Cantata no. 42: Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV.42

Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats (On the evening, however, of the same Sabbath), BWV 42, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Easter and first performed it on 8 April 1725. The cantata is part of Bach's second cantata cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723. It is the only cantata of that cycle to begin with a sinfonia.

An unknown librettist began the text with a verse from the Gospel reading, from the Resurrection appearances of Jesus in Jerusalem, and included three hymn stanzas: one from "Verzage nicht, o Häuflein klein" by Jakob Fabricius and two from Luther's "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort". Bach structured the cantata in seven movements and scored it for four vocal soloists, a four-part choir only in the closing chorale, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo.