Jesus Heals A Paralyzed Man
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
Readers read at a pace lively enough to keep listeners
interested.
3 readers -- youths
Key:
1 = storyteller one
2 = storyteller two
3 = Jesus
1: When [Jesus] returned to Capernaum after some days, it was
reported that he was at home. So many gathered around that there
was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door, and
he was speaking the word to them.
2: Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man,
carried by four of them. And when they could not bring him to
Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and
after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the
paralytic lay.
3: When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son,
your sins are forgiven."
1: Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in
their hearts, "Why does this fellow speak in this way? It is
blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
3: At once Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were
discussing these questions among themselves; and he said to them,
(3:) "Why do you raise such questions in your hearts? Which is
easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to
say, 'Stand up and take your mat and walk'?
(3:) But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority
on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic -- "I say to
you, stand up, take your mat and go to your home."
1: And he stood up, and immediately took the mat and went out
before all of them; so that they were all amazed and glorified
God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
Readers read at a pace lively enough to keep listeners
interested.
3 readers -- youths
Key:
1 = storyteller one
2 = storyteller two
3 = Jesus
1: When [Jesus] returned to Capernaum after some days, it was
reported that he was at home. So many gathered around that there
was no longer room for them, not even in front of the door, and
he was speaking the word to them.
2: Then some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man,
carried by four of them. And when they could not bring him to
Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and
after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the
paralytic lay.
3: When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son,
your sins are forgiven."
1: Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in
their hearts, "Why does this fellow speak in this way? It is
blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
3: At once Jesus perceived in his spirit that they were
discussing these questions among themselves; and he said to them,
(3:) "Why do you raise such questions in your hearts? Which is
easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to
say, 'Stand up and take your mat and walk'?
(3:) But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority
on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic -- "I say to
you, stand up, take your mat and go to your home."
1: And he stood up, and immediately took the mat and went out
before all of them; so that they were all amazed and glorified
God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
