The Parable of the Banquet (Luke 14:15–24)
1 TNT And Iesus answered and spake vnto them agayne in similitudes sayinge. BSB BSB: Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables:
2 TNT The kingdome of heven is lyke vnto a certayne kynge which maryed his sonne BSB BSB: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
3 TNT and sent forth his servantes to call them that were byd to the weddinge and they wolde not come. BSB BSB: He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
4 TNT Ageyne he sent forth other servauntes sayinge: Tell them which are bydden: beholde I have prepared my dynner myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled and all thinges are redy come vnto the mariage. BSB BSB: Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5 TNT But they made light of it and went their wayes: one to his ferme place another about his marchaundise BSB BSB: But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
6 TNT the remnaunt toke his seruantes and intreated them vngodly and slewe them. BSB BSB: The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
7 TNT When the kinge hearde that he was wroth and send forth his warryers and distroyed those murtherers and brent vp their cyte. BSB BSB: The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
8 TNT Then sayde he to his servauutes: the weddinge was prepared. But they which were bydden were not worthy. BSB BSB: Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.
9 TNT Go ye therfore out into the hyewayes and as many as ye finde byd them to the mariage. BSB BSB: Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
10 TNT The seruauntes wet out into the hiewayes and gaddered to gedder as many as they coulde fynde both good and bad and the weddinge was furnysshed with gestes. BSB BSB: So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 TNT Then the kynge came in to viset the gestes and spyed there a man which had not on a weddinge garment BSB BSB: But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
12 TNT and sayde vnto him: frende how fortuned it that thou camest in hither and hast not on a weddyng garment? And he was even spechlesse. BSB BSB: ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
13 TNT Then sayde the kynge to his ministers: take and bynde hym hand and fote and caste hym into vtter darcknes there shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of teth. BSB BSB: Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 TNT For many are called and feawe be chosen. BSB BSB: For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Paying Taxes to Caesar (Mark 12:13–17; Luke 20:19–26)
15 TNT Then went the Pharises and toke counsell how they might tagle him in his wordes. BSB BSB: Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
16 TNT And they sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes servauntes sayinge: Master we knowe that thou are true and teachest the waye of god trulie nether carest for eny man for thou consydrest not menes estate. BSB BSB: They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no attention to external appearance.
17 TNT Tell vs therfore: how thynkest thou? Is it lawfull to geve tribute vnto Cesar or not? BSB BSB: So tell us what You think: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
18 TNT Iesus perceaved their wikednes and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrites? BSB BSB: But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?
19 TNT Let me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny. BSB BSB: Show Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.
20 TNT And he sayde vnto them: whose is this ymage and superscripcion? BSB BSB: “Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”
21 TNT They sayde vnto him: Cesars. Then sayde he vnto them. Geve therfore to Cesar that which is Cesars: and geve vnto god that which is goddes. BSB BSB: “Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
22 TNT When they hearde that they marveled and lefte hym and went there waye. BSB BSB: And when they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.
The Sadducees and the Resurrection (Mark 12:18–27; Luke 20:27–40)
24 TNT sayinge: Master Moses bade yf a man dye havinge no chyldre that the brother mary his wyfe and reyse vp seed vnto his brother. BSB BSB: “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
25 TNT Ther were with vs seven brethren and the fyrste maried and deceased with oute yssue and lefte his wyfe vnto his brother. BSB BSB: Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother.
26 TNT Lyke wise the seconde and the thryd vnto the sevethe. BSB BSB: The same thing happened to the second and third brothers, down to the seventh.
27 TNT Laste of all the woman dyed also. BSB BSB: And last of all, the woman died.
28 TNT Now in the resurreccion whose wyfe shall she be of the seven? For all had her. BSB BSB: In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For all of them were married to her.”
29 TNT Iesus answered and sayde vnto the: ye are deceaved and vnderstonde not the scriptures nor yet the power of God. BSB BSB: Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
30 TNT For in the resurreccion they nether mary nor are maryed: but are as the angels of God in heven. BSB BSB: In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.
31 TNT As touchynge the resurreccion of the deed: have ye not redde what is sayde vnto you of God which sayeth: BSB BSB: But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:
33 TNT And when the people hearde that they were astonyed at his doctrine. BSB BSB: When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
The Greatest Commandment (Deuteronomy 6:1–19; Mark 12:28–34)
34 TNT When the Pharises had hearde how that he had put the Saduces to silence they drewe to gedder BSB BSB: And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together.
35 TNT and one of them which was a doctoure of lawe axed a question temptinge him and sayinge: BSB BSB: One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question:
36 TNT Master which is the chefe commaundment in the lawe? BSB BSB: “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”
37 TNT Iesus sayde vnto him: love the Lorde thy God with all thine herte with all thy soule and with all thy mynde. BSB BSB: Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 TNT This is the fyrst and the chefe comaundement. BSB BSB: This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 TNT And ther is another lyke vnto this. Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe. BSB BSB: And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
40 TNT In these two commaundemetes hange all the lawe and the Prophetes. BSB BSB: All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Whose Son Is the Christ? (Mark 12:35–37; Luke 20:41–44)
41 TNT Whyll the Pharises were gaddered togeder Iesus axed the sayinge: BSB BSB: While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them:
42 TNT what thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: the sonne of David. BSB BSB: “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?” “David’s,” they answered.
43 TNT He sayde vnto them: how then doeth David in spirite call him Lorde sayinge? BSB BSB: Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord’? For he says:
44 TNT The Lorde sayde to my Lorde syt on my right honde: tyll I make thyne enemyes thy fote stole. BSB BSB: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
45 TNT Yf David call him Lorde: how is he then his sonne? BSB BSB: So if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can He be David’s son?”
46 TNT And none coulde answere him ageyne one worde: nether dueste eny from that daye forth axe him eny moo questions. BSB BSB: No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.