Two Wisdom Stories
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
4 readers -- 4 youths
Key:
1 = Jesus
2 = Levi
3 = a Scribe
4 = storyteller
1: Jesus went out again beside the sea; the whole crowd gathered
around him, and he taught them. As he was walking along, he saw
Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to
him, "Follow me."
2: And he got up and followed him.
1: And as he sat at dinner in Levi's house, many tax collectors
and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples -- for
there were many who followed him.
3: When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with
sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does
he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
1: When Jesus heard this, he said to them, "Those who are well
have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come
to call not the righteous but sinners."
4: Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and
people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the
disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
1: Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot fast while the
bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the
bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when
the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast
on that day.
(1:) No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak;
otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old,
and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old
wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine
is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh
wineskins."
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
4 readers -- 4 youths
Key:
1 = Jesus
2 = Levi
3 = a Scribe
4 = storyteller
1: Jesus went out again beside the sea; the whole crowd gathered
around him, and he taught them. As he was walking along, he saw
Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to
him, "Follow me."
2: And he got up and followed him.
1: And as he sat at dinner in Levi's house, many tax collectors
and sinners were also sitting with Jesus and his disciples -- for
there were many who followed him.
3: When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with
sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does
he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
1: When Jesus heard this, he said to them, "Those who are well
have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come
to call not the righteous but sinners."
4: Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and
people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the
disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
1: Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot fast while the
bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the
bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. The days will come when
the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast
on that day.
(1:) No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak;
otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old,
and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old
wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine
is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh
wineskins."
