HE ROSE

B Ward Powers

Can be sung to the tune “The Rose” or similar.

All his followers forsook him, to hide in an upper room.

And then Joseph came and took him, and laid him in a tomb.

And sweet spice the women bought him, and rested the sabbath day;

And at early dawn they sought him - but the stone was rolled away.

And the angel said, "This Jesus was killed by sinful men.

But he promised on the third day that he would rise again.

So why seek now for the living in a tomb amongst the dead?

He is NOT here - he has risen, exactly as he said!"

Two were walking to Emmaus - downhearted, filled with fear;

And they did not see that Jesus was the one who had drawn near.

But he taught them, and they knew him in the breaking of the bread,

And they ran to tell the others, "He has risen from the dead!"

In a room within Jerusalem, behind a bolted door;

On a Galilean mountain; at a fire upon the shore;

When he rose from the Mount of Olives: then indeed his followers saw

That he IS the Lord of Glory, and he lives for evermore.