The powers (earthly)

After Acts 4:1-14

We speak to the people,

telling them what we know

and experienced, explaining

the news (good). We say

nothing about priests or council

or rulers or elites, but words

strip away pretense, and there’s

the man, healed, the lame man,

the man hopping and jumping,

the man everyone knows

from birth, the man who never

walked, and there he is,

a living (walking) testimony

that what we say is true. It’s

annoying, and threatening,

because they know who we are,

the ones who were with him, 

the ones called disciples of that man,

that man they crucified. 

We have become an inconvenient

truth. 

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