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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369791" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible in Poetry: Gospel of St. Matthew (Chapter 10)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Jesus summoned His disciples twelve, <br>Empowered them to drive out bad spirits, <br>And cure illnesses and all diseases.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The twelve apostles were (Peter) Simon, <br>His brother Andrew; James, Zebedee’s son; <br>His brother, John; Philip; Bartholomew; <br>Simon, the Canaanite; Thomas; Matthew, <br>Tax-collector; James, son of Alphaeus; <br>Judas Iscariot and Thaddeus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Jesus sent the twelve advising thus: <br>Don’t enter Samaritan towns or go<br>Into territory that’s pagan also.<br>Redeem the sheep that’s lost from Israel’s house; <br>Proclaim, ‘The Kingdom is at hand, So Spouse! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You cure the sick and raise the dead alive; <br>You cleanse lepers and demons you, out drive; <br>When you’ve received without cost, you must give; <br>And without wealth, all life, you must all live.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You should not take a sack for your journey, <br>A second dress, or stick, sandals, money! <br>The laborer keeps whatev’r he deserves; <br>Just worthy person in towns, he then serves; <br>Whenev’r you enter homes, you wish them peace; <br>If house be unworthy, let peace, then cease.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘If one receives you not or heeds your words, <br>Then leave that house or town, shake off feet’s dust.’<br>‘’Twill be, Amen, I say on Judgment Day, <br>Intolerable for that town anyway, <br>Than for the lands of Sodom, Gomorrah! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Behold, I send you like sheep amidst wolves, <br>So, be like serpents shrewd, simple like doves.<br>Beware of people handing you to courts, <br>And scourging you in synagogues by words.’<br>‘And you’ll be led before governors, kings, <br>As my witness ‘fore them, pagans, in strings.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘And when they hand you o’er, do not worry, <br>About the things to say or how to speak; <br>For, you’ll be told at that moment, those things.<br>And you’ll not speak but will Holy Spirit, <br>Through you, on your behalf, in manner fit.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘And brother hands over brother to death, <br>And so will father hand over his child, <br>And children will against their parents rise, <br>And have them put to death although unwise.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘And all will hate you because of my name, <br>And whoever endures, will not end in shame.<br>And if they persecute you in one town, <br>Then, flee to another, known or unknown; <br>And you’ll finish not all of Israel’s towns, <br>Before the Son of Man finally comes! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘No disciple can be above teacher; <br>No slave can be above his own master.’<br>’Tis not enough for disciple that he, <br>In every way, his teacher-like to be, <br>Nor slave become, his master-like truly; <br>If they have called the master Beelzebul, <br>Of those in house-hold then, what will they call? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Of them therefore, in life, don’t be afraid; <br>Nothing’s concealed that will not be revealed; <br>There will be no secret remaining veiled.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘What I tell you in darkness, speak in light; <br>The whisper that you hear, proclaim from height; <br>Don’t be afraid of body-killers then; <br>They can’t destroy the soul, I say, amen; <br>But fear the one who destroys body, soul.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Are not two sparrows sold for coin so small? <br>Yet, to the ground, none of them ever fall, <br>Without your Father’s knowledge or His call.<br>Even the hairs on head are counted well; <br>You’re worth much more than sparrow birds that sell! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘If you acknowledge me before others, <br>Then, I’ll acknowledge you ‘fore my Father; <br>If you deny me before others then, <br>I will, before my Father in Heaven.’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Don’t think I‘ve come to bestow peace on earth; <br>I’ve come to give not peace but flash the sword.<br>I’ve come to set a man against father, <br>To set her daughter ‘gainst her own mother, <br>Daughter-in-law against mother-in-law! <br>One’s foes will be in one’s household to awe.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘If more than me, one loves father, mother, <br>Then, he or she is not worthy of me.<br>If more than me, one loves son or daughter, <br>Then, he is not worthy of me truly.<br>Whoever does not bear his cross and walk, <br>And follow me, is unworthy to talk.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Whoever find his life, will lose it then; <br>Whoever loses for my sake, finds when<br>In future, he receives me, aye, amen.’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Whoev’r receives a prophet properly, <br>Will get a prophet’s reward heavenly; <br>Whoev’r receives a righteous man aright, <br>Receives me and the one who made the Light.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘To one such Godly person, to then drink, <br>A cup of water, even if he gives, <br>Amen, I say to you, he surely lives, <br>To get reward in heaven, in a wink.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(5-31-2007)</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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