Poetry

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VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING
ALL ISRAEL'S LEADERS AGREED.
THEY BOUND JESUS WITHOUT WARNING
AND TO PILATE HIM DID LEAD.

HE ASKED ARE YOU KING OF THE JEWS?
YES IT IS JUST AS YOU SAY.
JESUS REPLIED, BUT WAS ACCUSED
BY THE CHIEF PRIESTS IN DISMAY.

2.
SO AGAIN PILATE DID ASK HIM
AREN'T YOU GOING TO ANSWER ME?
YOU ARE REALLY OUT ON A LIMB
THIS IS SERIOUS YOU SEE.

THEY ACCUSE YOU OF MANY THINGS
STILL JESUS MADE NO REPLY.
PILATE AMAZED, THIS NEW PLAN BRINGS
BECAUSE THE FEAST NOW WAS NIGH.

3.
IT WAS A CUSTOM TO RELEASE
ANY PRISONER THEN HELD.
GIVING THEM ON LIFE A NEW LEASE
LETTING PEOPLE, POWER WELD.

A MAN WHO WAS CALLED BARABBAS
WHO HAD COMMITTED MURDER.
OTHER CRIMES THIS MAN DID AMASS
HE HELPED AN UPRISING STIR.

4.
THE CROWD CAME TO PILATE ASKING
DO FOR US WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
PILATE KNEW THAT THEY WERE MASKING
ENVY FOR THIS, THEIR CAPTURED ONE.

DO YOU WANT TO RELEASE HIM
THIS ONE WHO'S KING OF THE JEWS.
THE CHIEF PRIEST THEN WORKED THE CROWDS WHIM
TO SHOUT BARABBAS WE CHOOSE.


5.
WHAT SHALL I DO, PILATE ASKED THEM
WITH THIS ONE, KING OF THE JEWS.
THEY SHOUTED THIS MAN NOW CONDEMN
CRUCIFY HIM! THAT WE CHOOSE.

WHY? WHAT CRIME HAS HE COMMITTED?
THEY JUST SHOUTED CRUCIFY.
TO THEIR ANGER HE SUBMITTED
WANTING THEM TO SATISFY.

6.
HE RELEASED BARABBAS TO THEM
JESUS HE THEN DID HAVE FLOGGED.
THIS MOB RULE PILATE COULD NOT STEM
OVER WAS ALL DIALOGUE.

THE SOLDIERS LED JESUS AWAY
CALLING OTHERS TO JOIN THEM.
IN THAT PALACE BEGAN HORSE PLAY
THEIR MOCKERY NONE COULD STEM.

7.
THEY PUT A PURPLE ROBE ON HIM
ON HIS HEAD A CROWN OF THORNS.
THEN THEY STARTED CALLING TO THEM
HAIL, KING OF THE JEWS! EACH SCORNS.

AGAIN AND AGAIN THEY STRUCK HIM
ON HIS HEAD WITH A HARD STAFF.
SPITTING, FALLING TO WORSHIP HIM
MOCKING HIM JUST FOR A LAUGH.

8.
WHEN THEY FINISHED WITH THEIR MOCKING
THEY TOOK OFF THE PURPLE ROBE.
HOW THEY TREATED HIM WAS SHOCKING
BUT THEY DID HIM THEN ENROBE.

THEY LED HIM TO BE CRUCIFIED
SIMON OF CYRENE PASSED BY.
RETURNING FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE
HE WAS THEN FORCED TO COMPLY.



9.
HE CARRIED THE CROSS FOR JESUS
TO THE PLACE CALLED GOLGOTHA.
THERE'S NO RECORD HE MADE A FUSS
THERE THEY MIXED A BROTH OF A-

MIXER OF WINE AND THEN OF MYRRH
BUT HE WOULD NOT DRINK OF IT.
THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, BEING SURE
THEY ALL HIS CLOTHING WOULD GET.

10.
THEY CRUCIFIED HIM THE THIRD HOUR
WRITTEN NOTICE ABOVE READ.
THE KING OF THE JEWS, DID TOWER
TO ROBBERS THERE ALSO BLED.

ONE ON RIGHT, ONE ON THE LEFT
THOSE WHO PASSED BY INSULTS SAY.
SO YOU WHO SAID YOU ARE SO DEFT
YOU'D TAKE OUR TEMPLE AWAY.

11.
YOU'D DESTROY, REBUILD IN THREE DAYS
COME DOWN NOW AND SAVE YOURSELF!
OTHER LEADERS MOCKED THE SAME WAY
SAVED OTHERS, CAN'T SAVE HIMSELF.

LET THIS CHRIST, THE KING OF ISRAEL
NOW COME DOWN, ESCAPE THE CROSS.
THIS COULD WITH BELIEF OUR HEARTS FILL
BUT INSULTS ON HIM THEY TOSS.

12.
AT THE SIXTH HOUR DARKNESS CAME
AND IT COVERED THE WHOLE LAND.
FOR THREE HOURS IT WAS THE SAME
PRESSURE WAS HARD TO WITHSTAND.

AT THE NINTH HOUR CHRIST CRIED OUT
IN LOUD VOICE, ELOI, ELOI,
LAMA SABACHTHANI, HE SHOUTS
HE WAS ROBBED OF ALL HIS JOY.



13,
MY GOD, MY GOD, I'M FORSAKEN
TELL ME WHY HAVE YOU LEFT ME?
THOSE STANDING BY WERE MISTAKEN
THEY SAID ELIJAH HIS PLEA.

ONE MAN RAN, FILLED A SPONGE WITH WINE
LIFTED FOR JESUS TO DRINK.
HE SAID LET'S STOP AND HOLD THE LINE
SEE IF ELIJAH WILL LINK.

14.
WITH LOUD CRY JESUS BREATHED HIS LAST
CURTAIN IN TEMPLE WAS TORN.
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM IT TORE FAST
ALL HEAVEN BEGAN TO MOURN.

WHEN THE CENTURION HEARD THIS
AND SAW HOW JESUS HAD DIED.
HE SAID HOW COULD THIS TRUTH MEN MISS
THIS MAN'S GOD'S SON, HE REPLIED.

15.
WOMEN WATCHING FROM A DISTANCE
ONE WAS MARY MAGDALENE.
ANOTHER MARY THERE BY CHOICE
AND SALOME WAS TOO SEEN.

IN GALILEE THEY CARED FOR HIM
FOLLOWED HIM AND MET HIS NEEDS.
MANY WOMEN IN THIS SCENE GRIM
HAD FOLLOWED HIM WHERE HE LEADS.

16.
IT WAS THE PREPARATION DAY
THE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH.
SON WAS NEARLY PASSING AWAY
WHEN THERE CAME THIS MAN, JOSEPH.

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA
A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL.
PROMINENT IN ALL OF JUDEA
HOPING TO GOD'S WILL FULFILL.



17.
WENT BOLDLY TO PILATE ASKING
FOR THE BODY OF JESUS.
PILATE SURPRISED STARTED ASKING
IS IT TRUE HE'S GONE FROM US?

WHEN THE CENTURION SAID YES
HE GAVE THE BODY TO HIM.
JOSEPH THEN THE BODY DID DRESS
CHRIST'S BODY IN SOME LINEN.

18.
HE PLACED THE BODY IN A TOMB
THAT HAD BEEN CUT OUT OF ROCK.
ROLLED A STONE TO COVER THE TOMB
THE WHOLE ENTRANCE IT DID BLOCK.

THE MOTHER OF JESUS WAS THERE
ALSO MARY MAGDALENE.
THEY HAD OBSERVED WITH GREATEST CARE
WHERE HE WAS LAID THEY HAD SEEN.

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