Poetry

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HE BEGAN TEACHING PARABLES
A MAN PLANTED A VINEYARD.
PUT A WALL AROUND LIKE CABLES
DUG A PIT, WAS WORKING HARD,

WITH HIS WINEPRESS BUILT A TOWER
RENTED IT AND WENT AWAY.
AT THE TIME OF HARVEST HOUR
SENT A MAN TO COLLECT PAY.

2.
BUT INSTEAD THEY SEIZED AND BEAT HIM
EMPTY HANDED TO DEPART.
HE KNEW GETTING PAYMENT WAS SLIM
HE DID WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS SMART.

HE SENT THEM ANOTHER SERVANT
BUT THEY STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD.
THEY WOULD NOT THEIR EVIL RECANT
THE THIRD SERVANT ENDED DEAD.

3.
HE SENT MANY OTHER SERVANTS
THEY REJECTED EVERY ONE.
HE THEN APPROACHED THEM WITH THIS SLANT
HE WOULD SEND TO THEM HIS SON.

CERTAINLY THEY'LL GIVE HIM RESPECT
I LOVE HIM AND ALWAYS WILL.
BUT THIS HEIR THEY TOO DO REJECT
AND THIS PRECIOUS SON THEY KILL.

4.
WHAT WILL THE VINEYARD OWNER DO?
JESUS ASKED, AND THEN REPLIED.
HE WILL COME AND GIVE WHAT THEIR DUE
DEATH, FOR ALL GOOD THEY DEFIED.

HE'LL GIVE THE VINEYARD TO OTHERS
HAVEN'T YOU READ IN SCRIPTURE
WHAT APPLIES TO JEWISH BROTHERS
WHO ALLOW SATAN TO LURE?


5.
THE STONE THE BUILDERS REJECTED
HAS BECOME THE CORNERSTONE.
GOD DID THIS, HE HAS ELECTED
MAKING THIS GREAT WONDER KNOWN.

IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES
THAT OUR LORD HAS NOW DONE THIS.
GOD IS READY WITH A SURPRISE
WITH HIM BAD THINGS LEAD TO BLISS.

6.
THEY LOOKED FOR A WAY TO ARREST
AND GET JESUS PUT AWAY.
THEY DID THAT PARABLE PROTEST
IT WAS AGAINST US, THEY SAY.

BUT OF THE CROWDS THEY WERE AFRAID
SO THEY LEFT AND WENT AWAY.
BUT HIS LIFE THEY TRIED TO INVADE
AND CATCH HIM SOME OTHER WAY.

7.
THEY TRIED TO CATCH HIM IN HIS WORDS
CAME ONE DAY WITH SUCH A PLAN.
WE KNOW YOU DON'T FOLLOW THE HERDS
YOUR NOT SWAYED BY MORTAL MAN.

YOUR A MAN OF INTEGRITY
TEACHING ONLY GOD'S PURE WAY.
GETTING DOWN TO NITTY GRITTY
SHALL WE TO CAESAR TAX PAY?

8.
JESUS KNEW THEIR HYPOCRISY
WHY DO YOU TRY TO TRAP ME?
A DENARIUS LET ME SEE
THEY AWAITED HIS DECREE.

WHOSE PORTRAIT AND SUPERSCRIPTION
DO YOU SEE UPON THIS COIN?
CAESAR THEY SAID WITH CONVICTION
JESUS THEN DID THEM ENJOIN.



9.
GIVE TO CAESAR WHAT IS CAESAR'S
AND GIVE TO GOD WHAT IS GOD'S.
JESUS AMAZED THESE OLD GESERS
THEY JUST FAILED AND BLEW THEIR WAD.

THEN THE SADUCEES WHO BELIEVE
THERE IS NO RESURRECTION.
CAME TO JESUS TO HIM DECEIVE.
WITH ANOTHER TRICK QUESTION.

10.
TEACHER THEY SAID MOSES ONCE WROTE
THAT IF A MAN'S BROTHER DIES.
LEAVES A WIFE BUT NO KIDS TO TOTE
HE MUST ENTER MARRIAGE TIES.

RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR HIS BROTHER
WITH THE WIDOW LEFT BEHIND.
SHE NOW MARRIES SEVEN BROTHERS
HAS NO CHILD OF ANY KIND.

11.
FINALLY THE WOMAN DIES TOO
AND THIS NOW IS OUR QUESTION.
TO WHICH OF THESE WILL SHE BE TRUE
IN THE GREAT RESURRECTION?

JESUS REPLIED YOUR MISTAKEN
GOD'S WORD YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.
WHEN THE DEAD RISE SHE'S NOT TAKEN
MARRIAGE THERE'S NOT IN DEMAND.

12.
LIKE THE ANGELS THEY DON'T MARRY
IN MARRIAGE NONE ARE GIVEN.
YOUR PROBLEM IS NOT SO SCARY
THINGS ARE SIMPLER IN HEAVEN.

NOW ABOUT THE DEAD ARISING
IN MOSES HAVE YOU NOT READ.
WHEN AT THE BUSH HIM SURPRISING
GOD'S NOT THE GOD OF THE DEAD.



13.
I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM
GOD OF ISAAC AND JACOB.
THE GOD OF THE LIVING I AM
NOT OF THOSE LIKE SOME DEAD BLOB.

YOU ARE SO BADLY MISTAKEN
JESUS SAID TO SADUCEES.
JESUS LEFT THEM ALL QUITE SHAKEN
EVEN ONE TEACHER AGREES.

14.
HE CAME HEARING THEM DEBATING
AGREED JESUS HAD BEEN WISE.
HE TRIED TO GET JESUS RATING
WHICH OF GOD'S LAWS TAKE THE PRIZE.

HEAR O ISRAEL THE LORD OUR GOD
THE LORD IS ONE, HE REPLIED.
WITH ALL YOUR HEART LOVE THE LORD GOD
WITH SOUL, MIND AND STRENGTH BESIDE.

15.
THEN HE SAID THE SECOND IS THIS
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
IF THESE TWO LAWS OF GOD YOU MISS
YOU PUT YOURSELF ON THE SHELF.

WELL SAID TEACHER, THE MAN REPLIED
GOD IS ONE THERE'S NONE BUT HIM..
THIS TRUTH JUST CANNOT BE DENIED
LOVE MUST FILL US TO THE BRIM.

16.
JESUS SAW HE HAD ANSWERED WISE
FROM GOD'S KINGDOM YOUR NOT FAR.
HIS CRITICS THEN DID REALIZE
WITH HIM THEY OUGHT NOT TO SPAR.

WHILE TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE COURTS
JESUS ASKED HIM HOW IS IT THAT
SOME LAW TEACHERS THIS VIEW SUPPORT
THEY THINK THEY HAVE IT DOWN PAT.



17.
THE CHRIST IS THE SON OF DAVID
DAVID DID HIMSELF DECLARE.
THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, HE DID
AT MY RIGHT HAND, DO SIT THERE.

UNTIL I PUT YOUR ENEMIES
UNDER YOUR FEET ONCE FOR ALL.
HOW CAN HE THEN DAVID'S SON BE
IF DAVID HIM LORD DOES CALL?

18.
THE CROWDS LISTENED WITH GREAT DELIGHT
JESUS TAUGHT THEM NOW WATCH OUT.
TEACHERS OF THE LAW DON'T ACT RIGHT
THEIR BEHAVIOR SHOULD RAISE DOUBT.

THEY LIKE WALKING IN FLOWING ROBE
GREETED IN THE MARKET PLACE.
HAVE BEST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUE
AND WITH HONOR BE EMBRACED.

19.
THEY DEVOUR WIDOW'S HOUSES
AND FOR SHOW MAKE LENGTHY PRAYERS.
SUCH MEN ARE TRULY GREAT LOUSES
THEY'LL BE PUNISHED MOST SEVERE.

JESUS SAT DOWN CLOSE TO THE PLACE
WHERE PEOPLE GAVE OFFERINGS.
HE WATCHED THE PEOPLE CASE BY CASE
AS EACH THEIR MONEY GIFT BRINGS.

20.
MANY RICH THREW IN LARGE AMOUNTS
BUT THEN A POOR WIDOW CAME.
WHAT SHE GAVE HARDLY AT ALL COUNTS
SHE HAD TWO COINS TO HER NAME.

JESUS SAID THEY OF THEIR WEALTH GAVE
SHE GAVE OUT OF POVERTY.
SHE GAVE WHAT WAS WORTHY OF RAVE
SHE GAVE IN GREATER DEGREE.



21.
CALLING HIS DISCIPLES TO HIM
HE SAID I TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
THIS POOR WIDOW GAVE, DID NOT SKIM
SHE CAST ALL INTO THE BOOTH.

SHE GAVE ALL SHE HAD TO LIVE ON
OF WEALTH ALL THE OTHERS GAVE.
THEY HAVE MUCH MORE TO LIVE UPON
TO GIVE ALL ONE MUST BE BRAVE..

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