The Son of man, the Man of woe,
Why did he leave the sky?
’Twas all his business here below,
To serve us, and to die!
The Son of Man, the Man of woe
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Son of man came to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.’—[Mark 10,] v. 45.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 37.
Publishing: Public Domain