21Matthew 21

1When they drewe neye vnto Ierusalem and were come to Betphage vnto mounte olivete: then sent Iesus two of his disciplesSelect Matthew 21:1

2saiynge to the. Go in to the toune that lyeth over agaynste you and anone ye shall fynde an asse bounde and her colte with her: lose them and bringe them vnto me.Select Matthew 21:2

3And if eny man saye ought vnto you saye ye yt the lorde hath neade of them: and streyght waye he will let them go.Select Matthew 21:3

4All this was done to fulfyll that which was spoken by the Prophet sayinge:Select Matthew 21:4

5Tell ye the doughter of Sion: beholde thy kynge cometh vnto the meke and sittinge vpon an asse and a colte the fole of an asse vsed to the yooke.Select Matthew 21:5

6The disciples went and dyd as Iesus comaunded themSelect Matthew 21:6

7and brought ye asse and the colte and put on them their clothes and set him theron.Select Matthew 21:7

8And many of the people spreed their garmentes in ye waye. Other cut doune braunches fro the trees and strawed them in the waye.Select Matthew 21:8

9Moreover the people that went before and they also that came after cryed sayinge: Hosanna to ye sonne of David. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lorde Hosanna in the hyest.Select Matthew 21:9

10And when he was come in to Ierusalem all the cyte was moved sayinge: who is this?Select Matthew 21:10

11And the people sayde: this is Iesus the Prophet of Nazareth a cyte of Galile.Select Matthew 21:11

12And Iesus went in to the temple of God and cast out all them that soulde and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the mony chaugers and the seates of them that solde dovesSelect Matthew 21:12

13and sayde to them: It is wrytten my housse shalbe called the housse of prayer. But ye have made it a denne of theves.Select Matthew 21:13

14And the blinde and the halt came to him in ye teple and he healed the.Select Matthew 21:14

15When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe the marveylles that he dyd and the chyldren cryinge in the teple and sayinge Hosanna to the sonne of David they disdaynedSelect Matthew 21:15

16and sayde vnto him: hearest thou what these saye? Iesus sayde vnto them yee: have ye never redde of the mouth of babes and suckelinges thou haste ordeyned prayse?Select Matthew 21:16

17And he lefte the and wet out of ye cite vnto Bethanie and had his abydige there.Select Matthew 21:17

18In the mornynge as he returned in to the cyte ageyne he hungredSelect Matthew 21:18

19and spyed a fygge trre in the waye and came to it and founde nothinge theron but leves only and sayd to it never frute growe on the hence forwardes. And ano the fygge tree wyddered awaye.Select Matthew 21:19

20And when his disciples sawe that they marveled sayinge: Howe sone is the fygge tree wyddered awaye?Select Matthew 21:20

21Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: Verely I saye vnto you yf ye shall have faith and shall not dout ye shall not only do that which I have done to the fygge tree: but also yf ye shall saye vnto this moutayne take thy silfe awaye and cast thy silfe into the see it shalbe done.Select Matthew 21:21

22And whatsoever ye shall axe in prayer (if ye beleve) ye shall receave it.Select Matthew 21:22

23And when he was come into the teple the chefe prestes and the elders of the people came vnto him as he was teachinge and sayde: by what auctorite doest thou these thinges? and who gave the this power?Select Matthew 21:23

24Iesus answered and sayde vnto them: I also will axe of you a certayne question which if ye assoyle me I in lyke wyse wyll tell you by what auctorite I do these thinges.Select Matthew 21:24

25The baptime of Iohn: whence was it? fro heve or of men? Then they reasoned amoge them selves sayinge: yf we shall saye fro heven he will saye vnto vs: why dyd ye not then beleve hym?Select Matthew 21:25

26But and if we shall saye of men then feare we the people. For all men helde Iohn as a Prophet.Select Matthew 21:26

27And they answered Iesus and sayde: we cannot tell. And he lyke wyse sayd vnto them: nether tell I you by what auctorite I do these thinges.Select Matthew 21:27

28What saye ye to this? A certayne man had two sonnes and came to ye elder and sayde: sonne go and worke to daye in my vineyarde.Select Matthew 21:28

29He answered and sayde I will not: but afterwarde repented and went.Select Matthew 21:29

30Then came he to the second and sayde lyke wyse. And he answered and sayde: I will syr: yet wet not.Select Matthew 21:30

31Whether of the twayne dyd the will of the father? And they sayde vnto hym: the fyrst. Iesus sayde vnto the: verely I saye vnto you that the publicans and the harlotes shall come into ye kyngdome of God before you.Select Matthew 21:31

32For Iohn came vnto you in the waye of rightewesnes and ye beleved hym not. But the publicans and the harlotes beleved him. And yet ye (though ye sawe it) were not yet moved with repentaunce that ye myght afterwarde have beleved hym.Select Matthew 21:32

33Herken another similitude. Ther was a certayne housholder which planted a vineyarde and hedged it roude about and made a wynpresse in it and bilt a tower and let it out to husbandmen and wet in to a straunge coutre.Select Matthew 21:33

34And when the tyme of the frute drewe neare he sent his servauntes to the husbandmen to receave the frutes of it.Select Matthew 21:34

35And ye husbandme caught his servauntes and bet one kylled another and stoned another.Select Matthew 21:35

36Agayne he sent other servantes moo then the fyrst: and they served them lyke wyse.Select Matthew 21:36

37But last of all he sent vnto the his awne sonne sayinge: they will feare my sonne.Select Matthew 21:37

38But when the husbandmen sawe the sonne they sayde amoge the selves: This is the heyre: come let vs kyll him and let vs take his inheritaunce to oure selves.Select Matthew 21:38

39And they caught him and thrust him out of the vineyarde and slewe him.Select Matthew 21:39

40When the lorde of the vyneyarde commeth what will he do wt those husbandme?Select Matthew 21:40

41They sayde vnto him: he will cruellye destroye those evyll persons and wyll let out his vyneyarde vnto other husbandmen which shall delyver him the frute at tymes convenientSelect Matthew 21:41

42Iesus sayde vnto the: dyd ye never redde in the scriptures? The stone which ye bylders refused ye same is set in ye principall parte of ye corner: this was the lordes doinge and yt is mervelous in oure eyes.Select Matthew 21:42

43Therfore saye I vnto you the kyngdome of God shalbe take from you and shalbe geve to the getyls which shall brynge forth the frutes of it.Select Matthew 21:43

44And whosoever shall fall on this stone he shalbe broken but on whosoever it shall fall vpon it will grynde him to powder.Select Matthew 21:44

45And when the chefe prestes and Pharises hearde these similitudes they perceaved yt he spake of the.Select Matthew 21:45

46And they wet about to laye hondes on him but they feared ye people because they tooke him as a Prophet.Select Matthew 21:46