J17 Jesus, As A Preacher Poem by Simple Simon

Every method, Jesus used,
When people stood confused.
Some listeners, he commanded.
Others, he reprimanded.

He quoted many examples,
And told a lot of parables.
He used many words simple
To convince those people.

'Why do you use the parable,
When you talk to all people? '
The disciples asked Jesus.
To know, they were curious.

Jesus said, 'You're fortunate
To know all the secrets
Of the kingdom of heaven,
To you, what I've given.'

'They look, but do not see.
They listen, but like a tree,
Do not hear or understand
In a crowd, when they stand.'

PARABLE OF SEEDS AND WEEDS

'Listen, and then learn
The message, what I mean,
Thro' the parable of Seeds
Which grew up with weeds.'

'A man sowed good seeds.
In between grew, bad weeds.
At the time of harvest,
He pulled the weeds and burnt.'

'He reaped all the corns
And stored them in barns.
To heaven, goes a good man.
But to hell, goes the bad one.'

'When seeds were thrown,
Some seeds fell on stone.
They never grew up,
But soon dried up.'

'In bushes, some seeds fell,
But they didn't grow well,
As they got choked and died,
As they couldn't grow inside.'

'Some landed in good soil.
Later, they bore fruits well.
People also reacted like this
When he said such stories.'

To impress all the people
He told them a parable
Like this, whenever he sat
With the crowd, he met.

While many were convinced,
No interest some men evinced,
But criticized all his actions,
Calling his parables, mere fictions.