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ND beholding, he saw them that did cast their guifts into the treasurie, rich persons. And he saw also a certaine poore widow casting two brasse mites. And he said: Verily I say to you, that this poore widow hath cast more then al. For al these of their aboundance have cast into the guifts of God: but she ″ of her penurie, hath cast in al her living that she had.

And certaine saying of the Temple that it was adorned with goodly stones and donaries, he said: These things which you see, * the dayes wil come wherein there shal not be left a stone upon a stone that shal not be destroyed. And they asked him, saying: Maister, when shal these things be: and what shal be the signe when they shal begin to come to passe? Who said: See you be not seduced for many wil come in my name, saying that I am he: and the time is at hand, goe not therefore after them. And when you shal heare of warres and seditions, be not terrified: these things must first come to passe, but the end is not yet by and by. Then he said to them: Nation shal rise against Nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom. And there shal be great earth-quakes in places, and pestilences and famines, and terrours from Heaven, and there shal be great signes. But before al these things they wil lay their hands upon you: and persecute you delivering you into Synagogues and prisons, drawing you to Kings and Presidents for my name. And it shal happen unto you for testimonie. Lay up this therfore in your hartes, not to premeditate how you shal answer. For I wil give you mouth and wisdom, which al your adversaries shal not be able to resist and gainesay. And you shal be delivered up of your parents and brethren, and kinsemen and freinds: and they wil put to death of you. And you shal be odious to al men for my name: and a haire of your head shal not perish. In your patience you shal possesse your soules.✠

And when you shal see Hierusalem compassed about with an armie, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand. Then they that are in Jewrie, let them flee to the mountaines: and they in the middes thereof, let them depart: and they in the countries, let them not enter into it. For these are the dayes of vengeance, that al things may be fulfilled that are written. But woe to them that are with child and that Rh