Jesus He Knows Me

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"Jesus He Knows Me"

Single by Genesis
from the album We Can't Dance
B-side(s)	"Hearts on Fire"
Released	July 1992
Format	CD, 7", 12"
Recorded	The Farm, Surrey; March 1991 — September 1991
Genre	Pop rock
Length	4:18 (single mix)
Label	Atlantic
Producer(s)	Genesis, Nick Davis
Chart positions
#20 (UK Singles Chart) #23 (US Billboard Hot 100) #27 (Adult Contemporary)
Genesis singles chronology
"Hold on My Heart" (1992)	"Jesus He Knows Me" (1992)	"Tell Me Why" (1993)
We Can't Dance track listing
"No Son of Mine" (Track 1)	"Jesus He Knows Me" (Track 2)	"Driving The Last Spike" (Track 3)

Jesus He Knows Me is the second track from Genesis album We Can't Dance.

The song is a protest against televangelism, released in a period when several televangelists such as Robert Tilton were under investigation for promising financial success to their listeners, provided they sent money to them. The video features Phil Collins as an unscrupulous televangelist who lives like a millionaire thanks to donations from his followers. The satirical/comedic video also features fellow band members Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford as fellow evangelists.

As a footnote, Collins's character in this video bears some resemblance to his role of Phil Mayhew, a low-brow con artist eventually dabbling in televangelism from the 1985 Miami Vice episode, Phil the Shill.

Some versions of the single included a Ben Liebrand remix of "I Can't Dance".

In the music video (before the second chorus, at 2:38) you can see people holding a sign reading "Genesis 3, 25", referring not to the Bible but to the fact that the band has 3 members who were together up to that point for 25 years (the band formed in 1967, the video was filmed in 1992, hence 25 years later.) Religious enthusiasts not realizing this have made much of the fact that the third chapter of the book of Genesis only has 24 verses, but alas, they've missed the point and the joke.