And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
After the Passover supper Jesus sang a hymn together with His disciples and then went out with them to the Mount of Olives to the garden of Gethsemane. That garden was a place where He often went to pray. This was in their last hours together before they separated. As He walked with them He talked with them and taught them, speaking comfort and assurance to His sorrowful and troubled disciples concerning His coming suffering and death. They did not give way to loud grief, but as they neared the garden He became strangely silent.
Their praise of God before the agony in Gethsemane and the events leading to Calvary shows courage and fortitude in the face of coming affliction. Shortly before Gethsemane He sang songs of praise with unfaltering confidence in His Sonship with God, while afterward His voice was filled with human anguish as He faced the suffering ahead. The verse belongs to the account of Christ's sufferings, including His agony in the garden, betrayal, trial, and crucifixion. That larger account of betrayal, trial, and crucifixion shows how doubt and bitterness can open human hearts to a destructive spirit. Those surrounding events also show how hostility and bitterness can turn people against God's messengers. His singing of a fitting hymn gives an example by which singing can turn people from discouraging or improper speech toward a better spirit.
After the Passover supper Jesus sang a hymn together with His disciples and then went out with them to the Mount of Olives to the garden of Gethsemane. That garden was a place where He often went to pray. This was in their last hours together before they separated. As He walked with them He talked with them and taught them, speaking comfort and assurance to His sorrowful and troubled disciples concerning His coming suffering and death. They did not give way to loud grief, but as they neared the garden He became strangely silent.
Their praise of God before the agony in Gethsemane and the events leading to Calvary shows courage and fortitude in the face of coming affliction. Shortly before Gethsemane He sang songs of praise with unfaltering confidence in His Sonship with God, while afterward His voice was filled with human anguish as He faced the suffering ahead. The verse belongs to the account of Christ's sufferings, including His agony in the garden, betrayal, trial, and crucifixion. That larger account of betrayal, trial, and crucifixion shows how doubt and bitterness can open human hearts to a destructive spirit. Those surrounding events also show how hostility and bitterness can turn people against God's messengers. His singing of a fitting hymn gives an example by which singing can turn people from discouraging or improper speech toward a better spirit.