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NOW THE PASSOVER AND THE FEAST
WERE ONLY TWO DAYS AWAY.
SO THE TEACHERS AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS
SOUGHT TO FOR CHRIST A TRAP LAY.
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOME SLY WAY
TO ARREST AND KILL JESUS.
BUT THEY SAID NOT ON A FEAST DAY
PEOPLE COULD RIOT ON US.
2.
WELL JESUS WAS IN BETHANY
RECLINING AT THE TABLE.
A VISITOR, ONE OF MANY
DID WHAT SEEMED QUITE UNSTABLE.
INTO SIMON THE LEPERS HOME
THIS WOMAN CAME WITH HER JAR.
IN WHICH WAS EXPENSIVE PERFUME
MADE OF PURE NARD, BEST BY FAR.
3.
SHE BROKE HER ALABASTER JAR
POURED THE PERFUME ON HIS HEAD.
BUT THIS SCENE THOSE AROUND DID MAR
WHY THIS WASTE? IS WHAT THEY SAID.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR MONEY
THEN BE GIVEN TO THE POOR.
THESE CRITICS WEREN'T SWEET LIKE HONEY
HER ACT THEY HARSHLY DEPLORE.
4.
JESUS SAID NOW LEAVE HER ALONE
WHY ARE YOU BOTHERING HER?
SHE A BEAUTIFUL THING HAS DONE
GRATITUDE IN ME DOES STIR.
THE POOR YOU ALWAYS HAVE WITH YOU
YOU CAN HELP THEM ANYTIME.
BUT WITH ME THIS WILL NOT BE TRUE
DON'T TURN HER LOVE INTO CRIME.
5.
SHE DID WHAT SHE COULD BEFOREHAND
TO HAVE MY BODY PREPARED.
THE GOSPEL PREACHED IN EVERY LAND
WILL TELL OF THIS LOVE SHE SHARED.
JUDAS ISCARIOT THEN WENT
TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS TO BETRAY.
THE LORD JESUS WHOM HEAVEN SENT
THEY WERE DELIGHTED TO PAY.
6.
HE MADE PLANS TO HAND HIM OVER
AND COLLECT THIS DARK REWARD.
HE HOPED TO END UP IN CLOVER
BY BETRAYAL OF HIS LORD.
IT WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST
IT WAS CUSTOMARY THEN.
TO HAVE SACRIFICE BY THE PRIEST
OF PASSOVER LAMB AGAIN.
7.
WHERE DO YOU WANT US TO GO NOW?
JESUS' DISCIPLES ASKED.
TO OUR PREPARATION ALLOW
FOR THIS BIG PASSOVER BASH.
HE SENT TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES
TO THE CITY THERE TO FIND.
A MAN CARRYING A JAR FULL
MEET HIM AND FOLLOW BEHIND.
8.
SAY TO HIM, THE TEACHER DOES ASK
WHERE'S MY ROOM FOR ME TO EAT.
TRUST ME, THIS IS NOT A HARD TASK
HE'LL LEAD YOU TO A LARGE SUITE.
YOU THIS UPPER ROOM GET READY
FOR OUR OWN PASSOVER FEAST..
THEY FOUND ALL WAS TRUE AND STEADY
EVERY DETAIL TO THE LEAST.
9.
JESUS CAME THERE THAT EVENING
WITH THE TWELVE HE DID RECLINE.
THEN HE SAID WHILE ALL WERE EATING
ONE OF YOU WILL CROSS THE LINE.
YOU WILL NOW GO AND BETRAY ME
THEY WERE SADDENED AND THEY SAID.
SURELY I WILL NOT BETRAY THEE
I WOULD RATHER DIE INSTEAD.
10.
HE REPLIED IT IS ONE OF YOU
ONE WHO WITH ME DIPS THE BREAD.
JESUS THEN GAVE NO OTHER CLUE
IT WILL BE JUST AS YOU'VE READ.
THE SON OF MAN IT IS WRITTEN
WILL GO JUST AS I HAVE SAID.
BUT THE BETRAYER IS SMITTEN
WITH A CURSE THAT FILLS WITH DREAD.
11.
BETTER HAD HE NEVER BEEN BORN
WAS THE JUDGMENT JESUS GAVE.
BUT AFTER HE DID HIS OWN WARN
HE WANTED THEM THIS TO SAVE.
HE TOOK BREAD, GAVE THANKS AND BROKE IT
THIS IS MY BODY HE SAID.
TAKING THE CUP HE OFFERED IT
THEN IN THANKS AGAIN HE LED.
12.
THIS MY BLOOD POURED OUT FOR MANY
THIS TRUTH I NOW TELL TO YOU.
OF THIS WINE I WON'T HAVE ANY
TILL GOD'S KINGDOM COMES TO YOU.
IN GOD'S KINGDOM I'LL DRINK ANEW
THIS WAS A PROMISE FROM HIM.
THEY TO MOUNT OF OLIVES WITHDREW
AFTER THEY HAD SUNG A HYMN.
13.
IT IS WRITTEN YOU'LL FALL AWAY
JESUS TOLD THEM AS THEY WENT.
SHEEP WILL SCATTER AND GO ASTRAY
WHEN THE SHEPHERDS LIFE IS SPENT.
BUT AFTER THAT I HAVE RISEN
I WILL GO TO GALILEE.
PETER DEMANDED REVISION
I WON'T EVER FALL FROM THEE.
14.
JESUS ANSWERED, THIS VERY NIGHT
BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS TWICE.
YOU WILL BE TORMENTED BY FRIGHT
AND YOU WILL DENY ME THRICE.
PETER WOULD NOT LISTEN TO THIS
EVEN IF I DIE WITH YOU.
I WILL NEVER YOUR NAME DISMISS
ALL THE REST SAID THE SAME TOO.
15.
THEN THEY WENT TO GETHSEMANE
JESUS SAID SIT WHILE I PRAY.
TAKING WITH HIM HIS INNER THREE
HE WAS IN A TROUBLED WAY.
MY SOUL'S OVERWHELMED WITH SORROW
EVEN TO THE POINT OF DEATH..
HE COULD PEACE FROM NO ONE BORROW
HE PLEADED WITH ALL HIS BREATH.
16.
FATHER LET THIS HOUR PASS FROM ME
HE PRAYED FALLING ON HIS FACE.
EVERYTHINGS POSSIBLE FOR THEE
HELP ME NOW ESCAPE THIS PLACE.
BUY BEFORE FROM PRAYER HE ROSE UP
HE KNEW EVIL HAD NOT WON.
HE PRAYED IF YOU WON'T TAKE THIS CUP
NOT MY WILL BUT THINE BE DONE.
17.
HE FOUND HIS DISCIPLES SLEEPING
COULD YOU NOT KEEP WATCH ONE HOUR?
TEMPTATION IS ALWAYS CREEPING
IN YOUR FLESH YOU LACK THE POW'R.
SPIRIT WILLING BUT BODY WEAK
SO YOU MUST WATCH AND MUST PRAY.
BUT FOR WISDOM THEY DID NOT SEEK
THEY SLEPT AGAIN RIGHT AWAY.
18.
WHEN HE CAME AGAIN THE THIRD TIME
HE FOUND THEY WERE SLEEPING STILL.
ENOUGH! HE SAID, WE'VE REACHED THE CLIME
WHERE EVIL THE AIR DOES CHILL.
BETRAYED INTO HANDS OF SINNERS
THIS IS NOW TO BE MY FATE.
WE WON'T NOW FEEL LIKE WE'RE WINNERS
RISE LET'S GO AND KEEP THIS DATE.
19.
AS HE SPOKE JUDAS DID APPEAR
WITH HIM A CROWD WAS WELL ARMED.
SWORDS AND CLUBS THERE TO INSTILL FEAR
LEADERS HAD THEM ALL ALARMED.
HE ARRANGED A SIGNAL WITH THEM
THE ONE I KISS IS THE MAN.
IT WAS A LOTHESOME STRATEGEM
TO FALL LOWER, NO ONE CAN.
20.
GOING TO JESUS, JUDAS SAID
RABBI, AND HE THEN KISSED HIM.
THE MEN THEN JESUS ARRESTED
PETER TRIED ONES HEAD TO TRIM.
HE DREW HIS SWORD AND WITHOUT FEAR
STRUCK THE SERVANT OF HIGH PRIEST.
HIS WILD SWING DID CUT OFF AN EAR
JESUS CRIED DON'T BE A BEAST.
21.
JESUS SAID AM I A REBEL
THAT YOU COME TO CAPTURE ME?
WITH WEAPONS YOU COME TO REPEL
WHEN EVERY DAY YOU COULD SEE.
I WAS TEACHING IN TEMPLE COURTS
THERE YOU DID NOT ARREST ME.
NOW YOU COME WITH ALL YOUR COHORTS
MAKING MY DISCIPLES FLEE.
22.
A YOUNG MAN IN LINEN GARMENT
WAS WATCHING THIS PLOT UNWIND.
THEY TRIED SEIZING HIM BUT HE WENT
LEAVING HIS GARMENT BEHIND.
THEY TOOK JESUS TO THE HIGH PRIEST
ALL OTHER LEADERS CAME TOO.
PETER BOLDLY WITH FAITH INCREASED
CAME INTO THE COURTYARD TOO.
23.
HE WARMED HIMSELF AT THE FIRE
TRYING TO CONTROL HIS BREATH.
WHILE THE SANHEDRIN CONSPIRE
HOW TO PUT JESUS TO DEATH.
MANY TESTIFIED AGAINST HIM
BUT STATEMENTS DID NOT AGREE.
THEIR EVIDENCE WAS NOT JUST SLIM
IT WAS OF ZERO DEGREE.
24.
SOME STOOD UP AND GAVE FALSE WITNESS
THIS IS WHAT WE HEARD HIM SAY.
I WILL DESTROY AND MAKE A MESS
THIS TEMPLE WILL PASS AWAY.
I WILL THEN BUILD ONE IN THREE DAYS
ONE NOT MADE BY HANDS OF MAN.
THE HIGH PRIEST THEN THIS WORD CONVEYS
WE NEED A CONFESSION PLAN.
25.
SO HE TURNED TO JESUS AND SAID
WHAT'S YOUR ANSWER TO THIS CHARGE?
JESUS WAS SILENT AS THE DEAD
GAVE NO ANSWER, SMALL OR LARGE.
THE HIGH PRIEST'S QUESTIONS WERE NOT DONE
TELL US NOW, ARE YOU THE CHRIST?
YOU THE SON OF THE BLESSED ONE?
THIS JESUS TO WORDS ENTICED.
26.
I AM JESUS SAID AND YOU'LL SEE
ME SITTING AT GOD'S RIGHT HAND..
COMING IN THE CLOUDS THEN TO BE
LORD OF ALL, IT WILL BE GRAND.
THE HIGH PRIEST WENT INTO A FIT
TORE HIS CLOTHES AND CRIED, NO MORE!
THIS MAN WE CAN NEVER AQUIT
SUCH BLASPHEMY WE DEPLORE.
27.
THEY ALL JESUS DID THEN CONDEMN
AND ON HIM BEGAN TO SPIT.
CRUELTY OVERFLOWED FROM THEM
STRIKING HIM THEY WOULD NOT QUIT.
BLINDFOLDED THEY DID MISTREAT HIM
PROPHESY THEY TO HIM SHOUT.
THE GUARDS ALSO TOOK AND BEAT HIM
HE WAS PUSHED AND TOSSED ABOUT.
28.
PETER BELOW IN THE COURTYARD
WAS SEEN BY A SERVANT GIRL.
RECOGNIZING HIM WAS NOT HARD
SHE DID ACCUSATION HURL.
YOU ALSO WERE WITH THAT JESUS
THE NAZARENE NOW IN COURT.
PETER HAS A FAITH THAT FREEZES
HIS PLAN HE MUST NOW ABORT.
29.
I DO NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND
WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
HE DID NOT WANT TO WEAR THAT BRAND
SO HE STARTED WALKING OUT.
WHEN THAT SERVANT SAW HIM AGAIN
SHE TOLD THOSE STANDING AROUND.
THIS FELLOW IS ONE OF THEM
HE DENIED IT, STOOD HIS GROUND.
30.
LATER OTHERS NEAR HIM STANDING
SAID SURELY YOUR ONE OF THEM.
BUT HE SWORE WITH CURSE COMMANDING
HOW CAN I THIS FALSEHOOD STEM.
I SWEAR I DO NOT KNOW THIS MAN
THREE TIMES HIS LORD HE DENIED.
ROOSTER CROWED, HE REMEMBERED, RAN
WHERE HE THEN BROKE DOWN AND CRIED.
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