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And all began together to excuse them(selves). The first said [to him], I have bought a town, and I have need to go out, and see it; I pray thee, have me excused.
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And the tother said, I have bought five yokes of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee, have me excused.
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And another said, I have wedded a wife; and therefore I may not come.
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And the servant turned again, and told these things to his lord. Then the husbandman was wroth, and said to his servant, Go out swiftly into the great streets and the small streets of the city [Then the husbandman wroth, said to his servant, Go out soon into great streets and small streets of the city], and bring in hither poor men, and feeble, [and] blind men, and crooked.
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And the servant said, Lord, it is done, as thou hast commanded, and yet there is a void place [and yet there is a place].
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And the lord said to the servant, Go out into ways and hedges, and constrain men to enter, that mine house be full-filled [that mine house be filled].
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For I say to you, that none of those men that be called, shall taste my supper.
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And much people went with him [Soothly many companies went with him]; and he turned, and said to them,
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If any man cometh to me [If any man come to me], and hateth not his father, and mother, and wife, and sons, and brethren, and sisters, and yet [forsooth] his own life, he may not be my disciple.
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And he that beareth not his cross, and cometh after me, may not be my disciple.
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For who of you willing to build a tower, whether he sit not first/whether he first sitteth not, and counteth the expenses that be needful, if he have to perform?
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Lest after that he hath set the foundament [Lest after he hath put the foundament], and be not able to perform, all that see, begin to scorn him,
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and say [saying], For this man began to build, and might not make an end.
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Or what king that will go to do a battle against another king, whether he sitteth not first, and bethinketh, if he may with ten thousand go to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? [+Or what king to going to make battle against another king, whether he sitting first bethinketh not, if he may with ten thousand go against him that cometh to him with twenty thousand?]
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[Or] Else yet while he is afar, he sendeth a messenger, and prayeth those things that be of peace.
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So therefore each of you, that forsaketh not all things that he hath [that renounceth not, or forsaketh not, all things that he wieldeth], may not be my disciple.
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Salt is good; but if salt [shall] vanish, in what thing shall it be savoured?
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Neither in earth, nor in [the] dunghill it is profitable, but it shall be cast out. He that hath ears of hearing, hear he.