Object: a scar or birthmark.

Boys and girls, do you have any birthmarks? I have one, right here. You see, my skin has a different color and it makes a special design on my (arm). I'm the only person I know who has this mark, so when you see it you know I'm really me.

Of course, there are other ways to know I'm really me, aren't there. Let's think of some of them. (Have them help you name some ways you are special, unlike anybody else.) And that's true for each of you too, isn't it. Every one of us is special and unlike anybody else. So when I look at one of you, if I look carefully - or listen carefully - I know it's really you and not somebody else.

But sometimes we are not sure who somebody is. Today we have a story like that. Jesus had bee…