⁷ Then had the Lorde pytie on that servaunt and lowsed him and forgave him the det. ²⁸ And ye sayde servaut wet oute and founde one of his felowes which ought him an hundred pence and leyed hondes on him and toke him by the throote sayinge: paye me yt thou owest. ²⁹ And his felowe fell doune and besought him sayinge: have pacience with me and I wyll paye the all. ³⁰ And he wolde not but went and cast him into preson tyll he shulde paye the det. ³¹ When his other felowes sawe what was done they were very sory and came and tolde vnto their lorde all yt had happened. ³² Then his lorde called him and sayde vnto him. O evyll servaut I forgave the all that det because thou prayedst me: was it not mete also yt thou ³³ shuldest have had copassion on thy felow even as I had pitie on ye? ³⁴ And his lorde was wrooth and delyuered him to the iaylers tyll he shnld paye all that was due to him. ³⁵ So lyke wyse shall my hevenly father do vnto you except ye forgeve with youre hertes eache one to his brother their treaspases. ¹⁹ ¹ And it came to passe when Iesus had fynisshed those sayinges he gat him from Galile and came into the coostes of Iewry beyonde Iordan ² and moche people folowed him and he healed them theare. ³ Then came vnto him the pharises temtinge him and sayinge to him: Ys it lawfull for a man to put awaye his wyfe for all maner of causes? ⁴ He answered and sayd vnto them: Have ye not redde how that he which made man at the beginninge made them man and woman ⁵ and sayde: for this thinge shall a ma leve father and mother and cleve vnto his wyfe and they twayne shalbe one flesshe. ⁶ Wherfore now are they not twayne but one flesshe. Let not man therfore put a sunder that which God hath cuppled to gedder. ⁷ The sayde they to him: why did Moses comaunde to geve a testimoniall of divorsemet and to put hyr awaye? ⁸ He sayde vnto them: Moses because of the hardnes of youre hertes suffred you to put awaye youre wyfes: But from ye beginnynge it was not so. ⁹ I saye therfore vnto you whosoever putteth awaye his wyfe (except it be for fornicacion) and maryeth another breaketh wedlocke. And whosoever maryeth her which is divorsed doeth commyt advoutry. ¹⁰ Then sayde his disciples to him: yf the mater be so betwene man and wyfe then is it not good to mary. ¹¹ He sayde vnto them: all me can not awaye with that sayinge save they to whom it is geve. ¹² Ther are chaste which were so borne out of their mothers belly. And ther are chaste which be made of men. And ther be chaste which have made them selves chaste for the kyngdome of heves sake. He that can take it let him take it. ¹³ Then were brought to him yonge chyldre that he shuld put his hondes on them and praye And the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴ But Iesus sayde: suffre the chyldren and forbid them not to come to me: for of suche is the kyngdome of heven. ¹⁵ And when he had put his hondes on them he departed thence. ¹⁶ And beholde one came and sayde vnto him: good master what good thinge shall I do that I maye have eternall lyfe? ¹⁷ He sayde vnto him: why callest thou me good? there is none good but one and that is God. But yf thou wylt entre in to lyfe kepe the commaundementes. ¹⁸ The other sayde to him Which? And Iesus sayde: breake no wedloke kill not steale not: beare not falce witnes: ¹⁹ honoure father and mother: and love thyne neighbour as thy sylfe. ²⁰ And the younge man sayde vnto him: I have observed all these thingis from my youth what lacke I yet? ²¹ And Iesus sayde vnto him yf thou wylt be perfecte goo and sell that thou hast and geve it to the povre and thou shalt have treasure in heven and come and folowe me. ²² When ye younge ma hearde yt sayinge he wet awaye mourninge. For he had greate possessions. ²³ Then Iesus sayde vnto his disciples: Verely I saye vnto you: yt is harde for a ryche ma to enter into ye kyngdome of heaven. ²⁴ And moreover I saye vnto you: it is easier for a camell to go through the eye of a nedle then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God. ²⁵ When his disciples hearde that they were excedingly amased sayinge: who then can be saved? ²⁶ Iesus behelde the and sayde vnto them: with men this is vnpossible but with God all thinges are possible. ²⁷ Then answered Peter and sayde to him: Beholde we have forsaken all and folowed the what shall we have? ²⁸ Iesus sayde vnto them: verely I saye to you: when the sonne of man shall syt in ye seate of his maieste ye which folowe me in ye seconde generacion shall syt also vpon .xii. seates and iudge ye .xii. tribes of Israel. ²⁹ And whosoever forsaketh housses or brethren or systers other father or mother or wyfe or chyldren or landes for my names sake ye same shall receave an hundred folde and shall inheret everlastynge lyfe. ³⁰ Many that are fyrste shalbe laste and the laste shalbe fyrste. ²⁰ ¹ For the kyngdome of heven ys lyke vnto an houssholder which went out erly in the morninge to hyre labourers into hys vyneyarde. ² And he agreed wt the labourers for a peny a daye and sent them into his vyneyarde. ³ And he went out about the thyrde houre and sawe other stonding ydell in the marketplace ⁴ and sayd vnto them go ye also into my vyneyarde: and whatsoever is right I will geve you. And they went there waye. ⁵ Agayne he wet out about the sixte and nynthe houre and dyd lyke wyse. ⁶ And he went out aboute the eleventhe houre and founde other stondynge ydell and sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydell? ⁷ They sayde vnto hym: because no man hath hyred vs. He sayde to them: goo ye alsoo into my vyneyarde and whatsoever is right that shall ye receave. ⁸ When even was come the lorde of the vyneyarde sayde vnto hys steward: call the labourers and geve them their hyre beginnyng at ye laste tyll thou come to ye fyrste. ⁹ And they whiche were hyred aboute the eleventhe houre came and receaved every man a peny. ¹⁰ Then came ye fyrst supposyng yt they shuld receave moare: and they likewyse receaved every man a peny. ¹¹ And when they had receaved it they murmured agaynst the good man of the housse ¹² saying: These laste have wrought but one houre and thou hast made them equall vnto vs which have born ye burthe and heet of the daye. ¹³ He answered to one of the sayinge: frende I do the no wronge: dyddest thou not agre wt me for a peny? ¹⁴ Take that which is thy duty and go thy waye. I will geve vnto this last as moche as to the. ¹⁵ Ys it not lawfull for me to do as me listeth with myne awne? Ys thyne eye evyll because I am good? ¹⁶ Soo the laste shalbe fyrste and the fyrste shalbe laste. For many are called and feawe be chosen. ¹⁷ And Iesus ascended to Ierusalem and toke the .xii. disciples a parte in the waye and sayde to the. ¹⁸ Beholde we goo vp to Ierusalem and the sonne of ma shalbe betrayed vnto ye chefe prestes and vnto the scribes and they shall condene him to deeth ¹⁹ and shall delyvre him to the getils to be mocked to be scourged and to be crucified: and ye thyrd daye he shall ryse agayne. ²⁰ Then came to hym the mother of zebedes chyldren with her sonnes worshippynge him and desyringe a certayne thinge of him. ²¹ And he sayd vnto her: what wilt thou have? She sayde vnto him: Gravnte that these my two sonnes may sit ye one on thy right hond and the other on ye lifte hond in thy kyngdome. ²² Iesus answered and sayd: Ye wot not what ye axe. Are ye able to drynke of the cuppe yt I shall drynke of and to be baptised wt the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with? They answered to him that we are. ²³ And he sayd vnto the: Ye shall drinke of my cvp and shalbe baptised with the baptyme that I shalbe baptised with. But to syt on my ryght hond and on my lyst hond is not myne to geve: but to them for whom it is prepared of my father. ²⁴ And when the ten hearde this they disdayned at ye two brethre: ²⁵ But Iesus called them vnto him and sayde: Ye knowe yt the lordes of the gentyls have dominacio over them. And they that are great exercise power over the. ²⁶ It shall not be so amoge you. But whosoever wyll be greate amoge you let him be youre minister: ²⁸ eve as the sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto but to minister and to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many. ²⁹ And as they departed fro Hierico moche people folowed him. ³⁰ And beholde two blinde men sittinge by ye waysyde whe they hearde Iesus passe by cryed sayinge: Thou Lorde ye sonne of David have mercy on vs. ³¹ And ye people rebuked them be cause they shulde holde their peace. But they cryed ye moare sayinge: have mercy on vs thou Lorde which arte ye sonne of David. ³² Then Iesus stode styll and called the and sayde: what will ye that I shulde do to you: ³³ They sayd to him: Lorde that oure eyes maye be opened. ³⁴ Iesus had copassion on the and touched their eyes. And immediatly their eyes receaved syght. And they folowed him. ²¹ ¹ When they drewe neye vnto Ierusalem and were come to Betphage vnto mounte olivete: then sent Iesus two of his disciples ² saiynge to the. Go in to the toune that lyeth over agaynste you and anone ye shall fynde an asse bounde and her colte with her: lose them and bringe them vnto me. ³ And if eny man saye ought vnto you saye ye yt the lorde hath neade of them: and streyght waye he will let them go. ⁴ All this was done to fulfyll that which was spoken by the Prophet sayinge: ⁵ Tell ye the doughter of Sion: beholde thy kynge cometh vnto the meke and sittinge vpon an asse and a colte the fole of an asse vsed to the yooke. ⁶ The disciples went and dyd as Iesus comaunded them ⁷ and brought ye asse and the colte and put on them their clothes and set him theron. ⁸ And many of the people spreed their garmentes in ye waye. Other cut doune braunches fro the trees and strawed them in the waye. ⁹ Moreover the people that went before and they also that came after cryed sayinge: Hosanna to ye sonne of David. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lorde Hosanna in the hyest. ¹⁰ And when he was come in to Ierusalem all the cyte was moved sayinge: who is this? ¹¹ And the people sayde: this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile. ¹² And Iesus went in to the temple of God and cast out all them that soulde and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the mony chaugers and the seates of them that solde doves ¹³ and sayde to them: It is wrytten my housse shalbe called the housse of prayer. But ye have made it a denne of theves. ¹⁴ And the blinde and the halt came to him in ye teple and he healed the. ¹⁵ When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe the marveylles that he dyd and the chyldren cryinge in the teple and sayinge Hosanna to the sonne of David they disdayned ¹⁶ and sayde vnto him: hearest thou what these saye? Iesus sayde vnto them yee: have ye never redde of the mouth of babes and suckelinges thou haste ordeyned prayse? ¹⁷ And he lefte the and wet out of ye cite vnto Bethanie and had his abydige there. ¹⁸ In the mornynge as he returned in to the cyte ageyne he hungred ¹⁹ and spyed a fygge trre in the waye and came to it and founde nothinge theron but leves only and sayd to it never frute growe on the hence forwardes. And ano the fygge tree wyddered awaye. ²⁰ And when his disciples sawe that they marveled sayinge: Howe sone is the fygge tree wyddered awaye? ²¹ Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: Verely I saye vnto you yf ye shall have faith and shall not dout ye shall not only do that which I have done to the fygge tree: but also yf ye shall saye vnto this moutayne take thy silfe awaye and cast thy silfe into the see it shalbe done. ²² And whatsoever ye shall axe in prayer (if ye beleve) ye shall receave it. ²³ And when he was come into the teple the chefe prestes and the elders of the people came vnto him as he was teachinge and sayde: by what auctorite doest thou these thinges? and who gave the this power? ²⁴ Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: I also will axe of you a certayne question which if ye assoyle me I in lyke wyse wyll tell you by what auctorite I do these thinges. ²⁵ The baptime of Iohn: whence was it? fro heve or of men? Then they reasoned amoge them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye fro heven he will saye vnto vs: why dyd ye not then beleve hym? ²⁶ But and if we shall saye of men then feare we the people. For all men helde Iohn as a Prophet. ²⁷ And they answered Iesus and sayde: we cannot tell. And he lyke wyse sayd vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges. ²⁸ What saye ye to this? A certayne man had two sonnes and came to ye elder and sayde: sonne go and worke to daye in my vineyarde. ²⁹ He answered and sayde I will not: but afterwarde repented and went. ³⁰ Then came he to the second and sayde lyke wyse. And he answered and sayde: I will syr: yet wet not. ³¹ Whether of the twayne dyd the will of the father? And they sayde vnto hym: the fyrst. Iesus sayde vnto the: verely I saye vnto you that the publicans and the harlotes shall come into ye kyngdome of God before you. ³² For Iohn came vnto you in the waye of rightewesnes and ye beleved hym not. But the publicans and the harlotes beleved him. And yet ye (though ye sawe it) were not yet moved with repentaunce that ye myght afterwarde have beleved hym. ³³ Herken another similitude. Ther was a certayne housholder which planted a vineyarde and hedged it roude about and made a wynpresse in it and bilt a tower and let it out to husbandmen and wet in to a straunge coutre. ³⁴ And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare he sent his servauntes to the husbandmen to receave the frutes of it. ³⁵ And ye husbandme caught his servauntes and bet one kylled another and stoned another. ³⁶ Agayne he sent other servantes moo then the fyrst: and they served them lyke wyse. ³⁷ But last of all he sent vnto the his awne sonne sayinge: they will feare my sonne. ³⁸ But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne they sayde amoge the selves: This is the heyre: come let vs kyll him and let vs take his inheritaunce to oure selves. ³⁹ And they caught him and thrust him out of the vineyarde and slewe him. ⁴⁰ When the lorde of the vyneyarde commeth what will he do wt those husbandme? ⁴¹ They sayde vnto him: he will cruellye destroye those evyll persons and wyll let out his vyneyarde vnto other husbandmen which shall delyver him the frute at tymes convenient ⁴² Iesus sayde vnto the: dyd ye never redde in the scriptures? The stone which ye bylders refused ye same is set in ye principall parte of ye corner: this was the lordes doinge and yt is mervelous in oure eyes. ⁴³ Therfore saye I vnto you the kyngdome of God shalbe take from you and shalbe geve to the getyls which shall brynge forth the frutes of it. ⁴⁴ And whosoever shall fall on this stone he shalbe broken but on whosoever it shall fall vpon it will grynde him to powder. ⁴⁵ And when the chefe prestes and Pharises hearde these similitudes they perceaved yt he spake of the. ⁴⁶ And they wet about to laye hondes on him but they feared ye people because they tooke him as a Prophet.