Prayer of the Passion

Tune: Engelberg

('All praise to thee, for thou, O King divine')

Based partly on Mark 14 v.32-42

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Lord, you did pray, garden Gethsemane

Knowing all things are possible they be

To God your Father, and there made your plea

And lived obediently

 

Saying, Abba, Father, you can do all

For what I here now ask, and on you call

Take this cup of suffering hence from me

But yet what your will be

 

Nevertheless not what I will, but what

You will Father, that still shall be my lot

To gain the salvation of your people

Each one you do them call

 

Though lonesome in this prayer, this agony

For your disciples were asleep, we see

Your word to them was that they watch and pray

And constant with you stay

 

For in their sleepiness they would b prone

To temptations, and to leave Christ alone

For the spirit is willing, flesh is weak

Does not you fervent seek

 

Three times you prayed, and to disciples came

And found them there sleeping, each time the same

They did not your request fulfil, no power

To watch and pray one hour

 

Yet you still loved them, and the hour did go

Sleep on now, take your rest, you did say so

To them, but now your hour had come, and they

Went with you on your way

 

The way unto Jerusalem it be

Where you would give your life for sinners free

Though sinners there betrayed you, Judas' kiss

A false pretence of bliss

 

All in the Father's will, He gave His Son

That He bring salvation to every one

He lived and died and rose again, now sure

He lives for evermore