If the Pharisees and Saducees were the elites of their day <br />Jesus did not come to save them <br />Though in history they would turn his cross to sword <br />And mangle many others as surely in his name <br />As that solitary man, today – we adore upon his tree.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pause-before-adoration/