text: Chorale harmonization movements: using traditional chorale texts and their melodies. The text is sung in homophony by a four-part chorus with colla parte accompaniment by the orchestra. "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden", on a text by Paul Gerhardt, is the one that returns most often throughout the Passion, in different harmonizations.
  Overview
  In the scheme below indentation indicates the type of movement:
  Part One
  1.  –  (Chorus I & II – Cantus firmus by ripieno soprano choir)
  2. Mt 26:1–2, with Vox Christi
  3.
  4. Mt 26:3–13, with Vox Christi, and Turba on  (Chorus I & II) and on  (Chorus I)
  5–6. Recitative  and Aria  (alto)
  7. Mt 26:14–16, with Judas (bass)
  8. Aria  (soprano)
  9. Mt 26:17–22, with Vox Christi, and Turba on  (Chorus I) and on  (Chorus I)
  10. "" by Paul Gerhardt, stanza 5:
  11. Mt 26:23–29, with Vox Christi and Judas (bass)
  12–13. Recitative  and Aria  (soprano)
  14. Mt 26:30–32, with Vox Christi
  15. "" by Paul Gerhardt, stanza 5:
  16. Mt 26:33–35, with Vox Christi and Peter (bass)
  17. "" by Paul Gerhardt, stanza 6:  [1727/1729 version without music and text ""]
  18. Mt 26:36–38, with Vox Christi
  19–20. Recitative  – "" by Johann Heermann, stanza 3:  and Aria  –  (tenor – Chorus II)
  21. Mt 26:39
  22–23. Recitative  and Aria  (bass)