Complex sentence: An unknown poet began the text with a quotation from the farewell discourses of Jesus, used a stanza of's hymn "in movement 3 and as the closing chorale a stanza from" by Paul Speratus (1524).
Split into simpler sentences: An unknown poet began the text with a quotation from the farewell discourses of Jesus. He used a stanza of's hymn "in movement 3 and as the closing chorale a stanza from" by Paul Speratus (1524).