Matthew 27

One song checked against Matthew 27. Each proof shows the passage, what the song does with it, and whether you can sing it. Read the whole chapter: Bible Gateway ↗ · Bible Hub ↗

Matthew 27:29-30 · “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” · Reawaken Hymns

NOT A QUOTE “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” Reawaken Hymns Matthew 27:29-30 Sing it. It is devotion built on Matthew's crucifixion scene, not a quotation of it. Know that its printed credit line names an author the manuscripts do not, and skips the two men whose words you sing.

✓ Every physical detail in the opening stanza is in Matthew 27:29-30 itself. The thorns, the crown, the scorn, the blows to the head. The hymn describes the scene without adding to it.

⚠ The credit line on both the official upload and the publisher's resource page names Bernard of Clairvaux and the year 1153. The earliest manuscript of the Latin cycle names Arnulf of Leuven, and scholarship has not accepted the Bernard ascription for over a century.

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