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160 And he said to the dresser of the vineyard, Loe it is three yeares since I come seeking for fruit upon this figtree, and I find not. Cut it downe therfore; whereto doth it also occupie the ground? But he answering saith to him, Lord, let it alone this yeare also, until I digge about it, and dung it. And if happily it yeald fruit: but if not, hereafter thou shalt cut it downe.

And he was teaching in their synagogue on the Sabboths. And behold a woman that had a spirit of infirmitie eighteene yeares; and she was crooked, neither could she looke upward at al. Whom when saw, he called her unto him, and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmitie. And he imposed hands upon her, and forthwith she was made straight and glorified God. And the Archsynagogue answering (because he had indignation that had cured on the Sabboth) said to the multitude: Six dayes there are wherein you ought to worke. In them therfore come, and be cured; and not in the Sabboth day. And our Lord answering to him, said: Hypocrite, doth not every one of you upon the Sabboth loose his oxe or his asse from the manger, and leadeth them to water? But ″ this daughter of Abraham whom Satan hath bound, loe, these eighteene yeares, ought not she to be loosed from this bond on the Sabboth day? And when he said these things, al his adversaries were ashamed: and al the People rejoyced in al things that were gloriously done of him. ✠

He said therfore: * Whereunto is the Kingdom of God like, and whereunto shal I esteeme it like? It is like to a mustard seed, which a man tooke and cast into his garden and it grew, and became a great tree, and the foules of the aire rested in the boughes therof. And againe he said: * Like to what shal I esteeme the Kingdom of God? It is like to leaven, which a woman tooke and hid in three measures of meale, til the whole was leavened. And he went by cities and townes teaching, and making his journey unto Hierusalem.

And a certaine man said to him: Lord, be they few that are saved? * But he said to them: Strive to enter ″ by the narrow gate; because many, I say to you, ″ shal seeke to enter, and shal not be able. But when the good-man of the house shal enter in, and shut the doore, and you shal begin to stand without, and knocke at the doore, saying, Lord open to us; and he answering shal say to you, I know you not whence you are; then you shal begin to say, We did ″ eate before thee and drinke, and in our streetes didst thou teach. And he shal say to you, I know you not whence you are, depart from me al ye workers of iniquitie. There shal be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shal see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and al the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, and you to be thrust out. And there shal come from the East and the West and the North and the South; and shal sit downe in the Kingdom of God. And behold, they are last that shal be first, and they be first that shal be last.

The same day there came certaine of the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart and get thee hence, because Herod wil kil thee. And he said to them: Goe, and tel that foxe, Behold I cast out Divels, and perfit cures Rh