Allelu! Allelu! Everybody sing Allelu!

DESCRIPTION: "Allelu! Allelu! Everybody sing Allelu! For the Lord has risen, it is true. Everybody sing Allelu!" God gave the Son, who was born in Bethlehem, "walked the land" for thitry years, died on the cross, rose
AUTHOR: Ray Repp
EARLIEST DATE: 1966 (Repp's "Allelu")
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad campsong
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 545, "Allelu! Allelu! Everybody sing Allelu!" (notes only)
NOTES [168 words]: The nitpicker in me has to point out that Jesus walked the earth a good bit longer than thirty years. Yes, Luke 3:23 says that Jesus was "about thirty years old" when he began his ministry (note the approximation!), which if precisely true would likely make him 31 when he died. (Older if we accept John's chronology of a ministry of three years or more, which on the face of it is far more probable than the single year of the synoptic gospels). But Luke 3:1 says that the ministry began in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, which is 29 C.E. And Luke 1:5 (agreeing with Matthew) says that Jesus was born when Herod the Great was king. Herod died in 4 B.C.E. -- so Jesus must have been at least 34 years old, probably 35, and very possibly 37 or 38.
Plus Matthew implies that Jesus was born at least two years before Herod died, since Herod ordered children two years old and younger to be slaughtered. So Jesus was probably at least 37 when he died, and several years older is a good bit more likely. - RBW
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File: ACSF545

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