ITINERANT PREACHER
Traveling preacher turning water
Into wine, healing sick and blind,
Raising the dead, multiplying fish
And bread for thousands waiting
To be fed, friend of many, foe of
Pious religious leaders in the know,
An enigma to their brood of vipers
As the preacher casts out devils,
The leaders of the Temple were
Offended by his unorthodox ways,
As he gave his Father praise, they
Said he's possessed of devils, and
He's a lunatic at best, unlike us he's
A pretender, a liar...conspires with
Beelzebub, yet he claims to be the
Son of GOD, we think it's odd...he
Blasphemes...and he even said, if
You destroy this temple, he'd raise
It in three days, see how crazed he
Is, they picked up stones to throw
ITINERANT PREACHER II
He slipped away though, as he'd
Done before, he did it once more
When they tried to stone him again
After he'd driven out greedy money
Changers in the Temple...angered as
They'd made his Father's house a den
Of thieves, profiteering off the people's
House of prayer...he couldn't stand to
See them there, and righteously he drove
Them out, as he went about doing good,
They asked by what authority do you do
This? He said I'll tell you if you tell me if
John's baptism was of God or of man, they
Reasoned among themselves that either way
They answered him, the people or Jesus would
Be dismayed, so they answered him...we don't
Know, likewise Jesus said, then I won't tell
You by what authority I have driven out the
Money changers in the Temple. But truly he
Was the LAMB Of GOD, the ONLY ONE, the
MESSIAH, the CHRIST, the PRINCE Of PEACE,
That was to come, he came and they rejected
Who he was, as he threatened their positions
Of power and self importance over the people.
by Cheryl Ellen Baxter ©
RELATED SCRIPTURES
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John 10:17-33 -- Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
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John 2:15-21 -- And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
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John 2:36-39. -- Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
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1 Corinthians 2:14 -- But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
