NARRATORS
Born of a virgin in the city of Bethlehem the baby Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and
heralded by the angels and the heavens, a star so bright that shepherds and Wise men alike
came to pay homage to the new born King. The son of a carpenter. He may have seemed
unremarkable yet he grew in wisdom and favor with God and with Man. Baptized by John Jesus
stood in triune as One, while The Holy Spirit descended like a dove and God declared his pride
in His Son. Unmoved by the temptations of Satan, Jesus gathered his disciples and with His
Twelve assigned, Jesus all God and all man…began.
A life unending, faith of a mustard seed, miracles we had never seen Jesus was the living
epistle, the walking divine. He was God in word and deed and even those from other lands
came to receive the blessing of belief. I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never
die.
But…., there WERE people whose lives were built on his absence. There were PEOPLE who
gathered in temple halls just to detract him – they sought to discredit the things that his life
came to name. To rid themselves of His truth so their comfort could remain. They struck a
bargain with a disillusioned disciple, Judas, they gave him 30 pieces of silver to reveal the man
who was disrupting their peace and replacing their studied faith with his speech.
So we meet him in the garden sweating blood while his disciples kept watch, wait I mean
slept...Judas arrived with soldiers and revealed Jesus with a kiss That kiss of acknowledgment
signaled Christ’s divine assignment..“No man take my life, lest I lay it down....” and.... though
Pontius Pilate wanted no part of it. We noisily claimed his blood be upon our head, (crucify him,
crucify him) little did we know that very blood we claimed would make our lives forever
changed... and we find ourselves at the beginning, the end, and the beginning again in God's
plan on Calvary...
WOMEN
Woman 1 – Should we….?
Woman 2 – No. Let’s let her be
Woman 1 – She’s carried so much. Endured so much.
Woman 1 & 2 – (beat) Seen so much
Woman 2 – She saw Him at birth before the world knew who He was
Woman 1 – She saw Him in the temple when His purpose had just begun
Woman 2 – She saw Him while he blessed, and he fed, and he healed
Woman 1 – And while they hung Him on that cross
Woman 2 – And now
Woman 1 – She sees His lifeless body, and mourns over her loss
Woman – Though she sees, yet she stands as only a mother could.
Woman 1 & 2 – Always seeing and watching her son, (begin to walk)
Woman - (turn back) As only a mother would.
NARRATOR
They laid his body in a borrowed tomb hewn from rock and rolled the stone to seal it. Fearing
the promise of Jesus that he would rise on the 3rd day the pharisees and chief priests
requested soldiers to guard the tomb where he lay. I can imagine those who were healed by
Him their belief undeterred, by his death ..... and their words.....Christ healed my blind eyes and
now I see.....I had only to touch the hem of his garment and believe..... He just said the word
and my servant received......we lowered him through the roof an invalid and he walked away
healthy from his bed that day..... my brother in his tomb lay.....dead for many days- until Jesus
came He called his name - Lazarus come forth.... So many stories of His miracles, and his
teachings were gifts given during his life, But we had so much more to come from his death
Because on that third day….(earthquake sounds) .there was a great earthquake and as angels
rolled the stone away, they proclaimed “Why do you seek the living among the dead?