Object: A chant from the ball park: "We want a hit."

Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever been to a ballgame when the runner on third base could give your team the one run it needed to win? One hit could bring him home! I have been to a lot of games like that, and the fans watching the game start clapping their hands and chanting, "We want a hit, we want a hit, we want a hit." They keep begging this the whole time their player is at bat. Let me hear all of you chant like this. [Let them say it.] Now clap your hands while you chant the words. [Repeat.] That’s very good.

One day people did something like this to Jesus. There was a man who could not speak well and could not hear. Everyone must have liked this person very much, for when they heard that Jesus was nearby they went …