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<strong>PART</strong> N: Preference confirmed<br />
He paid the same rate.<br />
To the men who’d worked hard<br />
In the heat of the day<br />
He gave one denarius<br />
Just the same pay<br />
As those who had worked<br />
For a short hour or two.<br />
There were complaints<br />
From more than a few.<br />
‘I’ve paid you’ the owner said,<br />
‘What we agreed.<br />
You make it sound<br />
Like some villainous deed.<br />
Where’s the wrong-doing?<br />
Wherein lies the vice?<br />
You’ve taken fair wages<br />
They’ve had a slice<br />
Of what is my own –<br />
From my own bank .<br />
Your best course of action<br />
Would p’rhaps be to thank<br />
Me for plain dealing:<br />
And be happy for the<br />
Not treated as ‘workers’<br />
But valued as men.<br />
‘Do not imagine I have come to wreck<br />
the Law, or undermine what has been taught<br />
before by prophets. This is not the case:<br />
for I have come to make their meaning clear.<br />
Take Scribes and Pharisees, whom many think<br />
have scaled the pinnacles of righteousness –<br />
I’ll tell you this: unless your piety,<br />
unless your goodness and integrity<br />
exceeds that of the Scribe and Pharisee,<br />
God’s Heavenly Kingdom will be closed to you.<br />
No details of the Law should be ignored,<br />
nor any prophet’s teaching overlooked.<br />
This is the way that you must spread the Word –<br />
the Word that I bring you – the Word of Truth –<br />
and those who catechise you otherwise<br />
will find themselves rejected at the last.<br />
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