When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives — the Passover meal ended with the singing of the Hallel psalms (Psalms 115–118). The going out to the Mount of Olives is the movement from the Passover table to the garden of prayer — from celebration to agony, from the covenant meal to the arrest. The Hallel's final words (Psalm 118:26–27, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord — the words of the triumphal entry) accompany Jesus into the night of the betrayal.

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