Matthew 20:1
X Herken another similitude.* There was a certayn housholder*/which planted a vyneyarde*/and bedged it round about*/and made a wynpresse in it/& bylt a tower and let it out to husbandmē/& went into a straunge coūtre. And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare: he sent his servaūtes to the husbandmē/to receave the frutes of it. And the husbandmen caught his servaūtes/& bet one/kylled another/and stoned another. Agayn he sent other servaūtes moo then the first: & they served them lykwyse. But last of all he sent unto them his owne sone sayinge: they wyll feare my sone. But when the husbandmen sawe the sone/they sayde amonges them selfes. This is the heyre: come let us kyl him/& let us take his inheritaunce to our selfes. And they caught him and thrust him out of the vyneyarde/and slewe him. When the lorde of the vyneyarde cōmeth/what will he do with those husbandmen? They sayd unto him: he wyll cruellye destroye those evyl persons/& will let out his vyneyarde unto other husbandmen/which shall delyver him the frute at tymes convenient.
Jesus sayd unto them: dyd ye never redde in the scriptures? The stone which the bylders refused*/the same is set in the principall parte of the corner:* this was the lordes doynge*/and it is mervelous in our eyes.* Therfore say I unto you*/the kyngdom of God shalbe taken from you/& shalbe geven to the Gentyls/which shall bring forth the frutes of it. And who so ever shal fall on this stone/he shal be brokē/but on who so ever it shal fall upō it will grynde him to powder. And when the chefe Prestes and pharises hearde these similitudes/they perceaved that he spake of them. And they went about to laye handes on him/but they feared the people/because they toke him as a Prophet. ⱶ
¶ The parable of the mariage. One had not on his weddynge garment. The question of Herodes servauntes and the pharises to Christ whether it were lawfull to paye tribute. The question of the Saduces that beleved no resurreccion. Of the doctor that axed Christ which was the chefe commaundement, The question that Christ axed of the pharises.
Tyndale, William. The 1536 Tyndale Bible New Testament. N.P., 1536. Print.
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