The Greatest
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
2 readers -- 2 males or 2 females
Key:
1 = first storyteller
2 = second storyteller
1: They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not
want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying
to them, "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and
they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will
rise again."
2: But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid
to ask him.
1: Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he
asked them, "What were you arguing about on the way?"
2: But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one
another who was the greatest.
1: He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "Whoever
wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Then
he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in
his arms, he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my
name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the
one who sent me."
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
2 readers -- 2 males or 2 females
Key:
1 = first storyteller
2 = second storyteller
1: They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not
want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying
to them, "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and
they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will
rise again."
2: But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid
to ask him.
1: Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he
asked them, "What were you arguing about on the way?"
2: But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one
another who was the greatest.
1: He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, "Whoever
wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Then
he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in
his arms, he said to them, "Whoever welcomes one such child in my
name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the
one who sent me."