Name: Prepare the Way of the Lord
Duration: 3 min 5 s
Channel: John R. Whitney
Description: Prepare the Way of the Lord is based on the Revised Common Lectionary readings for the 2nd Sunday in Advent.

Prepare the Way of the Lord

John Robert Whitney

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Prepare the Way of the Lord is based on the Revised Common Lectionary readings for the 2nd Sunday in Advent.

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John Robert Whitney

John Robert Whitney is a singer/songwriter and professional conservationist from Western New York State (East Aurora/Buffalo).

Singer/Songwriter; multi-instrumentalist; folk, country, pop, blues, jazz, Gospel; professional conservationist

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Christmas/Seasonal

Charts

Peak #205

Peak in subgenre #49

Author

John R. Whitney

Rights

John R. Whitney

Uploaded

December 10, 2007

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MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:05

Story behind the song

I wrote this song in 1999 for the St. Matthias Episcopal Church (East Aurora, NY) Sunday School program to support the Gospel reading for the 2nd Sunday in Advent.

Lyrics

Refrain	“Prepare the way of the Lord,”
	Was John the Baptist’s Cry
	From the Bank of the Jordon River
	To all he did baptize.
	The prophet, Isaiah,
	Foretold the messenger
	Who would shout out from the wilderness,
	“Prepare the way of the Lord.”

John told the Judeans and the people of Jerusalem
“I will baptize you with water.  He will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
And He who will come after me is so much greater than I am,
That to untie his sandals, I am unworthy and unfit.”   Refrain


The wild man of the Jordan, clothed in camel’s hair,
Would ask of those who came to him, “Repent of all your sins.”
To prepare the way for Jesus, to make a pathway straight for Him,
John called them to the river, and then he led them in.   Refrain

Unpublished Work Copyright ©1999 John R. Whitney

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