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Based on Luke 10:30-37 in the Bible, this parable packs a wallop with it's practical applications for today. Make sure you check out the video links. Even your students will be inspired by an 8-year-old honored as a Good Samaritan by the Red Cross!

TIME: 2 min.
CAST: 6, plus chorus
TONE: serious
READABILITY: grade 3.6

Here's a brief excerpt from this free Readers Theater script:

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:30-37Adapted for Readers Theatre
by Carol Montgomery ©2011

Narrator 1: A man was going on a trip from Jerusalem to Jericho.

Narrator 2: Suddenly he was attacked by robbers who stripped him and beat him up, leaving him half dead beside the road.

Narrator 3: By chance a priest came along the very same road.
He said to himself…

Priest: Oh my! What’s that by the road up ahead?

Narrator 1: As he got closer, he saw it was a man.

Chorus: It’s a man, a man, a horribly dirty, terribly beaten, shocking to look at, MAN!

Priest: (looks to side and shudders) Oh, how disgusting. I can’t bear to look at him.

Narrator 3: So the priest walked by…

Narrator 1: On the OTHER side of the road.

Narrator 2: A Levite came down the same road and said to himself…

Levite: Hmmm… (pause) It looks like there’s something by the road up there.

Narrator 1: When he got closer, he also saw it was a man.

Chorus: It’s a man, a man, a horribly dirty, terribly beaten, shocking to look at, MAN! (continued..)

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