Matthew 26:29-30

Matthew 26:29-30. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Fathers kingdom. And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

Was it not brave of our dear Lord to join in singing a hymn at such a time as that, and under such circumstances? He knew that he was very soon to die; he was going out to his last dread conflict; yet he went to it singing a Psalm. It was to his Passion that he was going, - to Gethsemane’s agony and bloody sweat; yet he led the way there with a sacred song upon his lips: "And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives." Now let us turn to Paul’s first Epistle to the Corinthians, at the eleventh chapter. We shall there see how this supper of the Lord had been changed, even in the few years since the death of the Master.

This exposition consisted of readings from Matthew 26:17-30; and 1 Corinthians 11:20-34.