Matthew 12:33-50 ▼

33 Either make the tree good, and his fruite good: or els make the tree euyll, and his fruite euyll. For the tree, is knowen by his fruite.

34 O generation of vipers, howe can ye speake good thynges, when ye your selues are euyll? For out of the aboundauce of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

35 A good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, bryngeth foorth good thynges: And an euyll man, out of euyll treasure, bryngeth foorth euyll thynges.

36 But I say vnto you, of euery idell worde that men shall speake, they shall geue accompt therof, in the day of iudgment.

37 For of thy wordes, thou shalt be iustified: and of thy wordes, thou shalt be condemned.

38 Then certayne of the Scribes, and of the Pharisees, aunswered hym, saying. Maister, we wyl see a signe of thee.

39 But he aunswered and sayde to them. The euyll and adulterous generation seketh a signe, and there shall no signe be geuen to it, but the signe of the prophete Ionas.

40 For as Ionas was three dayes, and three nyghtes, in the Whales belly: so shall the sonne of man be three dayes, and three nyghtes, in the heart of the earth.

41 The men of Niniue shall ryse in the iudgement, with this nation, and condemne it, because they repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, here is one greater then Ionas.

42 The Queene of the south shall ryse in the iudgement, with this generation, and shall condemne it: for she came from the vtmost partes of the earth, to heare the wisdome of Solomon. And beholde, in this place is one greater then Solomon.

43 When the vncleane spirite is gone out of a man, he walketh throughout drye places, sekyng rest, and fyndeth none.

44 Then he sayeth: I wyll returne into my house, from whence I came out. And when he is come, he fyndeth it emptie, swept, and garnyshed.

45 Then goeth he, and taketh vnto hym seuen other spirites, worse then hym selfe, and they enter in, and dwell there: And the ende of that man, is worse then the begynnyng. Euen so shall it be also, vnto this frowarde generation.

46 Whyle he yet talked to the people, beholde, his mother, and his brethren stoode without, desyryng to speake with hym.

47 Then one sayde vnto hym: beholde, thy mother, and thy brethren, stande without, desyryng to speake with thee.

48 But he aunswered, and sayde vnto hym that had tolde hym: Who is my mother? or who are my brethren?

49 And he stretched foorth his hande towarde his disciples, & sayde, beholde my mother, and my brethren.

50 For whosoeuer shall do the wyll of my father which is in heauen, the same is my brother, sister, and mother.