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C. XII

T that time * went through the corne on the Sabboth: and his Disciples being hungrie, began to pluck the eares, and to eate. And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Loe, thy Disciples doe that which is not lawful for them to doe on the Sabboth-dayes. But he said to them: Have you not read what * David did when he was an hungred, and they that were with him: how he entred into the house of God, and did eate the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eate, nor for them that were with him, * but for Priestes only? Or have ye not read in the * Law, that on Sabboth-dayes the Priestes in the temple do breake the Sabboth, & are without blame? but I tel you that there is here a greater then the temple. And if you did know what it is, I wil mercie, and not Sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocentes. For the Sonne of man is Lord of the Sabboth also.

And when he had passed from thence, he came into their Synagogue. And * behold there was a man which had a withered hand, and they asked him saying: Whether is it lawful to cure on the Sabboths? that they might accuse him. But he said to them: What man shal there be of you, that shal have one sheep: and if the same fal into a ditch on the Sabboths, wil he not take hold and lift it up? How much better is a man more then a sheep? Therfore it is lawful on the Sabboths to doe a good deed. Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand, and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other.

And the Pharisees going forth made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. But knowing it, retired from thence: and many folowed him, and he cured them al. and he charged them that they should not disclose him. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esay the Prophet, saying: ''Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul hath wel liked. I wil put my spirit upon him, and judgement to the Gentiles shal he shew. He shal not contend nor crie out, neither shal any man heare in the streetes his voyce. The reede bruised he shal not breake, & smoking flaxe he shal not extinguish: til he cast forth judgement unto victorie. And in his name the Gentiles shal hope.'' Rh