QUESTION:

Please explain “After the Passover feast they sang a hymn and went out into the Mount of Olives”. What was the name of the “hymn?”

 

Matthew 26:30 NASB ³⁰After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

 

ANSWER:
The hymn was no doubt some part of the Hallel, or Praise Psalms which were and sill are sung at Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles. The Hallel consists of Psalms 115 to 118. It’s in the conclusion of the Hallel that we have:

 

Psalms 118:22-28 (NASB) ²²The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone. ²³This is £the LORD’S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. ²⁴This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. ²⁵O LORD, do save, we beseech You; O LORD, we beseech You, do send prosperity! ²⁶ Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD; We have blessed you from the house of the LORD. ²⁷The LORD is God, and He has given us light; Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. ²⁸You are my God, and I give thanks to You; You are my God, I extol You.

 

How appropriate hymn for this occasion!

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