Sinner behold what thou hast done!

Verse 1
Sinner, behold what thou hast done!
Expos’d thy King to grief unknown,
To anguish and disgrace:
Thy sins have cover’d him with scorn,
Thy sins have crown’d his head with thorn,
And marr’d his heavenly face.

Verse 2
Yet in that Man deform’d for thee
The fulness of the Godhead see,
That Man of grief and love
The Lord, thy Lord and God confess,
Who by his blood and righteousness
Hath bought thy crown above.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!’—[John 19,] v. 5." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 79.

Publishing: Public Domain