Matthew 26:30 "And when they had sung a hymn they went out to the Mount of Olives."
SO what did they sing? Being curious, I looked it up. At the end of the Passover (Pesach) meal they praised God in song. These Psalms, the Hallel, numbers 113-118, and the Great Hallel, Psalm 136 (135).
LINK to The Sacred Page website article titled What Did Jesus Sing at the Last Supper?
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| Israel's Escape from Egypt, illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company source: Wikipedia.org |
Passover or Pesach is a celebration of deliverance as expressed in Exodus 6 :6-7.
Four Expressions of Deliverance
1. I will bring you out...
2. I will rescue you...
3. I will redeem you...
4. I will take you.
Historically, Passover recalls the dramatic rescue of the Israelites from enslavement to the Pharaoh. Spiritually, it is the rescue of the People of God from the bondage of slavery to sin, or doing the will of Satan, the restoration and healing of the broken relationship between God and his creation.
LINK to Chabad.org website excellent article on the Four-fold Promise of Redemption by Rabbi Avraham Brandwein. Please be sure to read Rabbi Brandwein's exposition of the verb take in the fourth promise.
Pesach, commonly translated into English as Passover, has also a deeper interpretation (to have compassion or mercy) that is both logical and meaningful, according to Rabbi Ari Zivotofsky on the website Orthodox Union.LINK to the article, Tzarich lyun: The Meaning of "Pesach."
This blog post offering by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.
