*: Mark 11:1 Luke 19:29
1: Christ by his humility, triumpheth over the pride of this world,
ascendeth to true glory by ignominy of the cross.
a: He that shall say anything to you shall let them go, to wit, the
ass and the colt.
*: Isaiah 62:11 Zachariah 9:9 John 12:15
b: The city of Zion. A Hebrew kind of speech, common in the
Lamentations of Jeremiah.
c: Their uppermost garment.
d: Upon their garments, not upon the ass and the colt.
e: this was an ancient kind of crying, which they used in the feast
of Tabernacles, when they carried boughs according as God commanded,
Leviticus 23:40. And the word is corruptly made of two, for we should
say, Hoshiang-na, which is as much to say, as, Save I pray thee.
f: Well be it to him that cometh in the Name of the Lord, that is to
say, whom the Lord hath given us for our King.
*: Mark 11:11 Luke 19:45
John 2:13
g: That is, all the men of Jerusalem were moved.
*: Deuteronomy 14:25
*: Isaiah 56:6
*: Jeremiah 7:11 Mark 11:17 Luke 19:16
2: Such as should be masters of godliness, are they that do most envy
the glory of Christ: but in vain.
*: Psalm 8:2
h: Thou hast made most perfect. We read in David, Thou hast
established or grounded, and if the matter be considered well, it is
all one that the Evangelist saith, for that is stable and sure, which
is most perfect.
3: Christ doth so forsake the wicked, that he hath a consideration
and regard of his Church.
4: Hypocrites shall at length have their masks discovered, and visors
plucked from their faces.
*: Mark 11:13
5: How great the force of faith is.
*: Chapter 17:20
i: The Greek word signifieth a sticking of wavering of mind, so that
we cannot tell which way to take.
*: Chapter 7:7 John 15:7 1 John
5:14
*: Mark 11:27,28 Luke
20:1,2
6: Against them which over-flipping the doctrine, bind the calling
and vocation to an ordinary succession, going about by that false
pretext, to stop Christ's mouth.
k: Or by what power.
l: One word, that is to say, I will ask you one in word.
m: John his preaching is called by figure, Baptism, because he
preached the baptism of repentance, Etc, Mark 1:4 Acts 19:3
n: From God, and so it is plainly seen, how these are set one against
another.
o: Beat their heads about it, and mused, or laid their heads
together.
*: Chapter 14:5 Mark 6:20
7: It is no new thing to see them to be the worst of all men, which
ought to show the way of godliness to others.
p: They make hast to the kingdom of God, and you slack so that at
least wise you should have followed their example. Mark then that
this word, go before, is improperly taken in this place, whereas no
man followeth.
q: Living uprightly, being of a good and honest conversation: For the
Hebrews use this word, Way, for life and manners.
8: Those men often times are the cruellest enemies of the Church, to
whose fidelity it is committed: But the vocation of God, is neither
tied to time, place, nor person.
*: Isaiah 5:1 Jeremiah 2:21 Mark 12:1 Luke 20:9
r: Made the place strong: for a tower is the strongest place of a
wall.
*: Chapter 26:3,4 and 27:1
John 11:53
s: Word for word, let us hold it fast.
t: A kind of proverb, showing what end the wicked are worthy of.
*: Psalms 118:22 Acts
4:11 Romans 9:33
u: Master builders, which are chief builders of the house, that is of
the Church.
x: Began to be.
y: The chiefest stone in the corner is called the head of the corner:
which beareth up the couplings or joints of the whole building.
z: That matter (in that the stone which was cast away is made the
head) is the lords doing which we behold and greatly marvel at.
a: They bring forth the fruits of the kingdom of God, which bring
forth the fruits of the spirit, and not of the fresh, Galatians 5.
*: Isaiah 8:14
b: As chaff useth to be scattered with the wind, for he useth a word
which signifieth properly, to separate the chaff from the corn with
winnowing, and to scatter it abroad.
9: The wicked can do nothing but what God will.
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Chapter 21
1. Christ rideth an ass into Jerusalem. 12. He casteth out the
sellers. 13. The house of prayer. 19. The withered fig tree. 25.
John's Baptism. 28. Who do the will of God. 30. Publicans. Harlots.
33. God's vineyard. The Jews. 38. The son killed of the husbandmen.
42. The cornerstone.
And *1 when they drew
near to Jerusalem, and were come to Bethpage, unto the mount of
Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
2 Saying to them, Go
into the town that is over against you, and anon ye shall find an ass
bound, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto
me.
3 And if any man say
ought unto you, say ye, that the Lord hath need of them, and
straightway a
he will let them go.
4 All this was done that it might be
fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
5 ¶ * Tell ye the
b daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king cometh
unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of an
ass used to the yoke.
6 So the disciples went, and did as
Jesus had commanded them,
7 And brought the ass and the colt,
and put on them their c clothes, and set
him d thereon.
8 And a great multitude spread their
garments in the way: and other cut down branches from the trees, and
strewed them in the way.
9 Moreover, the people that went
before, and they also that followed, cried, saying,
e Hosanna to the Son of David.
f Blessed be he that cometh in the
name of the Lord, Hosanna thou which art in the highest
heavens.
10 * And when he was come into
Jerusalem, g all the city was moved,
saying, Who is this?
11 And the people said, This is
Jesus, that prophet of Nazareth in Galilee.
12 ¶ And Jesus went into the Temple
of God, and cast out all them * that sold and bought in the Temple,
and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them
that sold doves,
13 And said to them, It is written, * My house
shall be called the * house of prayer:
but ye have made it a den of thieves.
14 Then the blind, and the halt came
to him in the Temple, and he healed them.
15 2 But
when the chief Priests and Scribes saw the marvels that he did, and
the children crying in the Temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of
David, they disdained.
16 And said unto him, Hearest thou
what these say? And Jesus said unto them, Yea: read
ye never, * By the mouth of babes and
sucklings thou hast h made perfect the
praise?
17 ¶ 3 So
he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany, and lodged
there.
18 4 And *
in the morning, as he returned into the city, he was hungry,
19 And seeing a fig tree in the way,
came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to
it, Never fruit grow on thee henceforth. And
anon the fig tree withered.
20 And when the disciples saw it,
they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered!
21 5 And
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say
unto you, * if ye have faith, and
i doubt not, ye
shall not only do that, which I have done to the fig tree, but
also if ye say unto this mountain, Take thyself away, and cast
thyself into the sea, it shall be done.
22 * And whatsoever ye
shall ask in prayer, if ye believe, ye shall receive it.
23 ¶ *6 And
when he was come into the Temple, the chief Priests, and the Elders
of the people came unto him, as he was teaching, and said, By what
authority k doest thou these things? and
who gave thee this authority?
24 Then Jesus answered and said unto
them, I also will ask of you l a certain thing, which if you
tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these
things.
25 The m
baptism of John, whence was it? from n
heaven, or of men? Then they o reasoned
among themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven, he will say
unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
26 And if we say, Of men, we fear the
multitude, * for all hold John as a prophet.
27 Then they answered Jesus, and
said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these
things.
28 ¶ 7 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons,
and came to the elder, and said, Son, go and work today in my
vineyard.
29 But he answered,
and said, I will not: yet afterwards he repented himself, and
went.
30 Then came he to
the second, and said likewise. And he answered, and said, I will,
Sir: yet he went not.
31 Whether of them
twain did the will of the father? They said unto him, The first.
Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that the Publicans and
the harlots p
go before you into the kingdom of God.
32 For John came
unto you in the q way of righteousness, and ye
believed him not: but the Publicans, and the harlots believed him,
and ye, though ye saw it, were not moved with repentance afterwards,
that ye might believe him.
33 ¶ 8
Hear another parable, There was a certain
householder, * which planted a vineyard,
and hedged it round about, and made a wine-press therein, and built
r a tower, and
let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country.
34 And
when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the
husbandmen to receive the fruits thereof.
35 And
the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another,
and stoned another.
36 Again
he sent other servants, more then the first: and they did the like
unto them.
37 But
last of all he sent unto them his own son saying, They will reverence
my son.
38 But
when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, * This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and
let us s take
his inheritance.
39 So
they took him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
40 When
therefore the Lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to
those husbandmen?
41 They said unto him, He will
t cruelly destroy those wicked men, and
will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall deliver
him the fruits in their seasons.
42 Jesus said unto them, Read ye never in the Scriptures, * The stone which the u builders refused, the same is
x made the
y head of the
corner? z This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.
43
Therefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you,
and shall be given to a nation, which shall bring forth the
a fruits
thereof.
44 * And whosoever shall
fall on this stone, he shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall
fall, it will b
dash him in pieces.
45 And when the chief Priests and
Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of
them.
46 9 And
they seeking to lay hands on him, feared the people, because they
took him as a prophet.
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