Music & HymnsAsk Ye What Great Thing I Know

"I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." 1 Corinthians 2:2

Courtesy of Yale Divinity Library

Words: Johann Christoph Schwedler; published posthumously in Hirschberger Gesangbuch, 1741 (Wollt ihr wissen, was mein Preis?). Translated from German to English by Benjamin Hall Kennedy in Hymnologia Christiana, or Psalms and Hymns Selected and Arranged in the Order of the Christian Seasons, 1863.

Music: "Hendon," Henri Abraham CTsar Malan, 1827; harmony by Lowell Mason, Carmina Sacra, 1841

Ask ye what great thing I know,
That delights and stirs me so?
What the high reward I win?
Whose the Name I glory in?
Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

Who defeats my fiercest foes?
Who consoles my saddest woes?
Who revives my fainting heart,
Healing all its hidden smart?
Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

Who is life in life to me?
Who the death of death will be?
Who will place me on His right,
With the countless hosts of light?
Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

This is that great thing I know;
This delights and stirs me so;
Faith in Him Who died to save,
Him Who triumphed over the grave:
Jesus Christ, the Crucified.

Hymns supplied through the gracious generosity of the Cyber Hymnal Website