Near the end of last year, I discovered two Biblical references in Noel Paul Stookey's "Wedding Song (There Is Love)." I'm finally getting around to writing about them.
In the first and last verse, there's the line "For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name, there is love." It's not exactly the same, but it bears a strong resemblance to Matthew 18:20, where Jesus says, "'For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.'"
At the beginning of the second verse, there are the lines "Well, a man shall leave his mother, and a woman leave her home / They shall travel on to where the two should be as one." There's a bit of poetic license taken here, but otherwise, it's Matthew 19:4-5: "He [Jesus] answered, 'Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?" There's a parallel account in Mark 10, but I think it's more likely that Matthew was the source for both references (especially since they're from consecutive chapters), rather than one from Matthew and one from Mark.
