For solo voices (SAT), chorus (SATB), and orchestra.
Libretto by Christian Friedrich Henrici.
"This edition aims to provide a performing version of the Passion according to St. Mark which is known to have been given in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig on Good Friday 1731 ... The Gospel narrative, which has been entirely lost, is supplied ... from that in the St. Mark Passion by Reinhard Keiser."--p. xx.
Edited from mss. in the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin (1147/1) (Keiser sections) and the Neue Bach-Ausg. (arias, choruses, and chorales).
Historical and editorial commentary in German with English translation.