Note: This is a choral reading. The six people can either stand or sit, separated from the congregation, or remain scattered through the church and rise to read their individual parts.

1: Jesus told this parable for the benefit of anyone who is caught up in the importance of his own goodness and despises everyone else. Jesus told this parable for the benefit of anyone who is willing to hear it.

2: "A person went into the temple to pray; he walked to the altar, raised his eyes to h…