J39 Jesus Was Rejected Poem by Simple Simon

It was winter, when people
Congregated in the temple
At Jerusalem, on the occasion
Of the Festival of Dedication.

In the Solomon’s Porch side
There was a huge crowd,
Where Jesus was walking
And people were watching.

They asked openly Jesus,
“In suspense don’t keep us.
Are you Messiah, the one
Sent by God as His son? ”

Jesus said, “I made it clear,
Time and again, earlier,
You believed me never
But doubted me forever.”

“Under my Father’s authority,
Not on my own, I do my duty,
But doubts only you keep,
As you’re not my sheep.”

“My sheep listen to me
And they follow me
As my voice, they know
And with me, they go.”

“They shall never die,
As eternally they live by
The word of the Father,
Who sent them to my care.”

“None can snatch them,
And take away anytime
From my strong hold,
As they’re in my fold.”

“The Father and I are one.”
When he said this word ‘one, ’
In the crowd, all the men,
Started picking up stones.

“For which one good deed
Among those, before you, I did,
You want to throw stones at me?
Before stoning, will you tell me? ”

When Jesus asked like this,
They replied, “It’s because
Of your words of blasphemy,
And your senseless audacity.”

“You’re only a man, not God,
But you make yourself God.”
Jesus understood their mood
And told them words good.

“In you Law, it’s written,
That God exists in all men.
When this is the truth
Why have you no faith? ”

“The Father Himself chose me.
To this world, He sent me.
All are Gods, your scripture say.
Then blasphemy it’s, how you say? ”

“If you don’t believe me
Believe my deeds you see.
The Father is in me, as I act,
And I’m in Him, it’s a fact.”

When he finished saying this,
His body, they tried to seize,
But he managed to slip out.
And from their hold, he left.

Crossing the River Jordan,
He went to the place of John,
Where he stayed then,
And taught all visiting men.