All ye that pass by

Verse 1
All ye that pass by,
To Jesus draw nigh;
To you is it nothing that Jesus should die?
Your ransom and peace,
Your surety he is:
Come, see if there ever was sorrow like his! (*)

Verse 2
For what you have done
His blood must atone;
The Father hath punish’d for you his dear Son.
The Lord, in the day
Of his anger, did lay
Our[1] sins on the Lamb; and he bore them away.

Verse 3
He answer’d for all:
O come at his call,
And low at his cross with astonishment fall.
But lift up your eyes
At Jesus’s cries;
Impassive, he suffers; immortal, he dies.

Verse 4
He dies to atone
For sins not his own:
Your debt he hath paid, and your work he hath done.
Ye all may receive
The peace he did leave,
Who made intercession, “My Father, forgive!”

Verse 5
For you and for me
He pray’d on the tree:
The pray’r is accepted, the sinner is free.
The sinner am I,
Who on Jesus rely,
And come for the pardon God cannot deny.

Verse 6
My pardon I claim,
For a sinner I am,
A sinner believing in Jesus’s name.
He purchas’d the grace
Which now I embrace:
O Father, thou know’st he hath dy’d in my place.

Verse 7
His death is my plea;
My Advocate see,
And hear the blood speak, that hath answer’d for me.
Acquitted I was,
When he bled on the cross;
And by losing his life, he hath carry’d my cause.

[1] Wesley changed “Our” to “Your” in 1749.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "On the Crucifixion." Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns on the Great Festivals (London: M. Cooper, 1746). Included in Hymns and Sacred Poems Vol. 1, published by Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1749). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 371.
Publishing: Public Domain