Matthew 8:1
Taught, Wrought, Thought

What Jesus taught was clear and plain:
From the Beatitudes to the final warnings to men;
In the ten-fold message He spoke on the mount;
Jesus’ kingdom truths covered all of the ground.

Morals and motives; worship and work;
Spiritual and social – He left none in the dark.
Encouragements and warnings; choices to make –
Lessons He taught to the people, we are wise to take.

When He left the mountain, there were needs everywhere.
People with sicknesses, others in despair –
Were wanting His help, they knew Jesus alone,
Was the One who could do, what needed to be done.

There were lepers and palsied; fevers and blind –
Demon possessed ones, followed behind –
Because the miracles He did, they wanted to see,
Could only be done, by none other than He.

Ten miracles in all from chapter eight to though to ten:
What Jesus wrought is there for all to be seen.
Add on to the teaching from five on through seven –
The proof is in place – He is the King sent from heaven.

From eleven through eighteen we find the reactions of men.
What the people thought of Him enlightens us then –
To the variety of ways people respond to the King.
Only those who really know Him, true honor will bring.