Micah 5:1-4, Zechariah 9:9-13, Isaiah 9:1-7, Matthew 27:45-56, Mark 15:33-41, Luke 23:44-49
Drama
Lynda Pujad
Monologue Of A Pharisee For Lent Or Good Friday
A Pharisee boldly comes on stage and discusses his adamant position against the person of Jesus Christ. The crucifixion, which he helped to instigate, has occurred. The resurrection has not.
Let me tell you, I wasn't pleased at all about this carpenter's son called Jesus doing the things he was doing. It was wrong. We Pharisees have our rules and r...
A Monologue For Easter
Part One
I had always lived in the village of Nazareth. I am Mary. (bows slightly) It was a common place. Certainly, there has never been anything special about Nazareth but it was my home and I loved it. My parents lived there and also my fiancé, Joseph, who was a reputable carpenter. He was a righteous man and came from the lineage of the family of King David. I knew he w...
Toward the end of my life, I became sad and disillusioned. I am Elizabeth. (Bows) My husband Zacharias had been not only a righteous man but a priest in the temple in Jerusalem. He had had a fulfilling life. I had tried to be a righteous woman. I loved God and I loved my husband but pangs of jealousy bothered me. He was successful in his life and I was not. I had no children which was an element o...
(Reminiscing) I had a mother once. Of course, I remember her well. We went through much suffering together, and after she died I missed her greatly. A girl always needs a mother. My parents and I were from Jerusalem. This is Babylonia and it's not my real home, but I am the queen now, and I have adjusted to it. I am Esther, (Bows) and my name is also Hadassah if you prefer to call me by my Jewish ...
I am Hagar, mother of Ishmael. (Bows) Perhaps you have never heard of me because throughout my life I had little value and was so unknown. I was a slave purchased by Abraham to be used along with the rest of his personal property. My master Abraham is a famous man of God. You know about Abraham and how God commanded him to leave his home and all he had ever known and go to the land of Canaan. He s...
You probably have heard about me before. I am Hannah, mother of Samuel. (Bows) But you didn't hear me tell you personally about myself. My husband was a kind man to me even though I did not have any children. I was ashamed of this. I wanted to have a child more than anything else. You probably would say that I should have let the wish for a child go since my husband did not hold it against me and ...
You would probably call me a murderess. I don't care. I had to do what I did. Sometimes it is difficult to know the difference between right and wrong. I am an Israelite mother and slave living under Pharaoh in Egypt. I am here with all my other countrymen. I am the mother of a Hebrew baby boy. (Bows) We are in bondage in the land of Goshen in Egypt and we have a miserable life. We have our God an...
Naomi
I said before to the people of Bethlehem to call me Mara, meaning a bitter woman. I was not always bitter. Once, I had a wonderful husband and two fine sons. They were the pride of my life. They meant everything to me. They married two nice girls in the land of Moab where we had gone to find food. I am Naomi. (Bows) In our home in Bethlehem, there was a famine and my good husband Elimelech ...
I am Rahab, a woman from Jericho. (Bows) Perhaps you had visited our town previously, before the terrible battle occurred? Perhaps you were aware of or remember our high, towering, thick walls which surrounded our city? We thought we were invincible in Jericho because of our strong walls. We love them. They were the pride of everyone in our town. If you had visited Jericho, you probably didn't see...
I am a beautiful woman, don't you think so? (Bows) I always have been. My name is Sarah. I have always been a woman of society and I have been pampered throughout my life. My husband is a wealthy man. He is Abraham. As his wife, I was devoted to him and our life together and I followed him from our home in Haran hundreds of miles to the land of Canaan. We left everything we had ever known to follo...