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And if God clothith thus the hey, that to dai is in the feeld, and to morewe is cast in to an ouen; hou myche more you of litil feith.

Netheles seke ye first the kyngdom of God, and alle these thingis schulen be caste to you.

And he settide on hir his hoondis, and anoon sche stood upriyt, and glorifiede God.

Therfor he seide, To what thing is the kyngdom of God lijk? and to what thing schal Y gesse it to be lijk?

And eft soone he seide, To what thing schal Y gesse the kyngdom of God lijk?

There schal be wepyng and gruntyng of teeth, whanne ye schulen se Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and alle the prophetis in the kyngdom of God; and you to be put out.

And thei schulen come fro the eest and west, and fro the north and south, and schulen sitte `at the mete in the rewme of God.

And whanne oon of hem that saten togider at the mete hadde herd these thingis, he seide to hym, Blessid is he, that schal ete breed in the rewme of God.

So Y seie to you, ioye schal be bifor aungels of God on o synful man doynge penaunce.

No seruaunt may serue to twei lordis; for ether he schal hate `the toon, and loue the tothir; ethir he schal drawe to `the toon, and schal dispise the tothir. Ye moun not serue to God and to ritchesse.

And he seide to hem, Ye it ben, that iustifien you bifor men; but God hath knowun youre hertis, for that that is hiy to men, is abhomynacioun bifor God.

The lawe and prophetis til to Joon; fro that tyme the rewme of God is euangelisid, and ech man doith violence in to it.

And oon of hem, as he saiy that he was clensid, wente ayen, magnifiynge God with grete vois.

There is noon foundun, that turnede ayen, and yaf glorie to God, but this alien.

And he was axid of Farisees, whanne the rewme of God cometh. And he answerde to hem, and seide, The rewme of God cometh not with aspiyng,

nether thei schulen seie, Lo! here, or lo there; for lo! the rewme of God is with ynne you.

and seide, There was a iuge in a citee, that dredde not God, nether schamede of men.

and he wolde not longe tyme. But aftir these thingis he seide with ynne hym silf, Thouy Y drede not God, and schame not of man,

and whether God schal not do veniaunce of hise chosun, criynge to hym dai and nyyt, and schal haue pacience in hem?

And the Farisee stood, and preiede bi hym silf these thingis, and seide, God, Y do thankyngis to thee, for Y am not as other men, raueinouris, vniust, auoutreris, as also this pupplican;