The Good Samaritan: A Lesson in Compassion — Bible Stories Reader's Theater Script (10 min)

A simple, conversational reader's theater retelling of the Good Samaritan parable from Luke 10. A traveler is robbed and left half-dead on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho. A priest passes by. A Levite passes by. A Samaritan stops, kneels, and binds the wounds. Designed for 2nd through 5th grade fluency practice, the script uses short conversational lines and repeated phrases so every student gets reps at expressive reading.

Theme — The mercy you show is the mercy you have understood.

What you get

• Full PDF script — 7 scenes with stage directions, narration, and character dialogue (10 min runtime)
• Cast: 6–8 students (Narrator 1, Narrator 2, Lawyer, Jesus, Traveler, Priest, Levite, Samaritan, Innkeeper, Chorus)
• Built-in choral reading — chorus delivers "From Jerusalem to Jericho" and "On the other side"
• Minimal staging — podiums, a stool for the wounded traveler, a cloth on the floor as 'the road'
• Reading-level differentiation — short choral lines for emerging readers, longer narrator and Samaritan blocks for confident readers

Best for

2nd–5th grade Sunday school, Christian school ELA fluency lessons, midweek youth groups, chapel services, and any classroom moment where you want a Bible parable that lands with quiet weight and lots of expressive reading reps.