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00:22Let us pray
00:26Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
00:29Who, when your disciples and friends deserted and left you
00:33Remained alone in the hands of sinful men
00:36Like a most gentle lamb
00:38Within the jaws of a ravenous wolf
00:43Strengthen my excessive weakness
00:45And confirm my too great unstableness
00:47By the support of your grace
00:49And join me to yourself with the bonds of love
00:53That I may neither have no wish nor the power
00:56Ever to depart or separate myself from you
01:01Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
01:04Who allowed yourself to be led around bound
01:07By an armed band and taken to Annas
01:12Allowing yourself to be stood before him
01:14As though you were a common criminal or robber
01:19O unspeakable gentleness of my Redeemer
01:22Look, while they take and drag and thrust you forward
01:27You uttered not a single word of complaint
01:30Or murmur or word of resistance
01:33But in silence you followed them wherever they led you
01:37Obeying their commands
01:39And permitted their wanton injuries to you
01:44Grant, O Lord, that these your virtues may shine in me
01:47To the everlasting glory of your name
01:51Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
01:54King of heaven and earth
01:55Who in great humility
01:57As poor and needy and of no account
02:00Was stood before the proud High Priest
02:03And most sweetly endured the dreadful blow
02:07Which his impious servant put upon you
02:12Restrain, I beg you
02:13In me all outbreak of anger and passion
02:17Suppress all acts of indignation
02:20And quench within me all desire of revenge
02:24That when I am provoked by injury
02:27I may not be disturbed
02:28I may offer no resistance
02:31May suffer no disquiet
02:34But endure everything with a quiet mind
02:36May I even repay evil with good
02:41Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
02:43Who permitted himself to be lead-boned
02:46In a shameful manner to Caiaphas
02:48That you might deliver us from the penalty
02:51Of eternal death
02:52Restoring to us true liberty
02:56Make me most ready
02:58To endure every reproach
02:59And all contempt for your name's sake
03:03Grant that in the very middle
03:05Of ridicule and outrage
03:06I may give you thanks with a perfect heart
03:09And by means of these trials
03:11May grow and increase more and more
03:14In your love
03:18Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
03:20Who, when three times denied
03:23By your Apostle Peter
03:26Mercifully turned and looked upon him
03:28With kindness
03:29And brought him to repentance
03:31And holy sorrow for his sin
03:33In like manner
03:34May you turn upon me also
03:37Your eye of mercy and love
03:39That I may weep over my past sins
03:42With the tears of true penitence
03:44And may never again commit them
03:47May I never be found sinning
03:49Against your goodness
03:50In word or deed
03:54Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
03:56Who stood before the elders
03:58And the people of the Jews
03:59With a calm countenance
04:00And humble look
04:02Who did not refuse to be falsely accused
04:05And to suffer many injuries
04:09Give me grace never to say an untrue word
04:11Or to falsely accuse my neighbour
04:14But that I may bear with all quietness of heart
04:17The calumnies that are heaped upon me
04:21Casting all my troubles upon you
04:23May I always, in silence
04:25Look for the grave and consolation
04:28At your hands
04:32Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ
04:35Who, when Caiaphas the High Priest
04:38Adjured you by the name of God
04:41Declared the truth
04:42And proclaimed yourself the Son of God
04:44And did not refuse to be counted by him
04:47And the rest who stood by as a blasphemer
04:50May I fully abhor this contempt
04:53And defence against you
04:54May I, in every place
04:57Reverence the presence of your divinity and majesty
05:03May I think of you
05:04Adore, praise and love you
05:07Above all things
05:08Forever and forever
05:11Amen
05:15O Lord, open our lips
05:17And our mouths shall sing your praise
05:26O be joyful in the Lord
05:31Holy land
05:33Serve the Lord with gladness
05:37And come in all his prayers
05:40And trigger talk
05:43Be sure that the Lord
05:47He is God
05:50He is God
05:51It is he that shall pay us
05:53And trust me ourselves
05:55We are his people
05:58And the sheep of his master
06:01O do your way
06:05To do your way
06:06To his days
06:06With taxing
06:08And into his paths
06:12With praise
06:13Be thankful
06:15And to him
06:16And speak
06:18The Lord
06:20Of his name
06:21O the Lord
06:24Is gracious
06:25His mercy
06:28His mercy
06:29Is everlasting
06:31And his truth
06:34Endureth
06:35From generation
06:37To generation
06:45Glory be to the Father
06:49Glory be to the Father
06:50And to the Father
06:52And to the Son
06:53And to the Holy Ghost
06:56As it was in the beginning
06:59Is now and ever shall be
07:05World without end
07:13Amen
07:25I will give thanks
07:28Unto the Lord
07:29With my whole heart
07:32Secretly upon the faithful
07:36And kingdom
07:37Of the nation
07:38The works
07:41Of the Lord
07:42Are great
07:43So does
07:45Of all
07:46Temperatures
07:47And treasure
07:48May be
07:50His work
07:52Is worthy
07:53To be praised
07:54And had in all
07:56And his righteousness
07:59Endureth forever
08:01For merciful
08:04And gracious
08:06Lord
08:06Has so done
08:07His father's words
08:10As he loves
08:12To be held
08:14In repentance
08:16He hath given
08:18Meat unto them
08:20That fear
08:23He shall ever be
08:25Thy joy
08:26Of his covenant
08:28He hath shown
08:31He hath showed
08:31His people
08:32The power
08:33Of his works
08:35That he may give them
08:37The heritage
08:39Of the evil
08:42The works of this land
08:45Are faulty
08:46And judgment
08:47For his
08:50Componence
08:51At home
08:52He stand fast
08:55For ever
08:57For ever
08:57And ever
08:58And a doubt
09:01Into them
09:02Equity
09:03He sent redemption
09:07Unto his people
09:09He hath come on
09:12That his tower
09:13Unto them
09:14For the end
09:17For ever
09:18And a doubt
09:18Is his name
09:20The fear
09:22Of the Lord
09:23Is the beginning
09:25Of prison
09:26For good
09:29Understanding
09:30Have obeyed
09:31And to their heart
09:33The praise
09:35Of his entire
09:36And forever
09:42Glory be to the power
09:46And to the Son
09:49And to the Holy Ghost
09:53As his voice
09:55In the beginning
09:56Is now
09:58And ever
09:59Shedding
10:01And with our
10:04King
10:05Amen
10:16A reading
10:17From the gospel
10:18According to
10:18Saint John
10:19Chapter 19
10:23Then Pilate
10:24Took Jesus
10:24And had him
10:25Whipped with cords
10:27The men of the army
10:28Made a crown of thorns
10:29And put it on his head
10:31And they put a purple
10:32Robe on him
10:34They kept coming
10:35And saying
10:36Long life
10:37To the king
10:38Of the Jews
10:39And they gave him
10:40Blows with their hands
10:43Pilate went out again
10:44And said to them
10:46See
10:46I let him come out
10:48To you
10:48To make it clear
10:49That I see
10:50Nothing wrong
10:51With him
10:53Then Jesus came out
10:54With the crown of thorns
10:55And the purple robe
10:57Pilate said to them
10:59Here is the man
11:02So when the chief priests
11:03And the police
11:04Saw him
11:05They gave a loud cry
11:07To the cross
11:08To the cross
11:10Pilate said to them
11:12Take him yourselves
11:13And put him on the cross
11:15I see no crime in him
11:19The Jews made an answer
11:22We have a law
11:23And by that law
11:24It is right for him
11:25To be put to death
11:25Because he said
11:27He was the son of God
11:31When this saying
11:32Came to Pilate's ears
11:33His fear became
11:34Even greater
11:35He went again
11:36Into the praetorium
11:37And said to Jesus
11:39Where do you come from
11:41But Jesus
11:42Gave him no answer
11:46Then Pilate said to him
11:47You say nothing to me
11:49Is it not clear to you
11:51That I have the power
11:51To let you go free
11:53And the power
11:54To put you to death
11:55From the cross
11:57Jesus gave this answer
11:59You would have no power
12:01Over me at all
12:02If it was not given
12:03To you by God
12:06So that he
12:07Who gave me up to you
12:08As the greater sin
12:11Hearing this
12:13Pilate
12:13Desired to set him free
12:15But the Jews
12:16Said to him
12:17In a loud voice
12:18If you let this man go
12:20You are not
12:20Caesar's friend
12:22Everyone who makes himself
12:24A king
12:24Goes against Caesar
12:27So when these words
12:28Came to Pilate's ear
12:29He took Jesus out
12:32Seating himself
12:33On the judge's seat
12:34In a place named
12:35In Hebrew
12:36Gabbatha
12:37Or the stone floor
12:40It was the day
12:41They made ready
12:42For the Passover
12:43And it was about
12:44The sixth hour
12:46And he said to the Jews
12:47There is your king
12:50And they gave a loud cry
12:52Away with him
12:53Away with him
12:54To the cross
12:57Pilate said to him
12:58Said to them
13:00Am I to put your king
13:01To death on the cross
13:03The chief priests
13:05Said in answer
13:06We have no king
13:07But Caesar
13:09So then he gave him up
13:10To be put to death
13:11On the cross
13:12And they took Jesus
13:13Away
13:16He went out
13:17With his cross
13:18On him
13:18To the place
13:19Which is named
13:20Dead man's head
13:21In Hebrew
13:22Golgotha
13:23Where they put him
13:24On the cross
13:25With two others
13:26One on this side
13:27And one on that
13:28With Jesus
13:29In the middle
13:31Pilate
13:32Was on the cross
13:33A statement
13:33In writing
13:34The writing said
13:36Jesus the Nazarene
13:38King of the Jews
13:41The writing was seen
13:42By a number
13:43Of the Jews
13:43For the place
13:44Where Jesus
13:45Was put to death
13:45On the cross
13:46Was near the town
13:47And the writing
13:48Was in Hebrew
13:48Latin and Greek
13:52Then the chief priests
13:54Of the Jews
13:54Said to Pilate
13:55Do not put
13:56King of the Jews
13:57But he said
13:59I am king of the Jews
14:03Pilate answered
14:04What I have put in writing
14:06Will not be changed
14:10When Jesus
14:11Was nailed to the cross
14:12The many of the
14:13Men of the army
14:14Took his clothes
14:15And divided it
14:16Into four
14:16To every man apart
14:19And they took
14:19His coat
14:21Now the coat
14:22Was without a joint
14:23Made from one piece
14:24Of cloth
14:26So they said
14:26Amongst themselves
14:27Let this not
14:29Be cut up
14:29But let us put it
14:30To the decision
14:31Of chance
14:32And see who gets it
14:34They did this
14:35So that the writings
14:36Might come true
14:37Which say
14:38They made a distribution
14:39Of my clothing
14:40Among them
14:41And my coat
14:43They put to the
14:44Decision of chance
14:46This was what
14:47The men of the army
14:48Did
14:49Now by the side
14:51Of the cross
14:51Of Jesus
14:52Were his mother
14:53And his mother
14:54And his mother's sister
14:55Mary the wife
14:56Of Cleopas
14:57And Mary Magdalene
15:00When Jesus saw
15:01That his mother
15:02And the disciple
15:03Who was dear to him
15:05He said to his mother
15:06Mother there is your son
15:08And to the disciple
15:10There is your mother
15:12And from that hour
15:13The disciple took her
15:15To his house
15:17This is the word
15:19Of the Lord
15:19Thanks be to God
15:29As the robe
15:30Which Christ wore
15:31Closest to himself
15:32Was curiously
15:34And strangely
15:34Made without seam
15:36From head to foot
15:38So all that
15:39Jesus Christ
15:40Has left behind
15:41Is singular
15:41Unique
15:42And harmonious
15:45For judge him
15:46By the religious system
15:47Which he has left
15:48Or judge him
15:49By the code of morality
15:50Which he has left
15:51Or judge him
15:53By the record
15:53Of that stainless character
15:55And you find him
15:57To be strange
15:58Singular
16:00One in the world's history
16:02For whom no fellow
16:03Has yet been found
16:06Judge him
16:07By the religious system
16:08It is unique
16:10His power
16:11Who died
16:12Has wiped away
16:13The throne
16:13Which the pagan priesthood
16:14Painted upon the brow
16:16Of God
16:17The gospel
16:18Which he put
16:19Into the hands
16:19Of his disciples
16:20And ministers
16:22Proclaims the fact
16:23Of God reconciled
16:24With the world
16:26That which we have received
16:27Is emphatically
16:28The ministry
16:29Of reconciliation
16:31We have access
16:32By one spirit
16:33To the Father
16:36But nonetheless
16:37When we view him
16:38By the system
16:39Of morality
16:40That he left
16:41Wherewith the world
16:42Was to be cloud
16:43We have the same
16:44Unique and harmonious
16:45Character
16:47If the religious system
16:48Found its basis
16:49In the love of God
16:50To mankind
16:52Nonetheless
16:52Does the morality
16:53Find its basis
16:55In this
16:56The parallel love
16:57Of man
16:58To man
17:00He was as the one
17:01Who gathered
17:02The stray flowers
17:03Which had been strewn
17:05By ages
17:05Along the pathway
17:06Of humanity
17:07To bind them
17:08Into one cluster
17:10But he did more
17:12He gave a root
17:13To all those flowers
17:14He planted
17:16Where they indeed
17:16Could grow
17:18When he laid the truth
17:19And the basis
17:20Of all humanity
17:21In this
17:21You shall love the Lord
17:23Your God
17:23With all your heart
17:24And thy neighbour
17:25As thyself
17:27But more
17:28If we take
17:29That robe
17:30Which he left
17:31As an emblem
17:32Of the system
17:32Of teaching
17:33Of worship
17:34And of morality
17:35Even more so
17:36Do we have
17:37An analogy of scripture
17:39Or taking it
17:40As representative
17:41Of the holy character
17:42Of Christ
17:45Like the one thread
17:46Which wove
17:47That seamless robe
17:49Love appears everywhere
17:51Under the embroidered pattern
17:53That love it is
17:54Which forms
17:55As it were
17:56The very strength
17:57Of his character
17:58And becomes one
17:59With him
17:59In all that he does
18:01Is identified with him
18:03When he is most severe
18:04Is not severed from him
18:07When he is most humiliated
18:09It is the one thing
18:10Which weaves the character
18:12Together
18:12Weaves it from the top
18:14Throughout
18:16This robe
18:17Is a legacy to us
18:19Unlike
18:20The envenomed robe
18:22Which wrapped our sideies
18:24This legacy
18:25Has no fictitious
18:26Righteousness
18:27Which cannot become ours
18:29But clad in it
18:31We receive not poison
18:32But life-giving power
18:36We find in the New Testament
18:38That in place
18:39Of there being any sanction
18:40In scripture
18:41For the extraordinary honour
18:43Being rendered
18:44To the mother of our law
18:45The weight of testimony
18:47Is all in the opposite direction
18:51We believe that this is the most satisfactory account
18:53That can be given of this
18:55That our Lord foresaw
18:58The idolatrous homage
19:00Which in the progress of time
19:02Would be rendered to the Virgin
19:04And he determined that there should be nothing
19:06In this deportment
19:07From which such homage
19:09Might draw even the shadow of encouragement
19:13Indeed
19:14In default of other scriptural evidence
19:16We could make use of the words of the angel
19:18In the Annunciation
19:19Saying that they imply or involve
19:21An act of adoration of the Virgin
19:25These words
19:26As we translate them
19:27Are
19:27Hail
19:28You that are highly favoured
19:31They could be
19:32Hail
19:33You who are full of grace
19:36And they make the salutation of the angel
19:38The same
19:39As they are by Maria
19:44We are writing
19:45In supposing
19:46That Mary's life
19:47Must have been one of great suffering
19:50So that she is to be admired
19:51As a martyr
19:53The words spoken by Christ on the cross
19:55To his mother
19:55Are exquisitely beautiful
19:58As proving
19:59The thoughtfulness of Christ to her
20:01When we might have supposed him
20:03To be so occupied
20:04With his mighty undertaking
20:06On behalf of creation
20:07That he had no time
20:09For a soothing word
20:11To give to a sorrowing individual
20:15Yet if ever words cut the human heart
20:17These must have been a sword
20:19To the weeping Mary
20:21If she had entertained
20:23A lingering hope
20:24That Christ would triumph over his enemies
20:26And remain
20:28To bless his friends
20:29These words must surely have destroyed it
20:33For providing for her another son
20:35Did but tell her so clearly
20:37And emphatically
20:38That she was to lose him altogether
20:41Or that even were he to rise from the dead
20:44It would not be to renew the sweet intercourse
20:47Of earthly affection
20:52Surely the last words of Christ
20:53Addressed to his mother
20:55Though we may allow them
20:57To have been words overflowing with tenderness
20:59Must surely
21:00Have cut the mother to the quick
21:04And we need adduce nothing further in evidence
21:07That Mary herself
21:08May justly be regarded
21:10As having had martyrdom to undergo
21:12At least at the awful hour
21:15Of our Lord's crucifixion
21:17And as we admire her for her faith
21:19And the meekness with which
21:20She received the annunciation
21:23That Christ would be her son
21:25So ought we to admire in her
21:27The courage
21:29And the constancy
21:30Of one who is led up
21:31To the scaffold
21:32Or fastened to the stake
21:34As a confessor for God
21:36And truth
21:36When we need the simple plaintive statement
21:38Of our text
21:40Now there stood
21:41By the cross of Jesus
21:42His mother
21:46The death of the Lord Jesus Christ
21:48Differed from all other deaths
21:50In that the death
21:51Was voluntary
21:53Death to us
21:54Is the natural termination of life
21:56And the event of death
21:58Is the only one
21:59Which we can venture to prophesy
22:01Without fear of mistake
22:03As certain to happen
22:04To each and every one of us
22:07But the death of Christ
22:08Did not stand to his life
22:10In any such relation as this
22:13Death had no power
22:14In the nature of things
22:15Over him
22:17His birth and his death
22:19Were alike
22:21Under the influence
22:22Of his own will
22:24What an infinite difference
22:26There is
22:27Between a death like this
22:28And a death
22:29Which is merely
22:30The working out
22:30Of the original word of God
22:32Concerning man
22:33Dust you are
22:35And to dust
22:36You shall return
22:39Again the death of our Lord
22:41Was different
22:41From that of other men
22:42And is shown
22:44By his divine character
22:46In the fact
22:47That it was
22:48One to which
22:49No corruption belonged
22:52There was a divine life
22:54In the human body
22:55Of Christ
22:55Over which death
22:57Had no power
22:58The triumph of the grave
22:59Such as it was
23:01Was short
23:02It was like a summer night
23:04When the west
23:05Has not ceased to glow
23:06Before the dawn
23:07Is seen in the east
23:09The short residence
23:10Of Christ's body
23:12In the tomb
23:13Threwed more clearly
23:14Than anything else
23:15Could ever have done
23:16That his words
23:17Were true
23:18Concerning his power
23:19To take up
23:20His life once more
23:21That it was never
23:23Truly taken from him
23:24And that it was
23:25A sacrifice made
23:26By himself
23:27To the will of God
23:29And that he could
23:30Conquer the grave
23:31As he could conquer
23:32All other enemies
23:33Of mankind
23:37Our Lord's death
23:38Had its divine side
23:40But it was also
23:42A human death
23:43Therefore it was
23:44A death of suffering
23:47Putting the intensity
23:48Of these sufferings
23:49Out of the question
23:50Their reality
23:51Is a thing
23:52Which we must
23:53By no means
23:54Put out of the question
23:56They were the sufferings
23:57Of a man
23:58The sufferings
23:59Of one weak
24:00According to the weakness
24:01Of human flesh
24:04The same sufferings
24:05So far as the body
24:06Is concerned
24:07As those of the thieves
24:09Crucified to either side
24:12He who died upon the cross
24:13Is one of our own race
24:15He is the seed
24:16Of the woman
24:16Who bore us all
24:17And he is the eldest brother
24:19Of the family
24:20To which we all belong
24:23Yet this is he
24:24Whose voice
24:25Stilled the waves
24:27This is he
24:28Who called to Lazarus
24:29Come forth
24:31And see
24:32Now that he hangs
24:33Upon the cross
24:34The sun is darkened
24:35And the veil of the temple
24:37Is rent
24:37And the graves
24:39Can no longer contain
24:40Their dead
24:41Truly this is
24:43The son of God
24:45Therefore we must
24:46Not grieve over him
24:47And say
24:47Alas my brother
24:49But we must take
24:50Another tone
24:51And say
24:52By thy cross
24:54And thy passion
24:55Good lord
24:55Deliver us
25:00St John tells us
25:01Of the lone man
25:02At the foot of the cross
25:04Probably John himself
25:06And the special commission
25:08He gave to him
25:09To be with his mother
25:13This is an unusually
25:14Personal note
25:15For the gospels
25:16The more so
25:18Given the circumstance
25:20Jesus is there
25:21Hanging from the cross
25:22Minutes from death
25:23And he takes the time
25:24To comfort
25:25Those he loved
25:26John and his mother
25:28Even in the face
25:29Of the ultimate adversity
25:32Jesus can find the strength
25:33To put others first
25:36John's gospel
25:37Is sometimes known
25:38As the compassionate gospel
25:41And this particular incident
25:43Is a good example
25:45Of why this should be
25:47We have yet another
25:48Deeply personal insight
25:49Into the events
25:51Of the crucifixion
25:52For us
25:53To ponder up
25:54As we reflect
25:55On the events
25:56Of that momentous day
25:58So let us take a moment
26:00To marvel
26:01At the immense love
26:02Of our Lord
26:03Jesus Christ
26:04Who died for us
26:06So that in his death
26:07We might find life
26:08And be boundlessly
26:10Grateful to him
26:11For that sacrifice
26:18Let us pray
26:21Lord
26:21We beseech you
26:23Let your continual pity
26:25Cleanse
26:26And defend your church
26:27Because it cannot continue
26:29In safety
26:30Without your help
26:33Reserve it evermore
26:34By your help
26:35And goodness
26:36Through Jesus Christ
26:38Our Lord
26:39Amen
26:45May the Lord
26:46Bless us
26:47And keep us
26:47From all evil
26:48Bringing us
26:50To everlasting life
26:53Amen
26:53All the love
26:53Such asaide
26:54one Okay
26:54You
26:54commodities
26:57You
26:58To