Matthew 11:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Or what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft rayment? Beholde, they that weare soft clothyng are in kinges houses.

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  • 2 Kgs 1:8 : 8 And they aunswered him: It was an heery man, and girt with a girdell of leather about his loynes. And he saide: It is Elias the Thesbite.
  • Isa 20:2 : 2 At the same tyme spake the Lorde by the hande of Esai the sonne of Amos, saying: Go and take of the sackcloth from thy loynes, and put of thy shoe from thy foote. And he dyd so, walkyng naked and barefoote.
  • Zech 13:4 : 4 And then shal those prophetes be confounded euery one of his vision when he prophecieth: neither shal they weare heere cloth any more to deceaue men withall.
  • Matt 3:4 : 4 This Iohn had his rayment of Camels heere, and a girdle of a skynne about his loynes, his meate was locustes, and wylde hony.
  • 1 Cor 4:11 : 11 Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place.
  • 2 Cor 11:27 : 27 In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse,
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 And I wyl geue power vnto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesie a thousande, two hundred, and threescore dayes, clothed in sackcloth.

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    24And when the messengers of Iohn were departed, he began to speake vnto the people concernyng Iohn: What went ye out into the wildernesse for to see? a reede shaken with the wynde?

    25But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft rayment? Beholde, they which are gorgeously appareled, & lyue delicately, are in kynges courtes.

    26But what went ye foorth to see? A prophete? Yea, I say to you, and more then a prophete.

    27This is he, of whom it is written: Beholde, I sende my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

  • Matt 11:9-11
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    9But what went ye out for to see? A prophete? yea I say vnto you, and more then a prophete.

    10For this is he of whom it is written: Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

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    11Then the kyng came in, to see the ghestes: and whe he spyed there a man, which had not on a weddyng garmet,

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    2For yf there come into your companie a man wearing a golde ryng, clothed in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile rayment:

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    28And why care ye for rayment? Learne of the Lylies of the fielde, howe they growe. They weery not them selues with labour, neither do they spinne:

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    3Art thou he that shoulde come? or do we loke for another?

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