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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible in Poetry: Gospel of St. Matthew (Chapter 16)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The Pharisees and Sadducees<br>To Jesus came, to test and asked, <br>‘Do show us a heavenly sign.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He replied, ‘If evening sky’s red, <br>Tomorrow will be fair, you say.<br>If morning sky be red, today<br>Will be rather a stormy day.’<br>You know to judge the sky’s patterns, <br>Yet, cannot judge the signs of times.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">For a generation evil, <br>And unfaithful one, no sign will<br>Be given, except Jonah’s sign.<br>Then, He left them and went away..</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">On the other side of the sea, <br>They found that they had not brought bread.<br>And Jesus said, ‘Look out, beware<br>Of the leaven of Pharisees.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">His disciples thought, Jesus said<br>Because they had no bread with them.<br>Then Jesus said, ‘you faithless ones, <br>Why did you draw such conclusion? ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘Didn’t you remember the five loaves<br>That fed five thousand and more ones? <br>Didn’t you remember the seven, <br>That fed four thousand and more ones? <br>How many loaves remained also! <br>How is that you don’t comprehend? <br>The leaven of the bread had meant<br>The teachings of the Pharisees! ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In Caesarea Philippi, <br>He asked, ‘what do people say I’m? ’<br>They said, ‘Some say, John, the Baptist, <br>Others, Jeremiah, prophets! ’<br>He then asked, ‘What do you say I’m? ’<br>Then Peter said, ‘You’re Messiah, <br>Son of the Living God, that’s One.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And Jesus then said, ‘Blessed are you<br>O Simon Peter, Jonah’s son.<br>For, flesh and blood didn’t reveal this, <br>But my heavenly Father just.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And so I say to you Peter, <br>‘Upon this rock, I’ll build my church..<br>The nether gates shall not prevail.<br>I’ll give the Kingdom’s keys to you.<br>Whatev’r you bind on earth shall be<br>Bound also in heaven likewise; <br>What you loosen on earth shall be<br>Loosened in heaven, similarly! ’<br>He ordered them not to reveal<br>That He was truly Messiah! ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then Jesus told his disciples<br>He must go to Jerusalem, <br>And suffer greatly from elders, <br>Chief priests and scribes, and be killed then, <br>And to become raised on third day! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then Peter taking him aside<br>Said, ‘God forbid Lord, let nothing<br>Like that ever happen to you! ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But Jesus said to Peter then, <br>‘Just get behind me, Satan, you, <br>You’re an obstacle to me too! <br>You are not thinking as God does.<br>You think as human beings do.’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then Jesus said, ‘Whoever wants<br>To follow me must deny things<br>Take up his cross and come after.<br>For, he who saves his life shall lose, <br>Who loses life for my sake, lives! ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘What profits one to gain the world<br>But just forfeit his life on earth? <br>What can one’s life be exchanged for? ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">‘Amen I say, some of you here, <br>Will not taste death, until you see<br>The Son of Man come in glory, <br>By angels flanked one day, surely! ’</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=369797" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>(6-3-2007)</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>