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and sent messengers before him. And they went and entred into a citie of the Samaritans to make redy for him.

When his disciples Iames and Iohn sawe yt they sayde: Lorde wilt thou that we comaunde that fyre come doune from heven and consume them even as Helias dyd?

The sonne of ma ys not come to destroye mennes lives but to save them. And they went to another toune.

And in ye same housse tary still eatinge and drinkinge soche as they have. For the laborer is worthy of his ewarde. Go not fro housse to housse:

and in to whatso ever citye ye enter yf they receave you eate soche thinges as are set before you

But into whatsoever citie ye shall enter yf they receave you not goo youre wayes out into the stretes of ye same and saye:

Wo be to the Chorazin: wo be to ye Bethsaida. For yf ye miracles had bene done in Tyre and Sido which have bene done in you they had a greate whyle agone repeted sitting in heere and asshes.

It fortuned as they wet that he entred in to a certayne toune. And a certayne woman named Martha receaved him into her housse.

Then goeth he and taketh to him seve other spretes worsse then himsilfe: and they enter in and dwell there. And the ende of that man is worsse then the begynninge.

But he sayde: Ye happy are they that heare the worde of God and kepe it.

When the people were gadered thicke to geder: he began to saye. This is an evyll nacion: they seke a signe and ther shall no signe be geven them but the signe of Ionas the Prophet.

The men of Ninive shall ryse at the iudgement wt this generacio and shall condepne the: for they repented at the preachinge of Ionas. And beholde a greater then Ionas is here.

Noo man lighteth a candell and putteth it in a previe place nether vnder a busshell: But on a candelsticke that they that come in maye se ye light.

truly ye beare witnes that ye alowe the dedes of youre fathers for they kylled them and ye bylde their sepulchres.

Therfore sayde ye wisdome of God: I will send them Prophetes and Apostles and of them they shall slee and persecute:

layinge wayte for him and sekinge to catche somethinge of his mought wherby they might accuse him.

I saye vnto you my fredes: Be not afrayde of them that kyll the body and after that have no moare that they can do.

When they bringe you vnto the synagoges and vnto the rulers and officers take no thought how or what thinge ye shall answer or what ye shall speake.

Considre the ravens for they nether sowe nor repe which nether have stoorehousse ner barne and yet God fedeth them. How moche are ye better then the foules.

Considre the lylies how they growe: They laboure not: they spyn not: and yet I saye vnto you that Salomon in all this royalte was not clothed lyke to one of these.