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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369801" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible in Poetry: Gospel of St. Matthew (Chapter 23)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Jesus told his disciples <br>And crowds, ‘As scribes and Pharisees all sit<br>In Moses’ chair, do all they tell; <br>Observe all things they tend to say, <br>But don’t follow their example, <br>For, they preach but do not practice.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘They place too heavy burdens on<br>Shoulders of people to carry <br>But will not help even a bit.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘They do things so that they are seen; <br>They widen their phylacteries, <br>And lengthen their tassels often; <br>They love honor at banquet-halls; <br>Be exalted in synagogues; <br>Be greeted in market-places; <br>Get salutation as ‘Rabbi’.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘As for you, don’t be called, ’ Rabbi’.<br>You are brothers with one Teacher.<br>You have one father in heaven; <br>Call no one as father on earth; <br>You’ve one Master, the ‘Messiah’.<br>Do not be called ‘master’ on earth; <br>The greatest must be your servant; <br>Whoev’r exalts shall be humbled; <br>He who humbles is exalted.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Then woe to you scribes, Pharisees; <br>You are all hypocrites who lock<br>The gates of heaven to mankind; <br>Neither do you enter yourselves, <br>Nor allow others to enter.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Then woe to you o hypocrites, <br>You cross the seas and traverse lands<br>For sake of making one convert<br>And when that happens, you make him<br>A Gehenna’s child, twice as you.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘O woe to you blind guides who say, <br>‘To swear by temple is just naught; <br>But swearing by its gold is not.<br>Which is greater, gold or temple<br>That gives the gold its sanctity? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘To swear by altar, it means naught; <br>To swear by altar-gifts is not.<br>Which is greater, gift or altar<br>That sanctifies the gift offered? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blind ones, one who swears by altar, <br>Swears by it and things upon it; <br>Who swears by temple, swears by it<br>And swears by Him who dwells in it; <br>Who swears by heaven swears by throne<br>Of God who seated on it.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ‘O woe to you scribes, Pharisees! <br>You hypocrites who pay the tithes<br>Of mint and dill and cummin-seeds<br>But ignored what is important<br>In law and judgment and mercy<br>Yet, these you ought to have done then<br>Without neglecting the others! <br>You blind guides who strain out the gnat<br>And swallow the camel wholesome! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Woe to you scribes and Pharisees<br>You are like white-washed tombs to see, <br>Appearing beautiful outside, <br>With dead men’s bones and filth inside.’<br>Externally, you seem righteous, <br>Internally, you are filled with<br>Hypocrisy and evil-deeds! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ‘O woe to you, scribes, Pharisees, <br>You build the tombs of prophets and, <br>Adorn memorials of righteous; <br>And you say that if we had lived <br>In our ancestor’s days, we wouldn’t<br>Have joined to shed the prophets’ blood! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, you agree that you’re children<br>Of the murderers of prophets<br>Get what your ancestors measured; <br>You serpents, you brood of vipers, <br>How can you ever escape from<br>The judgment of Gehenna then? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore, I send to you wise-men, <br>Prophets and scribes and yet, you kill<br>Some and crucify some of them; <br>Some are scourged in your synagogues; <br>Some are pursued from town to town.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Therefore shall come upon you all, <br>The blood of righteous, shed on earth <br>From Abel to Zechariah, <br>The son of Barachiah, you killed<br>Between sanctuary and altar! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amen, I say, all things will come<br>Upon present generation.<br>Jerusalem, the murderer <br>Of prophets, who stones that are sent<br>How many times have I then yearned<br>To gather en masse your children<br>As hen brings young under wings<br>Yet, you were most unwilling still! <br>Behold, your house will turn lonely, <br>Abandoned and desolate soon; <br>I tell, you’ll not see me again<br>Until you say, ‘Blessed is He<br>Who comes in the name of the Lord! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 6-11-2007</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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And crowds, ‘As scribes and Pharisees all sit
In Moses’ chair, do all they tell; 
Observe all things they tend to say, 
But don’t follow their example, 
For, they preach but do not practice.’

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