Jesus, the Name High Over All

A short poem about the irresistible power of the Name of Jesus Christ, and its source in that mildest of images, the helpless lamb.

Introduction

‘Behold the lamb of God’ was the cry of John the Baptist when he saw Jesus walking towards him as John baptised repentant sinners in the River Jordan. Few can have understood what he meant; that became a little clearer when Jesus was put to death just as the Passover lambs were being sacrificed in the Temple.

John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 1:29

JESUS, the Name high over all,
In hell, or earth, or sky,
Angels and men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly.

Jesus, the Name to sinners dear,
The Name to sinners given;
It scatters all their guilty fear:
It turns their hell to heaven.

Jesus the prisoner’s fetters breaks,
And bruises Satan’s head;
Power into strengthless souls it speaks,
And life into the dead.

O that the world might taste and see
The riches of his grace!
The arms of love that compass me,
Would all mankind embrace.

His only righteousness I show,
His saving truth proclaim:
Tis all my business here below
To cry, “Behold the Lamb!”

Happy, if with my latest breath
I may but gasp his Name;
Preach him to all, and cry in death,
“Behold, behold the Lamb!”

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