1947)[3] was first printed in Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn, a booklet of spiritual song, collected by Johann Walter but is attested also in the prayerbooks from the convent of Medingen and even appears on an antependium made by the nuns in the late 15th century.

[5] In the first verse, the highest notes accentuate important words such as Jesu, Mensch (man), Jungfrau (virgin), Engel (angels).

[citation needed] Balthasar Resinarius's chorale motet based on "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ" was printed in 1544.

He inserted its seventh stanza in one of his church cantatas, Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64, written for the Third Day of Christmas 1723.

BWV 314, one of his four-part chorale settings of the hymn tune, in D major, and appearing in the c. 1735 Dietel manuscript, was likely also written as part of a Christmas cantata.

[2][6] Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel used the hymn's fifth stanza in the centre of his Christmas cantata Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis.