25 And beholde a certayne Lawere stode vp and tempted him sayinge: Master what shall I do to inheret eternall life?

26 He sayd vnto him: What is written in the lawe? How redest thou?

27 And he answered and sayde: Loue thy Lorde God with all thy hert and with all thy soule and with all thy stregthe and with all thy mynde: and thy neghbour as thy sylfe.

28 And he sayde vnto him: Thou hast answered right. This do and thou shalt live.

29 He willinge to iustifie him silfe sayde vnto Iesus: Who is then my neghbour?

30 Iesus answered and sayde: A certayne ma descended fro Hierusalem into Hierico and fell in to the hondes of theves which robbed him of his raymet and wounded him and departed levynge him halfe deed.

31 And by chaunce ther came a certayne preste that same waye and when he sawe him he passed by.

32 And lykewyse a Levite when he was come nye to the place wet and loked on him and passed by.

33 Then a certayne Samaritane as he iornyed came nye vnto him and when he sawe him had compassion on him

34 and went to and bounde vp his woundes and poured in oyle and wyne and put him on his awne beaste and brought him to a comen ynne and made provision for him.

35 And on the morowe when he departed he toke out two pece and gave them to the host and sayde vnto him. Take cure of him and whatsoever thou spedest moare when I come agayne I will recompence the.

36 Which now of these thre thynkest thou was neighbour vnto him yt fell into ye theves hondes?

37 And he sayde: he that shewed mercy on him. Then sayde Iesus vnto him. Goo and do thou lyke wyse.