Poetry

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JESUS ENTERED CAPERNAUM
PEOPLE HEARD HE HAD COME HOME.
SUCH A GREAT CROWD TO THERE HAD COME
IN THAT HOUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM.

PEOPLE WERE LEFT OUTSIDE THE DOOR
AS THE SAVIOUR PREACHED THE WORD,
THEN A SICK MAN CARRIED BY FOUR
TRIED TO GET AROUND THIS HORDE.

2.
THEY CARRIED THAT PARALYTIC
UP TO THE VERY ROOF TOP.
JESUS WAS SO SYMPATHETIC
HE REFUSED TO MAKE THEM STOP.

THEY LET HIM DOWN BEFORE JESUS
PARALYZED AND ON A MAT.
HIS DESIRE IS TO PLEASE US
FOR HE KNOWS JUST WHERE WE'RE AT.

3.
HE SAID YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN
EVEN WITH HIS CRITICS THERE.
HE KNEW IT WAS JUST A GIVEN
THEY WOULD CRITICIZE HIS CARE.

NO ONE BUT GOD CAN FORGIVE SIN
WAS THE THOUGHT WITHIN THEIR HEARTS.
JESUS SENSED THEIR SPIRIT WITHIN
SO THIS WISDOM HE IMPARTS.

4.
WHICH IS EASIER IN MY TALK
TO SAY SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
OR TO SAY TAKE YOUR MAT AND WALK
BY YOUR OWN WILL BE DRIVEN.

BUT SO YOU KNOW THE SON OF MAN
HAS AUTHORITY ON EARTH.
TO FORGIVE THE SINS OF THIS MAN
I GAVE HIM NEW HOPE AND WORTH.


5.
GET UP, TAKE YOUR MAT AND GO HOME
HE GOT UP AND WALKED RIGHT OUT.
ON HIS OWN LEGS HE COULD THEN ROAM
THE CROWD, PRAISES TO GOD SHOUT.

WE'VE NEVER SEEN THE LIKES OF THIS
EVERYONE WAS SO AMAZED.
THE PARALYTIC WAS IN BLISS
JESUS HAD GOD'S NAME UPRAISED.

6.
JESUS WENT OUT BESIDE THE LAKE
A LARGE CROWD THEN CAME TO HIM.
TO TEACH THEM HE DID UNDERTAKE
CALLING SOME TO FOLLOW HIM.

HE SAW LEVI AT THE TAX BOOTH
FOLLOW ME THEN JESUS SAID.
LEVI COULD SENSE JESUS WAS TRUTH
TO HIM LEVI THEN JUST FLED.

7.
JESUS HAD DINNER AT HIS HOUSE
MANY TAX PEOPLE WERE THERE.
CRITICS COULD NOT HIS SPIRIT DOUSE
HE WITH SINNERS LOVED TO SHARE.

WHEN PHARISEES SAW HIM EATING
THEY ASKED HIM HOW DOES HE DARE.
TO SUCH FOLLY KEEP REPEATING
FOR SUCH LOW-LIFE HAVE A CARE.

8.
THEN JESUS TO THEM THESE WORDS SPOKE
NOT THE HEALTHY BUT THE SICK.
NEED A DOCTORS SKILL TO INVOKE
AND THIS IS MY BAILIWICK.

I HAVE NOT COME TO THE RIGHTEOUS
BUT TO CALL SINNERS TO ME.
SO YOU CAN STOP MAKING ALL THIS FUSS
WITH SINNERS I CHOOSE TO BE.



9.
JOHN'S DISCIPLES WERE THEN FASTING
THOSE OF THE PHARISEES TOO.
SOME CAME TO JESUS THEN ASKING
HOW COME THIS YOU OWN DON'T DO.

JESUS ANSWERED HOW CAN THE GUEST
FAST WHEN THERE'S A WEDDING ON.
WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM IS MANIFEST
FEASTINGS IN AND FASTING GONE.

10.
THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THE BRIDEGROOM
WILL BE TAKEN FAR AWAY.
THEN MY DISCIPLES I'LL ASSUME
WILL START FASTING ON THAT DAY.

NO ONE SEWS A PATCH OF UNSHRUNK
CLOTH UPON AN OLD GARMENT.
THE NEW WILL PULL AND TARE A CHUNK
ALL WILL BE RUINED BY THIS RENT.

11.
DON'T POOR NEW WINE IN OLD WINE SKINS
FOR THAT WINE THE SKINS WILL BURST.
POOR NEW WINE INTO NEW WINE SKINS
IF YOU HOPE TO QUENCH YOUR THIRST.

ONE SABBATH JESUS WAS GOING
THROUGH THE GRAIN FIELDS WITH HIS MEN.
HUNGER IN THEM STARTED FLOWING
HEADS OF GRAINS THEY PICKED JUST THEN.

12.
THE PHARISEES SEEMED TO BE SHOOK
THEY FELT THIS WAS JUST AWFUL.
THEY SAID TO JESUS NOW JUST LOOK
WHAT THEY'RE DOING'S UNLAWFUL.

JESUS ENTERED INTO DEBATE
HAVE YOU OF DAVID NOT READ.
WHEN HE HAD A NEED THAT WAS GREAT
HE ATE CONSECRATED BREAD.



13.
IT IS LAWFUL FOR PRIESTS TO EAT
BUT FOR OTHERS IT IS NOT.
BUT THE LAW IF NOT MADE COMPLETE
IF EVER MERCY'S FORGOT.

THEN JESUS SAID THESE WORDS TO THEM
THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN.
THIS SAYING IS SUCH A GREAT GEM
FROM THIS ONE CALLED SON OF MAN.

14.
HE IS THE LORD OF THE SABBATH
MAN WAS NOT MADE JUST FOR IT.
GRACE DOMINATES OVER HIS WRATH
IN ALL WHO TO HIM SUBMIT.

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