Parables of Jesus, A Short Skit

By Jibrael Jos(Performed by Class V students on Annual Day)

10 Narrators
10 Sing/Music
10 Actors

(Each verse will be accompanied by a freeze on stage)

Scene 1
Jesus was a teacher
Who taught us how to live
with love for your neighbour
Never to fight but to forgive

Jesus said::
God is like a shepherd
who takes care of his flock
Out of 100, if even one is lost
He will search round the clock

Jesus said::
If someone hits you on one cheek
Show him the other one
Keep forgiving your brother
Even if 490 times it has to be done

Like the Father in the Prodigal Son
Who yearned for his son's knock
He redefined God as Our Father
with whom we can directly talk

Song::Come back to me, With all your heart
Don't let faith, Keep us apart
Trees do bend, Though straight and tall
So must we to others call
Long have I waited for your coming
Home to me and living deeply our new life

Scene 2In the Parable of the Sower
Jesus highlights the need to listen
Where the yield of each seed
Becomes a measure of a Christian

Some fell on rocky ground
Some fell on the way
ones which fell on the path
By the birds were eaten away

Some (seeds) fell by the rocks
But were exposed to the sun
sprouted but without roots
they were all scorched and done

Some (seeds) fell among thorns
And grew for a while
But they got choked
And sadly they did die

Some(seeds) fell in good soil
And brought forth grain
Some thirty, some sixty
Some a hundred fold gain

Jesus told us parables
And taught us how to pray
Will we listen to him
Or forget what he did say

MC: But I have been waiting so long
       When will my prayers be answered

Song ::In his time

Scene 3

(Half class forms a tree, the lines are said by students themselves )

In the Parable of the Mustard Seed
What is the lesson for us?
If a seed can grow into a tree
What could we grow up to be!

Seed must know how the leaf should grow
It must know where the roots should go

Science to convert light from the sun
Maths to get leaf multiplication done

Chemistry for the fruit's taste
And generate oxygen as its waste

Blueprint of the leaf and bark
Floral fragrance that leaves a mark

Engineering to make strong wood
Yet live in the forest doing good

With grace to stay still and calm
Never doing anyone any harm

Mighty as the big banyan tree
Root spread out but spirit seems free

If a seed can grow into a tree
Without input from you and me

Then imagine what every child can be
Once they believe in the possibility

(the other half class will form semi circle around tree, 

showing how they grew up to be happy, responsible, 

leader, teacher, farmer, banker, athlete, winner etc)