Hymns based on Matthew 28

Matthew 28 has given hymn writers words for 4 hymns in this library, by writers including Robert Lowry, James Montgomery and D. W. Whittle. Each is listed below with the lines that echo the chapter and the verses they draw on, quoted from the World English Bible, a public-domain modern translation.

The verse these hymns return to most is Matthew 28:6: “He is not here, for he has risen, just like he said. Come, see the place where the Lord was lying.”

Hymn writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries knew their Bibles almost by heart, and they wove its phrases into their lines — sometimes as a close paraphrase, as in the metrical psalms, and sometimes as a single image carried into a new setting. Reading the verse beside the line shows what the writer had in mind, and often why a hymn was chosen to be sung alongside a particular reading.