Here’s a responsive setting of Luke 18:1-8, the
parable of the persistent widow. It is
set for two voices.
Readers’
Theatre: Luke 18: 1-8
One: One day Jesus told his disciples a story
to show that they should always pray and
never give up.
Two:
There was a judge in a certain city,
who neither feared God nor cared about people.
A widow of that city came to him repeatedly,
saying,
One: Give me justice in this dispute with my
enemy.
Two: The judge ignored her for a while,
but finally he said to himself,
One: I don’t fear God or care about
people,
but this woman is driving me crazy.
I’m going to see that she gets justice,
because she is wearing me out with her
constant requests!
Two: Learn a lesson from this unjust
judge.
Even he rendered a just decision in the end.
So don’t you think God will surely give
justice
to his chosen people who cry out to him day
and night?
Will he keep putting them off?
I tell you, he will grant justice to them
quickly!
But when the Son of Man returns,
how many will he find on the earth who have
faith?
