Here’s a
readers’ theatre setting of Mark 9:30-37, the gospel reading for Proper 20 B
(the 17th Sunday after Pentecost).
It is set for two readers.
Readers’ Theatre: Mark
9:30-37
Leaving
that region, they traveled through Galilee.
Jesus
didn’t want anyone to know he was there,
for he
wanted to spend more time with his disciples and teach them.
He said to
them,
The Son of Man is going to be
betrayed into the hands of his enemies.
He will be killed,
but three days later he will rise
from the dead.
They didn’t
understand what he was saying, however,
and they
were afraid to ask him what he meant.
After they
arrived at Capernaum and settled in a house,
Jesus asked
his disciples,
What were you discussing out on the
road?
But they
didn’t answer,
because
they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest.
He sat
down, called the twelve disciples over to him, and said,
Whoever wants to be first must take
last place
and be the servant of everyone else.
Then he put
a little child among them.
Taking the
child in his arms, he said to them,
Anyone who welcomes a little child
like this on my behalf
welcomes me,
and anyone who welcomes me welcomes
not only me
but also my Father who sent me.
