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[14 Nisan]

Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg – preparing for Passover

Matthew 26
17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

Mark 14
12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?

Luke 22
7 And the day of the unleavened bread came, on which it was necessary that the pasch should be killed.

18 He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Rabbi says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"

13 And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him. 14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? 15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.

8 And he sent Peter and John, saying: Go, and prepare for us the pasch, that we may eat. 9 But they said: Where wilt thou that we prepare? 10 And he said to them: Behold, as you go into the city, there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water: follow him into the house where he entereth in. 11 And you shall say to the goodman of the house: The master saith to thee: Where is the guest chamber, where I may eat the pasch with my disciples? 12 And he will shew you a large dining room, furnished. And there prepare.

19 The disciples did as Yeshua commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.

16 And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

13 And they going, found as he had said to them and made ready the pasch.

I
DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE...

Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg – meeting to celebrate Passover,
Who is Jesus?

Christopher Cook, Kees de Vreugd –  1st-century Jerusalem and Passover

Traditional: shofar
WHITE LABEL HRC 047 tr.1
35"

Anonymous (Barcelona 10th/11th-century): Sibilla Latine
La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall
FONTALIS ES 8705 tr.1
35"

Anonymous: L'homme armé
The York Waits
CD-SAR 69 tr.24
35"

Olivier Messiaen: Des Canyons aux Etoiles / Appel interstellaire
Georges Barboteu (horn)
ERATO ECD 71585 (disc 1) tr.6
35"

[15 Nisan]

Kathryn Oswald – A Passion 4 Radio introduction

Geoffrey Smith, Reverend Alan Walker, Christopher Cook, Jeremy Summerly – round-table

Trad. (Sephardic): Ir me quiero a Yerushalayim / Ir me quiera yo por este caminico;
Jehuda HaLevi: Libi Be'Misrach
Jalda Rebling
Album: Juden im Mittelalter
RAUM KLANG RK 9901 tr.17
30"

Carole Weinberg – tradition of the Passover

20 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

17 And in the evening he cometh with the twelve. 

14 And when the hour was come, he sat down: and the twelve apostles with him.

John 13
1 It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father.

Salomone Rossi: Quadish
Kühn Chamber Soloists / Symposium musicum / Pavel Kühn
PANTON 81 1271 – 2 232 disc 1 tr.1
25"

Archbishop Sewerios Malki Murad, St Mark's Syrian Orthodox Convent, Jerusalem – the location of the Last Supper

Sister Justina – on the House of St Mark

Trad. (Aramaic): The Last Supper
Archbishop Sewerios Malki Murad
recorded at St Mark's Syrian Orthodox Convent, Jerusalem in March 2004
1'13"

Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg – the Kaddish

Trad. (Jewish) harm. Samuel David: Kaddish
Adolphe Attia / Hervé Désarbre, organ
LE CHANT DU MONDE LDX 774993 tr.3
45"

Salomone Rossi: Quadish
Kühn Chamber Soloists / Symposium musicum / Pavel Kühn
PANTON 81 1271 – 2 232 disc 1 tr.1
10"

15 And he said to them: With desire I have desired to eat this pasch with you, before I suffer. 16 For I say to you that from this time I will not eat it, till it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

plainchant (tonus peregrinus) ed. Christopher Totney: Psalm 114
Chapel Choir of University College Durham / David Jackson, organ / Christopher Totney
LAMMAS RECORDS LAMM 162D tr.2
50"

Carole Weinberg, Gillian Hush – the 1st cup of wine (the cup of Sanctification),
the four cups and the four acts of deliverance,
the handwashing,
the parsley in salt water,
the matzoh,
the four questions,
the Haggadah – the story of the Exodus,
the Hallel – the Psalms of praise

Trad. (Yemenite Jewish): Psalm 114 "When Israel came out of Egypt"
recorded in Israel in 1953 by Sam Eskin
36"

17 And having taken the chalice, he gave thanks and said: Take and divide it among you. 18 For I say to you that I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, till the kingdom of God come.

Carole Weinberg – the second washing of the hands

Trad. (plainchant tonus peregrinus; Ashkenazy): Psalm 114 "In exitu Israel" / "B'tset Yisrael"
Boston Camerata / John Fleagle / Michael Collver /  Joel Cohen
ERATO 2292-45513-2 tr.3 
59"

Salomone Rossi: Quadish
Kühn Chamber Soloists / Symposium musicum / Pavel Kühn
PANTON 81 1271 - 2 232 disc 1 tr.1
9"

Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. 2 The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" 7 Jesus replied, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand." 8 "No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me." 9 "Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied, "not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!" 10 Jesus answered, "A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you." 11 For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean. 12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he asked them. 13 "You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16 I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Carole Weinberg – the blessing of the bread

Stravinsky: Mass / Agnus Dei
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral / The City of London Sinfonia / James O'Donnell
HYPERION CDA66437 tr.11  
13"

19 And taking bread, he gave thanks and brake and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me.

Anon. (plainchant): Pange lingua gloriosi
Priory of the Resurrection (featuring the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre)
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 471 090-2 tr.15
45"

18 "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: 'He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.' 19 "I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

20 In like manner, the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.

20 I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."

Stravinsky: Mass / Agnus Dei
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral / The City of London Sinfonia / James O'Donnell
HYPERION CDA66437 tr.11  
7"

21 As they were eating, he said, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me."

18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.

21 After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, "I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me."

Guillaume Bouzignac: Heu! Unus ex vobis me tradet hodie
Daniel McCabe / The Schola Cantorum of Boston / The Boston Camerata / Joel Cohen
ERATO 4509-98480-2 tr.1
27"

22 They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, "It isn't me, is it, Lord?"

19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?

22 His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant.

23 He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same will betray me. 24 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."

20 And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish. 21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

21 But yet behold: the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. 22 And the Son of man indeed goeth, according to that which is determined: but yet, woe to that man by whom he shall be betrayed.

23 And they began to inquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.

Guillaume Bouzignac: Heu! Unus ex vobis me tradet hodie
Daniel McCabe / The Schola Cantorum of Boston / The Boston Camerata / Joel Cohen
ERATO 4509-98480-2 tr.1
2"

25 Judah, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You said it."

João Lourenço Rebelo: Panis angelicus
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral / James O'Donnell
HYPERION CDA66512 tr.10
25"

Christopher Cook, Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg – the bitter herbs and the charoset,
the matzoh with the bitter herbs

26 As they were eating, Yeshua took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."

22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. 

João Lourenço Rebelo: Panis angelicus
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral / James O'Donnell
HYPERION CDA66512 tr.10
22"

Stravinsky: Mass / Agnus Dei
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral / The City of London Sinfonia / James O'Donnell
HYPERION CDA66437 tr.11  
20"

Guillaume Bouzignac: Heu! Unus ex vobis me tradet hodie
Daniel McCabe / The Schola Cantorum of Boston / The Boston Camerata / Joel Cohen
ERATO 4509-98480-2 tr.1
3"

23 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. 24 Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, "Ask him which one he means." 25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?" 26 Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. 27 As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. 28 "What you are about to do, do quickly," Jesus told him, but no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. 29 Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the Feast, or to give something to the poor. 30 As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.

Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg –  discussion and interpretation at the Passover

Trad. (Corsican): Tantum ergo sacramentum
Ensemble Organum / Marcel Pérès
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901495 tr.6
35"

Geoffrey Smith – Galway Kinnell: To Christ Our Lord
1'40"

Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël / O magnum mysterium
Winchester Cathedral Choir / Martin Neary
EMI CDC 749559 2 tr.7
1'15"

Anon. (Byzantine): Alleluia and Troparion of the Holy Passion Service
Schemamonk's choir of the Monastery St John in the Desert
MUSICA SANCTA MS02 tr.1
1'00"

24 And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should seem to be the greater. 25 And he said to them: The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that have power over them are called beneficent. 26 But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger: and he that is the leader, as he that serveth. 27 For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you, as he that serveth.

Guillaume de Machaut: Mass / Agnus Dei
Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly
NAXOS 8.553833 tr.5
28"

Kees de Vreugd, Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg – the Paschal Lamb

Christopher Cook, Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg – the destruction of the Temple

31 When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. 33 "My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come. 34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

Tavener: The Lamb
The Tallis Scholars / John Tavener
GIMELL 454 905-2 tr.9
45"

Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg – the afikomen

Geoffrey Smith – the bread and the wine

28 And you are they who have continued with me in my temptations: 29 And I dispose to you, as my Father hath disposed to me, a kingdom;

J.S.Bach: Mass in B minor / Agnus Dei
Kathleen Ferrier / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Adrian Boult (recorded 7/10/1952)
DECCA 475 078-2 disc 2 tr.11
17"

Tavener: The Lamb
The Tallis Scholars / John Tavener
GIMELL 454 905-2 tr.9
30"

27 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it, 28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins. 29 But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom."

23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. 24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. 25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg - Festival of the Redemption, Elijah and the coming of the Messiah, the 4th cup of wine

Trad. (Yemenite Jewish): Psalm 118
recorded in Israel in 1953 by Sam Eskin
11"

30 That you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom: and may sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories / Tristis est anima mea
The King's Singers
SIGNUM RECORDS SIGCD048 tr.3
36"

30 When they had sung the Hallel, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 31 Then Yeshua said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. 27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

36 Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?"

31 And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.

Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later."

32 But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."

28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.

J.S.Bach: Mass in B minor / Agnus Dei
Kathleen Ferrier / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Adrian Boult (recorded 7/10/1952)
DECCA 475 078-2 disc 2 tr.11
29"

33 But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."

29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.

33 Who said to him: Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison and to death.

37 Peter asked, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

34 Yeshua said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."

30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.

34 And he said: I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, till thou thrice deniest that thou knowest me.

38 Then Jesus answered, "Will you really lay down your life for me? I tell you the truth, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!

35 Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise.

31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.

Handel: Messiah / Comfort ye, My people
John Wakefield, tenor / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis
PHILIPS 464 703-2 disc1 tr.2
1'58"

Reverend Yazeed Said, St George's Cathedral, Jerusalem – Who is Jesus?

Pierre Boulez: Rituel
Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Barenboim
ERATO 2292-45493-2 tr.1
1'00"

Gillian Hush, Carole Weinberg - end of Passover meal, "Next year in Jerusalem"

Reform Rabbi student

Thomas Tallis: If ye love Me
Chapel Choir of University College Durham / Christopher Totney
LAMMAS RECORDS LAMM 162D tr.19
46"

Trad. (spiritual): Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Marian Anderson / orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees (recorded 1943)
EKLIPSE RECORDS EKRCD 19 tr.8
25"

Handel orch. Eugene Goossens: Messiah / Comfort ye, My people
Jon Vickers, tenor / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham
BMG CLASSICS 09026-61266-2 disc 1 tr.2
33"

Stravinsky: Mass / Agnus Dei
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral / The City of London Sinfonia / James O'Donnell
HYPERION CDA66437 tr.11  
20"

Handel: Messiah / Comfort ye, My people
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner
PHILIPS 411 041-2 disc 1 tr.2
10"

 And he said to them:

John 14
1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going." 5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." 8 Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us." 9 Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12 I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. 15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever -17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him." 22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?" 23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. 25 "All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. 28 "You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, 31 but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.

Pierre Boulez: Rituel
Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Barenboim
ERATO 2292-45493-2 tr.1
56"

Salomone Rossi: Quadish
Kühn Chamber Soloists / Symposium musicum / Pavel Kühn
PANTON 81 1271 – 2 232 disc 1 tr.1
20"

35 When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want anything? 36 But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath not, let him sell his coat and buy a sword. 37 For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end. 38 But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to them: It is enough.

"Come now; let us leave.

39 And going out, he went, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives. And his disciples also followed him.

II
BEFORE THE COCK CROWS...

J.S.Bach: St John Passion
Eugen Jochum
PHILIPS 426 647-2
1'20"

Jeremy Summerly on Bach's St John Passion

Reverend Yazeed Said - Maundy Thursday liturgy, silent walk to Gethsemane

J.S.Bach: St John Passion
John Eliot Gardiner
ARCHIV 419 325-2
27"

J.S.Bach: St John Passion
Andrew Parrott
VIRGIN CLASSICS VCD 545096-2
14"

J.S.Bach: St John Passion
Frans Bruggen
PHILIPS 434 905-2PH2
33"

Christopher Tye: Rachell's weepinge
Concordia
METRONOME MET CD 1020 tr.11
2'45" + 33"

Reverend Elias Chacour, Lance Lambert - Palestinian Christians & the Jewish mindset, Galilee and the Jewishness of the New Testament, the divine plan

Reverend Yazeed Said - reconciliation and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (executed 9 April 1945),

Brother Yun "the heavenly man" - prison, suffering for truth, crucified for neighbour

Handel: Messiah / Comfort ye, My people
John Wakefield, tenor / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis
PHILIPS 464 703-2 disc1 tr.2
30"

Handel: Messiah / Comfort ye, My people
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, tenor / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner
PHILIPS 411 041-2 disc 1 tr.2
30"

Bishop Aris Shivanian, Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate, Jerusalem – suffering of Armenian people

Armenian Orthodox Vespers recorded in Cathedral of Saints James, Jerusalem 2004
49"

Trad. (Corsican): Tantum ergo sacramentum
Ensemble Organum / Marcel Pérès
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901495 tr.6
54"

John 15
1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. 9 "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other. 18 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'26 "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

Fr. S. Lucas: Bolo isu naam
Meena Neumann / Jayesh Patel / Lata Patel / Seema Allie / Mukesh Velji / Steve Neumann
SOUTH ASIAN CONCERN SACD02 disc 1 tr.9
35"

J.S.Bach: St John Passion
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
24"

Geoffrey Smith – difference between Gospel accounts

Kathryn Oswald – A Passion 4 Radio re-introduction

Traditional: shofar
WHITE LABEL HRC 047 tr.1
43"

Anonymous (Barcelona 10th/11th-century): Sibilla Latine
La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall
FONTALIS ES 8705 tr.1
43"

Anonymous: L'homme armé
The York Waits
CD-SAR 69 tr.24
43"

Olivier Messiaen: Des Canyons aux Etoiles / Appel interstellaire
Georges Barboteu (horn)
ERATO ECD 71585 (disc 1) tr.6
43"

John 16
1 "All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you. 5 "Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' 6 Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. 7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 12 "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you. 16 "In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me." 17 Some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by saying, 'In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,' and 'Because I am going to the Father'?" 18 They kept asking, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We don't understand what he is saying." 19 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, "Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, 'In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me'? 20 I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. 21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. 22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. 23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. 25 "Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27 No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28 I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father." 29 Then Jesus' disciples said, "Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. 30 Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God." 31 "You believe at last!" Jesus answered. 32 "But a time is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. 33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

John Stainer: The Crucifixion / God so loved the world
Guildford Camerata / Barry Rose
LAMMAS RECORDS LAMM 154D tr.9
39"

John Dunstaple: Gloria a 4 (MB11)
TONUS PEREGRINUS
NAXOS 8.557341 
2'40"

Archbishop Sewerios Malki Murad, Sister Justina, Jerusalem Old City shopkeeper, Lance Lambert, Reverend Elias Chacour, Reverend Yazeed Said, Brother Yun, Reverend Michael Sellars, Kees de Vreugd, George the caretaker, friar in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

J.S.Bach: St John Passion
Helmuth Rilling
HÄNSSLER CD98 170
35"

John 17
1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: 2 "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. 6 "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13 "I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. 20 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23 I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25 "Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."

Through the Night signature tune
29"

36 Then Yeshua came with them to a place called Gethsemane,

32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane:

40 And when he was come to the place,

John 18
1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was an olive grove, and he and his disciples went into it.

Handel orch. Eugene Goossens: Messiah / All we like sheep "And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all"
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Thomas Beecham
BMG CLASSICS 09026-61266-2 disc 2 tr.5
12"

and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray."

and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.

he said to them: Pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."

33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.

Guillaume Bouzignac: Heu! Unus ex vobis me tradet hodie
Daniel McCabe / The Schola Cantorum of Boston / The Boston Camerata / Joel Cohen
ERATO 4509-98480-2 tr.1
52"

39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."

35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

41 And he was withdrawn away from them a stone's cast. And kneeling down, he prayed. 42 Saying: Father, if thou wilt, remove this chalice from me: but yet not my will, but thine be done.

Geoffrey Smith - George Herbert: The Agony (beginning)
37"

43 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. And being in an agony, he prayed the longer. 44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

Guillaume Bouzignac: Heu! Unus ex vobis me tradet hodie
Daniel McCabe / The Schola Cantorum of Boston / The Boston Camerata / Joel Cohen
ERATO 4509-98480-2 tr.1
20"

40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? 38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

45 And when he rose up from prayer and was come to the disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow. 46 And he said to them: Why sleep you? Arise: pray: lest you enter into temptation.

Guillaume Bouzignac: Heu! Unus ex vobis me tradet hodie
Daniel McCabe / The Schola Cantorum of Boston / The Boston Camerata / Joel Cohen
ERATO 4509-98480-2 tr.1
17"

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories / In monte Oliveti
The King's Singers
SIGNUM RECORDS SIGCD048 tr.2
40"

Trad. (Aramaic): The Lord's Prayer
Archbishop Sewerios Malki Murad
recorded at St Mark's Syrian Orthodox Convent, Jerusalem in March 2004
17"

42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."

39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.

43 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

40 And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.

44 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

Handel orch. Eugene Goossens: Messiah / All we like sheep "And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all"
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Thomas Beecham
BMG CLASSICS 09026-61266-2 disc 2 tr.5
4"

45 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest.

41 And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest:

47 As he was yet speaking, behold a multitude;

Handel orch. Eugene Goossens: Messiah / All we like sheep "And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all"
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Thomas Beecham
BMG CLASSICS 09026-61266-2 disc 2 tr.5
6"

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Rex Lawson (pianola)
CARLTON CLASSICS 30366 00992 tr.16
10"

Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.

 46 Arise, let's be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."

42 Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.

U2: Pride (in the name of love)
U2
ISLAND 664 975 tr.1
10"

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Rex Lawson (pianola)
CARLTON CLASSICS 30366 00992 tr.16
10"

47 While he was still speaking, behold, Judah, one of the Twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people.

43 And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve,

3 So Judas came to the grove, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons.

48 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him."

44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.

J.S.Bach: A Musical Offering / Canon perpetuus super Thema Regium
Barthold Kuijken, flute / Sigiswald Kuijken, violin / Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba
DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77307 2 tr.2
1'40"

4 Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, "Who is it you want?" 5 "Jesus of Nazareth," they replied. 6 "I am he," Jesus said.

U2: Pride (in the name of love)
U2
ISLAND 664 975 tr.1
16"

U2: Pride (in the name of love) – radio mix
Robert Clivillés & David Cole
COLUMBIA 657701-2 tr.1
5"

49 Immediately he came to Yeshua, and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed him.

45 And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him.

went before them and drew near to Jesus, for to kiss him.

(And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.)

50 Yeshua said to him, "Friend, why are you here?"

48 And Jesus said to him: Judas, dost thou betray the Son of man with a kiss?

When Jesus said, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. 7 Again he asked them, "Who is it you want?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." 8 "I told you that I am he," Jesus answered. "If you are looking for me, then let these men go." 9 This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: "I have not lost one of those you gave me."

49 And they that were about him, seeing what would follow, said to him: Lord, shall we strike with the sword?

Then they came and laid hands on Yeshua, and took him.

46 And they laid their hands on him, and took him.

51 Behold, one of those who were with Yeshua stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.

47 And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)

Trad. (Corsican): Tantum ergo sacramentum
Ensemble Organum / Marcel Pérès
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901495 tr.6
7"

Reverend Alan Walker and Reform Rabbi student – the suffering servant

Olivier Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen / Amen de l'Agonie de Jésus
Y.Loriod, O.Messiaen (pianos)
ADES 13.233-2 tr.3
13"

C.S.Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Geoffrey Bles, 1950/Collins, 1980
8"

52 Then Yeshua said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. 53 Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"

51 But Jesus answering, said: Suffer ye thus far. And when he had touched his ear, he healed him.

11 Jesus commanded Peter, "Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?"

Thomas Tallis: Lamentations / Daleth
The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips
GIMELL CDGIM 996 tr.3
33"

55 In that hour Yeshua said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. 56 But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled."

48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me? 49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

52 And Jesus said to the chief priests and magistrates of the temple and the ancients, that were come unto him: Are ye come out, as it were against a thief, with swords and clubs? 53 When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch forth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of darkness.

Reverend Michael Sellars - young people going through checkpoints in order to process to St Peter in Gallicantu

Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

50 And they all forsook him, and fled. 51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: 52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

57 Those who had taken Yeshua led him away to Caiaphas the high priest,

53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest:

54 And apprehending him, they led him to the high priest's house.

12 Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus.They bound him 13 and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

14 Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be good if one man died for the people.

where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

58 But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest,

54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest:

But Peter followed afar off.

15 Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus.

Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard, 16 but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the girl on duty there and brought Peter in.

and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire. 

55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and were sitting about it, Peter was in the midst of them.

56 Whom when a certain servant maid had seen sitting at the light and had earnestly beheld him, she said: This man also was with him. 57 But he denied him, saying: Woman, I know him not.

17 "You are not one of his disciples, are you?" the girl at the door asked Peter. He replied, "I am not."

18 It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.

Thomas Tallis: Lamentations / Daleth
The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips
GIMELL CDGIM 996 tr.3
1'00"

19 Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. 20 "I have spoken openly to the world," Jesus replied. "I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. 21 Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said." 22 When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby struck him in the face. "Is this the way you answer the high priest?" he demanded. 23 "If I said something wrong," Jesus replied, "testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?" 24 Then Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.

Kees de Vreugd - Jesus and the Temple

59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Yeshua, that they might put him to death; 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none.

55 And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none. 56 For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

Thomas Tallis: Lamentations / Daleth
The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips
GIMELL CDGIM 996 tr.3
42" + 55"

But at last two false witnesses came forward, 61 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'" 62 The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?" 63 But Yeshua held his peace.

57 And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, 58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. 59 But neither so did their witness agree together. 60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? 61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing.

Christopher Cook, Syracuse University students - false Messiah, loonies

The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God." 64 Yeshua said to him, "You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky." 65 Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. 66 What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"