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The Hem of His Garment
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The Hem of His Garment – Multi-character
Downstage Left the soldiers are laughing and gambling for the garments Jesus wore. Others are standing guard. They can be seen speaking, but not heard. Miriam, Elena and others are Stage Right. You can have as many people as you desire as crowd members in the scene.
The emphasis is not on the cross, but on the foot of the cross. A symbolic ‘foot of the cross’ can be used. Unless you include this as part of an Easter program where Jesus is on the cross for other scenes it is recommended that we do not see Him.
Miriam - Heathens! Don’t you have one shred of decency?
Elena - Quiet, Miriam!
Miriam - No, Elena, I won’t keep quiet! They don’t know what they are doing.
Elena - They’ve crucified hundreds, Miriam. They know what they are doing.
Miriam - Oh, Yes, they know how to murder, Elena. They are well practiced in taking lives. You know how to murder! They’re expert in pain. It’s life they don’t understand. Especially His life. Don’t you see what evil you are doing?
Soldier - Get back, woman!
Elena - Miriam!
Miriam - Doesn’t life mean anything to you?
Soldier - I said, get back!
Elena - Miriam! He’ll kill you!
Miriam - Do you think I care? Jesus gave me a second life. I’d gladly give Him both if only I could stop this madness.
Elena - You can’t.
Miriam - I know I can’t. It just sickens me to see them gambling for those precious strips of cloth. They don’t understand the power in that fabric.
Elena - Power?
Miriam - His power. I felt it coursing through me. I felt His healing touch. Yet He never touched me. When I heard that He was in town I had to see Him. I had to!
Elena - But you were unclean.
Miriam - I know I was unclean! I had been unclean for twelve years! For twelve years I had suffered. Not just the suffering of the illness, of being weak from the constant loss of blood. And not just the pain of the treatments given to me by one doctor after another. Treatments that held the hope of a cure, but never delivered. They never worked. Each failed treatment only bringing the additional sorry of hope destroyed.
Elena - But you spent everything you had, Miriam. All of your husband’s wealth.
Miriam - Does money mean anything when death stands nearby? I would have spent ten times more if it meant being healed. How many nights did I cry to God, “Make me a pauper, but give me life!”
End sample
Downstage Left the soldiers are laughing and gambling for the garments Jesus wore. Others are standing guard. They can be seen speaking, but not heard. Miriam, Elena and others are Stage Right. You can have as many people as you desire as crowd members in the scene.
The emphasis is not on the cross, but on the foot of the cross. A symbolic ‘foot of the cross’ can be used. Unless you include this as part of an Easter program where Jesus is on the cross for other scenes it is recommended that we do not see Him.
Miriam - Heathens! Don’t you have one shred of decency?
Elena - Quiet, Miriam!
Miriam - No, Elena, I won’t keep quiet! They don’t know what they are doing.
Elena - They’ve crucified hundreds, Miriam. They know what they are doing.
Miriam - Oh, Yes, they know how to murder, Elena. They are well practiced in taking lives. You know how to murder! They’re expert in pain. It’s life they don’t understand. Especially His life. Don’t you see what evil you are doing?
Soldier - Get back, woman!
Elena - Miriam!
Miriam - Doesn’t life mean anything to you?
Soldier - I said, get back!
Elena - Miriam! He’ll kill you!
Miriam - Do you think I care? Jesus gave me a second life. I’d gladly give Him both if only I could stop this madness.
Elena - You can’t.
Miriam - I know I can’t. It just sickens me to see them gambling for those precious strips of cloth. They don’t understand the power in that fabric.
Elena - Power?
Miriam - His power. I felt it coursing through me. I felt His healing touch. Yet He never touched me. When I heard that He was in town I had to see Him. I had to!
Elena - But you were unclean.
Miriam - I know I was unclean! I had been unclean for twelve years! For twelve years I had suffered. Not just the suffering of the illness, of being weak from the constant loss of blood. And not just the pain of the treatments given to me by one doctor after another. Treatments that held the hope of a cure, but never delivered. They never worked. Each failed treatment only bringing the additional sorry of hope destroyed.
Elena - But you spent everything you had, Miriam. All of your husband’s wealth.
Miriam - Does money mean anything when death stands nearby? I would have spent ten times more if it meant being healed. How many nights did I cry to God, “Make me a pauper, but give me life!”
End sample
The woman who was plagued with the issue of blood is standing near the cross. She is appalled that the garment she touched and through which she received her healing has become an object for which the soldiers are gambling. Her anger overcomes her inhibition and she lashes out at the soldiers.
2 versions - both come with one download.
-- Monologue or
-- 2 females, 1 male
Set - Open area at the foot of the cross.
Cost -- $3.00
Running Time -- 7 minutes
2 versions - both come with one download.
-- Monologue or
-- 2 females, 1 male
Set - Open area at the foot of the cross.
Cost -- $3.00
Running Time -- 7 minutes
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