Unus ex discipulis

General information

No. 6 of the Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

Settings by composers

• Giovanni Croce SATB
• Jeffrey Quick SSATBB
• Tomás Luis de Victoria SATB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Anonymous — TarC LLF-2 Choirbook
• Lorenzo Durelli — Unus ex discipulis
• Jan Dismas Zelenka — Responsories for Maundy Thursday, ZWV 55:1-9
• Jan Dismas Zelenka — Unus ex discipulis, ZWV 55:06

Text and translations

Latin text

Unus ex discipulis meis tradit me hodie.
Vae illi per quem tradar ego.
Melius illi erat si natus non fuisset.
Qui intingit mecum manum in paropside,
hic me traditurus est in manu peccatorum.

English translation

One of my disciples will betray me today.
Woe to him by whom I am betrayed.
It were better for him if he had not been born.
He that dips his hand with me in the dish,
Is he who will give me up into the hands of sinners.