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wil tel you in what power I doe these things. ³⁰The baptisme of John was it from Heaven, or from men? answer me. ³¹But they thought with them selves, saying: If we say, from Heaven; he wil say, why then did you not beleeve him? ³²If we say, from men, we feare the people. For al accounted John that he was indeed a Prophet. ³³And they answering say to Jesus: We know not. And Jesus answering saith to them: Neither do I tel you in what power I doe these things.

 

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ANNOTATIONS.
Chap. XI.

 

Profaning of Gods Church.16. Vessel through the temple.) He could not abide to see the Temple of God profaned, no nor suffred those things to be done in it, which otherwise were not unlawful but honest, if they had been done in due place. How much lesse can he abide the profaning of Churches now with Heretical service and preaching of heresie and blasphemie?

17. Denne of theeves.) If the Temple was then a denne of theeves, because of profane & secular marchandise? how much more now, when the house appointed for the Holy Sacrifice & Sacrament of the Bodie of Christ, is made a denne for the Ministers of Calvins bread?

 

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Chap. XII.

 

He fortelleth to the Jewes in a parable their reprobation most worthy, and the vocation of the Church of the Gentils in their place, 10. himself being the headstone thereof. 13. He defeateth the snare of the Pharisees and Herodians, about paying tribute to Cæsar: 18. answereth also the invention of the Sadducees against the Resurrection: 28. also the opposition of a Scribe. 33. And so having put al the busie Sectes to silence, he turneth and poseth them on the other side, because they imagined Christ should be no more but a man. 38. Bidding the people to beware of the Scribes, being ambitious and Hypocrites. 41. He commendeth the poore widow for her two mites, above al.

Esa. 5, 1.
Mt. 21, 33.
Lu. 20, 9.AND he began speake to them in parables, ^[1] A man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it, and digged a trough, and built a towre, and lett it out to husbandmen; and went forth into a strange countrie. ²And sent to the husbandmen in season a servant, to receave of the husbandmen, of the fruit of the vineyard. ³Who apprehending him, beatt him; and sent him away emptie. ⁴And againe he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and used him reprochfully. ⁵And againe he sent another, & him they killed: and many other, beating certaine, and killing others. ⁶Therefore having yet one ^[2] sonne most deare; him also he sent unto them last saying: That they wil reverence my sonne. ⁷But the husbandmen said one to an other: This is the heire; come, let us kil him; and the inheritance shal be ours. ⁸And Apprehending him, they killed him, and cast

1. This man, is God the Father; this vineyard, is (as Esay saith 5, 1.) the house of Israel. The servants sent, are Moyses and the Prophets, whom the Jewes did diversely afflict and persecute.
2. His Sonne is Christ our Saviour, whom the Jewes crucified out of the citie of Jerusalem, as it were casting him out of the vineyard.