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Thanne Dauid hym silf clepith him lord, hou thanne is he his sone? And myche puple gladli herde hym.

And he seide to hem in his techyng, Be ye war of scribis, that wolen wandre in stolis,

And he that is aboue the roof, come not doun in to the hous, nethir entre he, to take ony thing of his hous;

and he that schal be in the feeld, turne not ayen bihynde to take his cloth.

But of the fige tree lerne ye the parable. Whanne now his braunche is tendre, and leeues ben sprongun out, ye knowen that somer is nyy.

For as a man that is gon fer in pilgrimage, lefte his hous, and yaf to his seruauntis power of euery work, and comaundide to the porter, that he wake.

And whanne he was at Betanye, in the hous of Symount leprous, and restide, a womman cam, that hadde a boxe of alabastre of precious oynement spikenard; and whanne the boxe of alabastre was brokun, sche helde it on his heed.

And his traytour hadde youun to hem a tokene, and seide, Whom euer Y kisse, he it is; holde ye hym, and lede ye warli.

But oon of the men that stoden aboute, drowy out a swerd, and smoot the seruaunt of the hiyest preest, and kittide of his eere.

And summe bigunnen to bispete hym, `and to hile his face, and to smite hym with buffetis, and seie to hym, Areede thou. And the mynystris beeten hym with strokis.

And thei smyten his heed with a reed, and bispatten hym; and thei kneliden, and worschipiden hym.

And thei compelliden a man that passide the weie, that cam fro the toun, Symount of Syrenen, the fader of Alisaundir and of Rufe, to bere his cross.

And the titil of his cause was writun, Kyng of Jewis.

And thei crucifien with hym twei theues, oon `at the riythalf and oon at his lefthalf.

In the daies of Eroude, kyng of Judee, ther was a prest, Sakarie bi name, of the sorte of Abia, and his wijf was of the douytris of Aaron, and hir name was Elizabeth.

And it bifel, that whanne Zacarie schulde do the office of preesthod, in the ordre of his cours tofor God,

And the aungel seide to hym, Zacarie, drede thou not; for thi preyer is herd, and Elizabeth, thi wijf, schal bere to thee a sone, and his name schal be clepid Joon.

And ioye and gladyng schal be to thee; and many schulen `haue ioye in his natyuyte.

For he schal be greet bifor the Lord, and he schal not drynke wyn and sidir, and he schal be fulfillid with the Hooli Goost yit of his modir wombe.

And it was don, whanne the daies of his office weren fulfillid, he wente in to his hous.