text: The opening chorus continues by taking up the questions and answers by Chorus I and II again, now adding:  (See it! — What? – See the endurance) and ultimately  (Look! — Where? — to our guilt), after which Chorus I and II sing the last lines of Picander's text in separate blocks. When the cantus firmus has died out, Chorus I and II return to the first three lines of the text, from measure 82 until the conclusion of the chorus in measure 90.
  2. Mt 26:1–2
  2. Evangelist, Jesus:
  places the first scene two days before the Passover feast. After a few words of introduction by the Evangelist, the first words of Christ, set as an accompagnato recitative with slow strings, contain an ominous prediction of his imminent fate.
  3.
  Chorale: first stanza of Johann Heermann's "". The first two lines of the hymn are a rhetorical question: "My dearest Jesus, which crimes have you committed, that such dire judgement has been passed?"
  4. Mt 26:3–13
  4a. Evangelist:
  4b. Chorus I & II:
  4c. Evangelist:
  4d. Chorus I:
  4e. Evangelist, Jesus:
  5–6.  –
  Recitative and Aria for alto.
  7. Mt 26:14–16
  7. Evangelist, Judas:
  8.
  Aria (soprano)
  9. Mt 26:17–22
  9a. Evangelist:
  9b. Chorus I:
  9c. Evangelist, Jesus:
  9d. Evangelist: