May   28,  2020

Thought   for   Today

THE LEGEND OF THE  DEAD  DOG 

There was a crowd of people around a dead dog in a village in Galilee.

One said,  “Look at his ragged ears; he was a fighter.”

Another said, “Look at the bit of rope around his neck, he was a runaway.”

Another said, “Look! How dirty he is!”

Then from the edge of the crowd there came a voice, “Pearls are not whiter than his teeth.”

The crowd turned round.  “This” others  said, “must be Jesus of Nazareth, for only he could find something good to say about a dead dog.”

William Barclay

In Marching On,

pages 219-220

Painting: Dead
Stray Dog, 
Museum Boijmans
Van Beunigen