"Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held" (Follow me, says Christ, our hero) is a Christian hymn in German with a text by Angelus Silesius written in 1668.

In 1695 the text was assigned to be sung to the melody of "Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt", first composed by Bartholomäus Gesius in 1605, and adapted by Johann Hermann Schein in 1628.

[5] The first musical setting of the text was composed, like the other hymns in the collection, by Georg Joseph from Breslau, who created an arioso melody with figured bass.

It was replaced in 1695 by a tune for "Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt", that Bartholomäus Gesius had written in 1605 and that had been revised by Johann Hermann Schein.

[5][2] This tune, often attributed to Schein alone, appears in works by Johann Sebastian Bach, most prominently with the words "Durch dein Gefängnis, Gottes Sohn" (By your prison, Son of God) in the St John Passion.