A
Poem a Sunday
Epiphany
II – B
January
14, 2018
St. John 1:43-51 -
NRSV
Jesus Calls Philip
and Nathanael
43 The
next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him,
“Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and
Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him
about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph
from Nazareth.” 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out
of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” 47 When Jesus saw
Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in
whom there is no deceit!” 48 Nathanael asked him, “Where did you get
to know me?” Jesus answered, “I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called
you.” 49 Nathanael replied, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are
the King of Israel!” 50 Jesus answered, “Do you believe because I
told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than
these.” 51 And he said to him, “Very truly, I tell you, [a] you will see
heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of
Man.”
Footnotes:
A Poem a Sunday
Epiphany II – B
Wisdom Tree
Sitting
under budding branches
streams
of light that will prevail
dreams
from wisdom’s great expanses
a
voice is heard amidst the gale:
“Come
and see the Word Incarnate
Sophia’s
child and first born son.
You
in whom there is no guile
will
receive the blessed one.
And
new visions of God’s reign:
the
Jubilee, the Shalom.
Come
and see Eden’s tree
blossoming
on Calvary.
There
is love. There is home
at
the hill called Golgotha.
Where
Wisdom plants her new tree
budding
outside Jerusalem.
Take
and eat; your eyes open
to
compassion that now heals
longing
hearts once broken.
In
the shadow of Wisdom’s tree
God
begins a new creation.
Adam’s
curse
will
be reversed.”
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