He Lives
Yochanan (Jhn) 20:1-23 CJB
Blues funk choir, male/female voices, close harmonies
🎶 "He Stood Among Us" — A Blues-Funk Choir Song Inspired by John 20:1–23 (CJB)
🎤 Verse 1 (Solo, Female Voice – low and haunting)
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Early in the mornin’, still dark outside,
Stone rolled away, tears she can’t hide.
Mary called His name through weepin’ eyes,
But the tomb was empty—He had to rise.
“Why you cryin’, woman?” the angels say—
Then she saw the gardener, or so she prayed…
He stood among us, spoke peace aloud—
Breathed on the broken, lifted the bowed.
From death He walked, no chains remain—
Yeshua lives, call out His Name!
The doors were locked, the fear ran deep,
But the Lord stepped in, no knock, no key.
“Shalom aleichem,” He said so calm—
Showed His hands, His side, their fear was gone.
“We saw the nails!” → “But He stands alive!”
“We felt the wounds!” → “And yet He thrives!”
“He gave us breath—” → “Ruach so pure,”
“Sent us with power!” → “That gospel cure!”
He stood among us, the grave undone,
Now every tear will meet the Son.
He breathes on all who heed His call—
Yeshua lives, and that says it all.
He lives... Oh, He lives... Amen!
He lives... Oh, He lives... Amen!
[1] Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Miryam from Magdala went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. [2] So she came running to Shim‘on Kefa and the other talmid, the one Yeshua loved, and said to them, “They’ve taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him!” [3] Then Kefa and the other talmid started for the tomb. [4] They both ran, but the other talmid outran Kefa and reached the tomb first. [5] Stooping down, he saw the linen burial-sheets lying there but did not go in. [6] Then, following him, Shim‘on Kefa arrived, entered the tomb and saw the burial-sheets lying there, [7] also the cloth that had been around his head, lying not with the sheets but in a separate place and still folded up. [8] Then the other talmid, who had arrived at the tomb first, also went in; he saw, and he trusted. [9] (They had not yet come to understand that the Tanakh teaches that the Messiah has to rise from the dead.) [10] So the talmidim returned home, [11] but Miryam stood outside crying. As she cried, she bent down, peered into the tomb, [12] and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Yeshua had been, one at the head and one at the feet. [13] “Why are you crying?” they asked her. “They took my Lord,” she said to them, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” [14] As she said this, she turned around and saw Yeshua standing there, but she didn’t know it was he. [15] Yeshua said to her, “Lady, why are you crying? Whom are you looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you’re the one who carried him away, just tell me where you put him; and I’ll go and get him myself.” [16] Yeshua said to her, “Miryam!” Turning, she cried out to him in Hebrew, “Rabbani!” (that is, “Teacher!”) [17] “Stop holding onto me,” Yeshua said to her, “because I haven’t yet gone back to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” [18] Miryam of Magdala went to the talmidim with the news that she had seen the Lord and that he had told her this. [19] In the evening that same day, the first day of the week, when the talmidim were gathered together behind locked doors out of fear of the Judeans, Yeshua came, stood in the middle and said, “Shalom aleikhem!” [20] Having greeted them, he showed them his hands and his side. The talmidim were overjoyed to see the Lord. [21] “Shalom aleikhem!” Yeshua repeated. “Just as the Father sent me, I myself am also sending you.” [22] Having said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Ruach HaKodesh! [23] If you forgive someone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you hold them, they are held.”
https://bible.com/bible/1275/jhn.20.1-23.CJB
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