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Wherfore he ran before and asceded vp into a wilde fygge tree to se him: for he shulde come that same waye.
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And when Iesus cam to the place he loked vp and sawe him and sayd vnto him: zache attonce come doune for to daye I must abyde at thy housse.
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And he came doune hastelye and receaved him ioyfully.
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And when they sawe that they all groudged sayinge: He is gone in to tary with a man that is a synner.
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And zache stode forth and sayd vnto ye Lorde: beholde Lorde ye haulfe of my gooddes I geve to the povre and if I have done eny ma wroge I will restore him fower folde.
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And Iesus sayd to him: this daye is healthe come vnto this housse for as moche as it also is become the chylde of Abraha.
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For the sonne of ma is come to seke and to save that which was looste.
11
As they hearde these thinges he added ther to a similitude be cause he was nye to Hierusalem and because also they thought that the kyngdome of God shuld shortely appere.
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He sayde therfore: a certayne noble man wet into a farre countre to receave him a kyngdome and then to come agayne.
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And he called his ten servauntes and delyvered them ten pounde sayinge vnto them: by and sell till I come.
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But his citesens hated him and sent messengers after him sayinge: We will not have this man to raygne over vs.