Here’s a readers’ theatre setting of Luke 4:21-30. It is set for two voices.
If you want to read the entire account (Luke 4:14-30), you can find the
first half of the story here.
Readers’
Theatre: Luke 4:21-30
One: Jesus
began to speak to them.
Two: The
Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!
One: Everyone
spoke well of him
and
was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips.
“How
can this be?” they asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
And
Jesus said:
Two: You will
undoubtedly quote me this proverb:
‘Physician,
heal yourself’—
meaning,
‘Do miracles here in your hometown
like
those you did in Capernaum.’
But I tell
you the truth,
no
prophet is accepted in his own hometown.
Certainly
there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time,
when
the heavens were closed for three and a half years,
and
a severe famine devastated the land.
Yet Elijah
was not sent to any of them.
He
was sent instead to a foreigner—
a
widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
And
there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha,
but
the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.
One: When
the people in the synagogue heard this,
they
were furious.
Jumping up,
they mobbed him
and
forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built.
They
intended to push him over the cliff,
but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.
