First Written Gospel
Jesus the Sacred, tried before Pilate;
Pilate, the scared – trial before Caesar?
Jesus, entitled to justice from Rome,
entitled by Pilate, ‘The King of the Jews.’
First written Gospel, translated for all,
title deeds of the Kingdom of God;
proclaimed to the city, unchanging Word,
‘What is written, is written’, bequeathed to the world.
by Graham Kings
Song of the Messiah
Jesus, the Seed of Abraham,
blesses the nations;
Jesus, the Prophet like Moses,
frees the oppressed;
Jesus, the Lord of King David,
leads his people;
Jesus, the Servant of the Lord,
suffers and saves;
Jesus, the Son of Man,
destroyed and raised.
Anglican Church of Kenya, Our Modern Services
(Nairobi: Uzima Press, 2002) p. 6
[Genesis 12:1-3; Deuteronomy 18:15-22; 2 Samuel 7:4-17; Isaiah 52:13-53:9; Daniel 7:13-22]
Thomas
I’d not collude with anyone’s delusions.
I always called a spade its proper name
and could grasp its purpose well enough
when something needed burying.
Wasn’t I the first who pointed out
how we could die with him? And in broad daylight
that was, well ahead of Simon acting
all dramatic at the dinner table.
He’s dead, I said, so don’t you let him down
by making myths of what you want to hope
about a man who always told the truths
he saw, however hard they were.
Someone had to dig them out. I thought
that I could get the very leverage
I’d need by resting on a point of substance
and blunt impossibility.
But when I set my hand to it then something
yielded to my touch and all the firmness
of my former grip was lost: and, yes,
I do remember how it felt.
by Mike Bartholomew-Biggs
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