The Anointing Of Jesus
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
This is the first of a series of Johanine passages set for Monday
through Friday of Holy Week. In addition to use at special Holy
Week services of worship are these options:
*Photocopy the readings for home use, inviting families to
adjust the reading key as needed.
*Invite members of the Diaconate to use the series in a time
of home visitation, for example one reading per day per shut-in.
*Use on Holy Saturday as part of the evening watch. Church
members or a youth group can videotape the series ahead of time
so they are available for meditation during the hours of the
watch.
4 readers -- any combination of readers
Key:
1 & 2 =two storytellers
3 = Judas
4 = Jesus
1: Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home
of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
2: There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus
was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of
costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped
them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of
the perfume.
(Speak words in parentheses rather as an aside.)
3: But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was
about to betray him), said, "Why was this perfume not sold for
three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?"
(Speak words in parentheses rather as an aside.)
2: (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because
he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what
was put into it.)
4: Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might
keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with
you, but you do not always have me."
1: When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there,
they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom
he had raised from the dead.
2: So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well,
since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were
deserting and were believing in Jesus.
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
This is the first of a series of Johanine passages set for Monday
through Friday of Holy Week. In addition to use at special Holy
Week services of worship are these options:
*Photocopy the readings for home use, inviting families to
adjust the reading key as needed.
*Invite members of the Diaconate to use the series in a time
of home visitation, for example one reading per day per shut-in.
*Use on Holy Saturday as part of the evening watch. Church
members or a youth group can videotape the series ahead of time
so they are available for meditation during the hours of the
watch.
4 readers -- any combination of readers
Key:
1 & 2 =two storytellers
3 = Judas
4 = Jesus
1: Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home
of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
2: There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus
was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of
costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped
them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of
the perfume.
(Speak words in parentheses rather as an aside.)
3: But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was
about to betray him), said, "Why was this perfume not sold for
three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?"
(Speak words in parentheses rather as an aside.)
2: (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because
he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what
was put into it.)
4: Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might
keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with
you, but you do not always have me."
1: When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there,
they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom
he had raised from the dead.
2: So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well,
since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were
deserting and were believing in Jesus.
