Christ Jesus Knew

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[Christ Jesus Knew]

Author: Jane Parker Huber
Tune: ST. CRISPIN
Published in 4 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	The Lord's Supper (Communion Meditations…

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1 Christ Jesus knew a wilderness
of noonday heat and nighttime cold,
of doubts and hungers, new and old,
temptation waiting to take hold.

2 Christ Jesus knew uncertainty.
Would all forsake, deny, betray?
Would crowds that followed turn away?
Would pow'rs of evil hold their sway.

3 Christ Jesus knew an upper room,
an olive grove, a judgment hall,
a skull-like hill, a drink of gall,
an airless tomb, bereft of all.

4 Christ Jesus, in our wilderness,
you are our bread, our drink, our light.
Your death and rising set things right.
Your presence puts our fears to flight.

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Source: Moravian Book of Worship #337

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Author: Jane Parker Huber

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First Line:	[Christ Jesus Knew]
Title:	Christ Jesus Knew
Author:	Jane Parker Huber
Source:	A Singing Faith (The Westminster Press, 1987)
Language:	English

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Tune

ST. CRISPIN

Composed by George J. Elvey (PHH 48) in 1862 for 'Just as I Am, without One Plea" (263), ST. CRISPIN was first published in the 1863 edition of Edward Thorne's Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes. The tune title honors a third-century Roman martyr, Crispin, who, along with Crispinian, preached in Gaul…

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QUEBEC (Baker)

Henry Baker (b. Nuneham, Oxfordshire, England, 1835; d. Wimbledon, England, 1910; not to be confused with Henry W. Baker) was educated as a civil engineer at Winchester and Cooper's Hill and was active in railroad building in India. In 1867 he completed a music degree at Exeter College, Oxford, Engl…

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