Jesus Speaks About His Suffering And Death
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
2 readers -- a married couple
Key:
1 = woman
2 = man
1: Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo
great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief
priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days
rise again. He said all this quite openly.
2: And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
1: But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and
said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on
divine things but on human things."
2: He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If
any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and
take up their cross and follow me.
1 and 2: For those who want to save their life will lose it, and
those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the
gospel, will save it.
2: For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and
forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for
their life?
1: Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous
and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be
ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy
angels."
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
2 readers -- a married couple
Key:
1 = woman
2 = man
1: Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo
great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief
priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days
rise again. He said all this quite openly.
2: And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
1: But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and
said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on
divine things but on human things."
2: He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If
any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and
take up their cross and follow me.
1 and 2: For those who want to save their life will lose it, and
those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the
gospel, will save it.
2: For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and
forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for
their life?
1: Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous
and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be
ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy
angels."
