Acts 1:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

From the mount called Olivet, which Bethany was a part of, as situate towards the bottom of it, remoter from Jerusalem. Hence Luke 24:50, differs not from this place. From hence the rather our Lord ascended, that he might receive his glory nigh the place where he began his suffering, (in the garden where he endured his agony, and was betrayed), and in the view of Jerusalem, where he had been condemned and scorned. A sabbath day's journey; about a mile or two, or such a space as, by God's appointment, was between the ark and the people, Joshua 3:4.