Christ Arose
CHRIST AROSEIrregular with refrain
Words: Robert LowryMusic: CHRIST AROSE, Robert Lowry, 1874
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Words
Low in the grave He lay,
Jesus my Savior,
Waiting the coming day,
Jesus my Lord!
Up from the grave He arose,
With a mighty triumph o'er His foes;
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever with His saints to reign.
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!
Vainly they watch His bed,
Jesus my Savior;
Vainly they seal the dead,
Jesus my Lord!
Death cannot keep his prey,
Jesus my Savior;
He tore the bars away,
Jesus my Lord!
Scripture
The Bible passages this hymn draws on, in the King James Version.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
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