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Plot
The purpose of this play is to show how we got our Holy Bible. The Bible is God's Word. It is 66 books, in one. God inspired many different people to write His Word. In this play a few of these writers of long ago step out of the pages of the Bible and tell the audience what God told them to write. It makes the point that "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God." The Bible, 66 books in one, is God's words to man, His rules for man, and a record of the coming of Jesus, the Christ, to reveal God's love for the whole world and His plan for man to receive eternal life.
Characters
Sue, a narrator
Sally, a narrator Old
Testament Writers:
Aaron, brother of Moses
Moses, leader of The Children of Israel
Samuel, an Old Testament Judge
King Solomon, third king of Israel
(King Solomon’s Servant)
Isaiah, a great Old Testament prophet
Jeremiah, the "weeping" Old Testament prophet
Micah, a minor Old Testament prophet New
Testament Writers:
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, writers of the Four Gospels
(Roman Soldier, Paul's prison guard)
Paul, author of 13 Books in the New Testament Those
who made copies of the Bible:
A Scribe
A Translator
Jerome, the Latin translator
Luther, the German leader of the Protestant Reformation
Wycliffe, an English translator
Tyndale, an English translator of the New Testament
King James I of England
Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press
Costuming and Scenery
Stage Setting: Replica of Bible should be on center stage and hidden by simple
curtains which can be drawn back by narrators. Biblical characters, that is, Aaron
down through Paul, are concealed behind Bible and will walk out of it.
Other players are off stage. Sue and Sally come on stage together, open curtains.
One stands on one side of Bible, the other on the other side
Props and Furnishings:
A very large replica of the Holy Bible. (Use a cardboard box in which a bed
mattress is shipped. Paint it black, with gold colored lettering. Have it so made
that it looks like a book, with one edge open for the players to walk out.)
Large Replica of Ten Commandments tablets--with the commandments written
thereon.
Several scrolls (use brown paper over large dowels. See Sunday School pictures
for how these should look.)
A staff
A stool
A chain for the prisoner Paul
A short sword or dagger One
pulpit-sized Bible
23 average sized Bibles (each player can bring a Bible. Do not use small
testaments.)
2 king's crowns--for Solomon and James I of England
Costumes:
Two Narrators--modern style dresses. (not casual play suits)
Others--
See Sunday School pictures, Bible story books (no bathrobes allowed.)