Two Parables -- The Growing Seed and The Mustard Seed
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
3 readers -- 3 men or 3 women
Key:
1 = first storyteller
2 = second storyteller
3 = third storyteller
1: [Jesus] also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would
scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and
day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.
2: The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head,
then the full grain in the head.
3: But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his
sickle, because the harvest has come."
1: He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or
what parable will we use for it?
2: It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground,
is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it
grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth
large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in
its shade."
3: With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they
were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in
parables, but he explained everything in private to his
disciples.
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
3 readers -- 3 men or 3 women
Key:
1 = first storyteller
2 = second storyteller
3 = third storyteller
1: [Jesus] also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would
scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and
day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.
2: The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head,
then the full grain in the head.
3: But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his
sickle, because the harvest has come."
1: He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or
what parable will we use for it?
2: It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground,
is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it
grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth
large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in
its shade."
3: With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they
were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in
parables, but he explained everything in private to his
disciples.
