Poetry

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THE PHARISEES AND THE TEACHERS
SAW SOME DISCIPLES EATING.
WHAT THEY SAW MADE THEM SUCH SCREECHERS
IT WAS SUCH AN AWFUL SCENE.

THEY WERE EATING WITH UNWASHED HANDS
NOT HOLDING TO TRADITION.
THIS WAS ONE OF THEIR GREAT COMMANDS
KEEP IN A CLEAN CONDITION.

2.
THEY NEVER EAT UNLESS THEY WASH
THEY KEEP MANY TRADITIONS.
THESE DISCIPLES THEY WANT TO SQUASH
THEY CAME WITH THEIR PETITIONS.

WHY IS IT YOUR DISCIPLES EAT
WITH THEIR FILTHY UNWASHED HANDS?
OUR TRADITIONS THEY JUST DELETE
THEY DESERVE OUR REPRIMANDS.

3.
JESUS TO THEIR CHARGES REPLIED
ISAIAH WE KNOW WAS RIGHT.
OF HYPOCRITES HE PROPHESIED
AND HE HAD YOU FOLKS IN SIGHT.

THESE PEOPLE HONOR ME WITH LIPS
BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME.
THEIR WORSHIP IS VAIN WITHOUT GRIPS
MEN'S RULES ARE ALL THEY SEE.

4.
JESUS GAVE THEM A GREAT REBUKE
YOU LET GO OF GOD'S COMMANDS.
TRADITIONS OF MEN ARE A FLUKE
GOD'S WILL ETERNALLY STANDS.

YOU WILL SET GOD'S COMMANDS ASIDE
AND TRADITIONS THEN OBSERVE..
THIS IS TO FOLLOW SINFUL PRIDE
YET FROM FOLLY YOU WON'T SWERVE.



5.
HONOR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER
THIS IS WHAT MOSES HAS SAID.
IF YOUR CURSE FATHER OR MOTHER
YOU MUST FIND YOURSELF SOON DEAD.

BUT YOU SAY THIS WILL NOT BE SO
IF TO YOUR PARENTS YOU SAY.
YOU WON'T FROM ME RECEIVE THE DOUGH
IT IS CORBAN FROM TODAY.

6.
TO GOD THIS GIFT IS DEVOTED
IT'S NO LONGER MINE TO GIVE.
LAWS ON WHICH MERE MEN HAVE VOTED
CHANGE GOD'S WAY FOR YOU TO LIVE.

YOU THE WORD OF GOD NULLIFY
BY TRADITIONS HANDED DOWN.
YOU TO GOD'S WILL, WILL NOT COMPLY
BUT ON WHAT'S RIGHT YOU DO FROWN.

7.
JESUS CALLED THE CROWDS TO HEAR HIM
LISTEN TO ME EVERYONE.
NOTHING OUTSIDE ENTERING HIM
MAKES A MAN UNCLEAN, UNDONE.

RATHER WHAT COMES OUT OF A MAN
THAT IS WHAT MAKES HIM UNCLEAN.
DON'T WORRY AND ETERNALS BAN
BUT INTERNALS YOU MUST SCREEN.

8.
HIS DISCIPLES ASKED HIM LATER
EXPLAIN TO US WHAT YOU MEAN.
THEY NEEDED AN EDUCATOR
THEY WERE SO DULL AND UNKEEN.

JESUS SAID WHAT COMES FROM OUTSIDE
CANNOT MAKE A MAN UNCLEAN.
IT CANNOT HIS HEART FILL WITH PRIDE
BUT PASS THROUGH AND BE UNSEEN.


9.
JESUS THUS DECLARED ALL FOODS CLEAN
FOOD CANNOT DEFILE A MAN.
IT'S WHAT COMES OUT THAT IS UNCLEAN
THESE GREAT EVILS HE DID SCAN.

FOR FROM WITHIN OUT OF MEN'S HEARTS
COME EVERY EVIL THOUGHT.
THIS IS WHERE ALL CRIMES AND GREED STARTS
AND ALL THE SIN MAN HAS WROUGHT.

10.
SEXUAL IMMORALITY
THEFT, MURDER, ADULTERY
GREED, MALICE, DECEIT AND ENVY
LEUDNESS, SLANDER AND FOLLY.

ARROGANCE AND ALL THESE EVILS
COME FROM THE INSIDE OF MAN.
THEY MAKE UNCLEAN AND CREATE ILLS
SUCH IT'S BEEN SINCE TIME BEGAN.

11.
JESUS LEFT AND WENT TO TYRE
TRIED TO HIDE HIS PRESENCE THERE.
BUT A WOMAN WITH DESIRE
CAME TO HIM IN GREAT DESPAIR.

EVIL SPIRIT FILLED HER DAUGHTER
SHE RAN AND FELL AT HIS FEET.
IT WAS DESPERATION BROUGHT HER
SHE WAS FACING GREAT DEFEAT.

12.
THIS GREEK BEGGED THE LORD TO HELP HER
HIS RESPONSE WAS QUITE A SHOCK.
HELPING OTHERS HE DID PREFER
AND HER HOPE HE TRIED TO BLOCK.

FIRST HE SAID LET THE CHILDREN EAT
IT'S NOT RIGHT TO TAKE THEIR BREAD.
TOSSING IT SO THE DOGS CAN EAT
LET THEM KEEP WHAT'S THEIRS INSTEAD.



13.
BUT THIS MOTHER WAS QUITE CLEVER
AND TO THE LORD SHE REPLIED.
EVEN THE DOGS CAN ENDEAVOR
TO GET CRUMBS THAT FALL ASIDE.

CRUMBS THAT FALL UNDER THE TABLE
DO NOT ROB THE CHILD OF BREAD.
THEIR DIET'S NOT MADE UNSTABLE
THAN BOTH DOGS AND THEM ARE FED.

14.
JESUS TOLD HER FOR THAT REPLY
HE WOULD GRANT HER, HER REQUEST.
YOUR DAUGHTER IS WELL, WILL NOT DIE
THE DEMON FROM HER HAS LEFT.

SHE WENT HOME AND FOUND IT WAS SO
HER CHILD WAS LYING IN BED.
AND THE DEMON WAS GONE ALSO
IT WAS JUST AS JESUS SAID.

15.
JESUS LEFT TYRE, WENT TO SIDON
BY THE SEA OF GALILEE.
TO THE DECAPOLIS REGION
WHERE PEOPLE BROUGHT HIM THIS PLEA.

PLACE YOUR HAND UPON THIS DEAF MAN
WHO ALSO CAN HARDLY TALK.
JESUS HAD FOR HIM A STRANGE PLAN
HE SAID COME LET'S TAKE A WALK.

16.
HE PUT HIS FINGERS IN HIS EARS
TOUCHED THE MANS TONGUE WITH HIS SPIT.
THEN WITH SIGHING BUT WITHOUT TEARS
HE GAVE HEAVENS BENEFIT.

"EPHPHATHA" WHICH MEANS BE OPENED
WAS THE WORD THAT JESUS SAID.
AT THIS HIS EARS WERE THEN OPENED
HIS TONGUE WAS NO LONGER DEAD.


17.
JESUS COMMANDED THEN, DON'T TELL
BUT THE MORE HE DID, THEY TOLD.
THEIR AMAZEMENT NONE COULD DISPEL
SO THEY PRAISED HIM AND WERE BOLD.

HE HAS DONE EVERYTHING SO WELL
DEAF NOW HEAR AND DUMB NOW SPEAK.
THESE FACTS THE PEOPLE DID COMPEL
ALL THIS SECRET NEWS TO LEAK.
THIS IS WHAT MOSES HAS SAID.
IF YOUR CURSE FATHER OR MOTHER
YOU MUST FIND YOURSELF SOON DEAD.

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