Luke 21
Wycliffe's Bible
1And he beheld, and saw the rich men, that cast their gifts into the treasury; 2but he saw also a little poor widow casting two farthings, (or two little minutes). (but he also saw a poor little widow throwing in two mites.) 3And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast (in) more than all men. (And he said, I tell you the truth, this poor widow threw in more than everyone else.) 4For why all these of [the] thing that was plenteous, (or abundant), to them cast in to the gifts of God; but this widow of that thing that failed to her, cast (in) all her livelode, (or all her lifelode), that she had (threw in all her livelihood, that she had).

5And when some men said of the temple, that it was appareled, (or that it was adorned), with good stones and gifts, he said, 6These things that ye see, days shall come, in which a stone shall not be left on a stone, which shall not be destroyed.

7And they asked him, and said, Commander (Master), when shall these things be? and what token, (or what sign), shall be, when they shall begin to be done? 8And he said, See ye, that ye be not deceived; for many shall come in my name, saying, For I am, and the time shall nigh (for many shall come in my name, saying, I am he, and the time is near); therefore do not ye go after them. 9And when ye shall hear (of) battles and strives, (or dissensions), within, do not ye be afeared; it behooveth first these things to be done, but not yet anon is an end [but not yet anon (is) the end] (but the end is not yet at once).

10Then he said to them, Folk shall rise against folk, and realm against realm (For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom); 11and great movings of the earth shall be by places, and pestilences, and hungers, and dreads from (the) heaven(s), and great tokens shall be. (and great earthquakes shall be in places, and pestilences, and famines, and there shall be fearful things, and great signs, in the sky.)

12But before all these things they shall set their hands on you, and shall pursue you, betaking (you) into synagogues and keepings, (or prisons), (and) drawing you to kings and to justices, for my name; (But before all these things they shall put their hands on you, and shall persecute you, delivering you into synagogues and into prisons, and drawing you to kings and to governors, for my name’s sake;) 13but it shall fall to you into witnessing (and it shall fall unto you to give your testimony.) 14Therefore put ye (it) in your hearts, not to think before, how ye shall answer; 15for I shall give to you mouth and wisdom, to which all your adversaries shall not be able to against-stand, and gainsay. (for I shall give you the words and the wisdom, to which all your adversaries shall not be able to stand against, or to say anything against.) 16And ye shall be taken of father [Soothly ye shall be betrayed of father], and mother, and brethren, and cousins, and friends, and by death they shall torment [some] of you; (And ye shall be betrayed by father, and mother, and brothers, and cousins, and friends, and they shall torment some of you unto death;) 17and ye shall be in hate to all men for my name. [and ye shall be hated of all men for my name.] (and ye shall be hated by everyone for my name’s sake.) 18And an hair of your head shall not perish; 19in your patience ye shall wield, (or ye shall possess), your souls.

20But when ye shall see Jerusalem be environed with an host [of battle], then know ye, that the desolation of it shall nigh. (But when ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed with an army ready for battle, then know ye, that its destruction is near.) 21Then they that be in Judaea, flee to the mountains; and they that be in the middle of it, go away; and they that be in the countries, enter not into it. (Then they who be in Judaea, flee to the mountains; and they who be in its cities, go away; and they who be in the countryside, enter not into the cities.) 22For these be the days of vengeance, (so) that all (the) things that be written, be fulfilled. 23And woe to them, that be with child, and nourishing, (or nursing), in those days; for a great dis-ease, (or pressure), shall be on the earth, (or in the land), and wrath to this people. 24And they shall fall by the sharpness of (the) sword, and they shall be led (away as) prisoners, (or led captive), into all folks; and Jerusalem shall be defouled of heathen men, till the times of (the) nations be fulfilled. (And they shall fall by the sharpness of the sword, and they shall be led away captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the nations be fulfilled.)

25And tokens, (or signs), shall be in the sun, and the moon, and in the stars; and in the earth overlaying of folks, for confusion of the sound of the sea and of floods, (or of waves); 26for men shall wax dry for (the) dread and abiding that shall come into, (or on), all the world; for (the) virtues of (the) heaven(s) shall be moved (for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken). 27And then they shall see man's Son coming in a cloud (And then they shall see man’s Son coming on a cloud), with great power and majesty. 28And when these things begin to be made, (or begin to be done), behold ye, and raise ye (up) your heads, for your redemption nigheth (for your redemption draweth near).

29And he said to them a likeness, See ye the fig tree, and all trees, 30when they bring forth now of themselves fruit [when they bring forth fruit now of them(selves)], ye know that summer is nigh (ye know that summer is near); 31so [also] ye, when ye see these things to be done, know ye, that the kingdom of God is nigh (know, that the Kingdom of God is near). 32Truly I say to you, that this generation shall not pass, till all things be done. (I tell you the truth, that this generation shall not pass away, until all these things happen.) 33Heaven and earth shall pass (away), but my words shall not pass (away).

34But take ye heed to yourselves (Keep watch over yourselves), lest peradventure your hearts be grieved with gluttony, and drunkenness, and (the) busynesses of this life, and that day come suddenly on you; 35for as a snare it shall come on all men, that sit on the face of all the earth. 36Therefore wake ye, praying in each time (And so be on watch, and always pray), that ye be had worthy to flee all these things that be to come [that ye be worthy to flee all these things that shall come], and to stand before man's Son.

37And in days he was teaching in the temple, but in nights he went out, and dwelled in the mount, that is called of Olivet. (And during those days he was teaching in the Temple, but at night he went out, and stayed on the Mount of Olives.) 38And all the people rose early [And all the people came early], to come to him in the temple, for to hear him.

WYCLIFFE’S BIBLE

Comprising of
Wycliffe’s Old Testament

and

Wycliffe’s New Testament
(Revised Edition)


Translated by

JOHN WYCLIFFE
and JOHN PURVEY


A modern-spelling edition of their
14TH century Middle English translation,
the first complete English vernacular version,
with an Introduction by

TERENCE P. NOBLE

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