Sources For The Text
- Matthew 26 (Part One) and 27 (Part Two)
- Texts for recitatives and arias by Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander)
- Song of Songs 6:1 #30
- Chorales
- O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, Nikolaus Decius (1541), verse 1 for #1 cantus firmus
- Herzliebster Jesu, Johann Heermann (1630), verse 1 for #3, 3 for #19 coro II in tenor rec., 4 for #46
- O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben, Paul Gerhardt (1647), verse 5 for #10, 3 for #37
- O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, Paul Gerhardt (1656), verse 5 for #15, 6 for #17, 1 & 2 for #54, 9 for #62
- Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, Markgraf Albrecht von Brandenburg (1547), verse 1 for #25
- O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß, Sebald Heyden (1525), verse 1 for #29 cantus firmus
- In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr, Adam Reusner (1533), verse 5 for #32
- Werde munter, mein Gemüte, Johann von Rist (1642), verse 6 for #40
- Befiehl du deine Wege, Paul Gerhardt 1656, verse 1 for #44
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