Matthew 27:57-60: "57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away."
1 John 4:9-10: "9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
1 Peter 1:18-19: "18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot."
Ephesians 2:4-6: "4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved - 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus..."
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Only the first verse is public domain:
O darkest woe!
Ye tears, forth flow!
Has earth so sad a wonder?
God the Father's only Son
Now is buried yonder.
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"God the Father's only Son / Now is buried yonder" seems to come from the cited verses in Matthew, although the hymn isn't as detailed.
In the second verse, the line "There [on the cross] His love enlivened us" is from 1 John 4:9.
1 Peter 1:18-19 is near the beginning of the fourth verse: "God's Lamb has bled / Upon Thy sin forever."
The text from Ephesians - specifically the last cited verse - appears at the very end of the hymn, a call to Christ to "Be my life in death and bring / Me to heaven's portals!"
In the second verse, the line "There [on the cross] His love enlivened us" is from 1 John 4:9.
1 Peter 1:18-19 is near the beginning of the fourth verse: "God's Lamb has bled / Upon Thy sin forever."
The text from Ephesians - specifically the last cited verse - appears at the very end of the hymn, a call to Christ to "Be my life in death and bring / Me to heaven's portals!"
