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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369789" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible in Poetry: Gospel of St. Mark (Chapter 4)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The parable of the sower: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Jesus taught by the sea-side, <br>A multitude had gathered fast; <br>He sat on a boat at sea therefore; <br>While people stayed ashore! <br>He taught by mostly parables; <br>To know the Kingdom, it enables.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold, a sower went to sow; <br>Some seeds fell by the way-side but; <br>And quickly birds devoured them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some fell on stony ground, sans soil; <br>The seeds did sprout but didn’t have roots; <br>The scorching sun withered them all! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some fell ’midst thorns, which choked them, <br>And they could not yield any fruits! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A few on ground fell that was good; <br>And yielded fruit, some many-fold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Jesus said: <br>“He that has ears, let him then hear.”<br>The meaning of the parable, <br>His disciples asked when alone.<br>To you is giv’n the pow’r to know<br>The mystery of God’s Kingdom; <br>To others, God explains the same, <br>Through stories called the parables.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although they see, they can’t perceive; <br>And though they hear, can’t understand; <br>And when they get converted, then, <br>Their sins should be forgiven them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Sower is Almighty God; <br>The seed is Word of God, the Lord; <br>The ones that fell by way-side are<br>People who only hear the Word; <br>Yet, Satan steals their Word-sown heart! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The seeds that fall on stony ground<br>Are words that people gladly hear; <br>But since, they do not have firm roots, <br>They give them up, when trials come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those that fall amongst the thorns<br>Are people filled by worldly thoughts; <br>The thorns are riches / lusts of world, <br>Those harden hearts to spiritual things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those that fall on ground that’s good, <br>Are people who hear, live, obey: <br>Fruit-bearing, some a hundred-fold! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Candle under a Bushel! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is not a lamp placed on lamp-stand, <br>Or under bushel-basket / bed? <br>All things remain to become seen; <br>Ev’n secret things will come to light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One who has ears, let him then hear! <br>The measure used will measure you.<br>To one who has, more is added; <br>From one with less, all is taken! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Kingdom of God: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jesus compared the Lord’s Kingdom, <br>Akin a man who scatters seed: <br>That grow on land, he knows not how, <br>Of own accord with ears, full-grain! <br>He wields the sickle all at once, <br>When harvest’s come and grain is ripe! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">God’s Kingdom is like mustard-seed; <br>Although smallest, when sown in ground, <br>It grows to be the largest one, <br>With shady branches where birds nest! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jesus always told parables, <br>As people understood with ease! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As evening came, then Jesus said, <br>“Let’s cross over to other side.”<br>By boat, He went; others followed.<br>A violent squall brought waves aboard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The water filled the boat with ease<br>But Jesus was found deep asleep; <br>They woke him up and cried, “Teacher, <br>You do not care if we perish! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jesus rebuked the wind and sea; <br>The wind soon ceased; the sea turned calm! <br>And Jesus asked, “Are you afraid? <br>You do not have enough of faith! ”<br>Awe-struck, they said to each other, <br>“Who’s He, whom wind and sea obey? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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As Jesus taught by the sea-side, 
A multitude had gathered fast; 
He sat on a boat at sea therefore; 
While people stayed ashore! 
He taught by mostly parables; 
To know the Kingdom, it enables.

Behold, a sower went to..."></div>
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