2. Tuesday (Dive 2)

DRAMA SCRIPT & DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Hello! My name is Asher. And I’ve got a great story to tell you! It’s a true story as

well. How do I know it’s true? Because it happened to me!

You see, my life hasn’t been easy. My legs didn’t work properly and I couldn’t

walk. And that made life very difficult. (He notices the piece of wood left by

Flotsam and Jetsam.) Oh, look at this! Some people could walk around using a

walking stick like this one, but I couldn’t.

(He demonstrates walking with a stick.)

It wasn’t like here, now, where you can live a normal life, regardless of any

disabilities you might have. Where I come from, people treated you like you

weren’t there. I couldn’t do any work. The only thing I could do was lie there

and beg for money on the street.

But, one thing I do have is great friends. I live by a big lake. It’s so big, some

people say that it’s a sea. And my friends heard that someone special –

Jesus – had just crossed the lake and come to our town. They had heard lots

of stories of Jesus making people well again, including people who couldn’t

walk. People like me.

So, they found out where Jesus was, and they carried me there on a mat. (He

notices the beach towel left by Flotsam and Jetsam.) It was something like this!

My friends each took a corner and took me to Jesus!

They knew that Jesus could make me better. So, there I was, lying in front of

Jesus. But he didn’t touch my legs or say any magic words to make my legs start

working. He gave my friends a look, like they’d done something really special,

and then said to me, ‘My friend, your sins are forgiven.’

There was a shocked silence, and then I could hear some grumbling and

muttering. I looked over and there were some important men – religious experts

who think they know everything – and they looked angry. I could just make out

what one of them was saying. It was something like, ‘Jesus must think he is

God!’

Jesus turned to them. He seemed to know exactly what they were saying,

and he said, ‘Why are you thinking such evil things? Is it easier for me to tell this

man that his sins are forgiven or to tell him to get up and walk? But I will show

you that the Son of Man has the right to forgive sins here on earth.’

Then he turned to me and he said, ‘Get up! Pick up your mat and go on home!’ I

was a bit shocked, but also a bit excited. I stretched my legs and I realised I could

move them on my own. Slowly, I got up and… I could walk! So picked up my

mat – I didn’t need it any more. (He rolls up the beach towel and tucks it under

his arms.) And I certainly didn’t need a walking stick! (He puts the stick back

down where he found it.)

I and my friends went home. Well, we ran, we danced, we hopped, we jumped,

we skipped… Jesus had made my legs work!

But he had also forgiven my sins – you know, the fact that I had ignored God

and was choosing to live my own way. I was separate from my Creator God and

I was lost, and most of the things I had done and thought just weren’t right. I’m

not sure what that all means. Is Jesus God? He called himself the Son of Man:

that sounds important. What I do know is that Jesus must be very special.