Jesus: Could ye not watch with me, one brief hour?
Could ye not pity my sorest need?
Ah! If ye sleep while the tempests lower,
Surely, My friends, I am 'lone indeed.
People: Jesu, Lord Jesu,
bowed in bitter anguish,
and bearing all the evil we have done!
Oh, teach us, teach us how to love Thee for Thy love.
Help us to pray, and watch, and mourn with Thee.
Could ye not watch with Me one brief hour?
Did ye not say upon Kedron's slope
ye would not fall into the Tempter's power?
Did ye not murmur great words of hope?
Jesu, Lord Jesu,
bowed in bitter anguish,
and bearing all the evil we have done!
Oh, teach us, teach us how to love Thee for Thy love.
Help us to pray, and watch, and mourn with Thee.
Could ye not watch with Me...? Even so,
willing in heart, but the flesh is vain.
Back to Mine agony I must go.
Lonely to pray in bitterest pain.
Narrator: And they laid their hands on him, and took him,
and led Him away to the high priest.
And the high priest asked him and said unto Him.
High Priest: Art Thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
Narrator: Jesus said,
Jesus: I am.
And ye shall see the Son of man
sitting on the right hand of power,
and coming in the clouds of heaven!
Narrator: Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith:
High Priest: What need we any further witnesses?
Ye have heard the blasphemy!
Narrator: And they all condemned him, to be guilty of death.
And they bound Jesus and carried Him away
And delivered Him to Pilate.
And Pilate, willing to content the people,
Released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus,
When he had scourged Him, to be crucified.
And the soldiers led Him away.