Thou wou’dst not from the people take
A crown without reproach or pain,
But scoff’d, and wounded for our sake
Thou dost the grief and shame sustain;
Thou dost the crown of thorns receive,
To make thy patient kingdom known
And lo, with Thee we die, and live,
We suffer, and ascend thy throne.
Thou wouldst not from the people take
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe.’—John 19, v. 2." 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