The Lesson

Then Jesus took His disciples up the mountain and gathering them around Him, He began to teach them saying:

"Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are they that mourn. Blessed are the merciful. Blessed are they who thirst for justice...Be glad and rejoice for your reward is great in Heaven..."

Then Simon said, "Do we have to write this down?"
And Peter said, "Are we supposed to know this?"
And John said, "Will there be a test on this?"
And Matthew said, "The other disciples didn't have to learn this,"

Then one of the Pharisees present asked to see Jesus' lesson plan and inquired of Jesus His annual goals and short term objective in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains.

And Jesus wept.


*Just in case you think I was clever enough to have written this myself, I wasn't.