Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wandt

The model for "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wandt" is a late 14th-century hymn relating to the Eucharist by Jan of Jenštejn, archbishop of Prague.

[3] "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wandt", probably written around the same time, contained many ideas he had been developing in these sermons, taking the older Eucharistic hymn as a model: he kept the meter, the number of stanzas and the first line of "Jesus Christus nostra salus", but shaped the content to reflect his own theology.

[1][3] In Luther's time "Jesus Christus nostra salus" was attributed to the church reformer Jan Hus (a "Johannes" like Jenštejn).

[2][6] The earliest extant copy of "Jesus Christus nostra salus" (text and melody) is found in southern Bohemia, 1410.

[2][6] The earliest extant prints of Luther's hymn (both editions of the Erfurt Enchiridion and Johann Walter's choral hymnal Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn) originated in 1524.

[2][6] While "Jesus Christus nostra salus" is focused on the presence of Christ in both bread and wine, Luther added that the Eucharist means the "surety of God's grace in forgiveness".

Solch groß Gnad und Barmherzigkeit Sucht ein Herz in großer Arbeit; Ist dir wohl, so bleib davon, Daß du nicht kriegest bösen Lohn.

Er spricht selber:Kommt, ihr Armen, Laßt mich über euch erbarmen; Kein Arzt ist dem Starken not, Sein Kunst wird an ihm gar ein Spott.

Hättst dir war kunnt erwerben, Was durft denn ich für dich sterben?

Christ Jesus, our Redeemer born, Who from us did God's anger turn, Through His sufferings sore and main, Did help us all out of hell-pain.

That we never should forget it, Gave He us His flesh, to eat it, Hid in poor bread, gift divine, And, to drink, His blood in the wine.

Fitting the hymn's melody in a time signature according to modern music notation with bar lines leads to additional variants.

Michael Vehe, publisher of an early Catholic hymnal, Ein new Gesangbüchlin geystlicher Lieder (Leipzig 1537), provided a version in 22 stanzas intended for the feast of Corpus Christi.

[10] Georg Rhau published Balthasar Resinarius' four-part setting of Luther's hymn in Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge für die gemeinen Schulen (1544).

For organ, there are two four-part settings in Samuel Scheidt's 1650 Görlitzer Tabulaturbuch (SSWV 441–540), and chorale preludes by Franz Tunder (Jesus Christus under Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wand), Johann Christoph Bach (No.

313 of Christian Worship: a Lutheran hymnal (1993) is a four-part setting derived from the Klug'sche Gesangbuch, with a translation of eight stanzas of the hymn as "Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior".

[18] A new harmonization for four-part chorus and organ by Yves Kéler and Danielle Guerrier Koegler was published in 2013, on a French translation of the hymn.