Reflect:

  • Linger on this text. Stare at this image. Don’t rush this page.

  • This is perhaps the most moving moment of the story.

  • As you listen to this song it may be familiar to you, but it sounds different than you remember.

  • Hear Jesus singing the words of this song as he is taken to the cross.

  • Don’t be afraid to sit in silence and pray - feel this moment deeply.

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27 Some of the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into their headquarters and called out the entire regiment. 28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. 29 They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!” 30 And they spit on him and grabbed the stick and struck him on the head with it. 31 When they were finally tired of mocking him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be crucified.

Song Lyrics:

I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy

Down in my heart
Down in my heart
I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy
Down in my heart
Down in my heart

And I'm so happy
So happy
So very happy
And I'm so happy
So happy
So very happy

I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy
Down in my heart
Down in my heart
I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy
Down in my heart
Down in my heart

And I'm so happy
So happy
So very happy
And I'm so happy
So happy
So very happy

And I can't understand
And I can't pretend
That this will be all right in the end
So I'll try my best
And lift up my chest
To sing about this... joy, joy joy!

When peace like a river attendeth my way
When sorrows like sea billows roll
Whatever my lot
Thou has taught me to say
It is well, it is well, with my soul