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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible in Poetry: Gospel of St. Matthew (Chapter 11)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When Jesus had given commands to each, <br>He went away to towns to preach and teach.<br>When of his works, then John from prison heard, <br>He sent his disciples to Him and asked, <br>‘Are you the one to come or Messiah<br>Or should we be in search for another? ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Jesus said, ‘Tell John, what you hear and see.<br>The lame can walk, the blind again can see; <br>The deaf can hear, lepers are cleansed truly; <br>The dead arise alive, the poor have peace; <br>Proclaimed is Good News to them poor with ease.<br>Blessed’s the one who takes no offence at me.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then Jesus told the crowds about John’s deeds: <br>‘In desert, simply dressed, on locusts feeds<br>A man called John, more than a prophet stayed, <br>To tell about God’s kingdom, God had made.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘This is the one about whom it is writ: <br>‘Behold, I send my messenger ahead, <br>He will prepare the way for you, unread.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘Amen, I say to you, of women born, <br>None can be greater than the Baptist, John.<br>The least in heave’n is greater than him John! ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘Violent are the days from John till now; <br>But, this has been prophesied from above; <br>He is Elijah, who’s one yet to come; <br>Whoev’r has ears to hear are most welcome.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘How can this generation be compared? <br>Like children in market-places who aired: <br>We played the flute but you did never dance; <br>We sang a dirge, but you ne’er mourned by chance; <br>Though John came neither to eat nor to drink, <br>They said he’s demonized with devil’s link’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">About the Son of Man, they said, ‘O look, <br>A glutton, drunkard, friend of sinners, spook.<br>But wisdom vindicates all that they did.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then Jesus reproached towns which didn’t repent, <br>Although his great signs were done as He went.<br>‘O woe to Bethsaida and Chorazin, <br>Where mighty deeds were done, yet live in sin! <br>Had they been done in Sidon and Tyre, <br>They would’ve long back repented to admire.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘Will Capernaum be exalted to heav’n? <br>You’ll go down to the nether world, I say; <br>If mighty deeds done in your ’midst had been<br>In Sodom done, it would have still remained; <br>‘’Twill be more tolerable for Sodom, <br>On the Day of Judgment than for you all.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">So, Jesus said in reply, ‘Father Lord, <br>Of earth, heaven, although you’ve hid these things<br>From the wise and learned people of the world, <br>Yet, you’ve revealed them to the child-like ones! <br>For, such has been your gracious will, Father; <br>To me, from you, all things were handed o’er.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘And no one knows the Son, except Father, <br>And no one knows the Father except Son, <br>And ones to whom Son wishes to reveal.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘All over-burdened ones and who labor, <br>Then come to me, I’ll give rest that world can’t.<br>By taking my yoke on you, learn from me; <br>For, I am meek and humble of all hearts, <br>And you will find the rest for selves truly, <br>As light’s my burden and my yoke easy.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Copyright by Dr John Celes 5-31-2007</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a></strong></div>