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* And in the morning returning into the citie, he was an hungred. * And seeing a certaine figtree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only, and he saith to it: Never grow there fruit of thee for ever. And incontinent the figtree was withered. And the Disciples seeing it marveled saying: How is it withered incontinent? $b$ And answering said to them: Amen I say to you, * if you shal have faith, and stagger not, not only that of the figtree shal you doe, but and if you shal say to this mountaine, Take up and throw thyself into the sea, it shal be done. And al things whatsoever you shal aske in prayer ″ beleeving, you shal receave.

And when he was come into the temple, there came to him as he was teaching, the cheefe Priests and Ancients of the People, saying: * ″ In what power doest thou these things? and who hath given thee this power? answering said to them: I also wil aske you one word: which if you shal tel me, I also wil tel you in what power I doe these things. The Baptisme of John whence was it? from Heaven, or from men? But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shal say from Heaven, he wil say to us, why then did you not beleeve him? But if we shal say from men: we feare the multitude, for al hold John as a Prophet. And answering to they said: We know not. He also said to them: Neither do I tel you in what power I doe these things.

But what is your opinion? A certaine man had two sonnes; and comming to ″ the first, he said: Sonne, goe worke to day in my vineyard. And he answering, said: I wil not. But afterward moved with repentance he went. And comming to the other, he said likewise. And he answering, said: I goe Lord, and he went not: which of the two did the fathers wil? They say to him, The first. saith to them: Amen I say to you, that the Publicans and whoores goe before you into the Kingdom of God. For John came to you in the way of justice, and you did not beleeve him. But the publicans and whoores did beleeve him: but you seeing it, neither have ye had repentance afterward, to beleeve him.

An other parable heare ye: A man there was an housholder who * planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and digged in it a presse, and builded a towre, and let it out to husbandmen: and went forth into a strange countrie. And when the time of fruites drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receave the fruits thereof. And the husbandmen apprehending his servants, one they beat, an other they killed, and an other they stoned. Againe he sent other servants more then the former: and they did to them likewise. And last of al he sent to them his sonne, saying: They wil reverence my sonne. But the husbandmen seeing the sonne, said within themselves: This is the Heire, come, let us kil him, and we shal have his inheritance. And apprehending him they cast him forth out of the vineyard, & killed him. When therfore the Lord of the vineyard shal come, what wil he doe to those husbandmen? They say to him: The Rh