Matthew 27:11-26 Mark 15:1-15 Luke 23:1-25 John 18:28-40 I cheated in this play about Jesus’ appearance before Pontius Pilate. I lifted the entire scene, almost verbatim, from “Jesus of Montreal“, one of my ten favorite movies of all time. (A movie I’ve watched every year around Easter with a different friend or grouping of friends…
Mark 12:8-44 Luke 21:1-4 I’ve always felt the lesson of this story of the widow’s mite was too obvious. It’s very easy to give the “right” answer in Sunday School, but it might be harder to make the same call in real life.
Matthew 20:29-34 Mark 10:46-52Luke 18:35-43 When faced with differences between versions of the same story, I usually work out one unified sequence of events and get on with the play, but the variations in this account of Jesus healing a blind man (or blind men) at the gates of Jericho were so interesting that I…
Matthew 20:20-28 Mark 10:35-45 I must confess that most of this play about James and John trying to secure high positions with Jesus in his kingdom is devoted to the execution of a single joke that probably doesn’t really exist in the original text. The joke was suggested to me by a difference between the version…
Matthew 19:16-30 Mark 10:17-31 Luke 18:18-30 The big dramatic challenge to this story about a rich man asking Jesus what he had to do to obtain eternal life was the odd response of the disciples to Jesus saying it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the…
Mark 10:2-16 I wonder what the more progressive churches make of this story about Jesus’ teaching on divorce. What I tried to make of it was a good play. I hope my progressive readers won’t be upset that I didn’t allow him to rationalize his position personally. (I did have some of his disciples try, which I…