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The Great Bible 1539
| 24:1 | And Iesus went out, & departed from the temple: & hys discyples came to him, for to shewe him the byldynges of the temple. |
| 24:2 | Iesus sayde vnto them: Se ye not all these thinges? Uerely I saye vnto you ther shall not be here lefte one stone vpon another, that shall not be destroyed. |
| 24:3 | And as he sat vpon mount Oliuete, hys disciples came vnto him secretly, saying: Tell vs: when shall these thinges be: & what shalbe the token of thy commyng & of the ende of the world? |
| 24:4 | And Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them: take hede, that no man deceaue you. |
| 24:5 | For many shall come in my name, sayinge: I am Chryst: & shall deceaue many |
| 24:6 | ye shall heare of warres, & tidinges of warres: be not troubled. For all must come to passe, but the ende is not yet. |
| 24:7 | Nacion shall ryse agaynst nacion, and realme agaynst realme: and ther shalbe pestilence, & hunger, and erthquakes in all places. |
| 24:8 | All these are the begynnynges of sorowes. |
| 24:9 | Then shall they put you to trouble, and shall kyll you: & ye shalbe hated of all nacions for my names sake. |
| 24:10 | And then shall many be offended, & shall betraye one another, & shall hate one another. |
| 24:11 | And many false prophetes shall aryse, & shall deceaue many. |
| 24:12 | And because iniquite shall haue the vpper hand, the loue of many shall abate. |
| 24:13 | But he that endureth to the ende, the same shalbe safe. |
| 24:14 | And this Gospell of the kyngdome shalbe preached in all the worlde, for a wytnes vnto all nacyons, and then shall the ende come. |
| 24:15 | When ye therfore shall se the abhominacion of desolacion (that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet) stande in the holy place: whoso readeth it let him vnderstande. |
| 24:16 | Then lett them whych be in Iewry, flye into the mountaynes. |
| 24:17 | And let hym whych is on the house toppe, not come downe to fet eny thinge out of hys house. |
| 24:18 | Nether let him whych is in the felde, returne backe to fetche his clothes. |
| 24:19 | Wo shalbe in those dayes to them that are wt chylde, & to them that geue sucke. |
| 24:20 | But praye ye that youre flyght be not in the winter, nether on the Saboth daye. |
| 24:21 | For then shalbe great tribulacions suche as was not sens the begynning of the worlde to this tyme, nor shalbe. |
| 24:22 | Ye & except those dayes shulde be shortened, there shulde no fleshe be saued: but for the chosens sake, those dayes shalbe shortened. |
| 24:23 | Then yf eny man saye vnto you: lo here is Chryst, or there: beleue it not. |
| 24:24 | For there shall aryse false Chrystes, and false prophetes and shall shew great miracles, & wondres. In so moch (that yf it were possyble) the verie electe shuld be deceaued: |
| 24:25 | behold, I haue tolde you before. |
| 24:26 | Wherfore, yf they saye vnto you: beholde, he is in the desert, go not ye forth: behold, he is in the secret places, beleue it not. |
| 24:27 | For as the lyghtnynge commeth out of the East, and appeareth into the west: so shall the commynge of the sonne of man be. |
| 24:28 | For wheresoeuer a deed karkas is, euen thether wyll the Egles also be gathered together. |
| 24:29 | Immediatly after the tribulacyons of those dayes, shall the sonne be derkened: & the moone shall not geue her lyght, and the starres shall fall from heauen, & the powers of heauen shall be moued. |
| 24:30 | And then shall appeare the token of the sonne of man in heauen. And then shall all the kynredes of the earth mourne, and they shall se the sonne of man commyng in the cloudes of heauen, wyth power & greate glorie |
| 24:31 | And he shall sende his Angels wt the greate voyce of a trompett, & they shall gather to gether his chosen, from the foure wyndes: euen from the hyghest partes of heauen, vntyll the endes ther of. |
| 24:32 | Learne a symilitude of the fygge tree: When hys braunches is yet tender, & the leaues sprong, ye knowe that sommer is nye. |
| 24:33 | So lykewyse ye, when ye se all these thinges, be ye sure that it is neare, euen at the dores. |
| 24:34 | Uerely I saye vnto you: this generacion shal not passe, tyll all these thinges be fulfylled |
| 24:35 | Heauen & earth shall passe, but my wordes shall not passe. |
| 24:36 | But of that daye and houre knoweth no man, no not the angels of heauen, but my father onely. |
| 24:37 | But as the dayes of Noe were, so shall also the commynge of the sonne of man be. |
| 24:38 | For as in the dayes (that went before the floud) they dyd eate and dryncke, mary, and were maryed, euen vntyll the daye that Noe entred into the shyppe, |
| 24:39 | and knewe not tyll the floud came and toke them all awaye: So shall also the commynge of the sonne of man be. |
| 24:40 | Then shall two be in the felde, the one receaued, & the other refused |
| 24:41 | two wemen shalbe gryndinge at the myll, the one receaned & the other refused. |
| 24:42 | Watch therfore, for ye knowe not what houre your lord will come. |
| 24:43 | Of this yet be sure, that yf the good man of the house knew what houre the thefe wolde come: he wolde suerly watche, & not suffre hys house to be broken vp. |
| 24:44 | Therfore, be ye also ready, for in soch an houre as ye thynke not: wyll the sonne of man come. |
| 24:45 | Who is a faythfull & wyse seruaunt, whom his Lorde hath made ruler ouer his housholde, to geue them meate in season. |
| 24:46 | Blessed is that seruaunt whom hys Lord (when he cometh) shall fynde so doynge: |
| 24:47 | Uerely I saye vnto you, that he shall make hym ruler ouer all hys goodes. |
| 24:48 | But & yf that euyll seruaunt saye in hys herte, my Lorde wyll be long a commyng |
| 24:49 | (and so begynne to smyte his felowes, yee, and to eate & drincke wyth the droncken) |
| 24:50 | the same seruauntes Lord shall come in a daye when he loketh not for hym, and in an houre that he is not ware of, |
| 24:51 | & shall hewe him in peces, & geue hym his porcyon wyth ypocrites: there shalbe wepynge and gnasshynge of teth. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."