"C'mon, Miriam, gimme a kiss!" "You never give up, do ya?" "Let go of me." "Hey, Miriam!" "Looks like Lemech's in a foul mood." "You expected something different today?" "A letter came from your brother in Capernaum." "Jonah?" "I haven't seen him in years." "What's it say?" "How should I know?" "It was sent to Simon the scribe." "You'll have to go to his house to get it." "Forget it." "Everyone stares at me in that part of town." "You'll go first thing in the morning!" "Your dear brother might be sending you money." "What's that got to do with you?" "You owe me!" "You owe me a month's wages!" "I don't owe anything to a harlot." "What are you looking at?" "If I could figure out what you are, I'd tell ya." "Stay close to me, dear." "May I help you?" "My name is Miriam." "I was told you had a message for me from my brother in Capernaum." "I'd invite you in, but... umm..." "It isn't proper for a sinner to enter the house of the righteous." "You can be angry if you like, but I won't apologize for keeping my house free from... from unrighteousness." "Now I do have a message for a Miriam." ""Jonah, of Capernaum, wishes to inform his sister, Miriam, of Jerusalem, that..."" "Oh dear... "that he is dying."" "It just goes on to say that by the time you get this message, he will probably have already died." "Woman." "He did send me money." "No, this is from me." "Now, there's ten pieces of silver there." "It's all yours if you'll promise to start a new life." "Thank you very much." "For heaven's sake, woman, just go!" "We can't have your type lingering around here!" "Go!" "Jonah?" "Jonah?" "How his he?" "It's the end, I'm afraid." "Jonah, listen to me." "Jesus is in the village." "I'm going to take you to Him." "No, don't take me to Jesus." "He can heal you if you believe." "I've seen Him do it for others." "I don't want Him to see me." "I've led such a sinful life." "I deserve to die." "He's still alive." "C'mon." "We're taking him to Jesus." "He'll die if we lift him from this bed." "Can you see Him?" "No, but I can hear His voice." "Let me see." "Excuse me, please." "Excuse me." "We have a very sick man here." "He needs to see Jesus." "So does everyone else!" "Wait your turn." "Don't be like those who appear to be clean and righteous on the outside, but inwardly are filled with filth and sin." "Forgive me, Jesus, but I had no choice!" "I don't believe these people." "You have great faith." "No!" "Be of good cheer." "Your sins are forgiven." "(thinking) This man speaks blasphemy." "No one except God can forgive sins." "Why do my words surprise you?" "I..." "I..." "What is more difficult, for me to say, "Your sins are forgiven,"" "or for me to say, "Arise, take up your bed and walk?"" "Well..." "I... to heal is more difficult." "Very well." "To show you, then, that I have power to forgive sins..." "Arise, take up your bed and walk." "He's healed!" "Look, look he's standing!" "It's a miracle!" "I am forgiven?" "That means more to me than life itself." "Jonah!" "Samuel!" "Thank you!" "Thank you, all!" "I can never repay what you did!" "Where're you going?" "!" "Jerusalem!" "I have to find my sister Miriam!" "She needs to know what Jesus can do!" "Godspeed, Jonah!" "That crowd must be Jesus and his followers." "They're coming this way." "Matthew, what could possibly be more interesting than this?" "I mean, look at all the money we've made!" "Stolen, don't you mean?" "Don't be so pious!" "What difference does it make if we collect a little bit more for ourselves?" "!" "All the collectors do it." "Even you used to before you became so holy." "It isn't right." "It isn't honest." "Well, if it bothers you so much, then find a new line of work." "Yeah." "Then there'll be more for us!" "Matthew, follow me." "Can you believe it?" "!" "I've never been so lucky in my life!" "And this Simon just gave it to you?" "!" "If I promised to start a new life." "And I'm going to, Tamar." "What?" "!" "This is my chance to finally get away from here!" "But what about Lemech?" "He's not just going to let you leave." "He'll never know about it till I'm gone." "I've hired a man to guide me to a small town far away from here." "Ten pieces of silver is just enough to do it." "But Miriam..." "Tamar, I can't live like this anymore!" "I am filled with guilt and shame." "Jonah's dying made me look at my own life." "I don't want to die like this..." "like a harlot." "I know I can never be forgiven for my sins, but at least I can try to change." "Can I come with you?" "Oh, Tamar!" "( crying)" "Go and pack your things and meet me back here tonight!" "Hey!" "Would you please listen to me?" "We know!" "We know!" "You told us a hundred times already." "This Jesus is different." "We have to hear Him talk." "He's coming to my house tonight." "As your friend, I'm asking you, will you come?" "I'll lay out the greatest feast you've ever seen." "Ummm... all right." "We'll be there." "What did I tell ya?" "!" "This Jesus seems like a holy man, and yet He agrees to eat in the home of a publican!" "He wouldn't really do it." "He wouldn't dare." "Does this surprise you?" "I tell you, the time is near when all that are in the graves shall come forth." "You there!" "How is it that your master, your Rabbi, eats with sinners and publicans, if He's so holy?" "!" "Come up, please, and ask Him yourself." "Don't do it!" "It's like He knows what you're thinking." "He's very smart." "I'm not afraid of Him." "You have asked a very important question." "And I'm waiting for your answer." "A doctor does not visit the homes of those who are healthy." "He goes to the homes of the sick." "What's that supposed to mean?" "I have come to help sinners repent." "But I cannot do this if I spend my time with the righteous." "Oh..." "Ahem." "Told ya!" "Behold, there was a woman who had ten pieces of silver... but then one day, she discovered she had lost one." "Finally, she found it, and called her friends and neighbors together and greatly rejoiced." "So it is among the angels of God." "When just one sinner repents." "Are you sure the guide'll be there?" "He'll be there." "He doesn't get paid unless he shows up." "I..." "I don't see him!" "D..." "Do you see him?" "Let's go before Lemech finds out we've gone." "Just a minute!" "I get half now and half when I get you there." "Now give the rest to me." "Good doing business with ya." "All I wanted to do was to start over." "How could you be so stupid?" "!" "Did you really think you could leave?" "Don't listen to him, Miriam!" "We'll make the journey ourselves!" "Good luck finding someone who'll give honest work to a harlot!" "Didn't think about that, did ya?" "And what'll ya eat?" "!" "Where'll you sleep?" "!" "C'mon, Miriam!" "Go!" "Go if you think you can do it!" "That's right." "Without me you're helpless." "You're trapped." "When Matthew told me about the things You teach," "I didn't believe it." "And even now it seems..." "Are You saying, Master, that even we publicans are precious to God?" "How can that be?" "There once was a shepherd boy who had one hundred sheep." "But one day, he noticed one of them was missing." "So he left the ninety-nine in search of the one." "( song) There's no hope for me, no light left to see, only darkness." "Far from the flock this lamb has strayed." "Will the shepherd find His way to me?" "Even though the clouds of the darkened sky threaten now to block the way, even though the power of a raging wind drowns the cries of those who stray, still, guided by love and steered by faith, I'll not rest until I find" "the broken and the weary, the lonely and the blind." "There is joy in the presence of the angels now that the wandering lamb is found." "And there is more of His love reaching out to strangers." "It never ends until all that's lost is found." "How long can I stay away from Him from whom I stray?" "Can He hear me, hear my pleas?" "Somehow, deep inside of me, a little faith, some hope for me." "Just hold on." "Then suddenly, through the mist and rain," "I hear a quiet plea... the one lost from the ninety-nine." "Our flock is now complete." "Now there is joy in the presence of the angels." "now that the wandering lamb is found." "Now that the wandering lamb is found." "And there is more of His love reaching out to strangers." "It never ends until all that's lost is found. ( end song)" "And when he found the sheep he returned home and called to his friends and neighbors saying," ""Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which is lost."" "Again, I say to you, there is more joy in heaven over the one sinner who repents than for the ninety-nine who need no repentance." "I'm leaving, Miriam." "I'm going back to Capernaum." "I'm sorry things didn't work out how you wanted them to." "They still could." "Jonah, please." "If you'll just go to Jesus!" "I know He could help you the way He helped me!" "We've been through this, Jonah!" "No one can help me!" "But if you try!" "I have tried!" "I've tried a hundred times!" "I'll never get away from here!" "I don't deserve it anyhow!" "Go, Jonah." "There's nothing you can do for me." "Just go!" "Ah, my good friends!" "What brings you to Jerusalem?" "The Rabbi, Jesus." "I heard He was back again." "Is it true what they say about Him?" "That He's to be feared?" "I... we don't know what to say about Him." "We've come to ask your advice." "He says He has the power to forgive sins?" "It sounds like blasphemy, I know, but... there's something about Him that's so good." "It's hard for me to make a judgement without seeing Him for myself." "Will you invite Him to have dinner with me tonight?" "I can't take it anymore!" "I don't even want to live!" "Dear God, if You can hear me, let me die!" "(thinking) It's true what they say about Him." "His very presence is so powerful." "How...?" "I..." "I know you!" "You can't come in here!" "Jesus?" "Are you Jesus?" "( crying)" "(thinking) If this man is as holy as they say," "He would know that this woman is a sinner and He would rebuke her." "Simon, I have something to say to you." "There once was a certain lender who had two debtors." "One owed him five hundred coins and the other only owed him fifty." "Go on." "Neither one of them could pay their debt, so the lender forgave them both." "Tell me, which debtor would love him most?" "Well, I imagine the one whom he forgave the most." "That is right." "Do you see this woman?" "When I came into your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but she washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair." "You greeted me without a kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss my feet." "You didn't anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet." "Wherefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven." "Thank you, Jesus." "Your faith has saved you." "Go in peace."