Poetry, FaithKenneth Webbdeath warrant, Scribes and Pharisees, PO 14

Good Friday ~ Compassion | Gute Freitag ~ die Barmherzigkeit

Poetry, FaithKenneth Webbdeath warrant, Scribes and Pharisees, PO 14
Good Friday ~ Compassion | Gute Freitag ~ die Barmherzigkeit

Regardless of what we think about the veracity of the overall presentation by humankind of salvation, we do know that the Crucifixion is a historical event. How we interpret this event, is for the individual.

Dedicated to Valtinho Silva and Luiz Saraiva and Frau Rita Schneeweiß



Compassion : Good Friday | die Barmherzigkeit : Gute Freitag



And gazing upon their anger and frustration…
How dare He heal upon the Sabbath
‘By what authority do you do these things?’
they demanded

He flashed a brilliance
Within His Eyes
That smote them sore,
Who is this Man?
They pondered

And then with devastating erudition
Quoting the very Word by which they intended
to convict Him
His gaze took in every man
Every Rabbi
Every Scribe
Every Pharisee

“’I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy,
and I will have compassion upon whom I will have compassion,
says The LORD’”

They bristled with indignation
What?
Is He mad?
Is He deranged?
He likens Himself to The Most High!

No! Shouted another
It is worse
He has quoted the Scriptures
He saith that He IS The Most High

They dared not move
In an instant His Deity flashed
And was gone
He left them


They signed His death warrant
And unwittingly thereby
Brought Salvation to all


10 April 2023
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© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb

Composed 10 June 2014





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Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.

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