Act out biblical stories at Easter

Implementing biblical stories in a scenic way

You don't have to re-enact the Oberammergau Passion Festival, but the last days of Jesus' life can be designed in a similar way to a nativity play.

• Jesus had 12 disciples, there were Roman soldiers, the priests of the temple and Pilate and the fellow prisoners. Even if you want to do without the people, you will need some people to implement biblical stories that belong to Easter. If the circle you want to reenact the stories with is too small, try to involve other people.
• When you just don't have enough people to play with, there is a trick you can use. 4 or 5 narrators re-enact individual scenes. For example, the women who looked for the loaf of Jesus after burial. You can tell the audience about Jesus and at the same time depict some things in a scenic way, the Lord's Supper, the court hearing, the scene with Pilate or other things.
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• Don't improvise too much - take a Bible and try to reproduce the dialogues as accurately as possible.

Easter and the Bible

Most are related to Easter and lost the biblical stories. All they know is that it is a Christian festival and that Jesus died on the cross. That already shows that some things have gotten mixed up. Use the following outline to make the process clear. The story begins a week before Easter with Palm Sunday

• Palm Sunday: Jesus rides the donkey to Jerusalem (symbolism: escape on the donkey to Egypt shortly after the birth).
• The next few days will be about the temple. On Monday he chases everyone out of the temple who, in his opinion, has no business there, i.e. the traders and the money changers. The story is also called the temple cleansing. Tuesday Jesus teaches in the temple that he calls "his father's house". On Wednesday Jesus is anointed and Judas agrees with the priests of the temple to betray Jesus.
• The last supper with the 12 disciples takes place on Maundy Thursday and he is arrested after Judas betrayed him with a kiss.
• On the night of Maundy Thursday to Good Friday, the betrayal of Peter takes place, who, as Jesus predicted, denies three times that he knows him.
• On Good Friday, Jesus is brought to the leading priests, then before the High Council (supreme court of the Jews). Then he is brought before Pontius Pilate, who has him interrogated by Herod. Pilate falls the well-known death sentence and Jesus is crucified on Golgotha. His body is buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. All of this happens on the eve of the Jewish Passover.
• On Easter Sunday, women who want to anoint the body discover that the grave is empty. At first they do not want to believe you, but then some disciples meet the risen Jesus.
• Many of the scenes can be re-enacted with just a few actors. You can write corresponding dialogues yourself or look it up on the Internet. Quality RPGs for Biblical Stories You will find here.

As you can see, the biblical stories at Easter contain a lot of material that can be put into good scenery in order to bring the Bible closer to children.