Mark 11:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

MARK CHAPTER 11 Mark 11:1-11 Christ rideth into Jerusalem in triumph, Mark 11:12-14 curseth a barren fig tree, Mark 11:15-19 drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple. Mark 11:20-26 The cursed fig tree is dried up: Christ exhorteth to faith in prayer, and to forgiveness of enemies, Mark 11:27-33 and silences the priests and others, who called in question his authority. Matthew saith nothing of Bethany, mentioned by Mark and Luke. It was the town of Lazarus, 1 Thessalonians 11:1. Some think that Bethany was rather a tract of the Mount of Olives than a town, and that Bethphage was a kind of suburbs to Jerusalem, at the remotest part of which Bethany began, but the town itself called Bethany was fifteen furlongs, near two miles, from Jerusalem. It was the place from which Christ ascended to heaven, Luke 24:50, a sabbath day's journey from Jerusalem, Acts 1:12, at some distance from the town called Bethany. From this place, called still Bethany, upon the borders of Bethphage, he sent out two of his disciples.