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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
Bishop
The First Book of Clement
1Clem
[1]And it came to passe, that on one of those dayes, as he taught ye people in the temple, & preached the Gospell, the hie priestes and the scribes came vpo hym, with the elders [No book]
[2]And spake vnto him, saying: Tell vs by what aucthoritie doest thou these thynges? Eyther who is he that gaue thee this aucthoritie [No book]
[3]Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto them: I also wyll aske you one thyng, & aunswere me [No book]
[4]The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men [No book]
[5]And they reasoned within the selues, saying, Yf we say from heauen, he wyll say, why then beleued ye hym not [No book]
[6]But and yf we say of men, all the people wyll stone vs: For they be perswaded that Iohn is a prophete [No book]
[7]And they aunswered, that they coulde not tell whence it was [No book]
[8]And Iesus saide vnto them: Neither tell I you by what aucthoritie I do these thynges [No book]
[9]Then began he to put foorth to the people this parable. A certayne man planted a vineyarde, and let it foorth to husbande men, and went hym selfe into a straunge countrey for a great season [No book]
[10]And when the time was come, he sent a seruaunt to the husbande men, that they shoulde geue hym of the fruite of the vineyarde. And they beat hym, and sent hym away emptie [No book]
[11]And agayne, he sent yet another seruaunt: and hym they did beate, and entreated hym shamefully, and sent hym away emptie [No book]
[12]Agayne, he sent the thirde also: and hym they wounded, and cast hym out [No book]
[13]Then said the Lord of the vineyarde: What shal I do? I wyl send my deare sonne, it may be they wyll reuerence hym, when they see hym [No book]
[14]But when the husbande men sawe him, they reasoned within them selues, saying: This is the heyre, come, let vs kyll hym, that the inheritaunce may be ours [No book]
[15]And they cast him out of the vineyard, and kylled hym. What shall the Lorde of the vineyarde therfore do vnto them [No book]
[16]He shall come and destroye these husbande men, & shall let out his vineyarde to other. When they hearde this, they sayde, God forbyd [No book]
[17]And he behelde them, & sayde: What is this then that is written, The stone that the buylders refused, the same is become the head of the corner [No book]
[18]Whosoeuer doth stumble vppon that stone, shalbe broken: but on whosoeuer it falleth, it wyll grinde hym to powder [No book]
[19]And the hye priestes & the scribes, the same houre went about to laye handes on hym: and they feared the people. For they perceaued that he had spoken this similitude agaynst them [No book]
[20]And they watched hym, & sent foorth spyes, which shoulde fayne them selues ryghteous men, to take hym in his wordes, and to delyuer hym vnto the power and aucthoritie of the deputie [No book]
[21]And they asked him, saying: Maister, we knowe that thou sayest and teachest ryght, neither considerest thou the outwarde appearaunce of any man, but teachest the way of God truely [No book]
[22]Is is lawfull for vs to geue tribute vnto Caesar, or no [No book]
[23]He perceaued their craftynesse, & saide vnto them: why tempt ye me [No book]
[24]Shewe me a penie, whose image and superscription hath it? They aunswered and sayde, Caesars [No book]
[25]And he sayde vnto them: Geue then vnto Caesar, the thynges which belong vnto Caesar, and to God the thynges that perteyne vnto God [No book]
[26]And they coulde not reproue his saying before the people: and they marueyled at his aunswere, & helde their peace [No book]
[27]Then came to hym certayne of the saducees, which denie that there is any resurrection, and they asked hym [No book]
[28]Saying: Maister, Moyses wrote vnto vs, yf any mans brother dye, hauyng a wyfe, and he dye without chyldren: that then his brother shoulde take his wyfe, & rayse vp seede vnto his brother [No book]
[29]There were therfore seuen brethren, and the first toke a wyfe, & dyed without chyldren [No book]
[30]And the seconde toke her, and he dyed chyldlesse [No book]
[31]And the thirde toke her, & in lykewise the residue of the seuen, and left no chyldren behynde them, and dyed [No book]
[32]Last of all, the woman dyed also [No book]
[33]Nowe in the resurrection, whose wife of them shall she be? For seuen had her to wyfe [No book]
[34]Iesus aunswered and saide vnto the: The chyldren of this worlde marrye wyues, and are marryed [No book]
[35]But they which shalbe counted worthy to enioy that worlde, and the resurrection from the dead, do not marrye wyues, neither are marryed [No book]
[36]Nor yet can dye any more: For they are equall vnto the angels, and are the sonnes of God, inasmuche as they are chyldren of the resurrection [No book]
[37]And that the dead shall ryse agayne, Moyses also sheweth besides the bushe, when he calleth the Lorde the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, & the God of Iacob [No book]
[38]For he is not a God of dead, but of lyuyng: For all lyue vnto hym [No book]
[39]Then certayne of the pharisees aunswered, and sayde? Maister, thou hast well sayde [No book]
[40]And after that, durst they not aske him any question at all [No book]
[41]And he sayde vnto them: Howe saye they that Christe is Dauids sonne [No book]
[42]And Dauid hym selfe sayeth in the booke of the psalmes: The Lord saide to my Lord, syt thou on my right hand [No book]
[43]Tyll I make thine enemies thy footestoole [No book]
[44]Dauid therfore calleth hym Lorde, & howe is he then his sonne [No book]
[45]Then in the audience of all the people, he saide vnto his disciples [No book]
[46]Beware of the scribes, whiche wyll go in long robes, and loue greetinges in the markets, and the hyest seates in the synagogues, and the chiefe rowmes at feastes [No book]
[47]Which deuour widowes howses vnder colour of longe prayers: The same shall receaue greater dampnation [No book]
Source: studybible.org
Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1885)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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