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EXT COURT YARD-ACT 2 MP Religious Leaders along with Nicodemus in the background (obviously uncomfortable) come to Jesus. They bring him a demon-possessed man who is blind and mute. Jesus heals him, so that he can both talk and see. All the people standing around say,
PEOPLE Could this be the Son of David?
PHARISEES It is only by the devil, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.
JESUS Every Kingdom divided against itself will be ruined and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his Kingdom stand. But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
JESUS (CONT’D) He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and it’s fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.
PHARISEES Teacher, we want to see a miraculous sign from you.
JESUS A wicked and adulterous generation ask for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
PHARISEES Jesus said ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven. But is he not Jesus, the son of Joseph whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, I came down from heaven?
JESUS Stop grumbling among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him and I raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God. Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Nicodemus starts to back away from the other religious leaders. Nicodemus stands alone dejected with Jesus and a few disciples going one direction and the leaders going another.
CUT TO: EXT OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE ACT 2 PT 3 Jesus is leaving the temple and is walking away when the disciples along with Nicodemus come up to him. Jesus says,
JESUS You will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At the end times many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
A messenger comes to Nicodemus (Judas is standing close by and listening), and says, MESSENGER Please come to a meeting of the Sanhedrin. Judas leaves the group.
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