1 And it came to pass as he was in a certain place praying, that when he ceased, a certain man of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray as John also taught his disciples.
2 And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name. May thy kingdom come, may thy will happen on the earth as also in heaven.
3 Give us our bread sufficient for each day.
4 And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive every man who is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
5 And he said to them, Which of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,
6 since a friend arrived from the road to me, and I do not have what I would set before him,
7 and that man from inside, having answered, would say, Do not cause toils for me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I am not able, after getting up, to give thee?
8 I say to you, though he will not give him, after getting up, because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, having awaken, he will give him as many as he needs.
9 And I say to you, ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened.
10 For every man who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
11 And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent?
12 Or if he should ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father from heaven will give Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
14 And he was casting out a demon, and it was mute. And it happened when the demon was gone out, the mute man spoke. And the multitudes marveled,
15 but some of them said, He casts out the demons by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons.
16 And others, challenging, sought from him a sign from the sky.
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom that was divided against itself is made desolate, and a house against a house falls.
18 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom be made to stand? Because ye say that I cast out the demons by Beelzebub.
19 And if I cast out the demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this they will be your judges.
20 But if by a finger of God I cast out the demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
21 When the fully armed strong man guards his palace, the things possessed by him are in peace,
22 but when a stronger than he comes, after defeating him, he takes away his full armor in which he trusted, and divides his booty.
23 He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
24 When the unclean spirit departs out of the man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest. And not finding, it says, I will return to my house from where I came out.
25 And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order.
26 Then it goes, and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having enter in, it dwells there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.
27 And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman, having lifted up her voice out of the crowd, said to him, Blessed is the belly that bore thee, and the breasts that thou suckled.
28 But he said, Blessed rather, are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.
29 And when the multitudes gathered together he began to say, This generation is evil. They seek a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
30 For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of man will be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south will awake in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
32 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
33 And no man, having lit a lamp, puts it in a concealed place, nor under the bushel, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter in may see the light.
34 The lamp of thy body is the eye. Therefore, when thine eye is sound, thy whole body is also bright, but when it is bad, thy body is also dark.
35 Watch therefore the light in thee not be darkness.
36 If therefore thy whole body is bright, not having any part dark, the whole will be bright, as when the lamp illuminates thee by the radiance.
37 Now as he spoke a certain Pharisee asks him that he might dine with him. And having entered in, he sat down.
38 And when the Pharisee saw, he marveled that he did not first wash before dinner.
39 And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness.
40 Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?
41 But give compassion, things that are inside, and behold, all things are clean to you.
42 But woe to you Pharisees! Because ye tithe mint and rue and every plant, and pass by justice and the love of God. It is necessary to do these things, and not to neglect those things.
43 Woe to you Pharisees! Because ye love the place of honor in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
44 Woe to you scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye are like the unseen sepulchers, and the men who walk over them do not know.
45 And having answered, a certain man of the lawyers says to him, Teacher, in saying these things thou rebuke us also.
46 And he said, Woe also to you lawyers! Because ye load men with burdens difficult to bear, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe to you! Because ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
48 Consequently, ye testify and approve the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.
49 Because of this also the wisdom of God said, I will send to them prophets and apostles. And some of them they will kill and persecute,
50 so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it will be required of this generation.
52 Woe to you lawyers! Because ye took away the key of knowledge. Ye did not enter in yourselves, and ye hindered those who were entering in.
53 And after he said these things to them, the scholars and the Pharisees began to harass him extremely, and to provoke him to speak impulsively about more things,
54 waiting to ambush him, seeking to catch something out of his mouth so that they might accuse him.
1 And it fortuned as he was prayinge in a certayne place: when he ceased one of his disciples sayde vnto him: Master teache vs to praye as Iohn taught his disciples.
2 And he sayd vnto the: When ye praye saye: O oure father which arte in heave halowed be thy name. Thy kyngdome come. Thy will be fulfilled even in erth as it is in heaven.
3 Oure dayly breed geve vs evermore.
4 And forgeve vs oure synnes: For eve we forgeve every man yt treaspaseth vs. And ledde vs not into teptacio. But deliver vs fro evill.
5 And he sayde vnto them: if any of you shuld have a frede and shuld goo to him at mid nyght and saye vnto him: frende lende me thre loves
6 for a frende of myne is come out of the waye to me and I have nothinge to set before him:
7 and he within shuld answere and saye trouble me not the dore is now sheet and my servautes are with me in the chamber I canot ryse and geve them to the.
8 I saye vnto you though he wold not aryse and geve him because he is his frede: yet because of his importunite he wold rise and geve him as many as he neded.
9 And I saye vnto you: axe and it shalbe geven you. Seke and ye shall fynde. knocke and it shalbe opened vnto you.
10 For every one that axeth receaveth: and he that seketh fyndeth: and to him that knocketh shall it be openned.
11 Yf the sonne shall axe breed of eny of you that is a father: wyll he geve him a stone? Or yf he axe fisshe wyll he for a fysshe geve him a serpent?
12 Or yf he axe an egge: wyll he offer him a scorpion?
13 Yf ye then which are evyll canne geve good giftes vnto youre chyldren how moche more shall the father of heaven geve an holy sprete to them that desyre it of him?
14 And he was a castynge out a devyll which was dome. And it folowed when the devyll was gone out the domme spake and the people wondred.
15 But some of the sayde: he casteth out devyls by the power of Belzebub the chefe of the devyls.
16 And other tempted him sekinge of him a signe fro heave.
17 But he knewe their thoughtes and sayde vnto them: Every kingdome devided with in it silfe shalbe desolate: and one housse shall fall vpon another.
18 So if Satan be devided with in him silfe: how shall his kyngdome endure? Because ye saye that I cast out devyls by the power of Belzebub.
19 Yf I by the power of Belzebub caste oute devyls: by whome do youre chyldren cast them out? Therfore shall they be youre iudges.
20 But if I with ye finger of God cast out devyls noo doute the kyngdome of God is come vpon you.
21 When a stronge man armed watcheth his housse: yt he possesseth is in peace.
22 But when a stronger then he cometh vpo him and overcometh him: he taketh from him his harnes wherin he trusted and devideth his gooddes.
23 He that is not with me is agaynst me. And he that gadereth not with me scattereth.
24 When the vnclene sprete is gone out of a man he walketh through waterlesse places sekinge reest. And when he fyndeth none he sayeth: I will returne agayne vnto my housse whence I came out.
25 And when he cometh he fyndeth it swept and garnissed.
26 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.
27 And it fortuned as he spake those thinges a certayne woman of the copany lyfte vp her voyce and sayde vnto him: Happy is the wombe that bare the and the pappes which gave the sucke.
28 But he sayde: Ye happy are they that heare the worde of God and kepe it.
29 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.
30 For as Ionas was a signe to the Ninivites so shall ye sonne of ma be to this nacio.
31 The quene of the southe shall ryse at iudgement with the men of this generacio and condempne them: for she came fro the ende of the worlde to heare the wysdome of Salomon. And beholde a greater then Salomon is here.
32 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.
33 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.
34 The light of thy body is the eye. Therfore when thine eye is single: then is all thy body full of light. But if thine eye be evyll: then shall thy body also be full of darknes.
35 Take hede therfore that the light which is in the be not darknes.
36 For if all thy body shalbe light havynge noo parte darke: then shall all be full of light even as when a candell doeth light the with his brightnes.
37 And as he spake a certayne Pharise besought him to dyne with him: and he went in and sate doune to meate.
38 When the Pharise sawe that he marveylled yt he had not fyrst wesshed before dyner.
39 And ye Lorde sayde to him: Now do ye Pharises make clene the out side of the cup and of the platter: but youre inwarde parties are full of raveninge and wickednes.
40 Ye foles dyd not he that made that which is without: make that which is within also?
41 Neverthelesse geve almose of that ye have and beholde all is clene to you.
42 But wo be to you Pharises for ye tithe the mynt and rewe and all manner erbes and passe over iudgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done and yet not to have left the other vndone.
43 Wo be to you Pharises: for ye love the vppermost seates in the synagoges and gretinges in the markets.
44 Wo be to you scribes and pharises ypocrites for ye are as graves which appere not and the men yt walke over the are not ware of the.
45 Then answered one of the lawears and sayd vnto him: Master thus sayinge thou puttest vs to rebuke also.
46 Then he sayde: Wo be to you also ye lawears: for ye lade men with burthens greveous to be borne and ye youre selves touche not ye packes wt one of youre fyngers.
47 Wo be to you: ye bylde the sepulchres of the Prophetes and youre fathers killed the:
48 truly ye beare witnes that ye alowe the dedes of youre fathers for they kylled them and ye bylde their sepulchres.
49 Therfore sayde ye wisdome of God: I will send them Prophetes and Apostles and of them they shall slee and persecute:
50 that the bloude of all Prophetes which was sheed fro the beginninge of the worlde maye be requyred of this generacion
51 from the bloud of Abell vnto the bloud of zachary which perisshed bitwene the aulter and the temple. Verely I saye vnto you: it shalbe requyred of this nacion.
52 Wo be to you lawears: for ye have taken awaye ye keye of knowledge ye entred not in youre selves and them that came in ye forbade.
53 When he thus spake vnto them the lawears and the Pharises began to wexe busye about him and to stop his mouth with many questions
54 layinge wayte for him and sekinge to catche somethinge of his mought wherby they might accuse him.