And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Mark 14:26. When they had sung a hymn. Our three Evangelists leave out those divine discourses, “Ces beaux propos pleins de majest, divine;” — “those beautiful discourses, full of divine majesty.” which John relates to have been delivered by our Lord, both in the house and on the road. For, as we have elsewhere stated, their object was rather to embrace the history of our Lord’s actions than his doctrine.
In these verses we have, I. Christ's eating the passover with his disciples, the night before he died, with the joys and comforts of which ordinance he prepared himself for his approaching sorrows, the full prospect of which did not indispose him for that solemnity.
Commenting on Mark 14:12-31
And Jesus saith unto them,.... As they were going to the Mount of Olives. The Persic version reads, in this place; meaning the Mount of Olives, having got thither: all ye shall be offended because of me this night; See Gill on Mat 26:31; for it is written in Zac 13:7, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: Christ is meant...