Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod

Paul Stockmann wrote 34 stanzas of eight lines each, rhyming ABABCDCD. The hymn first appeared in 1633, designated to be sung to the 1609 melody by Melchior Vulpius to the Passion hymn "Jesu Kreuz, Leiden und Pein", Zahn No. 6288. The stanzas are usually in two halves, four lines describing the situation, and four lines applying it to the situation of the singer. == Melody and musical settings ==

Johann Sebastian Bach used the 33rd stanza, "Jesu, deine Passion / ist mir lauter Freude" (Jesus, Your passion / is pure joy to me), in his cantata for Palm Sunday, Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182, in 1714. In 1724, Bach used three stanzas from the hymn (10, 20, and 34) as commenting chorales in his St John Passion. The tenth stanza is sung as movement 14, ending Part I after Peter's denial, beginning "" (Peter, when he fails to think). It is a prayer to Jesus whom the believer addresses as risen. which was attributed to Bach. == References ==