008. The Lord Jesus Forgives a Wayward Samaritan Lady

About 5 minutes, from John 4.3 -42

Participants (No need to memorize lines; the aim is to relive sacred events, not to perform)
Peter
Voice (of Jesus)
Lady
PrompterÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Shout a brief line, and Echoes repeat it.
EchoesÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Children and all adults who want to take part. Echoes need no script.

Peter	I am Peter, and my feet are aching. Jesus sets a fast pace! We are traveling near Sychar in Samaria. Hey, fellows, let’s go buy some bread.
Prompter & Echoes	We are all hungry!
Voice	You men go. I will stay here at the well and rest.
Peter	Come, guys. (Walk to one side)
Lady	Â Â (Walk toward Voice, pretending to hold a water pot on your head.)
Voice	Ma’am, please give me a drink.
Lady	Well, now! How isÂ it that you, a Jew, ask me for a drink? You snobbish Jews do not have any dealings with us Samaritans.
Voice	If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that asked for a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
Lady	Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. So where will you get that â€˜living’ water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He dug this well, and his sons and cattle drank from it.
Voice	Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I give shall never thirst. It will become in him a well of living water springing up, giving eternal life.
Prompter & Echoes	Living water!
Lady	Sir, give this water to me, so I will not thirst and have to come all this way to draw from this well.
Voice	Go, call your husband and come back.
Lady	I have no husband.
Voice	Correct. You have had five husbands, and the one you are with now is not yours.
Lady	Oh! I see that you are a prophet!
Prompter & Echoes	A prophet!
Lady	Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, but you Jews worship only in Jerusalem.
Voice	Lady, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. Soon true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Lady	I know that Messiah is coming. He will declare all things to us.
Voice	He who is speaking to you is he.
Lady	Oooh!
Prompter & Echoes	Christ the Messiah!
Peter	Look fellows. Amazing! Jesus is talking with that Samaritan woman. I wonder why. Oh! She left her water pot! She’s hurrying into the city.
Lady	Neighbors! Come see a man who told me the things I have done! He must be the Messiah!
Prompter & Echoes	Let’s go see him!
Peter	Rabbi, we brought you this food. Eat. (Pretend to hold out food to him)
Voice	I have food to eat that you do not know about.
Peter	Hey, fellows, no one brought him anything to eat. What does he mean?
Voice	My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to do his work. Do not say, â€œIn four months the harvest will come.â€ Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, white and ready to reap.
Peter	He means those Samaritans that are rushing toward us, but they are our enemies! Oh! Now Jesus is talking with them. He is friendly with them! Amazing!
Lady	They tellÂ me they no longer believe only because of what I said; Â they have heard for themselves. Now they know that this man is the Savior of the world.
Prompter & Echoes	He gives the water of life!