Tune: St Michael [Series: Poems to Saint Tunes 4]
('The Lord is risen indeed')
John 1 v.29-34
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John Baptist Jesus saw
Said, Behold, Lamb for sure
The Lamb of God which takes away
Sin, now salvation's day
He takes away the sin
Of the world, all within
Joh said of Him, He ranks before
Me, greater evermore
John bare record, saying
The Spirit descending
I saw, like a dove, abiding
On Jesus, so resting
The Father who had sent
John, his message, Repent
Said, On whom you shall the Spirit
Rest, the anointing lit
The same is He who does
Baptise, and so He shows
He with the Spirit baptises
The Son of God saves us
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Author:
orchidee (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 6.6.8.6.
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments2
Good one Orchi I was always fascinated with the symbolism of baptism. John the Baptist also interesting as the one who ended up with his head on a platter. The symbolic washing away of sins and carried over in most all Christian churches in different forms from sprinkling in the Catholic to immersion in Protestant and very few accepting another churches baptism so if you went from church to church you would get baptized over and over. I knew a woman that had been baptized thirty four times.
Thank you SB. Some baby baptisms, even sprinkling, can look like child cruelty. In some they almost immerse the baby - disgusting I think.
Most welcome Orchi
Orchi, Popeye has hijacked your poem again! He’s now calling it The Glug of I Am and insisting everyone must glug spinach to find God! He’s incorrigible, and nobody seems able to stop him! Meanwhile, all I can get on the radio is WCAT! What’s going on over there?! LOL! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
Thank you T. lol. We'll never find out cos WCAT never tells us anything! lol.
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