A Tableaux Script for John 20:1-10

John 20:1-10 tableaux script in 4 images (NRSV)

NARRATOR:

Remember this story of Jesus’ friends, as it is written in John’s Gospel.

[CLICK] Image 1: Mary Magdalene looks into the tomb.

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 

[CLICK] Image 2: Mary Magdalene tells Simon Peter and John what she has seen.

So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ 

[CLICK] Image 3: Peter is running, John looks into the tomb, Mary is behind them.

Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. 

[CLICK] Image 4: Peter and John are in the tomb. Mary stands outside the tomb weeping.

Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.