A “Saturday Night Live” skit told the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and featured a Bible verse, leaving one former cast member to wonder if this is the first time the popular sketch comedy show has shared the “Gospel” message. An over 4-minute skit called “Church on Vacation” recently aired on the long-running NBC series, which featured a family of four Catholics from Ohio attending mass while on vacation in Jamaica.

So far, the skit amassed almost 3 million views on YouTube. The children, played by cast members Andrew Dismukes and Molly Kearney, are less than enthusiastic about attending the 6:30 a.m. mass during their vacation. Dismukes’ character asks his father, played by host Shane Gillis, “Did you have to drag us to church while we’re on vacation?” Kearney’s character asks, “Can’t we skip one Sunday?”

The father responded by indicating that he would not comply with their requests, saying, “Hey, we’re Catholics, OK? I don’t care where we are on Sundays; we go to church.” He assured them, “Church is church, no matter where you are in the world.” The comedy in the sketch stems from the Jamaican accents of the priest and his assistant, as well as the congregation as a whole, while the family of American Catholics stands out and fails to keep up with their customs. The American father eventually begins to use Jamaican vernacular.

After the priest inquires whether there are any guests in the congregation, the parishioners all look at the American family as if they were out of place. The priest then tells the faithful “about Jesus and where you can find Him” before breaking into song: “Pon de manger, pon de cross, three days later, oh my God.” The priest’s assistant, played by longtime cast member Kenan Thompson, sang “Him not there” as the clergyman asked, “Where Him go?” The assistant responded, “Up in Heaven,” as the priest said, “that I know.”

After the song concluded, the father turned to his children and cited the musical performance as evidence that “church is church” no matter where in the world they are. “Father is right, Jesus was pon de cross, died for our sins, and three days later he gone, raise up into Heaven,” he declared in a Jamaican accent. The mother in the family, played by cast member Heidi Gardner, expressed bewilderment at her husband’s sudden embrace of a Jamaican accent, asking him, “What are you saying?”

The priest invited the mother to the stage and urged her to share her favorite Bible verse. She identified 1 Corinthians 13 as her favorite Scripture passage, noting that it was recited at her wedding. “Love be patient. Love be kind,” the priest’s assistant reads aloud. From there, the priest and his assistant jump back into song as the American family is fully immersed in and excited by the Jamaican way of celebrating the mass.

Former SNL cast member Victoria Jackson told Entertainment Weekly that she is unsure if the Gospel has ever been preached on SNL before. “Well, that’s a first,” she was quoted as saying. “I just heard the Gospel — the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus — in an SNL sketch! Awesome.” Comedian Melissa Jean tweeted: “So, Shane Gillis had SNL share the gospel message during a Jamaican church sketch. That seems historic to me.”

While the skit did touch on the death and resurrection of Jesus, it didn’t elaborate that Christ died so that those who believe in Him shall have everlasting life.