Nearer to Jerusalem. Parable of the ten pounds, Matt. 25:14–30; Luke 19:11–27.
Bethany. The supper given by Simon the leper, Matt. 26:6–13; Mark 14:3–9; John 12:1–11; from John it seems that this feast took place six days before the Passover, and on the next day was the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Just east of Bethany. The sending for the ass and colt, followed by the triumphal entry of ourSaviour into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:17. Mark 11:1–11 and Luke 19:29–40 speak only of the colt.
16. Descending the Mount of Olives. Christ weeps over Jerusalem, Luke 19:41–44.
Jerusalem. He makes a triumphal entry into Jerusalem and visits the Temple, Matt. 21:12–17. This passage includes the statement of the overturning the money-changers’ tables on the first day. Mark 11:12 states that this act was performed on the day following. As he performed the same act at his first Passover, two years before, John 2:13–17, he may have done the same thing twice, on two successive days. Also read Luke 19:45.
Bethany. He retires at evening to Bethany, Matt. 21:17; Mark 11:11.
BETHANY AND BETHPHAGE.
17. Bethany was a little over a mile east of the lower part of the city, about a mile and a half southeast from St. Stephen’s gate, if measured along the road.
Bethphage has not been certainly identified, but it was probably at a place one half-mile south of the Church of the Ascension, which is on the top of the Mount of Olives. It was on the way from Bethany to Jerusalem, where the road from Bethany winds around the south of the highest part of the Mount of Olives. This was the supposition of Dr. Barclay, and seems probable to the writer, who visited the place.
On the way from Bethany to Jerusalem. The fig-tree cursed, Matt. 21:19; Mark 11:12.