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for it is liyter a camel to passe thorou a nedlis iye, than a riche man to entre in to the kyngdom of God.

And he seide to hym, Treuli Y seie to you, there is no man that schal forsake hous, or fadir, modir, or britheren, or wijf, or children, or feeldis, for the rewme of God,

For he schal be bitraied to hethen men, and he schal be scorned, and scourgid, and bispat;

And he souyte to se Jhesu, who he was, and he myyte not, for the puple, for he was litil in stature.

And he ran bifore, and stiyede in to a sicomoure tree, to se hym; for he was to passe fro thennus.

And Jhesus biheld vp, whanne he cam to the place, and saiy hym, and seide to hym, Sache, haste thee, and come doun, for to dai Y mot dwelle in thin hous.

And whanne alle men sayn, thei grutchiden seiynge, For he hadde turned to a synful man.

Jhesus seith to hym, For to dai heelthe is maad to this hous, for that he is Abrahams sone;

for mannus sone cam to seke, and make saaf that thing that perischide.

Whanne thei herden these thingis, he addide, and seide a parable, for that he was nyy Jerusalem, `and for thei gessiden, that anoon the kyngdom of God schulde be schewid.

He seide to hym, Wel be, thou good seruaunt; for in litil thing thou hast be trewe, thou schalt be hauynge power on ten citees.

For Y dredde thee, for thou art `a sterne man; thou takist awey that that thou settidist not, and thou repist that that thou hast not sowun.

And if ony man axe you, whi ye vntien, thus ye schulen seie to hym, For the Lord desirith his werk.

And thei seiden, For the Lord hath nede to hym.

And he seide to hem, Y seie to you, for if these ben stille, stoonus schulen crye.

and wepte on it, and seide, For if thou haddist knowun, thou schuldist wepe also; for in this dai the thingis ben in pees to thee, but now thei ben hid fro thin iyen.

and caste thee doun to the erthe, and thi sones that ben in thee; and thei schulen not leeue in thee a stoon on a stoon, for thou hast not knowun the tyme of thi visitacioun.

and thei founden not, what thei schulden do to hym, for al the puple was ocupied, and herde hym.

And thei thouyten with ynne hem silf, seiynge, For if we seien, Of heuene, he schal seie, Whi thanne bileuen ye not to hym?

and if we seien, Of men, al the puple schal stoone vs; for thei ben certeyn, that Joon is a prophete.