This leads to a member of the company leading the others to bless the Lord, and it is clear by their shared movement that they are beginning to form a community ("Oh, Bless the Lord My Soul").
One of the company members tells a story of a man who spends his life, accumulating things, and then dies before he can enjoy it. Jesus tells the company that no one can be devoted to two masters, and that no man can serve God and money. The message is that one is doomed if one does not follow the law of God ("Learn Your Lesson Well"). The rich man begs God to let Lazarus rise from the dead in order to warn his rich brothers of their eventual fate. Lazarus is a poor man who goes to heaven, and the rich man goes to hell. The company performs the story of Lazarus and the rich man. If good deeds are done in secret, the reward will come from God. This leads them to do a pantomime of the Good Samaritan story for Jesus, who then tells them to love their enemies and not to make a show of religion. Jesus proceeds to teach the company more lessons and then leads the company in a game of charades to help them learn yet another lesson. She is soon followed by her fellow clowns ("Day by Day"). Jesus tells the company that the moral of the story is that one must forgive as God forgives.įollowing this lesson, one of the company members comes forward to become the first disciple and declare her loyalty to Jesus. Learning of the first Servant's reprehensible behavior, the Master condemns him to prison until the debt is paid. The Servant, after asking for the Master's pity and being granted remittance from the debt owed to his Master, refuses to show pity on a fellow Servant who is in debt to him. Then, as they all clap in rhythm, they act out the story of a Master and the Servant. Jesus preaches the law of offering gifts at the altar before God as the company depicts making offerings. He then prompts the company to act out the story of the Pharisee and the tax gatherer praying in the temple, in order to illustrate that every man who humbles himself before God shall be exalted. The story shows that God is a good judge, who will vindicate those who cry out to Him day and night. To illustrate this, he tells the story of the widow and the judge. While the company moves like stylized marionettes, Jesus informs them that those who keep to the law of God will earn the highest place in heaven. He then assures them that he has come not to abolish the law of the prophets, but to complete it.
Jesus paints the faces of his followers, marking them as separate from society. From this point forward, John the Baptist becomes Judas. The company returns in clown costumes and proudly shows them to each other. Jesus brings John back to his feet, and John begins to wash him as Jesus calls his followers to him ("Save the People"). When Jesus wishes to be baptized, John kneels and wishes to be baptized by him instead. John the Baptist baptizes the company, who then quickly exit. John the Baptist enters and brings order to the proceedings ("Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord"). The debate disintegrates into babble, where ideas become only fragments ("Tower of Babble"). The company takes on the roles of different philosophers – including Socrates, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Leonardo DaVinci, Frederic Nietzche and Jean Paul Sartre – who debate the existence of the God ("Prologue"). The show begins with Jesus declaring himself as God and King, in whom there is no beginning and no end.
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