| Darkness in the garden
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| The prayers of the Desired of Nations are spent
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| As the blood drips from His flesh
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| Treachery
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| The traitor’s kiss of love was active malignity
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| As his hanging and disembowelment would testify
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| He had betrayed innocent blood
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| With torches and weapons
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| They came to take Him away
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| The High Priest’s servant, Malchus, his ear severed
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| From his head by the sword of Cephas
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| Was healed instantly by the touch of Christ
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| They took Christ to Caiaphas, He went resigned to die
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| The death sentence wielding
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| Such was denied Sanhedrin
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| Pilate unyielding save to the political will
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| Clenching a mandate in one hand
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| Reluctance in the other
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| The latter of small consequence
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| With the former beholden
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| His wife was plagued by nightmares
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| Whilst he was haunted by
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| The nightmare of insurrection
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| The crowd outside was gathering
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| «Crucify» was the refrain
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| Of their liturgy of death
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| Pilate claimed innocence of this man’s blood
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| Just before he sentenced Him to die in agony
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| They abused the boundaries
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| Of their temporal jurisdiction
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| Unbeknownst to them establishing
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| The eternal kingdom |