St John Passion
In the "St John Passion" the story consists of chapters 18 and 19 of John the Evangelist, the "St Matthew Passion" tells the complete chapters 26 and 27 of Matthew the Evangelist. The first versions of the "St. John Passion" contained two additional lines from Matthew mentioning the weeping of the disciple Peter and the tearing of the temple curtain. Bach composed the weeping in an expressive melisma and the tearing in a forceful downward run followed by tremolo, but removed the parts in later versions.