Jewelry

Sample Script for Jewelry

Oh, Madam, would you not like to try on this beautiful necklace, handcrafted of finest gold and gems?  Would you not like to buy it please, so that I may pay my taxes?  The Romans have been very adamant that I must pay them tonight.  

My husband works very hard finding the ore and the gems to put into these beautiful necklaces, and I must sell them.  Please help our family so that he will not be thrown into jail and we will not have a problem of not having my husband at home every night.  Please, please…..maybe this bracelet instead of the necklace?  Or some fine earrings?  Please help us pay our taxes.

We have the finest jewels in all of Bethlehem.

The Centurion’s wife is one of our best customers.

We have pearls and rare gems from across the Roman Empire.

Job Description and Background

Silversmiths and goldsmiths. Nehemiah mentions the presence of goldsmiths (Nehemiah 3:8), and the most famous example of a silversmith is Demetrius, whose business was interfered with by the evangelistic work of the Apostle Paul (Acts 19:24). The Apostle Peter used the goldsmith's task as an illustration of the trial of the Christian's faith. "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth . . . might be found unto praise and honor" (I Peter 1:7). The apostle is describing an old-time goldsmith who places his crude ore in a crucible and then applies the heat to melt it. When the impurities come to the surface they are skimmed off. When the workman is able to see his face reflected clearly in the surface of the molten liquid, he takes it away from the fire, and knows that he has pure gold left.