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But what wet ye oute for to se? A prophete? Ye I saye to you and more the a prophete.
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For this is he of who it is wrytte. Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy waye before ye.
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Verely I saye vnto you amonge ye chyldren of wemen arose there not a gretter then Ihon the baptist. Notwithstondinge he that ys lesse in the kyngdome of heven ys gretter then he.
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From the tyme of Ihon Baptist hytherto ye kyngdome of heve suffreth violence and they that go to it with violence pluck it vnto them.
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For all the prophetes and the lawe prophesyed vnto to the tyme of Ihon.
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Also yf ye wyll receave it this is Helyas which shuld come.
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But wher vnto shall I lyken this generacion? It ys lyke vnto chyldre which syt in the market and call vnto their felowes
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and saye: we have pyped vnto you and ye have not daunsed? We have morned vnto you and ye have not sorowed.
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For Ihon came nether eatinge nor drinkinge and they saye he hath the devyll.
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The sonne of man came eatinge and drinkinge and they saye beholde a glutton and drynker of wyne and a frend vnto publicas and synners. Never the later wysdome ys iustified of hir children.